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The Society of Cannabis Clinicians (SCC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States, dedicated to educating healthcare professionals about the medical use of cannabis. Its mission is to unite into one association members of the various medical specialties and allied professionals with this common purpose. SCC is one of the oldest active organization of its kind, and one of the few global non-profit medical societies related to cannabis and cannabinoids, along with the International Cannabinoid Research Society and the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines.

History
The group was first established in 1999 by California-based psychiatrist Tod Mikuriya, MD as a project of the California Cannabis Research Medical Group to facilitate voluntary medical standards for physician-approved cannabis under California law (HSC §11362.5).

Early years: the California Cannabis Research Medical Group
The California Cannabis Research Medical Group (CCRMG) was established as a 501c3 non-profit by Tod Mikuriya in 1999, to help physicians share and exchange data about cannabis use by their patients, essentially in California around the San Francisco area. The CCRMG members published their research findings, such as president Jeffrey Hergenrather's survey of patients with Crohn's disease, in the unconventional Journal of Cannabis in Clinical Practice O'Shaughnessy, and developed an online research archive. CCMRG maintained the William B. O'Shaughnessy Archives.

After 2004: Society of Cannabis Clinicians
After 2004, SCC progressively took over the CCRMG as it started expanding beyond California, as other US States opened access to medical cannabis.

In 2015, SCC launched a Medical Cannabis Continuing Education program, worth 12 CME credits, which in sequential order, a series of 12 courses designed to take a practicing clinician from the basics of the plant, its history and the underlying physiologic (endocannabinoid) system to the pharmacology and clinical practice of medical cannabis.

2020s: Internationalization

In 2019, SCC started an International Committee and launched several national chapters outside the United States, claiming presence in 21 countries and three active chapters.

In 2020, the SCC submitted contributions to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation with access to medical cannabis and the rights of people who use drugs. SCC also contributed to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in relation with the recommendations of the World Health Organization to withdraw cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

In 2021, SCC engaged in the field of veterinary medicine with the launch of an International Veterinary Cannabis Alliance.

Organisation and activities
SCC members hold quarterly meetings of physicians and allied professionals featuring presentations by clinicians, researchers, and legal experts in the medical cannabis field.

The society runs five thematic committees (Editorial, Education, International, Outreach, and Research) for members to share their areas of expertise in the fields that relate to the medical uses of cannabis and cannabinoids.

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 O'Shaughnessy's Archives

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A plague of locusts is threatening farm fields in Argentina. Even though the grasshopper in question doesn't live in the U.S., Midwest farmers are paying attention. How the harvest goes in South America has an influence on prices around the world.
Locusts attack farms in Argentina - Dark clouds of the green-brown bugs cast shadows when they fly overhead and when they land, they cover the ground. Juan Pablo Karnatz, a farmer in Argentina's Santiago del Estero province shot this video on Feb. 5 and Feb 7, 2016.
Farmers began seeing the 2-inch long grasshoppers in June 2015. Now, the Argentine agriculture department is on the job. Miguez says its efforts could keep the locust swarm from reaching major cash crops including corn and soybeans.
Locusts are plague number eight, as detailed in the Bible. But as a new generation of Argentine farmers can attest, locusts are not just a biblical threat. Here in the U.S., however, farmers need not worry.


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Q: Anyone have a Working Example of a Facebook Share Button Using The Feed Dialog Method? I have been looking around for a working example of a Facebook share button using the Feed Dialog method (method number 2 in this article:  http://www.phpied.com/speed-geeks-guide-to-facebook-buttons/)
Does anyone have a js fiddle with an example of this?
Thanks in advance!

A: The example you gave has an one being:
Share

Or Facebook directly for greater detail
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/feed-dialog/v2.4

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Heat stability and emulsifying ability of whole egg and egg yolk as related to heat treatment
L. Campbell, V. Raikos, S.R. Euston
The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health
Egg proteins are extensively utilised in many food products due to their unique functional properties. Some of the egg proteins are particularly sensitive to heat treatment and that can be a limitation to the processing of egg containing products. Suspensions of whole egg and egg yolk were heated at various temperatures in the presence of variable concentrations of sugar and salt. It was shown that egg proteins can withstand severe heat treatments when sugar and salt are present during the process. Depending on the sugar and salt concentrations, whole egg and egg yolk suspensions can be heated at temperatures as high as 80°C (2 min). Sugar and to a higher extent salt had an impact in delaying the denaturation of egg proteins and thus, increased heat stability. The effects of this heat treatment on the emulsifying properties of egg proteins were investigated for a range of protein content levels. Our results indicate that despite the severe heat treatment the egg proteins heated in the presence of sugar and salt were still capable of forming and stabilising emulsions. The sugar and salt concentrations present during the heating process, under specific temperature-time conditions, are correlated with the ionic strength of the solution and the degree of denaturation of the egg proteins, which in turn determine the adsorption capacities of the latter to the interfacial film.
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Monroe-Woodbury, thank you for welcoming Breaking the Cycle to your school. May the personal stories you heard today inspire you to make positive choices in your lives.
We would love to hear your thoughts about today's assembly.
Honestly, your message and your speech really helped me through a lot of the things that were burdening me and weighing me down in my heart; It's a process I know, but forgiving has really made me more peaceful. I get the message and what this is all supposed to do. It's not just another assembly where you guys are bullying us into stop bullying or pushing us into not doing this or that. I love that it shows me how much good it can do to forgive me and those around me. It is a process but it's worth it.


