A friend of mine recently told me about a conversation she had with a business leader about Impact City, my vision for transforming Dallas into the center of the world for solving the world's greatest problems.
My heart sank. That is the last thing I want to do to our great city! I want to transform Dallas into the impact capital of the world. There's nothing nonprofit about impact.
The only thing that makes an organization a for-profit is that it is designed to make money for its owners. Pepsi, Soap Hope, Google, Radio Shack, and Whole Foods are all for-profit. They may have a mission, or not. They may be making money right now, or not. In the end, if there is money made, it will go to its owners (shareholders). The government collects taxes on the profits. For-profits are not inherently good or bad, sustainable or not sustainable, purposeful or not purposeful. They just have owners.
The only thing that makes an organization a nonprofit is that it has no owners. The American Heart Association, the NFL, and the Republican National Committee are all nonprofits. They may have an important social mission (ending hunger), or not (the clown museum). They may serve the poor, or they may serve wealthy business members. Their leaders may be volunteers, or they may earn $40 million a year. Nonprofits are not inherently good or bad, sustainable or not sustainable, purposeful or not purposeful. They just don't have owners.
One key problem for nonprofits is that, since they don't have owners, they generally struggle to scale. When Pepsi wants to build a new distribution facility in Africa, they can quickly and easily raise capital from investors (owners) because the investors will earn double digit returns. When Feed My Starving Children wants to build a new distribution facility in Africa, there is no source of capital other than donations, which may take years to raise, or may be impossible to raise.
An organization is sustainable if its normal operations generate enough money to cover its expenses.
Sustainability is not related to for-profit or nonprofit status. For example, the PGA (a nonprofit) is highly sustainable, as is Google (a for-profit).
It's important to note that for-profit does not automatically mean sustainable. Most startup companies are not sustainable. Blockbuster was not sustainable. Even Amazon is currently not sustainable.
If a for-profit is not sustainable and doesn't reform itself, it goes out of business when investors stop investing new capital. If a nonprofit is not sustainable, it goes out of business when donors stop giving it new donations.
It's also important to understand that while many nonprofit organizations are currently not sustainable, there are more and more that are partially or fully sustainable. When Esperanza International first started, for every dollar it took in, it used up the entire dollar. Now for every dollar it takes in, it can return over 70 cents after one year. In a few years, it will be fully sustainable.
(3) Important purpose vs. non-important purpose.
This one is easier to understand but harder to quantify. Pepsi's core reason for being does not serve an important human purpose: it is made to sell chips and soda. Feed My Starving Children's core reason for being does serve an important purpose: it is made to feed starving children.
There is a large spectrum in between. People will argue over the relative merits of the ballet, spaying cats, beautifying parks, and the Clown Museum.
The way I think about it, an organization's purpose rises to the very top when its primary reason for being is to solve a key challenge of humanity. At Good Returns, we focus on these eight: poverty, slavery, water, conflict, health, energy, environment, and education. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals offer a different take on top-purpose initiatives.
With these three dimensions in mind, we can now identify what an Impact Organization is – and we can see how Impact City will approach solving the world's greatest challenges.
When an organization is scalable, sustainable, and very high on the purpose scale, we call it an Impact Organization (or IO for short). An IO can provide solutions to the world's biggest problems (purpose), without relying on donations (sustainable), and access capital to expand everywhere the problem exists (scalable).
Traditionally, sustainable for-profit companies focusing on top human problems have been rare, but they are growing in number every day. And traditionally, sustainable nonprofits have been challenged to access scaling capital, but Impact City will be promoting innovative business models such as the Good Returns model that enable such nonprofits to scale, turning them into Impact Organizations as well. For-profit and nonprofit Impact Organizations are on the way in greater numbers than most people imagine.
Stay tuned to learn more about Impact City – I will be updating you soon on how and why we are creating the "Silicon Valley of Impact" right here in Dallas, Texas.
It's rare for a social entrepreneur to get through the gauntlet of hurdles to reach that amazing milestone she strives for: a functioning, growing, sustainable business that is solving a core problem of humanity.
But even once she gets there, she faces a decision that can be excruciating: I call it the social entrepreneur's Scaling Dilemma. Scaling strategy is yet another area where impact organizations face an either/or decision that profit-only businesses don't have to make.
A traditional business has only one thing to maximize: profits. Well-run businesses optimize their prices based on what will produce the greatest profit, not what will produce the greatest number of customers. If a company believes that raising prices will increase profits after taking into account lost customers, then that's what it will do.
But for a social entrepreneur, raising prices can be heartbreaking when the customer is disadvantaged. Not only are fewer clients served by the mission; those that are no longer able to afford the service will be the most disadvantaged in the pool.
A clean water service that charges just enough to break even will serve the largest possible pool of people that it can reach. It also leaves the most money in those people's hands as possible. If the facility increases its prices, it will be more profitable – but less people will be served, those that are served will have less money for other survival needs, and those that can't afford the water at all anymore will be the poorest of the population.
A water business run as a for-profit company with ROI as its primary objective will find the perfect price to maximize its profits, with no care at all to these social negatives. But for an impact organization, the loss of impact is a terrible side effect of increasing profits.
Now here is the dilemma: those profits that the social entrepreneur is foregoing to serve today's poor are the same profits that would enable the business to scale. Without profits, there is no self-funding capital to build the next water treatment plant. Without returns, there is nothing to entice investment capital either. So the impact organization, by maximizing today's impact, has limited tomorrow's impact.
What should the CEO of the impact organization do? Should she maximize profits today, grow through reinvestment, and then accept lower profits later to increase scale? When should that happen? What if she knows that some people will die in the meantime? Should she pass up investors today, because she knows she won't be able to downshift later to increase reach by lowering prices? This is a difficult moral place to be for the social entrepreneur.
Good Returns works because it creates new value by providing businesses and their investors with a reason to invest capital into impact organizations. This capital provides a missing piece that solves the Scaling Dilemma.
Profits are the end for traditional business. For impact organizations, profits are not the end – the mission is. But profits are a critical tool that provides the sustainability and scale that the impact organization needs to achieve its mission. This need to focus on both mission and profits creates a multitude of challenges for social entrepreneurs. We need to be working together to find structures and devices that transcend these dilemmas.
If you have struggled with the Scaling Dilemma, please share your thinking process and the decisions you have made. If you have found other solutions to the problem, please share your approach so other social entrepreneurs can learn. Comments are open below.
Most entrepreneurs, myself included, are independent spirits.
That is, until 3 years ago.
Three years ago, I found myself with heroes, and someone I want to be like.
In 2010, I heard Professor Muhammad Yunus speak about humanity. He spoke extemporaneously for 45 minutes, sharing first hand stories of mothers and daughters whose lives had been transformed through education and opportunity; a vision for the end of the man-made condition of poverty; a call to action to all people to end the unacceptable suffering in our worldwide community.
That same year, I went to the Dominican Republic and to Chiapas to see the work of poverty-ending microfinance institutions in the field. I saw for myself the bravery of women standing up against cultural oppression; taking steps that no woman in the history of her family had ever taken before so that her children could go to school; finding the right balance between personal initiative and working as a community; taking risks and succeeding with so little capital and time that they put entrepreneurs like me to shame. I found my heroes.
