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Posts Tagged 'UNICEF'
WHO Releases New Report Showing a 34% Drop in Maternal Deaths Worldwide
Posted in News, tagged Asia, HIV/AIDS, IHME, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Lancet, maternal death, maternal health, maternal mortality, MDG5, millennium development goal 5, new estimates, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, The Lancet, Thoraya Obaid, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank on September 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
In April, the Lancet published new maternal mortality estimates (out of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) that showed a significant reduction in global maternal deaths, shaking up the global health community's understanding of the global burden of the issue–and providing new hope. The report also illustrated the important links between HIV/AIDS and maternal mortality.
In the wake of the Lancet report, maternal health professionals from various organizations engaged in robust dialogue (like this one) about measurement methodologies–and raised questions about when the World Health Organization would release their estimates and how they might differ from the IHME estimates.
On September 15th, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and the World Bank released their new maternal mortality estimates in a report, Trends in maternal mortality. Their report also showed a significant drop in maternal deaths—a 34% decrease between 1990 and 2008.
Excerpt from the WHO press release:
"The new estimates show that it is possible to prevent many more women from dying. Countries need to invest in their health systems and in the quality of care.
'Every birth should be safe and every pregnancy wanted,' says Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA. 'The lack of maternal health care violates women's rights to life, health, equality, and non-discrimination. MDG5 can be achieved,' she adds, 'but we urgently need to address the shortage of health workers and step up funding for reproductive health services'…"
More highlights from the report:
Ten out of 87 countries with maternal mortality ratios equal to or over 100 in 1990, are on track with an annual decline of 5.5% between 1990 and 2008. At the other extreme, 30 made insufficient or no progress since 1990.
The study shows progress in sub-Saharan Africa where maternal mortality decreased by 26%.
In Asia, the number of maternal deaths is estimated to have dropped from 315 000 to 139 000 between 1990 and 2008, a 52% decrease.
99% of all maternal deaths in 2008 occurred in developing regions, with sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia accounting for 57% and 30% of all deaths respectively.
Click here to read the press release and here to read the full report.
Can Conditional Cash Transfers for Women Who Deliver in Health Facilities Reduce Maternal Mortality in India?
Posted in India, News, tagged Bihar, commentary, conditional cash transfer, Hindi, India, Indian health workers, institutional deliveries, invest in women, Janani Suraksha Yojana, JSY, Lancet, Marie-Claire Mutanda, maternal health, maternal mortality, medical facilities, neonatal health, neonatal mortality, newborn health, payment program, perinatal health, perinatal mortality, research, skilled birth attendants, study, UNICEF, Uttar Pradesh, Vinod K Paul, Washington Post on July 25, 2010| 1 Comment »
A recent study in the Lancet took a close look at a conditional cash transfer scheme to entice women to deliver in health facilities. The scheme, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), aims to reduce maternal, perinatal, and neonatal mortality.
Published along side the study was a commentary by Vinod K. Paul that summarizes several of the key findings of the study–pointing out successes and challenges with the scheme.
"…In just 4 years, its beneficiaries multiplied 11-fold, from 0·74 million in 2005—06 to 8·43 million in 2008—09 (thus covering nearly a third of the 26 million women who deliver in the country annually). Budgetary allocation for the JSY increased from a mere US$8·5 million to $275 million in the same period. Surely, it is time to ask the question about what health outcomes are achieved by this massive and expensive investment and effort. On the face of it, by promoting a strategy of deliveries in the facilities, attended by skilled providers, JSY should lead to a reduction of maternal, perinatal, and neonatal mortality…"
Click here to read the full commentary. You will need to register (free) with the Lancet to access this article.
Excerpt from a Washington Post story on the study:
"…The payment program seems to be working, according to Indian health workers and researchers who conducted the study for the Lancet.
'The cash payments mean that India is really starting to invest in women. That trickles out to the rest of the family and the rest of society,' said Marie-Claire Mutanda, a health specialist with UNICEF, which is supporting the program.
In two of the poorest states in India — Bihar and Uttar Pradesh — the number of women giving birth in medical facilities soared from less than 20 percent in 2005 to nearly 50 percent in 2008, according to the most recent data available.
Doctors here attribute that to the payment program, whose Hindi name translates to 'women protection scheme'…"
Click here to read the full story in the Washington Post.
Click here to read the study, India's Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer programme to increase births in health facilities: an impact evaluation, in the Lancet. You will need to register (free) with the Lancet to access this article.
Six Months After the Earthquake: Reproductive Health in Haiti
Posted in Haiti, News, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, tagged birthing kits, earthquake, emergency newborn care, Haiti, Haitian Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population, health challenges, hygiene kits, maternal death, maternal health, maternal health supplies, maternal morbidity, midwifery training programs, national health plan, National School of Nurses and Midwives, neonatal health, newborn death, newborn health, referral systems, reproductive health, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, reproductive health services, sanitation, sexual violence, six months, solar lamps, temporary camps, tents, UNFPA, UNICEF, United Nations Population Fund, women and girls on July 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Today, July 12th, marks six months since the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti earlier this year, killing more than 200,000 people. An article, published today on Relief Web, outlines several of the components of the national health plan of the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population (with support from UNFPA) that was developed after the earthquake. The plan includes reviving the National School of Nurses and Midwives to reestablish midwifery training programs, working with UNICEF to set up clinics to provide skilled reproductive health services and basic emergency newborn care, supporting the Haitian Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to improve referral systems for maternal and neonatal services, and a variety of other activities to reduce morbidity and mortality among Haiti's most vulnerable populations.
Excerpt from the article:
"…Life in the temporary camps poses a number of health challenges, especially for women and girls. Living in tight, often insecure quarters with minimal access to sanitation can expose women and girls to sexual violence and other dangers.
Over the past months, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has provided maternal health supplies, including birthing kits to serve a population of 2 million people, as well as 22,000 hygiene kits aimed at the female population living in temporary camps, along with nearly 1,000 tents, 2000 mattresses and 17,000 solar lamps…"
