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Coalition: 55 militants killed in Afghan battle
U.S.-led forces rained fire for two days on militants near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, officials said Monday, killing about 55 insurgents and underscoring how fighting with Taliban insurgents is escalating.
The battle in eastern Paktika province was the second in the past week to reportedly inflict major casualties on militants, whom Afghan officials insist are swarming in from strongholds in Pakistan.
Pakistan's government on Monday reiterated an offer to fence the craggy, 1,500-mile frontier – a project begun but abandoned last year amid criticism that it would only enrage the tribes who straddle the frontier and among whom the Taliban find many recruits.
The battle in Paktika began Friday morning, when militants armed with rockets and guns ambushed troops from the U.S.-led coalition patrolling a road in Ziruk district, the coalition said. The troops returned fire and called in airstrikes.
Fighting continued until Sunday morning, and the majority of the deaths were from the airstrikes, coalition spokesman Capt. Christian Patterson said. About 55 militants died, 25 others were wounded and three were detained, he said.
Patterson said no coalition troops died, but he declined to say if any were wounded.
It was not possible to get independent confirmation of the death toll, but Nabi Mullakhail, the provincial police chief, said militants had suffered "huge" casualties in the remote, mountainous district. Afghan forces were not involved, he said.


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Hatch: Boosting future retail ideas18 March 2019
We kick off 2019 with a new campaign to find the next generation of retail talent and help breathe new life into malls in the UK and Ireland.
Project HATCH is backed by some of the biggest names in retail property, including Landsec, Hammerson, Westfield, M&G Real Estate, Harcourt and Ellandi. Together, with the British Independent Retailers Association (bira), they will run a Dragons' Den style competition offering free space and expert marketing advice in their retail places to up-and-coming retail businesses.
There are no restrictions on what type of businesses can enter. Anyone from online-only outlets looking to experiment with a physical presence to food stalls wanting a bigger premise, can apply.
Current locations include Westfield Stratford City in London, St David's Dewi Sant in Cardiff, Silverburn in Glasgow, The Galleries in Tyne & Wear, Parkway Shopping Centre in Limerick, Republic of Ireland and Bloomfields in County Down, Northern Ireland. So what are you waiting for? Apply today!

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Utah travel: Enjoy natural high with a rock legend
ZION National Park is a magnet for tourists in awe of its towering beauty. ANDY STENNING joins the canyon challenge while in Utah
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
I'm approaching the summit of Angels Landing in the heart of Zion National Park, Utah, and the hike has steepened dramatically. Thankfully a meaty iron chain is there to stop me hurtling 1,500 feet to the ground. "Is it safe?" I asked, feeling like Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man. "Sure thing," said my guide Nate. "People have died here though..." It was at Scout Lookout, however, exhausted and surrounded by about 500 other eager hikers of all shapes and sizes that I bottled it. I couldn't go on.
It can't deter many though. Zion National Park is so popular, partly due to its proximity to LasVegas (160 miles away), that the authorities have had to ban traffic in certain areas and are considering a lottery system to keep walker numbers down to a safe level.
Over millions of years, the ground was pushed up and fast-moving rivers cut down into the layers of sandstone. The first human habitation, around 9,000 years ago, was by the Southern Paiute tribe. Originally they called it Mukuntuweap, meaning straight canyon or straight arrow.
Mormon settlers escaping persecution came in the 1850s and named it Zion as they felt the towering walls of the canyons had religious majesty.
Back on level ground, I check into the very comfortable Cable Mountain Lodge in Springdale, which is dominated by the ominousWatchman Buttes (canyon speak: a "butte" is a rock formation higher than the width of its base and a "mesa" is wider than it is tall).
I took time out to visit the abandoned Mormon village of Grafton, where some scenes from Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid were filmed. The original mud brick church and wooden buildings are still standing, as are the wonky headstones in the small graveyard.They reveal a few sad stories of the early white settlers' struggles.
Paradise is lovely but was gruesomely unforgiving back then.
These days you can get up close to nature by glamping at Under Canvas Zion just outside the confines of the park, down the road following the course of the expanding Virgin River.
Tents face the magnificent Kinesava butte. I watched Kinesava change from yellow, to orange, to red as it gorged on the light from the setting sun.
All tents have a balcony for stargazing on clear nights, as well as their own woodburning stoves.
