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Kenya :: Africa
Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Somalia and Tanzania
Geographic coordinates:
Map references:
580,367 sq km
569,140 sq km
11,227 sq km
Area - comparative:
five times the size of Ohio; slightly more than twice the size of Nevada
Land boundaries:
3,457 km
border countries (5):
Ethiopia 867 km, Somalia 684 km, South Sudan 317 km, Tanzania 775 km, Uganda 814 km
536 km
Maritime claims:
territorial sea:
12 nm
exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
continental shelf:
200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
varies from tropical along coast to arid in interior
low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west
mean elevation:
762 m
elevation extremes:
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mount Kenya 5,199 m
Natural resources:
limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar, zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, hydropower
Land use:
agricultural land:
arable land 9.8%; permanent crops 0.9%; permanent pasture 37.4%
45.8% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land:
1,030 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards:
recurring drought; flooding during rainy seasons
limited volcanic activity; the Barrier (elev. 1,032 m) last erupted in 1921; South Island is the only other historically active volcano
Environment - current issues:
water pollution from urban and industrial wastes; degradation of water quality from increased use of pesticides and fertilizers; water hyacinth infestation in Lake Victoria; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; poaching
Environment - international agreements:
party to:
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified:
none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
the Kenyan Highlands comprise one of the most successful agricultural production regions in Africa; glaciers are found on Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak; unique physiography supports abundant and varied wildlife of scientific and economic value
People and Society
estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2016 est.)
Ethnic groups:
Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1%
English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages
Christian 83% (Protestant 47.7%, Catholic 23.4%, other Christian 11.9%), Muslim 11.2%, Traditionalists 1.7%, other 1.6%, none 2.4%, unspecified 0.2% (2009 est.)
Demographic profile:
Kenya has experienced dramatic population growth since the mid-20th century as a result of its high birth rate and its declining mortality rate. More than 40% of Kenyans are under the age of 15 because of sustained high fertility, early marriage and childbearing, and an unmet need for family planning. Kenya's persistent rapid population growth strains the labor market, social services, arable land, and natural resources. Although Kenya in 1967 was the first sub-Saharan country to launch a nationwide family planning program, progress in reducing the birth rate has largely stalled since the late 1990s, when the government decreased its support for family planning to focus on the HIV epidemic. Government commitment and international technical support spurred Kenyan contraceptive use, decreasing the fertility rate (children per woman) from about 8 in the late 1970s to less than 5 children twenty years later, but it has plateaued at just over 3 children today.
Kenya is a source of emigrants and a host country for refugees. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kenyans pursued higher education in the UK because of colonial ties, but as British immigration rules tightened, the US, the then Soviet Union, and Canada became attractive study destinations. Kenya's stagnant economy and political problems during the 1980s and 1990s led to an outpouring of Kenyan students and professionals seeking permanent opportunities in the West and southern Africa. Nevertheless, Kenya's relative stability since its independence in 1963 has attracted hundreds of thousands of refugees escaping violent conflicts in neighboring countries; Kenya presently shelters nearly 400,000 Somali refugees.
Age structure:
0-14 years:
40.87% (male 9,592,017/female 9,532,032)
15-24 years:
18.83% (male 4,398,554/female 4,411,586)
25-54 years:
33.54% (male 7,938,111/female 7,755,128)
55-64 years:
3.84% (male 819,665/female 976,862)
65 years and over:
2.92% (male 590,961/female 775,842) (2016 est.)
Dependency ratios:
total dependency ratio:
youth dependency ratio:
elderly dependency ratio:
potential support ratio:
19.7% (2015 est.)
Median age:
19.5 years
19.4 years
19.6 years (2016 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.81% (2016 est.)
Birth rate:
25.1 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
Death rate:
6.8 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
urban population:
25.6% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization:
4.34% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban areas - population:
NAIROBI (capital) 3.915 million; Mombassa 1.104 million (2015)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.02 male(s)/female
0-14 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
15-24 years:
1 male(s)/female
25-54 years:
1.02 male(s)/female
55-64 years:
0.84 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.77 male(s)/female
total population:
1 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth:
median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2014 est.)
Maternal mortality rate:
510 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
38.3 deaths/1,000 live births
42.7 deaths/1,000 live births
33.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
64 years
62.6 years
65.5 years (2016 est.)
Total fertility rate:
3.14 children born/woman (2016 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rate:
45.5% (2008/09)
Health expenditures:
5.7% of GDP (2014)
Physicians density:
0.2 physicians/1,000 population (2013)
Hospital bed density:
1.4 beds/1,000 population (2010)
Drinking water source:
urban: 81.6% of population
rural: 56.8% of population
total: 63.2% of population
urban: 18.4% of population
rural: 43.2% of population
total: 36.8% of population (2015 est.)
Sanitation facility access:
urban: 31.2% of population
rural: 29.7% of population
total: 30.1% of population
urban: 68.8% of population
rural: 70.3% of population
total: 69.9% of population (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
5.91% (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
1,517,700 (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
35,800 (2015 est.)
