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The Resilience Academy 2016: Enhancing resilience to minimize Loss and Damage – providing knowledge for the UNFCCC April 2017. Ahmed I., Ayeb-Karlsson S. & van der Geest K.
This bulletin updates the outputs of Resilience Academy 2016.
Shrimp and coastal adaptation: on the politics of climate justice March 2017. Kasia Paprocki & Saleemul Huq
Adaptation measures which do not first and foremost address power and equity are part of the problem, not the solution.
The Role of Microfinance in Household Livelihood Adaptation in Satkhira District, Southwest Bangladesh January 2017. Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola, Anne Tallontire
This journal article investigates the role of microfinance on climate change adaptation
Loss and Damage Livelihood Resilience November 2016. ICCCAD
This Policy Brief first frames the challenge and then introduces the Resilience Academy, highlighting 5 key insights that both feed the debate and inform action. Finally, it provides 5 recommendations to the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM ExCom) for its 5-year work plan.
Detecting climate adaptation with mobile network data in Bangladesh: anomalies in communication, mobility and consumption patterns during cyclone Mahasen Auguest 2016. Xin Lu, David J. Wrathall, Pål Roe Sundsøy, Md. Nadiruzzaman, Erik Wetter, Asif Iqbal, Taimur Qureshi, Andrew J. Tatem, Geoffrey S. Canright, Kenth Engø-Monsen and
Linus Bengtsson
This article used mobile phone network data to provide rich information on the behavior of people affected by cyclone Mahasen
The role of universities in capacity building under the Paris agreement July 2016. Victoria Hoffmeister, Marilyn Averill, & Saleemul Huq
This paper discusses how empowering universities to educate students on climate change could create systems that continue to build countries' capacities to tackle climate-related problems for decades to come.
Effect of salinity on food security in the context of interior coast of Bangladesh June 2016. Tanzinia Khanom
This article explored local people's experience with salinity intrusion in interior coast of Southwest coast of Bangladesh.
A people-centred perspective on climate change, environmental stress, and livelihood resilience in Bangladesh June 2016. Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Kees van der Geest, Istiakh Ahmed, Saleemul Huq, Koko Warner
This study aims to understand how people in the study sites build resilience against environmental stresses, such as cyclones, floods, riverbank erosion, and drought, and in what ways their strategies sometimes fail.
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: evidence from two sites in Bangladesh May 2016. Hannah Reid & Sarder Shafiqul Alam
This research looks at two components of effective EbA: ecosystem resilience and the maintenance of ecosystem services. It assesses EbA effectiveness in terms of how such approaches support community adaptive capacity and resilience at two sites in Bangladesh: Chanda Beel wetland and Balukhali Village in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Climate change induced loss and damage in Pakistan: An investigation of impacts on society and economy.
June 2016. Hina Lotia, Basharat Saeed, and Areej Riaz from LEAD Pakistan.
This paper aims to raise awareness about Loss and Damage (L&D) and ignite conversation about how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Loss & Damage (L&D) can be linked in order to ensure more sustainable resiliency strategies for Pakistan.
Building Climate Resilience to Noapara Town: A Coastal Urban Centre of Bangladesh May 2016. Sarder Shafiqul Alam, A. T. M. Jahangir Alam, M. Feisal Rahman, Sowmen Rahman & Niaz Rahman
This paper attempts to identify ways of making the town of Noapara, a coastal urban centre in the Jessore district in Bangladesh, resilient to the impacts of climate change, with specific focus on the water and sanitation sectors. The situation in Naopara was investigated to see what investments would need to be made in the town to make it an attractive option for migrants.
Impact of climate change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? April 2016. Helena Wright, Jonathan Reeves, & Saleemul Huq
This briefing summarises the projected impacts of climate change on the ability of the LDCs to achieve each SDG, based on evidence primarily from the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Climate change-induced loss and damage in The Gambia: An investigation of impacts on The Gambia Farming Community. March 2016. Sadat Yaffa and Alexis Durand.
This paper aims to raise awareness about Loss and Damage (L&D) and ignite conversation about how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Loss & Damage (L&D) can be linked in order to ensure more sustainable resiliency strategies for The Gambia.
Unveiling Hidden Migration and Mobility Patterns in Climate Stressed Regions. February 2016. Xin Lua, David J. Wrathall, Pål Roe Sundsøy, Md. Nadiruzzaman, Erik Wettera, Asif Iqbal, Taimur Qureshi, Andrew Tatema, Geoffrey Canright, Kenth Engø-Monsen and Linus Bengtsson.
Climate change is likely to drive migration from environmentally stressed areas. However quantifying short and long-term movements across large areas is challenging due to difficulties in the collection of highly spatially and temporally resolved human mobility data. In this study we use two datasets of individual mobility trajectories from six million de identified mobile phone users in Bangladesh over three months and two years respectively. Using data collected during Cyclone Mahasen, which struck Bangladesh in May 2013, we show first how analyses based on mobile network data can describe important short-term features (hours–weeks) of human mobility during and after extreme weather events, which are extremely hard to quantify using standard survey based research. We then demonstrate how mobile data for the first time allow us to study the relationship between fundamental parameters of migration patterns on a national scale. We concurrently quantify incidence, direction, duration and seasonality of migration episodes in Bangladesh. While we show that changes in the incidence of migration episodes are highly correlated with changes in the duration of migration episodes, the correlation between in- and out-migration between areas is unexpectedly weak. The methodological framework described here provides an important addition to current methods in studies of human migration and climate change
Livelihood resilience in a changing world: 6 global policy recommendations for a more sustainable future December 2015. Sonja Ayeb‑Karlsson, Thomas Tanneri, Kees van der Geest and Koko Warner
This policy / working Paper makes a case to international policy makers, national government representatives, UN agencies and other development actors for an integrative approach across these three inter-related international processes centred on strengthening the lives and livelihoods of all people across the world.
Resilience synergies in the post-2015 development agenda December 2015. Erin Roberts, Stephanie Andrei, Saleemul Huq and Lawrence Flint
Policymakers have committed to tackling loss and damage as a result of climate change across three high-profile international processes. Framing post-2015 development as a means to address loss and damage can synergize these agendas.
Loss and Damage in INDCs: An investigation of Parties' statements on L&D and prospects for its inclusion in a Paris Agreement. December 2015. Victoria Hoffmeister and Saleemul Huq.
This paper discusses individual nations' experiences with Loss and Damage (L&D), their plans to respond, and their calls for international support, as expressed in their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). It also considers the developed-developing nation divide that persists in support for addressing loss and damage within the COP and the importance of including L&D in a Paris agreement.
A practical handbook for Green Climate Fund accreditation in Bangladesh. November 2015. Neha Rai and Marek Soanes.
The aim of this handbook is to provide a practical guide to assist prospective national implementing entities (NIEs) in Bangladesh to directly access the Green Climate Fund (GCF). It is designed to provide an all-in-one guidance and analysis of the concept, process, relevant standards, frequently asked questions and previous applicants' experience of GCF accreditation. Given the purpose of this work, it does not discuss accreditation for multilateral implementing entities (MIEs) via international access modality. The handbook is primarily intended to be used by national institutes aiming to become accredited NIEs. These can be national line ministries or departments, the Central Bank, public financial institutions, private sector companies or civil society organisations.
Urban climate resilience, water and sanitation: Improving multi-stakeholder collaboration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. September 2015. Sarder Shafiqul Alam, ATM Jahangir Alam and Sowmen Rahman.
This paper attempts to identify a strategy for improving collaboration between stakeholders working in Dhaka city to improve climate change resilience of the urban water and sanitation (WATSAN) sector, with a focus on the urban poor. The findings are derived from reviewing existing literature and consultations with 32 key informants and five focus group discussions (FGDs) representing both low-income groups as well as other stakeholders (NGOs, government, academics). The output of the analysis reveals that heavy rainfall, flooding, water logging and heatwaves are the major climatic impacts that affect the water supply, sanitation and health of slum dwellers. Also, women are more vulnerable than men due to the lack of water supply and adequate sanitation facilities particularly during floods and water-logging conditions. Around 35non-governmental organisations (NGOs), along with government bodies and media, play key roles in improving the WATSAN facilities of the urban poor – which are currently inadequate. To improve the situation, NGOs sometimes collaboratively work with other partners but without considering a long-term strategy. Improving the situation will require a sustained effort from all stakeholders – including government, community members, community-based organisations (CBOs), NGOs, media, donors, researchers and academics. The national government should play the lead role by formulating a strategic action plan in consultation with advisors, key personnel and other stakeholders. It should also be the responsibility of the government to ensure that stakeholders work according to the guidelines. Following a government-devised action plan, the private sector and NGOs will be able to develop more robust and effective partnerships.
The Green Climate Fund accreditation process: barrier or opportunity?. September 2015. Neha Rai and Bowen Wang.
As the largest pot of climate funding available to developing countries, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) holds huge promise. As it enters into operation, national institutions, including government, can apply to access GCF's resources 'directly'. But the rigorous accreditation process appears a barrier to many, which coupled with unclear benefits is likely to undermine the zeal for direct access in developing countries. But experiences from another key climate fund, the Adaptation Fund, show that preparing for direct access has inherent co-benefits beyond accessing finance. The trials of accreditation may involve vital growing pains that also strengthen national institutions, and even improve country systems. Though cumbersome, the GCF direct access accreditation process presents an opportunity to improve a nation's future bargaining capacity to access climate finance 'at scale', creating a positive cycle of funding success.
A Simple Guide to the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage. September 2015. Saleemul Huq and Alexis Durand.
The purpose of this slide show is to provide accessible, easy-to-understand information about the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage that you can click through on your own. This guide can serve as a primer for people new to the concept of loss and damage, or a reference for those more familiar with the WIM. The slideshow outlines the context of the Warsaw International Mechanism, and presents selections from relevant UNFCCC texts.
Defining Loss and Damage: Key challenges and considerations for developing an operational definition. August 2015. Saleemul Huq and Alexis Durand.
L&D has historically been a very contentious issue with an ambiguous definition. As L&D becomes more mainstream, we need to reach an agreement on an operational definition that will inform approaches to the issue and catalyze appropriate action.
Financing inclusive low-carbon resilient development – Role of Central Bank of Bangladesh and Infrastructure Development Company Limited. August 2015. Neha Rai, Asif Iqbal, Antara Zareen, Tasfiq Mahmood, Maliha Muzammil, Saqib Huq and Noor Elahi.
How can we deliver climate finance to those who need it most? We examine the choices countries make in financing low-carbon resilient development, focusing on experiences in Bangladesh. Case studies of two financial institutions, Central Bank of Bangladesh and Infrastructure Development Company Ltd. (IDCOL), illustrate how core actors and incentives shape the delivery of climate finance, and how well-designed systems and carefully chosen intermediaries can provide lower-income communities with access to this finance.our analysis suggests some key principles and strategies for ensuring finance are inclusive and reach the poorest.
Urban climate change resilience: Role of multi-stakeholder collaboration June 2015. Sarder Shafiqul Alam, ATM Jahangir Alam, & Sowmen Rahman
The paper summarizes the impacts of climatic hazards on water and sanitation infrastructure and services, overview of stakeholder activities and collaboration and ways to improve multistakeholder collaboration for Urban Climate Resilience in water and sanitation sector in the low income settlements of Dhaka.
A brief overview of Community-Based Adaptation April 2015. Patrick Kirkby, Casey Williams, & Saleemul Huq
This briefing paper seeks to fill that gap by providing an overview of CBA, its core principles and challenges.
Bangladesh and the Global Climate Debate. April 2015. Masroora Haque and Saleemul Huq.
Climate adaptation technologies in agriculture and water supply and sanitation practice in the coastal region of Bangladesh. February 2015. Saleemul Huq and M. Golam Rabbani.
The coastal zone of Bangladesh, covering 32% of the land area and home to 30% of the population, is one of the regions that is most vulnerable to climate change and sea-level rise. The fertile land of the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta provides a productive base for agriculture, and the coast offers a diversity of natural resources, such as marine fisheries and shrimps, forest, salt, and min- erals. The high level of physical vulnerability is made worse by factors such as an increasing population density, poverty, and limited access to services, espe- cially water supply and sanitation, energy, and health services. Examples of cur- rent adaptation technologies and practices in agriculture and the water supply and sanitation sectors are presented and relevant components of the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) discussed. Three potential barri- ers to the effective implementation of adaptation projects have been identified and need to be addressed: lack of awareness of the seriousness of the climate threat; lack of integration of the climate issue in the development of policies, plans, and programs in climate-sensitive sectors; and lack of adequate tools, knowledge, and methodologies for guidance and advice in decision-making.
Knowledge and adaptive capacity. February 2015, Casey Williams, Adrian Fenton and Saleemul Huq.
Climate change adaptation has, over the last decade, become an increasingly important topic in international policy discussions. In the research community, considerable work has been devoted to adaptation, and especially to understanding the factors that determine an individual, community, organization or nation's ability to adapt to the effects
of climate variability and change. This research has produced important insights into the nature of adaptive capacity, and yet the concept remains difficult to bound and measure.
Coming full circle: the history of loss and damage under the UNFCCC January 2015. Erin Louise Roberts and Saleemul Huq
This paper chronicles the history of the rise of loss and damage in the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in bringing about this paradigm shift.
Environment, Migration and Adaptation: Evidence and Politics of Climate Change in Bangladesh. January 2015, Ed. Bishawjit Mallick and Benjamin Etzold.
This edited book aims at reaching policy makers, scientists and the public. It brings together renowned scholars in the field, who discuss environmental chang- es, people's ways of adaptation and migration patterns in Bangladesh. It presents empirical evidence of climatic changes and natural hazards and how they relate to people's livelihoods, social vulnerability, food security, and human mobility. The book also addresses the inherent politics of environmental change, adaptation and migration in Bangladesh. The contributions in this book thereby provide a concise overview in the field of 'environmentally-induced migration' in Bangladesh. De- cision-makers, students, teachers, and researchers working in this field can learn from the conceptual assumptions, methodological explanations, empirical findings and the critical discussions that are presented in each chapter of this book. Most contributions also derive policy recommendations from their data and key argu- ments. There is a brief summary for policy-makers for each chapter. For the Bangladeshi audience, this summary is also provided in Bangla
Gobeshona Conference Proceedings. January 2015, Claire Stott.
The first Gobeshona Conference for Research on Climate Change in Bangladesh was held at the Independent University, Bangladesh, from 8-11 January 2015. The conference was preceded by the first Gobeshona Young Researcher Workshop, on 7 January 2015. The workshop reflects the first in a series of activities.
Meaningful Measurement for Community-Based Adaptation, 2015, Lucy Faulkner, Jessica Ayers, Saleemul Huq.
Evidence indicates ongoing tensions over effective climate change adaptation measurement. Focusing on community-based adaptation (CBA), we stress that some of these tensions stem from a lack of transparency around the knowledge and learning needs of different stakeholders engaged in CBA investments. Drawing on a participatory assessment of stakeholder information needs and appropriate scales required for effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for CBA, this article presents a new M&E for CBA framework. The framework identi-fies four levels at which M&E is to be undertaken by CBA practitioners and associated project stakeholders: participatory M&E at community level; M&E at individual project level and comparison across multiple project sites; M&E of capacity of institutions implementing CBA; and M&E of community of practice. The proposed framework tailors its M&E approaches according to these levels. By moving beyond the existing dominant donor-driven M&E perspective, we argue that this more nuanced approach enhances the usefulness of M&E by ensuring that the accountability of stakeholders engaged in CBA landscapes is legitimate across multiple scales. The framework is applicable for M&E of general development practice, as well as the climate change adaptation and resilience remit.
Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change December 2014. Thomas Tanner et al.
A livelihood perspective helps to strengthen resilience thinking by placing greater emphasis on human needs and their agency, empowerment and human rights, and considering adaptive livelihood systems in the context of wider transformational changes.
Up-scaling finance for community-based adaptation. December 2014. Saleemul Huq, Adrian Fenton, Helena Wright, Daniel Gallagher and Charles Nyandigag.
While most adaptation actions occur at the local level, there is an absence of commitment at the international level to channel adaptation finance to local communities. Without such a commitment, there is a risk that climate finance will continue to support top-down, centralized activities that may struggle to address the needs of vulnerable communities. This paper explores ways in which community-based adaptation is presently being mainstreamed through the multilateral funds that are used to channel adaptation finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process, and points to two promising examples that demonstrate this. The first is the Small Grants Programme of the Global Environmental Facility, an established modality through which community organizations can access finance to manage their adaptation needs. The second is the direct access modality of the Adaptation Fund, which devolves decision-making power from multilateral agencies towards the national and local levels. At the country level, experiences from Nepal demonstrate an institutional environment that helps to prioritize the adaptation needs of the most vulnerable. Nepal achieves this by mandating that at least 80% of available finance flows to the community level, and that the implementation of projects is conducted in a bottom-up and inclusive process.
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development in Bangladesh. December 2014. Jessica Ayers, Saleemul Huq, Helena Wright, Arif M. Faisal and Syed Tanveer Hussain.
The close linkages between climate change adaptation and development have led to calls for addressing the two issues in an integrated way. 'Mainstreaming' climate information, policies and measures into ongoing development planning and decision making has been proposed as one solution, making a more sustainable, effective and efficient use of resources than designing and managing climate policies separately from ongoing activities. But what does mainstreaming look like in practice? This paper reviews the process of mainstreaming in Bangladesh, one of the countries that has made significant progress on adaptation planning and mainstreaming. The paper begins by making the case for mainstreaming, by exploring linkages and trade-offs between adaptation and development and reviewing the literature on mainstreaming. Second, it considers how to implement mainstreaming in practice, reviewing an existing four-step framework. Examining this framework against the plethora of mainstreaming experiences in Bangladesh, the paper considers how the framework can be used as a tool to review progress on mainstreaming in Bangladesh. The paper concludes that while the framework is useful for considering some of the preconditions necessary for mainstreaming, experiences in Bangladesh reflect a much more complex patchwork of processes and stakeholders that need to be taken into consideration in further research
Moving towards inclusive urban adaptation: approaches to integrating community-based adaptation to climate change at city and national scale. December 2014. Diane Archer, Florencia Almansi, Michael DiGregorio, Debra Roberts, Divya Sharma and Denia Syam
Adaptation to climate change in urban areas presents a complex challenge. Consequently, approaches to urban adaptation should be both multilevel and multidimensional. Community-based adaptation (CBA) presents an opportunity for local level participation in framing adaptation planning and activities, with wider transformative potential for urban governance. This paper presents five case studies from cities in the Global South which offer insights into the different scales at which CBA can be mainstreamed in urban contexts, and the various ways in which this is happening. These examples demonstrate five emerging opportunities for mainstreaming urban CBA, which include using CBA as part of a wider package of approaches; seizing processes of institutional reform as an opportunity to integrate community perspectives; institutionalizing new actors and approaches as a mechanism for scaling up multi-stakeholder approaches; ensuring top down planning approaches are connected to local dynamics; and using participatory research to facilitate local communities in shaping planning processes. The cases also demonstrate that while obstacles to mainstreaming in urban contexts remain, some lessons in addressing these challenges have emerged, and CBA should, therefore, be a part of the toolbox of local and national urban adaptation policy frameworks.
Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring community-based adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes. December 2014. Helena Wright, Sonja Vermeulen, Gernot Lagandac, Max Olupotd, Edidah Ampairee and M.L. Jaff.
Climate change creates widespread risks for food production. As climate impacts are often locally specific, it is imperative that large-scale initiatives to support smallholder farmers consider local priorities and integrate lessons from successful autonomous adaptation efforts. This article explores how large-scale programmes for smallholder adaptation to climate change might link effectively with community-led adaptation initiatives. Drawing on experiences in Bangladesh, Mozambique, Uganda and India, this article identifies key success factors and barriers for considering local priorities, capacities and lessons in large-scale adaptation programmes. It highlights the key roles of extension services and farmers' organizations as mechanisms for linking between national-level and community-level adaptation, and a range of other success factors which include participative and locally driven vulnerability assessments, tailoring of adaptation technologies to local contexts, mapping local institutions and working in partnership across institutions. Barriers include weak governance, gaps in the regulatory and policy environment, high opportunity costs, low literacy and underdeveloped markets. The article concludes that mainstreaming climate adaptation into large-scale agricultural initiatives requires not only integration of lessons from community-based adaptation, but also the building of inclusive governance to ensure smallholders can engage with those policies and processes affecting their vulnerability.
A review of decision-support models for adaptation to climate change in the context of development. December 2014. Helena Wright, John Jacob Nay, Mark Abkowitz, Eric Chu and Daniel Gallagher.
In order to increase adaptive capacity and empower people to cope with their changing environment, it is imperative to develop decision-support tools that help people understand and respond to challenges and opportunities. Some such tools have emerged in response to social and economic shifts in light of anticipated climatic change. Climate change will play out at the local level, and adaptive behaviours will be influenced by local resources and knowledge. Community-based insights are essential building blocks for effective planning. However, in order to mainstream and scale up adaptation, it is useful to have mechanisms for evaluating the benefits and costs of candidate adaptation strategies. This article reviews relevant literature and presents an argument in favour of using various modelling tools directed at these considerations. The authors also provide evidence for the balancing of qualitative and quantitative elements in assessments of programme proposals considered for financing through mechanisms that have the potential to scale up effective adaptation, such as the Adaptation Fund under the Kyoto Protocol. The article concludes that it is important that researchers and practitioners maintain flexibility in their analyses, so that they are themselves adaptable, to allow communities to best manage the emerging challenges of climate change and the long-standing challenges of development.
Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change. December 2014, Saleemul Huq et al.
The resilience concept requires greater attention to human livelihoods if it is to address the limits to adaptation strategies, and the development needs of the planet's poorest and most vulnerable people. Although the concept of resilience is increasingly informing research and policy, its transfer from ecological theory to social systems leads to weak engagement with normative, social and political dimensions of climate change adaptation. A livelihood perspective helps to strengthen resilience thinking by placing greater emphasis on human needs and their agency, empowerment and human rights, and considering adaptive livelihood systems in the context of wider transformational changes.
Knowledge flows in climate change adaptation: exploring friction between scales. November 2014. Saleemul Huq and Clare Stott.
Effective mainstreaming of climate change adaptation (CCA) into related policy and development initiatives relies on comprehensive knowledge sharing between multiple stakeholders. In Bangladesh, community-based adaptation (CBA) practitioners are critical for facilitating communication among global, national and local scales. They can also take responsibility for finding appropriate channels through which to share relevant information. Interviews with CBA practitioners examine how knowledge is gained and transmitted between practitioners and other CCA stakeholders, focusing on the challenges experienced. These challenges represent friction in knowledge transmittal. Key to lubricating smooth knowledge flows is an understanding of the specific contexts within which knowledge is to be exchanged. At the professional level, multidisciplinary knowledge must be made accessible through provision of widely comprehensible content shared in an appropriate format. At the local level, understandings of trust, priorities and power relations are vital for ensuring relevance in the knowledge shared by professional stakeholders. Mobilizing appropriate knowledge can allow widespread comprehension of adaptation aims, enabling the mainstreaming of CCA and ensuring that resulting action is beneficial at the local level, for communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
An Examination of the Least Developed Countries in the IPCC AR5 WGII. November 2014. Clare Stott.
The Fifth Assessment Report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released in 2014. It examines the impacts of climate change, inherent vulnerabilities and adaptation responses across the globe. The Least Developed Countries are identified as being particularly vulnerable to climate change due to economic and capacity barriers. This paper examines the LDCs within the IPCC report to highlight how climatic impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation are portrayed for these countries. It illuminates a need for a greater focus on the LDCs by the IPCC and for further research concentrated on the LDCs in general, in order to enhance the state knowledge on LDCs and appropriately guide related policy.
Ecosystem-based Approaches to Adaptation: Evidence from two sites in Bangladesh, November 2014, Hannah Reid and Sarder Shafiqul Alam.
This paper describes two components of effective EbA: ecosystem resilience and the maintenance of ecosystem services. Research assesses how effectively EbA supports community adaptive capacity and resilience at two Action Research for Community Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB) sites. Findings suggest that more attention should be paid to EbA as an important response to climate change.
Mainstreaming community-based adaptation into national and local planning. November 2014, Hannah Reid and Saleemul Huq.
Community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change can be defined as 'a community-led process, based on commu- nities' priorities, needs, knowledge, and capacities, which should empower people to plan for and cope with the impacts of climate change' (Reid, Cannon, Berger, Alam, & Milligan, 2009). Early CBA initiatives were generally implemented by non-government organizations, and oper- ated primarily at the local level. Emphasis was placed on applying 'bottom-up' participatory processes to identify the climate change problem and appropriate local responses to this problem (Ayers & Forsyth, 2009).
What does the IPCC say about Bangladesh? – ICCCAD Briefing. October 2014. Helena Wright.
The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) (2014), is the fifth in the series of IPCC assessment reports and provides an update of knowledge on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific body established to provide a scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its impacts. Working Group I covers the Physical Science Basis, Working Group II is on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and Working Group III is on Mitigation of Climate Change. In this report, we have focused on Working Group II (WG2) of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) for relevance for Bangladesh and we will now present our findings. The objective of this report is to provide a guide for stakeholders and decision makers in Bangladesh.
ICCCAD-GIBIKA Second Workshop Report: Index-Based Insurance. October 2014. Salma Islam.
The International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in collaboration with United Nations University (UNU) and the Munich Re Foundation (MRF) held the Second Workshop on Index-Based Insurance on Thursday the 23rd of October, 2014 at Ascott the Residence in Dhaka. This workshop was organized as a follow up to the first one held last year which looked at the contributions of different stakeholders to the area of IBI. At the time, some organizations were in the planning and pilot stages of their IBI programmes. This year the main purpose of the event was to share knowledge and information amongst participants on what has been done and what lessons have been learnt since last year.
Non-Economic Loss and Damage Caused by Climatic Stressors in Selected Coastal Districts of Bangladesh. October 2014. Stephanie Andrei, Golam Rabbani and Hafij Islam Khan.
This report aims to respond to this gap in knowledge by presenting findings from the community level in South-West Bangladesh. The main goal of this research study was to begin deconstructing what non-economic losses and damages might entail and evaluate qualitative methods for its research. The research was conducted in partnership with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and the Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and made possible by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This report feeds into ADB's projects to support the implementation of the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy Action Plan (BCCSAP) and in particular, items related to loss and damage.
Mainstreaming and Decentralizing Climate Change Adaptation Finance, September 2014, Mizan R. Khan.
We already live in a climate changed world. Such is the conclusion reached by the IPCC AR4 and the latest findings of Working Group I of the AR5. The impacts are manifest already in different parts of the world in varying degrees of sea level rise and greater frequency and severity of climate disasters. The LDCs are particularly vulnerable to these impacts, which have very weak adaptive capacity. Climate change tends to undo their hard-won development gains. Their vulnerability is a joint product of cumulative development and adaptation deficits. Obviously, mainstreaming of adaptation makes common sense, since it is difficult to differentiate between development and adaptation in these countries.
Combating Climate Change: The Case of Knowledge Management. August 2014. Dr. Chowdhury Saleh Ahmed.
The objective of this policy brief is to inform Members of Parliament (MPs) about adverse effects of climate change on the economy of Bangladesh and outline their role in using research-based information in advocating policy changes that would institutionalize, build capacity and raise efficiency in knowledge management system for combating adverse climate change effects.
Commentary: Debt relief and financing of climate change action. August 2014, Adrian Fenton, Helena Wright, Stavros Afionis, Jouni Paavola and Saleemul Huq.
Slow progress in scaling-up climate finance has emerged as a major bottleneck in international negotiations. Debt relief for climate finance swaps could provide an alternative source for financing mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries.
Climate resilient planning in Bangladesh: a review of progress and early experiences of moving from planning to implementation. August 2014, Neha Rai, Saleemul Huq & Muhammad Jahedul Huq.
Bangladesh is one of the first least developed countries (LDCs) to develop a long-term climate change strategy, the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP). Two funds were set up after developing the BCCSAP, one using government resources (BCCTF) and the other using donor resources (BCCRF). This paper uses the "building blocks" framework to analyse changes that occur when progressing from planning to finance and implementation by comparing the BCCRF and BCCTF. This analysis reveals how governance enablers are influenced by political economy dynamics that steer funding decisions and implementation outcomes, and provides lessons for countries pursuing climate resilience.
Transparency and Accountability in Climate Finance Governance for the Most Vulnerable in Bangladesh: A Focus on Local Level Governance. July 2014, Farah Kabir.
The objective of this policy brief is to inform the decision makers and the wider stakeholders about the importance of improving and in some cases introducing transparency and accountability mechanisms for managing the climate funds available in Bangladesh. Efficient, effective and equitable use of the climate funds is the key to improve the governance of climate change initiatives in Bangladesh. This policy brief has special focus on financing local adaptation and governance of climate change activities in the local level.
Local Adaptation to Climate Change: The Gender Perspective. June 2014, Farah Kabir.
This document is the result of an almost two-year engagement with the issue of loss and damage in Bangladesh. By providing an assessment of the first comprehensive process to better understand loss and damage at the national-level and presenting key research findings, we hope to inform policy makers in other countries, who might be planning to undertake a similar process. To that end this summary for policy makers summarises the key messages of the document. It must be noted that this document is based on research that is still in progress and there is still a lot that needs to be understood. In addition, we acknowledge that context matters and thus national research must be tailored to the individual needs of each country, taking into account not just the climate change impacts but the political situation and socio- economic realities.
National Funding Entities for Local Adaptation: Lessons Learned from Bangladesh. May 2014, Dr. S M Munjurul Hannan Khan
The Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF), supported by national budgetary endowment and the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF), a multi-donors trust fund have started their journey in 2010 as National Finding Entities (NFEs). Bangladesh, among the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), is the first country that has established and operationalized NFEs to address adverse impacts of climate change within the scope of strategic direction articulated in the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP)-2009. The BCCSAP-2009, as policy document, has identified six thematic areas to reduce climate vulnerability that include I) Food Security, Social Protection & Health, II) Comprehensive Disaster Management, III) Infrastructure, IV) Research and Knowledge Management, V) Mitigation and Low Carbon Development and VI) Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening (BCCSAP-2009) by short and medium actions.
Planning and Financing of Community Resilience in Bangladesh. April 2014, A.K.M. Mamunur Rashid and Md. Rafiqul Islam.
The objective of this policy brief is to explore opportunities and challenges to planning and financing community (local) resilience, which demands strengthening of the governance of climate change finance at the local level. It provides a critical review of the major trends, main challenges and opportunities and proposed ways forward in relation to the local delivery and management of climate finance (intended as all climate-related finance, and not only as the provision of international climate-specific funds) in Bangladesh.
Urban Disaster Risk Reduction Report In Dhaka, April 2014, WorldVision.
The research presented in this report examines the urban DRR landscape of Dhaka. In doing so, it identifies the hazards faced by slum residents in Dhaka and examines existing initiatives in the city to address DRR. The information in the report was done by academics working at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development with support from WorldVision.
Loss & Damage: Early Lessons from the Process to Enhance Understandings of Loss and Damage in Bangladesh November 2013, Erin Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Anna Hasemann and Stephen Roddick.
Loss and damage: from global to local. November 2013, Saleemul Huq and Erin Roberts.
At the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) in Doha a landmark decision on loss and damage was reached to establish institutional arrangements to address loss and damage at COP19. Though the form these arrangements will take is still being debated, a consensus is developing. Research in Bangladesh, for example, has highlighted the need to address loss and damage in comprehensive risk management frameworks, facilitate cross- sectoral collaboration and integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation agendas. Local-level research in nine developing countries suggests targeting adaptation support better, providing policymakers with signals about the limits to adaptation and involving communities in decision- making processes. At COP19 in Warsaw, parties must have these and other needs in mind if they are to establish institutional arrangements to mobilise the necessary action and support.
Commentary: Loss and Damage. November 2013, Saleemul Huq, Erin Roberts and Adrian Fenton
Loss and damage is a relative newcomer to the climate change agenda. It has the potential to reinvigorate existing mitigation and adaptation efforts, but this will ultimately require leadership from developed countries and enhanced understanding of several key issues, such as limits to adaptation.
Weather Index Insurance: Lessons and Best Practices for Bangladesh. September 2013, Ahmed, T. and Hasemann, A.
Human-induced climate change adds another dimension to this traditional arena of disaster risk reduction (DRR) by making the frequency and magnitude of weather-related disasters greater. In the climate change global policy arena under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), this issue covers both adaptation to climate change (ACC) and the new, emerging topic of loss and damage (L+D) from climate change. Index-Based Insurance (IBI) is an emerging tool that cuts across these three arenas; namely, DRR, ACC and L+D. It is in this spirit that the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), together with WorldFish, undertook an initial scoping study and then convened a workshop with relevant stakeholders in Bangladesh to explore the interest in this topic.
Taking Effective Community-based Adaptation to Scale: An assessment of the GEF Small Grants Programme Community-Based Adaptation Project in Namibia, June 2013, ICCCAD.
This report is an exploratory study on scaling up and scaling out the GEF SGP community-based adaptation (CBA) project, implemented by UNDP. Using Namibia in sub-Saharan Africa as a case study, this report identifies which processes used and results obtained are effective.
Religious Interpretations for the Causes of the Indian Ocean Tsunami , February 2013, Bimal Kanti Paul and Md. Nadiruzzaman.
A key element of culture, religion helps us understand how people across the globe interact with their environment on a daily basis, as well as during extreme events. This paper offers an analysis of the religious causes for the 2004 Tsunami through four religious groups who were affected in South and Southeast Asia.
Scoping Report – Current Status of IBI in Bangladesh, 2013, Ahmed, T, WorldFish.
With current and anticipated increases in magnitude of extreme weather events and a declining consistency in weather patterns, particularly challenging for agriculture, there has been a growing interest in weather index-based insurance (IBI) schemes in Bangladesh. A number of weather index-based insurance products have already been tested and applied across Asia and Africa, with varying degrees of success, as a mechanism to improve livelihood security by enabling vulnerable populations to transfer risk associated with climate change, extreme weather events and other hazards. In the process, these efforts have generated important new knowledge on how these schemes can be designed and implemented for optimal results. However, the practice of index-based insurance is still limited in Bangladesh, and the experience and knowledge generated by the different stakeholders involved needs to be better communicated.
Moving Towards Transformed Resilience Assessing Community-Based Adaptation in Bangladesh, December 2012, ActionAid Bangladesh, ICCCAD.
This study explores the effectiveness of ActionAid Bangladesh's community-based adaptation (CBA) interventions in fostering progress towards 'transformed resilience' of the climate vulnerable poor.
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Human Health: Empirical Evidences from a Coastal District (Satkhira) in Bangladesh, December 2012, Md. Golam Rabbani, Saleemul Huq and Syed Hafizur Rahman.
This chapter emphasizes observations on the impacts of climate change on water resources and human health with special reference to the coastal zone in Bangladesh. It is part of larger volume edited by Velma I. Grover called "Impact of Climate Change on Water and Health".
Ensuring Access for the Climate Vulnerable in Bangladesh: Financing Local Adaptation, September 2012, Kevan Christensen et al.
ActionAid Bangladesh, in association with experts, academicians, scientists and other stakeholders, conducted the study "Financing Local Adaptation: Ensuring Access for the Climate Vulnerable in Bangladesh". It captures ground experiences to provide some guidelines for a structure that ensures equitability, transparency and effectiveness. AAB will remain dedicated for achieving justice and a climate-resilient future for those most at risk.
Adaptation Experts in Training, October 2012, IIED.
This reflects and showcases our work at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). It looks at how Southern institutions like ICCCAD in Bangladesh can help build capacity in countries most vulnerable to climate change, and highlights lessons learnt from this project.
Ensuring Access for the Climate Vulnerable in Bangladesh (Report Summary), May 2012, ICCCAD, ActionAid, BCAS, ARCAB.
The study proposes a mechanism for channeling climate adaptation finance to LGIs in Bangladesh. The proposal envisions an ideal future funding system while acknowledging that it will require time and some institutional changes to implement.
A brief overview of Community-Based Adaptation, Patrick Kirkby, Casey Williams and Saleemul Huq.
Many consider Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to be a 'vital approach to the threat climate change poses to the poor.'1 However, no concise yet comprehensive overview of CBA exists. This briefing paper seeks to fill that gap by providing an overview of CBA, its core principles and challenges.
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Home Cars 30 Muscle Cars Drivers Avoided That Are Now Worth Millions
30 Muscle Cars Drivers Avoided That Are Now Worth Millions
2. Mercury Cougar Boss 302
They conceived the Mercury Cougar as a luxury pony car, building it on a stretched Mustang platform. This meant all the engines they installed in the Mustang could easily fit into the Cougar as well.
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In 1969, Ford introduced the Boss 302, and Mercury got its own version too. They called it the Cougar Boss 302. Strangely, Ford didn't widely advertise this highly-capable pony car, so it remained obscure. Mercury produced just 169 of them, and it's a mystery how many have survived to this day.
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1. 1969 Plymouth Barracuda 440
The biggest news for 1969 was the introduction of the Barracuda 440 V8. It was a monster pony car with the biggest engine ever installed under the hood of a car in that segment. The Barracuda 440 produced 375 HP and a massive 480 lb-ft of torque. This made it fast but also hard to launch due to loads of wheel spin.
Due to the engine's tight fit, there wasn't enough space for a power steering pump. That meant Barracuda 440 owners had to use their muscles to turn this compact but overly powerful car. Plymouth only made a handful of these models, which makes them very rare today.