I spent the evening in the main tent, supping local craft beer and chatting to Rick, who runs canyoning company Zion Adventure Company.
He said: "When I first came to Zion I just got lost and knew I had to make a living here. It's a playground beyond belief."
He's been in business for 20 years and is the sort of guy you'd trust your life with at the other end of a rope.
Our next stop, two hours away by car, was Bryce Canyon National Park.
Standing on the edge of the canyon is like standing on the edge of a giant natural amphitheatre, with hundreds of bright red, yellow, orange and white columns of rock called "hoodoos" fanning out before me. They stand like giant chess pieces or crinkly chips.
The sunrise here puts on a spectacular colour show and I can understand why native Americans thought the place was sacred.
They believed the hoodoos contained the spirits of people who were kept there for doing "bad things".
The rock is softer than Zion but still has the same traces of iron that give the beautiful red and yellow hues.
There are slot canyons to see too.These are formed when a fast-moving river has cut a deep path through the rock, twisting and twirling, with the erosion forming beautiful shapes. One evening we trekked down a series of them in Willis Creek.
The Grand Canyon may be spectacular but in my opinion Bryce and Zion are more beautiful and well worth a visit for their splendid variety of natural beauty.
Audley Travel (0199 383 8755/audleytravel.com/USA) offers 10 nights in both Zion and Bryce National Parks, from £3,895 (based on four sharing). Price includes a two-night stopover in Scottsdale, Arizona. Return flights from Heathrow to St George, car hire, three nights at Cable Mountain Lodge, a full day exploring Zion National Park with a private guide and a private 4x4 safari, two nights at Under Canvas Zion, two nights at Bryce Canyon Grand Hotel and a full day exploring Bryce Canyon National Park with a private guide. Utah tourism: visitutah.com


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CW: pop-culture reference/spoilers, queer antagonism, strong language, the prison industrial complex, borders & deportation
In the midst of PRIDE season, it is imperative to remind each other that this movement began as a riot against the police brutality that targeted black and brown bodies. Specifically, poor and low-income queer and trans people of colour. The political climate in 2019 has drastically impacted the autonomy of queer and trans people through legislation and attacks from our current administration. Mainstream media outlets continue to project queerness (or perceived queerness) in ways that do not center the experiences of poor and low-income communities of color. Queer perceived, and Gender defiant art is highlighted by artists and editors who do not specifically identify within these margins.
This essay focuses on my personal experience, multimedia observations, commercialism, a critique of the prison industrial complex, and thus continuing the discourse I engage within my communities. Hopefully, this allows you to formulate conversation amongst your own community as well. The iconic reggaeton artist Bad Bunny, for example, is praised for their gender-bending, queer expression – and yet their career is not altered by the queer discrimination that other gender & sexual expansive identified artists experience. Abled-skinny bodies, White bodies, light-skin bodies, bodies with cultural & economic capital – regardless of their ethnic origins – receive applause for performing like the other, the freaks; like a queer.
Don't get me wrong, you'll catch me shaking my ass to Conejo Malo's (Spanish translation of Bad Bunny) Caro, rain or damn shine. However, it's these specific bodies that are categorized as innovative, unique, and quite frankly digestible to the mainstream masses.
These personalities may pave stepping stones into skewed acceptance for LGBTQIA+ people, however, it's these straight & cisgender (cis for short) artists that accumulate capital and resources. While us, who visibly navigate queerness, and practice transfeminism, are siloed from accumulating wealth from our own culture. Because we encompass gender defiant ideologies and reject the mainstream, we miss out on the queer capitalist extravaganza that everyone else benefits from. Black and brown bodies experience antagonism on a daily bases simply for existing. And when queer bodies express themselves, we often do it till our last, young, and heavenly breath. Our spaces and livelihoods become accessorized by our cis and/or heterosexual (hetero) peers.
This past year I lived with a queer white woman, who was in a monogamous relationship with a straight man – and she constantly felt her queerness attacked because their relationship was stapled as a 'straight relationship.' Constantly listening to her expressions of discomfort at the idea of being in a 'straight perceived relationship' because it ripped her of her queerness agitated me. Although this person's feelings are inherently valid, I had never felt so repulsed in my life. To think that one can feel oppressed, discriminated even, for experiencing a veil of safety, for being socialized as straight-perceived, spiked my hesitancy to confide in them. I sat there in awe, anxiously waiting for a response that would validate me. Without a surprise, there was no validation – and what I really needed to hear at that moment was an understanding of how safe 'looking straight' makes her world, and even further, how safe that makes the worlds of her family. I needed her to say, "I see that you are much more visible than I am, and I am privileged to not experience discrimination the same way as you do. My family is privileged as well because they don't need to worry about my queerness; for it is socially invisible."
