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Random Analytics: West African Ebola Outbreak (to 18/19 Oct 2014)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has updated it latest advice on the Ebola Outbreak. Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Report 22 October 2014. Summary:
A total of 9936 confirmed, probably, and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in five affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States of America) and two previously affected countries (Nigeria and Senegal) up to the end of 19 October. A total of 4877 deaths have been reported.
The outbreaks of EVD in Senegal and Nigeria were declared over on 17 October and 19 October 2014, respectively.
EVD transmission remains persistent and widespread in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. All but one administrative district in Liberia and all administrative districts in Sierra Leone have now reported at least one confirmed or probably case of EVD since the outbreak began. Cases of EVD transmission remain lowest in Guinea, but case numbers are still very high in absolute terms. Transmission remains intense in the capital cities of the three most affected countries. Case numbers continue to be under-reported, especially from the Liberian capital Monrovia.
Of the countries with localized transmission, both Spain and the United States continue to monitor potential contacts. On 21 October the single patient with EVD in Spain tested negative for the disease for a second time. Spain will be declared free of EVD 42 days after the date of the second negative test unless a new case arises during that period.
On 22 October 2014, WHO convened the third Emergency Committee on Ebola under the International Health Regulations (2005).
Here are three charts or infographics of the West African Outbreak with data confirmed by WHO to 18/19 October 2014.
The West African Ebola Outbreak (2013-2014) infographic details the cases, fatalities, the provisional Case Fatality Rate (CFR) and health spend per capita in 2012 $USD.
Midway through October the biggest data find for me has been the difference between the index cases in Senegal and the United States. Lots of similarities but IMO four very important differences:
Both cases entered the country without disclosing the possibility that they may have been exposed to Ebola;
Both cases presented to hospital shortly after arrival in the destination country;
Difference One: In the case of Thomas Eric Duncan who travelled to the USA he presented at hospital but was released back into the community. He presented again three days later (interestingly a key and important fact left out of the official CDC Overview) with more extreme symptoms. In the Senegal case the patient sought treatment in Dakar giving no indication he may have Ebola but was not released and a day later Senegalese authorities linked him to other cases. He was subsequently quarantined;
Difference Two: In the USA contract tracing was slow to be implemented while PPE protocols were inadequate which resulted in the spread of the disease amongst Health Care Workers (HCW). In Senegal no HCW were infected.
Difference Three: The USA index case died of the disease; potentially due to those critical days where he was without care while in Senegal the patient recovered and has returned to Guinea.
Difference Four (and this is the key one which you can see in the infographic): The average health spend per capita in the USA is $8,895 (in 2012 $USD money) while Senegal makes do with just $51 per person. That's 174 times less than the USA.
The West African Ebola Outbreak (by Nation) chart looks at the split between those recovered or still in treatment and those deceased. As per the latest update from WHO there is an element of underreporting going on in the worst impacted countries (Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea).
The West African EVD Outbreak – All Cases/Fatalities by month details the epidemiological curve of the outbreak from March 2014 when the first cases and deaths became apparent. Each column is visualised by the flags of the seven impacted countries.
The mid-month data-find from this chart is that the epidemic curve in relation to deaths continues to increase month on month yet the case load seems to be pulling back. All the anecdotal evidence coming out of West Africa points to an increasing, rather than a decreasing case load as individuals, families and population centres avoid health care facilities. In past months, the case load mid-month would be approximately equal to the previous month. Best case scenario would be that West Africa is getting on top of the disease but the facts-on-the-ground don't support this. I'd expect to see some revisions to the data in coming weeks and months.
I'll update and post my charts again when the data becomes available for the entirety of October. In the meantime if you want to keep across the West African outbreak detail via some alternate sources then I would recommend Crawford Kilian and for more regular epidemiological posts Maia Majumder, MPH and Ian Mackay, PhD.
[1] World Bank. Health expenditure per capita (current US$). Accessed 23 October 2014.
[2] World Health Organisation. WHO: Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Report 22 October 2014. Accessed 23 October 2014.
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When my oldest turned 10 months I introduced parents choice formula he didn't care for it really he was so used to breast milk but I also tired to the Costco brand Kirkland formula and he liked that one plus his tummy did good on it, it's cheap and they give you a lot. If you have a Costco near you. You can try that.
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I don't but I do have a Sam's club. I'll check their prices too!
Used similac for 6 months then switched to parents choice, baby didn't know the difference!
All three of my nephews were on parents choice formula and they were fine with it. Like you said the ingredients and nutrition is almost the same.
How much formula does a baby drink??


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Q: How was the conditional probability obtained in this equation? I'm reading about inverse problems and the Bayesian approach and I'm having troubles understanding how the following equations were obtained.
We consider the following equation initially.
$y=G(u)+\eta$
$y$ is a set of measured data. $G$ is a mathematical model and $u$ are the parameters of the model. The noise that is present in the observed data is given by $\eta$ (0 mean noise).
The authors then go on to describe the Bayesian approach and they say that the likelihood function, that is the probability of $y$ given $u$ is given by:
$\rho(y|u)=\rho(y-G(u))$
How did they derive this relation above?

A: Note that since $G$ is known, when $u$ is given so it is $G(u)$. So,
$$\begin{align}
  P(y = y_0|u = u_0) &= P(y = y_0|G(u) = G(u_0)) \\
                   &= P(G(u) + \eta = y_0 | G(u) = G(u_0)) \\
                   &= P(\eta = y_0 - G(u)| G(u) = G(u_0)) \\
                   &= P(\eta = y_0 - G(u_0))
  \end{align}$$
Setting ${\eta}_0 = y_0 - G(u_0)$ we get that $P(y = y_0 | u = u_0) = P(\eta = {\eta}_0)$ or in other words:
$$P(y|u) = P(\eta)$$
Substitute $\eta = y - G(u)$ by the first equation and you get the authors' claim.

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Take a Whack at the Garment District
By Observer Staff • 03/30/06 1:47pm
The Sun reports that a business improvement district called the Fashion Center wants to get rid of the fashion in its center–namely, the garment industries that were once the bulwark of industrial Manhattan. The idea would be to rezone areas that are now reserved for manufacturing for apartments and hotels. Arguably the space, set aside in 1987 in a bid to preserve blue-collar jobs from the impending Disneyfication of Times Square, could be better utilized.
This is an old problem in New York: if you let people rezone manufacturing areas for condos, the industrial firms are priced out; but if the industrial jobs are leaving anyway, what's the point of preserving space for them?
Our handy-dandy Zoning Handbook says that there already is some flexibility in the special district: landlords in one section can get authorization from the City Planning Commission to go residential, while in the other section, conversion to offices is possible if one sets aside an equal amount of manufacturing space. All of which makes it seem as if the Fashion Center wants to grease the wheels, not acquire "flexibility." Fine. We know how slowly bureaucracy works.
But then a consultant tries to make us believe that "a zoning change would not necessarily lead to the development of exclusively luxury residential units to replace factories."
Just like Williamsburg and Dumbo, right?
–Matthew Schuerman
Filed Under: Home, Real Estate, The Real Estate, Manhattan, Williamsburg, Times Square, Fashion Center
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Royal Blue: Time for Everton to find consistency again
Phil Kirkbride on why Roberto Martinez's men need a run of form fast
Phil KirkbrideEverton FC Reporter
Romelu Lukaku (R) of Everton celebrates scoring his team's second goal with his team mate Ross Barkley (L) during the Emirates FA Cup sixth round match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park on March 12, 2016 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Chris Brunskill/Getty Images)
We've been promised the tempo and intensity will return to Everton today at Watford.
