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Using Creativity to #HonorHeroes Doing Extraordinary Things During COVID-19
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In times like this, we are reminded of how community and creativity have the power to change the world.
We're (ADOBE) proud to be partnering with iconic artists and creative luminaries from around the world to honor the workers and volunteers who are making a difference during the COVID-19 crisis — the healthcare providers, first responders, delivery drivers, sanitation workers, mail carriers, supermarket staff, schoolteachers, and thousands of others — the people working tirelessly to keep us all safe.
Creativity is what connects us and enables us to bring to life the stories of the people we're all truly moved by. Telling of this is Shepard Fairey's Guts not Glory, a powerful illustration of a healthcare worker, and the first artwork in the new digital art collaboration "Honor Heroes".
"Guts not Glory is an illustration of one of the many healthcare workers whose selfless acts of compassion and service are always meaningful, but at this moment are especially heroic," said Fairey. "I'm inspired to glorify those who don't seek glory, but rather to serve humanity when it is most challenged. I want the portrait to emanate the comforting warmth and empathy healthcare workers provide in the midst of anxiety and crisis."
Artists from around the world — including Aaron Draplin, Donna Adi, Jessica Walsh and Ignasi Monreal — will also release original works over the coming weeks inspired by people making a difference during the COVID-19 crisis.
"At Adobe, we are so grateful to those who are on the frontlines every day keeping us safe. They are heroes, every single one of them. And so, we are inviting our amazing community to produce their own original creative tributes honoring their heroes," said Ann Lewnes, CMO, Adobe. "Creativity has the power to bring us all together even in the most challenging times."
Along with the $3 million commitment that Adobe has made to trusted organizations that are providing vital assistance to our communities — locally and globally — Adobe is pledging an additional $250k to Direct Relief as part of the Honor Heroes campaign. This donation is part of Adobe's overall efforts to supply necessary resources to help those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Share your own creative expression recognizing heroes in your community using the #HonorHeroes hashtag on Twitter or Instagram. To support those directly impacted by COVID-19, you can make a donation to Direct Relief.
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With all the fanfare surrounding the social and digital revolution, it's easy to forget that communities, content creation and conversation are nothing new. They've always been among the most powerful tools in the PR toolkit.
A perfect example of this is represented by the photo at left, from the collection of the Library of Congress. The picture features Lucy Branham, a leading American suffragist, who had been arrested in 1917 for demonstrating in support of women's right to vote. Here, she is, two years later, wearing prison garb and a suffragist sash as she addresses a large crowd during the "Prison Special" train tour.
According to a fascinating article by Erin Blakemore in mental_floss, "The Prison Special: One Last Push for Women's Suffrage"
"By the end of World War I, the suffrage movement was battered and bruised. There were divisive splits between militant Nineteenth Amendment supporters and those who felt women could 'earn' suffrage through milder means. Suffragists were bitterly excoriated in the media and blacked out by a coalition of press and politicians tired of the suffragists' antics. They were beaten and mocked by crowds unsympathetic to the cause. Worse still, they were imprisoned in large numbers, for reasons imaginary and unimaginable."
The suffragists' ultimate strategy was PR 101: make one last push for the right to vote by harnessing the power of personal narrative. Nearly two dozen suffragists boarded their own train at Union Station in Washington, DC, for a five-week, coast-to-coast tour of the United States. You can see their route here. Their mission? To shock their listeners by directly sharing their personal stories of the brutality they endured at the hands of prison guards (being kicked, beaten, force-fed and knocked unconscious) and thereby to recruit other women, especially those in the West, to the cause.
It worked…and changed the course of history. On June 4, 1919, the Nineteenth Amendment passed—by a vote of 56 to 25.
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TVD Previews The Washington, DC Record Fair, Sunday (10/4) at Comet Ping Pong
Today we've got five rare records DJ Neville C will be playing Sunday at The Washington, DC Record Fair:
"Although I won't be one of the main DJ's, as one of the cohosts of the DC Record Fair I can't resist DJing just a little bit next Sunday. What a better place to DJ than a room full of record/music geeks. Being a music/record geek myself, it's the perfect opportunity to show off my extremely good taste and to floss my extensive record collection.
Here are five LP's I'm gonna bring out on Sunday. Photos attached. Some have sound clips and some will have to wait until after the record fair (you gotta be there)."
Piano Piano - The Vorpal Blade (Unforgettable Music)
Tripped out Aussie post-punk from 1980. Produced and masterminded by Melbourne's Ron Rude. Wild stuff. Found this record for $3 at Second Story Dupont back when it used to carry vinyl (sniff sniff). Review here. Ron Rude's Myspace page. Check out the sound clip for "Chance Meeting" which is on "The Vorpal Blade."
The Plugz - Electrify Me (Plug Recordz)
Classic LA Latino punk band. Took me years to find this record and I finally did find it in an x-rated bookstore/stripper supply shop in Fayetteville, NC last year. Praise Jesus.
Eduardo Araujo - A Onda e Boogaloo (Odeon)
Got this one at my favorite record store in the world - Disco 7 in Sao Paulo. You can buy a reissue at Dusty Groove for $22 (OG's cost a bit more)
Here's Dusty Groove's review: Swingin Brazilian soul from Eduardo Araujo -- a late 60s groover that's steeped in the styles of Memphis and Muscle Shoals, but which also has a unique twist that's all its own! Eduardo's definitely in the "boogaloo" mode referred to in the title, as the album's a blend of the hard sock-soul styles of soul boogaloo singers from the 60s, with slight touches from the more messed-up Latin soul boogaloo singers of the same period. Lyrics are in Portuguese, but the tunes groove like universal numbers you'll instantly understand! Titles include "Longe De Voce", "Boogaloo Na Broadway", "Rua Maluca", "Melhor Que Se Dane", "A Mulher", "Baby Baby Sim Baby", and "Dancando Boogaloo"
Round House - 'Scuse Me (Harvest)
Killer German funk/psych record from 1972. This came from a defunkt DC area flea market a few years back. $2. Here's a clip (not my copy on the turntable BTW.)
Various Artists - Distral 1978 (Distral)
In South America it was common for large companies to put out their own compilations at the end of the year to send out to their clients. Distral Industrial is/was a Colombian producer of storage tanks for the oil and chemicals industries. This record is from 1978 although I own two others from Distral as well a few more from other companies. Full of crazy psychedelic cumbias, an amazing version of Beethoven's Fifth by Enrique Lynch in addition to two terrible Ray Conniff tracks. I found this one at a record show in Fort Lauderdale last year.
(Main image courtesy DCist photographer Jeff Martin from the last DC Record Fair. Thanks guys!)
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Our preview of the musical end of Friday's Story/Stereo spectrum continues today with the other half of Bluebrain, Hays Holladay:
Black Dice - Creature Comforts
The first time I heard Black Dice was as a college radio DJ at small Columbia University station room on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As a freshman I was given the unbearable 5-7 AM Saturday morning shift. I'm fairly confident that absolutely no one listened to my show...ever. So I spent my shift exploring the wealth of new music that was sent to WBAR by bands and their record labels while broadcasting it over the airwaves. That was where I first heard Black Dice's *Cone Toaster* 12". Soon after the needle hit the record, it was clear to me that this might be the worst music to ease you into the day. Incredibly brash and earsplitting at any volume. So stark and amelodic. Somehow simultaneously hipnotic and jarring. While I was listening to it (by now fully awake) I remember thinking that it sounded like music that was not made by musicians, but by their delay and distortion pedals late at night long after the band had left their practice space. There music is full of randomness which humans seem to be incapable of producing. What sort of warped minds could really discard all popular conventions to make songs devoid of a protagonist. *Cone Toaster* has absolutely no human touch. Only it is not in the way that naysayers of electronic music typically disparage the genre. These songs weren't made in a vacuum nor were they glossy and without nuance. It was completely inorganic. But as the labels of most inorganic items in the grocery store will tell you, inorganic things are highly complex.
What really sold me on Black Dice though was their next release, *Creature Comforts*. Oddly enough, when the group announced the title of the record, my brother Ryan and I we're nearing completion on an album of the same name (under an earlier band called The Epochs). As any musicians or all artists for that matter know, titles can set the stage and give context to a work. We were frustrated. But I bought *Creature Comforts* anyway just to see how they had made use of title. We both agreed: if any record should have this title, it's this one. What surprised me most about the record is how they had maintained the inhuman quality of their previous work while shifting their focus onto emulating organic sounds with man-made machines. I feel that the parenthetical title of their record should be Mechanical Animals (maybe it was the working title until Marilyn Manson used it). They created a forest of sound teeming with robotic bird calls and electronic insect noises from scratch. I saw them play this record in New York inside of a greenhouse, oddly enough, and that's precisely where this album lives.
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TVD Live Tease | Middle Distance Runner, Saturday (10/3) at Iota
Looks like we're out to foist the best weekend ever on you this week.
Hm. Now, let's see...Friday night on the earlier side, we're sending you up to Bethesda for the next Story/Stereo event. After that, join TVD over at Marx Café for 'We Fought the Big One' where yours truly guest DJ's that evening.
On Sunday, we've got this little ...er, BIG event that is the third installment of The Washington, DC Record Fair.
In the middle of that sweet sandwich we highly recommend Middle Distance Runner (with Casper Bangs!) at Iota.
From the press release: 'The Sun & Earth, the second full-length album from DC-based rockers Middle Distance Runner, will be released by Engine Room Recordings on October 20. MDR will return to the DC area for a record release party in Arlington, VA at IOTA on October 3. They then hit the road for another round of national tour dates, making stops in Athens, Chapel Hill, Memphis, Grand Rapids, Columbia, Pittsburgh and more. The tour culminates with four shows at the 2009 CMJ Marathon & Film Festival in New York City.
As part of the CMJ Festival, the band will play the Flea Marketing/Dovecote Records Day Party at Fontana's and the CMJ Cross-Pollination Showcase at Pianos on October 20. On October 21, Middle Distance Runner will return to Fontana's for Engine Room Recordings Official CMJ showcase. They will play their final CMJ concert on October 22 at Rockwood Music Hall.'
There. Weekend plans set.
Middle Distance Runner - The Fury (Mp3)


