The Nigerian government on Thursday disclosed that it would require a total sum of $1.1 billion loan to implement its Green imperative initiative.
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, who disclosed this at the launching of the project at the old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, said the project was part of Buhari administration's moves to reposition and diversify the economy in a sustainable way.
The initiative is a Nigeria-Brazil Cooperation Project Agriculture.
She explained that the loan which would majorly be provided by Brazilian government, would be provided in kind through the supply of agricultural machinery and implements in the form of Completely Knocked Down, CKD, parts.
The minister said: "The project we are launching today will be implemented with a total loan package of US$1.1 billion majorly from the Brazilian government, which will be disbursed in four tranches over a period of two years.
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who launched the project, described the initiative as a game changer in repositioning the country's economy.
"We cannot bring our nation out of poverty without investment in agriculture.
Speaking at the programme, the Brazilian Ambassador to Nigeria, Ricardo Guerra de Araujo, said the $1.1 billion contract includes 10,000 tractors to be assembled here in Nigeria, more than 707 centres to be established to train not less than 10,000 Nigerians. He also said the project aims to create over five million new jobs, especially among the youths.


The morning sun dissipated the fog.
The fog should dissipate soon.
Her anger began to dissipate after a while.
He had dissipated [=squandered] his family's fortune in only a few years.
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Moto Z2 Force Launched in India alongside TurboPower Pack Moto Mod
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The Moto Z2 Force smartphone has recently been launched in India. The new Motorola mobile comes with the ShatterShield technology that assures 'shatterproof' features for display. This feature is similar to the existing 'Force' series of smartphones. It boasts the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset. The company has also bundled a battery Moto Mod along with the device.
Coming to the price, the Moto Z2 Force is priced at Rs 34,999 in India. In this price range, the phone will go neck-to-neck with the other flagship smartphones likes of OnePlus 5T, Nokia 8 and the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2. The handset will be available exclusively on Flipkart from 12 am on February 16. The company is offering the TurboPower Pack Moto Mod bundled with the device which is regularly priced at Rs 5,999.
Moto Z2 Force: Specifications
The latest Motorola smartphone in India features a 5.5-inch QHD (1440×2560 pixels) POLED display with ShatterShield tech. Under the chassis, there lies a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC with 6GB of RAM and Adreno 540 GPU. On the storage front, there is 64GB internal storage which can be extended up to 2TB via microSD card. Also, the handset comes with a water repellent nano-coating which ensures protection against splashes.
For photography, there is a dual rear camera setup consisting two 12MP Sony IMX386 sensors. One of the dual camera setup has Bayer while the second one has the Clear lens of f/2.0 aperture. This essentially means that the users will get the depth of field effects on the device due to such camera setup. Furthermore, the camera offers laser autofocus, zero motion lag, dual LED flash, and CCT.
Also, there is a 5MP selfie snapper offered on the device which has a f/2.2 aperture, flash, and an 85-degree wide-angle lens. The connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth, dual-band Wi-Fi, and GPS. The sensors onboard include barometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, gyroscope, and magnetometer.
Furthermore, a 2730mAh battery completes the package. Also, the company is offering a Moto TurboPower battery pack Moto Mod which will juice the device once the built-in battery exhausts.
Motorola is believed to launch a bunch of smartphones at the upcoming MWC 2018 event.
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Eco-Boats Take On Olympic Effort to Clean Rio's Waterways
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Three vessels are currently cleaning Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Flickr/Charlie Phillips
Boats have recently been spotted in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay in connection with the 2016 Olympic Games. But they aren't there for sailing practice — their purpose is to clean up garbage in the area's notoriously polluted waterways in preparation for the events.
Dubbed "eco-boats," the three vessels are each manned with three-person crews — two navigators and one garbage collector. They're tasked with removing all sorts of garbage from the water, everything from water bottles and sofas to electronics and household appliances. Each boat holds about 37 square feet of trash, which is then sorted into waste and recyclables. This is no small task, either: Garbage floats near the surface in such high volume that it poses a risk of colliding and interfering with Olympic sailboats and other watercraft if it's not collected. Seven more boats are planned for deployment over the next two months.
These efforts are part of a larger $840 million bay cleanup project led by Brazilian authorities in preparation for the 2016 Games. In the Rio 2016 Sustainability Management Plan, large-scale eco-barriers are also planned to be constructed where rivers meet the bay to prevent new waste from entering the water.
But the construction and preparations for the 2016 Games and its added toll on the area's resources are not to blame for the state of Rio's waterways. Decades of poor waste and pollution management has contributed to the problem, with limited trash collection and sewer processing services for the area's 6 million residents causing dangerously high levels of pollution in the water.
With only 30 percent of the area's sewage being treated — and the rest flowing directly into rivers and bays — fecal contamination levels are 195 times the level of what is considered safe in the United States, posing dangerous conditions for Olympic athletes. While the eco-boats will not address sewage issues, Rio is taking action on that front as well, with the Sustainability Management Plan calling for expanded capacity at treatment plants and upgrades to the sewer network.
Rio's Olympic organizing committee has almost two and a half years to fulfill its commitment of reducing water pollution by 80 percent. Despite what appears to be a hard road ahead of them, officials seem confident that environmental goals will be met. However, Rio will have to take additional steps if the city wants to keep its waters clean after the Games have ended. Biologist and environmentalist Mario Moscatelli recently told the Associated Press, "This sort of manual collection is great for photos. But it doesn't even begin to address the root of the problem."
Want to read more about Rio's cleanup efforts? Rio de Janeiro Lays Down the Law on Littering


PTCL, in collaboration with WWF-Pakistan, conducted a Spellathon for 1,000 primary school students from Mashal Model School and Pehli Kiran School, located on the outskirts of Islamabad. A total of 50 students were selected from the spelling competition and were awarded with High Achievers awards.
WWF-Pakistan launched the Spellathon campaign in 1997, which is an environmentally driven educational initiative, targeting the youth of Pakistan. The objective of the campaign is to raise awareness and understanding for the need to conserve, protect and manage Pakistan's natural resources and also improve their comprehension skills through competition. PTCL is a socially responsible organization that strives to contribute to the field of education as a primary focus area of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.


