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Bay Nature magazine ◦ October-December 2016
Photo by Scott Doniger
After Decades Away, River Otters Make a Triumphant Return to the Bay Area
Scientists and volunteers track a remarkable return, and study how to keep it going
by Kat McGowan
We're peering down into a ravine carved out by Lagunitas Creek, looking for North American river otters. According to official California Department of Fish and Wildlife records, last updated in 1995, we are officially fools; there are no otters anywhere near here. They are "non-occurring," wiped out from most of the Bay Area long ago by trapping, pollution, lack of prey, loss of habitat—any and all of the difficulties that wild animals contend with in urban areas.
But according to the data collected in the last four years by Megan Isadore and her corps of citizen otter spotters, these little fish-eating predators are all over the place, particularly here in Marin County. On the website of her small nonprofit River Otter Ecology Project, the reports of sightings pour in, from anglers and dog-walkers and nature lovers and amazed suburbanites: Hey, I just saw an otter! As of 2016, ROEP has catalogued more than 1,730 sightings and added to that tally close to 5,000 camera-trap videos and photos and roughly 1,300 samples of otter scat.
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch, jaymiheimbuch.com
And this just seems like an ottery kind of place—a creek full of fish and crayfish, banks dense with shrubby growth, a place that feels wild enough for a sneaky little carnivore to hunt and hide and play. Isadore and her volunteers-in-training, Emma Sharpe and Jeffrey Wang, current and former wildlife biology students, crane their necks over the embankment. Nothing here. But farther up the path, in an outfall below a big dam, we find a tidy pile of fresh scat, the highest standard of otter evidence. Yes, they've been here too.
Isadore saw her first otters in 2002, in the moonlight on a tributary of Lagunitas Creek. Soon they seemed to be everywhere, and yet, officially, nowhere.
The fact that otters are back in the Bay Area of their own accord without any reintroduction program to help them looks like a reason to declare victory. It seems to be proof that cleaning up watersheds makes a difference, that restoration works, that species will bounce back if we only push hard enough. "Their recovery in the Bay Area is, I believe, the result of conservation and restoration activities: the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, all these things we did that had a positive effect," Isadore says.
An otter seems to live for pleasure, gliding in and out of the water, rolling and romping, loudly crunching on crayfish, clowning around. That this joyous creature has returned to the Bay Area seems like sweet reward for the years of hard work by conservationists and environmentalists, a sign that we won—won the wriggly, furry, goofy jackpot.
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But in truth, it's not yet clear how many local otters there are or why they came back, which means no one has determined how to protect or maintain them here. That's why Isadore launched ROEP. "We don't know where they are, how many, whether populations are increasing or we just think they are," she says. "That was the impetus." If people have the general impression that there are a lot more otters around than there used to be, and in places where they weren't seen before, that's one thing. It's far more useful to have data—systematically collected evidence. With only a minuscule budget, ROEP depends on the natural charms of otters and the enthusiasm of volunteers to collect as much high-quality information as possible.
There's reason to think the return of the otters may be tenuous. That's why these three are clambering up and down banks, climbing under docks, exploring culverts, poking every bit of scat along the way. Can we breathe a sigh of relief? Are the otters here to stay? We don't yet know.
Sharpe and Wang put fresh batteries and data cards into a motion-sensitive wildlife camera and strap it to a redwood tree near the outfall. Isadore demonstrates how to scoop up bits of fecal material into glassine bags for future study. These two volunteers, and dozens more, will revisit this spot and others for the rest of the summer and into the autumn, wading up and down Lagunitas Creek, scouting out lagoons and beaches, kayaking and biking to remote field sites. This is the slow, painstaking work that can begin to explain the return of the otter.
An adult river otter and two pups roll in the sand and dust on the bank of Lake Temescal in Oakland. (Photo by Rick Lewis)
A North American river otter weighs on average 20 pounds and is roughly three feet long from extremely whiskery front end to oddly flattened tail. ("Much smaller than you'd think," Isadore says.) It features what must be the most boopable snoot of any mammal, a large flattened moist "rhinarium," or nose pad. A river otter is a mustelid, like a weasel or a badger. But in terms of physique, it splits the difference between land and water mammals. It swims and runs passably well but is neither as adept as a seal in water nor as stealthy as a mink on land. With no blubber, it relies on a dense, luxurious coat of fur to stay warm. As it humps along a shoreline, the overall impression it creates is something like a Slinky in a fur coat.
Until 1961, river otters in California were trapped for that fur. In Humboldt and Mendocino counties up north and in the Delta, otters managed to hang on. But from San Francisco Bay south, they vanished.
Hunting was probably only part of it; water pollution may have been a big reason for the decline. Pesticides, heavy metals, and other water pollutants can make otters sick, reduce their breeding success, and kill off the fish they depend on. The Eurasian otter offers a useful comparison. In southern England, those otters vanished even though they were never hunted, apparently due to pollution such as mercury and organochlorine pesticides like DDT derivatives, dieldrin, and lindane. Once the rivers were cleaned up, the otters came back.
In the Bay Area, rumors of river otter presence began in the late 1980s, but there was no bulletproof sighting until Rich Stallcup, a founder of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, spotted them just south of the town of Tomales in 1989. ("I was stoked and elated to find three of these excellent creatures," he wrote.) They might have arrived from the Delta or possibly from up north. Either way, it was surprising but not shocking: River otters are known to travel long distances, particularly when young males disperse in the spring, while water runs high. They follow creeks, even through culverts and tunnels, but will also cross dry land; they might have even hopscotched down the coast.
