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It was seafood kind of a day, so we asked our driver to take us to a really good seafood restaurant and boy he did take to a very good and fancy seafood place. We wanted to sit outdoors because the weather was really beautiful that day, rainy and not that cold.
It's not a regular restaurant that you can wear anything to it and just head there. It's very fancy and high class that almost everyone was wearing dresses and suits but who cares anyway 😉
We chose 3 kinds of appetizers, and my favourite is the stuffed mussels yum yum, 6 pieces of grilled jumbo prawns and 1 kilo of grilled seabass fish. Just that came around KD 60. The price doesn't make sense at all but it was a new experience and the food tasted really really good but I wouldn't go back to the place because I'd find the same kind of food for a lesser price.
If you're going there as a couple then go ahead and try it, the romantic atmosphere will make you happy 😉 but if you have kids or elderlies, then I wouldn't recommend the place for them.


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South Africa has given the go-ahead for a radio telescope that will detect fast radio bursts as well as track neutral hydrogen gas on cosmic scales. Costing R70 million ($5m), the Hydrogen Intensity and Real Time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) will consist of 1024 dishes, each 6 m in diameter.
It will be located in the Karoo region of South Africa and will map about a third of the sky during four years of operation.
One of the most important aims of this new radio telescope will be to pinpoint the location of fast radio bursts, that are so brief that most telescope can't localize them.
HIRAX, the new radio telescope, and its large field of view will allow astronomers to observe large portions of the sky daily so, in principle, when the flashes happen the instrument will be more likely to see them.
HIRAX will require a petascale computer to process up to 6.5 terabits of data per second as well as infrastructure to compress this data by a factor of 50–100.
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A Sonnet on Purity
Would you be pure without, be pure within;
Shun evil thoughts and entertain the good;
Be in your heart as in your life you would;
Thus only may you be secure from sin.
If of our Island Home we guard the shores,
And thus prevent our foes from landing here,
Then of their getting inland is no fear;
So guarding well our thoughts from sin insures;
Ere evil can come in, good must depart;
So only let a man in heart be pure,
While he is thus he is from sin secure.—
Ne'er pure in life is he not pure in heart.
This is a truth men, God-inspired have taught—
The landing-place of sin 's an evil thought.
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Sheppard, Kunkel carry Belmont past Carson-Newman 105-56
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ben Sheppard scored a career-high18 points as Belmont easily beat Division II Carson-Newman 105-56 on Wednesday night for its fourth...
Kunkel scores 27 to carry Belmont past Lipscomb 80-75
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Adam Kunkel had 27 points as Belmont edged Lipscomb 80-75 on Tuesday night in the Battle of the Boulevard city rivalry game. ...
Muszynski powers Belmont past Middle Tennessee, 71-59
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Nick Muszynski scored 20 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Belmont staged a second-half comeback to hand Middle Tennessee a fifth...
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BOSTON (AP) — Belmont's first-year coach Casey Alexander broke into a smile and seemed a bit surprised when asked about his team's outstanding 3-point shooting...
Kunkel scores 28 to carry Belmont past Samford 95-63
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Adam Kunkel had a career-high 28 points as Belmont romped past Samford 95-63 on Monday night. Nick Muszynski had 15...
Copeland scores 20 to lift Illinois St. over Belmont 79-72
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NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Zach Copeland had 20 points, six rebounds and five assists as Illinois State defeated Belmont 79-72 on Wednesday night. ...
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UCLA hires Cincinnati's Mick Cronin as basketball coach
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Belmont coach Rick Byrd retiring after 805 career victories
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Money Madness: AP analysis shows growing gap in NCAA payouts
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The Discovery Channel shoots Boyd's new street rod.
Boyd Coddington, legendary for crafting some of America's best known and most cutting edge street rods, will build the prototype Boydster III on camera as the subject of a one-hour Discovery Channel special called American Hot Rod.
The entire process like planning, frame fabrication, pre-assembly, body and paint, electrical and finish assembly, will be shown in detail throughout the show. Production will take place at Boyd Coddington's Garage in La Habra, California, beginning in May, and will be finished at the end of June. This means you can get your first look at the 6th annual Goodguys Nationals, held July 12th at the Ohio Expo in Columbus, Ohio. The car will then be given away at the 2004 Goodguys Nationals. Street Rodder Magazine was special access to snap a few shots of the earliest stages of the car's build-up, but by the time you read this, the car will be on it's way to street rod fame for sure. If you cant make it to the Goodguys event, check out the entire story behind the new Boydster III coming to The Discovery Channel in late August or early September.


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I've also returned to another joy in my life: coaching soccer.
In the Spring I returned to the sideline to coach Joel's team. Honestly, it wasn't that fun. It was an honor to coach Joel, generally rewarding, and a good reentry to coaching. The attention spans of 8 and 9 year olds in 2018 are apparently out of my prefered age range. I knew that going in, but it was confirmed last season. My team last season was DSM-5 criteria for AD/HD combined presentation on the pitch.
This season Joel is in U12. Today was a joy. There was only a few lapses in attention. The rest of the time they listened to my instruction, did what I asked quickly, and worked hard while doing it. I know this was our first practice and all, but if it's any indication we're going to have a lot of fun. My fingers are crossed that I'll get more nights like tonight.
Another fun factor for me: Graeme is my assistant coach. I'm glad to do this coaching journey with him.
On another personal note, my foot and ankle have improved immensely. I felt like I could truly demonstrate to the team the balls skills and drills correctly. In the spring I had just discharged form physical therapy and my strength and balance in my foot wasn't that great. Hopefully I can continue the improvement.
I'm excited about this team already. I'm looking forward to the lessons we'll learn together and the struggles we'll overcome. Here we go Fall 2018 Soccer!
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Garfield District 16 welcomes Ray as next superintendent
In what was a shift and an easy search, Brad Ray will take over as superintendent of Garfield County School District 16 after serving as the assistant superintendent for one year. District 16 finalized the hiring at Tuesday's meeting.
Ray will take over for Ken Haptonstall, who attended his last school board meeting Tuesday.
"I think I speak for this entire community in saying thank you very much for all of your hard work and efforts over the years here at this school district," said Kevin Coleman, president of the Garfield County School District 16 Board of Education, of former superintendent Ken Haptonstall's time with the district. "I want you to know you've effected change on a grand-scale for a lot of years. You've given kids that wanted them the tools that they needed to be successful in life."
Haptonstall is leaving District 16 to become superintendent of more than 22,000 students in Grand Junction District 51.
"It's been a lot of fun, and I will definitely miss the small-town community," he said of his time with District 16. "It really feels like a family, and we've done a lot of really cool things to enhance kids' learning here."
During the meeting Ray immediately acknowledged Haptonstall's important work with the district, stating that he will be a "real tough act to follow."