But now is the time for consistency as well.
Not just in the Blues' performances but also in Roberto Martinez's team selection.
The Everton manager insisted this week that he knows his best starting line-up and with an almost fully fit squad, now is the time to show his hand.
Understandably, Martinez insists form has to play a part in any line-up he names but surely form only comes from giving players a run of games?
And so now that the bulk of Everton's injuries have cleared and the suspensions have been served, the Catalan should pick that best 11 and stick with it because not just form, but momentum too, are going to be essential heading to Wembley later this month where the fate of Everton's season could be decided.
During Everton's excellent first season under Martinez, sure the team changed, but you'd always been able to have a decent stab and guessing the players and formation.
Currently, can we say the same?
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The next three games are against Watford, Crystal Palace and Southampton.
Where humanly possible, Everton should start with the same side for all three games, rest their key players (Romleu Lukaku, Gareth Barry et al) for the midweek Merseyside derby and then bring them back for the big one in the capital.
What that 11 looks like is up for debate, of course.
When you scratch around for Everton's best performances this season then you'll no doubt find a couple of obvious stand-outs.
The Blues' performance against Manchester City at home in the Capital One Cup semi-final was electric, as was their clinical demolition of Stoke City in February.
Others, such as the victory at Southampton in August or the second-half showing against Spurs at Goodison, also deserve mention and so it is with all this in mind, that Martinez should consider his team for Watford this afternoon.
Whether Martinez opts for the 4-3-3 formation that worked so well against City or a more fluid 4-2-3-1 that he favours, then energy and organisation are essential.
Romelu Lukaku, Ross Barkley and Aaron Lennon should be given every opportunity to hit Watford on the counter-attack so that leaves the returning Gareth Barry, James McCarthy and one of Tom Cleverley or Mo Besic to harry, chase and harass in the middle of the park, win back the ball and turn defence into attack in the blink of an eye.
It's when Everton are at their best.
Something they've been far from of late.
Barry still a massive hole to be filled
If the debate was still raging then the last two games should have killed it stone dead.
To put it mildly, Gareth Barry's absence in games with Arsenal and Manchester United has been keenly felt.
Or to phrase it another way, he left a giant hole that Everton simply could not fill.
The worry for Roberto Martinez is that the 35-year-old currently looks irreplaceable but there will come a day, sooner rather than later, when they have to try.
Gareth Barry during the Everton training session at Finch Farm on April 1, 2016 in Halewood, England. (Photo by Tony McArdle/Everton FC via Getty Images)
Without question, Barry has been the most successful signing of Martinez's time at Everton and to see him back in the team for today's game at Watford is a timely boost.
Where Everton lacked leadership, composure and quality in midfield in the past two games, Barry will give it back to them at Vicarage Road.
He has a year left on his contract at Everton and admits that, given his age, he can only take it a season at a time.
If he does decide to hang up his boots at the summer of 2017, then let's all hope Everton have a ready made replacement lined up.
Jagielka searching as hard as anyone for answers
The sweat still dripped from Phil Jagielka's face, such was the immediacy of his post-match interview at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Asked to speak to the television cameras after Everton's 1-0 defeat, the Blues captain failed to hide his disappointment.
His side had just slipped to a third straight Premier League loss and asked how he thought Everton could pick themselves up and turn their league form around, he was typically honest.
"I don't know. We need to keep playing to our strengths and find some confidence," Jagielka said.
Phil Jagielka battles with Marcus Rashford Picture: Vincent Cole
For some fans his response was concerning, a worry that he couldn't offer more in the way of a solution.
But Jagielka was just being straight and honest.
As skipper, it is part of his role to front up and face the cameras when things aren't going right but sometimes, and straight after another defeat, answers are hard to find.
His response was a truthful one, a sign of his deflation and how much he cares.
Jagielka will be searching as hard as anyone for the answers to Everton's problems, rest assured.
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DigitalOutbox Episode 112
In this episode the team discuss Apple and it's money. Mike Daisey, Game and iPlayer hits the 360.
1:01 – Twitter turns 6
– wowzers. launched 6 years ago in 21st March.
– known as twttr back then!
1:58 – Apple makes announcement on spending money
– Buy Twitter?
– Buy a carrier?
– Buy Samsung?
– Increase Foxconn salaries?
– Invest in cloud?
– Philanthropic?
– Reduce prices?
– No, Apple plans to pay shareholders a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share sometime in Q4 2012, which for Apple begins this July. In case you were wondering, the last time Apple paid dividends was in 1995 – a move that netted shareholders $0.12 per share.
– On top of that, Apple's Board of Directors gave their blessing for the company to buy back $10 billion of stock over the next three years. The repurchase program is slated to begin in September 2012, and is meant to help neutralize "the impact of dilution from future employee equity grants and employee stock purchase programs."
– Overall cost is $45 billion, but they made almost $15 million last quarter alone
5:05 – This American Life retracts episode on Foxconn
– US public-radio show This American Life has retracted a story it aired in January – the most listened-to show in its history – in which monologist Mike Daisey detailed what he claimed were his personal experiences when investigating heinous working conditions in plants operated by Apple's Chinese contract manufacturers.
– A new episode of This American Life detailing the issues and what happened airs later today, with an MP3 of the broadcast available Sunday. Host Ira Glass is taking full responsibility for the error, saying that he's "horrified to have let something like this onto public radio."
– Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake.
– For his part, Daisey does not seem to be contrite at all, with a statement on his blog saying that his work is "not journalism" and "operates under a different set of rules and expectations" from a show like This American Life.
– What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic - not a theatrical - enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations.
– The bit that pisses me off about Daisey – he lies to justify his show:
– To my audiences: It's you that I owe the most to. I want you all to know that I will not go silent—I will be making a full accounting of this work, shining a light through this monologue and telling the story of its origins, construction, and details.
– I believe the truth is vitally important. I continue to believe that. I believe that I will answer for the things I have done. I told Ira that story should always be subordinate to the truth, and I still believe that. Sometimes I fall short of that goal, but I will never stop trying to achieve it.
– Ironic
– http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnb2hi_mike-daisey-on-technology-journalists_tech
– video of Mike Daisey lamenting tech journalists and the lack of journalism in the industry
11:12 – New iPad Sales
– Three million sold
– "The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold-the strongest iPad launch yet," said Philip Schiller
– Strongest launch as it's on sale in the most countries?
13:03 – Sky launches NowTV
– broadcaster is branching out into internet TV, launching a completely new brand called Now TV.
– it will be pay-as-you-go and "over-the-top" [i.e. IPTV that won't require having a Sky contract or Sky hardware installed].
– service will launch with films, then sports before adding the broadcaster's entertainment content.
14:21 – iPlayer finally added to 360
– free for all Xbox Live users, making it the first UK entertainment app on the system that doesn't require an Xbox Live Gold subscription.
– No login support, but can favourite, search
– HD available as well as subtitles
– Worked well in my tests – easy to use and good clear picture
16:20 – Game shares suspended
– shares were suspended and it admitted the business has no value.
– The company, which operates 1,300 stores worldwide and employs 10,000 staff, was reported to be trying to raise £180m this week or face administration after several suppliers refused to provide it with new products.