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Q: gzip assets in Sinatra app I have been reading that zipping your assets using gzip will increase the performance of a site. There seems to be many ways to do this in a Sinatra application, so i was looking to confirm the most effective and easiest way to understand.
I have come across
use Rack::Deflater

Which should be placed in my config.ru file before running the app, so in my case
require './david'
use Rack::Deflater
run Sinatra::Application

is that it? is it this simple, Just to add I know this will zip all my static assets, including my images, but these are served from a CDN so would that make a difference?
Ant help appreciated with this one
Thanks

A: It is that easy (isn't that nice:) but if you want to check, then look at the Content-Encoding response header and it should say gzip. In a webkit browser it's in the developer tools under "Network", then select the resource, like app.min.css and the "Headers" tab.
A way to test for this is given in the following blog post:
http://artsy.github.io/blog/2012/02/24/10x-rack-and-rails-output-compression-with-rack-deflater/
I modified the specs into shared examples, so I can add them in where I really want to check:
shared_examples "Compressed pages" do
  subject { last_response.headers }
  its(["Content-Encoding"]) { should be_nil }
  context "After compression" do
    before do
      get page
      @etag = last_response.headers["Etag"]
      @content_length = last_response.headers["Content-Length"]
      get page, {}, { "HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING" => "gzip" }
    end
    its(["Etag"]) { should == @etag }
    its(["Content-Length"]) { should_not == @content_length }
    its(["Content-Encoding"]) { should == "gzip"}
  end
end

My main spec uses it like this:
  describe "Public pages" do

    describe "Home page", :type => :request do
      let(:page) { "/" }
      it_behaves_like "Compressed pages"

The it_behaves_like "Compressed pages" will run that shared example and check it has the right header etc.

