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Water Pumps Quench Village Thirst
10 Red Hand Pumps gifted and installed in various villages of Sehwan Sharif, Dadu District, Sindh Province, Pakistan.
Project installation started from early 2011 and completed 2013.
Logistics, cost of installations, program implementation and oversight by Dr Syed Raza Mehdi Shah Subzwari of Sehwan Sharif.
Red Hand Pumps gifted by Lodhie Foundation under Pervaiz Lodhie Global Citizenship initiative for human development and poverty alleviation in under privileged rural areas of Pakistan
In today’s day and age, many businesses are now creating their own Android app and in fact, there are lots of reasons why you should invest in this kind of app. However, if your business is not using any app it means you’re losing the majority of your customers.
On the other hand, most business owners prefer to develop their app on Android platform simply because Android apps will be able to increase their revenues as well as attain great business growth.
Android is an open source and free platform. It also offers complete software stack such as key mobile applications, operating system, and middleware. Aside from its performance, speed, and scalability, Android application development is also beneficial for your business.
Either way, let us now discuss the advantages of Android application development.
1. Low Investment Higher Return on Investment or ROI
As what we have mentioned a while ago, Android is a free and open source platform. Not only that, the SDK or software development kit that is being used is also free. However, you can also consider hiring an Android app development company, because the majority of these companies provide services at a very affordable price.
The development cost, on the other hand, is divided into three categories, development, testing, as well as deployment. For application distribution, Android apps development company is required to pay a registration. After which, they can now build and run the app on their devices, as a result, you will be able to increased interaction between users. In the end, users will get an interactive and excellent Android app while you as the business owner will acquire higher ROI.
2. Easy Customization
The Android platform provides versatility by means of easy customization preferences which is useful in rapid Android app development, as a result, Android app developers are allowed to develop apps with various functionalities. Whether it’s a web application integration or multifaceted technical customization, this platform can offer plenty of space for implementing customizations.
Most importantly, this platform is specifically designed to handle the changing requirements of every business. Either way, it provides flexibility to incorporate data management functions, as well as multimedia and communication tools that have easy updates.
3. Several Sales Channels
Unlike other platforms that are used in developing mobile apps, Android apps can be deployed in various ways. You don’t have to rely on just a particular market to hand out your applications. In addition to using other third-party application marketplaces and Google Play Store, as the app owner, you are allowed to make your own sales and distribution channels.
You build and publish it. On the other hand, with the advertising strategy, you will be able to reach thousands or even millions of users by means of multiple channels.
4. Easy to Take on
The majority of Android applications are written on Java that pulls a rich collection of libraries. Android aApp developers are very familiar with this programming language, as a result, they will be able to build apps with ease. As a matter of fact, it is stated in a certain survey, that Java professionals find that writing in the said programming language is easier compared to other programming languages.
5. Open Source
The best thing about Android community is that offers open source platform as well as the best technology platform. It also offers an opportunity for the upcoming growths of Android application development. For this reason, the majority of wireless operators and handset manufacturers get fascinated by the Android platform. This results in a faster development of phones that are Android based and better chances for developers.
Conclusion:
Are you looking for an easy way on how to pull Android app development benefits for your enterprise or business, but unluckily you don’t know where to begin? If so, we hope this article will help you a lot as well as enlighten your mind how great an Android application development is.
Either way, if you are planning to hire an Android app development company HokuApps is worth trying for. As a matter of fact, this Singapore-based company will surely help you to organize and build the needed Android mobile app solution for your business.
Prospective residents, friends, staff and partners gathered at the site of Bournville Gardens on 23rd April 2014 to lay the foundation stone. Duncan Cadbury, Chairman of Bournville Village Trust, and Eileen Davis, BVT resident and prospective Bournville Gardens resident, helped to lay the stone.
New developments in West Bromwich, not to far from the Midland Metro.
From near Lyng Lane.
This is the Tesco development in West Bromwich.
It might be this project Tesco retail extension development
It is between Oak Road and Moor Street in West Bromwich.
Tesco are working with Sandwell Council to regenerate this area.
It will include a new Police Station.
Hoardings on the Tesco development, mostly with Sandwell and Tesco statements
Nineteen “graduates” from the Child Development Centers at Camp Zama and Sagamihara Housing Area attended the graduation ceremony held June 14 at Camp Zama’s Community Activity Center. The ceremony was meant to mark the children’s first step toward their new adventure as kindergarten students when school resumes in the fall.
About the United States Army Garrison Japan:
The United States Army Garrison Japan and its 16 supported installation sites are located in the island of Honshu and Okinawa in Japan. The USAG Japan mission is to support the Headquarters, U.S. Army Japan / I Corps (fwd) to ensure mission readiness and the quality of life of the Army community in a sustainable, transforming joint and combined environment.
The USAG-J area of responsibility spans 1,500 miles from north to south of Japan. Camp Zama, home for both HQ USARJ and USAG-J is located approximately 25 miles southwest of Tokyo in the cities of Zama and Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The Camp Zama base cluster includes Sagamihara Housing Area and Sagami General Depot.