For information on UNFPA's work in Haiti, click here.
In Rwanda, Text Messages Are Improving Access to Information and Transportation for Pregnant Women
Posted in News, Public Health and Technology, Rwanda, tagged cell phones, child health, communication, community health workers, decision to seek care, delay, information, John Kalach, maternal death, maternal health, maternal health workers, maternal mortality, mHealth, mobile phones, nutrition, Nwaigwe, pregnancy, pregnancy complications, Rapid SMS, Rwanda, SMS, text messages, transporation, U.N. agencies, UN, UNICEF, United Nations on June 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Several U.N. agencies recently collaborated on a text messaging initiative to improve communication between community health workers and pregnant women in a community in Rwanda. Local women, health workers, and hospital directors are raving about the initiative but scaling up the project throughout the country may prove challenging; only 6% of the population in Rwanda has electricity and charging phones often means long walks to charging stations.
"…John Kalach, director of the nearest hospital in Ruhengeri, says since Rapid SMS launched in August 2009, his hospital has had no maternal deaths, compared to 10 the previous year.
'We used to get ladies coming here with serious complications just because they delayed the decision because the journey was very long,' he says.
Kalach says authorities can use the data to work out which diseases affect women during pregnancy, the causes of death for children below five years, the volume and type of drugs required, and to monitor population growth rates.
Friday Nwaigwe, UNICEF's country head of child health and nutrition, says the next step is to give mobile phones to 17,500 maternal health workers across the country and eventually to all 50,000 community health workers…"
Mobile Cinema Raises Issue of Female Genital Cutting in Mali
Posted in Mali, the Millennium Development Goals and the Media, tagged Africa, child health, female circumcision, female genital cutting, human rights, International Day against Female Genital Mutilation, Mali, maternal death, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, MDG5, Middle East, Millennium Development Goals and the Media, mobile cinema, pregnancy complications, UNICEF on February 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The mobile cinema, backed by UNICEF, is traveling from village to village in Mali screening films that encourage communities to talk openly about maternal and child health issues. After the screening, project leaders hold open discussions with communities about female genital cutting—and the health implications of the practice.
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"More than 85 per cent of women aged between 15 and 49 in Mali have been circumcised, a practice that has many harmful physical and psychological effects. Across the world, the figure is up to 140 million women and girls in 28 countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East. 'The female genital mutilation or cutting poses immediate and long-term consequences for the health of women and girls and violates their human rights', the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, before the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation.
The mobile cinema, backed by UNICEF, turned Djènèba Doumbia's attitudes on the practice on their head. Since seeing the film, she no longer supports female cutting and now does not want to pass the tradition on to the daughters of the community. 'I tell all women not to circumcise their daughters, to leave them as they are, because we realize that the disadvantages of this practice are numerous and real,' said Ms Doumbia. 'So if they let the girls be, the whole family benefits.' Women at the aftershow discussion hear how those who have been cut are more likely than uncut women to have complications in and after childbirth…"
March of Dimes is Donating $100,000 to UNICEF to Meet the Urgent Needs of Pregnant Women and Babies in Haiti
Posted in Haiti, Public Health and Technology, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, unmet need, tagged access, baby formula, breastfeeding, diapers, Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, earthquake, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), folic acid, formula, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Haitian women, infant formula, infant health, infant mortality, March of Dimes, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, MDG5, Millennium Development Goals, multivitamins, newborn care, nutrition, orphans, pregnancy, pregnant women, premature birth, prematurity, prenatal care, reproductive health, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, reproductive health services, safe water, sanitation, skilled birth attendant, UNICEF, unmet need on January 19, 2010| 1 Comment »
"The March of Dimes has made a grant to UNICEF to help thousands of pregnant women, mothers and babies in Haiti imperiled by the devastating earthquake and its aftermath.
'The March of Dimes is deeply concerned about the thousands of pregnant women and moms caring for infants in Haiti, especially extremely fragile premature babies' said Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes. 'Many babies and young children have been separated from their families, others are feared orphaned.'
The March of Dimes special gift of $100,000 will help Haitian women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and babies who are in dire need of proper nutrition, safe water, and safe ways to prepare infant formula, as well as supplies such as diapers and clothing…"
The article also points out several of the long-term needs of women and babies in Haiti including prenatal and newborn care, specialized care and equipment for an expected rise in premature births, multivitamins with folic acid for women of childbearing age, etc.
UNFPA Warns Pregnant Women in Haiti are at Increased Risk of Pregnancy Complications and Maternal Death
Posted in Haiti, Public Health and Technology, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, unmet need, tagged access, activism, disaster relief, disaster settings, donate, donation, earthquake, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), funding, Haiti, Haitian women, how to help, international aid, maternal death, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, MDG5, Millennium Development Goals, pregnancy, Public Health and Technology, Red Cross, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, skilled birth attendant, text messaging, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, Wyclef, Yele, YELE HAITI on January 14, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Haiti has the highest maternal mortality ratio in the western hemisphere (670 maternal deaths/100,000 live births)—and UNFPA warns that this number will likely sky-rocket following the massive earthquake on Tuesday.
"WHO is helping to collect data on the health impact of the earthquake and is also deploying a 12-member team comprising experts in mass casualty management, coordination of emergency health response and the management of dead bodies.
UNICEF, whose offices have been badly damaged, said it will help children continue their schooling and provide safe play areas while their caretakers rebuild their lives.
Meanwhile, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) cautioned that thousands of women at risk from complications and death related to pregnancy and childbirth are in danger due to the earthquake.
Haiti has the highest maternal mortality rates in the region, with 670 deaths per 100,000 live births, and this figure is set to skyrocket due to yesterday's powerful tremors…"
For a list of organizations you can contribute to who are helping in Haiti, click here.
Make a donation now via text message:
Text "Haiti" to 90999 – donates $10 to the Red Cross
Text "Yele" to 501501 – donates $5 to YELE HAITI


