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Statistical breakdown of deaths in the Troubles of Northern Ireland 1969 – 2001
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3rd November – Deaths & Events in Northern Ireland Troubles
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Key Events & Deaths on this day in Northern Ireland Troubles
3rd November
James Fogarty (22), who had been a Republican Clubs member, was shot dead at his home in Ballymurphy, Belfast, by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). This killing was part of the continuing feud between the two wings of the IRA.
Two Protestant civilians were killed in separate shooting incidents carried out by Republican paramilitaries in Dundrod, County Antrim and Tiger's Bay, Belfast.
Saturday 3 November 1979
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) held its annual conference. The party rejected calls for talks with the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The party also called for a joint approach by the British and Irish governments to finding a solution to the problems in Northern Ireland.
Tuesday 3 November 1981 s[ Political Developments.]
Friday 3 November 1989
In a speech, Peter Brooke, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, said that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) could not be defeated militarily. He also said that he would not rule out talks with Sinn Féin (SF) in the event of an end to violence. [His remarks caused controversy.]
The 'Belfast Brigade' of the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO) that it would disband. [This followed an internal feud and the intervention of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 31 October 1992.]
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) organised peace rallies in Belfast and Derry.
Albert Reynolds, then Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister), said that there would be no change in the constitutional status of Northern Ireland without the consent of the majority of its people.
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) published a document referred to as the 'Building Blocks' paper. Copies of the document had been given to the political parties and the Irish and American government during the previous week. The paper suggested that: "all-party preparatory talks and an independent international body to consider the decommissioning issue will be convened in parallel by the two governments"
. Hence the process was to be called the 'twin-track' process. Martin McGuinness, then Vice-President of Sinn Féin (SF), held a meeting with Michael Ancram, the Political Development Minister at the NIO, and discussed decommissioning of paramilitary weapons and also all-party talks.
Sunday 3 November 1996
Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin (SF), refused to comment on reports in the Sunday Tribune (a Dublin based newspaper) that the British government had reopened contacts with Sinn Féin (SF). Sean Brady succeeded Cathal Daly and was appointed as Archbishop of Armagh and head of the Catholic church in Ireland.
The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) conducted a series of raids in County Armagh and County Antrim against Loyalist paramilitaries. Fifty RUC detectives were involved in the operation and three men were arrested and arms and explosives recovered. In one of the raids at Stoneyford Orange Hall, County Antrim, the police held six men for questioning when military documents were uncovered with the personal details of over 300 Republicans from Belfast and south Armagh.
The Orange Order said it was "aghast" at the finds. Sinn Féin (SF) said the documents were evidence of collusion between the security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries. The RUC held three men for questioning about the killing of Pat Finucane, a Belfast solicitor shot dead on 12 February 1989. The arrests were made at the request of the team carrying out an inquiry into the killing. The team was headed by John John Stevens, then Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. John White, then Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) spokesman, accused the inquiry team of "deliberately harassing Loyalists".
Saturday (midnight) marked the new deadline for the election of a First Minister and a Deputy First Minister by the parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA).
[The date represented a period of six weeks since the political institutions were restored to power following their last 24 hour suspension (22 September 2001). John Reid, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, allowed the deadline to pass without taking any action. The intention was to try to elect a First Minister and a Deputy First Minister on Monday 5 November 2001. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) announced that it would seek a legal challenge to the decision taken by Reid.]
Remembering all innocent victims of the Troubles
Today is the anniversary of the death of the following people killed as a results of the conflict in Northern Ireland
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die
– Thomas Campbell
To the innocent on the list – Your memory will live forever
– To the Paramilitaries –
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, but nothing worth killing for.
4 People lost their lives on the 3rd November between 1975 – 1991
James Fogarty, (22)
Status: Civilian Political Activist (CivPA),
Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Former Republican Clubs member. Shot at his home, Rock Grove, Ballymurphy, Belfast. Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) / Irish Republican Army (IRA) feud.
Samuel McConnell, (59)
Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: non-specific Republican group (REP)
Shot at his farm, Sycamore Road, Dundrod, County Antrim.
Georgina Strain, (50)
Status: Civilian (Civ),
Killed by: non-specific Republican group (REP)
Shot at her home, Hogarth Street, Tiger's Bay, Belfast.
Gerard Maginn, (17)
Killed by: Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)
Found shot in abandoned stolen car, Glen Road, Andersonstown, Belfast.
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Jennifer Kim (; eigentlich Pornparn "Kai" Chunhachai; * 4. April 1968), auch bekannt als Diva Thailand, ist eine thailändische Sängerin. Geboren als Tochter eines chinesischen Vaters und einer Mutter aus dem Isan, begann sie sich früh für die Musik und den Gesang zu begeistern. Sie absolvierte die Srinakharinwirot-Universität und zählt zu den berühmten Musikern der thailändischen Sprache. Sie saß in der Jury der Talentshow The Voice Thailand auf Kanal 3 und spielte neben Pachara Chirathivat in der Filmkomödie Bike Man (2018).

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Vienna is in the global elite when it comes to making musical instruments. At the top of the list is piano maker Bösendorfer, which has been bringing the sound of Vienna to life since 1828.
Music and sound in perfect harmony – it has to be Vienna. The city has not only always been home to world-famous musicians: instrument makers based here produce the tools that make their incredible feats possible.
The biggest name of them all, Bösendorfer, is almost 200 years old and the oldest piano maker in the premium segment. It takes more than a year to handcraft an instrument with the unmistakably clear and lively Bösendorfer sound.
Only 300 pianos are made each year in Wiener Neustadt, just under 48 km outside Vienna – but 'produced' is the wrong word: 120 piano-obsessed artisans shape each and every instrument, with painstaking attention to detail. Even the apprentices are given piano lessons. Every employee is part of this musical world – and that is reflected in the sound of the instruments.
In addition to all the passion and care, one kind of tree plays a major role: local spruce. The seasons, the sun, the wind, and the cold allow its wood to mature slowly. It is then left outside to dry in the open air for up to five years before it can be put to use following the Bösendorfer resonance case principle, which states that the starting point and center of the construction plan is the immaterial sound. Bösendorfer builds the instrument "around the sound" for an unmistakable, magical performance.
Each instrument is as individual as its future owner – who is permitted to give his or her imagination free rein when it comes to color, veneer, monograms, or personal dedications. They take delivery of a one of a kind, and classic example master craftsmanship.
The showroom – the Bösendorfer Salon and Flagship Store – has been located in the Musikverein building, where the capital's musical heart beats, since 1914. Playing a Bösendorfer means touching the sound – a sound that lives on in the memory forever.
Sir András Schiff first played his custom grand piano at the Wiener Konzerthaus on June 3, 2018. His Bösendorfer has accompanied him to all of his European concerts ever since.
A special edition that brings together music and visual art: Gustav Klimt's Golden Adele can only be found on 25 Bösendorfer pianos.


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Mr Christopher Lawrence
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Email: bursar@newn.cam.ac.uk
Christopher Lawrence was appointed as Bursar of Newnham College from April 2019 after 12 years as Bursar of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Before becoming a Bursar he worked in orchestral management with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of Ancient Music, having previously worked in corporate strategy for the Prudential Corporation. He holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge (Classics, Queens' College) and Durham (Management Studies, Durham University Business School).
As Bursar of Newnham, Christopher is responsible for the College's non-academic staff, the finances, and the estate; and his direct reports include the Domestic Bursar, College Accountant, IT Director and HR Manager. He is on a number of College committees and is Secretary of the College Council. In the wider University, he is a member of the Bursars' Committee and several University and intercollegiate committees.
A keen musician, Christopher attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department, where he attained the ARCM diploma in tuba performance, and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Within the University, he manages the brass strand of the Instrumental Awards Scheme for Chamber Music (coaching the CU Brass Ensemble); is on the programming committee for the CU Musical Society (and auditions the low brass for the CUMS orchestras each year); and is an examiner for the performance option in the Music Tripos.

