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Coming To Terms With Reality: One Man's Trip Through the Graveyard We Call Politics
Democratic Party ADONAI - July 31, 2011 5
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ~Thomas Jefferson So here we are, about a week away from a huge decision. Of course we've already delayed this "monumental...
GOP House to Hold Hearings on Why They Still Control the House
Democratic Party AdLib - October 25, 2013 11
Darrell Issa protested GOP control of the House, "This is unAmerican and anti-democratic, I should not be in charge of this oversight committee and I will use all the power I have as chairman to prove that I shouldn't be in charge!"
Our Wonderful Media, Spinning Wins as Losses and Delusions As Facts
Democratic Party AdLib - November 6, 2013 37
In Virginia's race for Governor, the Democrat won and the Republican lost...so of course the MSM sensibly adopts the loser's unsubstantiated tantrum that since he didn't lose by more, the loser is actually the winner? Welcome to corporate media 101.
WATCH & LIVE CHAT: President Obama's 2012 State of the Union Address
Democratic Party AdLib - January 24, 2012 38
President Obama delivers his State of the Union address tonight at 6:00 pm PST/9:00 pm EST. You're invited to join us tonight for a special Live Chat during this address and the Republican response to it.
Could Hillary Clinton Become the Next Republican President?
Democratic Party AdLib - July 8, 2014 247
Hillary and Bill Clinton are incredibly wealthy people who move in the circles of the same wealthy and powerful who have inordinate control over our democracy and society, they are friends and peers with them...so is it most likely that if elected, she's going to hammer her best friends to help "the others"?
Why Tuesday Went So Badly for Dems
Democratic Party Misterbadexample - November 6, 2014 10
I knew things were going to go badly in NY. I am no spring chicken, and the vast majority of voters were older than me (we're trending into the 60-90 year old range).
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Some People Need Reminding
Democratic Party Marion - July 28, 2011 7
Reid insisted in 2010 that delaying the debt ceiling vote would ensure that the Republicans would own part of the responsibility. And so we find ourselves on the brink of disaster.
Evan Bayh to resign—Crisis or opportunity?
Democratic Party nellie - February 15, 2010 46
This morning the office of Senator Evan Bayh, D-IN, announced that he will not run for re-election this November. There's more than one way to react to this news. Since Bayh is a Democrat, the gut reaction might be...
The Torture Report – An Organization Held to Account…But Not One Single Person
Democratic Party AdLib - December 9, 2014 42
What we know confidently now is that torture did take place under the Bush Administration by the CIA, that it didn't work or help keep Americans safe, that it permanently undermined our nation's moral authority in the world and that there is absolutely no regret or apology from those who oversaw and committed it.


