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OLIVE OIL: A NATURAL ANTIOXIDANT
by Prof. MAURIZIO SERVILI, Department of Economic-Estimative and Food Science - Food Technology and Biotechnology Section - University of Perugia
Extra virgin olive oil is obtained exclusively by pressing olives and is enjoyed directly without any further physical-chemical treatments.
Extra virgin olive oils are made up of 98% triglycerides, while the other 2% is made up of what are known as minor components because of their quantity, but certainly not their importance. The fatty fraction includes all the fatty acids that form the basis of the "traditional" nutritional value of extra virgin olive oil, such as oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids.
In the past, the nutritional quality of olive oil was attributed to its high levels of oleic acid, but since currently high levels of this acid are also found in certain sunflower and rapeseed mixtures, it is precisely these minor components that make extra virgin olive oil a fatty substance with unique chemical properties.
Although they only represent 2% of the oil's weight, minor components are a group of over 230 substances that belong to different chemical classes: volatile compounds, aliphatic and terpenic alcohols, aldehydes, chlorophylls, sterols, carotenoids and phenols.
Over 180 volatile compounds are what give extra virgin olive oils their many different kinds of fragrance, such as grass, flowers, green apple, tomato, almond... Currently, only the relationship between "grassy fruitiness" and the aldehydes and medium-chain alcohols formed during mechanical oil extraction has been documented.
Chlorophylls and pheophytins give the oil a green colour, while carotenes, such as lutein and ß-carotene give it a yellow colour.
Among minor components there are also natural antioxidants, including tocopherols and hydrophilic phenolic substances, which play an important role in giving extra virgin olive oil its nutritional and health value. These components are formed, during the oil extraction process, from substances that are already in the olives: hydroxytyrosol and tyrosol belonging to the phenyl-alcohols class and oleuropein, demethyloleuropein, ligustroside and verbascoside, known as secoiridoides.
Recently, the presence of another secoiridoide in olive pits has been confirmed: nuzhenide; as well as another kind of phenolic compound known as lignans, found both in the pulp and in the pits, and to which pinoresinol and acetoxypinoresinol belong.
Phenolic substances have an important antioxidant action, meaning they protect the oil from the natural oxidizing process that leads to it becoming rancid. However, several studies have also highlighted a number of health properties:
Inhibiting platelet aggregation;
Involvement in the synthesis of thromboxane in human cells;
Inhibiting the oxidation of phospholipids and cholesterol;
Inducing apoptosis and cell differentiation in tumour cells.
This shows that, aside from protecting oil from going rancid and therefore making it last longer, these components are important in preventing cardiovascular diseases and may play an important role in preventing certain types of tumour.
Even the sensory properties of extra virgin olive oil are closely related to phenolic compounds, which are responsible for its bitterness and spiciness. In this context, currently, precise information is also available regarding the relationship between molecular structure and taste.
Thus, natural antioxidants are what give oil its bitterness and spiciness but they also have beneficial health properties, which means that spicy and bitter oils "are good for your health".
Virgin olive oil's sensory and health properties are highly influenced by the farming and technological production conditions, which need to be managed properly so as to obtain high quality oil.
Applied analytical methodology
Assessment of total polyphenols. The total polyphenol concentration in the oil has been expressed in mg/kg of hydroxytyrosol, and has been assessed with the colorimetric method using the Folin-Ciocalteau reagent as described by Montedoro et al. 1992.
HPLC assessment of the α-tocopherol. The α-tocopherol concentration has been expressed in mg/kg of α-tocopherol, as described by Psomiadou and Tsimidou, 1998, applying the following modifications: a column was used in normal phase, Waters μPorasil 300 mm x 3.9 mm (Milford, MA, USA) with a particle diameter of 10 μm. The solvents used for the elution consisted of a mixture of n-hexane with 0.5 % isopropyl alcohol (solvent A) and n-hexane with 10& isopropyl alcohol (solvent B). The solvent flow in the column was 2 mL/min. The solvent gradient during the test was the following: 100 % A / 0 % B for 4 minutes, 60 % A / 40 % B in 14 minutes, 40 % A / 60 % B in 4 minutes., 100 % A / 0 % B in 3 minutes and this last gradient was maintained for 5 minutes; for a total duration of analysis of 30 minutes.
Oils have been divided into three categories in relation to their natural antioxidant content (sum of the total polyphenols and the α-tocopherol). Since as time goes on there can be a loss of natural antioxidants, each category has been assigned a tolerance value.
Class 1: Natural antioxidant content less than 300 mg/kg.
Class 2: Natural antioxidant content between 300 and 500 mg/kg.
Class 3: Natural antioxidant content greater than 500 mg/kg.
Montedoro GF., Servili M.. Baldioli M., Miniati E. Simple and hydrolyzable compounds in virgin olive oil. 1. Their extraction, separation and quantitative and semiquantitative evaluation by HPLC. J Agric. Food Chem. 40 (1992) 1571-1576.
Psomiadou E., and Tsimidou M. Simultaneous HPLC Determination of tocopherols, carotenoids, and chlorophylls for monitoring their effect on virgin olive oil oxidation. J. Agric. Food Chem. 1998, 46, 5132-5138.