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Rafa Benitez says actions will speak louder than words in the final week of the transfer window.
Newcastle United's manager delivered a damning verdict of the club's recruitment after Wednesday night's 4-0 defeat to Braga in Portugal.
Rafa Benitez wants more signings before the transfer window closes.
In an explosive press conference, Benitez – who has had to sell to buy this summer – claimed he was "really worried" ahead of the new season.
Benitez's players, understood to be in dispute with the club over their bonus scheme for the coming season, refused to speak to the media after the Braga game.
"When things are not going well off the pitch, you can see a reflection on the pitch," said Benitez.
United's manager wants to sign Salomon Rondon before the August 9 transfer deadline.
Benitez, frustrated that the club had not activated his £16.5million release clause, had been prepared to swap Gayle for the striker.
However, Rondon's clause has reportedly expired.
Asked about Rondon, Benitez said: "Yes, it could be fine if we have an agreement, but, at the moment, we have to respect West Brom and what they decide.
"We have been talking for a while about players. I think it's a time to act, not talk.
"I'm optimistic thinking that in 10 days we will do what we didn't do in two months. I don't think so, but I think it's obvious that we need people. We need bodies."
On Gayle, Benitez added: "It seems that Dwight will stay."
Newcastle finished 10th place in the Premier League last season.
Benitez had hoped to better that position, but now the target is survival.
Asked if he had enough quality to stay in the division, Benitez said: "I hope so.
"I have a very good opinion about the team spirit of this club, the workrate we had last year and what they achieved.
"Obviously, everybody is spending money, and the Premier League's a little bit stronger, but still you have to trust your players, and if we are focused and play in the way we played last year, I have confidence that we can perform and we can compete.
"What does that mean? You never know. Compete sometimes means you lose 1-0 and still you are losing.
"So if you see the teams that have been promoted, and the money they spend, and you put all these things together you will understand why the fans are a little bit concerned and why we are a little bit concerned."


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Buyer beware: Black Friday advice from Halton council
Forecasts reveal that UK shoppers are likely to spend more than £2 billion today and more than £8 billion in total by the end of Cyber Monday
Halton council Trading Standards is warning consumers about buying fakes during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
The advice is if the price seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Last year online sales were up by 46 per cent which suggests that more and more shoppers will be getting involved.
Forecasts reveal that UK shoppers are likely to spend more than £2 billion today and more than £8 billion in total by the end of Cyber Monday.
Halton Trading Standards officer Deana Perchard said: "Black Friday and Cyber Monday can create a lot of excitement as shoppers rush to get the best deals before stocks run out.
"This creates an ideal opportunity for scammers: there's a pressure to act quickly, an urgency which means that you don't take the time you normally would when making a decision and you don't consider all of the information.
"International gangs of counterfeiters are all too ready to seize on opportunities to sell fakes and this shopping bonanza is too good for them to miss.
The internet is often their preferred means as they can hide behind fake identities. They can operate easily behind sophisticated looking sales sites, using fake trademarks, brands and emblems and even bogus certification labels to entice shoppers into thinking they are buying genuine, safe, products."
She added: "The reality is, of course, that consumers can often end up with nothing more that cheap tat and increasingly dangerous goods. According to customs authorities across Europe, over 37% of fakes picked up at our borders are now dangerous to consumers.
"But this sick trade brings other threats, as criminals continually work to steal our personal details and banking information,"
She said 25 per cent of UK consumers have been attacked during these sales periods and given access to our data, the criminals will then use our money to fund other serious crimes, such as drug trafficking, money laundering and child exploitation.
The anti-counterfeiting group says 30 per cent of all UK consumers will shop during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales period and it is vital that they are very watchful about any dubious offers.
Which magazine has put together a useful guide for shoppers to help protect themselves and Citizens Advice has joined the cause.
Citizen's Advice reports that almost half a million consumer-related issues were dealt with last year, many of these related to undelivered parcels and fake goods and over 50,000 of these were in November 2018.
Their advice is:
Firstly, check who you are buying from. If you're in the high street, go to a reputable store. If you're online remember that over 83% of fakes come from China. So, if the web site or shipping address looks to be in China or Hong Kong, take extra care.
Don't be too quick in committing your money.
Check the price of the product against other sites. You may even get the same deal from the original manufacturers.
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Hailing from Finland, Barren Earth have always been considered a Frankenstein mix of Amorphis, Swallow The Sun and Opeth. And despite the grandiosity of those acts, Barren Earth walk a tightrope to manage a voice of their own. Bringing solid songwriting and a refined approach to the music found on their previous records in order to make an album that not only achieves high quality, but easily surpasses any predetermined level of expectation. A Complex Of Cages presents itself as a restrained effort, combining what made the band so interesting on their debut, Curse Of The Red River and again on their next two records, really hitting a defining stride with On Lonely Towers (even with a vocalist change). For progressive metal, Barren Earth's A Complex Of Cages is a must hear album of 2018.


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2010 - year in photos
1 Kosovo -- A woman walks in past an election poster showing Prime Minister and chairman of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Hashim Thaci in Pristina, 06Dec2010 - epa02483093 A woman walks in front of an election poster showing Kosovo's Prime Minister and chairman of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Hashim Thaci in the town of Pristina, Kosovo, on 06 December 2010. About 1.6 million voters are eligible to vote for the 1,265 candidates from 29 parties and independent lists running for the 120 seats in Kosovo's parliament, 20 of which are reserved for Serbs and other minorities. The elections will be the first since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2008. EPA/VALDRIN XHEMAJ 10POTW49 10poty
2 Russia -- President Dmitry Medvedev take pictures during his visit to Kunashiri Island, one of four islands known as the Southern Kuriles, 01Nov2010 - Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev takes pictures near Soviet-made Cold War-era defense turrets, during his visit to Kunashiri Island, one of four islands known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia and Northern Territories in Japan, November 1, 2010. The islands were seized by the Soviet Union after it declared war on Japan in the closing days of World War Two, forcing about 17,000 Japanese residents to flee. A dispute over the islands in the Pacific has prevented Russia and Japan from signing a peace treaty ending World War Two and overshadowed relations for more than 60 years. REUTERS/Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) POTW44 10poty
3 Montenegro -- People in a canoe paddle trough flooded streets in Bistrice, 06Dec2010 - MONTENEGRO, Bistrice : Montenegrins in a canoe paddle trough flooded streets in Bistrice, south of the capital Podgorica, on December 6, 2010. Flooding caused by rivers swollen by heavy rainfall continued to plague the Western Balkans with thousands evacuated in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. AFP PHOTO / SAVO PRELEVIC 10POTW49 10poty
4 Afghanistan - Afghan National Army (ANA) female officers attend during their graduation ceremony at the Afghan National Army training center in Kabul, 23Se2010 - POTW38 10POTY WOMEN AFGHANISTAN, Kabul : Afghan National Army (ANA) female officers attend during their graduation ceremony at the Afghan National Army training centre in Kabul on September 23, 2010. The newly-trained Afghan army has launched a scheme to recruit female officers for its office-based works. The ANA currently numbers 100,000 troops, with plans to expand to 240,000 by 2011, funded by NATO and the US, in the hope that rapid improvement in their performance can see foreign forces numbers start to draw down. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai


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The trek for clean water
Families in Abyan, Yemen drink water from a well that was recently repaired by the International Rescue Committee in the midst of the widespread violence gripping the Middle East's poorest country.
The IRC started providing clean water to local villages in southern Yemen in 2012. Even before the current conflict began, half of Yemen's population was unable to access safe water.
The IRC installed a water point for families displaced by Yemen's civil war. We have been working in Yemen since 2012, resuming our health, nutrition and sanitation assistance in the south in May 2015 after a month-long suspension. We are now looking to expand our programs to the northern part of the country.
Photo: Sahar Nuraddin/IRC
Many Yemenis in rural areas trek for hours on unpaved desert roads in search of water that is safe to drink. Even if they are lucky enough to find a well, it is likely to be contaminated with mud or dirt. Drinking from such polluted sources often leads to sickness and diarrhea, especially among children.
"It would get worse during the rainy season when there was flooding along the wadi (a normally dry ravine) and it would carry human and animal feces with it which would flow into the well," says Mohammed Salem who lives in Alfishlah, a village in Abyan province that lacks latrines.
"We couldn't use the well, and therefore my wife, my daughter and I suffered a lot when collecting water because we had to walk far and we couldn't bathe at home."
Mohammed says he and his family contracted cholera, diarrhoea and other diseases from drinking untreated water. The International Rescue Committee began fixing the open wells in Alfishlah and the surrounding area so that they could be safely used by both the villagers and their livestock.
We also trained volunteers from the community to raise awareness of safe hygiene practices – such as washing hands thoroughly and storing drinking water in clean, closed containers. Adopting healthy new habits has helped Alfishla's residents and their neighbours avoid the spread of preventable diseases.
"The IRC made a big impact on our lives and taught us great things," says Mohammed. "This project brought happiness to many families."