– In a statement on Wednesday morning, Game said discussions were taking place with a potential third-party funder but it was unable to assess its financial position and was "of the opinion that there is no equity value left in the group".
– Its shares were suspended on the London Stock Exchange "pending clarification of the company's financial position".
– Some 600 of Game's stores are in the UK, employing 6,000 staff. All the group's stores, which also include the Gamestation brand, are still open for business.
– It has been reported that Game faces a £21m rent payment on Sunday and a £12m wage bill at the end of the month. It also owes more than £10m in VAT and £40m to suppliers. A new investor would have to pay up to £100m to Game's banks.
19:15 – A budget for game developers
– Chancellor George Osborne has heeded calls from the videogame industry and agreed to provide it with tax breaks.
– Announced in today's Budget, the scheme will commence in April 2013, giving time for civil servants and stakeholders to thrash out the details – "subject to State Aid approval and following consultation", as Mandarin-speak puts it.
– That said, the Treasury estimates the relief, which will also apply to animation companies, will cost the Exchequer £15m in the 2013-2014 tax year, rising to £35m in 2014-2015.
– Videogame industry organisations such as Tiga, which represents developers, believe that cost will be more than balanced by extra tax revenue generated by UK publishers who would otherwise send development work overseas to countries already offering generous tax breaks to games coders.
1:29 – BBC Boss coad Service
19:55 – Zynga buys OMGPOP
– Zynga has acquired OMGPOP, addingDraw Something to its list of popular social and mobile gaming titles. Zynga paid OMGPOP $178.5 million, plus another $30 million in employee retention
– For OMGPOP the deal is a culmination of six years of blood, sweat and tears, as it started primarily as a maker of Flash-based games for the desktop. But mobile and social changes everything: Putting Draw Something on a mobile device, making it accessible wherever and whenever and harnessing the power of Facebook to connect players and their friends has made OMGPOP an overnight powerhouse.
22:35 – Facebook launches HD photo
– will now display photos in high resolution by default, and will allow you to enter a full screen gallery mode by clicking arrows in the top right corner of a photo. On a big display, the company claims, photos will display up to four times larger than before (assuming they were taken using a half-decent camera). The maximum resolution the photo viewer can handle is 2048 x 2048, we're told.
– While the social networking site has allowed high definition photo uploads since late 2010, only now will the site default to displaying the biggest image at hand. With these new features Facebook is placing an even bigger bet on high quality photo content going forward, which will have a huge impact on its server farms; six billion high definition photo uploads per month will take up a lot of space (and bandwidth, for that matter)
24:08 – Pirate Bay Drones
– Suffered some downtime at the weekend – they then posted this…
– With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we're going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.
– We're just starting so we haven't figured everything out yet. But we can't limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we're building, that's more than enough.
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Not him again! Serbian mastermind Bora Milutinovic - the man in charge of Costa Rica when they embarrassed Scotland at Italia 90 - predicts more misery in crunch Euro 2020 play-off
Bora Milutinovic was in charge of Costa Rica when they beat Scotland at Italia 90
'The Miracle Worker' managed five nations at five consecutive World Cup finals
Serbian managerial mastermind is predicting more misery for Scotland tonight
Steve Clarke's side are in Serbia hoping to book a place at Euro 2020 next year
By Stephen Mcgowan For The Scottish Daily Mail
Bora Milutinovic inflicted misery on Scotland on the biggest footballing stage of all.
And Serbian football's most famous son suspects his homeland will prolong the international agony tonight.
After taking charge of five different nations at consecutive World Cup finals, Milutinovic earned a new nickname.
Serbian mastermind Bora Milutinovic is predicting more footballing misery for Scotland
'The Miracle Worker' led hosts Mexico to the quarter-finals in 1986. Four years later, he was in charge of Costa Rica when they embarrassed Andy Roxburgh's Scotland at Italia '90.
The Central American minnows even reached the second stage of the tournament in what was their first-ever appearance at the finals.
Before masterminding one of that World Cup's biggest upsets by beating the Scots 1-0 in Genoa, Milutinovic made a spying trip to Glasgow to watch Roxburgh's men defeat World Champions Argentina in a warm-up game for the finals.
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'I came to Glasgow and saw a beautiful stadium, a full stadium,' says the now 76-year-old.
'Scotland won 1-0 against Diego Maradona's Argentina. I bought so many videos of the league and the cup games, everything.
'And you know what I decided? I decided to not show them to my players. Why? Because Scotland played so good, with intensity.
Milutinovic was in charge of the Costa Rica side who embarrassed Scotland at Italia 90 (above)
'I thought: "I don't want to show my players or they will be afraid". It's better to not speak about Scotland. Only about football.'
After beating the Scots, thousands of Costa Ricans flocked on to the streets back home. 'This is extraordinary,' said a euphoric President, Rafael Angel Calderon. 'This is driving us crazy with satisfaction.'
Rank outsiders, they were expected to finish bottom of a group which also featured Sweden and Brazil.
In an interview with new digital service Football Pass, Milutinovic remembers some inauspicious preparations.
'We didn't play any friendly games,' he says. 'I came 70 days before the World Cup in 1990. But, with 11 players I had in my mind, we trained and trained.
'Eventually we played one game and I didn't play my full team — it was against Wales and we lost 1-0.
Scotland's Paul McStay (second left) is challenged for the ball in the Italia 90 clash in Genoa
'Somebody asked me: 'Is this your team for the World Cup?'
'But what was very important for my team was that we never spoke about opponents. We only thought about what we needed to do in every moment of the game.
'Beating Scotland was one of the greatest surprises of the World Cup, maybe ever.
'Normally when a team plays their first World Cup they only win one point. We won two games and went through to the next round.
'That was something I am never going to forget.'
After 22 years in the international wilderness, a defeat to Costa Rica in the opening game of a major tournament is the kind of humiliation Scotland could deal with now. First they have to get there.
Milutinovic managed five different countries in five consecutive World Cup finals tournaments
Standing between Steve Clarke's side and the Euro finals is a Serbian team which is less than the sum of its parts. Despite reaching the 2018 World Cup, a team boasting the likes of Dusan Tadic, Aleksandar Mitrovic and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic remain patchy and inconsistent under coach Ljubisa Tumbakovic.
'In the last World Cup, the team was not at a high level. But now is an opportunity to come good in Europe,' adds Milutinovic.
'I am sure with the players we have, that we have a chance to be winners.
'Everything is different. Now it's a new coach. We played against Norway in the play-off semi-final and won there and that was incredible, we played very good.
'I hope we have a very good chance to reach the Euro finals and that is the dream.
'Scotland know better than me who to look out for. If I tell you only one name — you have Tadic.
Steve Clarke is hoping Milutinovic is wrong with his prediction as his side travel away to Serbia
'He played great last year with Ajax. He is a great player and Serbia have so many.
'Mitrovic has scored so many goals, so we have goals, but what is important is that every player with talent shows how good they are.'
After Costa Rica, Milutinovic went on to lead the United States, Nigeria and China to the World Cup.
Asked who he expects to see at next summer's Euros, he hesitates before saying: 'My heart says Serbia, but good luck to Scotland.
'They need to play very, very well to win in the stadium of Red Star.
Dusan Tadic is a 'great player', according to Milutinovic, and one for Scotland to watch out for
'Over one game, anything is possible. But the Serbian people believe they did a great job winning in Norway and this is a chance…'
Helping Scotland's cause is the lack of supporters in the stadium. Normally a game in Serbia would be a hostile and intimidating affair.
