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The UK building materials industry is having to cope with significantly rising production costs linked, among other factors, to the huge hike in energy prices and the construction and quarrying industries' loss of the red diesel rebate. The industry is also continually investing in new technology to help meet customer product demand while channelling further resources into recruiting and training its next generation of professional employees. But if you suggest to Dr Miles Watkins that UK building materials companies may need to lower some of their ambitious sustainability goals to enable them to maintain any sort of profit margin and growth in a tough trading environment, you get a cogent response.
"We have the physical world; on top of that, we have the social world, and at the top, there is the economic world. As far as the bit of the bottom is concerned, it is all over [for climate change deniers]. It will only get more expensive to do something," stresses Watkins, a former Aggregate Industries director of sustainable construction and former non-executive president and chairman of the Institute of Quarrying (IQ). "Either you understand this and have a business that can cope with the rise of investor and social interest in sustainability, or you are a business that can't be bothered, that gets a bit further down the road and sees its assets scooped up and bought by more savvy others."
Watkins, who has a PhD in Stakeholder Management from the University of Bath, stresses that sustainability is a big as well as hot topic within the UK building materials industry. He has been keen to focus on two areas he thinks can deliver the most enduring gains.
"I am particularly interested in [building materials] circularity and low carbon solutions, and the union of commercial activity and sustainability. I often see companies go piling off down a sustainability route almost in a vacuum, but it makes good sense to have a sharp focus on what makes their customers happy.
"I have always networked well in the industry through my work with the IQ and am broadly known for my work on sustainability, so most of the time, companies come to me for advice and support. What is good is that companies seek me out when their senior management is genuinely interested in doing something to improve their sustainability."
Watkins, who is based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, central England, says he works with a range of quarrying space firms, including Breedon, John Wainwright & Co in Somerset, and, on the contracting side, with Associated Asphalt Contracting Limited in southeast England. Many of his client companies include some of his former Aggregate Industries colleagues. Watkins is also still working closely with the IQ on its approach to sustainable construction and the enduring performance of minerals.
"Some of the sustainability stuff does not get dealt with as businesses do not feel confident enough to give things a go. As such, a lot of the work I do with them is making sure their people feel they can make suggestions, ask questions, and bring things they read about into the workplace. It's creating an internal landscape where people feel confident to fully explore issues around sustainability.
"There is a real gap in the market when it comes to training in this space, including educating businesses about the trade-offs that need to be handled. It is very difficult to tick every box. Sometimes you need to untick one to tick another."
Aligned with his industry sustainability consultancy work, Watkins explains that he is in the process of building up two businesses.
"One is around polymers and waste plastic products. Abolishing all plastics would be crazy; they are an incredibly handy material. My waste plastic recycling interest came from a quarrying environment when I started thinking, 'What happens to all the discarded fluorescent vests?' My other business is connected to my work at Xeroc, which is championing Blue Planet Systems' carbon capture and aggregate upcycling technology. We have a licence to look at incorporating small-scale Blue Planet Systems' aggregates production plants into existing building materials producers' sites, using their waste as our source materials."
U.S.-based Blue Planet Systems' patented mineralisation technology is said by the company to be the only known scalable method for capturing and permanently sequestering billions of tonnes of CO₂. The firm says it can process, dilute and use CO₂ from any source, combine it with concrete waste at any concentration, and turn it into valuable building materials to enable carbon capture at a profit. Each tonne of its CO₂-sequestered aggregate is said to permanently mineralise 440kg of CO₂, preventing it from ever leaking or accumulating in the atmosphere. "What I really like is that it's quite practical technology that uses fairly well-understood science," emphasises Watkins. "In effect, it washes the aggregates out of the concrete." Blue Planet Systems' investor partners include Holcim, Mitsubishi Corporation, Calpine, Knife River, and KDC.
I was keen to speak to Watkins after listening to his fascinating and illuminating presentation at the British Aggregates Association (BAA) annual conference at The Palace Hotel in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, the day before the start of the hugely successful Hillhead 2022 quarrying, construction, and recycling industries' exhibition. During the presentation, he spoke of the need for building materials suppliers to maintain their admirable work to reduce their carbon emissions.
Highlighting the UK building materials sector's 'broad terms' carbon emissions to conference attendees, Watkins noted that bitumen production generates 450,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions; a further 625,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions come from making asphalt; 1.25 million tonnes of CO₂ is emitted during aggregates production; and a whopping 10 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions are generated in cement making. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given such figures, Watkins noted that the building materials sector is responsible for 20% of all UK business CO₂ emissions, which to offset at £50 per unit would amount to £616 million (€715.11mn). He posed a key question: 'When will we see this liability on balance sheets?'
Watkins also showed delegates pictures of Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the giant American multinational investment management corporation, and Mark Carney, an economist and banker who served as the Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, to illustrate how the huge sustainability focus of leading major investment bank and finance figures like them had propelled it to the forefront of world commerce.
"Over the past few months, I have spoken to a load of chief executives and CFOs [chief financial officers] from companies all round this [UK building materials] sector who are being pressured beyond belief to make monumental differences to their businesses, particularly around circularity and carbon," said Watkins. "Investors are now saying, 'I know it's been like that forever, but unless you do something on sustainability, we are going to take our money and put it somewhere else'. Especially if you are a CRH which BlackRock already has an around 10% stake in, you are going to start listening to these people."
Watkins said he had been speaking to management at Forterra, a £380mn annual-revenue-generating concrete building block and brick manufacturing company based in Northampton, England, who told him that the firm's CEO, Stephen Harrison, spends 50% of his time dealing with sustainability investors. "That would not have happened five years ago," said Watkins, adding: "Forterra's CFO now writes the company's annual sustainability report."
Back to our conversation, Watkins says the UK building materials industry's sustainability focus went up shortly before, during and after COP26 [Glasgow, 31 October-13 November 2021]. COP26 was the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the third meeting of the parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement (designated CMA1, CMA2, CMA3), and the 16th meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP16).
"Just look at how many businesses and organisations came out with net zero commitments in and around COP26. When you are talking about investors and investment instruments, there is huge pressure to decarbonise and drive up [production] circularity. Money has become conditional on making things better.
"As new generations come into industries, they are coming pre-programmed with a higher level of expectation of what businesses should be doing socially and environmentally. An enormous number of [UK building materials industry] people are going to retire, and a massive load of historic thinking will fall away. It doesn't mean that they were bad people and didn't care, but the younger people coming in are better equipped to handle sustainability challenges, given it is embedded in university courses, it is talked about at school, and there is more general discourse on the topic among twenty-something friends."
Watkins notes that several major building materials multinationals are in the process of selling parts of their traditional building products businesses to invest in new circular economy-linked product lines.