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Vox City Walks: 8 walking tours in one
Guided tour: Uncover the Museum District
Guided tour with app: Essential Amsterdam Tour
Self-guided tour: The Jordaan: Amsterdam's gem
Self-guided tour: Behind the scenes in the Red Light District
Self-guided tour: Romantic Canals and Bridges
Self-guided tour: Jewish History and Culture
Self-guided tour: The Fishermen and Folklore Tour
Self-guided tour: Marken: Old School Holland
Download the Vox City App for free from the App Store and the Google Play store
Open the app and scan the QR code or enter your username and password found on your ticket
Select your product by clicking its image; then tap your choice of language and choose the full or light download option
Once downloaded, you will have immediate unlimited access to all self-guided features - including walking trails, auto play commentary and more. You can navigate these using the icons on the menu bar.
Start times and joining points for the guided tours are in the app. First guided tour departs 10 AM from Museum Square, in front of Tours & Tickets shop on Paulus Potterstraat 3
Ticket is valid for 3 days, from first use
Child age is 0-15
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With these Vox City Walks tours in Amsterdam, you can explore the city and two small fishing villages just outside the city at your own pace. With the help of the Vox City Walks app, you can join two guided tours in the city at the time and place of your choosing, as the app will tell you where the guides are at any given time during the day.
Your ticket includes 2 guided and 6 self-guided tours, and you can hop from one tour to the next and back again as you please. The Amsterdam guided city tours will help you gain unparalleled insights into both modern and historic Amsterdam, while the self-guided tours delve deeper into Amsterdam's central neighbourhoods and take you to the old fishing villages just beyond the city limits.
Guided walking tours in Amsterdam
The Amsterdam guided walking tours goes beyond introducing you to the city's most famous landmarks. The tours are led by friendly local guides with lots of knowledge of the city. The guides can tell you all about the trendiest shops, coolest cafes and hippest hangout spots too. The Museum District tour teaches you more about the old-south area ánd is here to help you decide which of Amsterdam's many museums you should visit. Amsterdam has so many museums that visiting them all is near impossible, so why not first learn all about the different museums, where they are and what treasures they hold for you.
The Essential Amsterdam Tour moves around the city; from the city centre with some of Amsterdam's most iconic landmarks, including the National Monument and the Royal Palace, to the Jordaan, the Red Light District and the Jewish Quarter.
Self-guided walking tours in and beyond Amsterdam
The self-guided walking tours that are included for free with your ticket knit together to show you the very fabric of Amsterdam. In the app, follow the routes and listen to the audio that tells the stories of the things you are seeing. There are self-guided walking tours in Amsterdam for the Jordaan, the Red Light District, the Jewish Quarter and across the canals and bridges. With these self-guided tours, you can explore Amsterdam's oldest neighbourhoods.
Included with your ticket are also two walking tours beyond the city. The Fishermen and Folklore Tour will take you around the fishing village of Volendam, which dates back to the 14th century. And the Old School Holland tour will show you all the best sights of Marken, a former island in the Markermeer. Both towns are steeped in tradition and culture, including the wearing of traditional clothing which is still worn to this day.


Anyone sell camp wood for some extra cash?
I say camp wood because it's typically sold in smaller piles/bundles.
I would prefer to sell proper firewood, and not limit myself, but most of my wood is Poplar/Aspen. I do have some good hardwood, but it's scattered, and frankly I'm saving it in case we need it. I don't think there is enough hardwood to sell and have a good stash for future needs. Currently I purchase tri-axles of pole wood for heating the cabin.
Anyway I have an abundance of poplar and would like to sell some to the hunting/recreation camps that are prevalent in the area.
One of my friends sells "bundles" of a few pieces of split wood pieces about 18inch long for fall campfires to local grocery stores. She gets two dollars a bundle, but they resell it for about four dollars a bundle.
She sells watermelons, asparagus, berries, corn, etc to the stores in the area, so she has an opening to sell the wood too. Could you approach your local stores to see if they would be interested in buying some from you to resell?
I've seen packaged bundles in other parts of the state but never up here.
Don't know why. Possibly because wood and large properties are common. I may consider that angle.
In our nearest city, the convenience stores sell small bundles of firewood. I talked to one of the suppliers and he said he made more money doing that than selling firewood by the cord. Even considering that he wrapped it in plastic and and stapled a rope handle. I imagine part of the reason is that he delivered to the stores in town, not all over the countryside to individual homes.
I bought a bunch of bundled camp wood when I took my wife from a hot dry campground to the other side of the mountains to a cold and wet campground.
She was not happy but the fishing was way better.
I figured it cost about $480 a cord at the time.
Try selling to apartment complexes that have fireplaces.
Get in at the local mini marts and gas stations.
If your wood is seasoned and dry it will sell.
If you have a good quality make sure you have a brand name for it so people will look for your product.


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KOI-5, o TOI-1241, è un sistema stellare triplo nella costellazione del Cigno, distante 1870 anni luce dal sistema solare. Le componenti A e B, due stelle leggermente più massicce del Sole, orbitano una attorno all'altra in un periodo di 29 anni, mentre una terza componente, KOI-5 C, orbita attorno alla coppia principale A-B in circa 400 anni.

Osservazione
Avendo una declinazione di +44°, la sua osservazione è favorita dall'emisfero boreale, da dove è visibile da maggio fino a dicembre. Più penalizzati sono gli osservatori posti nell'emisfero australe: la stella non sorge mai nelle latitudini a sud del 44º parallelo di questo emisfero.
Con una magnitudine pari a +10,2, la stella non è visibile ad occhio nudo e per la sua osservazione è necessario almeno un piccolo telescopio.

Il periodo migliore per la sua osservazione nel cielo serale ricade nei mesi compresi fra fine giugno e novembre; nell'emisfero nord è visibile anche per tutto l'autunno, grazie alla declinazione boreale della stella, mentre nell'emisfero sud può essere osservata in particolare durante i mesi del tardo inverno australe.

Sistema planetario
Nel 2009 venne scoperto un possibile candidato esopianeta durante i primi tempi della missione Kepler; fu il secondo candidato rilevato da Kepler nei suoi primi dieci giorni di invio dati, tuttavia, poiché altri candidati scoperti da Kepler erano più "facili" da confermare, le successive osservazioni vennero messe da parte e il pianeta candidato fu letteralmente dimenticato per anni, come affermato da D. Ciardi della NASA.

Nel 2018 il telescopio spaziale TESS registrò lo stesso transito rilevato da Kepler quasi dieci anni prima, determinando l'orbita della compagna stellare, KOI-5 B. Tramite diversi telescopi terrestri fu poi studiata la variazione della velocità radiale che, combinata ai dati rilevati da TESS, ha permesso nel gennaio 2021 la conferma del pianeta, un gigante gassoso con una massa del 60% di quella di Saturno (circa ) che orbita in 5 giorni attorno alla stella principale.

La peculiarità dell'orbita del pianeta è che essa è totalmente disallineata rispetto al piano orbitale di KOI-5 B, al contrario di ciò che avviene per corpi che si formano dallo stesso disco di gas e polveri delle stelle in formazione. Gli astronomi suggeriscono che il pianeta non si sia formato nella sua attuale posizione, ma in un'orbita altamente instabile e probabilmente, a causa della forza gravitazionale della stella secondaria, sia stato scagliato sull'orbita stretta e inclinata osservata.

