Good morning from the UK. It’s Friday 24th April. My marigold seeds have taken off and are starting to sprout secondary stage leaves (marigolds are good companion plants; they ward off various pests in a vegetable garden whilst they can also be good sacrificial plants should a slug manage to somehow breach our electric barrier). Meanwhile, the first of my wife’s radishes seeds is starting to emerge from the compost she put in a recycled milk carton tetrapak a few days ago; she’s very excited by this. Advance warning, today’s post is a bit food supply chain heavy. Happy Friday everybody.
Virus news in depth
AP Story from Tuesday 21st April: UN food agency chief: World on brink of `a hunger pandemic’ - The head of the U.N. food agency warned Tuesday that, as the world is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, it is also “on the brink of a hunger pandemic” that could lead to “multiple famines of biblical proportions” within a few months if immediate action isn’t taken. World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley told the U.N. Security Council that even before COVID-19 became an issue, he was telling world leaders that “2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.” That’s because of wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, locust swarms in Africa, frequent natural disasters and economic crises including in Lebanon, Congo, Sudan and Ethiopia, he said. Beasley said today 821 million people go to bed hungry every night all over the world, a further 135 million people are facing “crisis levels of hunger or worse,” and a new World Food Program analysis shows that as a result of COVID-19 an additional 130 million people “could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020.” He said in the video briefing that WFP is providing food to nearly 100 million people on any given day, including “about 30 million people who literally depend on us to stay alive.”
(Cont’d) Beasley, who is recovering from COVID-19, said if those 30 million people can’t be reached, “our analysis shows that 300,000 people could starve to death every single day over a three-month period” — and that doesn’t include increased starvation due to the coronavirus. “In a worst-case scenario, we could be looking at famine in about three dozen countries, and in fact, in 10 of these countries we already have more than one million people per country who are on the verge of starvation,” he said. According to WFP, the 10 countries with the worst food crises in 2019 were Yemen, Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria, Sudan, Nigeria and Haiti. He pointed to a sharp drop in overseas remittances that will hurt countries such as Haiti, Nepal and Somalia; a loss of tourism revenue which, for example, will damage Ethiopia where it accounts for 47 percent of total exports; and the collapse of oil prices which will have a significant impact in lower-income countries like South Sudan where oil accounts for almost 99 percent of total exports.
The Gulf Times takes a different slant on the story: ‘Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us’; COVID-19 brings fears of a global food crisis - In Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, people desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead. The coronavirus has sometimes been called an equaliser because it has sickened both rich and poor, but when it comes to food, the commonality ends. It is poor people, including large segments of poorer nations, who are now going hungry and facing the prospect of starving. “The coronavirus has been anything but a great equaliser,” said Asha Jaffar, a volunteer who brought food to families in the Nairobi slum of Kibera after the fatal stampede. “It’s been the great revealer, pulling the curtain back on the class divide and exposing how deeply unequal this country is.” Already, 135 million people had been facing acute food shortages, but now with the pandemic, 130 million more could go hungry in 2020, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the World Food Program, a UN agency. Altogether, an estimated 265 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by year’s end. “We’ve never seen anything like this before,” Husain said. “It wasn’t a pretty picture to begin with, but this makes it truly unprecedented and uncharted territory.”
(Cont’d) There is no shortage of food globally, or mass starvation from the pandemic yet continues the
Gulf Times article. But logistical problems in planting, harvesting and transporting food will leave poor countries exposed in the coming months, especially those reliant on imports, said Johan Swinnen, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. While the system of food distribution and retailing in rich nations is organised and automated, he said, systems in developing countries are “labour intensive,” making “these supply chains much more vulnerable to COVID-19 and social distancing regulations.” On a recent evening, hundreds of migrant workers, who have been stuck in New Delhi after a lockdown was imposed in March with little warning, sat under the shade of a bridge waiting for food to arrive. The Delhi government has set up soup kitchens, yet workers like Nihal Singh go hungry as the throngs at these centres have increased in recent days. “Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us,” said Singh, who was hoping to eat his first meal in a day.
Coronavirus-driven CO2 shortage threatens US food, water and beer supply, officials say - The Guardian
reports that there is an emerging shortage of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) according to a Washington state emergency planning document. The document, a Covid-19 situation report produced by the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC), contains a warning from the state’s office of drinking water (ODW) about difficulties in obtaining CO2, which is essential for the process of water treatment. The document says that the ODW is “still responding to [that day’s] notification of a national shortage of CO2”. It continues: “Several [water plants] had received initial notification from their vendors that their supply would be restricted to 33% of normal.” It further warns: “So far utilities have been able to make the case that they are considered essential to critical infrastructure and have been returned to full supply. However, we want to ask if CISA [the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] can assess this through their contacts, if this is sustainable given the national shortage.”
