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The Forum involved almost 250 participants, including ministers, CEOs and senior managers of social security organizations from 35 African countries, and analysed developments in the extension of coverage, the adequacy of benefits and innovation in the use of information and communication technologies. While social security schemes exist in almost all African countries, and many are expanding their reach, a majority of citizens still do not have access to social protection.
Recognizing achievements in social security
Opening the event, International Social Security Association (ISSA) President Errol Frank Stoové welcomed the evidence of progress in social security taking place in the region, but recognized that extension of coverage to vulnerable groups remains a "predominant challenge" for Africa.
"Much work is being undertaken in Africa to make schemes more sustainable and successful, to work towards good governance and to ensure that social security is increasingly proactive and preventive," he said.
"Social security is one of the most dynamic sectors of our society and one of the fundamental pillars of social cohesion and development," Stoové noted.
According to an ISSA report on developments and trends in social security presented at the Forum, African countries have accomplished much to extend social security in recent years.
"Social security institutions across the continent have implemented innovative and effective measures to extend coverage both through contributory schemes, and through an increased focus on schemes for vulnerable groups," according to ISSA Secretary General Hans-Horst Konkolewsky.
"Efforts to extend coverage are nothing new for the region, but a trend towards more effective approaches is clearly discernible."
However, social security institutions face significant obstacles to the extension of coverage, Konkolewsky stated, particularly to reach the informal sector and the rural population. He called on social security institutions to increase collaboration and partnerships, to move beyond their traditional mandates to contribute to coverage extension, and to give greater emphasis to preventive approaches and to the adequacy of benefits.
Towards African forms of social security
Social security policies must be tailored to the cultural and historical context and informal economies of Africa to be fully effective, argued Nathaniel Wellington, Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Sierra Leone.
An emphasis on the development of traditional and community-based African social protection modalities and their incorporation into larger scale formal social protection architecture may be beneficial, he said.
Pervasive poverty and the permanence of the informal sector require specific approaches, Wellington stated. "Through investment in social protection and an emphasis on proactive and preventive approaches, you reduce the need for future support, as well as the inter-generational transmission of poverty."
Improving adequacy of benefits
Together with coverage, social security institutions agree on the necessity of improving adequacy of benefits. In an address to the Forum, Irene Isaka, Director General of Tanzania's Social Security Regulatory Authority, encouraged the development of a "customer-centric" approach by social security schemes, and an emphasis on timeliness and fairness of contributions as ways of ensuring adequacy.
"There is a huge social multiplying effect when you have adequacy," she said.
Isaka called on social security institutions to make use of new technologies, and particularly mobile phones which are more widely-used than banking systems, to pay benefits.
Harnessing new technologies
Social security administrations everywhere, including Africa, need to adapt to meet today's client requirements for improved quality of services, according to Constantine Bitwayiki, an ICT and e-Governance consultant from Uganda.
"ICT systems need to be aligned to business processes and client needs, and not vice-versa," he emphasized. "Social security institutions can leverage technology, but the main driver should be the business process of the institution."
Achieving social security for all
The introduction of a basic "Social Protection Floor" (SPF) to provide minimal social and health protection to the whole population was within the reach of most African countries, according to the representative of the International Labour Office, Judica Amri-Lawson, speaking during the Regional Social Security Summit that ended the Forum.
"The ILO has developed a simple, realistic and pragmatic paradigm for the extension of social security to all," Judica Amri-Lawson recalled. "The main principles of the SPF are sustainability (in financing), affordability according to the population revenues, solidarity, and progressivity (not all benefits to all at the same time)."
"It is our task here to ensure that a powerful African vision of social security and its important role in poverty alleviation, economic development and the achievement of the MDGs is taking its rightful place in the global debate," Amri-Lawson concluded.
Governments and donors have made important policy commitments to the priority of social protection and social security in Africa, Thomas Winther-Schmidt of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reminded participants.
"We need to do a better job in selling our agenda, by communicating some of the successes, good practices and evidence of the role of social protection, and by holding policy makers to account," he concluded.
Time for social security in Africa
In his closing remarks, ISSA Secretary General Konkolewsky underlined the need for social security institutions to continue to improve their governance systems, administrative efficiency and service quality as a gauge of confidence in their essential role in the future extension of coverage.
"The crucial questions of political will and fiscal space which are required to extend coverage now form an integral part of social and economic development strategies in Africa, and create an important window of opportunity to enable access to social security for millions of people living today in social insecurity," he said. "Now is the time for social security in Africa."