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From brainstorms to rainstorms, it's been a day.
I feel like I've been going non-stop from 6:30am until now which I haven't done in a very long time. My day started with a 3.5-hour brainstorming vision meeting this morning, then teaching at Paideia, then coaching at the gym, then ended with getting dragged along to a baseball game that got stormed out without starting.
I'm not very wet and very tired.
I don't know how I use to maintain this kind of stamina in high school. It's crazy to think this use to be a norm for me of getting up at 6:30 and going to bed at midnight with so much in between. Now I wake up between 8:20-10 typically and I always feel so much more well rested to the point where now I especially just can't handle early mornings.
It's crazy what we expect high school students to cram all into one day. That's not even getting started with diving into the topic of how much content we try to cram into every hour, day, semester, year, etc. Who said in just 4 years so much has to be learned and decided on?
Over the years I've been exposed to a lot of different design thinking processes. They all have the same basic components just maybe with different wording or descriptions but at the end of the day, every design thinking process is just another way to visualize and work through human-centered problem-solving.
Something I've found to be really cool about our course with Paideia and Wish For WASH is that there is no set design thinking process associated with our organization, so we don't have to contain ourselves to one methodology. Instead, I get to pull from all sorts of different tools I've used to help coach our learners through the process.
I've used DEEPdt as the base because that's what I'm most familiar with, and the DEEPdt playbook is a convenient way to facilitate newbies through the process. However, I've also pulled in tools or even just coaching ideas from the Stanford d.school process, the double diamond method we used in Grand Challenges, and some tools used in a mechanical engineering core class.
Today was one of the first days for me trying out one of the engineering tools which was suggested by another Innovation Diploma graduate who is also at Georgia Tech the year above me. The tool is called "The Function Tree" and I think it was a really good tool for our design challenge since it is product design oriented. The tool is about breaking down the different functions your design needs to be able to accomplish by getting more and more specific about what the sub-functions are that have to be accomplished first. For example, a toilet must contain waste, well a composting toilet must first separate waste, which also means there needs to be a way to contain the waste, etc.
I'm still learning how to best use and facilitate some of these tools that are newer to me, but I've really enjoyed the process of combining different methodologies; it's helped me identify gaps, weaknesses, and strengths in different methods and tools.
Days until the first day of school: four. Days until senior bootcamp: three. Level of craziness happening in my head right now: threw the roof.
Meanwhile, I've also been helping move stuff in my sister's room (including setting up an IKEA loft bed), coaching camp, going through old school supplies and preparing new ones, trying to finish editing the article I've written for an e-magazine, working on finishing at least one of my 3 college essay drafts (I only need 1 but I can't decide on an approach I like best), finishing up summer math (2 topics to go!), finishing up my AP Latin summer reading, and going to both of my siblings orientations since one is at camp and the other needs an adult figure. So basically there's a lot to be done in the next 3-4 days.
However, at the same time I am excited for parts of school to begin. I am super excited that my study hall finally is the same time as band so I can actually practice with the high school band some without missing a core class! I also can't wait for theater to start especially after talking to my director today and learning more about our awesome set and one act play competition plans. (Plus my next show makes me the record holder for most high school shows with a total of 12!) With knowing my schedule it also means that I already know which classes I'll have with some of my friends and there are some that we're just all really excited for because we know that when we're in class together it's always a good class. Innovation Diploma will also be welcoming our 3rd cohort, the Gates Cohort, starting Tuesday and I'm deeply curious as to what the future holds for us there. And as much as I am not thrilled with ending senior year, there will definitely be a lot of fun senior moments in the future which I'm also excited for!
I love how in the summer I have the freedom to travel and create my own schedule, but I also love how the school year has so many opportunities due to resources and the benefits of collaboration. If only there was a way to have the best of both worlds, because that would be wall shattering, mind blowing, and game changing in the most awesome way!
I'M IN NYC!!!!!! I love New York. There's always something new to do, and somewhere new to explore, and it's so easy to get around!
As tired, and often frustrated, I get from a day of traveling I always pleasantly amuse myself with people watching and talking to new people.
Today I realized that I shared pretty much the same portion of my story to 4 different people. I was talking about Innovation Diploma, my MoVe Talk, my recent travels, college plans, education transformation in general, and my blog.
I don't know why that amused me, but by the 4th time talking about relatively recent events in my life I realized how fun it is talking to new people and trading stories. Stories really are everything. Stories are our past, our present, and will be our future.
Stories are the purest magic this world has.
Every now and then someone reminds me that what I've done on this blog isn't as normal as it's come to be in my life. It isn't "normal" for most 15 year olds to just decide one day that they are going to start a blog and write everyday for 100 days, and then decide to continue the challenge for over 2 years. But for me it is "normal," because it's the reality of my life as I've come to know it.
What was it inside of me that urged me to take on this challenge? Why was/am I not "normal"?
I have nothing against being the outlier, but I'm just deeply curious as to what it is about me that makes me this way.
People will say things to me about being extraordinary, and wanting to clone me, and asking how to find more kids like me, etc. But to me, this is just me. I don't have any answer as to why I'm this way, though I would like to know.
I'm really not trying to narcotic or pompous or anything like that, so I really hope it isn't coming off that way. I'm just generally curious as to why I, and others like me such as my friends Kat and Marz who have been on many adventures with me, tend to act in desired ways that are very different from the average teenager. Creating and often posting to our own blogs is just one of these ways.
What is it about us that makes us this way? And what about kids that are not so motivated to just decide to do things like constantly write, how might they gain the same skills in communication, self-confidence, and empathy without that same motivation to take action on their own? Is there really a way to teach motivation? I have no idea.
To this day I remember in freshman English class when a student asked, "How do you get a good work ethic?" The student was genuinely curious because he knew he didn't have one, though he also understood the importance of having one. Everyone in the room was stumped as to the answer to the question.
It can't possibly be some trait that some people are born with and others are not. I also refuse to believe that self-motivation and a good work ethic are something that you either have or don't have by a certain age and that's that. Skills can always be built and improved upon just as there may come a time when an old house has to be renovated to keep from falling apart, and yet I have no idea how to build these skills.
Sometime I wish someone would pick my brain harder to help me grapple with why I've turned out the way I am. There is only so much questioning I can can ask myself. Sometimes questions are best answered when someone else does the questioning. I don't know why I'm the way I am, but I'd love to find out and hopefully somehow use that knowledge to inform ideas on teaching and education.
One of the things I love most about the summer is that people think of so many crazy ideas, and half of the time actually follow through with them because they have time!
Everyday I find myself reading texts from people with ideas about wanting to start a new club, or learning a new instrument, or writing their own music, or getting a group together to do all the parts of a Hamilton song, or trying to get a new skill in a sport, or wanting to take a day trip to some weird new place, and the list goes on and on! Summer is such a time of opportunity because besides a few books and math problems, time is all our own and we can use it however we choose.
It's amazing how many interesting ideas come from when people have time to just sit and think. My friends can tell when I get a crazy idea because they'll see me start staring off into space just pondering for a while; then I'll shake out of it and start talking quickly for a long period of time about what ever I was thinking about.
I believe strongly that the less stressed we are the more ideas freely flow. When you are stressed you are too distracted by whatever's stressing you to just think about random things in life, and yet random things are so much fun to discuss!
I never want to live a life where I'm stressed too often to have time to think about random things every now and then.