When I first started Soap Hope, my intention was to create a strong example of social entrepreneurship so that we could make a huge impact in ending poverty, both with our own company and through others adopting the model and learnings that came out of Soap Hope. And while Soap Hope did grow again for the third year in a row, and we did fund over 10,000 days of microlending for women entrepreneurs this year, most days my vision for Soap Hope still seems distant and fragile to me.
As if on cue, this week a friend sent me a video about social entrepreneurs, and when I clicked play I heard the unmistakable compassionate voice of Professor Yunus – there once again to motivate and inspire. Every time I hear his voice, I hear my calling. And when I go inside and ask what I'm to do, Soap Hope always is the answer I see.
When someone buys one bar of soap from us, it funds one day of microlending for a woman. So I say, "A bar of soap is a day of hope." This spring, I'm starting a new initiative at Soap Hope called "One Million Days of Hope" – to fund one million days of microlending through sales and partnerships with other companies and organizations.
Everywhere Professor Yunus goes, he looks for ways to create partnerships with people, companies, and institutions small and large, to further his vision of ending poverty in our world. Yes, I want to be like him. So I will do the same.
One million days of hope would mean 100 times the impact we had last year. It would provide tools and opportunity to thousands of the women who have become my heroes. That's not something I can do alone. You'll surely hear me ask you for ideas and action, partnership and participation.
Watch for #onemilliondays. Think about how we can partner together. Expect a call from an independent spirit.
I often ask people, "What's the biggest problem in the world?" If you don't know your personal answer to this question, please stop and take a moment to think about it. When you know what the biggest problem in the world is to you, keep reading.
Did you say "potato chips and soft drinks?" No one ever does. Some of the most common answers I hear are water, energy, poverty, intolerance, and war. But did you know that last year, PepsiCo spend over $50 billion in their business of distributing drinks and snacks across the globe? Compare that to the World Health Organization's (WHO) budget last year of just $5 billion.
You may not think of your potato chip purchase as a driver of human behavior, but it is. PepsiCo has built factories all around the planet; hired some of the smartest engineers, scientists, financial minds, and management experts; created an IT infrastructure that spans the globe – all to support the purchase of potato chips by you and billions of other people. It's because you spend money on snacks and drinks that drives PepsiCo to create this amazing infrastructure and to organize these incredible resources.
Are snacks and soft drinks ten times more important than global health? They why do we spend ten times as much through PepsiCo than we do through the WHO?
Whatever your biggest problem in the world is, here's how NOT to solve it: try to convince people to spend their potato chip money on your world problem instead. Trying to change powerful forces like capitalism or culture is a recipe for wasting time and energy. If you want to solve a problem quickly and effectively, use existing forces to accomplish your goal.
There are many ways to leverage existing forces to solve world problems. My favorite is to teach companies that they can make bigger profits if they will partner with world-problem-solvers under a model I call Good Returns (see Scaling Social Ventures).
So I ask you again, "What's the biggest problem in the world?" Each person has their own answer, so to make it easy to write about here let's just call it Your Opportunity for now. Now I challenge you to think about Your Opportunity using our new approach: can you get people to spend money on Your Opportunity every time they spend money on coffee? Can you get a glass cleaner company to spend money on Your Opportunity? Can you create powerful financial incentives for investors in a fast food chain that will motivate them to invest in Your Opportunity?
The answer to all these questions is, "Yes." Now, go do it. Don't delay, Your Opportunity is here.
If you read my blog, please shop at Soap Hope where we carry everything good for body and home. Every dollar of profit is invested into programs that enable women to lift themselves from poverty.
If you appreciate my ideas, please write on your blog or Facebook right now about Soap Hope and help me solve the biggest problem in the world – poverty in women. You'll be busy tomorrow, so write a post now!
Dr. Yunus' model involved lending small sums of money to women in self-motivating, self-regulating groups of women for the purpose of creating sustainable income. His approach has improved the lives of millions of people around the world. The model became known as "microfinance." One key success factor in his model is that the lender's primary goal is not to earn a profit; instead the first goal is to lift women from poverty.
Dr. Yunus' approach became so large and successful that it attracted the attention of corporate, banking and political interests around the world – most of which do not have the cause of ending poverty as their priority, but rather see profit potential in lending to the world's poorest. These interests now dominate the microlending landscape. They have usurped the term "microfinance." The most egregious of them are big, sophisticated, well-financed and powerfully marketed versions of the moneylenders that Dr. Yunus fought so hard against.
I have called on Grameen Foundation and other anti-poverty leaders to create a new, legally protected term for the kind of microfinance that is designed to end poverty, and to develop an international certifying body that will let philanthropists, foundations and social entrepreneurs have a clear picture of what groups are practicing anti-poverty driven microfinance. Minimum standards and practices would be developed by this international body and would evolve as our knowledge, tools and methods evolve.
– The lender is either not for profit, of if it is a for profit institution (which is required by law to engage in lending in some countries) then the lender is owned almost exclusively either by a not-for-profit or by the clients of the lender themselves. Another way to think about it: the lender's profits are not for the enrichment of anyone except the poor.
– Although failure to pay loans may impact a borrower's ability to borrow again, the lender never punishes a borrower for failure to pay. Another way to think about this: a borrower's financial situation is not to be made worse by having taken a loan, whether repaid or not.
– Money is only loaned for purposes of investment (for example business, education, home, and so on) and the borrower must demonstrate a plan for repayment. Loans are never given for paying back other debt or for purposes that do not increase the borrower's ability to improve her financial situation.
– The lender, whether itself or through partners, actively works with its clients to eliminate the drivers of poverty in borrowers' lives. These drivers are different in various parts of the world, so each lender creates its own approach. Some common drivers of poverty that are currently addressed by Microfinance Plus institutions are: lack of affordable clean water, lack of basic health education, malnutrition, illiteracy, chronic illness, lack of affordable childcare, and cultural or political oppression. There are many more. Each organization addresses its local needs.
It is imperative that the anti-poverty driven microfinance industry move quickly to create a protected term and a certification process, because without it we cannot drive large capital flows into Microfinance Plus institutions. Companies like my business Soap Hope (which invests all its profits into Microfinance Plus institutions) and philanthropic donors and investors need a simple and reliable way to identify these groups and to hold them accountable. By making the investment to define and certify what qualifies as anti-poverty microfinance, our industry will be able to grow the number of people served under Dr. Yunus' original intent.
Regardless of any political party, sociological theory, or business organization telling you to the contrary: it is a fundamental part of our humanity to help those who are in great need. It is totally unacceptable to allow another human being to suffer in poverty without assistance.
I did not teach myself to read, did not haul my own drinking water across miles today, did not give myself a vaccine against polio. Because I'm smarter or work harder? Of course not – it was a gift of the circumstance of my birth, and yours.
A close up look at the lives of those in extreme poverty will show that the poor are creative, resourceful, and hard-working – contrary to common prejudices held by many in the developed world. Realize the amazing enormity of the gifts you were given in life, and give just a small share to those who haven't been so lucky. Use your time, talent or money – all three if you can. Start right now, not tomorrow.
If you don't know where to start, I invite you to go to any of the pages at the end of this post to learn about nonprofit microfinance, my preferred way of enabling those in very deep poverty to lift themselves up.
If you are in a deep well, no amount of creativity and hard work will get you out of that well. You will need someone outside the well to throw you a lifeline, or you will die in the well.
Those in the deep well of poverty cannot climb out without a ladder provided by someone else. Nonprofit microfinance is such a ladder. It's not charity. The recipient does all the climbing themselves.
Pick whatever you see as the greatest need that another human being is facing, and begin to do something about it, today – don't let this day go by without taking an action for another human being who needs you.


