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Rhino conservation efforts in Kenya demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poaching.
As the world marked the 2017 World Rhino Day on September 22 to celebrate all five species of the rhino — black, white, Indian, Sumatran and Javan — Kenya's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy celebrated four years of successful protection of the species against poaching.
The celebration that attracted various stakeholders in wildlife protection in northern Kenya – the Kenya Wildlife Service, the police, the Northern Rangelands Trust, local communities and members of the judiciary — was marked by a five-kilometer patrol, "A day in the Life of a Ranger," to immerse participants in the daily life and drama faced by those fighting to protect Kenya's wildlife.
Rhinos have faced immense challenges in all parts of the globe. Kenya's black rhino population alone plummeted from 20,000 in 1970s to less than 300 in 1989 as a result of overhunting and a high demand for the horn in some Asian countries where it is widely believed that it cures conditions ranging from fever and hangovers to cancer and erectile dysfunction. However, contrary to this popular belief, the horn has no proven medicinal value: It is made of keratin, a protein also found in human fingernails and hair.
Currently, Kenya has 1,149 rhinos; of these, 696 are black rhinos, 450 southern white rhinos and only three northern white species — the third largest population in Africa after South Africa and Namibia. Half of the Kenya's rhino population is protected by conservation efforts in the Laikipia region and in northern Kenya. The combined Lewa and Borana Conservancies are now home to 14% of this population.
The cost of protecting rhinos is high, largely due to the level of threat the species faces. A rhino horn is estimated to fetch more than gold on the black market, and in 2012 the price had peaked to a horrifying $65,000 per kilogram. Although the price is thought to have since fallen, the publicity around the issue of rhino horn raised concern among conservationists as one of the main factors fueling poaching across the world. The display and detailing of the current price of rhino horn has, therefore, been discouraged by wildlife groups for fear of encouraging poaching.
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Speaking at the event, the chief inspector of the Subuiga Police Station that neighbors the conservancy, Sammy Kamau, said that the benefits of wildlife conservation, and especially rhino conservation, cannot be understated. He lauded Lewa's conservation model that recognizes the critical value of creating and sustaining partnerships with local communities, ensuring that both people and wildlife benefit.
Edward Ndiritu, head of Lewa's anti-poaching unit, recounted the conservancy's journey in protecting the iconic species. "It has not been an easy journey," he said. "Poachers, who are criminals also involved in human trafficking, drug trade and other criminal activities, are the main threat to rhinos. In 2012, we lost 7 rhinos to poachers, in 2013 we lost 6, and something had to be done," he continued, stating that the police, the country's judiciary and the Kenya Wildlife Service have played a major role in the fight against poaching. "Above all," Ndiritu went on, "community ownership is crucial in conservation. Our neighbours are our greatest partners in conservation efforts." He urged members of the public to continue participating actively in conservation: "If we remain detached, we lose the animals to criminals who don't care about our future," Ndiritu concluded.
Pauline Longojine, chairwoman of the Sera Wildlife Conservancy, recounted the organization's experience with the critically endangered black rhinos recently relocated from Lewa to Sera rhino sanctuary in Samburu. "We have seen the benefits of rhino protection and are glad to have the animal back on our land after poachers wiped out our population over 30 years ago. The number of tourists to the conservancy has skyrocketed. Cash is flowing. Over 100 people from our community are employed. Seeing rhinos daily while earning is the community's greatest joy. Our children are now able to learn about these animals without traveling to other places," she said. "There are challenges but we do not regret the move. Very soon you will be coming to us for bursary," she added, to the audience's applause.
Longojine echoed that partnership is crucial in conservation: "We should not waver in our commitment to protect the rhino species," she concluded.
Mike Watson, CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, urged all stakeholders to stay committed to the cause of conservation. "Conservation cannot work if we operate in silos. Everyone needs to be involved, and we all have a role to play. The rhino is an umbrella species, and when you create a safe habitat for it to thrive, you are also creating a safe habitat for other wildlife and people alike," he stated.
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In 2012 and 2013, Kenya was hard hit by the worst poaching surge in two decades when more than 5% of the national population perished in various protected areas. According to Kenya Wildlife Service, 59 rhinos were killed in 2013 and 30 in 2012. Between 2012 and 2016, 5,703 black and white rhinos were lost to poaching across Africa. In December 2013, Kenya's Parliament overhauled the Wildlife Act of 1976 and enacted a new law, the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013, that increased both incarceration and financial penalties for wildlife related crimes. According to the new law, anyone who commits a crime involving endangered or threatened species will pay a minimum fine of 20 million Kenyan shillings — or around $195,000 — face life imprisonment, or both.
In 2014, a Chinese ivory smuggler, Tang Yong Jian, became the first person to be convicted under the new wildlife law, after he was arrested for transporting a tusk weighing 3.4 kilograms in a suitcase while on transit from Mozambique to China via Nairobi. He was ordered to pay 20 million shillings or serve a seven years in jail. In a landmark ruling in July 2016, the suspected leader of an ivory smuggling ring, Feisal Ali Mohammed, was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment and 20-million shilling fine after he was found guilty of illegal possession and dealing in ivory.
Poaching has since declined in Kenya — just 10 rhinos were lost in 2016, while Lewa-Borana saw zero poaching since 2014. This can be attributed the prohibitive penalties, awareness and anti-poaching measures as well as community involvement in conservation efforts. During the celebrations, Kimanju High School students presented a skit that captured the plight of the rhinos and highlighted the legal consequences of poaching under the new legislation and the reverberating impacts on community livelihoods.
The children's enthusiasm and understanding of the plight of endangered species and the consequences of extinction gives hope that a new generation will grow up to make the dream of a peaceful coexistence between people and nature a reality, with a future in which rhinos again roam the African plains in abundance.
*[This article was updated on October 4, 2017.]
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Overnight on December 7, 2009, a severe lightning storm struck the Campo reservation, damaging at least two wind turbines on site. One turbine's blade was split and a second turbine lost a portion of a blade.
Despite the severity of last night's storm, the damage to the wind turbines was minor. The blade debris and damage were contained within the project site. There was no resulting property or personal injury damage outside the project site, in the reservation or in the neighboring community. As a precaution, all turbines on the Campo reservation are currently offline pending inspection.
