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Episodes Essay: scraping of Zaha Hadid's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium by Japan government
This controversy revolves around the stadium meant to be the host for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. With the preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, one of the preparations was to build a new stadium to host the games and in 2012, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) won the stadium commission through an international competition (Dezeen, 2015a). Soon after ZHA bid won, they started work on the site and after two years, and after Japan had won the bid to host the 2020 Olympics, the controversy began with the main argument against the project being that the architectural design was over budgeted and that it could not be financially sustainable. As a result, ZHA had to revise their design in 2014 with a new design that addressed the previously voiced criticism. However, with criticism still raging on, Japan Sports Council (JSC) canceled the firm's plans in July 2015, after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe weighed into the issue by announcing that the design plans will be scrapped as a result of spiraling costs and that the project would be started from scratch. This issue ended up being referred to as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium controversy and one of the major architectural controversies of 2015 (Dezeen magazine, 2015b). This paper, therefore, is a presentation f this controversy, and this will be done by discussing the format of display of the controversy, how the episode has been told, the content, participants, and the genealogy of the controversy. This will be done through a review of available literature mainly through online news outlets.
Format of Display
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium controversy has been primarily carried and displayed through new platforms and secondarily through architectural related platforms. Once the controversy broke out and as it continued to play out in 2015, it was brought to the spotlight by media houses. This issues gained major traction especially after the government of Japan got involved in the controversy with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announcing that the stadium was to be started from the scratch gain. At this time, the issue was being covered by reporters in live television news broadcasts. For the international audience, this was being covered by international news media, in particular, the Cable News Network, CNN.
However, now that the issues have been resolved and new architectural design have been adopted for the stadium, the issue has become less of an interest to live television reporting and it is being covered mainly by text content media. For the purpose of this, paper, the display format that has been found to cover the controversy is online text media platforms mainly blogs and media hours news websites.
One of the display formats that have covered the controversy intensively is Dezeen magazine. As stated on their website, Dezeen in the most influential and the most popular architectural and design magazine, and the winner of numerous awards for journalism and publishing (Dezeen, 2015a,b,c.). The site has carried several stories on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium controversy. Four of these stories have been used in this paper and they include, and they mainly focus on various aspects of the controversy. The titles of these stories are; "Japan scraps Zaha Hadid's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium" (Dezeen magazine, 2015a), "Zaha Hadid's Tokyo stadium will be "a disgrace to future generations" says Arata Isozaki," "Zaha Hadid accuses Japanese government and architects of collusion over Tokyo stadium" (Dezeen magazine, 2015b) and "Zaha Hadid refuses to hand over copyright for unpaid Japan stadium designs" (Dezeen magazine, 2015c).
The second platform that has covered the controversy intensively and is a major source for this paper is The Guardian. The Guardian is an international paper with hardcopy publications primarily in the United Kingdom and covers global issues. Just like Dezeen Magazine, the Guardian covers the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium controversy from a point of the Japanese government versus the architectural firm, and under the focus of the international Olympic Games. Just like Dezeen, four of these articles covered in the online version of the Guardian have been used as sources in this paper. One of the titles of these articles is "Japan scraps Zaha Hadid plan for Olympic stadium" (Gibson, 2015).
The other popular platform that has been used to carry this controversy is the CNN. The other platform is architect magazine, which is affiliated to the journal of the American institute of architects. In these entire platforms, they are all found online and they were created in 2015, at the height of the controversy. Nevertheless, they have also continued to cover the controversy as it unfolds and a new design is adopted for the stadium.
How the episode is 'told'
Through the various formats of display discussed above, the episode has been told primarily through articles. These articles are text based and they adopt various styles. Given these are meant to be news articles, the primary objective is to inform the reader while being as relevant and as credible as possible, to do this, the articles adopt a press release style where information is mainly sourced through interview comments/statements made by the parties involved in the controversy. The primary parties in the controversy are the Japanese government and ZHA; the architectural firm (Associated Press, 2015). The content writers, therefore, rely on statements made by these parties, as well as Japanese architects, through interviews or through social media posts.
In addition to text content, photographs have been used. The controversy surrounds between the 'bike helmet' stadium design and to, therefore, make the reader have a perfect image when reading the stories, the authors have made use of images to show how the stadium design by ZHS looks like. These pictures form a major component of the text content used as they complement each other to create the pass the intended message and information o the ready (Davies, 2015; McCurry, 2015). The photographic images serve to contextualize the controversy, especially in the argument that the design costs are over budgeted. In addition, the photographic images used in the new design help to contextualize the design difference between the scrapped ZHA design, and the new design.
The other method that has been used to tell the episode is the use of videos. Even though this is not a major part of the various platforms that carry the episode, it has been used in two of these and it creates an additional way to understand the story. In Ripley and Hume (2015), McCurry (2015), and Griffiths and Wakatsuki (2015) the videos used have been created by the story authors they represent an overview of the ZHA design.
Essentially, this controversy has varying theoretical topics depending on the point of view adopted, and the various points of view are based on the parties to the controversy. The first theoretical topic is framed by the Japanese government, and it is passed as the reason for the cancellation of ZHA designs, which is a budgetary concern. According to McCurry (2015) and Davies (2015) for the Guardian, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that the design of the stadium was to be started all over again from scratch because of spiraling costs. According to the prime minister, the reason for the review was as a result of the increasing voices of the people concerning the ZHA design for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium.
Budget is a major element in architecture and for this particular project; it is argued that the designs by ZHA carried a $2 billion price tag. However, by 2014 the total costs rose to £1.3 billion (Davies, 2015). According to critics of the ZHA designs, the cost of construction of the stadium has been highly inflated and the design by ZHA had been critiqued by some of the athletes. This also contributed to the prime minister of the country scrapping the project for a restart as he believed that, with the ongoing controversy, it would be impossible to host games which everyone would celebrate, given the stadium was meant to host the opening and the closing ceremony for the 2020 Olympic Games. This concern of dissatisfaction was furthered by the fact that, for the construction of the stadium, some citizens had to be relocated.