(Cont’d) Asked to clarify the nature of this problem, ODW director Mike Means said in an email that his agency had first learned of potential problems when Seattle public utilities were “contacted by their vendor Airgas who supplied a copy of a Force Majeure notice”, warning them that their CO2 order would be reduced due to pandemic-related shortages. Force majeure is a contractual defense that allows parties to escape liability for contracts in the case of events – such as a pandemic – that could not be reasonably foreseen. In this case, Means wrote, “Airgas informed in their notice that they would only be able to do 80% of their normal service but subsequent discussions said to expect more like 33%”. At this point, he added, “we reached out to understand if this was a WA specific problem or national. We quickly understood it to be a national issue.”
(Cont’d) ODW had then contacted federal agencies such as CISA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) and industry bodies such as the Association of State Drinking Water Authorities (ASDWA). The main reason for national shortages, according to the CEO of the Compressed Gas Association (CGA), Rich Gottwald, is a ramping down of ethanol production. “Back in the summertime, the [Trump] administration exempted some gasoline manufacturers from using ethanol. Then we had Russia and Saudi Arabia flooding the market with cheap gasoline. All of that led to an oversupply of ethanol,” Gottwald said. “As ethanol manufacturers were ramping down because there wasn’t a market for their product, along comes Covid-19, which meant people weren’t driving anywhere”, he added. This led to plant closures, including among the 50 specialized plants that collect CO2 for the food and beverage market. Gottwald’s association, along with a number of associations representing food and beverage industries, which together use 77% of food-grade CO2, issued a joint warning to the federal government about the shortage. In an open letter to the vice-president, Mike Pence, the coalition warns: “Preliminary data show that production of CO2 has decreased by approximately 20%, and experts predict that CO2 production may be reduced by 50% by mid-April.” It continues: “A shortage in CO2 would impact the US availability of fresh food, preserved food and beverages, including beer production.”
The 'land army' needed to keep the UK's food supply chain going as thousands of tonnes of food risks going to waste - ITV has done a
piece on the UK farming supply chain. Farmers are desperate for help. Without their usual influx of migrant workers from the EU, thousands of tonnes of food risk going to waste in fields up and down the country, just as the summer crops come into season. Every year our farming industry needs 90,000 seasonal workers. Like Robyn, many have put themselves forward - but in no way near the numbers needed. Others are finding the application process hard to navigate. Mark Thorogood, whose family have run the Essex farm for three generations, says it’s a perilous time for the food supply chain. "If we can't get the labour – it doesn’t get picked. That’s the crux of it", he said. Meanwhile, the charity The Food Foundation claims more than one and a half million Britons are going without food for at least a day because of the pandemic and three million have experienced hunger since the lockdown. On top of all that - the reality that nearly 50% of our food comes from abroad. With the numbers of ships crossing the Channel reduced and port workers hit by the virus, this is now under threat too. So could this crisis see a permanent change in how we feed our nation? The country's leading voice on food security, Professor Tim Lang gave us a grave warning: "The entire world food system is being disrupted. More disruptions are coming. Plantings not happening, food being wasted. "Britain only produces about 50% of its food - the country that can only half feed itself has got to wake up".
(Personal note: this is why I’m putting effort into growing veg)
Virus news in brief
Sources: The Guardian,
CNN or (to get an alternative spin)
Radio New Zealand - New Zealand: People are being urged not to relax alert level 4 restrictions over Anzac weekend. The country will move to level 3 at 11.59pm on Monday but police say they will continue to enforce the current restrictions until then. They say officers will be visible on the roads, with checkpoints operating at holiday hot spots. (Personal note: It’s the local equivalent of memorial weekend there with NZ and parts of Australia enjoying Monday as a public holiday). Level 3 restrictions mean organised sports are still not allowed outside the home bubble, including playing frisbee or kicking a rugby ball around. Playgrounds and public sports facilities are still off limits, and physical distancing is still required when exercising outside. Sports such as golf, tennis, and bowls, where two metres of distancing is possible can be played, and mountain biking on known trails is permitted for experienced bikers.
- Three southern Sydney beaches closed for a second time, only five days after being reopened, according to a statement from the Randwick City Council. The beaches of Clovelly, Coogee and Maroubra were shut at 1pm Friday after “people failed to use beaches for exercise only.” The three beaches will reopen Saturday and Sunday between 6am to 9am for exercise only, according to the council. The situation will be reassessed on Monday.
- Results of a new survey from C+R Research shows that 60 percent of American shoppers are “now fearful” to shop at grocery stores, with 73 percent saying they are shopping less at physical stores says The Spoon. Not surprisingly, C+R’s survey also found that grocery delivery has shot up 3.5x during the pandemic. Whereas consumers used to take an average of 2.3 weekly trips to the grocery store before the COVID-19 outbreak, they now average 1 trip a week.
- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized China previously for its handling of coronavirus, but tonight he was clearer than ever, saying, "China caused an enormous amount of pain, loss of life, and now a huge challenge for the global economy and the American economy as well by not sharing the information they had." Pompeo, appearing on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox, added, "I am very confident that the Chinese Communist Party will pay a price for what they did here, certainly from the United States."
