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Daniel Cameron files motion to keep Breonna Taylor grand jury proceedings secret
The Kentucky Attorney General asked a court to dismiss a grand juror's request to speak about the case.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is attempting to prevent a grand juror from speaking publicly about the jury's proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case. On Wednesday (Oct. 7), Cameron filed a motion asking the court to dismiss the juror, who sued to have the jury's recordings and transcripts released and for the right to talk about their deliberations.
"As I've stated prior, I have no concerns with a grand juror sharing their thoughts or opinions about me and my office's involvement in the matter involving the death of Ms. Breonna Taylor," Cameron said in a statement after filing the motion. "However, I have concerns with a grand juror seeking to make anonymous and unlimited disclosures about the grand jury proceedings."
"The grand jury process is secretive for a reason: to protect the safety and anonymity of all the grand jurors, witnesses and innocent persons involved in the proceedings," Cameron added. "Allowing this disclosure would irreversibly alter Kentucky's legal system by making it difficult for prosecutors and the public to have confidence in the secrecy of the grand jury process going forward."
The new motion arrives less than a week after Cameron released 15 hours of recordings from the grand jury's deliberations after a judge required him to do so. Notably, the recordings did not include anything about Cameron's charging recommendations, as he said they didn't count as evidence. He's previously stated that he and his office did not recommend murder charges against officers Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan Mattingly.
Taylor's family, however, believes Cameron left out significant information in his presentation to the grand jury, leading them to only indict ex-cop Brett Hankison. Furthermore, the unnamed juror who sued for the tapes to be released has accused the attorney general of "using the grand jurors as a shield to deflect accountability and responsibility."
According to CBS News, the juror wants permission to share "details surrounding the actions outside of those recorded proceedings and anything that did not happen in the grand jury proceedings." This would include "discussion of charges that were not presented to the grand jury, explanations of the law that were not provided to the grand jury, defenses or justifications that were not detailed during the proceedings, witnesses that did not testify, potential defendants that were not presented and/or individuals or officials who were not present for the proceedings."
Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron moves to delay Breonna Taylor grand jury recordings by one week
Grand juror in Breonna Taylor case sues for state to release jury records and freedom to publicly speak about case