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk:
very high
food or waterborne diseases:
bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease:
malaria, dengue fever, and Rift Valley fever
water contact disease:
animal contact disease:
rabies (2016)
Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
5.9% (2014)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
11% (2014)
Education expenditures:
5.3% of GDP (2015)
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
74.9% (2015 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
11 years
11 years
11 years (2009)
Country name:
conventional long form:
Republic of Kenya
conventional short form:
local long form:
Republic of Kenya/Jamhuri ya Kenya
local short form:
British East Africa
named for Mount Kenya; the meaning of the name is unclear but may derive from the Kikuyu, Embu, and Kamba words "kirinyaga," "kirenyaa," and "kiinyaa" - all of which mean "God's resting place"
Government type:
presidential republic
geographic coordinates:
time difference:
UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Administrative divisions:
47 counties; Baringo, Bomet, Bungoma, Busia, Elgeyo/Marakwet, Embu, Garissa, Homa Bay, Isiolo, Kajiado, Kakamega, Kericho, Kiambu, Kilifi, Kirinyaga, Kisii, Kisumu, Kitui, Kwale, Laikipia, Lamu, Machakos, Makueni, Mandera, Marsabit, Meru, Migori, Mombasa, Murang'a, Nairobi City, Nakuru, Nandi, Narok, Nyamira, Nyandarua, Nyeri, Samburu, Siaya, Taita/Taveta, Tana River, Tharaka-Nithi, Trans Nzoia, Turkana, Uasin Gishu, Vihiga, Wajir, West Pokot
12 December 1963 (from the UK)
National holiday:
Independence Day, 12 December (1963); Madaraka Day, 1 June (1963); Mashujaa Day (or Heroes' Day), 20 October (2010)
previous 1963, 1969; latest drafted 6 May 2010, passed by referendum 4 August 2010, promulgated 27 August 2010 (2016)
Legal system:
mixed legal system of English common law, Islamic law, and customary law; judicial review in a new Supreme Court established pursuant to the new constitution
International law organization participation:
accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; accepts ICCt jurisdiction
citizenship by birth:
citizenship by descent only:
at least one parent must be a citizen of Kenya
dual citizenship recognized:
residency requirement for naturalization:
4 out of the previous 7 years
18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state:
President Uhuru KENYATTA (since 9 April 2013); Deputy President William RUTO (since 9 April 2013); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government:
President Uhuru KENYATTA (since 9 April 2013); Deputy President William RUTO (since 9 April 2013); note - position of the prime minister abolished after the March 2013 elections
Cabinet appointed by the president, subject to confirmation by the National Assembly
president and deputy president directly elected on the same ballot by qualified majority popular vote for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); in addition to receiving an absolute majority popular vote, the presidential candidate must also win at least 25% of the votes cast in each of more than half of the 47 counties to avoid a runoff; election last held on 4 March 2013 (next to be held in 2017)
election results:
Uhuru KENYATTA elected president in first round; percent of vote - Uhuru KENYATTA (TNA) 50.1%, Raila ODINGA (ODM) 43.7%, Musalia MUDAVADI (UDF) 4.0%, other 2.2%
Legislative branch:
bicameral parliament consists of the Senate (67 seats; 47 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 20 directly elected by proportional representation vote - 16 women, 2 representing youth, and 2 representing the disabled; members serve 5-year terms) and the National Assembly (349 seats; 290 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote, 47 women in single-seat constituencies elected by simple majority vote, and 12 members nominated by the National Assembly - 6 representing youth and 6 representing the disabled; members serve 5-year terms)
last held on 4 March 2013 (next to be held in 2017)
election results:
Senate - percent of vote by party/coalition - NA; seats by party/coalition - Jubilee Alliance 30 (TNA 17, URP 12, NARC 1); CORD Coalition 28 (ODM 17, FORD-K 5, WDM-K 5, other 1); Amani Coalition 6 (KANU 3, UDF 3), APK 3; National Assembly - percent of vote by party/coalition - NA; seats by party/coalition - Jubilee Alliance 167 (TNA 89, URP 75, NARC 3), CORD Coalition 141 (ODM 96, WDM-K 26, FORD-K 10, other 9), Amani Coalition 24 (UDF 12, KANU 6, NFK 6), Eagle Coalition 2 (KNC 2), APK 5, FORD-P 4, independent 4, other 2
Judicial branch:
highest court(s):
Supreme Court (consists of chief and deputy chief justices and 5 judges)
judge selection and term of office:
chief and deputy chief justices nominated by Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and appointed by president with approval of the National Assembly; other judges nominated by the JSC and appointed by president; chief justice serves a nonrenewable 10-year term or till age 70 whichever comes first; other judges serve till age 70
subordinate courts:
High Court; Court of Appeal; military courts; magistrates' courts; religious courts
Political parties and leaders:
Alliance Party of Kenya or APK [Kiraitu MURUNGI]
Amani National Congress [Musalia MUDAVADI]
Coalition for Reforms and Democracy or CORD (includes ODM, WDM-K, FORD-K) [Raila ODINGA]
Federal Party of Kenya or FPK [Cyrus JIRONGA]
Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya or FORD-K [Moses WETANGULA]
Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-People or FORD-P [Henry OBWOCHA]
Jubilee Party [Uhuru KENYATTA]
Kenya African National Union or KANU [Gideon MOI]
National Rainbow Coalition or NARC [Charity NGILU]
Orange Democratic Movement Party of Kenya or ODM [Raila ODINGA]
Wiper Democratic Movement-K or WDM-K (formerly Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya or ODM-K) [Kalonzo MUSYOKA]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
African Center for Open Governance [Gladwell OTIENO]
Anglican Church of Kenya [Archbishop Jackson Nasoore Ole SAPIT]
Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya or CIPK [Sheikh Mohammed KHALIFA]
Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya
Kenya Association of Manufacturers
Kenya Human Rights Commission or KHRC [George KEGORO]
Kenya Private Sector Alliance
Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (umbrella group of more than 30 NGOs)
Muslim Human Rights Forum [Ali-Amin KIMATHI]
National Muslim Leaders Forum or NAMLEF [Abdullahi ABDI]
Protestant National Council of Churches of Kenya or NCCK [Canon Peter Karanja MWANGI]
Roman Catholic Church [Cardinal John NJUE]
Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims or SUPKEM [Adan WACHU, secretary general]
labor unions, other Christian churches
International organization participation:
ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, COMESA, EAC, EADB, FAO, G-15, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WMO, WTO
Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission:
Ambassador Robinson GITHAE (since 18 November 2014)
2249 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008
[1] (202) 387-6101
[1] (202) 462-3829
consulate(s) general:
Los Angeles
New York
Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission:
Ambassador Robert F. GODEC (since 16 January 2013)
United Nations Avenue, Nairobi; P.O. Box 606 Village Market, Nairobi 00621
mailing address:
American Embassy Nairobi, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC 20521-8900
[254] (20) 363-6000
[254] (20) 363-6157
Flag description:
three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and green; the red band is edged in white; a large Maasai warrior's shield covering crossed spears is superimposed at the center; black symbolizes the majority population, red the blood shed in the struggle for freedom, green stands for natural wealth, and white for peace; the shield and crossed spears symbolize the defense of freedom
National symbol(s):
lion; national colors: black, red, green, white
National anthem:
"Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu" (Oh God of All Creation)
Graham HYSLOP, Thomas KALUME, Peter KIBUKOSYA, Washington OMONDI, and George W. SENOGA-ZAKE/traditional, adapted by Graham HYSLOP, Thomas KALUME, Peter KIBUKOSYA, Washington OMONDI, and George W. SENOGA-ZAKE
adopted 1963; based on a traditional Kenyan folk song
Economy - overview:
Kenya is the economic and transport hub of East Africa. Kenya's real GDP growth has averaged over 5% for the last seven years. Since 2014 Kenya has been ranked as a lower middle income country because its per capita GDP crossed a World Bank threshold. While Kenya has a growing entrepreneurial middle class and faster growth, its economic and development trajectory is threatened by weak governance and corruption. Unemployment and under-employment are high, but reliable numbers are hard to find.