"I've been fortunate to learn from several superintendents during my teaching and administrative career," he said. "I am humbled by the opportunity to work in this community and am very aware of the responsibilities this job holds."
While Ray has served as assistant superintendent for the Garfield School District Re-2 as well as District 16, this will be his first time as superintendent. He was the principal at Bea Underwood Elementary for two years before becoming assistant superintendent last year.
With Ray taking over, the search for the new assistant superintendent will have to wait. While the school district had 16 candidates for the position, four of which were interviewed, it elected to hold off the search and continue it again in December.
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Jeremy Clarkson has given The Grand Tour viewers an insight into upcoming season two, discussing the making of the follow-up to the enormously successful first season – as well as the (many) challenges facing the team.
Over the course of season two production, all three hosts were hospitalised: James May with a stomach virus, Jeremy Clarkson with pneumonia and Richard Hammond with a broken knee after filming for one of the episodes went quite spectacularly wrong.
"He can't see over the steering wheel," Jeremy joked in an interview with The Sunday Times Magazine when asked why Richard had been involved in two rather serious car crashes while filming for Top Gear and The Grand Tour.
"It is astonishing that all three of us had been confined to hospital beds in the space of six months. Except of course it isn't astonishing because we are now very old and starting to disintegrate," Jeremy added in his The Sunday Times column.
Understandably, the trio's various ailments delayed season two's launch date on Amazon Prime – although only by three weeks.
"You think 'failure is not an option' is a Hollywood cliché. But actually in California, it's a business mantra," Jeremy added.
And although Amazon were keen to go with the original date, they did give in and allow the team some extra time to bring home the bacon.
"Despite the extra time, flat out doesn't begin to cover the way we are working now," Jeremy wrote. "Terminal 5 is where I live now as I race from New York to Toronto..."
As well as reflecting on the challenges facing the second season, Jeremy gave a taster of what we can expect – more of the same from season one, yes, but some changes too.
"We've driven three old Jaguars down various ski runs," he teased.
"I've done 400 miles, on the road, in the new Ford GT while racing James and a wheelchair-bound Richard in a plane [...] I've thundered round our track in Wiltshire in everything from a Jaguar XJ220 to a Tesla Model X."
It all sounds very exciting, but Jeremy isn't shying away from the aspects of The Grand Tour's first season that didn't work so well either.
"Then there's our tent studio," he added. "We all know certain things didn't work in the last run, so they've gone and in their place will be exciting new stuff.
"All of which will be announced just as soon as I've thought of it."
The Grand Tour season two launches on Amazon Prime on Friday, December 8 2017.
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She was married to the most dangerous terrorist in the world — but claims she never realized her husband was the leader of ISIS.
The ex-wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called the terrorist kingpin a bit brusque, but an otherwise "normal family man" — who would oddly disappear for days on end.
In an interview with the Swedish newspaper Expressen, Saja al-Dulaimi said she believed her husband was a university lecturer who named Hisham Mohammad.
"He was a normal family man," she said. "How he could become emir of the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world is a mystery."
The woman said her first husband died fighting for an Iraqi resistance group, leaving her alone to raise young twin boys.
That's when her uncle found a potential new mate and father to her kids.
She said yes to marriage — and moved in with al-Baghdadi and his existing wife and kids in Syria.
Their 2009 union lasted only a few months. The marriage wasn't a happy one, with al-Baghdadi rarely speaking beyond commands, she said.
"I didn't love him," al-Dulaimi said. "He was an enigmatic person. You couldn't have a discussion or hold a normal conversation with him."
She added: "He just asked about things and told me to fetch things. He gave orders, nothing more."
Looking back, al-Dulaimi said the oddest thing she saw in al-Baghdadi was his penchant for suddenly disappearing.
She left him in 2009 and was arrested in 2014 when she tried sneaking into Lebanon with forged papers.
"They showed me pictures of my ex-husband and asked me if I recognized him," she said.
"It turns out I was married to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It was a shock to find out — seven years later — that I'd been married to the most dangerous man in the world."
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Im Kein Lamah Zeh?
We understand that real earning takes place when we ask questions that matter. If you sit in a class and you are inspired to ask a question, you will remember the response. It matters to you.
And you know, as teachers we understand that the most intelligent students are noted, not because of what the knowledge they retain but because of the questions they ask.
There is a wonderful and often quoted line from Isidor Isaac Rabi who was a Galician born physicist and Nobel prize laureate.
He was quoted as having said: My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? Not my mother. "Izzy" she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference – asking good questions – made me a scientist!
When I think about the Torah and the places of significant impact, I think about some of its questions and how they ultimately lead to so of the most profound teachings.
In the beginning, God asks Cain, where is Abel your brother? And Abel responds with a question: "Am I my brother's keeper?" and from there a whole system of human responsibility evolves.
Or God asks, a little later in Genesis: "Shall I withhold from Abraham what I am about to do to the cities of Sodom and Gemorrah?" And Abraham answers with a question: "Will the God of justice destroy an entire city? What is there are ten righteous people?"
The questions are memorable. They say more and imply more than we can state here.
Some people ask great questions. We love to hear a speaker or a teacher say: That was a great question. Because it opens an important conversation.
And we also know that some of our most profound questions may be unanswerable.
In today's Torah reading there is a question that haunts me… Rebekah we learn is pregnant with twins. And the twins, who will become Esau and Jacob are battling in her womb. Guys have no idea what it is like to carry a baby. And I wonder what could it possibly be like to be carrying twins. We learn that the twins are battling or wrestling in her womb. And she is obviously distraught.
And so she goes to inquire of God. She asks:
Im kein lamah zeh anochi?
If this is so why am I alive?
The plain meaning of the text is what's going on with me, in me? But there is another interpretation. And that what states: I am suffering so much… Why do I live?
A little later in the text there is a repetition of the words: Lamah zeh li?
It is Esau after he is famished and feeling as if he was going to die of hunger. Brother Jacob holds him hostage to his desperation and says: Sell me your birthright! And Esau responds… what good is it to me, I am at the point of my death.
The question why do I live is not only a question about physical survival. In fact, I think it is a question that begs for answers. Most of us go through life trying to make a living, fill our time with enjoyment or perhaps going to school, playing sports, waiting for the next good meal. We look for good t.v. or movies or entertainment, but rarely does one stop and ask this question:
Lama li anochi?
Why am I alive?
I do hear that question when I visit the terminally ill or those suffering in the pains of illness. There, like Rebeka, the question is for what I am lingering. I know the ultimate answer. Why do I suffer? And that is a profoundly important question, at the most difficult time.
It is often that it when we reach the end of our days that we may ask that question. But it is rare to ask those questions when we are young… and we should.
I have heard from retirees that the beginning of retirement may feel liberating, but shortly there is a sense of purposelessness for some. And this is true especially when you viewed your work as having significance.
The question then, should be asked; What is the purpose of my life now? What can I be doing to make a difference to feel useful… All of us want to be useful. Make an impact. Make a difference… What are we doing? Why are we here?