Isadore saw her first otters in 2002, in the moonlight on a tributary of Lagunitas Creek. Soon they seemed to be everywhere, and yet, officially, nowhere. River otters aren't endangered, so they aren't a focus of conservation money and planning. But Isadore knew that without collecting baseline data on them, it would be impossible to monitor them—to know if their populations were increasing, stabilizing, or crashing, or to come up with plausible ideas about why.
She realized someone would need to step up in order to make sense of what was really going on. Isadore had worked with SPAWN, a salmon-restoration nonprofit in Marin, for 13 years, learning field biology and stream ecology and eventually becoming lead naturalist. Focusing on otters seemed to be the obvious next step for her. "The vision was to establish where they were in the Bay Area, and then do population studies," she says. ROEP began in 2012 as a science-based, data-gathering organization. Her co-founder Paola Bouley, a wildlife biologist, was the first executive director; Isadore's husband, Terence Carroll, a longtime conservationist, would be president.
Isadore and Bouley also banked on otters' natural charms as a great way to get Bay Area residents invested in the watersheds in their backyards. "The river otters are such perfect ambassadors, because they're so playful and adorable, and a little bit elusive," she says. (People who study otters, unlike other biologists, don't even pretend that their subjects aren't cute.) Otters could be a gateway drug.
ROEP now counts otters in two ways. Anyone can report an otter sighting online by providing enough details to rule out mistakes. But that only tells you where otters are. In order to get other dimensions of information—what they're doing, what their niche might be—the group also trains and sends out volunteers who visit specific field sites weekly throughout the summer and early fall, when mothers have brought their new pups out from their dens and most other otters tend to stay put in their territories. Using an app designed to capture otter data, volunteers record the locations of signs (latrines, paw prints, tail drag marks, slides, dens), maintain motion-activated camera traps, and review the footage to document family life and behavior. (The cameras have caught other creatures too: bobcats, a badger, a merlin, baby foxes, and once a woman skinny-dipping.)
This method provides a more granular view of otter life across various shorelines of Marin, stretching from Rodeo Lagoon just north of the Golden Gate, along the Pacific up to Abbotts Lagoon, including sites along Tomales Bay, all the way up Lagunitas Creek to the reservoirs, as well as other marshes, lakes, and creeks. Volunteers also gather scat samples for two projects: monitoring for Vibrio and Salmonella—bacteria common in other aquatic mammals—and DNA analysis.
Some sites are wild, but others are right off of major roads, because otters can put up with quite a bit of human contact. In the East Bay, they loll around in Oakland's Lake Temescal, in the shadow of two freeways. One has been seen at the lake next to the Hilltop Mall in Richmond. And then there was Sutro Sam, who took up residence at San Francisco's Sutro Baths in 2012. He spent months devouring the fish in the ponds there, undeterred by the legions of fans who came to see him, some bringing trout from the nearby Safeway. It wasn't until the fish ran out that he left.
An otter shakes off water, a common behavior, after emerging from the manmade lake at Heather Farms, a city park in Walnut Creek. (Photo by Sally Rae Kimmel)
Out in Point Reyes National Seashore, Isadore has her own field site at Abbotts Lagoon, where salt water and fresh water mix down near the sea. We're walking along a trail toward a passage between two lagoons when Isadore suddenly stops and hisses, "Look! Otters!" The carpet of whorled marshpennywort in the shallow end of the lagoon quivers. Then suddenly a lithe brown body bursts from the water and lopes up the steep sand dune. It's followed by another, and then another, and now there are six—a carnival of otters snorting and rolling in the sand. We have a perfect view of them, and it's hard to know where to look amid the frolicking.
Two slink their way up the slope, inspecting a latrine where other otters have left their scat. One defecates with great enthusiasm, waggling its hindquarters vigorously and stamping its hind feet. The other toboggans on its belly down the dune into the water, and then, just as abruptly as they appeared, this tangle of sleek brown creatures is gone.
TO SPOT AN OTTER
Want to spot an otter? When you're near a shoreline — a wetland, creek, lake, bay, or the ocean — look for the following tracks and signs. And then keep your eyes open for a fast, sinuous motion in the water, at or just below the surface.
A perfect set of river otters tracks will show the webbing between its toes and the indentations from its nails. The back paws are slightly larger than the front. Also look for a thick, long drag mark behind the tracks made by the otter's tail.
Otter slides can be spotted in sand, grass, mud, and even snow. Depending on the frequency of use, the slides can range from roughly 8 to 12 inches wide and be as long as 25 feet.
Otter scat can vary in shape from a tube to a patty, but it is almost always full of fish scales, and smells, well, fishy. It is frequently found on top of soil or debris mounds.
They're Everywhere
The River Otter Ecology Project maintains an interactive map of Bay Area otter sightings reported by citizen scientists. To expand the map and read about each submission, or even submit your own sighting, visit the ROEP online.
Photos (from top): Sharron Barnett, marinnature.com; Scott Doniger; Kim Cabrera.
Map courtesy River Otter Ecology Project
Three of the group are now hunting the shallow water along the edge, and we follow parallel on shore to watch. We see nostrils, eyes, whiskers, and teeth, then the curve of a small back as it dives. One surfaces, making plaintive little peeps. Another pops up to devour some prey, crunching away like a svelte brown Cookie Monster.