Agriculture remains the backbone of the Kenyan economy, contributing 25% of GDP. About 80% of Kenya's population of roughly 42 million work at least part-time in the agricultural sector, including livestock and pastoral activities. Over 75% of agricultural output is from small-scale, rain-fed farming or livestock production.
Inadequate infrastructure continues to hamper Kenya's efforts to improve its economic growth to the 8-10% range so that it can meaningfully address poverty and unemployment. The KENYATTA administration sought external investment in infrastructure development. International financial institutions and donors remain important to Kenya's economic growth and development, but Kenya has also successfully raised capital in the global bond market. Kenya issued its first sovereign bond offering in mid-2014. Nairobi has contracted with a Chinese company to construct a new standard gauge railway connecting Mombasa and Nairobi, with completion expected in 2017. The country is in the process of devolving some state revenues and responsibilities to the counties. Inflationary pressures and sharp currency depreciation peaked in early 2012 but have since abated following low global food and fuel prices and monetary interventions by the Central Bank. Chronic budget deficits, including a shortage of funds in mid-2015, hampered the government's ability to implement proposed development programs, but the economy is back in balance with many indicators, including foreign exchange reserves, interest rates, inflation, and FDI moving in the right direction.
Tourism holds a significant place in Kenya's economy. Multiple terror attacks by the Somalia-based group al-Shabaab in the time since the 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall, which killed at least 67, had a negative effect on international tourism earnings, but the sector is starting to recover. Kenya's success in hosting a series of incident-free high-profile events in the second half of 2015, including the visit of US President Obama, has helped improve the outlook for tourism.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$152.7 billion (2016 est.)
$144.1 billion (2015 est.)
$136.4 billion (2014 est.)
data are in 2016 dollars
GDP (official exchange rate):
$69.17 billion (2015 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
6% (2016 est.)
5.6% (2015 est.)
5.3% (2014 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$3,400 (2016 est.)
$3,300 (2015 est.)
$3,200 (2014 est.)
data are in 2016 dollars
Gross national saving:
16.1% of GDP (2016 est.)
12.7% of GDP (2015 est.)
12.2% of GDP (2014 est.)
GDP - composition, by end use:
household consumption:
government consumption:
investment in fixed capital:
investment in inventories:
exports of goods and services:
imports of goods and services:
-28% (2016 est.)
GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
49.3% (2016 est.)
Agriculture - products:
tea, coffee, corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit, vegetables; dairy products, beef, fish, pork, poultry, eggs
small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, clothing, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural products, horticulture, oil refining; aluminum, steel, lead; cement, commercial ship repair, tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
6.6% (2016 est.)
Labor force:
18.66 million (2016 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
industry and services:
25% (2011 est.)
Unemployment rate:
40% (2013 est.)
40% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line:
43.4% (2012 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
highest 10%:
37.8% (2005)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
42.5 (2008 est.)
44.9 (1997)
$12.89 billion
$17.85 billion (2016 est.)
Taxes and other revenues:
18.6% of GDP (2016 est.)
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-):
-7.2% of GDP (2016 est.)
Public debt:
50.4% of GDP (2016 est.)
48% of GDP (2015 est.)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6.1% (2016 est.)
6.6% (2015 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
11.5% (20 January 2016)
7% (31 December 2010)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
17.5% (31 December 2016 est.)
16.09% (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$11.07 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
$9.927 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of broad money:
$24.02 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
$18.92 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
$31.52 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
$27.5 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$26.16 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
$22.09 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
$14.79 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
Current account balance:
-$4.444 billion (2016 est.)
-$4.31 billion (2015 est.)
$6.363 billion (2016 est.)
$5.982 billion (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities:
tea, horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement
Exports - partners:
Uganda 11.2%, US 8.3%, Tanzania 8.1%, Netherlands 7.4%, UK 6%, Pakistan 4.2% (2015)
$16.34 billion (2016 est.)
$15.56 billion (2015 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics
Imports - partners:
China 30%, India 15.5%, UAE 5.7%, US 4.8%, Japan 4.7% (2015)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$7.374 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
$7.548 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Debt - external:
$20.25 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
$17.92 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$5.537 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
$4.662 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$NA (31 December 2016 est.)
$NA (31 December 2015 est.)
Exchange rates:
Kenyan shillings (KES) per US dollar -
102 (2016 est.)
98.179 (2015 est.)
98.179 (2014 est.)
87.921 (2013 est.)
84.53 (2012 est.)
Electricity - production:
9.2 billion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
7.6 billion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - exports:
38 million kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - imports:
79 million kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity:
2.281 million kW (2015 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels:
42.4% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
43.9% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources:
13.8% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Crude oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Crude oil - imports:
11,270 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
Refined petroleum products - production:
12,610 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption:
92,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports:
575.3 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports:
82,950 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2013 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2013 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2013 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2013 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
13 million Mt (2013 est.)
Telephones - fixed lines:
total subscriptions:
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
less than 1 (July 2015 est.)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
37.716 million
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
82 (July 2015 est.)
Telephone system:
general assessment:
the mobile-cellular system is generally good, especially is urban areas; fixed-line telephone system is small and inefficient; trunks are primarily microwave radio relay; business data commonly transferred by a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system
sole fixed-line provider, Telkom Kenya, privatized and as of 2013 is 70% owned by France Telecom; multiple providers in the mobile-cellular segment of the market fostering a boom in mobile-cellular telephone usage with teledensity reaching 80 per 100 pers
country code - 254; landing point for the EASSy, TEAMS and SEACOM fiber-optic submarine cable systems; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat (2015)
Broadcast media:
about a half-dozen large-scale privately owned media companies with TV and radio stations, as well as a state-owned TV broadcaster, provide service nationwide; satellite and cable TV subscription services available; state-owned radio broadcaster operates (2014)
Internet country code:
Internet users:
20.952 million
percent of population:
45.6% (July 2015 est.)