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For thousands of customers of Subway restaurants around the US over the past few years, paying for their $5 footlong sub was a ticket to having their credit card data stolen. In a scheme dating back at least to 2008, a band of Romanian hackers is alleged to have stolen payment card data from the point-of-sale (POS) systems of hundreds of small businesses, including more than 150 Subway restaurant franchises and at least 50 other small retailers. And those retailers made it possible by practically leaving their cash drawers open to the Internet, letting the hackers ring up over $3 million in fraudulent charges.
In an indictment unsealed in the US District Court of New Hampshire on December 8, the hackers are alleged to have gathered the credit and debit card data from over 80,000 victims.
"This is the crime of the future," said Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications at McAfee Labs in an interview with Ars. Instead of coming in with guns and robbing the till, he said, criminals can target small businesses, "root them from across the planet, and steal digitally."
The tools used in the crime are widely available on the Internet for anyone willing to take the risks, and small businesses' generally poor security practices and reliance on common, inexpensive software packages to run their operations makes them easy pickings for large-scale scams like this one, Marcus said.
While the scale of this particular ring may be significant, the methods used by the attackers were hardly sophisticated. According to the indictment, the systems attacked were discovered through a targeted port scan of blocks of IP addresses to detect systems with a specific type of remote desktop access software running on them. The software provided a ready-made back door for the hackers to gain entry to the POS systems. The PCI Security Standards Council, which governs credit card and debit card payment systems security, requires two-factor authentication for remote access to POS systems—something the applications used by these retailers clearly didn't have.
"With PCI compliance, those apps shouldn't be on those systems," said Konrad Fellmann, audit and compliance manager for SecureState, an IT security firm with a practice in retail security auditing, in an interview with Ars. But small retailers who don't store credit card data are not required to have the same level of auditing as larger companies, Fellmann said.
In the case of Subway restaurants, those requirements were provided to franchisees. But according to Evan Schuman, editor of retail technology trade site StorefrontBacktalk, some of the franchisees "directly and blatantly disregarded" Subway's security and POS configuration standards. "It's not like they had to install something and they didn't," Schuman told Ars. "They did it proactively," he said, downloading low-cost remote desktop software from the Internet and refusing to use point-to-point encryption as Subway dictated.
The Justice Department alleges that the hackers gained access to the remote desktop software by guessing or "cracking" the passwords they were configured with. Fellmann isn't surprised, based on his experience with retailers. Weak passwords, such as "password," are one of the most common things he discovers during POS penetration testing, he said. "Some people, you tell them what's required, and they'd rather not do it. They had the tools, and could have easily blocked [the attack]. If they were using a validated POS application, the vendor should provide an implementation plan, which would have included making sure you have a firewall in place. " But, he said, "these people weren't thinking about point of sale security—they were just thinking about making a sandwich."
Skimming the till
Once they were in, the hackers then deployed a collection of hacking tools to the POS systems, including logging software that recorded all the input into the systems—including credit card scans. They also installed a trojan, xp.exe, onto the systems to provide a back door to reconnect to the systems to allow the installation of additional malware, and prevent any security software updates.
Collected data from the loggers was posted by the malware to FTP "dump" sites on a number of Web servers in the US created with domains they registered through GoDaddy.com using stolen credit card data. In addition to using the stolen data to register their own domains and pay for hosting service, the hackers periodically rounded up the dumped transaction data and moved it to sendspace.com, a file transfer site. Richard James of sendspace.com says that his company cooperated with the FBI in the investigation of the hack. " Sendspace [is] a file hosting and transfer site used by millions every single day," he said in an email to Ars Technica,"and as such can indeed be used for activities which are against our TOS and that we do not condone."
Some of the data was used to print counterfeit credit cards using blank plastic cards and embossing machines. One of the alleged hackers, Cezar Iulian Butu, was generating counterfeit cards with an embossing machine out of a house in Belgium in October of 2010, and working with a group, used the cards "among other uses [to] place bets at local French 'tobacco' shops," the Justice Department said in its filing. The rest of the stolen data was sold in blocks to other criminals from the Sendspace server.
According to a report by Schuman, Subway's corporate IT and a credit card company discovered the data breach "almost simultaneously." Subway Corporate Press Relations Manager Kevin Kane told Ars that "the tech guys who dealt with this moved and put steps in place [to block the theft of data] as soon as they discovered it." He said the company wouldn't discuss the measures taken, as "we don't want to give away the blueprint" to other potential attackers. And Kane added that Subway had been asked by the Justice Department not to comment on other details of the case, as it is part of an ongoing investigation.
But it wouldn't have taken cyber-security genius to figure out something was amiss. The dump site domains registered by the hackers included "tushtime.info" and "justfuckit.info" —which, if any sort of traffic logging was done on POS systems, would have certainly aroused the attention of a system administrator.
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By Ken Knutson
Merchants content to comply with the mask mandate
Last updated 9/1/2021 at 2:40pm | View PDF
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Many merchants in town have posted signs about the return of the mask mandate and, if applicable, temperature checks. (Jim Slonoff photo)
In the wake of Gov. JB Pritzker's indoor mask mandate that took effect Monday to address rising COVID-19 cases, Hinsdale businesses say the impact has been minimal.
Ryan Moore, manager of Fuller House, said the restaurant had one of its busiest lunch crowds in recent weeks on Tuesday.
"If the reopen, shutdown, reopen, showed us anything, it's that the people of Hinsdale are more than willing to come out and enjoy themselves still," Moore said.
Having ample outdoor dining space where masks are optional is an attractive feature, he suggested, but staff are required to wear masks at all times.
"It's something easy, super simple to get done, so why not do it?" Moore said of the rule. "We're making sure that we're doing things the right way every time."
He said the eatery is much better equipped than at the start of the pandemic to facilitate takeout service as uncertainty looms heading into the colder months.
"We had to set up our store in a different way to make sure that our takeout was functioning properly," he said.
At My Sister Kate, owner Rachael Pratt said being a destination for children means staff take the mandate seriously.
"We've got a lot of little customers that come in here and can't be vaccinated," she said.
The shop is one of many that have posted front door notices alerting patrons to the mask requirement.
"We gently remind those who don't wear masks," Pratt said. "We have them ready for people when they come in.
"I haven't heard customers complain," she added.
And she's not complaining about students returning to in-person school.
"Pajama sales are down and school clothes are up," Pratt remarked with a smile
At Burhop's Seafood, customers are greeted with a printed request to wear masks that reads, "We are a small space, and vaccinated people are getting sick" along with a plea.
"Please don't yell at our staff, this was a management decision based on medical facts."
A couple doors down, Caffray Jewelers asks visitors to remove facial coverings when entering so the store's security camera can capture their faces.
Alixandra Collections store manager Karen Hickey said she's expecting the head office to issue the shop a "Please wear a mask" sign to affix to the front window. Hickey said she was disappointed at news of the mask mandate but hasn't sensed a drop in traffic.
"It's hard for me tell if people are staying home because of it. I would say no, probably not," she said.
Angela Lavelli, owner of Café La Fortuna, said her biggest challenge has been obtaining disposable masks for customers who had gotten out of the habit of carrying one.
"They are sold out, everywhere - again," Lavelli said.
For those who don't want to wear a mask, their orders are taken and delivered outside, she said. Lavelli also has noticed an increase in workers resuming their train commutes to Chicago offices.
"I see more people walking to the train, so there is more traffic in the morning," she said.
Surviving the shutdown was a perspective adjuster, Lavelli indicated.
"It always could be worse."
Ken Knutson is associate editor of The Hinsdalean
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In addition to issuing a mask mandate Aug. 26, Gov. JB Pritzker announced that educators, higher education students and health care works will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
"Effective Sept. 5, individuals working in these settings who are unable or unwilling to receive their first dose of vaccine will be required to get tested for COVID-19 at least once a week, and IDPH and (the Illinois State Board of Education) may require more frequent testing in certain situations, like in an outbreak," he said.
In Hinsdale High School District 86, 86 percent of staff had received the vaccine as of Aug. 27, according to a district email.
The district also will gather the vaccination status of subs, outside coaches and activity sponsors, student teachers and contract employees, Cheryl Moore, assistant superintendent of human resources, said at the Aug. 26 D86 board meeting.
"We are on top of making sure we know the status of all the adults and will be implementing the procedures as required," she said.
Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 has been collecting vaccination cards and offering surveillance testing to all staff members since the start of the school year, communications director Lamie Lavigueur told The Hinsdalean last week.
"As a result of today's mandate, we'll focus on ensuring that every staff member has either complied with the Sept. 5 vaccination date or signed up for weekly testing," the district stated in a message to staff and families.
Amita Health announced Aug. 24, two days before Pritzker issued the mandate, that all associates must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 12.
"The health and safety of all is our first and foremost priority and our medical experts agree — vaccination is our best way out of this pandemic," said Keith Parrott, president and CEO of Amita Health. "These vaccines have proven to be very effective in lessening illness in breakthrough cases. Only by vaccinating will we stop this virus from circulating and mutating."
Accommodations will be made for employees who can't receive a vaccine for health or religious reasons, the release stated.
— by Pamela Lannom, with a contribution from Jerry Nowicki of Capitol News Illinois