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Household profiles of neglected tropical disease symptoms among children: A latent class analysis of built-environment features of Tanzanian households using the Demographic and Health Survey
Francisco A Montiel Ishino1* , Claire Rowan2* , Charlotte Talham1 , Kevin Villalobos1 , Dikshit Poudel3 , Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa4 , Joel Seme Ambikile5 , Faustine Williams1
1 Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
2 Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3 Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
4 Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
5 Department of Community Health Nursing, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
* Joint first authorship.
While malaria and neglected tropical disease (NTD) morbidity and mortality rates among children <5 years old have decreased through public health efforts in the United Republic of Tanzania, associations between household environments and disease outcomes are relatively unknown.
We conducted latent class analysis (LCA) on 2015-2016 Tanzania Demographic Health Survey data from mothers with children <5 years old (N = 10 233) to identify NTD household risk profiles. The outcome of child NTD was assessed by mothers' reports of recent diarrhoea, cough, treatment for enteric parasites, and fever symptoms. Household-built environment indicators included urban/rural designation, electricity access, water source, cooking fuel, flooring, wall, and roofing materials. External environmental covariates were considered to further differentiate profiles.
Five profiles were identified in the sample: rural finished walls households (40.2%) with the lowest NTD risk; rural rudimentary households (20.9%) with intermediate-low NTD risk; finished material households (22.5%) with intermediate NTD risk; urban households (14.4%) with intermediate-high NTD risk and high likelihood of enteric parasites; rural finished roof/walls households (2.1%) with the highest overall NTD risk.
This study is among the first to use LCA to examine household environment characteristics to assess child NTD risk in Tanzania. This paper serves as a framework for community-level rapid NTD risk assessment for targeted health promotion interventions.
Over a billion people are impacted by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) globally [1]. Based on the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study, an estimated 48 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) have been lost to NTDs annually [2] and over 350 000 lives [3]. Much of the burden of NTDs falls on children. Globally, childhood NTDs have both a drastic impact on child health affecting physical and cognitive development and on the global burden of child morbidity and mortality [4]. In the United Republic of Tanzania (henceforth Tanzania), preventable and treatable diseases take the lives of 270 children <5 years of age every day [5]. Childhood mortality in Tanzania varies by geographic region, ranging from 56 per 1000 live births in the north to 88 per 1000 live births in the Lake regions, and by urban-rural divisions, from 87 per 1000 live births in urban areas to 76 per 1000 live births in rural areas [5].
Tanzania is endemic to five NTDs (i.e., onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis, and trachoma) for which preventative chemotherapy is administered [6]. Due to the Tanzanian government's efforts to take an integrated approach to controlling NTDs, coordination units across the country reached 53% geographic coverage as of 2011 [7]. Additionally, Tanzania has an extensive database and monitoring system for tracking progress towards the management and elimination of several NTDs [7]. Still, there are many structural and logistic difficulties to eliminating NTDs in Tanzania and the surrounding areas. Although mass drug administration programmes are widely seen as cost-efficient and effective methods for reducing NTD morbidity and mortality, mass drug administration programmes are often implemented by health ministries in countries with endemic NTDs with heavy reliance on schools to administer treatment to children [8]. As a result, preschool-age children and children who do not attend school tend to be overlooked, putting them at increased risk of disease.
The impact of housing construction on the risk of vector-borne diseases is well understood [9]. In Africa, increasing insecticide resistance has raised concerns about the future efficacy of bed nets [3]. Considering this, targeted, location-specific approaches are necessary to eliminate NTDs across the globe. For instance, Yé et al. [10] found a higher risk of contracting malaria in mud-roofed homes compared to homes with iron-sheet roofs in Burkina Faso. Similar studies have also found poor housing construction to increase presence of mosquitos in the household as well as malaria risk [11–13]. Additionally, substandard housing environments (including poor sanitation infrastructure) increase the risk of NTDs and NTD symptoms, particularly for children [4,14,15]. Compared to adults, children face greater exposure to microbes during play and are far more susceptible to environmental exposures in and outside the home [4]. In a study based in the coastal regions of Tanzania, Armah et al. [16] found that good housing quality was negatively associated with NTD risk. Further, they found highly localized geographic differences in NTD risk, raising concerns that such disparities run the risk of being overlooked when monitoring the burden of NTDs at regional or national levels [16]. To address the unique geographic and environmental factors afflicting impoverished children and families, developing systems to rapidly assess NTD risk in localized areas to direct interventions to the most highly burdened communities is crucial. Our study follows these established risks by holistically examining the environmental contexts of the household in which children <5 years old experience NTD symptoms.
NTDs are exacerbated by syndemic interactions with each other, the "big three" (i.e., malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV), and the socio-environmental contexts in which they occur [17]. In this study, we adopt a syndemic perspective for our person-centred analysis of anthropogenic environmental factors that exist at the household level to perpetuate the burden of NTDs in children <5 years old. To accomplish this, we used latent class analysis (LCA) to examine associations between household infrastructures and children <5 years old's NTD symptoms in Tanzania. This study contributes to existing global health literature on household-built environment risk factors for NTDs. Additionally, our study offers a framework for rapid risk assessment of childhood NTDs to address the need for localized assessments and tailored interventions for the most vulnerable and often neglected neighbourhoods and households plagued by disproportionate morbidity.
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program primarily funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an international program that supports a range of tailored data collection options in host countries. DHS has been providing technical assistance to more than 90 countries on more than 300 surveys since 1984 [18]. The Tanzania Demographic Health Survey (TZ-DHS) was designed to provide data by monitoring the population and its health through interviews and surveys with local women. The 2015-2016 survey cycle is the sixth DHS Survey conducted in Tanzania since the first one in 1991-1992. Approximately 13 360 households were selected through a stratified random sample to represent the urban and rural areas and 12 563 were successfully interviewed [19]. Our analysis used data from the 2015-2016 survey cycle of mothers with children <5 years (N = 10 233). The DHS Program and Institutional Review Board assessed the research protocol. The DHS Program approved the protocol and released the necessary data for analysis. The Institutional Review Board deemed that no further ethical approval was necessary as no human participants were involved in this study. Data can be made available by inquiring with the DHS Program.