The most popular spiritual advice book in the last few decades was written by a Pastor Rick Warren. The book sold millions and millions of copies and was on the best-selling list for years. The name of the book was "The purpose driven life". Warren obviously hit a chord with Americans. People are searching for what matters, for what to do, for what meaning and significance.
Perhaps even without having a life feel threatened we do ask the question of Rebekah; Im kein lama zeh anochi?
So how do we arrive there? How do we find a place where we can define our purpose?
I began by speaking about questions… And I think that is where we need to go. Not only the question of "what is your purpose", but from our rabbis I would suggest that we consider something that they have given us.
And these questions bring us to a sense of purpose…
Why are we here?
What is important?
Who do we serve?
So the rabbis of old did something really significant to bring us to this question. That is, they imagined that when life is done we will appear before God. And there we will be asked four questions. And form these questions we can learn about purpose. And the first is about Torah. I don't think we can speak about a purposeful Jewish life without speaking about Torah.
The first question is "keavaata itim letorah." Literally that means "Do you set a time for learning Torah" And in the minds of the rabbinic tradition this is sacred and gives life purpose. Torah is an eternal conversation between generations of Jewish men and women, sharing their perceptions of life's meaning and purpose, of a Divine presence in their lives, of the lessons and message of life, of what they learned from life. When we study Torah, we join the process, we join the conversation that's thousands of years old.
Open any page of Talmud, and you understand something about Jewish purpose: Here is the Mishna, edited in 200 CE by Yehuda HaNasi in Israel, and here is Gemara, published in 500 CE in Babylonia, and here is Rashi from 12th Century France and the Tosafists, his grandchildren, 12th & 13th Century France and Germany; and from the other side of the world, Alfasi in 9th Century Morocco, Rambam, 11th Century Egypt, Joseph Karo, 16th Century, Eretz Yisrael, the Vilna Gaon, 18th Century Lithuania… and on and on, until you get to the last page of my Talmud, where you find the are the notes of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein who lived in the Bronx up until his death a few years ago… All debating how the ethics and teachings of the Torah find their way into life, about the meaning and purpose of life. To read them is to join the conversation.
My teacher, David Hartman, told a story: When he was a boy in Yeshiva, they came around collecting money for a commemoration of the 750th Yarhtzeit of the Rambam. He looked up from his text, "He's dead? How can he be dead, we were arguing just this morning!"
sustains a conversation that brings you beyond yourself, but it connects you to others. And it creates a mind that is willing to delve into deeper questions and find more meaning.
The biologist, Lewis Thomas writes about organisms — from the tiniest microscopic life forms, through insects, and larger animals — that form communities. We make an error, he argues, when we look at the individual as the basic life form. There are really no such things as "a bee" or "an ant". The social organization of these organisms is so vital to their survival, that we must consider the primary unit of life to be the community — the hive, or the nest is the organism, not the individual. With Jews it is the same story. There is no such thing as "a Jew". Jews come with ancestors and descendants, and with community. We are, as the fundraisers remind us, we are one: across generations, across oceans, we are one; and what binds us together is our shared wisdom, our Torah.– that form communities. We make an error, he argues, when we look at the individual as the across generations, across oceans, we are one; and what binds us together is our shared wisdom, our Torah. To learn Torah, to have Torah, to share Torah is to find immortality. It is our definition of purpose.
But lately, I have been feeling very strongly that this has to do with the fact that Torah is not just the scroll, the five books, but Torah is learning. And learning begins with the word. And reading and speaking. And, I believe that in this post-modern, highly technological world…the word learning and language and communications are being lost. We need to be learners in order to be critical tinkers. We need to be engaged in reading and study…
And this… itim latorah… time for learning… is about a life of purpose.
Connecting generations
Creating community
Deepening understanding
Attaching to Torah gives life purpose.
II. Second question: Asakta B'priya U'reviah? Literally is means, did you have children. I'd like to understand it as did you devote yourself to family? Because when all is said and done, family is so critical. Family love gives us meaning and a sense of ourselves. From family we gain confidence and value. We leave ourselves in our children and grandchildren. They remember: Every act of charity, of kindness, of love. Every moment of cruelty, indifference, of selfishness. They watch, they know, they remember.
Our parents need us, our children and grandchildren, too. And for many of you, great grandchildren. And we give each other purpose. And that is why we begin Toldot; these are the generations, this is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac. And the interesting wording indicates that our lives go back and forth… those who are older and come before us and those who will come after us! We need to care for family. We need to spend time, celebrate and comfort each other.
Rabbi Harold Kushner once quipped that no one ever lay on his death bed wishing he had spent more time on his business.
A Hasidic Rebbe once wrote that a person who cannot take an hour for himself is not a human being. Family needs time, caring and nurturing. Shabbat, by the way, is intended for a few reasons, and I would say, family is at the forfront.
Asakta b'priah u'reviah? Do you make time for your family? God asks, because in family there is purpose. People who are happy in their families and with their families feel purpose.
According to the rabbis the Third question we are asked I Nasaata B'emunah? Did you do business with integrity?
This is the most surprising of the questions. We expect a question about Torah, and a question about family. We expect a question about Torah, and a question about family. We also expect a question about Tzedaka, giving charity, perhaps about religious observance… all important parts of Jewish life. But the world of business.
One of my professors in Seminary asked us once, what's the most important section in all the Torah? We argued: Genesis, the Shma, the Exodus from Egypt, the revelation at Mt. Sinai. Nope, he said, Kit Tetze L'milchama. We went scrambling for our books to find out what that was. Deuteronomy 21: When you go out to war again your enemies, the Lord God delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive, and you see among te captives a beautiful woman, and you desire her, and would have here… She shall spend a month's time in your house mourning her father and mother… and then you may come to her, and marry her, and she shall be your wife. And if not, you must release her.
Why is this the most important section of the Torah? Because in our study, in our sanctuary, over my breakfast table, in my deepest thoughts, we can be moral heroes. It's easy to be a moral hero, a Tzadik, in theory. Deep in our hearts, everyone thinks of himself as a good, sincere, well-meaning person. The real question of morality is what happens in the real world; in the marketplace, in business, in a world of tough competition, of conflict and its passions. How do you treat your clients, customers, patients, employees?
That, my professor taught, is the soul of Jewish ethics. In the worst of circumstances, when passions are high and all immoralities would be overlooked, when anything goes, the Torah says, STOP: you must respect eh humanity of the other, you must preserve the dignity of the other and more importantly, you must preserve your own. What's at stake is not just the humanity of the other, but yours. Nasaata B'emunah: were you a mensch, even in the competitive world of business? At those moments where you know there may be profit or gain, but it compromises something else? Were you honest with your customers, fair with your clients and gracious to competitors. But more, nasaata b'emuna, God asks were you faithful to yourself, to your own principles?
