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Mandela was pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, and a high-ranking communist
Nelson Mandela's death on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at age 95, triggered a tsunami of praise and accolades across the world — from politicians, the media, Hollywood, and even the Pope.
In a telegram to South African President Jacob Zuma, Pope Francis paid tribute to Nelson Mandela, praising Mandela for his "steadfast commitment … in promoting the human dignity of all the nation's citizens and in forging a new South Africa built on the firm foundations of non-violence, reconciliation and truth".
Alas, the unborn are not included in "all the citizens" of South Africa whose "human dignity" Mandela promoted.
John Henry-Westen writes for LiveSiteNews, Dec. 6, 2013:
The death of South African former President Nelson 'Madiba' Rolihlahla Mandela on Thursday has led to an outpouring of glowing praise for the man most known for ending apartheid – a system of racial segregation. However, pro-life leaders have warned that praise from Christian leaders is inappropriate given Mandela's role in bringing abortion-on-demand and homosexual "marriage" to South Africa.
According to official statistics, nearly a million unborn children have been killed in South Africa since President Mandela signed legislation in 1996 permitting abortion on demand two years after taking office. Same-sex 'marriage' was legalized in 2006, with Mandela having supported it long before its passage.
In the face of praise for Mandela coming even from Catholic leaders all over the world, Paul Tuns, the editor of the Canadian pro-life newspaper The Interim, wrote, "A little balance is necessary in our reaction to the man who fought one injustice, but helped institute another."
Similarly England's John Smeaton, President of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) commented on his blog saying, "It is absolutely vital that Catholic leaders do not allow themselves to becomerespecters of persons, swept away by personality cults. Catholic leaders have a duty to stand up to public figures with anti-life and anti-family records, however praiseworthy their record may be on other issues."
[…] It was 1996 when Mandela signed into law one of the world's most pro-abortion laws. Passage of the "Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Bill" was assured since Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) refused its members a free vote on the issue of providing state-funded abortion on demand.
The same year, Mandela's new constitution made South Africa the first country to place "sexual orientation" alongside race and religion as a restricted grounds for discrimination – something that paved the way for homosexual 'marriage' a decade later.
Smeaton quotes from a book of quotations from Mandela noting his statement on abortion: "Women have the right to decide what they want to do with their bodies." In addition to his promotion of abortion, homosexuality, contraception and close ties to Communism, Smeaton notes Mandela's formation of 'The Elders" as a cause for concern.
In 2007, Mandela announced 'The Elders' as a global council of retired world leaders who would give behind the scenes advice and direction to government officials and rulers around the world. The proposal was received by pro-life leaders as being of great concern since its membership formed a 'who's who of the pro-abortion and pro-population-control movements."
While during his life, Mandela denied being part of the communist party despite his friendly interaction with communist world leaders, the African National Congress revealed today that Mandela was in fact a high-ranking member of the Communist Party.
"Madiba was also a member of the South African Communist Party, where he served in the Central Committee," said the ANC release.
See also "Nelson Mandela was no saint but a Black racist who wanted to kill all whites."
Dr. Eowyn is the Editor of Fellowship of the Minds.
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Dean, School of Architecture and Planning
Professor of Architecture and Planning
Hashim Sarkis was appointed Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning in January of 2015. Prior to that he was at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) as the The Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. In addition to professorships at Harvard University and MIT, Dean Sarkis has held numerous visiting appointments around the world including the American University of Beirut and the Metropolis Program in Barcelona.
In addition to his academic work, Dean Sarkis is principal architect in the Cambridge and Beirut based firm, HashimSarkis Studios, founded in 1998. His architectural and planning projects include affordable housing, institutional buildings, and town planning throughout the globe. His current projects include the Byblos Town Hall and the Courtowers, both under construction.
Dean Sarkis has received many awards and honors including the Venice Architecture Biennale, US Pavilion featuring Byblos Town Hall, Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre, and the Balloon Landing Park (June-November 2014); and First Prize Award for the Byblos Town Hall Competition, Byblos, Lebanon (2011). His work has been published in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture with the Housing for the Fishermen of Tyreselected as one of the most significant buildings of the 21st Century (2008). He also received numerous teaching awards while at Harvard University.
Sarkis is the author of many articles and books that have filled important gaps in the history of modern architecture and urban design. These include Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis, and the edited books CASE: Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital and Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (with Eric Mumford).
Sarkis was a founding member of Plan B, Institute for Urban Design Studies in Lebanon and the Middle East and the Arab Center for Architecture. He has served on the board of several organizations including the Association for Rural Development in Southern Lebanon.He holds professional registration with the Beirut Order of Engineers and Architects.
Dean Sarkis has a Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University GSD. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture from Harvard University GSD for his thesis Publics and Architects: Re-Engaging Design in the Democracy.


