Villanueva, who also sits as the Managing Director of FINTQ, the financial technology arm of Voyager Innovations, underpinned that "having a digital identification for all Filipinos that will be recognized by the public and private sectors is a great equalizer to scale financial inclusion." According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas' 2017 Financial Inclusion Survey, only 22.6% of adult Filipinos have formal accounts from banks and non-banks.
"The national ID system makes Voyager's goal of including 30 million Filipinos into the formal financial system achievable by 2020. According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, one of the factors for the decline in loan disbursements by formal financial institutions in 2017 was the 'lack of necessary ID.' With the national ID in place, it will now be easier for everyone to avail of financial products that can help improve their quality of life," he added.
Moreover, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia cited a study of the World Bank's ID for Development group, which said that despite the numerous IDs in existence in the Philippines, 14% of Filipinos are denied of government and other financial services due to a lack of proper identification documents.
It will also help resolve various customer onboarding issues with financial institutions, Villanueva said, adding "when consumers already have a valid ID to present to different banks and non-banks, they will be able to undergo a seamless KYC (know-your-customer) process that once done, will allow them to have a full experience of financial products and services." For instance, he said, an individual can open a PayMaya account by downloading the app and providing their basic information. However, to upgrade and fully experience all features of their PayMaya account, they would have to undergo a KYC process that will require the submission of a valid ID.
Villanueva encourages banks, other financial institutions, and government agencies to leverage on the passage of the Philippine Identification System Act in accelerating efforts towards digital financial inclusion.
"Banks and other financial institutions must take advantage of the national ID, which is one way to help unbanked and uncarded segments to establish their financial footprint. With the technologies we have now, we can effectively authenticate the identity of each individual, particularly those residing in areas without any bank presence," he said.
FintechAlliance.Ph is the association of companies that serve as strategic players in the digital finance space in the Philippines. It aims to further stimulate innovation to better promote inclusive growth while creating an environment for interoperability to empower every Filipino.


This entry was posted in denial, family, living, Quotes, relationships, Spirituality, Thought for the Day and tagged judging others, resentments on June 18, 2018 by Bill.
Program wisdom contains lots of annoying clichés. The reason they sound so hackneyed and are so often repeated is that they are true. False aphorisms abound, but most of those in the recovery community have survived because of the old "test of time." These two are among them.
This entry was posted in addiction, alcoholism, codependency, emotional health, family, recovery, relationships, self-esteem and tagged Communication, Expectations, resentments on April 19, 2018 by Bill.
Addiction is fear, compulsion, denial, low self-esteem and many other things, but it is not without volition. Every single time I acted out, I made a choice to do so. I may not have realized that I had other choices, but it was still a choice. Furthermore, when I continued to act out out after finally discovering that there were other choices, I was certainly making conscious decisions not to act in my (or others') best interest.
There is a difference between a reason and an excuse. A reason involves taking responsibility; an excuse is about avoiding it. So yes — I chose to act out, and it isn't unreasonable for someone who doesn't understand the compulsions that plague addicts to recognize only the choice. Nor is it unreasonable for them to fear and anticipate another breach of trust. What is unreasonable is for me to fail to recognize that my behavior was the cause, and only my behavior can change that perception.
I'm reminded of the old AA saying, "Don't expect a medal for doing something you ought to have been doing in the first place." Nor should I expect an immediate return of trust and understanding, just because I said "I'm sorry." I have no control over what's happening in someone else's head. The only way I can influence it is by showing that I can be trusted, and that can take a long time.
They need to heal, same as us.
This entry was posted in addiction, alcoholism, codependency, denial, family and tagged Expectations, rebuilding trust, resentments, trust on May 3, 2015 by Bill.
We see a lot of people in early recovery who are angry — angry at their parents, their bosses, the world, and often at themselves. Anger can be a useful tool. Nearly always a result of fear, whether obvious or hidden, anger prepares us to deal with challenges that demand forging on against whatever odds. In many cases, the alternative would be cowering in a corner and waiting for the wolf to have its way with us.
This entry was posted in 12-Step Programs, addiction, alcoholism, codependency, denial, emotional health, recovery and tagged anger, letting go, Projecting, resentments, Revenge on May 1, 2015 by Bill.
One of my favorite Buddhist teachings was given by the late Charlotte Joko Beck in her wonderful book "Everyday Zen". It goes something like this.
Imagine that you live by a lake, and you have a rowboat. You've just repaired and repainted it, and you're really pleased with the job. There's a fog on the lake the morning after a stormy night, and you decide to row out and enjoy the quiet, surrounded by nothing but the mist and the water.
This entry was posted in living, recovery and tagged Charlotte Joko Beck, resentments, right speech, right thought, Rowboat Teaching, Zen Buddhism on May 30, 2014 by Bill.


Various festivals and days of celebration are observed throughout each year. The meaning and significance of the occasions is provided on this section.
In the third Vachanamrut of Gadhada First Section, Lord Shree Swaminarayan says that even a person who can incessantly visualise God's murti must remember the various events performed by God and retain memories of them all. This is necessary because, if the murti of God is forgotten during one's last moments, the memories of the celebrations will remind that person of God's murti and then, that soul can attain salvation.