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Le Type 055 est une classe de destroyer lance-missiles de la marine chinoise.
Son coût unitaire officiel est 6 milliards de yuan (775 millions d'euros).

Historique

Cette classe de navires, la plus puissante des destroyers chinois, est en cours de développement depuis le .En 2013, une reconstruction de la superstructure grandeur nature apparaît à Wuhan. Cette plateforme a permis de tester la compatibilité électromagnétique des différents radars et systèmes de brouillage du navire.

Le début de la construction du premier destroyer commence en 2015 à Jiangnan Shipyard. Il est mis à l'eau le  et participe au défilé naval du  anniversaire de la marine chinoise le .

Son numéro d'identification est 101 南昌  Nanchang  en hommage au premier destroyer chinois  (ex-classe Gnevny).

D'un déplacement a pleine charge estimé à , il est considéré par certains comme un croiseur. Le Type 055 aura probablement pour rôle d'être le principal nœud de communication des navires du groupe aéronaval chinois.

Armement
Le Type 055 est doté de 112 cellules de lancement vertical chinois (64 à l'avant, 48 à l'arrière). Ces cellules de 0,85 m x 0,85 m x 9 m (aussi présent sur le Type 052D) offrent un plus grand volume que le Mark 41 VLS américain. Ils sont capables de lancements chaud (le missile allume son réacteur dans le silo) et froid (le missile est projeté hors du silo avant d'allumer son réacteur).

Missiles
Antiaérien de longue portée
Ce missile à lancement froid équipe les destroyers des types 052C, 052D et 055. Il a une masse de 1300 kg, une vitesse maximale supérieure à mach 4 et une portée de 200 km.
 Antiaérien de moyenne portée HHQ-16
Équipant les frégates Type 054A, ce missile à lancement chaud d'une portée de 40-70 km (selon les versions) est capable d'intercepter les missiles volant à basse altitude.
 Antinavire
D'une conception similaire au 3M-54E russe, le YJ-18A vole d'abord à basse altitude à une vitesse subsonique.
À 40 km de sa cible, le missile devient supersonique et accélère jusqu'à mach 2,8. Sa portée est de 540 km (290 nmi).
 De croisière CJ-10
Subsonique, ayant une portée de 1 500 km, ce missile de croisière aurait été aperçu sur le navire de test d'armements   en 2012. Malgré le fait que peu de détails sont disponibles sur la version navale du CJ-10, la plupart des sources s'accordent sur le fait que le missile a été intégré au Type 052D et au type 055.

Lutte anti-sous-marine

Le Type 055 est équipé d'un sonar de coque et d'un sonar basse fréquence remorqué a profondeur variable.
 2 hangars peuvent accueillir 2 hélicoptères Z-9C ou Ka-28

Le Harbin Z-9C est la version anti-sous-marine du Z-9, version licencié du Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin obtenu en 1981.Le Kamov Ka-28 est la version d'export du Ka-27PL Russe acheté en 17 exemplaires depuis 1998.
Le Harbin , apparut pour la première fois en 2013, équipera les Type 055 dès qu'une version navalisée sera developpée.

 La torpille anti-sous-marine légère (324 mm) a une portée de 14 km et une vitesse de 45 nœuds. Elle peut être :
Tiré à partir des 6 tubes lance-torpilles, largué par les hélicoptères Z-9C et Ka-28 ou aéro propulsé par le missile à lancement vertical CY-5 d'une portée de 30 km.

Défense rapprochée
 L'artillerie principale du navire est la version originale du  de 130 mm (20 coups par minute). Le canon était initialement prévu pour le Type 055 mais le développement a été accéléré pour équiper le Type 052D (la tourelle a été modifié).
 Un Type 1130 (H/PJ-11) est situé sur une plateforme surélevé à l'avant. Il s'agit d'un système d'arme rapproché (CIWS) Gatling 30 mm a 11 canons (11 000 coup par minute). Guidé par son propre radar et système optronique, le Type 1130 est entièrement indépendant.
 Un système lance-missiles HQ-10 (24 missiles) est situé au dessus du hangar à l'arrière. Le missile HQ-10 a un système de guidage par imagerie IR et une portée de 9 km.

Électronique

 Les 4 grandes faces planes du radar AESA multi-fonctions  assurent une couverture 360° et une portée de détection supérieure au précédent . Le radar fonctionne en bande S et sa portée est estimé à 400-500 km.
 4 faces planes AESA d'un nouveau radar de précision (en bande X) sont situés sur chaque côté du mât intégré. C'est le principal radar de conduite de tir du navire.
 De multiples brouilleurs, radars passifs et 4 lance-leurres Type 726-4 (24 par lanceur) couvrent les flancs du bâtiment.