National air transport system:
number of registered air carriers:
inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers:
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers:
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers:
286,414,683 mt-km (2015)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix:
197 (2013)
Airports - with paved runways:
over 3,047 m:
2,438 to 3,047 m:
1,524 to 2,437 m:
914 to 1,523 m:
under 914 m:
1 (2013)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
1,524 to 2,437 m:
914 to 1,523 m:
under 914 m:
60 (2013)
oil 4 km; refined products 928 km (2013)
3,334 km
narrow gauge:
3,334 km 1.000-m gauge (2014)
160,878 km
11,189 km
149,689 km
includes 99 km of urban and other roads (2013)
none specifically; the only significant inland waterway is the part of Lake Victoria within the boundaries of Kenya; Kisumu is the main port and has ferry connections to Uganda and Tanzania (2011)
Merchant marine:
registered in other countries:
5 (Comoros 2, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2, unknown 1) (2010)
Ports and terminals:
major seaport(s):
Kisumu, Mombasa
LNG terminal(s) (import):
Military and Security
Military branches:
Kenya Defence Forces: Kenya Army, Kenya Navy, Kenya Air Force (2012)
Military service age and obligation:
18-26 years of age for male and female voluntary service (under 18 with parental consent), with a 9-year obligation (7 years for Kenyan Navy); applicants must be Kenyan citizens and provide a national identity card (obtained at age 18) and a school-leaving certificate; women serve under the same terms and conditions as men; mandatory retirement at age 55 (2012)
Military expenditures:
1.96% of GDP (2012)
1.88% of GDP (2011)
1.96% of GDP (2010)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international:
Kenya served as an important mediator in brokering Sudan's north-south separation in February 2005; Kenya provides shelter to an estimated 580,000 refugees, including Ugandans who flee across the border periodically to seek protection from Lord's Resistance Army rebels; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading across the border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists; the boundary that separates Kenya's and Sudan's sovereignty is unclear in the "Ilemi Triangle," which Kenya has administered since colonial times
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin):
334,197 (Somalia); 87,912 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers); 27,485 (Democratic Republic of the Congo); 21,537 (Ethiopia) (2016)
309,000 (represents people displaced since the 1990s by ethnic and political violence and land disputes and who sought refuge mostly in camps; persons who took refuge in host communities or were evicted in urban areas are not included in the data; data is not available on pastoralists displaced by cattle rustling, violence, natural disasters, and development projects; the largest displacement resulted from 2007-08 post-election violence (2014)
stateless persons:
20,000 (2015); note - the stateless population consists of Nubians, Kenyan Somalis, and coastal Arabs; the Nubians are descendants of Sudanese soldiers recruited by the British to fight for them in East Africa more than a century ago; Nubians did not receive Kenyan citizenship when the country became independent in 1963; only recently have Nubians become a formally recognized tribe and had less trouble obtaining national IDs; Galjeel and other Somalis who have lived in Kenya for decades are included with more recent Somali refugees and denied ID cards
Illicit drugs:
widespread harvesting of small plots of marijuana; transit country for South Asian heroin destined for Europe and North America; Indian methaqualone also transits on way to South Africa; significant potential for money-laundering activity given the country's status as a regional financial center; massive corruption, and relatively high levels of narcotics-associated activities


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"Orpheon wishes to open your eyes and ears to the marvelous world of string instruments of the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Classical Periods. The collection now contains over 170 instruments (viola da gamba, viola d'amore, violin, viola, violoncello, violone, baryton) and historical bows dating mostly from 1560 to 1780, all restored to their original playing conditions and placed at the disposal of members of the Orpheon Orchestra, Orpheon Consort, and professional musicians and university students from all over Europe for concerts, recordings, contests and study purposes. Its owner, Prof. José Vázquez of the University for Music and the Performing Arts Vienna holds that it is the living acoustical heritage - the sounds that these instruments produce for those living today - that interests us, and not their mere decorative flair as objets trouvés from aristocratic residences of our distant past. We wish to hear what these instruments have to say and we wish to learn from them about the manner of performance of their musical heritage from the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Classical Periods. "
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"REED is an international scholarly project that is establishing for the first time the broad context from which the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew. REED examines the historical MSS that provide external evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres. Although the project is based at Victoria University in the University of Toronto (an institution renowned for its scholarship in medieval and early modern culture), REED's internal governance is provided by an Executive Board of senior scholars in early drama and related fields. Its advisors and collections editors are drawn from Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. " ...
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Renaissance Flute Iconography. Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The history of the Swiss Museum of the Organ is the result of in the double safekeeping of important goods of the musical and architectural patrimony of the nation: a wonderful collection of antique organs showed in a barn post which is nine centuries old. As soon as you enter the museum, you will run your eyes over the hydraulic organ (about 246 before J.-C.), passing by instruments such as the Elysée organ, the one of the Emmental, the one in cardboard, the barrel organs, the flute clocks, the open organ, the harmoniums, until the great organ of Radio Lausanne. .."
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Welcome to the recorder Museum. Recorder Museum was created in collaboration with many friends, recorder, players and collectors. It is a museum for old instruments. It is a reference book for many recorders of all generations flute. It is an informative walk through the company and the flute recorder makers. .."
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Dating a Bach manuscript, instrumenting a Bach chorale and discovering the sound of the baroque instruments! The Bach Museum Leipzig offers visitors many opportunities to become active themselves.
On 20 and 21 March 2010, the days to Johann Sebastian Bach's 325th Birthday, the Bach Museum was opened. .."
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"Trace the history of music with a visit to Denmark's most comprehensive collection of instruments from all over the world at the Danish Music Museum, close by the gardens of Rosenborg Castle.
The museum's evocative exhibitions provide a historic journey through the fascinating world of European musical instruments, with a special emphasis on the period from the renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century. See such curiosities as the amoeba-shaped violin and the giraffe-piano. Or visit one of the many permanent thematic exhibitions focusing on for example the raucous guitars of the mid-60's Danish rock bands, or the ingenious creations of Danish instrument-makers.
