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Arkansas's Race to the Bottom: New Guttmacher Report Released TODAY Spotlights Arkansas
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State Passes Six New Abortion Restrictions in Just One Month
Washington, DC --Politicians in Arkansas are in an aggressive race to the bottom when it comes to women's health and rights, having passed six new abortion bills in just one month – adding to the numerous restrictions the state already has on the books. The slew of bills and new laws come as the Guttmacher institute released a brand new report today on state trends highlighting Arkansas's rapid increase in restrictions on women's health care.
The new report highlights new trends in restrictions on medication abortion, particularly in Arkansas which has passed a law forcing providers to, according to Guttmacher, operate on outdated FDA protocols developed in Europe well over twenty years ago. Updated protocols have fewer side effects and require fewer physician visits. The report also calls out Arkansas's ban on telemedicine delivery of abortion, noting the detrimental effect it has on access to abortion in rural areas.
"This report shows that women are suffering at the hands of politicians who are working overtime to impose their personal beliefs on all women. Politicians are not medical experts, yet politicians have written these laws as part of a broader effort to end access to safe, legal abortion in Arkansas and in states across the country," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "These restrictions hurt women by blocking access to safe medical care and are deeply unpopular with the American public. Planned Parenthood will do everything in its power to protect women's health and rights, working alongside our supporters in the ground and across the country to defeat these dangerous restrictions."
These restrictions are part of 332 provisions introduced just this year that seek to restrict access to the full range of reproductive care for women, 53 of which had been approved by legislatures and 9 of which had been enacted by April 1.
Already clocking in at dead last in women's health indicators, there are only three health centers inArkansas that provide safe, legal abortion. The restrictions passed this session could severely restrict access at all of those locations. As we've seen in states like Texas, this layering of restriction, upon restriction, upon restriction can create sometimes impossible barriers on women seeking access to safe and legal abortion.
If they become law, the bills passed in Arkansas this session would:
Require doctors to provide patients with information about so-called "abortion reversals" that could be harmful to their health. Arkansas joined Arizona in passing this provision over the objection of medical experts and despite the fact that it has no basis in science and is not supported by medical evidence. The national groups behind this measure are the very same people who make false claims that rape can't lead to pregnancy — and whose real agenda is to ban abortion outright.
Double the forced delay for a woman to access safe, legal abortion to 48 hours—one of the longest mandatory delays in the country. This creates serious barriers for women who will have to take time off of work and arrange for travel and childcare over the course of multiple days in a state that already has only three providers.
Severely restrict access to medication abortion, an extremely safe method of abortion early in pregnancy—and the only procedure available at two out of three of the health centers in the state. Signed into law this past month, this law forces doctors to ignore more than 14 years of medical research and use an outdated protocol for medication abortion. Together with the forced 48-hour delay, this could require four physician visits for medication abortion and would ban its use after seven weeks of pregnancy.
Establish one of the most onerous restrictions on safe, legal abortion for minors.Arkansas law already prohibits minors from obtaining an abortion without the consent of a parent, but this takes current restrictions to a whole new level. Among multiple other provisions, it strips current law of the exception to parental consent where the minor is a victim of incest, rape, or sexual abuse at the hands of the parent from whom she must get consent. It also restricts minors seeking a judicial bypass by mandating that she can only file her petition in the courthouse nearest to her house -- where she may have friends, relatives, or neighbors who work there or who may be there conducting their own government business. Minors from rural areas of the state where everyone knows everyone else in the community would be likely to have their confidentiality compromised (more here).
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Great Barr is now a large and loosely defined area to the north-west of Birmingham, England. The area was historically in Staffordshire, and the parts now in Birmingham were once known as Perry Barr, which is still the name of an adjacent Birmingham district. Other areas known as Great Barr are in the Metropolitan Boroughs of Walsall and Sandwell.

"Barr" means "hill", and the name refers to nearby Barr Beacon.

History

Samuel Taylor, an itinerant Methodist preacher, visited Great Barr in 1792 and remarked "preached at Barr, a village famous for nothing as having given birth to Francis Asbury of America and being the present residence of his parents, at whose house we preached".

Great Barr was largely rural until the early 20th century, though it was influenced by the early stages of the industrial revolution which affected the nearby towns of Birmingham and the Black Country. The Staffordshire parish of Barr straddled the route from Birmingham to Walsall.  Birmingham's historian William Hutton was surprised to see so many nail-making workshops in the area. He noted that "in some of these workshops I observed one, or more, females, stripped of their upper garments, and not overcharged with the lower, wielding the hammer with all the grace of their sex".