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Constantine Frangakis
Martin Lindquist
Elizabeth Ogburn (Betsy) is an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests include the development of new methods for statistical and causal inference in the presence of interference (when one subject's treatment may affect other subjects' outcomes) and ways to deal with complex, non-Euclidean dependence that may be present when observations are sampled from members of a social network.
Michael Rosenblum is an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research areas/interests include adaptive clinical trial designs, robustness to model misspecification, and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. Recent Publications:
Rosenblum, M. (in press) Adaptive Randomized Trial Designs that Cannot Be Dominated By Any Standard Design at the Same Total Sample Size. Biometrika.
Rosenblum, M, Liu H, Yen E-H. (in press) "Optimal Tests of Treatment Effects for the Overall Population and Two Subpopulations in Randomized Trials, Using Sparse Linear Programming" Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods).
Dan Scharfstein is professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
His research is focused on how to draw inferences about treatment effects in the presence of selection bias, specifically how to report results in randomized trials with informative missing or censored data and in observational studies with non-random treatment assignment.
Elizabeth Stuart is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Biostatistics. Her primary research interests are in statistical methodology for mental health research, particularly related to causal inference and missing data. Her current methodological projects focus on best practices for the use of propensity score methods, methods for generalizing treatment effects from randomized trials to target populations, and propensity score methods that can account for measurement error in covariates. Her broad application areas of interest are mental health and education, with a focus on autism, evaluations of mental health policies (such as parity legislation), and suicide. She currently serves as Chair of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute's Clinical Trials Advisory Panel.
Iván Díaz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
His research focuses on the study of semiparametric efficient estimation, machine learning methods, causal inference, and missing data.
S. Guy Mahiane
Hwanhee Hong is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Elizabeth Stuart in the department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests include propensity score, measurement error, causal inference, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, network meta-analysis, comparative effectiveness research, personalized medicine, and missing data.
Trang Q. Nguyen, a recent JHSPH graduate with a PhD from the HBS department and an MHS from the biostatistics department, is currently a postdoc in the MH department's DDET Program. Working with Elizabeth Stuart, she is trying to learn everything causal inference and discovering the joy of doing simulations. Her current project (with Yenny Webb-Vargas and Liz Stuart) is about causal mediation analysis with multiple mediators.
Kevin Psoter is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests include methods to estimate treatment effects in the absence of randomization, specifically in patients with cystic fibrosis.
Qing Cai is a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Parichoy Pal Choudhury is a fifth year biostatistics PhD student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He works with Dan Scharfstein. His research is focussed on learning about scientific and causal questions from multiple data sources in scenarios where a single data source is not sufficient to answer the question of interest. He has worked on scientific problems arising in applications from genetic epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, clinical trials and electronic medical records.
David Lenis is a third-year biostatistics PhD student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He works with Elizabeth Stuart, studying doubly robust estimators under the presence of measurement error and propensity score estimation in case-control studies.
Yi Lu is a PhD Candidate of Biostatistics in Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her current research is focused on semi-parametric estimation for treatment effects under various sampling designs.
Tianchen Qian is a third-year PhD student of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He works with Constantine Frangakis on deductive derivation on semiparametric estimator, and on doubly sampling design. He also works Michael Rosenblum on clinical trial design that leverages prognostic information to improve efficiency.
See more at http://tcqian.wordpress.com/.
Yenny Webb-Vargas is a fifth-year biostatistics PhD student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She works with Martin Lindquist and Elizabeth Stuart, studying functional causal mediation, designs of experiments for mediation, and measurement error and propensity score estimation.
Zhenke Wu is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biostatistics in Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In the realm of causal inference, he is generally interested in developing new methods for handling missing data and deviation from protocols, which are commonly encountered in medicine, public health and sociology. Recently, he is involved in research projects including:
a) evaluation of treatment effect under matched-pair cluster randomized design with application to guided-care nurse intervention
b) efficient semi-parametric estimation from a computational perspective
His long-term interest is to develop statistical methods to integrate both observational and experimental data for monitoring and improving individual health trajectories.


The sensors detect arm and body motions associated with smoking and the app then automatically texts 20- to 120-second video messages to smokers to nudge them by emphasizing both the health gains and the financial benefits of not smoking.
Researchers said the mobile alert system might be the first that combines an existing online platform with mindfulness training and a personalized plan for quitting smoking.
Case Western, in fact, found the technology has thus far demonstrated more than 98-percent accuracy in detecting "lighting up" from other similar motions.
The system was conceived, developed and tested over the last year by a team of electrical engineering and computer science researchers at the Case School of Engineering in collaboration with a clinical psychologist at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
The app initially runs on Android-based operating systems.