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Nicholas Godejohn Will Use Autism As A Defense In Dee Dee Blanchard's Murder
Godejohn, whose trial starts on Tuesday, said that he wished that he would have known that Gypsy Rose Blanchard's feelings for him were "more manipulation than love."
Nicholas Godejohn [Waukesha County Sheriff's Dept.]
By: Catherine Townsend
SPRINGFIELD, MO — Nicholas Godejohn will use autism as a defense when he goes on trial for the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard.
Godejohn was charged with killing Dee Dee, the mother of his girlfriend, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, in June 2015.
Godejohn's attorneys will argue that due to his autism, he had a diminished mental capacity at the time of the crime, according to Ozarks First. This meant that he was not able to deliberate before making the decision to fatally stab Dee Dee.
Godejohn has claimed that he stabbed Dee Dee to death to end the years of medical abuse that she put Gypsy through.
The case gained international attention after it was revealed that Gypsy had been a victim of Munchausen by proxy since she was a baby.
Over the years, Dee Dee claimed that Gypsy suffered from a variety of illnesses including muscular dystrophy and leukemia. Dee would feed Gypsy through a tube and insist she use a wheelchair. After Dee Dee's murder, Gypsy revealed that she could always walk — but was afraid of her mother's rage if she did so in public.
Godejohn now says that he regrets the murder.
"I wish I would have known it was more manipulation than love cause if I would have known that, I probably would not have been in this situation I'm in," Godejohn told KOLR10. "Due to my main disability, it's pretty easy for me to be deceived."
Godejohn's attorney Dewayne Perry said doctors have diagnosed him with autism.
"Autism spectrum disorder interferes with a person's ability to envision consequences and think ahead," Perry said.
During jury selection, Perry asked for Judge David Jones to allow a mental-health expert to testify that the disease affected Godejohn's ability to consider his actions before the murder.
Prosecutor Dan Patterson argued that a jury should make that determination.
The trial starts on Tuesday.
Several media outlets have reported that Gypsy is expected to testify as a witness for the defense at Godejohn's trial.
Read more: Ozarks First
'I Feel Like I'm Freer In Prison': Gypsy Rose Blanchard & Nicholas Godejohn Speak Out On Dee Dee's Murder
Her family and friends were shocked to see Gypsy Rose Blanchard walk into the courtroom unaided and with a full head of hair growing in.
Robert Durst Pleads Not Guilty In Susan Berman Murder Case
The real estate scion whose story was featured in The Jinx pleaded not guilty to his friend's murder in Los Angeles in 2000.
How A Podcast Helped Solve The Cold Case Murder Of A Georgia Beauty Queen
Payne Lindsay first found Tara Grinstead's case in the GBI's online cold-case files, and has stated that he became obsessed with the details.
The Murderous Pastor Who Craved Sex With The Dead
After killing Conway's mother, John D. White dressed the three-year-old in his Halloween costume and dropped the oblivious boy off to his father in a grocery store parking lot.
Tejano Music Queen Selena Was Shot To Death By The President Of Her Fan Club
As Selena ran from the room, Yolanda Saldivar shot her in the back. Selena died in a hospital due to a loss of blood and cardiac arrest, two weeks before her 24th birthday.
6 Surprising Facts About The Tragic, Twisted Life Of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos is the only female serial killer who FBI profiler Robert Ressler mentioned in his autobiographical history of his 20 years with the FBI.
'Kayak Killer' Angelika Graswald Released After Serving 6 Weeks In Prison
Body Found of Missing Kindergarten Teacher Who Was Last Seen Bailing Out Felon
Ed Ates Was Paroled After Serving 20 Years For A Murder He Says He Didn't Commit
None of Ed Ates's hair, blood, fingerprints, or semen were found at the scene. He had no scratches or bruises on his body, and police found no blood on his clothing or shoes.


A communications device used to summon the SWAT Kats in times of danger. It was similar in appearance and function to Callie Briggs' communicator, except with a blue button in lieu of a red one. Following the ordeal with the gargoyles at Skycor Towers, T-Bone gave one such beeper to Felina Feral. Although she initially refused it, she was urged to keep it "for luck." Fortunately, she did, and she was later able to use it to alert the SWAT Kats to danger when she was kidnapped by Otto and Laszlo and taken to Moorkroft Manor.