Liste des navires

Notes et références

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Vincent Bollore, Chairman of media group Vivendi, reacts during the company's shareholders meeting in Paris, France, April 21, 2016.
Vivendi said on March 29 that it was prepared to withdraw its proposal to oust five Elliott-appointed board members at Telecom Italia, Reuters reported.
Telecom Italia shareholders met on March 29 to vote on the company's annual report as well as the Vivendi proposal. A Vivendi representative told the shareholder meeting that the French group was ready to abandon its request if other shareholders agreed.
Vivendi, controlled by French businessman Vincent Bolloré, and Paul Singer's Elliott Advisors have been feuding for control of Telecom Italia after the U.S. activist fund was able to install 10 directors last May on the board of the Italian former monopoly, outnumbering Vivendi, which has five representatives, and is the group's largest shareholder with a 23.9 percent stake. Elliott has a 9.55 percent stake, according to Refinitiv data.
State-owned investor Cassa Depositi e Prestiti owns 9.83 percent, Refinitiv data show.
Telecom Italia shares were up around 3 percent at 0.557 euros by 1429 GMT on March 29. The stock has lost nearly 30 percent of its market value in the last 12 months.


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New book revives inspirational quotes of Lady Vols' Pat Summitt
Erica Breunlin
With motivational quotes penned in Pat Summitt's own handwriting, a newly released book immortalizes the words of a basketball coach whose legacy has prevailed after her 38 seasons courtside with the Tennessee Lady Vols.
"Quotes from the Summitt" compiles messages and never-before-seen photos of the late Summitt in 128 pages, according to Terri Holder, owner of Maryville-based Lady Vols spirit store Orange Mountain Designs.
The hard-copy book, which has sold more than 400 copies through online pre-orders made available Tuesday, will inspire fans with Summitt's teachings and "continue to promote excellence," said Holder, a personal friend to Summitt.
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Quotes included in it were used by the women's basketball coach "to help motivate and inspire the young women who played for her," Holder said.
Summitt, who won 1,098 games and eight national championships, died June 29, 2016 after a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
She was 64.
Holder described Summitt as "our hero," choking up at the memory of her friend and idol whose words have colored her own life.
Among the key takeaways that have guided Holder is Summitt's insistence on taking "full responsibility" – one token of wisdom from the leadership figure's "definite dozen."
More:Hazel Head, mother of former Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt, has died
The set of rules, commemorating Summitt at multiple venues across Knoxville, largely defined her life, with moral tenets like "respect yourself and others" and "develop and demonstrate loyalty."
Holder raises Summitt up as a key influencer for so many women who played on the court under her coaching.
More:UT Lady Vols: One of Pat Summitt's favorite sayings is suitable for the occasion
In addition to graduating 100 percent of her players who completed their eligibility at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Summitt contributed a lot toward setting the standards behind women's basketball today, Holder said.
Commitment to the best
Holder first met Summitt in the 1980s as a die-hard women's sports fan who played basketball, herself, in high school.
She and friends started talking to Summitt after a game.
The coach always talked to everyone, Holder said, and made everyone feel that they were the No. 1 fan there.
More:'Pat: A Legacy of Love' film about Pat Summitt will be shown at Bijou orange carpet event
Holder's passion for the Lady Vols never waned – she was in the crowd for six of the eight national championships that Summitt won – and it still hasn't.
Her merchandise store began in 2008 as an independent fixture of Lady Vols games with her traveling to games to set up and sell spirit gear to fans. From there, Holder opened a kiosk at West Town Mall in 2010 where she stayed for four years before opening her 3,000-square-foot store at Foothills Mall in Maryville.
She still travels to games with plenty of Lady Vols merchandise in hand to sell to fans.
While Orange Mountain Designs is handling the distribution of "Quotes from the Summitt," The Pat Summitt Leadership Group took charge in creating and publishing it.
The group, established in 2017 by Summitt's son Tyler, aims to preserve and spread her legacy and strength in leadership, according to a media release.
The book is only one part of the group's mission to ensure Summitt is not forgotten.
More:'We back Pat' week, open chair honor Summitt's memory
Zeroing in on girls and women, the group "uses the wisdom and teachings of the legendary coach to promote leadership excellence through education and inspiration," the release states.
On the ground, the group's efforts include facilitating seminars, providing speakers and offering an online leadership program, according to the release.
Summitt's son continues to endorse the group, Holder said, but his main focus today hovers over the Pat Summitt Foundation, which he started with his mother in 2011 to help fund research for treatment and a cure of Alzheimer's disease as well as support patients and caregivers and educate communities.
More:A way to 'back Pat': Summitt Foundation needs help to make license plate goal
Holder is a close partner of Tyler's in sharing Summitt's legacy as far and wide as they can and continuing to amplify the volume on her lessons, which she offered to others constantly.
With Summitt, "it was always a teaching moment," Holder said.
She's now pouring the same kind of work ethic Summitt instilled in her into the distribution of "Quotes from the Summitt."
The coach, Holder said, always made people want to be the best and do their best.
"Quotes from the Summitt," sold online and at Orange Mountain Designs, costs $18.95.


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There are 90 levels all ascending up the island towards the big golden parrot.
Thank you - it was me being stupid! There was one level I hadn't noticed.
Well, I can't find the next level. Do you have to get a certain score? Or am I just visually missing it?
To answer my own question, YES, you have to have a certain score. I went back, played 64 again, got a better score, and 66 dropped out of the sky!
I got gold on level 62 and no other levels have showed up, can anyone help me answer why no new levels are there or what I need to do since I already got gold on that level.


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Q: Javascript encodeURIComponent() not encoding spaces I have a form with a text input with an id txtPlace that users will be entering input into that will be passed to the server as a url query. I'm trying to use encodeURIComponent(), but it is not encoding spaces. Here's my simplified code

  <input type="text" id="txtPlace" size="55" placeholder="Enter place to search"/>
  Search

Here is my javascript

If a user types ACME Co.,New York, NY, the generated url is

http://example.com?place=ACME Co.%2CNew York%2C NY

See the spaces are unencoded? I even tried to add place = place.replace(/\s/g, '+') but that doesn't seem to work after encoding. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your assistance.
Update:
Blame Firefox! Found out that the spaces were being properly encoded but Firefox is not displaying spaces as encoded even though they are. Tested in Internet Explorer 10 and Google Chrome and they both display spaces in their encoded format. Thanks Adam for the fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/VYDcv/

A: This is a simple solution for me:

A: I'm not sure what you're seeing, but encodeURIComponent does escape space characters.
See this fiddle, based on your code: http://jsfiddle.net/VYDcv/
If you type "Hello world", it will alert you with the space replaced by a %20.
Alert results: http://example.com?place=Hello%20World
When you set your browser's document.location.href, it may be changing the %20 back to a space in the address bar, but it IS being escaped by the javascript.