We wanted to start the next day trek at a relaxed pace as we had a short distance to cover. We would trek mostly through the forest roads never to take right in which case we would again reach Dudhsagar. On our way, we spotted a board which read 500mts to Ghost Canon. This 500mts never came for almost a kilometer. The canon was full of rocks with water standing in between its two banks. We reached Aranyak where we took a pit stop.
We next stopped for lunch on the road side. Inspite of taking sweet time, we reached Nandran camp site very early by 2:30PM. We dried our clothes in that hot afternoon sun, within no time they were dried. This camp had two deep wells for water. We had to pull the water out from well using buckets and use it for drinking and all other needs. The evening snacks had tea and peanuts. We took a stroll around this beautiful camp site to locate a watch tower.
Suma scared a pity spider by snapping a macro shots at it a hundred times. We saw panther marks on the trees around the camp, we were warned not to go out after dark. We started going through the pics taken, we were excited to see them on big screen. Our group had grown big with wifi and team, Ashi lured us by showing the pics of Sarkundi. Amazing place!!! We had our supper and assembled for our last campfire of our trek. Santhosh ji entertained us with his soulful songs. Camp leader too shared few jokes with us. Followed by songs and dance. We dint want to sleep so early so few of us continued our singing, dancing and experience sharing sessions. Mandeep finally danced!!!
The last day trek was a long one and also to be covered by noon. Santhosh uncle and Alka Aunt bid bye to the rest of the trek members as they were to catch a early train to Mumbai. We all missed their lovely company. We started early, initially the trek was inside the forest for almost 6kms. Reached a small stream. Our first pit stop. We reached another beautiful stream on the way. We relaxed here for a long time. Soon crossed a trench which was being dug to avoid public entering into the forest. After the forest exploration we were to walk on those tar roads, saw such roads after a long break. But this stretch was extremely tiring because of the hot sun. I literally threw myself on the road at one point of time. It was not too long fortunately. We reached the ancient temple in tambdi surla. Suma liked this name Thambdi Surla so much that she planned to name her childern after this name :P one will be named Thambdi and the other one as Surla!!! WOW. Imagine. The welcome drink here was the fresh stream flowing adjacent to the temple. The temple has a beautiful structure resembling any other south Indian temple. Like any other temples, this one too has few disfigured structures. But the linga in side the Garbha gudi was beautifully decorated with flowers.
left the same day. We had plans to visit evening cruise and then have dinner outside. With great lot of difficulty and confusion we boarded Royale cruise, which was more or less a military school wrongly named a party cruise. We still managed to have lil fun and started looking for a good hotel to fill our empty stomachs.
The next trail was in dudhsagar forest. We had a train from Velsao to Colem station. It took less than an hour to reach the last station from where we would start trekking in the Bhagawan Mahaveer Sanctuary. The trek was inside the forest for the rest of the camp. Manoj Joshi in his briefing had mentioned about the ticks which are noticed in the forest which will bite the softer skin creating itching of skin. The solution for this problem was to apply a mixture of coconut oil and dettol. As soon as we reached colem, we applied loads of this solution, started walking in the dense forest. We looked for arrow marks every hundred meters. If for a long time one din't find any arrows then it was clear that we were on the wrong track. We did mistakes couple of times. On such mistakes was to reach the rail track, perfect spot for pics.
We waited for a goods train to pass by and then Sathu located that the arrows showed a different path so we descend down to take the forest path. We spotted many streams on our way, to splash some water on the sweating face, filling our bottles and to soak our tired legs in it for some help. The camp was near a village, the camp leader whom we named Angaar, stood near the stream directing us towards the camp.
We found a lovely stream to take bath, extremely cold water added to the thrill of taking bath in a natural jacuzzi. Hmmm we had the best bath here. I felt like sitting on the banks of this stream forever, for there was so much of life here. Fishes playing around your legs, the music of the flowing water, felt so close to nature.
ANGAAARRR had a grim face, giving a briefing and mentioned every small details about the camp. The dustbins, number of pits in the camp. So now what do we do learning this. Ha Ha!!! He was supposed to be in a military camp, he gave strict instructions about the timings to collect and return the blankets, food and keeping the tents clean. He had warned us, if the tents were not kept clean, we would not be given pack lunch… Oh god!!!! Sometime around 7PM, Santhosh sir gave commands to guys who marched left – right left – right… Ha Ha… I could hear guys making fun shouting – "arre 6:30 baj gaya, kambal vapas kardo!!!!".
After the briefing, Su, Suma and myself went to the stream back and sat there till it was dark. This was the best part of the trek. Suma was telling the comments on the toilets in this camp – as they were "high from down" (?????.) Me & Su found people trying to capture pictures of butterflies in their camera… HA HA !!! LOL!!! We usually speak nonsense but irrespective of what ever we speak, we have great fun spending time together and with the nature. Going back, super delicious pakoda and hot tea follwed by quick dinner. Bikinga guys also joined us here.
We were to visit dudhsagar falls today. Camp leader joined us till the falls. There was very less water, so we dint get to see its real grandeur. We were strictly not allowed to get into the water. We walked on the rail track for a while and waited for a train to gush in when we were passing through on of those pitch dark tunnels. From here, we started descending down into the forest. Patches of grasslands in between. Camp leader instructed us to apply the medicine for ticks now, we walked into the forest and the camp leader bid bye back to his camp to tame another bunch of trekkers.
Looking for a stream for lunch, we walked quite a distance. We were not sure to find any on the way so halted near the lime soda shop. After lunch few surrendered for a nap and few of us started UNO. We were 10 of us so naturally the game went for a long time. Nobody was in a hurry to reach the next camp. The game went for more than an hour by then a small group had left while those who were sleeping made themselves at home under a tree. The game was great fun. Rest of the trek till the camp was lil tiring where we had to climb and run down inside the forest.
We reached caranzol camp by evening. Contrastingly camp leader of caranzol was very jovial and easy going man. He assured a separate charging point for girls ha ha!!! Yes, it was a tough game to get a two pin slot to charge your cell phone. Caranzol, another lovely camp right in front of the stream. We dint want to miss another lovely massage by the stream water. UNO geared up again, teen pathi also made entry under the guidance of Santhosh uncle. After tea, We climbed up the camp site, a open field covered by hills from all sides. Tried some photography till the dusk, few could make calls home using those thin signals. Today no missing the campfire for another round of dumb charades. Santhosh uncle sang some lovely songs dedicated to his lovely wife, who never came out of the tent during campfires. I should not forget to mention Vishal and Jathin's Bhojpuri song.
The real trek was to start today from Mobor beach to Benaulim, a 12km walk along the beach. I used to always dream of walking on the beach bare foot all the length of its shore. Every other second a wave comes and washes away the sand below your feet. The moment the bus dropped us from base camp to mobor beach, we threw our luggage on the share and jumped into the water. The strech of virgin beaches in goa had started treating us, leaving us alone from the otherwise crowded beaches.
We all had lovely time enjoying the natural acupuncture while walking. The sun was scorching as if angry with us. Probably that's how goan weather is, but it was tiring to bear him. We were dead tired and stopped at every shack we came across. The lunch packed were again poori and aloo subzi…. No!!!! We pushed them into our empty stomach. After another round of swim in the beach, we all started walking again towards the next camp. All one could see the endless sea and the never-seen camp. We were desperately looking for the YHI Camp board which came after a long long time and that was 4:15 in the evening. So we had walked from 10:30 in the morning till 4:15 in the evening with an hour's break for lunch.
We were welcomed by the camp leader in Beanulim. Welcome drink used to be RASNA served at 4:30. Two small rooms for girls and a big hall for the guys. The camp leader's tent was adjacent. Camp had no bathrooms, so no bath. HUH!!!
After hot cup of tean and pakoda, we started exploring the place around. We were told that Benaulim had a good market. Wanted to visit it, but we choose beach over the market and went straight to the beach to watch the sunset. Sat there till dark and walked back to the camp. By 8 delicious dinner was served. Catched sleep early coz of the tablet which went in to cure my throat infection.
Next day morning, I had blocked nose. It was difficult to imagine a hard day of trek. I had to force myself get up and start the day. Anywys no worries of taking bath :P we freshened up and lined up for chole bathura. Packed lunch and started our next day trek to Velsao.
Strangely nobody went even close to sea today. Ha ha we were tired of beaches by now. Sun was even more sharper today. But the distance to be covered was much lesser than previous day. So we took long pit stops more often. The group moved at its own pace. I was dead tired today, I was blaming myself for not working out properly before going there.
We took shade under the coconut trees lined up along the shore. The moment you halted for rest, I would fall on my back resting on the luggage and within no time grab a nap. Most difficult part was to lift back the aching shoulders load them with the fat luggage and start walking again. I hated this part.
We were left just a half an hour walk to reach the next camp site. We found life guards house to have lunch and relax. We had lunch and started chit chat with the few others who had stopped for lunch. Sitting on top of the guards house we could get a nice view of the beach. For better connectivity Mr Wifi sat on the tower waiting for better signals. Ha ha!!!! Ashish, Mohit aka Wifi, Survesh aka Par Par paresh and Parimal, who sings so good.
Reaching camp, Velsao camp was lovely, facing the beach. A perfect evening to spend on the beach and enjoy the last sunset of the year. I could not stop myself from throwing into the water. No regrets, for now I know what I would have had missed in that case. I had gala time in the beach.
Well, taking bath in after a dip in salt water was a must. This was new variety of bath.... no further details. The bath was refreshing, so was the tea too. Charging points were available here, I managed to fill in some life to my dead S2 for I had to make or receive calls for the night. Post dinner we had plans for Camp fire on the beach, a real camp fire ha... Not like the one in base camp with few bulbs HUH!!! Goa has a ritual of burning an old man while they welcome the new year. The story seemed interesting to me, like this old man who has a cigar in his mouth and a bottle in his hand is burnt implying that we leave behind all our bad habits and start the new year as a better person. Well the story remains just a story most of the time. We played anthakshari till it striked 5 minutes to 12, this was the best part - that crowd crossed all craziness by creating our own forms of the same, sang the same line hundred times, searching for songs on our phones, at times guys danced in excitment "chumma chumma de de ...." OMG!!! it was. Clock ticked 12 finally, all started shouting a countdown and announced a new year... My watch still showed a minute left, anyways our phones started ringing. Every body around exchanged greetings. We walked close to the sea, enjoyed the crackers throwing colors in the sky ...a nice place to start a year ha!!!! We walked back to our tents but the phone calls never ended. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
Hot tea at 5:25AM. You need to be ready by then to have it. I had to forget sleeping till late for the rest of the camp. After a warm up, We were ready for the rock climbing and rappeling. This was my second rock climbing task after the one I did in Nilshi, Mumbai. I had fun doing it.
To get acclamatised to walking, we did a short trek to Dona paula, a lovely place. We walked from Miramar beach which was right behind the camp site for couple of kms. We reached a garden facing the beach. The guide who had come along with us, asked us to keep our lugguages on the benches and settle down on the grass. Quick round of short introduction of all the participants, about their previous treks through YHI. We were very few freshers. Majority of them had atleast done one in the past. I was surprised to know that many had done Sarpass, Sarkundi treks more than once. The age group was also diverse. Youngsters naturally out numbrered, but none the less there were many who were here enjoying their retired life. There were 26 guys from IIT BHU, Varanasi. 4 from Nagpur both doing their BTech. Many from bangalore including us. The guide had to choose amoung us as a leader, deputy leader and a environment leader. Rohit the most common name suggested for all the posts... I still don't understand why. Finally we had Vishal from BHU as a leader, Santhosh Sir as deputy leader who was accompanied by his beautiful wife Alka Aunt. Rohit had to become the environment leader. So you know his job... :) Interesting. By now we had atleast few names registered. The group started moving towards Dona paula. The sun was scorching forcing us to quench the thirst with a lime soda. Climb up a few steps, a lovely sight of miramar beach and the shore getting dreched by those small waves.
We boarded a bus from dona paula to reach the base camp. After lunch, we submitted our extra luggage. UNO had started playing its charm on us. We had a breifing session by Manoj Joshi. I was surprised to see this man, whom I imagined to be a young man after listening to him over fun, was a young at heart man with so much energy and zeal. He educated us about the history and geography of Goa. Noting down the route map for the trek which was to start from next day. Snake show was scheduled just to make us aware of the common snakes found in the goan forest. Lil about what has to be done if we come across this creatures and handle the situation if one gets kissed by them. Lotsa myths more than facts. Awesome queries and equally interesting replies. Our hero was brought in a sack, we were assured that it was a non venomous snake so guts played less role, all liked feeling his skin, holding him, posing with him. But the snake charmer was always careful enough to make sure that his dear darling was not hurt by any of us. Dinner time, yummy!!!!
YHI was always in my top list for it being very afforable and being different from any other travel groups. Its a great opportunity to seen the unseen through YHI. When I was plannin my shutdown, I came across Goa National trekking expedition for 9 days from their website. Seemed okey for me to take 4 extra leaves. Informed frens and as expected only few could say yes. Till the last minute we dint have the list of those who would be going to goa. Finally, lucky ones made it - Me, Su, Suma, Sumanth and Adi. We booked the transport and the programme almost two months ahead of the date. Got our leaves approved and waited for the new year holiday.
We planned to start from bangalore on 27th evening. Suhas, Manu, Abhi, Manas had come to see us off from majestic at 8:30PM. Suhas knew what he was missing now. We reached Goa by 9AM to report in Campal base camp, panaji Gao. Panaji bus stand was crowded, weather was contrasting to that of bangalore showing 33 degrees. We were now sweating inside a local bus to reach campal, a 15mins ride from bus stand. The buses in panaji will not move out untill they are completely packed with passengers. The conductors job is to use his best skill to fill in as many people as possible. The fares are super cheap & the driver is kind enough to stop where ever you want. We least effort we reached the base camp. It was close to 10AM. We checked in, collected our IDs searched for our alloted tents. My first impression lookin at the tents was like - "Am I spending the rest of my 9 days here... ???" Well it was my own choice to come here. There were family camping, biking guys, sailing team and the huge trekking crowd. Easily more that 600 people. The frustration grew after we looked around the camp and esp the bathrooms. We were forced to digest it. We freshed up, planned to go around the city for the rest of the day, as there were no activities. We collected our knapsack, bedspreads and inner sleeping bag. These added to our assets till the end.
Shubha from bangalore who was in the same bus as ours also joined us. We took a short walk to find a small hotel to have puri and bhaaji. We started to calangotte beach around 15kms from the panaji bus stand. Ride was a long one in the local bus sitting in the last row enjoying the view of the city with every house decorated for chirstmas. Calangotte beach was crowded like mad. One could sight people every where enjoying a ride on motor boats, banana rides, bumper rides and the parachutes a lil far. For coming in the peak season, we managed to get a deal of Rs500 for all the sports. We enjoyed all the rides except me having a tough time in parasailing, not while in air but sailing. I could easily decide that sailing is not my cup of coffee.
We had late lunch in a hotel near the beach, we took a bus back to panjim bus stand and to the base camp. We took bath in cold water. Sipped in hot tea and ready for the dinner. Dinner had chappathis, aloo baaji, rice sambhar, kheer. pretty much the same all the days. We were informed to assemble for briefing about the programme by the camp leader SP Chauhan, a handsome man. He spoke about the rules, camp site and about the next day plan. Then another round of bournvita surved, lights off by 11:30PM.