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ANNOUNCEMENT: Team Canada!
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The final round is now over and we are proud to announce Spirit of Math's TOP 12 who will represent Team Canada in Beijing on August 12, 2017. Those representing Team Canada will be given additional training in preparation for Beijing for the 2017 World Mathematical Olympiad, where Spirit of Math…
See Who Made Team Canada's Finalist Lists
The countdown begins to see who on our WMO 2017 Team Canada Finalist Lists will make it to Team Canada's final 12! As two intense preliminary rounds have wrapped up, we have finalized our list of the top 10% of the more than 750 students who registered for the competition in Beijing,…
Spirit of Math to Represent Canada at 2017 WMO
Spirit of Math Schools will be Releasing the Genius at the 2017 World Mathematical Olympiad in Beijing, China on August 12. Last year, Spirit of Math students representing Canada enjoyed the experience of a lifetime as they traveled to Seoul, South Korea, to compete in the high-energy WMO international competition, where…
Lahore Report: March 20, 2017
Spirit of Math Pakistan (SoMP) is getting closer and closer to opening the doors to its campus in Lahore, Pakistan. Over the past few weeks, SoM CEO and Co-founder Kim Langen and her team have been busy in Lahore in preparation of opening various campuses throughout the Pakistani city; hiring…
Spirit of Math Cuts the Ribbon on New Don Mills Campus
Toronto – When Don Mills principal and campus owner Kaynan Anshur joined the Spirit of Math Schools (SoM) family 13 years ago, a total of roughly 400 students were scattered throughout the program's campuses. Now, he's seen the program grow to include more than 7,500 students in campuses across North America. Anshur…
Come See our New Custom-Built Don Mills Campus
Toronto, ON – Since 2007, our Don Mills campus at Spirit of Math Schools has grown from a small class of seven students to more than 380 high-performing young minds. Our growth has led to the need for a dedicated space for our very own custom-built facility and we are…
Pitching In: Spirit of Math Launches Donation Drive for Vancouver Charities
Vancouver, BC – As part of our commitment to giving back to the community, Spirit of Math Schools is pleased to support women and children in the Metro Vancouver Area with a donation drive. Spirit of Math Schools is proud to partner with Sheway, the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre and…
Grades 1-4, Are you ready for a challenge?
When Maki, Sammy and John work together they can paint one house in three hours. How long would it take them to paint 9 houses? If you know the answer, you've got what it takes to compete in a Spirit of Math contest! Open to students in Grades 1 to…
Holiday Spirit Starts Right Here!
It's that time of the year. Time to be a part of a child's life and help make their dreams come true! At Spirit of Math we believe in making a difference in the community, that's why we are holding this holiday toy drive. Campuses across Canada and the United…
Turkey Giveaway
This weekend, Spirit of Math is partnering with Freeman Real Estate to give away 500 turkeys. For decades, Honest Ed's has been giving away turkeys to those in need, and with the famed store going out of business, Spirit of Math and Freeman Real Estate saw this as the perfect…
Kim Attends College Night as Guest of Honour
While on her trip to Lahore, Pakistan, Kim was invited as the Guest of Honour to the much-anticipated College Night opening ceremony at The City School Paragon Campus. The City School, one of the largest private networks in South East Asia, has an incredible reputation and has long been a…
Is a nationwide unified curriculum valuable? Kim Langen debated this issue last week in Lahore, Pakistan.
On Saturday November 5th, CEO of Spirit of Math Kim Langen participated in a debate at Beaconhouse School system in Lahore, Pakistan. Appearing as the opposition alongside Dr. Lawrence Burke (Director of the Beaconhouse School System). Kim debated the value of a nationwide uniform curriculum. Pakistan is home to one…

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Too bad this couldn't have happened last year, then maybe we wouldn't be getting Invertigo.
I'm a bit confused, I haven't really taken the time to read far into this, but what exactly does the buyer plan to do with the park? Isn't it a real estate company or something? Will the park be closed?
Seems like $70 Million is very low...I wonder if that's just for the land and CF gets to keep all the rides to move/sell?
I think it's for the rides and everything else on the property. If I recall, CF doesn't own the land but the city does.
I expect the buyer to keep the park open for 2012 and then close the park, but that is just a guess.
Was it even a good park? From what I hear, not many people are saddened by the news.


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A Note on Canadian Poetry
The first Canadian poet was probably the Frenchman who came over with Champlain, and had intelligence a good deal beyond the ordinary in that he saw the new world even as Champlain did. Before leaving, and almost on the dock, he had written his "Farewell to France," and by that act intended a new life, one might say; at least it was his own decision. There is an account in Parkman of how Champlain came back to Port Royal (I think it was) after a miserable voyage down the Atlantic coast. Putting in for water, he had been attacked by Indians, and off Mount Desert he had almost lost his ship in the heavy seas. In any case, he came back bitter and tired out, and was utterly dumbfounded to find himself met by men in strange costumes chanting alexandrines—a true poetic homage to himself.
As Parkman has it, the Frenchman was not lazy, and if the old world could not be translated quite so literally to the new, it was an honest sense that had made the attempt. The masque was the old form, but the context was altogether a new one.
Canadian poetry might always be this attempt, not so much to fit, say, into an environment but to act in the given place. If there is no 'major' poet in Canada, if there never was one, etc., I think it is a part of this same problem. A theoretic embarrassment of 'culture,' all the tenuosities of trying to be local and international at the same time, etc., take an energy otherwise of use in the making of an idiom peculiar to the given circumstances. In this way Canadian poetry, in its earlier forms, has much in common with the Ameri-
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can poetry of Lowell, Longfellow, et al. The model is English, and it is precisely the English which is of no use whatsoever. "Like some grey warder who, with mien sedate, etc." comes too late, and too borrowed, to be helpful. It is incredible to think of the man writing it, even then, being where he must have been. The impact of the place is dulled in the overlay of the English rhythms, and the politenesses which couldn't have been actual.
The Frenchman with Champlain was, finally, a poet in a much, much deeper sense, and it was he who catalogued a good many of the plants around their camp, and also made a garden which kept them all in vegetables. There is that sense of it, of where, particularly, one is. I think that is more 'poetic vision,' call it, than any other sense could be. The Frenchman has size in his intention, and more than that, what he intends he does, i.e., the garden, and the masque in the dead of winter, completely improvised and successful.
I don't see any other way to do it. The problems of form and content, and all the other contentions of poets, are utterly intimate with each one writing, and where he is writing, and what he tries with what's around him. Canadian poetry becomes, in each instance, which man or woman it is, and what their work can effect.


According to section 5.2 of the rules and regulations, if the complete name of the college or university is 31 characters or more (including all letters and spaces between words), the name may be abbreviated. Our complete school name is Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and is more than 31 characters. May we abbreviate it to UQAC Saguenay?


Back in the 90s, Japanese families migrated to London in the hopes to start businesses due to an advantage they had over British entrepreneurs: business aggression. While the cards have shifted slightly and the Brits have proved they have what it takes to start businesses in their own country, it continues to be true that Japan is a world leader when it comes to the business industry. Automobile giants like Toyota or Suzuki have successfully settled in the UK. Mitsubishi Financial Groups have also made a name abroad. There is an endless list of companies from the Pacific island that have grown worldwide with nobody's help but their own.