When I was in community college, there were several experiences where my visibility was an invitation for attacks.
My partner at the time and I were called faggots, disgusting, and physically assaulted for kissing at a park in North Hollywood. An older man broke my phone on my way to school right before a final as he screamed at me to stop looking less like a woman, that this generation got away with looking so obviously queer. Finally, a situation where an artisan grabbed my rainbow debit card, threw it across the counter, and says, "Your card doesn't work here. I don't like the colors." These experiences flushed throughout the caverns of my mind as I sat with my feelings, while a woman who I was supposed to share a room with for the next nine months, minimized the powers that her privileges held. To top my anxiety off, she shared with me, from the moment I met her, that she was raised in the topmost 14th most affluent neighbourhood in the United States. The U.S. and its beneficiaries (including me, being born a citizen) has always made itself to be the heroes of our world; however, this country has historically pushed QTPOC communities further into the margins of oppression.
The U.S. is an influencing force of the hetero and cis regime that is killing QTPOC. In Eithne Luibheid's article, " 'Looking like a Lesbian': The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States–Mexican Border," Luibheid dissects the violence that Queer Lesbians experience at the U.S. border, and typically, Queer perceived bodies were often held for hours in secondary inspection, and or, deported back to Mexico. These discrimination practices weren't removed until the 1990s. QTPOC antagonism is so ingrained in U.S. history and by extension worldwide, our bodies literally become a checkpoint of inspection; are we normal enough to navigate in the world without the drama? The U.S. border operates not only as an apparatus of xenophobia but historically an essentialist force of queer indexicality. The use of visual appearance as a tool for discrimination against queer and trans people is institutional, and the policing of QTPOC identity ultimately disseminates into the collective consciousness.
Visibility becomes a double-edged sword; one side in which our global communities find comfort in seeing their reflections navigate the world, and the other side in which we become visible targets of torment and criminalization.
We can see the ideology of policing and criminalizing of queer and trans bodies reflect into our contemporary spaces and in contemporary spheres of Media. We can see examples of this extreme inhumane conditions that transgender and gender-expansive bodies experience, like in Orange is the New Black (OITNB), a show that capitalizes off of women imprisonment; and the new series on STARZ, Vida, a series that highlights queer life and the anti-gentrification movement in Boyle Heights, CA. In OITNB, Black transgender activist Laverne Cox plays a character named Sophia, who faces a continuous onslaught of assaults by women who refuse to validate her womanhood. In the series, the prison administration decides to place her in solitary confinement to 'protect' her from being attacked. During her time in solitary, her mental health is pushed to the brink as she begins to slowly lose herself due to the extreme isolation. In the new series Vida, the character Eddy, is assaulted in a bar's restroom by a man after being insulted by him, for defending her friend who was being harassed. This man breaks a glass alcoholic bottle on Eddy's head, thus, hospitalizing her. Eddy's assault is so severe, she is left in critical condition and is left completely unable to take care of herself for weeks.
When LGBTQIA+ people appear straight, appear cis, that is when our bodies may be invited to be a part of mainstream spaces, who don't need to apply new ways of humanizing queer bodies.
Cis- and straight-passing queer couples are also a part of that invitation into the mainstream. The world sees hetero-relationships as digestible – or heterogestible. This means that queer people will always be left to cater to thoughts, "Will I be attacked today with my partner for not being heterogestible?" "Will I be isolated from groups so that my partner may deflect the uncomforting stares of the world for being with a visibly queer person like me?" There are several factors of one's identity that makes a body heterogestible. Being in a queer-identified relationship that is perceived as straight, being queer and educated, being queer and white, being queer and growing up with middle and high-income families, being queer and skinny – all these factors and more that I have yet to name allows queerness to become heterogestible.