Akasaka Press Center is located in the center of Tokyo. The Akizuki/Kure area near Hiroshima is an ammunition depot. Yokohama North Dock is a port facility in the city of Yokohama, a major commerce port and a popular shopping area. USAG Torii Station is located 980 miles southwest of Camp Zama on the island of Okinawa.
We are the Army's home in Japan and the "Garrison of Choice" for Soldiers, Civilians and their Family members. We are committed in becoming the leader in the U.S. Army Installation Management Command by providing world-class installation services.
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I thought you might like to see what North Hertfordshire District Council considers to be good planning and design.
Where once there were nine three-bedroomed family-sized homes with mature gardens, 30 garages available to rent (in an area where on-road parking is severely restricted) and the smallest builder's yard in the universe, there are now 78 apartments and houses. The houses in the photo above are some of the so-called "social housing". The rest of the development is behind these houses.
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A Counseling and Student Development class in the Buzzard Building on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on October 26, 2010. (Jay Grabiec)
This public fórum, held on 23 April 2018 in Maputo, shared the results of the report on the business landscape for Mozambican manufacturing firms.
The event shed light on the current challenges faced by micro-, small- and medium-sized firms in the country’s manufacturing sector — and how policy can tackle these issues to allow firms to thrive. Special attention was paid to the business environment in which these enterprises operate.
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US is becoming a 'developing country' on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality
The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.
In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd. Under this methodology – an expansive model of 17 categories, or “goals,” many of them focused on the environment and equity – the U.S. ranks between Cuba and Bulgaria. Both are widely regarded as developing countries.
The U.S. is also now considered a “flawed democracy,” according to The Economist’s democracy index.
As a political historian who studies U.S. institutional development, I recognize these dismal ratings as the inevitable result of two problems. Racism has cheated many Americans out of the health care, education, economic security and environment they deserve. At the same time, as threats to democracy become more serious, a devotion to “American exceptionalism” keeps the country from candid appraisals and course corrections.
‘The other America’
The Office of Sustainable Development’s rankings differ from more traditional development measures in that they are more focused on the experiences of ordinary people, including their ability to enjoy clean air and water, than the creation of wealth.
So while the gigantic size of the American economy counts in its scoring, so too does unequal access to the wealth it produces. When judged by accepted measures like the Gini coefficient, income inequality in the U.S. has risen markedly over the past 30 years. By the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s measurement, the U.S. has the biggest wealth gap among G-7 nations.
These results reflect structural disparities in the United States, which are most pronounced for African Americans. Such differences have persisted well beyond the demise of chattel slavery and the repeal of Jim Crow laws.
Scholar W.E.B. Du Bois first exposed this kind of structural inequality in his 1899 analysis of Black life in the urban north, “The Philadelphia Negro.” Though he noted distinctions of affluence and status within Black society, Du Bois found the lives of African Americans to be a world apart from white residents: a “city within a city.” Du Bois traced the high rates of poverty, crime and illiteracy prevalent in Philadelphia’s Black community to discrimination, divestment and residential segregation – not to Black people’s degree of ambition or talent.
More than a half-century later, with characteristic eloquence, Martin Luther King Jr. similarly decried the persistence of the “other America,” one where “the buoyancy of hope” was transformed into “the fatigue of despair.”
To illustrate his point, King referred to many of the same factors studied by Du Bois: the condition of housing and household wealth, education, social mobility and literacy rates, health outcomes and employment. On all of these metrics, Black Americans fared worse than whites. But as King noted, “Many people of various backgrounds live in this other America.”
The benchmarks of development invoked by these men also featured prominently in the 1962 book “The Other America,” by political scientist Michael Harrington, founder of a group that eventually became the Democratic Socialists of America. Harrington’s work so unsettled President John F. Kennedy that it reportedly galvanized him into formulating a “war on poverty.”
Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, waged this metaphorical war. But poverty bound to discrete places. Rural areas and segregated neighborhoods stayed poor well beyond mid-20th-century federal efforts.
In large part that is because federal efforts during that critical time accommodated rather than confronted the forces of racism, according to my research.
Across a number of policy domains, the sustained efforts of segregationist Democrats in Congress resulted in an incomplete and patchwork system of social policy. Democrats from the South cooperated with Republicans to doom to failure efforts to achieve universal health care or unionized workforces. Rejecting proposals for strong federal intervention, they left a checkered legacy of local funding for education and public health.
Today, many years later, the effects of a welfare state tailored to racism is evident — though perhaps less visibly so — in the inadequate health policies driving a shocking decline in average American life expectancy.
Declining democracy
There are other ways to measure a country’s level of development, and on some of them the U.S. fares better.
The U.S. currently ranks 21st on the United Nations Development Program’s index, which measures fewer factors than the sustainable development index. Good results in average income per person – $64,765 – and an average 13.7 years of schooling situate the United States squarely in the developed world.
Its ranking suffers, however, on appraisals that place greater weight on political systems.
The Economist’s democracy index now groups the U.S. among “flawed democracies,” with an overall score that ranks between Estonia and Chile. It falls short of being a top-rated “full democracy” in large part because of a fractured political culture. This growing divide is most apparent in the divergent paths between “red” and “blue” states.