Based on their sizes and contact calls, there could be two adult females accompanied by a few new pups, Isadore guesses. The other two could be last year's pups, or even older daughters. (Otter family composition is flexible but generally does not include fathers, who leave after mating.) Each season is its own little mystery; as Isadore watches this group over the summer she'll gradually figure out who is related to whom.
With otters, there aren't many rules. They do perfectly well alone, but loose groups are also common; they tolerate one another, sharing overlapping turfs, and may even hunt cooperatively. Males may form "bachelors pods" of as many as a dozen, hanging out together for otter parties: piling up vegetation to pee and defecate on it.
Otters hunt at night, or at dawn, or during the day. They're smart enough to target particular species when they know those fish are sleeping. They prefer shallow areas, but will hunt any area with easy-to-catch fish—streams, lagoons, ponds, estuaries, even the ocean. They often rest on banks with shrubby, dense growth, but will nap on a beach if they feel secure. In general, they stay close to shore; theirs is a linear world, a thin boundary strip of water and land.
The only unbreakable rule of being a river otter is to eat a lot. These creatures consume 12 to 15 percent of their body weight each day—far more than most mammals of similar size. So although they prefer fish, they'll eat nearly any meat, including frogs, crayfish, shellfish, insects, small mammals, and birds. ROEP volunteers find the feathers of pied-billed grebes, coots, and cormorants in scat; at Rodeo Lagoon, otters have been witnessed killing brown pelicans.
These little carnivores live on a metabolic knife's edge, suggest studies conducted by Hans Kruuk, honorary professor at Scotland's University of Aberdeen and perhaps the world's preeminent otter expert. To eat, they must swim in cold water. To stay warm without blubber, they must fuel the body furnace with calorie-dense food. Otter life is a Catch-22 of hunting to stay warm and staying warm to hunt. On top of that, otters have a low reproductive rate, with an average of only one to three pups a litter, and they generally don't breed every year. And many river otters have short lives. While they can live as long as 25 years in captivity, the median age of a population in Prince William Sound in Alaska was only four years. The average annual mortality for adults is about 27 percent, according to one study in western Oregon.
This is why it's so important to know more about Bay Area otter populations, says Isadore. What kinds of fish do they depend on? Are they breeding successfully, and how often and where? In an otter's life, there's little room for error. Given their extraordinary metabolisms, they require plentiful prey and may be particularly sensitive to slumps in fish populations that occur as a result of climate change or other shifts.
It's important to know how many otters are around for the sake of other creatures as well. Top predators, they scarf up crayfish and fish, particularly slow bottom-dwellers like sculpin. "They eat them like potato chips," says Isadore. For that same reason, otters may be a boon to other species. Eelgrass beds provide nurseries for many baby fish, including salmon smolt. As otters prowl through the eelgrass, they ignore the tiniest fish, but snap up the bigger fish that prey upon the little ones. The impact of otter predation on Bay Area ecosystems is unknown and is another subject Isadore would like to study.
How they interact with other animals is likewise not very well known. Coyotes might prey upon otters under some circumstances, but the interactions between the two are not always straightforward predator-prey relationships. One of Isadore's most fascinating camera-trap videos captures the meeting of an otter and a coyote. The coyote trots across the otter's beach—her territory. The two circle one another on the sand, then chase each other round and around a rock, just like in a cartoon. Are they threatening one another? Checking each other out? Neither one looks frightened. Rather, they both seem wary, but curious—maybe even a little bit playful.
Isadore has shown the video to several otter specialists, and none of them were sure what's going on either. "We can't bring ourselves to say, 'Yes, they're playing,'" she says. "But we all want to."
Megan Isadore and ROEP intern Emma Sharpe visit the Giacomini wetlands in west Marin to survey otter signs. They collected scat samples for DNA analysis, research that will help determine each local population's range and interactions. (Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch, jaymiheimbuch.com)
We leave the otters to their breakfast and return to the dune; Isadore is eager to get some of this supremely fresh scat.
For the record, otter fecal material does not smell like the turds of carnivores you may be more familiar with. It has a musky, fishy, wild aroma, not unpleasant if you don't mind the smell of low tide, and it's flecked with fish scales and bits of shell. Otters also excrete a jelly-like substance that apparently protects their guts from sharp shell fragments and fish bones. There's plenty of that stuff here too, looking like blobs of blackish Jell-O. Isadore scoops up some as well.
A key thing to know about river otters: Excretions are a very big deal for them. Latrines are communication stations, where animals frequently stop by to leave small symbolic fecal deposits, make scent secretions using the glands in their hind feet, and investigate what else has been left behind. (Kruuk reckons that no carnivore produces scent-mark feces more frequently than an otter does.) It's sort of an otter Foursquare: a brief record of who was here and what they had for lunch.
Consequently, otter scientists are also deeply interested in poop—examining it, testing it, even playing tricks with it. In one set of experiments, Humboldt State University wildlife biologists Jeffrey Black and Alana Oldham added scat from faraway otters to a local latrine, then documented the response. When the regulars returned, they obsessed over the foreign poop, investigating it and covering it with their own. "There were 20 times as many paw prints, all around the new scat," says Black. "They pee on top of it, and leave their own scat." Exactly what otters learn from scat is not clear, but it might include gender, hormonal status, and other updates.
For scientists, these deposits provide a dietary record; researchers dig through scat for otoliths, the characteristic bony structures in vertebrate ears, to identify which fish species otters eat. With other kinds of testing, scat can reveal pollution exposure or, through DNA analysis, a map of genetic relationships.