Hello fellas :) i update my blog with the headline Monochrome with style. This may be diffrent from the previous entry, with the monochrmatic nuances.
White t-shirt. Black Jeans. Bikers Jacket: Revenge.
Gloves. Postman Hat: vintage stuff.
This look inspired by england vintage style. But i give a edgy and rock touch with the bikers jacket and the gloves. And i really love with the postman hat, it's so vintage. I got the hat from my mom. I was getting the england style while wearing this hats.
Thank you for your comments and for the readers and followers who visited my blog. I really apreciate it. I'll try reply your comment in your blog.
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NASA.gov: Behind the Page
Tag: What's Happening
Preparing for STS-135
As we prepare for the final space shuttle mission, NASA.gov is planning special coverage for the end of this era. Today, the first element of our special coverage rolls out onto the homepage in the form of a promotional graphic and link to get the latest information about the STS-135 mission and the end of the Space Shuttle Era. Keep checking back as we rollout additional new features and special coverage in the coming days and weeks ahead.
P.S. – Have you read some of the wonderful stories in the Space Shuttle Era section detailing every part of over 30 years of the Space Shuttle Program? If not, you really should. It'll give you a great many perspectives on the entire monumental program.
Author jtownsendPosted on June 8, 2011 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags New Features, Recently on NASA.gov, What's Happening1 Comment on Preparing for STS-135
World IPv6 Day
On June 8, NASA joins organizations from across the globe to test out the next generation of the Internet, called Internet Protocol version six or IPv6. As more devices and people come online, the older Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) addresses — those sets of numbers that uniquely identify every device on the Internet — are rapidly running out, making a new series of addresses and protocols necessary. That's where IPv6 comes in since it uses longer strings of numbers and letters to create new addresses.
Upgrading to IPv6 means we can have far more addresses for the continued growth of the Internet. Nearly 20 years ago, a similar upgrade happened to the telephone system in North America when ten-digit dialing became the norm, which greatly expanded the availability of telephone numbers. This Internet upgrade also presents challenges as entire networks from industry, government and universities must be overhauled to simultaneously support both IPv4 and IPv6 — hence the need for a test day.
Other organizations such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo will be among those participating in World IPv6 Day on June 8 for a 24-hour 'test flight' of the new IPv6 running from midnight UTC to midnight UTC a day later. The organizations participating in World IPv6 Day hope that the test will provide the motivation for Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and other Web companies to prepare their services for IPv6 and to ensure a successful transition as the old IPv4 addresses run out.
During World IPv6 Day, the following NASA websites will be reachable via IPv6 for 24 hours:
NASA's Website via a special IPv6 gateway at: ipv6.nasa.gov
NASA's Advanced Supercomputing at: www.nas.nasa.gov
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board at: caib.nasa.gov
NASA's Knowledge Management at: www.km.nasa.gov
The Astronomy Picture of the Day at: apod.eos.nasa.gov
NASA's Earth Observatory at: earthobservatory.eos.nasa.gov
Let us know if you are testing out the IPv6 sites! For more information on World IPv6 Day, please see www.worldipv6day.org.
Author jtownsendPosted on June 8, 2011 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags What's Happening12 Comments on World IPv6 Day
Rolling Out New Buttons and Improved Streams
Notice something different on the homepage? In a subtle switch, late yesterday we changed three of the topical buttons on the right side of the homepage to reflect NASA's new path and new programs. As we said before, websites are organic creatures — growing, shrinking and constantly changing as the organizations they represent are themselves changing. NASA is moving forward on a new path, investing in the commercial space industry for access to low earth orbit, while developing a heavy-lift rocket and crew capsule to carry astronauts beyond Earth's orbit.
As a result, we added Commercial Space and Beyond Earth buttons to the homepage to reflect this transition of direction for the agency. We removed the Moon & Mars buttons as the content previously there was covered under these two new buttons or the existing Solar System button. We also combined NASA History and People into one button since there was often a lot of overlap between those two topical areas. Over the last two blog posts, we asked for feedback about the icon and label for what became the Beyond Earth button. We really appreciate all the feedback we received. It was truly helpful to hone our concepts down to the finished product.
Following up on another blog post from the end of April, we also have some good news to report. After launching NASA TV streaming to Android-based smartphones, we realized we had a compatibility issue with certain versions of the Android system. This produced a scrambled picture for the affected users and was widely reported in the comments. We worked for a few weeks on a fix and soft-launched a fix for the scrambled picture prior to the current Space Shuttle mission.
While this may not solve our stream compatibility issue for every type of Android-based devices, we have been monitoring the blog comments, our hq-webcomments@nasa.gov e-mail account and feedback on NASA's Twitter and Facebook. We think at this point the major scrambled picture issue has been resolved. We'll continue to monitor it and troubleshoot compatibility issues as they arise. We hope it's working significantly better for everyone out there than it was when we first loft-launch Android streaming of NASA TV. Check it out today by visiting http://mobile.nasa.gov on your Android smartphone and selecting the 'Watch NASA TV Live' link at the top of the page.
Author jtownsendPosted on May 27, 2011 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags Recently on NASA.gov, User Feedback, What's Happening
Shifting Trends
Last week, we launched our first shuttle mission in nine months and first of the remaining three space shuttle missions. Given the lull in shuttle missions and the ramp-up to the end of the space shuttle era, we weren't shocked to see an increase in traffic on the website. The places we received traffic, however, were enlightening and reflect growing trends we're seeing elsewhere. This was our fourth largest online video event to date on NASA.gov with over 284,822 unique streams of NASA TV being watched during launch with an average of 42,189 website users per second.
Demand for mobile coverage of NASA is growing at an incredible pace. Over 30,000 people watched the launch on their iOS devices. During the docking of Discovery to the International Space Station, over 20,000 of you were watching on a mobile device. This is incredible growth given that this time last year, we were not even running a beta test of mobile streaming. While we're elated that this is extremely popular, we still have work to do. We have seen incredible growth in the number of people viewing the stream to the point that it has tested some of our hardware to their limits and we are now looking to expand the capacity of the mobile streams.
> Watch NASA TV on your iOS Device
We are also working to add Android-compatible streaming of NASA TV. While the iOS stream was fairly straight forward with a standard MP4 encoded stream, Android presents a more complex array of formats and software versions to grapple with. We're working with our vendors and content hosts to sort this out as soon as possible so that NASA TV will be available to as many of Android users as possible. We hope to have an Android-compatible stream within the coming weeks.
Additionally, NASA TV is broadcasting in HD during this STS-133 Shuttle Mission via UStream. This is a new way to see NASA TV in high definition online. We're still evaluating this stream given our operational requirements. We hope to continue this after the mission, tweaking it to improve the performance along the way.
> Watch NASA TV in High Definition
As we work towards the successful completion of the Space Shuttle Program, there is more interest in the space shuttle than we've seen in a while. Some wonderful writers and program officials throughout the agency have helped to begin a compilation of the entire space shuttle era from every angle. This retrospective will only grow with new content being added all the way until the end of the last mission. It's worth reading these wonderful stories about the nuts and bolts of the program to really see the program from all perspectives.
> Take an in-depth look at the Space Shuttle Era
Author jtownsendPosted on March 4, 2011 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags Addressing Concerns, Recently on NASA.gov, What's Happening2 Comments on Shifting Trends
NASA's First Android App
You've probably heard all the hype about Tang being invented as a drink for the astronauts. Well, we hate to say this — but that's not true. But lots of other amazing technologies have been invented by NASA or through NASA-funded research and now we've got an App for that.
Since our creation in 1958, we've sought to solve the many challenges of space, aviation and exploration through innovation, invention and engineering solutions. We've met these challenges head-on by the hundreds, if not thousands. And now we've created a new way to explore each and every one of NASA's Spinoffs — or innovations created for our nation's space program now in use in your everyday lives — called the NASA Spinoff App for Android.
The NASA Spinoff App highlights the direct impact NASA innovations have made on the everyday lives of citizens. Commercialization of NASA technology has contributed to products and services in the fields of health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, environmental resources and computer technology.
This is NASA's first Android app and allows you to explore NASA technologies developed in your own backyard. The App contains a feed of NASA's latest technology news, a searchable database of NASA-derived innovations, a map of spinoff locations, a historical timeline and a database of NASA's available licensing opportunities to inspire the spinoffs of the future.
Additional Android, iPhone, iPad and other Apps are in the works. We'll continue to keep our list of Apps fully up to date. But in the meantime, explore our newest NASA App and learn about how space technologies are impacting life right here on Earth.
Author jtownsendPosted on January 18, 2011 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags What's Happening1 Comment on NASA's First Android App
NASA.gov: Working to Be the Best
Every day, hundreds of thousands visit the NASA web site seeking information about the agency, our missions and programs, and we've been getting feedback that they're liking what they're seeing. Recently NASA.gov received the highest customer-satisfaction rating of any government web site. NASA.gov also was included in a map of the most far-reaching web sites. And just today we received the statuette representing our third Webby award.
That's gratifying of course, but what does it mean besides a chance to blow our own horn? Mainly it's validation that what we do here works for you, the Web public. We take your feedback seriously and rigorously incorporate it into our efforts to improve the site.
To find out what the site's users think of it, and most importantly if they're finding what they're looking for, we get feedback through multiple sources: e-mail to the site, traffic statistics showing what content people are interested in, and a customer-satisfaction survey. We use this information to prototype new features, which we then test with representative users before releasing it. Our goal is to constantly improve our site and make it consistently one of the best on the Internet.
