FUNDING cuts have hit Bradford almost 15 times harder than wealthy parts of the South, new analysis shows despite the city facing much higher care bills.

The study highlights the areas where people suffer most from poor physical and mental health, disability and early death, imposing huge extra costs on local councils.

Bradford is the 37th worst-hit of 325 authorities for "health deprivation and disability", according to the House of Commons library analysis.

And, since 2010, it has lost 213.04 of its overall spending power for every resident, according to a separate study by finance chiefs at Newcastle City Council.

Yet, the average loss in the five areas with the fewest sick and disabled people, and, therefore, much lower care costs, is calculated at just 15.41 per head approaching 15 times less.

Incredibly, spending power has actually risen at one authority, Elmbridge, in Surrey - up 8.14 per head - while it has plummeted in Bradford, down 213.04.

The gulf is seen as crucial because social care is the biggest financial burden for councils - gobbling up one third of Bradfords budget - with responsibility for public health now added.

Recently, the charity Age UK warned that older people have been left high and dry by council cutbacks to help with washing and dressing, to day care places and meals on wheels services.

Councillor Amir Hussain, Bradfords executive member for health and social care, said that was not the case in the city, thanks to back office cuts and efficiencies.

But he warned: We are reaching the point where, if these cuts continue, we will have no option but to look at what services we can no longer provide.

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CUTS have hit the regions town halls nine times harder than wealthy parts of the South, a new analysis shows despite the North facing much higher care bills.

The study highlights the areas where people suffer most from poor physical and mental health, disability and early death, imposing huge extra costs on local councils.

The worst-hit fifth of 325 authorities includes no fewer than ten North-East areas, a list headed by Middlesbrough which is ranked fourth for health deprivation and disability.

Not far behind are Newcastle (13th), Hartlepool (14th), Gateshead (17th), Darlington (20th), Redcar and Cleveland (21st), Sunderland (25th) and County Durham (28th), followed by Stockton-on-Tees (51st) and South Tyneside (65th).

On average, those ten councils have lost 213.04 of their overall spending power for every resident since 2010, according to finance chiefs at Newcastle City Council.

Yet, the average loss in the ten areas with the fewest sick and disabled people, and much lower care costs, is calculated at just 23.19 per head more than nine times less.

Incredibly, spending power has actually risen at one authority, Elmbridge, in Surrey (up 8.14 per head) - while it has plummeted in Middlesbrough (down 289.02).

The gulf is seen as crucial because social care is the biggest financial burden for cash-strapped councils, which are now also responsible for public health.

Recently, the charity Age UK warned that older people have been left high and dry by council cutbacks to help with washing and dressing, to day care places and meals on wheels services.

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Procter & Gamble (P&G) hasalso announced an investment of 100 million shillings investment that will provide another 100 million liters of clean water to more than 100,000 Kenyan people in the coming year.

Through the CSDW program we will be expanding our school and health clinic work with CARE into Migori County in Western Kenya which has suffered a recent Cholera outbreak, said P&G Managing Director Iacopo Pazzi.

Pazzi added that the CSDW will also expand its partnership with S.A.F.E. Kenya to educate more people about water and health issues in the Coastal Region through community theatre programmes as well as ChildFund which will focus on households in Eastern Kenya who have unsafe drinking water from open sources.

Speaking upon receiving a donation of one million liters of clean drinking water, Nairobi City County Governor Dr. Evans Kidero said that donation would help address the current cholera outbreak in Mathare and Huruma and future emergencies among the communities that cause water in this particular settlement to be turbid.

I have instructed the County Executive for Health to work with Population Services Kenya to find the most optimal way of distributing the sachets to ensure maximum coverage and protect the children of this County from diarrheal illnesses, said Dr. Kidero.