So researchers like Isadore are thrilled when they find brand-new scat—it's a bigger database with more information. Usually that's left to chance, but one enterprising Canadian research group developed a way to identify the freshest, most testable scat by scattering latrines with a layer of glitter. The next day, new productions would be obvious: glitter-covered scat was old; scat without glitter was new.
But poop is just part of otter science. Ideally, the information it yields is combined with other types of data. More than 15 years ago, Black began the first otter-spotter project in California in Humboldt and Mendocino counties. Sightings from his spotters, primarily former biology students, anglers and outdoorspeople, are cross-correlated with scat DNA analysis. With this two-dimensional method, Black found a high density of otters in Humboldt Bay, somewhere between 41 and 44 in a study area stretching along 28 miles of coastal habitat. Importantly, the genetic data suggested that the otter-spotter data alone undercounted this population considerably. "What we learned is that citizen scientists are seeing about 50 percent of what's really out there," he says; the information is really just a pointer to where otters are, not a full census.
ROEP doesn't yet have the resources to execute such a study, but it has pulled together results from its citizen science and trained volunteer projects in a paper published last year in Northwestern Naturalist. The upshot: Otters have been spotted in every county of the Bay Area except San Mateo. The ROEP study area of Marin County hosts approximately 50 otters total, with a minimum of 0.21 otters per 0.6 miles along the coast from Rodeo Lagoon north and a higher density in Tomales Bay alone, at around 0.32 otters per 0.6 miles. (There was less data on inland regions along creeks and in reservoirs, so population density was not calculated for those areas.) These densities are minimum figures. They're lower than Black's and could reflect a rebounding population, or they could be an underestimate.
More data will come from a genetics study now under way; Jordan Arce, a graduate student at the Genomics/Transcriptomics Analysis Core at San Francisco State University, is using scat samples to measure the genetic diversity of North Bay otters. The analysis will estimate the male/female ratio and will read mitochondrial DNA, tiny loops of genetic material passed from mothers to offspring that can be used to estimate the relatedness between individuals. Roughly speaking, more diversity and less relatedness indicates a healthier population. "It can tell us a great deal about the status of the species and how it's functioning, and also the status of the ecosystem," says Arce.
By comparing samples from four sites in the North Bay, he also intends to figure out how groups are related—and by implication, how otters have spread. Samples from Sutro Sam, for example, could confirm whether he arrived in San Francisco from the Marin Headlands, as Isadore suspects, or from the Sacramento River Delta. It seems likely that East Bay otters came from the Delta, but determining that for sure is a project for the future.
Meanwhile, Isadore is making sure the data she and her crew have collected gets on the desk of anybody who might need it for management decisions. Knowing where otters are is important for many reasons—for example, protecting endangered species that can be otter food, like coho salmon or the chicks of Ridgway's rails. The data is also needed to prepare for oil spills, says Michael Ziccardi, director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at UC Davis, which coordinates the responses of dozens of organizations statewide.
With a considerable increase in the amount of oil being shipped via train into Martinez and other sites near the Bay, a spill becomes more likely—but without accurate maps of otter populations, a rescue response might be inadequate. Otters are highly sensitive to spills: Not only does oil kill off otter prey, an otter with oiled and matted fur will soon be too cold to hunt. "Knowing that otters are in the general vicinity is of value, but the more fine-grained data that we can have, that can help us know where priority areas are should a spill occur," Ziccardi says. After the Cosco Busan oil spill in 2007, otters were seen feeding on oiled pelicans. But with no census from before the spill, it's impossible to know whether their population in the Bay Area took a hit—or how bad it might have been.
Megan Isadore and ROEP intern Emma Sharpe add a camera trap to their network of cameras along shorelines in Marin. The photos, retrieved weekly by volunteers, help capture family interactions and population size. (Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch, jaymiheimbuch.com)
Otters are usually their own hype men—they need no support. But this is a tough crowd here at the Star Academy, a high school for students with learning differences in San Rafael. These ninth and tenth graders and their teachers have been monitoring a nearby site all year. Isadore is coming to thank them in person.
She cues up a video—a series of camera-trap clips of otters playing, snuffling at the camera, and generally being irresistible. It's followed by a beautiful animation. But she gets only a few laughs. It's June, and these kids just want the school year to be over.
We all go out to the site, at Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District reclamation ponds, to look for otters and their evidence. As they walk the dirt roads, the students brighten up. One of them, a student, tells me he's become expert at otter detection: "I can walk right up to it and know it's scat." Others goof around, imitating the death throes of the grebe they saw get killed by an otter earlier in the year.
This spring will be ROEP's five-year anniversary. In 2014, Isadore was awarded the Environmental Leader of Marin gold medal; the group won a conservation award from the John Muir Association. But documenting otters in the Bay Area is only phase one.
There are now more new questions to answer. There are hints that river otters on the coasts have distinctive patterns, habitat needs, and diets. Researchers want to learn more about that. Will they keep spreading southward? Last year brought one unconfirmed sighting in the Santa Cruz Mountains and one in Los Gatos, around Vasona Lake. Historically, otters were found all the way down to San Luis Obispo.
Isadore sees otters as a way in to understanding relationships between other things—how otter prey like the endangered coho rise and fall, whether local improvements in water quality outweigh the new pressures of climate change for otters. As an animal that relies on land and water, fish and fowl, it's a species that can tie a lot together.