What does business and money do to us? How many human beings must earn their livelihood at the expense of their own humanity? If your purpose is only to make money… you will die unhappy. But if your purpose is to live a life of integrity, live a life devoted to others, to family, to your shul, to tzedakkah, to learning and to community…something else appears.
I do funerals…there I see the wealthiest people are the ones who are beloved by their families and friends. They are the ones who lived life with integrity.
Nasaata B'emunah? Even in the amorality of the marketplace, are you loyal to the best within you? The last question may seem remote to a liberal community… but I think it is crucial to understand. Tzipita L'yeshua? Do you anticipate redemption? I think it needs to be: Do you live with hope? Hope gives purpose. True religious feeling comes from gratitude and from hope.
Every day, according to the Talmud, we recite one hundred brachot, one hundred blessings, to recognize and appreciate the miracles that are ours in daily life. And everyday, we struggle to renew our hope. Hope is fragile, delicate. In a world that sees so much chais. In a world filled with random violence, random terror, and random death. A life that contains hope is a life that says, I can make a difference. I make a difference through acts of charity, and kindness. I make a difference through encouragement and love. And we wouldn't do any of those things if we didn't have hope…
As I get older the language of the music of my youth begins to play more and more in my head… There was a group, Pink Floyd and they had a song called The Wall. The Wall said: "All in all, you're just another brick in the wall. All in all, you're just another brick in the wall." That's not our purpose. Because we see that through our capacity to reach out, to show kindness, to give… we are expressing something very human… and giving purpose. Over the entrance to the Bratislava synagogue, to this day, there is a sign: "Jews do not despair."
The psychologist, Victor Frankel, himself a survivor of Auschwitz, studied those who survived and those who did not. "The last, and greatest human freedom," he writes, "is the freedom to choose your attitude."
Tzipita L'yeshua? Choose hope, said God. Choose hope and sing it to those around us. Preserve it, protect it, nurture it. It makes our lives purposeful. We want purpose, so let's ask the questions, The Rabbis told us that God asks.
- Can you find time to read and study and learn?
- Can we embrace family?
- Are our business decisions, which includes even the way we vote, reflective of our deepest ethics and responsibilities?
- Have you kept hope alive?
This is what Rebekah's question inspired me to ask and that we need to think about once in a while… Im kein, lami li anochi???
What gives our lives purpose?
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The StencilAttrib is used for testing and writing to the stencil buffer. Note that both of these actions can be performed simultaneously with a single StencilAttrib.
The stencil buffer is an ancillary graphics buffer, in addition to the more well-known color and depth buffers. It provides a per-pixel mask for the rendering pipeline which can be exploited to selectively render objects or parts of objects. Typical applications of the stencil buffer include binary masking, shadowing and planar reflections.
Usually, using the stencil buffer involves creating some objects which are not rendered into the color buffer. Their contribution to the rendered scene is to provide an invisible boundary that can be used to turn color buffer rendering on and off for other objects in the scene. Think of it as a cardboard cut-out through which the world is viewed.
During a stencil comparison, the StencilAttrib's reference value is compared against the value stored in the stencil buffer. The order matters here. For example, consider comparison function StencilAttrib.SCFGreaterThan with reference value r=1. A pixel passes the stencil test if r > Sp, where Sp is the value in the stencil buffer at pixel p. Objects contributing values to the stencil buffer that will be read by other StencilAttributes' comparison functions must be rendered first, or unexpected results will occur. See How to Control Render Order.
The stencil buffer is disabled by default. In order to use StencilAttribs, you must add the following line to your config.prc file:
framebuffer-stencil #t
StencilAttribs are defined exclusively by their constructor functions, so let's examine one to understand what each part does. The following code creates an attribute which tells an object to render only if the stencil buffer is exactly 1, and does not itself modify the stencil buffer.
stencilReader = StencilAttrib.make(1,StencilAttrib.SCFEqual,StencilAttrib.SOKeep, StencilAttrib.SOKeep,StencilAttrib.SOKeep,1,1,0)
The first parameter is a boolean. If this parameter is zero, the StencilAttrib is not processed. Next is the comparison function this attribute uses, in this case Equal. The next three parameters determine what happens to the stencil buffer depending on the result of the comparison. We'll get to these in a minute. The three Keep values tell this attribute never to modify the values in the buffer. Next is the reference value for the comparison function. Before the reference value is passed to the comparison function, however, it is bitwise ANDed with a mask. In our case, we're interested in reading but not in writing the stencil buffer, so we pass 1 and 0 for the read and write masks, respectively. These masks are the last two parameters for the StencilAttrib.
Next, we'll look at a stencil attribute that writes the stencil buffer. Presumably, these two functions will work in tandem to create an effect.
constantOneStencil = StencilAttrib.make(1,StencilAttrib.SCFAlways,StencilAttrib.SOZero, StencilAttrib.SOReplace,StencilAttrib.SOReplace,1,0,1)
Again we start by enabling the attribute. The comparison function here is Always, meaning that the test passes no matter the parameters. Next is the operation to perform on the stencil buffer if the test fails (which in this case will never happen) -- we set the stencil buffer value to zero. The next parameter determines what should happen if the stencil function passes, but the depth test fails, and finally, what should happen if both the stencil and depth tests pass. In our case we want to set the value of the stencil buffer whether we pass the depth test or not, so both are set to Replace. The reference value to set in the stencil buffer is 1. We're writing regardless of what's in the buffer already, so we'll set the read and write masks to 0 and 1, respectively.
Now we can add these attributes to nodes in the scene to exploit the effect. Here is the entire script.
from panda3d.core import * # Do this before the next import: loadPrcFileData("", "framebuffer-stencil #t") import direct.directbase.DirectStart constantOneStencil = StencilAttrib.make(1,StencilAttrib.SCFAlways, StencilAttrib.SOZero,StencilAttrib.SOReplace, StencilAttrib.SOReplace,1,0,1) stencilReader = StencilAttrib.make(1,StencilAttrib.SCFEqual, StencilAttrib.SOKeep, StencilAttrib.SOKeep, StencilAttrib.SOKeep,1,1,0) cm = CardMaker("cardmaker") cm.setFrame(-.5,.5,-.5,.5) # To rotate the card to face the camera, we create # it and then parent it to the camera. viewingSquare = render.attachNewNode(cm.generate()) viewingSquare.reparentTo(base.camera) viewingSquare.setPos(0, 5, 0) viewingSquare.node().setAttrib(constantOneStencil) viewingSquare.node().setAttrib(ColorWriteAttrib.make(0)) viewingSquare.setBin('background',0) viewingSquare.setDepthWrite(0) view = loader.loadModel("panda") view.reparentTo(render) view.setScale(3) view.setY(150) view.node().setAttrib(stencilReader) run()
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Jonathan Waring (Farmington Hills, Mich.) was named the MVP of the tournament. Waring scored seven goals and dished out 11 assists in five games. Along with his postseason awards, Corey Eisenband (Larchmont, N.Y.) claimed ECRHA Division III Player of the Year accolades, Stephen Richetelli (Hamden, Conn.) earned ECRHA Division III Goaltender of the Year honors, and Matt Kaski (Sandwich, Mass.) won the skills competition.