According to some of the top architects in Japan, among them, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Arata Isozaki, and Sou Fujimoto, the stadium design by ZHA was out of scale. Some of these top architects launched a petition which led to ZHA revising their designs (Ripley and Hume, 2015). However, the redesign was also criticized by Japanese architects, for example, Arata Isozaki who branded the remodeled designs as being a monumental mistake that had left him in despair. The original design was ZHA resembled a bike helmet but even after the redesign, top Japanese architects argued that it lacked dynamism.
The other theoretical topic that is evident from this controversy is culture, and in particular, the socio-political aspect of culture. It is worth noting that, ZHA competitive won the bid to design and build the stadium in 2008. ZHA won the bid even with the so called high budget and for the next years up to when Japan and in particular the city of Tokyo was selected to be the host of the 2020 Olympics, the project has proceeded with no criticism. With Tokyo, the host of the 2020 Olympic games and the stadium meant to be the venue for the opening and closing games, controversy grew more loud, given some had criticized it for having to relocate residents on public housing scheme (Griffiths and Wakatsuki, 2015; MASSIE, 2015). This aspect of the controversy is considered to be founded on social and political factors, which for an architect are part of the factors that must be taken into consideration in the process of designing an architectural piece.
Based on the argument that the original and the remodel designs are outsized and a mistake respectively, the theoretical aspect of simple and intuitive, and perceptible for any price of architecture are brought to light. For any architectural design, it has to be both perceptible and at the same time simple while being intuitive. The original ZHA; bike-helmet' design was intuitive while the second remodeled design was basically simple and as described by one of the top architects in Japan, Isozaki, as lacking the architectural vision of ZHA. This argument comes even with the professional expertise of the ZHA company, which has gained fame in the industry by building the hugely successful London 2012 Olympic aquatic center, and is also constructing a stadium in Qatar for the 2022 football world cup (Ripley and Hume, 2015).
The controversy revolves mainly between Japan and the London-based architectural firm, ZHA. Several players take part in the Japanese size among them, the government and by extension the general public, and some of the top architects in the country. Criticism for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium began soon after the project began with the relocation of resident housing. The concerned public, as well as other interested parties, were not amused by the relocation. Soon after the country won the bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, controversy heightened with some of the top architects in the country being on the frontline. Some of these architects are Toyo Ito, kengo Kuma, Sou Fujimoto, and Fumihiko Maki (Davies, 2015; Gibson, 2015).
These architects instituted a petition to have the project by ZHA scrapped on the basis of scale. The argument by these architects was that the project was unnecessarily outsized and would cause the taxpayers much more. This is given the country was still recovering from the Fukushima impact. Another architect who has been vocal on this issue is Arata Isozaki, an 84-year-old, and one of the country's leading architects (Griffiths and Wakatsuki, 2015). Isozaki voiced his concerns after ZHA redesigned the stadium and argued that the new and redesigned plans were shocking and they lacked dynamism. In addition to the redesign, he also argued that is the project was to be constructed with the new design, then the country would be burdened with a white elephant, therefore, emphasizing the cost aspect of the controversy.
As a result of the rising criticism of the project, the prime minister of Japan stepped in and in 2015, announced that the entire project by ZHA was to be scrapped and restarted from the scratch. The prime minister cited the need to have games that everyone would celebrate as the reason for the scrapping. This is based on the criticism by the various parties including the general public.
On the other hand, ZHA has continually argued that the Japanese architect opposed to the project are doing not because the project is outsized or over-budgeted as argued, but because they are simply opposed to a foreigner building a stadium that would be used for an international. Given the Olympic is an opportunity to showcase a country, in terms of culture and infrastructure among others, then it would be unfit to host the opening and closing events in a stadium that has been built by a foreigner. This could in part explain the argument to move the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic if the designs were to proceed as planned by ZHA (Associated Press, 2015). As a result, the construction company, ZHA, argue that the controversy regarding the project is simply because the 'hypocritical' Japanese architects do not want a foreigner to build a national stadium in Tokyo, while on the other hand, they are working on projects abroad.
ZHA won the competitive bid to construct the Tokyo stadium in 2008. The bid was priced at $2 billion. At the construction venue, the company had to relocate residential housing and this was derided by various parties among them human right activists and some architects. In 2012, Tokyo was selected to host the 2020 Olympic after which criticism for the ZHA project heightened. The project was criticized for being outsized and over budgeted. Some of the top architects in the country criticized the project. Isozaki, one of the acclaimed architects in Japan, called for a dialogue between ZHA and the architects critical of the project, and this saw ZHA revising the designs of the project in July 2014 (Ripley and Hume, 2015).
After the redesign, architects in Japan still remained critical of the project, with even the neutral Isozaki criticizing the redesign as being a white elephant that would be ridiculed by future generations. At the time, ZHA argued that the criticism was not for any architectural reason and the over-budgeting claims passed as the reason were nothing but scapegoat with the real reason for the criticism being that the Japanese architects never wanted a foreigner working in their country, while they have project abroad. In 2015, the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intervened and seemed to heed the call by local architects to scrap ZHA design and start again from scratch (Gibson, 2015; Davies, 2015).
Associated Press, (2015). Japan picks Olympic stadium design to replace Zaha Hadid plan, The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/22/tokyo-replaces-zaha-hadid-design-for-2020-olympic-games-stadium-with-cheaper-alternative on September 8, 2016
Davies, Caroline, (2015). Zaha Hadid hits back over scrapped stadium for 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/zaha-hadid-hits-back-scrapped-national-stadium-2020-tokyo-olympics on September 7, 2016.