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Aid trickling in to typhoon victims
By Kristen Gelineau and Jim Gomez / The Associated Press
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 at 12:05am
Updated: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 at 11:31pm
TACLOBAN, Philippines – Relief operations in this typhoon-devastated region of the Philippines picked up pace today, but the minimal amounts of water, food and medical supplies reaching the hardest-hit areas were causing increasingly desperate survivors to take matters into their own hands.
In the first reported deaths as a result of looting, eight people were crushed to death when a wall collapsed as they and thousands of others stormed a rice warehouse on Leyte Island, the worst-hit region by Friday's storm, said National Food Authority spokesman Rex Estoperez.
The looters in Alangalang municipality Tuesday carted away up to 100,000 sacks of rice, he said.
Since the storm, people have broken into homes, malls and garages, where they have stripped the shelves of food, water and other goods.
Authorities have struggled to stop the looting. There have been unconfirmed reports of armed gangs involved in some instances.
The incident shows the urgency in getting food and water distributed to the disaster zone.
Aviation authorities said two more airports in the region had reopened, allowing for more aid flights.
U.S. Brig Gen. Paul Kennedy said that later today his troops would install equipment at Tacloban airport to allow planes to land at night. Tacloban city was almost completely destroyed in Friday's typhoon and has become the main relief hub.
"You are not just going to see Marines and a few planes and some helicopters," Kennedy said. "You will see the entire Pacific Command respond to this crisis."
A Norwegian ship carrying supplies left from Manila, while an Australian air force transport plane took off from Canberra carrying a medical team. British and American navy vessels are also en route to the region.
The USS George Washington is headed toward the region with massive amounts of water and food, but the Pentagon said the aircraft carrier won't arrive until Thursday. The United States also said it is providing $20 million in immediate aid.
The damaged airport on Tacloban, a coastal city of 220,000, houses makeshift clinics and thousands of people looking for a flight out. A doctor here said supplies of antibiotics and anesthetics arrived Tuesday for the first time.
"Until then, patients had to endure the pain," said Dr. Victoriano Sambale.
The winds leveled tens of thousands of homes in region, which is used to typhoons. In some places, tsunami-like storm surges swept up to a mile inland, causing more destruction and loss of life. At least 580,000 people have been displaced. Most of the death and destruction appears concentrated on the islands of Samar and Leyte.
The damaged infrastructure and bad communications links made a conclusive death toll difficult to estimate.
The official toll from a national disaster agency rose to 1,883 on Tuesday.
President Benigno Aquino III told CNN in a televised interview that the toll could be closer to 2,000 or 2,500, lower than an earlier estimate from two officials on the ground who said they feared as many as 10,000 might be dead.
"There is a huge amount that we need to do. We have not been able to get into the remote communities," U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said in Manila, launching an appeal for $301 million to help the more than 11 million people estimated to be affected by the storm.
"Even in Tacloban, because of the debris and the difficulties with logistics and so on, we have not been able to get in the level of supply that we would want to. We are going to do as much as we can to bring in more," she said. Her office said she planned to visit the city.
Relief officials said comparing the pace of this operation to those in past disasters was difficult.
In Indonesia's Aceh, the worst-hit region by the 2004 tsunami, relief hubs were easier to set up than in Tacloban. The main airport there was functioning 24 hours a day within a couple of days of the disaster. While devastation in much of the city of Banda Aceh was total, large inland parts of the city were undamaged, providing a base for aid operations and temporary accommodation for the homeless.


In this article we will look at the PageRank algorithm used to rank nodes in a network. While the method was originally used by Brin and Page to rank home pages in order of "importance", since then many similar methods have been used for other networks such as financial or P2P networks. We will work with a non-normalised version of the usual PageRank definition which we will then generalise to enable better options, such as adapting the method or allowing more types of data. We will show what kind of effects the new options creates using examples as well as giving some thoughts on what it can be used for. We will also take a brief look at how adding new connections between otherwise unconnected networks can change the ranking.


These muffins are full of pumpkin, spice, and everything nice- including split red lentils! Hearty and nutritious, these muffins are great to snack on as the cooler weather settles in.
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place the rack in the centre of the oven. Line a muffin pan with papers, or lightly grease with oil.
2. Whisk together the eggs, pumpkin purée, brown sugar, lentil purée, oil, apple juice, and vanilla in a large bowl until smooth. In another large bowl, stir together the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices. Stir in the chocolate chips.
3. Add these wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir just until incorporated. Scoop into the muffin cups so they're about three-quarters full and sprinkle with pumpkin seeds.
4. Bake for 18–22 minutes, until the tops spring back when lightly touched and a toothpick inserted in the centre of a muffin comes out clean. Let the muffins cool in the pan on a wire rack for about 5 minutes, then remove the muffins from the pan and let cool completely on the rack.


