![]() Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights, and climate change. children's agency, Save the Children, Mercy Corps( Reporting by Heba Kanso Editing by Jason Fields. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Reuters, U.N. Some 1.2 million suspected cholera cases have been reported since 2017, with more than 2,500 deaths. About 2 million children in Yemen are out of school.Ĩ. More than 190,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries.ħ. Nearly 18 million Yemenis lack access to clean water.Ħ. About 80% of the population, or 24 million people, need some form of humanitarian assistance.ĥ. ![]() ![]() About 2 million Yemeni children are malnourished, with 360,000 of them suffering from "severe acute malnutrition".Ĥ. An estimated 85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger in since 2015.ģ. More than one third of Yemenis, or nearly 10 million people, cannot find enough to eat.Ģ. Here are eight facts about the war that has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis and killed tens of thousands of people: 1. The conflict pits the Iran-aligned Houthi movement against Yemen's Saudi-backed government. The fatal gang rape of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 led to a wave of public protests and jolted many in the world's second most populous country out of apathy over the treatment of women, forcing the government to toughen penalties for sex crimes. Take action: Help Kids Facing Conflict and Crisis Stay in SchoolĪir strikes have been the leading cause of war-related deaths and injuries among Yemeni children, according to the charity. BEIRUT, March 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bombs from air raids have killed or injured an average of 37 children every month for the last 12 months, Save the Children said on Monday, as Yemen's brutal war enters its fifth year this week with no end in sight.
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The National Aquarium is an impressive nonprofit aquarium features numerous exhibits and species and is certainly worth a visit in its own right.īut we’re here for the sharks, and they know it. © National Aquarium, photographer George Grallīaltimore is home to more than just football and cool-looking cakes. If nothing else, that’s ultimate bragging rights. While the dive cost isn’t exactly cheap, it’s probably the only time you could ever see a whale shark this close. This dive program is the only one in the world that allows visitors to get this close to whale sharks. One of these programs puts you in the Ocean Voyager tank to actually swim among the ocean giants. If staring in awe at one of the world’s largest exhibits isn’t enough, the aquarium offers separate dive programs. Here, over 4,500 feet of viewing glass allows guests to see 6.3 million gallons of seawater, housing whale sharks, rays, and other species. Most of what visitors want to see from a “traditional†aquarium experience is simple to do.Īmong the many exhibits and experiences that the Georgia Aquarium offers includes the massive Ocean Voyager gallery. This time, it’s for their shark presentations, which is as impressive as you’d expect from them. They appear at the top of just about every list, and with good reason. The Georgia Aquarium is one of the most distinguished of our country’s aquariums. Here are five of some of the top aquariums in the country to see sharks. However, by creating an education environment surrounding sharks that is both fun and engaging, aquariums can help pull back the veil on what sharks are and are not. People love sharks, even if that love comes from a deep fear of them. That’s just science.Įven if that comparison doesn’t make sense, there’s no denying that, when visiting an aquarium, the star of the show is a dedicated shark exhibit. 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Geforce Experience is a bundled software that mostly people install to keep their Graphics Card drivers updated and installed properly. ![]() Small-to-medium-sized professional services companies that primarily make money using Drupal. While not immediately obvious from the graph above, a variety of different types of companies are active in Drupal's ecosystem: Category Top contributing organizations based on the number of issue credits. While there are almost four times as many "purely sponsored" credits as "purely volunteer" credits, volunteer contribution remains very important to Drupal. This could be the case when a contributor does the necessary work to satisfy the customer's need, in addition to using their spare time to add extra functionality.įor those credits with attribution details, 16% were "purely volunteer" credits (8,433 credits), in stark contrast to the 55% that were "purely sponsored" (29,802 credits). Issue credits can be marked as "volunteer" and "sponsored" simultaneously (shown in jamadar's screenshot near the top of this post). These types of contributions are valuable and often a stepping stone towards more in-depth contribution. removing deprecated code, fixing coding style issues, etc) or in some cases non-product credits rather than new feature development or fixing complex bugs. Most of their credits were the result of smaller patches (e.g. It's also nice to see two new contributors make the top 30 this year - Alona O'neill with sponsorship from Hook 42 and Thalles Ferreira with sponsorship from CI&T. We value the organizations that sponsor these remarkable individuals, because without their support, it could be more challenging for these individuals to be in the top 30. Their sponsorship details are provided later in this article. It's also important to recognize that most of the top 30 contributors are sponsored by an organization. These Drupalists' dedication and continued contribution to the project has been crucial to Drupal's development. Out of the top 30 contributors featured this year, 28 were active contributors in the 2017-2018 period as well. These individuals put an incredible amount of time and effort into developing Drupal and its contributed projects: Rank In other words, a relatively small number of individuals do the majority of the work. Meanwhile, the top 30 contributors (the top 0.4%) account for 19% of the total credits. Who is working on Drupal?įor this report's time period, 's credit system received contributions from 8,513 different individuals and 1,137 different organizations - a meaningful increase from last year's report.Ĭonsistent with previous years, approximately 51% of the individual contributors received just one credit. The fact that the credit system is becoming more accurate in recognizing more types of Open Source contribution is both important and positive. All contributions are valuable, whether they're code contributions, or non-product and community-oriented contributions such as organizing events, giving talks, leading sprints, etc. While some of these increases reflect new contributions, others are existing contributions that are newly reported. Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, Governance Working Group). Drupal pitch deck or community working groups (e.g. DrupalCamp Delhi project, Drupal Developer Days, Drupal Europe and DrupalCon Europe), promoting Drupal (e.g. The most notable change is the large jump in "non-product credits": more and more members in the community started tracking credits for non-product activities such as organizing Drupal events (e.g. In the spring of 2015, after proposing initial ideas for giving credit, added the ability for people to attribute their work in the issues to an organization or customer, or mark it the result of volunteer efforts. 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The paper's overall style and elevated use of graphics – developed by Neuharth, in collaboration with staff graphics designers George Rorick, Sam Ward, Suzy Parker, John Sherlock and Web Bryant – was derided by critics, who referred to it as a " McPaper" or "television you can wrap fish in", because it opted to incorporate concise nuggets of information more akin to the style of television news, rather than in-depth stories like traditional newspapers, which many in the newspaper industry considered to be a dumbing down of content. Initially, only its front news section pages were rendered in four-color, while the remaining pages were printed in a spot color format. 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Around his neck is a large, dark grey scarf made of incredibly durable superfiber cloth, which doubles as his cloak. His beige cargo pants have large pockets on either side, and he only tucks the left leg into his combat boots – the right side is left loose and is tattered. Underneath, he wears a pale yellow long-sleeve shirt. Nezumi wears a dark grey, green-tinted leather jacket that is decorated with pockets and zippers. On his back is a large burn scar as big as a human's hand (in the anime, Nezumi has more than one burn scar) that he received during his childhood. Shion comments that Nezumi's shoulders are broad and he is well-muscled, though he is able to maintain a thin, agile, and androgynous appearance. He has gray eyes and black hair (dark gray in the anime), which is short and just covers his ears. 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