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Rural girls are the most disadvantaged group in many West African countries. Despite the enormous challenges that rural girls face, few of the rural health and development programmes and projects in French-speaking Africa are aimed specifically at rural girls. Family Care International and UNFPA conducted participatory research with girls, boys, their families and local leaders in three rural communities, and developed the "A Better Future for Rural Girls: Manager's Briefing Kit", a limited-edition CD-ROM that is no longer available in print. All of the content from this resource is available online in PDF.
Un Meilleur Avenir pour les Filles rurales : Kit du Responsable de programmes Francais
A Better Future for Rural Girls: Manager's Briefing Kit English
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I'm reading this forum already for some months because I want to make some boards. I found a lot of information on several topics but there is one thing I don't find information. That's why I registered to be able to launch a question.
So here it is: What is the desirable strenght and flexibility in a kiteboard? And how can I measure it?
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P.S. I'm a very bad kitesurfer, my sons are doing pretty well, but I'm more drinking seawater instead of catching wind. But building something, that's my thing.


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European Commission
Brussels, 13 February 2013
Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package 2013 - Questions and answers
1. What does the Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package consist of?
The main elements of the Package are: a proposal for a new Regulation on Consumer Product Safety and a proposal for a single Regulation on Market Surveillance of Products. Moreover, in a multi-annual plan for market surveillance the Commission sets out 20 concrete actions how it will improve implementation of the current market surveillance rules from now until 2015. The Commission also adopted a report on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 on accreditation and market surveillance and a Communication on more product safety and better market surveillance in the Single Market for products that ties the whole package together.
2. Why are new rules needed and when should the proposed new rules start to apply?
The proposed new Consumer Product Safety Regulation aims at clarifying the regulatory framework for consumer products to make it fit for purpose to meet the challenges of a globalised market. It takes account of the regulatory developments in the EU during the last decade. The basic principle that all consumer products must be safe when made available on the market is kept. More emphasis is put on enhanced product identification and traceability. Also the procedures to develop new or update existing standards are significantly simplified, enhancing the role of standards in the field of consumer product safety.
The new Consumer Products Safety Regulation will complete the EU product safety framework. It will boost consumer confidence in the single market of products and ensure a level playing field for businesses.
The proposed new Market Surveillance Regulation aims at simplifying the Union framework for market surveillance of non-food products so that it works more effectively in order to protect public interests such as human health and safety or the environment. Enforcement rules that apply to products will be more uniform, market surveillance procedures streamlined and the activities of market surveillance authorities in the EU will benefit from enhanced coordination and monitoring.
The current set of market surveillance rules is fragmented and spread across several different pieces of EU legislation which causes problems for economic operators and market surveillance authorities alike. The uncertainty created by this fragmentation was criticised by the European Parliament and most stakeholders. The proposed new Market Surveillance Regulation will produce a one-tier system in which the enforcement rules are brought together in a single instrument. Thus the future Regulation will get rid of overlaps, close gaps and assimilate as far as possible the rules and procedures applicable to all non-food products. This will result in a more even application of market surveillance rules across the Member States, providing better protection for consumers and other users, more uniform trading conditions for economic operators and reduced administrative burdens. This is particularly important in the context of the economic crisis and responds to the need to make the internal market for goods more efficient and competitive.
The Commission proposals will be discussed in the European Parliament and in the Council. They are expected to come into effect from 2015.
3. What will change in a nutshell?
Today's "Product safety and market surveillance package" will enable better coordination of how authorities check products and enforce the product safety rules across the EU. In addition, the safety rules for consumer products will be clarified and strengthened:
4. What are the benefits for consumers?
Legislation on consumer product safety requires consumer products to be safe when made available on the Union market. A set of high quality rules on the safety of products made available on the market and their traceability back to their source means more protection for consumers in the internal market.
In the same way, more coordination of the practical enforcement work is paramount to achieve a high and equal level of consumer protection across the EU.
5. How does market surveillance change?
Market surveillance authorities in the Member States will share more information between them and support each other. Information about national rules, enforcement activities and business practices will be gathered and stored in suitable IT tools easy to access. Divergences, disparities and specific needs will be identified and technical assistance offered.
The aim is to develop common practices regarding the identification and assessment of risk which should be followed across the Union. Market surveillance activities will be better coordinated and joint actions will improve their effectiveness. There should be no safe harbours for unsafe products.