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Game of Thrones: Season 6, "The Red Woman"
By Sarah Mesle
Previous episode: season 5, episode 10, "Mother's Mercy."
Following episode: season 6, episode 2, "Home."
LARB's Collected "Game of Thrones" Coverage
If I Were Your Girlfriend
Dear Television,
THIS WEEKEND I HAD A PROBLEM getting ready to watch Game of Thrones. The problem was this: I had a hard time caring about whether or not Jon Snow was alive, when I knew that, for sure, Prince was dead. Why watch Game of Thrones, I thought to myself, why spend a minute caring about the fate of a stompy pious crow, why spend a second wondering about whether or not Melisandre was going to nudely revive him with the vampish machinations this show sometimes uses as a stand in for sex, when you could be listening to Purple Rain? Prince's masterpiece knows just as much about suffering, and a lot more about sex, than anything that has ever come out of the mind of GRR Martin. And unlike Game of Thrones, Prince's music knows how to go straight at the heart of loss without sacrificing pleasure. Unlike Game of Thrones, Prince, even at his most unedited, never stopped being fun.
I don't mean to set this up as some sort of false equivalence, or easy-to-resolve parable. We don't have to choose between TV and music, or hold one to the other's standards. But I want to raise the question of my own ambivalence, because we don't watch Game of Thrones in a vacuum: we have to choose it, here in this world, this world where most of us are still unclear what proportion of our grief about Prince was sweated out during our weekend dance parties. So my question heading into this season was: after all of last season's cruel shenanigans, could I come back to a place where Game of Thrones had some pleasure for me? Game of Thrones was always brutal. But it had sometimes used its complex narrative layers to get at stuff that mattered. Could that happen again? Could its dense narrative web become some sort of comfort or release, some kind of meaningful harbor for the grief and rage and love we ask art, when we are feeling loss, to shelter?
My answer is: maybe. This wasn't a great episode, I think we can agree. It felt mostly like a recap, with only a few advancing plot points. But it was an episode that tried to deal directly with grief — and rage and love, too. And the show's best moments were those that tried to think through how powerful emotions matter for women. Women feel, but, in Westeros as in our world, are limited in how they can act. If you want revenge, or transformation, or renewal, how as a woman in Westeros can you manage it? How do emotions work for women, when you have to move men into action on their behalf?
As this episode knew very well, for Westeros's women, how you feel and what you can do about it have a lot to do with how you look to the men who might take action for you. Nowhere was this episode more compelling than in its final moment, so let's start there. Melisandre's naked and aging body was the most remarkable thing to show up in Westeros at least since the Dragons — and not just because her role here was so much more intricate than the spectacle of her body. In this scene, Melisandre ceased to be the narrative means to Jon Snow's possible non-end, and instead became a story in herself. As others have pointed out, what was most shocking about the scene was not the discovery that Melisandre is much older than she appears, but rather the camera's lingering attention to her nakedness, and to the embodied experience of her age. How do we read the camera's long gaze upon her? Is it gloating? Judging? Is it simply observant? Is it possibly compassionate, or kind? Is it, maybe, awed? When Melisandre looks at herself in the mirror, whose evaluating gaze is she imagining?
Here's a thought experiment for you. What if the person gazing at the naked Melisandre — gazing at all the women in this episode — was Prince? (I don't know that Prince was a Game of Thrones fan, but I don't know that he wasn't. If we can imagine he drank Yak's milk, surely we can imagine he subscribed to HBO.) I like to think of Prince as an imagined viewer here, because part of what was so special about Prince was his willingness to see women without either idealizing them or despising them: I think of Prince as someone willing, at his best, to see women as real. Think about the lyrics to "If I Was Your Girlfriend." "Is it really necessary 4 me 2 go out of the room / Just because U wanna undress?" Prince sings. "If I was your girlfriend, would U tell me?/ Would U let me see U naked then?"
The fantasy in "If I Was Your Girlfriend," as I've always understood it, isn't just of a role reversal. Instead, it's Prince imagining himself into other ways of relating to women, ways that might be more intimate because they would be outside the power of heterosexual manhood. It's a song about how patriarchal power, and its attendant power to see and display, can stand in the way of getting close to someone. The lyrics use "girlfriend" as a short hand for this — but here's the thing. Girls and women aren't outside of patriarchy, even if they're not the recipients of its benefits.
And that's maybe what this episode was best at showing us, sometimes without realizing it. Think, for example, about another moment that hinged on the idea of women's nudity. "Seeing a beautiful woman naked for the first time," claims Khal Moro, Daenerys's Dothroki capturer, is "among the five best things in life." Khal Moro revels in the patriarchal force of his desire — a force that disperses through the scene, poisoning the possibility that Dany might form other relationships. It's partly because of their desire to be like the Khal, to possess women the way he does, that the Dothraki soldiers fantasizing about Dany's "white pussy hair" treat her so viciously. Worse still, for Dany, is that the Khal's wives know their only access to power is through the Khal's desire for them, so they can only see Dany as a rival, never an ally.
It's not news, of course, that men express their power over women through the way they desire them: that's Prince's point exactly. But the scene with the Dothraki was painful to me because of the way it both pointed out the perniciousness of the Khal's desire and, at the same time, asked us to identify with him — because of his jokes, and his comparative gentleness — rather than with his wives. The show, in that scene, buys into and reinforces the logic that keeps Dany and other women apart.
Other moments felt similarly reductive. I'm still frustrated that Arya and the Waif, the nameless girl who might have been her friend, are always so needlessly at loggerheads. The Waif's envy towards Arya is everywhere apparent, and it makes little sense to me: how is she supposed to have advanced in the House of Black and White, when she's still harboring the vengefulness Arya is being punished for? Why can't the show imagine a different way for them to relate to each other? The Sand Snakes and Ellaria are only rivals with each other in the most frivolous senses, and I was happy to see them do some of the ass-kicking we've been promised, I guess. But there's still nothing about these characters that seems real or fleshed out; I still don't see much in the wandered-in-from-the-WB orchestration of this plotline than a flattened fantasy of preening womanhood, using a sort of faux-feminism as a guise. Here again, don't you think we're supposed to sympathize with poor murdered Prince Doran, rather than the women, even if we see their violence as desirable?
Other moments were smarter though. Margaery's power struggle with Septa Unella — and the High Sparrow's manipulation of it — mirrored Dany's triangulation between Khal Moro and his wives, but resisted letting us forgive the High Sparrow too easily. Roose and Ramsey Bolton were forcefully dangerous, and in their conversation we see how their power struggles hem in Sansa (and also Walda Frey) at every side. They care nothing for Sansa, but need the symbol of her: here, Sansa becomes a victim of the misogyny that idealizes women and their wombs, at the same time that she is also a victim of Ramsey's sense that women are fundamentally degradable.
The scene, too, shows how living in the Bolton's world pitted Myranda against Sansa, in much the same way that the Khal's wives are pitted against Dany. I have no love lost for Myranda, but it was chilling to hear Ramsey recount his love for her: chilling because his love for her ("she was fearless") is so intimately bound to his sense of her as consumable ("she's good meat"). In Ramsay's warped mind — a mind that's an extension of the broader cruelty of his world, sadly not an exception from it — the only response to a hurt woman is to hurt more women: the terrifying poetry of Ramsey's line "Your pain will be paid for a thousand times over" was a carefully-metered microcosm of this show's brutalizing economy.
Melisandre is no stranger to this economy of pain. She knows the role of women's beauty within it. In her moment of defeat — in her misreading of the fates of Stannis, and Jon — is it her assumed beauty, or her actual age, that she is finding most responsible? Watching this scene at the end of this episode, I felt a great tenderness towards her. As I wrote elsewhere, the scene "tells us something so wise about being a woman in Westeros: that it is fucking exhausting." Alone in her room, Melisandre remains crowded by the expectations of men — even good men, like Davos, thinking of her in a room nearby — and for the first time this show has made me interested in her, by letting me see her own ambivalence about the way she makes men see her. Am I Melisandre's girlfriend? Could I be? Could the show make a way for me to connect to her, rather than to see her on the other side of a zero sum game of male attention?
And this leaves us, of course, with the episode's highlight: the only moment when two women are actually able, and only after much struggle, to see each other: the moment when Sansa and Brienne lock eyes, and bind themselves together. And I thought: look! They are seeing each other! Perhaps, maybe, they can be each other's girlfriend? I watched this moment, born out of so much grief and loss for both of them, thinking about how grateful I am for every visual culture moment like it: moments like this between women are still so rare. It reminded me of Rey and Leia embracing in The Force Awakens; it reminded me even more vividly of Beyoncé's Lemonade, which I had just watched, on the same channel as Game of Thrones.
And it made me think of Prince, too. I'm not sure that anything about this episode of Game of Thrones got as close to wisdom as Prince did every time he even glanced at a guitar: I'm pretty sure that very little of it got as close to Prince as Beyoncé did. (Nothing makes Ellaria and the Sand Snakes look worse than airing right after Beyoncé, swinging her bat.) On a scale from zero to Lemonade, where does Brienne and Sansa's oathmaking score?
It's a question I'm a little hesitant, at this point, to answer. There've been too many times when I got hopeful about Sansa, only to watch the show's confidence in her evaporate for no reason. I don't have much confidence that Game of Thrones will treat its characters, or us, as satisfyingly as Prince would: I'm still unsure if the show's makers understand what it would mean to see its women watchers as if they were our girlfriends. But the good news is that at the end of the episode, I was more excited about Game of Thrones than I was at the beginning. I'm feeding a tiny spark of enthusiasm about what the rest of the season might bring.
We need all the help we can get,
Previous episode: season 5, episode 10, "The Wars to Come."
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Blood of My Blood"
By Aaron Bady