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What is the best review book for step 3 in 2016?
View Poll Results: What is the best review book for step 3 in 2016?
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 2. You have to register to vote in this poll.
There's an older poll on this topic, but it's quite out-dated.
All these books have been published in the past 2 years. Please vote if you know enough about the book and you found it useful for exam.
45 views and no vote, pretty funny!
It would be nice to see more replies Peter Pan. Everything is give me give me mentality sometimes in these forums lol.
My plan is to focus on uworld step 3 and ccs as my textbooks. There is so much information to learn from those 2 resources alone. I also bought the step 3 kaplan qbook for extra questions but this is a much older resource and one should only use this early on or as a break from uworld. There will be outdated guidelines in there but uworld will cover the latest.
I have a personal bias to the MTB series and did not like them when trying to use them for CK. I bought them only because people all had used them. After the CK exam, I went back to check on the MTB books and there was nothing striking from their books in where I would feel regret in not using them.
I bought the First Aid step 3 4th edition print copy and it's ok for just fact reference. It's much more detailed than MTB but not meant to be a cover to cover read. Fischer is actually one of the faculty reviewers of the First Aid Step 3 lol. The minute details in first aid can be useful to just know those things not tested in question format. There is a decent amount of basic science stuff but I don't think step 3 is heavy on this for us to study first aid step 1 all over.
There are no reviews of recommended resources from the back of the First Aid step 3 like how they did for their Step 1 and Step 2ck books.
At the end of first aid step 3, there are about 63 ccs cases. Almost similar to the mini case format like in their first aid step 2 cs book. Not very detailed and maybe just useful to get a primary basic idea of ccs topics before focusing on uworld ccs.