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Now that President Barack Obama has ended the military surge in Afghanistan, the analysts are taking a hard look at what was accomplished since Obama made his surprising move in 2009 when he decided to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, very little – if anything – has improved in Afghanistan. More than a waste of our nation's time and money, it has been a waste of more Americans' lives.
Additionally, what was given as a reason for sending tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan in February of 2009 has fallen by the wayside as there are current discussions on the effect of the United States' involvement in the Taliban-laden and troubled country.
According to reports, various Taliban and related attacks against NATO powers were approximately 2,700 in August of 2009 when Obama made his contrary-to-campaign promised-move to step up the nation's military assistance in Afghanistan. Three years later, in August of 2012, there were more attacks – nearly 3,000.
The question is obviously, why and how did President Obama's method of dealing with the Taliban and related-attackers fail? There can be little argument that there was a lack of progress in curbing Taliban and related-attacks of any measurable amount. While military officials can claim that Afghanistan has been – and is still being – taught to deal with the Taliban, there is no proof of the onslaught of the Taliban in Afghanistan being curbed. Nor is there solid proof that the Afghanistan people are defending themselves appropriately.
At first glance, criticism of the non-results of the Afghanistan surge is a difficult call for any political position to cast upon President Obama because, as one will remember, both sides of the political aisle believed that further involvement in Afghanistan was a good idea at the beginning of Obama's presidential term when he ordered additional troops overseas.
However, the fact that the Afghan people have now turned against the Americans whose presence was designed to help the Afghanistan government and its people could be calculated as a criticism of President Obama and his chosen-military leadership due to a military apparently-poorly managed and operated due to its lack of success in reaching its goal.
The ultimate decision to send more troops to Afghanistan nearly four years ago was the president's, and data dictates that it did not turn out beneficial. Therefore, the Afghan surge is definitely a negative mark against Obama's presidency.
The question should be asked as to whether the timing of his ending the Afghan surge was a political move or a military move in the best interest of Afghanistan and the terrorism-concerns throughout the globe. Any sudden decisions that Obama makes in these months leading to his re-election can safely be assumed to be a political move for re-election. Something as serious as foreign affairs and the safety of our men and women in uniform should obviously not be played in the elective process.


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Recently Mr O and I were fortunate enough to attend the Secret Cinema presentation of Baz Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet. For those who aren't aware of Secret Cinema, it's an immersive experience that tries to give you the feeling of being within the film. An environment that to some extent personifies the film is created, scenes are acted out before and alongside the film being shown and you can interact with the characters.


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A Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial Evaluating Concentrated Phytochemical-Rich Nutritional Capsule in Addition to a Probiotic Capsule on Clinical Outcomes among Individuals with COVID-19—The UK Phyto-V Study
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Thomas, Robert
Williams, Madeleine
Aldous, Jeffrey
Yanagisawa, Yuuki
Kumar, Rajeev
Forsyth, Rachel
Chater, Angel
Thomas, R., Williams, M., Aldous, J., Yanagisawa, Y., Kumar, R., Forsyth, R., & Chater, A. (2022). A Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial Evaluating Concentrated Phytochemical-Rich Nutritional Capsule in Addition to a Probiotic Capsule on Clinical Outcomes among Individuals with COVID-19—The UK Phyto-V Study. COVID, 2 (4), 433-449. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid2040031
<jats:p>Gut microflora dysbiosis affects the majority of individuals after COVID-19, contributing to both gastro-intestinal (GI) and non-GI symptoms. Natural phytochemicals have reported anti-viral properties and favourable effects on inflammatory and oxidative pathways, both important for tissue damage post-viral pneumonia. This study involved 147 participants with symptomatic COVID-19, randomised to receive a placebo (P) or a phytochemical-rich concentrated food capsule (PC) in addition to a pre/probiotic lactobacillus capsule. Participants taking the PC had an almost two-fold reduction in mean fatigue scores compared to P [p = 0.02], a three-fold reduction in cough score and more than a double improvement in overall well-being scores [p = 0.02]. Two (1.5%) participants reported mild, increased bloating which they felt was attributable to the capsules, although GI symptoms improved in 25 of 31 participants (82%) who reported them at baseline. Sedentary, older, previously hospitalised men with GI symptoms had a statistically significantly improvement among those given the probiotic. Although some participants with early disease would have improved spontaneously, such a rapid improvement observed in the majority of participants, who had been suffering for an average of 108 days, was clinically relevant and welcomed, especially among those more likely to have pre-existing gut dysbiosis. We are now evaluating whether this blend could also enhance antibody titres post-COVID-19 vaccination.</jats:p>
probiotic, COVID-19, gut-health, long-COVID-19
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/covid2040031