'It's a big help for Scotland to play one game without the public,' agrees Milutinovic. 'When there are supporters the atmosphere can change so much.
'So the public is important but what's much more important is that you need to have confidence for this game.'
Football Pass is a brand-new digital service for football fans in Scotland established to forge partnerships with charities that support children across food, education and health and well-being. Watch on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
IT'S 8,433 DAYS SINCE SCOTLAND REACHED A MAJOR FINALS...
Scotland will end a wait of 8,433 days since last celebrating qualification for a major tournament if they win in Belgrade tonight.
The last time the Scots reached a finals was the 1998 World Cup in France — and Craig Brown's side made it through in the last game of their qualifiers with a 2-0 win against Latvia on October 11, 1997.
Since then, the Tartan Army will have waited 23 years, one month and one day for another qualification party should Steve Clarke's side triumph this evening. That amounts to 12,143,520 minutes or 202,392 hours.
Scotland have since gone through TEN qualifying campaigns — and varying degrees of misery — since the night they beat the Latvians at Celtic Park. Here is that road to nowhere...
A draw pitting Scotland with the Czech Republic, Bosnia, Lithuania, Estonia and the Faroe Islands was not unfavourable.
But it started with a goalless draw in Vilnius, with narrow home wins over Estonia and the Faroes preceding a home defeat to the Czechs.
By the time they'd returned from Toftir with just a point and Prague with none, Scotland were playing for second place. Two wins against Bosnia, a draw in Estonia and a home victory against Lithuania secured that much.
The play-off against England was the epitome of glorious failure with a 1-0 win at Wembley just not enough to overturn a 2-0 loss at Hampden.
Two goals up to ten-man Belgium after 27 minutes at Hampden in game four, Scotland were well on their way to South Korea and Japan.
But after being pegged back through Daniel Van Buyten's goal in stoppage time, the campaign suddenly felt ill-fated.
Scotland took care of Latvia and San Marino and drew twice with group winners Croatia. But a defeat in Brussels compounded what had gone before and the play-offs went up in smoke.
It was the end of the Craig Brown era.
Now with Berti Vogts at the helm, Scotland's opener in the Faroes was a fiasco as they were forced to come back from two goals down to claim a draw.
The return at Hampden was less problematic, as were two games with Iceland. But although Vogts' side managed a spirited home draw with Germany, they lost in Dortmund and Kaunas — and needed Darren Fletcher's first Scotland goal to reach the play-offs.
James McFadden's goal against the Dutch at Hampden sent them off to Amsterdam believing but a 6-0 hiding was the stuff of nightmares.
This one was pretty much over before it started. A goalless draw with Slovenia and a loss to Norway — both at home — arrived before a draw in Moldova, a result which spelled the end for Vogts' time in charge.
Walter Smith lost his first game, in Italy, but there was an upturn in results with wins over Moldova, Norway, Slovenia and a home draw with the Italians.
But five points shipped to Belarus meant Norway took the play-off spot.
A tale of two managers and an extraordinary sense of injustice that still lingers. Drawn with Italy and France — the nations who had contested the last World Cup final — Scotland were up against it.
Yet when Gary Caldwell's goal defeated the French at Hampden, a nation believed.
Even a loss in Ukraine and Smith returning to Rangers at the start of 2007 didn't derail the campaign.
Alex McLeish masterminded an unforgettable victory in Paris, with James McFadden's screamer completing the double over the French.
Alas, a loss in Georgia made the final match with Italy at Hampden decisive. The controversial foul against Alan Hutton which led to Christian Panucci breaking hearts in stoppage time is as hard to stomach now as then.
With McLeish now at Birmingham City, George Burley was tasked with leading the nation to South Africa but the appointment would prove disastrous.
An opening defeat in Macedonia was compounded by just one point being taken from Norway and none from Holland. Beating Iceland twice and Macedonia at Hampden was academic.
Scotland finished behind both the Dutch and the Norwegians. Burley was shown the door.
Craig Levein's arrival prompted a wave of fresh optimism that lasted as long as a goalless draw in Lithuania and a stoppage-time victory over Liechtenstein.
If back-to-back defeats against the Czechs and Spain had hopes hanging by a thread — the former coming in the infamous 'no strikers' game — a 2-2 draw with the Czechs at Hampden just about killed them off.
Dreams of a miracle were sustained by single-goal victories over Lithuania and Liechtenstein, but a 3-1 loss in the final match in Alicante confirmed another fruitless campaign.
The wisdom in granting Levein another campaign was up for question after home draws with Serbia and Macedonia. Defeats in Wales and Belgium saw the SFA pull the trigger.
Gordon Strachan didn't witness much of a bounce with a home loss to Wales and a defeat in Serbia.
His side at least showed signs of improvement thereafter, beating Croatia twice, winning in Macedonia and losing only to the Belgians.
A campaign that was not without its highs ended in crushing disappointment.
Strachan's men took much from a narrow opening defeat to Germany in Dortmund, would draw in Poland, memorably defeat the Republic of Ireland at Celtic Park and bounce back to take a point in Dublin. But a loss in Georgia was crippling and cranked up the heat for the game with the Germans at Hampden. Scotland were good but still lost, with a draw against the Poles rendering the win in Gibraltar largely irrelevant as they finished fourth.
Strachan's second full campaign was a rollercoaster ride. A trouncing of Malta came before an alarming slump encompassing a home draw with Lithuania and heavy losses away to Slovakia and England. Then came the bounce back. Victory over Slovenia preceded an extraordinary 2-2 draw with England then victories over Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia.
Needing a win in Slovenia to make the play-offs, Scotland led, trailed, then drew level, but could not get the winner which would have pipped the Slovaks to second spot. Strachan was sacked, with McLeish hired for a second spell.
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Forces with colonial mindset, with FoE, hampering India's growth: Modi
Source: PTI - Edited By: Senjo M R
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India's growth story is being disrupted by forces with a colonial mindset, including in the name of freedom of expression.
IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing gathering at the Constitution Day celebrations organised by the Supreme Court, in New Delhi, November 26, 2021. Photograph: ANI Photo
Addressing a Constitution Day event organised by the Supreme Court, he said a colonial mindset still exists, years after the end of colonialism, and these forces are putting obstacles in the path of growth of the developing nations.
Modi said today, there is no country in the world that exists as a colony of another, but that does not mean that the colonial mindset is a thing of the past too.
"We are seeing that this mindset is giving rise to many distortions. The most obvious example of this is seen in the obstacles faced by us in the development journey of developing countries," he added.
The prime minister said efforts are being made to close out the same means, the same path for the developing countries, by which the developed world has reached where it is today.
"We are the only country that is in the process of achieving the goals of the Paris agreement ahead of time and yet, in the name of environment, various pressures are being created on India. All this is the result of a colonial mindset. But the unfortunate thing is that in our country too, due to such a mindset, obstacles are being put in the path of development, sometimes in the name of freedom of expression and sometimes with the help of something else," he said.
Modi said this colonial mindset is a huge obstacle in further strengthening the determination that was created during the freedom movement.
"We have to remove it. And for this, our biggest strength, our biggest inspiration is our Constitution," he said.
Modi said both the government and the judiciary are born out of the Constitution and hence, they are twins.
The government and the judiciary have come into existence only because of the Constitution, he said, adding that the two complement each other even while being different.