Latent class analysis
Household built-environmental indicators
We conducted LCA, an approach that allows the identification of otherwise unidentified/unobservable subgroups or profiles. Observable environmental household factors were used as indicators for NTD symptoms. Factors included the location of residence (rural/urban), access to electricity (yes/no), location of household water source (in dwelling/in yard or plot/elsewhere), type of cooking fuel used in the home (electricity/bottled fuel/solid fuel or other), and type of material used for roofing, flooring, and walls (natural or rudimentary materials (e.g., grasses, mud)/finished materials (e.g., fired brick, cement)).
Distal outcome: neglected tropical disease symptoms
Our primary outcome of interest was NTD symptoms in children <5 years old. Clinically assessed NTD symptoms were reported by mothers using binary responses (yes/no) to the following: 1) drugs for intestinal parasites in the last six months; 2) report of cough within last two weeks; 3) report of diarrhoea within last two weeks; and 4) fever indicating a sign/symptom of malaria two weeks prior to survey. While malaria is not an NTD, malarial fever was included as malaria is over-diagnosed in Tanzania (often without confirmation), overlooking possible NTD-related symptoms [20].
Covariates to assess latent class membership
Several covariates external to the household and not included in the LCA were considered to assess and differentiate identified latent classes: the use of bed net by children during the previous night (yes/no), the mother receiving formal education (yes/no), knowledge of malaria prevention (yes/no), household wealth index (poorest or poorer/middle, wealthier, or wealthiest), migration of the family from the countryside (yes/no) or town (yes/no), and regional data collection zones. The regional zones included Central Tanzania (i.e., Dodoma and Singida), Coastal Tanzania (i.e., Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Morogoro and Pwani), Northern Highlands of Tanzania (i.e., Arusha and Kilimanjaro; Western Tanzania: Katavi and Kigoma), Lake Region (i.e., Mwanza, Shinyanga, Kagera, Mara, Manyara, Simiyu, Geita and Tabora), Southern Highlands of Tanzania (i.e., Iringa, Mbeya, Rukwa and Njombe), Southern Tanzania (i.e., Lindi, Mtwara and Ruvuma), and Zanzibar Island of Tanzania (ie, Kaskazini (Kaz.) and Kusini (Kus.), Unguja, Mjini Magharibi, and Kaz. and Kus. Pemba). Figure 1 shows the model and data analysis framework, as well as illustrates how the constructs between covariates, household indicators, and NTD symptoms among children <5 years are interrelated.
Figure 1. Latent class analysis model framework.
Latent class analysis and model fit criteria
All analyses accounted for the TZ-DHS 2015-16 complex survey design by applying sample weights. All models were weighted and accounted for household clustering and stratification. A comparative model fit approach was used to determine the number of classes. Multiple models were created (ie, 1- to 7-class solutions) to select the best model with: (1) Bayesian information criterion (BIC); (2) sample-size-adjusted Bayesian information criterion (SSA-BIC); and (3) high entropy (ie, the acceptable quality of classification) [21]. Models were also assessed on their practical and theoretical implications. Multivariate logistic regression was used on external household factors not included in the LCA to better define class memberships of the five-class solution selected for interpretation. All LCAs were conducted using Mplus version 8.4 (Muthén & Muthén, Los Angeles CA, USA). All code used in our analytical procedure can be made available by request.
Most households were in rural areas (72.9%), did not have electricity (83.2%), did not have a water source on the property (94.2%), cooked using a heat source other than electricity or bottled fuel (97.6%), had natural or rudimentary flooring (64.8%), and had finished walls (76.6%) and roofs (70.0%). Additionally, most households reported no enteric parasites within the last six months (65.7%), cough in the last two weeks (83.8%), or diarrhoea in the last two weeks (87.9%) in children under five. However, 87.7% of households reported malaria-related fever in children under five. See Table S1 in the Online Supplementary Document for further details.
Latent class analysis: Household characteristics
The LCA yielded a five-class solution with an entropy of 0.82 (see Figure 2; Table S2 in the Online Supplementary Document has the complete model fit criteria used for comparisons to assess the best model solution for interpretation). Each class was assigned a label based on the highest conditional probabilities of environmental household factors within that class. The Class 1 profile, hereafter referred to as rural finished wall households, represented 40.2% of the sample. These households had the highest conditional probabilities of being in a rural area (94.2%), being without electricity (100.0%), and sourcing water from outside the dwelling or yard (98.0%) compared to all other classes. Rural finished wall households exclusively used cooking fuel other than electricity or bottled sources (100.0%). Furthermore, these households had the highest probabilities of having natural or rudimentary flooring (99.8%) and finished walls (100.0%) compared to other classes. They also had high conditional probabilities of both natural or rudimentary (41.8%) and finished (58.2%) roofs.
Figure 2. Latent class model fit criteria comparison.
Class 2, or rural rudimentary households, represented 20.9% of the sample. These homes were largely rural (94.1%), were without electricity (99.5%), sourced water from outside the dwelling or yard (96.0%), and exclusively used fuel other than electricity or bottled sources (100.0%). Rural rudimentary households had a high conditional probability of having natural or rudimentary floors (98.4%) and the highest conditional probabilities of natural or rudimentary walls (97.6%) and roofs (65.2%) compared to other classes.
Class 3 (22.5%), referred to as finished material households, consisted of households with high conditional probabilities of having finished flooring (78.2%), walls (94.2%) and roofs (99.7%). These households also had high conditional probabilities of not having electricity (89.1%), sourcing water from outside the dwelling or yard (90.0%) and using fuel other than electricity or bottled sources (99.5%). Finished material households had 38.4% conditional probabilities of being in urban regions and 61.6% of being in rural regions.
The Class 4 profile (14.4%), or urban households, had the highest conditional probabilities of being in an urban region (92.0%), having electricity (93.3%), and having a personal water source in the dwelling (7.1%) and in the yard/plot (15.1%) compared to all other classes. Still, urban households had the greatest conditional probability of sourcing water from outside of the home or yard (77.8%). Compared to other groups, urban households also had the highest conditional probabilities of having finished flooring (99.2%), walls (99.4%), and roofs (99.9%).
