The Athabasca Landing Trail was built in 1876 by the Hudson's Bay Company to improve transportation between Edmonton and northern communities. The trail was 100 miles in distance and linked the North Saskatchewan River with the Mackenzie River system, giving it the nickname "The 100 Mile Portage."
In the late 1800s, the trail was Canada's busiest northern route and played an important role in the development of northern Alberta, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Fur traders, gold rush miners and settlers all followed the trail north, and stopping houses sprang up to accommodate their need for overnight accommodation, meals and stabling of animals.
With the development of railways and roads in this region, the trail became less used. Parts of the trail are still used as roads or recreational trails; others are overgrown or on private land.


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class Houston::Dashboards::ReleasesController < ApplicationController
  layout "houston/dashboards/dashboard"
  helper_method :recent_changes, :upcoming_changes

  def index
    @title = "Releases"
  end

  def upcoming
    @title ="Upcoming"
    render partial: "houston/dashboards/releases/changes", locals: {changes: upcoming_changes} if request.xhr?
  end

  def recent
    @title ="Recent"
    render partial: "houston/dashboards/releases/changes", locals: {changes: recent_changes} if request.xhr?
  end

private

  def recent_changes
    projects = Project.where(slug: %w{members unite ledger})
    releases = Release.where(project_id: projects.map(&:id)).to("production").limit(20)
    releases.flat_map(&:release_changes).take(15)
  end

  def upcoming_changes
    %w{members unite ledger}.flat_map do |slug|
      project = Project.find_by_slug slug
      master = project.repo.branch "master"
      beta = project.repo.branch "beta"
      if master && beta
        release = Release.new(project: project)
        project.commits.between(master, beta)
          .map { |commit| ReleaseChange.from_commit(release, commit) }
          .reject { |change| change.tag.nil? }
      else
        []
      end
    end
  end

end

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74 Series I Volume XIX-I Serial 27 - Antietam Part I
Page 74 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W.VA., MD., AND PA Chapter XXXI.
It would seem from the report of General Stoneman that the disposition he made of his troops previous to the arrival of Stuart was a good one. He stationed two regiments at the mouth of the Monocacy and two regiments at White's Ford, the latter in the very place where the crossing was made, and the former only 3 miles off, with a reserve of three regiments at Poolesville, some 6 miles distant. General Pleasonton's report shows that from the time the firing commenced until the enemy were across the river was about four and a half hours. General Stoneman states that he started the reserve from Poolesville at about 9 o'clock, but it appears from the report of General Pleasonton that it did not reach him until 1.30 o'clock.
At the time I received the order of October 6 to cross the river and attack the enemy, the army was wholly deficient in cavalry, and a large part of our troops were in want of shoes, blankets, and other indispensable articles of clothing, notwithstanding all the efforts that had been made since the battle of Antietam, and even prior to that date, to refit the army with clothing as well as horses. I at once consulted with Colonel Ingalls, the chief quartermaster, who believed that the necessary articles could be supplied in about three days. Orders were immediately issued to the different commanders who had not already sent in their requisitions, to do so at once, and all the necessary steps were forthwith taken by me to insure a prompt delivery of the supplies. The requisitions were forwarded to the proper department at Washington, and I expected that the articles would reach our depots during the three days specified; but day after day elapsed and only a small portion of the clothing arrived. Corps commanders, upon receiving notice from the quartermasters that they might expect to receive their supplies at certain dates, sent the trains for them, which, after waiting, were compelled to return empty. Several instances occurred where these trains went back and forth from the camps to the depots as often as four or five different times without receiving their supplies, and I was informed by one corps commander that his wagon train had traveled over 150 miles to and from the depots before he succeeded in obtaining his clothing. The corps of General Franklin did not get its clothing until after it had crossed the Potomac and was moving into Virginia; General Reynolds' corps was delayed a day at berlin to complete its supplies; and General Porter only completed his on reaching the vicinity of Harper's Ferry.
I made every exertion in my power, and my quartermasters did the same, to have these supplies hurried forward rapidly, and I was repeatedly told that they had filed the requisitions at Washington and that the supplies had been forwarded. But they did not come to us, and of course were inaccessible to the army. I did not fail to make frequent representation of this condition of things to the General-in-Chief, and it appears that he referred the matter to the Quartermaster-General, who constantly replied that the supplies had been promptly ordered. Notwithstanding this, they did not reach our depots.
The following extracts are from telegrams upon this subject:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
October 11, 1862-9 a. m.
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief, Washington:
We have been making every effort to get supplies of clothing for this army, and Colonel Ingalls has received advices that they have been forwarded by railroad, but owing to bad management on the roads, or from some other cause, they come in very


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Q: Is it possible to ship libraries with code? Is there any way to safely include libraries (either internal or external) in the directory of a project (say in a lib/ folder) when you ship or release code? As far as I can see it would be a lot easier if the library files the application depended on were placed there; that way, other people wanting to use the code wouldn't have to download, compile and install the libraries on their own system (in the /usr/local/lib folder or likewise). If this is possible (or advisable), then other people could then just git clone the entire directory including the libraries, something like cmake could set the linker to pick up these libraries and the users could then just issue a cmake and make command rather than have to install the libraries on their system first.
I'm sure this might not work if the two machines have a different byte order or word length, but excluding these, is there any reason not to just put the .a or .so files in with your code?

If it is not possible (or recommended for some reason) to include the library files with the source code then are there any alternatives to having the other user download, compile and install them on their own machine? Containers (Docker) or dependency managers (Conan) perhaps?
p.s. I'm talking about c/c++ development in linux environments exclusively for desktop applications.