The latest customer-satisfaction data says we're headed in the right direction. Starting in 2001, we had a rating of 73. More recently we have rated a 79 in 2007, 80 in 2008, and 82 in 2009 and most recently as high as 84. In plain English, NASA's web site is closer to industry leading websites like Google.com (an 86 in 2009) or Amazon.com (also an 86) in customer satisfaction ratings than it is to other web sites both inside the federal government (74) and in the private sector (72).
With continual growth in daily visitors to our site, increasingly high ratings of customer satisfaction, and additional recognition of our efforts to communicate effectively online, we are proud to be ranked among the best websites on the Internet. Earlier this year, Google released what it considers the top 1,000 web sites in the world by website traffic and NASA made the list. And, on Aug. 25, NMap released a poster of favicons, or small icons used by your web browser to represent a website, scaled to size based upon Alexa traffic rankings. NASA again made this ranking and was within the top-third of the rankings of the top 3,000 sites online.
This year's People's Choice Webby Award in the Government category was our second in a row and third overall. Earning recognition as a Webby winner is a tremendous accomplishment, one we humbly accept. With nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 states and 60 countries around the world, the 14th Annual Webby awards was the largest competition in the award's history.
With all of these rankings, ratings and awards, we believe that the public is finding NASA.gov to be an authoritative source for the latest science, technology and mission-related news from the agency. We continually strive to improve and serve our site's visitors in new and innovative ways. Our teams of web editors, multimedia producers and technical specialists meet at least weekly to discuss ways to enhance NASA's online experience.
With more than 50 staff located across the country and internationally, we are always on call and always posting the latest news from NASA. We are always listening to feedback, planning for the long term, analyzing what it will take to get the word out and rolling out enhancements to the NASA site.
In the next few weeks, look for a new presentation of news stories on the home page, a revamped version of the mobile site and online streaming of NASA TV in HD. And remember your feedback is always welcome.
Author jtownsendPosted on August 26, 2010 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags General, User Feedback, What's Happening11 Comments on NASA.gov: Working to Be the Best
NASA @The Webby Awards
NASA was well represented last night at the 14th annual Webby Awards Gala in New York City. Six of us were there, representing the teams behind the three award winning sites: NASA.gov, NASA Home and City 2.0 and Global Climate Change. It's not our first time as winners (and we hope it won't be the last), but is was the first time a real-life moonwalker took the stage to accept the award . Few who were there are likely to forget it.
Legendary Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and his wife Lois joined us at the NASA table at the beginning of the night. From the start, it was clear that the stars of the web world were starstruck by Buzz. A steady stream of admirers lined up for handshakes and photos throughout the night. There were plenty of celebrities on hand for the event, but it was clear that Buzz had an entirely different level of star power.
Near the end of the evening, Buzz was called to the stage to accept for the three NASA groups. Even before he took the stage, the crowd and other awardees cheered him on (with some sometimes colorful language I can't share here). Once he was announced, the room erupted with a standing ovation and sustained applause that outshone any other moment of the night. After some playful mugging for the cameras, Buzz gave the traditional 5-word Webby speech: "Humanity. Colonization. Phobos. Monolith. Mars!" (see it on YouTube).
It's easy sometimes for those of us who work at NASA to start to see it as routine. It is after all, a job for us, with the ups and downs and stresses of any other job. But events like this remind us that what we do is just inherently cool to the outside world. The Apollo 11 landing happened before many of the people in the room were even born, but Buzz still has the power to inspire, because of the simple but awe-inspiring fact: He traveled a quarter million miles from Earth and walked on the surface of the moon. All in an age before the technology behind the Webby Awards even existed.
It was a great feeling for the whole NASA group. I can only close with my own five word speech: "My government job is cool."
Author Jim WilsonPosted on June 16, 2010 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags Social Media, What's Happening
A Day of Firsts
Last Thursday was a very busy day for those of us here at NASA.gov. It was a day of many firsts, as we worked hard on special coverage of President Obama's visit to the Kennedy Space Center, where he spoke about the new course for NASA and the future of the U.S. in human spaceflight.
In a first for NASA.gov, we streamed live video coverage of the visit in high definition (HD). Web users increasingly expect to see HD video online, with sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo offering increasingly higher and higher quality video. Thursday was an important test of this capability for the team here and overall, it went really well.
In today's online world, single-person teams armed with cell phones and social media accounts seem to accomplish this type of work routinely, and technology has made it much simpler. But most people in those situations don't worry too much about technical risk. If the gear fails, it fails. At NASA.gov, we worry a lot about the risk. Regardless of technical difficulties, people still expect to see what they came to see. We tend to spend most of our time not worrying over how to make something happen, but how to keep things from going south once we've got it working.
That takes a lot of geographically dispersed people working closely together. We were getting our HD video from a team on the ground at the Kennedy Space Center who fed it to the encoding team at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Their encoded web stream went to our commercial data centers in Texas and Virginia, then out to the globe via Akamai and Yahoo!. Only then did it get on to your computer.
Additionally, there was the NASA.gov Web and Multimedia Team, plus the NASA TV Master Controllers at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. who helped provide support and coordination of the video streams and coverage. Also involved were our colleagues at the White House's operations. With coverage on streaming NASA TV, NASA.gov, internal NASA websites, and on White House Live, there was an incredible breadth of locations where viewers could watch this event online, including Yahoo!'s main web page for a while.
In addition to the HD streams, the space conference following the President's speech was streamed in standard definition. This conference included several sessions, including four simultaneous breakout sessions that were webcast only. With the standard three channels of NASA TV streaming, plus the Space Station views stream, we were broadcasting eight unique feeds of video at one time, another first.
Beyond the streams, we provided a full-spectrum of coverage before, during and after the event. One hour into the event, multiple photos were online, and the arrival video was posted. We continued this level of coverage throughout the remainder of the conference and well into the evening as more and more materials became available.
Additionally, all of these materials were also posted in multiple locations across cyberspace. This included photos going into photo galleries on NASA.gov and on Flickr from teams of photographers located on the ground in Florida. It also included videos being posted to the NASA.gov video collections, the NASA.gov HD page and also on YouTube. We also posted MP3 soundbites on the NASA Audiofile page, and supporting documents across the NASA.gov site.
In all, this was a busy, but exciting day for us here on the NASA.gov team as we provided this special coverage of the event. Hopefully, some of these technologies will be used again in the future and eventually, become standard fare for our online offerings. Let us know what you thought of it all. Did you like our coverage? Did something not work right for you? Please let us know. We're always listening.
Author jtownsendPosted on April 19, 2010 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags Recently on NASA.gov, What's Happening
2009: An Online Year of Milestones
As our turkey comas wear off from Thanksgiving and the chilled air of December settles in, a New Year looms around the corner. 2009 held many large events for NASA.gov. Almost 392,000 people watched the LCROSS impact video live on NASA.gov with 5.4 million visitors simultaneously looking at the NASA.gov Web site, the second-largest online event in our history. We also set a new bandwidth record during the LCROSS impact with data transfers of over 75.5 gigabits per second spread among live video and the Web site. All-told during the LCROSS impact event, we moved a total amount of data equal to over 85 terabytes or about the equivalent of 127,327 CD's.
NASA.gov also set milestones with the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission during STS-125. In addition to all the normal online activities that any shuttle mission usually garners, astronaut Mike Massimino captivated space enthusiasts around the world via Twitter by sending the first tweet from space. His Earth-shattering tweets also managed to amass @Astro_Mike over a million followers on Twitter, rivaling the likes of Ashton Kutcher. Additionally, the launch of STS-125 also resulted in our fourth-largest online event in NASA.gov history.
NASA delved deeper into our enthusiastic group of followers on Twitter by hosting 'Tweetups' where Twitter users learn about our programs and speak with astronauts. Thus far, Tweetups have been held at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Demand for attending the Tweetup to learn about STS-129 and view the launch of the Space Shuttle from Florida culminated with the filling of our 100 registration slots, plus all the spaces on our wait-list, in less than twenty minutes.
Other ground was broken in NASA's online communications with this fall's Operation Ice Bridge campaign, which featured an unprecedented level of near-real time coverage across cyberspace with tweets on Twitter, Webisodes on YouTube, photos on Flickr, and a blog on NASA Blogs. This precedent-setting social media coverage exceeded all expectations and is something that we hope to repeat in the years ahead.
Another large online event for NASA.gov was the launch of the Ares I-X Development Test flight. While lasting just a few minutes, the intrigue of the new rocket and it's successful test launch showed sustained interest in the days leading up to the launch, even after the first launch attempt was scrubbed.
Now that we've talked about some of our online highlights from 2009, what other NASA events interested you from throughout the year?
Author jtownsendPosted on December 2, 2009 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags Social Media, What's Happening9 Comments on 2009: An Online Year of Milestones
Tweet,two,one … Liftoff!
There was something different this time. From the veteran reporters and public affairs officers at the NASA News Center to mission managers in the firing room, NASA's Kennedy Space Center was buzzing about the fresh burst of enthusiasm as the clock ticked toward liftoff of Atlantis on STS-129.
In the shadow of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building and just a quick stroll from the famous countdown clock sat a white tent filled with 100 NASA Twitter followers from 21 states, the District of Columbia as well as Canada, England, Morocco and New Zealand.
They came to Florida from all over for a two-day Tweetup (an informal meet-up of people using the social media tool Twitter), including a tour of the center and a chance to talk to the people that help send the shuttle to space. They got an up close look at shuttle hardware and face-to-face time with astronauts and reporters. Some were pleasantly surprised to become part of the story themselves, as members of the news media came looking for interviews.