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Stop EVERYTHING and buy this book. Now!
Women want to be in love, get married, and live happily ever after. Yet disrespect for men and disregard for the value, feelings, and needs of husbands has fast become the standard for male-female relations in America. Those two attitudes clash in unfortunate ways to create struggle and strife in what could be a beautiful relationship.
Everywhere she looked, Fawn Weaver saw negative portrayals of marriage dominating the airwaves and dooming everyone to failure. Looking at Keith, the love of her life, she knew that wasn't true. Happy Wives Club is Fawn's journey across the world to meet her friends and discover what makes their marriages great. Join her on this exciting, exotic trip across six continents and through more than 18 cities.
Men are right. The "relationship talk" does not help. Dr. Patricia Love's and Dr. Steven Stosny's How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It reveals the stunning truth about marital happiness: Love is not about better communication. It's about connection.
Why he doesn't like to listen or talk about it!
"A long and happy marriage." It sounds like the end of a fairy tale - an illusion that modern times have exposed. And it is, if marriage depends on a constant stream of romantic emotion, or even on copious amounts of time or money. Thank the Lord, none of those are necessary. Two thousand years ago, Paul gave women the key to a successful marriage, and it can be summed up in two words: unconditional respect. It's not popular. It doesn't sound fair. It can be hard to imagine. But it works. Nina Roesner has led countless women through this practical and life-changing journey, and in The Respect Dare she offers you the hope that so many others have found. Day by day, true stories and thought-provoking questions will help you apply biblical wisdom to the most important relationship in your life.
In For Married Women Only, pastor and author Tony Evans explores these three principles in a straight-forward yet encouraging manner. He unpacks the touchy topic of submission and lays out the rewards inherent in this biblical model. On seduction, Evans looks at the quality of attractiveness and how embodying it can be pleasing to your spouse and to God. And with surrender, readers will examine why a wife is the perfect helpmate for her husband and how to combat attitudes opposed to God's design.
Is your marriage worth fighting for? If so, this audiobook is for you. It takes a tremendous amount of strength to overcome skepticism and weariness, and begin the work of healing a broken marriage. But just taking a look at this audiobook shows you have the heart of a fighter. In One More Try, Gary Chapman gives you the courage and confidence to move forward when your marriage is falling apart.
Dr. Laura asserts that in order to produce and sustain a wonderfully satisfying marriage, spouses must recognize and appreciate the polarity between masculine and feminine. Both husband and wife have power in the relationship, and each needs to realize this in order to ensure personal satisfaction.
Amazing book! Every married couple needs this!
This book is based on Proverbs 31:10: "An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels." Thousands of women have already discovered the worth of this volume and testify to lives and marriages changed because of a commitment to the principles presented here. If this is a commitment you have made, or want to make, The Excellent Wife answers the difficult questions facing you today.
Excellent read with practical guidelines!
Conventional wisdom says that "it takes two" to turn a troubled marriage around and that both partners must have a shared commitment to change. So when couples can't agree on how - or whether - to make their marriage better, many give up or settle for a less-than-satisfying marriage (or think the only way out is divorce). Fortunately, there is an alternative. It Takes One to Tango is a groundbreaking guide that shows how one determined partner can spark lasting, significant change in a marriage.
A Therapist Who Tells It Like It Is!
Stormie Omartian's best-selling books on prayer and marriage have touched millions of listeners in a life - changing way. The Power of Prayer to Change Your Marriage helps husbands or wives pray to protect their relationships from 14 serious problems that can lead to unsatisfying marriages or even divorce. For those who are already struggling in these areas, this book will help them find healing and restoration.
Like millions of women, Laura Doyle wanted her marriage to be better. But when she tried to get her husband to be more romantic, helpful, and ambitious, he withdrew - and she was lonely and exhausted from controlling everything. Desperate to be in love with her man again, she decided to stop telling him what to do and how to do it. When Doyle surrendered control, something magical happened. The union she had always dreamed of appeared. The man who had wooed her was back.
The underlying principle of The Surrendered Wife is simple: The control women wield at work and with children must be left at the front door of any marriage. Laura Doyle's matrimony shows women how they can both express their needs and have them met while also respecting their husband's choices. When they do, they revitalize intimacy. The Surrendered Wife will show you how to transform a lonely marriage into a passionate union.
©2001 Laura Doyle (P)2001 Simon & Schuster, Inc., All Rights Reserved, SOUND IDEAS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.
This book is wonderful! I listened to it twice and then gave it to my sister. The author points out things I haven't thought of before. Great book.
I enjoyed this audible version tremendously.
This information had me intrigued. Surrendering is the key to unlocking your husbands masculinity and sense of love , tenderness, protection. Now for the hard part ( application) I feel inspired to experience true surrender in every area of my life.
I would recommend reading this book if you notice your nagging, controlling, and feeling lonely within your marriage. It could be you stirring up all the drama and projecting it all on your husband.
Loved it, she got it right, that all we real men need respect and we will slay dragons for our woman.
Simple content. A great formula for the beginner on a journey to submission. Great tools that can be applied to real life.
Awesome info for any woman that wants to have a great relationship with her husband!
I absolutely agree that the feminist movement has made it so that we can now CHOOSE to surrender, which makes it much more meaningful.
What did you like best about The Surrendered Wife? What did you like least?
What does Laura Doyle bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
I like being able to listen to books while I'm doing other things. Can't really multitask while reading an actual paper book.
Do you think The Surrendered Wife needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
I think there should be an option to get this unabridged. I really dislike abridged books.
This was wonderful information. I really like the whole taoist kind of take on it. Like the tin yang kind of thing, that a lot of people may call antifeminist....I just think it's good information that a lot of people are afraid of.
All women need to hear this!!
Women need to listen to this fabulous information. Great ways to make a marriage strong and lasting!
Great but where are the rest of the chapter's!!!
Really like this book you have to be open minded when you read it though.I have already been implementing some of the things and im seeing changes.Just wish there was more chapters!!! So i have bought the hard copy book hoping there is more depth to it.
this book saved my marriage! I can't recommend it enough. start with an open mind!
A friend recommended this book as I had watched a film which had helped me recognise that I wasn't allowing my husband to be a man. Having read this book I fall into every single category. It's going to take time but I will work on this from today. I think I will need to listen again to this book every so often to help me reach my goal. Thank you so much for writing this in a clear , concise way that doesn't degrade women but empowers us.
Boring uninteresting and im not sure why it was written really. No depth or substance to it.
I would recommend it to all young married women in my generation! well done Laura!
After reading the sample of this book on the author's website, and feeling very much identify with her, I thought I need to read this book! Bought the audio version though, to find out that it narrates exactly the same chapter as in the sample! Very disappointed.
Anyhow, the tips and examples are great, is not something new to me to hear if you want to change something you have to change the way you see it or act, and that is more or less the message that comes across. It requires a lot of inner work though, nevertheless, it's only one day since starting practising the advice and I can already see a positive difference between us!!
I was shocked by how short it was. only 1 hour. had some good points that I will definitely be taking on board. I will listen to it a few more times to get the info to sink in and take notes.
In an odd way, this (rubbish) book was uplifting because I realised I was nothing like the nagging whiny woman in the book who treats her husband like "an irresponsible child" (her words).
She uses Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as an example of surrender - whilst apparently being (hilariously) oblivious to the fact that they hated each other.
- anyone with more than one brain cell (crying in the corner because it's all alone) will realise that (continually repeating this as though you were a well-turned-out, manicured parrot) this will become substitution for that well-known, on-your-head-be-it, here-there-be-monsters phrase: "fine".
Finally, anyone who uses the phrase "just as fish are the last to realise they are in the ocean..." deserves a one star review.
Women can really take Catherine's cue for a happier home. Though i have always been a believer in being surredrred, it was great to listen to another who believes it too. Thanks for putting it down.
Absolutely enjoyed a mature overview of a relationship. so impressed with a fresh statement of relationships.


