double the amount of available food by 2050 to meet the consumption needs of the projected 9 billion people on the planet. Shouldn’t the necessary first step be to reduce the amounts of waste within the food system? Recently‚ the United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) and the FAO launched the Think.Eat.Save: Reduce Your Foodprint campaign to educate consumers‚ producers and retailers on food waste and encourage them to reduce food waste in the system. There is a stark contrast between developed
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At least in India‚ the girl child has been a topic of discussions and debates for the past several decades but‚ even today‚ the position appears to remain unchanged. The girl was always an unwanted child‚ and was found killed at birth. With the advancement of Science and Technology this killing has only gone still further - for now the girl child is being killed even before birth. The present scenario in which the girl child is mercilessly killed even before birth‚ does not speak too well about
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Spreading like a virus A recent media workshop on the issue of sex selection and female foeticide brought home the extent of the problem. Held in Agra in February‚ the workshop was organised by UNICEF‚ Business Community Foundation‚ and the Centre for Advocacy and Research. Doctors‚ social scientists‚ researchers‚ activists‚ bureaucrats‚ journalists told their stories of what they were doing to fight the problem. If the 1991 Census showed that two districts had a child sex ratio (number
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Nuclear[edit] Main articles: Nuclear explosion and Effects of nuclear explosions In addition to stellar nuclear explosions‚ a man-made nuclear weapon is a type of explosive weapon that derives its destructive force from nuclear fission or from a combination of fission and fusion. As a result‚ even a nuclear weapon with a small yield is significantly more powerful than the largest conventional explosives available‚ with a single weapon capable of completely destroying an entire city. Properties
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DEPB Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scheme in short DEPB is an export incentive scheme. Notified on 1/4/1997‚ the DEPB Scheme consisted of (a) Post-export DEPB and (b) Pre-export DEPB. The pre-export DEPB scheme was abolished w.e.f. 1/4/2000. Under the post-export DEPB‚ which is issued after exports‚ the exporter is given a duty entitlement Pass Book Scheme at a pre-determined credit on the FOB value. The DEPB rates is allows import of any items except the items which are otherwise restricted for
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Flood-Fill Flood-fill • Used in interactive paint systems. • The user specify a seed by pointing to the interior of the region to initiate a flood operation Recursive Flood-Fill • Fill a image-space region with some intensity (color) value • How to define the region? • Fill Until vs. Fill While • 4-connectivity vs. 8-connectivity Flood-Fill from Seed • Start from the seed and floods the region until a boundary is met. A simple recursive algorithm can be used: void floodFill(int x‚ int
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Save as many as you ruin Simon Van Booy One thing we all have in common is that we make mistakes and regret them. That is what happened to Gerard when he met the only woman he had ever loved after eight years apart. But sometimes the mistakes we make‚ end up turning around and by a religious experience‚ faith gives us a second chance. The magic‚ realism short story‘ Save as many as you ruin’ by Simon Van Booy starts with in medias res composition. ”By the time Gerard leaves the office it has stopped
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A Summary of The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry A Summary of Robert Johann’s “The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry” Philosophy has made progress through the development of specialized methods that fragment the knowledge that philosophy eternally seeks. Johann seeks to elaborate on the nature of philosophical inquiry through the method of Pragmatism‚ more specifically Ontological Pragmatism. This method will measure the truth of philosophical inquiry through what it leads to in experience or practice
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ideal/Ways to Save the Planet 1. CHANGE YOUR LIGHT If every household in the United State replaced one regular light bulb with one of those new compact fluorescent bulbs‚ the pollution reduction would be equivalent to removing one million cars from the road. Don’t like the color of light? Use these bulbs for closets‚ laundry rooms and other places where it won’t irk you as much. 2. TURN OFF COMPUTERS AT NIGHT By turning off your computer instead of leaving it in sleep mode‚ you can save 40 watthours
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September 2010 Help Save the Green Planet Do people want more green in the world? Then help save the planet and go green! Going green is an effective way of lessening consumption on natural resources that people use every day. One does not have to be a treehugger and change one’s lifestyle‚ just try to make a change in doing something different everyday to help save the planet. In the United States‚ Americans consume many resources and discard many wastes into the environment that affects all nature
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