A: If the dependencies are popular (such as ffmpeg), they can usually be deployed through apt-get or yum. This is a de facto standard way of deploying dependencies, and have a benefit of being scriptable (so you can include a script within your source which installs those dependencies). If the dependencies are not so popular, they may still be available through a third-party repository. This requires additional operations, but they can be added easily to the script.
If you're talking about the libraries which are not available as stand-alone products, then a package manager is indeed an excellent alternative. In some communities, those package managers became standard (npm for Node.js, pip for Python, etc.) Being unfamiliar with C++, I haven't used Conan, so you may check if among the alternatives, the one you'll use will be the most popular one.
Do not include third-party libraries in your repository. Among other problems:

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*It makes the installation unnecessarily complex and non-standard.

*Somebody will have to handle a case where the dependency is already installed on user's machine, including an older or a newer version (both situations being very tricky to handle).

*It increases the size of your source code.

*Every time a new version of the third-party library is released, you have to update the whole source code (if you store it as source) or a bunch of binaries (if you store the binaries) in your repository. Compare it to a simple change of version in the file containing the list of third-party packages.

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Now that recipes for just about anything you could want to cook are available online, some people are predicting the demise of the old-fashioned paper cookbook. I don't think that is likely. Nothing beats a cookbook as a source for ideas on what to cook. Also, a good cookbook provides interesting context for recipes, and also gives help on the techniques needed to successfully complete a recipe. I have a sizable collection of cookbooks. Periodically, I try to whittle the collection down, usually because of some sort of space crunch. I find it hard to get rid of cookbooks, though, even the ones I rarely, if ever, use. It is like wasting potential- who knows what gems are still in there, waiting for me to discover them?
For instance, I don't have time to bake much anymore, but I won't part with my A Piece of Cake cookbook, even though I only use one recipe with any regularity (Anna's Swedish Cake, which is my favorite birthday cake, and even makes a nice cupcake for toddler birthday parties).
Cooking Light Superfast Suppers. This has a recipe for tortellini in tomato broth that is just about as easy as boiling water, as well as an excellent recipe for crock pot lasagna. The latter is a weekend only recipe, because it takes 6 hours in the crock pot, and you can't let it go longer or the lasagna noodles will be overdone. I just tried out a recipe for crock pot BBQ pork sandwiches, too, which was really good. Pumpkin won't eat it, but if we limited ourselves to things that she will eat, we'd be eating a lot of chicken nuggets, Annie's peace pasta, and quesadillas.
Cooking Light Five Star Recipes . This has another favorite tortellini recipe (what can I say, tortellini may be Pumpkin's favorite dinner)- this one a "salad" with cherry tomatoes and corn. It also has a really nice greek pita pizza recipe that was a favorite of ours before we had kids. Maybe I should dust that recipe off, because Pumpkin has shown a fondness for "peanut bread".
The Minimalist Cooks At Home (I'd get the more comprehensive Mark Bittman's Quick and Easy Recipes from the New York Times if I were buying a Mark Bittman book, though). This has a good stir fry recipe that I make with cashews. It also has a linguini with zucchini and mint, that is similar to carbonara, believe it or not. Very yummy.
My "reference" cook book- the one I pull out overy Thanksgiving to look up how long to cook the turkey- is The Fannie Farmer Cookbook . The companion Fannie Farmer Baking Book gets even more use around here (I really prefer baking to cooking). It is the source of my recipe for scones, which I use in combination with bacon and smoothies for dinner. Bacon is one of the only meats Pumpkin will eat, and I think adding smoothies to just about anything makes it a good meal. I make my smoothies with frozen strawberries and pineapples, plus OJ, water, and whatever other fruit I have on hand. I freeze any fruit that is getting past its prime, and save it for smoothies.
Quesadillas are another favorite meal in combination with smoothies. I'd love to do a smoothie plus dips and bread meal, but we can't get Pumpkin to eat any dip. I'm very jealous of the people who have kids that like hummus.
I have decent recipes for red sauce and pesto, so we use those with pasta a lot, too. I make both in bulk and freeze the extra. I freeze the pesto in ice cube trays. I find that one cube plus a little bit of the water the pasta cooked in makes the right amount of sauce for us. I also combine a lot of meats with sweet potato fries (yes the frozen kind- I can't imagine having the time to make these from scratch), since these are the only thing resembling a vegetable that Pumpkin has ever eaten. She doesn't eat them reliably yet, but I keep trying. She finally ate some scone last night, on what was probably her 15th exposure. Let's just say that she warms up to foods slowly.
This week, we're trying fish sticks again. We'd had some luck with "little fishies" (fish sticks shaped like little fish), but our grocery store stopped carrying that brand, and we've yet to find an acceptable substitute. I'm not a huge fan of fish sticks, so I confess to being less than enthusiastic in my search. However, I'm getting bored with our usual meals, so decided it was time to try to branch out (again).
So what about you? What are your "go to" meals? I'd love some new ideas!
I like Pumpkin's taste in pasta. :) My favorite way to eat them is plain, with butter, parmesan (the real stuff!), maybe some pepper, and rosemary. Since DH isn't thrilled with them (he'll eat them, but he isn't the junkie I am!), I often make them for lunch, and scoop some onto the Infanta's tray; she loves them!
My go-to cookbook is the most recent edition of The Joy of Cooking. From it (or based on it, most of these I don't need the book for anymore, and I think all have family adaptations) I often make minestrone, leek and potato soup, pot roast, and more recently, mac and cheese. I have a few solid slow cooker recipes I make too, including chili and a pork roast. In season, we'll get giant artichokes and eat them almost as a meal on their own; I try to add something more substantial, but they hardly need it!
I feel icky about serving chicken tenders and fish sticks on environmental grounds. But I don't have any guilt about serving TJ's chickenless tenders. She likes them just as much as the chicken ones.
We also cook a "double soy" (baked tofu and edamame) stir-fry w/ onions and garlic.
DH makes noodles and salmon. In the Cinema Paradiso DVD boxed set, he got a recipe booklet. We have the roast cauliflower and lemon pasta and the white fish gratin fairly often. They are quick and tasty.
My list of favorite cookbooks.
Most of my other cooking books aren't in English, but I try to cycle through potatoes/rice/pasta (or couscous or something), and fish/meet/vegetarian. I'm lucky in that my SO loves fish, and is willing to try everything at least once.
One of my favourite recipes right now is chicken with chicory and apple in soy cream. Takes a little longer to make, but the chicken is very nice and tender and the bitterness of the chicory is offset with the apple.
I know I've said this beofre, but Soup soup and more soup! My son and hubby have a three course meal at work/kinder for lunch, which involves pasta or rice, a meat and some kind of fruit or dessert. So, what else is there for me but the big 'S'. And they are damn easy to make and the kids love them.
The kids' fave is pumpkin soup (I add carrots and sneak in some zucchini, which they don't usually eat), and potato and leek (with a zucchini there too). Hubby loves barley, spelt and lentil soup, but I have to blend this for the kids 'cos if they see a whole barley grain, they push the plate to the side and say they are done. Of course to make these 'go-to' meals I have to cook them in a pressure cooker so in 40 minutes they are cooked.