For access by private and public transportation click on Directions to the University. For the campus location of the Faculty of Exact Sciences buildings click on the Orientation Maps.
At the second traffic circle enter through gate 14, go straight until you get to a traffic circle and turn right.
Go straight (east) up the main road, with the Recanati Business School building on your right, followed by the Gilman Faculty of Humanities building, and then the Cymbalista Synagogue.


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Featuring an ensemble cast of Govinda, Madhuri Dixit, and Anupam Kher in the lead roles, Paap Ka Ant is a revenge drama movie which showcases a woman's fight for justice. The plot focuses on advocate Jyoti who is in love with the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Khanna. Watch Paap Ka Ant online to enjoy this classic revenge drama. But things take a turn when Khanna gets killed by two criminals whom he was following. This is followed by the murderers getting acquitted because of the help they get from their connections. This is when Jyoti pledges to avenge her husband's murder and starts her own investigation to get justice. Watch Paap ka Ant full movie to know what happens next.
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Goodbye Jack City, Hello CT
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CT, the newest channel created by Solar Entertainment, was launched yesterday. (Logo courtesy of Solar Entertainment Corporation)
After nearly three years, Jack City officially signed off for the last time.
The one-time free TV sister station of Jack TV bade farewell to its loyal viewers last Saturday. But instead of a merger between Jack City and Jack TV, Solar Entertainment decided to keep the Jack TV branding and establish a different channel instead.
Thus, on Sunday, March 22, Solar launched CT on the channel formerly occupied by Jack City. The new channel shares some of the programming of its predecessor, but added comedy programs, talk shows and reality series in its lineup.
According to Solar Entertainment, CT is described as:
"the hippest channel for urban adventurers who have the thirst for thought provoking and buzz worthy shows, blended with citified unscripted series that aims to match the urbanite lifestyle of our viewers, and complimented with urban blended sitcoms and a talk show that completes the entertainment needs of these contemporary individuals."
Solar added that CT caters to "the tasteful market who enjoy great quality entertainment – day or night – by watching first rate, smart programs, direct from the U.S." That said, CT's audience is expected to remain dominated by young urban males, in the same manner as Jack City, while its programming is versatile enough to attract female viewers as well.
As mentioned earlier, CT will feature a number of drama series that were previously aired on Jack City. Thus, the ongoing seasons of series such as 'Chicago Fire', 'Grimm' and 'Bones' will continue to air on the new channel.
In addition, classic comedy programs such as 'Friends', 'Seinfeld' and 'Will and Grace' will be re-aired. And for fans of reality and talk shows, CT will also bring 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon', among others, to its lineup.
CT is currently available on the following channels:
SkyCable Channel 138
Destiny Cable Channel 64 (Analog) and 138 (Digital)
Cignal Channel 22
Cable Link Channel 40
Viewers can only hope that CT will stick much longer than its predecessor Jack City. If Solar can manage this channel well, the better it is for CT to thrive in the long run.