At that time the area was on the main drovers' routes which saw trains of horses taking coal from Walsall and Wednesbury to the factories and furnaces of Birmingham. At the Scott Arms there was a weekly cattle market which attracted large crowds. The Scott Arms and the Malt Shovel public house in Newton, did a roaring trade with drunkenness, cockfighting, and gambling common. Francis Asbury referred to it as "a dark place called Great Barre"

The rural economy was dominated by four great landowning families, the Wryley Birches, Dartmouths, Scotts and Goughs. The parish was series of tiny hamlets:  Howell's Row, Sneal's Green, Newton, Margaret's Lane, Queslett, the Common, Bourn Pool, Bourn Vale, the Tamworth Road, the Gough Arms Inn (later called the Beacon Inn) and around Barr Hall In 1817 there were 120 houses occupied by 127 families, 78 of whom were engaged in agriculture and 30 in trade. These trades included a tailor, boarding house owner, a wheelwright, a butcher, a grocer, who doubled as a constable, a shoemaker, two brick makers, a maltster, gun lock maker, three blacksmiths, and four spectacle frame makers.

The 1901 census recorded a population of 1,344, by 1921 this had increased to 2,232. By 1930 the population had grown to 3,294, by 1951, despite the war, it had reached 12,648. In 2015 the two local government wards in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, which now cover much of Great Barr, had a combined electorate of 18,840 adults.

The urban district of Perry Barr was ceded to Birmingham, then in Warwickshire, in 1928.

By the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 it was a very busy residential area with good road connections to West Bromwich, Walsall and Birmingham.

Expansion continued after the war, and during the 1960s the area received a motorway link when Junction 7 of the newly built M6 motorway was opened on the A34. It is also located close to the starting point of the M5, which can be accessed just one mile (1.6 km) northwards on the M6.

On 11 August 1975, eight-year-old local schoolgirl Helen Bailey was found dead from a single knife wound, in woods near Booths Farm. Her killer was never found.

Kidnapper Michael Sams abducted estate agent Stephanie Slater from a house in Turnberry Road, Great Barr before holding her for eight days in January 1992. Following receipt of £175,000 ransom, Sams released her. Police arrested him three weeks later and he was sentenced to life imprisonment for abducting Slater and murdering Leeds prostitute Julie Dart.

Geography
The traditional centre of Great Barr is focussed on the busy junction of the A34 and A4041 roads, at the Scott Arms public house and shopping centre. This is named after the Scott family of Great Barr Hall, which was once home of Samuel Galton and a meeting place of the Lunar Society.

However, the name is also loosely applied to a swathe of the West Midlands bounded by junction 8 of the M6 motorway in the west, the Birmingham – Walsall railway line (part of the former Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837, and including Hamstead railway station, formerly called Great Barr station) and Perry Barr to the south, Kingstanding to the east, and the open countryside of Barr Beacon to the north.

Great Barr includes much of the B42, B43 and B44 postcode areas.

Places of interest
Bishop Asbury Cottage (incorrectly named as "Bishop Ashbury's Cottage" on Ordnance Survey maps), was where Francis Asbury, the first American Methodist Bishop, was raised. It is owned by Sandwell Council and is Grade II listed. It is open by appointment for group visits, and opens occasionally to the general public.

Great Barr Hall is a Grade II* listed building, and due its current state of disrepair is not open to the public. St. Margaret's Church stands nearby.

Red House Park is open to the public and provides important amenities for the local community. It is owned by the Sandwell Council. In the grounds are both the Red House itself and an obelisk erected in memory of Princess Charlotte who died in childbirth in November 1817. The Red House, a country house also used a convalescent home, and then a community centre, is Grade II listed building, but is no longer open to the public, having been sold in 2015 and converted to residential apartments.

Birmingham Canal Navigations' Tame Valley Canal runs through Great Barr, from Piercy Aqueduct at Hamstead, along a cutting in 200-million year old sandstone, under Freeth bridge at Tower Hill, under the A34 and into Perry Barr Locks at Perry Barr.