Participants agreed on the need to give higher priority to the practical implementation of social protection policies. Ramadhan Dau, Director General of the Tanzanian National Social Security Fund that hosted the event, echoed the sense of opportunity for African social security organizations.
"There are strong messages that emerge from the Forum. We don't need to reinvent the wheel. We have a lot of experience to share in Africa, most immediately in the areas of coverage extension and of building appropriate ICT solutions," Dau stated.
"What is now needed is more government commitment, more political will, for social security and especially the extension of coverage. We are not short of ideas in Africa. It is now time for Africa to act."


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Fairfax Board Auditor to Look at FY2014 Park Reductions
Park officials worry that more reductions could close facilities.
The Fairfax County Park Authority has had to tighten the belt on funds since FY 2009, and FY 2014 could likely be no different.
The county's budgetary outlook for the next few years is grim, prompting County Executive Ed Long's request for agencies to identify potential cuts that would reduce their FY 2014 General Fund needs by 5 percent.
Per the request of park officials, the Board unanimously approved Tuesday an audit of the Authority's general fund services in order to find cuts that won't dramatically affect the operation and maintenance of the county's 420 public parks.
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"Further General Fund reductions will severely impact our personnel levels and equate to facility closings," said William Bouie, Chairman of the Park Authority Board, in his letter to supervisors.
Supervisor Pat Herrity (R-Springfield) supported the motion for an audit review, but didn't want it to become a regular occurrence.
"This causes me a little bit of concern because I don't know if we want to set precedent of every agency that's coming under fiscal pressure going to the audit committee for reductions," he said.
He also noted that the Authority's revenue fund – comprised of fee dollars as opposed to tax dollars – had increased since 2008, and said a thorough review of those fund allocations should be conducted as well.
In his letter, Bouie said that in recent years, the Park Authority has shifted from a dependency on tax dollars to a dependency on fees, with 42 percent in tax support and 58 percent in fee support.
Supervisor Cathy Hudgins stressed the importance of those figures.
"We have reduced general fund support and they have balanced that challenge of their mission by increasing fees," she said. "When we give this review back, I hope that we'll look at the mission as well as the financials."
9:48 am on Friday, September 28, 2012
It never ceases to amaze me that County Leadership doesn't connect the continued buying of more Park land and facilities to the increased need for ongoing administrative and maintenance costs to operate the already existing and new facilities. You can't expect to expand the availability of facilities without increasing the number of personnel needed to operate them, the costs of mowing and other grounds maintenance for fields, etc. and the maintenance costs for buildings, as well as the costs to hire people to run the programs that operate in those buildings. We need to either choose to fund the facilities and programs out of already collected tax dollars, or cut back (or even eliminate) buying and developing additional facilities, at least until the economical recovery is completed. This needs to not only be applied to the Park Authority, but other County programs and facilities in general.
Kim Huong
10:58 am on Friday, September 28, 2012
The elephant in the park, so to speak, is the free use of FCPA athletic fields. FCPA should not be trying to raise the county's $5.50 per athlete per season tax... they will only see a tiny fraction of that. Instead, FCPA should directly bill organizations based on their use permits, with different fees depending on the field (softball, football, synthetic turf, grass, lighted, etc.), AND, with credits for those user groups who already put money into maintaining and upgrading the FCPA fields.
Marshal Larkey
2:50 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012
Kim, this already happens when organizations 'rent' the use of fields and obtain a permit from 8am to 11pm. What happens to the fees collected is another story. Similar to the $100 Athletic Fee per student, per sport at the high schoo level! The money is buried and distributed into other programs. Amazing how we climbed above Arlington County and became the richest county, yet cannot provide the park maintenance required for a baseball or football game! Our fields are not maintained, Prince William and Arlington counties do not seem to have this problem.


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greenspree wrote:The first floor slab is a black coloured concrete which is 8" thick, coupled with the high thermal mass of the exterior walls themselves.
Yes, we do have most of our windows facing south and very little facing north.
greenspree wrote:An average thickness of about 3.5" of claw/sand/lime stucco.
For our house this is about 35,000lbs of stucco, and 77,000lbs of concrete in the floor.
Thermal mass is important, but not the only considerations, insulation and air tightness are in my opinion equally important.
greenspree wrote:Passive solar design =/= passivhaus standards from Europe for example.
