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The 'Saving Mothers, Giving Life' (SMGL) Initiative concluded a productive week-long, global team-building meeting in Calabar with a five-year, $18 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the Cross River State government.
The five year initiative is a public-private partnership that addresses the three primary delays associated with maternal and newborn health: the delay in seeking services, the delay in reaching care, and the delay in receiving high-quality care at a health facility. In 2014, Nigeria became the third country to adopt the initiative after successes were reported by the program in Uganda and Zambia.
The meeting, organized by the Cross River State Government in partnership with USAID, brought together national and regional partners and key stakeholders to share updates on the progress of activities in Uganda and Zambia and guide inputs on expansion in Nigeria.
The U.S. Consul General, John Bray, USAID Acting Mission Director, Aler Grubbs, and the Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Benedict Ayade participated in the opening ceremony.
According to Bray, health challenges in Nigeria are not always a result of limited access to facilities, but access to enough skilled professionals and quality services within those facilities.


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Training ground in tatters for Pakistan hockey team ahead of Asian Games
By Web Desk on	 July 20, 2018 News Sports
KARACHI: Pakistan's national hockey team is training these days for the upcoming Asian Games at the Olympian Islahuddin-Dr Shah Hockey Academy in Karachi's North Nazimabad locality.
But, upon a visit to the said venue, it seemed as if hockey, the country's de facto national game, has become a long-forgotten sport, never to be played again.
The board displaying the name of the grounds has come off its support and lies on the ground, the walls unpainted, and the chalkboards unclean.
The Islahuddin-Dr Shah Academy lacks even the most basic facilities that pertain to the sport. The ground is in a poor condition, with goal posts featuring torn nets and benches in the spectator stands broken. Even the valuable, blue-coloured AstroTurf — the artificial grass surface installed at sports fields — is tattered in various places.
The lack of a proper system in place for the ground's upkeep has led to the deteriorating condition of the expensive AstroTurf as well as the ruined benches.
There, obviously, seems to be no cleaning arrangement either for those few benches that have not succumbed to the negligence yet.
The AstroTurf is full of dust and dirt — a very obvious proof that it has not been cleaned with water. The drainage on the edges is also quite dirty and the garbage-filtering mechanism sits damaged and ignored.
Players on the national hockey team, on the other hand, are worried about their remuneration.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, one player said: "We are only concerned about our pays; once we are paid, the problems will be resolved."
Surprisingly, Roelant Oltmans, the Dutch head coach of the Pakistani men's national hockey team, is not bothered either. During the practice games, if a ball or two is shot out of the grounds, that's not an issue, he told Geo News. "Everything is good," he said.
As if it was not disappointing enough to see the disregarded grounds for a camp that starts at 6AM in the morning, the institute only had one container of drinking water for the entire team — something that is, perhaps, not even enough for a handful of the players.
The 18th Asian Games, also known as Asiad, are scheduled to be held from August 18 to September 2, 2018 in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.
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Mapping the Future: California Weighs Pathways to Carbon Neutrality
Alice Kaswan | June 22, 2022
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This post is part of a series on climate justice in California.
On June 23, California's Air Resources Board (CARB) — the state's air pollution control agency — is holding a public hearing on its comprehensive roadmap for achieving the state's daunting climate goal: carbon neutrality by 2045 at the latest, a goal established by Gov. Gavin Newsom in a 2018 executive order.
Although states are increasingly adopting 100 percent clean electricity targets, California's goal goes considerably farther, covering emissions from the entire economy, including transportation, industry, buildings, waste disposal, and agriculture. With its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan), the state has now set pen to paper in sketching potential pathways for zeroing out the state's greenhouse gas emissions.
The Draft Scoping Plan provides a general overview of four scenarios by which the state might reach "net zero" emissions. The Draft Scoping Plan includes few details; the specific scenario strategies are laid out in CARB's December 15, 2021, PATHWAYS Scenario Modeling report.
Two key variables distinguish the scenarios. One is the speed of California's transition: whether to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 or by the ultimate 2045 deadline. The second is the degree to which the state relies on emissions reductions alone versus allowing some emissions to continue and subsequently removing and sequestering them.
The choices have profound environmental, public health, and economic implications. California has numerous areas with the worst air quality in the nation due to fossil fuel combustion, much of it experienced by frontline communities in the Central Valley and next to refineries, ports, and highways. At the same time, people depend on fossil fuels as workers and consumers, with much at stake in when and how we transition.
CARB's preferred scenario: Carbon neutrality by 2045
CARB staff have proposed that the agency adopt its third scenario, which would achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 but does not rely heavily on carbon removal. Under the third scenario, vehicles and appliances currently using fossil fuels could continue to operate until the end of their useful lives. Most industries are not expected to reduce emissions by 2030 and are expected to only partially reduce emissions by 2045. Oil and gas activities would continue to provide fuels as long as fossil-fuel using technologies remain in place. The 2045 date provides more time for building out renewable energy infrastructure and developing other clean energy initiatives, like energy efficiency investments and consumer and commercial electrification.
Because current vehicles and industries could continue to use fossil fuels until the end of their useful lives, CARB predicts that this scenario would have much lower economic and employment impacts than the other scenarios. In terms of public health, this scenario would reduce petroleum use by 91 percent by 2045, generating fewer health benefits than the options achieving carbon neutrality by 2035 but more benefits than the fourth scenario, which relies more heavily on carbon removal.
The 2035 options
In contrast, the first scenario would achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 with limited use of mechanical carbon dioxide removal techniques. This alternative would drastically reduce fossil fuel combustion and its associated co-pollutants, including particulates, nitrogen oxides, and toxic air pollutants. To achieve this more ambitious goal, the state would ban cars and appliances that run on fossil fuels by 2035 and electrify existing and new buildings and industries at a rapid pace. For this approach to be equitable, the state would have to invest in and support low-income residents and businesses.
CARB predicts that industries that are hard to electrify, like cement and glass, could shut down. Renewable energy and storage infrastructure would have to ramp up quickly and dramatically. This approach would have the greatest health benefits, but CARB's model suggests that it would likely slow economic growth eight times more than CARB's preferred scenario. CARB has expressed doubts about this scenario's feasibility.
The second scenario would also achieve carbon neutrality by 2035. In contrast to the first scenario, it would allow some combustion to continue, at least until the vehicles' or products' end of life, and would address these emissions by a "rapid scale-up" of carbon dioxide removal. Although this option relies on carbon removal, it achieves a high level of fossil fuel reduction, providing the second greatest health benefits among the scenarios The economic impacts would be several times greater than CARB's preferred scenario. CARB is concerned about the feasibility of this option given the relative infancy of carbon removal technologies.
The fourth scenario would, like the third, achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. But it would allow a higher level of continued combustion of fossil fuels, as well as biomass and hydrogen combustion. To achieve carbon neutrality, this scenario relies more on carbon removal than the proposed scenario. The fourth scenario would reduce fossil fuel use by 81 percent (the least of the scenarios). It would be more expensive than the proposed scenario but would likely have smaller economic impacts than the scenarios attempting to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035.
The draft Scoping Plan is at once radical and middle of the road. All scenarios envision radical change to achieve the state's ambitious, economy-transforming goal by 2045.
At the same time, by recommending a scenario that would not achieve carbon neutrality until 2045 and that allows existing fossil-fuel dependent uses to continue through their useful lives, the draft Scoping Plan lessens the climate goal's impact on the status quo.
Additional blog posts in our California Scoping Plan series will focus on some of the critical environmental justice issues raised by the plan, including the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee's role in the plan's development and other substantive features of the proposed scenario.