But for many, it was simply about the joy of being there. One was overheard telling a reporter, "NASA could've bused us out to a big field and let us watch the launch and we would've been thrilled, but they did so much more."
So what's all the fuss about? Think of Twitter as an ongoing conversation with a few thousand of your closest friends. There may have been only 100 "tweeps" in that tent, but many more were following the conversation using the #nasatweetup hashtag (988 according to one metrics site). The people who attended have more than 150,000 followers among them. And many media outlets reported on the event, spreading the excitement even further.
It's not just "how many?" but "who?" Some web users, no matter how much they're interested in space, aren't coming directly to NASA.gov for their news. There's a whole generation of web users who get their news and share their interests on social media sites. Engaging with them on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube and other sites is bringing the story of NASA to new audiences that may not otherwise connect with us.
Tweeters who came to NASA Headquarters in October got to talk live to the International Space Station, and others have talked with shuttle crews and scientists exploring Mars and Saturn. About a dozen NASA Astronauts are tweeting already, sometimes from orbit. One — Mike Massimino (@Astro_Mike) — has more than a million followers. You can find NASA Twitter accounts and other social media efforts on the NASA Connect page.
Let's keep the conversation going.
Author Jim WilsonPosted on November 19, 2009 March 22, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags Social Media, What's Happening8 Comments on Tweet,two,one … Liftoff!
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By Jorge Mercado Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
A soldier launches a test flight of an AeroVironment Puma drone. (courtesy photo)
Shares of AeroVironment plummeted 27.5% on Dec. 7 after the company announced with its quarterly financial results that it would slash its full-year revenue guidance by at least $100 million, "primarily due to three headwinds" tied to supply chains and staffing.
AeroVironment, an aerial drone company based in Arlington, Virginia but with major operations in Simi Valley, actually beat analysts' earnings expectations for the quarter ended Oct. 30. Adjusted earnings were 78 cents per share, beating the 62 cents per share predicted by FactSet Research Systems, a financial data and software company. Net income for the quarter was $2.5 million, up from $2.1 million in the same quarter a year ago, and non-adjusted earnings per share grew from 9 cents to 10 cents in that period.
AeroVironment's revenue for the most recent quarter was $122 million, up 32% from a year earlier but still short of FactSet's projection of $130 million.
That revenue miss, coupled with the fact the company announced it would slash full-year revenue guidance from the range of $560 million to $580 million to a range of $440 million to $460 million, is what led to the huge sell-off.
AeroVironment CEO Wahid Nawabi said during the company's earnings call that the "three headwinds impacting the company are major supply chain constraints; extended procurement cycles and order delays due to the global COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated by current virus variants; and staffing shortages, especially for highly, highly talented qualified engineering talent."
In the company's news release, AeroVironment also stated "slower decision-making in Washington tied to Continuing Resolution-related budget uncertainties" as another reason for the reset in guidance. AeroVironment relies on government contracts for much of its business.
"We delivered a solid quarter and first half in line with our expectations, but we're experiencing macro headwinds in the second half of fiscal year 2022 and to account for these challenges we have adjusted our fiscal year guidance," Nawabi said.
MarketWatch reported that the 27.5% drop would be the biggest single-day decline for AeroVironment in the past 12 years. The biggest was on March 10, 2009, when the company's shares dropped 33.6%.
Shares of AeroVironment closed at $57.98 on Dec. 7, their lowest closing price since February 2020. The stock is down 37.7% since the start of the year.
AeroVironment's market capitalization was just under $1.5 billion on Dec. 7, down from more than $2 billion the day before.
"We believe that it's going to start to get better and it has gotten better, but now the delta variant and the omicron variant threw a wrench in that," Nawabi said. "So I believe that over the short term it's eventually going to work its way out, but it is a very dynamic market. Things are changing literally on a daily and a weekly basis and so it's really difficult to predict far ahead."
Nawabi said that for the past 18 months, AeroVironment has been able to navigate through supply chain problems; however, the length and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic has "exhausted" the company's proactive measures.
"The supply chain as a whole, even suppliers and distributors and manufacturers, were not able to help us anymore," Nawabi said.
The majority of the company's sales stems from product revenue, and those were impacted by supply chain issues. In the most recent quarter, AeroVironment delivered product sales worth $70.9 million, up from $65.5 million in the same quarter last year.
"But many of the issues that I described in terms of the headwinds impact the ability for us to manufacture products and deliver products, and also to secure contracts related to that … so the reductions are impacting all of our businesses, but products are getting impacted slightly higher," Nawabi said.
The company's revenue growth could be attributed to growth in its medium unmanned aircraft systems (MUAS), which contributed $26.5 million, and unmanned ground vehicles segments, which contributed $6.5 million. Both segments grew, in part because of two acquisitions the company made earlier this year, of Arcturus UAV and Telerob.
"We continue to expand the company's basic business, strengthening our leading position across the unmanned robotic systems landscape," Nawabi said. "Our team remains committed to managing the near-term macro challenges while achieving the long-term vision of our company and creating shareholder value."
Gross margin grew for the company in the second quarter of its 2021-22 fiscal year, to $42.5 million, up 4% from the same period a year ago. Income from operations dipped, however, to $3.3 million, compared to $13.9 million a year ago.
AeroVironment ended the quarter with $104.7 million in cash and cash equivalents.
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Professor Emeritus Jan D. Achenbach Passes Away
Expert in applied mechanics and quantitative nondestructive evaluation received the National Medal of Technology and the National Medal of Science
Aug 25, 2020Brian Sandalow
Jan D. Achenbach
Jan D. Achenbach with President George W. Bush.
Jan D. Achenbach with a student.
Jan D. Achenbach, Walter P. Murphy and Distinguished McCormick School Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, and Mechanical Engineering, passed away at age 85 on August 22. He is remembered for his extraordinary contributions to the field of applied mechanics, and the enduring relationships he built with students and colleagues at Northwestern Engineering.
During his five decades at the McCormick School of Engineering, Achenbach was renowned for his pioneering work on quantitative nondestructive evaluation. Achenbach developed methods for flaw detection and characterization by using contact transducers, imaging techniques, and laser-based ultrasonics. He had also developed methods for thin-layer characterization by acoustic microscopy.
"Jan raised the stakes for what is possible for faculty members at Northwestern Engineering," said Julio M. Ottino, dean of the McCormick School of Engineering. "His outside influence stretched far beyond the halls of the Technological Institute and McCormick and broadly into the field of applied mechanics. The number of people influenced by him is remarkable."
His career was marked by many honors. Achenbach received a 2003 US National Medal of Technology for his seminal contributions to engineering research and education and for pioneering methods for detecting dangerous cracks and corrosion in aircraft, leading to improved safety for aircraft structure. He was awarded a 2005 US National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for innovation in technology and science honoring a lifetime of work. Additionally, Achenbach was a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"He was a pioneer in his field," said Kevin Lynch, chair and professor of mechanical engineering. "His leadership, particularly in terms of his seminal contributions and his mentorship of his students, has been a model for faculty in our department for more than 50 years."
"Jan was not only a great scientist and engineer, as evidenced by his National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology, but also was the best colleague who was extremely supportive of others," said Yonggang Huang, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. "We will miss him."
Achenbach earned numerous other accolades, including the 2012 ASME Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the 2010 Theodore von Karman Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the 2001 William Prager Medal from the Society of Engineering Science. In 2011, he was awarded a rare honorary doctorate degree from China's Zhejiang University. The founding editor of Wave Motion, a scientific journal on the physics of waves, Achenbach served as the publication's editor-in-chief from 1979 to 2012.
Born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, Achenbach earned his PhD in 1962 from Stanford University. He then served as a preceptor at Columbia University. A year later, Achenbach joined the Northwestern Engineering faculty as an assistant professor of civil engineering, becoming associate professor in 1966 and professor in 1969. He was named Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics in 1981, and then distinguished McCormick School Professor in 1992.
Achenbach's work was both analytical and experimental in nature, with extensive cooperation with investigators from other universities and from industrial organizations on theoretical experimental projects. His work in fracture mechanics was primarily on dynamic fracture, and he also carried out research on structural acoustics and the mechanical behavior of composite materials.
Achenbach founded Northwestern's Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention, a laboratory for quality control in structural mechanics, later renamed the Center for Smart Structures & Materials.
Achenbach was preceded in death by his wife Marcia, who passed away in 2019 after 58 years of marriage.
"We have lost a giant of mechanics, a leader and wise member of our academic community, and a great friend," said Zdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. "My wife Iva and I are nostalgic for the 20 years during which Jan and Marcia were our neighbors. We cannot imagine anyone more friendly and accommodating."
Inspired by their lifetime of experiences at Northwestern, the Achenbachs made a number of commitments to support the future of Northwestern Engineering, including funding the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering chairs, and the Jan D. Achenbach Lecture Fund, in addition to other areas.
Jan and Marcia mentored students, building lifelong bonds. One was Jianmin Qu, now the dean of engineering at Tufts University, who earned his master's and PhD from Northwestern Engineering and served as chair of the McCormick School of Engineering's civil and environmental engineering department from 2009 to 2015.
"Jan was the one who convinced me to come to Northwestern for my PhD with him. Twenty years after my PhD, he again was the one who convinced me to return to Northwestern Engineering as a faculty member. Both have proven to be pivotal to my career," said Qu. "His mentorship and friendship helped me forge my career path, and I am forever grateful for his support and guidance."
No public services are scheduled at this time.