If I have leftovers, I add rice or barley to make a 'risotto', which the kids generally like especailly if its the pumpkin one. Otherwise big pasta shapes so they think they are getting pasta with a differnt sauce.
My girl loves rice, so we often make it as a side dish. And the leftovers easily transform into fried rice, my favorite go-to meal! I just chop up whatever veggies and meat we have leftover, throw them in the pan with the rice, some scrambled eggs, soy sauce, salt and pepper. Easy and delicious.
My favorite cookbook is Saving Dinner. The recipes are easy, fast and very good. I especially love the red beans and rice recipe.
I'm also a big fan of the recipes in the Real Simple magazine for the same reasons that I like the others.
My go-to cookbooks are Joy of Cooking and James Beard. My aunt turned me on to Beard because she makes the BEST pot roast ever and she uses his recipe. It is EXCELLENT. The recipes are very British, which can be funny, but a little unusual and all very good.
Saute 1 onion, 3 cloves of garlic.
Simmer 30 minutes, stirring frequently (or it sticks to the bottom). Unfortunately I'm guessing this won't work for your family - it can be pretty spicy. For some reason my kid prefers her vegetables embedded in tomato sauce...to the point that she will steal the green peppers from my bowl. When offered plain green pepper she will refuse to even touch them. And Christmas dinner? Total failure. Wouldn't touch a single thing on her plate since they were all separate and not nearly spicy enough.
Also, the other day I was informed that she wants to go back to Grandma's house because she serves Campbell's soup out of a can, which is apparently the best meal ever. Go figure. I'm guessing that more salt = better around here!
Thanks for all the ideas, everyone!
@Paola- the idea of using leftover soup as a sauce for rice or pasta is pure genius.
- Almost anything they cook with me, they'll eat, at least a bit of. So, stuff they eat if THEY help me make it but not if I make it includes: pizza, quiche, Romanian meatball-y things, soups of various sorts.
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The City of Edinburgh Council's Local Cultural Festivals and Events Fund aims to celebrate Edinburgh's diverse local cultural festivals and events whilst contributing to sector recovery. The funding was allocated as a result of the city's role in supporting the recovery of live activity as part of local cultural festivals and events affected by the Coronavirus pandemic and to offer wider access to Council cultural funding opportunities, ensuring Edinburgh is a city of creative opportunities.
The deadline for submissions to the Fund was Friday 27 August 2021. A total of 21 applications were received requesting support from the Local Cultural Festivals and Events Fund. The projects submitted represented a variety of activities, including community, emerging talent and heritage festivals and events celebrating Edinburgh's diverse communities through engaged with performing and visual arts taking place across the city, including neighbourhood such as Craigmillar, Granton, Old Town, Cramond, West End, Grassmarket, Leith and Fountainbridge.
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• Africa in Motion (29 April - 6 May 2022) hosted by Africa in Motion brings the best of African cinema to Scotland and has established itself as a major annual event within the Scottish cultural calendar [Grant Award: £10,000].
• Batizado 2021/22 (5-6 November 2021 and 18-19 June 2022) hosted by Axé Boom Boom Ltd. - a celebration of the passion, dedication and commitment of the capoeira students and their families through movement and music workshops and performance [Grant Award: £8,305.50].
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• Dusherra 2021 (17 October 2021) hosted by Scottish Indian Arts Forum (SIAF) – a flagship event of the ethnic minority community bringing people together and keeping the tradition alive [Grant Award: £10,000].
• Echoes (12 February 2022) hosted by Drake Music Scotland - Edinburgh's only live disabled-led platform for disabled musicians and composers with an event at The Queen's Hall in January 2022 [Grant Award: £6,400].
• Edinburgh Diwali 2021 (21 November 2021) hosted by Edinburgh Diwali - the only Public Diwali celebration in Edinburgh - truly multicultural event which is free to attend and open to all [Grant Award: £10,000].
• Edinburgh Durgotsav (11 – 15 October 2021) hosted by SABASH (Scottish Association of Bengali Arts and Sanskritik Heritage) - the biggest cultural festival of Eastern India celebrated across five days to commemorate the "victory of truth over evil" [Grant Award: £10,000].
• Edinburgh International Magic Festival (27 Dec 2021 - 5 Jan 2022) hosted by Edinburgh International Magic Festival - presents magical events around the city and celebrating the limitless possibilities of human imagination [Grant Award: £10,000].
• Edinburgh Official Chinese New Year Gala (13 February 2022) hosted by Asian Association of Culture Commerce and Education in Europe - The Edinburgh Official Chinese New Year Gala 2022 celebrates Chinese New Year, through Chinese art, culture and language seeking to promote Edinburgh to China and worldwide and encourage integration, mutual understanding and cooperation between communities [Grant Award: £10,000].
• Hidden Door Festival 2022 (10-18 June 2022) hosted by Hidden Door Charitable Company Ltd - a nine-day festival in Edinburgh, promoting work by a selection of some of the most exciting emerging artists/performers in Scotland [Grant Award: £10,000].
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• LeithLate22 Festival (17-19 June 2022) hosted by LeithLate - a popular multi-arts festival will return in 2022 with live events and art installations staged in a range of venues around Leith [Grant Award: £10,000].
• Play Poland Film Festival (PPFF) (20-21 November 2021) hosted by Weeblob.blog Ltd - the only Polish Festival in Edinburgh that celebrates Polish cultures and artists and is back after a four year break with a new format [Grant Award: £6,250].
• STRONGER:TOGETHER (18-23 July 2022) hosted by Sandy's Community Centre - a week-long multicultural festival comprising participatory art, photography, storytelling, music and food-based fun for all, celebrating diversity and culminating in an accessible extravaganza! [Grant Award: £5,307].
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An activist, an Anglican, a political leader
Marites N. Sison
"Being a Christian in politics is part of who I am as a person, so I don't hide it," says Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who is a parishioner at St. Andrew's Anglican church in Sidney, B.C. Photo: Green Party of Canada
At a time—at least in Canada—when having an active faith is considered a liability for politicians, Elizabeth May stands out for being openly Anglican.
May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, is known for environmental activism as equally as she is for declaring her faith.
"In the U.S., if you're a not out-of-the-closet practising Christian, you almost have no chance of being elected," says May with a laugh in an interview. "It's the opposite in Canada. I get flak for being a Christian."
And so she finds herself having to stress over and over again that her party is a secular organization that welcomes supporters "of all faiths and of no faith."
But even if she has found herself in tight corners—like being confronted by angry Canadians who object to her wearing the Celtic cross given to her by her late mother—May says that her faith is such an important part of her life that she remains unfazed. "It's the source of my strength in dealing with somewhat insurmountable odds—this profound belief that the impossible is possible."
Wearing her faith on her sleeve, May believes, is also a matter of honesty and transparency. "I'm not trying to impose a religious agenda…Being a Christian in politics is part of who I am as a person, so I don't hide it."
May came to her faith "sort of on my own." Born in Connecticut in 1954 to a British father and an American mother, May and her family didn't attend church regularly. She was a toddler when her mother left an Episcopalian church after a falling out with the minister, who refused to circulate one of her petitions to end nuclear weapons testing. They attended some Quaker meetings, but when they met refusal of "some other worthy request," off they went again. "So we ended up having kind of a general knowledge of Christianity in the family," recalls May.