The prime minister also underlined the importance of the concept of separation of powers and said there is a need to show collective resolve within the spirit of the Constitution as the common man deserves more than what he has currently.
"On the strong foundation of separation of powers, we have to pave the path of collective responsibility, create a roadmap, determine goals and take the country to its destination," he said.
Modi said, "Sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas, sabka prayas is a powerful manifestation of the Constitution's spirit."
He said a government dedicated to the Constitution does not discriminate when it comes to development and "we have shown that."
"Today, the poorest of the poor are getting the same access to quality infrastructure, which was once limited to resourceful people. Today, the country has as much focus on the development of Ladakh, Andaman and the northeast as it is on metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai," he said.
Addressing the gathering which included several Supreme Court and high court judges, the prime minister said, "All of us may have different roles, different responsibilities, different ways of working, but the source of our faith, inspiration and energy is the same -- our Constitution."
He said even after so many years of independence, a large number of people in the country are condemned to suffer exclusion in the areas of basic needs such as drinking water, toilet and electricity.
"Working to make their lives easier is the best tribute to the Constitution," Modi said and expressed satisfaction that a massive campaign to turn this exclusion into inclusion is underway in the country.
During the COVID-19 period, free foodgrains were provided to more than 80 crore people for several months, he said.
The government is giving free foodgrains to the poor by spending more than Rs 2,60,000 crore on the Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, Modi said, adding that the scheme was extended on Wednesday.
He said when the needs and concerns of the poor, women, transgenders, street vendors, divyangs (differently-abled people) and other segments will get addressed, they will be included in the process of nation-building and their faith in the Constitution will be strengthened.
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Union law minister Kiren Rijiju, senior Supreme Court and high court judges, attorney general KK Venugopal and president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Vikas Singh were among those present on the occasion.
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ALBIN, Eleazer
The Black Eagle
London: William Innys, 1731. Engraving with hand coloring. Measures 11 1/4" x 9". Engraving from "A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated with a Hundred and four Copper Plates, Engraven from the Life, Published by the author Eleazer Albin, and carefully colour'd by his Daughter and Himself, from the Originals, drawn from the live Birds." The beautifully hand colored print depicts a Black Eagle. Eleazer Albin (1690-1742) was an English naturalist and watercolor painter who wrote and illustrated several books on..... More
The Brazilian Pie
London: William Innys, 1731. Engraving with hand coloring. Measures 11 1/4" x 9". Engraving from "A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated with a Hundred and four Copper Plates, Engraven from the Life, Published by the author Eleazer Albin, and carefully colour'd by his Daughter and Himself, from the Originals, drawn from the live Birds." The beautifully hand colored print depicts a species of Toucan believed to be native to Brazil, with a black head and wings, a yellow breast, and..... More
The Green and Yellow Parrot from Barbadoes
London: William Innys, 1731. Engraving with hand coloring. Measures 11 1/4" x 9". Engraving from "A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated with a Hundred and four Copper Plates, Engraven from the Life, Published by the author Eleazer Albin, and carefully colour'd by his Daughter and Himself, from the Originals, drawn from the live Birds." The beautifully hand colored print depicts a green parrot perched on a stand, with a yellow head and shoulders, and red and blue feathers at its..... More
AUDUBON, John James
American Anhinga Snake Bird [Plate 420]
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 10 x 6 1/4 inches. Sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey. It is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird. The origin of the name snakebird is apparent when swimming : only the colored neck appears above water so the bird looks like a snake..... More
American Bittern [Pl. 365]
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6 1/4" x 9 7/8" Hand colored lithograph depicting two American Bitterns - a male and a female. From the First Royal Octavo edition, circa 1842. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist, painter and ornithologist who did extensive field work studying birds before painting them. Please visit our gallery for more Audubon prints. More
American Green-winged Teal [Plate 392]
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6 1/4" x 10 3/8". A male and female green-winged teal perched at the water's edge. First Royal Octavo edition, circa 1842. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist, painter and ornithologist who did extensive field work studying birds before painting them. Please visit our gallery for more Audubon prints. More
Autumnal Warbler, Sylvia Autumnalisx Wils, Male, 1. Female, 2. Canoe Birch or Paper Birch. Betula papyracea. [Havell 88]
Amsterdam: 1971. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 39.5" x 26.5". Beautiful print of warblers from first facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. The model for these images was an original set of Havell engravings, provided by Teyler's Museum in Haarlem, Holland. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist..... More
Greenshank [Pl. 346]
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6 1/4" x 9 7/8" Hand colored lithograph depicting a male Greenshank, with a view of St. Augustine, Florida and the Spanish fort in the background. From the First Royal Octavo edition, circa 1842. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist, painter and ornithologist who did extensive field work studying birds before painting them. Please visit our gallery for more Audubon prints... More
Mango Humming Bird. Tricholus Mango. Males, 1.2.3. Females, 4.5. Bignonia grandiflora [Havell 184]
Japan: Abbeville Press, 1985. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 39.5" x 26.5". Beautiful print of three orioles from second facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. Published in conjunction with the Audubon Society, the edition commemorates the two hundredth birthday of John James Audubon. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an..... More
Wild Turkey, Meleagris Gallopavo. Linn Female and Young [Havell 6]
Japan: Abbeville Press, 1985. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 26.5" x 39.5". Beautiful print of a turkey from second facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. Published in conjunction with the Audubon Society, the edition commemorates the two hundredth birthday of John James Audubon. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an..... More
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyxus Americanus. Bonap, Male. 1. Female. 2. Papaw Tree. Porcelia triloba. [Havell 2]
Amsterdam: 1971. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 26.5" x 39.5". Beautiful print of cuckoos from first facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. The model for these images was an original set of Havell engravings, provided by Teyler's Museum in Haarlem, Holland. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist..... More
Yellow-poll Warbler, Sylvia Aestiva, Gmel, Male. [Havell 95]
EDWARDS, George
The Blue and Yellow Maccaw
London: George Edwards, 1750. Original print. Copper-plate engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" London: George Edwards, 1750. Exquisitely colored Macaw parrot. Plate 159 in "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds", published by Edwards between 1743 and 1751. The blue-and-yellow Macaw is native to South America. George Edwards (1694-1773), the "father of British ornithology", was an English naturalist and ornithologist. More
The Brazilian Green Parrot
London: George Edwards, 1750. Original print. Copper-plate engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" London: George Edwards, 1750. Beautifully detailed engraving of a Brazilian Green Parrot. Plate 161 in "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds", published by Edwards between 1743 and 1751. George Edwards (1694-1773), the "father of British ornithology", was an English naturalist and ornithologist. More
The Dusky Parrots
London: George Edwards, 1750. Original print. Copper-plate engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" London: George Edwards, 1750. Handsome dusky parrot with exquisite hang coloring. Plate 167 in "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds", published by Edwards between 1743 and 1751. The dusky parrot is native to northern South America, primarily found in Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana. George Edwards (1694-1773), the "father of British ornithology", was an English naturalist and ornithologist... More