- Inevitably, left leaning media sources such as The Guardian have attacked President Trump for his suggestion yesterday of injecting disinfectant to cure the virus. At Thursday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, the US president discussed new government research on how the virus reacts to different temperatures, climates and surfaces. “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute,” Trump said. “One minute! And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.” Dr Deborah Birx, the task force response coordinator, remained silent. But social media erupted in hilarity and outrage at the president, who has a record of defying science and also floated the idea of treating patients’ bodies with ultraviolet (UV) light. (Personal note: already I’ve seen several memes on the topic).
- Germany’s coronavirus reproduction rate has increased to 0.9 according to the country's centre for disease and control, the Robert Koch Institute, meaning every 10 people with the virus infect an average of nine others. That’s up from a reproduction rate of 0.7 a week ago, according to the Institute’s Vice President Lars Schaade. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has previously warned that if the number -- also known as the R0 value -- rises above 1, the country’s health system would eventually be overwhelmed. Yesterday she expressed concern that some German states were moving to ease coronavirus restrictions too soon, saying it could undermine the results that have been achieved.
- The British prime minister is recovering at his countryside retreat, but there's no decision yet on when he will return to work, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News.
- It's the first day of the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims; in Indonesia, millions can't travel home as is custom due to travel bans, and in Malaysia, the national lockdown has been extended through early May. Meanwhile, Muslims in India are facing discrimination, attacks, and being blamed for spreading the virus. An infection cluster was identified at a Muslim group's event last month, heightening public fear and Islamophobia.
- Police in the United Arab Emirates are deploying smart helmets that can scan the temperatures of hundreds of people every minute in their effort to combat the new coronavirus. The helmets, which need less time and less contact than traditional thermometers, can measure temperatures from five metres (16ft) away and scan up to 200 people a minute, triggering an alert if a fever is detected. Chinese company KC Wearable says it has sold more than 1,000 of the temperature-scanning helmets and has received orders from the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
Supply chain news in depth
Hidden threat: Japan only has a 2-week stockpile of LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) - If supplies stop, it will cause major power supply problems in the country says Nikkei’s Asian review which
has an article highlighting the continuing energy supply chain vulnerability in Japan ever since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It takes about one month to ship LNG from the Middle East to Japan explains the article but if the coronavirus outbreak prevents ships from docking in Japan it could have a big impact on the country's power supply. The physical properties of LNG mean it is poorly suited for long-term storage hence the country only holding a two-week stockpile. Despite this, the country depends on the fuel for 40% of its electric power generation needs, and all of the LNG it uses is imported from the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Tokyo Bay, which stretches across the prefectures of Chiba, Tokyo and Kanagawa, is Japan's most important LNG power generation hub. JERA operates many of the power plants there, all of which run on LNG. Accounting for about 30% of Japan's total LNG power generation, these plants produce 26 million kilowatts of electricity. If, for instance, the coronavirus was to force these plants to stop, the Greater Tokyo area would immediately lose its power supply (
Personal note: that’s a population of approx 38.5m people).
(Cont’d) Today, LNG is a pillar of Japan's electricity. Before the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Japan, LNG made up 28% of the country's power generation. That increased to 40% in fiscal 2017 as the nation's nuclear power plants went off grid, one after the other, following the Fukushima nuclear crisis. While some of Japan's nuclear plants have come back online, based on the strictest standards in the world, only three of the 10 electric power companies have been able to do so. Moreover, the coronavirus is inching closer and closer to the nuclear plants. Recently, a contractor working at the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant in the southern prefecture of Saga tested positive for the virus and construction at the site was stopped temporarily. Japan has traditionally tried to maintain a diverse mixture of power sources -- including nuclear, LNG, fossil fuels and renewable energy -- due to its reliance on imports as an island nation. "It is highly unbalanced to depend close to half of our energy on LNG alone," an official at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry concedes. With shipments arriving constantly, a few missed shipments will not immediately signal a crisis. But an extended cutoff will spell trouble for the country.
(Cont’d) Japan was already facing a power shortage this year, "so the timing is very bad," said a power industry source. The Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture was shut down last month because it failed to meet antiterrorism standards. The No. 3 reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture is offline following a court injunction. The number of nuclear reactors in operation this year is expected to temporarily fall by half from nine, so Japan cannot rely heavily on nuclear power. Japan's energy self-sufficiency stands at about 10%, well below the 40% for food. The movement to shift away from carbon has led to a backlash against domestic coal-fired power plants, so dependence on LNG could rise further. One reason that Tokyo Electric is rushing to restart its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture is because "heavy concentration in LNG power in Tokyo Bay is a major risk to the stable supply of power," according to an official at the utility. The coronavirus pandemic is testing whether Japan's government and utilities can diversify energy sources to prepare against the risks that threaten supplies.