The Class 5 profile (2.1%), or rural finished roof/walls households, was characterized by households with high conditional probabilities of being in a rural area (76.9%), being without electricity (99.5%), having the water source outside of dwelling or yard (97.6%), and using fuel other than electricity or bottled sources (98.1%). These households had rudimentary flooring (74.7%) but had high conditional probabilities of having finished walls (87.0%) and roofs (82.9%). See Figure 3 for the distribution of conditional probabilities. Table S3 in the Online Supplementary Document has the complete household-built environment conditional probabilities for each class.
Figure 3. Distribution of conditional probabilities from the five-class solution by household characteristics.
Latent class analysis: Neglected tropical disease risk
Rural finished wall households had the lowest reports of treating enteric parasites in the last 6 months (23.4%) or cough (9.7%) and diarrhoea (9.1%) in the last two weeks. These households had an 87.2% likelihood of reporting fever as a sign or symptom of malaria. Rural rudimentary households had a likelihood of 32.3% of treating a child under 5 for enteric parasites in the last 6 months and likelihoods of 14.3% and 9.7% of reporting cough and diarrhoea in the last 2 weeks, respectively. These households also had a high conditional probability of fever as a sign or symptom of malaria (88.6%). Finished material households had the second-highest conditional probability of enteric parasites (40.3%) and the lowest probability of fever as a sign or symptom of malaria (85.2%) compared to all other classes. These households had a likelihood of cough and diarrhoea in the last two weeks of 15.8% and 10.3%, respectively. Urban households had the highest conditional probabilities of having treated a child <5 years for enteric parasites (54.5%) and fever as a sign or symptom of malaria (91.2%) compared to other classes. Additionally, these households had moderate conditional probabilities of cough (26.2%) and diarrhoea (15.8%) in the last 2 weeks. Rural finished roof and walls households had conditional probabilities of 100.0% of reporting each cough and diarrhoea in children <5 years in the last two weeks and 90.0% of reporting fever as a sign or symptom of malaria. Additionally, these households had a 34.1% likelihood of treating enteric parasites in the last 6 months. See Table 1 for complete conditional probabilities of NTD symptoms, and Figure 4 for the visual distribution of conditional probabilities. Table S4 in the Online Supplementary Document has all covariate comparisons between classes.
Table 1. Distal outcomes of 5-class solution
Rural finished walls households Rural rudimentary households Finished material households Urban households Rural finished roof/walls households
Lowest risk Intermediate-low risk Intermediate risk Intermediate-high risk (parasite risk) Highest risk
40.2% 20.9% 22.5% 14.4% 2.1%
N = 4111 N = 2134 N = 2302 N = 1469 N = 216
Treated enteric parasite within last 6 months
No 0,766 0,677 0,597 0,455 0,659
Yes 0,234 0,323 0,403 0,545 0,341
Cough in last 2 weeks
No 0,903 0,857 0,842 0,738 0
Yes 0,097 0,143 0,158 0,262 1
Diarrhoea in last 2 weeks
Signs and symptoms of malaria: fever in last 2 weeks
Figure 4. Stacked bar graph represents proportions of the conditional probabilities of child-under-5 NTD disease outcomes by classes named by household characteristics. Numbers within bar segments represent conditional probabilities from the latent class analysis of the presence of the NTD symptom.
We used a novel mixture model approach to identify unique heterogeneous profiles of households based on their built environmental features and reports of NTD symptoms observed in children <5 years. Household infrastructure characteristics and child-under-five NTD symptom histories were assessed through interviews and surveys of Tanzanian mothers. Our analysis yielded five household profiles characterized by infrastructural factors: rural finished walls, rural rudimentary, finished material, urban, and rural finished roof/walls households. Along with unique features that defined the household groups, distinct NTD symptom profiles were observed in each class. The built environment classes we identified have the potential to serve as a rapid risk assessment framework for NTDs among children aged <5 years. Our findings contribute to the emerging literature on the impact of NTDs on impoverished regions and can be used to create more targeted approaches to public health interventions in Tanzania and the surrounding areas.
Rural finished roof/walls households were identified as the highest risk profile for childhood NTD symptoms overall. Households in this category had a high probability of malaria-related fever and all reported cough and diarrhoea in the last two weeks in a child under five. Conversely, rural finished wall households revealed the lowest risk of NTD symptoms including low reports of cough and diarrhoea in children under five. Compared to rural finished roof/walls households, rural finished wall households had higher conditional probabilities of being in rural areas, having natural or rudimentary flooring and roofing, and having finished walling. The lower risk of NTD symptoms in rural finished wall households could partially be explained by a decreased entry of mosquitoes and other disease-carrying vectors [22,23]. Further research is needed to identify additional factors that contribute to the disparities in NTD symptoms between these two household profiles.
Rural rudimentary and finished material households had very similar NTD risk profiles. Rural rudimentary households had slightly higher conditional probabilities of enteric parasites, cough, and diarrhoea in children under five and a slightly lower probability of malaria-related fever, consistent with prior literature [22–24]. These households were differentiable by the types of materials used for flooring, walls, and roofs and by their rural-urban classifications. A greater proportion of finished material households were in urban residences compared to rural rudimentary households which may account for the higher conditional probability in these households of receiving treatment for enteric parasites.
Urban households were additionally found to have the highest conditional probability of treating enteric parasites in a child under five compared to all other classes. Due to rapidly growing urban areas in low- and middle-income countries, in-dwelling sanitation facilities and sewerage may not be available nor possible [25]. The use of public sanitation facilities may explain the higher likelihood of enteric parasite reports in high-population urban and pe-urban areas with poor water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions [26]. The identified urban households, however, also had the highest conditional probabilities of having a water source in the dwelling and yard or plot when compared to other household profiles. In some cases, soil helminth reinfections are also possible, especially among children in urban settings with poor water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions [27,28]. This may also be indicative of the urban and rural healthcare divide; while urban areas have more access to healthcare facilities and resources, this does not translate to quality and availability of care [29].
The conditional probabilities of malaria-related fever ranged from 85.2% to 91.2% across all household groups. The high conditional probabilities of malaria across profiles could be due to the high prevalence of malaria in Tanzania but may also be attributable to misdiagnoses of the cause of fever due to the perceived impact of malaria [30,31]. Compared to other household profiles, urban households had the highest probability of malaria-related fever. Interestingly, the multivariate logistic regression revealed that compared to urban households, rural rudimentary, finished material, rural finished roof/walls, and rural finished walls households all had lower odds of having knowledge of malaria. Additionally, all but rural finished roof/walls households had lower odds than urban households of children sleeping under a bed net. Governmental and other relevant non-governmental organizations should prioritize malarial fever awareness and environmental sanitation in areas with endemic malaria [24].