La scoperta di KOI-5 Ab solleva un quesito tra gli astronomi: nonostante i sistemi stellari multipli costituiscano quasi il 50% delle stelle della Bolla Locale, meno del 10% dei pianeti noti orbitano attorno a stelle multiple. Ci si chiede dunque se ciò sia dovuto al fatto che effettivamente la formazione di pianeti attorno a stelle multiple sia resa più complicata dalle diverse interazioni gravitazionali delle componenti stellari, oppure se possa derivare da un bias osservativo, determinato dal fatto che, essendo più facili da rilevare, gli astronomi cerchino maggiormente i pianeti attorno a stelle singole.

Prospetto del sistema
Sotto un prospetto del sistema planetario: è incluso un pianeta non confermato di tipo terrestre, proposto da Hirsch et al. nel 2017 assieme al poi confermato KOI-5 Ab.

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Voci correlate
 Stelle principali della costellazione del Cigno

Collegamenti esterni

Stelle di classe spettrale G
Nane gialle
Stelle triple
Stelle con pianeti extrasolari


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Southern Cities Dominate Buy To Let Hotspots
Posted on December 22, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Northern cities may dominate the tables as buy to let hotspots for house price growth but a different picture is emerging for the rental market.
New analysis claims to have uncovered the best UK cities for a landlord's buy-to-let investment.
The research by Aldermore assesses and provides a score for the average rent per room per month, short-term yield for a new buy-to-let purchase, average property price rises over the past 10 years, proportion of vacant properties in a city and size of the private rental market across the UK.
Seven of the top 10 cities buy to let hotspots for landlords were in southern England while only three northern cities – Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle – make the top 25.
Yorkshire has three cities in the bottom six while Nottingham was the only city from the Midlands in the top 10.
Despite having among the lowest short-term yields, Oxford comes out on top with the highest overall score in the index of 74.
Manchester and Edinburgh are just behind with 72, and London has 71.
The research shows London ranks first for total rents, while Liverpool has the best short-term rental yields.
Cambridge got the highest score for price growth while Cardiff and Oxford were the best areas for low vacant stock.
Damian Thompson, director of mortgages at Aldermore, said: "Aldermore's Buy to Let City Tracker shows there are still great short- and long-term investment opportunities for landlords.
"The number of people renting in the UK has been rapidly growing, up 1.7m in ten years, so private landlords are an increasingly central part of the housing market as supporting a robust and strong private rented sector becomes more essential.
"The UK housing market has never been a singular thing, instead made up of multiple smaller markets with their own unique conditions and challenges.
"There have been numerous regulatory changes recently and persistent economic uncertainty but this affects every region differently. Going forward, landlords will need continual backing and advice from lenders and the wider industry so they can provide choice, diversity of tenure and quality properties for renters."
Blog Post from Property Eye


Attorney-client privilege is the keystone of the legal system that has been in place since the inception of the United States. This privilege protects confidential communications between an attorney and his or her client. The purpose, put forth by the courts, for allowing these communications to be protected is that it "encourage[s] full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients." Thus, without this protection, clients would be less than forthcoming since all communications with their attorneys could potentially be used against them in future litigation. However, a problem has arisen over the years regarding a specific application of attorney-client privilege. That problem is patent-agent privilege.
Communications between patent attorneys—attorneys who not only are barred by a particular state but who also are barred to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office—were not originally protected by attorney-client privilege. This is because courts viewed patent work as outside the scope of the law. But, beginning in the late 1950s, this began to change, and today all communications between patent attorneys and their clients can be privileged. The same cannot be said for patent agents.
Patent agents must have a scientific background and pass the patent bar. Once a person becomes a patent agent, he or she is allowed to represent clients before the Patent Office during patent prosecution (the process of getting a patent application granted). This is also a job that patent attorneys are allowed to perform. However, this has resulted in an interesting issue. Although patent attorneys and patent agents are performing the same work, the communications between their clients are not subject to the same privilege rules.
Before 2016, the federal courts were split on the patent-agent privilege issue. Some Circuits recognized this privilege as an extension of the attorney-client privilege while others did not. The Federal Circuit remedied this by expressly recognizing a limited patent-agent privilege in In re Queen's University. The Federal Circuit held that communications between a patent agent and his client are privileged so long as the (1) communications meet the privilege requirements and (2) the patent agent is performing work for the client within the scope of activities Congress allows patent agents to perform.
This was only the first major legal event regarding patent-agent privilege. The second, involved the Patent Office. In December of 2017, the Patent Office, a federal agency that grants patents, promulgated a regulation mirroring the Federal Circuit's holding in In re Queen's University. Thus, at the beginning of 2018 both the federal courts and the Patent Office expressly recognized patent-agent privilege. But, no state had yet recognized this privilege.
This changed at the end of February when the Texas Supreme Court expressly recognized patent-agent privilege as an extension of attorney-client privilege with its holding in In re Andrew Silver. Because patent claims often arise in contract disputes, state privilege laws become relevant in patent cases. Thus, uniformity between the states and the federal courts is important. Although the majority of the United States does not recognize patent-agent privilege, if the current trend continues, then more states will likely begin to recognize the patent-agent privilege.
* Matthew Welch is a third-year law student at Wake Forest University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University. He is also a patent agent barred to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Upon graduation, he intends to practice intellectual property law.


Thursday is my day in the alpaca barn, my turn to do farm chores. Of course chores get done every day, but Thursday is my day, and today I think the alpacas are excited to see me!
When we first had alpacas, I did all the chores. My husband was busy working a real job. Years passed, life happened, and Matt found himself with time to do farm chores. We took turns for awhile but before long, he was doing them every day. This freed me up to develop and grow our alpaca business, process fiber, run the store, teach classes, work on the website, crochet, knit, spin, felt, weave. It worked, for awhile. He found that there just really isn't much stress in the barn, and that was very appealing to him. I found that I missed caring for the alpacas. So we've made some changes and now Thursday is my day … and I am loving it!
I love it most on sunny days, but that was not the case today. It seems to have turned to mud season … ugh!
Certainly, not a job everyone would love, but I do. Getting outside, caring for animals that count on me to bring them hay, feed, and fresh water is a privilege, really. Clearing my mind of all except the task in front of me, is therapeutic, and a welcome relief from some of the tasks of running a business that weigh me down.
I don't waste any time putting their feed out, spreading it out in numerous different feed dishes to keep the arguing (and stress level) over who eats first and who stands where to eat, to a minimum. Yes, alpacas do spit (mostly at each other), and feeding time is when you will see it. Hence, this is the reason the inside of our barn is covered with spit.
This is Mabelle, waiting patiently. I like to put the alpacas out of the barn, then put their feed in their dishes, and then let them in. This way I have a chance to touch each one, and they have a chance to learn to trust me enough to walk that close.
This is Savannah, Amelia, and Amelia's sister, Annalise. Sorry if there mouths are full, but it is feeding time. I put out hay in different locations, both inside and out, in Rubbermaid wheelbarrows that can be moved to different places as needed.
I start clean-up, working amongst the alpacas, wanting them to feel comfortable with me in their midst, and also because I just like being with them. In the winter, chores are actually a bit easier because we layer fresh straw over the manure each day, a system called deep bedding. The water and urine seep down to the lower layers of straw and the straw on top keeps the animals dry. Find out more caring for Alpacas in Winter. Did you know there actually is a Manure Management Handbook? I discovered it just today. It actually is quite interesting.
I add fresh water to the water troughs and heated buckets, that we switched to mid-winter, because the floating heater in the boys' water trough gave out. The chickens get feed and water.
Fitzgerald, our angora rabbit, and the latest addition to Alpaca Meadows, gets some leafy greens, and fresh water. More about him later.
Chores don't take that long, just depends on how much time I want to spend. It's very peaceful in the alpaca barn. Sometimes I just enjoy sitting on a bale of straw watching the alpacas interact. Caring for the animals on our farm, as well as the two that are inside, seeing that their simple needs are met, is the least I can do for them compared to the joy they give back to me.
I finish up my chores each week by working with one or two of the alpacas, on halter training, and going on walks out of the pasture back through our woods and hay field. I worked with Martha today, three years old, but still resisting having a halter on and being led anywhere. I'm making progress, but it takes time to build trust. Today Amelia (left) and her sister Annalise go for a walk with me through the hay field. They are somewhat tentative, but have each other so it's not quite as scarey. The walk back to the barn is at a much quicker pace.
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We are a company operating in a society where life is good. We all make an honest living out of the advertising business, so giving back is something we take seriously. About 20 days a year we work for charity. With pleasure and conviction.
Should you be inspired please do not hesitate to contact some of the charities we support, especially our structural partner "De Poel", an organisation that takes care of mentally disabled adults. They are really suffering from recent budget cuts in social security. Their initiative is largely based on gifts and sponsorship of companies. To support them, we take care of their corporate identity and communication tools free of charge.
Another non-profit organisation we support, is "Go for Grandmaster". This is an initiative launched by enthusiastic chess-players from the business world in order to promote Belgian youth chess and to accompany them with professional guidance. This way, the organisation wants to coach young chess players to get to the top, and who knows, grow to one or more grandmasters. Are you also passionate about chess or do the values associated with the game match your company values? Do not hesitate to contact them. After all, the organisation is based on voluntary work, but especially on support so they can participate in international competitions.
Destiny encourages its employees to make a positive contribution to our society. In 2018, one of the two founders, Daan, is going to participate in the Uganda Challenge. He will moutainbike 600 kilometers in 6 days to support the charity Amref Flying Doctors. Besides the personal challenge, he has the ambition to donate all the money he collects to this good cause. We will support Daan during his adventure!
De Kampenhoeve vzw in Kampenhout is a therapeutic centre that focuses on helping children and adults with a mental and/or physical disability through contact with donkeys and horses. Contact with a donkey can contribute to improving the quality of life on a physical, mental, psychological and social level. At De Kampenhoeve they know that donkeys are not stubborn, but actually very smart, sweet and fantastic animals for therapy. The mission of De Kampenhoeve is to help as many children as possible using ansinotherapy. In order to do so, they need money and publicity. To support them we take care of their branding and marketing tools. We are very happy to help! Support them and give a thumbs-up on Facebook!