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Tripartite Meeting Resumes on Ethiopia's Giant Hydroelectric Project
Section: Power Deficit · August 16, 2020 · No comments |
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have resumed negotiations on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam, in Khartoum, capital of Sudan.
A meeting between the three countries' irrigation ministers, an AU representative, and AU chair South Africa's foreign minister took place Sunday, August 16, 2020.
Although the giant dam is largely for Ethiopia's electricity supply, the meeting brings together the irrigation and foreign ministers from the three countries.
The ministers will sit again on Tuesday, August 18, with Nalendi Pandor, South Africa's foreign minister, who is representing Africa Union chair South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Ethiopia has been building the Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile since 2011, a project that has become a source of intense tension between Addis Ababa on the one hand, and Cairo and Khartoum on the other hand. This dam is expected to become the largest water-powered generation facility in Africa.
The 6,000 MW dam is to have a power generation of 16,153 GWh per annum through 16 generating units with 375 MW nameplate capacity each.
The initial filling of the reservoir has been a sticky point in the conversations. Ethiopia has insisted it will not accept negotiations that will lead to "legally binding" on the initial filling arrangements as they limit the country's fair and equitable access to the Nile.
High Rainfalls Crimp Natural Gas Demand in Tanzania
Section: Gas Monetization · August 12, 2020 · No comments |
Natural gas demand by power plants in Tanzania were impacted by sustained and significant rainfalls that enabled the Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (TANESCO) to operate its hydro facilities at high utilization rates, Orca Petroleum has reported.
The country is now entering the dry season and gas demand is expected to increase for the remainder of the year.
But the state energy firm has remained a diligent customer to its gas suppliers.
"Despite the lower demand for gas from the power sector, TANESCO has continued to pay back its arrears during the first six months of the year", Orca Petroleum says in a release.
Orca Petroleum produces natural gas from the Songo Songo gas field on Songo Songo Island onshore Tanzania. It is the biggest single supplier to the Tanzanian domestic gas market.
The company says it has carefully managed an operational team that has enabled it to maintain production on Songo Songo Island has enabled throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
In seond quarter 2020, Orca's production averaged around 85MMscf/d, comprising additional gas sales, which is what the company is entitled to earn revenue from and protected gas, which is what the Tanzanian Petroleum Development Company (TPDC) is assigned in the contract.
US Agency Awards Grant for Solar, Hydro Power in Northern Nigeria
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a grant to Konexa Energy for studies into solar power supply in parts of Northern Nigeria.
The support will enable technical and financial studies to be carried out. The studies will also address the regulatory and legal requirements of the mini-grids project. The American agency, which has shown keen interest in energy supplies in Nigeria, did not specify the amount of its subsidy.
Konexa, a new, renewable energy company with offices in London and Abuja, plans to generate 2.5 MW of electricity from several solar photovoltaic systems in Kaduna, in Nigeria's northwest. "This project will support the development of critical energy infrastructure and an innovative business model to improve the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Nigeria, as well as to improve the supply of electricity to off-grid customers," says Thomas R. Hardy, acting director of the USTDA.
The small solar power plants will be installed to supply mini power grids serving residential (household), commercial and industrial customers in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria.
Hardy says that the grant will also to support the acquisition of 30 MW of hydropower capacity from an existing but decommissioned plant. The electricity will be distributed through the Konexa grid. The USTDA grant is part of Prosper Africa, a U.S. government initiative to increase two-way trade and investment between the United States and Africa.
The company selected for the studies will carry out the environmental and social impact studies, assist in the selection of the meters and thus provide an analysis of the expected impacts of the development of the mini-grids.
Kenya Hops on the Subsidy Highway for Petroleum Products
Section: Downstream · August 10, 2020 · No comments |
Kenya, a non-hydrocarbon producing country, is tinkering with the subsidy initiative, to cushion effects on motorists whenever there is a high spike in the cost of petroleum products.
A subsidiary legislation, currently under review in the country's parliament, grants powers to the Petroleum Cabinet secretary to pump in money from a subsidy fund to product suppliers to cut fuel prices and cushion motorists from sharp spikes
The subsidy will be supported by money that will be raised from fuel consumers through the Petroleum Development Levy, which was increased in mid July 2020 to $0.05 (or Sh5.40) a litre of fuel from $0.0036 (Sh0.40), a 1,250% rise.
"The Cabinet Secretary may by writing to the administrator, request for a draw down from the Petroleum Development Levy Fund to stabilise local petroleum prices where he deems necessary," the Legislation says.
So, in a way, the subsidy is not coming from the treasury, rather, from funds that motorists themselves have contributed. This is the difference with the fuel subsidies in Egypt and Nigeria.
Fuel prices I Kenya ratcheted up to a 13 year high as the surge in Petroleum Development Levy, coalesced with increase in crude oil prices.
From mid-July, Motorists in Nairobi started paying $0.85 (Sh91.87) per litre of diesel from $0.69 (Sh74.57, representing a $0.16 (Sh17.30) increase, and $0.105 (Sh11.38) more for a litre of super petrol at $0.92 (Sh100.48)..
The Cabinet Secretary (Kenya's title for minister) will determine the amount of subsidy fuel consumers will be offered when prices rise by large margins.
Mozambique: Shared Value, Local Partnerships and The Future of Work
Section: Gas Monetization · August 9, 2020 · 1 comment |
By Mario Fernades, Deloitte
Two LNG projects are currently under construction in Mozambique.
Several others are imminent.
The proposed 'LNG System' in the country will effectively be rolled out in four stages.
The Coral FLNG, operated by ENI, sanctioned in 2017, will produce about 3.4Million tonnes per annum by 2024.
The TOTAL operated Mozambique LNG in Area 1, sanctioned mid-2019, will be producing 12.8MMTPA by 2026.
Final Investment Decisions FID has been delayed for the ExxonMobil led Area 4, but the project is aiming to produce about 15.2Million tonnes per annum.
The projects for Phase 2 trains have not yet been decided, but the operators are starting to think about them and they could potentially add another 30Million tonnes per annum, with FID probably around about 2024. So, of what is potentially on the cards and being planned is about 31Million tonnes per annum. This is enormous. This could make Mozambique the fourth largest in the world. Qatar which is the largest, is producing about 77Million tonnes per annum and it took them 14 years and it brought tremendous economic benefits for the country. The EPC contractors for Area 1 are largely led by Saipem, Chiyoda and McDermott. Area 4 EPCs include TechniqFMC, JGC and Fluor.
Opportunities for Local Investors and Their Partners-, TOTAL for Area 1 is targeting to spend about $2.5Billion for Mozambican registered or owned companies. It allows for foreign investors who want to come into the country and invest with local players or establish operations in the country. Area 1 project has already spent about $850Million over the last five years. What's important are the priority industries that investors could look forward to considering.
Some of the lower values but highly mature markets where you'll see some of the local players in Mozambique get involved because it doesn't have a lot of technical complexities are areas like food and water supply, accounting services and general consulting. Where we believe this need to evolve to and it's the opportunities for foreign direct investments, is higher value and more mature investments including Civil construction services, transport and logistics, mechanical and electrical instrumentation, IT Systems, Pipes, Vessels, Metallurgy and welding activities. This is where the real value is going to be developed over the next few years and represents significant investment opportunities. Given the low maturity of some of the industries in the country, you'd probably see in the future, a lot of collaboration between the government, operators in EPCs, local companies, the business associations in Mozambique, as well as any foreign investors who are interested in investing in some of these value chains. Key value chains and opportunities like civil construction, are not well understood and there will be a need to identify the gaps and opportunities for business out there, both local and foreign. Another thing is what is being done currently by these big operators and the EPC's to close the gap on the skills and the local business in Mozambique. There are plans to establish the Enterprise Development Centres (EDCs) where the objective is to build capabilities, expose these local companies to international OEMs and expertise promote collaboration and certification which is a big requirement from a lot of these big capital projects, that these companies have the right levels of certification in order to provide services. Critical to sustaining the value and the expectation that everyone has of these projects, is to drive the concept of shared value. This is building on lessons from the past in the country. The concept of "Shared value" is how can both shareholders who looking for a financial return on their investments, government stakeholders are looking for a return in the country and citizens who live in the remote areas of where this gas was found or in the country itself, achieve the kind of benefits that they're looking for. It is complex to match and balance these expectations. Very often we tend to see that companies tend to do the "pickbox compliance" approach but we believe you have to go beyond some of these. It's important that these companies, governments and so forth create a platform in which collaboration can happen. The government creates the right policy around employment and procurement to ensure that companies are incentivized to invest in local procurement and so forth.
From the operators' perspectives and the companies building the infrastructure, it's important to be top of mind to be relevant to these communities and to really develop processes to effectively measure the social returns that these stakeholders are looking for. It is easy to measure the financial return, but quite another thing to measure the social economic return in a holistic manner.
The Future of Work -Challenges like COVID-19 are really disrupting the way projects are executed, and are forcing companies to plan on how they would operate in this new normal. Companies need to rethink how work would change in this new normal. For example, how do you enable effective remote supervision? It's one thing to work in a desktop type job, it's quite another to build the infrastructure of the magnitude that we're talking. The same restrictions that we're all facing in challenges like COVID-19 are also being felt in large projects like this. How do you define new roles and responsibilities for the workforce that is there? Probably you don't need to have as many people on site and you have to adopt concepts of social distancing, how do you redefine these roles? What tools and technologies will you need to enable this kind of new reality of the future of work? Companies will have to decide what tools and policies, what labour policies will be put in place in order to enable these future work teams? Lastly, I want to talk with you about innovation. We think that digital is going to be a key enabler here. Concepts that we all thought were very futuristic are now a reality and being thought through as real tools to ensure that the project continues to be delivered on budget and as scheduled. Another thing we're trying to see as well is a lot of these safety analytics and how persons are wearing safety gear, helmets and video imaging which detects if a person is wearing protective gear or not, and then take corrective action. Another big innovation area that we're starting to see is around "Sentiment Analysis", which is all about how to use technology to collect and measure the pulse of your workforce of your communities that are impacted by the project and quickly identify and innovate with them to understand what their needs are so that you can quickly adapt your actions to that. Sentiment Analysis is all about measuring the pulse of your stakeholders.