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Panelists discuss open access publishing in the global south for OASPA webinar
Panelists discuss open access publishing…
(16 December 2016) Xin Bi (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University/DOAJ), Ina Smith (Academy of Science of South Africa), and Abel Packer (SciELO) recently joined OASPA for a webinar to discuss Open Access Publishing in the Global South. Lars Bjørnshauge (DOAJ) chaired the discussion. The Copyright Clearance Center hosted the webinar. Leyla Williams, Events and Communications Coordinator at OASPA, reflects on the discussion.
On Thursday, December 8th, 2016, OASPA was pleased to host a timely and wide-ranging discussion on the current state of open access publishing in different parts of the Global South. Xin Bi, University Librarian at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Editor and China Ambassador of the Directory for Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in China, opened the webinar by describing recent developments in open access publishing in China. In recent years, he explained, the Chinese central government has encouraged innovation strategies for economic and social development, which has involved a large increase in investment in Research and Development. Such strategies have included a focus on people being able to access and share research, and commitments to open access have expanded since 2014, when the China National Science Fund Committee and Chinese Academy of Science published their mandates for open access. [Nature also has the news about China's open access policies, here.]
A full account of the webinar is here.
Categories: Asia Pacific, Data, Open Access, Publishers December 18, 2016
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Customers of embattled gold dealership firm Menzgold will get an update of the state of the firm and cases against them this week.
The Ghana Police Service says some management staff of the defunct Menzgold Ghana Limited have been invited to the criminal investigation department, for their statements to be taken on their roles leading to the collapse of the company.
ACP David Eklu, who is the Director General of Public Affairs of Ghana Police Service, in an interview with Citi News revealed that a press briefing will be held this week to brief Ghanaians on the happenings so far.
"I am aware some officials of the company have been invited to the CID headquarters and they are giving statements.
There might be a Press briefing on this case any day between Monday and Friday" ACP David Eklu said.
He added that the press briefing will centre on information retrieved during the interrogation of some management members of the gold dealership company.
The Minority in Parliament has called on the government delegation that travelled to Dubai to give full details of what transpired during the trip.
Menzgold CEO Nana Appiah Mensah is currently facing misdemeanour charges in Dubai, after which he will be brought to Ghana if he's cleared of all the charges levelled against him.


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La Semperoper (, literalmente «Ópera estatal sajona de Dresde») es el edificio de la ópera perteneciente al estado de Sajonia y ubicado en Dresde, Alemania.
Considerado una de las joyas de la arquitectura teatral del mundo fue diseñada por al arquitecto Gottfried Semper y parcialmente destruido en 1945 hasta que fue minuciosamente reconstruido en 1986. En este teatro se estrenaron algunas de las mejores óperas alemanas, tres de Richard Wagner y la mayoría de las de Richard Strauss.

La principal agrupación musical que lo utiliza es la Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (Orquesta Estatal Sajona de Dresde). Su director titular es, desde 2012, Christian Thielemann.

Historia del edificio

El primer edificio
Entre 1838 y 1841 el maestro de obras Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) levantó un nuevo teatro real, que el 21 de septiembre de 1869 fue pasto de las llamas.

El segundo edificio
Tan pronto como Gottfried Semper hubo diseñado un nuevo edificio, se edificó este en Theaterplatz entre 1871 y 1878 bajo la dirección de su hijo mayor, Manfred Semper (1838-1913).

De estilo neobarroco decimonónico, el teatro contaba con un interior espléndido. Sobre el pórtico se alzaba una estatua de bronce, que representaba a Dioniso y Ariadna sobre una cuadriga de panteras. La fachada oeste del escenario posterior estaba adornada con el escudo sajón, las imágenes del Amor y la Justicia, así como la cabeza de Gottfried Semper. Junto a la entrada, se hallan las esculturas de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe y Friedrich Schiller, y en la fachada principal las de William Shakespeare, Sófocles y Eurípides.

Este segundo edificio fue destruido durante el masivo bombardeo de Dresde el 13 de febrero de 1945, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

El tercer edificio
Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se prepararon los estudios de seguridad, entre 1946 y 1955, así como el estudio conceptual 1968-1976 de la reconstrucción.

El 24 de junio de 1977 tuvo lugar la colocación de la primera piedra de la reconstrucción. Como conmemoración de los cuarenta años del bombardeo de la ciudad, el 13 de febrero de 1985 se reabrió la Semperoper con la ópera Der Freischütz de Carl Maria von Weber. Este fue un hecho simbólico, puesto que esta obra fue la última que se representó antes del cierre del teatro el 31 de agosto de 1944.

Aunque ya era la ópera estatal, tras el cambio del nombre oficial, se denominó Sächsische Staatsoper. En el 2002 el desbordamiento del río Elba provocó daños en el edificio por valor de 27 millones de euros. Tres meses después de esta catástrofe, el 9 de noviembre de 2002 se reabrieron sus puertas.

Detrás del edificio histórico se construyó un moderno anexo, que comprende oficinas, salas de ensayo y un nuevo espacio escénico, conocido como "Semper 2", con una capacidad de 200 localidades, utilizado para espectáculos de diversos tipos, incluyendo los del programa pedagógico "Junge Szene".

En el marco de las celebraciones de los 800 años de la ciudad de Dresde, el 13 de enero de 2006, se celebró por primera vez desde 1939 el Baile de la Ópera de Dresde, Dresdner Opernball. Lo celebraron aproximadamente unas 2300 personas en el interior y otras 12.000 en el exterior, en la plaza Theaterplatz.

Directores musicales

En la Semperoper actuaron destacados directores musicales como:

Cantantes
Selección de cantantes que han formado parte de la compañía de la Ópera Estatal de Sajonia

Estrenos

(*) Se designan con números (1.º, 2.º y 3.º) cada uno de los tres sucesivos edificios.