Dezeen magazine, (2015a). Japan scraps Zaha Hadid's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium. Retrieved from http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/17/japan-scraps-zaha-hadid-tokyo-2020-olympic-stadium/ on September 5, 2016
Dezeen magazine, (2015b). Zaha Hadid accuses Japanese government and architects of collusion over Tokyo stadium. Retrieved from http://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/22/zaha-hadid-laments-remarkable-similarities-between-her-design-and-kengo-kuma-winning-tokyo-2020-olympic-stadium/ on September 5, 2016
Dezeen magazine, (2015c). Zaha Hadid refuses to hand over copyright for unpaid Japan stadium designs. Retrieved from http://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/14/zaha-hadid-copyright-unpaid-japanese-stadium-designs-tokyo-2020-olympics/ on September 6, 2016
Gibson, Owen. (2015). Japan scraps Zaha Hadid plan for Olympic stadium. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/17/japan-scraps-zaha-hadids-tokyo-olympic-stadium-design on September 7, 2016
Griffiths, James, and Wakatsuki, Yoko. (2015). Replacement stadium designs unveiled for 2020 Tokyo Olympics, CNN. Retrieved from http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/14/asia/japan-olympics-stadium-design/ on September 3, 2016
MASSIE, CAROLINE. (2015). New Proposed Tokyo National Stadium Renderings Revealed, Architect Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/new-proposed-tokyo-national-stadium-renderings-revealed_o on September 8, 2016.
McCurry, Justin. (2015). Zaha Hadid abandons new 2020 Tokyo Olympics stadium bid. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/18/zaha-hadid-abandons-plans-2020-tokyo-olympics on September 4, 2016.
Ripley, Will, and Hume, Tim. (2015). Japan scraps plans for controversial 'bike helmet' Olympic stadium, CNN. Retrieved from http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/17/asia/japan-tokyo-olympic-stadium-scrapped/ September 10, 2016.


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Lewiston, Maine, May 9, 2016 Contractors working on behalf of Central Maine Power Co., a subsidiary of AVANGRID Inc. (NYSE: AGR), are about to begin construction on a new 115-kilovolt underground transmission line and substation on Middle Street in downtown Lewiston. The new line and substation, in addition to an overhead transmission line currently under construction along with several minor upgrades, form the utility's $72 million Lewiston Loop project designed to address reliability in the Lewiston-Auburn area.
These upgrades will help to improve reliability and expand electrical capacity in the Lewiston-Auburn area, said Doug Herling, Vice President of Special Projects for Central Maine Power. The cities of Lewiston and Auburn have been active partners in the development and approval of this project, and Central Maine Power and AVANGRID thank both communities for their support while we work to maintain reliability into the future.
Underground construction will occur in Lewiston on Main, Chapel, Lowell, Canal, and Lisbon streets, as well as Strawberry Patch Road. Work on Main, Canal, and Lisbon Streets will occur at night and may involve traffic detours. Work on the other streets and at the Middle Street Substation site will likely occur during the day.
We are working closely with the City of Lewiston on a traffic control plan, and we appreciate motorists patience and understanding as we work on this important upgrade to enhance services to local homes and businesses, said Herling.
Contactors working on the Lewiston Loop include project manager Burns & McDonnell of Portland, underground transmission contractor Sargent Corporation of Stillwater, Maine, and overhead transmission contractor Elecnor Hawkeye of Sanford, Maine. A substation construction contractor will be named soon.
Underground construction is expected to continue through mid-2017 and the Middle Street Substation is scheduled to be energized in 2018.
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Of course, the show couldn't resist doing a parody a Show Me the Money parody. Can you guess which comedian is playing which judge?
The skit had each of the AOMG artists going up against contestants that aren't really skilled rappers but had them winning over the judges. One of the funniest segments featured Jang Moon Bok versus Loco. Lee Se Young has been parodying this kid a lot this season. It's quite hilarious but I also feel bad for the kid. Apparently, Jang Moon Bok auditioned on Superstar K2 a few years ago and his audition was very unique because of the pitch of his voice and the speed of his rapping. Lee Se Young is really good getting that voice just right. The skit also makes a dig at Verbal Jint and the controversial call he and San E made last season in which they eliminated Black Nut but then brought him back.
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding cooperation arrangements for the access to information on derivatives contracts held in trade repositories registered in accordance with directives laid out by the European Parliament on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories.
This follows a similar course of action taken by ASIC in the summer of this year, when it entered into an MOU with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) along similar lines.
The purpose of the MOU is to enable ASIC to have direct access to information on derivatives contracts held in European Union trade repositories that it needs to fulfil its responsibilities and mandates while ensuring that guaranteees of professional secrecy exist including protection of business secrets shared by ASIC with third parties.
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Camarines Sur has also undergone more than a few facelifts, more reborn perhaps for the better.
A century ago, the seat of the provincial government was situated in downtown Naga, housed in a building of adobe and cement. For several years, the edifice was the center for government activities and transaction in the provincial sector. It continued to witness changes and transitions in the rules and implementations caused by the shifting of one administration to another. This scenario, however, was not as stable as the structure seemed to be as a great transformation in the structure of political subdivisions would later on to take its pace.
December 15, 1948 marked a memorable date for both Naga and Camarines Sur with the former exulting over its proclamation as a chartered city as embodied in Republic Act (RA) 305. It was also a significant event for the province as it was perhaps the beginning of what would later be the long travail of the province in its search for a new site for the Provincial Capitol building.
With Naga as a chartered city, high standing officials of the province had eventually expressed the need for a new location of the seat of the provincial government.
Governor Juan F. Trivi o, who assumed office in 1952, initiated the first move to transfer the Provincial Capitol and started the creation of the Provincial Capitol Complex. The Municipality of Pili, 15 kilometers south of Naga City was the chosen ground.
