External Debt Choking Zimbabwe?s Economic Recovery

? Three years after the formation of Zimbabwe's coalition government, the country's economy is still trying to recover.?

Cars have now returned to the streets of Harare and almost all shops are fully stocked.? This was not the case prior to the formation of Zimbabwe?s coalition government in 2009.? Streets were empty, so were shops.? Everything was in short supply.? It is more than three years down the line.? Things have changed for the better.

But the country imports most of its products including bottled drinking water as industries are still struggling.? Willard Manungo, the Ministry of Finance's permanent secretary, says Zimbabwe's huge external debt is the major hurdle.

"African Development Bank is a major, major player but when it comes to Zimbabwe, because we are in arrears, we become automatically ineligible to borrow from African Development Bank," he said.? "The same situation with World Bank and other major cooperating partners.? So the issue of arrears is limiting the capacity of some of the cooperating partners to cooperating with us.?

Zimbabwe?s external debt is now more than $10 billion and for more than a decade now the country has been in default resulting in major international lenders shunning the African country.? The African Development Bank is owed more than $500 million.

Earlier this week the Zimbabwe finance minister said he was in talks with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to retire Zimbabwe?s debt.? Manungo says the suspension of development aid to Zimbabwe was affecting the country's recovery.

"If you look at [the] number of development areas that we would want to go into in Zimbabwe - energy, infrastructure, water - I think those are all areas where if development assistance was as it was in the past, Zimbabwe would be seeing major support.? So the scaling of global development financial flows is also having a major impact on Zimbabwe," he said.

Most Western nations such as the U.S., Germany and Britain suspended development assistance to Zimbabwe in 2002 after President Robert Mugabe?s government was accused of disregarding human rights and suppressing the opposition then led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.? The two are now in a power-sharing government but are tied up in quarrels about the drafting of a new constitution, which Tsvangirai's party says is needed to have a free and fair national election.

Source: http://www.voanews.com/content/zimbabwe-external-debt-chocking-economic-recovery/1502197.html

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Teaching Philanthropy- this Week's Topic on the Gateway to 21st ...

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Sometimes it is so hard to part with something whether it is money, an old jacket, a sentimental item, or anything really. It is important for students to learn about philanthropy and the benefits of giving. Learning to give can be so meaningful and to see the results can make an impression that lasts a lifetime. Learning philanthropy in school can be fun and there are some really great projects to work on in groups.

This week?s Joann?s Picks column on the Gateway?s home page, www.TheGateway.org features resources from the Gateway?s collection on Philanthropy. Peggy?s Corner adds several additional unique resources on Philanthropy as well.

In addition, we will also be featuring many more lessons, activities, and resources on Philanthropy on the Gateways? Facebook and Twitter pages. Follow us on Twitter and Like us on Facebook so you don?t miss anything. Discussions will continue on last week?s theme of Mobile Phones in the Classroom on both pages. All of the weekly Gateway columns and resource selections are archived on the Gateway under the bio of both Joann and Peggy.

About The Gateway to 21st Century Skills

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (www.thegateway.org) is a semantic web enabled education digital library that contains thousands of educational resources and as one of the oldest digital libraries on the web, it serves educators in 178 countries. Since 1996, educational activities, lesson plans, online projects, and assessment items have been contributed and vetted by over 700 quality organizations. The Gateway is made possible by the generous support of the National Education Association.

About Joann Wasik- Author of Joann?s Picks

Joann is the Metadata Cataloger for The Gateway for 21st Century Skills. Her primary responsibilities for The Gateway include locating and cataloging standards-based K-12 lessons and activities for The Gateway, as well as writing the ?Joann?s Picks? weekly column. Before joining The Gateway in 2006, Joann had been involved with numerous projects at the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University, including virtual reference with the Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) project; virtual reference competencies and education with the
Digital Reference Education Initiative (DREI) project; and metadata cataloging with the Gateway for Educational Materials (GEM). Her previous experience also includes technology training and positions in academic libraries. She also conducts freelance research for business and educational clients. Joann holds B.A. and M.A.T. degrees in English from Boston College, and an M.L.S. degree from Syracuse University.
About Peggy James- Author of Peggy?s Corner

Peggy received her B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from The University of Arizona, and continued on to earn her M.Ed. from the U of A as well. She has taught physical science and chemistry at the high school level. She is working toward her endorsement in Gifted Education, and has been actively involved in coaching and volunteering in Odyssey of the Mind and Academic Decathlon. She has a passion for teaching critical thinking and creativity in the classroom. She has done work writing, evaluating, and aligning lesson plans to standards as a curriculum consultant with the National Education Association Health Information Network. She is very excited to help create a collaborative environment for educators to discover new resources that will enhance their teaching!