Enlaces externos

 www.semperoper.de - Página oficial
 Semperoper Stadt-Panorama - Vista de 360º interactiva

Dresde
Arquitectura de Dresde
Arquitectura neobarroca en Alemania
Turismo en Alemania
Teatros de ópera de Alemania del siglo XX
Cultura de Dresde
Arquitectura de 1986
Arquitectura de 1878
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Why my generation's ditching the 'R' word
June 17, 2019 by Anais
The Monday after my leaving party in December 2012 marked the beginning of an infinity of blank pages in my diary. I was 58 and had spent much of my career as a full-time, high-profile magazine editor; a single-income single parent to a now 25-year-old daughter.
I'm one of that first generation of women — baby boomers — who joined the working world expecting a career in their own right. I'd lived my life at breakneck speed. Sometimes my stress levels had been so far through the roof they could have orbited the International Space Station.
But now there were no more meetings, no more reschedulings. My world had come to an abrupt halt and I felt stunned.
Of course, I'd planned for my retirement. As editor of no less than 17 magazines — the last ones being Radio Times and Reader's Digest — I'd worked incredibly hard and budgeted meticulously to make sure that, if not exactly wealthy, I'd at least have enough to live on. But other aspects of retirement hadn't seemed so pressing. How hard could it be to enjoy yourself?
Gill Hudson (pictured), 64, who spent much of her career as a magazine editor, claims that it's possible for baby boomers to find fulfillment in retirement
Harder than expected, as it turned out. For the first two or three months I felt fidgety, scratchy and out of sorts. Far from being the happy, chilled, creative person I had assumed would emerge in my retirement, a much tetchier, more restless soul had taken her place.
I was stressed and paralysed by the choice suddenly open to me. Faced with the options of learning to kayak, walking the South West Coast Path, tracing my family tree or digitising all my old photos, I found myself scrubbing the bathroom grouting instead. Soon the house was clean enough to perform open-heart surgery in, but my paralysis remained.
While I'd never defined myself completely by my job, I hadn't anticipated how disorienting it would be to cut the ties with the working world.
All those years of meeting deadlines is a hard habit to break.
And I remain, now aged 64, at heart, an achiever. But what happens when you no longer know what it is you want to achieve?
At least I haven't had to face this question on my own. While I was one of the first of my friends to leave the world of work, most have since followed and found themselves in a similar predicament.
Having looked for satisfaction from our jobs, we baby boomers now expect fulfilment in retirement, too. But how to get it? By rethinking old habits and establishing new rules — starting with . . .
KEEP CALM AND DON'T CARRY ON
Ours is a generation addicted to adrenaline, to getting it all done. We've been hooked on the nine-to-five.
The minute I stopped work, I filled my diary to bursting point because that's what I was used to.
Gill (pictured) revealed that since retiring she learned how to fail again by trying golf alongside her husband
I ended up so stressed from rushing from one appointment to another I really did have to lie down in a dark room to recover.
I've had to wean myself off that adrenaline high by blocking out times in my diary to do nothing much at all — and, crucially, not feel guilty about it.
If it felt unnatural at first, I had to remind myself there was nothing natural about my former life, either.
LEARN HOW TO FAIL AGAIN
My husband — a big golf fan — asked if I'd like to go to the driving range with him. In the spirit of 'try anything once', I did — and to my surprise enjoyed it so much I signed up for a few lessons.
'You pick it up quickly,' the coach observed, clearly impressed.
In my head I could hear the crowds gasping in wonder as I swept majestically around Wentworth.
A week later I was standing at the first tee and missed the ball . . . five times. I felt a surge of tears the like of which I can't have experienced since I was about three.
Only once I lost the expectation of being any good from the start did I begin to enjoy playing for its own sake.
What a burden that expectation of 'being the best' can be.
BE FLEXIBLE . . . AND BE YOUR OWN CHAMPION
After a lifetime of meeting targets, winning awards and getting promoted, it's quite a shift to accept that now the only person whose opinion matters is mine.
I have enough. Life is not about spending
It's a lesson I should have learned long ago. If I look over my shoulder now, it's not to see who's trying to review my performance, it's because I'm at a yoga class, trying to stretch my trapezius. For me.
That'll do nicely.
CUT BACK ON THE SHOPPING
Contentment doesn't come easy to the consumer generation. We've spent our working lives striving to not just cover the bills but to fund a never-ending list of things to buy.
Now I have to live on less, but though I'm not exactly rolling in readies, nor do I have to make impossible choices between eating or have the heating on. I count my blessings. I have enough. Life is not about spending. When faced with the question 'do I actually need this?' the answer is almost invariably 'no'.
The former editor (pictured) believes retirement is a sobering time for discovering who are your true friends
WILL YOU STAY IN TOUCH, REALLY?
A friend who stayed in the same job for years 'because of the people' was shocked to realise two years after retiring that she is in contact with just one former colleague.
Retirement soon sorts true friends from those you just used to share an office with. It's a sobering reminder of how fleeting work relationships can be.
BE NICE TO YOUR PARTNER
Retirement can be a challenge for baby-boomer relationships. My generation of women has been more economically independent and the men (at least a bit) more domestically active.
With mutual dependency reduced, we've ramped up our expectations of emotional and physical fulfilment.
Over the years, as those knee-buckling take-me-now moments have morphed into 'Poldark's on in five — tea?', more than one friend in a long-term partnership has admitted to feeling like doing something drastic.
But there's quite a gulf between being unbearably miserable in a relationship and feeling a bit bored. As a self-help guru once said, if it's excitement you want, try hang-gliding first — as a newly retired friend did. She swears it saved her marriage.
Just because a relationship didn't work, it doesn't mean we've given up on wanting better ones in the future
While the most recent divorce figures for over-65s have shown a marked increase (largely down to there being more over-65s now), there has also been an increase in so-called 'silver splicers' (older people who marry or remarry) — up by 46 per cent.
Just because a relationship didn't work, it doesn't mean we've given up on wanting better ones in the future. I'm a classic example. When I met Mr Very Right Indeed seven years ago, we moved in together within 18 months and married soon after.
THE ANSWER TO A TRICKY QUESTION
'And what do you do?' It was so easy when the answer was 'I'm a magazine editor'. Instant status. I can't pretend I don't miss it.
These days I just smile and reply: 'How long have you got?'
Gill (pictured) urges others to ban the word 'retirement', instead taking time for growth and self exploration
It's now more a case of who I am rather than what I do — and 'who I am' has turned out to be far more fluid and liberating than my previous incarnation. I hadn't expected that.
IT'S TIME TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK
i liked the idea of spending my retirement in an orgy of self-indulgence, but after a few weeks of catching up with friends, city breaks and theatre trips, I knew it wasn't going to satisfy me in the long run. I still needed to contribute.
Some of my most fulfilling moments involve community projects such as a refurbishment plan for our village hall, setting up a cinema club and running a litter-picking scheme.
Other friends have got involved in pursuits — from taking Open University degrees to becoming artists, jewellery makers or gardeners. And they enjoy volunteering (check out volunteeringmatters.org.uk) and some great literacy schemes (try literacytrust.org.uk, readeasy.org.uk or beanstalkcharity.org.uk).
Whoever said true happiness is the combination of pleasure and purpose knew what they were talking about.
AND . . . BAN THE WORD 'RETIREMENT'
Retirement implies a shutting down, a withdrawal. But when I look at my generation of women I see anything but.
This is a time of growth and discovery, an exploration of all those sides to ourselves we've had no time for until now.
We're seeking a new dynamic between our busy working worlds and a more home-based future, familiar to our mothers, but less so to us. Why should our working lives be all or nothing? Maybe we can find a better work-life balance. Let's face it, we'll never really retire, will we?
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Javier Enrique Cruz Castellanos (Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Departamento de Cortés, Honduras; 24 de enero de 1995) es un futbolista hondureño. Juega de Portero y su equipo actual es el Real Juventud de la Liga Nacional de Ascenso de Honduras

Es hijo del exarquero de la selección nacional de Honduras Wilmer Cruz.