Passive solar design means you are designing your house to take full advantage of solar gains, something difficult to rely on solely in a latitude where you have extreme cold and very limited hours of low angle solar energy per day during the heating season (For PEI -7degC average winter temperature, frequently dropping below -20degC during the coldest parts and a minimum of 8.5 hours between sunrise and sunset)
The average heating load for new homes in my area is 85MMBTu's and my house requires only 21MMBTu, so no, most of my heat doesn't come from wood.
But are you taking full advantage of solar gains? It seems most of your heating load decrease is to do with the great insulation rather than the passive solar side.
greenspree wrote:But are you taking full advantage of solar gains? It seems most of your heating load decrease is to do with the great insulation rather than the passive solar side.
And you're basing this observation on what exactly?
greenspree wrote:Certianly, my heat pump never comes on during sunny days and the wood stove is never lit. I only light the stove in the evenings after work on cold days for a maximum burn of about 4 hours.
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A slang term for penis, usually used in the country or southern parts of the nation. Me and Brian were wrestling and I think he grabbed my yonk.
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As if life wanted to send me a message it knew I would ignore, I'm sad to report that my recording equipment has blown up.
My 16-track set up bit the dust during the Friday night of Budget Rock 10, so not only am I temporarily unable to use it, the last bands I attempted to record with it were Personal & the Pizzas, the re-united Statics, and the almighty Rip Offs, who played one of the most amazing sets I've ever witnessed. Yet none of what I captured will ever see the light of day because it all sounds like complete shit, and not the good kind (AKA "lo-fi"), but digital garbage.
It looks my equipment is repairable but it's going to take awhile and require money I don't have, now that I have a baby on the way as well as two new releases out Lemon Session (Von Zippers and Zulus). So, if you've been holding out on buying records from me but come to this site for the free downloads, please consider buying some records. You won't be sorry if you do since they're all rad.
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Games Japan (415/737) Hudson Vol (59/59) Shoot'em Ups (62/110)
A few more games added to the collection
Hu Card: Aldynes, Cyber dodgeball, Image Fight, Long Nose Goblin, Thunder Blade, US Basketball
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Long Nose Goblin? I've never been aware this amazing game's title was translated into English, I only know it as Hana Taaka Daka!?
The duck's wooden shoes are so lovely... especially how it moves them back and forth depending on where you go :)
<- can someone please make this as a repro and sell it so me?
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A Big thankyou to BlueBMW over at pcenginefx who let me have these for a small donation :@)
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Why? Don't you know that Street Fighter II CE sucks ass if you don't have to switch between kick and punch by pressing the Run-Button? :P
That's a sweet stick, Hori sticked to the design for the following years... but it seems they didn't bother taking a picture of the final product when the box design was finished :P
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Hey there. I think your collection is totally sexy. My eyes are falling out. Congratz.
.. .yeah, It is really impressive - congratulation! :thumbsup:
Especially liking you shooters :pray:
How do you got hold of as many pc-engine games?I mean .. they are not that common in uk, aren't they?
ninn :-0
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Awesome collection.
Never know there was a Spike McFang game for PCE.
Can you upload a video of it, I'm curious :-)
How is that Conan game for SuperCD ?
Thanks for all of the great comments. I am currently having a stab at finishing my basic Hu Card set (Excluding Betas/clones etc. and a few games that are £500+) That is why you have started to see some of the lower cost CDs appear in my collection.
Collecting PCE is just as Tatsiujin says ;-)
1) Look for games to buy (Ebay and forums)
2) Spend cash (Sometimes quite lot!)
Then the most important part
Spike McFang will be Makai Prince Dorabo-chan (Dracula Kid)
To be honest I have not yet played Mirai Shonen Conan as it is still sealed.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Talking about Talking
For Christmas dinner, we had the four of us, plus four more – my sister, her son, her husband, and her husband's mother. That made it fun – eight of us around the table laughing and trading stories. With that many people talking, you end up sometimes listening to one person, sometimes breaking up into two or three simultaneous conversations, and sometimes trying to keep up with two stories at once.
That makes for lively dinner talk. I've found, though, that it doesn't work so well in a book. When you're writing a scene with multiple characters, having that many people interacting is too confusing. More than about three people talking together is too many. If it's a play, a movie or a TV show, you can do more characters – the audience can see and identify easily who's talking. In a book, it's either confusing or boring with constant tags to identify the speakers.