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By the Editors , CRM magazine
The 2004 Service Leaders--Part I
Edited by David Myron
The powerful mix of economic pressures, customer expectations, and new technologies has made the customer service arena a hotbed of activity. To uncover the vendors leading this growing industry, we scrutinized companies in seven categories: computer telephony integration, interactive voice response, workforce management, workforce optimization, quality monitoring, Web self-service, and agent facing/universal desktop suite.
The results are based on a combination of weighted criteria, including revenue and revenue growth (last four completed quarters ended September 30, 2003), market share, customer wins, and reputation for
Computer Telephony Integration
For years organizations have been challenged by the task of throwing technology at their call centers to cut costs, while having to improve customer service efforts. Computer telephony integration (CTI) technology has matured, however, to such a point that a new phenomenon is taking hold: Call centers are being turned into profit centers.
Here's how it works: CTI immediately identifies incoming calls by matching telephone numbers against a customer database. By recognizing which account the telephone number is associated with, the system can determine the priority level of the call and process it accordingly--either through a live agent, recorded voice, or touch-tone capabilities. If the call still needs to be escalated to a live agent after having gone through the touch-tone IVR or the automated customer service system, the CTI systems can forward the caller to the appropriate agent and populate that agent's computer screen with the customer's record--all before the agent says hello. With customer information at the ready, agents can use this information to not only provide customer support, but also to cross-sell and upsell to customers. As a result, CTI has never before been more important to call center managers and executives.
The idea of turning call centers into profit centers is slowly catching on--albeit more slowly than CTI vendors would like, as the leaders experienced negative revenue growth over the past year. However, analysts are hoping for an upswing. Frost & Sullivan expects the total CTI market to grow from $418.4 million in 2002 at a 6 percent annual compounded growth rate until 2007.
Furthering this effort will be this year's CTI market leader, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcatel. Genesys has found favor in North America as the market share leader, mainly because its products are highly interoperable with disparate vendor products. "Genesys can integrate with everyone, so it gives Genesys more of an opportunity to get the business," says Elizabeth Ussher, a vice president at META Group.
Genesys does not make its revenue publicly available, but pundits say it has by far the lowest total revenue among the CTI leaders. Yet, this pup has a big bite--Frost & Sullivan cited Genesys as the CTI market-share leader in its March "2003 North American Contact Center Market" report.
The Genesys all-in-one IP Contact Center (IPCC) is a standards-based software solution providing Genesys's core Universal Queue and routing technology, reporting, and outbound campaign management for IP environments. Genesys IPCC extends complete multichannel interaction capabilities to converged voice and data networks, and offers an open software solution that provides a path to convergence in both hybrid and pure IP environments. The solution obviates the need to manage third-party automatic call distributors and CTI links. It also works independently of a PBX or with existing PBX equipment.
Second-place leader Avaya received 3.5 stars--only half a star below Genesys--for reputation for customer satisfaction, and has garnered the second largest CTI market share in North America, analysts say. Additionally, Frost & Sullivan ranks Avaya as the leader in several small but rapidly growing niche markets, including Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and Taiwan. Add to that Avaya's strong fiscal-year 2003 revenue of more than $4.3 billion, and it's clear this contact center powerhouse is deserving of the number-two spot among CTI leaders. According to InfoTech, Avaya also holds the leadership position in the U.S. IP telephony small- and midsize-business market (fewer than 100 stations), with 27 percent market share for the first quarter of 2003.
Last fall Avaya released its Customer Interaction Suite, extending Avaya's predictive routing technology to all multichannel communications, including email and the Web. The routing technology enables enterprises to predict an inbound customer's needs by evaluating service levels and past transactions, and then matching the individual with the most qualified agent. Previously this capability was only available when a customer called the contact center by telephone. For outbound sales calls the suite helps ensure that a contact center's predictive dialing capabilities are in compliance with updated state and national regulatory rules, including do-not-call registries. Additional enhancements to Avaya's predictive dialing capabilities help keep automated outbound sales calls compliant with call abandonment regulations, ensuring interactions between agents and customers in a timely manner and in accordance with regulations. The suite supports a multivendor, open standards--based infrastructure.
With its acquisition of GeoTel Communications for $2.1 billion in stock in 1999, Cisco made clear its intention to be a strong contender in the CTI market. Solidifying Cisco's position as the number-three CTI vendor are its overall revenue of $18.8 billion (the strongest in the sector); its commanding piece of the CTI market (Frost & Sullivan estimates it to be in the low double digits); and its indefatigable ability to weather an economic storm (it posted only a 0.2 percent drop in sales last year). Weighing on Cisco, however, is its low (2-star) rating for reputation for customer satisfaction, according to analysts CRM magazine polled.
Through a combination of multichannel contact management, intelligent routing, and network-to-desktop CTI, the Cisco ICM Enterprise Edition segments customers, monitors resource availability, and delivers each contact to appropriate resources in the enterprise. "Cisco's ICM is used in many environments," Ussher says. "Although it's a metarouter, it integrates with all leading [automatic call distributors] in network prerouting."
--David Myron
2004 CTI Leaders
Genesys N/A N/A ****
Avaya $4.3B -12.5% ***1/2
Cisco $18.8B -.2% **
One to Watch: CTI
Nortel Networks has the second largest overall revenue of the leading CTI vendors with more than $10.5 billion. Yet, keeping it from making the top three is its presence and limited popularity. Nortel has the lowest CTI market share and the second lowest reputation for customer satisfaction with only 2.5 stars--a half-star above Cisco. Nortel Networks offers a number of CTI solutions. Meridian LINK Services, TAPI Service Provider, and CallSPONSOR are among the more popular CTI interfaces, while Symposium Agent is a fully integrated agent productivity tool.
Customers are demanding expanded service and support options, but IT budgets have been anemic over the past three years. To meet the challenge of providing more service for less money, enterprises are integrating lower-cost speech self-service into their customer care strategies. The primary enabler of this more-for-less strategy is IVR software, which automates much of the customer interaction by voice input and touch-tone keypad entries and can respond via voice, fax, callback, and email. Some uses of IVR technology include bank and stock account balances and transfers, surveys and polls, call center forwarding, order entry transactions, and information retrieval (e.g., movie and flight schedules).
The U.S. IVR market had its third down year in a row, losing more than 12 percent in U.S. port sales. According to research firm In-Stat/MDR, this market was down again primarily because of the slow growing economy, but should see gains in 2004 and beyond. New technologies like voice extensible markup language (VoiceXML) and speech application language tags (SALT) will help fuel the market by providing opportunities for new players and will provide new functionality that will cause new customers to implement IVR solutions.
Steering the IVR industry out of the doldrums is the CRM IVR market leader, Avaya. Gartner estimates that Avaya has more than 20 percent of the IVR market with its Avaya Interactive Response platform. In its climb to the top, the company has managed to establish a respectable reputation for customer satisfaction, averaging 3.75 stars from the analysts CRM magazine polled.
The company released its Avaya Interactive Response version 1.2 this past September. Avaya IR ships with Avaya IVR Designer, a graphical design tool for drag-and-drop self-service application development. Avaya IVR Designer has been enhanced to generate code that is compliant with VoiceXML 2.0. The enterprise Web-development staff can use third-party XML Web authoring tools or Avaya IVR Designer for maintaining self-service applications, enabling businesses to extend the value of existing Web applications and infrastructure investments. Both VoiceXML and script-based applications can run on the Avaya IR platform. This facilitates the migration of existing applications, while supporting deployment with new applications written in VoiceXML.
Although Nortel Networks took a financial beating last year--company-wide revenue dropped nearly 40 percent--it maintains the second highest IVR market share with nearly 15 percent of the market, says Bern Elliot, a research director at Gartner. Despite its tumultuous year, Nortel has still been able to please, building a favorable reputation for customer satisfaction with 3.25 stars. Taking the number two spot behind Avaya, Nortel is still a formidable force, with total revenue of more than $10.5 billion.
Nortel has been making some changes since it acquired Periphonics in 1999, including the rollout of its Media Processing Server (MPS) 100, 500, and 1,000 for small, midsize, and large enterprises, respectively. The IVR servers use an open, standards-compliant call processing architecture to facilitate connectivity to switches and application servers from any vendor. Nortel also launched its VoiceXML offering last year, extending the applications development capabilities of its self-service solutions by providing a dual application development environment on the MPS platform. It runs simultaneously with PeriProducer applications on the same Nortel Networks self-service platform, so customers can choose to create applications using the VoiceXML industry standard language or PeriProducer, or a combination of both.