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This repository provides classes for Health checker incident app. These classes are used for different notification types like
email, cachet, file, etc. All these classes implement NotificationTypeInterface. Also here you can find Subject class that
IncidentSiren uses like a point for sending notifications.

## Requirements
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- PHP 5.5 or higher
- ext-pdo

## Classes
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Classes
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\IncidentEventSubscriber - core class for mediation with incidents. Also this class implements Doctrine\Common\EventSubscriber interface.
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\IncidentSiren - for notification subjects.
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\IncidentSirenCollection - collection of the IncidentSiren items
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\NotificationType\EmailNotificationType - implements email notification.
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\NotificationType\FileNotificationType - implements file notification
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\NotificationType\RequestNotificationType - implements request notification
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\Subject\Subject - implements subjects and is used as a point to notification
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\Subject\SubjectCollection - collection of the Subject items

Interfaces

- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\IncidentInterface - interface for notification entity
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\Subject\SubjectInterface - interface for subjects
- TonicHealthCheck\Incident\Siren\NotificationType\NotificationTypeInterface - interface for notification types

Other

- TonicHealthCheck\CachetHQ\Authentication\Token - class for cachetHQ authentication

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My writing is often inspired by things that are totally not fitness related…but my brain plays the through the connection game and I end up with an entertaining idea that becomes an article in my mind long before I actually have time to write it down. While Frank was out of town this week I found myself gazing at my entirely-too-energetic dogs and wondering if they would prefer to burn off energy by fetching and running in the yard, or by going on a good long (please-let-them-be-tired-when-we-return) walk. We did a good deal of both this week, and I can say that Dingo thankfully was worn out, while Fred was NOT ("What's next?" he asks with his flashing brown eyes and pumped up body language). This got me thinking about my preferences…and this is a little survey I'd like to share. I'll provide my thoughts – and then you can share yours in the comments!
1. What is your preference when it comes to ab work – standing or traditional?
I love the burn of traditional high rep, on your back crunches but I do not enjoy them in the moment! Cathe Friedrich is famous for these in the ab workouts I own of hers. It gets the job done…but I would much prefer standing ab work that I get with knee-pulls, balance work, and kickboxing.
2. What is your preference – squats or lunges?
My preference is the squat! This is a hard one for me though, because there are so many variations of each. I chose squats because I have a permanent image of Tanya, and her flawless squats she does during Insanity, forever burned into my minds eye. Pulling the hips forward at the top to really engage the core – I love that feeling! Add weights or not. Add a jump or not. Speed them up, slow them down. I know – its a little twisted, but I clearly love them.
3. What is your preference – running when its snowy or when its rainy?
There is nothing quite like a good rain storm. When is the last time you enjoyed a good downpour? Years ago I lived in an apartment on a golf course and I preferred to run the course during a good rain – because I would have the whole place to myself. Plus, I am convinced that it is extremely healthy for my hair and skin;) Fred will run with me any time, and I'm pretty sure if I asked he would say running in the snow is his preference because he can scoop up mouth-fulls whenever he gets thirsty!
4. Do you prefer having your rest day on a day off or a work day?
In the X3 Challenge group, someone said they were going to be starting a few days earlier than the rest of the group because they prefer the rest day to fall on a work day. That got me thinking. I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. I would much rather have my rest day be on a day off because my job is so sedentary. If I don't get in some serious movement after being chair-bound all day, then I am no fun to be around, and I get stiff!
5. Do you prefer cooking or dining out?
6. Do you prefer working out in the morning or evening?
I can make either work, and do love starting my day with a good pump, but with our work schedules that would mean pressing play at about 3:30 am. No thank you. I could probably work it out to get into work later, in order to do a workout in the morning, but that would mean I would lose my workout partner – which does not sound appealing AT ALL! Evening workouts are the name of the game in this house!
7. For resistance workouts, do you prefer light and high reps or heavy and low reps?
8. Do you prefer chocolate or vanilla whey protein?
Oh my, I don't really have to chose do I? I would go with vanilla whey if I had to. Mainly because I can mix it with my chocolate Shakeology, but also still make my Greek Yogurt Blueberry Pancakes.
At least I don't have to answer a question about my preference in a Beachbody trainer;) We all know that would be the hardest one for me to answer!
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Hello, i am first to try create own library and i get some problem to display values from property between to pages.
1. Imagine I have a simple library that functions only for set and get property.
2. This library will later be called in the controller.
4. Now this problem starts here, I will load the library that I explained in point 1 in the initController() function. in the index() function I give the task to set the property value in my library and then I will redirect it to the display page (display() function). On display page (display() function) I want to display the value that I have set on the index () page. is this possible?


Coca Cola Amatil has revealed the appointment of a new group CIO and new chief digital officer, who each commenced their roles last month.
Look out CIOs, the data guru is becoming the 'linchpin' of digital business transformation, according to Gartner.
As digital technologies evolve and change the business landscape, the chief digital officer (CDO) is playing a central role in the future success of many enterprises.
CIOs no longer sit outside the business, and they know it. They are working more closely with other c-level executives and aligning themselves with business outcomes and priorities, according CIO's 2014 State of the CIO survey.


Emmanuelle Riva and Pierre Richard invoke classic slapstick antics in this exclusive clip.
Oscilloscope has released an exclusive clip from their upcoming film "Lost in Paris" featuring some musical-style footwork to a jaunty ragtime melody. The romantic comedy follows the journey of a Canadian librarian named Fiona (Fiona Gordon) who travels to Paris, France after receiving a troubling letter from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (Emmanuelle Riva).
Upon her arrival to France, Fiona is met with an astronomical amount of disasters, including a genial but annoying tramp named Dom (Dominique Abel).
In a time where every movie is expected to produce grandiose action sequences and explosions, "Lost in Paris" brings back the perfectly timed physical comedy and pranks that viewers have been nostalgic for since the days of Buster Keaton. While Hollywood is producing sequel after sequel and remake after remake, Gordon and Abel have created a refreshing whimsical comedy that theaters have been starved of for far too long.
"Lost in Paris" hits theaters this Friday, June 16.


All of us bike riders in Oregon owe a debt of gratitude to former state legislator from Jackson County, the late Donald L. Stathos. I'm reminded of this every time I ride my bike from Jacksonville the four miles or so to Medford. That's because long ago the road authorities put up a commemorative sign, naming the road the Donald L. Stathos Bikeway.
Now we have bike lanes just about everywhere on major roads, state as well as city and county, in the mid-valley as well as statewide. In 1971, Mr. Stathos got the legislature to approve the Oregon Bike Bill. For the first time in the country, as far as anybody knew, the bill required state, county and city road authorities to spend a reasonable amount of money on bike and pedestrian paths whenever a road was built or reconstructed. They are to spend a reasonable amount but not less than 1 percent of the project cost if the project is supported by the state highway fund. Road aurthorities can also save up the bikeway money they get from the highway fund in order to do a bigger project later on.
The result has been good. Most roads that have been built or fixed up in the last 40 years have at least a little space on the side where bike riders can have some confidence they won't get run down by passing cars. This has made life safer not just for bike riders but for drivers as well.
And we can thank Mr. Stathos, a World War II veteran and graduate in business of Oregon State. A Republican and a resident of Jacksoville, he owned an insurance agency in Medford and served two terms in the House, in 1969 and '71. He died in 2005 at the age of 81.


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A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps : The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery
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A revised and expanded edition of the recovery classic by Patrick Carnes, PhD, a leading expert on addictive behaviors.
It was out of his reverence and respect for the wisdom and therapeutic value of the Twelve Steps that Carnes wrote A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps, now a recovery classic and self-help staple for anyone looking for guidance for life's hardest challenges.
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Energy: A Human History
By Richard Rhodes
Read by Jacques Roy
Richard Rhodes Simon & Schuster Audio 9781501105357
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes's singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.
People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself.
Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100.
Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes's singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.
"A magesterial history…a tour de force of popular science, which is no surprise from this author." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A beautifully written, often inspiring saga of ingenuity and progress, ideal for general readers. Immensely engaging." —Booklist (starred review)
Author Bio: Richard Rhodes
Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale and received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Category: Nonfiction/History
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
CDs: 10
ISBN: 9781508258452 ISBN: 9781508264606