Please try and not to misunderstand me, be with whomever you choose to be; however, acknowledging our privileges over others is imperative for communities that are not queer and trans, and communities of color, to understand the severity of this calamity that is a heterosexual regime. It is only when we can accumulate capital for others, and provide value to the world, that we can be seen and accepted as human beings. The media continues to use queerness for mainstream consumerism under the guise of 'inclusivity.' This current culture of queer capitalism is not what our communities need. We do not need video campaigns like GAP's "Trans, Cis, Genderqueer, Straight, Undecided, – Love belongs to us All," or Polo by Ralph Laurens, "Embrace the pain because you will always overcome it, Keep Dancing."
Compromising our autonomy through commercialism, and allowing institutions to dodge accountability, is what will ultimately ruin what makes our liberatory movement so special.
It is critical for our cultural collective memory, to preserve the queerstory of PRIDE, and its ANTI-Authoritarian standpoint. The cis-het wealth – to queer-trans divide is real, and it is expanding each and every year through Rainbow Capitalism's canon. We need counter-cultural movements that are led by, and for, queer and trans people of color. We need A PRIDE season where we divest from commercial culture and truly combat institutional powers. It is imperative for our movements to experience resistance at a horizontal, and broad level, to attain liberation and imagine an abolitionist future FREE from cops, FREE from corporations, and FREE from imperialism; our cultural collective memory depends on it.
Influencers of this article: Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Riveria, Captive Genders, Cece McDonald, Edxie Betts, Lalobaloca, & Mitzi.
About Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz :
Eve Xelestiál is a brown, trans and queer multimedia artist living in San Diego. Eve Xelestiál spends their time challenging the white, heteronormative, patriarchal society that is imposed on queer and trans people of color. She thrives/enjoys resisting with other TQPoC, cooking plant based food, listening to queer & trans music, singing IN queer, and watching queer cinema. Xelestiál is committed to combatting main stream media through her personal identity, visual art and poetry. Her work has being featured at The Huntington Museum, the Getty Museum, and on Rest For Resistance. Follow Eve on Instagram @iwritelight_.
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A photo image of the Trans Latin@ Coalition (TLC) staging a DIE-IN in front of the NBC Live streaming at the Los Angeles PRIDE March. A street sign at the top left of the image reads, Holloway Dr and Santa Monica BLVD depicting where the demonstration was held. Protesters hold up a large banner that reads, "No Pride for Trans Women in ICE Detention Centers #FREEALEJANDRA #JOHANAMEDINA." Behind the Die-In, there are silver bars with NBC Seven logos, and PRIDE march viewers witnessing the Die-In. Executive Director of TLC Bamby Salcedo who is wearing an orange jumpsuit to represent trans women in ICE detention, is being advised by a NBC representative to stop the Die-In.


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Smokey And The Bandit Review
Ah, Burt Reynolds. As quickly as he made the ascension to global superstar, he faded just as fast. But in his prime the man was box office gold, and 1977 wasn't just about a certain floppy-haired farmboy heading out into the galaxy; it also belonged to Smokey And The Bandit, to the tune of $125,000,000 in takings. Adjust that for inflation, and it's currently 64th on the all-time list of box office champions, ahead of Men In Black, Close Encounters, Fellowship of the Ring etc. Not bad for a film about some good ol' country boys.
The plot is so simple it's barely there, but it does give the film a strong sense of momentum. Legendary truck driver Bo 'Bandit' Darville is challenged to get to Texarcana, TX, pick up 400 cases of Coors beer and get it back to Atlanta, GA inside of 28 hours to claim a prize of $80,000. Aided by his friend Snowman, he picks up a runaway bride along the way, and hot on her tail is her simple minded husband-to-be and his crazed policeman daddy. Cue plenty of of laughs, some decent stunts and a whole lot of cursing as they race to the finish, headed up by that gorgeous Pontiac Firebird Trans Am driven by the Bandit.
Hal Needham's film is still a very enjoyable ride nearly 35 years later, and for one reason above all others: there's genuine chemistry between all the players. Alongside Reynolds was his then-girlfriend Sally Field as Carrie, the wantaway spouse, and his pal, country music star Jerry Reed, filled in as Cletus 'Snowman' Snow (as well as providing the hit songs for the movie, natch). They play it loose and naturalistic with plenty of improvisation, in true '70s style. Many of the laughs come from the Snowman's reactions to the Bandit's exploits and, of course, the caustic mouth of Sheriff Buford T. Justice, played to the hilt by Jackie Gleason. And Mike Henry's dim-witted Junior is a perfect foil to Gleason's gloriously OTT performance.