Mario Fernades- Partner at Deloitte Consulting, based in Mozambique, heading up the practice there. Deloitte offers Consulting, Risk Advisory, Taxation, Audit & Assurance and Green Dot(Future of Energy and Goods). Fernades spoke at an Africa Oil Week produced webinar panel including Paul Eardley-Taylor, head of Oil and Gas Southern Africa, Standard Bank,and Trey (Lyman) Armstrong, MD, Project and Structured Finance, US EXIM Bank. It was moderated by Dexter Wang, Asia Market Engagement Partner at S&P Global Platts. This is an abridged version of the conversation, monitored in Lagos, Nigeria and transcribed by Foluso Ogunsan and Akpelu Paul Kelechi.
Ugandan Refinery Timeline Postponed Again
Section: Refining Gap · August 9, 2020 · No comments |
Construction of Uganda's 60,000Barrels Per Stream Day cannot start until 2025.
The delay comes about as a result of the push of Final Investment Decision on the basin wide upstream oil development project, to 2021 at the earliest.
The refinery project had always been contingent on the certainty of the upstream project.
Even before the announcement that the inability to resolve Tax issues would delay investment decision on Uganda's large oilfield project, the refinery facility to take advantage of the produced crude had been moved forward.
The upstream project itself involves production of 230,000Barrels of Oil per Day (BOPD) at peak, pumped into a 1,445 kilometre pipeline running from Hoima in Uganda's west to the Tanzanian port town of Tanga on the coast of the Indian Ocean.
The Joint Venture Partners, TOTAL and CNOOC, had been pressuring the Government of Uganda to commit to channelling all the available crude, once project reaches first oil, to the export pipeline for the first three years, before allocating the refinery share of the crude.
They wanted delay of construction of the government-preferred refinery to 2024.
But now that a global pandemic had imposed its timeline on the main project and pushed it forward by two years, refinery construction cannot start until 2025, at the earliest.
Historically, the Ugandan authorities had preferred to beneficiate as much of the crude as it could take in the country, via a refinery.
This article was initially published in the REFINERY GAS ANNUAL, run in the May, 2020 edition of the monthly Africa Oi+Gas Report.
NDDC: Why President Buhari Must Urgently Intervene
Section: In the news · August 9, 2020 · No comments |
By Ogaga Ifowodo
In quite belated response to the unconscionable exploitation of the oil wealth of the Niger Delta, the attendant destruction of its environment and traditional means of livelihood, as well as the rise in militant agitation for redress, the Federal (military) Government established, via Decree No. 23 of 1992, the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC).
Its goal, broadly stated, was to rehabilitate and develop the oil mineral producing areas of the Niger Delta, tackle ecological problems associated with the exploration of oil minerals, liaise with the various oil companies on matters of pollution control and to carry out other duties necessary to those ends.
A mere eight years after, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was established by Act No. 6 of the National Assembly. Its goals, needless to say, are similar to those specified in the OMPADEC decree, even if more widely enunciated and with a different organisational structure.
As with its predecessor, NDDC is a special category agency under the presidency and its mandate the "rapid and sustainable development" of the region to "one that is economically prosperous, socially stable, ecologically regenerative and politically peaceful." This goal is not only beneficial to the Niger Delta but also to Nigeria as a whole, given that the Niger Delta is the economic heartbeat of the nation.
As elaborated under Section 7 of its enabling act, the mandate turns NDDC into a virtual regional government, with just one sub-section giving an idea of its magnitude: "[To] conceive, plan and implement, in accordance with set rules and regulations, projects and programmes for the sustainable development of the Niger-Delta area in the field of transportation including roads, jetties and waterways, health, education, employment, industrialization, agriculture and fisheries, housing and urban development, water supply, electricity and telecommunications." There are nine other functions specified, including the omnibus duty to "execute such other works and perform such other functions which in the opinion of the Commission, are required for the sustainable development of the Niger-Delta area and its peoples."
My general activist commitment to human rights and development aside, it was the prospect of being in a position to make some direct contribution towards the realisation of this great goal that had me excited when the Minister of Transport, Hon Rotimi Amaechi, called mid-June 2016 to inform me that President Buhari had approved my nomination as the representative of Delta State on NDDC's governing board. Two days before, I had booked a flight to London for the final interview to be country director of the world's foremost international human rights organisation, Amnesty International. I was given the job on the spot, leaving me with the rather nice problem of occupying my thoughts with the job to take on my return flight. I had spent a full decade of my life working as a rights activist with the Civil Liberties Organisation, Nigeria's premier non-governmental organisation, before proceeding to Cornell University for postgraduate studies in 2001. And after all the years of advocacy for rights, democracy and social justice dating to my undergraduate days as a student leader, I thought it was time to be more directly involved in bringing about the change I pined for. After all, we can't always whine about poor governance due to a dearth of people genuinely committed to the public good while spurning every chance to serve. It was why, fresh on my return in 2014 from my teaching position at Texas State University, I dared to join a "bourgeois" political party for the first time and sought the ticket of the All Progressives Congress for the House of Representatives, my ambition thwarted at the primaries by a sore lack of you-know-what: money.
Despite the many structural, administrative and political interference problems noticeable at once, I threw myself at the job with gusto. I inspected minor and major projects but devoted most of my time to the latter. And discovered that many of the projects described as "ongoing" in the status report I got from the Delta office were virtually abandoned. Among them: Uzere-Patani Road with Bridges, awarded on 10 December 2004 at the cost of N3.03Billion; Gbaregolor-Gbekebor-Ogulaha Road (Phase 1) with Bridges (2009, N16.1Billion); Bomadi-Tuomo-Ojobo-Tamigbe Road with Bridges, Phase II (2009, N8.9Billion); Ugheye-Koko-Escravos Road, Phase II (2014, N14.8 Billion); Shore Protection at Koko (ca 2012, N3Billion); Ugborodo Shore Protection, Lots 1-9 (2014, N8.07Billion); Nigeria Army Jetty (Forward Operation Base) in Uvwie-Warri (2012, N4.7Billion); Ozoro Township Roads (2012, N2.4Billion); and 132 KV Transmission Line and 1 No. 30 MVA 132/33 KV Substation each at Ughelli and Ozoro (2011, N2.1 Billion). I focussed on this category of projects as those that truly seek to meet the Niger Delta's crying infrastructural needs.
But midway into its tenure, our board was dissolved. The news awaited me on my return from commissioning Phase 1 of the last listed project, with rising hopes for Phase 2 in Ozoro which would ameliorate the power woes of my Isoko people. I chose to wear my disappointment as a badge of honour: "Well, sacked while on duty," I said, vainly looking for a glimmer of light in the sudden gloom! Yet, until my stint on the board, no one could have persuaded me that NDDC was not a colossal waste. I had yet to see its impact in the lives of the harried citizens stuck in that sweltering swamp of anger from the utter despoliation of their land, air and water as the inhuman price of oil and gas extraction. The project inspection trips changed my mind. I could see now the immense potential of NDDC to transform the Niger Delta as envisaged. Why hadn't the goal been achieved and, worse, why did it seem unachievable, twenty years after?
Of the many ills that bedevil NDDC, the frequent dissolution of its boards ranks among the most deleterious. All the powers of NDDC are vested in the board. Consequently, precipitate board dissolutions can only cause catastrophic lack of continuity in policy and internal oversight. In time, crippling bureaucracy replaced technocracy. A minor example: for over a year until our board was dissolved, and nearly twenty minutes after from one desk to another and yet another, the Delta office could not get approval for the replacement of broken-down furniture and equipment! The headquarters in Port Harcourt became the Abuja of the Delta: to get anything done, even as trifling as replenishing photocopying paper, you must trek to Port Harcourt. But perhaps even more devastating is political interference. The drama currently playing out before the eyes of the world, against the backdrop of the forensic audit ordered by President Buhari at the urging of the commission's member state governors, gives an idea of the destabilising role of this problem.
During a pre-inauguration retreat, the last chairman, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, informed us that the only agenda President Buhari laid out for him was "to go and make friends in the Niger Delta." On 7 February 2018, I had the honour and privilege of a private meeting with the president. I humbly suggested to him that he would need to do more to enable us make friends in the Delta. NDDC had to be restructured and refocussed on its mandate. He had to set clear timelines and benchmarks. And because the army of profiteers at the expense of the ordinary indigenes would be up in arms against a development-centred initiative, he would have to publicly give the board his backing and deflect their inevitable attacks. I didn't elaborate further; the point was obvious. Any development agency worth the name must be insulated from partisan politics, the perils of electoral cycles and the attendant substitution and prioritisation of narrow interests. Lastly, there must be strict adherence to the enabling law in order to reduce the undue politicisation of appointments. Politics might never be completely avoided but that does not have to be the same thing as turning NDDC, any government agency, into a mere political patronage machine. After all, the benefits of development are not reserved for party members only.
Given the magnitude of the problems currently besetting NDDC, such that the actual work of developing the Niger Delta has practically ceased, only the President can break the impasse. If he wishes to make friends in the creeks now and beyond 2023, I would suggest the following as urgent steps that he must take. First, he should ensure that the forensic audit he has ordered is done by a reputable international accounting firm. The patriot in me would like a local company, but it would be distracted and unnecessarily impugned by the irredeemably tainted environment of allegations and counter-allegations by those at the heart of the problem. To adapt a legal maxim, probity must not only be served but be seen to have been served. Second, he should order a halt to any new regional or major projects in the next five years and cap quick impact or emergency projects to no more than ten percent of NDDC's annual budget. In that period, all abandoned projects are to be completed. The only exception would be the Niger Delta Regional Power Pool and Business Parks whose goal is to deliver 7GW (seven gigawatts) of affordable energy across the region by harvesting its copious gas supplies (still sadly flared) for embedded power plants that would feed business parks in raw material enclaves. Any other exception would have to be projects with funding from donors or private sector partners requiring no more than token commitment guarantee payments. Such as the Niger Delta Digital e-Learning Initiative, including the retraining of teachers and upgrading of curricula across primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions. Third, the President should ensure a restructuring of NDDC's bloated balance sheet, estimated at over N2Trillion. As a first step to this goal, our board cancelled a tranche of projects at zero percent completion, thereby reducing the balance sheet by N200Billion. Fourth, urgent reform of NDDC's governance system. The current administrative framework is so heavily bureaucratic and bound to the analog mode as to be a mighty clog in the wheel of development. In the view of Dr Joe Abah, former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, everything that can possibly be wrong in an institution is to be found in NDDC, to the point of it being almost unreformable. Lastly, NDDC must be returned to its core mandate. The Regional Development Master Plan should be updated to align it with the dizzying realities of the Information Technology Age and the brave new world dawning on us of a green and sustainable energy future beyond fossil fuels.
This is not an exhaustive agenda of what must be done to salvage NDDC now. It is, I hope, a good starting point.
Ifowodo, a lawyer, writer, scholar and rights activist, was the Delta State representative on the board of NDDC from November 2016 to February 2019.
Somalia's Bidding Round To Last till March 2021
Somalia's First Offshore Bidding Round, launched on Tuesday, August 4, will run for seven months, wrapping up on March 12 2021.