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Declan Benedict Mckenna (rojen 24.decembra 1998) je angleški pevec, ki je najbolj znan po svojih pesmih, ki v večini opevajo tabu teme, kot so politika, droge in enakopravnost. Njegova glasba sodi v kategorijo indie rock/alternativni rock. Svojo prvo skladbo "Brazil" je izdal januarja 2016 in ima do danes (avgust, 2017) dva albuma: Liar (2016, maj) in What do you think about the car (julij, 2017).

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Declan Benedict McKenna je bil rojen 24.decembra 1998 in je odraščal v Hertfordshire v Veliki Britaniji, skupaj s sestro Catriono McKenna. Declan je obiskoval St Mary's Church of England (srednja šola) v svojem rojstnem kraju. Maturo je opravljal poleti 2015 in začel s študijem angleške literature, psihologije in etike ter sociologije, vendar je študij po nekaj mesecih zaradi vzpona svoje pevske kariere opustil.

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Tigers, Red Wings open venues to support November election
by: Peter Curi
The absent voter ballot application period began TODAY for the Nov. 3 general election. Voters are encouraged to apply at Michigan.gov/Vote and return their ballots early. Credit: Michigan Secretary of State's Office
DETROIT, Mich. (WJMN) — The Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings announced Wednesday a partnership with the Michigan Secretary of State's office to support the successful facilitation of the November 2020 election and to encourage voter participation in Detroit and throughout the state of Michigan.
Little Caesars Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings, will serve as a safe, centralized training venue for more than 6,000 volunteer election workers over a several week period, in September and October.
Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers, has been made available to host a ballot drop box, should the city need additional locations.
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In addition, the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings will use their social media platforms to share educational information about voter registration, voting by mail, election day volunteer opportunities, and ballot completion.
"Elections are the foundation of our democracy and we are committed to doing all we can to support the upcoming election," said Chris Granger, Group President, Sports and Entertainment, Ilitch Holdings, Inc.
"Not only are our facilities uniquely suited to support the needs of the community and the Secretary of State leading up to Election Day, our sports teams provide voices to share information and fulfill our civic obligation to encourage all Michiganders to exercise their right to vote on November 3."
Through a series of training sessions, Little Caesars Arena will fill an imperative election need by offering a safe, socially distanced space to prepare Detroit volunteers to work the polls on the November 3 Election Day.
"I am grateful to the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers for helping us fill these critical needs this election cycle," said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
"Leveraging the resources and unrivaled platforms of these teams will enable us to reach voters and give them the assurance that their elections will be accessible and secure. And I am proud to say that with this announcement, Detroit is now the first U.S. city where all four professional sports teams are taking an active, nonpartisan role in supporting this fall's elections. We hope that this inspires every Michigan voter to participate in our democracy."
Over the next two months, the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings will remain connected with the Secretary of State to support election needs, and the teams are committed to sharing important information and resources with fans to help them prepare for November 3.
FILE – This Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, file photo shows the exterior of Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers, in Detroit. The Tigers will play soon at Comerica Park, one of three sporting venues clustered within a mile of each other in the Motor City. With professional teams from four major leagues playing so close to each other, downtown Detroit is unique. And, that makes the COVID-19 pandemic hit a little harder here. For businesses in the area it has lately been a bust for those banking on a revenue stream from fans. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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ATLANTA (NewsNation Now) — The U.S. Senate will be tied, but Democrats will effectively control with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris serving as the tiebreaking vote come Jan. 20.
Democrat Jon Ossoff beat incumbent Sen. David Perdue, The Associated Press has called.
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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)-- Wednesday morning supporters of President Donald Trump gathered at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, as congress gets ready to convene in Washington D.C. to certify the November election results.
Those results have Joe Biden beating President Donald Trump by a margin of 306 to 232 in the Electoral vote.
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by Haley Townsend, Sydney Kalich, Michael Geheren, and Alexa Mencia / Jan 6, 2021
ATLANTA (NewsNation Now) — Democrats Wednesday afternoon effectively gained control of the U.S. Senate after The Associated Press called one of Georgia's two Senate runoffs early Wednesday morning for Democrat Raphael Warnock, and the second race between incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff for Ossoff.
In some counties, Georgia officials counted ballots overnight as polls closed across the state Tuesday.


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(Bloomberg) -- The high flying baht is about to hit some turbulence -- not only volatility from this weekend's election, but also a period of seasonal weakness that is fast approaching.
Asia's best-performing currency has weakened in the second quarter for 7 out of the past 10 years, partly due to foreign repatriation of Thai dividend payments and a seasonal fall in tourist demand, according to market participants. The Asian currency has already retreated almost 2 percent from its strongest since 2013 against the dollar last month amid equity outflows as its first general election since a military coup five years ago approaches.
Tourism numbers will ebb in April and dividend payment season will peak by May, which usually cause seasonal weakness in the second quarter, he added. The amount of dividends to be paid to foreigners in 2019 is estimated at 87.6 billion baht ($2.8 billion), about the same as last year, according to Kasikornbank. The bank predicts the currency will weaken in the second quarter, and decline to 33 per dollar by the end of this year, Kobsidthi said. It was at 31.64 per dollar on Tuesday.
The baht is still the region's best performer against the dollar year-to-date, up about 3 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It was the top emerging-market currency in 2018, supported by Thailand's current-account surplus amid a strong year for tourism.
The upcoming election has stoked concerns that a cycle of political instability could return, posing a risk for an economy already absorbing a slowdown in exports and growing more slowly than some of its neighbors. Investors should hold off any additional purchases of Thai equities as there will be more economic uncertainty leading up to the election, Chris Wood, a Hong Kong-based strategist at CLSA Ltd., said last week.
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Q: Looking for the presence of composite key in three DataFrames, and concatenating DataFrames accordingly This question was very hard to word..
Here is some sample code for a reproducible example:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

df1 = pd.DataFrame([['a', 1, 10, 1], ['a', 2, 20, 1], ['b', 1, 4, 1], ['c', 1, 2, 1], ['e', 2, 10, 1]])
df2 = pd.DataFrame([['a', 1, 15, 2], ['a', 2, 20, 2], ['c', 1, 2, 2]])
df3 = pd.DataFrame([['d', 1, 10, 3], ['e', 2, 20, 3], ['f', 1, 15, 3]])

df1.columns = ['name', 'id', 'price', 'part']
df2.columns = ['name', 'id', 'price', 'part']
df3.columns = ['name', 'id', 'price', 'part']

result = pd.DataFrame([['a', 1, 10, 15, 'missing'],
['a', 2, 20, 20, 'missing'],
['b', 1, 4, 'missing', 'missing'],
['c', 1, 2, 2, 'missing'],
['e', 2, 10, 'missing', 20],
['d', 1, 'missing', 'missing', 10],
['f', 1, 'missing', 'missing', 15]])

result.columns = ['name', 'id', 'pricepart1', 'pricepart2', 'pricepart3']

So there are three DataFrames:
df1
  name  id  price  part
0    a   1     10     1
1    a   2     20     1
2    b   1      4     1
3    c   1      2     1
4    e   2     10     1

df2
  name  id  price  part
0    a   1     15     2
1    a   2     20     2
2    c   1      2     2

df3
    name  id  price  part
0    d   1     10     3
1    e   2     20     3
2    f   1     15     3

The name and id is like a composite key. It may be present in all three DataFrames, just two of the three DataFrames, in just 1 of the DataFrames. To represent which DataFrame the name, id came from, a part column exists in df1, df2 and df3.
The result I'm looking for is given by the result DataFrame.
  name  id pricepart1 pricepart2 pricepart3
0    a   1         10         15    missing
1    a   2         20         20    missing
2    b   1          4    missing    missing
3    c   1          2          2    missing
4    e   2         10    missing         20
5    d   1    missing    missing         10
6    f   1    missing    missing         15

Basically, I want EVERY name, id pair to be accounted for. Even if the SAME name, id comes in both df1 and df2, I want separate columns for price from each of the part even if the prices in both the parts/DataFrames are the same.
In the results DataFrame, take row1, a   1   10    15   missing
What this represents is, the name, id pair a  1 had a price of 10 in df1, 15 in df2, and missing in df3.
If the row value is missing for a specific pricepart that means, the name, id pair did not appear in that particular DataFrame!
I've used the part to represent the DataFrame! so, you can asusme that part is ALWAYS 1 in df1, ALWAYS 2 in df2 and ALWAYS 3 in df3.
So far.. I literally just did, pd.concat([df1, df2, df3])
Not sure if this approach is going to lead to a dead end..
Keep in mind that the original three DataFrames are 62245 rows × 4 columns EACH. And each DataFrame may or may not contain the name, id pair. If the name, id pair is present in EVEN 1 of the DataFrames, and not the others, I wanted that to be accounted for with a missing for the other DataFrames.