I might call this a general rule, but like all rules, there are exceptions. There are ways around a limited pool of three speakers. You could have three talking at a table or football game, long enough to establish who they are in the readers' minds, then have one or two more come into the conversation, then exit. You could have six or eight at a dinner table, but have them broken up into three or four conversations, each going on separately with the main character focusing in on one interaction.
You want your reader to be a part of the conversation without getting lost and without being put off by constant tags like "Jack said," "Mary butted in," or "Grandpa exclaimed, his teeth falling into the soup."
Fiction may imitate or mimic real life, but it's not an exact copy. A book conversation, in fact, should be an understandable version of messy reality.
Helen Ginger is a freelance editor and book consultant, with an informational and interactive blog for writers and a free weekly e-newsletter that goes out to subscribers around the globe. She coaches writers on the publishing industry, finding an agent, and polishing their work for publication. You can also follow her on Twitter.
12 comments:
- Morgan Mandel said...
I love doing dialogue. It's a lot of fun making characters unique that way.
Morgan Mandel
http://morganmandel.blogspot.com - March 31, 2009 at 6:51 AM
- L.J. Sellers said...
I came across this problem in a manuscript I evaluated recently. The scene was a meeting of detectives involved in a murder case. There were at least six people talking and it was too hard to follow. Realistic, but unworkable in fiction. I try to keep my taskforce scenes to four detectives or fewer, with one of them usually not saying much.
http://ljraves.blogspot.com - March 31, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- Lauri Kubuitsile said...
Helen if we wrote about real life no body would read what we wrote.
- March 31, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Helen Ginger said...
Lauri, you are so right! (grin)
Morgan, dialogue is a wonderful way of bringing out the personality of characters. So true.
L.J., it would indeed be hard to have a 6-way conversation in a book. I'm sure you were able to make changes or suggestions as to how s/he could correct the messy situation! - March 31, 2009 at 11:19 AM
- Shelley said...
One of the most skillful authors whose works I edit tried to include about six people in a discussion, and it was a mess. When she reduced the number of three, she solved the problem, so I definitely concur with your point. Good post.
- March 31, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- Helen Ginger said...
Shelley, looks like 6 may be the tipping point.
- March 31, 2009 at 11:55 AM
- Jenny Beans said...
What a great exercise. I love it when we have big family gatherings, trying to keep track of what everyone is talking about. Dialogue is so fun to create.
- March 31, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- Lisa Logan said...
Dean Koontz and Stephen King are both adept at doing the multiple-character-conversations thing. They can get a group of people in dire jeopardy together in a room full of chaos and deliver easily followed dialogue. An enviable skill!
http://authorlisalogan.blogspot.com - March 31, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- Helen Ginger said...
It really is an enviable skill. I'm editing a book now where the author does a good job of writing conversations involving multiple participants.
- March 31, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- old guy rambling said...
I get lost when the conversation gets past three people. When I write I have went as high as four speaking, when I reread I had no Idea who was saying what and I had only written it minutes before. I believe that writing good dialogue is difficult and the more people sitting around the table talking, the more difficult. Two people talking—He said—She said – still works for me.
- March 31, 2009 at 10:02 PM
- Helen Ginger said...
"when I reread I had no Idea who was saying what and I had only written it minutes before" - you totally made me laugh!
- April 1, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- Maryann Miller said...
I just read a wonderful scene in a Joe Lansdale book, The Bottoms, where a boy is eavesdropping on a conversation between his parents. He can't see them, only hear them, and the whole three or four pages of dialogue has no attributives. The dialogue is so well written that it is clear who is speaking. That is seamless writing. :-)
- April 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM


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Listen to the whole podcast and try to answer the questions while you listen.
Check your answers when you have finished. How many did you get right? Remember this, because if you listen to the podcast again later (say next month), you can do the exercise again, and see if you have improved!
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Part 1 is based on the Introduction. This section looks at what you can say when somebody gives you some good news.
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Practice materials: exercises 1
Match useful phrases to other useful phrases.
Practice materials: follow-up
For further practice activities please download and print the support pack (below)
Section 2 - I'd like to talk about
Section 2 is based on someone talking about something that they're interested in – it could be anything – a hobby, a person, a place, a thing – something that they know a bit about and would like to share. It helps you to practise speaking for a little bit longer – for example, when you're explaining something, or telling people something about yourself.