At 13, May decided she wanted to become Episcopalian. But that was only after she dropped the idea of becoming Jewish. "A friend of mine was Jewish and was going to have her Bat Mitzvah, and her father was a rabbi who was a very close friend of my mother through the peace movement. I thought I should just become Jewish," recalls May. She made an appointment with the rabbi, who patiently quizzed her on her religious beliefs. He came to the conclusion that while she was welcome in his community, he thought she had formed "a much closer relationship with Jesus Christ than you think you have and you will miss it."
May followed his advice to call the Episcopal church closest to home, and coincidentally, they had confirmation classes for her age. Shortly after confirmation, May volunteered as a Sunday school teacher, and so began her faith journey that continued even after her family moved to Nova Scotia when she was 18.
"I'm very comfortable in the Anglican church. The element of it that I appreciate the most would apply to many Protestant churches—inclusiveness, tolerance," she says. "I'm certainly pleased that we have women priests, that we have blessings of same-sex marriages." While the church can always do more, May adds that she feels proud when it comes out front on issues such as Indian residential schools and climate change.
May also finds "tremendous joy" in parish life, so much so that before she entered politics, she studied to become a priest. She was halfway through her theological studies at Saint Paul University, in Ottawa, but had to abandon them as the demands of being leader of an emerging party grew.
In 2011, May made history by becoming the first Green Party candidate to be elected to the House of Commons. "Foolishly, I thought I could start taking courses again," she says. But the job of trying to effect change in Parliament has been a full-time one and could take at least a decade or more, says May. "I think I'd be very much too old. I was at the borderline anyway," she laughs. "It's been a good experience studying theology and I would love to do it again just out of interest."
Now a parishioner at St. Andrew's in Sidney, B.C., May is still on the parish rolls of St. George's in New Glasgow, N.S., her former home. On the rare occasions when she's in Ottawa, she worships at St. Bartholomew's church. But May says she could be anywhere across Canada or around the world, and know that she can attend any Anglican parish. "I enjoy the Sundays when we use the BCP [Book of Common Prayer] because it reminds me of my childhood and I love the language. But I really think the BAS [Book of Alternative Services] is wonderful," says May. "I appreciate the ways in which the church is evolving in the modern world."
May recalls hearing then-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams speak forcefully about climate change at the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen in 2009. "He said, 'to tell lies about climate change is to tell lies about God and it's blasphemy,' " says May. "I just got chills and thought, 'Oh, my God, I belong to the Anglican church and we've got this radical Archbishop of Canterbury, and isn't he wonderful?"
The Anglican church is going through tough times as congregations and finances dwindle, but May remains hopeful. It can only be good for organized religion "to have to go through some difficult times, so that we actually are not the comfortable pew, the status church, but actually rebuild ourselves [as we consider] what's the point here?" she says. "What are we challenged to do in the world in a time of climate crisis, a time of suffering and poverty?" If the church is not about making a difference in the world, "then we've abandoned Christ's purpose for us on earth," she adds.
A few of the people whose work May says have greatly influenced her faith and worldview include Thomas Berry, the late Catholic priest and eco theologian; Matthew Fox, American priest and theologian; and Brian Swimme, mathematical cosmologist. Berry, says May, expounds on the notion that "it is important for us to see ourselves…in an evolutionary context as being co-creators in this quite mysterious creation where God's hands and our hands can be working together."
May, herself an author of seven books, has also been inspired by the spiritual writings of the Dalai Lama and by Buddhist writer Pema Chödrön, resident and teacher of Gampo Abbey on Cape Breton Island.
"I don't exclusively read Christian text," she adds, citing how Karen Armstrong's books A History of God and The Battle for God have helped her to understand the modern context around fundamentalism, whether Christian, Islamic or Jewish.
May says she wishes there were more "out-of-the-closet Christian left people," because the Christian right is where most people identify in the political context.
"I'm very comfortable with being what I think of as a progressive person who embraces science, who understands evolution, supports a woman's right to choose, all of these issues," she says.
These days when she's at a service, May says she latches on "more than anything else" to a phrase in the doxology recited by Anglicans, taken from Ephesians 3:20: "…God's power working in us can infinitely do more than we can ask or imagine."
May says that is "a profoundly empowering, hopeful message, because if we deal only with those things that we can ask or imagine in our current knowledge-based, secular economic sense, then our kids don't have any future."
Note: A shorter version of this article first appeared in the Summer 2013 issue of the Anglican Journal.
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While loading up on vegetables is one study's conclusions, other dietary experts make room for dessert.
All three diets were less successful over two years, with dieters regaining some of their lost fat. But those on the low-carb diet did the best at keeping the weight off while those on the low-fat/high carb regime were only 2.9 kilos lighter on average compared to when they started.
It was published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition in January. Iris Shai, a researcher at Ben-Gurion's S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, led the study.
If the prospect of broccoli, lettuce and tomatoes meal after meal seems unappealing, another Israeli nutrition expert, Daniela Jakubowicz of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine, contends that having some sweets does more good than harm. The catch is when you eat them and how much.
Since a study she published with other researchers in the journal Steroids last December, Jakubowicz has emerged as something of a Marie Antoinette of weight loss for advocating a policy for the world's dieters of Let Them Eat Cake. More perversely, Jakubowicz said it should be consumed at breakfast.
That has set off a media deluge of stories recommending dieters start their day with ham, eggs and Twinkies. But Jakubowicz said she advocates a very specific kind of breakfast, with the dessert just a small part of menu.
Dessert in the morning serves as a way of tamping down on cravings for sweets later in the day and inhibits hunger, according to the research Jakubowicz conducted with Julio Wainstein and Mona Boaz, two colleagues from Sackler, and Oren Froy of the Hebrew University Jerusalem.
They put 193 obese adults into one of two diet groups with identical intake of 1,600 calories a day for the men and 1,400 for the women. But the unlucky first group was given a paltry 300-calorie, low-carb breakfast while the second feasted on a 600-calorie morning repast high in protein and carbohydrates – and topped of with dessert, which accounted for about a quarter of the caloric intake.
"Those who ate a big breakfast didn't feel hunger during the day …. [and] the non-compliance was minimal because they weren't hungry. Their hunger was inhibited by the proteins," Jakubowicz explained.
Halfway through the 32-week study, participants in both groups had lost an average of 15 kilos. But in the second half of the study, the low-carb group regained an average of 10 kilos, while the big-breakfast eaters kept on shedding. At the end, they were 18 kilos lighter than those who had eaten the small breakfast.
Jakubowicz insists that obese people eat their breakfast, even if it means splitting up into three separate mini-meals consumed in the first hours of the day.