The Somali Petroleum Authority (SPA), established July 31, is overseeing the licencing round. The country's new Petroleum Law, ratified by the Upper and Lower Houses of the Federal Parliament on 8th February 2020, includes provisions that the country's oil and gas will belong exclusively to the Somali people. It also embeds a groundbreaking revenue-sharing agreement that ensures revenues will be distributed among the Somali people through the Federal States, and for the benefit of future generations.
Future revenues will be invested in the continuing re-building of the country's economic and social infrastructure, in particular in education, security and healthcare, to ensure the long-term prosperity of the Somali people.
This development now paves the way for the conclusion of Somalia's 1st Offshore Somalia License Round. In preparation for the round, acquisition and processing of 20,185 km of 2D long-offset seismic data has been completed. This program complements 20,500 km of existing seismic data acquired in 2014.
The survey design, which covers water depths of 30 m to 4,000 m, has allowed for seismic coverage over the shelf, slope and basin floor with dip, strike and recording time intervals suitable for defining a range of leads and prospects. Modern processing algorithms were applied to the raw data to achieve optimal subsurface imaging.
Energy Chamber Campaigns for Chevron's "Entry" into Eq Guinea's Gas Project
Section: Farm in, Farm Out · August 6, 2020 · No comments |
Chevron's ongoing take- over of the US independent Noble Energy offers it the opportunity to lead a significant gas project in the Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.
These two countries, along with Israel, make up the international portfolio on the list of properties, up for Chevron's grab, in the $13Billion take over. As Africa Oil+Gas argues in its July 2020 issue, the California based major has prioritized the unconventional basins in the US as the raison dêtre for seeking to buy Noble Energy. Eq Guinea and Cameroon are a little below the radar in its ranking.
But the African Chamber of Energy (ACE) sees the bright side for the African opportunity. It is encouraging the authorities to facilitate Chevron's entry into Central Africa's "most ambitious gas project" through this take over.
Noble Energy has interests in the Alba Field (33% non-operated WI and 32% revenue interest), Block O (Alen Field 51% operated WI and 45% revenue interest) and Block I (Aseng Field, 40% operated WI and 38% revenue interest).
"While the Alba Field has been feeding gas into the country's Punta Europa complex for decades, including the EG LNG Plant, the AMPCO methanol plant and the Alba LPG plant, its declining reserves have led to the development of the Alen and Aseng fields as alternative sources of gas", the Chamber recalls. "In 2019, Noble Energy was at the heart of a groundbreaking agreement to launch the Alen Monetization Project, expected to ensure continued and stable gas supply to Equatorial Guinea's LNG and downstream revenue-generating infrastructure.
ACE appeals that "transaction and projects approvals should not be unnecessarily delayed ensuring a quick and efficient takeover in the region so ongoing gas projects are not delayed."
NJ Ayuk, the Chamber's Executive Chairman and Kickstarter, declares: "This acquisition gives the region a very experienced and credible gas player with tried, true and tested solutions to support our gas ambitions. 'Fast tracking approvals and driving commonsense measures around this deal will make the industry work."
Although ACE says that "these assets in Equatorial Guinea represent 94Million barrels of oil equivalent of proved developed reserves and 38Million barrels of oil equivalent of proved undeveloped reserves", Noble Energy, on its website, talks of three trillion cubic feet of gross natural gas resources in the Douala Basin, "which positions us well for LNG sales exposure over the coming decade". Three Trillion Cubic Feet translates to 500Billion BOE. So, the chamber's figures don't add up. Not good enough for a supposedly optimistic release. ACE adds: "In addition, Noble Energy was also the operator Block YoYo in Cameroon and of the deepwater Block Doujou Dak (60% WI) in Gabon, where it was in the process of evaluating recently acquired 3D seismic data.
"The project is still on track for delivery in 2021 and is the first step of the development of a much broader offshore gas mega-hub in the Gulf of Guinea. This regional gas hub would ultimately include the development of the Yolanda and YoYo discoveries located in Equatorial Guinea's Block I and Cameroon's YoYo Block, both operated by Noble".
Noble Energy explains on its website: A 24-inch pipeline capable of handling 950 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day (MMcfe/d) will be constructed to transport all natural gas processed through the Alen platform approximately 70 kilometers to the onshore facilities.
At start-up, natural gas sales from the Alen field are anticipated to be between 200 and 300 MMcfe/d, gross (~75 to 115 MMcfe/d net to Noble Energy)
The reserves figures may look impressive, from where ACE sits, but American companies, as a rule, and Chevron is a good example, have, in the last five years tilted to E&P developments at home than abroad.
Ayuk calls for "a pragmatic commonsense approach that welcomes credible investors and see gas taking the lead in economic development and industrialisation, therefore the entry of Chevron is extremely welcomed and should be accepted by all stakeholders."
"From its Nigerian and Angolan presence, Chevron understands the issues and opportunities of developing African content. We expect its entry to be beneficial from a local content and capacity building perspective," said Leoncio Amada NZE, President for the CEMAC region at the African Energy Chamber. "We hope that the authorities in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea can do an efficient and fast track the due diligence process and ensure that Noble meets all its obligations to exit and create a seamless transition for Chevron. This is an opportunity for our public authorities to demonstrate their commitment to empowering investment and move away from an era of uncertainty to give confidence to future investors and stay competitive".
ACE is full of praise for Chevron's leadership in African natural gas development. "Chevron is indeed a true gas player in the African market. In Nigeria, Chevron has been leading natural gas commercialization efforts for decades through its Escravos projects targeted the monetization of 18Tcf of gas. These have resulted in the Escravos Gas-to-Liquids facility and the Escravos Gas Plant, both cornerstones of Nigeria's gas development strategy. In Angola's Block 0 and Block 14, Chevron has demonstrated a remarkable ability to invest in cutting flaring and monetization gas. In block 0, it still operates what is the world's largest LPG FPSO vessel, turning previously flared gas into cleaner fuels for Africans and the for the world."
Our Archive/Libya: What Are They Fighting For?
DATELINE, LAGOS, APRIL 2011
When the western powers chose to back a rag tag opposition "army" taking the battle to Muammar Ghadaffi, the Libyan strongman, nine years ago, we wondered if anything else was at other than democratic ideals.
Below, we republish our TOYIN AKINOSHO's stream of thoughts one day in April 2011..
However you look at it, the on-going war in Libya is a battle for the control of Africa's largest
petroleum assets.
And since petroleum is the world's biggest business, the control of those assets potentially dwarfs that of the diamond fields in southern Africa or the uranium belts of Canada and Australia.
Muammar Ghadaffi 's loss would mean the largest transfer of control of natural resources in Africa.
Libya holds 44billion barrels of crude oil(proven), a clear seven billion barrels higher than Nigeria, its closest rival on the continent. And although it holds far less volume of natural gas than either Nigeria, Algeria or Egypt, the truth is that its 54Trillion cubic feet of gas, located in large reservoir sands, has better economics going for it than Nigeria's 187Trillion cubic feet, stored in small, discrete reservoirs. Libya is Africa's closest country to Europe and a natural location for several transcontinental gas pipeline projects.
What worries me, though, is that this epic battle for wealth transfer is not exactly taking place between a Libyan constituency and another Libyan constituency.
Like most people, I am watching the un-folding events unfold on TV. My location is Lagos, in a house not far from a portion of the lagoonal neck into the south Atlantic ocean. This point is 4,000km away from the Mediterranean.
Once the so-called no fl y zone policy was enunciated, and I started seeing Western powers bombarding Ghadaffi 's bases in Libya, I lost the ability to imagine that this battle was about democracy, rule of law and the enthronement of human rights.
The western media keep describing Ghadafi's foes as a clueless rag tag army and yet keep maintaining that Ghadaffi might lose the war. It isn't logical. And there's so much misperception. Earlier in the reporting, you read of millions of Libyans living below poverty level. I checked the World Bank website and I found that Libya has a literacy rate of 88% and average life expectancy of 74years.
Barak Obama, the US president, was so much in haste to ask Ghadaffi to leave power. The UK had decided, once a handful of protesters gathered on the streets in Benghazi, that it was time for regime change.
So, even the 'opposition' wasn't allowed to fledge properly before it started receiving support.
The United Nations didn't bother to get its ranking diplomats on the ground to have a conversation with all sides early in the day. There was no imaginative diplomatic thinking. No rigour of diplomacy.
The west boxed itself into a corner about Ghadaffi . And it boxed Ghadaffi into a corner, to imagine himself only as fighting out of a hole.
I understand the sentiment. Ghadaffi is anti-West. He has an outsized ego.
And he hasn't helped things by keeping the lid on free expression in the 41 years he has maintained power; he has sponsored killings of foes abroad, funded terrorist activities against countries: east, west, north or south. He has fought proxy wars far and near. In 1988, he ordered the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, a Pan American World Airways' transatlantic flight from Heathrow Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Four days to Christmas of that year, a Boeing 747–121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas—was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, were also killed as large sections of the plane fell in the town and destroyed several houses, bringing total fatalities to 270. As a result, the event has been named by the media as the Lockerbie bombing.
But the West had not worked on developing a credible civil society of Libyans, whether home or abroad.
It hasn't done enough to help create an alternative narrative for the Libyan story. The west knows it has strategic interests, but it doesn't always put people at the heart of those strategic interests. It's extremely terrible to have an American soldier killed in the plains of Afghanistan, but it's okay for Israel to bomb all of Gaza strip in order to destroy Hamas' "war infrastructure".
The west has been frustrated by Ghadaffi, who gets the best of them when he's negotiating deals. European and American companies rushed into Libya for oil contracts just five years ago. As late as 2009, Western leaders were still queueing to shake hands with the man who sponsored the killing of 270 people in Scotland.
In the time that Ghadafi showed so much warmth, and moved for rapproachment with the west, there should have been serious work to engage the Libyans who saw him as no more than a heartless tyrant.
Ghadaffi is not a nice man. I wouldn't accept to interview him, even if he offers to meet me in my private garden in the west of Lagos. I am not interested in what makes him tick, or why he does such destructive things.
It is true he had killed and maimed and overreacted to the democracy protests.
But I can't say I vouch for all of the so-called rebels in the streets. Who exactly are some of those people fighting?. Are their intentions all altruistic? Who is likely to benefit majorly from the killings going on? Who is pulling the strings? The CIA (at least so it claims) is only now trying to figure those things out, after the fact.
The Western powers need to be ex-tremely careful.
If we somehow, get it right, Libya is a huge potential for Petrochemicals, Gas processing industries, Gas Exports and a vast industrial machine, just across the Mediterranean from Eurpope.
Let's be clear about it: Ghadaffi has not developed the petroleum sector as much as he should have.
Libya has several times more resources than Algeria, but the latter is the largest hydrocarbon economy in Africa.
As I started to write this, The African Union, the most incompetent regional grouping on the globe, was only just showing up to mediate in the affray. It came in the form of South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma. So much water had passed under the bridge before the Africans came calling. The rebels would not meet Zuma, who had a grand welcome in Tripoli.
But there must be a conversation. This war will be drawn out, as it is. Ghadaffi will not ride into the sunset that easily. NATO must stop deluding itself that its airstrikes are just protecting civilians.
As the Africa Oil+Gas Report leaps on to its 20th anniversary in November 2021, we'd look into our archives and publish 'specials' like this from time to time…