Intervoice scored the best among analysts in the reputation for customer satisfaction category with an average rating of 4 stars. Despite its small overall revenue of $156 million in 2003, customers have rewarded Intervoice with more than 10 percent of the IVR market, Gartner's Elliot says. The company's OneVoice Media Gateway product supports VoiceXML 2.0 for the deployment of integrated voice and Web self-service applications. The OneVoice Media Gateway provides speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities. --D.M.
2004 IVR Leaders
Nortel $10.5B -39.7% ***1/4
Intervoice $156M -26.2% ****
One to Watch: IVR
Although Edify did not make the top three, it is a noteworthy contender in the IVR market. The company has more than 10 percent of the IVR market, Gartner's Elliot states, but its reputation for customer satisfaction is lacking. META Group's Ussher blames the company's managerial changes: "Edify needs to get its management act together. It keeps changing it and that affects product direction."
Ussher says that if Edify can maintain its focus it will be an important company to watch. Last fall Edify started shipping a voice- and speech-enhanced version of its multichannel platform Edify 8.5.
There is no doubt that the contact center of today is a far cry from that of yesterday. Apart from staffing headaches, call center managers are under increasing pressure to turn their contact centers into profit centers, while retaining valued customers and providing top-notch service. Anticipating spikes and drops in volume and staffing appropriately is important to keeping a call center efficiently staffed at all times. Thus, the workforce management tools hitting the market to handle these needs are becoming more complex.
According to Gartner, personnel costs account for 71 percent of a typical contact center budget. "Contact center workforce management software can reduce payroll costs, increase service levels, and, in some cases, even motivate and retain quality agents and thereby boost customer satisfaction levels," says Wendy Close, CRM research director at Gartner. Vendors like Aspect Communications, Blue Pumpkin, and IEX are leaders in terms of helping organizations make the most of their call center agents.
Aspect Communications, the workforce management market leader, has been dedicated to providing contact center solutions since 1985. And with more than three million agents using Aspect solutions worldwide, it is clear why the company has been a leader in the market. In addition to its huge installed base, Aspect consistently ranks high in customer satisfaction surveys. According to Close, Aspect has the highest user-satisfaction rating in the market, scoring well above Blue Pumpkin and IEX in a recent Gartner study.
Although Aspect's revenues have dipped this past year, the company still holds top market share in the workforce management space, and remains the vendor to beat. But continued product innovation will help keep Aspect ahead of the pack. Aspect released version 6.2 of its flagship product last year, and introduced its scheduled callback solution to better match contact center resources with customers' needs. As Aspect makes its solutions available as Web-based products, it aims to retain its place at the top of the workforce management market.
Following Aspect is Blue Pumpkin, the one market leader to have positive revenue growth over the past four quarters. In addition, Blue Pumpkin ranked high in terms of customer satisfaction. Like many of the workforce management vendors it faces tough competition but has been able to reach the number-two position by specializing solely in workforce management and optimization tools.
"The challenge for Blue Pumpkin is growing the company into a $100 million business in a workforce management marketplace that is mature and 45 percent saturated in Western Europe and North America," Gartner's Close says. "Blue Pumpkin is positioned fairly well for this growth, having evolved its product line and services to a more comprehensive workforce-optimization solution during the past year."
Taking third place this year is IEX, a division of Tekelec that specializes solely in workforce management and optimization tools. Although nearly all of IEX's revenue is workforce related, declining revenues in recent quarters coupled with a lack of customer momentum place the firm behind Aspect and Blue Pumpkin. Customer satisfaction is somewhat strong, however, especially since IEX's products have been rated as some of the most scalable solutions in the space.
Frost & Sullivan recently ranked IEX the number one workforce management vendor in terms of market scope; however, its declining revenues, sometimes in double digit percentage points, hurt its Service Leader ranking. But the future may be bright for IEX: It announced partnerships in 2003 with Performix and AIM Technology, as well as released its SmartSync integration tool to help link IEX tools with other contact center solutions.
--Martin Schneider
2004 Workforce Management Leaders
Aspect $365M -8% *****
Blue Pumkin N/A 11% ****
IEX $37M -9% ****
One to Watch: Workforce Management
CenterForce Technologies
CenterForce Technologies, which is this year's Workforce Management One to Watch, is a company formed from the merger of CenterForce and RightForce in late 2002. Although the combined entity still only takes in around $5 million annually, it is gaining ground amid the tight competition in the space, and has a product family that many analysts say gives the company the potential for continued growth.
CenterForce also has a strong reputation for customer satisfaction: Its size and scope allow it to keep strong ties with clients using its agent scorecarding and inbound and outbound workforce management solutions. Although it is still a small company, CenterForce has proven itself a real player in the market and truly one to watch in 2004.
Workforce Optimization
Many of this year's Service Leaders in the workforce management category are also top vendors in the workforce optimization category. Although the two categories' terms seem similar, there are distinct differences separating them.
"Workforce management is basically an agent scheduling package," says META Group's Ussher. "Workforce optimization is a lot bigger, bringing in quality monitoring scores to allow managers to better utilize an agent's skills at the right time. Like in baseball, you're not simply watching the batter, but the outfield as well."
Since scheduling is a part of the optimization tool set, it makes sense that market leaders Blue Pumpkin and IEX found their way into this year's top three, along with Kanisa, whose workforce optimization offerings also make it a market leader.
Blue Pumpkin takes first place honors this year, leading the workforce optimization market with double-digit revenue growth and a strong product portfolio. According to Gartner research, Blue Pumpkin is poised for further growth, since it is aggressively courting the market with comprehensive workforce management and optimization solutions.
Specifically on the product front, in addition to its Workforce Optimization Suite, Blue Pumpkin stands to lure additional smaller businesses into its customer family after introducing its Advisor Express product to the market last September. The entry-level optimization package allows small contact centers to reap the benefits of workforce optimization tools at a lower price point. For a private company in a fiercely competitive landscape, Blue Pumpkin will be a force to be reckoned with in 2004.
Taking second place in the workforce optimization category is IEX, which like Blue Pumpkin is a major player in the workforce management space. Since optimization capabilities are linked to IEX's TotalView suite of products, the company has a large footprint in the optimization market. However, the company has seen revenue declines after discontinuing its TotalNet call routing product, though it's still supporting current users.
Even so, IEX may hold its own against competition in 2004, especially since it is more financially viable than many of the smaller upstarts and privately held firms entering the market. IEX is still profitable, has a happy customer base, and is backed by parent company Tekelec, which is also faring favorably in terms of revenue.
IEX's main threat in the coming year may be Kanisa, which rounds out this year's workforce optimization Service Leaders list. Kanisa is not a megaplayer in terms of revenue or market share, but it has amassed an impressive list of satisfied customers. These include big-name firms like Hewlett-Packard, Wachovia, Gateway, and Novell.
When it comes to products, Kanisa is banking on its latest release, Kanisa5, which is an integrated suite that uses knowledge management tools to get the right call to the right agent. The tool also includes deeper use of customer and data analytics, something that Gartner's Close says is the way of the future for the optimization market. "The number one trend is to leverage analytics to better mine the data collected from recordings to improve contact center performance," she says.
Like IEX, Kanisa has built its optimization tools into an integrated suite that covers both workforce management capabilities and workforce optimization tools. As vendor consolidation and growing customer concerns about the number of vendors they deal with mount, the separation of workforce management and workforce optimization as unique entities may cease to exist. Some analysts predict this will happen in the near future. For now, Blue Pumpkin, IEX, and Kanisa top the market. --M.S.
2004 Workforce Optimization Leaders
Kanisa N/A N/A ****1/2
One to Watch: Workforce Optimization
Although KANA Contact Center offers a suite of tools, workforce optimization functionalities comprise a large portion of its solution. The solution allows a contact center staff to access and contribute to a central knowledge base, to utilize multichannel contact points, and to message throughout the enterprise, all through one interface. The company has also infused optimization features into its KANA Response email-management solution.
Financially, KANA has higher revenue than some of the smaller, point-solution optimization vendors, but has seen revenue declines of more than 20 percent over the past few quarters. However, with decent customer satisfaction ratings from high-profile customers like American Airlines, Kodak, Sony, Verizon, and Williams-Sonoma, KANA should be an interesting player to watch over the next year, especially as the economy springs back to life.
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Vodafone-Idea merged entity will beat Airtel in spectrum share
Entity would have 35% network capacity, surpassing Jio, which currently has 31%, says Credit Suisse