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Cairo's third metro line beats challenges
Despite political unrest and technical challenges, contractors have minimised delays to Line Three and are now working on underground sections for the second phase
Residents have quickly made Cairo's third metro line part of their daily commute, since it began operating in February. The line was inaugurated less than six months behind the original planned opening date and in time for a revised target, after facing significant tunnelling problems in 2009, as well as the political upheaval that began in 2011.
Technical challenges for contractors include waterlogged ground and cramped conditions for above-ground work
The popular uprising in Egypt have had a limited impact on the works, which continued almost uninterupted throughout the occupation of Tahrir Square by anti-government protesters and other unrest within Cairo and beyond. The French lead contractor on the metro project, Vinci Construction Grands Projets, confirms that work stopped for just a few weeks in February 2011 before restarting with additional site security in early March.
Short section of underground line
The political instability is expected to have more of an effect on the financing of ongoing work and, particularly, the later phases of the line. These are currently being redesigned to save costs by using more above-ground running sections.
The short section of the underground Line Three cost $712m and has only five stations so far, including Attaba, which is close to the Nile. Not only does this 31.5-metre-deep underground station beneath the El-Azbakeya Garden lie in the heart of the central business district, it also connects the new section to the existing Line Two, which opened in the mid-1990s and was completed in 2001.
The two original lines run north-south, more or less parallel with the Nile, and already make up the 15th busiest metro system in the world, with more than 700 million passengers a year. Cairo is one of the fastest-growing cities and pressure on its public transport system is set to increase as the influx of people from the countryside expands the 11-million-strong urban population.
The new section of metro will not remain as it is, with a short spur ending at the Abbasia station. Line Three will eventually be about 45km long. The 7.1km phase 2 is currently being constructed by the same Vinci Construction Grands Projets-led consortium of four firms including France's Bouygues and the local Arab Contractors and Orascom Construction Industries.
Underground tunnels will be added to the line from Abbasia, turning east towards the airport with five more stations, and ending at Al-Ahram Street in Heliopolis. Another extension will take the line to the airport, although this will not happen until the final phase.
Meanwhile, the third phase of construction will take the line west by another 4km underneath the Nile, linking to the large Zamalek island district above. It will then pass onwards underneath a smaller channel of the river to El-Kit Kat. Here the line will split into two branches, one heading southwards and one north into suburban and residential areas.
Travelling a further 6.6km, the northern branch, with seven stations, will terminate at the Rod el-Farag corridor, where there will be a an interchange connecting to other modes of transport, and a heavy maintenance workshop for the line. The southern link will be 7.1km long and will have six stations, the last one at Cairo University where the line finishes. Both these branches will be tunnelled only for about 50 per cent of their length.
According to Atta Abd Raboh el-Sherbiny, chairman of the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT), which is part of the Ministry of Transportation, the lines will have both at-grade and viaduct sections. After the underground El-Sudan station, the northern branch will rise on to a viaduct and run within the existing rail corridor on its way to Imbaba station, says NAT planning director Tarek Abouel Wafa. This sharing of Egyptian National Railways (ENR) land will avoid the problem of finding additional space in the crowded city. The line will stay on a viaduct until it has crossed the city ring road using an elevated, suspended bridge. After this, it will drop to grade level.
The southern branch will remain underground until Sudan Street, when it will cross below the Upper Egypt Railway before rising to run parallel along the El-Zomer Canal until the Cairo University station. This is a change from the original concept, which called for fully underground lines.
Phase 3 Cairo's third metro line
France's Systra is currently working on the designs for phase 3. These are being prepared in time for tendering construction contracts later this year. Mahmoud Dow, design project manager for Systra in Cairo, says this could happen in early autumn, but is more likely to be later. "In parallel, we are working on feasibility and outline designs for the phase 4 section," he says. "This may be extended to 14km from the current 11km, with an additional two stations on top of the eight already in this phase." Work began on the revised phase 4 in January.
The technical challenges faced by contractors working on Line Three included waterlogged ground, particularly in phase 1, and cramped conditions for above-ground work in the tight city streets. All phases of the project use a single-tunnel configuration for underground sections, as did Line Two. An 8.35-metre internal diameter tunnel carries a double-track line, rather than two bores running in each direction. In most places, the line lies 20-30 metres below ground, which means tunnelling under high pressure.
Stations are also deep, excavated within diaphragm walls forming watertight boxes. Not surprisingly for a route alongside the Nile, the ground is saturated. Many years of inundations have left deep deposits of sand and gravel and a water table close to the surface.
Slurry machines
These conditions necessitate a tunnel boring machine (TBM) with a pressurised face, known as a slurry machine. It works by using clay-based bentonite slurry to keep the excavation face under pressure in the head chamber, with the same slurry then extracting the spoil as it is pumped round in a circuit.
The 9.4-metre diameter machine used for the first part of the works was the same one that drove the original Line Two, from German manufacturer Herrenknecht. It reinforces the tunnel with 400-millimetre-thick, precast rings behind the shield as it pushes forwards. Each tunnel ring is made of seven segments.
The TBM drive went well for most of the route and the challenges mainly concerned the above-ground operations. Finding space for the spoil plant, where the piped slurry from the machine is cleaned to remove excavated soil before being pumped back down to the machine, was difficult. Further restrictions meant that a full day's spoil had to be stored at the plant as trucks could only move at night to dispose of it in the desert beyond the city.
In September 2009, there was a failure in the tunnel lining due to a misplaced segment. The pressurised groundwater broke into the tunnel, carrying the ground above with it. A sinkhole appeared at street level, but fortunately the route of the tunnel followed the centre of the streets, which minimised damage to buildings.
To stabilise the tunnel and the ground above it, the machine and a section of the tunnel had to be flooded. Using diaphragm walls and ground freezing, the machine was dismantled and removed. After being reconditioned, the rescued machine began work on the second phase of Line Three in mid-March.
To complete the remaining 1,200 metres of tunnel on phase 1, a new Herrenknecht TBM was brought in, which would later be re-used on phase 2 works. If this machine had not arrived early, the delay would have added 11 months to a tight 48-month schedule.
The phase 2 works, which began in early 2011, have used slurry machines and an earth pressure balance (EPB) TBM, manufactured by France's NFM. The second slurry TBM used to complete the phase 1 tunnelling has been used since early 2011 on the first 2km of phase 2, where the ground is made up of the same saturated gravels and sands as it was on phase 1. Away from the river, the ground changes to drier clay sand and sandstones, though water is still present. For this type of ground, the EPB machine is more appropriate.
Wafa says phase 2 is due to be completed in January 2014. By then, phase 3 should have commenced too. Meanwhile, he says, the study of Line Four is beginning and feasibility studies will begin for Lines Five and Six in 2014.
Recovering the lost machine
To retrieve the tunnel boring machine (TBM) flooded in September 2009, engineers constructed diaphragm walls by digging trenches 90 metres deep to reach a layer of impervious clay.
The trenches were then filled with concrete to create a watertight box around the machine head that could be pumped dry and the ground safely dug.
Behind the TBM, the ground was frozen by drilling and installing pipes to circulate a saline solution. This could be cooled below zero Celsius to chill the surrounding ground and carry away heat.
The groundwater surrounding the pipes therefore froze and further sealed the location of the machine so it would not flood further as it was being dismantled and removed.
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School buildings are important in supporting delivery of educational standards.
They are valuable assets and need to be managed effectively both on a day-to-day basis and strategically.
To assist in the process of strategic decision making, the council is working with its partners to further develop and implement the asset management plan.
Schools hold condition surveys to help them determine their priorities.
First call is urgent health and safety issues.