In 1955, Republic Act 1336 known as An Act Transferring the Site of the Provincial Capitol of the Province of Camarines Sur from the city of Naga to the barrio of Palestina, Municipality of Pili in the same Province was passed seeking for the transfer of the Provincial Capitol building. It was duly approved on the 16th of June on the same year.
The plan being made public, several individuals expressed their desire in donating a lot for the new location of the Provincial Capitol building. The first offer was a 16 hectare lot in Barangay Palestina in Pili from Roberto Soler. All things were set except for the fund in financing the expenses in the construction of the new edifice. The national government at that time could not aid to the province because of other priorities.
Then Soler, for the failure of the government to begin its construction within two years as stipulated in the contract, cancelled his donation.
It was under the administration of Governor Maleniza that another resolution was approved. Republic Act 3407 came into existence, creating the provision which gave authority to the President of the Philippines in selecting the new Capitol site to be recommended by a committee.
The committee proved to be of great help. In 1962, 3 possible sites were considered upon including: the Hacienda Marasigan at Brgy. San Jose, a lot within the Poblacion, and an area along the Anayan-Partido road.
The selection was already left to the discretion of the president of the Philippines and by virtue of Executive Order(EO) 41 issued by then President Diosdado Macapagal on June 16, 1953, the 67-hectare Hacienda Marasigan was declared as the new site for the Provincial Capitol.
In 1964, eleven years after the declaration, the groundbreaking ceremonies and laying of cornerstone were held, graced by then President Macapagal.
A year later, the construction for the building was started. All could have gone well but on the same year for the beginning of the construction, a case had been filed in court questioning the validity of the construction. Because of the case and the reluctance of Governor Armando Cledera to resume the Capitol construction due to lack of funds, the provincial government's objective in building the new site for Capitol was temporarily put to a halt.
In 1968, then Mayor Jose B. Velarde of Pili had the Municipal Board passed a resolution which sought the gradual transfer of all the provincial government offices to the Capital town which was already Pili. The same decree also asked for the transfer of the Capitol site from the Marasigan lot to a site within the Poblacion or at Barangay Anayan but the move consequently caused the Marasigan family to decide not to donate their lot to the provincial government.
The Capitol Site Selection Committee was then organized. Six possible sites were deliberated upon. These six included: the Marcos Stadium(now the Freedom Stadium), a 4-hectare lot fronting the Marcos Stadium, Cadang-Cadang Area, Marasigan Site, Pawili-Anayan Junction and lastly the Don Susano Rodriguez donation of a 15 hectare lot. The committee finally voted upon the last site.
It was during the term of former President Ferdinand Marcos when Executive Order (EO) No. 48 was issued, designating the site of the New Provincial Capitol. But before the commencement of the construction for the new Capitol site, on June 26, 1976, tragedy struck, a big fire torched the Provincial Capitol building, including important papers and public documents of the province. But also as a result, the construction of the Capitol building was hastened, a contract was signed by the Bensia Construction of Naga City, a 3-storey building with reinforced concrete, with twin RIB and corrugated galvanized iron roofing on steel and wooden roof framing came into completion. The Provincial Capitol measured 3, 528.18 square meters.
In addition, satellite buildings of the Regional Trial Court branches, Provincial Nutrition Center, the Post Office and the Kadiwa were also built.The 700-km access road from the Maharlika Highway was concreted.
And with such beginnings the present Provincial Capitol Complex was founded, now with its impressive expanse of buildings and scenic spots which qualify it as tourist spot, the Province can do well to be proud.
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The 27th Partnership Meeting of the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement (PATPA) took place in Sharm el-Sheikh
On November 10, 2022, the Secretariat of the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement (PATPA) hosted its 27th Partnership Meeting on the side-lines of the COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
The Partnership Meeting is among PATPA's key global events taking place regularly on the side-lines of UNFCCC negotiations. The meeting serves as an informal forum for networking and exchange of transparency experts and is organized in close coordination and with guidance from the Founding Members of PATPA – Germany, Republic of Korea, and South Africa. This year's second Partnership Meeting brought together negotiators and practitioners from partner countries and international organizations to discuss the future collaboration on implementing the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF), collectively identify key issues and priorities of transparency support by PATPA and learn about PATPA activities in 2022 and the outlook for 2023.
Mr. Maesela Kekana, Chief Director of the International Climate Change Relations and Reporting at the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment of South Africa welcomed all the participants and noted that such fora as the Partnership Meeting provide a space for all partners to come together to better understand and facilitate the implementation of the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). He noted that the transition to the ETF and its full implementation is now the main priority which is also very well in line with the main objective of this year's COP - moving from negotiations to implementation. Mr. Kekana further highlighted , the following key messages from this year's Annual Partnership Retreat (APR) of PATPA:
The implementation of national transparency systems provides countries with benefits beyond merely complying with international reporting requirements, such as enhancing awareness on climate change or generate data relevant to monitor progress towards climate change and other environmental goals of countries
The importance of countries' transition to the ETF in a timely manner in order to achieve readiness for submitting first Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR) by 2024
The relevance of reaching a clear decision on the last item outstanding under the ETF, the voluntary review of adaptation information atCOP27.
Mr. Kekana concluded that the time until December 2024 is very limited with a lot of work still to be done by all Parties. Further, he highlighted the relevance of the ETF for the success of the Global Stocktake in 2023, which further raises the urgency of timely submission of Biennial Update Reports (BURs) and Biennial Reports (BRs) and in the future of BTRs.