newznew (Kolkata) : A potential merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular would make the combined entity the biggest spectrum holder in India and knock off Reliance Jio Infocomm from the top slot on the overall network capacity market share metric, analysts at Credit Suisse said.
According to the Swiss brokerage, if Vodafone and Idea were to merge, the combined entity would have 35% network capacity share, displacing Reliance Jio, which would have 31%.
UK's Vodafone Group and the Aditya Birla Group are in talks to merge Vodafone India and Idea in an all-share transaction, in their bid to forge a stronger front to combat Jio, which is owned by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
The merged entity, the brokerage said, would command a 26% spectrum market share and relegate Bharti Airtel to second place on this score. At present, Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel leads the industry in terms of spectrum holding with a 21% market share, with Jio at second spot with 17%.
Vodafone Plc, the British telecom company has confirmed "ongoing talks" of merger with Aditya Birla Group-owned telecom operator Idea Cellular, to cushion itself against a price war with Reliance Jio.
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The merger would make the joint entity the largest telecom operator of the country, with 43% revenue market share in 2018-19, according to Hong Kong-based brokerage firm CLSA. Airtel will have 33%, and Reliance Jio will occupy 13% share.
"Vodafone confirms that it is in discussions with the Aditya Birla Group about an all share merger of Vodafone India (excluding Vodafone's 42% stake in Indus Towers) and Idea," Vodafone said in a statement.
According to sources, Vodafone will hold a sizeable share in the merged entity, and both Vodafone and Idea will have representatives on the board of the company.
Idea, in its statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange, said the company constantly evaluates various opportunities to enhance shareholder value, and is in "preliminary talks" to evaluate these opportunities.
"The fundamental premise of preliminary discussion is based on equal rights between Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone in the combined entity," it said in the statement.
Last financial year, 2015-16, the combined revenue share of Idea and Vodafone was 42%, while Airtel's was 31.4%.
Together, Idea and Vodafone had 416.8 million subscribers, 70% more than Airtel's 245.4 million.
Vodafone said the merger would change the shareholding structure of the Indian company. "Any merger would be effected through the issue of new shares in Ideato Vodafone and would result in Vodafone deconsolidating Vodafone India," Vodafone said in a statement.
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Vodafone's indication of the merger made the Indian telecom index rally 9.5%. Idea's socks gained 29%.
In 2015-16, the combined revenue of Idea and Vodafone was Rs 81,052 crore while Airtel reported Rs 60,687 crore.
"Together Idea and Vodafone will have more fire-power against Reliance Jio's competitive moves that has already started a price war," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, co-founder and chief analyst of Greyhound Research.
However, a former telecom regulator said that the merger would require clearance from the Competition Commission of India.
The merged entity will also have the highest spectrum holding of all telecom operators in the country, which will make it better placed to offer better data services.
Idea has a larger pre-paid customer base and has a strong foothold in the Indian hinterland. Vodafone has high APRU (average revenue per user), many post-paid, customers.
In Davos, during the World Economic Forum, Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprise, which owns Airtel, told financial news company, "It's a perfect match. If you look at it, the match is not bad. But you know I can't sit on the minds of Vittorio (Colao) or Kumar (Mangalam Birla). The strength and weaknesses match very well. Rural-urban, structured portfolio…makes for a good business case and I would support it."
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After the merger, the telecom industry will be left with three big players—Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, and Reliance Jio. Others like Reliance Communications is in talks with Airtel, Norwegian telecom operator Telenor is in talks with Aircel and MTS has already merged with Reliance Communications.
Mittal has also confirmed that Airtel is in talks with Telenor. "But I think it is in the interest of India, to give a good exit to companies like Telenor rather than wasting all the efforts. So I would say, we look at everything, but I think they are talking to many people, not just us. So I don't know what the outcome would be."
The CLSA report, published in January, added that the merger is the "best bet" for Vodafone, and that both the companies "complement each other's operational skills".
Vodafone has been attempting to list its local business for a few years. Idea is a listed entity, and gives Vodafone an opportunity to list its business without going through the process of an IPO
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UNICEF Says Over 4,000 Congolese Have Died From Measles Outbreak In 2019
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It pains our hearts to report that more than 4,000 of our brothers and sisters have died from the fatal measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This sad news was broken to the world by UNICEF at the beginning of October 2019.
UNICEF said that the cases of measles in Congo have risen to 203,179 people, and also that the cases would have been preventable. They also added that 90% of the 4,096 who have died so far from this deadly reoccurring virus were children below the tender age of 5. Very sad!!!
In a shocking statement, UNICEF told CNN that "The number of measles cases in DRC this year is more than triple the number recorded for all of 2018. The measles outbreak in DRC has become far deadlier than Ebola, which to date, has taken 2,143 lives."
The measles virus is highly contagious and spreads from person to person either through sneezing, coughing, or contact with body fluids. Without immunization against the measles virus, as much as 90% of those who come close to the infected person will be infected with the virus. Those who are at a higher risk of contracting the measles virus are young children.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has shared its concern and need for 95% of Congo's population to be vaccinated with at least two doses of the measles vaccine. This is to ensure that herd immunity is achieved and to further save people who risk contracting the deadly virus. Their concerns are made public on the grounds that only about 57% of people in Congo were vaccinated in 2018.
The UNICEF Rep in DRC, Edouard Beigbeder, blames much of the spread of the virus on the lack of access to proper health care when the children fall sick. He also mentioned the mistrust of vaccines and vaccinators by the locals.
This mistrust, from what we have gathered, stems from the many viruses which have infiltrated Africa ever since the colonial days. Other factors that make Africans mistrust the vaccines from the West, are the confessions from various sources of how colonial agents and others went about Africa spreading various viruses through vaccinations and health care provisions.
It important for UNICEF to also ensure that the vaccines which they bring to Africa are what they say it is, and are properly manufactured without any side effects. A report by Kenya doctor once accused UNICEF of using vaccines to make their women barren.
UNICEF and the WHO have partnered with the government of Congo to launch an emergency vaccination campaign that targets a total of 825,000 children.
WHO has warned that the measles outbreak in Congo needs to be put in check, as the cases of 2019 are three times more than those of 2018. WHO reports that Congo accounts for the highest amount of infected people, followed by Madagascar and Ukraine. Other countries that follow are Cameroon, Angola, Chad, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Sudan, South Sudan, and Thailand.
Our hearts and prayers go out to our brothers and sisters in Congo. This is because Congo has been through a lot ever since the days of colonialism to date. It may seem like Congo can't put itself together and stay free from wars, disease, and poverty, but that is far from the truth. Those who know how the world works, know that the troubles in Congo are caused by a certain group of people who will do all that is their power to see Congo on its knees, so they can continue to suck her dry of her resources.
We pray Congo survives the nightmare and stands tall again. We pray Africa survives the nefarious attacks on its peoples, resources, economy, health and other facets of society and life.
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Below are selected videos from the Hawaii Pacific Export Council (HPEC). HPEC is a Honolulu-based non-profit with the mission of assisting exports from Hawaii. HPEC is an excellent resource for Hawaii, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands companies that need advice and mentoring on exporting to foreign markets. Insight interAsia's Rob Haak is a board member of HPEC and assists in coordinating the organization's seminars and mentoring activities. The full archive of HPEC's YouTube videos focused on exporting can be found here.
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Q: while scrolling Text values in Listview are changing This is my lauout for the adapter
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_below="@+id/fix_container"
>
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tv1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
    android:textSize="15sp"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:text="1"
    android:textColor="@color/black"/>
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tv2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="15sp"
    android:textColor="@color/black"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@id/tv1"
    android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
    android:text="1"
    android:layout_toEndOf="@id/tv1"
    android:layout_marginStart="10dp" />
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tv3"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="@color/black"
    android:textSize="15sp"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@id/tv2"
    android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
    android:layout_toEndOf="@id/tv2"
    android:text="1"
    android:layout_marginStart="10dp" />