Selección nacional
Ha sido internacional con la Selección de fútbol sub-20 de Honduras.

Clubes
|Atlético Municipal Fútbol Club (Cedido)
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|2017

|Honduras de El Progreso
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|Actualidad

Palmarés

Campeonatos nacionales

Copas nacionales

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Perfil del jugador

Futbolistas de Honduras
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo Honduras Progreso


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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 4, 2011
SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED NOVEMBER 4, 2011
This is the initial public offering of our common stock. We are selling shares of common stock and the selling stockholders named in this prospectus are selling shares. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares of common stock by the selling stockholders. We currently expect the initial public offering price to be between $ and $ per share of common stock.
We have applied to have the common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "EPAM."
We and certain selling stockholders have granted the underwriters the right to purchase an additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments.
Our principal stockholders, directors and executive officers and entities affiliated with them will own approximately % of the outstanding shares of our common stock after this offering. These insiders will therefore continue to have substantial control over us after this offering and could limit your ability to influence the outcome of key transactions, including a change of control.
shares (or shares if the over-allotment option is exercised in full)
We estimate that the net proceeds to us from this offering will be approximately $ million, or approximately $ million if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share would increase (decrease) our net proceeds, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, by $ million (assuming no exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option). We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering for general corporate purposes, such as for working capital, for acquiring facilities, and for potential strategic acquisitions of, or investments in, other businesses or technologies that we believe will complement our current business and expansion strategies.
We have applied to have our shares of common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") under the symbol "EPAM".
Unless the context otherwise requires, all references to the number of our shares of common stock to be outstanding after this offering is based on shares of common stock outstanding as of September 30, 2011, giving effect to (i) the for stock split to be effected immediately prior to completion of this offering and (ii) the conversion immediately prior to completion of this offering of all outstanding Series A-1, Series A-2 and Series A-3 convertible preferred stock into a total of shares of common stock; and excluding:
shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options at a weighted average exercise price of $ per share; and
an aggregate of shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under our stock option plan of 2011.
Unless specifically stated otherwise, the information in this prospectus does not take into account the issuance of up to shares of common stock which the underwriters have the option to purchase from us and certain selling stockholders solely to cover over-allotments.
we may find is difficult to maintain a high level of quality in implementing new technologies and methodologies.
If a tax authority in any jurisdiction reviews any of our tax returns and proposes an adjustment, including as a result of a determination that the transfer prices and terms we have applied are not appropriate, such an adjustment could have a negative impact on our business. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has begun an examination of our federal income tax returns for the tax year ending December 31, 2008. The results from this and other tax examinations and audits may differ from the liabilities recorded in our consolidated financial statements and could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
move to a flexible exchange rate policy, to raise interest rates and to launch the privatization of a number of state-owned enterprises. Belarus has also sought financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund, or the IMF, Russia and other CIS countries, but as of November 2011, there was uncertainty whether Belarus would receive the financial assistance it previously requested from the IMF, due to political disagreements regarding Belarus' commitments to the reforms requested by the IMF. It is uncertain whether the government will be able to effectively manage the current financial crisis and implement the reforms requested by the IMF.
We have significant operations in Russia. Since 1991, Russia has sought to transform itself from a single party state with a centrally-planned economy to a market economy. Political conditions in Russia were highly volatile in the 1990s, as evidenced by the frequent conflicts among executive, legislative and judicial authorities, which negatively affected Russia's business and investment climate. During the presidency of Vladimir Putin and the current presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, the political and economic situation in Russia has generally become more stable. However, there is still a risk of significant changes to the political and economic environment, potential changes in the direction of the reforms or reversal of the reforms. Elections for the state Duma are scheduled for late 2011, and the next presidential election is scheduled for 2012. In September 2011, both Dmitry Medvedev and United Russia, the party holding over two-thirds of the Russian Parliament seats, supported Vladimir Putin as the presidential candidate, while Dmitry Medvedev was offered the office of Prime Minister. Shortly afterwards, Alexey Kudrin, the Minister of Finance who pursued a largely conservative budget and monetary policy, was forced to resign. The outcome of the presidential election and the potential shift in government policy may affect the direction and speed of economic and political reforms and negatively impact the economic and political environment in Russia.
Political and economic relations between Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and the other countries in which we operate are complex, and recent conflicts have arisen between their governments. Political, ethnic, religious, historical and other differences have, on occasion, given rise to tensions and, in certain cases, military conflict between countries of the CIS which can halt normal economic activity and disrupt the economies of neighboring regions.
The conflicts among CIS countries and conflicts within CIS countries have, in some instances, also strained their relationship with the United States and the European Union which, at times, has negatively impacted their financial markets. For instance, the December 2010 Belarus presidential elections coincided with large-scale street protests and were criticized as anti-democratic by the foreign ministers of some European nations and by the United States and Canada. In January 2011, the European Union and the United States announced financial and travel sanctions against the Belarusian government and Belarusian state-owned enterprises. In June 2011, the European Union agreed to a series of new sanctions against certain additional Belarusian individuals and enterprises. In August 2011, the United States imposed further economic sanctions against certain additional Belarusian individuals and enterprises, and, in response, Belarus announced it would suspend an agreement with the United States to reduce certain uranium stockpiles held in Belarus. No assurance can be given that Belarus will improve relations with the European Union and the United States or that further restrictions will not be imposed by the European Union or the United States in relation to these points of tension or that such frictions will not affect the political and economic environment in Belarus. Trade and economic sanctions, including existing European Union and United States sanctions and asset freezes, prevent us from dealing with certain entities and persons in Belarus and impose legal compliance costs and risks on our business operations in that country.
We operate in CIS countries primarily through locally organized subsidiaries. Certain provisions of Russian law and the laws of other CIS countries may allow a court to order liquidation of a locally organized legal entity
on the basis of its formal noncompliance with certain requirements during formation, reorganization or during its operations.
Social instability in CIS countries, coupled with difficult economic conditions, could lead to labor and social unrest. Labor and social unrest may have political, social and economic consequences, such as increased support for centralized authority and a rise in nationalism. These sentiments could lead to restrictions on foreign ownership of companies in our industry or large-scale nationalization or expropriation of foreign-owned assets or businesses. There is relatively little experience in enforcing legislation enacted to protect private property against
nationalization or expropriation. As a result, we may not be able to obtain proper redress in the courts, and we may not receive adequate compensation if in the future CIS governments decide to nationalize or expropriate some or all of our assets. If this occurs, our business could be harmed.
Our principal stockholders, directors and executive officers and entities affiliated with them will own approximately % of the outstanding shares of our common stock after this offering. As a result, these stockholders, if acting together, would be able to influence or control matters requiring approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors, the approval of merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets and other significant business or corporate transactions. They may also have interests that differ from yours and may vote in a way with which you disagree and which may be adverse to your interests. The concentration of ownership may have the effect of delaying, preventing or deterring a change of control of our company, could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their common stock as part of a sale of our company and might ultimately affect the market price of our common stock.
Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for shares of our common stock. We cannot predict the extent to which investor interest in our company will lead to the development of a trading market on the or how liquid that market may become. If an active trading market does not develop, you may have difficulty selling any of our common stock that you purchase. The initial public offering price of shares of our common stock will be determined by negotiation between us and the underwriters and may not be indicative of prices that
will prevail following the completion of this offering. The market price of shares of our common stock may decline below the initial public offering price, and you may not be able to resell your shares of our common stock at or above the initial public offering price.