Giving you a little deja vu with recipes for all your favorite foods… made vegan!
Are you vegan, but you still crave ice cream, cheese, ranch dressing or chicken noodle soup?
Do you want to go vegan, but you're afraid to give up your favorite foods?
Don't worry, I've got you covered! You will be surprised by how delicious vegan recipes can be and you never have to feel deprived!
Easy vegan no-churn ice cream.
I'll give you recipes for delicious foods that bring you back to the time when you ate these favorite classics!
I will help you recreate all those old favorites that you are craving right in your own kitchen! And… they will taste even better knowing that they are healthier and no animals were hurt for your meal!
A vegan grilled cheese sandwich with homemade vegan cheese that melts!
Your life is busy and I know how hard it can be to plan meals, shop for groceries, and cook after a long day. When you are vegan, it is really hard sometimes to do it all, and if you are gluten-free, well… it can just seem impossible!
I want to help make eating vegan simple and easy so that you can happily maintain the vegan lifestyle long term so I have a super easy section of the blog with meal ideas that can be whipped up in less than 15 minutes.
A vegan fajita filled with portabella mushrooms, onions, peppers, and guacamole.
I'm vegan and have been vegan and gluten-free for a long time.
My recipes are tried and true recipes that I actually feed to my family daily. (I see some large food companies targeting the gluten-free or vegan community because it's currently a "food trend." They create recipes to fill the niche, but these recipes really aren't that great and sometimes don't even come out at all).
I make simple meals with common vegan ingredients. Most ingredients can be found at your local grocery store or I link to where you can find them.
Some blogs share only super healthy dishes with no sugar, salt, fat, or processed foods. This is also not me! I use lots of fruits and vegetables and make "healthier" foods, but I'm also realistic. If you're feeding a family and you want to maintain a vegan lifestyle long-term, you need to use some sweeteners, salt, and oils in your cooking or there will be mutiny. I try to maintain a balance between healthy recipes and those that will satisfy my family.
I truly care about you maintaining a vegan lifestyle. Because of this, I have created a private Facebook Group where you can get help veganizing your recipes. Simply post any recipe you would like to veganize and get help to convert it to a recipe that will fit your dietary needs. I am in the group daily and can personally help you with any recipe that you want. Click here to join the private Facebook group!
I'm a real gluten-free/ vegan mom sharing recipes that my family loves. I try to post at least once a week (sometimes twice) but I'm not going to mass produce recipes. You can be sure that my recipes have been tested many times by my own family, so if you follow the recipe, it will be delicious!
I made the switch to healthier eating and transitioned into a vegan lifestyle over 19 years ago, and I've never looked back.
I know how hard it can be to make the transition to healthy eating and I have missed those comfort foods that I ate as a child. Instead of giving up on veganism and a healthier diet, I learned to get creative in the kitchen and make my vegan food taste as good as the comfort foods that I missed.
Finding this middle ground between healthy food and food that still tastes good has helped me to stay vegan for 19 years (and my husband stay vegan for over 21 years), and has allowed us to raise 2 vegan children who have never wanted a drop of meat or dairy!
I grew up eating a typical American diet of meat, cheese, and milk. Then, in college and my early 20s, I ate lots of highly processed convenience foods. I was never overweight, so I thought that I was healthy. That is until I became debilitated with an autoimmune disease at the age of 23. I spent the next 2 years visiting doctors and taking medications which came with side effects that were worse than the illness itself.
After reading that autoimmune diseases may be caused by diet and environmental toxins, I decided to throw out all of the chemicals and heal myself with food. I gave up all animal products, processed food, and sugar and ate a strict macrobiotic diet. Within a few weeks, my body began to heal and I was beginning to feel better than ever.
After just 5 months of this healthy diet, my new energy enabled me to set off to backpack the Appalachian Trail!
It was there that I encountered my first Vegan. (I didn't identify myself as a vegan at the time; just someone healing my body with food). We bonded over brown rice and broccoli and quickly fell in love.
That cute long haired hippy soon became my husband and we are raising 2 beautiful vegan boys together.
The hectic life of working as a behavior therapist and raising children challenged me to continue to create healthy recipes that were quick, practical, and kid-friendly. I saw first hand the power that diet changes had to heal when my clients' parents eliminated gluten, casein, and food dyes in their children's diet.
Then, when my own child developed an autoimmune disorder, doctors recommended that we go gluten-free. I faced a new challenge in feeding my family gluten free plant-based foods that they would still love.
My children have PANDAS/ PANS which is an autoimmune disorder triggered by strep or other infections. (The disease has a strong genetic component). It has been a long hard battle to get them well and diet changes have helped them to heal.
They have made significant improvements after going gluten-free. (I also try to sneak turmeric into many recipes to reduce inflammation). I do my best to avoid chemical additive, food dyes, and excessive sugar in my recipes and of course include lots of fruits and vegetables.
My mission is to help more people transition to a healthier diet without having to give up the great tasting comfort foods that they love. I am excited to share my recipes with you and wish health and wellness to you and your family.
This is an article that I wrote for Huff Post about my oldest son if you are curious or want to learn more about PANDAS. Click here.
Do you need things that your picky kids will eat? See my vegan kids' favorite recipes!
I am excited that you have found The Hidden Veggies! I hope that you give my recipes a try and I'm here to help you with any questions you may have along the way!