CustomListAdapter.java
public class CustomListAdapter extends BaseAdapter{
private LayoutInflater layoutInflater;
private Production_Dispatch_Res_DTO rem_res_dto;
List<String> eff_list = new ArrayList<String>();
String[] eff_list_split;

public CustomListAdapter(Context context, Production_Dispatch_Res_DTO res,
List<String> eff_list) {
    this.rem_res_dto = res;
    layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    this.eff_list = eff_list;
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return eff_list.size();
}

@Override
public Object getItem(int position) {
    return eff_list.get(position);
}

@Override
public long getItemId(int position) {
    return position;
}
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    try{
        ViewHolder holder;
        if(convertView == null){
            convertView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.lists,null);
            holder = new ViewHolder();
            holder.tv1 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv1);
            holder.tv2 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv2);
            holder.tv3 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv3);
            convertView.setTag(holder);
        }else {
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }
        eff_list_split= eff_list.get(position).split(",");

        int eff_list_split_size = eff_list_split.length;

        switch (eff_list_split_size){
            case 1:
                if(eff_list_split[0].equals("-1")){
                    holder.tv1.setText("");
                }
                else
                holder.tv1.setText(eff_list_split[0]);
                break;
            case 2:
                if(eff_list_split[0].equals("-1"))
                    holder.tv1.setText("");
                else
                holder.tv1.setText(eff_list_split[0]);

                if(eff_list_split[1].equals("-1"))
                    holder.tv2.setText("");

                else
                holder.tv2.setText(eff_list_split[1]);
                break;
            case 3:
                if(eff_list_split[0].equals("-1"))
                    holder.tv1.setText("");
                else
                    holder.tv1.setText(eff_list_split[0]);

                if(eff_list_split[1].equals("-1"))
                    holder.tv2.setText("");

                else
                    holder.tv2.setText(eff_list_split[1]);

                if(eff_list_split[2].equals("-1"))
                    holder.tv3.setText("");
                else
                holder.tv3.setText(eff_list_split[2]);
                break;
    }
    }catch (Exception e){
        Log.d(VilanConstants.TAG,"/Excp @listAdp"+ e.toString());
    }

    return convertView;
}

public class ViewHolder{
    public TextView tv1;
    public TextView tv2;
    public TextView tv3;
}
}

I have taken listview in layout like this
 <ListView
    android:id="@+id/product_list_details"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:dividerHeight="3dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_below="@+id/card_view_dispatch"/>

At start it is coming correctly. While scrolling listview data in textviews are changing every time I am scrolling.
I have tried the solutions in stackoverflow which are previously answered. But they Won't worked for me.
Any help would be appreciated.
I am new to android.
Thank you.

A: Try this,
Put
holder.tv1 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv1);
holder.tv2 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv2);
holder.tv3 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv3);

after the
if(convertView == null){
     .....
} else {
      ....
}

check and try. You are initializing when convertView is null. But do it every time and check if it works?

A: Update this code:
 public class ViewHolder{
    public TextView tv1;
    public TextView tv2;
    public TextView tv3;
  }

to this
public class ViewHolder{
            public TextView tv1;
            public TextView tv2;
            public TextView tv3;

        holder.tv1 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv1);
        holder.tv2 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv2);
        holder.tv3 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv3);
        }

A: I have seen your code. it is right. but, you need to use all views(TextView) in all cases 1, 2 and 3. because when case 1 is true then only tv1(TextView) is used and others not. so, other views are also used by getView() method automatically. because getView() method called again and again when you scroll list.
try to use all views in all cases or change logic as you want. but, all views must be used when case is true.

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Celebrity MasterChef
29th September 2018	| by	Dan Turner
John Partridge was crowned the winner of Celebrity Masterchef 2018.
The Eastenders actor beat Spencer Matthews and rugby player Martin Bayfield to win the celebrity series of the hit cooking show.
Gregg Wallace praised him for the efforts of John for taking home the win, after treating a menu titled There's No Taste Like Home. Explaining him and John Torode's choice of winner he said: 'John only cooks what he truly believes in, truly loves, and has got a bit of his history in it – do you know who else does that? 'The great chefs of the world – and that is why he is our MasterChef champion.'


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Attention men: This reaction to sexual assault makes things worse
In the face of the #MeToo movement here are the dos and don'ts for the male ally
By Mike Sholars
|  February 12, 2018
The #MeToo moment is a crime scene writ large, and as more suspects and survivors are added to the list, most men have been forced to reflect on their complicity in the matter. Make no mistake: We are all complicit. That is a truth so raw in its unflinching specificity that I've watched a sort of revisionist history take place, as men look backwards and try desperately to throw themselves on the right side of a monumental injustice.
It goes like this: A man, when prompted, will give his absolute support of #MeToo. He will use strong words to condemn the numerous evils of a Harvey Weinstein or a Larry Nassar. Those men will serve as his line in the sand; the absolute of what constitutes rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct (listed in order of their perceived severity as reported in the media). Then, without fail, comes a moment where he feels the need to qualify that support.
Liam Neeson did it, warning against #MeToo becoming a "witch hunt." Matt Damon called it a "culture of outrage," and reminded us not to confuse "patting someone on the butt [with] rape or child molestation." And, of course, Quentin Tarantino passionately argued that Roman Polanski couldn't have raped the 13-year-old girl he was found guilty of raping because it wasn't "violent" enough to be actual rape. (Tarantino has since issued an apology.)
So what drives these men, and so many of the rest of us, to become armchair attorneys as soon as we hear a woman talk about her experience with sexual assault or Aziz Ansari-esque "bad dates?" The answer is sad and simple: Fear. Fear and self-preservation. A lot of us are looking at ourselves, at our complicity, at our attitudes and mentalities throughout the years – and we don't like what we see.
Even worse, a lot of men are examining their actions and hearing some chillingly familiar stories coming out of the #MeToo movement. They're reading "Cat Person," they're watching the discussion around what "bad sex" actually means and they're hearing those events being defined as rape.
And that, at the very least, makes them perpetrators of sexual assault, putting them squarely in "the bad place. And we can't have that, can we?
So instead, lines are redrawn and definitions are rewritten in ink. Rapists and assaulters are classified as "the guys who do things just a notch above what I've done." It becomes about avoiding the label, and never reflecting on their actions. Rather than confront and change the way they treat, view and respect women, they just make sure they're never guilty of doing "the worst thing." Everything else is forgivable.
It's a sad trick. More than that, it's not even a new one. Watch people you know avoid being labelled as a racist while doing, saying and believing overtly racist things. Ask them if Black Lives Matter. Ask them if they think white privilege exists. (I'm Black; watching those conversations unfold is practically my pastime.)
Some people have called #MeToo a reckoning, and maybe it is. But there can be no true change until all men are willing and able to reckon with what they have done, what they have allowed and what they may do again. Until then, we are like children screaming "Not it!" as a game of tag starts, hoping to play without being caught. But we are still part of the game all the same.
This story originally appeared in Feburary 2018 with the title "Men, this common reaction to sexual assault actually makes things worse."
Mike Sholars is a freelance writer and editor.
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Joanne Rogers, widow of 'Mr. Rogers,' dead at 92
Fred Rogers's partner continued aiding organizations in Pittsburgh as recently as last year
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|  Jan. 15, 2021
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Making editorial decisions in a pandemic
Mapping out a magazine when each week contains a year's worth of upheaval
By Jocelyn Bell
|  Mar. 30, 2020
Topics: Relationships
COVID-19 and the science of compassion
The pandemic has triggered a wave of good deeds as Canadians pitch in to help or inspire others
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|  Apr. 8, 2020
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Afrofuturism gives historically oppressed voices a chance to create a better future
Many "big visions" overlook those who wear the wounds of slavery, genocide, colonialism and capitalist exploitation
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|  Sep. 9, 2020