As a tradition to every Partnership Meeting , the Secretariat informed about the activities conducted by PATPA in 2022 and the outlook for the upcoming year. This was presented by Mr. Dong-hyuk Shin from the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center (GIR) of the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea. In 2022 PATPA organized the APR in September and conducted two Partnership Meetings in Bonn on June 8, 2022, and during the COP27 on November 10, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh. Through its cooperation with the five regional and language groups, the Secretariat organized several virtual and in-person workshops and meetings to promote peer learning and further capacity development. Further, the Climate Helpdesk provided targeted support to four countries and three more requests from countries are currently under review. Improving access to relevant technical and policy guidance remains at the core of PATPA's work and the PATPA Secretariat continues publishing various knowledge products and respective updates on various topics of interest. These include and are not limited to the following resources:
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After the speeches from South Africa and the Republic of Korea, participants at the Partnership Meeting had the possibility to jointly reflect, under a negotiators' point of view, on the difficulties that countries face in implementing the provisions of the ETF. Participants identified the development of indicators for tracking progress on NDC implementation, reporting on adaptation, implementation of Article 6, e.g. establishing a national register and conducting corresponding adjustments, as well as challenges in understanding the decisions resulting from language barriers. The respective solutions that the group identified cover measures such as the application of the flexibility provisions contemplated in the decisions for developing countries, engaging in peer-learning and exchange with countries on the development of BTRs, and the importance of providing capacity development support in different languages as PATPA is already implementing under its regional and language groups. Specific support for the application of the Common Reporting Tables (CRTs) and Common Tabular Formats (CTFs) was particularly noted.
It is noteworthy that the priority areas for future support of PATPA that the participants identified, clearly reflect the current challenges that hinder the effective implementation of the ETF by countries. Provision of capacity development support on NDC tracking, GHG inventory and MRV of mitigation actions, BTR preparation, as well as adaptation reporting were indicated among the key areas for future transparency support by PATPA.
Mr. Jeremy Schlickenrieder,Policy Advisor on International Climate Policy for the Federal Foreign Office of Germany closed the discussion with appreciation of a very productive and active engagement by all participants.
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Oh man, I have NEVER seen Walid Shoebat like this before! I mean, I love Glenn Beck, but it was Walid's speech that had me pumping my fist in the air. You just have to take 30 minutes to watch this speech. It's just the best speech I've ever heard from Walid, and in my opinion it was the best speech at Six Flags.
Unfortunately I don´t have much time to blog on the stuff I watch these days, but I have to say that this speech is about as good as it gets!
I have been following walid shoebat from the sideline for years, because there is little doubt in my mind that he will be the one to alert the christians about the threat of the muslim anti-christians mobilising, cleansing and persecuting their fellow christians on a massive scale.


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The Diocese of Parramatta welcomes the announcement of Case Study 44 by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse which will review the response of Catholic Church authorities to allegations of child sexual abuse by John Joseph Farrell.
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Bishop of Parramatta, Vincent Long OFM Conv welcomed the case study saying, "This case study is important as it will allow the survivors and their families a chance to have their voices heard. We must listen compassionately and with great care in order to ensure the hurt and failures of the past are never repeated."
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The students joined the now four-week-long protests, outing their frustration at the lack of future prospects in the country with youth unemployment reaching 30 percent.
Lebanese students from various schools wave national flags and shout slogans as they gather in front of the Ministry of Education during ongoing anti-government protests, in the capital Beirut on November 7, 2019. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon Thursday to demand a better future as anti-government protests now entering their fourth week continued to spread.
Pupils carrying their schoolbags picked up the baton from thousands of women who ignited the main protest site in Beirut on Wednesday evening by banging pots and pans to demand their rights.
In Tripoli, where mobilisation has been relentless since the protests erupted on October 17, demonstrators planned to take down the giant portraits of politicians plastered all over the city's buildings.
Grievances initially focused on poor infrastructure and abysmal public services quickly grew into an unprecedented nationwide push to drive out an elite protesters say has ruled the country like a cartel for decades.
Thousands of university and high school students streamed into the streets of Beirut and other towns to boost the protests.
"All of them, all of them are thieves," chanted one pupil, perched on the shoulders of a schoolmate outside the education ministry.
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"We go to school, we work hard and in the end we pick up diplomas so we can just hang around and stay at home doing nothing," said Marwa Abdel Rahman, 16.
Youth unemployment stands at more than 30 percent in Lebanon, from which many young people were seeking to emigrate until last month's rallies created a rare moment of national hope and unity in a country often characterised by its divisions.
What started as a spontaneous, apolitical and leaderless popular movement, is becoming increasingly organised, with activists coming together to synchronise marches and stunts across the country.
After blocking off roads for days, protesters have switched to preventing access to institutions seen as the most egregious examples of mismanagement and corruption.
Students in Tripoli blocked employees from clocking in for work at the telecommunications ministry building.
"We want to keep up the pressure on our corrupt political leaders, who are not addressing our demands," said Samir Mustafa, an unemployed 29-year-old.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri tendered his government's resignation on October 29 in response to pressure from the street.
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"They want to name a prime minister from the old guard, from the corrupt class," Mustafa ranted.
"We will continue to block banks and key administrations until the president and the parliament fall," he said.
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The World Bank on Wednesday warned that the failure to quickly form a government that meets protesters' demands could lead to an even sharper economic downturn.
President Michel Aoun is reported to remain bent on keeping Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, his son-in-law and arguably the most reviled politician among the protesters, in a key position.
For his part parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a veteran player whose supporters tried to disrupt the protests last month has not publicly commented at all on the protests sweeping the country.
In a country where weapons are widespread and leading political parties routinely resort to hired thugs, the protests — and attempts by the security forces to quell them — have been remarkably bloodless.
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"Revolution is a woman," read one of the banners in the crowd, which launched into a rousing rendition of the national anthem, adapting the lyrics to include women.


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Forward Paul Millsap has agreed to a three-year contract to stay with the Atlanta Hawks.
Forward Paul Millsap has agreed to a three-year, $58 million contract to stay with the Atlanta Hawks, according to multiple reports. Real GM's Shams Charania was first to report the news, followed by Tony Jones of The Salt Lake Tribune and others.