She's plotting to do a study to link pollutant loads around the Bay with otter reproductive success, reading river otters like a sentinel for water quality. "River otters are an enormous treasure chest of information," she says. "I'm impatient to have the staff and the money to do all these studies and drill down into it."
Because it's not enough to celebrate that otters are back, she says. "Too often people in conservation, people like us who live in this beautiful area, we can get a little bit insular and pleased with ourselves. We can look around and say, 'We live in paradise and we're fixing it!' We have to do more."
She's counting on the otters to do it. And they work in mysterious ways. As we walk along the berms with the Star Academy students, one girl sidles up alongside Isadore with a question. Earlier, she looked bored. But now she wants to know: Could she get a copy of that video, the one with the gorgeous animation? She wants to be an artist, the student says, and someday make videos like that one.
That's how it works, Isadore says later: Efforts have ripples and consequences that you never anticipate. By showing a high-school student a video, you might awaken an interest in art and environment. By cleaning up a watershed, you just might find yourself surrounded by otters. "I want people to understand we have the ability to work for positive effects, as well as [have] the negative effects," she says. "I want people to believe we have the ability to change things. That's what I'm constantly trying to get across."
Kat McGowan
Kat McGowan is a journalist and editor based in Berkeley and New York City.
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Q: How to use XML to store data for my quiz maker? Current code: https://github.com/coldblade2000/QuizMaker/tree/Development
XML I made: http://pastebin.com/FBHVsnPA
I am making a Quiz Maker app for android and haven't been able to wrap my head around using XML to store data. I made a small XML file that I am using to test it first. It has space for 1 question and four possible answers.
I am having trouble with understanding how to add values and strings to the XML, read it, etc. I've tried most XML and android tutorials but most don't talk about using variables in it or about adding your own attributes to the elements. XML is really new to me, I only know as much as basic HTML will get me

A: The basic Java API for XML that You can use to read and write XML are DOM StaX. However DOM4J  can be better since it has easier and simple API.
This is a simple method to create an XML document
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    Document document = DocumentHelper.createDocument();
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    Element studentElement = rootElement.addElement("student").addAttribute("country", "USA");
    studentElement.addElement("id").addText("1");
    studentElement.addElement("name").addText("Peter");
    XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter(new FileWriter("Students.xml"));
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    OutputFormat format = OutputFormat.createPrettyPrint();
    XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter(output,format);<- will fomat the output
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    //You can print this to the console and see what it looks like
    String xmlElement = document.asXML();
    System.out.println(xmlElement);
    writer.write(document);
    writer.close();

}

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Women call for boycott of Always sanitary pads
Always sanitary pads. Kenyan women on Twitter have called for a boycott of Always sanitary towels, accusing the manufacturer, Proctor & Gamble, of supplying the African market with substandard products. FILE PHOTO
By DAILY NATION
The women compared the towels to brands in Europe, saying the latter were more comfortable.
P & G enjoys a great hold on the Kenyan market for sanitary towels and cotton wool, with about five sanitary products.
The complaints forced the firm to create a Twitter account for Always Kenya, on which it defended its product, saying the quality is similar to those in other parts of the world, "including Germany, UK, US, South Africa".
Kenyan women on Twitter have called for a boycott of Always sanitary towels, accusing the manufacturer, Proctor & Gamble, of supplying the African market with substandard products.
A tweet by activist Scheaffer Okore under the hashtag, #MyAlwaysExperience, led to hundreds of women sharing their unpleasant experiences with the brand.
They complained of itching, rashes, boils and burns. Some had tales of embarrassing "leaks", while others said they had switched to other brands.
Like many, @yellowyesmellow wrote: " … Before these conversations, I sincerely thought it was normal that my pad burnt. That I had to apply Vaseline or Arimis on my outer genitals to reduce the burns every time."
Magdaline Awino* told the Nation of how an itch in her private parts made her suspect that her husband's had infected her with a sexually transmitted infection. But when they both went for tests, the results showed no STI or yeast infection as she had suspected. She said the irritation stopped when she switched to a different brand.
In a statement to the Nation, the company apologised for the delay in responding to the complaints and termed the comparisons of their products in different regions as misinformation.
The retail giant reiterated that its products undergo rigorous tests, and are made using the same technology and materials.
On the itches and burns the company said: "Different women have had different experiences with our products."
Kenyans have also asked the company to remove the plastic lining, which is believed to cause rashes, infections, and burns, and to improve on absorbency for Kenya's tropical climate. They asked Kenyans in the diaspora to share their experiences.
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Ernst Dobislaw (* 29. September 1903 in Berlin; † 3. März 1984 ebendort) war der erste deutsche Destillateurmeister. Er war maßgeblich an der Wiederbelebung der Versuchslikörfabrik des Instituts für Gärungsgewerbe in den 1950er Jahren beteiligt.

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Dobislaw kam aus einer gutbürgerlichen Familie in Berlin-Kreuzberg; sein Großvater Gustav Dobislaw war Brennmeister und Eigentümer des Eckhauses Obentraut-/Großbeerenstraße 17a, in dem er eine Likörfabrik samt Ausschank betrieb. Die Lehrzeit zum Destillateur, Weinküfer und Kaufmann absolvierte Ernst Dobislaw bei seinem Vater Paul Dobsilaw, Küfermeister und selbstständiger Spirituosenhersteller, der den väterlichen Betrieb 1904 übernommen hatte und bis zu seinem Tod Anfang der 1940er Jahre fortführte. Aus dem Ausschank der Dobislaws wurde später der Bacchus-Keller, der bis 1988 zu den legendären Kreuzberger Kneipen gehörte.