The museum has a constantly varying series of special exhibitions. Throughout 2006 the special exhibition is dedicated to The Danish Piano – from piano to forte. .." Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Home to the famous Jean de Boizard organ (1714) the Saint-Michel abbey has welcomed for the last several years, the most sought after artists of ancient music. The music coproduced by radio France MUSIQUE with the choreographic collection called TEMPERAMENTS, confirms the baroque destiny of the abbey in harmony with the site. The ancient and baroque music festival The festival has its roots in the restoration of the prestigious historical organ (1714) of the abbey church and the artistic activity that followed as a result since1984. The festival was started in 1987 with the important decision by Radio France and the Conseil General of the Aisne departement : Every Whit Monday the train of FRANCE MUSIQUE radio would, for a whole day of music, take several hundred Parisian music lovers to attend two concerts transmitted live on radio. " See website for more information. (ed.)
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"The International Music Council (IMC), founded in 1949 by UNESCO, is the world's largest network of organizations, institutions and individuals working in the field of music. The International Music Council promotes musical diversity, access to culture for all and unites organizations in some 150 countries worldwide in building peace and understanding among peoples of all cultures and heritage. …"
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"Pianosromantiques is dedicated to French grand pianos built before 1850, particularly those of the great firms Boisselot, Erard, Pape and Pleyel. The idea is to create a photo database of the instruments disseminated in different private or public collections around the world, with a brief history of their makers. I hope this virtual museum will contribute to the appreciation of these rather neglected instruments (compared for example to the Viennese pianos), that a lot of pianists have never had a chance to play because of the scarcity of well-restored examples. The admiration that composers such as Liszt (Erard and Boisselot), Mendelssohn (Erard) or Chopin (Pleyel) expressed towards their French pianos should be motivation enough to rediscover these instruments, whose touch and sound shed fascinating light on the romantic music composed on and for them. .."
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Iconography of the early flute. Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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CIMCIM is the acronym for Comité International des Museés et Collections d'Instruments de Musique (International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections) CIMCIM is one of 25 international committees of ICOM, the International Council of Museums, and was established in 1960. CIMCIM aims to promote high professional standards in the use and conservation of musical instruments in museums and collections. CIMCIM meets every three years during the ICOM General Conferences and in each of the other two years organizes a special meeting, usually including symposium papers and museum visits. Meetings are held in different countries of the world: recent venues have included Austria/Slovakia/Hungary, Norway, U.K., Belgium, Canada, Japan, U.S.A., Netherlands, Germany and Argentina. ...
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"The Museo dell'Arpa Victor Salvi, located at Piasco, at the entrance to the Varaita Valley, the area that used to be the old marquisate of Saluzzo, in the district of Cuneo, was inaugurated on 3 December 2005 and is managed by the Associazione Museo dell' Arpa Victor Salvi.
It is the very first museum entirely dedicated to the harp, its history and music, in a multi-functional building with exhibition area, auditorium and historical archives now being prepared.
The Museum, promoted by the Comunità Montana Valle Variata, the Fondazione Victor Salvi and the company Salvi N.S.M. s.p.a. has been financed by the European Union F.E.S.R., the Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze, the Regione Piemonte Direzione Industria-Turismo–Economia Montana, by G.A.L. (Tradizione delle Terre Occitane I.C. Leader AZ. 3.1) and N.S.M. s.p.a.
Work started in July 2004, the Musuem was inaugurated on 3 December 2005 and was opened to the public on 28 January 2006. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Stockholm Music Museum has been in existence for more than 100 years. During this time over 11,500 objects have been acquired. The musical instrument collection makes up the larger part of the collection, but there are also many works of art.
Please note that only a small fraction of the collections are on view at the museum. Persons with a special interest in particular instruments, experts and researchers are welcome to visit the museum's storage, by special appointment, where the entire collection can be viewed.
We are planning a new instrument exhibition in which a much larger number of our instruments will appear. We hope it will open in the not too distant future! " .. .
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The mission of Svenskt visarkiv is to collect, preserve and publish material concerning instrumental folk music, folk songs and traditional music in general, from the end of the 16th century up to the present. The archive is also responsible for material on the history of jazz in Sweden, and since 2005, we have the added responsibility for music of ethnic minorities in Sweden.
At Svenskt visarkiv we are proud to work in close cooperation with different kinds of music customers, both active musicians, researchers and the general public. The archive has, during its 60 years, gradually expanded its responsibilities. Beginning with a focus on song texts and ballads, and later instrumental folk music and eventually Swedish jazz, we now include multicultural musical expressions found in Sweden. Today the collections are quite extensive - recordings, manuscripts, sheet music, interviews and photographs. And they are growing day by day.
Music is an important part of our history and a key to knowledge about people's lives. This is a knowledge everyone should have access to. Ensuring this access is an essential task for Svenskt visarkiv.
Svenskt visarkiv is part of Statens musikverk – Music Development and Heritage Sweden"
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"Welcome to the Bate Collection, one of the most magnificent collections of musical instruments in the world. The Bate has over 2000 instruments from the Western orchestral music traditions from the renaissance, through the baroque, classical, romantic and up to modern times. More than a thousand instruments are on display, by all the most important makers and from pre-eminent collectors. .."
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"This site is devoted to tracing and cataloguing all surviving clavichords made in the various countries of Latin America before about 1920, with photos and descriptive details. Clavichords were introduced into Central and South America, along with other European musical instruments, by the conquistadores, and they continued to be made there right through until the late nineteenth century if not later. Some of them are of particular interest because they preserve elements of the style of construction of the original sixteenth- and seventeenth-century models. So far 19 instruments have been traced; it seems highly likely that there are more to be discovered, and I hope the web-site will encourage researchers in the region and elsewhere to report their findings. The web catalogue will be continuously updated to incorporate new information. (Peter Bavington) " ... Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Hatchlands, a property of the National Trust, stands in a handsome, wooded park, landscaped by Humphrey Repton, and is just 23 miles from London. Splendid rooms designed c. 1758 by Robert Adam are furnished with the Cobbe Collection of Old Master paintings and composer instruments.
Alec Cobbe formed the collection of some 50 historic keyboard instruments during the last forty years, his purpose being to assemble instruments by makers who were highly regarded or patronised by composers. Eighteen of the instruments were actually owned or played by some of the greatest creators of classical music, such as Henry Purcell, Johann Christian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Fryderik Chopin, Franz Liszt, Georges Bizet, Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar - the largest group of such composer-related instruments to be seen in one place anywhere in the world.