Great Barr's notable current and former residents

 Steve Adey – Musician was born in Great Barr and attended Great Barr School
 Francis Asbury (1745–1816) – one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.
 Helen Bailey, an eight-year-old schoolgirl who was killed in 1975
 John Bainbridge, – Writer, attended Hamstead Primary School, Grove Vale School and Dartmouth Comprehensive
 William Booth, – Forger. Booths Farm Road and Booths Lane are named after him.
 Mike Burney, – Musician from Wizzard, attended at Hamstead Junior School and Churchfields Comprehensive
 James Michael Curtin, - professional wrestler better known as Rockstar Spud
 Cat Deeley, – TV presenter, actress and former model, attended Grove Vale Primary School and Dartmouth High School
 Mark "Barney" Greenway, – Singer of Napalm Death, born in Great Barr.
 Keith Law, – Songwriter for Velvett Fogg attended Hamstead Junior School and Churchfields High School Comprehensive
 Vaughan Lowe, – Lawyer and Oxford professor, attended Hamstead Primary School
 Keith Linnecor, - Labour Councillor for Oscott Ward for 25 years
 Geoff Morris, – professional football player for Walsall, Shrewsbury Town and Port Vale, was born in Great Barr
 Dhani Prem, – Padma Shri winner and the first Asian Councillor to represent Great Barr in 1946.
 Martin Shaw, – Actor, attended Great Barr School
 Dean Smith, Former Walsall football player and manager, former head coach of Aston Villa and Norwich City, born in Great Barr and attended Dartmouth High School.
 Jeff Smith, – motocross world champion 1964 & 1965, born in Colne, Lancashire
 Andrew 'Beans' Medlicott, - First back to back winner of Birmingham's tallest man, 2016-2017.
 Dave Swarbrick, – Musician, attended Great Barr School
 Steve Winwood, – Musician, attended Great Barr School, born in Handsworth
 Chris Woakes, – Cricketer for Warwickshire and England attended Barr Beacon School
 Gillian Wearing – Artist, Turner Prize Winner

Education
Great Barr is well served with a number of primary and secondary schools.
Great Barr School is the largest single-site school in the country with over 2,400 pupils on roll.

Primary schools
 Barr View Primary School
 Beeches Infant School
 Beeches Junior School
 Calshot Primary School
 Dorrington Road Primary school
 Ferndale Primary School
 Glenmead Primary School
 Greenholm Primary School
 Grove Vale Primary School
 Hamstead Infant School
 Hamstead Junior School
 Holy Name RC Primary School
 St Margarets CE Primary School
 St Mark's RC Primary School
 Whitecrest Primary School
 Meadow View Primary School
 Pheasey Park Farm Primary School

Secondary schools
 Fortis Academy is a mixed school catering for children aged 11 to 19.
 Arena Academy is a mixed academy catering for children aged 11 to 16.
 Q3 Academy Great Barr (formerly Dartmouth High School) is a mixed academy catering for children aged 11 to 19.
 Barr Beacon School is a mixed school catering for children aged 11 to 19.

Perry Beeches does not have a 'Primary' School it has two separate schools Beeches Infant School and Beeches Junior School.

The Perry Beeches Campus is the largest school campus in Birmingham and houses 5 schools: Perry Beeches Nursery School, Beeches Infant School, Beeches Junior School, Arena Academy and Priestley Smith School for the Visually Impaired.

College

The James Watt campus of Birmingham Metropolitan College is at the junction of Beeches Road and Aldridge Road, at the Old Oscott side of Great Barr. The buildings were originally Brooklyn Technical College.

Bibliography
Asbury, Francis, "The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury" 1st edition 1821, republished Nashville and London, 1958
Hackworth, F.W., "History of West Bromwich" 1895, republished Studley, 2001
Hallam, David J.A. "Eliza Asbury: her cottage and her son" Studley, 2003
Hallam, David J.A. "One hundred years of service to Newton: The history of Newton Road United Reformed (Allen Memorial) Church 1917-2017 Smethwick, 2018
White, William, "The History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire", Sheffield, 1834
Woodall, Richard, "The Barr Story", Aldridge, undated, (1950?)