As a public company, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we have not incurred as a private company, including costs associated with public company reporting requirements. We also have incurred and will incur costs associated with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and related rules implemented or to be implemented by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the rules of the NYSE. The expenses incurred by public companies generally for reporting and corporate governance purposes have been increasing. We expect these rules and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and to make some activities more time-consuming and costly, although we are currently unable to estimate these costs with any degree of certainty. Complying with these laws and regulations may be especially difficult and costly for us because we may have difficulty locating sufficient personnel in CIS and CEE with experience and expertise relating to GAAP and U.S. public company reporting requirements, and such personnel may command higher salaries relative to what similarly experienced personnel
would command in the United States. These laws and regulations could also make it more difficult or costly for us to obtain certain types of insurance, including director and officer liability insurance, and we may be forced to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. These laws and regulations could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors, our board committees or as our executive officers and will require our management and personnel to devote a substantial amount of time to comply with these rules and regulations. Furthermore, if we are unable to satisfy our obligations as a public company, we could be subject to delisting of our common stock, fines, sanctions and other regulatory action and potentially civil litigation.
Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market following this offering, or the perception that these sales could occur, could cause the market price of our common stock to decline. These sales could also make it more difficult for us to sell equity or equity-related securities in the future at a time and price that we deem appropriate. Upon completion of this offering, we will have outstanding shares of common stock, assuming no exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option and no exercise of outstanding options. The shares of common stock sold pursuant to this offering will be immediately tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act. Of the remaining shares of common stock:
shares will be eligible for sale immediately upon completion of this offering; and
shares will become eligible for sale, subject to the provisions of Rule 144 or Rule 701 under the Securities Act, upon the expiration of agreements not to sell such shares of common stock entered into with the underwriters, beginning 180 days after the date of this prospectus, subject to extension in certain circumstances.
We, our directors and officers and the selling stockholders have agreed subject to certain exceptions, that without the prior written consent of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., UBS Securities LLC and Barclays Capital Inc., we and they will not, during the period ending 180 days after the date of this prospectus sell or dispose of any common stock, as set forth under "Underwriting."
Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that could depress the trading price of our common stock by acting to discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or changes in our management that our stockholders may deem advantageous. These provisions include:
The initial public offering price of our common stock will be substantially higher than the pro forma net tangible book value per share of the outstanding common stock immediately after this offering. Based on an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover of this prospectus) and our net tangible book value as of September 30, 2011, if you purchase our common stock in this offering, you will pay more for your shares of common stock than the amounts paid by our existing stockholders for their shares of common stock and you will suffer immediate dilution of approximately $ per share of common stock in pro forma net tangible book value. As a result of this dilution, in the event of a liquidation investors purchasing stock in this offering would receive significantly less than the full purchase price paid in this offering.
We are required to design, implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a company's annual or interim consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Commencing with our fiscal year ending December 31, 2012, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management and our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. If, in the future, we have weaknesses or deficiencies in our internal controls, they could result in a material misstatement in our annual or interim consolidated financial
statements or cause us to fail to meet our obligations to file periodic financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We also may not be able to conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal control over financial reporting as contemplated by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or our independent registered public accounting firm may issue an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. Any of these failures could result in adverse consequences that could materially adversely affect our business, including potential action by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the NYSE or other regulatory authorities against us, possible defaults under our debt agreements, stockholder lawsuits, delisting of our stock and general damage to our reputation.
We estimate that the net proceeds to us from this offering will be approximately $ million, or approximately $ million if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share of common stock (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the public offering price per share of common stock would increase (decrease) our net proceeds, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, by $ million (assuming no exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option).
on an as adjusted basis to reflect the sale by us of shares of common stock in this offering, at an assumed public offering price of $ per share, the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus.
As Adjusted
$ 67,399 $
Preferred stock and puttable common stock:
Puttable common stock, $.001 par value, 2,264 issued and outstanding, actual; no shares authorized, issued and outstanding on an as adjusted basis
Common stock, $.001 par value; 20,000,000 authorized; 2,357,214 shares issued and 2,142,599 shares outstanding, actual; shares authorized, issued and outstanding on an as adjusted basis
Preferred stock: $.001 par value, 290,277 authorized Series A-3 convertible preferred stock issued and outstanding, actual; shares authorized (the terms of which are currently unspecified); no shares issued and outstanding on an as adjusted basis
(15,972 )
(2,665 )
$ 168,752 $
(1) A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share of common stock, which is the mid-point of the price range listed on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) the as adjusted amount of each of cash and cash equivalents, additional paid-in capital and total capitalization by approximately $ million, assuming that the number of shares of common stock offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.
(2) If the underwriters' option to purchase an additional shares of common stock from us in this offering is exercised in full, the as adjusted amount of each of additional paid-in capital and total capitalization would increase by approximately $ million, and we would have shares of our common stock issued and outstanding.
The table above does not include:
shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options outstanding as of September 30, 2011 at a weighted average exercise price of $ per share; and
an aggregate of shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under our stock option plan as of September 30, 2011.
Dilution is the amount by which the portion of the offering price paid by the purchasers of our common stock in this offering exceeds the net tangible book value per share of our common stock after the offering. Our pro forma net tangible book value as of September 30, 2011 was $ or $ per share of common stock. Pro forma net tangible book value per share is determined by dividing our tangible net worth, total assets less total liabilities, by the aggregate number of shares of common stock outstanding. After giving effect to the sale by us of the shares of common stock in this offering, at an assumed public offering price of $ per share, the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and the receipt and application of the net proceeds, our pro forma net tangible book value as of September 30, 2011 would have been $ or $ per share. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value to existing stockholders of $ per share and an immediate dilution to new investors of $ per share. The following table illustrates this per share dilution:
A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share of common stock, which is the midpoint of the range listed on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) our pro forma net tangible book value by $ million, the net tangible book value per share after this offering by $ per share and the dilution per share to new investors in this offering by $ per share, assuming the number of shares offered by us and the selling stockholders, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and assuming the receipt and application of the net proceeds.
The following table sets forth, on a pro forma basis, as of September 30, 2011, the number of shares of common stock purchased from us, the total consideration paid, or to be paid, and the average price per share paid, or to be paid, by existing stockholders and by the new investors, at an assumed public offering price of $ per share, the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, before deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions, and offering expenses payable by us:
100 % $ 100 % $
Sales by the selling stockholders in this offering will reduce the number of shares of common stock held by existing stockholders to , or approximately %, and will increase the number of shares of common stock to be purchased by new investors to , or approximately %, of the total shares of common stock outstanding after the offering.
The foregoing tables assume no exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option or of stock options outstanding as of September 30, 2011. At September 30, 2011, shares of common stock were subject to outstanding options, at a weighted average exercise price of $ . To the extent these options are exercised there will be further dilution to new investors.
5 19 18 19 14 2 —
$ 82,679 $ 53,577 $ 66,249 $ 16,534 $4,098 $ 18,324 $ 6,777
We estimate forfeitures at the time of grant and revise our estimates, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures or vesting differ from those estimates. Such revisions could have a material effect on our operating results. The assumptions used in the valuation model are based on subjective future expectations combined with management judgment. If any of the assumptions used in the valuation model change significantly, stock-based compensation for future awards may differ materially compared to the awards previously granted.
Options Granted
Number of options granted
17,611 8,500 140,250 110,000 75,619 11,000 10,000 75,000
Risk free interest rate
3.36 % 3.00 % 1.78 % 1.78 % 1.78 % 1.78 % 1.02 % 2.05 %
Expected dividend yield
0 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 0 %
Expected life
6.25 years 6.25 years 6.25 years 6.25 years 6.25 years 6.25 years


