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Submitted by Sukaina Bharwani | published 25th Mar 2011 | last updated 17th Mar 2020
Note: This report was produced in Feb 2009 as part of work to support Sida Environment and Climate strategies for different countries.
Current Climate and hazards
Climatic zones in Burkina Faso. Source NAPA 2007
Burkina Faso lies in the Sahelian zone and experiences high temperatures and unpredictable and variable rainfall. Climatically it can be split into 3 zones from North to South, comprising the Sahelian zone in the North of the country with rainfall less than 600mm/year, the North Sudanian with rainfall from 600-900mm/year and the South Sudanian zone where rainfall is greater than 900mm/year. Data presented in the NAPA, based on climate records extending to 1902 shows that the dry zone has been extending southwards during the last century . The length of the growing season varies from less than 60 days in the north to 160 days in the south, with large inter-annual variation.
Climate variability is already a major constraint on food security and poverty reduction efforts due to the high dependence on the primary sector, which accounts for 86% GDP. Droughts, floods, heatwaves and dust storms are the major climatic hazards in Burkina Faso, and these contribute to problems such as desertification, land degradation and migration away from the central area of the country.
Climate Projections
Changes in average monthly rainfall for the period 2046-2065 compared to 1960-1990 for Ouagadougou.
There is a high level of uncertainty associated with climate projections for Burkina Faso, and W. Africa in general, in particular for changes in precipitation, with the result that projections of changes in precipitation should be treated with caution . The NAPA only provides results from the MAGICC/Scengen models, and given the large differences between models it is not regarded as useful to rely on these results in this report. For West Africa the IPCC gives a range of +1.8-4.7C for the period 2081-2100 (with a median of +3.3C), and a slight increase in precipitation which the report says 'should be treated with caution' due to the differences between the models.
Downscaled climate data from 8 models for Dori, Ougadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso emphasise the uncertainty in precipitation projections (see left for Precipitation in Ougadougou). The projections show that average maximum temperatures will increase in the range of 2-3C by 2050 but that the only robust results for precipitation are indications that there will be an increase in rainfall towards the end of the rainy season (October) in Ougadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso
Burkina Faso's low ranking on the Human Development Index, of 173 out of 179 can be used as a proxy for its adaptive capacity, indicating that the ability to respond to the impacts of climate change in Burkina Faso is limited. While the projections of changes in precipitation are unclear, certain impacts are more certain. Climate change is expected to increase variability and the incidence of extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods and intense rainfall events. These can be expected to impact negatively on crop production, in particular as agriculture is already vulnerable to current fluctuations in climate in many areas of Burkina Faso. Increasing temperatures will cause greater evapo-transpiration, which will lead to drier soil conditions in many areas, and as demand grows water availability is likely decrease regardless of whether there is an increase or decrease in precipitation
An increase in maximum temperatures, and probable increase in drought conditions, will affect pastoralist activities both by contributing to land degradation and by directly impacting the herd mortality rates . In this respect it is also worth noting that climate change is increasingly meaning that for nomadic or semi-nomadic groups traditional indicators used to inform their movements are no longer reliable. The costs of climate change have not been calculated for Burkina Faso, and it would be difficult to do so given the uncertainties in climate projections. The Stern Review, however, indicates that for developing countries the costs could be in excess of 10% of GDP with a warming of 5-6°C.
The most vulnerable sectors in Burkina Faso as identified in the NAPA are water, agriculture, pastoralism and forestry, as all are directly impacted by changes in climate. The NAPA doesn't deal with impacts on Health, and this is one of the criticisms used against it , however it can be expected that an increase in extreme temperatures will increase heat-related mortality, and that extreme events such as heavy rainfall and floods will increase the incidence of diarrhoeal diseases. Indirectly, if subsistence activities such as agriculture and livestock raising are negatively affected by changes in climate then the overall health of the population will be affected due to decreased food security and ability to gain enough nutrients.
It is clear that the groups that will suffer most from the effects of climate change are those that are already poor and vulnerable to current climate variations. Poor rural communities that depend directly on subsistence farming or cattle raising are likely to be disproportionately affected as they lack access to the information, capital and decision-making structures which would allow them to successfully adapt.
In particular given the high dependence on primary sector, adaptation to climate change will be vital if Burkina Faso is to successfully achieve its goals of poverty reduction and economic growth as set out in its national development strategies. The people of Burkina Faso have always adapted to climatic variability, through strategies such as the adoption of crops with short growing requirements, livelihood diversification, and the use of forest products to supplement agriculture. Adaptation must begin with indigenous practices and an understanding of what people know about their local conditions, and indeed many of these practices are now being built on for adaptation.
Broad adaptation strategies that have been proposed in the case of Burkina Faso include Integrated Water Resource Management, changes to cropping practices, the strengthening of existing or creation of new institutions, integration of climate change into the planning process and various awareness campaigns In light of the uncertainty surrounding climate change in Burkina Faso, institutional strengthening and building the capacity within Burkinan government and other Burkinan organisations to use and interpret the latest available information appears to be an important step.
An interesting pilot project on adaptation in Burkina Faso is being run through a UNITAR funded ACCCA project in Ouagadougou. Most adaptation projects focus on supporting rural livelihoods, however there is an increasing awareness of the problems that urban areas will face, and this project aims to incorporate consideration of climate change and variability into the growth and development of Ouagadougou.