References

External links

 Birmingham City Council
 Sandwell Council (includes West Bromwich)
 Walsall Council
 B43 postcode area

Areas of the West Midlands (county)
Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands
Walsall
West Bromwich

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The strongest Danish MR scanner, operating at 7T magnetic field strength, was inaugurated February 24th 2015
One of the strongest MR research scanners worldwide is now inaugurated at the Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR) located at Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark.
It operates at no less than 7 tesla magnetic field strength which corresponds to roughly 140.000 times the Earth's magnetic field. The field is generated by a 44 ton superconducting electromagnet with its inner parts cooled to -270 degrees Celcius by liquid helium. The purchase of this incredible MR system from Philips Healthcare was made possible after very generous donations from the John and Birthe Meyer Foundation and the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The scanner, which is approved for research only, gives much more detailed insight into human physiology and diseases than clinical MR scanners, e.g. for imaging of brain structure and activation, and for studies of metabolism. These techniques are of high importance for a number of diseases, e.g., neurodegenerative. The scanner is availalble to MR researchers nationwide in scope of the Danish National 7T MR project that includes e.g. hospitals in the Capital Region, the universities in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, the Technical University of Denmark, and collaborators in Sweden.
After a welcome from the Hospital Director Torben Ø Pedersen, talks at the inauguration were given by Sophie Hæstorp Andersen (Chairman of the Regional Council), Hartwig Siebner (Head of DRCMR), Torben Mogensen (Vice Director of the hosting hospital) and Jørgen Frøkiær (Head of the National Danish 7T Steering Group). Besides special thanks to the benefactors, and the many involved persons, special thanks were given to the former Head of the DRCMR, Prof. Olaf B. Paulson, who initiated the 7T project, and who is still very active in it as a representative from Rigshospitalet.
Click for more information in Danish, and pictures from the installation and inauguration.

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The Bharatiya Janshakti Party (Indian People's Power Party) was founded on 30 April 2006 in Ujjain in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. It was founded by Uma Bharti, a former leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), following her expulsion from the BJP for indiscipline. She stated that her Janshakti party also followed the ideology of the RSS, and had its support. With Uma Bharti re-joining BJP in June 2011, the Bharatiya Janshakti Party merged with the BJP. BJS working president Sanghpriya Gautam announced the merger here in the presence of BJP national president Nitin Gadkari, Ms Bharti and other senior leaders.
The Bharatiya Janshakti Party had a marked lack of political success in its five-year career; Bharti later stated that she severely regretted the time she spent outside the BJP. In the 2008 State Assembly Elections, the party won only 6 out of the 230 seats in the State Legislative Assembly.
↑ Manjesh, Sindhu. "Who is Uma Bharti?". NDTV. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
↑ Bhagwat, Ramu (2 July 2009). "Own up responsibility, Uma Bharti tells BJP". Times of India. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
↑ "Uma Bharti's BJS merges into BJP". Web India.
↑ "Election Result - 2008 State Assembly Elections". Times of India. Retrieved 26 November 2013.


Public Safety Testing had an existing website, but no longer had an activate web developer. Searching through the Magento Certified Developer listings, they found Joe.
Public Safety Testing has a constantly evolving website, and needed a stable on going relationship with a web development team that could work with and advise them on all aspects of the website for the foreseeable future.
Since December of 2014, Montana Banana and Public Safety Testing have launched numerous features, fixes, and UI/UX improvements. The number of ideas of ways to improve the site keep coming, and we plan on having a great business relationship for years to come!


Novelis converts aluminium into products for beverage, automobile and construction companies, among others. In the September quarter, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) rose to $200 million (Rs942 crore) from $124 million in the previous quarter and $89 million in the year-ago period. The improvement has come partly due to cost savings extracted by the company and partly due to an improvement in volumes (up 4% sequentially). The company estimates that it is currently saving about $100 million in costs, on an annualized basis, and expects the number to jump by about 40% in a year's time. It has also hiked conversion prices charged to customers for new contracts.
Hindalco's performance was affected in the September quarter owing to lower commodity prices. Sales were down by 13.5% to Rs4,917 crore and its net profit was down by 52% to Rs344 crore, compared with a year ago. Novelis, in comparison, turned in revenue of Rs10,000 crore, down by 26%, and a net profit of Rs984 crore, compared with a loss of Rs478 crore. A sustained improvement in the financials of Novelis will provide Hindalco shares much support. Since Hindalco expects its aluminium and copper business to face short-term challenges, any help it gets from Novelis will be welcome.