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A few capacitors – lots of different sizes. Big 'swiss-roll' ones mean greater parallel plate area and smaller plate distance thus larger capacitance. Some have to be connected the right way round – called electrolytic capacitors. Here's why. One way to make a large capacitor is to take two long strips of aluminium foil (=large plates), put strips of isolating materials between them, and make a nice compact swiss roll. Capacitors up to around 1MF can be made this way, but they are physically big, so if we want even higher capacity, we need to look for other things than plate area. It happens that we know of a very thin and very voltage resistant type of isolation material: Aluminium oxide. If we cover a strip of aluminium foil with a thin oxide layer, we have one plate and a very thin dielectric. Problem now is to make the other plate come close enough to the other side of the oxide layer. The thing that comes really close is a liquid, so if we submerge our oxide covered plate in a conducting liquid, the liquid forms the other plate, and we can make a very large capacitor. A conducting liquid is called an electrolyte, see?
Nothing comes for free, so this type of capacitor has its drawbacks. Some have practical solutions: Instead of having liquid sloshing around inside the capacitor, an electrolyte-soaked paper is used, some modern types are even virtually solid. Others become restraints we have to live with:
The oxide layer is made by an electrolytic process; the foil is submerged in some liquid and current is passed through the liquid into the metal, forming the oxide layer. This is an advantage and a disadvantage: The good news is that the dielectric layer has self-healing capabilities, so if a weak spot occurs, the resulting leakage current will more or less rebuild the isolation. This is the reason electrolytic capacitors can regenerate if you raise the voltage over them slowly. The bad news is that the process is reversible! If you reverse the polarity, even the slightest leakage will begin to tear the dielectric down, resulting in more leakage, which tears away more dielectric, which… well, you get the picture. This is the reason you need to observe polarity strictly when using electrolytic capacitors.
Here's a little applet to show how a capacitor charges and discharges for those who like it simple..
Here's a bottom-up capacitance tutorial. Almost everything we need to know and more is here.….pick and choose what you need. No integration is necessary, but, if you can follow the maths, so much the better.
This link can be used to explore some more of Edexcel's interactive demos. Well worth a look…
Finally, years ago, when I was a boy, there was radio. We had a gizmo on the front called a tuner, a twiddly thing which changed the plate overlap and hence the capacitance of a variable capacitor. Looked like this….


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I got a Volca Sample, set it up and jammed for 2 hours. You would think that it's logical that this song also features the Sample, but you are wrong haha!
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Beautiful vibes!
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Beautiful vibes!
That bass drone you hear in this song is just some note that kept playing after I stopped jamming around and took a short break. Then I noodled with the vibraphone patch and decided to record that instead for weeklybeats, mostly because I felt that last bit would work the best as a stand-alone song (and I really did not want to edit something out of the 2h jam).


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Recipe: Cheesy Jalapeño Popper Baked Stuffed Chicken
- 2 slices center cut bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 3 jalapeños, chopped (remove seeds for milder)
- 3 oz fat-free cream cheese, softened
- 4 oz reduced fat shredded cheddar jack or Mexican blend (Sargento)
- 2 tbsp chopped scallions
- 8 thin sliced skinless chicken breast cutlets, 3 oz each
- 1/2 cup Italian seasoned whole wheat breadcrumbs
- 2 juicy limes, juice of
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- salt and fresh pepper
- olive oil non-stick spray
- Preheat oven to 450°. Lightly spray a baking dish with non-stick spray.
- Combine cream cheese, cheddar, scallions, jalapeño and bacon crumbles in a medium bowl.
- Lay chicken cutlets on a working surface and pound thin if needed.
- Spread 2 tbsp of cream cheese mixture on each cutlet. Loosely roll each one, secure the ends with toothpicks to prevent the cheese from oozing out.
- Place breadcrumbs in a bowl; in a second bowl combine olive oil, lime juice, salt and pepper.
- Dip chicken in lime-oil mixture, then in breadcrumbs and place seam side down on a baking dish. Repeat with the remaining chicken. When finished, lightly spray the top of the chicken with oil spray.
- Bake 22-25 minutes, serve immediately.
Quick Notes
These can be prepared the night before, up to the point of cooking. Store in the refrigerator for a quick dinner the next night
Preparation time: 30 minute(s)
Cooking time: 30 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 4
Inspired By: Cheesy Jalapeño Popper Baked Stuffed Chicken
Nutritional Information
Amount per Serving
Calories 340
Calories from Fat 92.3
Total Fat 10.25g
Saturated Fat 2.5g
Cholesterol 115mg
Sodium 525.14mg
Total Carbohydrate 12.17g
Dietary Fiber 0.76g
Sugars 2.16g
Protein 48.48g


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Don't you love your Android phone gallery to organize your photos and videos? So, you would definitely be looking for any great Android app for your standard photo gallery replacement. I can understand why you wanna replace your default Android gallery, to enhance the productivity with lots of extra ordinary features for organizing photos and videos, right?
So, why to wait when the best photo gallery replacement apps are already here? Just have a look on the below listed best Android photo gallery replacement apps to well organize your photos.
Best Android Apps For Photo Gallery Replacement
QuickPic is presently the best photo gallery replacement app for Android. Fast, lightweight and the modern QuickPic is the best alternative album app for all your beloved photos, which can replace the stock Gallery app in your Android phone.
Important Features:
- Material design with colorful themes
- Auto backup your photos to your favorite cloud or your computer with Samba sharing
- List thousands of pictures in a flash
- Find new pictures instantly
- Group photos by time and location
- Play GIFs and videos
- Internal picture editor which allows you to rotate, shrink, crop pictures, set wallpaper with best quality freely
- Powerful file management features such as rename, create new folders, moving and copying pictures
- Transfer files between multiple devices via WiFi without mobile data
- Optimized for large screens, such as tablets.
MyRoll Gallery
MyRoll Gallery is a free, next generation and the fastest growing photo gallery app that's the complete replacement to your native Android gallery.
Important Features:
- Automatically organize photos according to time, date and location
- Easily share groups of photos and videos from your gallery, with just a tap
- The easiest and fastest way to create Facebook albums, on the fly
- Automatically identify your best photos in your gallery – ones with smiling faces, great lighting, vibrant color, and more.
Fish Bowl
Fish Bowl is an award-winning photo & video organizer with many powerful & original features that can easily be replaced with your Android phone's default gallery app. You can use it to organize, share, edit, and lock your private pictures & videos taken with your device or copied from a computer or digital camera. Not only this, it comes up with many outstanding features such as following.