"Just look at Holcim selling off its India assets, with a third of the group's business planned to be not in cement but circular economy-based products. I think in the next five years, we are going to see a lot of larger building materials producers buying recycling businesses. Some of this is linked to skills acquisition. There is an awful lot more to do, but anyone putting money and time into more carbon reduction and circular economy-linked product production should be congratulated.
"If you look at asphalt, at the process level, everyone is desperate to lower the [production] heat and carbon, which is great. However, you need to take a step back and look at what that does to the binders and their embodied carbon. I read that Shell is investing in trying to harvest oils from plastics. There is a lot going on in this space. It requires a lot of people to work together and for people's expectations of products to change. If you are going to need carbon-intensive products, they need to be used wisely. Clearly, everyone wants high-quality concrete when building nuclear plants and bridges, for example, but there are other works that you may not necessarily need that product.
"Ultimately, you can become net zero by writing really big cheques and using credible offsets because any business will get to the stage where a little or a lot of offsets will need to be bought [to hit net zero targets]. The offsetting market is wholly unregulated. I think in the future, there will be a whole lot of new certifications and standards brought to it as the need for offsetting grows. I do worry about how quickly good quality offsets can be generated to meet demand. There is also, obviously, a cost issue around offsetting. I tell client companies that they need to work incredibly hard to get as much carbon out of their businesses as possible, so their exposure to the offsetting market is minimised."
I ask Watkins if there are any recently introduced building materials products that have caught his eye for their low carbon, circular economy-linked credentials? "I'm interested in Grosvenor Estate's 'steel neutral' buildings, where they harvest steel from one building and stick it in another. They are doing it because they can and are very interested in materials' circularity. This sort of thinking will become more prevalent – partly due to the intellectual challenge of it but also because it is a different economic model where companies own much of what they need going forward.
"A classic example of this is local authorities and their highways works. A lot of the stone used to make roads remains of similar quality to when it was first put down, and the local authorities could be asking, 'How much of it could be dug up and reused elsewhere?' You look at Hampshire County Council and OCL Regeneration [who are recycling material generated by road repairs and reusing it in road maintenance, reducing carbon emissions, costs, and travel miles]."
Does Watkins admire any mainland Europe countries for their work on building materials sustainability? "I think the Low Countries [Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg] have always been a set of nations further ahead on recycling, but a lot of that is for obvious reasons as they are countries with limited natural building materials, in particular hard rock. They do a lot of below-sea-level work and are further down the road as far as low-energy buildings are concerned. Germany is further ahead in terms of its green building standards and has been for a really long time.
"What I am definitely seeing in mainland Europe and in the UK is that the control of company sustainability programmes has become a lot tighter from wherever the centre is. In the aggregates industry, for instance, the sustainability content available to you from Aggregate Industries is from Holcim, and not so much locally driven."
I am curious to know what Watkins thinks about building materials major HeidelbergCement and its Italian subsidiary Italcementi's work on the 3D printing of construction materials, including its supply of concrete material to PERI who used a 3D COBOD concrete printer to create Germany's first printed residential building made of concrete in Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia in 2020.
"Historically, and certainly with cement businesses, every time they came across something they found mildly threatening, they would buy it and lock it up, never to be seen again. Now there is licence to say, 'Yes, we must do something to protect our business.' This has resulted in loads of money turning up, whether via CEMEX's construction start-up investment vehicle, CEMEX Ventures, Holcim, another cement major or a sovereign wealth fund, which is being used invest in new technologies. 3D printed concrete is in that innovation sphere. No one technology will solve every building problem. We must try a bunch of stuff to see what works.
"I used to have a whole load of stats on the building materials industry R&D spending, and it was so far behind the tobacco industry it was staggering. As we go along the sustainability journey, this is changing as companies need to reshape their business models."
In a recent interview with Aggregates Business, Mineral Products Association (MPA) CEO Nigel Jackson described the UK mineral products industry's record on biodiversity as a "cracking success story" that the industry "needs to tell even more clearly than ever". He said the industry had created priority habitat already the equivalent in size to Nottingham, and a further area the size of Liverpool is already planned and in the pipeline. Despite this, Jackson said he had been disappointed by the lack of interest shown in this by DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs).
What does Watkins think of Jackson's comments? "I think there's been some monumental work done on biodiversity. It's been brilliant. I worry that there's too much emphasis on after rather than during minerals [production]. I am not as worried about the lack of DEFRA response. Sometimes, not being in the spotlight isn't a bad thing. We know what we are doing and where we are."
Watkins is concerned about unintended consequences surrounding efforts to secure 'biodiversity net gain', a compensation principle that applies to circumstances where a person or company, such as building materials firm, proposes to develop land, but where whatever it does results in potential biodiversity reduction. "There is a worry that if you are a building materials supplier with a planning application coming up, you will stop doing any conservation work as you may make it hard for yourself to do any biodiversity net gain.
Ultimately, you will need to deal with county council ecologists and say, 'Look, we've got a massive ongoing ecological programme here. Do you really want us to stop doing it?' It will then be up to them to decide.
"CEMEX has had a longstanding relationship with RSPB {Royal Society for the Protection of Birds}, and Aggregate Industries, in my time there and now, has worked closely with The Wildlife Trust. Biodiversity has been an amazing segue for the building materials supply industry to the public and third sector organisations. I think we can keep going on this and help other sectors, like housing – which is subject to the 10% biodiversity net gain principle."
Given Watkins' past sustainability-focused work at Aggregate Industries, is there a part of him that is envious of the great resources major building materials companies are putting into that area of their businesses? "I used to quite enjoy it in my time at AI; I quite liked the fight to get what I wanted and needed, the arguments and being the 'odd one out'. Saying that I am probably having more fun now working as an independent consultant rather than being part of a big business. I am lucky to be doing lots of interesting things for myself."
After 26 years working on sustainability issues within the UK building materials market, what is Watkins most proud of, and what is he still keen want to achieve? "I am most proud of what I did at Aggregate Industries. We were the first in the sector to do ISO14001 at scale, the first to do responsible sourcing, and we also won the London 2012 [Queen Elizabeth] Olympic Park aggregates and concrete supply contract. All of that was to do with our capability around sustainability and understanding of building materials life cycle assessment.
"Going forward, it is about getting our businesses going, Blue Planet Systems and my other business around polymers and waste plastic products. If I manage to do that, I will be very pleased indeed."


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While packing for a trip to Central America, I dug through my supply of travel-sized toiletry bottles and weighed my options. The trip was 3½ weeks long, about 24 days total. I knew my 100ml/3.4 ounce shampoo bottle was overkill, but could I get away with only taking the 30ml/1 ounce bottle?
How long do travel toiletries really last?
I was skeptical but also unwilling to pack the bigger bottle, so off I went with just 1 ounce of shampoo. I knew I could always buy more on the road if I had to, so it wasn't really a risk. And every time I shampooed my hair, I jotted down the date in my phone to keep track of how long the shampoo lasted.
How long can you travel with just 1 oz of shampoo?