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Ray Suarez examines U.S. presidents' past efforts at making a case for war with five historians.
We get that longer view now from NewsHour regulars, presidential historian Michael Beschloss, journalist and author Haynes Johnson, and Richard Norton Smith, director of the Dole Institute at the University of Kansas. Joining them tonight are Joyce Appleby, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, and Bernice Johnson Reagon, historian and the Cosby chair professor at Spelman College. She's professor emeritus in history at American University and is the former curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Well, over the last 200 years, American troops have gone a lot of places. But have we been here before where the Congress and the President are not quite in agreement about how the case is made for war? Professor Bernice Johnson Reagon.
I was thinking today about the whole issue of PR and marketing. And the notion that Presidents have taken on the task of trying to make a culture so that people in the country will feel they understand why a military action is necessary. And in the case of World War I we got the first national base strategically organized campaign throughout the country, speeches news papers, I think W.B. Dubois was the editor of The Crisis, the largest issue of the crisis where he had an editorial supportive of going into the war.
The government hired a pr agency.
Yes, so that we have seen this before. Maybe not the exact position, most Presidents have tried to suggest that the country is defending something on the defense. If you take the idea around the Korean conflict, which was not even called a war, you have the Domino Theory and the enemy, arch enemies are very important in these campaigns of communism. There is also a repeat of having a Satan, a personal force or person who is the personification of evil over against us and we, the good people but this idea that this thing is so bad we must do unto others before they do unto us is not usually the way the campaign goes.
Does the President have to hit the ground for war, make the case?
Professor Appleby I misstated your affiliation, of course, you are from U C LA and not Berkeley. That aside, give us your view of how a President has had to in the past get a country ready for war.
Well, I would like to say first of all that I think the country has observed the Constitution and Congress has been the department, the branch of government that has declared war up to 1941. So what we're talking about is an anomalous period of the Cold War in which we are quasi wars and proxy wars and covert operations. I think it's important to reassert that the foreign policy traditions of the United States have been to be guided by the Constitution. Preparing the country for war of course is something that a President in directing a foreign policy will do. But there is a very powerful tradition that we leave it to Congress to declare war. Indeed, it's an awesome responsibility.
I think they are very good reasons why the founding fathers made it that way. There was an importance of balancing the power of commander of chief, the power of the commander of chief is with unified direction and balanced with Congress's approval where Congress would represent the constituents who were going to have to bear the brunt of war and would need to, there would need to be an airing of all of the reasons behind the war. I think that to condition this anomalous situation of the Cold War is in fact to amend our Constitution with, through collective for get fullness so this I think is the issue we need to be focusing on today because it's going to last a lot longer than this particular crisis, whether or not we change our Constitutional balance of powers between Congress representing the people and the President.
That was an effort. Joyce is requirement the War Powers Act 1973 was an effort by Congress to take the power back. They had seen all these situations since world war ii in which Presidents had used this power in Korea, Truman went to war without asking a declaration from Congress, Kennedy and Johnson did the same thing in the 60s, it was by 1973 that Congress rolled to the plate and said, we've got to do something to reassert ourselves but what it did not do was say Presidents under the Constitution when they want to send armed forces into hostilities should actually do a war declaration. What they said was a President should report to us, he has about 60 days. If we don't like it we can order him to pull the troops out and every President from Nixon on has said that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional anyway.
So you have this situation with George W. Bush and most recent Presidents where Presidents now they should consult Congress, and at the same time they are queasy about doing it because they think they will get restricted. Two cases that led to this; Franklin Roosevelt in the late 1930 wanted to get America into the war to help save Britain and help the democracies, Congress was very isolationist even went to the point of almost passing an amendment requiring a national plebiscite to go to war to tie the President's hand.
Kennedy in 1962 he has been praised lately for having produced evidence that made the world see why we had to go into the Cuban Missile Crisis has firmly as we did, but Kennedy dealt with the missile crisis for a week in secret. Did not say a word to Congress until an hour before he gave a television speech announcing what he was going to do; called in the leaders of Congress into the cabinet room. Said what he was going to do, one of the leaders say are we being informed or consulted? Kennedy said informed I guess. And there was almost a rebellion they were furious and almost everything became unstuck before it began.
Richard Norton Smith; it fair to say as a Congress and a President talk about war, whether it's Polk in Mexico or Jefferson in the Barbary pirates and on and on, that the Congress is meant to represent the people in that, in that debate over whether or not we go to war or is the people sort of separate constituency that the President can turn to instead of Congress?
Good question. Congress will tell you they represent the people. But on the other hand Presidents will tell you they are the only elected official in this country in fact who is selected by all of the people. What we are talking about is another kind of war, that long running conflict between the executive and the legislative. But if you focus on the executive for the moment, and whatever historical lessons this White House might be drawing upon as it tries to in effect improvise a strategy to bring the nation around to what really is an unprecedented situation, the whole notion of a preemptive military action is as radical a concept as what Truman called a police action, part of a larger action containing not defeating communism in Korea. And no doubt this Bush White House is looking at the example of the first Bush White House.
Remember back in 1990, following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq the first President Bush meticulously assembled coalitions. He assembled diplomatic, political coalitions and military. He went to the U.N. He got a Security Council resolution. He also went to Capitol Hill. Then as now, there was some in the White House who said, Mr. President you don't need any formal resolution from Congress authorizing this action. And fortunately cooler if not more Constitutionally pragmatic heeds prevailed, and there was a debate in both houses; there was a quasi declaration of war and you cannot overestimate the importance of having Congress formally on board — not only because it adds to the moral force of the nation united at the outset of a conflict, but also because quite frankly down the road, if things go bad you have got their signature on the dotted line.
That happened after the gulf of Tonkin Resolution, didn't it? A lot of people regretted their vote.
I was looking that up and wrote, pulled out the document today. It was 500 words long that was 1964 August. A P.T. Boat attacked supposedly the U.S. Maddox on patrol in the waters off North Vietnam and the President then two days later there was another attack on the turner joy. Another American ship and from that they got a resolution from Congress and the leaders of Congress passed in support an absolute blank check on Vietnam. Bill Fulbright who was about to do a biography on at that time said it was the most humiliating moment in my life. It led him much later to the dissent against the Vietnam war because he thought he had been deceived. Because they were intelligence ships, it was an attack at all.
Johnson found out there wasn't really an attack about a month later yet he persisted in using the resolution as the basis of the war. One quick point: Presidents do this. 1898 McKinley saint the Maine to Havana Harbor, exploded — he said we have to go to war with lane. It was found out later that the explosion was actually a boiler explosion. That was the basis for the war. During the Cuban Missile Crisis Robert Kennedy in the councils said perhaps we should have some kind after provocation, another Maine to make us look as if we're more on the right side.
Joyce Appleby you were trying to get in. Professor, go ahead.
I think it's important to realize that almost everybody in government was born after 1941 when the last time a President went to Congress and asked for a declaration of war. Everybody in, in the President was born after that. Indeed almost everybody in the nation so we are allowing the long period of the Cold War to determine a Constitutional question. It seems to me that the Constitution is not a document that can be selectively observed. It's very unambiguous about giving Congress the power to declare war. And how different our conversation these past six months would have been if the President had been fully aware that he had to ask Congress for a declaration of war. It would have brought members of Congress into the debate so we would have got away from speculations and leaks and rumors and the like of I think that it would have been so educational for American citizens and citizens around the world to learn how a democratic nation, a constitutional republic prepares itself for making the awesome choice of declaring war on another country.
Professor Bernice Johnson Reagon do you agree we are on the first of amending the Constitution without debating and amending it.
I think in practice, we — the evidence shows that we are not following the Constitution. Even when there are Congressional sessions, there is such an orchestration of the discussions and the issues that you don't get a sense that you are listening to people who feel that it is their duty to in fact take a stand based on the data they have available. And I think that there is a very, very important acknowledgement to make that in fact the practice that we've been going through for over 40 years now is not one that is representative of the examples we've had of earlier periods. And I don't know if we've got a Congress in, that is willing to stand up to it.
I found it very interesting that the President seemed initially just to want to gets Saddam Hussein out and it was an accumulation of voices through the media that seemed to with his colleagues, our other nation states to stay you won't be able to do this if you don't follow a certain kind of process. Tony Blair goes on TV and said we believe this is a crisis and the U.N. is the place. That seemed to shift President Bush's strategy of how he was going to prepare the nation for the stand he feels we need to consider taking.
Richard Norton Smith, final quick comment.
Well, I think Professor Reagon just made my point. The fact is we're having a discussion. It isn't a formal parliamentary debate in the halls of Congress. That is coming you can be sure. One of the frustrating things I think is a lot of people would like to have this debate but we are two months away from the off term election, right now many people who would really in their hearts like to debate this and perhaps postpone it, perhaps prevent it, frankly they don't want to spend the next two months talking about Iraq. They would much rather be talking about prescription drugs and corporate corruption.
Richard Norton Smith, guests, thank you all.