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September 3rd was Labor Day, a holiday meant to celebrate the rights and protections American unions have fought for since the 19th century i.e the five-day workweek, eight hour work day, child labor laws, etc. But there's one industry where many of these rights, which a lot of us take for granted, aren't a given: the gaming industry. Luckily, people are working to fix that.
To learn more, I sat down with Emma Kinema, a game developer and organizer for Game Workers Unite, an organization at the forefront of the fight for a more equitable games industry.
Dan Arndt: Can you give me a little rundown of Game Workers Unite? Who you are, what you do?
Emma Kinema: We are a grassroots democratic organization of people dedicated to advocating for workers' rights and the crafting of a unionized game industry. We represent all workers in game development. We seek to increase the visibility of our cause through community building, sharing resources, and direct action. We seek to bring hope to and empower those suffering in this industry. We are actively forming local chapters of our organization so that our members can organize directly in their own communities.
Dan: What was the genesis of Game Workers Unite? Why did it form?
EK: GWU started out of the angry discussions of some game workers online about bad conditions in the industry and labor abuses. We decided to organize a little direct action around a both-sidesing panel on unionization in the game industry and we got such a massive response to the idea that we started planning to host meetups as well as create and distribute literature. Since then we've been gaining more members, organizing local chapters around the world, and pushing the needle on labor conditions in the game industry in a pro-worker direction.
Dan: What are some of the biggest problems facing labor in the gaming industry?
EK: There are countless issues, but rampant crunch due to bad management, lack of studio stability, large-scale contract employment, unpaid overtime, lack of comprehensive healthcare, poor crediting practices, and more count among them.
Dan: Can you explain what "crunch" is?
EK: The New York Times has defined crunch as "a sudden spike in work hours, as many as 20 days, that can last for days or weeks on end." Some companies have pushed crunch upwards of several months. People have described experiencing stomach pains, memory loss, extreme anxiety, loss of family time, divorce, severe burnout, and more. Effectively, workers are trading their relationships and health so their employers can get
more money. Crunch is not sustainable, nor should it be planned. If we accept crunch as"part of the process," then we accept our jobs will never get better.
It's bad when the Mudokons are only slightly worse off.
Dan: Why do you think there's such resistance to unionization efforts, both from within the industry and by fans? No industry probably wants to be pro-union but the games industry seems particularly resistant.
EK: Leadership in the game industry is typically quite libertarian and conservative, so they tend to be anti-union by default. Then, on top of that, greedy studio executives regularly choose to cut corners, skimp on pay, and don't offer benefits so they can make an extra small return on their investments. Unions stand in direct opposition to those ways of viewing the working relationship between employer and employee, and instead demand fair and equitable treatment of workers and the ability to live a healthy and dignified life. That said, union workers tend to have a higher personal investment in their work and their company, as well as work at a higher level of product quality. Some employers understand this, however, and do embrace unionization.
Dan: Among gamers, actually working in the industry is still considered a "dream job." Does this affect their ability to speak out?
EK: Many developers still view working in the game industry as a "dream job." And in some ways that's fair. Most of us come from a long time and deep passion for playing games, so to work on them is really exciting. However, we must be careful of words like "passion," because it's often an excuse to overwork someone, and to deny them healthy working conditions and fair pay.
DA: How can companies working in labor-friendly countries like Canada, France, or Poland get away with these practices?
EK: We would push back against the idea that those countries are "labor-friendly," and we do so acknowledging your question's premise. Game workers in nearly every country experience unjust labor conditions, and there is simply no existing structure holding studios accountable for their actions. We are a strange, small industry that is a hybrid of tech and entertainment. It's easy for us to get lost in the cracks of existing labor forces. The only solution is for game workers to band together and collectively demand their seat at the table and access to their fair share of the profits. Only we can protect ourselves from exploitation.
Dan: How do you feel about all of the press so-called "anti-consumer" practices in gaming (loot boxes, EA's decisions), and why are the conditions of devs routinely ignored?
EK: Game Workers Unite is not just against poor labor practices, we are against bad business practices as well. We agree with a lot of concerned players about exploitative business practices like loot boxes. We think workers have lots of common ground with players, after all, we are both being screwed by studios. The conditions of workers in the game industry are routinely ignored because traditionally games media and press are rather disconnected and ignorant of the realities of making games for a living. Thankfully that is changing, and the past few years have seen a real effort by games media to highlight labor conditions and what it takes to make games.
E-sports players need representation like any other game worker, Emma says.
Dan: How do you feel about CDPR developing a game, Cyberpunk 2077, that uses the heavily anti-capitalist genre of cyberpunk even as they allegedly continue to exploit their workers?
EK: The cyberpunk genre has lately been lauded as an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-ableist, and queer genre, but that hasn't always been the case. The genre is a hugely mixed bag, but thankfully many wonderful authors, filmmakers, artists, and game developers are working to rehabilitate the genre. So I'd say Cyberpunk 2077 isn't a huge departure from the roots of the cyberpunk genre, although it does seem to be astoundingly tone deaf and ignorant of any modern work in the genre, especially around issues of race, gender, and ability.