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Bristol & District Football League
Last Updated 30th April 2009
You are reminded that the Bristol & District League is a multi-cultural/multi-racial Football League and as such, prides itself on it's main purposes of providing Association Football for all it's clubs regardless of race, colour or creed.
It therefore looks to all it's clubs, players and officials to ensure that no person is, or persons are, racially or ethnically biased and/or insulting.
The League Management/Executive Committee will charge any such club, player or official who makes such remark or takes any such action with bringing the game into disrepute, and if proved will take any action deemed necessary in such circumstances.
Referees have a duty to report any such incidents to both the County Association and to the League.
General League Council Meetings
These Meeting will be held at the Memorial Stadium Centre starting at 8pm.
Special Meeting: 18th May
AGM: 22nd June 2009
Referees' Courses
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Visual Policy Analysis: Developing Policies to Address Anti-Indigenous Racism
Join us on *second date added* July 8th, 1pm PST for a WEBINAR facilitated by Michelle Buchholz: "Visual Policy Analysis: Developing Policies to Address Anti-Indigenous Racism".
Had'ih, Michelle Buchholz sozi.
I am Wet'suwet'en from the Gitumden clan and the Cassyex house. My maternal grandmother is the late Joyce Alec and my paternal grandmother is the late Christine Buchholz. I was raised outside of Smithers, B.C on my clan territories. I work as a graphic recorder/facilitator, a qualitative researcher, and a visual policy analyst on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people.
In 2019, I completed a Master of Public Policy at SFU and wrote a capstone project entitled "Developing Policies to Address Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care".
Graphic Recording as a Methodology
I utilized graphic recording as a methodology and successfully defended my capstone using my own graphic recording. I re-drew my capstone research and my hope is that it may serve as a tool that can be used by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups to inspire research and analysis of their own policies to address anti-Indigenous racism. I call this process visual policy analysis. I offer this service as a methodology to help Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations, governments and groups visualize their policies.
Developing Policies to Address Anti-Indigenous Racism
Dialogue around anti-Indigenous racism must highlight the reality that Indigenous peoples are often excluded from policy decision making tables within organizations and institutions. If we are included, it is common that we are dismissed or tokenized at these tables, wherein our sharing of knowledge and lived experiences are not taken seriously, thus not incorporated into final reports and policy documents.
This in turn creates a lack of trust and builds barriers towards relationship building with Indigenous communities and organizations. Thus, my hope is that this document inspires organizations and institutions to place greater importance on meaningfully involving Indigenous peoples in policy-decision making and building specific contractual strategies towards addressing anti-Indigenous racism.
Reframing the Problem
This work explores policy practices that can assist in reducing harm faced by Indigenous peoples. I wanted to look at policies that address anti-Indigenous racism within institutions in B.C. Many policy conversations are rooted in mainstream Eurocentric knowledge, which doesn't resonate with me.
I wanted to take an Indigenous approach to my work and highlighted my own identity as a Wet'suwet'en woman. I argued that being objective in research is not desirable because my lived experience with anti-Indigenous racism plays an important role in this work.
Public policy is written by first framing a "problem". I wrote that anti-Indigenous racism is a form of structural racism that is embedded within institutions in B.C. which is causing harm to Indigenous peoples. I intentionally highlighted that Indigenous people are experiencing harm as we're often (wrongfully) framed as the problem in policy contexts.
Indigenous Cultural Safety
I also highlighted the use of a strengths-based approach. This approach focuses on strengths and resiliency within our communities and resistance to colonialism.
The work of Indigenous scholars and the tenets of critical race theorists guided my work. Critical race theorists state that racism is endemic to society and Bryan Brayboy who wrote Tribal Critical Race Theory states that colonization is endemic to society. Indigenous people who I've worked with told me that graphic recording is a form of witnessing, similarly to how we have witnesses at our potlatches. I envision this methodology as both a form of witnessing, but also as a marrying of theory and practice. I call this a more Indigenous way of doing policy because it made my work more impactful and shareable to the community.
This final image shows my analysis and the policy strategies that I propose as solutions. The policy strategies include collecting racial equity data, an Indigenous recruitment, retention and support program, mandatory Indigenous cultural safety training, and to develop a strategy to address anti-Indigenous racism. I recommended implementing all of the policy options on a short-term and long-term basis.
Anti-Indigenous racism is engrained within the structures of our institutions and it is important to acknowledge the limitations that individual policies may have in reducing the harm that Indigenous peoples face. This recommended policy package is expected to help reduce anti-Indigenous racism and reduce inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, yet fundamental change is needed in our social structures in Canada. Indigenous self-determination is a necessary component in promoting the closing of socio-economic gaps amongst Indigenous peoples.
Sne kal yëgh (thank you) for reading this document and considering ways that we can reduce anti-Indigenous racism!
To learn more, get in touch with Michelle at michelle.cassyex@gmail.com, and her website: www.cassyexconsulting.com
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Further Resource List:
Brayboy, B. M. J. (2005). Toward a tribal critical race theory in education. The Urban Review, 37(5), 425–446.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11256-005-0018-y
Brian Sinclair Working Group. (2017, September). Out of sight: Interim report of the Brian Sinclair working group. Retrieved from http://ignoredtodeathmanitoba.ca/index.php/2017/09/15/out-of-sight-interim-report-of-the-sinclair-working-group/
Fridkin, A. J., Browne, A. J., & Dion Stout, M.K.(2019). The RIPPLES of meaningful involvement: A framework for meaningfully involving Indigenous Peoples in health policy decision-making. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 10(3). doi:
https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2019.10.3.8309
Indigenous Cultural Safety Collaborative Learning Series (Webinars) Retrieved from http://www.icscollaborative.com/webinars
Lawrence, B., & Dua, E. (2005). Decolonizing anti-racism. Social Justice. 32(4), 120–143. Retrieved from
http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/bonita-lawrence-decolonizing-anti-racism.pdf
This project was funded and supported by Drawing Change
Copyright © 2020 Michelle Buchholz, Cassyex Consulting, All Rights Reserved.
You may share this work with credit. You may not change this work in any way or use it for commercial purposes.
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Chinese Foreign Minister says 6-party talks difficult to resume, sees progress in South China Sea issue
Title: Chinese Foreign Minister says 6-party talks difficult to resume, sees progress in South China Sea issue
Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (AUGUST 6, 2017) (REUTERS) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI, SPEAKING TO MEDIA REPORTERS HOLDING MICROPHONES (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI, SAYING: "It's not that easy (to resume the six-party talks), but it is a direction that we need to work towards together. Dialogue and negotiation are the only right way to solve the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, which is what was stipulated in (Security Council) resolution 237 which was agreed upon by the 15 members of the U.N. Security Council." MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI, SAYING: "We consistently oppose unilateral sanctions, and we consistently oppose a country using its own domestic laws to impose sanctions on another sovereign country. There is no basis of international law. We hope to work together with all the relevant parties to set effective resolutions through the U.N. Security Council, that is targeting the Korean peninsula and coincide with the international law. China will strictly abide to it." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI, SAYING: "North Korea reiterated what they've always been saying and reaffirmed their stance. But I don't think this is much of an issue because what really matters is that the North Korean foreign minister is here and he has a chance to listen to the views of various parties on the Korean peninsula issues." MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI, SAYING: "I felt that all 10 ASEAN foreign ministers have shown a very positive attitude, including on South China Sea issue. They affirmed that we have made valuable achievements in the past few years and we agreed we should all cherish this kind of positive momentum. One could say that the South China Sea issue actually has made some visible, attainable, positive progress compared to our meeting one year ago." REPORTERS WANG WALKING AWAY
Keywords: China North Korea sanctions United States ARF ASEAN news conference
Reuters ID: LVA0016T0OO5H
Story Text:China's foreign minister said on Sunday (August 6) it would be not be easy to restart six-party talks about North Korea's nuclear programme and missile tests, but dialogue was necessary and all sides should work towards that goal.
Wang Yi, who met his North Korean counterpart earlier, was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of regional foreign ministers in Manila. He voiced his support for the latest U.N. sanctions, but pressed for those measures to be accompanied by talks among the major nations involved.
Separately, Southeast Asian officials were still trying to reach consensus on a customary communiqué that was supposed to have been released on Saturday (August 5), reflecting differences about how to address disputes involving Beijing in the South China Sea.
Wang said China's relationship with its Association of Southeast Asian Nations counterparts has seen tangible progress and urged all to cherish the "positive momentum". A negotiation between Southeast Asian countries and China on a code of conduct for the South China Sea would start this year, and whatever agreement is made must be adhered to.