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The Campo Kumeyaay Nation (CKN) is one of twelve Kumeyaay Bands in the County of San Diego, California. They are a gaming tribe and owners of the Golden Acorn Casino & Travel Center. CKN was one of the first tribal nations to join The Climate Registry as well as to measure and collect data on greenhouse gas emissions in the region. In partnership with San Diego Gas & Electric, a subsidiary of Sempra, and Invenergy, CKN will jointly develop and operate the first phase - 160 MW - of an eventual 300MW wind energy expansion project.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday failed to worship at the Presidential Villa, Abuja mosque. The reason for his absence was not known as at press time. Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Senate President (second left) representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the Jummat prayers commemorating the 2017 Armed Forces Rememberance Day.
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Yesterday Aso Villa has assured Nigerians that there is no need for apprehension over the health of our President, Muhammadu Buhari, despite concerns being raised in the media.
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"Despite his lack of visibility, Nigerians should rest assured that President Buhari has not abdicated his role as Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria. "He receives daily briefings on the activities of government, and confers regularly with his Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. "His private residence, in which he has been spending the majority of his time recently, also has a fully equipped office.
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Freedom House welcomes the decree by Azerbaijan's president to release dozens of political prisoners.
In response to the March 16 decree by President Ilham Aliyev to release 51 political prisoners as part of a broader pardon of over 400 convicted individuals, Freedom House released the following statement:
"We are absolutely delighted and relieved to see so many political prisoners among those pardoned," said Marc Behrendt, director of Europe and Eurasia programs. "This is a welcome step, a kind gesture ahead of Novruz. It does not signal a fundamental change in the Azerbaijan government's treatment of free thinkers, however. Close to 80 other political prisoners remain behind bars, including Fuad Ahmadli, Seymur Hazi, Afghan Mukhtarli, and many others; we continue receiving reports of ill-treatment of imprisoned activists, most recently of Abbas Huseynov and Taleh Bagirzade. All these people, too, should be released and their records expunged."
On March 16, 2019 President Ilham Aliev signed a decree pardoning or reducing sentences of over 400 criminally convicted individuals in Azerbaijan, which included names of 51 persons considered political prisoners by Azerbaijan's Working Group on a Unified List of Political Prisoners. Among them are individuals prosecuted for participation in protests in Nardaran, Siyazan, and Mingachevir; activists of political parties and youth movements, religious freedom activists, journalists and bloggers, and others. As of February 20, 2019, the Unified List of Political Prisoners contained 127 names.
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Friends of the Cawthra Bush
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The Cawthra Bush is a large 22.3 hectare or 55.1 acres (and shrinking due to City of Mississauga's activities), healthy, and diverse remnant old growth forest/ecosystem located within the urban environment of Mississauga at Cawthra Road and the QEW. Studies have stated that the forest vegetation of the Cawthra Bush is notable and worth preserving and that the plant communities provide excellent examples of mixed deciduous woodland of Southern Ontario.
The Cawthra Bush is one of the City's largest forest in Mississauga on table land (or not located in a river valley), and is the third largest woodland area. The entire woods has been owned by the City of Mississauga since 1994. It also contains two separate watersheds and perched (raised) water tables. The Cawthra Bush has great diversity for a forest of its size and contains a variety of habitats: i.e. * hardwood forest * meadow groves * wetland marshes * edge communities.
Two stand types or forest cover exist in the Cawthra Bush. Because of logging that took place in the 1920's in the top two-thirds of the forest, a Sugar Maple - White Ash - Red Maple forest stand was created. Most trees were in the 80 to 90 year old range when the City started to remove the old trees in 1994. Those that remain are getting close to 100 years old (or old growth). The southern bottom third goes all the way back to the ice-age as being an uncut or undisturbed Sugar Maple - American Beech forest stand. Some of these trees are estimated to be over 125 years old.
The Cawthra Bush is home to many environmentally significant plant and animal species, as well as rare and threatened species such as the Jefferson Salamander.
The site has been designated as follows:
The animal species that reside in
the Cawthra Bush include:
Jefferson Salamanders are part of a group of salamanders that are
known as mole salamanders, as they live deep in the ground in holes,
Generally, the FCB & CRRA are concerned that the City has not made
specific commitments to ensure the survival of both the Jefferson
* A variety
of different bird species including the Wood Duck and Pileated
Woodpecker have been noted. Red-shouldered Hawks have
The diverse ground cover includes White Trilliums and Red Trilliums that can cover large sections of the forest floor in the spring, as well as wild Leek, false Solomon's-seal and yellow trout lily. The ground flora shows far less disturbance than other forests in Mississauga.
In terms of plant life, the Cawthra
Bush has:
The academic community (such as the Royal Ontario Museum, the Universities of Guelph and Toronto, just to name a few), has written dozens of letters supporting residents' concerns and efforts, identifying the Cawthra Bush as worthy of the effort to save its ecosystem and wildlife. They are posted on my web-site.
Paul F. Maycock, Forest Ecologist at Erindale College/University of Toronto, has stated that the Cawthra Bush is an old-growth ecosystem, which is very rare in an urban setting and that the City refuses to recognize this fact. Professor Maycock's interest in the Cawthra Bush goes back to 1959. He has compared the results of his species sampling to his international sampling of other "mesic old growth deciduous forests throughout the North Temperate Region." He is writing a paper on this. It was found that in terms of numbers of species, "Cawthra stood 50th in a total of 60 stands". Cawthra also has a "colder than normal microclimate", probably due to its high water table. He noted that species normally found further south or north are found in the Cawthra Bush or, "Cawthra has the best of both forest worlds in Ontario - north and south."
The members and supporters of the FCB & CRRA have, over the years, held forest clean-ups, made presentations in local schools regarding the Cawthra Bush and ecology, in general, lobbied hard over the years for a wetlands evaluation (which likely would not have happened if not for public pressure), circulated thousands of petitions, held public meetings (like the one at the Cawthra Estate house that began this campaign and which I was elected to lead), held fund raising events, addressed numerous City of Mississauga Council and Region of Peel Council meetings, and even debated a City Councillor on TV (and, by most accounts won!) There have been dozens of newspaper articles and letters about the Cawthra issue; and Bob Hunter, the City TV environmental reporter, has twice been out to Cawthra to cover developments. The CBC conducted a radio interview in forest.