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The last couple years were pretty great years in the movies for artificial intelligence. "Her" -- the first movie ever about a relationship between an operating system and a person -- as well as the "The Imitation Game" -- about the father of AI, Alan Turing -- each won Oscars for their screenplays in addition to earning multiple nominations, including for best picture. Central to both of these movies was the famous "Turing Test," a thought experiment for providing a benchmark for achieving a level of human intelligence in a machine, wherein a human is given the opportunity to "converse" with a hidden partner, either another person or a machine. If the conversational guinea pig mistakes a machine for a person, then technology has finally made the great leap forward in the bridging of brains with bits and bytes.
Alex Garland's new film "Ex Machina," is a smart successor in the new Turing genre. The spine of the movie is the mother of all Turing tests, wherein Caleb, a young programmer naïf, working for the fictional search behemoth "Blue Book" is tapped by Blue Book founder Nathan to interact for several days with his creation, Ava, an extraordinary and womanly automaton. Ava is quite obviously a robot -- her transparent mid-section shows her inner workings. Her name hybridizes the mothers of humanity and programmers, Eve and Ada Lovelace respectively. In the Old Testament, Caleb is one of Moses's spies sent out to investigate the Promised Land. This Caleb is sent to return with a different, but analogous kind of scouting report. If for all her obvious artificiality Caleb begins to care for and worry about Ava, we can finally move beyond the Turing test, to the new post-human world.
Leading the Israelites to Canaan hardly set history off on a steady march to utopia. Neither is there uniform optimism for post-Turing technology. Once we pass that somewhat ill-defined benchmark, the next prominent signpost is the ominous "Singularity." Named by the futurist and tech pioneer Ray Kurzweil (whose manifold achievements include the modern music synthesizer), "The Singularity" is the point at which machine intelligence passes human intelligence, a moment in history when according to Kurzweil and various other prominent science and technology luminaries (e.g., Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk) all hell will break loose. The smart machines will now continually accelerate their own learning and soon have no real need for their flesh and blood creators, who will presumably go the way of all obsolete inventions. Garland has his own take on that and it's great fun to see it play out.
Ava is beautiful, but the scientific focus is on her brains -- her "AI" -- the guts of which derive from Blue Book's near hegemonic dominance of search. Nathan's AI effort is summed up in one telling aphorism -- that search is not just a record of what people think, but how people think. Herein lies the crux of the approach, that the patterns that can and will be found in the vast stores of search data are actually good enough proxies for the process of thought that they can be leveraged to then turn around and produce thought and some simulacrum of consciousness. This bet on sophisticated pattern recognition as opposed to complex theory building has for some time been the mantra of Google in many domains, perhaps most famously in the Google Translate project. Rather than construct complicated and precise mappings between dictionaries, augmented by language-specific rules for syntax to go from one language to another, Google Translate makes use of a vast trove of instances of individual existing translations to craft a best guess at a new translation -- using what we translate as the foundation of how we translate.
In fact via the "Google Brain" project, Google is actually mounting an effort to leverage its vast data records (and deep investments in AI technology and researchers -- including, ironically, Kurzweil) to engineer intelligence. That, coupled with recent significant purchases of companies on the cutting edge of robotics, voice recognition, and voice synthesis at least raises the question of how life might be positioning itself to imitate art.
In real life, the "Blue Book" is an early work of the great, mysterious, challenging -- and for many inscrutable- philosopher of language Ludwig Wittgenstein. For Wittgenstein, language was a window into the mind and a good deal of "Ex Machina" turns on the kinds of language games that Wittgenstein first introduced in the "Blue Book". A quieter shout-out to Wittgenstein is found in the background presence of a famous Klimt portrait of Wittgenstein's wife Margaret (one of a number of both subtle and explicit art references that are threaded through the film) that hangs on the walls of Nathan's Spartan digs, which itself might even be a nod to the famous modernist "Haus Wittgenstein". Wittgenstein doesn't appear to be the only philosopher getting a shout-out in the movie. Ava is effectively kept in a box and Caleb interacts with her through a glass wall, a setting that -- in combination with the BlueBook big data approach to AI -- alludes to the famous "Chinese Room" thought experiment by the philosopher of mind John Searle. Searle sets up the scenario of a non-Chinese speaker locked in a room who by virtue of following a collection of rules of symbol (Chinese character) manipulation gives her Chinese interlocutors the impression that she understands Chinese -- when clearly she doesn't. He analogizes this to the conclusion that programs, no matter how sophisticated, do not produce consciousness.
Machine-made consciousness remains one of the great challenges of modern science. "Ex Machina" makes us think about what that might mean. The title brings to mind the phrase "Deus ex Machina" -- the classical dramatic device wherein the (Greek) gods were literally brought out on to the stage to resolve some thorny dramatic problem. God is noticeably absent from the movie. Perhaps that's a last message from this thought provoking and super smart thriller.


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In his State of the Union message last week, President Obama laid out a blueprint for an America that's built to last—where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded. Today, the Departments of Treasury and Labor are taking steps to strengthen economic security for our nation's seniors by giving Americans greater investment information and access to more choices to plan for a secure retirement. These steps will be of particular importance to women, who tend to live longer and have fewer retirement assets and lower retirement income than men.
The Department of Labor is taking action to require 401(k) plan providers to better disclose the cost and nature of the services they provide, while Treasury and the IRS are announcing steps that will ease regulatory barriers in the market for annuities and other forms of lifetime income. The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has prepared a detailed report describing the significance of today's actions, which can be accessed here.
Today's announcements complement previous Administration initiatives to make retirement more secure for American families. In September 2009, President Obama announced expanded opportunities for automatic enrollment in retirement savings plans. The President has also championed an automatic IRA legislative proposal through which tens of millions of workers without access to a workplace retirement plan would be automatically enrolled in IRAs through payroll deposit contributions, while remaining free to opt out. And the Administration has proposed easing requirements on the timing and amount of distributions from retirement accounts for many retirees, reducing the compliance burden and providing elderly Americans with greater control over their retirement assets.
Today's Treasury and IRS actions will facilitate the creation of new lifetime income choices to help Americans manage their hard-earned savings in retirement. As life expectancies and retirement periods lengthen, Americans are increasingly confronting the risk of outliving their assets in retirement. Managing this risk is a challenge. While we know average life expectancies, it is impossible for individuals to know how long they will live. As a result, many retirees risk outliving their savings or unnecessarily limiting their spending in retirement because of the fear of outliving their savings.
Women are especially exposed to this risk. Even though women's participation rate in retirement plans is equal to that of men, women tend to have significantly lower overall retirement income and retirement assets than men, due in part to lower wages and lower rates of full-time employment among women during their working lives. If anything, these statistics understate the need for improved retirement security among elderly women due to their greater life expectancy. For example, in 2007, the average American woman turning age 65 could expect to live 19.9 additional years—2.7 more years than the average American man. And elderly women are more likely to live in poverty than elderly men. In 2008, 17 percent of unmarried women age 60 and over were poor, and an additional 20 percent were nearly poor, with incomes between 100 and 150 percent of the official poverty level. The disparity for women becomes particularly pronounced at older ages: at age 75 and above, 12 percent of women (married and unmarried) lived below the poverty level in 2010, compared with only seven percent of men.
Traditionally, a guaranteed and predictable stream of lifetime income, such as a defined benefit pension, has helped to attenuate this risk, for both men and women. Lifetime income could also be provided by an annuity purchased through a 401(k) or IRA. Yet in recent years the use of lifetime income in retirement plans has diminished substantially.
This dynamic has underscored the bedrock importance of Social Security—with benefits that are guaranteed for life, adjusted for inflation, and not subject to financial market fluctuations. It has also underscored the need to expand the availability of lifetime income options in retirement plans.
resolving uncertainty as to how the 401(k) plan spousal protection rules apply when employees choose deferred annuities from their plans.
Americans can also increase their savings by reducing the fees they pay as their savings accumulate in a retirement plan. Currently, sponsors of retirement plans too often are not provided with information on the investment and recordkeeping fees charged to their plans. This makes it difficult to compare the after-fee cost of administering a plan and may obscure the compensation incentives of plan servicers, potentially biasing the advice provided to plan sponsors.
Improved fee disclosure may lead to lower overall fees if plan sponsors can better assess the value and worth of the services provided. In addition, to the extent that compensation arrangements may disproportionately reward plan servicers for providing particular products, improved disclosure may lead to better portfolio allocations and higher returns. Both of these factors could lead to higher accumulated capital at retirement, as small differences in annual rates of return can lead to large gains in cumulative returns over time. For example, a 0.25 percent higher return after fees could increase the cumulative savings of a 25 year-old worker by about 10 percent by retirement (see figure below).