The movie comes to Blu looking very much like the American HD DVD which was released a few years back. It's presented in 1.85:1 widescreen, VC-1 encoded, and looks very, very respectable indeed. In fact, I can hardly believe that it's come from Universal. Their approach to catalogue titles has generally been to dust off whatever master they have laying around, add a healthy dollop of noise reduction and then sharpen it back up with some edge enhancement. But Smokey appears to have come from a recent scan, looking very stable with no sign of gate weave. There's the occasional scratch or bit of dirt, otherwise it looks very clean.
It's not eye-poppingly sharp, but given the movie's age and production values I wasn't expecting more. The level of detail is quite acceptable and there's a light layer of grain, both of which are unavoidably affected by the opticals sprinkled throughout the film. Colour is generally very strong, looking bold without appearing overly saturated. No modern teal revision either. There are a few night-time shots, and they show off some decent blacks. The only downside is a slight but obvious lick of edge enhancement, resulting in thin white halos around high-contrast edges. Still, it's quite restrained compared to what Universal usually do. The encode itself appears to be free from any major artefacts.
So, it's not 100% perfect, but Smokey is easily one of Universal's most respectful efforts so far.
We get a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 encode of the remixed audio which debuted a few years back on the American SE DVD. I don't have the original mono mix to compare it to, and apparently a great deal of the sound effects have been replaced, but this remix is pretty restrained. There's moderate use of the LFE to bolster that big ol' rig whenever it passes by, and the music gets some support too. The rears get a handful of discrete effects. The music is spread across the front of the soundstage and sounds clear enough, although the songs aren't as punchy as I would've liked. The dialogue can sometimes get lost amongst the vroom of the cars, but it's discernable for the most part (the looped dialogue is always easy to spot because it sounds so clear!).
Nothing whatsoever; the new featurettes found on the SE DVD (and HD DVD) have been junked. One of those features, about CB radio users, was instantly forgettable but the other one concentrated on the making of the film and it really should've been included. We don't get so much as a trailer. Hell, the menus aren't even in English, just a load of cryptic symbols which obviously make encoding one disc for worldwide use that much easier (see the list of language options). But with that in mind, what's doubly annoying is that you still have to select your language from a screen prior to that. Other companies have figured out how to get their 'worldwide' discs to play with whatever language by looking at what the player itself is set to, so why is it such a stretch for Universal?
Smokey And The Bandit is still a cracking little comedy, and the Blu-ray does it proud with an authentic video presentation. The remixed audio may not be to everyone's taste, but the lossless DTS encode makes it sound as good as possible. The lack of the DVD extras is a big disappointment though. I don't doubt that we'll see a US Blu-ray release with the extras intact at some point, so if you're a die-hard fan you may want to hold on. But if you just want the movie, then you can't go wrong with this all-region UK release.


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WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Marvel's Ant-Man and The Wasp, in theaters now.
The ending of Ant-Man and The Wasp seems like it might have been designed to open up a doorway for the X-Men to be integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, namely through the use of the quantum realm and its ability to cause mutations.
The entire future of the MCU is in a state of unrest as we wait to learn whether the Disney purchase of Fox's movie business (including the license to produce X-Men and Fantastic Four movies) will go through, a purchase which will open up the MCU to a whole pile of new characters. However, an interesting problem has always been, how do you work in characters like the X-Men into a world that does not have mutants?
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Not only are there no mutants in the MCU, so far, past films have gone out of their way to make sure that no one could possibly be seen as a mutant, like when we learned that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver gained their powers in Avengers: Age of Ultron through being experimented on with Scepter that Loki used in the first Avengers film (a Scepter that we learned contained the Mind Stone).
Meanwhile, over on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., they used the Inhumans and the Terrigan Mists to serve as fill-ins for the mutant experience, as the Terrigen Mists were unleashed on Earth and upon exposure to the mists, humans with Inhuman ancestry (whether they knew they had Inhuman ancestors or not) were transformed into Inhumans, often mutating them into grotesque beings in the process, like what happened to Melinda May's ex-husband, Andrew Garner.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. began to treat Inhumans just like how mutants were treated in Marvel's comic book stories of the past. They were following a blueprint that Marvel Comics opened up with their Inhumanity event back in 2013, where the same thing that happened on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. happened in the Marvel Comics Universe. New Inhumans (or NuHumans) began to pop up all over the globe, just like mutants. Even some current Marvel characters who believed that they were mutants learned that they were actually Inhumans.