At the end of the trip, I counted up the dates. I had shampooed my hair 12 times in 24 days. And I STILL had shampoo left! So I kept using the travel bottle when I got home, and I got another 5 shampoos out of it. That's 17 washes total with only 1 ounce of shampoo!
I have fine, thin hair. At the time it was a little longer than my profile picture at the bottom of this post. I made a conscious effort to use as little as possible. I definitely learned that I don't need to use as much shampoo as I thought I did, even though I have oily hair. If you have thicker hair or longer hair, you might need a little more shampoo. If you have short hair, you can probably make your shampoo stretch even longer.
How much shampoo for 2 weeks?
A common question people ask is how much shampoo for 2 weeks. While 2 weeks is a common amount of time to travel, everyone's needs are different.
- If your hair is fine, thin, and above the shoulders, you will probably be fine with just packing a 1 ounce travel-sized bottle of shampoo.
- If your hair is thicker, longer, or you need to wash frequently, a 2-3 ounce bottle may be necessary.
- Packing that traditional 3.4 oz (100ml) bottle of shampoo for a 2-week trip would be overkill in most situations.
To get a more personalized answer, track your hair-washing routine. Do you wash your hair daily, every second day, or weekly? If you only wash your hair weekly then even a travel bottle sized shampoo will be overkill.
Then, track how much product you use per wash (chances are you're using more than you need to…I know I'm guilty of this). This will depend on whether you have long or short hair, your hair type, how much you sweat, and what styling products you use. Then evaluate how much shampoo for 2 weeks will be necessary.
You might want to fill a travel bottle with shampoo and test it at home to get an exact answer. That way you will always know just how much you'll need.
- It's also helpful to know which types of shampoo options are available for travel! Or, read more about travel sized hair products.
What our readers say about their travel-sized shampoo
When I got back home, I asked the ladies in our community how long their travel toiletries last, and here are some of the responses:
Michelle: I use Lush shampoo bars (when I travel and at home because no packaging!) I was in Central America for 3 1/2 months and I didn't even go through the entire bar! So I'd say I probably go through about a bar every 4-5 months. I go through sunscreen soooooo quickly though (like, a bottle every two weeks).
Karina: Til late last year when I moved to Lush solid shampoo I usually took 2 X 100ml bottles for 6-7 week trips each year and brought one back half full. 40ml roll on deodorant lasts that 7 weeks. 15ml toothpaste. 30ml moisturiser. 50ml sunscreen. 150ml contact lens solution (the no rub kind). 1 sunscreen lip balm stick.
Meissoun: I usually don't bring any shampoo. Most hotels provide it. Or if I am in a country where service is cheap, I get it washed at a salon. (I usually wash my hair every 4 days.)
Shawn: On my last month-long trip I used 3 little hotel bottles of shampoo, but a full bottle of conditioner. It's going to be so different for each person. I have really long hair but I co-wash, and only use shampoo about half the time.
Meredith: I wash my hair 2-3 times/week. When washing 3 times a week, a bar will usually last me about three months (give or take, my boyfriend uses the bar too sometimes) and I have been using Lush bars for about 3 years. When I'm traveling I tend to bring the bar with me and then if I am staying in a place for an extended period of time I will buy some shampoo in a local store. Cuts down on my liquids in my carry-on and will make my shampoo bar last for a very long time.
Annemette: 60 ml is enough for me for 4 weeks.
Want more info about travel shampoo options? Check out these helpful posts:
- Best Concentrated Shampoo for Travel
- Cut Out Shampoo Completely: The No Poo Method
- The One Little Thing: Dry Shampoo
Travel-sized deodorants: How long do they last?
We asked HPL readers in the past about their travel-sized deodorant, and these were the responses:
Cailin: I'd say a month max.
Flissy: I can answer this! Travel size secret lasts 2 weeks. I WISH it were half the size of a regular deo. Doesn't seem like much considering how (relatively) bulky the container is.
Roni: I never take travel sizes, I always take the regular ones because I don't ever want to run out. And it can go in my carry-on.
Kaylin: I guess it depends on what kind of deodorant it is. I find the stick kind lasts longer than the spray-on…
Cailey: I took a travel size for a month and that would have lasted just fine. HOWEVER, I was in Africa and the days were very hot and it made the deodorant melty and it fell out of the tube in a big chunk. I couldn't throw it out though, so I kind of had to make do but it was just such a mess and totally crumbled by the end. If you're going to a hot climate just keep that in mind!
Suitcase Stories: About 2 weeks for me if it's a spray, longer if it's a roll-on but I'm not keen on those.
George: I had a 50ml deodorant with me this trip, it was pretty good, pretty strong, I've been traveling a month, and it's a quarter through, this is a liquid roll-on, so it doesn't melt. Hope that helps.
Hannah: I use this stuff daily and it is amazing. [The Crystal Body deodorant stick]. It's better for you than normal deodorant and lasts forever. Doesn't leak and all you need is water (doesn't even have to be drinking water). They even have travel size which lasts 4 months.
Michelle: I'm with Hannah. I learned a long time ago to pack the Crystal Rock deodorant in warm weather since all others just melt and cause a mess in my travel bag. I absolutely love it and if you want a scent, carry some essential oils with you (if you must).
To Travel Too: Lost most of ours when we were in Cusco, Peru due to the altitude and leakage.
Track your toiletry usage before you go
An easy way to figure out how long your travel toiletries will last is to test them out before you leave for your trip. Fill up your travel-sized bottles, use them at home, and keep track of how many uses you get out of each bottle.
Karina says, "Years ago I stuck post-it notes on everything I use and marked them off with every use. So now I have a spreadsheet that tells me what to pack for which length trip."
Restocking toiletries on the road
If you're traveling for several months or a year, you KNOW you'll have to get more shampoo or toothpaste along the way. Buy whatever size travel toiletry bottle you're comfortable with, and when it starts getting low, pick up more to refill or replace it.
Even if you have to buy a bigger bottle, you can carry it around with you as long as it doesn't bother you and ditch it or donate it to another traveler (after filling your travel bottle to the brim) the next time you have to hop on a flight.
Unless you're going to an extremely remote location, you will be able to find what you need. It won't always be the brand you like, but people in other parts of the world do shower, wash their hair, brush their teeth, protect their skin from the sun, and just about anything else you need to do.
Best travel-sized refillable travel bottles
It's more environmentally friendly and cost-effective to get refillable travel bottles instead of buying new travel-sized products every time you travel. But with so many to choose from, it can be difficult to know which ones are the best.
Look for bottles that work well with the product you plan on using it with. Some work better with thinner liquids, while others work with thicker liquids. Some bottles are not compatible with certain chemicals, like alcohols just to name one, so it's important to read the labels.
Pay attention to the tops as well. Spray tops work for your perfume (try solid perfumes instead), but not for your shampoo. It's also important to make sure they seal well so your liquids won't leak out. You don't want to lose your toiletries OR have a big mess in your bag!