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The fight by agriculture interests to neutralize the so-called puppy mill initiative proposal has become a broader issue–and that is becoming a problem for farming interests trying to protect their turf. Rural lawmakers who said the legislature should reserve all rights to changing laws on animal agriculture are changing their effort to blunt the puppy mill proposal. The newest version says any initiative proposal limiting animal agriculture would need a two thirds vote to pass.
But Kansas City Senator Jolie Justus, a lawyer, does not like giving one part of Missouri's economy special protections. She says the real problem is that Missouri makes it too easy to amend its Constitution. She agrees with a colleague who says it's too easy to "buy" the state constitution. "We are seeing not the huge grassroots effort (but) someone who has the money to pass it….We've got a check writer, someone who is interested in one issue…and they are interested in some significant changes to the state," Justus says.
She cites examples such as the puppy mill proposal, or a proposal to eliminate earnings taxes in St.Louis and Kansas City, "dismantling" the independent judicial system and, on the horizon, eliminating the state income tax. Justice is pushing lawmakers to consider another constitutional change requiring as much as two-thirds favorable vote on all constitutional amendments.
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In today's world investors have many more options available than in the past. Among these options are companies focused on "the cloud". Nasdaq stated that last year revenues for cloud services increased by 60%. On top of that, cloud computing is projected to see continued growth at a healthy rate over the next five years. If you are thinking of investing in a technology-based company, there are many upsides in doing so. By buying stock in a company who provides cloud-based services, you will have an opportunity to gain profits from the huge growth of this industry. According to a study initiated by Forrester, the cloud computing market is expected to grow from $58 billion in 2013 to more than $191 billion by 2020.
Which now brings us to two companies utilizing their opportunity in this rapidly growing industry. Fusion Telecommunications Int'l, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSNN), a leading provider of cloud services has recently announced it has acquired Fidelity Voice and Data. Fidelity provides cloud voice, could connectivity, security, data center and cloud storage services to almost 2,000 small, medium and large business customers throughout the United States.
The CEO of Fusion stated, "The acquisition of Fidelity brings Fusion closer to its goal of building significant scale in the fragmented but rapidly growing cloud services market. Fidelity will also contribute to Fusion's organic growth, accelerating Fusion's progress over the last year in expanding its business." This past week Fusion shares were trading up almost 58% at $3.48, with an agreed analyst price target of $6.00 as well as a 52- week trading range between $1.83 to $5.43.
The potential for investors in the space continues to grow. Look at a company like Gawk Inc (OTCMKTS:GAWK) who has already had some comparison to Fusion Telecommunications Int'l, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSNN). GAWK offers a suite of cloud communications, cloud connectivity, cloud computing, and managed cloud-based applications solutions to small, medium, and large businesses and offers domestic and international voice services to communications carriers worldwide. The company already has a presence in 21 countries and 31 cities with 16 of those cities are located in the U.S. On Nov. 17th the company announced they have acquired all assets of Connexum LLC.
This acquisition will increase Gawk Inc (OTCMKTS:GAWK) annual revenue to $6 million. GAWK reported its best quarter since it has begun traded, reporting that revenue increased by 952%. GAWK currently has a smaller market cap than Fusion at $1.8 million and has seen a 52 week trading range between $0.003-$0.125. The stock currently trades between 0.009 and 0.02. With such a market cap and the addition of new revenues, GAWK could certainly be on the radar of many, larger cloud companies. Look at 2015's Cloud M&A already!
J2 Global Inc (NASDAQ:JCOM) company's Excel Micro in February acquired Nuvotera (formerly Spam Soap), a California-based email security services company and cloud services aggregator for managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Hemi Zucker, j2 Global's CEO, said the addition of Nuvotera could help Excel Micro extend its email security services market reach.
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Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) in April announced it would acquire Chicago-based managed security service provider (MSSP) Trustwave for $810 million. Singtel supports more than 500 million mobile customers worldwide, and the Trustwave acquisition could help this Asian communications company capitalize on a rapidly expanding managed security services market as well.
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IMPACT OF MICRO CREDIT ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION SCHEME IN EDOSTATE A CASE STUDY OF LIFT ABOVE POVERTY ORGANIZATION (LAPO)
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The level of poverty in Nigeria since the implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) is on the increase despite several measures put in place by successive governments in Nigeria to check the menace. Recently, greater emphasis is being placed on micro credit as a poverty alleviation strategy in most developing countries of the world including Nigeria. The study is an attempt to assess the impact of micro credit as a poverty alleviation scheme in EdoState using LAPO as a case study.
The following objectives were stated:
To identify the socio-economic characteristics of the loan borrowers in the study area.
To find out how the beneficiaries assess the micro financing scheme.
To identify and assess the volume of credits to the loan borrower.
In addition, one hypothesis was stated for validation. To achieve the above objectives, the survey research design was adopted. Both primary and secondary sources of data were utilized. The list of LAPO cooperatives groups in all the three Local Government Areas in Benin City was obtained from the LAPO Head quarters which serve as the sampling frame. A total of 36 members were randomly selected from each of the Local Government area. A total of 106 members were used for the study. The main instrument of data collection was the questionnaire. Out of the 106 questionnaires administered to respondents, a total of 101 were completely filled and returned back to the respondents. The study reveals that micro credit scheme as a poverty alleviation scheme in EdoState is having a positive impact on the poverty level of individual members of LAPO cooperatives. The study reveals that majority of the LAPO cooperative members were women. About 95% of the cooperative members have benefited from the programme. The study also shows that the main determinant of the amount of loans an individual secures from LAPO is the number of years they have spent as a member of the cooperatives. Individual members that have spent up to five years secured the highest amount of loans. Finally, the study shows that respondents had higher income after their involvement in micro credit scheme. Similarly, they were able to send a number of their wards to school after their involvement in micro credit scheme. Thus, it was recommended that more NGOs should be involved in the micro credit scheme with a view to reaching most of the poor masses. It also recommends that Government should partner with the NGOs by providing more funds to them to disburse to the rural people or can even provide collateral securities for the NGOs to access funds from banks.
1.0 BACKGROUND FO THE STUDY
the level of poverty has increased in Africa and in Nigeria since the implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme in the '80s (UNDP Nigeria, 1998; World Bank, 1999). Data from the Federal Office of Statistics (FOS) on poverty profile in Nigeria (1999) showed that the incidence of poverty increased from 28.1% in 1980 to 43.6% in 1985 but declined to 42.7% in 1992 and rose again to 65.6% in 1996. Since 1990, the country has been classified as a poor nation.
For the period 1980 to 1996, the population of poor Nigerians increased fourfold in absolute term. The percentage of the core poor increased from 62% in 1980 to 93% in 1996, whereas the moderately por only rose from 28.9% in 1992 to 36.3% in 1996. The proportion of total income spent on food by the core poor and moderately poor was approximately 75% and 73%, while the non-poor category spent about 53% of their total income on food (FOS, 1999).
The analysis of the depth and severity of poverty in Nigeria showed that rural areas were the most affected. Several reasons accounted for this situation; the large concentration of the populace in the rural area, many years of neglect of the rural areas in terms of infrastructural development, and lack of information on the way government is being run. The CBN/World Bank study on Poverty Assessment and Alleviation in Nigeria (1999) attested to the fact that the living and environmental conditions of those living in the rural areas have worsened. Urban poverty is also on the increase in the country. This has been attributed to the under provision of facilities and amenities which are inadequate to match the growing demand of the urban populace as well as the rural-urban movement which has caused serious pressure on the existing infrastructural facilities.
Concern about the problem as well as efforts made to reduce it cannot be said to be new. However, while major reductions in poverty level have been in the developed countries, the same cannot be said regarding the undeveloped countries of the world. Indeed, Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterized as being among the poorest regions of the world. Poverty in the region has increased due to global economic policies political instability, civil wars and Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) among others. About 250 million Africans (about 45 percent) of the population are poor (World Bank, 1996). In rural areas, where most Africans live, the situation is worse. The high poverty level in Sub-Saharan Africa has been attended by the decline in per capita income, wages and employment in the surroundings of the population pressures, fragile national resources and weak institutional financial structure (Afonja, 1996).