Nach der Tätigkeit im elterlichen Unternehmen erwarb Ernst Dobislaw eine Spirituosenfabrik, die er bis zur Einberufung zur Wehrmacht leitete.

Aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft zurückgekehrt, nahm er 1945 eine Stellung bei der Abteilung Trinkbranntwein und Liköre (ATL) im Institut für Gärungsgewerbe (IfG) an. Dabei war er insbesondere beteiligt am Wiederaufbau der Versuchslikörfabrik und des Lehr- und Unterrichtswesens des IfG. 1948 wurden die Fachlehrgänge für Destillateure und Likörfabrikanten unter Leitung von Ernst Dobislaw und Professor Georg Haeseler wieder aufgenommen. 1954 wurde der erste Destillateurmeisterkurs durchgeführt. Am 3. Juli 1954 legte Ernst Dobislaw als erster erfolgreich vor der Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Berlin die Prüfung zum Destillateurmeister ab. In den Jahren danach betreute er mehr als 1000 Teilnehmer in 60 Destillateurkursen, bei denen insbesondere die Praktika sowie die Spirituosen- und Drogenkunde durch Dobislaw betreut und gelehrt wurde.

1958 wurde durch Dobislaw der Neubau der Versuchslikörfabrik als Lehr- und Ausbildungsstätte in den Ruinen der Alten Mälzerei der Hochschulbrauerei betreut; zuvor fand der Betrieb der Versuchslikörfabrik in Räumen der IfG-Brennerei statt. Bis zu seiner Pensionierung 1968 war er Leiter der Versuchslikörfabrik der VLSF im Institut für Gärungsgewerbe.

Dobislaw verfasste eine Vielzahl an Artikeln für Die Branntweinwirtschaft und andere Fachzeitschriften. Von der Spirituosenwirtschaft wurde er als Berater geschätzt und mit der Entwicklung spezieller Rezepturen beauftragt, von denen einige auch heute noch in der Spirituosen-Produktion Verwendung finden. Seine fundierten Kenntnisse diverser Kräuter befähigten ihn zur Entwicklung der von ihm so benannten Drogen-Duftorgeln, die in der Preussischen Spirituosen Manufaktur nach wie vor Verwendung findet. Dort wird auch der von ihm entwickelte Dry Gin wieder hergestellt, der ihm zu Ehren als Ernst Dry Gin vermarktet wird.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Rezeptbuch für Destillateure. 4., neubearb. und vervollk. Auflage, Meininger-Verlag, Neustadt a.d.W. 1954.
 Reprint für Destilla GmbH Nördlingen
 Formulario de licorería – Métodos industriales para la fabricación de bedidas alcohólicas. Barcelona 1959 (Nachdruck 2004)

Literatur
 Der Destillateurmeister. Eine Informationsschrift der Vereinigung der Destillateurmeister. Nr. 36, Heilbronn April 1984, S. 1 f.
 Ernst Dobislaw † In: Die Branntweinwirtschaft vom 2. März 1984, S. 103.

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'Back to Basics' Targets Digital X-ray Dose Reduction
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A new Image Gently initiative emphasizes proper pediatric imaging procedures as technology shifts from standard screen-film X-ray to digital X-ray.
A new Image Gently initiative to improve radiation protection in pediatric X-ray exams emphasizes proper imaging procedures as technology shifts from standard screen-film X-ray to digital X-ray.
The Back to Basics campaign aims to "to reinforce the good habits taught with screen-film radiography," said Steven Don, MD, co-chair of the campaign committee. The program, launched by Image Gently, includes online teaching materials, checklists and quality improvement projects.
Over time, radiation exposure was rising with the use of computed radiography equipment - without radiologists noticing, Don explained. Vendors also were using different terminology, which could confuse technologists and affect dose, Don said. A standard terminology, which includes a target exposure index, was accepted a couple years ago, and new equipment follows this standard.
"We realize that various hospitals use different techniques, and we know exposure creep is occurring, and there's this new terminology that few people are aware of," Don said, adding this campaign calls for a return to the procedures done before the digital switch.
Children are at particular risk because they are more sensitive to radiation and cumulative exposure could have adverse effects. They are also more likely to receive X-rays than any other exam, according to the campaign.
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• Measure patient thickness for "child-size" technique
• Avoid using grids for body parts less than 10 to 12 cm thick
• X-ray only the affected area with proper collimation and shielding
• Check exposure indicators and image quality
If not accounted for, differences between screen-film and digital radiology processes could result in patients receiving higher-than-necessary dose, Susan D. John, MD, FACR, co-chair of the Back to Basics campaign committee, said in a statement.
"This initiative seeks to make radiology medical professionals aware of the differences and how to account for them. Modern radiation reduction techniques include a return to simple techniques, such as collimation, that allow children to consistently get low-dose exams," she said.
Image Gently is conducted by the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, founded by the Society for Pediatric Radiology, the American College of Radiology, the American Society of Radiologic Technologists, and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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The project Fathers and employers in action (ODA), which is co-financed under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism Programme 2009-2014, was presented on 3 March 2015. The Slovenian Peace Institute acts as Project Promoter with the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana), Slovenian Association of Free Trade Unions, Nicha d.o.o. and the Norwegian partner Reform – resource centre for men acting as project partners.