"Brave Bessie" Coleman, daughter of sharecroppers, thrilled two continents with her mastery of daredevil skills. Being poor, single, black and female, the Texas flight school did not admitted her. So she took a boat to France and became a daredevil pilot there! She was the first African-American who obtained a pilot's license.
Amelia Earhart braved the skies, becoming America's sweetheart, only to be lost in a shroud of mystery.


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Couples who are very different from one another are more likely to divorce than more similar couples.
FALSE - Having similar values can be a definite plus in keeping a marriage on course. However, differences in temperament, personality, likes and dislikes, opinions, interests, etc. can be enhancing and stimulating in a marriage - depending on how the differences are handled. Very often, we are attracted to and marry people who are different than we are, but after living with the differences on a day-to-day basis, these traits we once found so endearing can become downright irritating. So, what do many of us do? We either start to criticize our mates, feeling they are wrong because they are different from us, or, we try everything we can think of to change them so that they will be more like us. Both of these strategies predict unhappiness, resentment and loss of closeness. It is important to remember that different is not wrong or bad. Instead, couples need to leam to accept and appreciate their differences and use them as a source of strength for their relationship. Honest communication and skillful negotiation will go a long way in helping you to make your couple differences work for you instead of spelling doom for your marriage.


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Evan Balkan – Locked In- 3
by Evan Balkan
I was home from work only long enough to plop on the loveseat and take off my heels. Done, I just sat there. Sat and stared.
Friday night and nothing to do. Scratch that; I had people I could call, things I could do. I just didn't feel like it. I was tired. God, was this what being an adult felt like? Friday evening was still the culmination of the week, but instead of an opportunity to go crazy it was just a blessed chance to relax and unwind.
The neighbors' music started up. Early this week. It vibrated through my walls, making my framed prints bounce against the thin drywall. The floating sounds of laughter and yelling coming from next door was like breaking glass, so I grabbed my purse and got out of there.
I didn't really need anything, but the grocery store seemed a logical place to go. It was one of those hip places where dudes wore wool caps no matter if it was ninety-five degrees outside and where the employees wore shorts and Hawaiian shirts, even in the chill of winter. I guessed this was supposed to suggest a laissez faire attitude, that shopping at this place was as much about fun and proving you were hip than it was about groceries. After all, don't Hawaiians live in a state of perpetual paradise? Wasn't simply shopping here a protest against the cold and brittle outside air? Its very presence was one of the things that allowed local real estate agents to sell the rapidly gentrifying area to young people—presumed hipsters—like me.
I passed the orchids and cacti and made for the shopping carts. A twentysomething dude with a 19th century beard pushed a cart toward me. I said thanks. Knee deep in a phone conversation, he nodded his chin at me.
My cart began to fill. Items seemed to just appear, dropped there by hands that were mine but that felt oddly disconnected: sulphured dried mango slices, tiny red bananas, Fair Trade cold brew coffee in adorable, highly stylized cans. I reveled in the fact that I could afford this stuff, that I needed literally none of it and yet wanted it, wanted it in a way I wasn't even aware of when I arrived.
But I abandoned it all when I saw Coach Burch.
There he was, manning a checkout line, making small talk while he rang up items and then bagging them in threadbare reusables that every customer but me appeared to bring with them. Coach Burch's shirt had huge orchids on it, pointing their stamen like tongues. But his was tight on him and he wore it over another, solid colored shirt. None of the younger employees did this. It was as if he'd forgotten his and had to borrow one, or maybe he was making some point by keeping the other shirt visible. It peeped out at the collar, and the edges of the sleeves flared out from beneath the aloha.
We occasionally did this, too, back in the day, us girls arriving at a soccer game wearing our reds instead of whites, and Coach Burch would have to dig through his bag, rummaging through pinnies and first aid kits and his dry erase board until he found a spare uniform shirt, crumpled at the bottom, smelling awful. "That's your punishment for bringing the wrong shirt," he'd tease. "I will not wash that until the end of the season. Next time, you'll remember to bring both."
It was that way he had with us, that line between being authoritarian and yet always cheerful and non-threatening. So when he delivered a threat—we wouldn't start the next game, we need to do more sprints—he could do so with a smile and we knew he'd make good on it and yet somehow it was never a punishment.
And now here he was, a cashier at a checkout line, and it seemed he had no authority whatsoever. His manager, who came over several times to open a drawer or enter a special code, was easily twenty years younger than he was.
So I left my cart and fled, terrified that he'd see me, embarrassed for the both of us. When I knew him, he'd been an architect. It was possible, I guess, that he'd made a ton of money and retired but still wanted to do something and so took the grocery gig. But his face was too pinched and his movements too strained. There was no joy or pleasure whatsoever anywhere in his body. On the field, joy and pleasure radiated from him. Back then, he had to restrain himself from playing in every scrimmage with us.
I drove across town to the old grocery store, a behemoth anchoring a largely empty strip mall where few people ventured late at night. I got my groceries—cereal, bread, milk, eggs, that sort of thing. Elderly people floated through the aisles with a slow, unhurried ease. Not one of them clutched a phone. Not one of them was tethered to earbuds. The music piping through the speakers was full of strings, unlike the upbeat neo-pop stuff in the other place.
God, how he must have hated it.
I ate dinner alone that night, on my couch, the sounds of a roaring party pounding through the walls. I thought of Coach Burch all night long.
I just couldn't figure out if the tears I had to hold back were for him or for me.
"Lock your ankle, Suzanne. Lock your ankle." This is what he used to say to me all the time. This is what ran through my head like a mantra all night and was still running through my head when I went back to the store the next day.
My passes often fishtailed, veering off well wide or short of where I intended them. I used to fail to lock my ankle and push through with my instep. Instead, I often used a toe ("Cut that out, Suzanne," he'd say) or I would move the ball to my right and then lose it instead of shielding on the left ("God gave you two feet, Suzanne. Use them.") But mostly I would let my ankle flop. So I'd get the same instruction, which he always delivered with the same frustrated grimace on his face: "Lock your ankle, child."
In the parking lot, I waited. I was terribly nervous and yet I had no idea why really, nor did I really understand why I needed to see him. The easiest thing in the world would have been to simply forget about it. But I shopped there sometimes and eventually I'd see him again and he'd see me. May as well get it over with.
I took the key from the ignition and headed toward the door.
I didn't get far. There he was, on his way out, slinging his arms into a jacket, the ridiculous Hawaiian print like some kind of absurd beacon. He was heading toward the far side of the lot, toward the street. It felt like I was losing him and before I even realized, I yelled out.
"Coach!" I called.
He didn't turn. Not even a flinch, as if the moniker "coach" had never applied to him or that he'd been stripped of its honorific long ago and ordered not to use it anymore. I may as well have called him "General" or "Admiral" or, even, "Mr. President."
"Coach Burch," I yelled.
Now he turned.
He looked in my direction, scanning. Then right at me. Then right through me.
"It's me. Suzanne."
His face lost its tightness. His shoulders dropped and he took a few steps towards me.
"From soccer," I added.
"Yes, yes, of course. Suzanne, how are you?"
"I'm good, I'm good."
I took a step closer and we were within hugging range. But I held back. I recalled something from years earlier that I had never thought of before, how we used to practice trapping the ball with our chests. But when we started growing breasts, Coach Burch stopped those drills. Just never brought it up again. And I remembered how in the earliest days we would all hug him, especially if we won a tournament and he passed out trophies or medallions. But then we never hugged anymore. As we got older, he never put a hand on us, ever. I missed that; I liked his hugs.
"Well, I work here."
"Cool. Cool. Nice place."
"There are worse, I suppose. And how about you?"
"Got a job at Himmelfarb. About six months ago. Tech fund manager. Well, I'm not a manager. That's what the firm does. It's what I went to school for. So I guess I'm really lucky."
I surprised myself, saying that. I hadn't said it out loud before, but the sentiment was obviously deep in there somewhere, part of that nagging unease that accompanied me into work every day. I had recently begun to have this sneaking suspicion that working there would age me prematurely, that in no time I'd be one of the middle aged people grumbling about their kids over endless mugs of pungent cheap coffee. "Yeah, I was just like you when I first started," they'd tell me. "Seems like yesterday. And now . . ." sweeping crumbs off a tie or running a saliva-soaked finger over a spot on a blouse, and they would never finish their sentences, as if "And now" summed up everything there was that needed to be said. That saying nothing at all was saying everything. It gave me the creeps. Was that adulthood? Spending your time looking backward and pining over the days you couldn't wait to escape when you were living through them?