Currently, of the about 3.6 million residents of Nairobi, only half have direct access to piped water. The rest obtain water from kiosks, vendors and illegal connections. Of the existing customers, about 40 per cent receive water on a 24-hour basis. Westlands, which has the highest number of its residents with access to tapped water in their dwellings, is at a low 34.5 per cent. Reliance on water vendors is at its highest Nairobi East and Nairobi West, which are at 22.2 per cent and 19.8 per cent, respectively.

P&G began providing clean drinking water in Kenya, Guatemala and Pakistan through powder technology that kills deadly viruses and bacteria and removes dirt, parasites and other pollutants, making contaminated water clean and drinkable. Since 2004, P&G Purifier of Water (formerly Pur) packets have been shared in more than 75 countries and the program has grown to include a network of more than 150 partners.

Scientists trying to purify used laundry water developed the technology that puts the power of a water treatment plant into a tiny packet. Today, the P&G Packets enable families in developing countries to make clean drinking water in 30 minutes.

The idea of billions of liters can be hard to comprehend, but when you meet the people whose lives have been changed by clean drinking water you understand just how important it is that we continue to invest in the future of Kenya through this program and brands like Always, Ariel and Pampers. Pazzi concluded.

P&G partnered with CARE Kenya to share clean drinking water with a 13-year-old boy named Boniface Otieno and his family. At his school in Bondo, Kenya, the 13 year old helps teach fellow students to use the P&G Purifier of Water Packets and about the importance of hand washing and proper sanitation. Through the support of P&G and CARE Kenya, children like Boniface Otieno became agents of change who take what they learned at school back home to transform the health and lives of their communities.

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Mr. Torres will report directly to Pierre Somers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Walter and will be responsible for continuing to drive growth and expansion for Walter in the region.

"Mr. Torres is a seasoned leader with demonstrated ability in consistently delivering results. His background and experience is perfectly aligned with Walter's goal of delivering leading edge innovations to market - and in so doing - helping our customers work better," stated Pierre Somers, Chairman and CEO, Walter surface Technologies.

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Aibo's speech recognition is the foundation for a cloud technology providing itemized power usage

A sensor developed by Sony spinoff company Informetis gathers data for home electricity monitoring. Cloud-based machine learning algorithms crunch the data to chart how much juice major appliances are using, and the results are sent to a mobile app.

What happens to robots when they die? If you're Sony's defunct robot dog Aibo, your technology can return to life in smart homes.

Sony put its sophisticated robot to sleep in 2006 as part of a cost-cutting drive, but a startup spun off by the manufacturer is now using its artificial intelligence to monitor electricity use.

Tokyo-based Informetis is set to begin trials of a sensor, based on algorithms that helped Aibo understand speech, to continuously monitor the current and voltage going into a home or business. The technology can generate an itemized list of how power is being used.

Users could benefit by seeing a detailed account of electricity use by appliance, which could help them save money by consuming less power. They can also use the app to monitor power use when they're away from home, including identifying potential fire hazards such as irons left on.

"Electricity waves are surprisingly very similar to sound," said Josh Honda, a new hire at Informetis for global marketing. "How Aibo was distinguishing the commands it was getting from its owner -- that part of the analysis is the foundation of what we're doing in trying to separate or disaggregate the electricity into different components."

During a recent demonstration, a prototype sensor the size of a pack of cigarettes was attached to a power distribution board on the wall at Informetis. Data gathered by the sensor was sent to a Wi-Fi router, crunched in the cloud and then sent to a TV screen. Electricity used by appliances and lighting was displayed, and when an air purifier and table lamp were turned on, they also appeared.

Informetis has been selling an early version of the sensor to businesses in Japan. It can detect the electricity consumption for appliances such as microwaves, washing machines and refrigerators but not juice-sippers like phone chargers. It can distinguish the type of appliance but not the model.

When the data is uploaded to the cloud, an original codec is used for compression. Then, machine-learning algorithms based on those used for Aibo's speech recognition analyze the waveforms in the data and look for telltale signatures for appliances such as refrigerators using more power at regular intervals.

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