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Levi Cranston was watching one of his favorite game shows in the evening with his sisters, Victoria and Olivia. Evelyn Maeve, his younger sister, went to a birthday party and probably wouldn't be back until around nine o'clock at night. Their parents ordered pizza for the family, and their dad drove over to get their order. Their mom drove Evelyn Maeve to the birthday party.
Victoria was spending an evening at the Cranston's house on Elmhurst Avenue in downtown Valparaiso. Since she lives in an apartment a few blocks away, she decided to just walk over here. Louise Baranovsky, the oldest half-sister, also lives around here, but she and her family were leaving for Rhode Island tomorrow to visit family. However, since she and her husband, Brian Soriano, have small boys at home, of course they would have to focus on more packing and last minute tasks. Elizabeth Baranovsky, the younger half-sibling, was in Chicago tonight with her husband, Paul Weiner.
The three kids were okay with being together tonight. They didn't have to do anything that required leaving the house, so that was all good. Mindless of anything else going on at the moment, Victoria, Olivia, and Levi sat around in the living room with a glass of white wine in their hand and chips and salsa on the coffee table while watching TV. They had nothing better to do besides watch game shows and then possibly some stupid comedy shows.
"I wonder if Janice will win," Olivia said all of a sudden.
"I would assume so. She's got the most amount of money," Levi replied. "And they're right at the third toss-up."
"No. I mean the final round. We all know she'll make it that far."
"I like Janice, so I want her to win."
"Why do you like Janice so much?" Victoria asked her brother.
"She clearly knows what she's doing," Levi remarked.
"I was hoping Tim would win."
"What do you have about Tim?"
"He's cute."
"Bogus."


Grow Your Own From Scratch Want to learn how to make a kombucha scoby from scratch so you can make your own homemade kombucha? If so, you will need a scoby, also referred to as a "kombucha mushroom" or "kombucha mother culture." We've literally been making our own since the late 80's, so we do have quite a bit of experience with this procedure. Back then, kombucha was not found in stores like it is today, nor were scoby cultures available for sale. You had to basically get a "mother" and liquid starter from a friend (or friend of a friend of a friend in some cases). It was more of a community affair.