Almost as soon as anyone begins to explore Christian heritage, he or she invariably runs across references to "the Fathers of the Church" or "early Church Fathers." One gets the clear impression that whoever they are, these people are important!
Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic writers all tip their hats to them. Popes and councils constantly quote them.
All this begs the question, however: Just who are these people and why are they so important?
First of all, let's eliminate some possibilities. The fathers don't include the apostles and other New Testament heroes — instead, these stand in a class all their own. Neither are great medieval theologians and doctors of the church, like St. Thomas Aquinas, included.
So if all these venerable writers are not Church Fathers, who are?
Truth be told, no official list exists. "Fathers of the Church" as a designation evolved. In the fourth century, when there were disputes over doctrine, people looked back to earlier times, to Christian writers who could establish the way the apostles and immediate disciples had interpreted Scripture.
But why this 700-year time period? Because this is the era of the first seven ecumenical councils of the church that defined the two most fundamental Catholic dogmas professed in the creed — the Trinity and Jesus Christ as true God and true man. It's also the time during which both the canon of Scripture was settled and the traditional liturgies of the church, such as Roman and Byzantine, developed.
The writers who lived during this era played a unique and unrepeatable role: They transmitted the ancient, apostolic tradition and gave this heritage a decisive, classic shape.
Some of the Fathers of the Church were bishops — like the fiery St. John Chrysostom, one of the greatest and most courageous preachers of all time. A few were even popes, like St. Leo the Great, who turned Attila the Hun away from ravaging Rome. Others were priests, like the crusty St. Jerome who spent a good deal of his life in a cave in Bethlehem, translating the Old Testament from Hebrew into Latin.
But some were laymen, like St. Justin Martyr, the first great Christian "scholar," a pagan philosopher turned Christian apologist. Most of these writers were saints. Some of them, such as Tertullian, were definitely not.
But even the most saintly of the fathers is not personally infallible. If they happen to agree on anything, it would be rather extraordinary, since this varied group spans seven centuries and three continents.
But, interestingly enough, they do happen to agree on many points of doctrine, lifestyle and liturgy, and this is a testimony that such teaching did not originate with them, but is something being passed on through them.
It is in this core of common teaching, the consensus of the fathers, that the church, from the earliest times, has regarded as infallible insofar as it conveys the unwritten apostolic tradition and apostolic interpretation of Scripture.
When it comes to doctrine, the importance of the fathers goes without saying. When people claim that Marian devotion was cooked up in the Middle Ages, one can prove otherwise simply by citing the Fathers of the Church.
The same approach can be taken when it is charged that Constantine invented the Trinity or that the church never believed that the Eucharist was the true body and blood of Christ until somewhere in the Dark Ages.
But we don't just read Scriptures to equip ourselves for theological debate. Neither should we view the fathers' writings as an arsenal for apologetics.
One of the greatest ways to grow in the spiritual life and be imbued with the Catholic spirit is to read the writings of the early Church Fathers. In approaching their work, we should not simply be looking for information, but formation — to receive from them an authentically Catholic vision and a truly passionate zeal for holiness.
So where's the ideal starting point? The church has made it simple for us. The Liturgy of the Hours' Office of Readings is the best place to begin. It provides us with one psalm, a biblical reading and a page from one of the fathers every day.
Best of all, you can get this free on your smartphone using an app such as iBreviary or Laudate. There are also websites where you can read selections of the fathers for free such as NewAdvent.org or CrossroadsInitiative.com.
Wherever you choose to begin, just get started! You owe it to yourself to get to know the early Church Fathers. After all, their stories and their teaching are part of our family heritage.


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Livestock route mapping for improved health of humans, animals and the environment
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Pastoralism is an effective and productive livelihood system that makes the best use of variably distributed natural resources in often dry rangeland areas where it has a particularly strong comparative advantage over other land uses. In order to function well, pastoralists and their livestock need to move across the rangeland landscape to access grazing, browse, water and minerals as well as services such as markets. Any intervention that seeks to assist pastoralists needs to understand these movements and how best to support them.
The One Health Units for Humans, Environment, Animals and Livelihoods (HEAL) project applies a One Health approach to human health, animal health and the environment, because they are all connected.
In the HEAL project, the environment is primarily considered to be 'the rangeland,' though other aspects of environmental health are also being considered: healthy rangelands lead to healthy livestock, which leads to healthy people. The project, which works in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, will be supporting communities to better plan, manage and protect their rangelands and natural resources through participatory rangeland management (PRM), a process that has been shown to improve the access of communities particularly women to natural resources, and to improve the productivity and 'health' of the rangelands.
A related project, the Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural development (HEARD) project has activities that aim to strengthen veterinary services, for which it is pivotal to understand where and what animal health services are needed including in pastoral areas.
Both the HEARD and HEAL projects are working towards improving animal health services. The latter having a broader focus where it applies a One Health approach to humans, environment, animals and livelihoods.
As a first step in the planning of both these projects, the ILRI, Vétérinaries Sans Frontières Switzerland and Comitato Collaborazione Medica carried out a participatory mapping of livestock routes in the projects intervention areas in Somali and Oromia regions from 3-9 December 2019. The exercise was undertaken in workshops attended by community leaders, relevant government officials, and rangeland experts. The mapping was done using topographical maps on which participants mapped out the livestock routes, livestock infrastructure and key grazing areas. The maps were then digitized. Eventually these maps will feed into the PRM process including defining a rangeland management unit, a rangeland management plan including movements of animals among grazing areas, and mapping out disease hotspots.
Participants drawing resource map of Filtu Woreda of the Oromia region (photo credit: ILRI/Dagim Berhanu).
The mapping work helped the projects to better understand livestock movements, where the routes are and where they converge, the existing livestock infrastructure and services and where there are gaps. This will help HEARD and HEAL to better plan their interventions and ultimately provide better access to services for pastoralist communities in the three countries.
HEAL is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, the European Union, the Italian Cooperation, CGIAR and the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance and implemented by Vétérinaries Sans Frontières Switzerland (lead agency), Comitato Collaborazione Medica and ILRI. It works in Oromia and Somali regions of Ethiopia, Marsabit County of Kenya, and Gedo Region of Somalia. The mapping exercise will be repeated in Kenya and Somalia over the coming months.
HEARD is a European Union-funded project implemented by ILRI and the Ethiopian Veterinary Association (EVA). It works in Somali, Amhara, and Oromia regions of Ethiopia.
Press release: Art exhibition showcases artist and farmer view of livestock development in Vietnam
Media contact: Communications Department, Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, ngocvnfam@gmail.com Chi Nguyen, communications officer, ILRI, c.nguyen@cgiar.org , +84 (0)936 066 152 About 120 artworks and photos on livestock from the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum and the Livestock-led...
Art exhibition showcases artist and farmer view of livestock development in Vietnam
About 120 artworks and photos on livestock from the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum and the Livestock-led Interventions towards Equitable Livelihoods and Improved Environment in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam , otherwise known as the Li-chăn project, will be displayed in an exhibition to be...
Indigenous knowledge of veterinary medicinal plant use in cattle treatment in southwestern Burkina Faso (West Africa)
Identifying anthrax hotspots and associated ecological factors in Kenya
In Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa, outbreaks of anthrax occur in certain ecological regions, primarily triggered by weather extremes. Outbreaks of this neglected disease result in significant morbidity and mortality in humans, livestock and wildlife. The overall goal of this project is to identify...
Co-infection with Rift Valley fever virus, Brucella spp. and Coxiella burnetii in humans and animals in Kenya: Disease burden and ecological factors
Rift Valley fever, brucellosis and Q fever cause serious illnesses in humans and are associated with extensive socio-economic losses in livestock. These diseases are prevalent in pastoral areas of Kenya and are among the country's top 10 priority zoonoses. In people, the diseases cause intermittent...