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Today the repair guy came back to install a 4th hose in our dishwasher and a sump, whatever that is, that Lester (the rat) had also chewed. I've been washing dishes by hand for a month and using only one side of the sink, because the other one had been draining onto the floor. The critter guy went into a different cabinet and installed a steel plate and mesh and foam and we are hoping that was the last entry point for the rat. I am sorry Lester may dehydrate and die, but the costs of repair were mounting.
Four days ago, Ed handed me the phone for an on-line support outfit I had used that had been suggested to me by Hewlett-Packard. Ed had downloaded Windows 10, and the effort had frozen our computer. I called Hewlett-Packard and we didn't have a warranty anymore and they referred us to Buzztech. Buzztech spent three days foomfing and fawmfing and I told Ed I was stopping with them and getting Andy our local tech because something about their effort didn't smell right. Also, for three days, I couldn't go out, because I was either on the phone with them, or waiting for their call. Ed was irritated because we had already paid them $150. Our tech said we should buy a new computer. We did that, but also had our old computer updated by Staples to Windows 10 and I inherited it. I wrote about this.
Buzztech kept calling wanting an evaluation of their service. I put them off. Ed picked up on the latest call and handed me the phone. The computer tech said I had been hacked, my data was compromised, a thousand errors, don't use your on-line banking, don't this, don't that. He scared me. He wanted us to use a powerful protection item called the Microsoft Shield and said Amazon and Wal-mart were selling it for thousands, but he could let us have it for $500. He showed us Amazon's website (a bogus page) that showed the item for up to $3,000. He showed us internal pages of compromised computer files on our computer. All very scary, all very important looking. These were all bogus pages they had set up to plug in and let you see.
Ed said, "I can't agree to your deal. I don't know you. Here's what: You say you'll get our money back from Re-Image – do that and when I see that it's done, we'll talk." Later that night, I tried to get into my computer and got a sign-in box that was not the regular one, asking for a password. I typed the one I use and it proceeded to other pages that all dead-ended. I called our local tech, Andy, who was to come on Tuesday. On Tuesday his scheduler called to say that he had an emergency – a doctor's internal computers had been hijacked and the outfit was demanding a ransom. So Andy went there instead, and I agree that was a priority. I got a referral number from Andy's assistant for a tech store in Cape Coral. After a talk with their tech on the phone, I agreed to bring in my computer. Meanwhile, Ed's seemed to still be working, but a day later when I tried to sign in to his computer, the screen did not move to the next step and remained in connect mode for hours. We crashed it and left it alone.
Buzztech called back, hoping to close the deal. I accused them of locking us out. And they said, no, that was the hackers doing that to you because you wouldn't let us fix things. Also, this guy said in his Indian accent, that his name was something like Steve Wilson (close enough). I said, no it's not. Why do you say that, he asked. Because, I said the name doesn't match your accent. Duh.
I took my computer in. The women, Ce (for Cecilia) who owns the store is a computer genius. When she heard my story she asked if they had asked me to type control R on my keyboard and then had me type in a code, which they had. She said that's how they got in. She also said, since I had done it, I couldn't accuse them of anything. She said I had a severe lockdown situation. She worked on it while I sat next to her, and she was able to override the blocks and get in. She said I should leave it overnight so she could clean out some malware and other stuff. She also recommended "Eset" a computer security program that she said far excelled anything else out there, including Norton, which she said was now owned by the Pakistanis and was no longer effective. Another suggestion was to change our IP address. Ed tried to do that with CenturyLink, that supplies our phone, TV and internet service, but their tech messed us up and then we couldn't get on line at all. Ce also suggested we switch to Comcast. It has its problems (they all do) but its internet is far superior to CenturyLink.
I went back the next day (a half hour drive each way) and got my computer. I also took Ed's computer in and when she booted it up, it had the same toxic password request that had been on my computer. This one was trickier but she did manage to get in and avoided having to wipe the drive and reload windows and restore the data, a bigger process.
As I said, genius at work here.
We also learned from Ce that Embarqmail, our CenturyLink e mail service, will not let us transfer our email address book and related data. She loaded Windows Live Mail on to my computer. Now, no matter what e mail I have, Embarq or Comcast or Verizon, it will go into Livemail on my computer. It also has excellent spam blocks and other features.
While I was worrying about all this, a neighbor stopped by to tell me my friend John, who I help, was on his way to the hospital since she had seen the ambulance at his house. I ran over there, but they were leaving and wouldn't let me talk with him and wouldn't tell me what was wrong because they "weren't allowed to." I gave them the finger. I spoke with him on his cell later and said I would take care of Buster for him.
I picked him up from the hospital the next day and got him home, but he is very weak. John has a compromised immune system and is allergic to many things, and the hospital gave him a drug that messed him up. I awoke in the middle of the night worrying about him, so I went over this morning. He was hanging in but too weak to help himself. I filled a couple of glasses with ice water, and heated a can of chicken noodle soup and I will keep checking on him and will walk the dog until John is better.
I wish there was a way to harm the computer predators who have done this to us. Ce said that all she gets lately is people who have been hacked or victimized as we have been. We finally had to have her come to the house to finish solving the internet access problem, which she did earlier today and now I can get on line again.
Anyway, Buzztech and Re-Image are outfits to avoid, but the bottom line is you can't anymore trust any on-line computer fix outfit. Be absolutely sure if you are working remotely who the tech works for. My solution is not to get on line support. Except for Apple, when I need help with my iPod. They have been reliable.
Get local people who can make a house call, or for a cheaper fix, take your tower to the shop. Never agree to have any on-line support person take over your computer, don't cooperate and interact with an on-line tech person who asks you to click on things, as I did. Don't believe horror stories about your computer having been invaded. If this harms on-line support teams who actually work to help their clients, too bad. We need honest techies to start fighting back against these people. They have the skills.
I gave Hewlett-Packard a reaming out because they referred me to Buzztech. I'm not finished with them. Their main office is getting a letter.
problems, I lucked out. I hope Lester is toast.
What a mess. I always worry about my husband clicking on the wrong download or something and mess up his computer. I can give him limited IT support, but Windows really isn't my thing. I hope the rat problem is solved.
So you had to contend with several kinds of rats. How awful, but what a great friend to know who fixed things.