The material the bottle is made out of matters, too. Are the bottles flexible or stiff? How hard will it be for you to squeeze your shampoo out of the bottle? Will it break easily if you drop it on a hard surface? These are all important questions to ask yourself when choosing travel-sized toiletry bottles.
Some we've used here at HPL:
Caroline did a great comparison of three different brands of travel bottles which will help you decide which one is best for you.
Reminder: Most travel-sized bottles are overkill for many trips of a week or less so you may not need to even fill them up all the way.
Best solid travel-sized toiletries
Solid toiletries are becoming more and more popular with travelers (especially carry-on only travelers) to avoid the strict liquids rules that most airlines have implemented. If you're unsure about what you can and can't bring, we have a blog post that covers the 3-1-1 rule when traveling with only a carry-on.
Just like liquid toiletries, solid toiletries come in all different sizes. Depending on the length of your trip, a travel-sized option will most likely be the best choice.
Ethique makes trial and travel packs which are great for trying out a product before committing to a full-sized version and they're the perfect size for travel. Ethique stocks shampoo, moisturizers, lotions, and body wash to name a few of their products, and they're all made from natural ingredients.
They have shampoos for most hair textures (including curly hair) and products to combat specific issues like dry scalp, irritation, or excess oil. They also have a shampoo range free from sulfates.
Lush also has a large range of solid toiletries, like solid perfumes, shampoo bars, and more. They even make a travel-sized solid shampoo tin if you are worried about your shampoo bar making a mess in your toiletry bag. They also make solid toothpaste and mouthwash.
How long do your travel toiletries last? Let us know in the comments!


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Mike served 10 years in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard Infantry as a non-commissioned officer. He deployed to Iraq in 2005 and then was medically discharged.
During his transition experience Mike got connected to Vet Center, and then began his career as an outreach specialist at the Baltimore Vet Center. Since then, he has moved through local, regional and national roles before the appointment to his current position.
Mike holds a Master of Social Work from the Catholic University of America.
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Episode 154: Tango Alpha Lima: VA Vet Center Chief Readjustment Counseling Officer Mike Fisher
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After the Centre's nod to convert Vodafone Idea's ₹1,600 crore debt into equity, the struggling operator is redialing banks for additional funding. The banks had earlier declined to extend further lines of credit because of the delay in the equity conversion by the Centre.
"The debt to equity conversion was one of the conditions set by the banks, so the operator will go back to the banks after the Centre takes a stake in the company," said an industry source.
The company has been trying to raise funds for almost two years. In September 2020, Vodafone Idea's board approved a ₹25,000 crore fundraising plan, which would help tide them over the crisis. While promoters invested ₹4,900 crore, the company had made no headways on external infusion funds. The company hopes to raise ₹10,000 crore as additional loans from banks.
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As the Centre kept delaying converting Vi's debt to equity, the company's fundraising plans essentially stalled completely in the last few months. With impending dues on the horizon, particularly for network vendors, Vodafone Idea also approached banks for emergency loans worth ₹7,000 crore. No headway was made, however, as banks refused to extend credit without the Centre's equity conversion. Banks had made it clear that they would not be giving Vi loans until the Indian government joined the company as a shareholder, since that would provide some guarantee on the survivability of the company.
Mounting debt
At the end of the July-September quarter, Vodafone Idea's gross debt (excluding lease liabilities and including interest accrued but not due) was at ₹2.20 lakh crore, comprising deferred spectrum payment obligations of ₹1.36 lakh crore, AGR liabilities of ₹68,590 crore that are due to the government, and debt from banks and financial institutions of ₹15,080 crore.
According to the company, ₹9,600 crore of debt is payable by September 2023, while its gross cash balance as of September 2022 is ₹200 crore. Analysts have estimated that the company will have a cash shortfall of ₹6,400 crore by September 2023, assuming that all debt is repayable.
Vodafone has also suspended any 4G and 5G capex, which will only commence once the company is able to raise funds.
Vodafone Idea had not responded to businessline's email questionnaire on this matter at the time of filing the story.


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"He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
Revelation 22:20-21
I grew up in church and have seen many Christian movies in my time. I was once even cast for a movie in which my part included me running away, apparently out of camera view, as I never saw myself in the finished film. Some of the films had a gospel message and some were a little silly, like one that portrayed a high schooler who was really an angel. (Imagine a teenager being an angel and you understand why I thought the movie was silly.) There was one movie in particular, though, that really caught my attention and even scared me a little bit.
The movie depicted the rapture and the end times. It showed Christians getting beaten and executed and it showed how things might be when the trumpet sounds. It had planes and cars crashing and it showed people looking for loved ones who were caught up in the rapture. I remember seeing all of the devastation and it put a strong fear in me. I sure did not want to be around for all of the mess that was going to happen and the movie got me to really be sure about my eternal destination.
People have always tried to guess when the rapture would take place and some even swore it was going to happen in the year 2000. As a kid, I wanted to get married and have a family before being raptured up, but I have since learned that my prayer should be, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." For the Christian, the world has nothing of eternal value to offer and is just a temporary home before we graduate to our permanent residency in heaven. God has not forgotten about us even though it seems as if the world has gone mad. Wrong seems right and right seems wrong, but God is still in control. He will come again and our prayer should be that He will come quickly.
This last verse in Revelation marks the end of the Bible, but not an end for the Christian who longs for the return of our Savior. Jesus is coming back one day for His own, and His timing will be perfect. We have a great hope in Him and although we may face trouble and heartache, we can rest assured that He has not forgotten about His saints.
Where are you today friend? Do you pray for the swift return of the Lord Jesus or does the thought of it make you nervous? Will you be ready for His return or will He find you doing something that is not honoring to Him? Do you allow the world to pull you down or is your gaze affixed to the sky, anticipating His coming? Bible commentator, Matthew Henry, states, "Let us earnestly thirst after greater measures of the gracious influences of the blessed Jesus in our souls, and his gracious presence with us, till glory has made perfect his grace toward us. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end." May we only lightly hold onto the things of this world and may we fervently pray, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Let's praise His name now and for all eternity. Amen!