The concern over increasing poverty level especially in the developing countries and the need for is alleviation as a means of improving the standard of living of the people has led to the conceptualization and implementation of various targeted or non-targeted poverty alleviation schemes worldwide. In Nigeria, both the Nigerian government and donor agencies have implemented a number of efforts to analyze and find solutions to the menace of poverty in the country.
Despite these measures, the level of poverty in the country is on the increase. The inadequacies of these approaches prompted the emergence of a people centered development strategy. This approach recognizes the potentials of the people especially the poor in improving their own socio-economic conditions. But what is required is capital, which is not accessible to the poor. The need to meet this financial demands of the poor brought to the fore the concept of micro financial which is being propelled by both local and international NGOs. Macro financing recognizes the availability of capital to the poor.
Over the past two decades, micro finance institutions have created access to micro credits to the poor in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The potentials of micro-finance in Nigeria are enormous and hence, its importance as a tool for poverty reduction has dawned on governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals alike. This awakening has brought about concerted action from all these sectors to make credit available to the poor to fight against poverty. Hence, this study is based on an organization geared towards this effort. It is called Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) in its effort to alleviating poverty and ensuring economic development in Nigeria in the area of micro financing. It is in this context that this study is set to assess the impact of micro credit as a poverty alleviation scheme in EdoState using LAPO as a case study.
From the foregoing, it becomes pertinent to raise and address certain questions, which will guide the course of this study. The following questions therefore, provide the bedrock of this research:
What is the volume of credit available to the loan borrowers?
What is the relative impact of micro-credits on poverty level?
How do the beneficiaries assess the micro financing scheme?
What are the measure that will enhance the effectiveness of micro financing as a poverty alleviation scheme in Nigeria?
All these are questions that will be addressed succinctly in this study. The answers should suggest some lessons for development planners, policy makers and other stakeholders in the field of poverty alleviation, particularly in EdoState of Nigeria.
The main objective of the study is to determine the impact of micro credit on poverty alleviation scheme. Other objectives include:
To identify the socio-economic characteristics of the loan borrower in the study area.
1.4 HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY
In this study, one major hypothesis is formulated for validation:
There are significant differences in the income of the loan borrowers before and after micro credit assistance.
1.5 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
Given the geometric increase in the number of poor people in the last few decades in Nigeria, this study forms a major contribution towards developing a relevant and appropriate poverty alleviation scheme in Nigeria.
This study will also help in assessing the effectiveness of micro credit as a poverty alleviation scheme in EdoState and it is hoped that the result of the study will be applicable to other states in Nigeria.
In addition, the study will contribute to the literature of micro credit and poverty alleviation schemes in Nigeria.
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Home » PRESS RELEASE: Faith Nkatha Gitonga Joins Cellulant as Kenya Country Manager
Nairobi, Kenya -22nd October 2020
Fintech company Cellulant today announced the appointment of Faith Nkatha Gitonga as Country Manager, Kenya.
A highly accomplished leader with a proven track record of driving digital transformation, Faith Nkatha joins Cellulant to lead it's Kenya operations and scale its payments ecosystem in the country.
She joins Cellulant from Oracle Corporation where she was leading their Digital Transformation efforts for the Public Sector.
"We are excited that Faith has accepted to join our leadership team and confident that she will lead Cellulant Kenya's next chapter of growth and success", said Ken Njoroge, co-Founder & CEO, Cellulant. "We have all been impressed by her strong track record of digital transformation and vast experience in the Fintech space."
Faith has over 10 years of experience with a strong performance history of value-adding contribution, strategic partnerships and digitalization for some of Kenya's premier consumer-facing banks. Before joining Oracle, Faith served as the Director for Strategy, Monitoring and Transformation at Sidian Bank. In this role, she was responsible for the unit's digital transformation, including developing and executing strategies for growth and expansion, partnerships and quality performance. Faith also previously worked at SBM Bank (K) Ltd. as Head of Department – Retail and Institutional Banking, among other leadership roles from 2008 to 2016.
"It is a great privilege and honour to work with such a distinguished leader in the African fintech & payments space and one that continues to pioneer innovative solutions to meet the current and changing needs for businesses", said Faith. "I am excited and confident that we can scale to greater heights in delivering high-quality services, build and develop strong relationships with our clients and partners in Kenya. I am also keen to diversify Cellulant's portfolio into other sectors as business owners and organisations undergo rapid digitization."
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Ubisoft Responds to PETA Whaling Complaint
By Andy Chalk Legacy Author March 6, 2013
Ubisoft says it does not condone poor hygiene, hijacking ships, drunken debauchery – or illegal whaling.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, as we now know, will be a swashbuckling tale of high-seas shenanigans set in the early 18th-century Caribbean, an era of piracy, plunder, murder – and whaling, which has People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wound up yet again over a videogame.
"Whaling – that is, shooting whales with harpoons and leaving them to struggle for an hour or more before they die or are hacked apart while they are still alive – may seem like something out of the history books, but this bloody industry still goes on today in the face of international condemnation, and it's disgraceful for any game to glorify it," a PETA rep said. "PETA encourages videogame companies to create games that celebrate animals – not games that promote hurting and killing them."
It's kind of a silly thing to get worked up about, especially since PETA appears to have no problem with the wholesale slaughter of virtual human beings for fun and profit, but Ubisoft nonetheless took a moment to respond in what I think is both an even-handed and subtly zingtastic fashion.
"History is our playground in Assassin's Creed. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is a work of fiction that depicts the real events during the Golden Era of Pirates," the publisher said in a statement. "We do not condone illegal whaling, just as we don't condone a pirate lifestyle of poor hygiene, plundering, hijacking ships, and over-the-legal-limit drunken debauchery."
The International Whaling Commission placed a ban on commercial whaling in 1986 in order to allow depleted whale populations an opportunity to recover, but some nations continue the hunt.
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Bush learns business from King Canute
King Canute of England a thousand years ago placed his throne on the seashore and told the incoming sea tide to turn back. It didn't listen to him.
Cnut the Great, also known as Canute or Knut Sveinsson (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki; died 12 November 1035) was a Viking king of England, Denmark and Norway. His successes as a statesman, politically and militarily, prove him to be one of the greatest figures of medieval Europe. With his kingship over England's archdioceses, and the continental diocese of Denmark – with a claim lain upon it by the Holy Roman Empire's Hamburg-Bremen archdiocese – and the high status he found among medieval Christendom's magnates, Cnut enjoyed considerable leverage within the Church, winning a number of concessions for his people from the Pope at the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor.
On a journey to Rome, after his victory against Norway and Sweden, in a letter, Cnut proclaims himself king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes. The struggles of the kings of Denmark for preeminence within Scandinavia, though, meant Cnut held a considerable overlordship across other areas of the British Isles too, in line with his Anglo-Saxon predecessors, and the leader of a very strong Viking regime.
Uncertain though the extent of his dominance over the British Isles is, Cnut's rule was felt by the sea-kingdoms of the Viking settlers among the Celtic nations, known as the Gall Gaidel. These were the Kingdom of the Isles (probably under direct overlordship through one of his lieutenants, in the Sea of the Hebrides, and the Kingdom of Dublin (probably on the terms of vassal and suzerain), in the Irish Sea. His main aim here was for control of the western seaways to and from Scandinavia, and to check the might of the Earls of Orkney. At the height of his reign, certain Gaelic kingdoms and the dominant Ui Imhair sea-kingdom were in clientage with Cnut too.
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Here is some good action of pro kiters Jesse Richman and Patri McLaughlin taking a few good sets at Jaws in December. Some great wipeout and saves using the kites. Those Naish parks are great! Who's game enough to try that unstrapped tho?
OK guys. This could be it. I'm going to call it! There is a great forecast for wind from the north and looking at the cloud movement its a north trend that will be boosted by a sea breeze. Surf is UP with a solid 4ft+ ground swell pumping in. This could turn out to be the day of the year if your into surf and wind. Keep an eye on it.
Here is a video from the Sydney crew that hit up Old Bar for the October long weekend. Excellent bit of work and looks like lots of nice waves and wind. Jealous….