Coach smiled, his old sort of half-smile, the one he'd wear when we'd lose a game, the one that said he was disappointed but wanted to remind us that it was just a game and that he appreciated our efforts and that he'd see us in a few days at practice where we would work to get better. "Go enjoy the rest of your day," he'd say, "And walk out of here with your heads up."
"You need a ride home?" I asked.
He hesitated. I don't know why I said it. Just that I wasn't ready to let him go yet, as if he was the very last living link to my faded childhood.
He looked toward the street. "I usually just take the bus," he said, pointing at the stop.
"But the bus sucks, doesn't it?"
I was immediately ashamed. Bus riders fell into distinct categories, and there was that class of them that given a choice would much rather have driven a car, a shorter route and one done on one's own schedule.
"Sorry. All I mean is, well, if I drive you it'll be much quicker, right?"
He nodded.
I pointed at my car, embarrassed by its newness. "I'm right over here."
He followed me without speaking and I began to think that maybe I'd made a huge mistake. I didn't really know this man. And he sure didn't know me. Last he saw me, I was fifteen, some seven years earlier. I smiled awkwardly as he got in.
"You know Applewood Estates?" he asked.
I did. It was one of those places made up of Soviet-style apartment blocks, the name "Estates" attached presumably in all seriousness when they were built, sometime in the 70s, if I had to guess, but had become shorthand for a sick kind of joke. Applewood Estates sat deep within a pocket of town that was changing rapidly; it wasn't too far from my own new apartment and it seemed to me on those rare occasions I drove past it that it was like a last holdout for people on the margins, clutching the rails as a tsunami of suburban renewal pressed down on them, threatening to sweep them away like so much detritus.
"Applewood Estates it is," I said, way too cheerily, and drove off.
Immediately we hit a red light. It was excruciating, just idling there. So long as I was driving, my hands and feet and eyes busy, I could chip away at the pregnant air. But while we just sat there, the heavy air ballooned around us, almost to the bursting point.
"So, you graduated from college then?" he asked.
I nodded, relieved.
"Good. That's good."
"I almost didn't though," I laughed. "I had this book I'd checked out of the university library that I never returned. Weird thing was I had it for years, and never got any notification about it, not even when I went to register each semester. We had this transition to a new i.d. card system, so maybe it just got lost in the shuffle or something. But then they figured it out." I said it all in one huge breath. I could hear my voice tightening and I had to suppress giggles.
Coach drummed his fingers on the armrest and nodded. I could feel a heat coming off of him, some kind of embarrassed energy that he didn't know what to do with.
I cracked the window. The light turned and I took off.
"So, there I am all set to graduate and I get this note saying I can't walk across the stage unless I return this book. By then, I'd already packed up everything. So I just paid the fine, which was the cost of replacing the book. They claimed it was like eighty dollars or something, which is absurd, of course. But you know what?"
He shook his head, eyes still straight ahead.
"I'm glad I have it. It has all these notes in the margins. In pencil. And there's something about those notes. I don't know. Some long ago, very serious student or a professor maybe, who wrote them in. Could be dead now for all I know. But something about them, about the seriousness of them."
I was never sure what it was about those notes that intrigued me so much, but now, driving with Coach Burch and explaining the notes out loud, I realized that what fascinated me so much about them was precisely the same thing that made me used to stare at Coach's dry erase board with its stubborn markings that never erased completely, the ghosts of names put into certain positions and then erased and written over, old lines still visible, ex-teammates' names clinging on season after season no matter if they had already abandoned the sport for lacrosse or some other kind of life, some other kind of identity.
"Evidence of growth."
"A person still learning, still growing, looking for answers, suggesting his own."
"Yeah, maybe," I said.
I smiled. And, looking at me, he smiled back.
I was relieved. And the feeling that I was the adult between us, the grown up tasked with coaxing conversation out of a little kid, began to subside. Back when we'd first started playing, it was him who asked us endless questions. But the more he did, the more we clammed up, unsure how to handle so much adult excitement. We mostly stared at the ground and mumbled our answers and just waited for the green light to run and chase and kick balls. It was hard back then, when we were just little kids. I'm sure it was hard for him, too, for anyone trying to teach a complicated game to young children. We plucked blades of grass while he shifted plastic cones around to show us different formations. He must have gotten so frustrated at times. But I couldn't recall one time he ever actually lost his temper, even as we did cartwheels during drills and had spontaneous contests to see who could walk the furthest on all fours, bent over backward like a frown while Coach Burch tried to teach us the fundamentals of a containment style of defense.
It got better as we aged, but then our side talk turned to complaints about teachers, and then interest in boys, and then, finally, in our last seasons, to the laser focus on the task before us, the soccer field being the last great refuge from the pressures and stresses of teenaged years and impending high school. Through it all, all those changes, Coach Burch was there.
But once high school began, that was the end of the team. Even those of us who attended the same school drifted apart, a few choosing not to go out for the school squad, others trying out but getting cut, and a select few graduating to the big time, with huge turf fields and college scouts. Coach Burch simply melded back into whatever life he had outside of our team, a thing few of us ever really gave much thought to before, as if his sole function on earth was to be present on grass fields in heat and rain and occasional darkness when practice bled into the shortening late fall days and the setting sun failed us.
We drove past an old repurposed strip mall that used to house a liquor store, a greasy diner, an outdated electronics place, and a by-the-hour motel. Now there was a pharmacy, an upscale furniture store, sporting goods, and a vegan café. The liquor store still stood, but now it specialized in an enormous selection of wines and craft brews. The motel was still hanging on, too, somehow, a lone holdout against gentrification and a place I figured simply couldn't carry on much longer, not without all the new foot traffic so close by. But the entrance, best I could tell, was around the back, so it provided at least some level of privacy, I supposed.
"God, that place always skeezed me out. I never understood it when I was younger. I mean, who goes there, right?" I asked.
Coach didn't say anything.
"But I was a kid then. I guess I understand things better now. I mean, everyone needs a place to go, right? I bet it's not so bad in there, really."
He looked at me and raised his eyebrows. I knew that look. It was panic. It was the same one he'd get late in games if we were down a goal and he had to decide whether to throw an additional attacker forward to get the tying goal but which would also leave us vulnerable in the back.
"Where do you live?" he asked.
When I told him, he raised his eyebrows and nodded, impressed.
I wanted to show it to him, proof of my adulthood. But I couldn't bring myself to suggest it. I suddenly had a flash of memory of a fantasy I'd had, way back then of me and him living together. I think I had a crush on him when I was, like, ten or eleven.
But crush isn't really the right word, not at that age. It was more that maybe I wanted him to be my dad. I liked my own dad just fine. But with Coach Burch it was about fun. And praise. Even when we made mistakes, we got praised for our efforts. My real dad told me to make my bed and empty the dishwasher and he grimaced when I got less than A's on my report card.
"You in a hurry?" I asked.
He shook his head. "Rarely in much of a hurry to get home."
"Good," I said.
I pulled into the strip mall and parked.
"I'll be right back."
I could see him watching me when I jogged back, probably wondering what was in the bag I was carrying. But he didn't ask. He didn't say anything. His face was red and I could see his jaw working up and down, his temples throbbing.
I drove toward the motel entrance and parked at the furthest edge of the lot. We sat in silence a long while. There, beyond a thin tree line was an open green space. Quiet, just the two of us, staring at the unlined field, the rusted remains of a goal pushed against a chain link fence on the far side of the grass.
I touched his arm. "Let's do it," I said.
I grabbed the new soccer ball from my bag and hopped out. He followed me.
Once we reached the grass, I ran ahead. I turned and sent him a long arcing pass that swiveled away from him toward the treeline.
He chased after it, stripping off his Hawaiian shirt as he ran. He yelled something to me, but the breeze took it away.
"What did you say?" I asked.
He stopped, cupped his hands around his mouth, and yelled again.
"Lock your ankle, Suzanne . . . Lock your ankle."
Even from a distance, I could see that he was smiling.
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La Sun Country Airlines, è una Compagnia aerea a basso costo con sede a Eagan, Minnesota e con base presso l'Aeroporto Internazionale di Minneapolis-Saint Paul-Wold-Chamberlain. La compagnia offre rotte interne in vari stati degli Stati Uniti, e vola anche in nazioni come: Messico, Centro America e Caraibi.