The instruments are maintained in playing condition and are used for concerts. In 1997 they were given to the Cobbe Collection Trust, a charity which aims to enable musicians and audiences to hear music sounding as nearly as possible to what the composers themselves would have heard."
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"Copac is a freely available library catalogue, giving access to the merged online catalogues of many major UK and Irish academic and National libraries, as well as increasing numbers of specialist libraries.
Copac has c.36 million records, representing the merged holdings of:
- members of the Research Libraries UK (RLUK). This includes the catalogues of the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru.
- increasing numbers of specialist libraries with collections of national research interest, as well as records for specialist collections held in UK academic libraries.
A full list of the contributing libraries, with links to each library web site, is available on our libraries page. We are continuing to add new catalogues and the list of those waiting to be added is available on our forthcoming libraries page."
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The collections were principally established for musical instrument research and academic instruction, but hands-on research for publication, making technical drawings, building replica instruments, demonstrations, recording etc. are actively encouraged and facilitated by MIMEd staff. The Museums have a strategic aim to foster organological teaching and research through full participation in the University's academic activity. As formulated in MIMEd's Mission Statement, 'the purpose of the Collection is to promote the study of the history, construction and functions of instruments of music and all cognate matters, the furtherance of research and the propagation of knowledge of instrumental history. The Collection will maintain a substantial permanent collection in relation to these objectives'.
The emphasis of the Collection is on instruments that are no longer in regular current use and the collecting policy is to acquire instruments when they fall out of use rather than to collect instruments by contemporary makers. The Collection thus covers the period from the 16th century (the earliest period from which examples are available for acquisition) to the 20th century (the most recent date from which instruments can be regarded as historical).
Many of the instruments are still playable and through an established concert programme and as a regular venue during the Edinburgh International Festival, the Concert Room provides a contemporaneous setting for performances, within which the audience can be seen as the interface between the University and the public. For instance, St Cecilia's Hall is the only place in the world where it is possible to hear 18th-century music in an 18th-century concert hall played on 18th-century instruments."
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"About Explore the British Library
Explore the British Library allows you to search both the British Library's website and the Library's collections. You can also order many collection items. Explore the British Library makes it easy for you to find what you are looking for.
Explore the British Library searches over 56 million items:
- Circa 13 million records for the Library's holdings of books, journals, newspapers, conferences, maps, scores etc. (i.e. the same collection that you can search using the Library's Integrated Catalogue)
- 37 million journal article records, from our electronic table of contents system
- Thousands of records for British Library web pages
- 5 million records of Library's Sound Archive items
- Web Archive links (freely available on the web)
- Thousands of electronic journal and book records and hundreds of database records (most subscribed*; some freely available on the web)
- More than 450 Research datasets records (freely available on the web)
- BNB records, for items held in the British Library collection.
* Owing to licensing reasons, subscribed electronic items are only available from British Library workstations within the Library's Reading Rooms and Business & IP Centre."
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"Handsome 17th-century merchant's house with walled garden
- 'London's most enchanting country house' (Country Life)
- Exquisite 17th-century estate in the heart of Hampstead village
- Delightful walled garden with 300-year-old apple orchard
- Fine collection of European, Oriental and English porcelain
- Important collection of early keyboard instruments
- Rare examples of William and Mary needlework pictures
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"Finchcocks is a fine Georgian manor set in a beautiful garden, surrounded by parkland. It now houses a celebrated collection of over 100 historical keyboard instruments, of which more than forty are in full working order. It makes a wonderful day out for all the family. .."
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"The Handel House Museum at 25 Brook Street was home to the great baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759. The only composer museum in London, this landmark address is where Handel composed some of the greatest music in history, including Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks.
The Museum celebrates Handel's life and works, displaying portraits of Handel and his contemporaries in finely restored Georgian interiors and bringing live music back to his house. There are frequent music rehearsals, weekly concerts and special musical events in addition to regular displays and exhibitions that bring Handel's world to life."
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As college students return to class from winter break this week, campuses around the nation are bracing for the possibility of a flu outbreak.
Colleges in Boston are especially worried after the mayor's declaration last week of a public health emergency in the city. The city's student population is large — around 150,000. And though 20-year-olds might not seem like as vulnerable as the elderly or babies, dorm life doesn't make it easy to avoid a highly transmissible disease.
College health officials say it can be a perfect storm for a flu outbreak, when you also consider that young people are among the least likely to worry about getting the flu, or getting the vaccine.
Dr. Tom Nary of Boston College says colleges learned a lot from the H1N1 outbreak a few years ago about what to do — things like moving sick students out of dorms and urging everyone to get the vaccine. This year, officials implored students not to leave home at the end of winter break without it.
For more on how institutions of higher learning and students in Boston are trying to keep the flu at bay, listen to the audio from today's All Things Considered.
As college students return to class from winter break, campuses around the country are bracing for outbreaks of the flu. It's already been a bad flu season, as we've been reporting. And now, there is special concern in Boston, where the mayor has already declared a health emergency and the student population is large.
NPR's Tovia Smith has that story.
TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: Healthy 20-year-olds are hardly the type you'd consider most vulnerable to the flu in normal circumstances.
SMITH: But living 40 to a bathroom, for example, is not quite normal circumstances.
DEREK HOUSEKNECH: Like, when you are in a dorm, it's just kind of...
HOUSEKNECH: It's pretty gross to think about.
LINDSEY CELLER: I actually think it's a germ-fest - disgusting.
SMITH: Students like Boston College freshman Lindsey Cellar, senior Derek Houseknech, and senior Mike Judd, say things can get even worse, after-hours.
MIKE JUDD: Yeah. Oh, yeah. People are grimy. I mean like, if you're at a party, like playing beer pong and stuff, people are going to be sharing cups. Plus, people are making out and passing germs left and right, all over the place.
SMITH: It all becomes a perfect storm for a flu outbreak when you also consider that young people are among the least likely to worry about getting the flu or getting the flu shot.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: I didn't get it.
SMITH: Better things to do?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Yeah, not a priority.
