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A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization that is neither a part

of a government nor a conventional for–profit business. Usually set up by ordinary
citizens, NGOs may be funded by governments, foundations, businesses, or private
persons. Some avoid formal funding altogether and are run primarily by volunteers.
NGOs are highly diverse groups of organizations engaged in a wide range of
activities, and take different forms in different parts of the world. Some may have
charitable status, while others may be registered for tax exemption based on
recognition of social purposes. Others may be fronts for political, religious, or other
interests. The number of NGOs in the United States is estimated at 1.5 million. Russia
has 277,000 NGOs. India is estimated to have had around 2 million NGOs in 2009,
just over one NGO per 600 Indians, and many times the number of primary schools
and primary health centres =center in India. NGOs are difficult to define, and the
term ‘NGO’ is rarely used consistently. As a result, there are many different
classifications in use. The most common focus is on “orientation” and “level of
operation”. An NGO’s orientation refers to the type of activities it takes on. These
activities might include human rights, environmental, improving health, or
development work. An NGO’s level of operation indicates the scale at which an
organization works, such as local, regional, national, or international.
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Here are three important factors in creativity: people, process and product. The
most important one is the process. First you have to create the right person through
education with a creative mind. Second, you have to create the right process to have
people engaged in innovation process. Third, you need to find the right problem to
work on. Human beings can survive and prosper largely depending on the creativity
they have. If you identify and assess the creativity of a finished product, it is taken as
a proxy for the creativity of the person who produced such a product. Therefore, a
creative product should be surprising, original, beautiful and useful. People should
have factors necessary for genius, ability, and right mind-set. You should improve to
imitate and change insight look from new perspectives, innovatively create
something with imagination to expand conceptual spaces.
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There's sugar in a lot of foods where you don't expect it. Of course there's lots of
sugar in donuts of ice cream, or pastries, or other things that are sweet; candy of
course, but there are other places where you see it and you don't necessarily expect it.
So as an example: peanut butter. Here's a list of ingredients from Skippy Peanut
Butter and you see that sugar is the second most common ingredient. So that you
may know from the reading food labels that these ingredients in any food labels that
are listed in order of how much there is in the food itself, so sugar comes right after
peanuts. Here's another example, Beef stew, you wouldn't necessarily expected to find
sugar in beef stew but it's there. Now it's down the list of ingredients, it's actually
toward the end, but if you look at the marketing of this and food at the can, it says,
there's fresh potatoes and carrots, but actually there's more sugar in this than there is
carrots. And so you wouldn't eat something like beef stew and expect to find this to be
the case.
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Aquaculture, the farming of fish, shrimp, shellfish and seaweeds, has been the
sources of human protein for nearly four thousand years, especially in Asia. In the
last decade, however, there is been unprecedented growth in aquaculture production,
more than 300% since 1984, which has increased the importance of the modern food
supply. It’s the world’s fastest growing food production activity. And globally, more
than 25% of the odd fishing and shellfish production in 1999 was attributable to
aquaculture. Yes, this industry’s contributions to human diet is actually greater than
the numbers imply, whereas 1/3 of the conventional fish catch is used to make fish
meal and fish oil. Virtually all farmed fish are used as human food. Today, nearly 1/3
of fish consumed by human is the product of aquaculture, and that percentage will
only increase as aquaculture expands the world’s conventional fish catch, for the
oceans and lakes continues to decline because of overfishing and environmental
damage.
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Traffic light colors (red, amber and green) are used to indicate food’s nutritional
values according to the healthy standard. Different colors represent different food
types, so that people can determine what to eat when they need some certain types of
nutrient. The responsibility to label food properly on the packages is on the retailers.
Thus consumers can be aware of food with less salt or less fat. This system makes it
easier for consumer to make decisions.
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Wage growth has increased for only 5% over the past five years, which is weak.
While the consumption has increased for 15% over the past five years, which is
decent. And the household debt has increased for 40% over the past five years. The
increase in wages is far less sufficient to cover the increase in consumption and
household debt. The increase in consumption is not because of the increase in income,
but because people are borrowing more money.
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Look at any photo of earth’s night sight, and you see the planet lit up like a
Christmas decoration. As the glowing lights of bustling cities expand, the serenity of
natural darkness wanes. But the repercussions are not just the loss of the starry night
sky. Light pollution also affects animals who depend on a nighttime environment to
survive. Many bird species use the stars to navigate at night. Baby sea turtles use
moonlight reflected off the ocean to guide them back to the water. City lights can
confuse them, and fear them off course. Humans are not immune, either. Excessive
exposure to artificial light at night can increase the risk of sleep disorders and it’s also
been linked to obesity, depression, diabetes and even cancer.