Storia

Primi anni e bancarotta (1983-2008)
Sun Country iniziò le operazioni di volo nel gennaio 1983 con un solo Boeing 727-200. Lo staff iniziale della compagnia aerea era composto da sedici piloti, sedici assistenti di volo, tre meccanici e un impiegato. Un certo numero di dipendenti aveva precedentemente lavorato per Braniff International Airways, che aveva cessato le operazioni il 12 maggio 1982. Il fondatore e primo Presidente-CEO dell'azienda fu il capitano Jim Olsen, che ricoprì anche il ruolo di capo pilota. Sua moglie, Joan Smith-Olsen, agì come capo assistente di volo e capo delle operazioni di volo.

Nel 1988, la sua sede si trovava sul terreno dell'aeroporto Internazionale di Minneapolis-Saint Paul.

Nel 2001, la società sospese le operazioni a causa di problemi finanziari.

Nel luglio 2006, la compagnia aerea venne acquisita da Petters Group Worldwide e Whitebox Advisors.

In seguito alla sostituzione del CEO ad interim Jay Salmen con Stan Gadek, ex CFO di AirTran Airways, Sun Country era quasi finita in bancarotta a causa della grande recessione del 2008 e della rivelazione di frodi finanziarie. La compagnia aerea licenziò 45 dei suoi 156 piloti e ridusse il suo programma estivo a causa dell'aumento dei costi del carburante. Sun Country riferì di aver sperato di ottenere fino a 50 milioni di dollari in prestiti o altri aiuti finanziari dallo stato del Minnesota e dalla commissione aeroportuale. Nel settembre 2008 il vettore ridusse, e in alcuni casi eliminò, i voli per San Francisco e Los Angeles. Alla fine del mese, Gadek chiese un differimento della retribuzione del 50% a tutti i restanti dipendenti. Tom Petters si dimise dopo che un'indagine dell'FBI aveva scoperto che la compagnia aerea era stata soggetta di frodi finanziarie su vasta scala. Successivamente, il 6 ottobre 2008, la compagnia aerea presentò per la seconda volta istanza di fallimento ai sensi del capitolo 11.

Ricostruzione e proprietà dei Davis brothers (2011-2017)
Nel luglio 2011, Sun Country è stata acquistata dalla bancarotta per 34 milioni di dollari dalla famiglia Davis, proprietaria di Cambria, una società di controsoffitti con sede nel Minnesota. Marty Davis, CEO di Cambria, è diventato presidente.

Nel 2015, il consiglio di amministrazione di Sun Country ha assunto Zarir Erani come presidente e amministratore delegato. La compagnia aerea ha registrato un utile netto di 27 milioni di dollari nel 2015, seguito da un calo del 41% a 16 milioni di dollari nel 2016.

Nel luglio 2017, dopo più di un anno di mancate proiezioni sugli utili mensili, Davis ha sostituito Erani come Presidente e CEO ad interim, con Erani che trasferito ad altri incarichi all'interno della società di Davis. Jude Bricker, precedentemente in Allegiant Air, è stato nominato CEO una settimana dopo le dimissioni di Erani.

Proprietà dell'Apollo Global Management (2017-presente)
Il 14 dicembre 2017, i fratelli Davis hanno annunciato che avrebbero venduto la compagnia aerea a fondi affiliati alla Apollo Global Management con sede a New York per un importo non reso noto.

Il 17 dicembre 2019, Amazon Air ha acquistato una quota di minoranza in Sun Country da Apollo, con piani per la compagnia di operare voli cargo con il marchio Amazon Air. Poiché il modello passeggeri di Sun Country era fortemente incentrato sul tempo libero, questo accordo era progettato per aiutare a stabilizzare i ricavi durante la bassa stagione.

Nel dicembre 2019, Sun Country ha annunciato che avrebbe iniziato a operare voli cargo per Amazon. Sun Country avrebbe gestito inizialmente dieci jet cargo per Amazon Air. La compagnia aerea ha operato il suo primo volo cargo per Amazon nel maggio 2020.

Il 17 marzo 2021, Sun Country è stata quotata in borsa e quotata al NASDAQ con il ticket SNCY.

Destinazioni
Al 2023, Sun Country Airlines volava verso 91 destinazioni gestendo più di 100 rotte nei Caraibi, Stati Uniti, Canada, Messico e America centrale. Molte destinazioni di Sun Country sono servite stagionalmente poiché la domanda cresce e diminuisce durante tutto l'anno.

La compagnia aerea fornisce inoltre servizi charter per le forze armate degli Stati Uniti e le squadre di calcio NCAA.

Accordi commerciali
Al 2023, Sun Country ha anche accordi di interlinea con China Airlines, Condor, Emirates, EVA Air, Hawaiian Airlines e Icelandair.

Flotta

Flotta attuale

A dicembre 2022 la flotta di Sun Country Airlines è così composta:

Flotta storica
Sun Country Airlines operava in precedenza con i seguenti aeromobili:

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Shannow
Cause we have a title now. Let the countdown to the countdown to the teaser of the trailer teaser begin.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2017, 12:08:07 PM by Shannow »
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Reply #1 on: January 23, 2017, 12:00:59 PM
Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
HaemishM
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and other troops you control.
But... who IS the last Jedi?
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Quote from: HaemishM on January 23, 2017, 12:51:14 PM
Jar-Jar.
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So like, I guess Luke is probably going to die at the end this time?
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Jedi can be plural.
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Quote from: Teleku on January 23, 2017, 01:05:54 PM
At this point, are there really any Jedi left? Luke was the last trained Jedi and even that was not full training. So did he have enough training to actually be capable of training a padawan? Or is Jedi sorta fluid in how it works... more like guidelines than rules? The lore I know only comes from the movies, so that is where I am coming at this.
Torinak
In RoTJ, it was clear that there was only a single Jedi left (Luke), and that he didn't even really complete his training. Obi-wan and Yoda were the only fully trained Jedi who survived the Clone Wars (not counting Anakin, because Vader), and they were blue glowies.
Maybe they're going to have Luke die, then unveil New Jedi(tm). The new training process can be called NGE, and it'll be a smashing success bringing tons of new padawans into the Order.
Rishathra
I'm hoping that by "Last Jedi" they mean the last of an antiquated, outdated order that became completely ossified and worthless before it was mostly wiped out by a Dark-side user with a grudge. Speaking of which, it seemed to be an order that regularly spawned individuals who rejected the order's principles so hard, they went full Dark-side and generally fucked things up on a galactic scale. Even when there were only two left, one of them felt that for the other to graduate from student status, he must confront one of the most powerful Dark-side users in the galaxy.
Hopefully, with the last of the Jedi, the good folk of the galaxy might have a chance to form a healthier relationship with the light side of the Force.
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Quote from: Torinak on January 23, 2017, 02:48:39 PM
I.... see what you did there.
Reply #10 on: January 23, 2017, 04:06:00 PM
Why can't the blue glowies finish Luke's training or even train some Padawans?
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They can. Blue Glowies staying around to teach and Holocrons are canon now based on Rebels. Luke completed his training after defeating Vader, but fighting Vader was his trial which let him become a "Jedi Knight" as Yoda said in ROTJ.
Last of the Jedi is probably plural. If not it implies a big focus on Luke who IS the last of the Jedi and that's not where they're taking the franchise. It'll be Luke/ Rey and possibly others. Kylo is the head of an Order, the Knights of Ren, who are Dark-Side users but not, apparently, Sith. Because there are only ever Two Sith and Snoke was around to witness Palpatine's rise and fall. (Also canon according to the novels) Unless Luke and Rey are going to take on the Knights and Snoke by themselves, I anticipate more Jedi showing up.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that this simply means that Force wielders on both sides are giving up on forming galactic-scale organizations, which might be for the best anyway.
Speedy Cerviche
Quote from: Rishathra on January 23, 2017, 03:06:04 PM
This... The first Jedi didn't have formal training, they purely explored and channeled the force as they went along and passed on the knowledge. I doubt their intention was to create a bureaucratic and stagnant order.
Kail
Reply #15 on: January 24, 2017, 01:18:54 AM
Quote from: Speedy Cerviche on January 23, 2017, 11:53:01 PM
I'm hoping that by "Last Jedi" they mean the last of an antiquated, outdated order that became completely ossified and worthless before it was mostly wiped out by a Dark-side user with a grudge.
That seems really unlikely, given that the Jedi have generally been portrayed in the most positive light possible in the movies. It would be like trying to do a Star Trek movie that establishes that really, the Federation was a bunch of intolerant fascist zealots so they are overthrown and immediately replaced with the Schmederation, a new government which ACTUALLY upholds the ideals that the Federation claimed to value. I mean, you could do it, I guess, but what would be the point?
And if they DID decide to replace the idea of Jedi with something else, it wouldn't lead to some era of galactic enlightenment and peace. See: the name of this franchise. They can't do a movie where people just sit around and talk about how great things are now and then the credits roll.
Does the Jedi Order even exist anymore? I guess Luke tried to restart it but his nephew went dark and that seemed to be the end of that.
We don't really know what happened with Luke and Ren. I'm thinking that Luke has removed himself from the universe because he realizes that the Jedi are too powerful a force to be acting on the galaxy, what with just two of them destroying the system of galactic government and causing a giant fucking war. Rey will likely have to convince him to come out of retirement to unfuck the damage caused by people trying to emulate his father.
I don't think Lucas meant to do this, but the prequels really don't portray the Jedi in the most positive light, actually. They're inflexible, arrogant, kind of stupid. They stick to an anti-emotion creed to the point that they can't sense some of the most basic feelings motivating galactic society. They are easily manipulated into becoming soldiers in a dumb, fake war that's intended to weaken the Republic. They have don't actually stick to the ascetic attitude they pretend to have. Since the Clone Wars TV series is now canon, whether Lucas meant it or not, the canon itself has gone on to underscore this portrayal--that the Jedi were rigid, remote, abstract in their understanding of right and wrong. Good in a fight but kind of lousy in everything else.
Maybe warrior monks are better off when they have lots of different philosophies and orders rather than two manichean megachurches. I really hope that's where the overall story of the Force in the saga is going--it would make the prophecy of Luke/Anakin bringing "balance" to the Force more meaningful. (One wonders why the Jedi around the time of The Phantom Menace found a prophecy of a "rebalancing" of the Force at all hopeful or interesting, considering that as far as they knew, there were no dark side wielders of note in the galaxy, the Jedi were totally in control, and all was well. Perhaps they were more aware of the stagnant character of the Jedi Order than they cared to admit.)
Malakili
Palpatine was just so strong with the force he was clouding everything, or something.
If you ask a 10 year old what they loved about Jedi in the original star wars and what they wanted to see more of, I'm almost 100% sure they say long periods of stilted dialog about space politics that don't ultimately matter.
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Bringing balance to the Force just meant killing down all the Jedi to balance out the two Sith. Prophecy fulfilled: 2 Sith, 2 Jedi.
If Luke brings about the New Jedi Order, he throws it off kilter again, depending on how the Knights of Ren shakes out. Would be nice to see Kylo mature and turn that into a modern Sith Academy kinda thing. Remember how whiny and emo Luke was in ANH?
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Quote from: Khaldun on January 24, 2017, 10:25:01 AM
Maybe warrior monks are better off when they have lots of different philosophies and orders rather than two manichean megachurches. I really hope that's where the overall story of the Force in the saga is going
The Donnie Yen character in Rogue One, as a Force-wielding mystic who is not in any way connected to the Jedi Order, lends some support to that.
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I would bet Finn goes in that kind of direction too since he seems to have (light side) force sensitivity (his intuitive positive morality and also less subtlety fighting decently well with Luke's lightsaber, twice) but probably isn't going to join Rey at Jedi school so I am guessing in whatever he ends up doing he taps into that some more.
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Quote from: Yegolev on January 24, 2017, 02:01:27 PM
dude it's all about the Anovos Knights of Ren full battle armor
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Quote from: Sky on January 24, 2017, 11:26:45 AM
You're probably just being snarky (and nothing wrong with that) but I'll be the guy that brings up the fact that Lucas never meant "balance" in the Force to mean equal numbers between the Light Side and Dark Side. A balanced Force was the good Force -- the Light Side. Unbalanced Force was the Dark Side.
Now Lucas takes a lot of crap, but I think this was the best interpretation -- balance was an ethical judgement, not some autistic overconcern with numbers.
eldaec
I have no idea what Lucas meant, but the idea that were literally a total of 2 sith at any point in time always seemed idiotic to me.
The one line of canon dialog that supports it would be interpreted by any sane person as "Sith come in pairs".
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Said it before and I'll say it again. Rey trains with Luke, ends up fighting Ren and ultimately killing him(maybe because Ren kills Luke) and going darkside. Finn becomes a Jedi and at the end redeems Rey.
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Quote from: Lakov_Sanite on January 24, 2017, 04:07:22 PM
I think this is highly likely, but it'd be fine if we didn't do another jedi turns darkside and then gets redeemed story too.
Or how about Kylo Ren and Rey are (half?) brother and sister?
Has to be some sort of familial reveal for a proper Star Wars retelling.
Ginaz
Quote from: Trippy on January 24, 2017, 04:25:20 PM
I got the impression that Rey was Luke's daughter, making Ren her cousin.
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Quote from: Mandella on January 24, 2017, 02:53:36 PM
Yeah, in an interview Lucas describes the Dark side as a cancer on the Force and says the Chosen One is meant to remove that cancer, thus "restoring balance." I think it helps with his thinking on this if you look at Jedi and the "light side" as just "the Force" and not "the Light side". Properly used it is more or less neutral.
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I don't think Lucas meant to do this, but the prequels really don't portray the Jedi in the most positive light, actually. They're inflexible, arrogant, kind of stupid.
Compared to who? The only Jedi we really hear a lot from in the movies are Windu, Yoda, and Obi-Wan, maybe Qui-Gon. Windu thinks the government is kind of corrupt and untrustworthy, and he's right. Yoda thinks training Anakin would be a disaster, and he's right. Obi-Wan is practically the prototypical Wise Old Teacher character. You have to do some serious reading between the lines to come up with the Jedi being stupid considering that they're pulling pretty hard on every "wise old monk" trope in the book. And in some settings that might be justified, but Star Wars has generally been less about subtle innuendo and more about Good Guys versus Bad Guys, and the Jedi have generally been solidly in the "good guys" box for that. If the only sin they've committed has been getting beaten then sure, I guess it proves they're not invincible, but I have a hard time putting too much blame on them for falling victim to whatever Palpatine's idiotic plan was since if he failed there would be no movie.
I don't know where you're getting this "the Jedi Council is stagnant" idea from since I don't think it's ever mentioned in the movies. They're monks, not pop singers, nobody cares if they sing the same song for over a thousand generations. And as for being out of touch, the Jedi NEED to be emotionally distant since when they're not, they commit some of the most horrifying atrocities the galaxy has seen. When they get overwhelmed with negative emotions, they turn in to rage fueled killing machines, and when they get overwhelmed with positive emotions, Hayden Christiensen has to try to act.
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I'm hoping it is at least "Finn does not become a Jedi and somehow redeems Rey".
People need to stop becoming Jedi all the damn time. Han Solo was cooler than Luke Skywalker. Xwings and TIE fighters are cooler than lightsabres.
Quote from: Riggswolfe on January 24, 2017, 06:17:59 PM
in an interview Lucas
Lucas is a bloviated bullshitter and can't be trusted with his revisionist history of Star Wars canon.
No matter what happens, we're in a much better place with him marginalized. One thing the EU did many times over is explain the Force in a better way than that moron. SWTOR alone is a bajillion light years better at explaining the light and dark sides of the Force than anything Lucas 'masterminded'.
I've been reading a bunch of historical stuff (both some online articles friends link and the new McQuarrie book) and it really highlights just how completely full of shit Lucas was (and is to a much larger degree now).
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By Brie Schwartz Published: Jun 17, 2015
She may have an Oscar, an infectious accent, and legs for days, but Nicole Kidman's latest makeup mishap is a reminder that stars...well, they're people too.
When she showed up at the Women in Film Crystal and Lucy Awards in LA, she evidently forgot to blot the powder on her nose and cheeks which was all too apparent on the red carpet.
Kidman, who was the main honoree at the event, was looking a little pale in the spotlight. Keith Urban, her hubby of nine years was by her side but apparently he couldn't bother to help a girl out. Or maybe to Keith, love really is blind.
But, as Nicole proved in the killer speech she gave while accepting an award for Excellence in Film, she's a proud woman who DGAF.
She recalled how, as a five-eleven teenager, she was a "living metaphor for what had always held women back." She said:
I was afraid of my own power, afraid that it would threaten people, intimidate people. And it's a great sadness wishing to be less than you actually are. And it's hard to take on the world when you're constantly in a battle with yourself. I worked through it ... I'm working through it.
She added that fearing her own strength led her to make decisions she later regretted. She turned down a role in a Jane Campion film because she didn't want to have to kiss a woman onscreen. "I wanted to be the kind of actress that had long, flowing hair and kissed boys," she explained.
Since then she says she's had to teach herself how to ignore Hollywood's expectation of women.
Women are too susceptible to the voice that tells us we need to be accepted ... Men say, "I want this." And then they set out to do it. Women say: "Do I want this? Don't I want this? Do I deserve this? Can I get this? Hmm, what do you think?" And framing things this way leads women to second-guess our decisions, to ignore our own confidence, to revert to a place that we think is safe, acceptable … I don't regret much. I try not to live that way, but the regrets that I do have, all go back to the decisions that I've made out of fear. Not a fear of my own weakness, but of my own power.
I stand here today well-aware that somewhere out there a girl of 13 or 14 years old will hear these words. Let's pledge again today to be there for that girl, to support her, artistically, emotionally, financially. Let us create opportunities for her and teach her to imagine her voices trying so hard every day to call her back. Show her that she is strong and smart and talented. That she deserves a shot at every part that might interested her and at equal pay, too. Let us prove to her that she should go forth without shame. In short, let's do what Jane Campion did. There's quicksand in your hands. Who knows what kind of stories we're going to get from that? … To hide behind our own fears, to shrink, to listen to that little carping voice on our shoulder, instead of the truth, which is pounding the fence. My friends, failure isn't shameful, but cowardice is. So let's take risks. Let's raise our voices, honor the fire within, ignore our fears. In short, let's stand tall and never, ever apologize for it.
In summation, beauty blunder or not, Nicole you're one badass broad.
Brie Schwartz
Deputy Editor, OprahDaily.com
Brie Schwartz is an editor, writer, and content strategist. She's covered beauty, fashion, relationships, health, travel, Disney, decorating, DIYs, food, booze, and everything in between. She was most recently the deputy editor of Oprah Daily, where she helped bring the mission of guiding readers to live their best life to the (virtual) pages. Her writing has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Delish, Country Living, Esquire, Elle, Marie Claire, Seventeen, The Spruce, Woman's Day, Women's Health, and Men's Health.
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The rand was slightly weaker against the dollar as investors' appetite for safe-haven assets increased after North Korea fired a missile over Japan.
Stock markets around the globe slumped' while safe havens such as gold' US Treasuries and the yen gained.
The JSE's all-share index was down by 0.63% and in Europe the CAC 40 was down by 1.48% and the DAX 30 by 1.83%.
US 10-year treasuries were up 2.74% and bid at 2.098%.
The spot price of gold was up 1% to $1'322.77 and ounce.
Mining stocks on the JSE gained' with the mining index up by 5.66%.
Sasfin analysts said the rand was negatively affected by risk-off trade following North Korea's missile launch over Japan' while gold was buoyed by this renewed geopolitical tension.
At 11.33am' the rand was at R13.0685 to the dollar from R13.0407' at R15.7584 to the euro from R15.6272' and at R16.9505 to the pound from R16.8707.
The euro was at $1.2058 from $1.1979.