As the varieties of salamanders (three kinds), threatened crayfish and fairy shrimp were found in the Cawthra Bush by FCB members - not by the consultants paid by government to study Cawthra's ecosystem. Concerned residents have out-performed the City-paid consultants and City staff, to find three important wetland species and better ways of managing the old-growth/wetlands ecosystem that is the Cawthra Bush.
Ultimately, we want to save and have the Cawthra Bush managed as an old-growth/wetlands ecosystem, natural and wildlife sanctuary and used primarily as an educational rather than a recreational area.
In general, a forested area like the Cawthra Bush has a great impact on the local climate and on maintaining the quality of water, soil, and the air. The Cawthra Bush helps provide a more pleasing summer climate and warmer winters for the local residents by regulating the temperature. This is done by releasing water vapour into the air through leaf transpiration and, in turn, affecting humidity and temperature extremes. Trees act as windbreaks and noise barriers around houses, as well as, providing privacy. Forests filter pollutants from the air and absorb carbon dioxide while releasing oxygen. Forests also act as reservoirs and purifiers of groundwater and surface water. They slow down surface water runoff, thus reducing erosion and adding to groundwater storage because of high soil permeability. Tree roots and soils take up chemicals from the water.
By acting as natural air filters, they help to limit the harmful pollution that we breathe each day. Healthy just to look at, a forest or natural area has been shown to have a healing and de-stressing effect. Imagine the extra benefits of the whole functioning ecosystem. A functioning ecosystem is both self-sustaining and a very low cost way to enrich the community and your families' lives. Having a large stand of trees located nearby increases the value of one's home. Because the benefits are mostly unseen, people need to be educated. They need to know that forests are there working for and doing their part for our community's betterment. There are also a number of schools nearby that can use the woods for outdoor education opportunities.
The other side of this issue is the City of Mississauga and its actions, its plans for the Cawthra Bush and how it treats taxpaying Mississaugans who are trying to exercise their right to be fully informed and participate in decision-making regarding their community.
In 1994 the City's idea of managing a forest was to log and tree farm it, as well as changing its forest succession and ecology by using chain saws - a plan that was to start in the Cawthra Bush and then be applied to all City forests thus eliminating old-growth features as it goes and making sure they do not develop. The old-growth trees, or soon to be old-growth, were to be sold for fire wood and saw logs. This plan was approved without public involvement or input and despite anything the City says, could still take place, in the future, after public resistance is removed.
The Cawthra Bush, unfortunately, is threatened and has already been heavily impacted on and needs to be protected from further detrimental City of Mississauga activities. This includes erecting more buildings, opening the forest to the public as a recreation area and not protecting its environmentally significant features, in general. It was the FCB and CRRA members that found the most significant wildlife and lobbied for a wetlands evaluation, both of which increased Cawthra's environmental significance and, therefore, its protection.
On the enclosed chronological list of events, it can be seen that the City keeps trying to degrade the Cawthra Bush, a bit at a time, which is the traditional political method for opening an area up to development. The above environmental significance of the Cawthra Bush proves the City was wrong to say the Cawthra Bush is in decline and requires the removal of hundreds of old trees. Environmental significance affords the Cawthra Bush its only protection; but we fear its loss, a bit at a time. Death by a thousand cuts.
The City has even turned down a free study by the University of Toronto to study Cawthra's unique water table. Does this sound like a City that wants the best for its forests and communities?
Freedom of Information requests are the very life blood of the FCB and CRRA's activities to empower the community. It is with the facts that we go to the public and form our evaluations of the City's plans and statements. Freedom of Information is a key aspect of democracy, as taxpayers can't make informed decisions unless they have all the facts. The goal of my requests was to provide to Mississaugans, City records gained by the Freedom of Information process, in order for them to make fully informed decisions. The City's own documents are used in public meetings or presented to taxpayers right in their homes.
The City and its Mayor know that my FOI requests are for the purpose of informing/empowering the public/taxpayers with the facts and, more often than not, opposing City plans (as they are inadequate). They will also show that City staff or its politicians have just plainly not told the truth. Both the City of Mississauga and the office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario know that I am the leader of the FCB and CRRA and its chief researcher. Nonetheless, they refuse to acknowledge the facts, evidently, as they would support the right of Canadians to know what their government is really up to.
Many FOI requests have been made regarding the Cawthra Bush and not just to the City of Mississauga. FOI requests have been made to the Region of Peel and the Ministry of Natural Resources, but it is only the City of Mississauga that gets upset with these FOI requests (to discover the facts). At the beginning, I was warned by those who have dealt with the Mayor of Mississauga before, that she was very abusive and did so to drive away people who were opposing City plans. So I stepped up to take the brunt of her abuse. After all, many FCB & CRRA supporters are seniors. In time, I also became the most informed person in the group as to how the City worked and the issues surrounding the Cawthra Bush. And as the old saying goes, cut off the head and the body dies. The City targets me to eliminate community opposition.
(Not all public meetings, events, etc., are not listed but here is a sampling)
Without consulting with Mississaugans, the City of Mississauga decides to log and tree-farm the forested areas that it owns, starting with the Cawthra Bush. The public is enraged; and the Friends of the Cawthra Bush & Greater Mississauga Area (FCB) is created. Later, the Cawthra Ratepayers and Residents Association (CRRA) is formed. The City shuts out these groups when they disagree with the City's plans. To date the CRRA is the only ratepayers group in the history of the City of Mississauga that is not officially recognized by the City. A pattern of personal attacks and false allegations against members of the public, rather than dealing with the issues, becomes the City's method of dealing with those in opposition to its plans.
Jan. 27 - 1994
The City of Mississauga was going into the Cawthra Bush to start logging and tree farming and this forest management was part of the unapproved Master Plan. This was all without public input or involvement prior to approval by City Council. This plan is to be used to log and tree farm all of Mississauga's forested lands.
Feb. 1 - 1994
Feb. 20 - 1994
July 19 - 1994
In the winter of 1995, a watermain was constructed through the eastern edge of the Cawthra Bush as an addition to the two watermains already present in the ground from many years before.