The pooling of resources will help to eliminate the duplication of work and maximise the efficiency of market surveillance. Exchange of experience and information will lead to 'best practices' for the benefit of consumers, businesses and national authorities.
6. How are SME interests considered?
SMEs play a key role in shaping Europe's economy. However, the administrative burden related to market surveillance controls is generally perceived as comparatively heavier for SMEs than for major businesses.
With the proposals adopted today, the Commission does not suggest that SMEs could produce or distribute less safe products, but it proposes a simplified and coherent set of rules that makes compliance easier, especially for SMEs. The Commission is committed to providing guidance and useful information to companies and other interested parties on the interpretation and application of the new product safety and market surveillance rules.
7. What new obligations are there for manufacturers and importers?
Manufacturers and importers are responsible for placing only safe products on the market. They will be asked to provide appropriate information on the product allowing its identification and traceability, including information on the product's origin.
The indication of origin supplements the basic traceability requirements concerning the name and address of the manufacturer. In particular, the indication of the country of origin helps to identify the actual place of manufacture in all those cases where the manufacturer cannot be contacted or its given address is different from the actual place of manufacture. Such information can facilitate the task of market surveillance authorities in tracing the product back to the actual place of manufacture and enable contacts with the authorities of the countries of origin in the framework of bilateral or multilateral cooperation on consumer product safety for appropriate follow up actions
The requirements are the same throughout the Union and provide an equal level playing field.
8. What are the new obligations of distributors?
Distributors, such as wholesalers and retailers, must check that the manufacturer or importer has duly labelled the product before selling it to their clients or offering it for sale in their shops.
9. What are the new obligations of national authorities?
The information-sharing and cooperation amongst national authorities is enhanced. For example, national authorities must respond to requests of mutual assistance from their counterparts in other Member States.
The obligation to carry out market surveillance on an adequate scale is reinforced and where necessary specific sampling and testing obligations can be adopted where the risks relating to a category of products so justifies.
10. What is covered by the market surveillance legislation and RAPEX?
The Rapid Alert Information System (RAPEX) is moved from the current General Product Safety Directive to the future Market Surveillance Regulation in order to assimilate as far as possible the rules and procedures applicable to all products in case of risk. The Regulation will cover the large majority of non-food products, with limited exceptions, such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices as they are covered by other specific surveillance systems.
11. How do Member States share market surveillance findings between them? What is new regarding RAPEX?
At present, two separate procedures operate, sometimes in parallel, which requires Member States to notify to the Commission and the other Member States certain market surveillance action taken at national level. Under the future Market Surveillance Regulation the two procedures become a single procedural flow with certain events triggering a single notification to the other Member States and the Commission (made using either the proven RAPEX rapid alert system or the Information and Communication System for Market Surveillance in accordance with the distinction made in this Regulation). Member States can thus use the information collected by other countries' authorities and avoid double work.
12. How will the package simplify EU legislation?
The number of pieces of legislation will be reduced because the state-of-the-art Consumer Product Safety Regulation will replace Directive 87/357/EEC on food-imitating products and Directive 2001/95/EC on general product safety that are both outdated. Moreover, the market surveillance rules spread across numerous legal texts will be merged into one regulation. Simpler legislation and more uniform rules are good for businesses and will improve fair play among them. Problems as criticised by the European Parliament and other stakeholders will no longer exist.
13. Will legislative overlaps be abolished?
The proposed Market Surveillance Regulation will dispense with the distinction between consumer and professional products for market surveillance purposes. It will also avoid making a distinction between harmonised products and non-harmonised products except where this is unavoidable in applying certain specific provisions. To the greatest extent possible the applicable rules are the same for all non-food products.
14. How will the new legislation be made more accessible and user friendly?
The new Regulation sets out the whole process of a market surveillance exercise in a chronological, sequential manner. It presents a chain of events, incorporating relevant provisions on natural justice aspects, publication of information, notification etc. at each stage of the procedure. This approach substantially improves the accessibility, transparency and user-friendliness of the legislation, and hence its effectiveness.