Burkina Faso has very low levels of emissions, of 0.07t/capita compared to the world average of 4.22 tonnes/capita, and as such the focus should be on adaptation to climate change rather than mitigation, as under any international agreement Burkina Faso would fall among the countries allowed to increase their emissions. Any mitigation projects should have strong development co-benefits, such as rural electrification programmes using solar heaters, or reafforestation programmes which would also aid soil conservation.
The Clean Development Mechanism is attractive for planners and government officials as a potential way of attracting investment but in reality Burkina Faso has very little capacity or comparative advantage internationally to attract CDM projects. It is worth noting in this regard that there is a large amount of funding for adaptation currently being pledged both by donors, and increasingly private foundations, and that if Burkina Faso can demonstrate institutional capacity for adaptation it will be in a strong position to attract this funding.
The government of Burkina Faso approved its NAPA in December 2007. The NAPA process is aimed at identifying vulnerability to current climate variability and future climate change, and identifying projects to respond to 'urgent and immediate' needs. The NAPA was constructed to complement other national strategies such as the poverty action plan and the programme for sustainable land management and was coordinated by the Permanent Secretary for the National Council of the Environment and Sustainable Development. Regional consultation workshops were held as part of the NAPA process with input from communities, NGOs technical staff and government officials, along with sessions in different villages to collect opinions from different groups on urgent and immediate needs. Five regional workshops were held to validate the results of the vulnerability assessments.
30 actions came out of the regional workshops and the activities then ranked and selected based on various criteria and expert judgement to create a list of 12 activities. As of January 2009 none of the activities identified in the NAPA have been implemented, and it remains to be seen to what extent the work of the NAPA will be integrated into the next review of the PRSP, due in 2010.
Institutional relationships and level of integration into national plans.
In general it can be said that a lack of coordination and knowledge exchange is the major institutional barrier to effective action on climate change in Burkina Faso, both between government Ministries and between NGOs, research institutes and the government. The UNFCCC focal point is situated in the permanent secretariat for the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CONEDD) within the Ministry of the Environment and Quality of Life, and this is the only ministry identified as having capacity on climate change, with the issue too often being confused elsewhere with general environmental management.
The Inter-ministerial council for the implementation of actions under the UNFCCC (CIMAC) was responsible for the 1st National Communication but finance ran out and it ceased to exist as ministries were reorganised. In 2007 the MOE set up a working group on the climate change programme and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to carry on the work of the now defunct CIMAC. The working group has a coordination role between Ministers and technical partners, as well as regional institutions. There is currently a reorganisation ongoing which is expected to result in a climate change group working under the CONASUR Committee for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, comprising sections on adaptation and vulnerability, mitigation and the CDM (where the designated national authority on CDM will sit), as well as the DPCIE (Division du Partenariat et de la Coordination des Conventions Internationales en matière d'Environnement) group on the coordination of the Rio Conventions.
Partly due to the rotation and staff and changing institutional arrangements, action on climate change has been isolated and sector-specific, as emphasised in a 2007 report by DPCIE which stated that there had been no examples of inter-ministerial cooperation on climate change. The report also stated that despite a large number of reports on climate change in Burkina Faso, none of the recommendations of any of the reports had been implemented. This is supported by a look at the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), in which climate change and adaptation are barely mentioned despite the strong links between natural resource constraints, poverty and climate.
The lack of coordination and exchange of knowledge and information between different Ministries, makes it hard to build an institutional knowledge base on climate change. It also means that opportunities for synergies are lost, for example no links have so far been made between CONASUR's activities on disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. The DPCIE report recommends increased collaboration, both at the national and regional level and the implementation of the Plan for the Environment for Sustainable Development, but it is unclear to what extent the reorganisation will facilitate this exchange.
In order to build the necessary governmental capacity it is important that the Ministries of Agriculture, Water and Mining and Energy, as well as the Met Office and the cloud seeding programme run by the army and air-force become centrally involved in climate change issues, rather than seeing climate change as a purely environmental problem. It is also vital that climate change is included in the PRSP when it is reviewed in 2010, as well as including adaptation in the national plans for agriculture, water and energy in particular.
Non-Governmental institutions
Research Institutes in Burkina Faso are enthusiastic about climate change, and have a solid base of knowledge on adaptation. Many organisations involved have been involved in the preparation of the NAPA and National Communication, and are keen to further support the national government on issues related to climate change. Coordination and exchange of information between the different organisations, and between research institutes, local and international NGOs and the national government is still restricted to partnerships based on personal relationships, however, meaning that knowledge exchange is very limited. The Environment Ministry created the 'Cadre de Concertation sur l'Environnement' as a dialogue space but this is dominated by discussions by donors and international NGOs.
Activities of other donors
NB: This is not a comprehensive list and merely gives an indication of other donor activities
Danida is carrying out lots of work in Burkina Faso, and has support programmes for the Water and Sanitation, Education, Energy and Agriculture sectors. Danida also has a project with UNDP on an 'Awareness and information campaign on Climate Change', and with UNEP on building capacity for the CDM in countries in W. Africa, including Burkina Faso. This would be mainly aimed at rural renewable schemes to replace traditional wood-burning stoves.