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Ripple Poaches Marjan Delatinne from SWIFT to Spearhead its European Sales
Marjan Delatinne joins Ripple from SWIFT after helping launch its recent GPI program.
Ripple, a San Francisco-based blockchain firm, has strengthened its executive team, poaching Marjan Delatinne from SWIFT's freshly launched Global Payments Innovation (GPI) program. The hire represents a power play by Ripple, helping kindle a new rivalry with the two groups.
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Ms. Delatinne has been a mainstay at SWIFT for over a decade, having worked in the group's GPI Program – for its part Ripple has not been quiet about its contempt for the program, however this did not stop the group from securing the services of one of the GPI's core elements.
In her new role at Ripple, she will serve as its Sales Director in Europe, helping work in a key role in selling the firm's commercial blockchain technology to banks across the continent – she will be based out of Londn. The initiative is part of a broader aim to take on SWIFT, outflanking the group on distributed financial technology.
Such technology can potentially be a boon for banks, which can slash the time and cost of settlement while enabling new types of high-volume, low-value global transactions. Many banks have begun the transition to digitalization already, with the traditional branch model being largely seen as a dying breed, especially in Europe.
SWIFT''s response to this growing trend was its own GPI program, having launched in February 2017. Ms. Delatinne originally joined SWIFT back in 2007. Over the past decade she has held a variety of roles including Head of Business Development for SWIFT's Securities Markets Initiatives, its Payments Market Initiatives, and most recently its GPI, according to information made public on her Linkedin profile.
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A Pandemic Silver Lining in Senegal
Oxygen was a crucial COVID treatment. Now it's helping treat children with pneumonia.
A version of this article was originally published in Undark Magazine.
On a late April afternoon, the Ngor Health Center in Dakar, Senegal, is serene. Sunlight spills through architectural gaps in the ceiling and lush plants line cream-colored corridors. In a patient waiting area on the second floor, a staff member gently rolls a ball back and forth with a toddler.
The calm belies the chaos at the health center eight months prior, in the summer of 2021, when COVID-19 struck the West African nation in its third and deadliest wave. The only reminder exists high up on the walls: slim copper pipes trained through roughly drilled holes. The pipes were built as Ngor frantically retrofitted its waiting area with extra beds in a bid to extend the center's limited oxygen network to treat the influx of COVID patients.
But to the pediatrician Idrissa Demba Ba, the scramble for oxygen—which, in many countries, came to symbolize the pandemic—was nothing new. In fact, it's a hallmark of another scourge he's been battling for 18 years, childhood pneumonia. The disease, caused by an infection of the lungs that disrupts breathing, killed 2,400 Senegalese children under the age of 5 in 2019.
Pneumonia can be triggered when a pathogen—for instance, a virus, bacteria, or fungus—enters the lungs, where it inflames the air sacs, causing them to fill with fluid or pus and making it hard to breathe. Children are more vulnerable to the disease because their lungs and immune systems are still developing. To treat the condition, there are three main options: antibiotics, antivirals, and oxygen. Every day, there are children who need to be connected to an oxygen supply, says Ba, who is head of pediatric pulmonology at Dakar's Albert Royer National Children's Hospital.
The World Health Organization lists oxygen as an essential medicine, which seems intuitive for a vital, life-sustaining gas. Yet in Senegal and many other developing countries, providing oxygen in its medical form can be fraught: The medical-grade oxygen is expensive, getting it from one place to another requires the construction of pipelines and other infrastructure, and medical personnel must be trained to administer it.
These supply-chain obstacles threaten, per one estimate, more than 7 million children in low- and middle-income countries who get pneumonia each year and need oxygen to survive. Limited supplies are part of the reason the disease remains the most common infectious cause of death in children worldwide, claiming the lives of more than 740,000 under the age of 5 in 2019. Younger children are more vulnerable—29 percent of pneumonia deaths occur within the first month of life, and three-quarters within the first year.
Most of those affected live in lower- and middle-income countries like Senegal, where the risk of pneumonia is exacerbated by malnutrition and other issues, says Papa Birane Mbodji, the head of newborn health at the Department of Mother and Child Health in Senegal's Ministry of Health and Social Action. Another threat is the nearby Sahara Desert, which sweeps in huge amounts of dust that contribute to the region's outsize global burden of young patients.
When there isn't enough oxygen to treat these children, their lungs fail, eliciting grunts as they try desperately to rake in more oxygen from the air, Ba says—a symptom that echoes the devastating effects of COVID-19. While the world's attention has been trained on COVID, "you could basically say there is an ongoing pandemic of pneumonia mortality," says Keith Klugman, an infectious-disease expert who heads the pneumonia program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
But there may be an upside: The crisis of the coronavirus pandemic drew the world's attention to the crucial importance of oxygen. Seeing how quickly countries galvanized to tackle COVID, Klugman and other experts wrote a Lancet article in November 2020, calling for them to build on the pandemic's rare gains—such as increasing oxygen infrastructure—to help curb childhood pneumonia. The authors wrote: "The COVID-19 response provides opportunities to increase diagnostic and treatment services for respiratory infections."
Ba and other experts on the ground share the sentiment. More and more, they see COVID as an opportunity to get the essential resource to more children, to tackle this forgotten epidemic.
Against this backdrop, Senegal offered fertile ground for improvement. Even before the pandemic, and in the midst of it, the country was interrogating its medical-oxygen infrastructure.
"The government of Senegal established an ambitious scale-up strategy for oxygen as early as 2013," wrote Lisa Smith, the access-to-medical-devices portfolio director for the market-dynamics program at the public-health nonprofit PATH, in an email to Undark. Then in 2017, she wrote, members of the Senegalese government attended a PATH-led meeting focused on widening oxygen access. There, the government highlighted its work with a private contractor to install and maintain pressure-swing adsorption, or PSA, plants—which produce purified oxygen from ambient air on-site—at a number of hospitals. After this event, Smith said, PATH started working with the government to offer additional support to close other gaps in Senegal's oxygen-supply chain.
A year into the pandemic, PATH published a report based on a nationwide survey of medical equipment, focused on oxygen infrastructure, noting where it was available and where it was most lacking.
Key among the findings of the resulting report was that oxygen was heavily concentrated at emergency centers in large urban areas, but much scarcer at smaller health centers and posts that serve the majority of the population. For instance, of 29 COVID-treatment centers surveyed across 13 regions, Dakar, Senegal's capital, had the highest concentration of key medical tools—62 percent of pulse oximeters, which estimate blood oxygen levels, and 84 percent of functional ventilators—despite the city making up less than a quarter of the country's population.
The equipment survey also revealed stark disparities in the distribution of PSA plants, which provide a reliable supply of oxygen. Nearly half of the treatment centers with access to a PSA plant, which cost upwards of $100,000 apiece, were concentrated in Dakar to meet the needs of the city's dense population—such as the Ngor Health Center's PSA plant, which was built there before COVID hit and became a boon during the pandemic.
Within a large, sun-drenched courtyard on the hospital grounds, the PSA plant hums inside a locked concrete enclosure. As part of the setup, there is a black box called a compressor, which sucks in external air and pressurizes it. From there, the pressurized air is scrubbed as it runs through a filtration device to remove nitrogen and allow oxygen to pass through. The oxygen is then transferred to holding tanks, ready to be piped into the wards.
In contrast, at most other health-care facilities where PSA plants are in short supply, health-care workers rely on smaller pieces of equipment such as oxygen concentrators and cylinders to supply the crucial gas. These come with their own challenges: Most concentrators, which are portable, suitcase-size machines, deliver oxygen at a rate that's too slow for severe COVID patients, and cylinders can be refilled with new oxygen only at centralized plants, which means that supply can be disrupted because of unreliable transport.
Maintaining this piecemeal infrastructure can also be impractical. At another health facility across town, this was evidenced by a pile of discarded concentrators strewn amongst other items—unused respirators in water-logged boxes, mosquito nets, and an old mat and metal bed frame stripped bare—stacked under a zinc roof just outside the entry ramp for emergency patients.
[Read: Think 168,000 ventilators is too few? Try three.]
Such infrastructural challenges aren't unique to Senegal. A 2021 WHO technical consultation revealed that before the pandemic, the majority of low- and middle-income countries struggled to obtain medical oxygen. In sub-Saharan countries, 31 percent of facilities had interrupted access, while 25 percent had none at all.
These wider findings on oxygen and COVID also helped inform child-pneumonia initiatives, including a clinical trial designed to test the value of pulse oximeters in these patients. The trial, part of a project called Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, or TIMCI—jointly run by PATH, Unitaid, and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute—launched in August 2021 in multiple facilities in three countries, including the arid baobab-studded region of Thiès, an hour's drive into the countryside beyond Dakar. Here, TIMCI supplied pulse oximeters to doctors at 59 health posts to diagnose incoming patients. As of September 2022, TIMCI has screened almost 17,000 sick children in Thiès.
The devices work by attaching to a patient's finger and painlessly measuring the level of oxygen in their blood. It's a quick and inexpensive way of detecting a condition in which oxygen saturation levels dip dangerously below 90 percent, called hypoxemia. Hypoxemia increases the risk of death by pneumonia up to five times.
The Senegalese trial—part of a larger multicountry initiative also involving Kenya, Tanzania, India, and Myanmar—intends to evaluate the effectiveness of pulse oximeters in more accurately and swiftly diagnosing hypoxemia, in order to then help children get the urgent oxygen treatment that they need and save lives. But such initiatives will only ultimately be effective if the essential oxygen supplies are on hand nearby.
On a tree-lined street in downtown Dakar, Ndèye Astou Badiane sits inside the PATH regional headquarters contemplating the pandemic's legacy. In Senegal, although the health system struggled with a real "increase in demand [for] oxygen," says Badiane, who is a respiratory-care coordinator at the nonprofit, some good came out of it. The clear and urgent need, she adds, injected new momentum into national efforts to tackle oxygen shortages.
For instance, the government, together with PATH, is now finalizing another assessment of its oxygen infrastructure, maintenance, and long-term sustainability. The overarching aim is "to improve oxygen availability and utilization in each health facility," Badiane wrote in a follow-up email.
This evolving assessment laid the foundation for the government's most significant move: the plan to roll out dozens of new PSA plants, the units that produce oxygen on-site at hospitals, says Amad Diouf, the director of the Department of Infrastructure, Equipment, and Maintenance at Senegal's Ministry of Health and Social Action. These crucial new oxygen plants, five of which are funded by UNICEF, are due to be installed by the end of 2022, with a focus on health centers across the country. At the start of the pandemic, with support from PATH and Unitaid, Senegal was able to acquire 175 oxygen concentrators, 1,000 oxygen masks, and 250 pulse oximeters.
There are early indications that the effort to strengthen Senegal's oxygen gaps is translating into gains in the fight against childhood pneumonia. A 2021 review study found that bolstering oxygen infrastructure in lower- and middle-income countries could cut child-pneumonia deaths in hospitals by almost half. And in Senegal, the pediatrician Mbodji says there has been a notable increase in the availability of oxygen at health facilities. Though it's difficult to attribute solely to this change, Mbodji says, pneumonia deaths in children have declined over the past two years.
The pandemic has also given pneumonia initiatives like TIMCI special resonance. COVID-19 was "an opportunity" for the Ministry of Health to recognize the importance of oxygen infrastructure and accelerate the spread of lifesaving tools like pulse oximeters through more health facilities, says Maymouna Ba, who leads the TIMCI project in Senegal.
"Before TIMCI, before COVID-19, such equipment, such tools, were just available at higher levels like in hospitals, in health centers. But not in health posts where providers also need these kind of equipment, these kind of tools to better detect severe illness in the early stage," Ba says. With the TIMCI trial ongoing, she adds, there are plans to eventually provide even more pulse oximeters to health posts across the whole country.
Other pneumonia interventions have received a similar boost in recognition—such as the SPRINT project, or Scaling Pneumonia Response InnovaTions, a program run by UNICEF to expand access to antibiotics and oxygen treatment for pneumonia. The program was originally confined to certain regions, but since the pandemic began, Mbodji says, the government has been working on plans to extend it to the entire country.
Senegal's oxygen response is emblematic of changes unfolding elsewhere. COVID made plain that "you can't wait for disaster to happen for the equipment to be here," says Fatima Diaban, a critical-care physician and member of the Every Breath Counts Coalition, an initiative by the nonprofit JustActions focused on supporting national governments in reducing pneumonia deaths by the end of the decade. In May 2021, Senegal was among nine African nations to begin receiving help from PATH and the Clinton Health Access Initiative to procure new oxygen equipment, funded by $20 million from Unitaid. The Global Fund, an international health-care-focused funding organization, with support from government and private-sector donors, also provided $475 million to 66 lower- and middle-income countries for a similar purpose.
[Read: One of long COVID's worst symptoms is also its most misunderstood]
Now that the pandemic has eased, some of these resources can be redeployed to treat childhood pneumonia—something that's already under way in other countries such as Ethiopia, where the government announced plans in 2021 to redistribute the pulse oximeters and oxygen therapies it used for COVID elsewhere in its health-care system.
Large aid donations often come with questions about whether such funding reaches the intended recipients in its entirety. PATH's Smith said there are safeguards in place to ensure it does. "Each donor has unique requirements for accountability and responsible use of funds," she wrote in an email. For instance, her organization worked closely with Senegal's Ministry of Health and the Department of Infrastructure, Equipment, and Maintenance to distribute donated oxygen equipment to facilities in need.
Overall, such initiatives could fast-track progress on pneumonia, a disease that's still "very much neglected" in the global health discourse, despite its global burden, says Klugman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Pneumonia is still chronically underfunded, taking just 5 percent of the money devoted to fighting infectious disease globally, and just 3 percent of the research funding allocated to infectious diseases from 2000 to 2017 by public and philanthropic funders in G20 countries.
Prevention will be crucial—and progress is under way to develop new, targeted vaccines, which protect better against pneumonia compared with existing vaccines, Klugman says. But for now, oxygen remains a uniquely efficient way to save lives. As such, the pandemic responses that many countries have drawn up provide an ideal framework for action—a "foundation for continued declines in deaths from all-cause respiratory infections over the next decade," according to a 2021 report on pneumonia and the coronavirus pandemic produced by JustActions.
Indeed, it's not just children with pneumonia who stand to benefit from this spread: Wider oxygen provisions will aid people with infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and asthma.
This larger importance, laid bare and elevated by the pandemic, is behind the recent September 2022 launch of the Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security, a new partnership of academics and NGOs, which will reportedly include strong representation from lower- and middle-income countries. The commission seeks to build on the pandemic's gains and provide policy makers with information and tools to close the crucial gaps in global oxygen-supply chains.
Already, the benefits of expanded oxygen access are evident at the Ngor health center, where the copper pipes are reminders of a traumatic time but now stretch beyond the emergency room, ferrying oxygen to those who need it most. Just off the main corridor of the second floor, those pipes have been trained into a room with walls decorated with cheerful stickers of Dora the Explorer, flowers, and birds—a children's ward.
As Badiane puts it: "In 2022, really oxygen should be available and affordable in every health facility."
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A young man came to see me on Monday, he sat and started crying.
He had wanted to see me in December, but I was too busy.
Why was he crying?, this was a guy who lost his father 10 years ago, his mum who is a petty trader could only do so much, he hustled hard and sent himself to school, OND, then HND. Finished, Served and got a small job. He was doing well until the company went under in 2014.
That was when we met, he started his small business (Buying and selling used laptops, phones and other small gadgets) with 250k, until last year when he lost everything.
On one of his trips to Lagos, he met his childhood friend who did the same business.
They went into some form of partnership in 2017, things improved. This friend came up with the idea they should put everything they had together and start importing from China, he agreed.
Feb, 2018, friend travels to China, got there and sent photos of products to be bought and all, this young man wires the 7m they both raised to his friend in China. Funds were confirmed.
2 days after, friend disappears, not a word ever since. Broke, Depressed, His 'Fiancee' left him last September for another man, a relationship of 3 years o. He's been searching for a job and couldn't even find one, His life turned upside down.
All the friends he had helped left, wouldn't help, some of them he was instrumental to them setting up their businesses, his mentees, avoid his calls now. He almost lost it, frustrated, so depressed that he has contemplated suicide twice now.
I spoke to him about some life's experiences, some shocked him.
Told him about opportunities he could start with N40k and how to go about them, As we talked some more, his eyes lit, that was all I needed. There goes HOPE!
I said to him, I hope you've learnt your LESSONS?
See FAM, Until you've learnt the life lessons of a particular phase, you will keep resitting that class.
Don't make the same 'Relationship' mistakes you made in 2018.
Be intentional about your inner CIRCLE. Be like Jesus.