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What you Don't Know about Charlie Pickering Height, Weight, Net Worth, Age, Birthday, Wikipedia, Who, Nationality, Biography, Wiki, Bio
Who is Charlie Pickering Height, Weight, Net Worth, Age, Birthday, Wikipedia, Who, Nationality, Biography?
Charlie Pickering is a Melbourne-based Australian joke artist, TV and radio personality, creator, and maker. He has The Weekly with Charlie Pickering on ABC, a week after week news parody show.
He is most popular as a previous co-have on the current undertakings show The Project and as the "Age X" group commander on the game show Talkin' about Your Generation. Charlie Pickering is cheerfully hitched to his better half, Sarah Krasnostein. They likewise have a youngster together.
Sarah Krasnostein is a genuine creator and legitimate scholastic from the United States and Australia. Krasnostein moved on from the University of Melbourne with a BA/LLB (praises) degree in 2005.
From 2007 to 2011, she filled in as a legal counselor for the Victorian Department of Justice. In 2016, she accepted her Ph.D. from Monash University. Her doctoral exposition, "Seeking after Consistency: The Effect of Different Reforms on Unjustified Disparity in Individualized Sentencing Frameworks," acquired her the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Law.
29 August 1977 (age 44)
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Charlie Pickering was born to his folks, Pam and Ron, on 29 August 1977. Charlie Pickering's folks actually live in the two-story home he experienced childhood in with his sister in Melbourne's prosperous Brighton East. A small schnauzer is gabbing around when I show up.
Pam and Ron are drug specialists who have resigned. "He was unable to stop when he was growing up, right?" Pam reviews her child breaking his arm while playing cricket when he was around 13 years of age.
Or then again, more unequivocally, "not playing cricket, yet on a skateboard, holding back to bat." Ron reviews Charlie getting analysis from different understudies at Brighton Grammar for winning the school's public talking contest.
An Australian joke artist, TV and radio personality, creator, and maker, Charlie Pickering's total assets is assessed to be $4 million starting at 2021. Pickering co-facilitated The Mansion on The Comedy Channel with Michael Chamberlin in 2008. The show endured 13 episodes. Pickering facilitated the third period of Channel V's Cash Cab, a voyaging game show.
He was a group chief on Network Ten's test show Talkin' about Your Generation, addressing Generation X, from 2009 to 2012. In July 2009, he joined Carrie Bickmore, and Dave Hughes as co-hosts of Network Ten's infotainment show The Project (initially The 7PM Project). Instagram account.