By using a mixture model approach, we were able to account for the multiple interactions that may be NTD and NTD-related comorbidities. For instance, in relation to malarial overdiagnosis symptoms of fever and fatigue will often lead to a self-diagnosis of malaria [30–32]. This self-attribution of disease could include a constellation of other coinfections from schistosomiasis, helminthiases, or visceral leishmaniasis [33–36]. In many cases, some NTDs may predispose others to malaria or vice versa as is the case with schistosomiasis [33,36]. Moreover, symptoms like diarrhoea are not unique to ascariasis, schistosomiasis, and/or chagas, which may also have cough and fever as symptoms as well. Respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms may be occurring in parallel with other diseases and interacting with other symptoms and diseases that could be indicative of an NTD, multiple NTDs, or concurrent infections [2,33,35,36]. The distal outcomes for our analysis, however, are not mutually exclusive and are cooccurring with the given conditional probabilities to the observed outcome. As such, the purpose of this work was to explore risk factors for symptoms that could be attributable to NTDs, but not exclusive to NTDs due to the secondary nature of datasets like the DHS.
Our findings have the potential to be used as a risk assessment tool for identifying households with children at risk for NTDs. These findings can also assist in the implementation of tailored health interventions. However, investigative fieldwork is needed in Tanzania to evaluate whether our identified household profiles can be confirmed in urban and rural communities. Moreover, as urban centres in Tanzania continue to grow, pre-urban areas are critical in understanding NTD risk in the context of household and environmental factors. Future studies can leverage cellular network access, as networks have expanded throughout the African continent, increasing the potential to use mobile devices for healthcare delivery and risk assessments [7]. Digital infrastructures could be used in field research to evaluate the existence of the profiles identified in this paper, as well as deliver interventional health services. The distribution of bed nets, indoor residual spraying, and impregnated bed sheets by community-based interventions has been shown to be effective at reducing parasitaemia and malaria incidence and prevalence [24,37]. Additionally, sanitation services and facilities must be focused to avoid the health effects of continued parasitic infection on children such as developmental stunting, wasting, and deficits [38,39], as well as diminished efficacy of vaccines and other prophylactic treatments [40,41]. These types of interventions could similarly be effective in reducing NTD risk through educational efforts, health promotions, and distribution of household construction resources. Finally, the use of secondary data that is cross-sectional in nature, is not causal bur could lead to more detailed and confirmatory studies that could be based on symptomology as well as confirm possible NTDs given the co-occurring likelihood of symptoms given the disease.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to conduct LCA on household factors to identify child subgroups at high risk of preventable diseases in Tanzania. It has several limitations. Data used in our analysis was cross-sectional and self-reported by participants. Therefore, they do not capture the temporal nature of NTD risks and are susceptible to bias. Additionally, data are not based on diagnostic test results, as such we do not know the NTD status of children under five in our analysis. Furthermore, our study included mother's educational level as a proxy for socioeconomic status. However, future analyses should incorporate social determinants of health, including sociodemographic and socioeconomic indicators, to formulate a more robust model. Ethnicity may be an important factor affecting health outcomes and receipt of health care services in Tanzania [16]. Existing disease risk assessment tools primarily rely on spatial analysis of environmental exposures or epidemiological surveys [42,43]. These analyses overlook nuanced risk at the community and household levels. The benefit of our analysis is that it combined built environment exposures with epidemiological data to propose a rapid risk assessment framework designed for household level surveillance in order to design the most cost-effective and equitable NTD interventions.
Our analysis identified five household-built environment profiles and their respective disease outcomes for children <5 years using latent class analysis, a person-centred approach for finding unobservable profiles of possible risk. Initial findings indicate a high prevalence of malaria-related fever in both rural and urban households and more frequent treatment of enteric parasites in urban areas. Further analysis is needed to confirm the presence of the hypothesized risk groups in the surveyed population and to measure the perceived and actual prevalence of neglected tropical disease symptoms in the region. Our approach expands the possibilities of quantitative models to rapidly assess child-under-five disease risk based on interacting contextual factors. The results from this study can be used to improve neglected tropical disease interventions and help reduce child-under-five morbidity and mortality in Tanzania.
We thank the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health for their financial support. The authors would also like to acknowledge the passing of the author Dr. Sebalda "Mama" Leshabari and to note that her presence will forever leave a lasting impact. She was a strong and charismatic mentor and leader that championed the health of all mothers and children in the United Republic of Tanzania.
Disclaimer: The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health.
Ethics statement: The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program and Institutional Review Board assessed the research protocol. The DHS Program approved the protocol and released the requested data for analysis. No approval was necessary by the Institutional Review Board after a review of the protocol, as no human participants were involved in this study.
Data availability: Data used for this analysis are restricted but can be made available through an application process to the Demographic and Health Surveys Program (https://dhsprogram.com/data/Using-Datasets-for-Analysis.cfm). All code used in our analytical procedure can be made available by reasonable request.
[1] Funding: The efforts of FA Montiel Ishino, C. Talham, K Villalobos, and F Williams were supported by the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health. No other funding to report.
[2] Authorship contributions: Conceived and designed the study: FAMI, JSA, SL. Methodology: FAMI. Formal analysis: FAMI, CR, DP. Visualization: FAMI. Writing original draft: FAMI, CR, JSA. Writing – review and editing: CT, KV, DP. Supervision: SL, JRT, FW. Project administration: SL, JRT, FW.
[3] Disclosure of interest: The authors completed the ICMJE Disclosure of Interest Form (available upon request from the corresponding author) and declare no relevant interest.
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National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health