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Vegetables will not be a healthy crunchy snack, but will also help in its metabolism by keeping its digestive system healthy. class or private training group that has access to lots of other dogs for desensitizing practice safely. Remember, a good breeder will not sell a puppy before it is eight weeks old. In the end, even though you can't beat a Pitbull, you can still find one that will fit your personality. His looks might make you think he's mean or ill-tempered, but a well-bred and well-raised Chow isn't aggressive. Some of you may still be curious about this cross and may not be sure about these cute pups getting along with your family. You may do this every day or maybe even twice a week. You can also go ahead and give them fresh crunchy vegetables. Pitchow is an independent and playful dog. As they tend to have both the personalities, Pitchows can have ears think and erect like that of the American Pitbull Terrier or can have floppy and thin ears like that of the Chow Chow. 3. Now you know that the Pitchows are kind and obedient hybrid dogs that have American Pitbull Terrier and Chow Chow. All Rights Reserved. If you go out, it's just going to be for fun, and if you bring your Pitbull with you, you may want to keep him in his kennel more often. There are significant possibilities that the coat is of Black, White, Brindle, Fawn, Blue, Red, Gray, Brown, or even Cream in color. Chow chows are not usually social, outgoing dogs. It becomes crucial for you to know how and when to train your pup to cater to its energy requirements. Can lead to heart or kidney problems if left untreated. Another task is to clip your dog's nails. There can be multiple options on our mind, but not many consider the Pitchow mix. How long will the footprints on the moon last? Chow Chows can be lazy, but need to be taken for a daily walk. The rough coat, which is what most people are used to seeing, is thick and abundant, standing off from the body like a parka. Of course his ribs were broken in the process. However, here is a schedule you need to follow: As impressive as Pitchow can be, these highly energetic dogs are a keeper when you have a small family. Follow the vaccination schedules religiously if you don't want any health complications in your puppy. Some studies prove that the Chow Chow has ancestors dating back to 206 B.C. Pitchows are not fans of children as well, so they can tend to be restless around them. Unless you are very experienced with dogs, this is not a good breed. We have stunning red boys available. As they tend to have both the personalities, Pitchows can have ears think and erect like that of the American Pitbull Terrier or can have floppy and thin ears like that of the Chow Chow. People in Beijing line up for Covid-19 test. Chows can have two coat types, rough and smooth. Though these tasks are simple, it is necessary to perform them at least once a week. The Chow Chow is a highly intelligent dog and values his independence. report. So, don't let the words Pit and Chow scare you. Chow Chow + Pitbull = Pitchow. Fireworks Show. There may even be instances where the puppy has the ear of each breed! Although they will usually 'sing' instead of barking when someone is at the door! Many still think that they may attack people as they come from the Pitbull family, but this is not true when they get their training in the right way at a young age. The rough coat is the more well-known type of Chow. Pitchows are prone to developing skin diseases like their Pitbull parents and need the right grooming. It would be interesting to see how these pups came into being and who exactly were their ancestors. He is usually amenable to being touched by strangers if he is introduced by one of his owners and approached properly. My thought is not that if they can or cannot be. The Rough Chow has a coat that is profuse, abundant, dense, straight and standoff. The material on this site can not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Multiply. They are energetic dogs with a bunch of positive traits and tend to be friendly and obedient. Although these are very loving and adorable, they can sometimes be uneasy around visitors. You will have to clean in between the folds of their skin, which is quite a task! Diabetes. It is fascinating to understand that they are descendants of dogs such as the Fox Terrier, the White English Terrier, the Black Terrier, the Tan Terrier, and the English Bulldogs. Why don't libraries smell like bookstores? Overall, this hybrid breed tends to be kind and obedient but can be uncomfortable around some people that they do not know. The fur can be of medium length with a straight texture. Twitter. Here is a guide that will help you choose Pitchow as your companion pet, and help you make your family complete. Once you visit your veterinarian, make sure you talk to him about occasional tests. The best practice is to maintain the nails at the right length and cut them at least once or twice every month. After all, love is just a four-legged word. And that the breeder is open for assistance throughout the lifetime of the dog. Grooming and Care. Exercise and games. Bison mother defends dead calf from wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park. It is considerably simple to care and groom your dog when it has the American Pitbull Terrier coat. The 1800s was a time in England when hunting was a universal sport, and men indulged in blood sports like bullfighting or dogfighting. Maintenance gets tricky when the pups are born with the Chow Chow fur. It was in this time that the American Pitbull Terriers came along. But the breed is considered to be existing for quite a long time. If its owner can earn its respect, then it will obey. Tests like complete blood profiles, radiographs, urinalysis, x-rays, blood electrolytes, ECG, blood gas analysis, and serum chemistry are necessary for your puppy. Chow means 'puffy lion dog' in Chinese. Pitchows are dogs that love to run around in open spaces, splash into a swimming pool, or even roll about in your yard full of flowers! Sensitive to heat, can live in or outdoors in cooler weather. Make sure you feed your puppy thrice a day to ensure its healthy growth. The average life expectancy of a chow chow is about 12 – 15 years. 2.5 cups per day of protein-rich dog food, Hip dysplasia, Entropion, Gastric issues, Ear, and Eye problems, First vaccination: 16 weeks (varies by state). Again, the Chow is susceptible to cancer. Beneath that out… He can be hugged and played with. Very gentle and affectionate, and can sometimes be uneasy and wary around strangers. Completing your family with a dog can be both exciting and stressful at the same time. Such intense initial training will ensure that they follow your orders and don't misbehave. Chinese pottery and cave paintings show their existence that dates back to at least millions of years ago. I want to get one from a shelter for a few different reasons. Daily walks will suffice. 4-5 Pitbulls can eventually kill a Lioness. What was the weather in Pretoria on 14 February 2013? They are not the type of dogs that demand attention or affection, and so they may not be so fond of children, but they will get along with them. It is best if you let it exercise for about 30-60 minutes every day. its not about if the dog is nice or not. Pitchows have a reputation for being fearless and super energetic. Facebook. you wold think that the pitbull would have the upper hand If you've never owned a German Shepherd before, you may be a little surprised at the life expectancy of this breed. The Pitbull Chow Mix is between a pitbull puppy and a Chow Chow Puppies. : Care of Pitchow: The American Pitbull Terrier & Chow Chow Mix: Pit Heeler – American Pit Bull Terrier & Blue Heeler Mix. Last but not least is brushing their teeth regularly. The Pitchow is a hybrid which is the result of crossing a Pitbull and Chow Chow. Thus came the Pitbull Chow, from two purebred dogs, the American Pitbull Terrier and the Chow Chow. It is an attempt to take the best of two wonderful dogs. You need to be sure that that the breeder has clean premises, and puppies are healthy and vaccinated. Ear infections are common, and cleaning is the only way to prevent them. But with high calories come great responsibility, and you have to ensure that your dog receives the right nutrition. They can inherit an American Pitbull Terrier coat, or maybe one that closely resembles the Chow Chow. All Chows have a soft undercoat, but they can have either a smooth or a rough topcoat. Yes, try a Rottweiler Doberman German Shepherd Chow Chow Akita Bulldog Mastiff Pit Bull And Boxer Can a cane corso beat a pit