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When COVID flattened tourism, carbon credits kept these African hills 'green'
© Charlie Shoemaker for Conservation International
By Kiley Price
Tags: carbon credits carbon offset Chyulu Hills forests REDD+
The pandemic took lives. In many places, it also took livelihoods.
COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions cratered ecotourism in Africa in 2020, depriving local communities of life-sustaining revenues. As a result, poaching surged across the continent — driven by desperation for food and income, or by profit, and exacerbated by weakened enforcement efforts, experts have said.
However, the people of Chyulu Hills in southeast Kenya — said to be the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's "Green Hills of Africa" — were able to tell a different story.
Even as the pandemic spread across Africa last year, local governments and communities in this region generated enough revenue to hire additional rangers to crack down on poaching — and made a number of other investments in their own long-term food security, health and well-being.
How? By protecting and restoring forests.
The Chyulu Hills region, which provides water for nearby communities, livestock and wildlife, has seen deforestation driven largely by slash-and-burn agriculture and charcoal burning for fuelwood. For the past seven years, local communities, the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust (MWCT), the private sector and other partners have teamed up with Conservation International to protect and restore the forests and grasslands of this critical landscape.
Muli and Matasha, Maasai guides who work with the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, make their way down from the cloud forest atop of the Chyulu Hills with Mount Kilimanjaro. (© Charlie Shoemaker)
In 2017, the Chyulu Hills region became verified as a REDD+ project — a United Nations-backed initiative that provides financial incentives for communities, regions and countries to keep forests intact, thereby preventing carbon emissions caused by deforestation. Revenues for the project come from the sale of carbon credits, which represent a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that countries, companies or individuals can purchase to compensate for emissions made somewhere else.
FURTHER READING: What on Earth is 'REDD+'?
Since its creation, the Chyulu Hills REDD+ project has helped conserve and restore 404,000 hectares (1 million acres) of land, protecting iconic species such as elephants and rhinos and preventing the release of around 37 million metric tons of carbon emissions. It has also helped stimulate local economies; the sale of carbon credits generated more than US$ 3 million in 2020 alone.
According to Andrey Arutyunyan, a REDD+ manager for MWCT, this steady stream of income from the sale of carbon credits — both before and during the pandemic — has been "transformational" for local communities, including Indigenous Maasai pastoralists and Kamba agriculturalists.
"In the past, NGOs or other organizations have often come in and tried to tell communities what they need," he said.
"The Chyulu Hills REDD+ project is different. The communities are making the final decisions on how profits from carbon credits are used based on their priorities. The impacts have been life-changing."
Jobs are 'buzzing'
To provide for their families, many people living in Chyulu Hills historically turned to destructive practices like slash-and-burn farming and poaching.
Luckily, the Chyulu Hills REDD+ project offered a "sweet" alternative: Beekeeping for honey.
"We have worked with communities in both the eastern and western regions of Chyulu Hills to help them set up their own beekeeping farms," said Wilbur Mutua, who runs the beekeeping program for MWCT. "These farms produce honey that people can either sell, apply for medicinal purposes or use to put food on the table for their families. Around here, with honey available, you know you are not going to sleep on an empty stomach."
A colonized hive established by MWCT's beekeeping program and supported by the REDD+ project, Chyulu Hills, (© Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust)
So far, the Chyulu Hills REDD+ project has helped establish more than 630 beehives across the region. Along with providing jobs for community members — particularly women, who have historically lacked job opportunities in this region — the increase in pollinators has also helped boost crop growth in farms and support restoration in the surrounding savannas and forests.
An added bonus? The bees help reduce conflicts between humans and elephants across Chyulu Hills.
"Elephants aren't big fans of bees, so setting up beehives along fences around a farm or house keeps elephants away without harming them," Mutua said.
Getting 'schooled' on conservation
Crowded classrooms. Dilapidated bathrooms. Run-down facilities.
Before the REDD+ project began, these were the conditions many children in Chyulu Hills endured if they wanted an education, explained Charity Lanoi Meitekini, the team leader of the livelihoods program at MWCT, which helps women in the region find jobs and gain financial independence.
"Most of the schools were densely overpopulated, with students outnumbering teachers by 50 to one," she added. "Without enough funding, schools were simply not able to support the number of children who were eager to learn."
To address these gaps, part of the revenue generated from the sale of REDD+ carbon credits has been funneled directly into improving education for the children of Chyulu Hills. Over the past two years, the program has funded the salaries of seven new teachers — along with a new cook, community health worker and four new cleaners. Additionally, funding has helped to renovate multiple schools and build new latrines.
Renovated school staff quarters in Maralal, Kenya. (© Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust)
For the families who were unable to afford school fees, the program has supported full or partial scholarships for more than 400 children across the region.
"All of these efforts were high priorities for the communities," Meitekini explained. "With access to education, students are more likely to achieve their goals."
And learning hasn't been limited to schools. Community outreach programs and radio broadcasts funded by the REDD+ program have helped educate local communities on the importance of protecting nature — for people and the climate.
"REDD+ has helped equip local communities with the tools they need to protect nature. It offers alternative livelihoods that do not involve the destruction of forests and helps prepare our youth for the future," Arutyunyan said.
"The benefits of this project — particularly during the pandemic — show that if you take care of nature, then nature will take care of you."
Kiley Price is a staff writer at Conservation International. Want to read more stories like this? Sign up for email updates here. Donate to Conservation International here.
Cover image: The Chyulu Hills (© Charlie Shoemaker for Conservation International)
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Newly weds Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been given some sound advice by a Devon great-grandmother who has celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary.
Wendy Plumridge, of Newton Abbot, says if they always talk to one another and don't let things brew, they too might find themselves enjoying a long, lasting happy marriage.
Last Thursday Wendy, 77, and her husband Alf, 80, celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.
Although Wendy has described their life as having been hard, she also says it has been a good one filled with love and happiness.
She said: "Alf has given me a lovely life and a wonderful family. We are lucky in so many ways.
Together Wendy and Alf have five children, 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
Although they are still very much in love, Alf now lives in care home because he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia five years ago.
Devoted Wendy visits him every day without fail and they still hold hands.
Recalling when they first met in 1957, she said: "Her was doing his National Service at Denbury Army Camp in Newton Abbot.
"I have always lived in the town and met him at a local coffee bar. I thought he was a bit of a ladies man. He came up to me and asked if I would like to go to the cinema and I said yes.
"I can't remember what we watched but it would have been a musical as we used to love watching them.
After five months together, Alf proposed when he was demobbed and two months later they got married at Newton Abbot Registry Office.
Wendy recalled: "We had no money in those days so we stayed at my grandparents farm for the weekend before Alf started work delivering farm food for animals.
They went on to have five children and at one point had four children aged under five, with three years between the two eldest.
Alf, who worked for mining company English China Clays for nearly 30 years, had two other jobs to make ends meet. Wendy also had a cleaning job.
Wendy said: "It was pretty hectic and we had a hard life, but everything was worth it.
Alf has been living at Mapleton care home in Newton Abbot for the past two years.
Wendy said: "It's hard for me having to come home to an empty house, but it's even harder seeing him like he is now.
"He was so happy-go-lucky all the time. Nothing seemed to phase him and he was so good with the children.
Their 60th wedding anniversary was celebrated with a 'little do' at Alf's care home, and their daughter arranged a romantic diamond themed dinner for two at her house.
For gifts Alf bought Wendy a necklace and earrings, and she got him clothes.
Paying tribute to the great role models their parents have been, their son Paul said: "Despite hardships brought about by having little money, they gave their five children everything they could. Their love and parental guidance moulded us all into the people we are today.
"Even in adulthood, their love, support and guidance has never diminished.
"Now in the twilight of their lives and health, it is their children, grandchildren and great children who support them both.