USA meat packing plant Covid-19 problems worse than originally thought - A rash of coronavirus outbreaks at dozens of meatpacking plants across the nation is far more extensive than previously thought, according to an exclusive review of cases by USA TODAY and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. More than 150 of America’s largest meat processing plants operate in counties where the rate of coronavirus infection is already among the nation’s highest, based on the media outlets’ analysis of slaughterhouse locations and county-level COVID-19 infection rates. These facilities represent more than 1 in 3 of the nation’s biggest beef, pork and poultry processing plants. Rates of infection around these plants are higher than those of 75% of other U.S. counties, the analysis found.
(Cont’d) While experts say the industry has thus far maintained sufficient production despite infections in at least 2,200 workers at 48 plants, there are fears that the number of cases could continue to rise and that meatpacking plants will become the next disaster zones. "Initially our concern was long-term care facilities," said Gary Anthone, Nebraska's chief medical officer, in a Facebook Live video Sunday. “If there's one thing that might keep me up at night, it's the meat processing plants and the manufacturing plants." Factory workers, unions, and even managers say the federal government – including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration – has done little more than issue non-enforceable guidance. On its website, for example, the CDC has released safety guidelines for critical workers and businesses, which primarily promote common-sense measures of sanitization and personal distancing. USA Today says that state health departments have also taken a backseat role in all but a few places. There’s more in the article
here.
Supply chain news in brief
- Supply chain dive gives a glimpse into the soaring demand for PPE during the pandemic. Numbers from group purchasing organization Premier and data software company ESO show the supply chain gaps in getting needed personal protective equipment (PPE) to those on the front lines. Data on increasing orders of PPE in the hospital setting and the arc of COVID-19 calls compared to a typical flu season show the pandemic in a new light. Healthcare procurement departments and group buying organizations track purchases as part of business. When a spike in usage occurs, it helps them understand their needs and project what will happen. "Dealing with COVID, we’re using five to seven times more PPE than with the traditional patient," Michael Alkire, president of Premier (a group purchasing organisation), told Supply Chain Dive. Typically, Premier purchases 22 million to 24 million N95 respirators per year for its members, including about 4,000 hospitals and 175,000 nonacute healthcare providers and organizations. In January and February, before the virus was spreading rapidly in the U.S., Premier’s members used 56 million respirators.In late March, Premier's systems were ordering 110 million to 150 million respirators, Alkire stated in an Alliance for Health Policy webinar. According to a March Premier survey of its hospitals, 23% of respondents had less than a 10-day supply in inventory. The number of SKUs (SKU = Single Keeping Unit, think of it as a unique product code) on allocation, meaning ordering is restricted due to a shortage, has also skyrocketed. On March 23, 2,600 unique SKUs were on national allocation, Alkire said. By April 1, that number had risen to 9,200. PPE categories can have multiple SKUs. The N95 respirator could have 50 SKUs, including various sizes and colors.
- The Singapore Times reports that small businesses in Thailand’s food manufacturing and wholesale trade industries have been encouraged to buy and sell across regional borders, with the help of a new online channel. Thaitrade.com, an e-commerce portal run by the country’s Department of International Trade Promotion, teamed up with a Singapore-based firm to raise the profile of selected Thai brands. The partnership with business-to-business wholesale food platform OctoRocket, which is partly owned by Business Times publisher Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), aims to help Thai food manufacturers export their wares. Food suppliers in Thailand can also tap the new channel to connect with regional counterparts and source products from the rest of South-east Asia for Thai consumers.
- A billion kilos of French fries but nobody wants them anymore; NRC.nl reports (link, in dutch) that the demand for French fries has collapsed now that the catering industry is closed due to the coronavirus meaning growers across the Netherlands are left with full sheds. The Netherlands is one of the largest chip potato producers in Europe the article explains, clarifying that the potatoes mainly end up in restaurants, cafes, canteens and fast-food chains, but catering has been largely closed worldwide since the outbreak of the corona virus. 1.5 million tons of Dutch fries potatoes remain from the 2019 harvest. Two-thirds of this is unsaleable, the potato sector estimates. It works out at around sixty kilos per inhabitant of the Netherlands. André Hoogendijk, director of branch organization BO Akkerbouw, says that the Dutch potato sector does not quickly ask for help and until recently the sector had been buoyant but this week, the potato sector held a crisis meeting with Minister Carola Schouten of Agriculture (ChristenUnie). According to Hoogendijk, the minister accepts the severity of the problem and economic need but no concrete commitments have yet been made. "We hope for financial compensation" he says.
- The major US grocery chain Publix has committed to buying surplus milk and food that would normally go to schools, catering companies and restaurants and will donate it to America’s food banks according to Business Insider. The effort is intended to help both farmers who have had to discard unsold product and the growing number of Americans facing food insecurity. It expects to donate more than 150,000 pounds (circa 68 tonnes) of produce and 43,500 gallons of milk (approx 165,000 litres) in the first week of the initiative.