Nov. 6 - 1995
May - 1996
Deforestation of the east side of the Cawthra Bush was prevented by informed residents petitioning and lobbying the City to let the forest grow back a forest edge along the route of the newly installed watermain. The City had said the area cleared by the watermain construction was to be mostly kept clear of anything woody, such as trees and shrubs, forever, in case maintenance on the pipe was needed (which, by all accounts, was very unlikely).
The City had proposed to have an open grass field scattered with "flowers" for the attraction of butterflies. The City wanted to take the $200,000 it was given to reforest the construction zone and plant a butterfly garden. It wanted the public to approve this. Public pressure forced the City to change its plans so that a proper forest edge could grow and to recognize trees and shrubs could grow in the easement area.
The Jefferson
Salamanders, rare amphibians, are found in the
July 9 - 1997
Dec. 10 - 1997
For the first time the City tries to work with the FCB but it is soon discovered that the City is wording the minutes of our meetings to claim agreement, where there is none. An effort is made to correct the minutes but the City refuses to meet with the FCB again. This is part of a pattern by the City that includes threatening letters from City lawyers and the police sent to my home, to shut out our group and the community in general, from dealing meaningfully with the City. Because the local Councillor and the City make no effort to deal with other members of our groups of whom they are aware, it is clear they are inventing excuses of a defamatory nature to avoid dealing with taxpayers who know a bad plan when they see it and have every reason not to agree with the City as there are better solutions. The City centres its harassment on me in the hope that taking action against me will end the community's effort to save the Cawthra Bush.
City staff and politicians make a point of creating records that make it appear as if I act alone with no community support. The Ward Councillor does not attend our public meetings and when large numbers of FCB and CRRA members attend City meetings, the City does not note that fact in anyway. The old saying about those who control the minutes of the meeting, control the meeting, is taken very seriously by the City.
Sept. 29 - 1998
Nov. 18 - 1998
Dec. 7 - 1998
Dec. 10 - 1998
July 2 - 1999
Aug. 26 - 1999
Sept. 13 - 1999
Nov. 29 - 1999
It should be noted that, when one person writes a letter of protest, that letter represents 100 other people in the community who share the same view. For each single person that had the courage to stand and challenge the government for our group's right to be heard, means there would actually be a 1000 or more Mississaugans' for each of those persons who actually rose from their seats to stand beside me, that night.
Nov. 30 - 1999
Dec. 15 - 1999
Jan. 23 - 2000
May 4 - 2000
Aug. 23 - 2000
Oct. 25 - 2000
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Following high winds that damaged the Finch Theatre's awning earlier this fall, the theatre recently received a facelift with a new awning, thanks to the work of Jim Metz, Assistant Trust Officer at Citizen State Bank and Trust Co., and others.
"Jim has been fantastic," said Dawn Harlow, Lincoln County Clerk.
The awning was replaced in November. Metz, Harlow said, applied for a grant with the Post Rock Community Foundation.
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The Foundation requested $9,725.32 to complete the project, which PRCF granted.
The awning was installed by Ash Enterprises, Harlow said, which is a company based out of Salina. In addition, Tari Donley installed iron[a] which will help combat deterioration from birds, Harlow said.
"We are trying to preserve [the theatre]," Metz said.
Marci Metz and other individuals also helped with painting, Harlow said.
In addition to the new awning installation, the Finch Theatre also received a new sign with LED lights instead of fluorescent, Metz said.
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In addition to the changes on the outside, the Finch Theatre raised funds through a raffle ticket sale for interior renovations, Metz said. The winners of the raffle won a year's worth of movie passes for the theatre.
Metz said it is important to preserve the theatre for the community as a whole since many local businesses and other entities utilize the space for events and meetings, in addition to movie watching.
"I just hope [the community sees] we are trying to keep our wonderful theatre and community room moving forward," he said. "We're just trying to maintain what's such an important part to our community."
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Mumbai: Film producer Murad Khetani Thursday said he has decided to not release his upcoming films -- Salman Khan-produced "Notebook" and Shahid Kapoor starrer "Kabir Singh" -- in Pakistan in the wake of Pulwama terror attack.
"We are not releasing our film ('Notebook') in Pakistan. Our upcoming films 'Kabir Singh' and 'Satellite Shankar' too will also not release there," Khetani, of Cine1 Studios, said on the sidelines of the promotional event of his film "Notebook".
"Notebook" marks the acting debut of Pranutan Bahl, daughter of actor Mohnish Bahl and granddaughter of yesteryear actor Nutan. It will also see the launch of Zaheer Iqbal.
Set in Kashmir, the romantic-drama film is produced by Salma Khan, Khetani and Ashwin Varde and it is slated to release on March 29.
"Kabir Singh", directed by Sandeep Vanga, is a remake of his own directorial Telugu language film "Arjun Reddy" (2017). Jointly produced by Cine1 Studios and T-Series, the film stars Shahid and Kiara Advani in the lead. It releases on June 21.
Directed by Irfan Kamal, "Satellite Shankar", produced by Bhushan Kumar, Murad Khetani, Krishan Kumar and Ashwin Varde, stars Sooraj Pancholi in the lead. It will hit cinema houses on July 5.
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Post by Victoria Yang on June 3, 2020
I'm a little confused on the Lewis structures, how can we know which element goes in the center as the nuclei?
Post by Zachary McCoy on January 4, 2014
Please note: The electronegativity of N is closer to 3 than 3.5 (even closer to 3 than is Cl)! This becomes especially important when you get to organic chemistry (the significance being that oxygen is more electronegative [i.e. NOT nearly equal to nitrogen] than nitrogen).
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He made a simple miscalculation. The formal charge of F for the first resonance structure is 7-(4+2)=+1, and from that the formal charge of N is -1.
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Exceptions to octet rule: Be, B etc. in Groups 1 and 2; third period elements like S, P, can exceed 8.
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The liver: Multitasking to keep you healthy
Your liver is an organ that sits on the right side of your body, under your ribs. It's an important organ, as it does a lot of jobs to keep your body healthy. The liver produces bile that helps you digest food. It also filters your blood and removes toxins.
If your liver isn't working at 100 percent, it can affect your whole body
Liver disease includes illnesses and conditions that make it harder for your liver to function.