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Apple devs with an iPad, or iPhone and iPod touch were able to see just what changes iOS 7.1 Beta 5 update brings, and you can see the highlights of those in the three videos we have for you below. We know we have made a point of highlighting the iPad with this latest version of iOS 7.1, this is because many of our readers who have an iPad Air have been asking just what changes they can expect.
While the three videos offers an insight into the iOS 7.1 Beta 5 changes for the iPhone, all of these changes also apply to the iPad Air, as well as the iPad mini and other iPad models.
These videos do not offer you the full iOS 7.1 Beta 5 patch notes, and so we'd like to point you in the direction of BGR, who has the entire change log.
Looking over these three videos they basically cover many of the same new iOS 7.1 Beta 5 features, although they do highlight one or two different features. All of them do point out one of the biggest changes, and that is to the shift key, as the previous update did not go down well with developers, and so the background of the shift key is now much darker, making it easier to see.
iOS 7.1 Beta 5 also has an updated feature within iTunes Radio, as you now have the option to buy the album that you are listening to and not just the song like before.
There are also changes to the Wallpapers and Calendars, which are better explained in the videos embedded below.
Are you happy with the changes coming to iOS 7.1, or is you mind now on iOS 8 instead?


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Repair Can't Wait: The Case for Reparations
by Rachel Deitch • 29 March 2022
In February, the American Humanist Association (AHA) joined nearly 400 national, international, state, and local organizations in a letter urging leadership in the House of Representatives to bring HR 40 to a full vote on the House floor.
HR 40, also known as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, would establish an expert reparations commission tasked with studying the legacy of slavery and how failure to address its historical and ongoing harms have entrenched racial disparities in our country. The commission would also report to Congress its findings and recommendations, which may include revisions to federal laws, the scope of restitution, and ways to counteract slavery's ongoing ill-effects.
We are at a historic moment. This bill has been introduced in every Congress since 1989 and, thirty-two years later, on April 14 of last year, the House Judiciary Committee voted to move HR 40 to the House Floor for full consideration. Now, we call on leadership to take the next step as they have promised: bring it to a vote.
Can you take two minutes and ask your member of Congress to press Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer to bring the bill to a vote?
There is already precedent for the United States government providing reparations. In 1988, Ronald Reagan signed into law legislation that outlined a formal apology on behalf of the U.S. government for the forced internment of Japanese Americans and provided $20,000 to each former internee, twenty years after the last internment camp was shut down.
The United States has already provided reparations for slavery, but not in the ways you might think. Slaveowners were paid up to $300 for their loss of each enslaved person freed by Lincoln's signing of the District of Columbia Emancipation Act in 1862. While that law was fully enacted, the promise of reparations to enslaved Americans was not. The order commonly known as "40 acres and a mule," (which gives HR 40 its number) was proposed by southern Black ministers and announced by General Sherman outlined that not only would formerly enslaved Black Americans be given land, the land would be governed by its Black owners, and their rights to the land and self-government would be protected by the U.S. military until the local communities had the means to protect it themselves. This order was overturned by President Andrew Johnson later that same year and the land was returned to its original owners. Our country's failure to address the harm of slavery 140 years ago has allowed its effects to entrench themselves in our systems.
The legacy of slavery has led to inequities centuries in the making: inequities in wealth, healthcare, housing, employment, education, policing, and more. And each day that passes without national reparations, those systems become more entrenched, the harm compounds, and our country's promise remains shamefully unfulfilled.
Doing reparations right on a national scale isn't easy, and HR 40 is the next necessary step to gather the evidence required for creating an informed proposal. That's why the AHA is proud to be a longtime supporter of HR 40.
Please join us by reaching out to your Representative now to let them know that equity and justice can't be achieved without repair, and repair can't occur if our country doesn't fully reckon with the extent of the harm.
Published in the Spring 2022 Humanist
Tags: Black History Month
Rachel Deitch is the former Policy and Social Justice Director for the American Humanist Association. Prior to joining the staff at AHA, she worked in advocacy communications and national politics, and conducted research on religion and stigmas.