Important Features:
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- Side-by-side Image Comparison
- Share, Crop, Rotate, Move Pictures
- PhotoStream with Slideshow & Shuffle
- Locker to hide & protect your pictures, videos
- Add notes to Albums & Photos.
F-Stop Media Gallery
F-Stop Media Gallery is a professional photo and video organization app for Android. It is the best Android's default gallery replacement app. F-Stop Media Gallery has many features such as tags, ratings, albums, smart albums, favorites and places.
F-Stop also includes integrated search functionality that provides instant results based on tag or filename and the ability to read and write (PRO) metadata such as tags and ratings directly to your images.
Important Features:
- Find images fast with instant search results and lightning fast browsing
- Locate your images with an integrated Google maps experience
- Read metadata directly from your images
- Hide media from other apps with password protection
- Slideshow mode with many transitions.
Tidy- Photo Album
Tidy is another cool photo gallery replacement for Android. It lets you organize your photos with just a one swipe. With this gallery replacement, you can clean up and well organize your photos in just a few minutes.
Important Features:
- Group photos by Time, Place & Shapes
- Elegant Looks
- Share photos on social media
- Keep your memories with you always with tidy.
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That's all for now! I will keep updating this list on finding more new apps for Android photo gallery replacement. If you've any other app for the same, feel free to mention in comments so that I can include that in this list.


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White posted a career-high 21 digs in the triumph (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's volleyball team rolled to a three-set win over Sacred Heart Saturday evening at the Malkin Athletic Center with set scores of 25-19, 25-21 and 25-20.
Harvard's (8-6, 5-2 EIVA) victory was an all-around team effort led by Branden Clemens with 11 kills. Casey White contributed nine kills, while Riley Moore and Brad Gretsch each chipped in eight kills apiece. Marko Kostich dished out a match-high 39 assists, while White posted a career-high 21 digs. Moore posted a career-high .800 hitting percentage (8-0-10), while also recording a match-high four blocks in the triumph.
With the win, Harvard remains second in the conference. Along with a high mark in the standings, the Crimson's Clemens climbed Harvard's career leaderboard where he now ranks sixth in kills with 774 and teammate White jumped two spots and sits sixth in digs with 432.
Sacred Heart (3-11, 3-4 EIVA) saw Michael Comens and Chris Delucie in double-digits tallying 13 and 12 kills, respectively.
The two teams battled evenly in the opening set as neither team held more than a two-point advantage, and the lead was exchanged two times. A hitting percentage of .062 and 8 errors by the Pioneers proved to be the difference, as the Crimson fended off NJIT in the first set, 25-19.
The Pioneers opened up the second set with two-straight points, 2-0, but Harvard would not go down without a fight. With a 13-4 run, the Crimson opened up the frame with its largest lead of the match, 17-10, including a Gretsch service ace and kills by White, Moore, Clemens, and Trevor Dow. Sacred Heart bounced back with five-straight points closing the gap to two, 17-15, but the Crimson persisted as the set closed in an 8-6 scoring effort in favor of Harvard, 25-21.
The final set saw four lead changes and nine ties as Clemens recorded five of his 11 kills in the frame. The Pioneers saw its biggest run of the match, 8-2, as it held a four-point lead, 17-13. The Crimson knotted the set at 17-17 before Sacred Heart called a timeout. A 7-4 run gave Harvard match point, 25-21.
The Crimson welcomes non-conference opponent Holy Names on Friday, March 11 for a 7 p.m. match, which will be broadcast on the Ivy League Digital Network.


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Luke Sicari and Damian Arsenis deliver The Pick and Pop, a short, sharp podcast show covering everything Aussie Hoops from across the globe this past week.
This week, Luke and Damian preview the 2017-18 WNBL season that tips-off on 5 October 2017, including team analysis for:
- Adelaide Lightning
- Bendigo Spirit
- University of Canberra Capitals
- Dandenong Rangers
- Melbourne Boomers
- Perth Lynx
- Sydney Uni Flames
- Townsville Fire
To read more, view our 'Ultimate Guide' to the 2017-18 WNBL season HERE.
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Terry Kyritsis, formally trained as a teacher, spent 27 years in K-12
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School Board. Following that, he spent 4 years in the post-secondary sector
in an administrative role at Humber College.
Terry retired in 2016, after 5 years as the President and CEO of the Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace, a not for profit organization that manages collaborative purchasing for Ontario's entire public education system.
Terry is familiar with the challenges of new comers to Canada as he immigrated to Canada with his parents at a young age and is committed to help newcomers to feel welcome and help them succeed.


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Baltic-facing gaming operator Enlabs has made a number of changes to its senior management, including appointing George Ustinov as its new chief operating officer and Adam Jonsson as chief financial officer.
In Part 2 of the iGaming Business Salary Survey, Pentasia's regional specialists provide an overview of the trends and drivers of salaries in their respective territories, including the UK, Malta, Gibraltar and North America
The third installment of iGB's Most Influential Women list 2019
The second installment of iGB's Most Influential Women list 2019
Now in its second year, the iGaming Business Most Influential Women list aims to celebrate the highest achieving women in our industry. Today we reveal the first three women featured in the 2019 list
A cultural shift in the industry has seen operators look to ramp up their responsible gaming controls, with many bringing in external help to do so, writes Daniel O'Boyle. But can external consultants really play a role in changing company culture?
Joanne Christie talks to a former compulsive gambler and now addiction therapist about proactive steps the gambling industry could take to reduce gambling-related harm.
University of Nevada's International Gaming Institute's Bo Bernhard has been on the front line of efforts to understand problem gambling for 25 years. He tells Robin Harrison how a small, underfunded area of research has evolved into an issue debated across the industry
In the second part of his interview with Robin Harrison, Bo Bernhard explains how the perception of gambling, both as an illness and and an issue within the industry, has changed in recent times.
Gauselmann Group has appointed Rene Abou el Alla as the new chief product officer for its Merkur Sportwetten sports betting business.
Philip Easthill has stepped down as secretary general of the European Casino Association (ECA), while the organisation has also announced a new structure for it secretariat.
Filippos Antonopoulos built Vermantia from a startup challenging the leading land-based and online gaming suppliers to part of the industry establishment, after Arena Racing Company (ARC) bought into the business. With a new venture in the payment sector now underway, he discusses how being a latecomer to a mature market is no barrier to growth.
With iGB having opened nominations for the industry's most influential women for 2019, iGB catches up with some of those who made last year's Top 10 to find out what they've been up to since as well as get their views on who deserves to feature this year
Influence isn't just about being well-known, says All-In Diversity Project's Christina Thakor-Rankin. It's also about taking a long-term view of the industry and encouraging other women in their careers
Pentasia's 2019 edition of its Ambitions survey reveals that new technology and markets are key motivations for candidates seeking pastures new in the igaming industry, while learning beats earning for a majority of respondents.