- Major US supermarket chain Krogers has told ABC that America’s food supply is stabilizing, but it will be up to consumers to keep the supply for some hot-button items in check, Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen said in an exclusive with "Good Morning America." “I was in the store last night — we had toilet paper, plenty of meat variety products: beef, pork, chicken, all those things,” McMullen, CEO of America’s second-largest general retailer, said. “As for hand sanitizer, I think it is going to take a little bit longer.” The sentiment from Kroger’s CEO has been echoed by Wegmans (another supermarket chain in the US, predominantly in the NE of the country). “While the unexpected increase in demand has challenged the supply chain, we’re seeing it start to equal out,” said Laura Camera, a Wegmans spokesperson. “We are confident it will stabilize as long as we prioritize our needs.”
- Manufacturing activity in the UK has slumped to record lows says the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (link). Widespread business shutdowns at home and abroad in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic unsurprisingly resulted in a rapid reduction in UK private sector output during April. The latest IHS Markit/ CIPS Flash UK Composite PMI® (Purchasing Management Index) signalled by far the fastest decline in business activity since comparable figures were first compiled over two decades ago. At 12.9 in April, down from 36.0 in March, the seasonally adjusted IHS Markit / CIPS Flash UK Composite Output Index – which is based on approximately 85% of usual monthly replies – indicated that the combined monthly decline in manufacturing and services activity exceeded the downturn seen at the height of the global financial crisis by a wide margin. Prior to March, the survey-record low was 38.1 in November 2008. (Personal note: The PMI is based on five major survey areas: new orders, inventory levels, production, supplier deliveries, and employment. The ISM weighs each of these survey areas equally. The surveys include questions about business conditions and any changes, whether it be improving, no changes, or deteriorating. The headline PMI is a number from 0 to 100. A PMI above 50 represents an expansion when compared with the previous month. A PMI reading under 50 represents a contraction, and a reading at 50 indicates no change).
- Air New Zealand announced it will not resume operation of its suspended Auckland-Buenos Aires and Los Angeles-London routes due to the deep impact of Covid-19 on forward travel demand. The airline has also taken the decision to postpone the commencement of its non-stop Auckland-New York service from 29 October 2020 until late 2021 at the earliest. Along with 95 percent of its international flying, Air New Zealand's Buenos Aires and Los Angeles-London routes are currently suspended through to 30 June due to government travel bans and low demand. Last year, the airline announced its plan to exit the Los Angeles-London route in October 2020 and in March brought forward the closure of its London cabin crew base.
Good news
Meet the 12-year-old who rode 36 hours on Zwift alongside Geraint Thomas - The Tour De France winner and double Olympic gold medalist earlier this week did 3 12 hour cycling sessions to raise money for the UK’s NHS (National Health Service), eventually earning £350,000. Alongside him rode a 12 year old Mak Larkin who by the end of the 36 hours of cycling had managed to cycle 740km (460 miles). Proud mum Lynsey told Cycling Weekly: “Lockdown was really getting to Mak, being that he was so eager to race this season as it was his first year at national level road and mountain bike cross country. “He saw Geraint’s 36-hour challenge and told us he wanted to do some of it with him for something to do and to support the NHS. He then told us a few hours later that he wanted to do the full challenge and wanted to raise some money himself. At time of writing his fundraising page (also for the NHS) stands at £5,772 (approx €6,605 or $7,111 USD). Cycling weekly has more
here.
A toddler has been able to hear for the first time after a groundbreaking remote switch-on of her cochlear implants - The BBC
reports that audiologists in Southampton activated the devices for 18-month-old Margarida Cibrao-Roque via the internet as they are unable to see patients in person due to Covid-19 measures. Professor Helen Cullington said the procedure took "technical creativity". Margarida's father said it had "opened a big window" for his daughter. Margarida, who has been deaf since birth because she has Ushers Syndrome Type One, had received her cochlear implants in an earlier operation. Staff at the University of Southampton's Auditory Implant Service (USAIS) used specialist software and were able to monitor progress via videolink to the family's home in Camberley, Surrey. During the switch-on levels of electrical stimulation were gradually built up and Margarida's responses were constantly monitored. It is hoped her new cochlear implants will, over time, help her to hear and to communicate more easily. Margarida's mother, Joana Cibrao said the team were "just brilliant and made it happen" despite the lockdown restrictions. "The possibility of Margarida calling me mummy one day would mean the world," she said.
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Several asked if they can send me $/£/€ via Patreon (in some cases because I've saved them time or money, others for no reason at all). I don't need the cash (that's lovely though) but as you may have read above, food bank charities are getting really hit hard with all this panic buying. Please consider giving whatever you'd have given me to a foodbank charity instead:
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https://www.banquealimentaire.org/ Germany:
https://www.tafel.de/ Netherlands:
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June 2027 As the Hindutva movement in India continues to turns its eyes abroad, it has become increasingly important for the various segments of the movement to keep in contact with one another. What was once a movement wholly contained within India has spread not just throughout South Asia, with Hindutva groups working in Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Nepal, but also throughout the world. With the United Hindu Party's successful overthrow of the weak Chinese puppet government in Suriname,
Hindutva has entered the halls of government in a second country. This, if nothing else, is cause for celebration. The Supreme Court of India might have dealt a defeat to the BJP and its allies, but their success in Suriname proves one thing: they may have lost the battle, but they have not lost the war.
