Private participation in the delivery of Guinea's water supply services

The Republic of Guinea has recently taken steps to restructure dramatically the urban water supply sector and to rehabilitate operations and improve financial performance. This paper outlines the theoretical arguments that are relevant to the project design, describes the institutional arrangements that were adopted, examines the key provisions of the legal documents, and explains how the major issues that arose during project preparation were addressed. It presents a general economic theory regarding the roles of the public and private sectors in providing public services. The main features and advantages of lease contracts are discussed, and the experience in Cote d'Ivoire with lease contracts and concessions for water supply is summarized. The recent history of the water supply sector in Guinea is also outlined. The paper discusses key features of the new institutional and financial arrangements with particular attention to the lease contractor selection process, the role of IDA funding, key provisions of the legal documents, and the resolution of uncertainties regarding the application of World Bank Group procurement policies to this case.Town Water Supply and Sanitation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions,Health Economics&Finance,Water and Industry

F15RS SGR No. 22 (Commitment to Honor)

A RESOLUTION To Reestablish and Reaffirm the Commitment to Honor, formerly known as the Tiger Creed/Pledge of Honor, and to urge Louisiana State University Agricultural and Mechanical College (LSU) to recognize the Commitment to Honor as a subsection of the Commitment to Communit

S15RS SGFB No. 1 (Engineering Students)

A FINANCE BILL To Allocate a maximum of eight hundred eighty dollars and zero cents ($880.00) from the Student Government Contingency account to fund Seven engineering students to attend the 2015 SAE Aero Design Series in Lakeland, Florida from March 13th – 15th as representatives of Louisiana State University (LSU

S15RS SGB No. 6 (Amend Bylaws)

A BILL To amend the Student Government Bylaw

S15RS SGFB No. 16 (Enineering Crawfish)

A FINANCE BILL To allocate a maximum of three thousand one hundred ninety-two dollars and ninety-seven cents ($3,192.97) from the Student Senate Contingency Account to partially fund the College of Engineering Annual Year-End Crawfish Boil to be held in the Patrick F Taylor Courtyard on April 17, 2015

The conceit of this inconstant stay : Shakespeare\u27s Philosophical Conquest of Time Through Personification

Throughout the procreation sonnets and those numerous sonnets that promise immortality through verse for Shakespeare\u27s beloved young man, the poet personifies time as an agent of relentlessly destructive change. Yet Shakespeare\u27s approach to the personification of time, as well as his reactions to time, changes over the course of the sequence. He transforms his fear of and obsession with time as a destroyer typical of most sonnets to an attitude of mastery over the once ominous force. The act of contemplating time\u27s power by personification provides the speaker with a deeper awareness of time, love, and mutability that allows him to form several new philosophies which resolve his fear. By the end of the sequence, the poet no longer fortifies himself and the beloved against time\u27s devastation because his new outlook fosters an acceptance of time that opposes and thus negates his previous contention with this force

The conceit of this inconstant stay : Shakespeare\u27s Philosophical Conquest of Time Through Personification

Throughout the procreation sonnets and those numerous sonnets that promise immortality through verse for Shakespeare\u27s beloved young man, the poet personifies time as an agent of relentlessly destructive change. Yet Shakespeare\u27s approach to the personification of time, as well as his reactions to time, changes over the course of the sequence. He transforms his fear of and obsession with time as a destroyer typical of most sonnets to an attitude of mastery over the once ominous force. The act of contemplating time\u27s power by personification provides the speaker with a deeper awareness of time, love, and mutability that allows him to form several new philosophies which resolve his fear. By the end of the sequence, the poet no longer fortifies himself and the beloved against time\u27s devastation because his new outlook fosters an acceptance of time that opposes and thus negates his previous contention with this force

Pastoral conflict in Kenya: Transforming mimetic violence to mimetic blessings between Turkana and Pokot communities

Livestock raiding has been a source of conflict amongst and between pastoral societies in Africa for hundreds of years. However, more recently, these raids have become more violent and have triggered much more organised retaliations. Many times raids themselves are perceived as motivated by ethnic dimensions. The following paper looks at tensions and conflict between Turkana and Pokot communities in rural Kenya. The paper first traces the historical context of cattle rustling and livestock raiding between pastoral communities within Kenya. It then identifies contemporary factors driving exacerbated tensions: access to resources, profiteering, and weapons proliferation. The paper further explores the systemic nature of the conflict through analysing livestock raiding as a conflict spiral dictated by negative reciprocal actions. The spiral is ultimately maintained due to mimetic violence structures that are in place. It then offers prescriptions and potential solutions to the conflict, which are centred on transcending the relationship from mimetic violence to mimetic peace and reconciliation. Ultimately, by empowering local pastoral communities in the form of multi-ethnic coalitions, and promoting broad-based interest groups, cultural transcendence can reverse the conflict spiral into a relationship of mutual reciprocity and mimetic peace

Family Factors that Affect the Resolution of Grief in Older Persons

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Triche, Kathleen, D.S.W., D.S.W., Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, 1994, Coordinator, Geriatric Psychiatric Outpatient Services, Beth Israel Medical Center - "Family Factors that Affect the Resolution of Grief in Older Persons"The Ohio State University College of Social Wor