Lissa Power-deFur (B.A. '75, M.Ed. '76, Ph.D. '82 Speech Path & Aud) is currently serving a three-year term as VP Standards and Ethics in Speech-Language Pathology on the board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She was awarded a Graduate Faculty Research Award at Longwood University and was recently re-elected as the Faculty Representative to the Longwood Board of Visitors.


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Clare A. Briggs (August 5, 1875 – January 3, 1930) was an early American comic strip artist who rose to fame in 1904 with his strip A. Piker Clerk. Briggs was best known for his later comic strips When a Feller Needs a Friend, Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling?, The Days of Real Sport, and Mr. and Mrs.

Early life
Born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, Briggs lived there until the age of nine. In 1884, his family moved to Dixon, Illinois, where he started his newspaper career at age ten, delivering the local paper to subscribers for 40 cents a week while wearing a red, white and blue cap with the name of the newspaper.

Briggs had three brothers, who grew up to all have creative careers, one as a musician, one as a writer, and the third in advertising. After five years in Dixon, Briggs was 14 when his family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he lived until 1896 when he was 21. Life in the Midwest gave Briggs the source material for the small town Americana that he later depicted in his cartoons.

A push from Pershing

While attending the University of Nebraska for two years, he studied drawing and stenography. Employment as a stenographer brought him six dollars a week when the work was available. One of his art instructors was an editor with Western Penman, where his first published drawings appeared. His mathematics teacher was Lieutenant John J. Pershing. "If ever a fellow needed a friend, I did in mathematics," said Briggs. "It happened that Lieutenant Pershing was my instructor, and I believe he will testify that it was easier to conquer Germany than to teach me math. One day he ordered me to the blackboard to demonstrate a theorem, and while I was giving the problem a hard but losing battle, he remarked: 'Briggs, sit down, you don't know anything.' Right then and there, I decided to become a newspaper man."

On July 18, 1900, he married Ruth Owen of Lincoln. He began his career as a newspaper sketch artist in St. Louis, Missouri with the Globe-Democrat, which sent him off to cover the Spanish–American War as an editorial cartoonist. Relocating in New York, his drawings for the New York Journal prompted William Randolph Hearst to send Briggs to the Chicago Herald and the Chicago's American, where he created A. Piker Clerk, often described as the first daily continuity comic strip. After 17 years in Chicago (living in the community of Riverside, Illinois), Briggs returned to New York to spend the remaining 13 years of his life with the New York Tribune. He lived in to the suburban community of New Rochelle, a well-known art colony and home to a majority of the top commercial illustrators of the day.
During the 1920s, the New Rochelle Art Association commissioned its best known artists to create a series of signs on major roadways to mark the borders, including "New Rochelle The Place To Come When a Feller Needs a Friend", which was created by Briggs representing one of his major comics, "When a Feller Needs a Friend".