To this end, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has taken it upon itself to organize the first annual Congress of the Hindu Rashtra. Held in New Delhi, the Congress is intended to serve as a meeting point for all of the different organizations of the Sangh Parivar, regardless of their nation of origin. Invites have been sent out to the numerous SP organizations within India, as well as their affiliates in Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Suriname.
The venue itself is the prestigious
Taj Palace in New Delhi. Located just a short drive away from Indira Gandhi International Airport, the Taj Palace is nestled in the bustling heart of New Delhi, just a block away from the University of Delhi and the Diplomatic Quarter while overlooking the Central Ridge Reserve Forest. No expense has been spared for the conference. The main hall, a massive 13,000 square foot room, has undergone renovations in preparation for the conference, with the north wall of the conference hall adorned by a massive matte painting of Akhand Bharat--the undivided Indian subcontinent--and her personification, Bharat Mata. Her image looms over every meeting in the space--a reminder of what it is that has brought them all together today.
With so many important right-wing figures gathered in one place, the Taj Palace is an attractive target for Naxalites, Islamists, and other terrorist elements in Indian society. As such, security at the venue is extremely tight. In addition to the standard complement of police, the attendance of several key individuals from the Indian government (including Amit Shah, the Minister of Home Affairs) has led to a massive showing by the National Security Guards. For those not fortunate enough to have the protection of the Indian state, the RSS has ensured to have a significant paramilitary force on standby (which leads to some tension with the uniformed Indian personnel on site--especially on Day 3 of the Congress, when ten RSS members are alleged to have broken off from the Congress to harass the Muslim residents of a nearby neighborhood).
Almost more important than the public events of the Congress, though, were the backroom meetings and breakout events. For the first time, RSS members from outside of India were given access to the brightest minds of the Indian Hindutva movement. Breakout meetings taught them the latest in organizing tactics, leadership, and propagandizing, ensuring that when they returned to their home countries, they would be well-equipped to grow the Hindutva movement.
[S] The most important meeting, though, actually occurred several blocks away in an entirely different hotel, away from the press coverage of the main event. Here, representatives of the major organizations of the Sangh Parivar--largely the RSS, the BJP, and their foreign affiliates (Suriname excluded) met to discuss the issue of
Akhand Bharat. Here, the leaders of the various institutions agreed that the existing collaboration between the nations of South Asia had brought unprecedented prosperity to the region. The unity of South Asia on the international stage had enabled them to negotiate massive free trade agreements, bringing millions of jobs to South Asia and dramatically improving the quality of life in the region, even while furthering their goal of marginalizing Muslims and homogenizing the Hindu population. But there gains might be temporary if not secured now. All it took was one bad election--one bad decade--and all their progress could be swept away. If they were to secure the gains of their movement, the time had come for them to work towards the creation of the new state. [/S]
On the fifth day, the closing ceremony was headlined by Jagat Prakash Nadda, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In his speech, he spoke of the "...historical unity of the Hindu people... being recreated in this room" and called for "the elevation of the historical ties of the Hindu people--the Hindu Rashta." As the end, he was met with a standing ovation.
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submitted by TL;DR: If you want to complete the Collections page, you don't need to collect every item. In fact, you can be missing a large portion of each type of collectible and still complete the node for that collectible type.
When the Age of Triumph reveal was presented, I panicked a little bit with regard to the Collections page. At first, I thought I might have to collect
everything (as I didn't watch the live stream). While I have done my best to collect as many emblems, shaders, ships, and sparrows as possible, I am still missing some (mostly Trials of Osiris stuff, the Nanophoenix, and some Eververse stuff). Then, someone pointed out in a
comment on the megathread that it is actually just a certain number of collectable items that need to be acquired, not everything. This was further reinforced by the summaries that came out after the livestream had finished.
So, for the collectors among us who have not quite collected everything, I figured I would go through the list of collectibles and count them up. After all, when you have collected so many things, it becomes easier to count what you don't have than what you do have. Also, I was kind of curious about the rough proportion of items we would need to collect, as well as seeing how many items can no longer be collected.
I do want to point out another post someone created with a
checklist of the numbers we know so far. I have
stolen borrowed the numbers from this list and from the previous comment and reused them below for how many of each type of collectible you need.
Before getting into the numbers, I must point out the full lists of all collectibles that have been compiled so far:
Here is the count of how many items you need to get for the record book, and how many items there are:
- Life is Fleeting: 75/107 ships
- Slings and Sparrows: 35(?)/81 sparrows
- Made in the Shade: 100/126 shaders
- Flying Colors: 125(?)/214 emblems
- Outlandish Arms: 55/77(?) exotic weapons or 55/53 (plus an unknown number for Age of Triumph) EDIT: It looks like we may be getting 16 new exotic weapons here with Age of Triump.
