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2022 - 8 - 9

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Nyerere Hydropower dam nearly 67 percent ready (The Citizen)

The construction of the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project has now reached 67.18 percent as technicians step up efforts to make 2115 MW of electricity ...

We have cultivated a culture of making a follow up on the implementation. We have enough resources and we are good enough to face and address challenges that we are grappling with in the course of the implementation of the project,” he said. What we ought to do is to up our speed so that this time next year we could be far from here.” “We have keen strategies for the implementation of the project. “We have not abandoned the project as claimed by people from various fronts. With the new Tanesco management and board of directors, he exuded his optimism that they will be able to maintain and even up the speed in the implementation of the project.

Huge relief as Samia launches fertiliser subsidy programme (The Citizen)

Tanzanian farmers will enjoy massive subsidy over fertiliser during the 2022/23 season. This was revealed as President Samia Suluhu Hassan launched a ...

This will enable us to start commercial livestock keeping, engage the youth in the business,” she said. “We want to know the amount of revenue the government or Narco have received. “Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) graduates are languishing in the streets. The government is not getting anything from leased blocks,” said President Hassan. “Generated funds should enable us establish the Agriculture Development Fund (ADF) for providing assistance to farmers during fertilizer and inputs price shocks.” “Under the subsidy arrangement, the government will pay for a Sh52,000 subsidy,” he said.

SIU's 2nd Saluki BioBlitz enlists citizen-scientists to survey wildlife ... (SIU News)

Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the surrounding community are about to find out more about their wildlife “neighbors” as a researcher prepares a ...

“There is also the looming threat of non-native and invasive species continuing to spread, including some that may not have been detected in Illinois before. “This is a great opportunity for new students at SIU to learn about campus, discover their favorite spot to unwind from coursework, and contribute to an important mission of describing SIU’s biodiversity.” During last year’s inaugural effort, 145 volunteers filed about 1,350 observation reports, which identified more than 300 species of plants and animals living in the area. A BioBlitz is a concentrated effort to record as many species as possible within a designated location and time period, which can vary from a single day to an entire month. This year’s daylong effort is set for Aug. 26 on the SIU campus, with dozens of volunteers recording as many species as possible. Brent Pease, right, assistant professor of forestry in the School of Agricultural Sciences, works with forestry graduate student Elaine Metz during the inaugural BioBlitz at SIU last year.

Early morning accident kills 20, leaves 15 injured in Kahama (The Citizen)

Twenty people have died on the spot and 15 others were injured in an accident involving three cars and a tractor that happened in Mwakata, Kahama District ...

Pega to Hold Third Annual Global Hackathon for Citizen and ... (PRNewswire)

PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider that builds agility into the world's leading organizations, today announced ...

Clients use our AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. All winners will be announced in October and recognized on pega.com and Pega Community. We look forward to being inspired by their creativity and recognizing their innovations this October." CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider that builds agility into the world's leading organizations, today announced its 2022 Pega Community Hackathon is now open for registration. Registered participants can start building today and must complete their projects by October 7, 2022 with a solution concept and prototype that's ready for implementation. Open to the entire Pega community, individuals and teams will leverage the intuitive, low-code Pega PlatformTM environment throughout the development process -- from ideation and design to building and execution.

Can citizen scientists turn the tide against America's toxic algal ... (The Guardian)

'Red tides' are an annual hazard in Florida and other coastal areas but a monitoring project can help limit harm to humans.

In an effort to address the threat, last year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) launched the Red Tide Respiratory Forecast, an online map that shows the presence and severity of red tide at select locations. “I think that the conversation is limited, and especially absent in minority communities,” Revelles said. The Florida department of health has information about red tide on their website – but still only in English. Toxic blooms have been seen in Australia, South Africa and Japan, and coastal regions around the world now face the risk of “unprecedented diversity and frequency” of these events, according to the US National Office for Harmful Algal Blooms. Red tides occur when warming waters and other factors spur the growth of a type of rust-colored alga known as Karenia brevis. But the journey is about more than exercise and wildlife sightings, because when Siva paddleboards she is also participating in a government-funded science project aimed at protecting public health.