SMITH: Well, I just have never got the flu before, so why am I going to get it this year? You know? I mean what's the worst? You get the flu and it goes away in like two days, right?
DR. TOM NARY: There's a "what, me worry?"
SMITH: BC's director of health services, Dr. Tom Nary, says colleges learned a lot from the H1N1 pandemic a few years ago about what they need to do. For example, moving sick students out of dorms and urging everyone to get the vaccine. BC emailed students over the break, imploring them not to leave home without it. Shots are also free on campus now, but so far...
NARY: It just hasn't been as busy or overwhelming as we might have expected.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: OK. All right, so how about the left arm?
KARINA DORENTES: Perfect.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Just relax.
SMITH: Senior Karina Dorentes says her mom made her promise to get a shot after they couldn't find one at home in Maryland.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Ready 1, 2, 3, a little pinch. All set.
SMITH: Dorentes says she learned her lesson last semester.
DORENTES: I was actually really sick. I got the fever and I was living off of Advil, studying up until like three or four or five in the morning. It was just terrible and that's why I was - I really need to get this.
SMITH: Boston College is also wiping down doorknobs and banisters. Posters remind students to cough into their sleeves with all-too-vivid photos of what bursts out with a cough. No one aspires to totally prevent the flu. Rather, as the chief of medicine Howard Heller, across town at MIT, puts it, it's all about minimizing the severity.
HOWARD HELLER: We set our goals realistically. So, you know, if we go through a flu season and nobody has been hospitalized, that's great.
SMITH: MIT gave out a record 9,000 flu shots before winter break, through a kind of MASH unit set up in the student center.
HELLER: It is a military-style operation that was a dozen or more nurses and doctors just nonstop for hours giving thousands in two days.
SMITH: On campuses, it may turn out that this year's early onset of the flu helps more than it hurts. Colleges have had weeks to prepare while students were away and may have missed the worst of it.
Craig Roberts is an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and with the American College Health Association.
CRAIG ROBERTS: Certainly on college campuses we're preparing for another wave, in the sense that people are returning to their schools infectious. But it's also possible that all these students got sick over break and they're better now.
SMITH: Back at BC, a student using a public computer in the library coughs, not into her sleeve.
BC seniors Mike Judd and Mike McCarter say students are not always the most responsible. And when feeling under the weather, they may be reluctant to skip a class or a party.
JUDD: People are so afraid to miss a Friday night that they don't realize that they might be passing it along to 30 other people at the same party.
MIKE MCCARTER: We have to take advantage of all our weekends. You know?
SMITH: Thank you for sharing. I'm not shaking your hands.
MCCARTER: All right, you're welcome.
JUDD: Yeah.
SMITH: I'm not shaking your hands.
SMITH: Tovia Smith, NPR News, Boston.
MCCARTER: I just sneezed anyway.
This is NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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This flower or posey holder known as a Tussie (knot of flowers) Mussie (moist moss), was a nosegay for formal wear. It might have replaced a fan, especially in the winter season, as a dressy accessory to be carried. The chain, attached to the holder at one end and fitted with a finger ring at the other end, made the ornament more secure when whirling in the waltz. The "vase" was stuffed with damp moss which kept the flowers fresh, and a silver pin fit across the flaring, filigree leaf and held the flowers in place.
This form was a decorative successor to the pomander ball - a 17th century confection of spices, herbs, and fruit rinds, in a perforated, silver vessel sometimes worn on the chatelaine and which supposedly protected the wearer from air borne diseases and offensive odors.
At the end of the 19th century, Tussie Mussies were manufactured in quantity in England and Europe and probably in America although few are marked. The wirework in intricate and the designs individualistic.


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Zynga's countersuit claims that EA saw Zynga's recent hires of three executive-level staff as a threat to the company's copyright privileges. Still, Zynga alleges it was within its rights to make those hires: "EA knows that none of the former EA executives it names in its lawsuit—John Schappert, Jeff Karp, and Barry Cottle—transmitted any EA confidential information to Zynga because EA itself was involved in, and approved of, the exhaustive measures undertaken to ensure that did not happen." Both Schappert and Karp left Zynga in something of an executive exodus that has occurred in recent weeks.
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Simply mentioning Valentine's Day can trigger mental groans in a large section of the population -- most often, from men and singles.
Whomever you want to blame for being miserable today, the real culprit is likely long gone. That's because Valentine's Day is a mix of beliefs and traditions dating back to the second century that really exploded when greeting card companies jumped in during the late 1800s.
Whatever the history of the holiday, Valentine's Day has come to be a day of mushy cards, expensive flowers and candlelit meals for adults and the exchange of colorful cards and sweet candy for school children.
Those who are not paired up may feel left out and bitter about the traditions, which have grown and become more expensive over the years. As you grin and bear your way through Valentine's Day, rest assured you're not alone.
Plenty of others share these five Valentine's Day pet peeves.
No. 5: Office flower deliveries
It's just like any other workday -- except for the constant deliveries of flowers through the rows of desks and cubicles at work. If they're not roses, then they are balloons so large you'd think you're watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from your perch in front of your keyboard.
In a small office? Maybe you're the only one who doesn't receive flowers. Maybe you don't have anyone's name to write on a card. Either way, the whole "Valentine's flowers at work" thing reeks of elementary school and leaving people out.
Many would vote that couples should celebrate this fabulous holiday in the comfort of their own homes, not as allergy-carrying displays in the workplace.
There are few other times that roses are as expensive as they are at Valentine's Day. If you are sending flowers, you may want to be a little more creative.
No. 4: Facebook wall posts
Couples love to pepper each other's Facebook walls with messages of undying love and names such as "Baby," My Love," and "Honey."
Single? Newly single? Simply annoyed? Couples' short exchanges appearing on your Feed will be enough to make you say, "Ugh" -- and not just in your head, but out loud.
People should save those well thought out thoughts for private messages, words inside a card, a text message, a phone call or even smoke signals -- but they don't need to be right out there on the Wall.
You know what they say, the people you try so hard to convince the world of their love for each other, probably have a rocky relationship anyway.
No. 3: Proving love with jewelry
The number of jewelry commercials seems to quadruple around Valentine's Day. Whether you're in a committed relationship or single, the jingles and slogans of national and local jewelry stores ring through your head like an earworm you just can't shake.
This might be annoying for the single folks but it can be down right terrifying for those in a relationship.