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import B'C'4
 (
   Move ( Rock , Paper , Scissors )
 )
import E'4'11
 (
   Result ( Win , Lose , Draw )
 )
import qualified E'4'12 ( outcome )

outcome :: Move -> Move -> Integer
outcome firstPlayerMove secondPlayerMove

 =  case (E'4'12.outcome firstPlayerMove secondPlayerMove) of

     Win  ->  1
     Draw ->  0
     Lose -> -1

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Veronica Zupan, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, North West Private Hospital, Tasmania.
Midwifery in Australia is much like Midwifery overseas, where we strive to have the best of midwifery practice despite the difference settings. In most public hospitals throughout Australia, you will find a range of models of care that women can either choose, or depending on their circumstances, be placed into.
Public hospitals see extremely large amounts of women, birth numbers go from 2500 to 5000. Due to these numbers, they run most models of care including obstetric, GP shared care, midwives clinic, team midwifery, case load midwifery and high risk models.
I believe that continuity of care comes when you work within a team midwifery model or case load model. However, given the large in-take numbers in the public hospital system, it would be very difficult to experience the true meaning of continuity of care. It is more than likely that you will be rostered into a unit for months at a time which may not allow you to follow through with patients.
Private hospitals, like Hurstville Private believe in giving continuity of care. Currently at Hurstville Maternity we have an obstetric model of care. This is a model where the care is shared between the patient, Obstetrician and Midwife, with equal decision making.
Rotation and flexibility is a key requirement in maternity services. We want midwives that seek to expand their knowledge base, and continue to keep their skills updated and current.
At Hurstville Maternity we have 3 units within the maternity unit, which includes antenatal, delivery suit, postnatal unit and Special Care Nursery. Special Care Nursery cares for neonates delivered from 34 weeks, babies at an earlier gestation that require care will be transported to acute NICU service. Similarly in our sister hospital in Tasmania – North West Private, midwives will work across all in-patient maternity units.
For more information on Midwifery opportunities in Australia, ICE Group along with Hurstville and North West Private Hospitals are hosting a number of information sessions across UK and Ireland from 26th to 30th November 2018.
To find out more contact me on nurse@icegroup.ie or WhatsApp 00353 8712515310.
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Materialien und Werkstoffe Professor/in Bayern Hochschule
Tenure Track Assistant Professorship "Interface Materials Engineering"
09.03.2018 Technical University of Munich (TUM) München
Professur (W1) für Sensory Sciences "Oberflächenfunktionalisierung polymerer Werkstoffe" (Open Topic Tenure Track)
30.12.2020 Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Erlangen
Professur Werkstofftechnik und Fertigungstechnik
23.12.2020 Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt Ingolstadt
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) invites applications for the position of
in »Interface Materials Engineering«
to begin in winter semester 2018/19. The position is a W2 fixed-term position (6 years) with tenure track option to a tenured W3 position (Associate Professor). The professorship is funded by the Federal Tenure Track Programme.
The professorship belongs to the TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering. Important links exist to the TUM Departments of Physics and Chemistry.
The responsibilities include research and teaching as well as the promotion of early-career scientists. We seek to appoint an expert in the research area of Interface Materials and Materials Interfaces Engineering with a strong numerical / theoretical component, e.g. in the context of modelling, process description or diagnostics. The teaching load includes courses in the university's bachelor and master programs.
We are looking for a candidate who has demonstrated initial scientific achievements and the capacity for independent research at the highest international standards. A university degree and an outstanding doctoral degree or equivalent scientific qualification as well as pedagogical aptitude, including the ability to teach in English, are also prerequisites. Substantial research experience abroad is expected.
Based on best international standards and transparent performance criteria, TUM offers a merit-based academic career option for tenure track faculty from Assistant Professor through a permanent position as Associate Professor, and on to Full Professor. The regulations of TUM Faculty Recruitment and Career System apply.
TUM provides excellent working conditions in a lively scientific community, embedded in the vibrant research environment of the Greater Munich Area.
The TUM Munich Dual Career Office (MDCO) provides tailored career consulting to the partners of newly appointed professors. MDCO gives assistance for relocation and integration of new professors, their partners and accompanying family members.
TUM is an equal opportunity employer. As such, we explicitly encourage applications from women. Applications from disabled persons with essentially the same qualifications will be given preference.
Application documents should be presented in accordance with TUM's application guidelines for professors. These guidelines and detailed information about the TUM Faculty Recruitment and Career System are available on http://www.tum.de/faculty-recruiting.
Please send your application no later than April 30th, 2018 to the Dean of Mechanical Engineering, Prof. Nikolaus Adams, Email: dekan@mw.tum.de.


Chris Gibson - The Natural Expert: TCA Peel: Is The PAIN Worth The GAIN In Skin Repair?
TCA Peel: Is The PAIN Worth The GAIN In Skin Repair?
Remember the adage "No Pain, No Gain"? Well maybe in the old days of skin repair and rejuvenation that carried some truth but not today.
With the new science and technologies with natural ingredients there are much safer and even more effective ways to accomplish a new skin.
Yesterday I covered one of the more natural approaches by discussing glycolic peels. Today, we are going to look at a strong chemical peeling agent.
This is a true acid peel usually performed by a dermatologist or certified salon esthetician. This treatment does burn the outer layers of skin and carries with it moderate discomfort and risk of infection.
It all but removes the outer layers of skin and there is a healing time of about one and a half to two weeks. I tried one of these peels myself and it was painful for me.
I also did NOT like the patchy areas on my face as they were very noticeable and took a long time to peel off. You have to slather the skin with Neosporin or other antibacterial salve until your skin completely peels, which makes you look like a greasy, flaky mess.
Personally, this peel was not for me!
It has varying strengths and time frames to be used on the skin and should only be performed by a certified professional. These peels can give good results if you can stomach the downtime but are painful and can be costly.
One of the major drawbacks to this peel is if you get too much sunlight (and it differs by individual) you can get darkened skin, which can reverse any benefit you may receive.
Total cost of a full-face TCA chemical peel treatment routine at the time of this writing can average up to $2,000.00. If you wish to have only a portion of your face peeled, such as the area around your mouth or the area around your eyes, you will pay about $1,200.00 for the professional service and follow up visits.
The TCA Peel is an option, but there are other alternatives to consider and I will cover those in the following articles this week.
In the meantime, I always like to give everyone more access to information that you can use today so visit the next link below to get step-by-step information on how to keep your skin healthy, clear, and youthful looking!


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The history behind Krunker.io
The first build of krunker.io was released on May 20 2018, a less-buggy, more complete version of the game was released on 15 June 2018, according to a tweet by the game's lead developer, Sidney de Vries. Krunker.io is the first 3D first person shooter released by Sidney de Vries and his team at Yendis Entertainment. The team has been involved with browser games since mid 2016, releasing early popular io games such as vertix.io.
The summer of 2016 spawned a massive global interest in the newly created io game genre as shown by indie successes such as slither.io and . As a result, vertix.io was receiving plenty of traffic, with De Vries tweeting that it has been played by 5 Million users as of 27 July 2016. De Vries and his team took full advantage of the trend and began releasing additional io game projects.
On August 2016, De Vries releases a simple io game called Driftin.io which he claimed to have made by himself in less than one week as part of a personal challenge. While it received some attention from the io fanbase, De Vries was still keen on capitalizing further on the io game trend. On September 22 2016, he released doblons.io which he claimed to have worked on for about 4 days.
By the end of September 2016, De Vries' io game portfolio was reaching more than 400,000 unique players daily and the io game trend wasn't showing any signs of slowing down. On November 18 2016, De Vries released his fourth io game, bloble.io and his fifth karnage.io on 21 January 2017. By this point, De Vries' io game portfolio had been played several hundred million times. He and his team had learned a significant amount about player behaviour and the tastes of the io game audience.
On 9 March 2017, De Vries released what would be his most successful game by far, Moomoo.io Moomoo.io was an enormous global hit, reaching millions of io game players and having tens of thousands of players online concurrently. Throughout early 2017, De Vries and his team continued worked hard to support moomoo.io, releasing regular bug fixes and updates. An Android version was released on 14 May 2017 and the IOS version on 24 May 2017.
Seeing the popularity of Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) and the overall success of the battle royale game game mode, De Vries and his team were one of the first to bring it to the io game genre with their title foes.io. With a similar aesthetic to Moomoo.io and an audience hungry for battle royale games, foes.io received a lot of attention upon release. Unfortunately, the early foes.io player base dwindled away quickly through the end of 2017 and early 2018. Many io gamers chose more popular battle royale titles such as surviv.io and zombsroyale.io.
De Vries and his team didn't let this slow them down, however. De Vries tweeted a link to a semi-polished build of krunker.io on 15 June 2018. Built using Three.js as the 3D WebGL game engine, Krunker.io was able to run fairly well on even low-end machines. In the first few weeks after release, several hundred krunker.io players were online concurrently, by October of 2018, it was in the thousands.
De Vries and his team could tell that Krunker.io had enormous potential. They continued supporting the game with regular bug fixes and updates. The fanbase was very pleased when the account system was released. Players were able to track their stats across multiple games and play sessions. The team soon released a map editor which was met with much praise. Fans were able to recreate their favorite Call of Duty and CounterStrike maps and then share them with the community.
By the end of 2018, Krunker.io was receiving plenty of attention from all kinds of competetive games. De Vries' twitter feed has a bunch of retweets of various competetive FPS teams sharing short krunker.io gameplay montages. By the start 2019, De Vries and his team were hosting regular Krunker.io tournaments with significant cash prizes.
A common criticism of Krunker.io is that the servers aren't big enough. Many lobbies only support a maximum of 6 - 8 players. While Krunker.io has been a massive commcerial success, it shows that the backend architecture is lacking. A simple analysis of the game's networking traffic shows that the Krunker.io servers' tick rate is only 10. That is, the krunker.io servers only update 10 times per second. Compare that to any triple A FPS, krunker.io's tick rate is incredibly low. Counter-Strike, for example has servers which run at tick rates of 64. Fortnite has a more modest tick rate of 30, but this is still three times higher than Krunker's. A low tick rate can lead to many kinds of annoying gameplay problems such as bad hit detection, getting hit while behind cover and glitchy collision detection.
It is rumored that De Vries used an old, open-source version of an early Counter Strike server as a template for the Krunker.io backend. It's believed he re-wrote the Krunker.io server from scratch in JavaScript. Compared to faster, compiled programming languages like C, C++, and Rust, JavaScript runs relatively slowly. Most game servers are CPU bound, meaning the game server's capacity is limited by how many operations the server's CPU can handle. The more players in the game instance, the more operations the CPU will have to handle. Slower languages will reduce the number of operations the CPU can handle and as a result, reduce the number of players the server can handle. This is the likely reason behind Krunker.io's low server capacity.
While Krunker.io is a ton of fun to play as it is currently, without some massive infrastructure upgrades, it's unlikely we'll see 100 Player Krunker.io Battle Royales any time soon.