The Great Green Parrot
London: George Edwards, 1750. Original print. Copper-plate engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" London: George Edwards, 1750. Beautiful engraving of a parrot from the West Indies. Plate 162 in "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds", published by Edwards between 1743 and 1751. George Edwards (1694-1773), the "father of British ornithology", was an English naturalist and ornithologist. More
The Lesser Green Parrot
London: George Edwards, 1750. Original print. Copper-plate engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" London: George Edwards, 1750. Remarkable engraving of a small green parrot, believed by Edwards to be native to South America. Plate 164 in "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds", published by Edwards between 1743 and 1751. George Edwards (1694-1773), the "father of British ornithology", was an English naturalist and ornithologist. More
Lory-Parakeet
London: George Edwards, 1745. Original print. Copper-plate engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" London: George Edwards, 1745. Lovely engraving of a Lory-Parakeet, featuring an insect which resembles dragon-fly, with incredible hand coloring. Plate 174 in "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds", published by Edwards between 1743 and 1751. George Edwards (1694-1773), the "father of British ornithology", was an English naturalist and ornithologist. More
GOLDFUSS, Georg August
Casurius galeatus [Southern cassowary]
Dusseldorf: Arnz. Lithograph with hand coloring. 24.25 x 19.5 inches. Shows some minor wear to edges and some light foxing. In very good condition. A handsome illustration of a Southern Cassowary, a large flightless bird native to Indonesia, northeastern Australia, and New Guinea, shown here in profile with details of plumage at 1/3 of natural size. This is plate 86 from Goldfuss' 'Naturalists Atlas', a collection of large folio sized lithographs published in serial form (unbound) in Dusseldorf by Arnz..... More
Epimachus Superbus [Black Sicklebill]
Dusseldorf: Arnz. Lithograph with hand coloring. 23.75 x 18.5 inches. Shows some minor wear to edge and some light foxing. In very good condition. A vibrant illustration of a Black Sicklebill, a large bird-of-paradise found in New Guinea, presented as 1/2 of natural size. This is plate 258 from Goldfuss' 'Naturalists Atlas', a collection of large folio sized lithographs published in serial form (unbound) in Dusseldorf by Arnz from 1824-1842. Georg August Goldfuss (1782-1848) was a German paleontologist, botanist, and..... More
Struthio Camelus [Common ostrich]
Dusseldorf: Arnz. Lithograph with hand coloring. 24 x 19 inches. Shows some minor wear to edges and some light foxing. In very good condition. A beautiful illustration of a Common Ostrich in profile with aerial view of skull, presented as 1/3 of natural size. This is plate 85 from Goldfuss' 'Naturalists Atlas', a collection of large folio sized lithographs published in serial form (unbound) in Dusseldorf by Arnz from 1824-1842. Georg August Goldfuss (1782-1848) was a German paleontologist, botanist, and..... More
MANETTI, Saverio
Colombo grosso minore volgarm. Bastardello. Columba domestica minor. [Domestic pigeon]
Florence: Vanni. Engraving with hand coloring. 18.5 x 13.5 inches. Two small tears at bottom margin, image unaffected. In very good condition. Beautiful and coy white dove in side profile. Plate 269 from 'Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli' (Florence, 1767). More
Succhiacapre, o Nottola d'America. Caprimulgus ex America. [American Nightjar]
Florence: Vanni. Engraving with hand coloring. 18 x 14.5 inches. One small tears at right edge, image unaffected. Shows some minor wear and staining at edges. In very good condition. An expressive depiction of an American (or Common) Nightjar, a nocturnal New World insectivore. Plate 100 from 'Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli' (Florence, 1767). More
MARTINET, Francois-Nicolas
Anhinga du Senegal
Engraving with hand coloring. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Shows some light foxing. In very good condition. The Oriental darter or Indian darter is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and, like the cormorant, it hunts for fish while its body is submerged in water. Francois-Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800) was a French engineer, naturalist, and engraver. More
SEPP, Christiann; NOZEMAN, Cornelius
ANAS, Brenta.; (Dutch Duck)
Amsterdam: Christiann Sepp. Engraving. with hand coloring. 20.5 x 14.25 inches. Shows some light toning at edges. In very good condition. From Nozeman and Sepp's "Nederlandsche vogelen," published in Amsterdam between 1770-1829. This five volume compendium described the birds of the Netherlands. Cornelius Nozeman, (1721-1786) a Dutch minister and an ornithologist. More
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Introducing: Marble House
Written by Tony Nguyen
Earlier this year, amidst a busy street corner of New York and seeking shelter from the rain, I sat down with emerging indie band Marble House to chat about their upcoming EP "Demons". The Brooklyn quartet began as a bedroom project by singer Gabe Friedman which organically grew into a fully fledged band with gradual additions of guitarist Nicole Pettigrew, drummer Danny Irizarry and later bassist and keyboard player Javier Vela.
When I met them, Marble House were still unable to label themselves, and much of our conversation was surrounded by talk of genre. If I label their sound, their merging of atmospheric riffs with understated complex rhythms and moody basslines are something fusing experimental, indie rock and dream pop. But who's to say this is at all accurate. Genre is complicated so some possible new genres could be : Mood-groove? Post-progressive? Alt-dreamwave? Psychobabble? Intel-tronica…?
Nicole praises Alt-J as a "band that has let themselves totally go into exploring all corners of the musical earth" and Gabe clarified later that sonically, they would not compare themselves to Alt-J, but they aspire to let themselves go in the same way when making music. "Like when you hear an Alt J song, you can tell a song is an Alt J song. If someone can hear a Marble House song, and say 'oh that's a Marble House song', that's our goal".
Perhaps their love for experimentation is due to the range of influences the members brought to the table. Gabe was into indie alt rock to electronic: from Foals, Radiohead, Bombay Bicycle club to Sampha. Danny— heavy double pedal metal from Puerto rican band Puya to Killswitch Engage. Nicole— grew up on ska, punk and post punk, but admires guitars from Dave Nudson of Minus the Bear. Javier— well he was absent for the interview.
For me, what was admirable was how the band seemed to be keen on making the music they love and strived for originality. Nicole commented on the obsession on being popular in music nowadays saying "well of course we'd love to play our stuff to a lot of people but ultimately we make the music for us, we love playing shows, and we love the songs we're writing so we can only hope other people do too".
Their debut EP 'Demons' is intriguing and multidimensional. The songs are not commercial, so if catchy pop hooks are your thing then this is not a band for you. If you do give it a chance, however, their sound has real depth and drive that will hook onto you. Give this band a spotify search and check them out for yourself. Here
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A team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a portion of a $5 million USDA food safety grant to enhance low-moisture food safety by improving development and implementation of pasteurization technologies. UNL will receive $943,617 over five years.
Low-moisture foods, such as nuts, spices and peanut butter, have been considered at low risk for foodborne illness because they are consumed in a dry state. While microbial growth isn't possible, the bacteria can survive and stay on the food product for a long time. Foodborne pathogens, such as salmonella, can cause illness even at very low levels.
"You don't need a million bacteria to cause illness; as few as 10 cells can cause illness," said Harshavardhan Thippareddi, UNL Department of Food Science and Technology professor and Nebraska Extension food safety specialist. Thippareddi is a project director on the USDA grant. "So even though the bacteria do not grow on these types of products, if you have a very low number present, they can survive for long periods of time and cause illness to sensitive populations."
Outbreaks and recalls due to salmonella and other foodborne pathogens led Congress to pass the Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011, which mandated that food processors guarantee the safety of their products. The issue food processors are facing is that it is extremely difficult to kill bacteria on low-moisture products. Current pasteurization methods take a significant amount of time and frequently hurt the quality of the food product. UNL research will focus on improving and developing technologies that can kill the bacteria while not affecting food quality.