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Meixi is an atonal pinyin romanization of various Chinese names, including:

 Meixi District () in Yichun, Heilongjiang, PRC
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The National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters Ltd (known as NAATI) is the national standards and accreditation body for translators and interpreters in Australia. The core focus of the company is issuing certification for practitioners who wish to work as translators and interpreters in Australia.
Because of the global impact of COVID-19, NAATI started delivering translation and interpretation exams remotely with assessmentQ combined with ProctorExam.
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Accepted: 2012-10-28
Formation of the sural nerve in foetal cadavers
S. Albay, B. Sakalli, Y. Kastamoni, I. Aydin Candan, N. Kocabiyik
The purpose of this study was to provide a morphologic description and assessment
on the formation level of the sural nerve (SN) and its components. Also
we aimed to reveal histological features of the SN components. An anatomical
study of the formation of the SN was carried out on 100 limbs from 50 embalmed
foetuses. The results showed that the SN was formed by the union of
the medial sural cutaneous nerve (MSCN) and the peroneal communicating
branch (PCB) in 71% of the cases (Type A); the MSCN and PCB are branches of
the tibial and common peroneal nerve (CPN) or lateral sural cutaneous nerves
(LSCN), respectively. Formation level of the SN was at the distal third of the leg
in 43% of the cases, at the middle third of the leg in 46% of the cases, and at
the upper third of the leg in 11% of the cases. The PCB originated in the CPN in
68% and the PCB originated in the LSCN in 3% of the cases. The SN was
formed only by the MSCN in 20% of the cases (Type B). Type C was divided into
four subgroups: in the first group the PCB and fibres of the posterior femoral
cutaneous nerve joined the MSCN in 4% of cases; in the second group the
MSCN, PCB, and sciatic nerve did not unite and coursed separately in 1% of
cases; in the third group the SN arose directly from the sciatic nerve alone and
the MSCN made a little contribution in 2% of cases; and in the fourth group
the PCB, fibres of the sciatic nerve, and the MSCN formed the SN in 1% of the
cases. The SN was formed only by the PCB in 1% of the cases (Type D). Distances
of the formation level of the SN to the intercondylar line and the lateral
malleolus were measured and also noted. A detailed knowledge of the anatomy
of the SN and its contributing nerves are important in many interventional
sural nerve; formation; variations; foetus
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S. Albay
B. Sakalli
Y. Kastamoni
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Erin T. Boettcher, PhD
First-Author Publications
1. Boettcher, E., Gupta, N., Chen, H.-W., et al., submitted to ApJL
The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS): Joint MALS 21-cm and MUSE optical line mapping of a DLA associated with an interacting dwarf galaxy pair
2. Boettcher, E., Chen, H.-W., Zahedy, F. S., et al. 2021, ApJ, 913, 18
The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) II: Discovery of an H2-Bearing DLA in the Vicinity of an Early-Type Galaxy at z = 0.576
3. Boettcher, E., Gallagher, J. S., III, Ohyama, Y., et al. 2020, A&A, 637, A17
VV 655 and NGC 4418: Implications of an interaction for the evolution of a LIRG
4. Boettcher, E., Gallagher, J. S., III, & Zweibel, E. G. 2019, ApJ, 885, 160
A Dynamical Study of Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas in NGC 5775
Detection of Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas in M83
6. Boettcher, E., Zweibel, E. G., Gallagher, J. S., III, & Benjamin, R. A. 2016, ApJ, 832, 118
Testing a Dynamical Equilibrium Model of Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas in NGC 891
7. Boettcher, E., Zweibel, E. G., Yoast-Hull, T. M., & Gallagher, J. S., III 2013, ApJ, 779, 12
Cosmic Ray Sampling of a Clumpy Interstellar Medium
8. Boettcher, E., Willman, B., Fadely, R., et al. 2013, AJ, 146, 94
A Search for RR Lyrae Stars in Segue 2 and Segue 3
Additional Publications
1. Cooper, T. J., Rudie, G. C., Chen, H.-W., et al., incl. Boettcher, E. 2021, MNRAS, 508, 4359
The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) IV: The complex multiphase circumgalactic medium as revealed by partial Lyman limit systems
2. Zahedy, F. S., Chen, H.-W., Cooper, T. J., Boettcher, E., et al. 2021, MNRAS, 506, 877
The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) III: Physical properties and elemental abundances of Lyman- limit systems at z < 1
3. Combes, F., Gupta, N., Muller, S., et al., incl. Boettcher, E. 2021, A&A, 648, A116
PKS1830-211: OH and HI at z = 0.89 and the first MeerKAT UHF spectrum
4. Gupta, N., Jagannathan, P., Srianand, R., et al., incl. Boettcher, E. 2021, ApJ, 907, 11
Blind HI and OH absorption line search: first results with MALS and uGMRT processed using ARTIP
5. Zahedy, F. S., Chen, H.-W., Boettcher, E., et al. 2020, ApJL, 904, L10
Evidence For Late-Time Feedback from the Discovery of Multiphase Gas in a Massive Elliptical at z = 0.4
6. Chen, H.-W., Zahedy, F. S., Boettcher, E., et al. 2020, MNRAS, 497, 498
The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) - I. Overview and the diverse environments of LLSs at z < 1
7. Chen, H.-W., Boettcher, E., Johnson, S. D., et al. 2019, ApJL, 878, L33
A Giant Intragroup Nebula Hosting a Damped Lyman-alpha Absorber at z = 0.313


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Q: What am I doing wrong with this mule -jersey flow? I'm trying to create a simple mule flow that extracts the header and passes the user-agent to a REST component that returns a status code based on the extracted user agent.
Here's my mule flow
  <flow name="restflowFlow1" doc:name="restflowFlow1">
        <http:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" host="localhost" port="9595" path="rest" doc:name="HTTP"/>
        <jersey:resources doc:name="REST">
            <component class="com.test.RestClass"/>
        </jersey:resources>
    </flow>