UNEP and UNDP are starting the CC DARE programme to integrate climate adaptation into national development plans, with Burkina Faso as one of the target countries, and UNDP is also supporting the preparation of the 2nd National Communication. FAO are involved in various aspects of early warning and prevention, and also provide technical and financial assistance for the National meteorological Office. The language used isn't one of adaptation, but the activities they are undertaking are integral to adaptation. UNITAR is involved in the ACCCA project, as mentioned in the section on adaptation. The Japanese aid agency, JAICA, is looking to implement a forest CDM project but no submission has as yet been made to the CDM pipeline. A multi-donor effort Jatropha biofuel project is also planned, with main partners including the Environment Ministry, CIRAD, GTZ UNDP and the University of Ouagadougou.
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Of course, like any union, it would help if the other person listened. Americans feel ignored -- and worse, they feel like their problems have been ignored. Sixty-seven percent said he couldn't care less about what matters to them because he's too obsessed with other issues. And, of course, it doesn't help his case that the White House seems intent on denying whatever emergencies Americans are facing. When White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain called the supply-chain crisis "an overhyped narrative," for instance, it didn't exactly thrill the families making five stops to find bread.
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How do we know he's right? Because of last Christmas. Most families had presents under the tree because U.S. companies got creative. They operated like a free market should -- meeting obstacles with ingenuity. They changed their ports or expanded their shipping capacities. And, as NRO's Dominic Pino reminds people, that wasn't Washington's idea. "The government didn't command anyone to do those things. Biden didn't sign an executive order telling Costco to charter its own container ships or Amazon to build its own shipping containers... Congress didn't pass a law mandating that people get their Christmas shopping done before Thanksgiving. Those things happened on their own because they made sense economically. Price signals were allowed to work, and they delivered decent results."
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South Korean's Medical Association Urges Government to Suspend Flu Shot Program After 25 People Die
One of the interesting side effects of the COVID Plandemic, and the rush to bring to market a new, untested COVID vaccine, is that many people around the world have become more skeptical of vaccines, and for good reason.
However, the problems associated with vaccines have been around for decades, and as we have documented frequently here at Health Impact News on our VaccineImpact.com website, the annual flu vaccine is, by far, the most dangerous vaccine in the world, causing more injuries and deaths than all other vaccines put together.
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Every year people are harmed and killed by the flu shot, but this information is censored in the U.S.
So it is highly unlikely that the death of 25 people in South Korea just after receiving the flu shot would have even made the news at all in the years pre-COVID. Because this pretty much happens every year when the flu season starts and mass vaccination of the public for influenza begins.
With literally hundreds of millions of doses of the flu vaccine being manufactured every year, a few hundred, or even a few thousand deaths, is generally not noticeable as doctors are not trained to look for vaccine injuries, and the vaccine will never be blamed.
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South Korean's medical association urges govt to suspend flu shot program after 25 people die following jab
by RT.com
The Korean Medical Association has called on the country's government to halt its plan to inoculate millions of citizens after more than two dozen people died after receiving flu shots.
The vaccine initiative, billed as a strategy to potentially offset complications from Covid-19, aims to provide free flu jabs to 19 million people. But the ambitious undertaking has come under fire after 25 people died, including a 17-year-old boy and a man in his 70s, after participating in the program. The number jumped from 12 deaths reported earlier on Thursday.
The vaccination drive was suspended for three weeks after it was revealed that around five million doses, which require refrigeration, had been stored at room temperature while being transpired to a medical facility. The program resumed on October 13. None of the people who died received the recalled doses.
During a press conference on Thursday, Choi Dae-zip, president of the Korean Medical Association, requested that the flu shot campaign be put on hold until safety concerns about the vaccine could be properly addressed.
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Source: https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/south-koreans-medical-association-urges-government-to-suspend-flu-shot-program-after-25-people-die/
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BUSINESS AGILITY: Evan Leybourn, founder of the Business Agility Institute and Conference, has been screaming into the void about Business Agility, and the void is finally screaming back. Evan is building a strong community around business agility across diverse industries, and plans to reclaim business agility from the consultants and marketing folks that keep using the buzzword.
Evan sat down with Bob Payne of the Agile Toolkit podcast to discuss.
How do you define Business Agility? How do we de-buzzword it?
Hearing so many stories, I came to the position that we don't want a definition. In this formative stage of Business Agility around the world, whatever definition we put on it is going to limit its ability to be more things to more people, and right now I think that's more important.
What we did is we actually put together a Model of Business Agility, about 60 of us working with the community on all the different domains and dimensions that make up Business Agility. I think that is a better way of visualizing the totality of what it is rather than a sound byte.
Outcomes: In the context of software delivery, Agile has been only about the build for a long time and misses the mark of real outcomes for customers, stakeholders, etc...
I like to talk about changing the questions. It's not about what something costs, it's about what something is worth. It's about putting the customer at the center of what you do. If your KPIs are about earning money, about revenue, you're missing the point. The intent behind why we're in business is often forgotten.
An Agile organization is one that has clear measures and KPIs around why they are in business and customer intent. If you address the customer's need effectively and efficiently, and the customer likes what you're doing, and your reason for existing is sound, customers and profits will come. Traditional organizations measure the wrong thing. Agile organizations measure the business-customer outcome. That's a very clear distinction.
What does Business Agility look like?
