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Even now and then I get really inspired to make things with clay! Klayful Ceramics for the win!
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Her name was Alice Augusta Ball. She was born in Seattle in 1892. She earned two bachelor's degrees from the University of Washington, then moved to Hawaii for her master's in chemistry. In 1915, she became the first woman and first African American to earn a master's degree from the College of Hawaii. She was 23.
That same year, a physician named Harry Hollmann asked for her help. Leprosy patients in Hawaii were being exiled to a remote peninsula on Molokai. The… See more
Her name was Alice Augusta Ball. She was born in Seattle in 1892. She earned two bachelor's degrees from the University of Washington, then moved to Hawaii for her master's in chemistry. In 1915, she became the first woman and first African American to earn a master's degree from the College of Hawaii. She was 23.
That same year, a physician named Harry Hollmann asked for her help. Leprosy patients in Hawaii were being exiled to a remote peninsula on Molokai. The only treatment was chaulmoogra oil, a thick, foul substance that was painful to inject and barely worked. Hollmann wanted something better.
Ball cracked it. She isolated the active compounds in the oil and converted them into ethyl esters—a form that was water-soluble, injectable, and absorbed by the body. The Ball Method wasn't a perfect cure, but it was the best treatment available for the next two decades. It freed patients from quarantine. It saved lives.
She died on December 31, 1916, at 24 years old. The cause was likely chlorine poisoning from a lab accident. She never published her findings.
Her supervisor, Arthur Dean, took the research. He published papers in 1920 and 1921. He didn't mention her name. He called it the Dean Method.
Hollmann tried to correct the record. In 1922, he published a paper crediting Ball explicitly. He wrote that Dean's method was no improvement over hers. Few people noticed.
Ball stayed forgotten for decades. The University of Hawaii didn't recognize her until 2000. A plaque was dedicated. February 29 was declared Alice Ball Day. In 2007, the school gave her its highest honor.
Today, her name is finally attached to the treatment she created. The Ball Method. Not the Dean Method. See less
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Ladies shouldn’t wear:
•Fake bags
•Fake dresses
•Fake heels
•Fake wigs
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Ghanaian billionaire Ibrahim Mahama’s Damang gold mine has more than doubled its permanent workforce to 426 employees, six months after his company, Engineers and Planners (E&P), took over the mine from Gold Fields. The workforce grew from 207 employees at the April handover, including 120 workers moved from labour-hire contracts onto the permanent payroll.
About 62% of the mine’s full-time staff come from the 10 surrounding communities, exceeding the company’s 60% local-hiring… See more
Ghanaian billionaire Ibrahim Mahama’s Damang gold mine has more than doubled its permanent workforce to 426 employees, six months after his company, Engineers and Planners (E&P), took over the mine from Gold Fields. The workforce grew from 207 employees at the April handover, including 120 workers moved from labour-hire contracts onto the permanent payroll.
About 62% of the mine’s full-time staff come from the 10 surrounding communities, exceeding the company’s 60% local-hiring target. Monthly mining volumes also increased from 1.4 million tonnes in May to 3 million tonnes in September. The company expects its permanent workforce to exceed 500 by the end of 2026 and aims to operate the mine at higher capacity by mid-2027.
However, a promised airport near the mine has fallen behind schedule, with earthworks slowed by hard rock. The project has expanded into a roughly two-kilometre runway designed to accommodate Boeing 737 and 787 aircraft, with construction expected to cost at least $80 million. Meanwhile, E&P is pursuing a $740 million arbitration claim against Gold Fields over alleged underpayment for work at the Tarkwa and Damang mines, a claim Gold Fields disputes.
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#IbrahimMahama #EngineersAndPlanners #DamangGoldMine #Ghana #Mining #AfricanBusiness See less
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Copied from Hubert Allah-Mensah👍 Building in the open. Learning together. Contributing to something bigger.
A look back at the Hacktoberfest Accra Hackday by Code & Cocktails at Google Accra.
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Ghanaian man who urged and supported President Trump to deport all undocumented immigrants detained by the ICE and set to be deported to Ghana
Samuel Sey, a Ghana-born conservative Christian blogger who has publicly defended US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and mass deportation policies, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is facing removal from the United States.
The 39-year-old was detained at Columbus International Airport in… See more
Ghanaian man who urged and supported President Trump to deport all undocumented immigrants detained by the ICE and set to be deported to Ghana
Samuel Sey, a Ghana-born conservative Christian blogger who has publicly defended US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and mass deportation policies, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is facing removal from the United States.
The 39-year-old was detained at Columbus International Airport in Ohio on October 21 and is being held at Butler County Jail, according to reports. See less
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Ghana and Kenya are emerging as promising destinations for vehicle assembly investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, outside South Africa, according to Fitch Solutions.
Ghana’s automotive sector is benefiting from government policies and incentives designed to encourage local assembly, with vehicle production projected to increase from about 4,700 units in 2025 to 4,900 in 2026.
Recent investment, including Zonda Tec’s expansion of its Tema assembly facility to an annual capacity of… See more
Ghana and Kenya are emerging as promising destinations for vehicle assembly investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, outside South Africa, according to Fitch Solutions.
Ghana’s automotive sector is benefiting from government policies and incentives designed to encourage local assembly, with vehicle production projected to increase from about 4,700 units in 2025 to 4,900 in 2026.
Recent investment, including Zonda Tec’s expansion of its Tema assembly facility to an annual capacity of 12,000 vehicles, is expected to strengthen the sector and create jobs.
#Thevaultzafrica #Wheels #Automobile See less
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