I SEE MYSELF AS A STORYTELLER - CAPTURING ARTIFACTS FROM EVERYDAY LIFE.
Since childhood, I have had a fascination with the textures and colors of the shells I collected on the beaches of Cape Cod, where I continue recognize the patterns that fuel my creative energy.
Repurposed materials have a way of speaking to each other and finding a new life. I hand-forge discarded metal, apply copper foil and solder to each pottery shard and luminous glass gem. The elements create an assemblage rich in texture, color and form.
All of this is life-giving to my creative spirit.


I wanted to make a comment, but there was no place to make a comment; so I'm writing my open letter comment here.
I want to discuss erythritol, a sugar alcohol that was not mentioned in the article; erythritol is technically a sugar alcohol. I hope that you will let your readers know that although erythritol is a sugar alcohol it is absorbed into the bloodstream in the small intestine, then most of it is excreted in the urine. Generally, erythritol does not enter the large intestine, which is where the problems that Magee wrote about happen. If you consume an extremely large dose in a short period of time, you could have 'the problem.' As I'm sure you are aware, last year well-researched Truvia and Purvia both were released by very large companies; both products contain erythritol.
Because of the lack of the gastric distress problems, I developed an all-natural, zero-calorie sweetener, containing erythritol and other natural fruit extracts, for my husband, Victor to use to sweeten his diabetic life. My product does not contain stevia, like Truvia and Purvia. There are now hundreds of people using this sweetener (Dr. Grandma's Delight) with no reported problems. Many have been using it for several years. All the fruit extracts in Dr. Grandma's Delight are on the FDA GRAS List - just click on the link above and read more about Delight at the bottom of the page. It's very nice for diabetics and those striving to cut back on sugar and other caloric sweeteners.
African violet doing a nice job, while waiting for spring.