However, if the MCU could use actual mutants, it is likely that they would prefer to use them than Inhumans. The problem, though, is how do you suddenly introduce an influx of mutants into your universe? The answer, it seems, might lie within the Quantum Realm.


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The perfect welcome to summer and a great meal to bring to your holiday weekend barbeque, we give you our Summer Cilantro & Lime Avocado Shrimp Salad. This refreshing and healthy salad features tangy lime juice and fresh herbs and spices, delicately tossed with delicious veggies and shrimp. Here's how to make it:
1 Tbsp. olive oil
12 oz. raw medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/8 tsp. salt
1 cup grape tomatoes, halved
1 ripe avocado, diced
1 cup sliced hearts of palm (from can, rinsed and drained)
3 Tbsp. lime juice
2 Tbsp. chopped cilantro
1. Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat.
2. Sprinkle the shrimp with the garlic powder, cumin, and salt.
3. Add the shrimp to the skillet and sauté until cooked, stirring occasionally, about 4 minutes. Divide the shrimp evenly between 2 plates.
4. In a medium bowl, combine the tomatoes, avocado, and hearts of palm. Divide the salad evenly between the 2 plates.
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The project aims at improving income, food and nutrition security of smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. This will be done through the rehabilitation of small-scale irrigation schemes[1] and linking them to viable markets. SDC will contribute to a programme developed and coordinated by FAO and the Government of Zimbabwe, and will focus its support to the Masvingo Province which lies in the dry and arid region of the country.
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- Model for sustainable rehabilitation of small scale schemes produced and tested.
- Irrigators are prepared to contribute to the operation and maintenance (O&M) of their schemes provided they have viable markets for their produce as is evidenced in Rupike (one of the schemes rehabilitated in the first phase)
- Food and Agricultural Organisation
Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisationAgricultural water resources
Agricultural development
Cross-cutting topics The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme.
The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes.
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Agriculture is the mainstay of the Zimbabwean economy, contributing 17% of the country's GDP with more than 60% of the rural population depending on it for their livelihoods. Erratic rains, exacerbated by climate change, make rain-fed agriculture a risky business in drier regions where over 80% of smallholder farmers live. The decade long economic decline in the country-since 2000- has resulted in the breakdown of irrigation infrastructure, with 42% of the equipped schemes needing rehabilitation. In Masvingo Province, 40 small irrigation schemes, which provided food and income to smallholder farmers were thus affected and are now in dire need of rehabilitation.
To improve income, food and nutrition security of smallholder communal farmers involved in small-scale irrigation in Zimbabwe
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8'000 smallholder irrigators in 80 irrigation schemes will benefit directly from the intervention. The indirect beneficiaries will include non-irrigators around the schemes who will benefit from employemnt as casual labour during peak irrigation periods and also from the readily available agricultural products in the local markets. Women, who constitute the majority of farmers in rural areas (70%) and play a major role in food production, processing and preparation will have their specific needs taken into account in project implementation.
|Medium-term outcomes
To sustainably increase the production, productivity, management and profitability of smallholder irrigated agriculture in targeted 80 schemes in communal and old resettlement areas of Zimbabwe.
Expected results:
80 schemes functioning optimally after rehabilitation.
8'000 smallholder irrigators capacitated in scheme management and crop production.
80 smallholder irrigation schemes managed as a business and linked to markets.
Sub-catchments for 20 pilot schemes have management plans developed and implemented.
Service delivery capacity of institutions supporting targeted smallholder communal irrigation schemes strengthened.
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Government (DoI & AGRITEX); Irrigation Working Group ( Zimbabwe); EU; JICA; SAMP (7F-07646.02); Agri-Fin Mobile (7F-08255.01)
|Current phase Swiss budget CHF 6'080'000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 5'942'777
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Kelsey Plum, Liz Cambage shine as Aces hold off Connecticut Sun
Plum didn't score Friday in an 87-74 loss to the Chicago Sky, but bounced back with 16 crucial points — including nine in the first quarter — in an 89-81 victory over the Connecticut Sun before an announced crowd of 4,633 at Mandalay Bay Events Center.