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01.01 - Bienvenida
Influir en las personas
密歇根大学
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Este curso mejorará su capacidad para influir en las personas en situaciones en las que no puede usar autoridad formal. Aprenderá formas efectivas de construir, desarrollar y mantener una base de poder en su organización. También aprenderá tácticas de influencia que le permitirán ser más persuasivo e influyente al trabajar con sus superiores, compañeros e incluso subordinados. Además, aprenderá cómo construir y mantener relaciones de alta calidad para maximizar aún más su poder informal y su capacidad de influir en los demás. Es importante destacar que distinguirá entre influencia y manipulación y aprenderá a protegerse de la influencia no deseada de los demás. Las estrategias de influencia que aprenda en este curso lo convertirán en un líder, presentador y encargado de tomar decisiones más seguro e influyente. Será más efectivo a la hora de presentar ideas comerciales a sus superiores, influir en los clientes y crear coaliciones entre las partes interesadas. Este curso no solo le brindará orientación estratégica sobre cómo desarrollar y mantener su red de contactos para la influencia y el poder, sino que también le brindaremos tácticas y estrategias específicas que han demostrado funcionar para obtener poder e influir en las personas.
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Maximization (Psychology), Leadership, strategy, Influencing
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Construir su base de poder
Para liderar de manera efectiva, debe tener poder. Su poder puede definirse formalmente, por ejemplo, por su puesto o cargo. Su poder puede ser informal, por ejemplo, su experiencia o carisma le dan poder y le permiten influir en los demás. En este módulo, exploraremos el significado del poder y de dónde proviene, lo que lo ayudará a identificar sus bases de poder y oportunidades para aumentar su poder con el tiempo.
01.01 - Bienvenida9:14
01.02 - Lo que aprenderá en este curso4:25
01.03 - Definición de poder en las organizaciones11:21
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Scott DeRue, Ph.D.
Edward J. Frey Dean at the Ross School of Business
Maxim Sytch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow
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Welcome to the course. This course is all about influencing people. Think about your job. Think about the experiences you've had in organizations. The ability to influence people, whether they be your team members, your subordinates, or whether it's influencing up, maybe your boss. Or other stakeholders in the organization, maybe even stakeholders outside of the organization. This course is all about the skills, the tools, the practices that you need to be able to influence those people, those stakeholders. I am extremely excited for this course. I'm excited for two reasons. One is, because influence is the core, it's the essence of leadership. If you look at all of the different definitions of leadership around the world, many, if not most of them, at the core of that definition, is the ability to influence people. And that's what this course is all about. The second reason I'm extremely excited about this course, is that we've been conducting research over about the last decade. That has opened our eyes to some pretty novel, in some cases counter-intuitive practices, behaviors, actions that you can take. That make you more influential, that enhance your ability to influence people no matter where they are in the organization and no matter where you sit in the organization. Whether you're at the top of that organization or at the very bottom. How do you influence people? Motivate them to engage in a set of behaviors that is critical, that's essential, to accomplishing your teams goals, and the organization's goals. That's the essence of this course, is how do you influence people. In week one, we're going to start with the foundation, which is really how do you build your base of what we call informal power? We often think of power as the people at the top of the organization. The people that look like this. This is the Forbes Top Ten Most Powerful People in the World, as rated in 2014, so a couple of years ago. Take a look at the people in this picture. What do you notice? When I look at the individuals who are listed here as the Most Powerful People in the World, I see heads of state, the Prime Minister, the President of the United States. I see the Pope, Pope Francis. I see Janet Yellen, who the head of one of the most significant, most powerful organizations in the world, in terms of economic policy. And then you see business leaders, Bill Gates, Larry Page, the founder of Google. When we think of the most powerful people in the world, these are the types of people that we often think about. But what we're going to talk about in this course is a different type of power, a different type of influence. I want you to think about, for example, in 2014 between October and December the protest that were happening in Hong Kong called, Occupy Central. Those protest which became extremely influential were started by a group of students. A social movement, they had to influence people from all diverse types of backgrounds to come together around a particular cause. Think about the Arab spring that happened now a number of years ago. Again, a number of young people, not in powerful positions, but who claimed power and were able to leverage and use that power to influence a wide and diverse audience to come together around a common cause. Think about Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, who really was the motivating force behind the Civil Rights Movement. He didn't have the type of power that these individuals have here as heads of state, or head of Google, or Microsoft, or the Gates Foundation. What we're going to discover in this course is how no matter where you sit in your organization, no matter where you sit in life. How can you establish your power? So that you can influence other people for whom you may not have authority over and that at it's core is the essence of how you lead people, how you lead teams. It's not about always wielding the biggest stick or the biggest sword but it's about how you influence people and processes even when you don't have the authority. And that's what we're gonna discover in this course. I wanna start with a little quiz. And the quiz will for shadow some of the different types of power that we're gonna talk about this week. What you see here on your screen, Reward power. Which is really the ability to reward for performance. If you perform well do I have the ability to reward you for that performance? If I have that ability that gives me a form of power in this relationship. Another form of power, what we call Coercive power. It's the ability to punish, or if I have too, to force performance or compliance. If I have that ability, that gives me power. Thirdly, what we call Legitimate power, this is the formal right to influence. Think about your organizational chart, job titles, reporting relationships. Who's the boss, who's the subordinate. That's the base or the source of Legitimate power. But those are very much structural forms of power and we'll talk about those structural elements of power this week as we go through the course. But then look at other forms or sources of power listed here. What we call Referent Power which is the charisma that we talked about in course one. The personal connection the relationship that we have or how strongly you identify with me as your leader or as a person. if you want to follow me, that's a form of referent power because of that connection that we have that charisma that I provide. Expert power, this is having expertise. When that expertise is valued or rare in the market place. The extent to which I am more of an expert and that expertise is valued, the more power I have. And then lastly but certainly not least is Information as power. Having information that is valued or rare. Akin or similar to expertise but you don't necessarily necessarily have to be the expert to have information that is valued or rare, that then in turn gives you power. So these are six different sources or bases of power that we'll talk about in the course. And what I'd like you to think about or at least document for yourself is, which of these do you think is most or least effective? For using different forms of power to influence people. And so I'd like you to take a minute on your own to rank order, one being most effective, seven being least effective. Which one of these bases of power would you say is most effective for influencing people? Which of these bases of power would you say is least effective for influencing people? Think about your own experiences, think about the people that you've seen as leaders trying to influence others. Which bases or forms of power did they use? Was it effective, was it not? And take a moment and go to the discussion forum and share your rankings. Which ones you think are most effective, which ones you think are least effective. Share and learn with your classmates and try to understand their rankings and what their experiences say about the relative effectiveness of these different forms of power. And then later in the week, as we go through the course, we will come back and I'll share with you some of the research and insights that we have on all six of these bases of power.
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The World Health Organisation has estimated that in Afghanistan over 54,000 women and children die each year as a direct result from indoor air pollution, while millions, more suffer from respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, asthma, cardiovascular disease, eye problems, and lung cancer.70% of the victims of indoor air pollution are children, under five as this age group spend prolonged periods of time with their mothers in, exposed to poor indoor air quality caused by the use of conventional household, cookstoves.
The burning of biomass by private households in conventional ovens poses a serious, health threat to Afghani women and children. It is also highly inefficient as it used, 50% more resources than the COAM Clean Cookstove. This adds unnecessary costs, for each household, putting additional pressure on already under severe households, pressure to sustain themselves. Because they use more resource (i.e. shrubs and rangeland plants), conventional ovens deplete soils of organic matter at a higher rate, than Clean Cookstoves, of nutrients, resulting in land degradation and reduced, grazing for livestock., Afghanistan's reliance on biomass for cooking fuel will continue for several decades, to come; today, only 5-6 % of its 30 million people are connected to the electricity, grid and, in the rural areas, where around 70% of the population live, only 3% have, electricity. A mere 6% of the entire population has access to natural gas, primarily in urban areas. The most effective and efficient way to address this urgent problem is, rapid and widespread introduction of improved cooking stoves and technology. Clean, Cookstoves burn biomass much more efficiently and have additional benefits as they, are designed to draw off the smoke and its toxins, creating a safe environment for, women and children.
In 2012, through partnership with communities and the government, COAM, implemented stage one of the Women and Natural Recourses, Clean Cookstove, project where four different designs of stoves and green technology was developed in, the COAM Design and Research Lab, led by a local innovator. These locally, appropriate and innovative designs, promoted the development, use, and, implementation of sustainable, locally-produced, clean technologies that improve, indoor air quality, individual health, and the livelihoods of women and children. They, also promote self-reliance, local sustainability, and reduce the negative environmental, impacts of deforestation for firewood collection.
The Design team has developed three prototypes.
The three designs were tested in the testing lab as below.