Common types of liver disease can include:
- Hepatitis – A virus that attacks the liver and causes infection.
- Cirrhosis – A build-up of scar tissue in the liver caused by drugs, alcohol or illnesses like hepatitis.
- Hemochromatosis – A condition where the body stores too much iron, which can damage the liver.
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – A condition where the body stores extra fat in the liver, causing scarring and other problems.
While these different types of liver disease have different causes, they can share many of the same symptoms. Symptoms of liver disease can include:
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Many other illnesses can cause the same symptoms. But if you have symptoms of liver disease, it's important to talk to your doctor right away. If you have liver disease but don't get treatment, it can lead to liver failure.
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The German city of Hamburg has made its biggest catch yet – this year it will have the honor of hosting the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships presented by comdirect & ALDI Nord. Beach volleyball's biggest biennial celebration will take place between June 28 and July 7, 2019, when 48 of the world's best teams compete for the title and – significantly – a ticket to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
Having established itself as the central hub in Germany for developing players such as reigning Olympic and World Champion Laura Ludwig, Hamburg has quickly become synonymous with beach volleyball. In 2018 the city made history by becoming the first to host the World Tour Finals – the annual end-of-season spectacular that pits the globe's best athletes head-to-head on the sand – two seasons in succession.
The World Championships will be the 12th in the history of the competition and the second time that Germany will host the event. Hamburg will follow in the footsteps of Berlin, which held the 2005 championships. Hamburg can expect to witness the same spine-tingling atmosphere and dramatic battles on the beach that captivated over 180,000 fans at the last World Championships, which were held in Vienna, Austria, in 2017.
In 2017, history was made when Brazilian André Loyola Stein, together with now former teammate Evandro Gonçalves Oliveira Junior, became the youngest male World Champion at the age of 22. André, who is now teammates with reigning Olympic champion Alison Cerutti, will aim to make more history in Hamburg – no man has ever successfully won back-to-back world titles.
In Vienna, Ludwig and then teammate Walkenhorst were the undoubted stars of the show as they added the missing piece of gold from their trophy cabinet with a stunning title-winning performance. Following the retirement of Kira Walkenhorst in January 2019, Laura returns to the beach after a year off the sand having given birth to her first child. And she will go in search of gold with a new teammate, Maggie Kozuch.
"It is going to be an amazing opportunity for Hamburg to show to the world how much beach volleyball means to the people of this city," said Ludwig. "Hamburg's reputation for the sport has already grown significantly and with the World Championships, this status will be enhanced even further. The sky's the limit."
FIVB president, Dr. Ary S. Graça, added: "I have no doubt that the city will be an excellent host for the 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships, and will build up on the success of the 2017 edition staged in Vienna. This event always demonstrates the FIVB's core principles of skill, athleticism and teamwork, acting as one to achieve the ultimate success."


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KTM, the European Racing Legend, will get its RC 200 and 200 Duke owners in Mumbai to indulge in exhilarating head to head motorcycle races, in its action packed event – "Orange Day". The latest KTM Orange Day is being organized in Mumbai on 15th December.
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LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2020 — Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology and services company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening™, announced today that it completed the first quarter of 2020 with encouraging business results. New business orders confirmed in the first quarter are comparable with the 12-month results for the entire 2019.
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Eyenuk, Inc. is a global artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology and services company and the leader in real-world AI Eye Screening for autonomous disease detection and AI Predictive Biomarkers™ for risk assessment and disease surveillance. Eyenuk's first product, the EyeArt AI Eye Screening System, is the most extensively validated AI technology for autonomous detection of DR. Eyenuk is on a mission to screen every eye in the world to ensure timely diagnosis of life- and vision-threatening diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, stroke risk, cardiovascular risk and Alzheimer's disease. Find Eyenuk online on its website, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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*sigh* Of course, the very next day after I announce I am taking holidays from this blog, Akeruka goes and announces an anniversary group gift. And this one is definitely worth coming back to blog about!
You might remember that I told you that it is worth joining the Akeruka group called [AK] Heads News & Support for L$150 and staying a member, because every six months or so, Akeruka offers both male and female Bento mesh heads as group gifts. Well, it's that time again! From now until June 20th, you can pick up the Cleo female Bento mesh head for only L$1. Here's what the ad looks like in the store (here's the SLURL):
This is a fully-featured, completely adjustable Bento head with included teeth and (colour-changeable, human and alien) eyes, and a HUD with eight different skin tones, and a variety of eyebrow and hairbase colours to choose from. The HUD includes eyeliners, eyeshadows, blush, freckles, and lipsticks. And, even better, the package includes body skin appliers to match the 8 head skin tones, for Maitreya, Belleza, and Slink mesh bodies, plus Omega skin appliers for any Omega-compatible mesh body! Here, I have used the Omega skin applier on the recent Juliet mesh body group gift from Altamura, with all the makeup options turned off so you can see the features more clearly:
Looking good! This avatar is wearing:
Mesh head: Cleo Bento mesh head by Akeruka (L$1 group gift; group costs L$150 to join)
Mesh body: Juliet mesh body by Altamura (a former Valentine's Day group gift; Omega-compatible; more details here)
Omega skin applier: (included as part of a package of body skin appliers that comes with the Cleo mesh head; you can pick up the Omega applier kit for Altamura mesh bodies for only L$99 at the Omega Solutions store at this exact SLURL)
Clothing: Eleni T-shirt and Thalia jeans (part of the Baby Monkey capsule wardrobe, available free from the Free*Style freebie store (more details here)
Shoes: black flats (part of a free sample pack of Slink-compatible shoes from Garbaggio, available on the SL Marketplace; Altamura mesh bodies have Slink-compatible feet)
Hair: Beyoncé hair by enVOGUE (a L$1 gift from a previous year's Hair Fair)
If past history is anything to go by, you can expect an announcement of a male Bento mesh head group gift after June 20th. So stay tuned!
O.K., back to my holiday from the blog!


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David Walliams appears to pucker up for a snog with actress Kate Beckinsale at Stevie Wonder gig – The Sun
KISS me, Kate! David Walliams appears to pucker up for a snog but is it really Much Ado About Nothing?
KATE Beckinsale has sparked relationship rumours with Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams after the pair put on a cosy display this weekend.