15. What can already be done now?
One of the key parts of the package is the multi-annual plan for market surveillance consisting of individual actions that the Commission will undertake over the next three years to improve market surveillance for products in the EU. With this plan the Commission aims to fill gaps and make the surveillance of the single market for products (with the exception of food, feed and medicines) more efficient and operational by assisting Member States Authorities in undertaking their tasks. The objective of these actions are as follows :
a. Sharing information avoids duplication of work
b. More efficient cooperation throughout the EU
There is a need for more cross-border cooperation on market surveillance in order to ensure the sharing of information on inspection results and to avoid the repetition of tests. Consequently this group of actions includes:
Coordination of cross-border surveillance activities: The Commission will prepare the creation of an Executive Secretariat that will assist the EU Market Surveillance Forum to facilitate the coherent implementation of the activities covered by this plan or in the relevant EU legislation. This will facilitate and ensure better results with fewer resources in which all actors can have confidence. It will contribute to ensuring consistent and efficient implementation and enforcement of EU provisions.
Joint enforcement actions will pool resources: The Commission will support joint enforcement actions, allowing market surveillance authorities and customs to pool resources and expertise and to apply SME-friendly methods (information will be made available electronically and rules will be made more uniform, accessible and user friendly). Exchanges of officials between Member States to share and gain experience are also planned.
Closer European cooperation on market surveillance will reduce administrative burden: The Commission will support the better functioning of the informal and sectorial 'Administrative Cooperation' groups (ADCOs), with a view to reduce the administrative burden and costs.
Products sold on-line: short, simple and clear common rules. The Commission intends to study the ways in which e-shops operate, in particular if products are distributed to the final consumer directly from third countries. It will be completed by clear rules for products sold online, guidance, collection of information and education of relevant parties (authorities, economic operators and consumers).
c. Continuous European dialogue with stakeholders – Listening to SMEs
A continuous European dialogue with all stakeholders will be launched involving all parties in the supply chain, and especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For them the administrative burden coping with market surveillance controls is comparatively heavier than for major businesses. Market surveillance authorities should involve them more closely in identifying problems, listing categories of products that need closer attention and finding effective solutions. This dialogue is essential, as participants know the products and the risks that they can present to users. From its part the Commission will contribute with feedback, input and suggestions on market surveillance in the EU. This will help to identify new needs for market surveillance and should address the specific concerns of consumers, SMEs and other businesses.
d. Improving supply chain supervision: all parties have a role to play
Market surveillance is the responsibility of the relevant national market surveillance authorities. However, all parties in the supply chain, including businesses and consumers, have a role to play.
e. More safety and less unfair competition: More and better controls on products entering the EU
Controls at borders should be organised and performed in the same way as within the EU, since checks performed at the first point of entry or during the declaration of goods for release for free circulation prevent the spread of dangerous products on the EU market.
Improve the efficiency of border safety controls: The Commission will support the implementation of uniform rules4 in order to assist Member Sates' customs controls and to improve cooperation between customs and market surveillance authorities. Actions envisaged include data collection on control results and joint enforcement actions. They will also allow customs authorities to have an overview of the market surveillance objectives and organisation at national and EU levels, with specific reference to the treatment of SMEs. In addition the Commission will support to improve the efficiency of border safety and compliance controls through better coordination, shared activities, good cooperation and exchange of information.
A common risk approach to customs controls: Appropriate risk management is a prerequisite for efficient import controls5. The Commission, together with the Member States, will set up a common risk approach for product safety and compliance controls on imported products. This includes the development of common criteria for risk assessment as part of the customs control systems and methods of exchange of information between customs and Market Surveillance Authorities for managing risk at the point of import.
For more information:
Weekly RAPEX reports or specific data:
Available in the RAPEX Guidelines (OJEU No L 22 of 26.01.2010)
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What kinds of problems could one run into if they were making a game with MonoGame and started making calls to the underlying graphics API as well?
For example, if I wanted to do something in a MonoGame project that MonoGame didn't necessarily support, or I just couldn't find the proper documentation / example for but I could find an example of how to do it in OpenTK, am I setting myself up for trouble if I implement it using OpenTK directly while using the MonoGame API everywhere else? Specifically I'm looking to find out if there are any big issues that are known that might result of this and not something obscure that will happen in very rare cases.
I tried doing a little research via Google and the GD.SE site itself and I couldn't find much. Maybe MonoGame has really covered most of its bases, but what if I manually wanted to work around one of it's outstanding issues or a feature that is not yet implemented?