ESPN's Chris Broussard reported earlier Wednesday that the Hawks and Orlando Magic had each offered Millsap a four-year, $80 million contract.
Millsap spent the last two years with the Hawks after playing his first seven NBA seasons with the Utah Jazz. He averaged 16.7 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 33 minutes per game last season for Atlanta, helping lead the team to a franchise-record 60 wins and the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
Millsap made $9.5 million in the last season of a two-year, $19 million contract he signed in 2013. He will reportedly make nearly double that next season.
The New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers and Dallas Mavericks were also said to be interested in Millsap, but he reportedly declined invitations to meet with them.


My life partner's mother, Eleanore DeLuca-Schugart had a most auspicious younger life as a dancer in Olsen and Johnson's traveling stage show, HELLZAPOPPIN' from 1940 through 1942. Her photographs of those years were kept in boxes, in a closet. This treasure called to me to place her memory out there for others to enjoy. What a fun and enriched youth she spent performing in one of the greatest successes of the 1940's. I thank her son, and daughter, my mate of 24 years, for allowing me to share part of their mother's story in what was truly a remarkable time in America's entertainment industry.
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson went from vaudeville circuits in the 1920's and 1930's, to Broadway, then Hollywood, and in to television for a brief stints as summer replacements for Milton Berle. There will be links within the story.
Enjoy. If any reader recognizes any of the touring cast, please feel free to leave a comment. Sometime in October of 2014, I will be adding a Playbill of the touring show, courtesy of her son.
Photographs are from the private collection of Jean Schugart-Schild.
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A description of Eleanore DeLuca from my mother.
Thank you, Richard! I will show your Facebook link from your next comment to your Aunt Jean! She'll be touched. It was so much fun for me to do this. Can't wait to hear what Ann has to say. I bet they are having a blast together!!! Heaven's-apoppin'!!!
Jean said to check out her Guest Writer piece on your great grandmother Ada, Seven Day Memoir.
your Mom was amazing and I can see that your Dad's Mom was pretty amazing too.
Jean says, "Thank you so very much, Charlotte. It was worth the sharing. Please enjoy all the stories.
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LinkedIn – Abraham Lincoln failed all the way to the White House. Lincoln's resilience in the face of defeat was among his greatest strengths – a good lesson for anyone striving for lofty goals.
1833: Borrowed money to begin a business – bankrupt within the year.
Examine the lives of many leaders and you'll find a pathway strewn with more failures than you expected.
In his now-famous 2005 commencement address at Stanford, Apple's Steve Jobs reflected on a key turning point in his life – being fired by Apple. Just 30 years old and grappling with the loss of the highly successful company he'd founded, Jobs was crushed.
But instead of giving up, he threw himself back into the fray at his small startup, NeXT computer, then another, Pixar – and of course, he found his way back to Apple after a decade of exile.
"It turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me," he said. "The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again." With this, Jobs' determination to rebound became central to his legacy.
President Teddy Roosevelt spoke admiringly of a figure he called the Man in the Arena, one "whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again." Roosevelt, Lincoln and Jobs, like many pioneers before and after them, spent their lives "in the arena," subject to its vagaries, reversals and woes.
The worst nearly always passes more quickly than you think. Move forward. What can seem at the current moment like a cloud that will forever cast its shadow may be little more than a memory when the sun breaks through again. You may look back over travails as something you'd not wish on your worst enemy, but that you'd not want to have missed in your own development. Many failures are devastating, but if you proceed with integrity and refuse to let setbacks change your spirit, you may rebound stronger than ever.
Accept responsibility. Once, when involved in a conflict I'd concluded was entirely the responsibility of another party, a wise woman asked me, "What did you contribute to this unhappy situation?" At first, my answer was, "Nothing." But as I reflected on things, I could see I'd been a "joint venture partner" in my distress. Assessing our own contributions to setbacks not only helps avoid future problems, but it can also keep failure from spawning victimhood.
When you hit a bump that feels like a "failure," realize that you're in the company of the world's greatest leaders, inventors, businesspeople and reformers – and think of failure not as a sign of weakness, but as the valuable raw material from which you can forge success.


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Planning for the proposed expansion of the Circuit Courthouse is underway. A public meeting and discussion will be held on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. The community will have the opportunity to meet the County's consultant team, to ask questions and to provide input on the planned expansion of the County Courthouse.


Writers write. Actors act. Audience listens. Everybody wins.
When I first started writing short stories, what feels like a century ago, I experimented relentlessly with different voices and techniques. Over the years, I've moved away from straight-up literary fiction and towards the modern genre fiction that I prefer to read myself. In doing so, my writing has become, to me, more believable; I believe my own stories more than I used to. At the same time, for reasons I'm still brewing on, most of my story narrators have become female. This wasn't a conscious decision. It happened organically as I drifted happily into low fantasy and magic realism. When I thought of The Visitors, I always knew Flora would be Flora. In my current work-in-progress, I always knew Kerry would be Kerry. I have my next four or five novels blocked out, and they all have female narrators, because they could only have female narrators. That's just the way it is.
The Liars' League story is called Art Is Long, Life Is Short. It's one of my oldest unpublished pieces, and one of my favourites. As one of my older stories, I wrote it with a male voice. I imagined someone like Larry Lamb. A grizzled gentleman of the world – a Cockney – down on his luck and pouncing on a break. A male actor was booked to read the piece, and I was delighted to be a contributor to Liars' League.
But – with a week or so to go – they contacted me to say that the actor had to cancel. Would I consider an actress instead?
YES. Yes, I'd consider that. On re-reading the story, I was amused to notice that there isn't a single marker of gender – and the more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. Actress Carrie Cohen shows why Liars' League were absolutely right. She reads better than I'd thought possible, and I'm really, really pleased. She embodies the character with humour and pathos, and the story works far better with a woman than a man. It's a thrill beyond measure to see it all brought to life.