Individuality: still going strong or is it a thing of the past?
I follow Chris Brown on twitter. This is because I admire his inspirational rise from the ashes like the phoenix after his career went up in smoke. His fall from grace followed what has up till this moment remained his worst mistake both as a public figure and an individual; his battering of Rihana… Even the recent report of Chris Breeze being kicked to the curb by his house mates couldn't do anything to this newly humbled individual. I, like many other CB fans, still believe that the fire he lit himself, was being fanned by the conglomerate of musicians he once belonged to. But that is just a belief.
An assessment of the songs he has done since then reveals two things..
2.he still has people he can count on, seeing as to how they are not fully controlled by the conglomerate that he previously belonged to(as shown in the 'Beautiful People' ft. Benny Benassi video).
Recently on his twitter account, CB asked this question " Is there such thing as individuality anymore?". I don't know where his mind was at when he posted this but it certainly had me scratching my head for an answer..
I couldn't tell whether he was speaking of individuality in societal terms where it would mean the interests of the individual as distinguished from the interests of the community; or if he was speaking in terms of identity where it would refer to sole and personal nature with regard to character and quality.
If he was refering to the first meaning, then I would assume it is because he has personal experiences of how groupings can make or break you. He is in an industry where many people work together to build a brand and keep it alive. From the artist scouts to the A&R executives that he has worked with in his rollercoaster of a career, you wouldn't blame CB for believing on collective effort even if it may be shunned as "dependency syndrome" in american socio-psychology.
On the other hand, if Breeze was talking of the latter meaning of individuality which pertains to identity, then it must be the way people have been known to acquire and emulate tastes in image projection and character copying. He understands it too well as his dance inspiration, by his own admission, comes from the King of Pop, Micheal Jackson(god rest his soul). CB has seen his attempted industrial replacement by Jason Derullo, either by accident or design.
To mimic mannerisms successfully, one needs fingertip information on the personality they want to emulate. In this day and age access to information has been made easier than before. Wikipedia is just an example of a website where you can type a name and the persons entire recorded history is at your disposal. There are sites that even post rumours about a particular person of interest which gives you the nature of ones environment at that particular time. You get to know how popular or unpopular they were. Even more interesting is the social networking sites that give you insight into momentary temperament of an individual. CB, or any other person of influence may air out his personal opinion on an issue and it will end up affecting the "independent" views his admirers have on the same.
So to Chris Browns question I respond yes and no..
Yes, individuality still exists. People work together as conglomerates in a particular industry with diverse needs where each individual inputs his specialised skills but their place in the group is only guaranteed as long as they can deliver. Collective community interests are shunned and tagged as Socialist or Communist are only ever tolerated in the case of disaster, since disaster and natural calamities remain the only things that people feel vulnerable against.
No, there is no such thing as individuality any more. It is the least protected "intellectual property" if I may call it that. With every facebook update and tweeter post, we advertise our mentality and disposition. We show how and what can influence our opinion, how we individually choose to air our views, what our personal preferences are. It is all out there for every one to see and copy. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying there is anything wrong with sharing information, but the very thing that maintains the integrity of an individuals identity is the inability of the next person to predict his actions and yet remain un surprised by what ever he does.
Thanks again Chris Brown for your Music, your struggle and your question.