Although the analysts from The Economist applaud the peaceful transfer of power in the face of an insurrection intended to disrupt it, their report laments that, according to a January 2022 poll, “only 55% of Americans believe that Mr. Biden legitimately won the 2020 election, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.”
Election denialism carries with it the threat that election officials in Republican-controlled jurisdictions will reject or alter vote tallies that do not favor the Republican Party in upcoming elections, further jeopardizing the score of the U.S. on the democracy index.
Red and blue America also differ on access to modern reproductive care for women. This hurts the U.S. gender equality rating, one aspect of the United Nations’ sustainable development index.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republican-controlled states have enacted or proposed grossly restrictive abortion laws, to the point of endangering a woman’s health.
I believe that, when paired with structural inequalities and fractured social policy, the dwindling Republican commitment to democracy lends weight to the classification of the U.S. as a developing country.
American exceptionalism
To address the poor showing of the United States on a variety of global surveys, one must also contend with the idea of American exceptionalism, a belief in American superiority over the rest of the world.
Both political parties have long promoted this belief, at home and abroad, but “exceptionalism” receives a more formal treatment from Republicans. It was the first line of the Republican Party’s national platform of 2016 and 2020 (“we believe in American exceptionalism”). And it served as the organizing principle behind Donald Trump’s vow to restore “patriotic education” to America’s schools.
In Florida, after lobbying by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state board of education in July 2022 approved standards rooted in American exceptionalism while barring instruction in critical race theory, an academic framework teaching the kind of structural racism Du Bois exposed long ago.
With a tendency to proclaim excellence rather than pursue it, the peddling of American exceptionalism encourages Americans to maintain a robust sense of national achievement – despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
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Leadership Development Programme (LDP), Pillar 2: People and Organization Management - Opening Event held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 27 June 2023
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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One of the entrances to the cafe, which is called the Terrace at the Memorial
Photograph taken by Steve Burton
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A strip of asphalt connects a distant new housing development to Daybreak Parkway station. I guess this is temporary.
Prospective residents, partners, friends and ExtraCare staff all gathered to contribute to a time capsule for Bournville Gardens, ExtraCare's fourth Birmingham retirement village, due to open in 2015. The event was also attended by children from the Dame Elizabeth Cadbury Technology College. The ceremony was attended by children from the Dame Elizabeth Cadbury Technology College (left to right): Owen Smith, Gemma Nash, Sophie Harrison and Louis Stephenson.
My fascination with textures and light and dark inspired me to look at water and the movement of water, another object which is similair to that of glass and cloth - it has no real 'shape', in the case of the water and the cloth it is ever moving and changeable and in the case of the water and the glass, it is clear which makes it particularly hard to capture! When working on my water pieces I decided primarly to work in blue ink, even if this is just the idea of the colour of water, it helped me give shape and colour to the pieces I was producing.
Outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L) and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (R) attend their Development Committee press conference April 21, 2012 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. The IMF/World Bank Meetings are being held in Washington, DC this week which will host Finance Ministers and Bank Governors from 188 countries. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
May 12, Folk Singer and songwriter James Durst and his wife, Madhumita gave two performances at the African Refugee Development Center (ARDC) for young children living in the shelter, and for young adults who study at the ARDC's Education Center. The programs rendered elements of Hope, Love, Life and Peace - demonstrating that music brings happiness and has no boundaries. Photo Credit: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
Originally revealed in 2021 and made up of three distinct areas centered on the intersection of N. LaSalle Street and W. North Avenue, developer Fern Hill has offered updated plans. Fern Hill has tapped architect David Adjaye and local firm GREC Architects to work on its design, though those plans have yet to be made public.
Treasure Island Foods at 1639 N. Wells St., which closed in September 2018, will be re-skinned and partially redeveloped. As demanded by the community, it will remain a grocer with the building receiving few alterations as the parking garage above the store is owned by a nearby building.
NOTE2: Plans have been announced for the former Treasure Island in December 2023. It will be restored and receive a new red brick facade with added arches and awnings to better fit the overall development’s style. Once that is complete, the space will be divided into two large commercial spaces, one a temporary Walgreens as it relocates from the street corner. The other half will go to local grocer Commissary Market. However, the developer stated if they are able to find a large singular tenant for the building, Commissary Market may move with Walgreens to the base of the new Canvas tower. That tower at 1610 N. LaSalle St. will eventually rise 36 stories and 395 feet with a multi-colored metal and glass façade and include500 residential units and 14,000 square-feet of commercial space split into two spaces.
CAMERA: Canon NEW F1
LENS: Canon fd lens 28mm f/2,8 S.S.C.
FILM: Kodak color ISO 400 36 exp.
[cross processing + negative scanning]
FILM DEVELOPMENT: Developing Colour Film with the E6 Process
FILM SCANNED: OpticFilm Plustek 7400 with SilverFast Software
SHOOTING DATE: 09/2015
DEVELOPER DATE: 10/2015
TECHNIQUE: Multiple Exposure unedited.
NUMBER OF EXPOSURES: 2
NO POST-PROCESSING
OBJECT: Lenin's Library
PLACE: Moscow, Russia 2015