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The Aces (16-9) remained in fourth place in the overall WNBA standings, but pulled within a half-game of the Sun (16-8), who hold the second seed and its corresponding double-bye in the playoffs.
"I know my capabilities. Can't let anything rattle your confidence in this league," Plum said. "Definitely a good win. We kind of let the last one get away from us. It feels good. We need this win. … Obviously, they're atop the league and we want to chase for playoff position and stuff like that. It was a great team win."
All five starters scored in double figures for the Aces, who squandered a fourth-quarter lead Friday against the Sky. But Plum set the tone Sunday by looking for her own shot off of ball screens, and Kayla McBride and Liz Cambage were active early in helping the Aces establish a 43-42 halftime lead.
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The Aces carried a 69-59 lead into the fourth quarter and led by 12 with 3:45 to play, but that aforementioned youth resurfaced in the form of four consecutive turnovers that allowed the Sun to pull within two possessions. Cambage had a crucial three-point play, though, with 1:21 left, and Jackie Young and Plum made key free throws in the final minute.
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With less than an hour before the first qualifying session of the 2017 USA F1 GP gets underway, a loo back at P3 from earlier today shows us the battle is still on between Ferrari and Mercedes, with the two teams taking the top 4 times during the final practice session.
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We live by lakes, rivers and ponds of creatures trying to survive. Here is how it starts:
Tiny fish like shad and newborn bass, crappie, bluegill and catfish feed on zooplankton, organisms that have animal-like traits. The biggest are only five millimeters long and the smallest are just one-thousandth of this size, almost invisible to the human eye.
They float, drift or weakly swim in the water. According to Wikipedia, the name plankton comes from the Greek word 'planktos' which means "wanderer" or "drifter." Big zooplankton eats smaller zooplankton and smaller fish eat the larger organisms.
Eventually our smaller fish grow and start dining on insects. You may note rings on the surface when the lake is calm. That is hapless insects landing on the water and being devoured by fish. Bigger fish, too, eat their share of insects, especially trout.
I have watched big bass come completely out of the water chasing a dragonfly or some other flying insect and fly-fishing anglers catch trout or many other predatory fish on insect imitations. Watch a grasshopper try to swim across a pool filled with hungry fish. They generally don't reach the shore.
Rains wash in worms and insects for fish to dine on. We once found a bunch of green worms on a mulberry tree that had limbs hanging over a pond. Several good catfish were caught on the worms, and when that supply ran out, the mulberries caught a few more cats. Their stomach contents were purple from feasting on the sweet berries. Several small fish that no doubt stopped by for an easily meal were no doubt shocked to become an easy meal.
Big predatory fish eat smaller fish in big numbers, the reason we don't have stunted fish in many of our lakes. Shad clouds and small bluegill, crappie or bass offer a floating supermarket for bigger fish. Bass and other predators love to blast through small fish schools.
Two of my grandchildren got to see this sight recently. They are both very young and everything is "awesome" to them, but this time even their mother was impressed, as was I.
The commotion started out in a lake with white splashes on the surface. The shallow water by where we fished almost turned black as a school of minnows moved past. Then, right in front of our eyes, three nice bass busted through the school while breaking the surface and sending minnows and water droplets in the air. The massive school of minnows seemed to drift into more shallow water while the bass repeated their attack. The school soon moved to deeper water and the bass followed.
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Schools of minnows and other food sources in our lakes, ponds or streams equal quality fishing. Growth rates of quality fish are partly determined by available forage. Clouds of minnows or schools of gizzard shad you see splashing around are swimming opportunities for our predator fish. In fact, the surface-splashing shad are likely being chased by bigger fish. This is especially evident when you see them jumping out of the water.
There are many ways for bait fish to enter our lakes, but the odds are their ancestors were washed in through an adjoining creek or river. They may have escaped from minnow buckets or someone may have dumped live minnows after their fishing day was finished – not a recommended practice by knowledgeable conservationists. High water in past years may have even washed them in from almost anywhere.
The fact is that the small fish are here with the crawfish, insects and other critters that bass, catfish, walleye, crappie, bluegill and even trout feed on. Great forage means no stunted fish of any species and years of great angling.