Dan: What is GWU's ideal model for the game development workplace?
EK: The ideal model is worker-owned co-op studios. Anything short of that is going to inherently be a compromise with management and shareholders who care primarily about profit, even over the quality of the game or health of their workers. That said, we are strongly pursuing a future where rigorous and robust unions can hold the interests of capital at bay in the interests of workers.
"Only We Can Protect Ourselves From Exploitation"
Dan: Are streamers or e-sports players people who should reach out?
EK: Yes! We stand in solidarity with streamers and e-sports players, both of whom are regularly exploited by companies and whose livelihoods are beholden to large tech platforms. We welcome them into Game Workers Unite.
Dan: What do you say to critics who think that unionization, or organization in general, hurts more than it helps?
EK: Many of us have grown up hearing constant myths and untruths about unions, and I would encourage folks to reach out to actual unionized workers and listen to what they have to say. They are typically paid 30% more than non-unionized workers and have a higher level of investment in their work and companies. People tend to think of unions as some third party group who comes into a workplace, makes a lot of bold statements, gets between workers and their product, and ruins things, but that is untrue. A union is simply you and your coworkers, standing up together, and demanding your seat at the table and fair working conditions.
Tonight We Riot, in development from Pixel Pushers Union 512, is the first game to come out of a worker-owned studio following GWU's model.
Dan: Do you have advice for anyone who may want to organize but are afraid of retaliation?
EK: Frankly, it's smart to be a little scared to pursue labor organizing. Bosses and managers can be ruthless and try to retaliate and intimidate workers who stand up for their co-workers and themselves. That said, in many countries (the US included), it is a federal crime to fire or retaliate against any worker or group of workers who discuss labor conditions or unionization. That said, please do organize carefully. Start by talking to your most trusted friends and coworkers, and go from there on a one-on-one trusted basis. If you don't think you can do it alone, get a friend. Two people back-to-back can cut through a crowd. And all workers are welcome to reach out to us, we have a large community of workers from around the world, waiting to help you.
Dan: What are ways that people can get involved, whether they're industry professionals or fans?
EK: Following us online, sharing our literature, and simply talking about our efforts to unionize that game industry with your friends and coworkers is a huge step. The hardest part about organizing to improve workers' lives is educating folks and raising the collective level of understanding on these issues. For folks who want to get more hands-on: visit our website and apply to join Game Workers Unite International and/or your local chapter. If you don't see a local chapter in your area, join the international group and we'll help you start one!
Images via GWU, Pixel Pushers Union 512, Oddworld Inhabitants, and Blizzard
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week announced that it will allow food producers to treat spinach and iceberg lettuce with levels of radiation sufficient to kill E. coli and salmonella bacteria. Previously, produce growers were only allowed to use levels of radiation sufficient to kill insects. "This is probably one of the single most significant food safety actions done for fresh produce in many years," Robert Brackett, chief scientist for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, told the New York Times. GMA petitioned the agency for the permissions last year. Other groups have argued that irradiation may lower the nutritional value of some foods.
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24Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up to Micaiah, slapped him on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?" 25Micaiah replied, "You will find out on that day when you go in to hide in an inner chamber." 26The king of Israel then ordered, "Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son, 27and say, 'Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him on reduced rations of bread and water until I come in peace.'" 28Micaiah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, you peoples, all of you!"
29So the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. 30The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle. 31Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, "Fight with no one small or great, but only with the king of Israel." 32When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is surely the king of Israel." So they turned to fight against him; and Jehoshaphat cried out. 33When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. 34But a certain man drew his bow and unknowingly struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; so he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded." 35The battle grew hot that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans, until at evening he died; the blood from the wound had flowed into the bottom of the chariot. 36Then about sunset a shout went through the army, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!"
37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; they buried the king in Samaria. 38They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken. 39Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? 40So Ahab slept with his ancestors; and his son Ahaziah succeeded him.
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Faith is more than a mental belief in God. As one writer put it, it's "trusting God in the dark". Faith shows its true colours when life throws up difficulties and even tragedies. And no one in the Bible illustrates this better than Job. Tested to the limits of human endurance, this man clung tenaciously to his faith despite incredible personal pain and suffering: the loss of his wealth and family, the cruel accusations of those closest to him, and even the apparent silence of God. Would our faith survive under this pressure? Where is God in times like these? In today's message Pastor Murray unpacks the key teaching points of the book of Job and helps us see that though we may lose everything this world considers important, God does not abandon us. His is still with us, He is still in control, His character doesn't change, His love and promises are still true, and we do have an eternal hope and confidence through His Son, Jesus Christ. Listen in and be encouraged!