A: You can use pd.merge whilst using how='outer'
# Change column names and remove 'part' column
df1 = df1.rename(columns={'price':'pricepart1'}).drop('part', axis=1)
df2 = df2.rename(columns={'price':'pricepart2'}).drop('part', axis=1)
df3 = df3.rename(columns={'price':'pricepart3'}).drop('part', axis=1)

# Merge dataframes
df = pd.merge(df1, df2, left_on=['name', 'id'], right_on=['name', 'id'], how='outer')
df = pd.merge(df , df3, left_on=['name', 'id'], right_on=['name', 'id'], how='outer')

# Fill na values with 'missing'
df = df.fillna('missing')

Out[]:
  name  id pricepart1 pricepart2 pricepart3
0    a   1         10         15    missing
1    a   2         20         20    missing
2    b   1          4    missing    missing
3    c   1          2          2    missing
4    e   2         10    missing         20
5    d   1    missing    missing         10
6    f   1    missing    missing         15

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Pair up for car-breaking, theft
September 13, 2019	News
BY CRAIG MOYO
TWO Bulawayo men have been arraigned before the court for breaking into a parked car and stealing $10 000, US$1 600 and company documents belonging to a local businessman.
Xolani Sibanda and Thuthukani Ndlovu appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Adelaide Mbeure on Wednesday facing theft charges.
They pleaded not guilty and were remanded in custody to September 18.
It is the State's case that on August 15, Sibanda, Ndlovu and two other accomplices, who are still at large, stole money and company documents from local businessman, Davison Dliwayo's car.
Dliwayo was allegedly conducting business along 4th Avenue and Fort Street when the suspects smashed his Toyota Hilux window and snatched his satchel containing money and company documents.
Prosecutor Mufaro Mageza told the court that the accused persons were part of a syndicate that broke into several cars in the city.
In his defence, Sibanda claimed he was a taxi driver hired by Ndlovu and the two others, who are still at large, to take them to town and upon arrival the three accused persons asked him to drop them off at Splash Hardware before telling him to proceed to Richmond.
Ndlovu told the court that the two other accomplices, Farai Nhamo and one Lele, were from his neighbourhood in Entumbane.
The complainant told the court that around 5pm on the day of the theft, he received a call from a resident in Richmond informing him that she had picked a bag containing his documents.
The court heard that the two accused persons were then arrested.
Ndlovu told the court that the police had also apprehended Nhamo who they later released under unclear circumstances.
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Fighting Cancer with Cancer
By GlennLaffel
The pathophysiology of cancer involves uncontrolled cellular proliferation–that we know–but the process doesn't go on forever. After reaching a certain size, tumors do stop growing. This phenomenon is probably driven by growth-inhibiting chemicals that are released by tumor cells themselves.
Scientists are now trying to harness this phenomenon using a decidedly counterintuitive strategy: introducing cancer cells into the bodies of mammals–including humans–that are already afflicted with cancer. The strategy amounts to fighting cancer with cancer. Remarkably, early results from studies of the technique have been positive.
The technique was developed by Barry Smith and colleagues at the Rogosin Institute, an independent treatment and research center in New York. Smith's group creates pea-sized beads of mouse kidney cancer cells that are encapsulated in a growth-restricting shell.
Initially, the beads contain about 150,000 cancer cells. During an incubation period however, all but 1% of those cells die, according to Smith. The remaining ones secrete proteins or peptides that inhibit tumor growth. Some of the chemicals promote cell death directly; others impair a cell's ability to stimulate new blood vessel formation which is needed for cellular survival.
"They reach a stable state in which there is cell division and cell death," Smith said in an interview. "They are producing inhibitory factors that regulate their growth."
Once the encapsulated concoction is "mature" in this way, Smith's group implants the beads into the abdominal cavities of cancer patients.
In a pair of studies released last week in Cancer Research, Smith's group reported that their treatment reduced tumor size in laboratory mice, dogs and cats. Many cancer-stricken animals survived longer than expected.
Smith's team observed that mice who received the beads had tumors that were 30-60% smaller than untreated mice. In subsequent experiments with dogs and cats, the bead treatments were associated with survival rates that were longer than expected. A cohort of 11 dogs with prostate cancer experienced a median survival of 177 days, for example. They had been expected to survive less than 50 days. In some cases, the tumors disappeared almost completely. These studies did not feature a control group however, and it is far from clear that the findings will be reproduced in humans.
Smith's group has indeed carried out an initial study in which 30 human patients received the beads. The study revealed the beads to be safe: there were no adverse effects in patients receiving the treatment. Now, a phase two trial is underway in patients with advanced cancers of the prostate, pancreas and colon.
The medical literature is filled with experimental cancer treatments that worked in animals, but flamed-out in human trials. Hopefully that won't happen with Smith's cancer beads.
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Johns Hopkins athletic director Alanna W. Shanahan announced the hiring of Greg Chimera as the university's head football coach today. Chimera, who has served as the Blue Jays' offensive coordinator since 2014, becomes the 27th head coach in program history.
Chimera takes over for Jim Margraff, who passed away suddenly on Jan. 2.
Chimera, who has served as Johns Hopkins' interim head coach since Margraff's passing, recently completed his 10th season as a member of the Blue Jay football staff, including his fifth as the team's offensive coordinator. He originally joined Margraff's staff not long after completing a four-year playing career at Johns Hopkins (2005-08).
The Blue Jays completed the greatest season in school history in 2018 with a 12-2 record, the 10th consecutive Centennial title and the program's first-ever trip to the NCAA Semifinals. Johns Hopkins, which set a school record with its 12 wins, also earned the program's first-ever Lambert Cup Trophy in 2018.
Chimera's offense played a large role in that success as Johns Hopkins averaged 550.3 yards and 45.8 points per game in 2018. Both of those marks are school records and the Blue Jays ranked second in the nation in total offense and sixth in scoring offense. Johns Hopkins' fast-paced offense ran more plays (1,051) for more yards (7,704) than any other team in the nation on its way to the national semifinals. In fact, the 7,704 yards the Blue Jays generated were 1,027 more than any other Division III team accumulated in 2018.
"Our goal is to continue performing at an elite level on and off the field, just as we did under coach Margraff," Chimera stated. "Learning from him for the last 10 years has prepared me for this opportunity; he left a lasting impact on the program and I will be reminded and motivated daily by the lessons learned from a legend.
Chimera's grooming for the offensive coordinator position came during a five-year period that jump-started the most successful era in school history.
As a position coach from 2009-13, Chimera coached two all-conference running backs in Andrew Kase (2009) and Jonathan Rigaud (2011, 2012), one all-conference tight end in Brian Hopkins (2009) and one all-conference wide receiver (Dan Wodicka, 2013). Kase and Rigaud rank as the top two rushers in school history with more than 7,500 yards and 80 touchdowns between them.
In his first season as a member of the staff in 2009, he helped guide the Blue Jays to a 10-3 record, the Centennial Conference Championship and a trip to the NCAA quarterfinals. That year, he worked closely with Kase, who earned Centennial Offensive Player of the Year honors and finished his career as JHU's career leader in rushing.
Chimera graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2009 with a degree in psychological and brain sciences and a minor in entrepreneurship and management and was named to the National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society as a senior.


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Tiger Lily is a pretty and petite brindle girl, weighing only about 50 lbs. Even though she was a stray, she enjoys being around people and other dogs. We estimate her to be about 2 years old though she will sleep in a totally relaxed puppy position on occasion.
She's shy yet sweet, never guards bones or treats, and is a big fan of having her face and belly rubbed. Tiger Lily has adapted to home life with ease! This well-mannered pup is house and crate trained and is perfectly calm and happy both riding in a car and walking on a lead. Tiger Lily is calm with kids and delighted by other dogs. She is extremely photogenic and will make an excellent addition to your pack.