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Q: Problem with XMLHttpRequest conditional XMLHttp.status==200 My Ajax works just fine until I add a conditional status property.
Here's the snippet
if (XMLHttp.readyState==4 && XMLHttp.status==200){
    // do something
}

and here's the complete code
function getXMLHttp()
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            function getResponse(targetID){
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                if(XMLHttp.readyState == 4){
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                    }
                }
            }

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My question is why I can't get the data from data.txt when I add && XMLHttp.status==200 statement ?

A: Could your web-server be returning one of the other 'success' status codes from the HTTP specification?
Try testing if (XMLHttp.status >= 200 && XMLHttp.status < 300).
Can you tell us whether you know or don't know if execution-flow is getting to the fill(targetID,data) line? It would be very unusual if the XMLHttp.status check were interfering in the actual data retrieval step.
From what you've told us, it seems that XMLHttp.readyState must be reaching 4 without XMLHttp.status == 200. Have I misinterpreted your question?

A: I think its the problem in creating the XMLHTTP object. try use the basic syntax that has been provided by w3schools.
            var xmlhttp;
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
    {
    // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
    xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    }
    else if (window.ActiveXObject)
    {
    // code for IE6, IE5
    xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
    else
    {
    alert("Your browser does not support XMLHTTP!");
    }

its work for me or use jquery or prototype.

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Fund to Produce 1.5 Million Affordable Homes for Low Income Americans.
Washington, DC – On Thursday U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, and Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN), along with other members of Congress, introduced a bill with strong bipartisan support to establish a National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) to produce, preserve, and rehabilitate 1.5 million affordable homes in 10 years.
The bill, which will provide some of the most substantial federal funding for affordable housing in the last decade, is supported by more than 5,600 local and national organizations around the country, including the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
At least 75% of the funds will be allocated for housing for extremely low income households who earn less than 30% of an area's median income. The bill will be instrumental in preventing homelessness and helping currently homeless individuals and families access affordable housing.
On any given night, approximately 750,000 people experience homelessness, according to research from the National Alliance to End Homelessness. Single adults comprise approximately 59 percent of that number, while the remaining 41 percent are persons living in families.
Housing trust funds have been established by more than 600 state and local governments and are a successful approach to funding affordable housing programs. Permanent housing is an integral part of community "ten year plans" to end homelessness. "It is critical that the federal government increase funding for affordable housing so that each city and state has the resources to provide permanent options to homeless families and individuals," Roman said.
More information about the National Housing Trust Fund Campaign can be found by clicking here.
This information is from the National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, mission-driven organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. The Alliance analyzes policy and develops pragmatic, cost-effective policy solutions. Working collaboratively with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to build state and local capacity, the Alliance provides data and research that lead to stronger programs and policies that help communities achieve their goal of ending homelessness.
Next Post: The July 11th Congressional Reception to end homelessness in NJ is only a week away!


As a single family residence owner, you would need to schedule and handle all the exterior issues — roofing, painting, landscaping — which is going to take up a lot of your time and energy. These are all tasks the HOA would handle in a condo community. Overall, it's much less work owning a property in an HOA — and that's why owners pay HOA fees. It's a condo "KO" on this issue!
Many people believe that single family homes go up in value more than condos, but there really isn't any conclusive proof of that. Most real estate, in a general vicinity, is going to appreciate about the same 2 to 3% per year over the long term. So you should exclude this one as a consideration. For building wealth, forget the appreciation and instead go for the better cash flow as noted above in Round 1.
Incredible curb appeal on this charming cottage in Capital Heights. Shaded front yard with mature oak trees lead up to a covered front porch with swing and a recently painted exterior. Upon opening the front door, the wall to wall windows allow an abundance of natural lighting in the living/dining area and showcase the amazing wood floors. The kitchen includes slab granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, a gas stove, and opens into the dining area. There are three spacious bedrooms perfect for kids or guests. The master bedroom has updated on-suite bath with tiled shower and large walk in closet. Dream backyard with custom deck ideal for weekend barbeques and entertaining guests. Walking distance to mid city merchants, a walking/bike path, and proximity to Towne Centre are just added bonuses to this wonderful home. Call Tim at 225.301.7467 or visit buyorsellbatonrougehomes.com for more information!
Walking distance to LSU campus, tailgating, and much more is what you will find in this New Orleans style condo minutes from Tiger Stadium. Two bedroom two bath condo features granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, wood floors, and a balcony with great views of Tiger Stadium. Condo amenties include fitness center, private parking, and secure entrances. This would be perfect for a first time LSU student looking to be involved in all the fun festivities LSU has to offer. Motivated seller…Hurry and hear MIKE roar from YOUR backdoor!! Call Tim at 225-301-7467 or visit buyorsellbatonrougehomes.com to learn more!
Three-quarters of the way through the year, homes sales in the eight-parish region tracked by the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors are far outpacing sales in 2011, 2010 and 2009—and are only 1.5% off the year-to-date tally from the pre-recession 2008 sales figures. A total of 5,833 homes have sold in the region through September. That's a nearly 13% increase over the 5,174 sales recorded in the first three quarters of 2011, a 15% increase over the 5,069 sold in 2010, and a roughly 11% increase over the 5,241 sold in 2009. This year's tally through the third quarter indicates just 86 fewer sales than in 2008. GBRAR President-Elect Pat Wattam says she expects 2012 sales to match or exceed 2008 levels when the year is over. "I saw the market turn the corner last November, and what we've seen since is a steady continuation of that," she says. While sales figures are paramount, Wattam says she's also keeping an eye on another figure: the months of inventory for the eight-parish region. In September, it dropped to 6.24 months. A year ago, that figure was at 7.69, and it actually reached as high as 10 months around the start of 2012. Wattam says declining months' inventory is a clear sign of an improving market and that she expects it will continue to fall. She says a healthy market is generally one with about five to eight months of inventory. "With East Baton Rouge dropping below the eight months supply point, that means we're in a very, very steady market. It's not a buyer's market, but it's not a seller's market either," she says. "And in Ascension Parish, that number just dropped to below six months. That tells me it's flipping to a seller's market." —Steve Sanoski This week's poll question: Do you believe the Capital Region housing market has fully recovered from the recession?