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The project underlines the relevance and role of the cooperation between the fathers, employers and trade unions in the design and testing of new strategies and the opportunities to establish work-life balance which directly address the relevant needs of working fathers. This is key in enhancing gender equality – covering both men and women – in all areas of life, and in promoting changes in the labour sphere which will benefit the employees and the employers. By raising awareness among fathers, employers and the general public regarding fatherhood equality and the importance of work-life balance, the project contributes to the recognition of the relevance of the equal role of the father in child rearing and family life.
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Cracking the Core Rotation as a Rookie
For the purpose of this exercise, the Kings are keeping their 2015 draft pick. Also, in spite of what you may have been told, there is math.
By Rob Hessing May 8, 2015, 8:00am PDT
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"With the 6th/7th/8th/9th pick of the 2015 NBA draft, the Sacramento Kings select Justise Winslow / Willie Cauley-Stein / Kristaps Porzingis / Mario Hezonja / Stanley Johnson / Myles Turner / Frank Kaminsky / none of the above."
And with that, a draft contest is won or lost, a fan base is elated, vacillated, inebriated and/or exasperated, and a draft thread burns to the ground in celebration or immolation.
Days later, when we sift through the rubble while Chad Ford sits on a beach earning 20% and Jason Thompson tweets "Deja Wow!,", we will begin to ponder as to the fit of our new prize, and how/where/if he fits into the rotation. Well I say never put off prognosticating tomorrow what you can pull out of your arse today. Are you with me? Then follow me to freedom!
Let's set some benchmarks here. First, we want to see our rookie play, but what we really want is for the team to be at least flirting with a .500 record, right? That is, the squawking over the lack of playing time for the rook would be minimized (or at least on the back burner) as long as the team was competitive and making us pay attention to the record of the eighth seed in the Western Conference into late March or April. Finishing with a better record than the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference would be just the lemon juice that this fan base's open sore needs!
So when we begin to determine rookie minutes, we can ignore the minutes that rookies get playing for bad teams. In other words, Marcus Smart got legit minutes this year for a Boston team competing for a playoff spot, while Elfrid Payton benefited from playing for an Orlando team that was in rebuild mode. This is not to say that Smart and Payton would not have had similar minutes had they swapped spots. It's just to say that what we are interested in here is how often rookies land in the core rotation on playoff-competing teams.
Next, let's define "core rotation." I see it as a team's top 8-9 players. Some teams that are stacked (Golden State) or trying to limit minutes to aging stars (San Antonio) may run a little deeper or wider, but for the most part a team will trot out an 8-9 man rotation, with the balance of the roster picking up most of its minutes due to injuries and the like. Warning: Do not review the Kings "core rotation" for 2014-15. It will only further depress you.
Reiterating, we are looking for core rotation minutes for a Kings team that might be competitive. But to be fair, we should probably not include the teams that are elite. Let's look at the average minutes for 8th and 9th men on teams that won 38-49 games last year (your 11 - 19 teams). The average 8th man comes to 1,300 minutes, while the average 9th man comes in at 1,100 minutes. For perspective, Nik Stauskas played 1,127 minutes last season. So let's split the difference and set the bar at 1,200 minutes.
Last benchmark: Throwing out special cases. 2nd year rookies and old rookies really don't apply here when it comes to the Kings and this draft, so the minutes of guys like Bojan Bogdanovic and Nikola Mirotic really don't apply. Nerlens Noel is already discounted due to Philadelphia being a bad team, but he also benefited from sitting a year (a la Blake Griffin).
Alrighty then. What we are looking for are rookies that have played at least 1,200 minutes for teams that are playing at least .463 ball (at least 38 wins) but not entering into the .600 realm (under 50 wins). If we could land a rookie that could play core rotation minutes for a playoff-competing team, we'd be pretty happy, right? (Note - I understand that 38 wins is not playoff-contending in the West, but since it is in the East, the numbers are applicable for the purpose of this exercise.)
2014-15: Marcus Smart (Bos) - 1,808, Dante Exum (Uta) - 1,817, Joe Ingles (Uta) - 1,673.
You could almost toss Exum and Ingles here, as Utah was never really in the playoff hunt. Their 19-11 record down the stretch of the season did pull them within a game of Phoenix, however, and on a par with Brooklyn and Indiana. Jabari Parker would have made this list had he not been injured. As noted above, Stauskas logged 1,127 minutes.
2013-14: Cody Zeller (Cha) - 1,417, Mason Plumlee (Bkn), 1,215, Tony Snell (Chi), 1,231.
Honorable mention: Steven Adams, who logged 1,197 minutes for the 59 win Thunder. Ben McLemore came in at 2,187 minutes. Ray McCallum added 897.
2012-13: Harrison Barnes (GS) - 2,058, Jae Crowder (Dal) - 1,353.
Twenty rookies logged at least 1,200 minutes, but Barnes and Crowder were the only two that did so for competitive teams. Thomas Robinson played 1,056 minutes, 809 for the Kings.
2011-12: This was a lockout season, so the combination of the late start and compressed season really skews the rookie numbers. That said, Chandler Parsons, Iman Shumpert, Markieff Morris and Kenneth Faried all exceeded the pro-rated minutes threshold of 1,000 (as did Jimmer Fredette and Isaiah Thomas).
2010-11: Landry Fields (NY) - 2,541, Evan Turner (Phl) - 1,797, Gordon Hayward (Uta) - 1,218.