The couple were spotted flirting and laughing together in a private area at London's British Summer Time Festival on Saturday as they watched
Stevie Wonder perform.
An onlooker said: "David couldn't keep his eyes off Kate – they looked smitten."
Comedian David, 47, shared an adoring image of him and Kate, 45, smiling at each other on his Instagram, captioning the photo: "Me & @katebeckinsale at Stevie Wonder's concert in Hyde Park."
Kate reportedly split from Pete Davidson in April while David has been single since divorcing ex-wife Lara Stone in 2015.
Prior to dating Pete, Kate was romantically linked to comedian Jack Whitehall, after dating Matt Rife.
Kate was previously married to Michael Sheen for eight years, and Len Wiseman for 12 years.
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Library of Birmingham
When I started this website back in 2005, the future of Birmingham's Central Library was unclear. There was talk of the possibility of two replacement libraries, one for lending and the other for reference. Millenium Point was the favoured location for at least one of these.
Fast forward to 2011 and all is clear as work is well underway on the new
Library of Birmingham
in Centenary Square. Combined with the knowledge that the old Central Library
failed to obtain listing status
and the future plans for
Paradise Circus
, it is clear that the John Madin designed building, opened in 1974, will almost certainly follow
its Victorian predecessor
and fall victim to the wrecking ball and bulldozer! I don't think the recent listing on World Monument Fund's list of '
at risk monuments
' will help it...
Whatever you think of it, it always looks better in the sunshine!
For someone who works close to the new library site, it has been an interesting thing to watch and record. I've created this page to capture that journey.
Things started getting interesting when the Cambridge Street car park was closed in April 2008 and some test pits were dug. The pictures below show that there was some fascinating archaeology just below the surface. It certainly made me wonder what else was buried just below the surface of the streets of Birmingham...
Pictures taken April 2008 by sneaking into the cordoned off car park when no one was looking!
A year later and the sign was up to say that the new library would be built on the Cambridge Street car park site. Artworks like 'Spirit & Enterprise' and the much maligned 'Flame of Hope' (you may recall the
flame was extinguished
due to lack of funds!) would soon lose their place in the city.
Before the work started, though, a thorough dig would be undertaken by Birmingham Archaeology and the site recorded. Below are some pictures I took as the dig progressed. The story of the remains of Winfield's Cambridge Street Works brass foundry can be found on the
Birmingham University website
, along with details on the earlier history of the site.
I had read that the area around modern day Centenary Square was once the planned site for a huge civic centre development. The War Memorial, Baskerville House and the Municipal Bank were as far as it got before World War Two came along put a stop to things. At an exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in January 2010, the model of the planned development was on show and is pictured below. I find it interesting that this dream continued throughout the years and the new library will join the Rep, the ICC and Symphony Hall to help create a Civic Centre to be proud of. It's also interesting that the four,
nearby blocks of flats
are known as the Civic Centre site.
The remainder of the pictures on this page capture the progress of work on the site. It is due for completion in spring 2013 and will cost a projected £188.8m. I have mixed feelings about the design but I don't think you can question that there is a real vision involved in how it looks and how it will function. I am surprised by the scale of it, however. I'm sure early artist's impressions didn't show how much it would dwarf the splendid Baskerville House!
One final surprise was to discover that the amazing
Shakespeare Memorial Room
, designed by John Chamberlain and originally contained within the Victorian Central Library on Ratcliff Place/Edmund Street, would once again be dismantled (it is currently housed in the hideous School of Music in Paradise Circus) and
be reconstructed in the golden rotunda
that will top of the new library building. Hard to believe that there will be a little bit of the old crowning the very new!
The library opened on Tuesday 6 September 2013 and was overrun with visitors, keen to see what it was all about. Here's the finished article:-


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For Some Women, The Cost Of A Baby Is Incredibly High
I've known I wanted kids since I was in my early 30s, but I wanted to wait until I was in the right relationship before I actively pursued becoming a mom. When that relationship finally arrived at 36, I realized I'd hit another snag: I'd fallen in love with someone who wasn't sure he wanted kids. Cut to three years later. He still wasn't 100% sure, but he was willing to try. So we did. And tried, and tried, and tried, again and again. But after a year and a half, we still couldn't conceive a baby the "natural" way, prompting me to seek outside help.
Along the way, I'd followed my gynecologist's advice: we had sex regularly, accompanied by assorted fertility diets, teas, and ovulation tests. But by the time I went to see a fertility specialist, I was already 40, and well into what experts consider "advanced maternal age" for having kids.
After going through the various tests, my fertility doctor concluded that in-utero insemination (IUI) or in-vitro fertilization (IVF) were my only available options. IUI is the cheaper and less invasive procedure, in which processed and concentrated sperm is inserted directly into a woman's uterus, while IVF involves combining an extracted egg and sperm sample in a lab, then inserting them into the uterus. But I immediately ruled out IVF for one simple reason: cost.
While IVF costs vary by location and clinic, according to Dr. Lora Shahine, a reproductive endocrinologist at Pacific NW Fertility and co-author of Planting the Seeds of Pregnancy: An Integrative Approach to Fertility Care, the average cost nationwide for an initial IVF cycle is $12,000. This includes ultrasound, monitoring, egg retrieval, anesthesia, and basic culturing of eggs and creating embryos. There also may be additional costs involved, such as medications ($3,000-5,000), genetic screening of embryos ($5,000), or ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection), a procedure in which a single sperm is injected into a mature egg, which is usually used when there's male factor infertility ($2,000). It's also worth noting that the price can easily double or triple, depending on the number of cycles required.
If you struggle with fertility, how can you start a family without having huge stockpiles of cash in the bank?
As a freelance writer with an unstable income, I was sure there was no way I could ever afford the five-digit price tag. I couldn't help but wonder: considering that not only women of substantial means want to have kids, how do lower-income women afford IUI and IVF? If you struggle with fertility, how can you start a family without having huge stockpiles of cash in the bank?
Some insurance companies provide coverage for IVF, and 15 states are mandated by law to cover some fertility procedures. (Thanks to last week's initiative by Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York state insurers are now legally required not to exclude same-sex or single prospective parents.) But for many, IVF is either not covered by their insurance plan, or it only covers fertility testing.