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Employment/Membership › Details
Novacyt–Allmond D: management, 202110– CEO before Amryt Pharma + Amgen + Celgene + Aegerion Pharmaceuticals
Period 2021-10-18
Organisation Novacyt S.A. (Euronext Growh: ALNOV, AIM: NCYT)
Group Novacyt (Group)
Product clinical diagnostics
Product 2 reagents (bio/biochemical)
Person Allmond, David (Novacyt 202110 CEO before Amryt Pharma + Amgen + Celgene + Aegerion Pharmaceuticals)
Person 2 Mullis, Graham (Novacyt 201409 CEO before Lab21 CEO)
Novacyt S.A.. (7/29/21). "Press Release: David Allmond Announced as CEO Following Decision by Graham Mullis to Retire". Paris & Camberley.
Novacyt (EURONEXT GROWTH: ALNOV; AIM: NCYT), a leading international specialist in clinical diagnostics, announces the appointment of David Allmond as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors effective from 18 October 2021. At that time Graham Mullis, having informed the Board that he wishes to retire after 13 years with the expanded Group, will stand down as CEO and board member.
David, aged 51, brings relevant leadership experience in life science companies experiencing significant development and growth, and developing businesses into new global markets. Currently he is Chief Business Officer at Amryt Pharma (Nasdaq: AMYT, AIM: AMYT), where he has played a key role in developing the company into a leading global rare and orphan disease drug company. Earlier in his career David held sales and marketing roles of increasing seniority at Amgen, Celgene, and Aegerion Pharmaceuticals. David received a BSc in microbiology from Imperial College. David will be supported by Novacyt's recently strengthened executive management team.
Graham will be retiring after 13 years with the wider business, both as CEO of Novacyt and formerly CEO of Lab21, which was acquired by the Group in 2014. Graham is committed to ensuring a smooth transition with David and will continue to lead the Group as CEO until David joins the Company.
James Wakefield, Chairman of Novacyt, added:
"The Board is highly confident that, after an extensive search, we have found the right leader for Novacyt's next chapter of growth, following Graham's decision to retire. We look forward to working with David and the recently strengthened senior management team to deliver on the Company's strategy of organic, R&D and acquisitive growth that we recently reiterated at our full year results.
"The Group owes Graham a huge debt of gratitude for his hard work, determination and leadership. He leaves a legacy of having created one of the UK's leading diagnostic businesses and should be proud of the role the Company has played, and continues to play, in supporting nations and businesses in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic."
David Allmond, CEO-elect of Novacyt, commented:
"I am excited to be joining Novacyt at a pivotal phase in its development and I am looking forward to building upon Graham's outstanding work with the business over the past 13 years. Novacyt is poised for its next phase of growth and I am confident I can lead the Company effectively through this period, working closely with the excellent management team and Board to make a significant contribution to global health and deliver sustained and ongoing value to our shareholders."
Graham Mullis, CEO of Novacyt, commented:
"It has been, and remains, a privilege to have led and worked with the exceptional team at Novacyt. The Company is far more than the success it has enjoyed during the last 18 months as we have played an important part in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. I believe the Company has the right foundations and culture in place to deliver on its strategy that will enable it to cement its position as a leading specialist diagnostics business. It is therefore with great pride that I hand over leadership of the Company to David, confident in his abilities to take the Company forward to even greater successes.
"Finally, I would like to thank the Board and all my colleagues for their advice and support over the years. I look forward to watching Novacyt continue on its exciting journey."
David's position on the board of Novacyt will be proposed for ratification by shareholders at the Company's 2022 Annual General Meeting.
The information required by Rule 17 and paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies in relation to the appointment of David James Allmond (age 51) is as follows:
Current directorships Past directorships held within last five years
Aegerion Pharma Ltd
Amryt Pharma Italy SRL
Myeloma UK
Peppered Moth Marketing Limited
Vitixity Limited
There are no other disclosures required in accordance with Schedule 2(g) of the AIM
Novacyt SA
Graham Mullis, Chief Executive Officer
James McCarthy, Chief Financial Officer
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Matthew Johnson / Charlie Bouverat (Corporate Finance)
Vadim Alexandre / Rob Rees (Corporate Broking)
Numis Securities Limited (Joint Broker)
Freddie Barnfield / James Black
Allegra Finance (French Listing Sponsor)
Rémi Durgetto / Yannick Petit
r.durgetto@allegrafinance.com; y.petit@allegrafinance.com
FTI Consulting (International)
Victoria Foster Mitchell / Alex Shaw
victoria.fostermitchell@fticonsulting.com / alex.shaw@fticonsulting.com
FTI Consulting (France)
Arnaud de Cheffontaines
arnaud.decheffontaines@fticonsulting.com
About Novacyt Group
The Novacyt Group is an international diagnostics business generating an increasing portfolio of in vitro and molecular diagnostic tests. Its core strengths lie in diagnostics product development, commercialisation, contract design and manufacturing. The Company's lead business units comprise of Primerdesign and Lab21 Products, supplying an extensive range of high-quality assays and reagents worldwide. The Group directly serves microbiology, haematology and serology markets as do its global partners, which include major corporates.
For more information, please refer to the website: www.novacyt.com
More documents for Novacyt (Group)
[1] Novacyt S.A.. (7/29/21). "Press Release: David Allmond Announced as CEO Following Decision by Graham Mullis to Retire". Paris & Camberley....
[2] Novacyt S.A.. (1/5/21). "Press Release: Executive Management and Proposed Board Changes". Paris & Camberley....
[3] Novacyt S.A.. (9/26/18). "Press Release: Novacyt Half Year 2018 Results. Molecular Product Revenues up 18% to €3m – Gross Margin Increases to 64%". Paris & Camberley....
[4] Novacyt S.A.. (9/13/18). "Press Release: Novacyt Partners with Applied Microarrays in Assay Design". Paris & Camberley....
[5] Novacyt S.A.. (4/26/18). "Press Release: Novacyt Full Year 2017 Results". Paris & Camberley....
[6] Novacyt S.A.. (10/18/17). "Press Release: Proposed Admission to Trading on AIM and Successful Capital Riase of €9.7 Million [Not for US, AU, CA, JP or ZA or any other jurisdiction where unlawful]". Paris & Cambridge....
[7] Novacyt S.A.. (7/20/17). "Press Release: Novacyt Revenues Half Year 2017". Paris & Cambridge....
[8] Novacyt S.A.. (6/20/17). "Press Release: Novacyt Successfully Completes €3.0M Fundraising". Paris & Cambridge....
[9] Novacyt S.A.. (4/27/17). "Press Release: Novacyt Full Year 2016 Results". Paris & Cambridge....
[10] Novacyt S.A.. (4/6/17). "Press Release: Novacyt Announces Bond Issue". Paris & Cambridge....