I've been working with industries from banking to mining to retail to IT. Business Agility is relevant to everyone, it is the next generation of company models. We talk about matrix organizations, that's the 1980s mindset. We now that these Agile organizations, dynamic and structured in a way that teams own outcomes. In fact, in the Business Agility model, one of the key domains is structural agility, and that's incredibly important. If an organization doesn't have the right structure, it's actually going to lose its ability to be Agile. Every time there's a handoff, every time that a team is created around a function, it loses its ability to be agile. An Agile organization is one that aligns work and teams to outcomes. If you have clear organizational outcomes, broken down into achievable outcomes by teams, once you have these ideas of "We're going to change the world of work" or "We're going to get rid of diabetes," whatever your vision is, we can break that down into outcomes. You might have very tangible ones like "We want to be a great place to work" - how do you measure that? Retention, staff satisfaction.. and once we have the measures and a proper outcome profile, measures, KPIs, cadence of the measures, feedback loop.. let's create a team that fundamentally works on that outcome. Literally cross-functional. I can bring accountants, BAs, developers, and engineers, into a single team if they have the right skills to achieve that business outcome. Once you have that team, and the team is owning and accountable, I don't care what they do. The work and projects that they build are irrelevant. (That's not strictly speaking true...it's actually very important) But, at an organizational level, that's not my responsibility anymore. As an organization, it's that team who owns that outcome and that feedback cycle of continuously doing all that is necessary to achieve that business outcome.
What big changes have you seen in your client base as you support more companies from a non-IT background? Where is Business Agility taking root for your clients?
There's a continuous change that's occurring, the evolution of a continuous culture that has emerged around the world. This idea of continuous change, continuous feedback, continuous delivery, continuous everything. Companies that are able to work in this model are fundamentally able to be Agile, to be an Agile company. Traditional companies that have not had that mindset are being disrupted by this continuous culture and change. They are the ones who are most likely, most in need of making this transition toward business agility. So from an industry perspective, Banking and Finance is huge right now. When we do their organizational strategy and we help them define their key business outcomes, and we look at "Who are your competitors?" They don't say other banks. their competitors are Google, Apple, Alibaba. These are not even secondary competitors, these are their primary fear-based "we are terrified of these companies."
Software is eating the world, and every company is becoming a digital company. There are banks out there saying we want to be a digital bank, or an agile bank. I've worked with companies, financial institutions, where the traditional functional structure of IT and Business has gone. They have gotten rid of the IT team- because all of the developers now sit in the business. So, I own a credit card function, the credit card product, and have 20 developers and BAs and testers working in my team, because technology is now the business. There's still an IT thin slice around the infrastructure, because that does tend to be common, but everything else, pass that into the business and own that in. Even if you don't fully restructure towards fully agile outcome teams, this reducing the amount of handoff, this idea of i'm a business function I shall write my requirements and pass it off to you, dear IT please build this for me, those days are gone. It is now this continuous change of value and value creation. The closer you can make those lines of communication, and it doesn't get much closer than the same team, the better.
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Federal court to rule on restrictive concealed weapons permits
Federal appeals judges on Tuesday peppered attorneys for 2nd Amendment advocates about why the longtime rule of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department to determine who receives concealed weapons permits should be struck down.
Paul Clement, former U.S. solicitor general who is representing a journalist who was denied a permit, said that while it is not improper for a county sheriff to set rules in such cases, the San Diego rule requiring an applicant to show "good cause" why they need a permit is too strict.
Among other things, Clement argued, Sheriff Bill Gore has no evidence that issuing more concealed weapon permits will lead to an increase in violence. Other counties have more reasonable rules, he argued.
"If my client was so fortunate to live in Sacramento County," he would already have a concealed weapon permit, said Clement, who has represented the National Rifle Assn. in other gun cases.
The justices, although appearing skeptical, did not indicate whether they would overturn a 2-1 decision by a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that found the San Diego County rule too restrictive. A ruling is expected within a few months.
The 11-member panel is composed of eight judges nominated by Democratic presidents, three by Republicans.
But Chuck Michel, attorney for the California Rifle and Pistol Assn., said after the 75-minute session, held in San Francisco, that it is "too simple" to say that the case will be decided on party lines. "We remain very hopeful," he said.
Clement argued that there is nothing wrong with the sheriff requiring an applicant to take a gun-safety course and not have a criminal history. But requiring an applicant to explain why he or she needs a gun for their safety violates the 2nd Amendment, he said.
The two sides in the dispute agree that the issue may ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Among other issues, the judges asked a lawyer from the state attorney general's office why the attorney general waited so long to appeal.
If the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the panel's decision, it could mark a precedent that would increase the rights of gun owners throughout the state. Tuesday's hearing also involved a similar rule in Yolo County.
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(Summary description)Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 8th: The education summary meeting on the theme of "Do not forget the original intention and remember the mission" was held in Beijing on the 8th. Xi Jinping, Gene