Welcome to Teaching Through Documentary Art: Lessons for Elementary and Middle School Social Studies Teachers – 11 stand-alone sets of innovative lessons developed to engage 4th through 8th-grade students in social studies while strengthening their visual, literacy, and analytical thinking skills.
The lesson sets are linked to two murals by documentary artist Susan A. Walton. These murals are featured in the award-winning documentary Davis Bottom, Rare History, Valuable Lives, part of the Kentucky Archaeological Survey's Kentucky Archaeology and Heritage Video Series.
The first painting, Davis Bottom in the 1890s, is a portrait of a working class neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky at the turn of the last century. Davis Bottom was one of the city's first integrated neighborhoods. Learning about the lives of these late 20th century people gives students the opportunity to explore the meaning of neighborhood and the definition of family, the use and abuse of power, and stereotypes about the working poor. Six lesson sets, targeting upper elementary school students (grades 4-5) are linked to this mural.
The second painting, Civil Rights in Lexington – 4th of July 1867, recreates the scene of one of Kentucky's largest civil rights events. William "Willard" Davis, the man responsible for establishing Davis Bottom as an integrated community, was among the speakers that day. Learning about this event helps students understand the situation of newly freed African Americans after the Civil War and the beginnings of their long struggle for civil rights. Five lesson sets targeting middle school students (grades 6-8) are linked to this mural.
Each set begins with a short, illustrated, grade-level background essay, followed by standards-based discussion questions and a list of achieved standards. Teaching tips, which provide suggestions for teaching and activities, round out each set. The lessons are aligned to the Kentucky Core Academic Standards/the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards; the Kentucky Academic Standards/Common Core Standards in English Language Arts; and the Kentucky Academic Standards in Arts and Humanities/National Core Arts Standards.
7) researching a wide array of topics such as African American soldiers of the United States US Colored Troops, music and the military, and voting and civil rights after the Civil War.


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Home>Press Release>Launch of North-South 'Concerned About Suicide' Leaflet
Launch of North-South 'Concerned About Suicide' Leaflet
Asking, listening and getting help for someone can prevent suicide. That was the message from Health Ministers Simon Harris TD and Michelle O'Neill MLA as they jointly launched a new North-South Concerned About Suicide leaflet. The leaflet was launched at the North-South Ministerial Council meeting in Armagh. It highlights how to recognise that someone may be at risk, what to say and, importantly, how to help someone.
Speaking about the leaflet, Minister for Health Simon Harris commented: "Evidence suggests that one in four of us will experience some mental health challenge in our lifetime. Informative measures, such as this leaflet, play an important role in encouraging open conversation around what can be a difficult topic. I hope the launch of this leaflet will help signpost when an individual may need help, and the measures that can be taken to assist them."
Minister Harris continued, "We all have a role to play in helping to prevent suicide, as family, friends or simply acquaintances. This leaflet will help to provide practical information on how best to approach this very sensitive issue and I commend everyone involved in putting it together."
Health Minister Michelle O'Neill said: "Suicide is an important issue both north and south and affects all communities. This leaflet will help to raise awareness and put people in contact with sources of support. "For many people, being able to talk to someone they trust about how they are feeling could be the first step towards recovery."
Minister O'Neill continued: "A person who is thinking about suicide may not ask for help but that doesn't mean that help is not wanted. Letting someone know you are concerned about them, listening and giving support and seeking help are pivotal in helping someone come through a very difficult time in their life."
If you or someone you know is in distress or despair, call Lifeline 24/7 on 0808 808 8000 (if based in North of Ireland), call the Samaritans 24/7 on 116 123 (if based in Ireland) or contact your GP for support and advice.
The leaflet is available at: http://pha.site/quxK (North of Ireland) and https://www.healthpromotion.ie/hp-files/docs/HSP00637.pdf (Ireland).
For further information on tips on talking to someone, please visit www.changeyourmindni.org (North of Ireland) or www.yourmentalhealth.ie (Ireland)
The leaflet was produced as part of North-South cooperation in implementing the Protect Life (North of Ireland) and Connecting for Life (Ireland) strategies.
1. 20,000 copies of the leaflet have been printed and distributed in Ireland. This will be a common resource to be used in the North and South of Ireland.
2. This is a collaborative North-South leaflet with minor differences to reflect relevant contact details for someone needing support.
3. For media enquiries please contact the DoH Press Office on 0106354477, or email press_office@health.gov.ie.
4. Follow us on Twitter: @roinnslainte
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Thor #390 (April 1988)
To say this issue is pivotal in the histories of both Captain America and Thor is an understatement… and we'll find out why soon enough. For now, just know that this is the second half of the Captain's side-trip on the way to confront Tony Stark for his actions in Iron Man #228, the first half having been Avengers #290, in which Cap helped his teammates defeat his old foe the Super-Adaptoid.
As Thor #390 opens, the Avengers are preparing to clean up the mess on Hydrobase, when who should appear but the God of Thunder himself, twirling his hammer in a pose reminiscent of the opening splash page of his first appearance in Journey into Mystery #83 (August 1962).
What's the fuss, Gus? Turns out… nothing at all, other than returning from a battle with the Celestials, which had the pleasant result of healing the wounds he had the last time we saw him and restored his old costume. Like so many others, he does not recognizing the Man in Black; Cap does not seem to take this well, and challenges the Asgardian to hurl the mighty hammer Mjolnir at him. Thor does not hesitate to do this, confirming his old friend's identity without even having to ask for his mother's maiden name (which has never been revealed, I believe—impressive cybersecurity on Cap's part!).
"Dramatically altered your appearance"… give me a break. (Sigh.)
Cap wastes no time in putting Thor to work, having been deputized for the time being by the Avengers' leader Captain Marvel, who is suddenly doubting her ability to run the team despite having been through all this before—with Captain America, no less.
After the team finishes up, most of them take off, leaving the two longest-serving members to chat amongst themselves, and Cap starts by clarifying his new name. (Seeing that Thor usually calls him "Captain" anyway, it shouldn't be that big a deal.)
Cap tells his sad tale while the comic shifts focus, first to Asgard and then to Seth the Serpent God of Death, who swears vengeance on Thor… but Thor is more upset about events here on Earth, making the Falcon look reserved in his urging to fight back against the Commission in Washington, DC. But he told Sam several times, Cap tells Thor he does not want to fight his own government—rather, he has one particular person in mind.
He very concisely explains the events of Iron Man #228…
…and his posture makes his despair clear, as he give Thor (and us) a sneak preview of Captain America #341. For his part, Thor ponders this new struggle between two of his longtime allies and friends, one whom he admires above all others and one whom doth be his true bud, verily.
Of course, Thor has been around the block, so he considers that one or the other has been "affected," with Tony having the more immediately obvious explanation (which happens to not apply this time). Little does he know that neither has changed; rather, both are acting consistent with their established moral characters (if just a bit more extreme, Tony with his "no holds barred" mission to reclaim his tech, and Cap with his absolute refusal to push back against the government).
Before Thor can break more rocks, though, an invasion force led by Grog the God Crusher—not to be confused with Gorr the God Butcher, from the recent Thor saga by Jason Aaron and Esad Ribić—appears on Hydrobase, sent by Seth the Serpent God of Death to defeat Thor the God of Thunder. (Enough with these titles, geez.) The Black Knight, who is still on the island too, hears the call of battle, but wonders where the other two fellas are…
…providing an excuse (as if one were needed) for a fine panel courtesy of Ron Frenz, Brett Breeding, and Christie Scheele, with inspiring exposition by Tom DeFalco that emphasizes the martial virtues of both heroes.
Finally, the moment we've been waiting for: As Thor is subdued by Gogg, Cap sees Mjolnir lying nearby. He watched earlier as Gogg tried in vain to lift it, so he wonders how he can possibly do it—perhaps being unaware of its inscription, reflecting Odin's enchantment demanding that one be worthy in order to lift the mighty Uru hammer.
Apparently Gogg's forces are rugby fans, forming a ruck on top of the Captain and making it very difficult for him to lift anything, much less Mjolnir!
But lift it he does, proclaiming the indomitable will of a determined individual as the same time that he privately marvels at the fact that he was able to lift the hammer at all.
Cap relishes in the power of Mjolnir for a moment before tossing it back to its rightful owner, who breaks free from his own rugby ruck just in time to catch and show the true power of Thor: the Thorspeak!
Who says Cap is the only one who can give profound speeches?
Thor pounds Gogg into the ground and—oopsie—all the way through Hydrobase, setting up a conflict of duties that shows a key difference between Thor and Cap: The former would pursue the wrongdoers and take the battle to Seth, while the latter would rather save lives at the cost of letting Gogg and his forces escape. Neither is right or wrong, but this shows how two virtuous people can make different choices in a case of moral conflict, reflecting their unique moral characters.
Luckily, solving the Hydrobase problem is easier than anybody thought, surprising the Black Knight but apparently not Cap.
When all is said and done, Thor admits his earlier doubts to Cap, which were "quickly erased" after he lifted Mjolnir, proving his worth in the highest manner, based on being "pure of heart and noble of mind."
Of course, few others have wielded Mjolnir, before or since, which Thor acknowledges by declaring that he and Cap are "hammer bros."
In fact, a feature page in Thor #400 (February 1989), drawn by Frenz and Breeding, shows all who have wielded Mjolnir to that point, and it is a select group indeed.
(Dargo, heh. Why wasn't he invited to the ThorFest at the end of the War of the Realms, I wonder? I mean, he was a charter member of the Thor Corps!)
Cap will wield Mjolnir a couple more times, in Fear Itself #7 (December 2011) and Avengers (vol. 8) #28 (February 2020), as well as a little indie film you probably didn't see:
(We won't speak of the issue of the recent Secret Empire event in which the Hydra-ted Captain America lifted it… it's complicated.)
Finally, someone might just have a book coming out in 2022, ahead of the movie Thor: Love and Thunder, about what makes one worthy of wielding Mjolnir, and there's a pretty good chance it mentions this issue. (More on that soon, I hope, here and elsewhere.) In the meantime, check out this episode of the Across the Bifrost podcast, guest-starring Rick Verbanas from the Captain America Comic Books Fans podcast, discussing Thor #390 and the other times Cap wielded Mjolnir.
Thor (vol. 1) #390, April 1988: Tom Defalco (writer), Ron Frenz (pencils), Brett Breeding (inks), Christie Scheele (colors), John Morelli (letters). (More details at Marvel Database.)
Collected in: Thor Epic Collection: War of the Pantheons
ALSO THIS MONTH: Captain America #340 and Avengers #290 (April 1988)
1988, Avengers, friendship, honor, humility, judgment, moral dilemma
April 1988, Thor #390
Avengers #290 (April 1988)
Captain America #341 (May 1988)