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I just had an interesting conversation with a friend about the whole idea about being made in the image of God. Usually when people first hear this concept there are two thoughts that pop into their mind. The first is that, if we are made in the image of God, why can't we make the sun stop rising. The answer is because being made in the image means we have the same qualities as God but not the same amount. It is like the relationship between a father and his child. The child will grow up one day to be a father, but he will never actually be his Father.
The second question I usually get is if we are made in the image of God why are the angels above us? This misunderstanding is due to biblical writers refusing to translate and interpret the bible correctly out of fear of the Maa (Truth). Funny thing, while flipping through the channels, I came across a Christian preacher tell his congregation the same thing. So, rather than post my entire response, I will direct you to an excerpt from Kamta: A Practical Kamitic Path for Obtaining Power.
How to Get Divine Power through Your Guardian Spirits
It has been found that at least half of the world population believes in the existence of angels, guardian angels and other spiritual beings, but what are angels? Are they real? Do they really exist or are they a figment of our imagination? All of these questions and more will be answered in this chapter.
Angels since time immemorial have existed in every culture. Angels have been called everything from deities, gods, goddesses, daemons, to forms and archetypes by people all over the world. But they all act as messenger and guardian beings. Most non-Western cultures see these spiritual beings as entities that they need to develop a partnership with through veneration, but not in West. The reason a relationship is discouraged between human beings and angels in the West is because there is a gross misunderstanding about these spiritual beings due to a lack of knowledge of self. So we must recall that according to Genesis 1:26, which states:
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The biblical passage clearly states that man and woman are supposed to be gods and goddesses because we are the only beings were created in the image of God. For a lot of people this statement is very controversial but the biblical text is clear and other examples can be found throughout the Bible. Such as in Psalms 82:6-7, which states:
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Part of the reason man and woman's divinity is so debated is because many believe that we were created under the angels because of sloppy translation. For instance, in Psalms 8:4-5 which reads according to the King James Version of the Bible:
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou have mast him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honor.
But, according to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, everywhere you see the word God, in the Old Testament; it actually is elohim in the Hebrew language. In fact, the word elohim is used around 2,250 times throughout the Old Testament, and what's even more interesting about the word elohim. Is that it is used in place of the word "angels" and "gods" because elohim is plural for eloah, but the name of God in the Hebrew language is Yahweh. This means the actual translation of Psalms 8:4-5 should read as in the New American Standard Bible:
What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him? And the son of man, that Thou dost care for him? Yet Thou hast made him a little lower than God and dost crown him with glory and majesty!
Man and woman weren't created lower than the angels. We were created under God and in God's image, which means the angels were created to serve us. This misunderstanding about man and woman's divinity and our connection to God caused the translators of the bible to sidestep in their translation because they didn't understand what they were reading. They were basing their understanding of the spiritual truths in the bible upon their sahu. This is why Hebrew 1:14 in regards to spiritual entities is presented as a question that asks:
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
When it should be more like a statement as presented in the New Living Translation of Hebrews that affirms:
Therefore, angels are only servants–spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation.
When it is understood that we are made in the image of God and that the angels were created to serve us, it becomes clear why the devil of Christian lore has been vying for the human soul and winning. It also explains the reason why the forces of evil fascinate so many people and so many religious people fear the devil; yet claim to have the power of God.
It is because if we don't know that we were created to be gods and goddesses like the Divine whose image we were made out of. Yet, the devil knows. We can easily be taken advantage of due to our ignorance and encouraged by any force to do a number of things under the guise that we are doing God's work. Can you now see the danger of not having knowledge of self? We will return back to this subject as to how the devil is able to manipulate us.
Understanding that we are made in the image of God and that the angels were created to serve us means, that the angels, gods, spirits, archetypes (or whatever you want to call them) are ambassadors, emissaries or messengers between God and us.
Copyright Derric Moore 2011
So there you have it, regardless of what you call them angels, guardian angels, guardian spirits, ministering angels, ministering spirits, archetypes, ancestral spirits, whatever, they are all meant to assist us. Therefore, working with spiritual beings is biblical. By working with them we not only can ask spirits to help us personally. We can also direct them to assist us in other endeavors such as protecting our homes, securing employment, preventing accidents, protecting us from danger, protecting our children from all forms of bullying, preventing crime and the list goes on. Since Kamitic spirituality is about being led by the Spirit, working with spirits is one of the Kamitic ways for improving our life.
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