There's something else, too. I loved giving the story away. It's not mine anymore. It belongs to Carrie, and the audience, and that's incredibly exciting. Having spent years sitting on a piece that I thought had some merit, it's wonderful to share it out – to see it adapted, altered and ultimately evolve from my wee idea into something bigger.


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David Huang is the General Agent of Elite Financial Insurance Group LLC, an agency appointed with the companies of OneAmerica, where he is their first Asian American agency head. David named his agency Elite Financial Insurance Group with the vision to build an elite team to serve the local public by providing the full services of the companies of OneAmerica.
Since 2014, David has built a dynamic, multicultural team of over 130 insurance and financial professionals. This highly diversified team serves the greater San Francisco Bay area among all communities, including Chinese, Asian Indians, Phillippinos, Vietnamese, African Americans and Hispanics.
Elite's success has been recognized on multiple fronts. In 2016, they achieved first place of all new agencies within three years, first place in Asset Care sales, the President's Trophy and placement in the Top Ten Winner Circle. In 2015, Elite was awarded both the Leading Agency in Productive Recruit Award and the Top 10 Winner Circle Award.
With over 20 years, David is a veteran in the insurance and financial services industry. He started with Health Net in 1995 as their Chinese marketing Manager and helped them build the Chinese Market for Medicare supplement insurance in the bay area.
In 1996, he joined New York Life and qualified as a Million Dollar Round Table member and President's Council. In 1998, he was promoted to Sales Manager and in two years he was promoted to Partner. As one of the top partners in the country in 2003, he was selected as the Chief Agency Officer, Taiwan where he grew the agency from 400 agents to 1200 in 4 years. In 2007, he was reassigned to China to help build the Sichuan operation. As the General Manager, he led the operation to be the largest in China in just two years.
In 2009, he left NYL and joined AXA China. As agency head, he led 3500 agents in China. In 2010, he left AXA and came back to the USA for family reasons. He rejoined NYL as Partner for the Silicon Valley General office where he again qualified for top partner in 2013 and built a very successful team.
David's vision is to build more branches in the bay area and northern California to serve more communities. He is looking for talent with leadership experience to join his team to help him with expansion. Please contact David if you are self-driven, a fast learner and willing to work hard.
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I am not wrong and I am not surprised.
But remnants of the controversial standards remain. More than remnants, really.
About 60 percent of the K-12 English language arts and math standards approved by the state Board of Education in Pierre last week were taken verbatim from Common Core, according to an Argus Leader analysis.
A line-by-line review showed that, in addition to the bullet points taken verbatim, those changed within a few words of the original Common Core language made up nearly 75 percent of the state's updated standards.
"We don't call it 'Common Core,' but the ghosts are there," said Art Marmorstein, a Northern State University professor and advocate for local control in education.
The new standards, called simply "South Dakota State Standards," will be fully implemented this fall.
Kirkegaard says it's not unusual for standards to look similar after a revision.
Nicole Osmundson is a Sioux Falls parent who helped review the new standards. She says if the standards mirror what they were before, it's because they're good standards.
No, they were awful standards. They needed to be jettisoned and the standards writing team needed to start from scratch. Not only is this process and the rhetoric coming out of Kirkegaard's mouth deceptive, but it's also just lazy.
If they wanted to have some sort of baseline they should have started with their standards pre-Common Core and gone from there or used Massachusetts' pre-Common Core ELA standards or California's previous math standards.
Anything other than Common Core, not that the Every Students Succeeds Act makes that easy. It requires a state's statewide assessment to be aligned to their standards. South Dakota uses Smarter Balanced as their statewide assessment. Abby Javurek, the Director of Assessment and Accountability with the South Dakota Department of Education, is the chair of their board.
There has not been any talk (that I've seen) about South Dakota changing its assessment and without changing their assessment they would be in violation of federal law. The rebrand was baked in.
The whole review and rewrite process was nothing but a farce.
Well he is not lying Common Core is gone in SD. Common Core is nothing but a copyrighted name. Change one word in the standards and you can no longer call them Common Core. So he is using deceptive semantics just like every other state that did the exact same thing. TN did it too. But again we need to stop saying they are lying because they are not. We just need to expose the deception they are using.


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In a packed Smith Center Jan. 10, in maybe the greatest win in school history, 6-3 swingman Chris Monroe fell eight points short of the Smith Center record when he dropped in 32 to lead his team.
That performance would put Monroe on an elite GW list, except for one thing – Chris Monroe is still in high school.
But don't worry. He'll be back.
Monroe, a senior at Good Counsel High School (Hyattsville, Md.), is one of the two recruits signed by GW head coach Tom Penders. Like his future teammate, 6-1 guard Val Brown of Lee High School (Springfield, Va.), Monroe is a local player coming to a school that, in the recent past, has preferred to go out of town for its players. Out of town meaning as far away as Minsk, Belarus.
Having signed early, Monroe might have felt he had little to prove his senior year, but his numbers have proved otherwise. He has averaged nearly 25 points and 10 rebounds a game while leading Good Counsel to a No. 5 national ranking in USA Today, and a No. 1 metropolitan area ranking in The Washington Post.
Good Counsel's victory Jan. 10 at the Smith Center displayed the success Monroe has brought to Good Counsel and the promise he brings to GW. Monroe put up his 32 points by mixing an outside shooting stroke with a repertoire of dazzling drives. This effort came against DeMatha High School, a team that was ranked No. 1 in the nation by USA Today in the preseason and has been coached by the same man for 42 years – prep school legend Morgan Wootten. The DeMatha Stags are the Chicago Bulls of local high school basketball, filling arenas at tournaments across the country.
Obviously, none of this fazed Monroe, and as Penders watched from courtside, one could only wonder if coach and player were both imagining another day in the near future when a packed Smith Center will watch Monroe put up a career game against a mighty team and a legendary coach.