Inspired by some new glass and a pair of socks! This bead is Canadiana through and through with hints of a cosy cabin retreat, sock monkeys, curling stones and the night sky.
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Higher asset prices increase the value of firms' collateral, strengthen banks' balance sheets, and increase households' wealth. These considerations perhaps motivated the Federal Reserve's intervention to support the housing market. However, higher housing prices may also lead banks to reallocate their portfolios from commercial and industrial loans to real-estate loans. This column presents the first evidence on this crowding-out effect. When housing prices increase, banks on average reduce commercial lending and increase interest rates, leading related firms to cut back on investment.
How should monetary policy respond to asset price bubbles?
Policymakers around the world often worry about decreases in real-estate prices and other asset prices, and take measures to prevent them. For example, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has engaged in large-scale asset purchases – especially of mortgage-backed assets – to support the housing market and, in turn, the overall economy.
The reasoning behind this policy stems from a large literature in financial economics and macroeconomics that studies the positive effects of increases in asset prices on productive real investment.1 The idea is that firms can borrow and invest more when their assets are worth more, because they can provide more valuable collateral, and also because they have more 'skin in the game', which reduces moral-hazard concerns. This is the so-called 'balance-sheet channel'. There is also a 'lending channel' operating through the banking system – when assets on a bank's balance sheet are worth more, the bank should be able to lend more, thus amplifying a positive initial asset-price shock.2 Finally, an increase in the value of consumers' assets creates a positive wealth effect, leading to higher demand and higher consumption. This demand effect has a further positive impact on productive real investment, as firms respond to higher consumer demand with more investment.
In our new paper, we provide the first empirical evidence on the crowding out effect of housing price appreciation (Chakraborty et al. 2013). Looking at the period from 1988 to 2006, we find that firms that borrowed from banks located in stronger housing markets paid higher interest rates, received lower loan amounts, and ultimately invested less compared to similar firms that borrowed from banks located in weaker housing markets.
The normative implications for the economy are significant – if monetary policymakers are actively supporting one sector of the economy, such as the housing market, they are causing a detrimental effect for other productive sectors.
To begin the empirical analysis, we need to find a proxy for banks' exposure to real estate prices – not an easy task, given the opacity of banks' balance sheets. We obtain our proxy using data on the geography of banks' branches. By weighting the housing prices in each state with bank branch deposit data, we generate a bank-specific housing-price exposure variable.
Figures 1 and 2 show the relationships between bank assets and housing prices. Figure 1 shows that as housing prices increase, banks on average invest more in real estate-related loans. However, Figure 2 shows that as housing prices increase, banks on average reduce their commercial and industrial loan portfolios as a percentage of assets. It appears that in reaction to housing-price appreciations, banks increase real estate lending and decrease commercial lending.
This decrease in commercial lending is interesting if it is caused by a reduction in the supply of capital, as opposed to a reduction in firms' demand for capital. We estimate that a one standard-deviation increase in housing prices (about $79,700 in year 2000 dollars) that a bank is exposed to decreases investment by firms related to that bank by almost 6.3 percentage points, which is approximately 12% of a standard deviation for firm investment. Banks also increase the interest rate charged by 9 basis points, reduce outstanding loans by approximately 9%, and reduce loan size by approximately 4.5%. These results are consistent with banks reducing the supply of capital to firms in response to increased housing prices.
An important endogeneity concern is that housing-price changes may be picking up unobserved changes in economic growth prospects in a certain area. If this bias is present, it should weaken our estimates – an unobserved positive economic shock will both increase housing prices and firm investment opportunities, giving a positive bias to the relation between bank housing prices and firm investment. To address this concern more rigorously, we instrument the banks' housing price exposure using the percentage of land unavailable for development in the bank's area, the state-level mortgage interest rate, and their interaction.5 These instruments are relevant because for a given increase in housing demand (potentially driven by a drop in mortgage interest rates), areas with less developable land should see larger changes in housing prices. Importantly, geographic constraints to housing supply elasticity are unrelated to changing economic conditions. With instrumentation, our estimates of the housing price effect on firms' investment are consistently more negative.
Digging deeper, we find that the negative investment effect is stronger for firms that borrow from smaller, more regional banks, and for firms that have limited sources of external financing (e.g. no access to bond markets). This finding is intuitive because larger banks are presumably able to obtain sufficient capital to allocate in all productive sectors, while smaller banks may have to substitute capital between sectors. Likewise, unconstrained firms should be better able to maintain investment using internal reserves, or to obtain financing from other capital sources (e.g. public debt and equity markets), as they have greater access compared to constrained firms.
It is important to note that our results do not contradict those of Chaney et al. (2012). They show that firms are able to borrow and invest more when their own real estate collateral increases in value. We confirm their result, but find that the overall effect of housing price appreciation is more complex. The bank lending channel that we document generates an opposite effect, and in fact we show that our bank lending channel is of a similar order of magnitude. Thus, the positive effects of the collateral channel may be completely mitigated by the negative effects of the bank lending channel.
While prior research has investigated the effects of a contraction of bank balance sheets on firm activity, our paper is the first to investigate the role of banks in capital allocation when asset prices are rising in a specific sector of the economy. We find that it is incorrect to assume that an expanding balance sheet leads to positive spillover effects across all sectors of the economy. There is a crowding out effect in which banks divert resources across sectors – in the case studied in our paper, rising real-estate prices lead banks to cut commercial loans and increase real-estate loans.
If the change in relative prices is market-driven, then banks can be seen as reallocating resources across sectors to support the growing sector. However, if the price change is policy-driven, then the channelling of assets to one overheated sector of the economy at the expense of other (potentially more productive) sectors may not be the consequence policymakers have in mind.
Bernanke, Ben S (1983), "Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression", The American Economic Review 73: 257–276.
Bernanke, Ben S and Mark Gertler (1989), "Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations", The American Economic Review 79: 14–31.
Bleck, Alexander and Xuewen Liu (2013), "Liquidity Flooding, Asset Prices and the Real Economy", HKUST and UBC Working Paper.
Chakraborty, Indraneel, Itay Goldstein, and Andrew MacKinlay (2013), "Do Asset Price Bubbles Have Negative Real Effects?", University of Pennsylvania and SMU Working Paper.
Chaney, Thomas, David Sraer, and David Thesmar (2012), "The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment", The American Economic Review 102.
Cuñat, Vicente, Dragana Cvijanović, and Kathy Yuan (2013), "How Did US Banks React to Capital Losses Induced by Real Estate Prices?", UNC and LSE Working Paper.
Farhi, Emmanuel and Jean Tirole (2012), "Bubbly Liquidity", Review of Economic Studies 79: 678–706.
Gan, Jie (2007), "The Real Effects of Asset Market Bubbles: Loan- and Firm-Level Evidence of a Lending Channel", Review of Financial Studies 20: 1941–1973.
Holmstrom, Bengt and Jean Tirole (1997), "Financial Intermediation, Loanable Funds, and the Real Sector", Quarterly Journal of Economics 112: 663–691.
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Saiz, Albert (2010), "The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply", Quarterly Journal of Economics 125: 1253–1296.
Tirole, Jean (1985), "Asset Bubbles and Overlapping Generations", Econometrica 53: 1499–1528.
1 This literature is exemplified by the papers of Bernanke and Gertler (1989), Holmstrom and Tirole (1997), and Kiyotaki and Moore (1997).
2 Loutskina and Strahan (2013) investigate the role of integrated banks in amplifying housing-price shocks.
3 See Bernanke (1983), Gan (2007), and Cuñat et al. (2013).
4 See, for example, Tirole (1985), Farhi and Tirole (2012), Bleck and Liu (2013), and Miao and Wang (2013).
5 Land unavailability data is based on Saiz (2010). Our approach is similar to that of Chaney et al. (2012).