Jeyamkondan Subbiah, Kenneth E. Morrison Distinguished Professor of Food Engineering with the biological systems engineering and food science and technology departments and a project director on the USDA grant, said research on bacteria in low-moisture products isn't where it needs to be because people have always thought these products were safe.
"Now that the risk has been recognized, we need to find technologies to improve their safety and validate the effectiveness of the technologies," he said.
Along with research, extension is a critical part of this grant. UNL will disseminate its findings to local food processors in Nebraska and across the country and work with them to meet new food safety regulations.
In addition to UNL, principal co-investigators on the project are Michigan State University, Washington State University, Illinois Institute of Technology and North Carolina State University.


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A Free Guide for Practitioners: Doing Social Innovation
This short guide is aimed at practitioners – those currently or considering engaging with social innovations. Even though the term social innovation is becoming more widespread, there remains significant confusion about what it is and what the term means. This guide aims to provide an overview of what social innovation is; who does it and… [Read More]
A Free Global Nutrition Cluster Toolkit for Nutrition in Emergencies
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a nutritional response during and after an emergency situation. Too often, in the high-pressure context of emergencies, key aspects of nutritional health and well-being are not adequately addressed. Poor decisions are made in the short-term, which have long-term negative impacts on the nutritional stability of the affected… [Read More]
Women and Young Persons with Disabilities: Free Guidelines for Providing Rights-Based and Gender-Responsive Services
Women and Young Persons with Disabilities: Guidelines for Providing Rights-Based and Gender-Responsive Services to Address Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights aims to provide practical and concrete guidelines for making GBV and SRHR services more inclusive of and accessible to women and young persons with disabilities and for targeting interventions to meet… [Read More]
A Free Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) Handbook
This handbook has been designed to provide program managers with a brief, capsular set of steps to follow when required to deal with Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) – often as emergencies – and to serve as an aid to facilitate immediate and appropriate program responses. A set of companion training materials that can be used… [Read More]
Jhpiego's Free Gender Analysis Toolkit for Health Systems
Jhpiego Gender Analysis Toolkit is a practical guide for public health professionals seeking to understand how gender can impact health outcomes, both through service delivery and access to information and care. Its primary focus is sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. The purpose of the Gender Analysis Toolkit is to provide research questions… [Read More]
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A Free Handbook for Women Candidates: Running for Political Office
This handbook is for any woman who wants to run for a parliamentary or civic seat. It can also be used by friends who want to help a candidate in her election bid as managers or members of various committees. Parliamentary and council campaigns differ in some respects, but all election campaigns thrive on organisation… [Read More]
A Free Clinic–Community Collaboration Toolkit: Working Together To Improve PMTCT and Paediatric HIV Treatment, Care and Support
The Clinic-CBO Collaboration (C3) Programme is a partnership between PATA and Positive Action for Children Fund (PACF) to link health facilities and communities to deliver services together for improved PMTCT- paediatric case finding and HIV treatment. PATA and PACF have worked across nine countries and strengthened 36 community-clinic collaborations. Together, PATA and PACF have identified… [Read More]
Migration and the 2030 Agenda: A Free Guide for Practitioners
This guide is designed to serve government actors, both national and local, involved in any process of Sustainable Development Goal implementation, including those working specifically in migration, and those working in other sectors who are interested in integrating migration. It is also for government actors working in the migration field who wish to integrate the… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Journalists: Climate Governance in Africa
Climate governance is a difficult subject bringing together the social, technical, policy, financial and political elements of climate change. At the root of these issues remain grave concerns about Africa's development needs and the need to address imperatives such as poverty, unemployment, food security and health. In addition, questions remain about whether the interests of… [Read More]


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1933," starring Eslinda Núñez (Memories of Underdevelopment), approximates the polish of Hollywood melodrama; while the New Wave-inflected "Lucía 196_" finds Adela Legrá, full of the new revolutionary spirit, bucking back against her oppressive husband. A historical epic that forefronts the too-often-overlooked female experience, given a sensorial immediacy through Jorge Herrera's lustrous black-and-white cinematography.
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Sachsenring MotoGP Subscriber Notes: Why The Sachsenring Was 2022 Condensed, Ride-Height Failures, Hot Hondas, And Events vs Races
With the Sachsenring done and dusted, we have reached the halfway point of the 2022 season. A quick dash from the east of Germany to the northeast of The Netherlands, and then MotoGP goes on a longer than scheduled summer break.
If the German Grand Prix marked the halfway point of the 2022 season – the median, if you will – then the result might be classified in statistical terms as the mode: the most frequently occurring value in a set of results. If you had to sum up the MotoGP season so far, this is what it would look like.
I have a long motorcycle journey on Monday, so below are a few quick notes after the German GP, and what precisely makes it the modal MotoGP race. But also, some of the factors which make it atypical. And a sign of hope for the future of the series.
In these notes:
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Sachsenring MotoGP Saturday Round Up: Preparing For Sweltering Sunday Slog
As a parade of MotoGP riders traipsed into the media center at the Sachsenring, we had time to reflect upon the fact that it is a good thing we did not have access to strong drink. For if we had decided to play the "30-lap drinking game" – taking a drink every time a rider says "tomorrow is going to be a long race", half of the MotoGP media would be spending Saturday night having their stomach pumped. Each rider we spoke to used it at least once, and some did so multiple times within the space of a couple of minutes.
What conclusions can we draw from this? That 30 laps are a lot around the Sachsenring's tight and tortuous ribbon of asphalt, where the bikes are spending most of their time on the left side of the tire. Especially in the middle of a heatwave, where temperatures are more like Sepang than Assen, despite the Sachsenring being situated in the temperate north of Europe, rather than the sweltering heat of the tropics. The Sachsenring was sweltering on Saturday, and will swelter even more come Sunday.
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Sachsenring Notes From Pit Lane - New Aero, Swingarm Analysis, And Ducati's Ride-Height Gubbins
A wander up pit lane at the Sachsenring shows teams and factories still hard at work trying to figure out ways of going faster. Here's a quick note of the things I have seen so far, with a few very poor photographs.
The Barcelona test proved to be a chance to try out new aerodynamic packages, and some of those have made an appearance at the Sachsenring. On Friday, Maverick Viñales spent most of the day on Aprilia's new fairing, with Aleix Espargaro following suit today.
As you can see, the lower part of the fairing is wider, creating a ledge around the middle of the bike. That should bring the side of the bike closer to the asphalt when the bike is leaned over and create something of a ground effect. It also provides a certain amount of downforce at a very useful point, close to the center of mass.
The fairing redesign does have a disadvantage, however: the neat sliding hatch on the standard fairing where the starter motor engages has been replaced with a latch.
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Sachsenring MotoGP Friday Round Up: Why Are Ducatis So Fast Around The 'Ring?
Conventional wisdom has it that the Sachsenring is a tight and twisty track. Slow, tortuous, and difficult. "It's like a riding on a Supermoto track!" Raul Fernandez said after his first experience riding a MotoGP bike around the German circuit. What had felt like a short straight between Turns 7 and 8 on a Moto2 bike was an entirely different experience on a MotoGP machine. "In MotoGP it's like super fast. It's like not a straight, like a corner."
As is usually the case, the conventional wisdom has only a passing acquaintance with the reality of the situation. Yes, the Sachsenring is tight and twisty. But as Tech3's Fernandez points out, it is also much faster than it seems. Jerez has a lower top speed, for example. And Jerez, Le Mans, Valencia all have slower average speeds.