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Q: My react onClick function doesnt work on first click, works subsequent clicks. And my setAnswers on line 90, doesnt re-render component Im trying to build a survey creator app with react. I dynamically add questions and answers from each question. But my Add answer button doesnt work on first click. I printing questions when I click add answer button. Its printing empty array on console. But doesnt add answer. Also when I click delete answer button, it adds another answer first. Then second click, it deletes which answer I clicked. But this setAnswer hook doesnt re-render component.
Here is my codes:
`
import "./App.css";
import React from "react";
import { useState } from "react";

function App() {
  const [questions, setQuestions] = useState([]);
  const [answers, setAnswers] = useState([]);

  const addQuestion = () => {
    let question = [
      ...questions,
      {
        questionID: questions.length,
        questionData: "",
        answers: answers?.filter(
          (answerItem) => answerItem.questionID === questions.length
        ),
      },
    ];
    setQuestions(question);
  };

  const addAnswer = (questionItem) => {

    var answer = [
      ...answers,
      {
        answerID: answers.length,
        answerData: "",
        questionID: questionItem.questionID,
      },
    ];

    setAnswers(answer);
    questionItem.answers = answers.filter(
      (answerItem) => answerItem.questionID === questionItem.questionID
    );
  };

  return (

      <button
        id="btn-add-question"
        type="submit"
        className="bg-blue-500 hover:bg-blue-700 text-white font-bold py-2 px-4 rounded"
        onClick={() => {
          addQuestion();
        }}
      >
        Add Question
      </button>

        {questions.map((questionItem) => (

Question:

                <input
                  className="shadowborder ml-5 rounded w-full"
                  type="text"
                  name="questionContent"
                  id="questionContent"
                  placeholder="Enter question content..."
                />
                <button
                  id="btn-add-answer"
                  type="submit"
                  className="bg-blue-500 hover:bg-blue-700 text-white py-2 px-4 rounded w-48 h-10 ml-5"
                  onClick={() => {
                    addAnswer(questionItem);
                    console.log(answers);
                  }}
                >
                  Add answer
                </button>

              {questionItem.answers?.map((answerItem) => (

Şık:

                  <input
                    className="shadowborder rounded w-full ml-5 mb-1 mt-2 text-black"
                    type="text"
                    name="answerContent"
                    id="answerContent"
                    placeholder="Enter an answer..."
                  />
                  <button
                    className=" ml-5 border w-16"
                    onClick={(e) => {
                      setAnswers(
                        answers.filter(
                          (a) => a.answerID !== answerItem.answerID
                        )
                      );
                      console.log(answers);
                    }}
                  >
                    Delete
                  </button>

              ))}

        ))}

  );
}

export default App;

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I'm new in React, I think I add answer when I first click to addAnswer button, but It prints one missing. When I click to delete button, it prints missing answer first, and deletes question when I click second time. Sorry for my bad English and typos.
In the screenshot, I have an 6 items in answer array, but browser showing 5.


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anacron, ou  (), est un programme informatique qui permet l'exécution de tâches quotidiennes, hebdomadaires ou mensuelles sur un système Unix. À la différence de cron, il ne suppose pas que la machine tourne en permanence. En conséquence, il peut être utilisé sur des machines qui ne tournent pas 24 heures sur 24, pour contrôler quotidiennement, hebdomadairement ou mensuellement des tâches qui sont ordinairement contrôlées par cron.

De plus, anacron n'est pas un daemon qui tourne en permanence sur une machine : il vérifie s'il y a des tâches à exécuter, les exécute éventuellement, puis se termine. Autrement dit, il doit y avoir un autre système qui s'assure qu'anacron est lancé périodiquement : il nécessite donc d'être lancé par des scripts de démarrage, par des tâches cron (on utilise bien souvent une tâche cron.hourly), ou encore d'être lancé manuellement.

Avantage

Beaucoup de systèmes Unix sont configurés de façon à exécuter périodiquement un certain nombre de tâches de maintenance : suppression de fichiers inutilisés, archivage de journaux, indexation de fichiers, etc. On souhaite souvent que l'exécution de ces tâches se fasse dans une période où la charge système est faible, par exemple durant la nuit, pour ne pas contraindre l'utilisateur.

En utilisant cron, si le système est éteint au moment où la tâche était planifiée, elle ne s'effectuera pas cette fois-ci, et il faudra attendre l'occurrence suivante pour voir la tâche s'effectuer. anacron, à son démarrage, vérifie pour chaque tâche si elle a été lancée dans les n derniers jours, n étant la périodicité définie pour cette tâche. Si la réponse est non, anacron lance la commande relative à la tâche. Si donc, la machine était éteinte au moment exact où la tâche aurait dû s'effectuer pour respecter la période de n jours, on l'exécute au prochain démarrage d'anacron.

Liens externes

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 man anacron(8) Page anacron du manuel Unix

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Midwives to deliver homecare for new mums after childbirth
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Haila Johar with the Postnatal Midwifery Care Team.
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC)'s Women's Wellness and Research Center (WWRC) has launched a pilot postnatal midwifery homecare programme for new mothers and their babies.
The Postnatal Midwifery Homecare Programme, which is the first of its kind in Qatar, is run by a team of qualified midwives and will initially be available to new mothers who had a high-risk pregnancy or caesarian delivery and require extra care, HMC has said in a statement.
A team of qualified midwives will provide new mothers and their newborns with check-ups, education and support during the postnatal period. With as many as one in three women delivering by caesarian section at WWRC, staff at the hospital care for a large number of women with high-risk pregnancies.
Haila Johar, executive director of nursing at WWRC, said: "By visiting women in their homes shortly after childbirth, HMC's community midwife team will be able to help identify and prevent many common maternal and newborn health issues and will play an important role in enabling women to make informed decisions about when and where they access care."
The programme also aims to prevent and decrease unnecessary visits or admissions to the WWRC Emergency Department by women who had a high-risk pregnancy or gave birth by caesarian section. Up to a quarter of women, who delivered by caesarian section, will visit the Emergency Department after their babies are born for a related non-urgent medical issue.
"During the home visit, one of our midwives will assess the physical and emotional well-being of the mother and her newborn, educating her about what to expect in the coming days and weeks, and providing her and her family with support managing the care of their newborn," said Fatima Yusuf, director of nursing at WWRC.
Currently, the Postnatal Midwifery Homecare Programme is only available to women who deliver at WWRC, live in Doha and have had a high-risk pregnancy or caesarian delivery and require wound care. The service will be managed by a team of six community midwives, with each team conducting 12 to 14 home visits per month.
Women will be referred to the postnatal midwifery home care team by their discharging physician and their first home visit will be scheduled within 48 to 72 hours of their delivery. Subsequent follow-up visits will be scheduled as needed.
"The six weeks directly after a woman gives birth can be both a happy and difficult time as she adjusts to physical, emotional and social changes," said Johar. "By providing an in-home service with a qualified midwife, our goal is to develop a trusting and supportive relationship with our mothers and ensure they receive consistent advice about maternal health issues and well-being. The ultimate goal is to keep mother and baby healthy after the birth."
According to Johar, in the near future, the pilot programme at WWRC will be expanded to all HMC maternity facilities. She added that there are plans to further expand the service to all birthing facilities in Qatar, providing care to new mothers who experience a high-risk pregnancy or caesarian delivery within 28 days of giving birth.
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Gripping a crayon helps with the muscle development in hands, wrist and fingers allowing for greater dexterity and manipulation of objvetx.
At school, children will do many projects that involve coloring, paper and other creative media and getting them used to and enjoying coloring at a young age can help prepare them. Entering preschool children should know how to hold a writing tool, make drawings that start to have basic resemblance to the object and can describe to you what they are drawing.
Coloring helps with imagination. Free form coloring is great to give them the freedom to draw what they dream up. Even if there are images on coloring books or sheets, your child is still using their imagination and it is a great opportunity to ask about what is happening in the scene.
Crayons are great for recognizing, naming and eventually mixing to create new colors (red+blue = purple). Coloring is wonderful for self expression as your child decides what color(s) to use on which part of the page.
Your baby, toddler and preschooler won't color within the lines, but they will start to visually learn about lines and shapes.
You'll find Spring Coloring Sheets here for download. These are great at any age and can be used even as black and white cards for young babies as well as coloring sheets for older children (around 18 months they can start to hold a crayon).
Work on color recognition: discuss the colors they choose and talk to them about how colors mix together to make other colors (e.g. red+yellow=orange).
Practice counting: How many sheep are there? How many ducks are there?