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Ritz Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal appoints executive chef
Alessandro Montedoro specialises in modern Italian, Mediterranean, International and Asian cuisine
by Priyanka Praveen
Alessandro Montedoro
The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal has appointed Alessandro Montedoro as its executive chef.
Montedoro has held leading culinary positions in several luxury hotels around the world, including Marriott Rome Park Hotel, Marriot Suzhou, JW Marriott Baku, for which he received over eight culinary awards, and The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing where he won several culinary awards as well.
With this appointment, Montedoro will make his debut in UAE.
"We are thrilled to welcome Chef Alessandro Montedoro to The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal. We look forward to working together to implement his ideas and create memorable dining experiences for our guests", said Susanne Stier, director of sales and marketing, The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal.
Born in Rome, Montedoro turned his passion for cooking and writing into a profession. He also ran his own restaurant 'La Luge' in Italy for two years, and published his book 'The Curative Cuisine'.
Speaking about his role, Montedoro said: "The Ritz-Carlton hotels are renowned worldwide for providing enriching dining experiences and impeccable service, which align with my own culinary style and ethos. I look forward to working with the team to inject modern culinary styles and flavours into the dining experiences at Abu Dhabi."
At the property, Montedoro has started working on a revamped food and beverage offering across the property's eight restaurants. He specialises in modern Italian, Mediterranean, International and Asian cuisine.
RITZ CARLTON ABU DHABI
Hilton appoints cluster general manager at four Ras Al Khaimah properties
The St. Regis Abu Dhabi appoints executive chef
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Refugee Health TA > Physical and Mental Health > Mental Health > Adult Mental Health > Screening for Emotional Distress and Mental Health*
Scholars and health policy experts have long debated the role and use of early mental health screening to detect common mental disorders in refugees. Health screening protocols for refugees arriving to the United States have been deemed inadequate, in part at least, because of the lack of mental health screening.1 The Office of Refugee Resettlement guidelines require a health screening in the first 90 days; however, there has been a lack of procedural or financial support for mental health screening for refugees.2 In fact, state refugee health coordinators surveyed in 2010 reported that only 4 of the 44 states surveyed used a formal screening instrument and 68% used informal conversation.3
Understanding a refugee's expression of distress requires careful consideration of a variety of factors including language, culture, the individual traumatic history and the client's medical worldview and explanatory model of illness. A full understanding of these factors is best obtained during one or a series of diagnostic assessments. Screening is best thought of as a distinct process from diagnosis or assessment with the intent to efficiently detect common mental disorders and distress with reasonably high sensitivity and specificity.
Health screening or other clinical processes should entail important considerations for communication with refugees. Refugees, by definition, have endured experiences of harm, persecution and loss of security, all of which can reduce an individual's level of trust. Therefore careful engagement of a refugee and consideration of their need for safety are important. Based on past experiences, many refugees hesitate to speak openly or disclose too much information for fear of retaliation, persecution or that the information will be used against them. Establishing a feeling of security is necessary for an accurate measure of health symptoms of any kind. Another issue affecting communication is the respect awarded to people in authority. In many cases, refugees will not initiate communication but will only respond to specific questions, and in some cases will avoid any appearance of disagreement even when a provider's advice goes counter to the refugee's belief or understanding. Language and cultural barriers make using trained interpreters and translated instruments a requirement. Clinicians working with refugees must have knowledge of and follow proper interpreter protocol, including having sufficient knowledge of the cultural context to ensure, for example, that an interpreter being used is not representative of a tribe, clan or ethnic group that had previously persecuted the patient's refugee group. Clinicians can help overcome some of the challenges of communication by using concrete simple language, and focusing on symptoms, rather than diagnosis. Also, a clinician can never assume that a refugee understands the context of the medical encounter and should take time to provide clarity their role and intention. Because the refugee experience is one of disempowerment, refugees are best served when provided with education about procedures and services that include opportunities for choice.
Besides post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression, mental health conditions that should be considered for screening include traumatic or acquired brain injuries, psychosis, and conditions previously undiagnosed in adults, including developmental delays, autism spectrum disorders and similar diagnoses. These conditions are often more complex, and may require additional visits or evaluations after primary mental health screening.
In a recent survey, respondents composed of U.S. refugee health coordinators identified the need for short, culturally appropriate mental health screening tools to identify refugees who need assessment and treatment services.3 The primary challenge of a screening instrument is that refugees are heterogeneous groups who collectively experience many psychological and somatic symptoms of distress. Theoretically, a screening instrument should include symptoms that optimally predict common disorders in multiple refugee groups with high efficiency.
The Vietnamese Depression Scale (VDS) consists of 15-items that effectively identifies depression in Vietnamese refugees.4 The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) has a 30-item section assessing symptoms that have been used as a proxy for PTSD.5 Both instruments were developed by expert consensus methods for use in the clinical setting. The 15-item Health Leaflet (HL) developed to screen for PTSD in two Iraqi language groups reported that the HL was 0.70 sensitive and specific to diagnosis, with two items (difficulty concentrating and exposure to torture), accounting for the discriminatory performance.6 A Diagnostic and Statistical Methods (DSM-IV) based symptom checklist developed by an expert consensus process identified a psychiatric disorder in nearly 14% of the 1,058 adult refugees in the Colorado Refugee Program.2
More recently, The Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15) was developed and designed to be short (15 questions) with neutral language that does not directly address violence, torture, or trauma. The RHS-15 was empirically developed to be a valid, efficient and effective screener for common mental disorders (PTSD, anxiety, and depression) in refugees.7 The RHS-15 is composed of fourteen symptom items and a distress thermometer that predict each of three diagnostic proxies for common mental disorders with sensitivity ranging between .81 and .95 and specificity ranging from of .86 to .89. As of the start of 2014, this instrument is being utilized to screen refugees in over 40 sites around the world.
One concern expressed by physicians about mental health screening with refugees is that it may cause a strong emotional reaction. There is no evidence to suggest that physicians or any other provider or agency need to be concerned with this. Screening for symptoms instead of initially discussing trauma, torture, or other emotionally laden issues, will mitigate immediate distress. Effective screening of refugees in the public health or primary care setting may increase visit time and does require a focused effort. However, the need for services is great and outcomes have shown that there is value for refugees in receiving services. Ultimately, providers can support the healing process by creating a safe and engaged connection that allows refugees to improve their understanding of the medical system and have power over their own medical care.
A more detailed discussion of screening instruments can be found in the section Assessments for Trauma and Mental Health in Refugees.
*Primarily adapted from Rhema SH, Gray A, Verbillis-Kolp S, Farmer B, Hollifield M (2013) Screening for Mental Health in Refugees, in Refugee Health Care: An Essential Medical Guide. Annamalai A (Ed), Springer, New York.
1. Kennedy J, Seymour DJ, Hummel BJ. A comprehensive refugee health screening program [see comments]. Public Health Reports. 1999; 114(5): 469-77.
2. Savin D, Seymour DJ, Littleford LN, Bettridge J, Giese A. Findings from mental health screening of newly arrived refugees in Colorado. Public Health Rep. 2005; 120(3): 224-9.
3. Shannon P, Im H, Becher E, Simmilink J, Weiling E, O'Fallon A. Screening for war trauma, torture, and mental health symptoms among newly-arrived refugees: A national survey of U.S. refugee health coordinators. J Immigr Refugee Studies. 2012; 10(4): 380-94.
4. Kinzie JD, Manson SM, Vinh DT, Tolan NT, Anh B, Pho TN. Development and validation of a Vietnamese-language depression rating scale. American Journal of Psychiatry. 1982; 139(10): 1276-81.
5. Mollica RF. The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire Manual: Indochinese Versions: Harvard University; undated.
6. Sondergaard HP, Ekblad S, Theorell T. Screening for post-traumatic stress disorder among refugees in Stockholm. Nord J Psychiatry. 2003; 57(3): 185-9.
6. Hollifield M, Verbillis-Kolp S, Farmer B, Toolson EC, Woldehaimanot T, Yamazaki J, et al. The Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15): development and validation of an instrument for anxiety, depression, and PTSD in refugees. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2013; 35(2): 202-9.
Mental Health Tools & Resources
Refugee Services Toolkit
Webinar: Suicide Among Refugees
Webinar: Promoting Successful Adjustment for Refugee Youth
Refugee Health Screener-15
Webinar Series: Introducing and Operationalizing the RHS-15
Webinar: Refugee Mental Health
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Кру́стпилсская волость () — одна из двадцати пяти территориальных единиц Екабпилсского края Латвии. Граничит с городами Екабпилс и Плявиняс, с Салской, Селпилсской и Вариешской волостями своего края и с Айвиекстской волостью Айзкраукльского края.