Penders said he is not surprised at the player Monroe has become this season.
Despite D.C.'s past and present prep school basketball credentials, it's rare when a local star makes the Metro ride to Foggy Bottom. Of course, GW's never been known for local students, much less basketball players.
Brown signed with GW in November, and his credentials may be even better than Monroe's. CNN/Sports Illustrated rates him the 12th best point guard in the country among high school seniors, and CBS has placed him on its Top 100 list.
Penders said he expects Brown to make a contribution as soon as he hits campus next year.
Penders said Rogers was a big help in Brown's recruitment.
"Val came to campus a lot, and Shawnta was always his host, and when you have kids in the program helping you to recruit, you know you've really got something," Penders said. "You'd have to ask Val why he came here, but he says it's my style. Most point guards like to play my style. I mean, he was choosing between Kansas, UConn, and GW.
Gimelstob brought GW its first local players since 1969. But Gimelstob didn't last long, and neither did his experiment. In Mike Jarvis's eight seasons, only three local players suited up, two from Arlington, Va., and one from DeMatha – Vaughn Jones.
Today, GW suits up no local players, although it depends a little on your definition of local. GW has three players from Baltimore on the roster – Rogers, Mike King and Sam Anyan. Penders said he defines local a little differently, but whatever that area is, it's important to him.
What's local is up for debate, but Penders clearly doesn't plan to let D.C.-area stars slip through his fingers, and the recent staging of high school games at the Smith Center can't hurt that cause.
In that spirit, Monroe will make one more appearance in Foggy Bottom before he returns as a Colonial. Feb. 10 at 8 p.m., DeMatha and Good Counsel will again meet at the Smith Center, and Chris Monroe again will try to show that at GW, he's right at home.
GW alum and sports agent David Falk has been busy lately, popping up as mediator in the NBA lockout, as Michael Jordan's spokesman and as the agent to seemingly every free agent in America, including the Washington Wizards' Rod Strickland.
In the University of Kansas men's basketball media guide, player Luke Axtell said the team he would most like to play is GW. Axtell just happens to be the player who ignited a player revolt against Tom Penders last year at Texas and is suing an Austin, Texas, radio station because it broadcast his grades on the air after a Penders assistant released them. In response to the new Jayhawks' challenge, Penders wrote Kansas coach Roy Williams, urging a home-and-home series.
In other scheduling news, could Georgetown University's coaching change alter the status of GW and GU's long-dormant rivalry? New coach Craig Esherick, who replaced John Thompson two weeks ago, once played for Thompson. His greatest moment as a player came at Georgetown's McDonough Gymnasium when he hit a 40-footer at the buzzer to send the 1978 game between GW and GU to overtime, where the Hoyas prevailed 78-77. Penders doesn't know where Esherick stands on a renewal of GW's most prolific series, but he's always open to anything.
Georgetown lost to an old friend Jan. 11, namely Mike Jarvis and his nationally ranked St. John's team. There has been talk of bringing St. John's and Jarvis back to D.C. for the BB&T Classic (of course, Georgetown will first host St. John's at the MCI Center Feb. 20).
This article appeared in the January 21, 1999 issue of the Hatchet.


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Frequency of feeling spiritual peace and wellbeing among adults with a household income of $30,000-$49,999 by attendance at prayer groups
Frequency of feeling spiritual peace and wellbeing among adults with a household income of $30,000-$49,999 by attendance at prayer groups (2014) Switch to: Frequency of participation in prayer, scripture study or religious education groups among adults with a household income of $30,000-$49,999 by frequency of feelings of spiritual wellbeing
% of adults with a household income of $30,000-$49,999 who feel a sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing…
Frequency of participation in prayer, scripture study or religious education groups
86% 7% 2% 4% 1% 1,509
74% 17% 6% 3% < 1% 494
59% 19% 14% 7% < 1% 495
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NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured this image of Hurricane Laura on August 26, 2020 as it approached the Gulf Coast. (NOAA)
Migration From Central America Driven By Climate Change
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Climate change is a major factor forcing Central Americans, left with no other option, to flee their homes, as the dual threats of drought and extreme weather have destroyed crops and productive farmland, Bloomberg reports. Central America is responsible for less than 1% of global carbon pollution, yet is one of the most vulnerable regions on the planet to the ravages of climate change. Nearly one-third of residents of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, the so-called Northern Triangle, suffer from crisis-level food insecurity.
"They're not leaving because they want to," Vice President Kamala Harris said in Guatemala on Monday. No legal framework for climate-driven migrants (they are not technically "refugees" under international law) exists, but the Biden administration is exploring the issue with a report due in August.
Climate-fueled disasters
Northern Triangle farmers have endured five drought years in the last 10, and Hurricanes Eta and Iota devastated the region, submerging Honduras's agriculturally productive Sula Valley and turned Guatemalan farming communities into cemeteries. Climate change is also exacerbating coffee leaf rust, killing off one of the region's top exports. The International Organization for Migration has found a relationship between hurricanes in Central America and increased migration to the U.S. from the region and a paper published in April found a link between the severe drought in El Salvador in 2014-'15 and migration to the U.S.
"Some degree of migration is going to be inevitable and some areas of Central America are going to become uninhabitable," Pablo Escribano, IOM's regional specialist on migration, told Bloomberg. Still, "the projections are for more intense and more frequent hurricanes, and some areas of Central America will see drought conditions increase. The situation is very challenging."
"These consecutive years of extreme drought are really driving poverty and food insecurity in the region and pushing families to abandon agriculture and to migrate to survive," Marie-Soleil Turmel, a scientist with Catholic Relief Services, which works with farmers in the area, told Bloomberg. "Whole communities are being wiped out."
Sources: Bloomberg $; Climate migration legal issues: The Conversation
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