For this reason, many women opt for IUI over IVF, which Shahine said typically costs between $600 and $800. Yet according to Oregon Reproductive Medicine, IUI is much less effective than IVF, with only a 10-20% success rate for women.
For those who can't afford to pay for IVF, credit cards are an option. Several women I spoke with stressed the value of finding a 0% APR credit card, so they didn't have to pay any interest on purchases for a set amount of time. That gave them the time to gather the funds necessary for either the full or partial cost of IVF.
For writer Doree Shafrir, who with her husband Matt Mira co-hosts the podcast Matt and Doree's Eggcellent Adventure about their IVF journey, it cost $40,000 to pay for two rounds of IVF in California, including one transfer and the associated drugs, only $600 of which has been covered by insurance. Shafrir used her book advance and zero interest credit cards to pay for the procedure, and they've "adjusted the budget as we go."
"Both of us have freaked out at different times about the cost, and usually one person has reassured the other that everything will be fine," Shafrir said.
Fertility is just so personal that a lot of people don't want to put themselves out there and feel vulnerable and ask for money.
Crowdfunding for IVF is also an option for some women, such as Huffington Post writer Jessica Melcher. When Melcher found out her insurance didn't cover IVF, she turned to the internet to foot the $12,000 bill for the procedure. "When we first sought help for our struggle with infertility, I made it my mission to make sure no one knew," she wrote. "[Looking] back, my reasons for keeping our struggle a secret were the exact same reasons I refused to ask for any sort of financial help... I was too worried about what other people would think."
For Melcher, crowdfunding was effective, but it also requires couples to be open about what is, for many, a deeply personal issue. "I've seen a couple people do it, but fertility is just so personal that a lot of people don't want to put themselves out there and feel vulnerable and ask for money," Shahine said.
There are also several grants available to women pursuing fertility. RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association maintains a list of infertility treatment grants for this purpose One such grant is The Cade Foundation Savannah Grant, which provides up to $10,000 for IVF patients who are permanent United States residents who've been diagnosed with infertility to be treated at Shady Grove Fertility Center, which has locations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, DC.
Pamela Hirsch, co-founder of the nonprofit Babyquest Foundation, has given out 55 grants to infertile people since its founding. To qualify for such a grant, Hirsch said you must be very clear about your conception plan. "You don't want somebody who says 'I'll do an IUI or I'll do an IVF or maybe we'll go to surrogacy,'" she told Romper. "You want people who've done their homework, who've probably embarked on this process."
"It's almost like gambling."
According to three women who were given grants by Babyquest Foundation (who requested we not use their last names), such a grant can mean the difference between getting IVF and not getting IVF. But it doesn't mean that you won't ever have to pay a cent.
Amanda*, a teacher who did IVF at age 27 after three years of trying to conceive, said the process of spending money "starts really early," noting that she probably spent $100 a month on basics like vitamins, ovulation test kits and pregnancy tests over those years. When she finally consulted a doctor, she was diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), and told she didn't ovulate regularly enough to conceive without medical intervention.
"You have to be honest with yourself about how badly you want that child. If you're not willing to spend that money, then you don't want it badly enough."
She then did three rounds of IUI, which cost $1,000-$2,000 each. "After the first three, we said, 'Oh, it's just another $1,200,'" Amanda told Romper. "It's almost like gambling." She wound up doing six more $1,200 cycles of IUI before her doctor told her it wasn't worth continuing and that IVF was the next logical step. At that point, she had sold almost everything she could to pay for the treatments. "We sold our Bowflex, my husband sold some of his guns and his Jeep, I sold a fur coat my great great aunt had given me, I sold jewelry—anything we could take to the pawn shop to sell," she told Romper.
The next medically advised step was IVF, which was an estimated $15,000 cost that at that point was far out of their price range. "We had just exhausted all of our resources doing other, more cost-effective treatments," Amanda noted. Broke, she applied for a Babyquest grant and received it.
"If you're not willing to spend the $10,000 you have in savings or bonds or whatever valuable assets you have, but you are willing to ask someone else to pay for it, you have to be honest with yourself about how badly you want that child," she cautioned. "If you're not willing to spend that money, then you don't want it badly enough."
For Lyndsay, who started trying to conceive at age 35, IVF wasn't on her radar at the beginning. For three years, she tried everything from Clomid, a drug that tries to induce ovulation, to at-home IUI. Since she lives paycheck to paycheck and her insurance doesn't cover IVF, she hadn't considered it until she heard about a grant offered by New York state called the Infertility Demonstration Program, which covers one round of IVF (approximately $20,000 in her case). The remaining amount she put on a credit card.
"It's really easy to think about how $5,000 debt is nothing when at the end of it all you get a baby," she said. Although Lyndsay used the grant to fund a successful round of IVF, she noted that "the reality is, there is a... chance that you won't get a baby. And then that debt is not only large, it's painful."
"There is a... chance that you won't get a baby. And then that debt is not only large, it's painful."
Given that success rates of IVF per cycle are about 40%, with the rates decreasing as women age, the truth is that no matter how much you spend on the procedure, there's no guarantee that it will be successful. As one-half of a same-sex couple, filmmaker Haley Jude knew she would need assistance no matter what path to having a baby she chose. She opted for IVF, and, along with her female partner, first spent $30,000 at a "fancy fertility clinic" that "badly botched" the procedure, then $20,000 in order to give it another shot at a different clinic.
Although the second procedure was successful, "it was so much money it almost felt fake to me. We had no savings, no home, I had no retirement account," Jude said. There was only one thought that kept her going: "All I could think was 'What better to spend money on?'"
For many women, the process of trying to conceive can be incredibly emotionally draining. The stress can be even more overwhelming when financial constraints come into play. Many of the women I spoke with for this piece emphasized the emotional turmoil of having their future parenthood determined, in large part, by their financial status. "It is completely overwhelming. It feels as though you are not worthy enough to be a parent or to experience pregnancy if you don't have an extra $10,000 dollars lying around," said Tiffany*, a Babyquest Foundation grant recipient.
For Erin*, another Babyquest Foundation grant recipient, "the whole process made me feel less of a woman. Not having the financial security to be able to do it made me feel like less of an adult, and the stress probably didn't help. It was a very low point in my life."