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Kim Woojin to Participate in an Upcoming Series on HBO Max Brazil!
KIM WOOJIN:
Kim Woojin has been revealed as one of the actors in the upcoming Brazilian series, aired on HBO Max Brazil.
The series titled "A través del Armario" translates directly to "Through the Closet". Woojin will play the fictional character Kyung in a K-pop group named ACT.
The series storyline will be of a young woman Carol, the daughter of a Korean father and a Brazilian mother. She loses her parents and resides with her aunty in São Paulo. But her life changes one day when her closet leads to a portal to the residence of the K-pop group ACT residing in Seoul.
In an interview, Woojin mentioned that the forming of the group ACT reminded him of the older days when he debuted as a member of Stray Kids.
He posted a photo of him in the streets of Brazil with the caption "Woojin in Brazil".
He did a live show on his YouTube channel following the posting where he spoke with his fans.
However, these are the only teasers provided by HBO Max Brazil, and fans are hoping for more! Let us know your thoughts about the upcoming series.
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CSDP Women's Mentoring Programme: Interview with Taina Järvinen and Lena Moll
Civilian crisis management greatly benefits from the expertise of capable leaders, both women and men. Security is still a highly male-dominated field. A common goal of the EU Member States is to increase women's equal participation and leadership in civilian crisis management missions and strive to lead by example. By organising a CSDP (Common Security and Defense Policy) Mentoring Programme for Women, the CoE is supporting these aspirations to include women's experiences and competencies in civilian crisis management and peace processes. Taina Järvinen, Seconded National Expert at the CoE, and Lena Moll, Programme Facilitator, have conceptualised the programme and are delivering the workshops. We have asked them what the Mentoring Programme is about and why it is so relevant.
Can you briefly describe the outline of the CSDP Women's Mentoring Programme?
Taina Järvinen: The CSDP Mentoring Programme for Women is a seven-month programme offering structured support and guidance for the participants. It includes training for both mentees and mentors conducted in April as the first step that got the mentoring pairs started on their mentoring journey and will be followed by regular monthly workshops.
The Women's Mentoring Programme for international experts in civilian CSDP missions grew out of various discussions with CPCC (the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability, serving as the Operational Headquarters for the civilian CSDP missions) and other stakeholders on what could be offered for women especially in management positions who, in addition to the same challenges as their colleagues, often face specific challenges in working in the traditionally highly male-dominated security field.
How did the idea to develop the mentoring programme come about?
Taina Järvinen: Last September the CoE organised an expert workshop to explore barriers for women's participation in civilian CSDP missions. A CSDP women's mentoring programme was one of the recommendations that came out of the workshop. The CoE was recognised as well-placed to carry out such a pilot programme, so together with CPCC we began to develop the plan further.
The idea for a women's mentoring programme itself is not new, it has been floating around for some time both in the CSDP structures in Brussels as well as in the field, for example EUMM Georgia, one of the 11 EU civilian CSDP missions, was planning a mentoring programme for women within the mission. We were fortunate to have EUMM Georgia join forces and do the programme together with us, bringing in their experience and views from the ground.
What are the main objectives of the Women's Mentoring Programme?
Taina Järvinen: The mentoring programme is intended to foster the personal and professional development of the mentees as leaders. Furthermore, it aims to expand networks and create communities as well as to support a more inclusive workplace culture.
Although the mentoring programme caters for the mentees and mentors, it also contributes to the policy objectives of improving the gender balance in the civilian missions at all levels that EU Member States have committed themselves to in the Civilian CSDP Compact as well as in the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
How did the cooperation on the Women's Mentoring Programme between the CoE, CPCC and EUMM Georgia unfold?
Taina Järvinen: The CSDP Women's Mentoring Programme is the CoE's first activity conducted together with CPCC that is directly engaging with the civilian missions. The support from CPCC has been crucial, both from the top leadership – Civilian Operations Commander Francisco Esteban Perez endorsed the programme and Deputy Operations Commander Birgit Loeser is a sponsor of it – and expert support from Lina Andéer, Advisor on Gender and Women, Peace and Security. It is also the first time such a programme is delivered for the civilian missions, so we are trying something new that is an experiment for everyone involved. Upon completion of the seven-month programme, we will actively seek feedback and collect and analyse experiences to assess the outcomes of the pilot programme.
"We were fortunate to have EUMM Georgia join forces and do the programme together with us, bringing in their experience and views from the ground."
Taina Järvinen
What is the main purpose of the mentoring programme for the participants?
Lena Moll: Women continue to be underrepresented in civilian crisis management missions. With the mentoring programme, we aim to support experts in these missions in their professional and personal development as leaders. Underlining the value of working for a civilian crisis management mission and fostering a culture of gender equality among CSDP leadership are core objectives of the programme to make way for more women in leading positions in the future.
From the perspective of a mentee, the primary purpose might be to set and achieve developmental goals with the help of a mentor. As a mentor, the purpose might be the fulfilment of giving back to a more junior colleague, of providing support to an eager learner, of growing leadership skills.
What is the added value of providing a mentoring programme for women?
Lena Moll: For many reasons, men still tend to have stronger informal networks than women. It is particularly difficult for women to network with men who are more senior to them. This programme gives mentees – and really all participants - the possibility to establish strong connections with a network of male and female managers across CSDP missions. If we are aiming for gender equity, we must make a special effort to fill the gap. This programme is one attempt to do so.
How do the missions benefit from the mentoring programme?
Lena Moll: If a manager in the mission is supported, feels heard in a safe space, reflects on choices with a thinking partner, finds solutions to challenges, creates synergies with colleagues from other missions – this should ultimately benefit the mission. If more women are encouraged to move into leadership positions, this will benefit the mission.
What can mentors and mentees take away from the programme?
Lena Moll: Our aspiration is that participants walk away with a stronger sense of belonging to a community of like-minded managers; that they take away a sense of connection, of fulfilment, of purpose. I am always amazed at what some participants end up taking away from their experience – the list is long and varied. It goes from deep friendship, to strengthened self-confidence, to courageous career moves, and study visits between missions.
"If we are aiming for gender equity, we must make a special effort to fill the gap. This programme is one attempt
Lena Moll
Taina Järvinen is a Seconded National Expert from Finland at the CoE. Previously she worked as a human rights and gender expert in crisis management at the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels. Her background is in International Relations and International Law and she holds a master's degree from the University of Helsinki.
Taina Järvinen has extensive experience in the field of international human rights and gender equality as a practitioner, adviser, lecturer and researcher. Among her previous positions, Taina Järvinen has been Human Rights Advisor at the Finnish Foreign Ministry and served with EU, UN and OSCE field missions in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Aceh Indonesia and East Timor. Taina speaks Finnish, English, Swedish and German.
Lena Moll is a Lawyer by training and a Facilitator, Coach and Mediator by passion. Before founding her own business, she spent 16 years working with various International Organisations in the field of organisational and people development. Lena has been delivering leadership development and mentoring programmes with a particular focus on empowering female leaders, and on building inclusive and psychologically safe environments.
Lena is dedicated to bringing out the best in people - for their own and the organisation's benefit. She is extremely grateful that her current job gives her the opportunity to do so on a daily basis. Lena lives in Vienna with her partner, two kids and one dog.


Offenders will also be issued a warning before being publicly "named and shamed" in a national newspaper.
"Any act which casts contempt, dishonour or ridicule upon the national anthem shall be penalised," the bill says.
The bill makes a wide range of other stipulations, including that everyone must stand and salute when the first note of the song, Lupang Hinirang, is played - and requiring the school system to ensure every student memorises the words.
It has now been sent to the country's other house of parliament, the senate, for approval.
Commenting on an earlier version of the bill in April, one of its authors, Maximo Rodriguez Jr, said disrespecting the national anthem often happens in cinemas, where customers do not stand for the anthem.
"The national anthem embodies and expresses the aspirations, dreams, ideals, longings, commitment and determination, nationalism and patriotism, sentiment and spirit of the people," he said.
The same bill, known as the revised flag and heraldic code, contains many other rules about the display of the national flag and other emblems.
It includes several proposals from a 2010 draft to criminalise improper singing of the national anthem, including a strict requirement to keep the timing between 100 and 120 beats per minute.