- Outlandish Dress: 49/102(?) or 49/66(?) exotic armor
- Quaint and Curious: 5000/5545 or 5000/5505 Grimoire Score
A more in-depth breakdown so that you know how I arrived at these numbers. Note: I have not factored in any new collectibles that will be coming with the Age of Triumph.
Life is Fleeting:
75/107 ships - Taken King (5 ships, including Vienna Singer)
- House of wolves (7 ships)
- Factions (9 ships)
- Strike (12 ships)
- Crucible (18 ships, including 1 Trials of Osiris ship)
- Raid (6 ships, including the mythical Nanophoenix ヽಠ▃ಠﾉ )
- Treasure (9 ships)
- Vendor (36 ships)
- Promotional (1 ship)
- Arcadia Class Jumpship, the starter ship
- Eververse Trading Company (2 ships)
- Rise of Iron (2 ships)
Slings and Sparrows:
35(?)/81 sparrows - SRL (9 sparrows)
- 6 can be purchased with silver dust (can still be aquired)
- 3 from SRL quest/record book rewards, one of which was PS4 only (can no longer be aquired unless you stil have the quests)
- Crucible (3 sparrows)
- Raid (2 sparrows)
- Basic (10 sparrows)
- Vanguard (3 sparrows)
- Upgraded (24 sparrows)
- Promotional (8 sparrows)
- 3 from pre-order or playing during a certain time (can no longer be aquired)
- 3 from quests (can still be aquired)
- EV-34 Vector Infinite, from Refer-A-Friend Questline (can still be aquired)
- S-41 Poison Apple, from SRL quest (can no longer be aquired unless you still have the quest)
- Eververse (12 sparrows)
- 10 from Dawning Treasure (can still be aquired)
- Gjallarwing, from silver dust (can still be aquired)
- EV-53 Glimmergold, from collecting a full set of The Dawning Armor (can still be aquired)
- The Taken King (1 sparrow)
- Rise of Iron (9 sparrows, including 1 Trials of Osiris sparrow)
Made in the Shade:
100/126 shaders - The Taken King (16 shaders)
- House of Wolves (12 shaders, including 3 Trials of Osiris)
- The Dark Below (3 shaders)
- Factions (12 shaders)
- Activities (22 shaders)
- SRL (14 shaders)
- Raid (8 shaders)
- Vendor (15 shaders)
- Promotional (10 shaders)
- 2 from redemption codes (can still be aquired)
- SUROS Minimalist, which was a TTK preorder bonus but now everyone has it (can still be aquired)
- The Old Guard, given to Year 1 veterans (can no longer be aquired)
- 3 from Collectors Edition of The Taken King (requires money)
- Infinite Link, from Refer-A-Friend Questline (can still be aquired)
- Blacksmith (requires a rare code)
- Prayer of Nepal, from donating during the Nepal Aid event (can no longer be aquired)
- Holiday (10 shaders)
- Rise of Iron (3 shaders, 1 from Trials of Osiris)
Flying Colors:
125(?)/214 emblems (maybe 150/214, it is hard to tell) - Class Starter (9 emblems)
- Class (6 emblems)
- Community (6 emblems) (Note: I do not have any of these, so I am mostly guessing about what is under this category)
- 5 from the Bungie forums before they wre moved (can no longer be aquired)
- Mentor's Badge, from becomming a mentor (probably can still get this?)
- Vendor (58 emblems)
- Factions (18 emblems)
- Crucible (6 emblems)
- SRL (6 emblems)
- Raid (11 emblems)
- The Dark Below (4 emblems)
- House of Wolves (9 emblems)
- The Taken King (23 emblems)
- Promotional (39 emblems)
- 11 from redemption codes (can still be aquired)
- SUROS Fire, which was a TTK preorder bonus but now everyone has it (can still be aquired)
- Vanguard Honor, which was a Destiny pre-order bonus that might have been given to everyone during a certain time period (can no longer be aquired)
- Be Brave, given to Year 1 veterans (can no longer be aquired)
- Laurea Prima, from Year 1 Moments of Triumph (can no longer be aquired)
- 3 from buying collectible pins from the Bungie Store (requires money, not currently available but might come back)
- 3 from buying soundtracks (requires money, still available)
- 5 from limited time sale, promotion, or donation, including 7-7 Ad Infinitum, Eye of Eternity, Sign of Duality, Pride of Nepal, and Resurrectionist (can no longer be aquired)
- Inner Circle, from the original limited edition of Destiny (can no longer be aquired)
- Inner Chamber, from playing four of the last six games developed by Bungie (can no longer be aquired)
- 4 from playing during a certain time frame, including Sign of the Elders, Founder's Seal, Sign of the Founders, and Rising Light (can no longer be aquired)
- From Here, The Stars, from subscribing the Bungie mailing list (can still be aquired)
- Sign of the Infinite, from Refer-A-Friend Questline (can still be aquired)
- Can't Stop the Signal, from streaming for 77 hours (can still be aquired)
- Sign of Containment, from being featured on the Moview of the Week (can still be aquired)
- Sign of Opposing Will, from defeating Bungie in a Crucible Match (can still be aquired)
- Song of the Spheres, from participating in the Alpha Lupi experience (can no longer be aquired)
- Union of Light (requires a rare code)
- Holiday (4 emblems)
- Rise of Iron (6 emblems)
- Trials of Osiris (9 emblems, some of which can no longer be aquired)
Outlandish Arms:
55/77(?) exotic weapons or 55/53 (plus an unknown number for Age of Triumph) I'm not quite sure if having the year 1 version and the year 2 version of a weapon will count twice. If it does count twice, the current total is 77. If it only counts once, then it would be 49 plus Vex Mythoclast, Necrochasm, Pocket Infinity, and Iron Gjallarhorn, for a total of 53 unique weapons. It is also possible that there will be new year 2 weapons introduced by the Age of Triumph update. EDIT: It looks like we may be getting 16 new exotic weapons here with Age of Triump. That solves that mystery!