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 8th: The education summary meeting on the theme of "Do not forget the original intention and remember the mission" was held in Beijing on the 8th. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. He emphasized that if our party always receives the support and support of the people and writes the great achievements of the Chinese nation, we must always keep in mind our original intentions and missions, resolutely remove all factors that weaken the party 's advanced nature and damage the party 's purity, and resolutely remove all the things that breed in the party. The tumor on the body is resolutely guarded against all dangers that violate the original intention and mission and shake the foundation of the party. The whole party should use this theme education as a new starting point, continuously deepen the self-revolution of the party, and continue to promote the whole party without forgetting its original intentions and keeping its mission in mind. Xi Jinping pointed out that carrying out the education of the theme of "not forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission" throughout the party is a major decision made by the 19th National Congress of the Party. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to this and has made meticulous preparations and careful organization. Since the end of May last year, the theme education has been conducted in two batches from top to bottom, and it has basically ended. Party organizations at all levels have been strongly promoted, the majority of party members and cadres have actively participated, and the people have enthusiastically supported them. The overall theme education is distinctive, solid and compact, and has achieved its intended purpose and achieved major results. Party organizations at all levels, as well as a large number of party members and cadres, have thoroughly studied and practiced the socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, which has improved the ability to unite knowledge, faith and action, strengthened the consciousness of self-consciousness and mission, and promoted the work of reform, development and stability. To actively solve the most urgent, most worrying and most anticipated problems of the masses, it has cultivated a clean and upright political ecology and eliminated some factors that may shake the foundation of the party and hinder the cause of the party. This theme education is a vivid practice of deepening the self-revolution of the party in the new era and promoting the comprehensive and strict governance of the party to deep development. It has promoted the ideological unity, political unity, and unity of action of the entire party, and it has taken over for our party. The "Four Greatnesses" and the realization of the "two hundred years" struggle goals have made a powerful mobilization in the ideological, political and organizational style.
Xi Jinping emphasized that this theme education summed up the previous experience of centralized education within the party, and made new explorations and accumulated new experience in the development of centralized education within the party in the new era. The first is to focus on the theme and stay close to the main line. Learning and education, investigation and research, reviewing problems, and implementing rectification and reform should be carried out around the theme, main line, and general requirements. Overcoming the disconnection between learning and doing, and ensuring that the concentrated education within the party is not distracted. The second is to lead the demonstration and promote the "majority" with the "key minority" demonstration, carefully organize the planning and promote the implementation of responsibilities, and achieve consistent implementation and implementation. The third is organic integration and integrated advancement, combining learning and doing, investigating and reforming, and learning while studying and investigating and reforming, which improves the quality of subject education and the overall effectiveness of centralized education within the party. The fourth is to keep an eye on the problem, make precise rectifications, and advance the implementation item by item. If the problem is not resolved, the problem will not be solved, the problem will not be solved thoroughly, and the masses will not let it go. Fifth, strict supervision and hard work, internal and external efforts, strengthen policy research guidance, promote classification and classification, tighten compaction responsibilities, insist on opening the door, and invite the masses to participate, supervise, and judge. Sixth, we must refrain from vain efforts and seek practical results, take anti-formalism and bureaucracy as prominent requirements, combine thematic education with the implementation of the requirements of the "basic year of burden reduction", and integrate the entrepreneurial skills of grassroots cadres and officials from the constraints of formalism. Get rid of it, do the work solidly and get the job done. While fully affirming the achievements, we should also be soberly aware of the problems that exist, start well and end up well, and implement the requirements of comprehensively and strictly governing the party.
Xi Jinping pointed out that our party is leading the people in a great struggle with many new historical characteristics. We must continue to deepen the party 's self-revolution and continue to promote the whole party without forgetting its original intentions and remembering its mission.
Xi Jinping emphasized that not forgetting the original intention and keeping the mission in mind must be unremitting as an eternal task of strengthening party building and a lifelong task of all party members and cadres. The party's original intention and mission are a concentrated expression of the party's nature, purpose, ideals, and struggle goals, which inspire our party to persevere forever, and forge our party's determination to move forward. It is necessary to educate and guide party organizations at all levels and the vast number of party members and cadres to conduct ideological and political medical examinations constantly, constantly inquire about and protect their original intentions, and constantly stick to their missions and take on their missions. We should nurture our original intention and lead the mission with the party's innovative theory, find the original intention and motivate the mission from the extraordinary history of the party, temper the original intention and realize the mission in the serious political life within the party, and turn the original intention and mission into the spirit of forging ahead, pioneering and innovating The spirit and the motivation to work hard and really work hard.
Xi Jinping pointed out: Without forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission, we must use the latest achievements of Marxism in China to unify our thinking, unify will, and unify actions. Only by insisting on ideologically building the party and strengthening the party with theory, and not forgetting the original intention, can we become more conscious and assume the mission to be more firm. To study and implement the party's innovative theory as the top priority of ideological arming, to integrate with the study of the basic principles of Marxism, to the study of the history of the party, the history of new China, the history of reform and opening up, the history of socialist development To engage in great struggles, to build great projects, to advance great undertakings, to realize great dreams, to link up with rich practices, to work hard to learn and master, to unify thoughts in emancipating the mind, to raise awareness in deepening understanding, and to effectively enhance the implementation Consciousness of thought and consciousness of action.