bull in a fight? These dogs have two coats. Their eyes can have any color from Hazel to Brown or even Amber. Now that you know that your Pitchow can look like its American Pitbull Terrier parent, but will also inherit the blue tongue from the Chow Chow parent. Make sure you contact the right breeder and get to know about its parents and buy a dog that is healthy and vaccinated. They have only emerged in the last 20 years as part of a growing trend to cross breed different purebred dogs. Pitchows look like their American Pitbull Terrier parent, but also have certain traits from the Chow Chow parent. ... Chows are generally extremely willful, protective, dog-aggressive and, in the wrong hands, human aggressive. I'm currently in the market for a dog. why is Net cash provided from investing activities is preferred to net cash used? There may even be instances where the puppy has the ear of each breed! Pitchow often tends to have a varying appearance as it can be born with physical traits from both American Pitbull Terrier and Chow Chow parents. Dog breeders also advise occasional diagnosis for the possibility of congenital heart defects, allergies, and hypothyroidism. Would a chow chow defeat a pitbull fight? The inspector said: "As she is a chow chow, her fur was so thick that we don't yet know if she has any other burn injuries, so she will be shaved at the vet's so they can check her over. you cannot deny the fact of this nature. Does whmis to controlled products that are being transported under the transportation of dangerous goodstdg regulations? It could pass for pure Pitbull once they are shaved. Like the pit bull, a chow also bites and holds rather than biting and releasing. Pit will scare of the coyote. The coyote may not be ready to engage in a fight it can possibly lose. 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text: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:04:51 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <firstname.lastname@example.com> said: > James LewisMoss writes: > > Dave> I tend to think of abstract dates as functions from absolute > > Dave> dates to absolute dates. So, "last monday in a month" would be > > Dave> a function that, given a date X, returns the date of the last > > Dave> monday of the month in which X occurs. > > > > I was thinking in my head more of a function that gives me the next > > date after an absolute date that conforms to the abstract date and a > > function that says whether an absolute date is an instance of the > > abstract date. Maybe also a function that tells the previous absolute > > date that conforms to an abstract date. > > That's probably a better formulation for abstract dates. In fact, it > really subsumes both what you have termed 'abstract' and 'relative' so > that there is no real difference between them. > > The question 'is an absolute date an instance of the abstract date' > becomes 'is the absolute date in the range of the function which maps > absolute dates to next absolute dates', which is meaningful for both > 'absolute' and 'relative' dates. For many 'relative' dates, the answer > is yes for all absolute dates, but that is not always the case. For > example, the relative date 'three weekdays' has all the weekdays as > valid absolute dates. My usual rule of thumb in such things is to take a look-see at what there might be in CLTL2 (Common Lisp the Language 2), Guy Steele. While Scheme is pretty minimalist, CL tends to something more "maximalist," which may be extreme, but mind you includes some well-defined and well-designed functions. Regrettably, the built-in date manipulation functions only provide quite simple stuff, with functions get-universal-time, decode-universal-time, encode-universal-time, which provide not dissimilar functionality to what's in SRFI 19. There's only the 3 functions compared to about 8 in the SRFI; the only functionality missing is the equivalent to universal-time->string, which isn't an overly problematic thing to implement using FORMAT... That being said, there _is_ something relevant, in the form of the pathname manipulation functions, particular those relating to the manipulation of "logical pathnames." If I define the logical pathname translator: (setf (logical-pathname-translations "libs") '(("SO;*.*.*" "/lib/lib*.so") ("SO2;*.*.*" "/usr/lib/lib*.so"))) I can then use it to "project" logical names onto that translator > (mapcar #'translate-logical-pathname '("libs:so;m" "libs:so2;glade")) (#p"/lib/libM.so" #p"/usr/lib/libGLADE.so") Case games aside, this seems like a not-unreasonable beginning of an approach to this... It would be a Good Thing to be able to have a pattern matching scheme whereby you can join together pieces of dates, perhaps all fragmentary, and then have something like translate-logical-pathname to join them together to make an actual "physical date." There are three approaches that would be sensible: a) Combine an actual date with a "partially specified" one, adjusting the "physical" date to conform to the "partial specification." This is ugly; you start with a valid date and turn it gradually into crud, which is the wrong direction. b) Better: Combine two "partially specified dates," resolving them into a Fully Specified Universal Date. But we might want to join _three_ such partials together; better to go with... c) Still better. Partially specified dates may be joined together. The result may still be partially specified, as might be the case if we took the partial specifications: > (define dt (join-date-specs '((wkday 'monday)) '((week 2)))) '((wkday monday) (week 2)) > (fully-specified? dt) #f Then we might specify the year: > (define dtf (join-date-specs '((wkday 'monday) (week 2)) '((month 7)) '((year 2000)))) '((wkday monday) (week 2) (month 7) (year 2000)) > (fully-specified? dtf) #t > (universal-date dtf) 2451734 [which happens to be the 8th of July, the second Saturday of the month] d) Best, it seems to me is to soup this up a tad further... Use a set-based representation, where we provide intersection, union complement, and such so we can construct date specifications, and then can resolve them, generating a set of dates. (define mondays '((wkday monday))) (define thursdays '((wkday thursday))) (define theweek '((week 1))) (define theyear '((year 2000))) (define months '((month july may))) (define datespec (date-intersect theweek theyear months (date-union mondays thursdays))) --> ((week 1) (wkday monday thursday) (year 2000) (month july may)) (date-resolve datespec) --> (2451729 2451733 2451666 2451669) Which are the 4 matching dates, in Julian form... The set of different "specifiers" might include: - wkday - which day of the week - Sunday thru Saturday - week - which week of the month - 1-5 indicating first-thru-fifth [5th occurs only occasionally; July 2000 had 5 Saturdays, for instance...] - Negative values indicate reverse order, e.g. -1 specifies the last week of the month, -2 the second last week, ... - Month - should be obvious... - Year - again, obvious And add to the mix: - (before [julian-date]) e.g. (before 2451545) would indicate dates before Jan 1 2000 - (after [julian-date]) ;;; Guess???? > > Too long out of school. Define "projection" please. Composition I > > remember. :) > > Example: f: Date --> (Date, Date) > > F: Date --> Date where F (X) = Y iff f (X) = (Y, Z) for some Z > > F is a projection of f. A little abstract algebra is good for the soul... The next question is, is the date representation just an Abelian group, or a fullscale field? :-) -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@ntlug.org") <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/> "Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it." -- Eric Nicol


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Examinations Show: Bagnaia Fractured Ankle in Le Mans Crash
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Francesco Bagnaia has his foot examined again in Misano because he feels pain: the doctors discover a fracture.
MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia suffered a more serious injury than expected at the recent race in Le Mans.
In a collision with Aprilia rider Maverick Vinales, Bagnaia injured his right ankle and suffered a fracture. This was only discovered during the latest examination in Italy. Bagnaia decided to have a further examination because he was still feeling pain.
A small fracture of the ankle bone was diagnosed. This small injury will not prevent Bagnaia from participating in the Italian Grand Prix, which will take place in Mugello in three weeks' time," Ducati is convinced.
Despite the crash at the fifth Grand Prix of the current MotoGP season, the Italian still leads the championship.