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Update on the TV series
I didn't have a chance to blog about the OUTLANDER TV series last week, because I was on vacation. Here are a few of the highlights from last week's news:
1) STARZ released an official video of the Diana Gabaldon/Ron Moore fan event at NY Comic Con that took place on October 12. (I was invited to this event, but couldn't manage a trip to NYC on such short notice.)
Those of you outside the US may not be able to view it, but if you can, I would really encourage you to watch the whole thing. It's terrific!
Near the end of the video, they show a collection of "concept art" from the TV series.
2) Laura Donnelly has been cast to play Jamie's sister, Jenny Fraser Murray. She worked with Sam Heughan earlier this year, in a movie called HEART OF LIGHTNESS. Look here for the official press release.
3) Diana Gabaldon was asked on Compuserve about the series premiere date. Here's her reply, from October 15, 2013:
Well, this weekend I heard--from assorted Starz people--"summer," "July," and "August." So take your pick, I guess....but evidently not spring, no. (Not surprised; they only began filming last week, after all.)
I know that's going to be a disappointment to many people, but I was frankly relieved to hear this. It's going to be enough of a challenge for me to deal with the post-book-release discussions on Compuserve in the spring <understatement!> without the TV series coming out at the same time.
Please keep in mind that no premiere date has officially been announced yet! As soon as I hear anything official, I'll post it here.
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Notable Dates This Month
February, 1744 - Claire discovers smallpox in the harbor of Le Havre and causes the burning of the ship owned by the Comte St. Germain (DRAGONFLY)
February, 1755 - Lord John Grey arrives to take charge of Ardsmuir prison (VOYAGER)
February 27, 1758 - Lord John's mother and Sir George Stanley are married; Olivia gives birth (BOTB)
February, 1767 - Claire is forced to stay on the warship Porpoise to look after the crew suffering from typhoid fever (VOYAGER)
February 1770 - Roger is held captive by the Mohawk (DRUMS)
February 13 (1776 or 1777) - The notice of Jamie and Claire's deaths by fire appears in the Wilmington Gazette (DRUMS, ECHO)
February 27, 1776 - The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge (ABOSAA)
February 4, 1778 - Chastity Hardman is born (BEES)
February 15, 1778 - Marsali writes to Laoghaire, begging her to ask Claire to come to Philadelphia to treat Henri-Christian (ECHO)
February 11, 1781 - Corporal Jackson sends Claire a package containing the stolen land grant and a bluestone. (BEES)
February 1949 - Claire has a Very Bad Day home alone with a cranky baby Bree, then a fight with Frank (VOYAGER)
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Here are my reactions to Episode 608 of the OUTLANDER TV series, titled "I Am Not Alone". This was a terrific episode, and a wonde...
First official Season 7 teaser video!
STARZ has given us all a holiday treat this year: the first official teaser video from OUTLANDER Season 7! Lots to absorb here, but I ju...
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My name is Karen Henry. I discovered the OUTLANDER books in 2006, and quickly became thoroughly addicted! I started this Outlandish Observations blog in August, 2008, as a central repository for news and information about Diana Gabaldon's books, including new and upcoming releases.
Things have changed a great deal in OUTLANDER fandom in recent years, with many new fans discovering the books as a result of the STARZ TV series. Whether you're a newcomer to OUTLANDER or you've been reading the books for 20+ years, one thing we all have in common is our love for these books and characters and this amazing story that Diana Gabaldon has created.
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Алексей Панкратьевич Климов ( — ?) — русский военный деятель, генерал-майор.

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После окончания Петровско-Полтавского кадетского корпуса  в 1859 году произведён прапорщики, в 1864 году в подпоручики. В 1866 году произведён в поручики. В 1869 году произведён в штабс-капитаны.

С 1866 года помощник старшего адъютанта Окружного артиллерийского управления Харьковского военного округа. В 1873 году произведён в капитаны. С 1874 года начальник отделения боеприпасов Харьковского Окружного артиллерийского склада. В 1878 году произведён в подполковники, в 1888 году  в полковники. В 1889 году был назначен  командиром артиллерийского батальона Брест-Литовской крепостной артиллерии.

С 1896 года назначен был командиром и начальником управления Очаковской крепостной артиллерии. В 1898 году произведён в генерал-майоры и назначен командиром и начальником управления Карской и Ковенской крепостной артиллерии. После 1905 года в списках генералов не указывался.