A pair of earrings gets put in a very similar sized box to an engagement ring and if a couple isn't ready for that kind of step, the site of the box and the assumption of what's inside can generate a short-lived panic attack.
Jewelry is also used as a determining factor for how serious the relationship has become. If both people are not on the same page, jewelry -- no matter what it is -- will send a message.
No. 2: Throwing money around
It's fun to dress up and enjoy a night out on the town, but that doesn't mean you have to break the bank. Expensive restaurants will always have class and status but sometimes Valentine's Day "specials" have nothing special about the price.
If you are enjoying a night out, do your research and find a good deal with a good atmosphere. There's no reason to get ripped off just because it's a recognized day of celebration.
A better option? Eat in. Get delivery, get carry out or channel your inner Bobby Flay. Dinner at home can be much more romantic anyway.
If you don't have a significant other with which to celebrate, hang out with friends, throw your own party and enjoy a bottle of wine together. Just avoid restaurants where couples will be making eyes at each other. Nobody needs to be surrounded by that, even on Valentine's Day.
No. 1: Falling for the commercialization
Around Valentine's Day there are two groups that stand to make a lot of money -- greeting card companies and chocolate companies.
It's a beautiful relationship between these companies and last-minute panic shoppers.
It's true that cards can be expensive. You might even think they're a waste of time to pick out and write in them -- but to the person who receives it, it means a lot.
Take the commercialization out of Valentine's Day and flash back to elementary school when you made your own Valentine's Day cards out of pink and red construction paper and a paper doily. It really doesn't matter what it says -- it really is the thought that counts.
Single? Give in. Find your favorite candy and treat yourself. Just be happy you're not dealing with the games that Valentine's Day can bring forth.


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Glucose screening checks for gestational diabetes, a short-term form of diabetes that develops in some women during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes can cause health problems for the baby, especially if it is not diagnosed or treated.
Most women have this test, and if they have gestational diabetes, are treated to reduce the risk to the baby.
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This test involves drinking a sugary liquid and then having your blood drawn after an hour. If the sugar level in the blood is high, you'll have a glucose-tolerance test, which means you'll drink a glucose solution on an empty stomach and have your blood drawn once every hour for 3 hours.
The results are usually available within 1 to 2 days. Ask if your health care provider will call you with the results if they are normal or only if the reading is high and you need to come in for another test.
A nonstress test (NST) can determine if the baby is responding normally to a stimulus. It is used mostly in high-risk pregnancies or when a health care provider is uncertain of a baby's movements, and usually can be performed after 26 weeks. This is when a baby's heart rate can appropriately respond by speeding up or slowing down.
This test may also be done if you've gone beyond your due date. The NST can help a doctor make sure that the baby is receiving enough oxygen and is responding to stimulation. However, an unresponsive baby isn't necessarily in danger, though further testing might be needed.
Sometimes, a biophysical profile (BPP) is done, which includes an ultrasound and an NST. A BPP examines a baby's breathing, movement, amount of amniotic fluid, and tone, in addition to the heart rate response.
Your health care provider may recommend this if you have a high-risk pregnancy, if there are concerns during your pregnancy, or if you have a low-risk pregnancy but are past your due date.
An NST may be recommended any time after 26 to 28 weeks, depending on why it is needed.
The health care provider will measure the response of the fetus' heart rate to each movement the fetus makes as reported by the mother or observed by the doctor on an ultrasound screen. If the fetus doesn't move during the test, he or she may be asleep and the health care provider may use a buzzer to wake the baby. You also may be asked to drink or eat to try to stimulate the baby more.
Ultrasounds were once used only in high-risk pregnancies but have become so common that they're often part of routine prenatal care.
During an ultrasound, sound waves are bounced off the baby's bones and tissues to construct an image showing the baby's shape and position in the uterus. Also called a sonogram, sonograph, echogram, or ultrasonogram, ultrasounds are used to:
This test is considered safe, but it's up to you to decide whether you want to undergo it. Talk to your health care provider to find out why this test is recommended for you.
Ask your doctor when you will need to have an ultrasound. Women with high-risk pregnancies may need to have multiple ultrasounds throughout their third trimester to make sure a baby is developing normally.
Sometimes, when a doctor is uncertain of a baby's movements, a biophysical profile (BPP) is done, which can include an ultrasound and a nonstress test (NST). A BPP examines a baby's breathing, movement, amount of amniotic fluid, and tone, in addition to the heart rate response.
Although the technician can see the images immediately, a full evaluation by a doctor may take up to 1 week if one is not on site during the exam.
Depending on where you have the ultrasound done, the technician may be able to tell you that day whether everything looks OK. However, most radiology centers or health care providers prefer that technicians not comment until a specialist has taken a look — even when everything is OK.
This test stimulates the uterus with pitocin, a synthetic form of oxytocin (a hormone secreted during childbirth), to determine the effect of contractions on fetal heart rate. It may be recommended when a nonstress test or biophysical profile indicates a problem and can determine whether the baby's heart rate remains stable during contractions.
This test may be ordered if the nonstress test or biophysical profile indicates a problem. However, it can induce labor.
Your doctor may schedule it if he or she is concerned about how the baby will respond to contractions or feels that it is the appropriate test to determine the fetal heart rate response to a stimulus.
Mild contractions are brought on either by injections of pitocin or by squeezing the mother's nipples (which causes oxytocin to be secreted). The fetus' heart rate is then monitored.


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Debt – for someone it is a heavy burden, but for someone a way to earn.
What category of money as debt?
What categories of money as debt are there?
Debt can be of several categories:
The most common category of debt is when you owe.
Far fewer such subjects to whom they should.
And units of such subjects who earn on debt.
money as debt can also be of several categories.
What to do with money as debt?
If the subject is a debtor:
money as debt need to give. Make a schedule and monthly give a comfortable amount. Do it every month and soon there will be nothing left of the debt.
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You need to get your money back and never lend it again.
money as debt and profit.
Also, using debt, you can earn money. Here are some examples:
⬤ right to debt can be bought with a huge discount and then claim it,
⬤ a debt you can buy an asset that will bring more income than the payment on debt,
⬤ debt can be taken at a small percentage and give it at a higher percentage,
⬤ other options.
money as debt must move from one category to another category.


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