But his lead over Ducati brand colleague and compatriot Marco Bezzecchi, who won a MotoGP race for the second time at Le Mans, shrank to just one point as a result of the Le Mans retirement.


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Below is an excerpt from the book Experiences: Life in a Continuing Care Retirement Community, which is a compilation of essays and poetry written and published by residents of Kendal at Longwood.
By Douglas Spencer
The barn will be the last stop on our goodbye visit. Just an hour ago we signed the papers to complete the sale of our house in the country. We go to the barn for the last time. It has no residents now. No whinnies are heard as we approach the stalls. Ever since Janet was a little girl she had wanted to have a horse. Ten years ago we got our first ones, and she said that she had just made her goal of getting a horse by the time she was sixty-five. Now, in preparation for our move to a retirement community 100 miles away, we had found other accommodations for our two horses. But there is still the smell of hay in the hay room and of fresh wood shavings in the stalls. We savor the view across the paddock and the fields, the memories of watching the barn being built, of having our first horses brought to us from "Lost and Found Horse Rescue" in York, of taking care of those beautiful, powerful but kind animals…it is all there, and we will miss it.
"I sure hope we're doing the right thing," Janet says.
"I know," I say. "I get those same doubts too. But we can't stay here in the country forever."
We have had this cliché-laced conversation many times in the last six months. This time we are having it as we pack up the last of our belongings before getting in our two cars and heading for that retirement community we now will call home.
The two-hour trip from Carlisle to Kennett Square goes uneventfully.
We park our vehicles as close to the apartment as we can, lead our patient dog Kerri on a leash and carry in her dog bed. This time when we enter our apartment it is no longer "that place we are moving to," but "our new home."
We put Kerri's bed in a nice corner where she can see everything that is going on and we tell her this is where we are going to live now. She seems to know, even as we go in and out, that we will be here. Kitty Boy and Kitty Girl are glad to see their kitty litter box after a two hour trip in their cages.
We look around at our empty rooms.
"Wow," Janet says. "They did a wonderful job of painting the walls. That one darker wall really does look nice."
"Well, of course," I say with a smile, "You chose the colors."
That was the deal. We had our choice of colors. If we wanted anything other than Kendal's standard colors, we would buy the paint and the Kendal staff would do the painting.
We look out the back window at the view across the field to the woods. That view was what had really sold us on this apartment, and we are not disappointed today. The "office" that had been a walk-in closet has the window that we had asked for, and a built-in counter where we will put our computer. I can see that I will need to make a few shelves for this nook.
On one of our trips to unload the Honda, we are greeted by Peggy Brick. She reminds us (although we didn't need reminding) that we had met her four months ago when we were here for our day of interviews. We remember that encounter well. We were in the coffee shop taking a lunch break between out late morning and early afternoon appointments, when a person came up, introduced herself and said, "You look like you are new here. How is it going?"
We had chatted and she told us about her program of discussions called "Transitions" which help newcomers adjust to the newness of living in this community, and she assured us that in spite of the effort involved in moving, we would like it here. Now here we are, truly new people and here is Peggy again, welcoming us.
The movers arrive, and we dig into unpacking. Soon we have filled an empty box with packing materials and Janet goes out to put it in the trash and recycling bins which we understand are near our parking lot. She returns a few minutes later.
"Well," she says, "I just met one of our neighbors. His name is Cooey, and he helped me find the trash and recycling room. He says we are a little late to enjoy the tomatoes from his garden, but I found out how we can have a garden next year. The gardens are down by the tennis court."
We had a garden in Carlisle, in fact two…a vegetable garden and a flower garden, and her gardens are one of the things Janet is particularly sad about leaving.
We get back to work, and by six o'clock we have enough unpacked so that we feel we can take a break and have dinner.
At the entrance to the dining room, we are greeted by a hostess who recognizes us as new, and asks if we would like to start a table, eat by ourselves, or join the Smiths, who just came in.
"We don't know the Smiths," we reply, "But that would be fine if it is ok with them."
"I'm sure it is," the hostess says, "And I'm Millie. I know you are the Spencers because of your meal card, and I'll introduce you to them."
Millie leads us to a table for 6 and does the introductions. We discover that George and Marjorie Smith live just around the corner from us, and have been here for 5 years. We are barely into our conversation when Millie arrives with another couple.
"The Walshes would like to join you," she says.
Now our table for six is filled. The Walshes moved here form nearby West Chester. Dave had been a physics professor. His wife, Mary, was a stay-at-home mom.
So we have a very friendly and welcoming table, and they all reassure us about how happy they are to be here, and how much we will find here to keep us busy. In fact, they warn, don't sign up for everything right away.
The next morning, Saturday, our son Tom arrives from his home about an hour away in the northern Philadelphia suburbs. Although he had been with us for one of the pre-moving seminars that Kendal holds for prospective residents, this is the first he has seen of our choice of apartment.
"You really have a wonderful view!" Tom says. "And it looks like everything is going to fit okay. You must have gotten rid of tons of stuff."
"Yes," I reply. "We did get rid of those shelves of old jelly glasses. How are you coming with that project?"
It is an in-joke, because it was at the Preparing for Moving seminar we all attended together when that bit of advice was given. Tom had given an exaggerated startle and said that he'd better start now.
The doorbell rings. It is a member of the resident "Welcoming Committee" just stopping in to say hello, and to ask when would be a good time to stop back to answer any questions we might have about such things as where the grocery stores are. She gives us a thick loose-leaf notebook that includes a directory of all Kendal residents, lists of committees, lists of staff, and on and on.
"More than you want to know, I'm sure," she says, "But look through it at your leisure and call me any time you have a question. And on Monday, we'd love it if you could join several of us for dinner."
Janet and I exchange sure-why-not looks.
"Thank you very much," we reply. "We'd love to."
She writes down her name and phone number and shows us how to find her apartment.
We go back to putting books on shelves and taking the few remaining things in from our car. We have lunch from sandwich makings we had brought from Carlisle, and then all three of us make a trip to the center to see if we have any mail in our new mail box.
"I don't see how you are ever going to get anything done around here," Tom says after that trip. "Every time we go somewhere someone stops you and says, 'You must be the Spencers. Welcome,' and then there's all this where are you from, and we are sure you will like it here, and what are you interested in talk."
He is right, of course. We have met so many people in the barely 24 hours we have been here. After the second "You must be the Spencers" we asked how they knew.
"Your name is on channel 9, our in-house TV Channel," was the reply.
We hadn't hooked up our TV yet, so we didn't realize that Channel 9 has a daily listing of activities, meal menus, and "Please welcome our new residents…" with the names and apartment number of people who just moved here.
We do more unpacking and putting things away, and by midafternoon Tom says he has to go back home, but is delighted with how we are settling in so well.