Xi Jinping emphasized that without forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission, we must continue to promote the party 's self-revolution with the courage to face the problem and the consciousness of the blade inward. The courage to face problems and the courage to correct mistakes are our Party's distinguishing features and advantages. Powerful political parties were forged in self-revolution. The whole party must always maintain its lofty revolutionary ideals and vigorous revolutionary fighting spirit, make good use of the sharp weapon of criticism and self-criticism, keep on grasping the integrity and combating corruption, and constantly enhance the party 's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation and self-improvement. The improved ability has made our party stronger and stronger.
Xi Jinping pointed out that if you do n't forget your original intention and remember the mission, you must carry forward the spirit of struggle and be brave to act. Our party was born at the time of internal and external troubles and national crises. It was inscribed with the brand of struggle from birth. All along the way is to survive, develop and win in the struggle. The whole party must remain in peace, remain in peril, and remain in peace, stay alert, constantly invigorate, and be brave in carrying out great struggles with many new historical characteristics. The vast number of party members and cadres should be able to develop their talents and strengthen their strengths in the face of the wind and rain, and to meet the needs of the world. They should practice the hard spine, iron shoulders, and true skills to act. Charge forward and make contributions.
Xi Jinping emphasized that without forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission, we must improve and develop the internal party system and form a long-term mechanism. The Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to establish a system that does not forget the original intention and the mission in mind. We must adhere to systematic thinking, dialectical thinking, and bottom-line thinking. We must not only solve problems but also be simple and easy to implement. We should take pragmatic and effective measures to hit the crux of the problem. It is consistent with the grassroots expectations of unity; it adheres to both innovative development and organic integration, and integrates with the party's internal laws and regulations. The persistence of persistence, the perfection of the establishment, the establishment of the establishment, and the implementation of the implementation. The whole party must strengthen system awareness, consciously respect the system, strictly enforce the system, resolutely maintain the system, improve the authority and efficient system execution mechanism, strengthen the supervision of the system implementation, and promote the implementation of the system that does not forget the original intention and the mission in mind.
Xi Jinping pointed out that without forgetting the original intention and keeping in mind the mission, we must insist on the leadership of leading organs and cadres. Without forgetting the original intention and keeping in mind the mission, leading organs and leading cadres must set an example and take the lead. The more severe and complex the situation, the more the leading organs and leading cadres need to maintain their strength and keep moving forward. The more arduous and arduous the task, the more the leading organs and leading cadres need to be courageous and responsible. Leading organs and leading cadres at all levels should take the lead in enhancing the "four consciousnesses", stabilizing the "four self-confidences", and achieving the "two maintenances", and uniting and leading the people of all ethnic groups to overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles along the way.
When hosting the meeting, Wang Huning stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping 's important speech fully affirmed the main achievements of the theme education of "not forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission" from the overall and strategic perspective of the development of the cause of the party and the country in the new era, Education achievements, continuous deepening of the party 's self-revolution, and continuous promotion of the whole party without forgetting their original intentions and missions have made comprehensive arrangements and made clear demands. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech is high-minded, profound in thought, rich in connotation, and has a strong political, ideological, theoretical, and guiding nature. All Party comrades must study and comprehend conscientiously, continue to strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two maintenances", fully implement the general requirements for party building in the new era, and ensure that our party will always maintain strong vitality and strength Fighting power.
Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Central Secretariat, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, State Councilor, President of the Supreme People's Court, Procurator of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee attended the meeting.
The members of the central education leadership group on the theme of "Do not forget the original intention and remember the mission", the central and state organs and departments, and people's organizations, responsible for comrades in the financial enterprises, central enterprises, and colleges and universities, and relevant military units, the second batch of "no The leaders of the central education team, tour supervision team, and deputy team leaders of the theme of "Forgetting the Heart and Remembering the Mission" education attended the meeting. The meeting was held in the form of a video and telephone conference. The provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, as well as cities (prefectures, prefectures, alliances), counties (cities, districts, and flags), members of the leadership team and units directly under the regimental level of the PLA and the Armed Police Force The responsible comrades participated in the meeting in the branch venue.
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Microsoft begins to remove old apps from the Windows store
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Microsoft is cleaning up the Windows Store from being a cesspool of abandonware and poor quality apps, and one of its first steps is abandonware.
Now, while it is often hard to separate apps which are genuinely abandoned, vs apps when have not been updated for a long time but are still being monitored by the developers to fix new bugs etc.
Earlier this year, Microsoft sent out emails to Windows developers, warning them that they would be removing apps from the Windows Store which did not update their apps to include new app ratings .
Neowin reports that after a slow start, developers are finally receiving emails alerting them to their apps being removed due to not completing their apps questionnaire before the deadline.
Microsoft unpublished your app for the failures listed below.
Notes To Developer
Your app was unpublished for policy 11.11, Age Ratings: The age rating questionnaire was not completed by the deadline of September 30, 2016.
Keeping in mind that Microsoft warned developers about this for more than a half a year, and it becomes clear that the majority developers who will get might out by this are the lackadaisical developers who just don't really care about their apps.
The Windows Store may be a lot smaller when Microsoft is done, but it'll likely be a lot better for it.