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Sachsenring MotoGP Preview: Who Will Rule The Ring Now The King Is Gone?
The Sachsenring offers an opportunity to learn two things in 2022. Firstly, who is the second best rider around the tight and twisty German track, now that Marc Marquez, whose name is provisionally penciled into the winner's column when the calendar is announced, is absent. And secondly, will crowds return to pre-pandemic levels at MotoGP events?
To start with the second question first, perhaps it is best to rephrase it: will the Sachsenring be Mugello or Le Mans? That is a gross simplification of course, but gets to the root of some of the issues facing MotoGP, post-pandemic, post-Valentino Rossi. Mugello was a washout, with an official attendance of less than half pre-pandemic numbers. Le Mans was a sellout, a capacity 110,000 people turning up at sunny Le Mans.
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Are Yamaha Better Off Putting All Their Eggs In Fabio Quartararo's Basket?
Is the 2022 Yamaha M1 a good MotoGP bike? It is a simple question with a simple answer: it depends. If Fabio Quartararo is riding it, it is good enough to have won two races, get on the podium in three others, and lead the 2022 MotoGP championship by 22 points.
But if anyone other than Fabio Quartararo is riding it, it is not quite so good. The best result by the trio of Franco Morbidelli, Andrea Dovizioso, and Darryn Binder is a seventh place, by Morbidelli at Mandalika. That seventh place is one of only two top tens for the other Yamahas, Darryn Binder being the other at the same race.
Together, Morbidelli, Dovizioso, and Binder have scored a grand total of 40 points. Fabio Quartararo has 147, over three times as many. And he has never finished behind any of the other Yamahas throughout the season. In fact, the closest any other Yamaha rider has gotten to Quartararo is Franco Morbidelli's eleventh place, two places behind his teammate, at the season opener at Qatar. Since then, Quartararo and the other Yamaha riders have been operating on different planets.
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Barcelona MotoGP Subscriber Notes: How Fabio Quartararo Was Able To Dominate, A Costly Crash, And How To Count Laps
There are some tracks that somehow always seem to manage to produce drama. Sometimes, drama which affects the trajectory of a championship. Barcelona would appear to be one of those tracks.
Take 2006, for example. Loris Capirossi came into the Barcelona leading the MotoGP championship, tied for points with Nicky Hayden. At the start, his Ducati teammate Sete Gibernau took a line crossing from left to right in an attempt to gain places. Gibernau clipped the rear of Capirossi's bike, jamming on his front brake and causing it to cartwheel end over end through the pack. Capirossi was forced into Marco Melandri to his right, the pair of them going down and resulting in a massive pile up and forcing a race restart.
There were a couple of consequences from that crash. Capirossi escaped injury, but was battered and bruised. Unable to take part in the race, the Italian lost 20 points to Nicky Hayden, and limped through the next couple of races, effectively ending his championship challenge. And it was the incident which started the discussion about making brake lever protectors mandatory, though it would take until 2011 to get the rules pushed through in all three grand prix classes.
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Barcelona MotoGP Saturday Round Up: A Three-Way Battle Against Grip
On Friday, things looked pretty clear. Aleix Espargaro would walk away from his rivals at Barcelona, using the ability of the Aprilia to find grip where there is none – and at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the grip is absolutely terrible – to cruise to his second victory of the season, and of his MotoGP career.
On Saturday, things had changed. We are still on for a race of attrition, a desperate battle to keep your tires in good shape for as long as possible in the hope of wearing down your rivals. Or rather, convincing your rivals to wear down their tires, by pushing a fraction too hard, cracking the throttle a fraction too aggressively, spinning the rear just a tiny amount more than is absolutely necessary. This track eats tires, so the trick is to get your rivals to feed the circuit first.
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Barcelona MotoGP Notes From Pit Lane
A few thoughts on things I saw walking up and down pit lane.
First, it is clear that teams are worried about tire temperature. The factory Ducatis, the factory Yamahas, and even Andrea Dovizioso were using the silver wheels, using special paint to dissipate heat more effectively.
Aprilia appear to have the most sorted motorcycle, judging by the parts and tools in the garage. Where other teams and factories have shocks, fork springs, and even swingarm linkages (Suzuki) lying in the garage, Aprilia are just changing tires. That is ominous for the rest of the grid.
As one of the factory KTM riders left pit lane, a caught a glimpse behind the bottom of the fairing. It looked like they have a lot of hydraulics there, which are most likely used to control the ride-height device. Locating it under the bike is ideal in terms of weight distribution.
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Barcelona MotoGP Friday Round Up: How To Go Fast When There Is No Grip, And Why Aprilia are Favorites
Normally after the first day of practice for a MotoGP race, everyone says, "it's only Friday, you can't read too much into the times". But not here. At Barcelona, everyone is asking how they can stop the Aprilias. Aleix Espargaro was fastest on a soft tire and in race trim, and Maverick Viñales was quick over a single lap – his weakness so far with Aprilia - and managed a respectable race pace. If one or both qualify well on Saturday, nobody will see which way they went.
The gap over the rest is impressive. Aleix Espargaro was three tenth faster than his Aprilia teammate, while Viñales was two tenths quicker than Enea Bastianini in third. And that was with Viñales feeling he hadn't get everything possible out of the soft tire he put in at the end of FP2. "When I put the soft, the jump was huge so I didn't take enough profit of the soft. The difference was very big," the Spaniard told us.
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Quigley Selected to Serve on Conference Committee to Fund the Government
WASHINGTON – Earlier this month, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), who serves as Illinois' only Member on the House Appropriations Committee, was named one of six House Democratic Members to serve on the conference committee on the Fiscal Year 2019 FSGG, Interior/Environment, THUD and Agriculture Appropriations bills. The conference committee will convene this afternoon to resolve bicameral differences in the four bills.
"From transportation and housing to environmental protections that ensure clean air and water, I am proud to play a key role in securing the spending priorities that matter most to Chicago families," said Rep. Quigley. "Unfortunately, instead of governing responsibly and in the best interest of those they represent, Republicans want to misuse must-pass legislation as a means to advance their partisan agenda. Today, I will work to ensure our government stays open and operating and that our appropriations process isn't manipulated to undermine Wall Street regulations, weaken protections for wildlife, diminish access to fair and equitable housing, or strip key funding from infrastructure projects that create jobs and keep cities like Chicago competitive."
"Congress has a responsibility to fight for the health, safety and well-being of hard-working Americans in every corner of the country," Leader Pelosi said. "Yet, this GOP Congress and Administration have continuously failed the American people by selling off public lands, gutting consumer and environmental protections, undermining access to affordable housing and pushing a radical, partisan Farm Bill that leaves farmers and hungry families out in the cold. Our outstanding House Democratic Conferees will bring exceptional experience, expertise and values as they work toward an agreement that honors our commitment to lift up American families, create good-paying jobs and drive meaningful progress for all."
Rep. Quigley currently serves as the top Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) and as member on the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD). During his time on the Appropriations Committee, he has secured billions in federal funding for Chicago transportation and urban housing priorities, including capacity grants for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), funds for commuter railroads to complete the installment of Positive Train Control (PTC) safety technology, Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants, and much more. Recent appropriations victories have also included funding for election security defenses, lead exposure protection for children in affordable housing, Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Program, and O'Hare noise mitigation.
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