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Выпускники Полтавского кадетского корпуса
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98-year-old Betty White to star in a new Lifetime Christmas movie and a new Harry and Meghan film
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(CNN) — Lifetime, you get us.
The network just announced a slate of new projects, including several that are sure to please viewers.
Everyone's favorite 98-year-old actress, Betty White, is slated to appear in an as-yet-untitled Christmas movie.
According to a news release, White will star as a woman who "helps whip would-be Santas into shape, spreading the true meaning of Christmas and leading everyone to wonder: is she secretly Mrs. Claus?"
Lifetime's holiday movies are legendary — as is White. The eight-time Emmy winner was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Screen Actors Guild in 2010.
Also coming from Lifetime is the third installment of its franchise about Prince Harry and his wife Meghan.
With a working title of "Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace," the project will follow "the couple's controversial conscious uncoupling from the crown after the birth of their son Archie."
"The movie details the struggles of the new parents and unique challenges of being part of the royal family, which ultimately led Harry and Meghan to give up their royal ties to forge a new life on their own terms," the news release states.
The TV movie will follow 2018's "Harry and Meghan: A Royal Romance" and 2019's "Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal."
Lifetime also announced that singer/actress Kelly Rowland will executive produce and star in a sequel to her 2019 hit, "Merry Liddle Christmas"; Jamie Lee Curtis is producing and starring in "How We Sleep at Night: The Sara Cunningham Story"; and journalist Robin Roberts' will produce "A Home of Their Own," a movie and related documentary about a couple who foster the children of opioid addicts.
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Babies who quickly pile on the pounds in their first three years are more at risk of getting childhood asthma and poor working lungs, a study found.
But boys and girls who gradually achieve their ideal weight have better lung function than their peers who gain weight quickly.
And boys are less at risk of asthma if they steadily grow.
This is because fat toddlers have airways which were smaller compared to their lung volume.
The study of nearly 4,500 children in the Netherlands found a child's weight gain but not height growth growth in the first three years of life affects the development of their lungs and the risk of asthma by the age of 10.
In the UK it is estimated 28 per cent of children aged two to 15 are overweight or obese with a greater proportion of boys being fatter than girls.
Lead author Associate Research Professor Maribel Casas, of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, said: "The findings show that the infants with the highest weight gain velocity and body mass index had lower lung function at 10 years of age.
"Specifically, we observed that these children had a lower function related to the smaller airways in relation to their total lung volume.
"Although we did not observe any relationship between height and weight growth and the risk of asthma, this disproportionate development of lung function could be a risk factor for the development of respiratory disease.
"The later the children reached their peak body mass index, the better their lung function and, in the case of boys, the lower the risk of asthma.
"These results confirm that early childhood growth plays an important role in lung development."
Early infancy is a critical age for the subsequent development of respiratory diseases in childhood and later life.
Recent studies showed excessive weight gain in the first years of life can be associated with lower lung function and a higher risk of childhood asthma.
So Prof Casas and colleagues from Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam examined whether early childhood growth patterns during the first three years later affected respiratory health.
The study tracked 4,435 children participating in the population-based study Generation R Study from birth until they were 10.
Their weight and height were measured regularly over the first three years of life.
The children's lung functions were assessed and their parents were asked if they had been diagnosed with asthma by a doctor by the time they reached 10.