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Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Namibia include:

1
 1980 in Namibia

A
Ananias Shikongo
Angola

B
Basters
Beata Naigambo
Bethanien
Bush Encroachment

C
 Caprivi Strip
 Communications in Namibia
 Constituencies of Namibia

D
Dorsland Trek

E
 Economy of Namibia
 Epupa Falls
 Erongo Region
 Etosha National Park

F
 Frankie Fredericks
 Fransfontein

G
 Geography of Namibia
German colonisation
 German South-West Africa
 Gobabis
 Grootfontein
 Grünau
Günther von Hundelshausen

H
 Hardap Region
 Hentiesbay
Hereroland
Herero and Namaqua Genocide
Hilaria Johannes
History of Namibia

I
 Independence Avenue (Windhoek)

J

Jeremiah Baisako
Johannes Nambala
Jurie van Tonder

K
 ǁKaras Region
 Karibib
 Kamanjab
 Karasburg
 Katima Mulilo
 Katutura
Khoisan people
 Keetmanshoop
 Khomas Region
 Khomasdal
 Khorixas
 Kombat
Kuaima Riruako
 Kunene Region

L
 LGBT rights in Namibia (Gay rights)
 List of cities in Namibia
 List of Namibians
 List of national parks of Namibia
 Lüderitz
 Luhonono

M
 Maltahöhe
 Military of Namibia
 Music of Namibia
 Mutau

N
 Namibia
 Namibia national rugby union team
Namibia Statistics Agency
 Namibia Breweries Limited
 Namibian cricket team
 Naute Dam

