A couple of weeks ago the UK laundry brand Persil (known in many parts of the world as Omo) released a set of short videos called ‘Kids Today’. The aim is to give parents insights into the intrinsic value of play, using ‘point of view’ cameras to bring the viewer closer to the world as seen through children’s eyes. Here is the first, entitled ‘Play Face’.
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Of course back then Richmond was in Surrey and it had been created a municipal borough only in 1890. That, it turned out, was an auspicious year: a young Liberal schoolmaster, William Thompson, was elected to the local council and, nationally, the Housing of the Working Classes Act was passed which allowed local councils not only to clear areas of slum housing but to build new, municipal, housing where necessary.
Then, as now, Richmond was a relatively affluent area but it too had areas of poverty and slum housing. Existing housing supply was, in Thompson’s words…
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By 2025 1.8 billion people will be living in regions of absolute water scarcity. Global water use grew at more than twice the rate of human population increase in the last century. Of the world’s population without access to clean and safe water, 37% live in sub-Saharan Africa. These are just some of the shocking statistics that highlight the urgent need to ensure access to clean and safe water for people across the world.
Tomorrow is World Water Day 2014, a day that aims to increase global recognition of the water resource scarcity challenges we face. It seems that more and more we are hearing reports of water scarcity leading to transboundary conflict, particularly in regions that may already be politically unstable. For example, in 2006, Israel bombed irrigation canals that supplied water from the Litani River to 10,000 acres of farmland in Lebanon. And these conflicts are…
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In November 2013, the
African Union Commission
(AUC) and
Kofi Annan Foundation
, with support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
, convened a group of senior African leaders and experts in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to
discuss
actions that could be taken to “sustain the momentum of the many positive transformations taking place in African agriculture and food systems”. A Chairs’ Summary of the high-level dialogue, “
Harnessing Innovation for African Agriculture and Food Systems: Meeting the Challenges and Designing for the 21st Century
,” was recently released. The report details the discussions of the meeting, looking at some of the past successes, future challenges and opportunities for action.
The meeting, held in support of the 2014 Year of Agriculture and Food Security in Africa and the 10th anniversary of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), noted the recent change in language used to describe African agriculture…
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It is an annual celebration with events organised all over the region to help children and young people get out and play, encouraging and promoting outdoor play, whatever the weather. Reminding play workers and families alike that outdoor play is not just for the summer, and that as long as you are dressed appropriately you can play out all year around.
Outdoor Play Week was started in the wake of research showing that children are spending less time playing outdoors than ever before. A survey for Natural England found that as little as 10 per cent of their time is spent outdoors. The attraction of TV and computer entertainment takes much of the blame…
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Timeguard’s new LED NightEYEs are a completely new concept in PIR lighting design. Small and remarkably powerful, these 8Wfloodlights are compact and stylish enough to be used anywhere, whether as effective security lighting or attractive courtesy lighting.
The LED NightEYEs give instant brightness equivalent to 100W but are under half the size of old style halogen designs and use a fraction of the power.
Available in black or white, there are also twin versions delivering the equivalent of 200W lighting using a maximum of 16W (2 x 8W) of LED power, and larger 32W options. All promise running costs a tenth or less of a comparable halogen output.
With a detection range of 10m the floodlights can be panned and tilted to ensure optimum coverage. An adjustable PIR detector and both lux level and on-time adjustments are other refinements of the NightEYE range.
With a low operating temperature
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