- Year 1 Primary (11 weapons)
- Year 1 Special (11 weapons)
- Year 1 Heavy (5 weapons)
- Year 2 Primary (20 weapons)
- Year 2 Special (16 weapons)
- Year 2 Heavy (14 weapons, including Iron Gjallarhorn, which can no longer be acquired)
- Above figures do not count year 2 versions of Vex Mythoclast, Necrochasm, or Pocket Infinity, which currently only have year 1 versions. They also do not count Fate of All Fools, as most of us cannot acquire it.
Outlandish Dress:
49/102(?) or 49/66(?) exotic armor I'm not quite sure if having the year 1 version and the year 2 version of a piece of armor will count twice. If it does not count, then - Hunter (34, or 22 for Year 2)
- Year 1 Helmets (5)
- Year 1 Gauntets (3)
- Year 1 Body Armor (2)
- Year 1 Boots (2)
- Year 2 Helmets (7)
- Year 2 Gauntets (5)
- Year 2 Body Armor (3)
- Year 2 Boots (3)
- Year 2 Class Items (4, including 1 from Collector's Edition of The Taken King)
- Titan (34, or 22 for Year 2)
- Year 1 Helmets (5)
- Year 1 Gauntets (3)
- Year 1 Body Armor (2)
- Year 1 Boots (2)
- Year 2 Helmets (7)
- Year 2 Gauntets (5)
- Year 2 Body Armor (3)
- Year 2 Boots (3)
- Year 2 Class Items (4, including 1 from Collector's Edition of The Taken King)
- Warlock (34, or 22 for Year 2)
- Year 1 Helmets (5)
- Year 1 Gauntets (3)
- Year 1 Body Armor (4)
- Year 1 Boots (0)
- Year 2 Helmets (7)
- Year 2 Gauntets (5)
- Year 2 Body Armor (5)
- Year 2 Boots (1)
- Year 2 Class Items (4, including 1 from Collector's Edition of The Taken King)
Quaint and Curious:
5000/5545 or 5000/5505 Grimoire Score PS4 max Grimoire score is 5545, and Xbox One max Grimoire score is 5505 (including the hidden ghost in Echo Chamber that you can technically get) So, as you can see, without even counting the additional collectibles that will be added as a part of the Age of Triumph update, the collectibles page is achievable even without having to collect everything. There will be a very healthy margin of stuff that you can skip collecting and still get full credit for the Collections page. For ships, you only need about 75% of the ships. For Sparrows, you only need about half of them (so you don't even need to get any of the SRL sparrows). For Shaders, you need about 80%. For Emblems, you need about 60%-70%, though there are a large number of limited shaders that are no longer available or were tied to purchases. Of course, Age of Triump is going to be adding A LOT of emblems, so this won't be a problem. With exotic armor or weapons, it is a bit harder to know much you can collect, as it isn't clear if Year 1 and Year 2 versions of the exotics count separately. Exotic weapons might be a bit difficult if year 1 and year 2 versions of the same weapon does not count twice, though we do know that the Vex Mythoclast and Necrochasm are coming back, with a couple more possibly coming. Grimoire shouldn't be that hard to achieve, especially given that we'll probably get more Grimoire in the update.
So, relax. If you have been collecting aggressively so far, you will probably be fine.
Edit: Thank you to the generous guardian who gilded my post! This is my first submitted post, and I am happy that I both got to the front page and got gilded on my first time! Also, I'm glad that the discussion below has been so constructive. There are a lot of great comments below with good points!
Edit 2: Someone jokingly pointed out Iron Gjallarhorn and Fate of All Fools. Somehow, I had forgotten about these, even though I had unintentionally counted Iron Gjallarhorn when going through my kiosk. I guess that makes it even more likely that year 1 and year 2 weapons are going to count, as without Iron Gjallarhorn (and Fate of All Fools), there are only 52 unique weapons.
Edit 3: The last livestream for AoT has confirmed that we are getting exotic adept elemental primaries for every raid. I haven't seen a final number, but by my math, with four primaries for each raid and four raids, that means 16 new exotic weapons are coming. That will make it a lot easier to hit the 55 exotic weapon goal!
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