O
Ogongo
Ogongo Constituency
Okahandja
 Ohangwena Region
 Okavango Region
Okongo
Okongo Constituency
 Okonjima
 Omaheke
 Omaruru
 Omusati
 Ondangwa
Ongwediva
 Opuwo
Orange River
 Oranjemund
 Oshakati
 Oshana
 Oshikango
 Oshivelo
 Oshikoto Region
 Otavi
 Otjiwarongo
 Otjozondjupa
 Outjo

P
Paulus Ambunda
Politics of Namibia
 Postal orders of Namibia

Q

R
 Regions of Namibia
 Rehoboth
Riaan Walters
 Ruacana
 Rugby union in Namibia
 Rundu

S
 Sandwich Harbour
 Scouts of Namibia
Sherwin Vries
Seeheim
 Sesfontein
 Sesriem
 Sossusvlei
 Solitaire
 South Africa
 South African Border War
South West Africa Campaign
South West African Territorial Force
 Special Field Force
 Swakopmund
SWAPO

T
 Telecom Namibia
Thimoteus Tjamuaha
Tjama Tjivikua
 Transport in Namibia
 Tsumeb
 Twyfelfontein

U
 Uis
 United States Ambassador to Namibia
 University of Namibia
 Usakos
 Uutapi

V
 Vyf Rand
 Von Bach Dam

W
 Walvis Bay
 Water supply and sanitation in Namibia
 Wildlife of Namibia
 Windhoek

X

Y

Z
Zoo Park in Windhoek
Zambezi Region

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Imagine receiving your salary, not biweekly or monthly, but at random times over the year and in equally random amounts. You would need to save money for daily needs, not knowing when the next packet of cash is arriving, nor how much one would receive. Plants face this exact scenario when it comes to balancing water needs.
Two different plant communities at Buck Island Ranch. On the left is a Sabal Palmetto hammock in a pasture and on the right is a wetland. Photos by Carlton Ward and Archbold Biological Station.
Without water, a plant dries up. Water provides structural rigidity to a plant by filling plant cells like little water balloons. Water also carries nutrients from the soil via roots and stems to the leaves, which are the plant's 'kitchen'. Newly 'prepared' carbohydrates in the leaves are then redistributed elsewhere within the growing plant via water. However, in order to prepare these carbohydrates, the plant needs to open tiny pores on the leaf surface (called stomates) to allow carbon dioxide into the leaf. Carbon dioxide from the air is the carbon source for making carbohydrates in the process known as photosynthesis. When the tiny leaf pores are open, water inside the leaf escapes into the drier air, which drives water movement up to the leaves from the soil below via roots. As long as there is an ample water supply, the plant can afford to keep the tiny pores open and the process continues.
If soils get too dry, due to either drought or seasonal variation, the plant will close the tiny pores to avoid losing precious water. This leads to less carbon dioxide to 'prepare' carbohydrates, which can slow down the plant's growth. To cope when the environment is dry, plants will send their roots out to find water wherever they can reach, often encountering masses of roots from a variety of other plants, all competing for water.
Palmetto Flatwoods at Archbold Biological Station. Photo by Archbold Biological Station.
Measurements of Florida Rosemary seedling roots. Photo by Archbold Biological Station.
Rosemary Scrub at Archbold Biological Station. Photo by Archbold Biological Station.
The lysimeter experiment with various plants growing in leak-proof tubs. Photo by Amartya Saha.
Thirsty exotic plants that require lots of watering because they are not adapted to our local conditions, can lower the water table and lake levels, as has been seen with Melaleuca in the Everglades. Understanding how different plants use water, whether it be in the scrub or on ranchland, is important knowledge for water managers, ranchers, and conservationists.