Traders in Sokoto State would yet again, benefit from another N1bn direct loan from the state government, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has disclosed.
Tambuwal, while addressing members of the state Chamber of Commerce and Industries during an interactive session with Sokoto Traders Association and the state business community added that, the N1bn direct loan was not part of the initial N2bn loan to be disbursed to traders.
Speaking in an interactive session with members of the business community at Sokoto International Conference center, Tambuwal categorically noted that the loan would be provided through the reinvigorated State Investment Company, State Chamber of Commerce and Sokoto Traders Association.
While stressing that the repayment period for these loans has been extended to two years, Tambuwal further noted that, the monies would be disbursed to all beneficiaries after satisfying the laid dawn conditions.
The governor who appealed to all in the state to vote PDP again at all levels, added that, all beneficiaries are not expected to repay with any interest hence, the state government has canceled interest payment by loan beneficiaries.
On his part, former governor of the state, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, reminded the traders that Tambuwal is implementing a damage control policy and urged them to vote for him once again as a man who has the political will, capacity and intelligence to move the state to greater heights.
Bafarawa, again, charged them to be patriotic enough to join hands with the Tambuwal led government to drive a course that will rescue and put the state on a pedestal of development.
Earlier, the president of the state Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Alh Muazu Bello Magajin Rafi, thanked Tambuwal for his enormous support and encouragement to the business community in the state and announced that the state is organising a solo exhibition in Tahoua, Niger Republic from February 3, to 6, 2019.
The state chairman of Sokoto Traders Association, Alhaji Yaro Gobirawa, on his part, assured Tambuwal of having all the traders in the state solidly behind his reelection bid.


Each egg contains an embryo silhouette. These embryos come in three different stages of development. Phase 1 (C-shaped, small limbs, short tail), Phase 2 (C-shaped, small limbs, longer curled tail) and Phase 3 (most developed, smaller head, larger limbs). All 3 phases come in 2 varieties, with an open mouth, or with a closed mouth.
Spined 1 - Teal, Phase 1, open mouth.
Spined 2 - Magenta, Phase 3, open mouth. A few of the spines on the right side are a bit thin, and as such it is listed at a discount.