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Fas-Fax: Major Newspapers' Total Digital Editions Rise 63 Percent
David Kaplan Nov 1, 2011 - 11:48 AM CDT
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Digital editions of the top 25 newspapers rose 63 percent to 2,169,843 for the six months ending in September, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations' Fas-Fax tally. For the most part, the numbers reflect newspapers' and consumers' relatively new embrace of digital editions across a growing number of mobile devices. While there's a lot of excitement about these gains newspapers are seeing — at time when print circulation continues to fall — the industry is still a way off from getting digital to offset the declines.
For September, the ABC (NYSE: DIS) counted 475 newspapers with 3.4 million digital replica and non-replica editions, which is about 11 percent of the total circulation. In March, it was 3.1 million replica and non-replica digital editions for 458 newspapers, which was about 10 percent of circ. Both are for weekday newspapers. And remember that September 2010 and 2011 numbers aren't directly comparable because of the addition of paid/verfied circulation in 2011.
The Wall Street Journal, whose separate European edition is currently being investigated by the ABC UK for allegedly inflating circulation numbers through fraudulent means, continued to lead all other U.S. papers with a total average circulation of 2.1 million, followed by USA Today and the New York Times with 1.78 million and 1.15 million, respectively.
The WSJ was also the lead in digital editions with 537,469 (all "non-replica") during the six months that ended in September, a rise of 19 percent year-over-year. It was followed by three New York-area papers, with NYT (380,003, with 361,896 non-replicas) at number two, the NY Daily News (165,441, including 136,186 non-replicas), and the Cablevision-owned Newsday (112,486 total and 111,383 non-replicas). The WSJ's News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) sibling, the NY Post, was number seven on the ABC's list. Release
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Connecticut Set to Compete in USGA State Team Championship
The CSGA team of Brian Ahern, Matt Smith and Jeff Hatten will tee it up on Wednesday in the USGA State Team Championship at Galloway National Golf Club in Galloway, New Jersey. The championship brings together three players from all fifty states plus Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. in a 54 hole stoke play event where the team score is the best two of three individual scores each day.
Ahern, from West Hartford and Wampanoag Country Club, won the 2012 CSGA Mid-Amateur Championship played at Hop Meadow Country Club. He also won the 2010 Mid-Amateur, and the 1999 CSGA State Amateur Championship. He represented Connecticut in the USGA State Team Championship in 1999.
Smith, the current points leader in the CSGA's Player of the Year standings, hails from Thompson and plays out of Quinnatisset Country Club. He won the 2012 CSGA State Amateur Championship played at Race Brook. The 2012 University of Hartford graduate was also runner-up in the 2011 State Amateur.
Hatten, from Farmington and Farmington Country Club, was the low amateur and 4th overall finisher in the 2012 CSGA State Open played at Wee Burn Country Club. He also finished 4th in the 2011 Ivy League Championship which was played at Galloway National. A former first-team All-Ivy selection, Hatten graduated from Yale in 2012.
"Galloway National is just a great golf course," said Ahern, "and USGA events are really special. We're all excited to play in this championship and represent Connecticut and the CSGA."
The Connecticut team is paired with Ohio and Oregon in the first two rounds, and has been assigned the last tee times of the day on Wednesday, with Hatten starting at 1:48pm, Ahern at 1:57, and Smith at 2:06. With wind and weather conditions likely to affect play on the difficult bayside course, Connecticut's players put a positive spin on their first day starting times.
"Normally, you might not want the last tee time of the day," said Smith, "but out here it might work to our advantage. The storms that came through in Tuesday's practice round are supposed to linger into Wednesday. Hopefully by the time we're out there conditions will have improved. We may have less wind late in the day as we're finishing up."
At 6,956 yards, the par 71 Galloway National Golf Club will provide a challenging test for the 156 players representing 52 golf associations. Known for its undulating greens and expansive bunkering, Galloway National borders Reeds Bay and is often subject to strong winds. A spectacular layout, it has been ranked among Golf Digest's top 100 modern courses.
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Austin Wayne Self; AM Racing ride momentum to Thunder Valley
BRISTOL, Tenn: Capturing a strong and season-high fifth-place finish this past weekend at Michigan International Speedway, Austin Wayne Self (@AustinWSelf) and his AM Racing team hope to carry the momentum and deliver another strong performance in Thursday night's UNOH 200 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.
The recent upswing in performance of the Mooresville, N.C.-based team, including two top-six finishes in the last four races is certainly turning heads but for Austin, Texas native Self, he knows their recent performance is hopefully a taste of what's to come.
"Things are really good at AM Racing right now," said Self who earned his second career top-five finish at Michigan. "The AM Racing guys have worked hard all year long and we're being rewarded now with some strong finishes. We're not done though. We want to keep going and keep getting better."
Self credits his crew chief Eddie Troconis for his motivation and his determination to succeed with the hopes of making AM Racing winners before the end of the season.
"I know we're at the beginning of the Playoffs, but we can win," offered Self. "We are getting there. With our finishes at Kentucky and Michigan and our performances at Pocono and Eldora, I think we've risen our team a notch.
"We can't be too complacent though. We have to keep working hard and not settle for what we're doing. Yes, we are running good and I'm comfortable with the trucks, but we have to get better.
"As long as we keep taking steps in the right direction, we're going to end our season on a high note."
The 23-year-old will make his fourth career start at Bristol Motor Speedway and looks to improve on his 13th place finish at the 0.533-mile short track from last August.
"I love Bristol," Self said with a smile. "It's short track racing at its finest. It's a fast place where things happen in a hurry, so you have to be on your toes.
"Momentum is key at Bristol and track position is critical too. We just need to unload strong and keep fine-tuning our No. 22 GO TEXAN | AM Technical Solutions Chevrolet Silverado and see if we can't get ourselves another top-10 finish on Thursday night."
Texas Department of Agriculture's GO TEXAN program will support Self in his 78th career Truck Series start.
GO TEXAN, celebrating its 20th Birthday this year, represents Texas agri-business on state, national and international levels by building recognition with the GO TEXAN mark.
Along with its signature mark in the shape of Texas, GO TEXAN celebrates, promotes and supports the business savvy and plainspoken grit Texas agriculture is known for throughout the world.
AM Technical Solutions, Don't mess with Texas, CForce Bottling Company, Flying Circle and Kreuz Market will serve as associate partners in the 17th race of the year.
In 77 NGOTS races, the 2014 ARCA Menards Series Rookie of the Year has two top-fives (second at Daytona 2017, fifth at Michigan 2019) and seven top-10 finishes. The Texan maintains an average finish of 17.9 during his three years of competition.
The Austin, Texas native is nestled 13th in the championship standings with seven races remaining.
Visit AM Technical Solutions (AMTS) online at amts.com.
The UNOH 200 (200 laps | 100.6 miles) is the 17th of 23 races on the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series schedule. Practice begins on Thurs., Aug. 15 from 9:05 a.m. – 9:55 a.m., while final practice is set for 11:05 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. Qualifying races are set for later in the day beginning at 4:35 p.m. The 32-truck field will take the green flag shortly after 8:30 p.m. with live coverage on FOX Sports 1 (FS1), the Motor Racing Network (Radio) and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Satellite Radio, Channel 90). All times are local (Eastern).
Headquartered in Austin, TX, AM Technical Solutions was founded in 1994. AM Technical Solutions is a global engineering and construction management firm, specializing in the high-tech industries. AMTS has managed over $20B of global capital projects for over 170 different customers in 15 countries.
AM Racing is a NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series (NGOTS) team owned by entrepreneur Tim Self.
Established in December 2015, AM Racing is headquartered in Mooresville, N.C. Operated by Self, a native of Austin, Texas, the team is prided on faith, honesty and intelligent performance