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Ximinds
§1 Preamble
Welcome to ximinds - the local picture app for experiencing things around you!
With ximinds - the app for pictures around you - you find the pictures in your neighbourhood and quickly know what is happening around you.
The company Ximinds GMBH in Austria – 8042 Graz – Messendorfberg 105 (hereinafter referred to as "Operator") operates websites (ximinds.com and other country specific top level domains such as .co.uk, .de, .at) and mobile apps (ximinds app for Android, ximinds app for iOS) (hereinafter collectively referred to as "ximinds" / "ximinds services"), under the name "ximinds".
These terms and conditions (hereinafter referred to as "Terms") apply to the use of the ximinds services and additional services offered through the ximinds-Services. The Terms available at ximinds at the exact time of usage of the ximinds services will be applied. By using ximinds services the user accepts the Terms. If the user does not accept the Terms, the use of any ximinds services is prohibited.
The Terms are translated from the original German version. Please note that if the Terms are inconsistent with the terms and conditions in German, the German terms and conditions will prevail.
§ 2 Offered Services
ximinds is a platform where users can offer photos (hereinafter referred to as "Products"). This is permitted as long as the photos do not violate statutory prepositions, good morals and/or the Terms.
The ximinds app can be downloaded free of charge from the Google play store and the Apple app store. Additionally, ximinds webpages are offered (ximinds.com and other country specific top level domains such as .co.uk, .de, .at).
The use of the ximinds basic service version is free of charge. Depending on individual mobile phone rates, costs for data transfer may apply, which have to be carried by the user. Various additional features ("premium features") are subject to charge and can be purchased exclusively through the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. The respective prices are clearly displayed on the ximinds website and in the mobile application prior to the actual purchase. The Operator reserves the right to change these prices at any given time. Moreover, the Operator reserves the right to offer varying premium features in the Android App, the iOS App and the website, due to different stages of development.
The user agrees with his/her purchase of a premium-feature that ximinds immediately delivers the purchased service entirely following the conclusion of the corresponding contract.
The operator is not responsible for content generated by users. However, there is no right for publication of content. Participation on ximinds is not enforceable and can also not be compelled or required in any other form. The Operator reserves the right to deny the participation of ximinds temporarily or permanently even without further reasons. A new registration under a different name and/or other e-Mail address following having been blocked is not allowed. If a user has been blocked, he/she may contact the Operator via E-Mail to contact@ximinds.com and request for clarification regarding this matter.
§ 3 Contractual conditions
The Operator offers various paid premium features. These premium features represent offers made by the Operator in order to conclude a contract regarding the respective premium feature. Contracts for the use of paid premium conducted by the user's acceptance of the respective offer.
The user is not entitled to download the displayed information on a computer or any other data medium. The repeated and systematic downloading of part of the displayed information, even of an insignificant nature and scope, is equivalent to downloading a substantial nature and scope or part of the displayed information. Moreover, the use of a computer program for the automatic read-out of data in particular, such as scraping, crawlers, spiders or bots is absolutely prohibited. Printing of the displayed information is only allowed for private purposes and only to an absolutely necessary extent. Any use of information for business purposes, in particular for commercial use, is forbidden.
The ximinds app is compatible with Android and iOS devices, although perfect performance cannot be guaranteed on every device as versions differ. Please note that additional terms and conditions by the Google play store and the Apple app store may apply.
§ 4 Eligibility, registration, and deletion of the account
Registration is free of charge for users. The use of the ximinds service is permitted for individuals over the age of 18 years. Furthermore, users between the age of 14 and 18 years should have the approval of the respective parent or legal guardian has been given.
Commercial use is strictly forbidden, with the exception of individual approval by the Operator. Examples include young designers, as the company likes to support local talent.
Individuals can make use of the ximinds services by registering via a Facebook-Account or Linkedin. By registering, the user confirms that he/she has reached the age of 18 years or is between the age of 14 and 18 years and has received approval for the unlimited use from their parent or legal guardian. The specified profile data must be correct, complete and must continuously be kept up-to-date. Multiple registrations are not permitted.
The users' login credentials must be kept confidential. The user must take appropriate measures to prevent the unauthorized use of this data in order to access ximinds. In case third parties have had access to the login data, the Operator needs to be informed immediately or the access data must be changed immediately.
By registering, the user agrees to receiving the recurring ximinds newsletter and therefore receives information at regular intervals from ximinds. The user may unsubscribe from the newsletter, by simply disabling the subscription of the newsletter in the user profile or by directly clicking on the unsubscribe link in the newsletter.
Users can delete their user account at any time without giving reasons. Further information can be found in the Privacy Policy.
§ 5 Cancellation policy for consumers
The cancellation policy applies to consumers (as defined by law) who purchased premium features at the Operator, which are subject to charge.
Right to cancel premium features:
The consumer may withdraw from the contractual agreement of a purchased premium feature within a period of 14 calendar days, in writing (e.g. E-Mail, Fax, Letter) without giving reasons. The withdrawal period starts on the day of the conclusion of the contract. To comply with the cancellation period, it is sufficient to submit the cancellation within the due time. Cancellations must be sent to:
Ximinds GMBH
Messendorfberg 105
Austria – 8042 Graz –
E-Mail: contact@ximinds.com
However, at the time of the purchase of a premium feature the user agrees that the Operator immediately activates the premium feature before the withdrawal period expires. The user also agrees that with such activation the right of withdrawal is waived.
Obligations for the refund of payments must be fulfilled within 30 days.
If the user deletes the Product on which the premium feature was applied, the premium feature is considered to be fully consumed, even if the premium feature is time-dependent and the period has not expired (e.g. deleting a classified ad with a highlight-premium-feature or deleting a premium search agent).
§ 6 Posts by users, copyright of third parties
Each post must be created personally by the respective user.
It is strictly forbidden to publish illegal, obscene, offensive, discriminatory, vulgar, violence-glorifying, pornographic, adult content and/or any other content that infringes personal rights. Moreover, aspersions and insults of people and businesses are not permitted. In addition, the harassment through mass distribution of content or messages (spam), the systematic harassment of individual users, hacking in any form, i.e. electronic attacks of any kind on the ximinds service, the database and the network of the Operator or on individual users, as well as the spread of viruses etc. are strictly prohibited and are reported to the respective authority.. Violations lead to the deletion of the item or blocking of the user account. In addition, the Operator reserves the right to move,remove posts, disable or to delete user accounts.
With the publication of images, the user must ensure that copyrights are respected accordingly. This is done by ensuring that the user has all rights to publish and does not violate any rights whatsoever. Uploaded or embedded images/graphics cannot have watermarks or marks of other websites. The Operator reserves the right to limit the maximum size of images and to modify or remove images.
The user assures that he does not copy, paste, upload or integrate copyrighted content in any other form to the ximinds services. Exceptions are such contents that have been released for further use by the copyright holder.
The user may not use ximinds for the promotion of third-party products, the distribution, offering or sale of products, whose distribution, offering or sale is unlawful according to the local law or which are subject to selling restrictions (eg. as a result of regulations) as well as for the distribution, offering or sale of food or living creatures.
§ 7 Granting of rights and liability for users
By posting user contributions, the user grants and the user represents and warrants that he has the right to grant, to the Operator an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, modify, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute the content created by the user for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, or in connection with ximinds or any other product or service of the Operator or the promotion thereof.
This includes the full and unrestricted online and offline use of such content. These rights remain indefinitely with the Operator, even if the user is no longer registered with ximinds.
Shall the Operator be held liable, due to a violation of the Terms or applicable law by the user, the user obliges himself to release the Operator from any legal consequences (e.g. claims of third parties). The indemnity includes but is not limited to payable fines, damages, as well as all costs of legal defence and legal representation.
§ 8 Liability
The Operator cannot be held liable for the correctness of the information or the images shown in the classified ads or the comments of the users or the contractual commitment of users or the flawlessness of the purchased item.
The Operator is not liable for any damage caused by errors, delays or interruptions in the transmission, malfunctions of the technical systems, loss or deletion of data, viruses or any other damage which can occur during the use of ximinds, unless they are caused intentionally or grossly negligently by the Operator or the damage concerns the injury of life, body or health. The Operator is liable only for the amount which corresponding with contract-typical foreseeable damages. There is no liability for loss of profits, savings, damage from claims of third parties, and for other direct and indirect consequential damage.
The foregoing limitations of liability include claims against employees or representatives of the Operator as well as the licensor of the Operator and its licensees. ximinds services might be subject to an underlying licensing agreement. The liability of the licensor is determined by the respective licensing agreement.
Moreover, the Operator is not liable for the content, accuracy, legality and functionality of third party internet pages, which reference from or to the platform of the Operator via a link.
The ximinds services are only accessible for the user with an active Internet connection. The Operator neither assumes responsibility that the ximinds services are continuously usable and/or accessible, nor is the Operator liable for technical transmission delays or failures. The Operator excludes any warranty for the functionality of the ximinds services. The Operator is not liable for the unauthorized knowledge attainment of personal user data by third parties such as hackers.
§ 9 Data protection
The protection of the personal data provided is very important to the Operator. Privacy rules, as specified in thePrivacy Policy, apply.
§ 10 Violations of the Terms
In case of violations of one or more of these provisions the Operator is entitled to temporarily or permanently, and notwithstanding of further legal steps against the affected user, block or delete his/her account, posts, classified ads and any other content provided by this user, and/or to partly or fully prevent the publication of articles and profiles of the user and/or to block his access to the ximinds services totally or in part. In case a user has been blocked, he can write to contact@ximinds.com and ask for clarifications regarding his restriction.
In case a user receives a definite block (restriction) from the ximinds services, all purchased premium features forfeit without compensation. For a temporary block the right to use the premium features will not be extended by the period of the exclusion. These services also forfeit without compensation.
If a temporary blocked classified ad will be blocked definitely, all premium features purchased and/or used for this ad will forfeit without compensation. For a temporary block of a classified ad the right to use the purchased and/or used premium features for this classified ad will not be extended by the period of the block. These services also forfeit without compensation.
The enforcement of any other claims, especially for damage compensation, remains expressly reserved for the Operator.
If users violate the rights of third parties or the Terms, we ask for notification with a brief description via E-Mail at contact@ximinds.com. Furthermore, it is possible to use the "report"-function on the respective Product.
§ 11 Amendment of the Terms
As soon as the Operator changes the Terms, the amended version together with the respective publication date will be published herein. An explicit reference to the change of the Terms will not be made. The Terms shall automatically be reviewed by the users periodically to check for changes. If the user does not agree with the changes he remains free to request the deletion of his account.
§ 12 Final provisions
The Terms shall be subject to Austrian law, excluding the UN Convention of International Sale of Goods and the reference norms (IPRG, EVÜ, etc.). The exclusive place of jurisdiction is the relevant court in Vienna, Austria.
With a view to reaching an out-of-court settlement between the Operator and the User, the User my contact the online platform provided by the EU. The so called ADR-platform is available here:http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. The Operator expressly points out that the sales contracts in regards of classified ads constitute contracts between the users. The Operator does not offer any items, does not submit any bids, does not receive any bids and does not accept any offers in regards of the items in the classified ads.
If individual stipulations of the Terms should be or become ineffective, invalid or unworkable, this shall not touch the legal effectiveness of the other stipulations of the Terms. In place of the ineffective, invalid or unworkable stipulation, a valid and workable regulation shall apply which approximates as closely as possible to that the contract partners would have economically intended if the contract partners would have pursued with the ineffective, invalid or unworkable stipulation. The above stipulations apply accordingly in the event that the contract is shown to be incomplete.
Terms and conditions version: 2016-03-19
Ximinds GmbH, Graz, Austria


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