Крупнейшими населёнными пунктами волости являются: Спуньгени (волостной центр), Ирбениеки, Лопдарзи, Дарвасбренчи, Драудавас, Глазниеки, Катиши, Пенигас, Прижи, Продусала, Пурнини, Зельти, Звидзани.

Граница волости проходит по рекам Даугава и Айвиексте. По территории волости протекают реки Берзауне, Браслава, Лукступе и находится крупное болото Катишу пурвс.

Сельскохозяйственные земли занимают площадь 4430 га, леса — 2598 га, болота — 270 га, водоёмы — 303 га. На территории волости проживает около 1000 жителей, из которых 70,1 % латышей, 12,1 % русских, 9,7 % белорусов, 6,9 % поляков, 1 % украинцев.

История
В 1935 году Крустпилсская волость Даугавпилсского уезда занимала площадь 233,4 км², которую населяли 6477 жителей. В 1941 году была административно переподчинена Екабпилсскому уезду. В 1945 году были созданы Драудавский, Эзериешский, Крустпилсский, Кукский, Вариешский и Зиланский сельские советы.

После упразднения Крустпилсской волости в 1949 году Крустпилсский сельсовет входил поочерёдно в состав Крустпилсского и Екабпилсского районов. В 1954 году к Крустпилсскому сельсовету была присоединена территория упразднённого Драудавского сельсовета.

В 1990 году сельсовет был реорганизован в волость. В 2009 году, по окончании латвийской административно-территориальной реформы, Крустпилсская волость вошла в состав Крустпилсского края.

В 2021 году в результате новой административно-территориальной реформы Крустпилсский край был упразднён, Крустпилсская волость была включена в Екабпилсский край.

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Q: When is $(2cis\frac{2\pi}{3})^n$ real?
When is $(2cis\frac{2\pi}{3})^n$ real?

Using de Moivre's theorem:
$$(2cis\frac{2\pi}{3})^n = 2^ncos(\frac{2\pi}{3}n) + i2^nsin(\frac{2\pi}{3}n)$$
$$\therefore sin(\frac{2\pi}{3}n) = 0 = sin(0), sin(\pi), sin(2\pi)...$$
$$\therefore \frac{2\pi}{3}n = 0, \pi, 2\pi...$$
$$\therefore n = 0, \frac{3}{2}, 3...$$
$$\therefore n = \frac{3}{2}k, \ k \geqslant 0 $$
However, the answer is stated to be "the complex number is real only when n is a multiple of 3." I have not been able to spot the error above.

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Colour gives every project a unique character, which is very important, according to Rudolf Zijlstra. Zijlstra Architecten was founded in 1966, its first collaborative project with us followed soon.
The Omnisport Centre is the home base of the Dutch top volleyball team Dynamo. The Pulastic floors meet al demands set by playing at the highest level.
Top athlete Esther Vergeer, what does her life look like today?
Hans Kegel is one of the managers of Wellnesselande, an ultramodern sports and wellness centre. With a range of colourful floors, Pulastic laid the basis for a modern wellness experience.
Zijlstra Architecten has been working with the Pulastic team for years. Read more about Zijlstra Architecten here.
When you listen to the volleyball players, you know that they want a floor like this. "I'm very excited about the Pulastic sports floor and extremely pleased with it. It looks really good and has a nice colour.
Esther Vergeer was the undisputed number 1 in the world wheelchair tennis rankings for years. Her life story and how things are today with her and her Foundation.
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Q: How to find differentiation and integration of curves in general? Graph of function $f(x)$

How do I go about finding integration and differentiation of curves like these which yield other curves?

A: As $f$ is odd, $F$ must be even. This excludes (A) and (B). And $(D)$ is excluded because its derivative is zero in all the interval except in a finite number of points (where doesn't exists).

A: You can use a little bit of instinct for these things. Sure, you can just go and check the slope. But there are other signs as well. First of all, an integral of an odd function is even and vice-versa (if you disregard the constant offset). So, (A) and (B) are immediately out. Then, recall that integration smooths things. So integrating a discontinuous function makes a continuous one, a continuous piecewise linear becomes a smooth one with continuous derivative (no sharp angles) and so on. That rules out (D) and (B). Even more... you know that integrating a linear function gives a quadratic one. So the segments that are linear in the original function are parabolic in the result and constant parts become linear in the result. This makes it easy to sketch the curve by hand.
You can see that going forward (integrating) instead of trying backward (differentiating) also has a lot of clues and tricks, I'd say it's even more convenient than differentiation, because it's easier to see (integration makes for global properties, differentiation is local, so you must "probe" the function at different places). Of course, everything you know about differential properties of curves also applies (zero derivative is an extremum,...).


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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) – Swedish police carried out two operations in the capital of Stockholm on Saturday having detained four people, local media reported.
One of the operations was carried out in a residential house and resulted in one detention while as part of another one police stopped a car in central Stockholm and detained three people, who were in the vehicle, the Aftonbladet newspaper reported.
There is no information whether the operations were linked to the terror attack that occurred on Friday.
At least four people were killed and over a dozen were injured as a result of the Friday truck ramming attack in Stockholm. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said the attack was most likely an act of terrorism.
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Mark Coatney, Newsweek's Tumblr guy, is leaving for a job at … Tumblr.
Newsweek is still shedding staffers.Mark Coatney, an online editor who's gained recognition recently for building up the magazine's Tumblr blog, announced today on his own Tumblr blog that he's leaving Newsweek to go and work for, well, Tumblr!
By our count, that brings to seven the number of Newsweek staffers who have resigned since the magazine was put on the block in May.
In other Newsweek staff-related news….


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Based on the best-selling book and true story, this powerful movie speaks to one of the most polarizing issues of our time. It gives an eye-opening look inside the abortion industry through one woman's inspiring story of transformation.
All Abby Johnson ever wanted to do was help women. She believed in a woman's right to choose, and as one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, she was involved in about 22,000 abortions. Until the day she saw something that changed everything, leading Abby to join her former enemies at 40 Days for Life, and become one of the most ardent pro-life advocates in America today. Starring Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan, Robia Scott, Jared Lotz.
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Q: New File Uploading causing Edit Event I have a document library that does not have any required fields, and needs not check-out before editing, saving only major versions. One of the users created an alert on the document library to inform her only when other users has modified files on the document library. She went on testing by uploading a brand new document, and found that the alert was triggered.
I tested with the same action in Modern Experience, and looked into the "EventCache" table in the content DB. There are more than one action logged on the upload action (one event type "4097" (Add item), one event type "8194" (Metadata update)). It seems the alert is triggered by the "8194" event.
I tested again in Classic Experience. Only one "4097" is created.
In another test to upload by file explorer, one "4097" followed by two "8194" is observed.
This inconsistent behavior confuses users and makes the out-of-the-box alert not usable. Is it a configuration problem or a bug?