They say if you choose a job you love, you'll never work a day in your life. For Jenny Grant, a visual artist based in Kingston, this adage has certainly proven true. "I really love what I do," she says. "It's not work — it's just so enjoyable to me." She spends her days dreaming up beautiful designs that can be seen all over town — but you won't find her work hanging on the wall at a gallery or cafe. You're more likely to see her art on a Kingstonian's arm or leg, in the form of a bold and skillfully-executed tattoo.
Counting "the Godfather of pop surrealism" Mark Ryden amongst her influences, Grant's creative style is equal parts dreamy and quirky, with a dash of creepy. "My drawing style is a bit of American comic book realism, mixed with the cuteness of anime," she says. "My painting is a little more varied, a mix of abstract and surreal, and they have more depth to them, but still with a more cartoon sort of flavour." Often, her art will turn traditional gender expectations on their head, bringing decidedly unconventional, empowered pinup girls to life.
The actual process of tattooing is another story — and a responsibility she doesn't take lightly. There was a steep learning curve when making the transition from working with acrylics to wielding a tattoo gun.
However, she notes that each medium is fulfilling in its own way, and both have a special place in her heart. "I find painting incredibly freeing, and tattooing incredibly challenging — and rewarding," she says.
Were it not for the influence of acclaimed Kingston business owner Wayne Murrill, Grant may never have found herself on this particularly rewarding career path. "One of my friends got tattooed by Wayne, and I went along and brought my portfolio to show him," she says. "After a few days at the shop to see if I was a good fit, he offered me a five-year apprenticeship. During that time I ended up meeting my husband, and having a little girl." Now her family counts Kingston as their home base, as she works to balance a busy tattooing schedule with time at home.
See more of Jenny's work on her Instagram.


I hate to say this, fashion has been my last priority lately. I have pretty much been wearing the same 5 outfits over an over again, I just mix up what days I wear them and who I see. It is hard when the weather is bad 97% of time, the motivation just goes way down. Here is what I have been wearing day to day to look semi put together.
The first one is what I wear to class probably every other day. This is jacket amazing. It covers your behind so your leggings always look appropriate. Also these boots are life. The boots are a little bit wider at the opening. (All athletically built girls can rejoice). So the boots make you look super skinny (even if you are not feeling it that day.) Also the Kendra Scott necklace is a little touch to make you look like you tried even more.
The second outfit is what I wear if I have something where I need to look a little more put together. I like to tuck the shirt into the pants. The tote bag is so much better than a backpack, and shoes better than ballet flats. Lastly, what are 5 words to make any girl go crazy? Nyx Soft Matte Lip Cream. I have not met anyone who is not head over heals for this lipstick. Plus the color is the color of all colors. I got Budapest strictly for the name, and I have not stopped wearing it since I bought it.


"When two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." The more people we surround ourselves with the greater the presence of God. The more we reach outside ourselves and into the lives of others the greater is the power of God.
Lord, self is a lonely place to be. Help me get out of me!