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Ebola epidemic 'should be a wake-up call for peace in DRC'
Over 2,230 people have been infected with Ebola and at least 1,510 have died over the past year. "We know how to address the crisis," says German church-based NGO Difaem, "but the unrest is making this impossible."
Previous Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) usually lasted just a few weeks or months. But the current epidemic in the country's northeastern North Kivu and Ituri provinces has raged on for over a year. This is mainly due to the presence of militia groups and frequent fighting in the affected region.
"In Ituri and North Kivu, you've had 20 years of simmering conflicts, violence against women and displacement. Most people have suffered a lot more as a result of the fighting and the violence rather than from the Ebola epidemic," says Gisela Schneider, director of Difaem, a German NGO which has been working with local church-based health organizations in the region for several years. "This is a highly traumatized society, where people simply have no trust in state institutions," she said in an interview with DW.
Schneider visited eastern DRC in March this year to help the clinics and hospitals with which her organization works to develop and implement hygiene measures, as well as assess what help is needed in the outreach programs, under which community health workers visit villages to raise awareness and create an understanding of the health crisis.
During her last visit, Schneider helped health centers develop strategies to implement hygiene standards
The lack of trust in both the state and any outside intervention has made the work of the health workers very difficult. There have repeatedly been reports of health workers being attacked, both by militias and by local communities. This week the World Health Organization (WHO) halted its operations in the town of Beni until the situation calms down, after one of its drivers was attacked by an angry mob. He was severely injured and his car was burnt. A Cameroonian doctor working with WHO was killed in April 2019 in Butembo.
"We must manage to bring the message across that this is not a conspiracy," Schneider said. The organizations with which she works go into the villages, teaching people how to protect themselves from the virus, for example by washing their hands regularly, seeking medical help when needed and carrying out safe burials.
So far they have not experienced any attacks. It is dangerous but, like most community workers, they have no form of security. Some of them go to the villages on foot, Schneider told DW, so as not to draw too much attention to themselves. "The key is to go in with teams that speak the local language and who have close ties to the community. These people can do this sort of work because the people know and trust them."
Read more: Ebola: 'WHO between a rock and a hard place'
A family member of an Ebola victim looks on as his relative is buried
The affected region is located near the border to Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan and DRC's neighboring countries have for the past year been on alert. In mid-June a 5-year-old boy, together with his brother and grandmother, crossed into Uganda from DRC with the virus. They were immediately admitted to an Ebola treatment unit and died a few days later.
Like DRC, Uganda has experienced and managed to control several smaller Ebola outbreaks. The Ugandan authorities were prepared for the situation, they have trained their personnel and they had already vaccinated over 4,700 health workers with a new vaccine. On June 25, the German government announced that it had sent an epidemic prevention team to Uganda. On the request of the Ugandan government, the team would, among other things, help with the transport of suspected Ebola samples from local health centers to the national laboratory.
The main concern for the Ugandan authorities is the large numbers of refugees who have been fleeing the fighting in eastern DRC over the past few months. Since the start of June, around 7,500 new arrivals have crossed to Uganda. Clashes between two ethnic groups, the Hema and the Lendu, are the main source of the problem. Many of those who fled speak of attacks on their villages, torching and looting, according to the UN. Within DRC, camps sheltering internally displaced persons have also received large numbers of new arrivals.
"This epidemic should be a wake-up call," says Schneider. "We should all do everything to achieve peace. We have the medical intervention, we have the vaccines, we know how to sensitize people... everything is in place but they can't be made use of in a conflict zone."
Read more:Conflict, superstition and inadequate funds hinder Ebola fight in DR Congo
Dealing with the basics
The lack of trust and the insecurity have had another effect on the development of the epidemic. With 1,510 deaths, the fatality rate is still at 67%, even though up to 140,000 people have been vaccinated against the virus. That is higher than the mortality rate in the 2013-2016 West African Ebola crisis at a comparative point in time. The West African crisis left over 11,000 people dead. The vaccine was developed as a response to that crisis and experts are now also discussing the use of a second vaccine.
"The reason [for the high fatality rate] is that people come to the treatment centers too late," Schneider told DW. "They're scared of revealing their identities and it is therefore difficult to trace their contacts and the people they might have infected."
The outstretched nature of the epidemic has left its mark on the already poor health system in place in the region. "When I visited some of these centers in March, people told me that they expected the outbreak to last three to four months," Schneider said. "You need an enormous amount of resources to respond to such a long crisis."
The clinics need everything, from a supply of clean and chlorinated water to wash hands, to protective gear to stop the spread of the virus. "We're talking about human capacities as well as practical items such as gloves, because it doesn't look like this epidemic will end any time soon."
Schneider plans to go back to DRC in July to assess the Ebola situation and also help the health centers to provide general medical care, which has suffered as a result of the epidemic.
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Battle against Ebola in eastern DRC impeded by mistrust
Ebola: 'WHO between a rock and a hard place'
Declaring a global health emergency could galvanize aid to fight the Ebola epidemic in the DR Congo. It could also make the job of containing the virus much more difficult. The WHO's decision proved controversial. (18.06.2019)
The Ebola virus has reached Uganda
Three cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Uganda; a boy has died. Uganda is confident it can contain the virus using an Ebola vaccine, but experts fear that there could be more undetected cases. (12.06.2019)
Conflict, superstition and inadequate funds hinder Ebola fight in DR Congo
International aid organizations are warning that the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo could worsen in the face of instability, public distrust and a critical shortfall in funds to contain the deadly virus. (17.05.2019)
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The UN's public health agency has warned that the possibility of the outbreak spreading across the region "remains very high." Health organizations have struggled to contain the outbreak in the conflict-stricken country.
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A Look at Civics Education in the United States
Skip to main content Skip to table of contents. Advertisement Hide. This service is more advanced with JavaScript available. The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education. Living reference work. A Confucian Conception of Citizenship Education.
In international law it is membership to a sovereign state a country. Each state is free to determine the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and the conditions under which that status will be withdrawn. Recognition by a state as a citizen generally carries with it recognition of civil, political , and social rights which are not afforded to non-citizens. Some countries permit their citizens to have multiple citizenships , while others insist on exclusive allegiance. A person who does not have citizenship of any state is said to be stateless , while one who lives on state borders whose territorial status is uncertain is a border-lander. A person can be recognized or granted citizenship on a number of bases.
Political socialization describes the process by which citizens crystalize political identities, values and behavior that remain relatively persistent throughout later life. This chapter provides a comprehensive discussion of the scholarly debate on political socialization, posing a number of questions that arise in the study of political socialization and the making of citizens. First, what is it about early life experiences that makes them matter for political attitudes, political engagement, and political behavior? Third, who and what influences political orientations and behavior in early life, and how are cohorts colored by the nature of time when they come of age? Fourth, how do political preferences and behavior develop after the impressionable years? The chapter further provides an outlook of the challenges and opportunities for the field of political socialization.
The Crick Committee report has recognised that,"However, if citizenship education is to be accepted as important, not only for schools but for the life of the nation.
Major Issues. Australians' lack of political knowledge has been reported regularly over the last ten years and has prompted expressions of concern from politicians, educators and other sections of the public. In particular, low levels of knowledge about, and interest in, politics amongst people aged between 15 and 35 has sparked particular concerns about the implications for the well-being of Australia's democratic political system.
Jump to navigation. C ivic knowledge and public engagement are at an all-time low. A survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only 26 percent of Americans can name all three branches of government, which was a significant decline from previous years.
Dalila P. Coelho , University of Porto, Portugal. This edition of JSSE is dedicated to global education in Europe, and discusses challenges faced by this field based on the contribution of critical, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives. The authors explore how the influence of historical legacies and systemic issues, the role and challenges of pedagogical experiences and teacher training regarding issues like colonialism, peace, human rights and sustainable development, and also alternative research methodologies in global education. Open and Permanent Call for Papers.
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