And here is the corresponding class
@Path("restClass")
public class RestClass implements Callable {

    public Response getExample(String toBeValidated)
    {

        if(toBeValidated.contains("Apple"))
        {
            return Response.status(Status.OK).entity("hello " + toBeValidated).build();
        }
        return Response.status(Status.UNAUTHORIZED).entity("hello " + toBeValidated).build();
    }

    @Override
    public Object onCall(MuleEventContext eventContext) throws Exception {
        String requiredHeader= eventContext.getMessage().getProperty("user-agent", PropertyScope.INBOUND);

        return getExample(requiredHeader);
    }
}

When I try to run the above flow I get the following error:
ERROR 2014-11-21 13:49:47,909 [[muletestproject].connector.http.mule.default.receiver.02] org.mule.exception.DefaultMessagingExceptionStrategy:
********************************************************************************
Message               : Failed to invoke JerseyResourcesComponent{restflowFlow1.component.418586223}. Component that caused exception is: JerseyResourcesComponent{restflowFlow1.component.418586223}. Message payload is of type: String
Code                  : MULE_ERROR--2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exception stack is:
1. String index out of range: -1 (java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException)
  java.lang.String:1875 (null)
2. Failed to invoke JerseyResourcesComponent{restflowFlow1.component.418586223}. Component that caused exception is: JerseyResourcesComponent{restflowFlow1.component.418586223}. Message payload is of type: String (org.mule.component.ComponentException)
  org.mule.component.AbstractComponent:144 (http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/current3/apidocs/org/mule/component/ComponentException.html)
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Root Exception stack trace:
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
    at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1875)

P.S. Im quite new to mule. So I'm open to any other elegant approaches as well.

A: To implement callable doenst make much sense for Jerse, you should use JAX-RS annotations, i.e:
package org.mule.transport.jersey;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;

@Path("/helloworld")
public class HelloWorldResource {

    @GET
    @Produces("text/plain")
    @Path("/{name}")
    public String sayHelloWithUri(@PathParam("name") String name) {
        return "Hello " + name;
    }
}

As stated here.

A: Implementing Callable in a java component gives it a feature to get invoked from your flow xml. In your case there is no need for Callable just annotate your service class with JAX-RS annotations so that jersey can publish the public methods in your class. When you post a request with the address resembling the path of your service class, jersey will automatically invoke the corresponding method.
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;

@Path("restClass")
public class RestClass {
public Response getExample(@QueryParam("param1") String param1) {
     return Response.status(Status.OK).entity("hello " + param1).build();
  }
}

This should work for you.

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amp up the not-funny-yet stuff.
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Recently, I had a bout of writer's block. It didn't last horribly long, but as any writer who has been through it will tell you, any amount of time spent struggling to write can be extremely frustrating. Yeah, yeah. I know. What does this have to do with inspiration? I'm glad you asked. Or, more to the point, I'm glad I pretended that you asked. I thought I would talk a little about the lack of inspiration.
Why? Because I like to do things differently, but also because it is something that we all deal with at some point in our writing career. Every writer has a day when they sit down at their desk and stare at the blank page, the computer screen, the tablet and think, "Oh, god! What am I going to write?" Well, I'll tell you. Anything.
There can be a lot of reasons that inspiration goes missing for a while. It is important in times like these not to lose sight of the smaller goal as we strive for the larger. In this case, we aren't trying to complete the project. We are looking for inspiration, so that we can get writing again.
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Describe a photo. What happened just before it? Just after?
Draw a picture. It doesn't matter if you are an artist or not. Draw something you see. Remember we don't need to show this to anyone.
Describe yourself without using the pronoun I.
Write down 10 questions about your project.
Describe your writing area using only adjectives.
Look up the lyrics to a favorite song. Try to write the story it tells.
Describe what you ate for your last meal.
Create a list of your favorite heroes from film, TV, or literature and describe them. If you're not into the hero thing, make a list of villains.
Change your perspective. If you write at home, go to a coffee shop or library. If you write inside, go outside. If you write via computer, try writing on a notepad, or vice-versa. Try writing while in a closet or under a bed. Remember: you never know when inspiration will strike.
Most importantly, keep writing. Don't worry about what comes out. Ten minutes of writing today could lead to that brilliant story tomorrow. Happy writing!
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NEW YORK – Ryan Howard proposed a salary as prodigious as one of his home runs.
The Philadelphia Phillies first baseman asked for $18 million in arbitration Tuesday, the third-highest figure submitted since the process began in 1974.
Philadelphia offered $14 million to the 2006 National League MVP, who is not eligible for free agency until after the 2011 season. Howard had a major league-leading 48 homers and 146 RBIs last year, helping the Phillies win their first World Series title since 1980. Before the season, he was awarded $10 million in arbitration rather than Philadelphia's $7 million offer.
Houston pitcher Roger Clemens set the record for highest request in arbitration at $22 million in 2005. New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is second at $18.5 million in 2001.
Milwaukee first baseman Prince Fielder had the second-highest request this year at $8 million and was offered $6 million by the Brewers, who renewed his contract last year for $670,000. He had 34 homers and 102 RBIs as Milwaukee reached the playoffs for the first time since 1982, down from 50 homers and 119 RBIs in 2007.
Colorado third baseman Garrett Atkins was third at $7.95 million. The Rockies offered a raise from $4.44 million to $6.65 million after he had 21 homers and 99 RBIs.
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While 111 players filed for arbitration Thursday, just 46 exchanged figures with their teams. That group included Baltimore right fielder Nick Markakis, who has a tentative agreement on a $66 million, six-year deal.
Yankees center fielder Melky Cabrera settled just after the swap, agreeing to a $1.4 million, one-year deal.
Howard's $4 million gap was the largest among players who exchanged figures with their teams. Tampa Bay and third baseman Willy Aybar had the smallest margin at $150,000, with the player asking for $1.05 million and the club offering $900,000.
For cases that don't settle, hearings will be scheduled for the first 21 days of February. Just eight of 110 players who filed last year went to hearings, and clubs won six. The average increase for those who filed last year was 120 percent.


RANGERS' Co-operative Insurance Cup celebrations have been dampened by the new that Kyle Bartley could have kicked his last ball for the club.
The on-loan Arsenal defender suffered a knee injury in the Europa League exit to PSV Eindhoven and that forced him to sit out of yesterday's Hampden cup final over Celtic.
Bartley, who is still on crutches, was sent for a scan yesterday and fears he has suffered medial and lateral knee ligament damage and is unlikely to kick a ball before May.
The news is a severe blow to Walter Smith as he is looking for his team to kick on from Hampden and fight to regain their SPL crown.
Boss-in-waiting Ally McCoist is keen to re-sign Bartley on-loan for next season but Express Sport has been told that won't happen.
The talented defender has made it clear he wants to play in the English Premier League next season and if he doesn't get that with Arsenal then he will be looking for a permanent move elsewhere.
The 19-year-old has spent the last 18 months out on loan at Sheffield United and now Rangers and now wants to secure his long-term future somewhere.
That might change after discussions with Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger but as it stands he has no intention of going anywhere else on loan.
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