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How do Early Childhood Students Conceptualize Play-Based Curriculum?
10.14221/ajte.2012v37n12.8
The study's purpose was to discover student understanding of play-based curriculum. Traditionally, play has been misunderstood in pedagogical terms, and was widely interpreted in our study. The Early Years Learning Framework suggests educator guidance in sustaining play is essential for learning and development. As teacher educators, we wanted to reflect on Play and Pedagogy (A new fourth year unit) that expected students to create a conceptual play model for use in practice. Twenty-six students volunteered de-identified assignments. From these, common conceptual elements were identified. We selected quotes from student's work to support identified concepts and entered a methodology of dialogue commentary to enrich analysis. Students focused discussion on adult's pedagogical approach linking play to pedagogy through varied interpretations of the concept of sustained shared thinking. We found student conceptualisations of play –based curriculum addressed complexities of their role as beginning early childhood educators in new ways.
Ridgway, A., & Quinones, G. (2012). How do Early Childhood Students Conceptualize Play-Based Curriculum?. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 37(12).
http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2012v37n12.8
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Christopher John Charles Thacker (14 March 1931 – 27 September 2018) was an English garden historian.

After graduating from Brasenose College, Oxford, and a Phd at the University of Indiana, he was an academic, but never as a garden historian, a field still emerging in his day.  Mostly he taught French literature at Trinity College, Dublin and Reading University. He was the founding editor of the leading academic journal Garden History.

Selected publications
 Masters of the Grotto, Joseph and Josiah Lane (1976)
 The History of Gardens (1979)
 Of Oxfordshire Gardens (1982)
 The Wildness Pleases; The Origins of Romanticism (1983)
 England's Historic Gardens (1989)
 Historic Garden Tools (1990)
 The Genius of Gardening (1994)
 Building Towers, Forming Gardens: Landscaping by Hamilton, Hoare and Beckford (2002)

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According to Naomi Klein, this is "clear."
According to social activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein, climate change isn't just destroying our planet — it's making racism worse, too.
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"It's clear that as sea levels rise that this mean streak and open racism is going to become more extreme – climate change is an accelerant to all those other issues," she continued.
Yes — "clear." The idea that racism rises with the sea is just so "clear" that no further evidence or explanation is needed. Climate change is making people more mean, and that is just a fact.


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