Over the next few weeks we gradually lose some, but not all, of that feeling of being overwhelmed. We are invited to get involved in many groups and choose a few.
On Thanksgiving, just two months after we moved in, we play host to 14 family members. Millie had said it would be no trouble to set one very long table in the dining room, and we discover how easy it is to have a Thanksgiving gathering when someone else (Kendal dining service) is doing the cooking and cleaning for us. Our two sons and their families express their sincere appreciation that we are taking care of ourselves, and they all go home assured that Mom and Dad are not wilting away in some "old folks home."
At Christmas time our daughter and her husband come down from New Hampshire for a visit. Sue, her husband Doug, and their two dogs all manage to sleep in our second bedroom, for which Kendal has temporarily supplied a second fold-out cot.
At breakfast after their first night here, Sue says, "We all really appreciate how you guys have planned ahead, and are taking care of yourselves. But you must still miss Carlisle and the horses and all."
"Yes," we both admit. "I'm finally beginning to get over it," Janet says, "I still seem to spend lots of time just sitting and knitting. But we are getting more involved here."
We tell Sue some of the things we are doing…being on one of the entertainment committees, participating in the Kendal chorus, the political activities leading up to the election last month, the shelves I made in the woodshop, the regular exercise group in the Kendal gym, Tuesday evening bridge.
"Good grief!" Sue says. "I'd say you'd better watch out that you don't take on too much! It seems to me that you have more than settled in."
We think about it, and not just for the first time. Yes, we do miss our old home and all it represented. It has been a flurry of activity since that September moving day. We have left a home, but here we have found a community. We will be okay. In fact, we think we will do well.
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KAMPALA – The Uganda National Examinations Board – Uneb released the 2022 Primary Leaving Examinations –PLE on Friday – with results indicating an overall improvement in performance compared to the previous two years.
"We are glad to inform the country that there was better quality performance in terms of grade," said Prof Mary Okwakol – the Uneb Chairperson on 2022 PLE results.
Comparable pass levels of PLE results released on Friday show that at least 714,702 candidates passed the 2022 examinations as compared to the 659,910 of 2020.
"Overall, therefore, more pupils qualify to join the post-primary institutions than the previous year," noted Uneb Executive Director – Daniel Odongo.
The Uneb boss highlighted that 832,654 pupils sat exams from 14,691 school centres in 2022 – higher than the 749,761 in 2020.
"Of this number, 583,768 (70.1%) from 11,306 centres were Universal Primary Education (UPE) beneficiaries," he said.
"The literacy rate has improved because of UPE which was brought on board in 1997," junior education minister Mary Kaducu noted during the release of PLE results at State House, Nakasero in Kampala.
Comparing performance by gender, Uneb disclosed that the female candidates performed better than boys in English language but male candidates surfaced above them in the other three subjects including Social Studies, Science and Mathematics.
A total of 714,702 candidates passed the PLE compared to 659,910 the previous year, meaning that overall, more pupils qualify to join the post-primary institutions than the previous year.
More than two-thirds of the candidate was from Universal Primary Education schools, according to Uneb. The total of candidates that passed in Division One was 114,617 representing 14.1 per cent compared to 11 per cent in 2020.
In Division Two, there were 357,799 candidates, the biggest, while Division Three had 146,583 candidates. 95,702 pupils passed with Division Four and those who failed or were ungraded (Division U) were 97,109.
Uned chief, Odong advised that the Ungraded shouldn't be admitted to Senior One, but should instead repeat as they will not be eligible to register for the Uganda Certificate of Education -UCE examination later.
Days before candidates wrote their PLE, there were reports that the exams had leaked but Uneb denied this allegation, though later there are teachers who were arraigned before court for distributing examination materials using their phones. The court process is going on.
According to Section 25 (2) of the Act, a person who intentionally or negligently aids or causes any candidate to receive or gain unlawful possession of examination material is subject to a fine of up to 2000 currency points – Ugx40m or 10 years in prison.
The Chairperson, Mary Okakol, called on the judicial system to give them the due punishment if found guilty. Unlike previous years where the board has been releasing numbers of students whose results have been withheld due to malpractice, this time round, the affected candidates will be given a fair hearing before final action is taken.
Okwakol also pointed out that there were challenges caused by the Ebola Outbreak, especially in the Mubende and Kassanda districts where the candidates found it hard to move to their examination centres.
She also pointed out the Kakumiro district incident where pupils missed the first exams after the school failed to provide them with transport to the centre. She noted the special exam given to the candidate was not a precedent for future incidents.
A total of 17,253 (2.96%) UPE candidates were absent, while 3,687 (1.48 per cent) non-UPE candidates were also absent.
According to the results, Non-UPE candidates have, proportionally, performed better than the UPE candidates, and Odong attributes this difference to the commitment by teachers, the kind of preparation of the pupils and the involvement by parents in urban settings as opposed to those in rural areas.
Education Minister Janet Museveni expressed disappointment at the increase in the number of registered candidates who failed to turn up for the papers. In their statement of results, Uneb said they did not have the answer as to why the number had increased yet, from 12,819 in 2020 to 20,844 last year, representing 2 per cent of the total register.
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Happy November to you all. Happy birthday dear Scorpios. May God bless you with love, joy, peace, protection, prosperity and spiritual blessings. God bless
So how is going to be this month... Very happening indeed. I Was waiting for festivities to get over, didn't want to spoil the mood. We'll this month is going to be the most scandalous month of the year. Many scandals are going to get exposed. The hidden information, objects, motives, intentions... Personally and globally are going to surface. As they say ' The souls will tell their stories too'. This is the month of deaths... Remember Scorpio=Death,Rebirth. This month we will hear more about deaths from poison, Chemicals, fires, smoke. Some important known people from political, entertainment industry, artists, musicians will leave us. Some naturally and some unnaturally... Brutally.
I see lots of upheaval around something of the religious nature. I also see younger people taking to the streets in the coming months. Globally the scene will get messy. Some countries will start going back to partial lock downs...sigh... Fight for Justice as I had said will be the theme of this year in my 2021 predictions... It will start echoing more and more. Keep you kitchen stocks well as many factors will start disrupting our food supply. Border tensions will continue to rise as I had already mentioned.
This month on a personal level we might suddenly realise the truth in a particular relationship.. Lies will get exposed, masks will fall, their true intentions revealed. Keep your eyes open. Prepare for the most volatile stock markets now on.. Someone from the world of business.. I see an important person having something very miserable happening to this person.. Hope life gives another chance to this person. The greed of Power is the most dirty vice. This month we will witness it even more. Mother Earth and Mother Nature along with the Mother of Prosperity are going to teach us their value.
May God bless all the beings on the planet and in our Universes. Just remember one thing if one causes harm to someone intentionally, one's whole world will be destroyed.. No mercy will be shown and all those associated in any way to that harm will be harmed. Let's be good and have pure intentions today and always. God bless - Roshan Sylvia