We're opening up our second survey into the most influential women in the industry and we're looking for your nominations.
A trio of high-profile industry bodies will offer a second scholarship for a female executive to participate in one of the industry's leading executive training programmes.
GVC Holdings has fended off a shareholder revolt over executive pay, with a small majority of shareholders backing the company's 2018 remuneration report.
Pentasia's Will Sawney says opportunities related to artificial intelligence and blockchain will continue to be important to those in the industry, with job satisfaction and mobility other key trends to watch
Happy Friday igamers!


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BKosmos Energy Apologizes to the Ghanaian government: So what? By SS Quist
In the last few weeks, I have noticed an upsurge in Ghanaian news reports about the discussions between the Ghanaian government and Kosmos Energy. About a week ago, the Ghanaian media reported that Kosmos had apologized to the Ghanaian government. The reason for the apology is unclear as neither Kosmos nor the Ghanaian government has disclosed why or for what Kosmos apologized. While it would be useful to know what Kosmos apologized for, I believe a more important inquiry is: what are the government's plans for the revenue generated from the oil?
Speaking at a forum on 25 March 2010 in Takoradi, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Deputy Minister of Energy, said there would be transparency in the management of oil revenue. While transparency is a must, I would suggest that the Ghanaian public see something tangible in addition to transparency. That "something" is a framework wherein oil revenues go towards: (1) socio-economic infrastructure across the nation and (2) an investment fund that will generate much-needed capital for Ghana, a portion of which would be distributed directly into the hands of the people of Ghana. I will assume that the government does not need a lecture on what socio-economic infrastructure is needed in Ghana. It should be evident by now. As such, the focus of this opinion piece will be on the second point and why those are essential steps for Ghana.
In recent times, Ghana has been lauded as the beacon of democracy and economic achievement in Africa. According to various sources, Ghana has twice the per capita income of the poorer countries in West Africa. Even so, Ghana remains unacceptably dependent on international assistance, investment, remittances by the Ghanaian Diaspora, and unfavourable trade terms set forth by developed countries. Significantly, about 28% of the population live below the international poverty line of US$1.25 a day, most of which are Ghanaian women in the northern region of Ghana. According to the World Bank, Ghana's per capita income has barely doubled in the last 45 years.
By way of background information, in 2007, significant oil deposits were discovered off the coast of southwestern Ghana. The first discovery was made by British-based oil explorer Tullow Oil PLC in the Deepwater Tano block. A second discovery has been made in the West Cape Three Points license area. Jubilee Field is made up of the Deepwater Tano and West Cape Three Points license areas. Tullow owns a 50% stake of the Deepwater Tano license and also holds a 23% stake in the West Cape Three Points license area. Kosmos has a stake of almost 31% in one license area and 18% in the other, giving it about a 30% stake in the entire Jubilee venture. Other partners are Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation as well as the Ghana government operating through the Ghana National Petroleum Company "(GNPC"). According to reports, GNPC only has a 13.8% stake in Jubilee.
With more than 1.8 billion barrels of light crude oil, Jubilee is reported to be one of the largest oil discoveries in recent years and has the kind of crude oil that is most demanded by global markets. Today, crude oil is selling at over US$80.00 per barrel. Assuming the price of crude oil remains the same, Jubilee could potentially earn over US$140 billion before its stocks are depleted. It is no wonder the foreign oil companies are salivating at the prospect of getting their hands on Ghana's oil. Oil exploration is ongoing and Jubilee's oil stocks are expected to increase. What does all this mean for Ghana? How much of the oil revenue will Ghana actually see? I will let you the readers draw your own conclusions.
In October 2009, ExxonMobil and Kosmos entered a deal in which Exxon agreed to buy Kosmos' stake in the Jubilee oil field for US$4 billion. This deal is reported to have been blocked by the Ghanaian government who is investigating alleged corruption by Kosmos. Interestingly, a U.S. newspaper, the Washington Times, reported last week that the Ghanaian government and Kosmos are "bitterly fighting over who ultimately will control [Jubilee] field". Already, the Ghanaian government is being vilified for attempting to protect the interests of Ghanaians. Washington Times claims that President Atta-Mills' government "has targeted foreign companies that invested heavily in Ghana under the prior administration" and that "Ghana's recent actions toward foreign investors is 'very worrisome'". The Times describes "the Kosmos case as 'the most egregious,' but not the only one." Mind you, there is nothing being reported about Kosmos' apology to the Ghanaian government. It is an interesting and telling turn of events. Barely a year ago, the western media highly praised Ghana as a rising star for our peaceful, albeit hotly contested, democratic elections in December 2008. The pro-Ghana fever was further heightened when U.S. President Barack Obama visited the country in July 2009.
By the way, the Washington Times was founded to "combat communism" and is known for its conservative right-wing position on social and political issues. There have been claims that it is one of the media mouthpieces of the Republican Party with constant distortions of the truth to satisfy its right-wing agenda. That should tell you something. Regardless of these reports and attempts to prejudice the American public against Ghana, I encourage the Mills Administration to continue to fight to protect Ghana's interests in this case. Moreover, and returning to the issue at hand, the government should also consider ways in which any oil revenue can benefit Ghana for years to come. Vincent McNabb said "hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them." The experiences of Nigeria and other African nations such as Sierra Leone should remind us that as a people we can continue to hope for economic growth but we should not blindly assume that all shall be well.
Take Nigeria, for example. It is the world's 12th largest producer of petroleum and the 8th largest exporter. It has the 10th largest proven oil reserves and classified as the second largest economy in Africa. Oil makes up 40% of Nigeria's earnings. One would expect that Nigeria would have a low poverty rating. On the contrary, and according to Rural Poverty Portal, "despite Nigeria's plentiful agricultural resources and oil wealth, poverty is widespread in the country and has increased since the late 1990s. Over 70 per cent of Nigerians are now classified as poor, and 35 per cent of them live in absolute poverty." Going back to my earlier point, more than hope is needed to make sure that Ghana does not end up in the same boat as Nigeria.
Ghana needs to take all the necessary precautions and ensure that the proper and essential structures are in place to see this dream of a developed Ghanaian economy come to fruition. This means not having corrupt government officials and politicians who want to put what is rightfully owned by the people of Ghana into their own coffers. It means having a government with enough of a sense of responsibility to develop mechanisms that will ensure that the proceeds (or at least a portion thereof) from the oil would go back to the people – not government officials, the people of Ghana. More than that, it means the people of Ghana should not sit idly by and watch as their birth rights are sold to the highest foreign bidder or squandered by corrupt government officials. We need to call our government to task and hold them accountable for use of our oil revenue. We need to DEMAND that we do, in fact, see part of the proceeds from the oil revenues. By all means, the revenue should go back into socio-economic infrastructure and public services such as roads, hospitals, schools, technology, etc. However, I would proffer that Ghana's oil revenue needs to be managed in such a way that proceeds are assured for hundreds of years to come. Specifically, a large percentage of the oil revenue should go into an investment fund that will generate additional revenues, e.g. through earned interest or investment profits. In addition, some of the cash proceeds should also go directly into the hands of long-suffering hard-working Ghanaians.