Suggestion: The best way to practise is with a friend who speaks English or is also learning English. However, if you can't find someone, you can send us a paragraph in English.
You listened to Raffa talking about Formula One and here is some more information about Formula One.
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The quiz in this episode was about ball games.
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Match verbs to sports.
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Suggestion: Download the support pack (below) and look at the phrases that the people use. Sometimes they don't use complete sentences. Write down notes and then say what you think.
In Your Turn you heard 5 people answer this question: 'Is it always best to tell the truth?'
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So, write down what you think, explain why, and send this as a comment at the bottom of the page.
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Suggestion: listen to Carolina's conversations with the shop assistant and manager and then do exercises 1 and 2.
Practice materials - Exercise 1
Complete the sentences with the correct phrases.
Practice materials - Exercise 2
Choose the phrases that can correctly complete each sentence.
Practice materials - Exercise 3
For further practice activities please download and print the support pack (below)
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Section 6 is a joke. A joke is normally a funny story you hear and tell someone else. But you can also describe funny things that happen to you. The most important thing is to watch your friends to see if they are enjoying the story or not – then you can make it longer or shorter.
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- Listen to the joke on your computer/mp3 player.
- Do Exercise 1, in which you put the lines of the joke in order.
- Do Exercise 2, in which you reconstruct the joke, word by word.
- Do Exercise 3, in which you tell the joke.
- Think of a funny story that you know. Write down the most important words in English (use a dictionary?). Then try telling the joke.
Practice materials - Exercise 1
Put the lines of the joke in the correct order.
Practice materials - Exercise 2
Reconstruct the joke, word by word.
Practice materials - Exercise 3
Download the support pack (below). Look at the notes and tell the story without looking at the script.
Section 7 - Tom the Teacher
Section 7 is Tom the Teacher. These are more traditional exercises. They look at being accurate in English, and often use the type of exercises you may find in English tests and exams.
Practice materials - Exercise 1
Complete the song titles with 'Nobody' or 'Everybody'.
Practice materials - Exercise 2
Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.
Practice materials – Exercise 3
Decide if the word 'actually' is right or wrong in the sentences.
Practice materials – Exercise 4
Decide if 'Good luck!' is a correct reply to the statements.
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- Writing : write accurately, clearly & fluently
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- Functions: expressing emotions
- Functions: expressing hopes & desires
- Functions: telling a story
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Facing the music is usually the right thing to do but, listening to the music tends to be far more fun. Listen to reason with today's Groupon distributed by Chilli Technology. Choose from the following options:
• £29.99 for one pair of waterproof headphones with built in MP3 player (63% Off)
• £57 for two pairs of waterproof headphones with built in MP3 player (64% Off)
Adding a soundtrack to the underwater world, these fully waterproof headphones come with a 4GB MP3 player for making a musical splash. Ideal for bath times, swim times, and impromptu water fights, the wraparound style is wire free and can hold up to 1200 tracks for dips of up to ten metres. Included is a USB cable to connect to the computer plus seven sets of buds for the perfect fit for foot tapping style.
The Specifics
• MP3 player integrated with headphones
• Waterproof to ten metres
• Built-in 190 mAh rechargeable lithium ion battery
• 4GB of memory for MP3s and audio files
• USB port for recharging, protected by a watertight twist-and-lock plug
• Buttons for forward/backward, play/pause, shuffle, and volume control
• Includes seven pairs of tips, USB mini cable, extra port plug, and manual
More About Chilli Technology
Starting with a self-confessed geek, an unbridled passion for gadgetry, and a HD vision for the future, Chilli Technology has developed into a globe-trotting electronics extraordinaire. A simple ethos drives the company; products must be practical, affordable, and fun, with customers actively encouraged to get involved in choosing innovative new gizmos.
How It Works
1. Buy your Groupon using the 'Buy it Now' button
2. After the deal ends we email you the Groupon, containing your 'Groupon code'
3. Your Groupon activates at 8pm; check Groupon PDF voucher for start date
4. Go to www.chilli-tech.com
5. In the checkout, enter your Groupon code; found on the emailed PDF
6. Have your credit/debit card details ready to pay the postage (£3.99)
To find out more about Groupon Goods, see the FAQ.
Chilli Technology
Returns: Unit 10A Draycott Business Park, DraycottGloucestershire GL56 9JY
Company Website


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