A: Yes, it is confusing, and seemingly inconsistent and yes, OOB alerts are terrible.
But that's the way SharePoint works, and there isn't much you can do about it. I'm surprised you didn't see an update event triggered in Classic - I know ItemUpdated event receivers will trigger when a document is uploaded in classic.
There is required metadata on documents - FileName, Created, CreatedBy, etc., are all updated subsequent to the file add, and this is the reason behind the dual events.


A visit to Seychelles does not require a visa for most nationalities. Visitors are given entry visas at the airport upon presentation of necessary documents to obtain immigration clearance. The documents needed are: a valid passport on the date of entry to and exit from the country (usually with a validity of beyond 6 months from the date of entry), a return ticket or a ticket for an onward destination (a return or onward ticket can be purchased upon arrival at the airport), proof of accommodation to the hotels or housing lodges (if bookings are made to more than 1 hotel, a copy for each hotel is necessary).
Aside from the necessary documents, visitors are required to show sufficient funds for the entire stay in Seychelles amounting to at least $150 per day in addition to organized accommodation.
In meeting those requirements, a visitor's permit will be granted for a stay of up to 30 days. An extension can be obtained for a period of up to 3 months since entering the country. Further extensions are even allowed up to a period of 12 months with each extension having a validity of 3 months. The initial permit issued and the extension of up to 3 months is free of charge after which subsequent extensions are charged SCR1,000 each.
Transit in Seychelles is relatively easy. No visa requirements are needed for transit. Passengers must possess onward ticket for their intended destination. If a traveller wishes to pass through immigration, then a transit visa is needed to be obtained upon arrival at specific authorized ports of entry.


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'Call of Duty: World War II' Nazi zombies trailer released
Call Of Duty: World War II Zombie Mode has the scariest zombies of all time - YouTube/Call of Duty
Activision released the trailer of 'Call of Duty: World War II' Nazi zombies.
by Emmanuel Morilla (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
July 25, 2017 at 3:56 AM July 25, 2017 at 3:56 AM
Activision recently released the first official trailer of "Call of Duty: World War II" Nazi Zombies. It is a multiplayer mode that unleashes a frightening new horror story. Its dark and sinister plot unfolds to unleash invincible dead armies.
The game is the fourteenth installment of the "Call of Duty" series and it is the first to be set during World War II since "Call of Duty: World at War" in 2008. Players will also focus more on dealing with the horrors of the war, rather than being a super soldier and battling an entire army.
What should players expect?
The game is set in a European war. The plot is focused on the 1st Infantry Division squad and follows their battles on the Western Front.
The multiplayer mode expands on different fronts that are not seen in the campaign. Zombie mode also returns.
Even though players will be dealing with zombies, the developer assures that "Call of Duty: World War II" weapon skins for multiplayer mode will still remain realistic and it will have no animated skins at this time. Michael Condrey, Sledgehammer Games co-founder, also confirmed that the only animated skins in the upcoming game are for the Nazi zombies.
Condrey also said in a Sledgehammer Games interview with GamesRadar, that there will be boxes where players can loot for cosmetic items. The loot boxes will not affect the gameplay. Jon Horsley, Activision's senior director of development, said in an interview that the game design, story, audio, and visuals will be really scary.
The new breed of zombies will be totally different from other games.
What are Nazi zombies?
Sledgehammer creative director, Cameron Dayton, said that "Call of Duty: WW2" has the scariest version of zombies that any player has ever seen. Some of the veteran actors like Kathryn Winnick, David Tennant, and Ving Rhames are also involved in the game.
The zombie mode will allow players to journey through a chilling and mysterious Bavarian village in Mittelburg, Germany.
Players will attempt to recover previous works of art that were stolen by the Axis powers in World War 2. The mysterious village holds a secret key to a monstrous and unimaginable power.
The game was officially announced on April 21, 2017, and it will be released on November 3, 2017. The game will be playable on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. "Call of Duty: World War 2" private beta will be available on August 25 to 28 for PlayStation 4 users.
Game critics claim that this might be the best installment of the series.
Emmanuel Morilla
I'm Emmanuel, a mechanical engineer by profession. I'm a freelance writer. I have been writing online articles for nearly 2 years. I love playing video games.
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Q: Convert the values for a column relating to an ID to an additional row I have a table with 3 columns ID, clinical condition 1 and clinical condition 2. The table is shown below
ID  clinical condition 1    clinical condition 2
2345    depression          dementia
2346    Tuberculosis
2347    cancer
2348    Flu                 dementia

I would like to make the following transformed table using base R
ID  clinical condition 1
2345    depression
2345    dementia
2346    Tuberculosis
2347    cancer
2348    Flu
2348    dementia

Can someone please help me solve this problem?

A: in base R:
subset(cbind(df[1], stack(df[-1])[-2]), nzchar(values))
    ID       values
1 2345   depression
2 2346 Tuberculosis
3 2347       cancer
4 2348          Flu
5 2345     dementia
8 2348     dementia

subset(reshape(df, list(2:3), dir="long"), nzchar(clinical_condition_1))
      ID time clinical_condition_1 id
1.1 2345    1           depression  1
2.1 2346    1         Tuberculosis  2
3.1 2347    1               cancer  3
4.1 2348    1                  Flu  4
1.2 2345    2             dementia  1
4.2 2348    2             dementia  4

in Tidyverse:
library(tidyverse)
df %>%
   pivot_longer(-ID)%>%
   filter(nzchar(value))
# A tibble: 6 × 3
     ID name                 value
  <int> <chr>                <chr>
1  2345 clinical_condition_1 depression
2  2345 clinical_condition_2 dementia
3  2346 clinical_condition_1 Tuberculosis
4  2347 clinical_condition_1 cancer
5  2348 clinical_condition_1 Flu
6  2348 clinical_condition_2 dementia

df <- structure(list(ID = 2345:2348, clinical_condition_1 = c("depression",
"Tuberculosis", "cancer", "Flu"), clinical_condition_2 = c("dementia",
"", "", "dementia")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
-4L))


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As an experienced Interior Decorator I know that no two projects are alike. There is no formula or template to excellent design… every client's needs and requirements are different and for the process to truly achieve the best results this individuality must be considered and respected. I tailor my services to ensure that I meet and exceed your expectations. I will listen to your ideas and work with you to create the space you have been dreaming of. Unlike some design professionals I don't want every project to be instantly recognizable as my work but rather a unique reflection of you my client… The only thing I want to be the same on every project is a happy client thrilled with what we have accomplished together.
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*Due to increasing demand, lead times for new client projects can range from 2-6 months. Please email to discuss current lead times and to request information on my fee schedule. An upfront design fee is required to reserve time on my schedule.
*I am a decorator and as such do not advise on structure.
Initial Consult: The purpose of the initial consult is to develop a mandate for your project. By walking through your home and asking questions I get to know you and the scope of your project… your goals, tastes, needs and ideas for your home are all discussed.
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I work very hard to develop a design concept that you will love… and I usually get it right. That said, revisions, slight direction changes or alternate furniture styles or fabric selections may be needed. This is what I refer to as the Design Development phase.
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Once Clients have approved the quotes they then pay their deposit(s) or pay in full for items and we place the orders. Since many items are custom and almost all vendors need to be paid by me in full prior to installation, I require either a 50% deposit or payment in full, depending on estimated lead times or the particular items themselves. Once a client pays for that item, I don't charge any more for time spent on that item. Time spent is included in the cost. The balance on any order is due on delivery.
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Custom windows coverings. – I will design personalized draperies that best suit your design style. With over 15 000 fabric samples in my studio and access to many more the possibilities are endless. Working within your budget I will help you choose wonderful fabrics, trims and drapery hardware to make everything come together beautifully. I work directly with my seamstresses to ensure every detail is considered. This hands on approach is very important to me.
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