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For more information about JES & Co., contact Terry Smithson at TerryS@JESandCo.org or visit us www.JESandCo.org.

Source: https://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/09/05/teaching-philanthropy-this-weeks-topic-on-the-gateway-to-21st-century-skills/

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Qatari LNG Heads for UK>> LNG World News

The Al Mafyar liquefied natural gas tanker, with a capacity of 266,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK?s South Hook terminal from Qatar on September 7, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website.

The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a year and is capable of delivering 21 billion cubic metres of gas a year into the UK?s national transmission system.

Qatar Petroleum owns 67.5 per cent of South Hook LNG Terminal Co, Exxon Mobil Corp 24.15 per cent and Total SA owns the rest.

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Temba, his spiral arms wide | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Lying roughly 50 million light years from Earth is the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 5033. Although that distance is a soul-crushing 500 quintillion kilometers, it?s actually relatively close by on the cosmic scale. Close enough that a lot of detail can be seen in the galaxy? and it also makes for a stunner of a picture:

[Click to darmokenate.]

This shot was taken by friend-of-the-BA-blog Adam Block using the 0.8 meter Schulman Telescope on Mount Lemmon in Arizona. It?s a whopping 13 hour exposure taken in near-true color.

It?s amazing what you can see in just this picture if you know what to look for. The spiral arms of the galaxy are fairly open, which is common enough, but the outer ones stick out a bit more than you might expect. The nucleus is very small and bright, more so than I?d expect for a typical spiral as well. Both of those things led me to expect this is an active galaxy, and that turns out to be the case.

Every big galaxy ? ours included ? has a supermassive black hole in the center. The Milky Way?s is 4 million times the mass of our Sun! In some galaxies, like ours, happily, the black hole is just sitting there. But in some there is gas actively falling into the hole. It spirals around and forms a very hot and very large disk, which glows fiercely as the matter is heated to temperatures of millions of degrees. They disk can blast out light from radio waves up to X-rays, and we say that the galaxy is "active".

A quick search of the literature didn?t turn up any measurements for the mass of black hole in NGC 5033, but it does confirm that it?s an active galaxy. Interestingly, the black hole is not located in the exact center of the galaxy! That?s very unusual, and indicates that NGC 5033 recently merged with another galaxy, probably a smaller one. It?s a cannibal! But then, most big galaxies are. It?s how they get big? and you?re living inside a big one, so there you go.

This may explain the wide arms on the galaxy as well; a collision and merger can distort the shape of the galaxy. Also, check out all the pink blobs along the arms: those are sites of furious star formation, the hot energetic massive young stars lighting up the gas around them. That also is common after a big collision.

Finally, one more nifty thing. You can see long ribbons of dark dust festooning the galaxy in the inner region. Dust absorbs light from stars behind it. But see how the dust looks like it?s only on one side of the galaxy, the half in the picture below the center? That?s an illusion, sortof. In reality there?s dust orbiting all around the center. However, there are stars above and below the disk of the galaxy, and the ones between us and the far side fill in the darkness a little bit, so the dust is less apparent. I?ve written about this before, and it does happen in quite a few spirals. Click the links in the Related Posts section below to see more gorgeous galaxies with this feature.

It?s funny how much information you can squeeze from a single picture! You have to be careful and not over-interpret it, and of course a lot of the things I?ve written here wouldn?t have been known without other observations of NGC 5033 using different telescopes and different methods in different types of light.

But even just one picture can tell you a lot. And in my opinion ? and I tend to be right about these kinds of things ? the wave of beauty that flows over you when looking at this picture is only enhanced by knowing more about the galaxy itself? and is boosted in no small way by the fact that we can know these things.

Image credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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Related Posts:

- The dusty depths of a spectacular spiral galaxy
- Patchwork galaxy
- Virgos have beautiful eyes
- Coincidental spirals

Source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/03/temba-his-spiral-arms-wide/

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