"It feels as though you are not worthy enough to be a parent or to experience pregnancy if you don't have an extra $10,000 dollars lying around."
Still, many parents who have undergone successful rounds of IVF feel that it's worth it, regardless of the cost. "Our emotional well-being and the state of our marriage was so much more important than the money," Lyndsey said. We decided to get the credit card just for this because it became very clear to me that I didn't see the point to being married or even alive at all if we couldn't have a family. I know that's really harsh and blunt, but it was something very real I discovered about myself."
For my part, I ultimately realized that perhaps I'd been too quick to rule out IVF, simply because my income varied greatly from year to year. While I hate the idea that IVF and other fertility treatments are out of reach for many low-income or even middle-income women, it is heartening to know that there are creative solutions to funding the procedure, thus making my dream of starting a family seem less far out of reach.
IVF and IUI aren't simple: they require devoting your body, along with significant amounts of your time and energy, to what is for many the grueling task of getting pregnant. But if my partner and I come to the joint decision that IVF is right for us, I'm not going to let lack of funds be the deciding factor, because I don't think any prospective mother should have to choose being going into debt and starting a family. While it would be wonderful if more insurance plans covered IVF, until that day comes, I'm going to keep my options open.


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Genting, New York Casino Workers Union Launch Separate Campaigns Against North Jersey Expansion
Posted on: August 16, 2016, 04:15h.
Last updated on: August 16, 2016, 05:45h.
A proposed North Jersey casino expansion plan in the Garden State is receiving growing resistance from across the Hudson. Two separate campaigns were launched this week, one from a casino workers union, and the other a Genting New York City casino. Both marketing efforts will aim at persuading their neighbors on the other side of the George Washington Bridge to vote against the proposal.
In March, the New Jersey legislature voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill which will allow voters to decide on November 8 whether to break Atlantic City's longstanding monopoly on casino gaming.
The North Jersey proposal would create two casino licenses for projects close to New York's border, with the hope that it will attract legions of casino-goers from the Big Apple's metropolitan area, bolstering New Jersey's sagging gaming economy.
Certain New York lawmakers are aghast at the proposal, which is in direct opposition to their own upstate casino expansion. The Empire State licensed three new northern region casinos this year under the proviso that none could be built downstate for seven years.
But now, facing a potential border war in the south, New York is considering tearing up that agreement to warn New Jersey voters off the referendum.
Union City Blues
Wading into the fray is the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council (HTC), which represents workers in New York, as well as around 5,000 hospitality workers in New Jersey. HTC, which is under the AFL-CIO federation of labor unions umbrella, is launching a TV and digital ad campaign against the proposal. Its focus? That the current North Jersey casino expansion referendum excludes a "labor peace" provision, a factor that could restrict union organizing efforts.
"Our union has built a strong standard for gaming workers in the tristate area, and until we have concrete assurances that those standards will be met, we will oppose any efforts to expand gaming into North Jersey," said HTC union President Peter Ward.
"Trenton political bosses are up to their old games," proclaims the ad, which suggests politicians will use the new casino revenue however they wish, "just like they did when they bailed out Donald Trump's failing casinos."
Trenton's Bad Bet
Meanwhile, Malaysian casino operating giant Genting, which owns a slots parlor in the New York City borough of Queens, has bankrolled an advertising campaign against the proposal for a group called Trenton's Bad Bet, which is composed heavily of Atlantic City casinos that oppose the referendum.
While expansion promises to offer back compensation $200 million per year to the close-to-bankrupt Atlantic City, many operators and voters in the resort town are skeptical. Supporters of the payout claim that taxes on the North Jersey new casinos will cover it.
The resort city has lost a quarter of its casinos in the last three years, and the announcement of the imminent closure of the Trump Taj Mahal in mid-October is driving anxiety that expansion could be the death knell for the city. Others believe the Atlantic City sector is now rightsized, and can cope with some extra competition, while hopefully attracting footfall to New Jersey from neighboring states.
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Seven Falls ZipLine In Lake Sebu South Cotabato12:01 AM
Two years after the famed zip line of South Cotabato opened to the public, I finally got to try it. The zip line features a thrilling distance of 740 and 400 meters. I was super scared but I braved it just to say I tried it. The zip lines are in the town of Lake Sebu which is famous for its lakes. It is one of the top tourism destinations in Southern Mindanao. I am glad that the government is doing something to promote tourism in this sleepy little town.
Before we went to try the zip lines, we trekked to the location of the first waterfall which the locals named as Hikong Alu (means Passage in the local dialect T'boli). The pathways have concrete blocks to prevent tourists from accidentally slipping because the area can get a little wet from the water gushing from the waterfall.
This picture does not give justice to how imposing this natural waterfall looks for real. We both were stunned as we just stand on the banks listening to the gushing of the water. Nature never cease to amaze me!
We paid Php250 (around $5.50) each to ride the zip line. Until now I still could not believe that I finally tried it...twice. We went there a couple of days before our wedding and three days after the wedding. You have to sign a waiver before you can try this thrilling and at the same time scenic ride. Christian and I decided to do it together so we still have each other if the lines snap. Hahaha!
I probably held my breathe until we were released. I could not accurately describe how I felt as we slowly inch toward the cliff where you can see the second waterfall which the locals call Hikong Bente (which means immeasurable).
After the first league of the zipline, my heart was racing and at the same time feeling rather more excited than scared. It was an amazing feeling. You have got to try it too. And if that wasn't convincing enough, here are some pictures of what you will see while suspended approximately 200 meters above the lush forest of Lake Sebu:
I'm sure I saw at least two rainbows but aren't visible in the pictures we took. The first point (where we took off) to the second point was around 700 meters. We then had to walk a few steps to the second take-off point for the second league of the ride where a 400-meter zip line awaits.
Falls 3 was named Hikong B'lebel or Zigzag/Coil while Falls 4 was named Hikong Lowig or Booth. The fifth falls is Hikong Ukol or Wild Flower. I was not able to see the 6th falls (Hikong K'fo-l which means Short) and the 7th falls (Hikong Tonok which means Soil) because they were very far from where the ziplines were.
It was an amazing experience and we cannot wait to go back.