Giro R Recumbent Cycle (black) 4.5 out of 5 based on 30 ratings.
The Kettler GIRO R is a mid-range recumbent cycling trainer, featuring an extremely solid construction, motorized, magnetic resistance with 16 distinctive levels, and a console with 8 preset workouts.
The design at Woodlark, as imagined by Architect of Record R&A Architecture & Design.
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But not everyone can afford to mount a GoPro to their bike, and if there are other things mounted to.
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In a saucepan over medium-low heat, add extra virgin olive oil, minced garlic and chopped onion. Cook until the onion is translucent. Add flour and soy sauce to make a paste.
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Q: Confusion between probability distribution and probability density functions for the sum of two RV I am a bit confused about the following statements:

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*The probability distribution of the sum of two or more "independent" random variables is the convolution of their individual distributions.

*The probability mass function or probability density function of a sum of random variables is the convolution of their corresponding probability mass functions or probability density functions respectively.
Does this mean that for the second statement, statistical independence is not required anymore?

A: Independence is very essential in the discrete case also. The second statement is wrong.
Counterexample: let $X$ take values $0$ and $1$ with probability $\frac 1 2$ each and $Y=-X$. Then $P(X+Y=1)=0$ but the convolution assigns possitive probability for this.

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State Property and Poll Assessments for 1782, [ca. 31 May]
State Property and Poll Assessments for 1782
It is not possible to state with precision when JM prepared this document. The source of JM's information is also uncertain. With minor variations the statistics in columns 3 through 7, and in columns 10 and 12 (counting from the left) are identical with those in Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (ed. William Peden [Chapel Hill, N. C., 1955], p. 86). This would indicate that JM either was assembling data for his friend's use, or that they both used the same source in preparing reports. JM may have wanted to have the information on hand for the May 1784 session of the House of Delegates, when taxation rates were certain to be reviewed. He would have found the statistics useful when he served on the drafting committees charged with adjusting the continental account (28 May) and with reporting the census (5 June).
Much of the data required had already been accumulated under provisions of a Virginia act "for ascertaining certain taxes and duties, and for establishing a permanent revenue," which became effective on 5 January and was amended on 1 July 1782 (JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond. In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1786 are brought together in two volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828 and often called the "Thomas W. White reprint." description ends , Oct. 1781, p. 74; Hening, Statutes description begins William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (13 vols.; Richmond and Philadelphia, 1819–23). description ends , X, 501–17; XI, 66–71). This was exactly the sort of information that a conscientious committeeman would have sought, and presumably it was available at the office of the state auditors of public accounts, since the law ordered county clerks to transmit the required information to the auditors.
Tazewell on 5 June introduced a bill "to ascertain the quantity of land, the improvements thereon, and the number of people within this Commonwealth." Thereafter it emerged from the legislative mill with "several amendments" and was signed into law on 30 June (JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond. In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1786 are brought together in two volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828 and often called the "Thomas W. White reprint." description ends , May 1784, pp. 37, 39, 46, 47, 60, 89; Hening, Statutes description begins William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (13 vols.; Richmond and Philadelphia, 1819–23). description ends , XI, 415–17). If JM's prime motive in collecting the data was for guidance while serving on this committee, then it is improbable that he prepared the present document before 19 May or after 4 June 1784.
[ca. 31 May 1784]
State of taxes under the Revenue law of Virginia from 681 of the Counties in 1782
Valuation of lands & lots Amt. of taxes pd. on lands & lots No. of Whites subject to poll tax2 No. of Blacks total No. of Horses No. of Cattle
£6042401..2s.5d £57,077..17.1¼ 53282 211698 195439 609734
No. of Wheels taxed value of taxable property exclusive of land & lots Sum collected & to be. collected Ordinaries licensed Billiard Tables No. of Whites & blacks not d[is]tinguished.3
5126 £.173928..11s.6d 231,011.14.10¼ 195 3 23,766
Ms (DLC: Madison Miscellany). A single, undated page in JM's handwriting.
1. That returns had not been made from all of Virginia's 75 counties, Governor Benjamin Harrison informed the General Assembly, was owing to the fact that the law in no way penalized delinquency (Executive Letter Book description begins Executive Letter Book, 1783–1786, manuscript in Virginia State Library. description ends , pp. 312–13).
2. That is, free white males "of the age of sixteen years and upwards" (Hening, Statutes description begins William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (13 vols.; Richmond and Philadelphia, 1819–23). description ends , VI, 40–41).
3. Jefferson in his Notes (p. 86) added to this caption "in the returns, but said to be titheable slaves."
Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved.
"State Property and Poll Assessments for 1782, [ca. 31 May]," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0025. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 8, 10 March 1784 – 28 March 1786, ed. Robert A. Rutland and William M. E. Rachal. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973, pp. 49–51.]


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Golisano Children's Hospital offers donor breast milk to NICU preemies
Victoria E. Freile
Babies with very low birth weights are now drinking donated breast milk in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UR Medicine's Golisano Children's Hospital.
The donor milk program launched Monday for premature babies weighing less than 3.3 pounds.
"There is overwhelming evidence that breast milk provides the best nutrition for premature infants and has long-term, potentially lifesaving benefits," said Dr. Jeffrey Meyers, medical director of the NICU. "A mother's own milk is always best, but mothers are not always able to provide breast milk or produce enough. Donor milk is the next best thing and is nearly as protective as mother's milk."
The use of donor milk in NICUs is a growing trend across the country.
More:New working mom: Donating breast milk
Studies indicate that breast milk provides the best protection against a wide variety of illnesses and potential life-threatening complications for premature infants.
Through this program, the hospital's smallest patients can receive a fortifier made with donor milk — instead of formula — which has been shown to decrease the risk of feeding complications and infections, according to the hospital. Most preemies need an added fortifier in breast milk to ensure they are receiving enough protein, fat, vitamins and nutrients.
Angelica Pizzo, whose twin boys were born nearly 16 weeks early on Oct. 31, is among the first to utilize Golisano Children's Hospital's new program. She is pumping milk to feed her sons, but the boys are also consuming donor milk with the added fortifier.
"Hearing about this new program was a huge relief, because I knew that no matter what, our babies would get what they needed," Pizzo said. Her sons each weighed around 1.5 pounds when they were born. "To be able to have this program as an option is truly a blessing."
The program will affect about 200 babies a year, Rachel Steffen, a NICU nurse and program team leader, said in a news release.
"This is a major advancement that brings us in line with the 'gold standard' of nutrition for premature infants," she said.
The new program required approval from the New York state Department of Health. Technicians started preparing donor milk products in a NICU nutrition lab this week.
Pasteurized donor milk and fortifiers used at Golisano Children's Hospital comes from California-based milk bank Prolacta Bioscience, Meyers said. Donors are screened for viruses, illegal drugs and nicotine.
Cori Ann Zinter, whose twin sons were born more than nine weeks early in February 2016, said she thinks the new program "is phenomenal."
Zinter, 31, of Honeoye Falls, said she felt lucky that she was able to produce enough breast milk to feed both of her sons while in the NICU. Fortifier was added to the expressed milk for her boys.
"I can't express how great this is for mothers in the NICU who aren't able to produce enough milk (for their children) or any milk at all," she said.
Zinter donated more than 130 extra ounces of expressed milk to a milk bank, but said she'd rather see the milk used by local babies in need.
While moms with excess milk cannot donate directly to Golisano Children's Hospital, there are local donation programs in place. Those donations, however, don't circle back to Rochester-area hospitals.
Locally, Beautiful Birth Choices in Rochester offers breastfeeding support for local moms and serves as a milk depot for the nonprofit New York Milk Bank, which opened in June 2016.
"We pretty much always have milk in our freezer, ready to donate," said BBC co-owner Julia Sittig.
In the past year, more 10,000 ounces of donor milk has been shipped to Westchester County, where the New York Milk Bank processes donated breast milk, Sittig said. The milk is pasteurized and distributed to feed babies in need, mostly in hospitals.
Women who complete the screening process, which includes an interview, medical screening and a blood draw, can donate at any of the bank's 29 milk depots. The process takes two to six weeks to complete. Moms who smoke, take illegal drugs or drink excessively, for example, cannot donate.
Prolacta also accepts breast milk donations through its partner milk banks across the country.
VFREILE@Gannett.com