A number of broadcast industry trade bodies and observers have commented on the European Commission's Digital Single Market proposals.
Increased flexibility in the rules governing advertisements, product placement and sponsorship.
"We support the European Commission in the broadly deregulatory, de-minimis approach taken for a large part of the provisions which will ensure that old and new players can be subject to a similar regulatory environment. It's imperative in such a fast-changing and frequently disrupted environment that innovation and investment are encouraged. However, we call upon the Institutions to move away from prescriptive, quota driven approaches and focus instead on incentivising the audiovisual industry, which ultimately reaps rewards for the Digital Society as a whole," she stated.
John McVay, Chief Executive of UK independent producers' body Pact, said that in light of the announcement on rules for geo-blocking and e-commerce as part of the Digital Single Market agenda, it was essential that policy makers heed the concerns about longer term plans for so called 'cross border access' to film and television content. "Due in the Autumn, the European Commission plans would erode the exclusive territorial exploitation of film and television rights, with film and TV producers and audiences across Europe losing out. A recent independent report found these plans would result in consumer welfare losses of €9.3 billion a year as a result of consumers losing access to content they currently enjoy, being charged more, or being priced out completely. The report also predicted a drastic drop in investment in new content and revenue losses for producers of up to €8.2bn. We all want to develop a stronger digital economy for film and television. But the Commission must work with, not against the industry, to deliver for consumers," he declared.
"We look forward to working with the European Parliament and Member States to come to a result that reflects a long-term vision for all players offering AV services, ensuring significantly less detailed but equal level of regulation," it concluded.
Member of egta – TV and radio sales houses across Europe – broadly welcomed the proposal as a positive move towards a more balanced set of rules for all audiovisual stakeholders.
Ted Shapiro, Wiggin Partner and Head of the firm's Brussels office, noted that the EC's proposals on geo-blocking does not cover AV services (and indeed other copyright services), suggesting that these have not necessarily been spared but rather are subject to separate initiatives (copyright specific legislation and competition law – pay-TV investigation). The latter looks at a quota in the on-demand space and takes a step toward regulating platforms such as YouTube.
"The draft Regulation on Geo-Blocking is not that surprising. It was never meant to cover audiovisual and other copyright content but that does not mean copyright is being spared; there are separate initiatives: the Proposed Portability Regulation, the second wave of copyright legislation coming this fall (supposedly) and competition law, including in particular the Pay-TV case," noted Shapiro.
"The Proposal for revised Directive on AVMS's breaks new ground as the Commission seeks to create some regulatory parity for online services who rely on liability privileges in the E-Commerce Directive," he added.
The Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA) welcomed the European Commission's proposal for an amending Directive of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), suggesting it was a first step but an important milestone in the development of the EU's cultural policy. It called on the Council and European Parliament to be even more ambitious.
SAA fully supports two proposed revisions: the requirement for VoD services to include European works in their catalogues and ensure their visibility; and, in order to put an end to unfair competition, the capacity for Member States to apply the same financial contribution rules to services based outside their borders but targeting their citizens.
SAA is convinced that these two proposals will help create a fair and balanced market for both European works and Europe-based distributors. Regulatory forum shopping, used by some distributors when establishing headquarters in countries with weaker audiovisual regulation, should no longer be a competitive advantage.
SAA calls on the Member States and MEPs to consolidate these commitments and be more ambitious on the promotion and financing of European works. In particular, the Directive should set higher targets for the presence of European works on VOD platforms. The proposed 20 per cent catalogue quota is insufficient. Broadcasters are required to have 50 per cent of European content and, according to a recent study by the European Audiovisual Observatory, VOD platform catalogues are already made up of 30 per cent European works.
SAA also wants the Council and European Parliament to be vigilant that the amending Directive does not weaken the integrity of audiovisual works and the moral rights of their authors. Among the proposed relaxation of advertising rules, SAA opposes the possibility of interrupting films every 20 minutes.


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Alfredo Bannister can trace its history back to 1978 when the founding company, ABAHOUSE was launched. In 1986, the brand that would produce Alfredo Bannister Shoes was added to the company and the original shoe line was officially launched in 1992 under Alfredo Bannister.
The designs used by Alfredo Bannister consist of largely contemporary, edgy designs that combine stylishness that is well known throughout the world with modern touches. Japanese leather is used for every shoe and with a women's collection that was added in the 1990s, the brand caters to every type of customer.
The most recent designs by Afredo Bannister have attempted to bring in more of the modern street inspired designs that have been pushing the shoe design niche of the fashion industry to new heights in Japan in recent years. The result is a mixed line (though new designs are separated most often) of classically inspired, high quality shoes, and modern twists on those classical designs.