While researching this piece, I discovered that Norway and the U.S. state of Alaska had implemented a structure akin to the mechanism I am calling for. Norway is the seventh largest oil exporter and third largest gas exporter in the world even though it is not a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). In 1995, the Norwegian government established a wealth fund known as the "Government Pension Fund – Global". The Pension Fund is funded by oil revenues and includes taxes, dividends, sales revenues, and licensing fees. The Norwegian government controls its oil revenue through a combination of stakes in major operators in the oil fields. It has about 62% ownership in Statoil and runs the fully state-owned Petoro; Petoro has twice the market value of Statoil.
Also, the Norwegian government controls exploration licensing and production of fields. The Fund invests in developed financial markets outside the country. Currently, their budgetary rule is to spend no more than 4% of the fund each year, which is assumed to be the normal yield from the fund. Norway's approach to its oil revenues has garnered significant financial benefits for the country as a whole. By January 2006, Norway's Pension Fund controlled assets valued at US$200 billion. By June 2007, the Fund became the largest fund in Europe, with assets of about US$300 billion (equivalent to over US$62,000 per capita). The Fund's savings equal the Norwegian GDP and by April 2007 was the largest capital reserve per capita of any nation.
Projections suggest that the Norwegian Pension Fund will soon become the largest capital fund in the world. Currently it is the second-largest state-owned sovereign wealth fund after the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Conservative estimates suggest that the Pension Fund may reach US$800–900 billion by 2017. As of November 2009, the size of the Pension Fund was approximately US$455 billion and has control over approximately 1.25% of all listed shares in Europe and more than 1% of the publicly traded shares in the world. The Norwegian Central Bank has investment offices in London, New York, and Shanghai. New government guidelines (implemented in 2007) allow the Pension Fund to invest up to 60% of its capital in shares while the remaining 40% may be placed in bonds and real-estate.
Similarly, Alaska's state government established the Alaska Permanent Fund in 1976 to manage a surplus in state petroleum revenues from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Since its initial principal sum of US$734,000, the fund has grown to US$40 billion as a result of oil royalties and capital investment programs. Every year, the state legislature takes out 8% from the earnings, puts 3% back into the principal for inflation proofing and the remaining 5% are distributed to all qualifying Alaskans. Since 1982, dividends from the Fund's annual growth have been paid to eligible Alaskans. The portion of the dividends received by Alaskans range from US$331.29 in 1984 to US$3,269.00 in 2008 and included a one-time US$1200 "Resource Rebate". I wonder if the Washington Times would argue against having the Alaska Permanent Fund. Ironically, Alaska has historically been a republican-leaning state yet they have deemed it necessary to protect the rights of Alaskans just as the Ghanaian government is working to protect the rights of Ghanaians.
In any event, some might argue that administration of the fund disbursement scheme that I am calling for will be too much of a challenge for the Ghanaian government. In response, I would suggest that Ghana's National Identification System (NIS) is the perfect starting point. NIS was established to help the government's national development planning. One of the goals of NIS is to boost the delivery of social services such as health, retirement benefits, social administration, and credit facilities by providing population census data. So, for instance, NIS could be used to facilitate payment tracking systems by providing the government with data on those qualified to receive the Fund's proceeds. Depending on advancements offered by financial institutions, payments can then be made to the qualified individuals via check, direct deposit, or electronic fund transfers. Also, payment centres can be established for individuals who may not have bank accounts. Obviously, internal control mechanisms need to be built in to avoid fraudulent activity, embezzlement, mismanagement and misappropriation of funds, double payment, and the like. In sum, there is no doubt that we will encounter some challenges in designing and implementing a Fund similar to that of Norway and Alaska. However, creative thinking and in-depth analysis will help us find solutions to any problem.
The challenges notwithstanding, proper management of our oil revenues will have countless long term benefits for Ghana just as it has had, and continues to have, for Norway and Alaska. If a portion of Ghana's oil revenue is placed in an interest-bearing account or in some form of capital investment program as has been set up in Norway, dividends inured can be used to build and maintain important infrastructure. Like the Alaska Fund, I would encourage the government to disburse a portion of the dividends to Ghanaians. 28% of our population live on about a dollar a day. This means that with a population of 24 million, 6.72 million Ghanaians live in the most abject poverty earning US$456.25 a year. This statistic does not even include the additional millions of Ghanaians who may be teetering just above the poverty line. Imagine how much life would improve for these Ghanaians if they were assured an additional US$300? How much more if they got an additional US$3,000 a year? Not to mention the fact that this money will be pumped back into the economy generating businesses, jobs, etc.
Interestingly, last year, Norway sent a government delegation to Ghana to advise the Ghanaian government of how to deal with its oil resources. The offer came after Kofi Annan, fearful that Ghana could succumb to the "oil curse", asked the Norwegian government to share its experiences with the Ghanaian government. There are claims that Ghana could develop a fund for its oil revenues similar to Norway's Pension Fund. However, I have not seen any reports in the news expounding on the government's plans to set up such a fund and would ask that, to the extent those claims are true, those plans be made public. The Ghanaian public has a right to know what plans are in the works for Ghana's oil resources. Furthermore, I urge the government to seriously consider examples of both the Norwegian Pension Fund and Alaska Permanent Fund. (Emphasis added). In my humble opinion, a hybrid of the two mechanisms could be very beneficial to Ghana and its citizens.
In closing, I would like to say that Ghana's oil is a gift from God that we could continue to benefit from for an eternity, but it MUST be managed properly. The responsibility of how the proceeds from this bounty are managed does not fall solely on the shoulders of the government. It is the collective responsibility of both government and the people of Ghana to ensure that this valuable resource is managed properly. As such, I call on the people of Ghana not to be silent or ignore this very important issue. We, the people, must hold the government accountable. We must demand that the government tell us what plans they have for managing the oil revenues. We must insist on long-term plans that will benefit our children, our children's children, to wit, our future generations. We must require a management scheme that has built-in checks and balances. There must be accountability and transparency and above all neutrality and fairness in the management and disbursement of the oil proceeds. There must be swift action against ANY individual who attempts to misappropriate the funds. There must be zero tolerance for corruption by government officials and anyone appointed to manage the oil revenue. The time for action is now, not when the oil starts to flow and the dollar signs begin to distract us and the government from doing what needs to be done. We have been blessed with a beautiful gift. We all must make sure it is not squandered.
Credit: SS Quist The author is in-house counsel for an international non-profit organization. This piece represents the author's opinions and not that of the author's employer or anyone associated with the author.