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FIMOP and Belgitrans are merging on 1 January 2017 to become InduMotion. The merger of both associations was confirmed during the annual members' day of Belgitrans and FIMOP in Kasteel Gravenhof in Dworp. InduMotion has hereby created a strong network of more than 80 companies from the world of drive technology and industrial automation.
The first discussions between Belgitrans and FIMOP date back to 2012 and the idea of a merger grew slowly based on these contacts. FIMOP (in full: vereniging van Fabrikanten en Invoerders van Materiaal voor industriële Oleohydraulica, Pneumatica en automatisering / association des Fabricants et Importateurs de Matériel Oléohydraulique, Pneumatique et d'automatisme pour l'industrie / collective industrial organisation of manufacturers and importers of material for industrial oleodynamics, pneumatics and automation) was set up in 1968 by 22 companies, manufacturers and importers, who are active in industrial automation. All members specialise in hydraulic and pneumatic drives, systems, controls and components.
Belgitrans is the federation for industrial drive technology. Belgitrans was established in 1979 and brings together companies that are active in electrical engineering and electronic transmission for both power and movement. The members are companies, either manufacturers or importers, that are in business in Belgium with regard to components for mechanical, electric or electronic transmission of power and motion, but also all people who contribute to the expertise of drive technology.
The objectives of both associations have now been brought together in the new charter of the brand-new InduMotion not-for-profit organisation. The new board was selected in June during the members' day in Kasteel Gravenhof. The InduMotion board consists of eight people in total: four members of the board come from Belgitrans and the other four members are form FIMOP. The eight board members elected the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary-general.
The InduMotion board members are in alphabetical order: Secretary-general Marcel De Winter (Service Hydro), treasurer Jeroen Dieusaert (Bosch Rexroth), officer Geert Heyvaert (MGH), president Hugues Maes (SMC Pneumatics), officer Luc Roelandt (GKN Stromag Benelux), vice-president Bart Vanhaverbeke (Voith Turbo), officer Luc Van Hoylandt (Act in Time) and officer Jo Verstraeten (Festo). The mandate of the new board members runs for a period of two years.
Geert Heyvaert (Belgitrans) explains why the collaboration is important: "Because of the merger, a larger network has now been created and we are increasing the efficiency of our collective industrial organisation for all members. Our members are active in four technologies: pneumatics (including vacuum technology and compressors), hydraulics, mechanical drives and electrical drives. These technologies have areas of overlap and boundaries are blurring. We have, for example, established that drives are being integrated in conductors and vice versa. In addition, mechatronics is on the rise."
Jo Verstraeten (FIMOP) adds: "InduMotion will be the organisation for all manufacturers, importers, and distributors of these technologies, but in addition to these four main groups, we also want to support all companies that are active in combined and related technologies such as automatic control engineering, sensors, control systems that use industrial PCs, PLCs, etc. All of these areas of overlap are the main reasons for us to now combine our strengths."
According to Jo Verstraeten, this will also bring the dilemma that companies must choose between FIMOP and Belgitrans to an end. "A few companies were member of both organisations while others were unsure about which organisation they should join. We can now use our resources efficiently because of the merger."
"InduMotion is not a commercial company, but the new organisation will continue to be healthy financially because of the member contribution of 950 euros per year, the publication of the Automation Magazine print-version and the website and being the co-organiser of INE and the Indumation trade fair. This revenue must be used appropriately for the benefit of all our members. This is the goal of the board," is the decision that Geer Heyvaert and Jo Verstraeten have taken.


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KEYSER — A Maryland man employee is suing a Keyser charitable residential treatment facility, alleging discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
Gary A. Taylor of Loncoming, Maryland, filed a complaint in Mineral Circuit Court against Burlington United Methodist Family Services alleging violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
According to the complaint, Taylor worked for the defendant from May 9, 2011 until he was wrongfully discharged June 18, 2014. The suit says as a result of the defendant's malicious conduct, Taylor has suffered substantial economic and non-economic damages, permanent harm to his reputation, stress, anxiety and severe mental anguish and emotional distress.
The plaintiff alleges Burlington United Methodist Family Services subjected him to unlawful discrimination and harassment because of his sex and sexual orientation, retaliated against him and terminated his employment for filing an EEOC complaint.
Taylor seeks trial by jury, compensatory and punitive damages, with interest, attorney fees, court costs and all other just and proper relief. He is representing himself.
Mineral Circuit Court case number 18-C-39


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