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Herbs and Supplements to Be Used With Caution
Autism; ASD
Autism is a spectrum of brain disorders that appear early in life, usually between the ages of 2 to 6 years. Symptoms vary, but can include poor social interactions, repetitive actions, and interests that are not typical.
There is no cure for autism. Treatment can help reduce some symptoms. Current treatments include school programs, therapies, counseling, and medication. Alternative treatments may help manage symptoms, but there is often a lack of data to support them.
The following therapies focus on reducing symptoms.
Likely Effective
Melatonin —hormone that regulates sleep. It may improve sleep duration and the ability to fall asleep in children and adolescents with autism.C1, C5, C11, C12
Possibly Effective
The following therapies may help manage some symptoms when used as part of a treatment plan. No single alternative or traditional treatment is helpful for all symptoms.
Massage Therapy D2, D4
Music therapy D3
Possibly Not Effective
Combination of Vitamin B6 and magnesium
Note: High doses of vitamin B6 may result in nerve damage and diarrhea.
Note: Maximum safe dosages of magnesium have not been established for young children.C8, C10
Secretin C2, C3, C4, C6, C8, C10, C13, C14
Acupuncture A1
Auditory integration therapy D1, D5
Gluten-free diet B1, B2
Casein-free diet B1, B2
Editorial process and description of evidence categories can be found at EBSCO NAT Editorial Process.
Talk to your doctor about all herbs or supplements you are taking. Some may interact with your treatment plan or health conditions. Some supplements discussed here have certain concerns such as:
Vitamin B6 in doses as low as 200 mg may result in nerve damage.
Magnesium does not have safe dosages established for young children.
A1. Cheuk DK, Wong, V, et al. Acupuncture for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011 Sep 7;(9):CD007849.
B1. Elder JH, Shankar M, Shuster J et al. The Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet In Autism: Results of A Preliminary Double Blind Clinical Trial. J Autism Dev Disord . 2006 Mar 23 [Epub ahead of print].
B2. Millward C, Ferriter M, Calver S, Connell-Jones G. Gluten- and casein-free diets for autistic spectrum disorder. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2008;(2):CD003498.
C1. Andersen IM, Kaczmarska J, et al. Melatonin for insomnia in children with autism spectrum disorders. J Child Neurol. 2008 May;23(5):482-5. doi: 10.1177/0883073807309783. Epub 2008 Jan 8.
C2. Coniglio SJ, Lewis JD, Lang C, et al. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of single-dose intravenous secretin as treatment for children with autism. J Pediatr. 2001;138:649–655.
C3. Corbett B, Khan K, Czapansky-Beilman D, et al. A double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study investigating the effect of porcine secretin in children with autism. Clin Pediatr. 2001;40:327–331.
C4. Dunn-Geier J, Ho HH, Auersperg E, et al. Effect of secretin on children with autism: a randomized controlled trial. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2000;42:796–802.
C5. Garstang J, Wallis M. Randomized controlled trial of melatonin for children with autistic spectrum disorders and sleep problems. Child Care Health Dev. 2006 Sep;32(5):585-9.
C6. Molloy CA, Manning-Courtney P, Swayne S, et al. Lack of benefit of intravenous synthetic human secretin in the treatment of autism. J Autism Dev Disord. 2002;32:545–551:2nd CD.
C7. Nye C, Brice A. Combined vitamin B6-magnesium treatment in autism spectrum disorder. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2005 Oct 19;(4):CD003497.
C8. Owley T, Steele E, Corsello C, et al. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of secretin for the treatment of autistic disorder. MedGenMed. 1999;6:E2.
C9. Rimland B, Callaway E, Dreyfus P. The effect of high doses of vitamin B 6 on autistic children: a double-blind crossover study. Am J Psychiatry. 1978;135:472–475.
C10. Roberts W, Weaver L, Brian J, et al. Repeated doses of porcine secretin in the treatment of autism: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2001;107:E71.
C11. Rossignol DA, Frye RE. Melatonin in autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Dev Med Child Neurol 2011 Sep;53(9):783.
C12. Rossignol DA, Frye RE. Melatonin in autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2011 Apr 19.
C13. Sponheim E, Oftedal G, Helverschou SB. Multiple doses of secretin in the treatment of autism: a controlled study. Acta Paediatr. 2002;91:540–545.
C14. Unis AS, Munson JA, Rogers SJ, et al. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of porcine versus synthetic secretin for reducing symptoms of autism. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2002;41:1315–1321.
D1. Auditory integration training and facilitated communication for autism. American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Children with Disabilities. Pediatrics 1998 Aug;102(2):431).
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Akintola Williams (Photo-The Guardian of Nigeria)
By Taiwo Farotimi
He is a special gift to Nigeria, an icon that ICAN [Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria] could not domesticate. Though if accountants try to own him alone, they have every reason to do so. He is the doyen of his profession in Nigeria, and a model not just in Africa but also in the world. He takes the credit today for the training opportunity available locally for every accountant in Nigeria. Akintola Williams, first chartered accountant in Africa holds the record as the first president of ICAN.
But he is too big for the accounting world to monopolise. For his strides and relevance, the business community would not let accountants to own all of him. Reason is that in the business world, Williams also stands as a pillar; the selfless patriot who worked with others to "move the cheese" for Nigeria to join the league in the business world. He stood to be counted when the need arose for the security and exchange commission to berth in Nigeria in 1960. Akintola Williams remains the only surviving signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding setting up the Nigeria Stock Exchange, then as Lagos Stock Exchange. He has been honoured beyond Africa for his contribution, not just to the development of accounting but also that of democracy. It is therefore not surprising that as he marked his centenary this month, the family that celebrates with him transcends the Williams. For while members of the family of accountants fall over themselves toasting the father of the industry and political leaders line up to be counted, those in the music world and even the conservationists celebrated the icon.
Williams qualified as a chartered accountant at the age of 30, worked for two years with the Inland Revenue [now Federal Inland Revenue Service], a government agency before setting up his firm, Akintola Williams and Co. It was the first indigenous chartered accounting firm in Nigeria, and in Africa. He did not take that bold step because he wanted to be on record as the proprietor of the first accounting firm, but because he wanted to establish an outfit that will provide training for upcoming accountants. That dream came out of his experience in the United Kingdom when he almost did not get a firm to provide him an opportunity for training. It was the same consideration for those coming after him in the profession that led Williams to collaborate with others to start the Association of Accountants in Nigeria in 1960. He was the first president of the association. He was to also be the first to captain ICAN. Again, the history of firsts is not alien to his family. It is on record that Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams, popularly called FRA Williams or Timi The Law, his younger brother was also a juggernaut in the law profession. He was the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, the highest honour in law practice in Nigeria. That was after he had been honoured with QC, the Queen's Counsel, being the award of excellence in law practice bestowed on lawyers by the British government. It was also extended to those practicing in countries under the British before independence.
Beginning from its establishment in 1952, Akintola Williams and Co did not just rival foreign chartered accounting firms within the Nigerian space, it started a gradual development of a firm with global standard practice that was to become an African pride capable of holding its own anywhere. Thus, by the time Pa Akintola Williams retired in 1983 the company he started with only two-years-experience had become a giant in the continent, in fact an institution known the world over. That brainchild of the man who is being celebrated now was to seal merger arrangement with two other notable companies across continents, first to become Akintola Williams Deloitte and later to be known as Deloitte and Touche. With that transformation, by 2012, the company had been cited as the largest professional services firm in Nigeria, parading a staff of over 600.
It did not jump to stardom overnight. Because the founder of that company wants the best for accountants coming after him, he decided to open the company up to development and international best practices early in the day. So, within five years after he set it up, he decided to welcome a partner in the person of Charles Sankey. Were the founder concerned only about profit instead of expanding for reasons of training, there would not have been the need to enter into partnership with anyone, because the company was doing well. It got business with the West African Pilot, published by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, independent Nigeria's premier head of government. The company also handled the businesses of K.O. Mbadiwe's African Insurance, the notable Fawehinmi Furniture, Ojukwu Transport Company, owned by the father of late Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu; Western Nigeria Development Company; Nigeria Railway Corporation; the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA and the Electricity Company of Nigeria, ECN, a precursor of defunct National Electric Power Authority, NEPA and Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. But because the dream of its founder was to train and provide opportunities to as many people as possible, he continued to embrace new ideas and new partners. This openness became a strong policy of the company that even after the retirement of its founder the new drivers of the dream remain guided by it to the advantage of the company and its stakeholders.
A second partner, Mr. Njoh Litumbe, a Cameroonian was later brought into the fold. With the involvement of the two partners Akintola Williams and Co soon opened offices in Port Harcourt and Enugu, both in Nigeria. That was to be complemented with a branch in Cameroun in 1964. The step offshore soon got extended to Cote d'Ivoire and Swaziland, with affiliates in Ghana, Kenya and Egypt. The fulfilment of the dream to train accountants must have been so rewarding that more partners were admitted into the company as it grew. Thus, by March 1992 Akintola Williams & Co had had 19 partners and 535 staff.
The strides of the man Akintola Williams has not gone unnoticed. In the course of his practice and even in retirement he continued to attract awards and honours, in Nigeria and overseas. In 1982, he was conferred with the Officer of Federal Republic, OFR. It is the highest honour given to a private citizen. The Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR and Grand Commander of Nigeria, GCON are given only to the president and vice president respectively, while the president of the Senate and Speaker are also given the GCON along with the vice president. The only two Nigerians who have enjoyed those awards without occupying the offices are Moshood Abiola, winner of the 1993 presidential election and Babagana Kingibe, his running mate at the election. Abiola got his post humous. In 1997, though in retirement, the British government gave him Commander of the Most Excellent Order of British Empire. It was in recognition of his services in accounting profession and music through the Musical Society of Nigeria. Then in 2011 the Nigeria-Britain Association honoured him along with John Kufuor, former president of Ghana for their contribution to democracy and development in Africa. Should you have learnt about the Akintola Williams Arboretum at the Nigeria Conservation Foundation headquarters in Lagos, it is named in his honour by the Foundation of which he is a founding member.
Born on August 9, 1919 into the family of Thomas Williams, Akintola had his elementary education at the Olowogbowo Primary School, Lagos and his secondary education at the CMS Grammar School, Lagos. He attended Yaba Higher College, where he got a diploma in commerce. In 1944 he went to the University of London and graduated from there in 1946 with a degree in commerce. He went on to study accounting and in 1949 he became a chartered accountant. With that he made a record of becoming the first African to become a chartered accountant.
Though he worked in the public sector for just two years, his knowledge and experience became so irresistible for the political class not to tap from. So, at different times he served on government agencies and boards. He was a former chairman of the Federal Income Tax Appeal Commissioners between 1958 and 1968; he served as a former chairman of the Lagos State Revenue Collection Panel, was a member of the Coker Commission of inquiry into the statutory corporations of the defunct Western Region government in Nigeria.
His marriage to late Efuntiloye Mabel produced two children, Tokunbo and Seni. He could not celebrate his 90th birthday in 2009 due to the demise of his wife the same year. No doubt, relatives, friends, beneficiaries and admirers alike made it up for him this year.
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Q: Adding System.Data.SQLite through NuGet doesn't add a reference to the project I'm trying to make a very simple Xamarin.Forms test application to explore some features of the System.Data.SQLite package (namely encryption). However, I can't seem to get Visual Studio 2012 to add a reference to the package to the project.
Here are the steps I am taking:

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*Created a new Xamarin.Forms Portable blank app.

*Right-click on TestApp (core project) and select Manage NuGet Packages

*Search for "sqlite"

*Install the "System.Data.SQLite (x86/x64)" package. (This package is version 1.0.97.0 and it is described as "the official SQLite database engine for both x86 and x64 along with the ADO.NET provider.")

*According to NuGet, the package was successfully installed.

However, I cannot see the reference added under my project's "References" folder, and I also cannot write "using System.Data.SQLite" without errors ("cannot resolve symbol 'Data'"). Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
On a side note, I can follow the exact same process described above except instead of creating a Xamarin.Forms Portable blank app, I choose a regular C# console app. This allows me to install the NuGet package fine and it shows up in references as expected.

A: Posting an update to share what I've learned.
So as Jason sort of alluded to in his answer, the reason I was not able to reference the package in my Xamarin.Forms project is because Xamarin.Forms is, by definition, a PCL project. It's meant to work on all platforms. The package I was referring to in my question is not a PCL, which means that anything in the package that is platform dependent is inaccessable (which is basically the entire package). The SQLite.Net-PCL package is basically the same thing as System.Data.SQLite, but in PCL form, which means it is compatible for use in a Xamarin.Forms project.
Following this logic, it makes sense that I was able to access System.Data.SQLite from a console project, since a console project is not a PCL project and it targets a specific platform.

A: For PCL projects, use SQLite.Net-PCL.

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