Clare and Ruth Owen Briggs were together for 29 years and had three children. They divorced in February 1929. Briggs died ten months later, leaving his estate of $90,067 to Ruth Briggs. However, the will was challenged by his second wife, Marie C. Briggs, aka Maggie Touhey.

Vaudeville, films and radio

Briggs was a popular lecturer, earning $100 for a single speech. He accepted a five-week contract for $500 a week to appear on the vaudeville circuit in 1914. In 1919, he produced four comedy film shorts for Paramount Pictures.

The Mr. and Mrs. radio series, based on Briggs' strip, starred Jack Smart and Jane Houston as Jo and Vi. The series was broadcast on CBS from 1929 to 1931.

National catchphrases caught on from the titles of some of his newspaper cartoon features: Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling?, Danny Dreamer, The Days of Real Sport, Movie of a Man,  Mr. and Mrs, Real Folks at Home, Someone's Always Taking the Joy Out of Life, There's at Least One in Every Office and When a Feller Needs a Friend. Mr. and Mrs. ran during the last years of his life and continued in syndication by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate after his death under his name. (The names of Arthur Folwell and Ellison Hoover finally appeared on the strip in 1938; Frank Fogarty illustrated the Sunday strips from 1930 to 1946.) In 1947, the strip was taken over by Kin Platt, who continued it until 1963.

His daughter, Clare Briggs, also was a comic strip artist and had an eponymous strip syndicated from 1939 through 1941. She used the name "Miss Clare Briggs" to distinguish her work from her father's.

In September 1929, neuritis of the optic nerve led Briggs to Baltimore for treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He died at the Neurological Institute of pneumonia on January 3, 1930. As he had requested, his ashes were scattered over New York Harbor.

Briggs' death in 1930 prompted Franklin P. Adams to write:

See also
H. T. Webster
J. R. Williams

References

Sources
Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924–1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995.

External links

 Lambiek Comiclopedia

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database

1875 births
1930 deaths
American comic strip cartoonists
American comics artists
St. Louis Globe-Democrat people
People from Reedsburg, Wisconsin
Artists from New Rochelle, New York
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni

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Teresia O'Connor, MD, MPH is a board certified general pediatrician who practices at Texas Children's Hospital. She is also a behavioral research in the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding how parents influence children's obesity related behaviors and improving measurement of children's behaviors and parenting behaviors. She has lead or is involved with research projects funded by NIH, USDA, CDC, and the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
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Leonard Cohen has spent the last two years globetrotting through a marathon tour, but when Rolling Stone caught up with the poet last night in New York — where he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame — he revealed he's working on a new album, his first disc of fresh material since 2004's Dear Heather. "God willing it will be finished next spring," he said.
"I'm producing it," he said, wearing his typical dapper black suit and fedora. The 75-year-old added that the disc will contain "10 or 11 songs," mostly composed before he hit the road in May 2008 for the first time in 15 years. "One song was written on tour, the rest were written before," he said, noting that he wrote some tracks with longtime collaborator Sharon Robinson and with his longtime companion Anjani. What will it sound like? "Something good, I hope."
Check out photos of the all-star Songwriters Hall of Fame gaga.
Cohen said not much has changed on his playlist in recent years and rattled off a list of his favorite artists with long breathy pauses between names: "The same people — Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins."
Last year, Cohen debuted one new song live, the slow, moonlit blues "Feels So Good." This summer, Cohen embarks another leg of his tour, and in November he'll play Cambodia's Olympic Stadium with proceeds going to chartiable groups like the Cambodian Red Cross. "That's a long story," he said. "But if we can help there I'm very happy to be able to do it." Cohen's tour grossed $21 million in 2009 and earned stellar reviews. "I don't examine these things too closely," he said about his success on the road. "Otherwise they may evaporate."
At the ceremony, Cohen made a brief-but-spellbinding speech, said he was "overwhelmed" and then recited a stanza from his staple "Hallelujah." After the ceremony, fellow icons Paul Simon and Billy Joel made an early exit, but Cohen hung around his table, posing for photos and accepting accolades. When a couple forced electric guitar pickguards in his face, Cohen calmly told them, "You know I don't like signing these," but then signed them anyway.
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Government suspends scheme for naming employers who fail to pay NMW
The government has suspended its scheme for naming employers who fail to pay the National Minimum Wage (NMW).
Workers aged 25 or over and not in the first year of an apprenticeship are legally entitled to be paid at least the National Living Wage (NLW). Employers who deliberately fail to pay the NMW may face a potentially unlimited fine.
In 2018, a recommendation to review the scheme in its entirety was put forward by David Metcalf, the Director of Labour Market Enforcement.
Commenting on the matter, Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said: 'Enforcement of the NMW and the NLW is a priority for the government, and we take tough action against the minority of employers who underpay.
'As part of our enforcement approach, we name employers who have breached the legislation, which raises awareness of NMW enforcement and deters others who may be tempted to break the law. The government are reviewing the naming scheme to ensure that it continues effectively to support minimum wage compliance.'
During 2018, HMRC issued financial penalties totalling £17 million to more than 1,000 UK firms who were found to be non-compliant with the NMW regulations.


The Reds are back in action tomorrow night with the visit of League Two side Morecambe, kick off is 7.45pm.
After the previous fixture against Scunthorpe was cancelled on the Iron's request, the club were thrilled to have the Shrimps visit us for our second pre season friendly.
The 0-1 defeat on Saturday gave a little insight into the Reds squad and the organisation of Heath's new look side. With a second half goal drom Donny proving the difference, the Reds will look to build on the positives from Saturday's performance with another test tomorrow evening.
Supporters who have purchased our pre season package deal can show their ticket at the gate to gain entry for this fixture.


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