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Q: Function with generic input parameters I am relatively new to c++. I wrote function WriteToFile, which writes in text file (path is specified by string a) 2D array (stored in 0-row major order, x rows, y columns):
void WriteToFile(std::string a, const float *img, const int x, const int y) {
    FILE *pFile;
    const char * c = a.c_str();
    pFile = fopen(c, "w");
    for (int i = 0; i < x; i++){
        for (int j = 0; j < y; j++)
            fprintf(pFile, "%5.5f\t", img[i*y + j]);
        fprintf(pFile, "\n");
    }
    fclose(pFile);
}

Now I want this function to deal also with  int and double  arrays. For int it will just print numbers as it is, and for double %5.10lf must be used in fprintf. I know, that it is absolutely possible. I found couple similar things, but didn't get how do deal with input arguments. Of course, I can write 3 different functions, but I want to learn how can I write generic function.
Thanks

A:
"Now I want this function to deal also with int and double arrays. "

You can use a templated function to handle different types of arrays, and use the c++ standard I/O library
template <typename T>
void WriteToFile(std::string a, const T *img, const int x, const int y) {
    std::ofstream file(a);

    for (int i = 0; i < x; i++){
        for (int j = 0; j < y; j++)
            file << std::fixed << std::setw(5) << std::setprecision(5)
                 << img[i*y + j] << "\t" << std::endl;
    }
    file.close();
}