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Q: how to move to bottom of tableview each time when content grows in LynnBubbleTableView framework? I am using this chat layout from github. In that I am facing this scroll issue. When the content in the tableview grows, the new content must be visible automatically without being scrolled by the user. I don't know how to fix this bug in this framework.

A: I go through your library.Please add these line of code for scrolling to the last position.
After self.tbBubbleDemo.reloadData():
 let lastSectionIndex = self.tbBubbleDemo!.numberOfSections - 1

    // Then grab the number of rows in the last section
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    // Now just construct the index path
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    // Make the last row visible
    self.tbBubbleDemo?.scrollToRow(at: pathToLastRow as IndexPath, at: UITableViewScrollPosition.none, animated: true)


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As the nation's school districts battle deferred maintenance costs — with overall estimates ranging from $112 to $322 billion — something really bad has happened: The cost of energy, for which payments cannot be deferred, has skyrocketed.
Rising energy costs may do what billions in deferred maintenance could never do: force school renovation and construction budgeting based on life-cycle costs that include maintenance and utilities, instead of just first costs for construction.
That is exactly what has happened in New Haven, CT. In 1995, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. launched the Citywide School Construction Program to renovate or replace all 50 of New Haven's K-12 schools.
Gilbane adopted a design tool called DOE-2 that was developed by James J. Hirsch & Associates of Camarillo, CA, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley. It is a free software application that enables architects and engineers to model, evaluate, and refine energy and maintenance costs created by various design decisions.
Suppose a design budget calls for $40 per sq. ft. for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) costs, the average HVAC cost for school buildings in New England, according to Rog'er. At the same time, suppose the master plan calls for a building that is efficient to operate.
An engineer might search out the most efficient chiller, boiler, and building system controls to satisfy this assignment. But such a system might easily cost out to $50 per sq. ft., $10 more than the budget allows.
For example, notes Brotman, schools in New England don't use water-based cooling towers because they run up labor costs in the winter, when the towers must be drained.
The use of the modeling program has already begun to pay off. According to Rog'er, when the program started, the designers and the building operators — Philadelphia-based Aramark Corporation — aimed to drive down average building operating efficiency in the school system. At that time, the 50-building system used an average of 250 KBTUs per year per building.
Within one year, building operating efficiency — which then focused largely on day-to-day building operations managed by Aramark — had fallen to 160 KBTUs and moved the district up into the 20th percentile of all New England school buildings.
According to Rog'er, 1 KBTU per sq. ft. per year represents $60,000 in utility costs across the New Haven school district. By reducing KBTU use from its current average level of 110 to 80, incorporating the DOE-2 modeling program into the design process will have generated savings of 30 KBTUs or $1.8 million per year.
What happens to that money? Is it put aside to pay for maintenance, thus avoiding the problem of deferred maintenance costs plaguing current schools?


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Jasmineae Lam. & DC., 1806 è una tribù di piante arbustive, spermatofite, dicotiledoni appartenenti alla famiglia delle Oleaceae.

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Il nome della tribù deriva dal suo genere tipo Jasminum L., 1753 la cui etimologia fa riferimento ad una versione latina medioevale di un nome persiano (Yasemin) e arabo (Yasamin, Yzmin o Ysmin) per delle piante profumate bianche. Nome che venne ripreso dalla tradizione dal botanico francese Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (Aix-en-Provence, 5 giugno 1656 – Parigi, 28 dicembre 1708) prima ancora di Linneo. Il nome scientifico della tribù è stato definito per la prima volta dal naturalista, zoologo, botanico, enciclopedista e chimico francese Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Bazentin-le-Petit, 1º agosto 1744 – Parigi, 18 dicembre 1829) e dal botanico e micologo svizzero Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (Ginevra, 4 febbraio 1778 – Ginevra, 9 settembre 1841) nella pubblicazione "Synopsis Plantarum in Flora Gallica Descriptarum. Paris - 216" del 1806.