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Внешняя политика Ботсваны — это общий курс Ботсваны в международных делах. Внешняя политика регулирует отношения Ботсваны с другими государствами. Реализацией этой политики занимается министерство иностранных дел Ботсваны.

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Ботсвана, расположенная рядом с Южно-Африканской Республикой (ЮАР) и Зимбабве, занимает нейтральную позицию в продолжающемся конфликте этих стран. Кроме того, исторический конфликт в ЮАР во время апартеида с Африканским национальным конгрессом (АНК), а также противостояние внутри Зимбабве с Патриотическим фронтом сделали Ботсвану уязвимой для вмешательства из этих стран. Правительство Ботсваны обвинялось в том, что оно укрывает партизан этих двух организаций, и перед ним стояла сложная задача — держать ЮАР в умиротворении по экономическим причинам (Ботсвана зависела от её портов для импорта и экспорта товаров), и при этом не испортить своё имидж среди стран Чёрной Африки и Запада.

В 1986 году угроза партизанских вторжений и эпизодические столкновения с южноафриканскими коммандос, разыскивающими повстанцев АНК, подтолкнула Ботсвану к просьбе об оказании военной помощи у Соединённых Штатов Америки и Великобритании. В начале 1990-х годов напряжённость на границе между ЮАР и Ботсваной оставалась высокой до конца эпохи апартеида. В сентябре 1998 года премьер-министр Лесото запросил международную помощь в борьбе с внутренними беспорядками, положительно ответили только ЮАР, Ботсвана и Зимбабве, начав операцию «Болеас». Когда некоторые части армии Лесото оказали сопротивление, то ботсванские военнослужащие должны были использоваться в качестве миротворческих сил. Войска Ботсвана были выведены в мае 1999 года.

Ботсвана уделяет особое внимание экономической и политической интеграции в Южной Африке: стремится сделать Сообщество развития Юга Африки (САДК) рабочим инструментом для экономического развития и содействует усилиям по обеспечению безопасности региона в плане превентивной дипломатии, разрешения конфликтов и системного управления. Ботсвана часто присоединяется к африканским странам по основным международным вопросам, но бывает занимает свою собственную позицию по вопросам, которые считает принципиальными. Ботсвана является членом международных организаций, таких как: Организация Объединённых Наций и Африканский союз (АС). Ботсвана взяла на себя руководящую роль в САДК, выступая за урегулирование кризиса в Зимбабве.

Министерство иностранных дел и международного сотрудничества Ботсваны несёт ответственность за установление внешних связей с другими странами, а также региональными и международными организациями, что включает в себя политические отношения, экономические вопросы, социальные и культурные моменты. Министерство иностранных дел и международного сотрудничества было создано в 1966 году как Департамент иностранных дел при аппарате президента. В 1998 году в рамках оценки работы была проведена проверка и рационализация структуры и функций тогдашнего Департамента иностранных дел, который в результате был преобразован в полноценное министерство иностранных дел и международного сотрудничества.

Ботсвана поддерживает хорошие отношения со своими соседями и международным сообществом. Давний пограничный спор с Намибией из-за островов Касикили/Седуду (на реке Квандо, затопленных в сезон дождей) был разрешён в 1999 году. Ботсвана принимает беженцев из Намибии и Зимбабве, что иногда является источником трений с этими странами и усугубляется кризисом в Зимбабве. Несмотря на уязвимость страны в экономическом плане (хотя и несколько смягчённое открытием и эксплуатацией алмазов с конца 1960-х годов) и случайным военным нападением со стороны Родезии и режима апартеида в Южной Африке, лидер Ботсваны Серетсе Кхама был убеждённым критиком политики ЮАР. Позиция Ботсваны и её приграничное положение означали, что несмотря на политический и экономический консерватизм Демократической партии у страны сложились дружеские (если, возможно, слегка формальные) отношения с более радикальными соседями. Ботсвана заключила и подписала многочисленные двусторонние и региональные торговые соглашения. Некоторые из этих соглашений предоставляли собой беспошлинный и свободный от квот доступ к рынкам, в то время как другие предоставляют преференциальный доступ к рынкам для товаров и услуг Ботсваны. Ботсвана также является членом Всемирной торговой организации.

Ботсвана и Намибия предпринимают попытки для улучшения отношений. В прошлом имели место пограничные споры, особенно по принадлежности полосы Каприви (часть Намибии, которая граничит с Ботсваной) и нескольким островам на реке Квандо. В 1994 году отношения являлись особенно напряжёнными. В 1995 году было подписано соглашение о создании Совместной постоянной комиссии по сотрудничеству. Подписание соглашения, наряду с завершением строительства дороги Транс-Калахари, помогло улучшить ситуацию. В 1998 году Ботсвана предоставила убежище повстанцам из Государства Каприви, что ещё больше обострило отношения между двумя странами. В будущем между Ботсваной и Намибией возможно станет проблемой то, что Намибия сталкивается с серьёзной нехваткой водных ресурсов. Одно из потенциальный решений, строительство трубопровода для отвода воды из реки Окаванго — повлияет на подачу воды в Ботсване. Ботсвана обеспокоена угрозой для дельты Окаванго. Хотя Ботсвана и Намибия не враждебны, напряжённость между ними может возрасти в любой момент.

Отношения Ботсваны с ЮАР были напряжёнными в прошлом из-за нестабильности и слабозащищённой границы. В 2000 году Ботсвана и Южная Африка подписали соглашение об обороне и безопасности, касающееся организации усилий по борьбе с незаконным оборотом наркотиков и незаконной иммиграцией. Подписание соглашения, а также их прочные экономические и политические связи, обусловленные их членством в Южноафриканском таможенном союзе (САКУ), улучшили отношения между Ботсваной и Южной Африкой. Ботсвана имеет напряжённые отношения с соседним Зимбабве. В течение 1980-х годов большое количество партизан из Зимбабвийского африканского народного союза (ЗАПУ) вошли в Ботсвану вместе с большим потоком беженцев. Периодические попытки правительства Зимбабве депортировать этих диссидентов в Ботсвану, вынудили правительство этой стран усилить контроль над беженцами. В конце 1980-х годов, после стабилизации политической ситуации в Зимбабве, Ботсвана отменила статус беженца для зимбабвийцев, вынудив большинство вернуться домой. В 2000 году отношения снова стали напряжёнными по мере роста нестабильности в Зимбабве. Зимбабвийцы, спасаясь от экономической политики президента Роберта Мугабе, подорвали экономику Ботсваны. Бывший командующий Силами обороны Ботсваны, президент Ян Кхама, имел сильные связи с зимбабвийскими военными.

Из-за общей истории и географического положения Ботсвана имеет глубокие связи с экономикой Южной Африки. Южноафриканский таможенный союз (САКУ), состоящий из Ботсваны, Намибии, Лесото, Свазиленда и Южной Африки, датируется 1910 годом и является старейшим таможенным союзом в мире. В соответствии с этим соглашением Южная Африка собирает пошлины с таможенных, продажных и акцизных сборов для всех пяти членов, распределяя доходы в зависимости от доли импорта каждой страны. Точная формула распределения доходов и полномочия по принятию решений в отношении пошлин, принадлежащих исключительно правительству Южной Африки, становились все более противоречивыми, и члены пересмотрели соглашение в 2001 году. В Виндхуке был создан секретариат САКУ. После вступления Южной Африки во Всемирную торговую организацию (ВТО, членом которой также является Ботсвана), многие полномочия САКУ были снижены, что делает американские продукты более конкурентоспособными в Ботсване. В декабре 2007 года Ботсвана подписала Соглашение об экономическом партнёрстве с Европейским союзом, и в качестве члена САКУ она подписало преференциальное торговое соглашение в 2004 году с организацией Меркосур.

Ботсвана является членом Сообщества по вопросам развития стран юга Африки (САДК), состоящем из 15 стран, а в Габороне находится штаб-квартира секретариата САДК. САДК имеет широкие полномочия для осуществления роста, развития и экономической интеграции на юге Африки. Торговый протокол САДК призывает к устранению всех тарифных и нетарифных барьеров в торговле между 12 подписавшими странами. Однако реализация протокола является медленной и ещё не завершена.

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