You may consider to have specialized implementations for different formatting needs.

A: You can use a function template and some helper functions to get the format string.
Here's a working program.
#include <cstdio>
#include <string>

template <typename T> char const* getFormatString();

template <> char const* getFormatString<int>()
{
   return "%d\t";
}

template <> char const* getFormatString<float>()
{
   return "%5.5f\t";
}

template <> char const* getFormatString<double>()
{
   return "%15.10lf\t";
}

template <typename T>
void WriteToFile(std::string a, const T *img, const int x, const int y) {
    FILE *pFile;
    const char * c = a.c_str();
    pFile = fopen(c, "w");
    for (int i = 0; i < x; i++){
        for (int j = 0; j < y; j++)
            fprintf(pFile, getFormatString<T>(), img[i*y + j]);
        fprintf(pFile, "\n");
    }
    fclose(pFile);
}

int main()
{
   int img1[] = {1, 1, 1, 1};
   float img2[] = {1, 1, 1, 1};
   double img3[] = {1, 1, 1, 1};
   WriteToFile("int.img", img1, 2, 2);
   WriteToFile("float.img", img2, 2, 2);
   WriteToFile("double.img", img3, 2, 2);
}

A: You have options such as overloading and template functions. I just want to introduce an ability which comes with C++11. Using std::is_same.
It has its pros and cons. For example, assume the input type is limited to int and float:
#include <type_traits>

template <typename T>
void WriteToFile(std::string a, const T *img, const int x, const int y)
{
   const char *format = std::is_same<T, int>::value? "%i\t" : "%5.5f\t";

   ...

      fprintf(pFile, format, img[i*y + j]);

   ...
}

Note that, this approach is against generalization and your code is not as generic as possible.

A: If you need to use a different format string for each type, you can use a templated function and pass in the format string as a parameter:
template<typename T> void WriteToFile(std::string a, const T *img,
                      const int x, const int y, std::string formatStr) {
...
       fprintf(pFile, formatStr.c_str(), img[i*y + j]);
...
}

A: An idea would be
template <typename T>
void WriteToFile(std::string a, const T *img, const int x, const int y) {
}

and then a
inline
void write(FILE *file, double) { //write double }

inline
void write(FILE *file, int) { // write }

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