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Il portamento delle specie di questa tribù è arbustivo o rampicante; raramente è erbaceo (Menodora). La forma biologica prevalente è fanerofite cespugliose (P caesp), ossia sono piante perenni e legnose (sempreverdi o decidue), con gemme svernanti poste ad un'altezza dal suolo maggiore di 30 cm con portamento cespuglioso. In alcune specie il fusto ha una sezione quadrangolare a causa della presenza di fasci di collenchima posti nei quattro vertici.
Le foglie lungo il caule sono disposte in modo opposto oppure alterno (raramente a verticilli). La lamina può essere sia semplice che composta da più foglioline, oppure di tipo pennato/imparipennato. I piccioli possono essere articolati (Jasminum). Non sono presenti stipole.
Le infiorescenze sono a portamento ascellare o terminale e sono di tipo cimoso-panicolato o subombrelliformi. Il numero dei fiori varia da pochi a tanti. Sono presenti delle brattee a forma subulata o lineare, a volte simili alle foglie superiori.
I fiori sono ermafroditi, attinomorfi e tetraciclici (ossia formati da 4 verticilli: calice– corolla – androceo – gineceo) e tetrameri (ogni verticillo ha 4 elementi). In Jasminum i fiori sono eterostili. Spesso sono fragranti.
Formula fiorale. Per la famiglia di queste piante viene indicata la seguente formula fiorale:
* K (4), [C (4), A 2], G (2), supero, bacca/capsula.
Il calice  è gamosepalo e termina con 4 - 16 lobi sottili (in genere è ridotto).
La corolla è gamopetala con i petali uniti alla base a forma di imbuto. I lobi in genere sono 4, 5 o 6; in Jasminum termina con 12 lobi. Il portamento dei lobi può essere embricato. I colori sono giallo, bianco e raramente rosso.
L'androceo è formato da 2 stami inclusi e adnati a metà del tubo della corolla. I filamenti sono brevi. Le antere, dorsofisse e introrse, sono formate da due teche con deiscenza longitudinale. Il polline è tricolpato.
Il gineceo è bicarpellato (sincarpico - formato dall'unione di due carpelli) ed ha un ovario supero, biloculare con fino a 4 (2 in Jasminum) ovuli eretti per loculo. Gli ovuli sono provvisti di un solo tegumento e sono tenuinucellati (con la nocella, stadio primordiale dell'ovulo, ridotta a poche cellule). La placentazione è assile. Lo stilo è unico e termina capitato o con due stigmi.
Il frutto è una bacca (spesso le bacche sono due saldate lateralmente) oppure una capsula biloba membranosa indeiscente o a deiscenza completa (Menodora). I semi sono privi di endosperma.

Riproduzione
Impollinazione: l'impollinazione avviene tramite insetti (impollinazione entomogama) o il vento (impollinazione anemogama).
Riproduzione: la fecondazione avviene fondamentalmente tramite l'impollinazione dei fiori (vedi sopra).
Dispersione: i semi cadendo (dopo aver eventualmente percorso alcuni metri a causa del vento - dispersione anemocora) a terra sono dispersi soprattutto da insetti tipo formiche (disseminazione mirmecoria).

Distribuzione e habitat
Le specie di questa tribù sono più o meno cosmopolite (Menodora si trova in prevalenza nell'emisfero boreale). L'habitat varia da quello tropicale a quello delle regioni temperate calde.

Tassonomia
La famiglia di appartenenza di questa tribù (Oleaceae) comprende 25 generi e circa 600 specie (29 generi e 600 specie secondo altri Autori oppure 24 generi con 615 specie) con distribuzione cosmopolita dalle regioni tropicali fino a quelle temperate.

Il numero cromosomico delle specie di questo gruppo è: 2n = 22, 24 e 26.

Filogenesi
All'interno della famiglia la tribù Jasmineae è "gruppo fratello" della tribù Oleeae (entrambe le specie delle due tribù contengono sostanze "oleoside"). Questo gruppo può essersi separato dal resto della famiglia circa 48 - 39 milioni di anni fa. Il genere Jasminum è parafiletico in quanto le specie di Menodora sono inserite al suo interno; mentre la tribù è senz'altro monofiletica. La monofilia è sostenuta anche da un punto di vista morfologico in quanto la frutta è l'unica della famiglia ad essere biloba (sia le capsula che le bacche). In effetti lo sviluppo di questi due apparentemente diversi tipi di frutta nella parte iniziale è molto simile, differiscono solamente nelle fasi finali.

Generi della tribù
La tribù è formata da due generi e oltre 220 specie (fino a 450 secondo altri Autori):
Menodora Humb. & Bonpl., 1812: 22 - 23 specie; distribuzione America Centrale, Meridionale e nel Sudafrica.
Jasminum L., 1753: oltre 200 specie; distribuzione cosmopolita.

In Europa sono presenti le seguenti specie del genere Jasminum:
Jasminum azoricum L.
Jasminum fruticans  L.
Jasminum humile  L.
Jasminum nudiflorum  Lindl.
Jasvminum odoratissimum  L.
Jasminum officinale  L.

In Italia, allo stato spontaneo (esotiche naturalizzate), sono presenti:
Jasminum fruticans (Gelsomino giallo) - Distribuzione: in Liguria e in Sicilia.
Jasminum officinale (Gelsomino comune) - Distribuzione: nella Penisola, assente nelle isole.
Jasminum nudiflorum Lindl. - Distribuzione: Italia settentrionale.
Jasminum mesnyi Hance - Distribuzione: segnalata solamente in Lombardia.

Nota: J. mesnyi non è indicata nell'elenco europeo che invece include J. humile presente in Sicilia, mentre esclude dall'Italia J. fruticans e J. nudiflorum.

Usi
Di questa tribù le specie del gelsomino (Jasminum) sono quelle più diffuse in Europa a scopo ornamentale. Sembra sia stato Vasco de Gama a portare nel Portogallo le prime specie di questo gruppo dalla costa del Malabar. Molte specie sono coltivate per l'industria profumiera.

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
Jasmineae Crescent Bloom Database

Oleaceae

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WHO announced a new high-level commission, comprised of heads of state and ministers, leaders in health and development and entrepreneurs. The group will propose bold and innovative solutions to accelerate prevention and control of the leading killers on the planet – noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like heart and lung disease, cancers, and diabetes.
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Co-chair Dr Sania Nishtar says the Commission's establishment has come at an opportune time, as the world prepares for the UN High-level Meeting on NCDs. "This year, governments will be held to account on progress they have made in protecting their citizens from NCDs," says Dr Nishtar. "While there have been improvements in some countries and regions, the overall rate of progress has been unacceptably slow. This is resulting in too many people suffering and dying needlessly from NCDs, and leaving families, communities and governments to bear the human and economic costs."
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