Excessive weight gain in the first years of life has been linked with lower lung function and a higher risk of childhood asthma.
The study was published in the BMJ's Thorax and analysed growth patterns including peak height and weight growth velocities, which occur at around one month of age, and body mass index when it peaks at around nine months of age.
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Now, Diplomad is manned by career US Foreign Service officers, and one of the writers is apparently on the ground in the region. Their articles have been pretty anti-UN so far.
If the UN is helping, it should be amazingly easy to prove.
Send me links, please. I am the most pro-UN Conservative that I know. Give me some ammo to use against the "Get the US out of the UN" crowd. This should be far easier to prove than proving that the US military is helping, for instance.
I refuse to believe that they've done NOTHING. If you tell me that they've provided $100 worth of aid for only $2 million in expenses, I'll believe you and thank you for proving that they've helped. If all Kofi Annan has done so far is forego one day of lift tickets at Jackson Hole to coordinate the massive UN effort, that's got to be worth something.
UPDATE: Okay, okay. I didn't mean for this to be another "bash the UN" post. I'm really, truly looking for stories about how the UN is providing practical, tangible aid to those in need of it in the tsunami region.
I, too, have tons of good anti-UN sentiment. But I can't really believe that they haven't done ANYTHING. I'm looking for proof. Shouldn't be too hard.
After all, a common response to "Why hasn't the UN fixed Korea?" or "What has the UN done about Iranian nukes?" is "The UN can't fix that sort of stuff, but look at all the humanitarian missions the UN runs." Although I disagree that the UN shouldn't be fixing Korea or addressing Iranian nukes, I'm convinced that the humanitarian aid argument holds water. I'm simply looking for proof.
That's what I wanted "brought on", not more bashing.
UPDATE 2: Hell in a Handbasket's James Rummel comments at Chicagoboyz, and gets a reply. A UN link to a UN .pdf summarizing aid. It looks impressive, but does anyone outside the UN have any info on any of this aid? Where are the pictures? Surely $717 million of donations (not just pledges, actual donations) must look like something.
As for what US aid looks like, I'm working on something special. Check back soon.
But that's all I've found. Is it possible that the media is so focused on showing the US help out that they're ignoring United Nations efforts?
It doesn't take too much to read between the line where the Chief Diplomad was temporary stationed when the Boxing Day Tsunami hit (Sri Lanka). The performance of UN meet my exacting expectation of them (zero). I will always assume that any money that goes into any UN effort will first have to be filtered through UN bureaucrats's personal bank account first, that way any actual money that ended up going to their stated purpose will be a pleasant surprise.
A large part of the UN's problems (yes these are unsupported sweeping generalizations)is they have little meaningful supervision by ethical people. Whether by third world or first; many of these folks (at least the ones at the top) have either brought their national cultural norms with them, or realize there are no real supervisory monitoring & enforcement to make them adhere to appropriate professional or ethical standards. Therefore the only ones who are behaving themselves (e.g. not helping themselves to whatever,whenever) are the ones with enough internal control to avoid that kind of behavior.
The UN (and so many other charities and assorted NGO's) have been able to get away with this for so long (literally decades) because nobody ever went and asked the people who should have been receiving the aid whether it ever got there, or whether it was any use when it did arrive. The MSM, bless them, racked up a big fat zero in this area. Chalk one more abject failure up to them. Only the arrival of accountability through blogging is beginning to shine a light on this ghastly tale.
The facts, btw, have been available for a long time. See for example 'Lords of Poverty' by Graham Hancock (published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 1989).
If you want to help, give to MCC. That's the Mennonite Central Committee. One of the most efficient aid and relief organizations known to man. Less than 1% of donations go to admin/housing/comfort for workers. They're sending teams now, and have already given 2.5 million. They can use our help, and they've got people in place to help.