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Le Coucher du Soleil Romantique
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Michael Rothenstein
Pink Sky over the HouseFourth of July II
Item Code: MR-406-s
Colour woodcut and linocut
Date of Work
Base price $1,294
Includes free standard framing and UK delivery
Original signed colour woodcut and linocut.
Suns and Moons Suite, 1972 is a collection of eight woodcuts with linocut accompanied by poems, printed by Shelley Rose at Argus Studio.
An edition of 85, originally only 75 were for sale.
Suns and Moons exhibited at Oxford Gallery, 1972 and at the British Artists Books 1970-1983, Atlantis Gallery 1984.
Born in Hampstead, London, on 19 March 1908, Rothenstein was the youngest of four. He studied at Chelsea Polytechnic and Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1924-7. He had his first one-man show in 1938 and during World War II participated in the Pilgrim Trust Recording Britain project. After the war, he taught printmaking at Camberwell School of Art and was Art Fellow at Sheffield University in 1962.
Rothenstein became one of the most experimental printmakers in Britain during the '50s and '60s. As well as found objects such as wood offcuts and metal debris, he incorporated fresh 20th century imagery into his relief prints, combining photographic material with traditional woodcuts and linocuts. Numerous major galleries currently hold his work and he was made Hon. RE and elected RA in 1983.
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Oakland To Hold Housing Fee Hearing
The Oakland City Council will hold a public hearing on April 19, 2016, to consider a proposed new affordable housing impact fee program. Expected to go into effect on Sept. 1, 2016, the fee ranges from $750 to $7,000 per unit, depending on location. (The city is divided into three geographic zones.) Fees are proposed to increase again in July 2017 and July 2018, eventually reaching a range of $13,000 per unit to $24,000 per unit. BIA|Bay Area's partners at the Jobs Housing Coalition successfully persuaded the Oakland Community and Economic Development Committee to phase in the fee over three years despite heavy pressure from affordable housing advocacy organizations to immediately levy the maximum rates. However, the affordable housing advocates are now objecting to the proposed inclusion of moderate income units as part of the eligible affordable housing mix. Applicants that provide a minimum of 25 percent affordable units on-site — 10 percent moderate, 10 percent low income and 5 percent very low income — would not be subject to the new affordable housing impact fee. Click here to view the agenda and associated documents.


Sodium bicarbonate, also known as baking soda or sodium hydrogen carbonate, is a crystalline solid. Baking soda is not to be confused with baking powder which is a mixture: baking soda is pure. Most of its use is in a fine powder form. Sodium Bicarbonate is one of the ingredients incorporated into Crystal Dreams Bath Salts.
In water, sodium bicarbonate forms a mildly alkaline solution. Benefits of alkaline water include helping the body to cleanse efficiently by detoxifying the skin. The detoxification process leads the body to remove wastes and other toxins, which ultimately has a rejuvenating effect on the skin.
Sodium bicarbonate has a rich history, extending thousands of years into our past. Ancient Egyptians used natural deposits of Natron (a mixture containing sodium hydrogen carbonate) as paint for their hieroglyphics, to clean teeth, and to treat wounds. In the late eighteenth century, sodium carbonate was produced by a pair of New York bakers as a leavening agent for home baking. They established a factory to make sodium bicarbonate from sodium carbonate and carbon dioxide. As it became readily available, sodium bicarbonate was found to be useful in a myriad of applications. Presently, it can even be found in the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines. A 2002 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) publication found that the majority of sodium bicarbonate global applications were in food (human and animal.) About 5% of its use was in cosmetics.
Besides its obvious use in baking, sodium bicarbonate has also found numerous household and personal uses. It can be found added to deodorants, antacids, and detergents. It has been found to relieve itchiness caused by poisonous plants, such as poison ivy and poison oak. Its crystalline nature allows it to be used in toothpaste formulations where it not only helps whiten teeth, but also improves overall dental hygiene.
Sodium bicarbonate finds many uses with its ability to react with acids and bases. As a result of this property, it can be used as a mild disinfectant and odor absorber. This ability further allows it to be used in baths and in bath products to help in cleaning and deodorizing and as a fungicide.
Sodium bicarbonate's physical and chemical properties help it provide a refreshing and therapeutic bath. The skin is the largest organ we have: its role is to protect us by providing a barrier, regulate us physiologically, and provide us with sensation. It takes time for the toxins that we come in contact with daily to penetrate passively through the skin, so washing is always the first line of defence to prevent damage to the skin and inhibit this penetration. Stress causes all kinds of changes in our body, including increasing the amount of oil produced by the skin (Huffington Post, Sept 30, 2015). Time to relax can help ease stressful situations.
The addition of sodium bicarbonate to Crystal Dreams Bath Salts helps to create a mildly alkaline bath which aids in skin cleansing and helps the skin detoxify the body while leaving a silky skin feeling.
Ed was born in Italy and immigrated to Edmonton as a young child. He always had a penchant for science, and followed his interest to the University of Alberta, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. After graduating, he worked in a couple of laboratories before finding his passion for teaching at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT). Ed instructed in Introductory, Analytical, and Instrumental Chemistry for over thirty years. He found it an honour and privilege to assist so many young and vibrant students in finding fulfillment in their ambitions. After retiring, Ed relocated to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. He now spends most of time keeping fit (riding his bike, walking by the ocean, taking fitness classes), and still loves to learn about the world, science, and health.


OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 29, 2009) - The Ottawa Senators announced today that fewer than 2,000 tickets remain for tomorrow's 7 p.m. home game against the Colorado Avalanche, including 150 seats in the Coke Zero Zone.
The game marks the only visit of the season to Ottawa for the Avalanche, which currently sits third in the Western Conference with a 22-12-6 record and 50 points. Colorado is led in scoring by Paul Stastny (nine goals, 30 assists), who ranks eighth (tie) among NHL assist leaders.
Wednesday, Dec. 31, vs. New York Islanders: Fewer than 4,000 tickets remain as the Senators host John Tavares and the New York Islanders for the second and final time this season. It was on Dec. 31, 2008, at Scotiabank Place when Tavares scored three goals to help Team Canada defeat the United States 6-3 during the IIHF 2009 World Junior Championship. The game against the Islanders is sponsored by Metro, and provides fans with the opportunity to score four tickets, four hot dogs and four drinks, free parking and two souvenir pucks, starting at only $109.


Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan is preparing for the international exhibition of floriculture and gardening FLOWERS & GARDEN EXPO UZBEKISTAN from 24 to 26 May 2019.
The exhibition will be held with the support of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan, including the Ministry of Agriculture and the Association of Florists of Uzbekistan, the mayors of the cities of Namangan and Tashkent.
The exhibition "FLOWERS & GARDEN EXPO UZBEKISTAN" is an effective working tool for maintaining and expanding cooperation between Uzbek and foreign companies, as well as sharing experience and attracting investments in the flower and gardening market of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The exhibition will be organized business meetings in a B2B format.
For a more effective organization of this exhibition, specialists from Uzbekistan visited Green Week, IPM-2019 and Floradecora exhibitions in Germany.
At these exhibitions, meetings were held with members of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, with leaders and organizers of exhibitions at Messe Essen, with the leadership of the BGI organization, with the organizers of Floradecora in Messe Frankfurt and many other foreign companies and were invited to this exhibition.
The invitations were accepted by all organizations, they showed great interest and are ready to cooperate in attracting foreign companies and continue to work as partners.
To date, the following companies and organizations from countries such as: Germany (Weizel, SunDivan, CNH Industrial Deutschland GmbH), the Netherlands (Bas van der Velden Joost Ter Laare, Boltha, Boomkwekerij, Dummen Orange, Nijssen), Italy ( Covili Franco Vivai Piante), Spain (Botanica Levantina, SL, Piantefaro the Green Team), Russia (Brotech, Nahodka), Poland (Korfanty), China, Thailand (Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Azerbaijan (Azpromo) and Kyrgyzstan expressed their interest to take part in the event.


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The Iconic 107 Series Turns 50
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