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8 months and 6 days after the Christmas special aired, Doctor Who returned to BBC One with a bang on Saturday night.
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It's been another busy week for new shows as a returning BBC favourite takes the headlines again as ITV continues to suffer.
Posted September 2, 2012 & filed in Ratings.
The return of an old favourite on BBC One means that the corporation has had another good week in relation to its competitors.
Posted August 26, 2012 & filed in Ratings.
This week saw the schedules get back to normal as the BBC waved goodbye to the Olympics and several new shows were launched.
Posted August 19, 2012 & filed in Ratings.
Unsurprisingly, the BBC's Olympic coverage has been running (and cycling and rowing and dressage-ing) away with the viewing figures this week.
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Ratings for the US premiere of Torchwood: Miracle Day's first episode are in, with a total of 1.51 million viewers tuning in to Starz on Friday night.
Posted July 12, 2011 & filed in Ratings.
BBC One's space drama Outcasts dropped to just 1.5 million viewers in its new Sunday night slot.
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Supernatural dramas Marchlands and Being Human continued to perform well this week, while Outcasts' audience dropped further.
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While it was bad news for BBC One's space drama Outcasts this week, Sky's homegrown dramas Mad Dogs and Bedlam continued to perform strongly.
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WASHINGTON – Sixteen members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Detroit on charges including violent crime in aid of racketeering, illegal drug distribution and gun violations, the Department of Justice announced today. The indictment, which was unsealed today, is part of an ongoing nationwide law enforcement initiative targeting the violent gang, which included the arrest of 15 Outlaws members in Boston last month on drug and firearms charges.
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced the indictment of the 16 charged defendants today at a news conference in Detroit with U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Murphy of the Eastern District of Michigan, Deputy Director Ronnie Carter of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Deputy Assistant Director Daniel Roberts of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, and Gang Squad Chief Kevin Carwile of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.
Law enforcement authorities also initiated searches today in connection with the ongoing nationwide investigation of the Outlaws. Agents from the Detroit offices of the ATF, assisted by state and local law enforcement partners, executed a search warrant at the Outlaws Detroit Westside clubhouse. Searches were also conducted at several Outlaws locations in the state of Florida.
The Outlaws Motorcycle Club has been identified as an international criminal organization whose members and associates engage in acts of violence including murder, attempted murder, assault, narcotics distribution, and firearms and gambling offenses. The Outlaws are a structured and hierarchical gang, divided into multiple regions in the United States. The Outlaws also have members worldwide, including Europe, Asia and Canada. The Outlaws have a long-standing violent history with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, including assaults/batteries, shootings and fatalities.
The Detroit indictment was the result of "Operation Broken Spoke," "Operation Detroit Mugger," and "Operation End Game," a five-year investigation by the ATF, the FBI, the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), Michigan State Police, the Detroit Police Department, the South Bend (Ind.) Police Department, and the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Police Department.
The 16 indicted leaders, members and gang associates of the Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Detroit Eastside, Detroit Westside, Downriver and Bay City Outlaws' chapters were charged with various crimes, including: violent crimes in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to commit violent crimes in aid of racketeering; distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and hashish; being a felon in possession of a firearm; and sale of a firearm to a known felon. The Outlaws "Black Region" president, Leroy Frasier, who oversees the Michigan and Indiana Outlaws, was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The former Detroit Westside Chapter Sergeant of Arms/Enforcer, Edward Gallagher, was charged with selling a firearm to a known felon. Additionally, former Outlaw Westside Vice President William Merfert was charged as being in possession of a firearm following three prior felony convictions, a charge that carries a 15-year minimum mandatory term of imprisonment upon conviction.
The 18-count indictment alleges that the Outlaws Motorcycle Club is an enterprise whose members allegedly committed, attempted, and threatened to commit acts of violence to protect and expand the gang's criminal operations. Several of the defendants were charged with allegedly assaulting various members of the rival Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, in some cases with dangerous weapons including a cane, a hammer, and motorcycle parts. Several defendants allegedly trafficked in the sale of drugs, including methamphetamine, marijuana, hashish and cocaine, while others were charged with various firearms offenses for either being a felon in possession of a handgun, or selling a firearm to a prohibited person.
The indictment contains a criminal forfeiture allegation, which sets forth property, vehicles, motorcycles, weapons and currency that was either used to conduct or facilitate illegal activities, or which were proceeds from the Outlaws' criminal activities.
The charges of violent crime in aid of racketeering carry maximum statutory sentences of up to 20 years in prison. The separate drug counts in the indictment carry various maximum statutory sentences, including up to 40 years in prison for distribution of cocaine and up to life in prison for the distribution of methamphetamine. Defendants also face various maximum sentences on the gun charges, such as a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison for possession of a firearm following three prior felony convictions.
The Detroit case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Diane Marion and Julie Beck of the Eastern District of Michigan, and Trial Attorney Amy Sirignano and Bryan Reeves of the Criminal Division's Gang Squad in Washington, D.C.
The Detroit case follows the arrest of 15 Outlaws members in Taunton, Mass. Thirteen individuals were charged by an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Massachusetts, while two were arrested on charges in a criminal complaint. "Operation Roadkill," announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston on July 31, 2007, was a two-year investigation by the FBI, the Massachusetts State Police, and the Brockton Police Department that resulted in federal charges including conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana. The indictment also charged the former president of the Taunton Outlaws with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The indictment alleges that Outlaws in Massachusetts engaged in violent criminal activities, including an ongoing war with the Hells Angels that resulted in a number of shootings and fatalities.
Eighteen firearms were recovered during the execution of arrest warrants in connection with the Massachusetts indictment, including an AR-15 assault weapon and high-capacity rounds of ammunition. Agents recovered approximately $100,000 in connection with the investigation and also seized numerous vehicles. The FBI executed a search warrant at the Outlaws clubhouse in Taunton and recovered numerous weapons including machetes and knives, along with Outlaws paraphernalia and a large Nazi flag.
In February 2006, Attorney General Gonzales unveiled an initiative to combat gang violence across the United States. The anti-gang strategy is designed to prioritize prevention programs to provide America's youth and offenders returning to the community with opportunities that help them resist gang involvement. The initiative also calls for robust enforcement policies when gang-related violence occurs, and expands the successful Project Safe Neighborhoods program to include new and enhanced anti-gang efforts. The law enforcement actions in Detroit, Massachusetts and Florida are the result of the Attorney General's anti-gang initiative and the joint strategic and priority targeting of violent street gangs by the ATF, the FBI, the National Gang Targeting, Enforcement and Coordination Center (GangTECC) and the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) and state and local law enforcement. The Criminal Division's Gang Squad, a specialized group of federal prosecutors charged with attacking the most significant regional, national and international gangs in the United States, assisted in this case and in the implementation of the Justice Department's initiatives to combat gang violence across the country.
The public is reminded that the details contained within the indictment are simply allegations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.