Honorable mention: Gary Neal, who played 1,685 minutes for San Antonio. The Clippers had three rookies play in excess of 1,400 minutes (Blake Griffin, Eric Bledsoe, Al-Farouq Aminu). DeMarcus Cousins turned in 2,310 minutes, and Pooh Jeter added 860.
2009-10: Brandon Jennings (Mil) - 2,671, Taj Gibson (Chi) - 2,204, Chase Budinger (Hou) - 1,488, Sam Young (Mem) - 1,321.
Tyreke Evans notched 2,677 minutes, Omri Casspi 1,931, and 654 Mancakes were served. Darren Collison turned in 2,109 minutes for the Pacers, while Ty Lawson played 1,316 minutes for the Nuggets.
On average, about 30% of the rookies drafted onto mid-talent teams made the core rotation in their rookie season, coming in all shapes and sizes. Mind you, this is highly unscientific. But it probably provides a reasonable baseline, and that is that there is roughly a one in three chance that the Kings 2015 draft pick will crack the core rotation if the Kings are a mid-range record ball club.
It also sheds some perspective on the difference between what a team needs, and how quickly a rookie can provide it. For example, Willie Cauley-Stein may become a staunch NBA defender, but it will be easier said than done for him to come in and unseat 500+ NBA game veteran Jason Thompson. Kristaps Porzingis may have a sweet stroke from deep, but his body and the rest of his game at this point in time might be south of Victor Claver or Noah Vonleh, and those guys would be battling to crack the core rotation right now. Myles Turner may be no more ready as a rookie than was Hassan Whiteside.
We can certainly hope for the best as Kings fans, but the realism seems to be that if this team is going to be good this year, core contributions from its rookie pick will be the exception and not the rule. It is more likely that Nik Stauskas will be more prepared to crack the rotation than the rookie pick. It is certainly not impossible for a rookie to be a core contributor, and a leap into the top three picks would improve the odds.
It is absolutely possible that the Kings land a core contributor for this season when it is their turn to pick at the 2015 NBA draft. But absent of a little good fortune, it is not highly probable.
Tyrese Haliburton enters NBA's health and safety protocols A huge blow for Sactown.
Rumors: De'Aaron Fox's name is receiving interest throughout the league As the Kings try to make a big move, Fox might have to big included in any deal.
De'Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley III lead Kings to 126-114 win over Rockets The duo combined for 53 points.


Yesterday I turned 31. Crazy.
I took off Thursday and had Friday off for my birthday, so four-day weekend. It's been great. Yesterday we went to Arooga's with my parents. I got their Beer Steamed Alaskan Crab Legs, which are fabulous. I had received a coupon for a free dessert or beer for my birthday and got the Funnel Cake Sundae. Yummy.
I got the latest Professor Layton DS game and bought a book on HTML5 and one on CSS3. My netbook had been my birthday/Christmas gift.
The netbook has been great to use to write my novel on. It helps so much to be able to lay down to write it. I'm about 5000 words behind where I should be. I took a couple days off from it this week. The novel is progressing along the plot I had planned for it for the most part. It's hard to make myself start writing most days, but I mostly enjoy it once I start.
I hadn't played WoW really for months, but a week ago I suddenly decided I wanted to play it again. Soo…I've been wanting to play that instead of write my novel. It just figures, that the time I would want to play would be November. I'm looking forward to the new Worgen race in Cataclysm. I like the new changes to the Hunter class, but I'm still iffy on the Warlock changes. I've been getting Calandria (the warlock and my only level 80) geared out pretty good.
Now I need to get started on writing for the day.
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Following the Letter of the Library Law
Lawyer-librarians field questions on legal issues in public libraries
By Sallyann Price | June 23, 2019
Author, attorney, and former librarian Mary Minow.
A pair of leading lawyer-librarians led a forum on legal issues in public libraries on June 23. Tom Lipinski and Mary Minow, co-authors of three books on legal issues in public libraries, fielded questions from several dozen librarians and library workers representing public libraries and library systems across the country. They didn't offer specific legal prescriptions, but rather addressed broader legal principles and relevant case law around public library issues.
Queries addressed topics ranging from privacy issues to unruly teens, from how to respond to police warrants to dealing with people experiencing homelessness. The topic of patron behavior—and attendant issues of penalty policy and compassion—struck a chord, as the session's format evolved from question-and-answer to open exchange among librarians raising questions and weighing in to share experiences from their libraries.
"When thinking about penalties, you want a policy that's written, that patrons are aware of," Lipinski said. In the event that someone brings suit against a public library, he said, "the courts will look at both intent and practice. What was the written policy, what notice was given, and how was it enforced?" He also recommended libraries keep written accounts of incidents that spurred policy changes, which could form an evidence trail and public record in the event of a legal challenge. The panel also recommended establishing a proactive relationship with local police, rather than waiting for an issue to arise with law enforcement.
Another hot-button topic involved public accommodation of service animals. Emotional support animals and other pet therapies have grown in popularity but are not addressed under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Marti Goddard, access services manager and ADA coordinator for San Francisco Public Library, shared compliance insights: "We have a no-pets policy, but library staff are legally able to ask two questions: is this dog required because of a disability? And what has this dog been trained to do for you?" These questions can help clarify who depends on a service dog and who's attempting to sneak a disruptive pet onto library grounds.
For more information, visit the ALA Connect group on legal issues in public libraries, where Lipinski, Minow, and Public Library Association staff regularly weigh in.
This year marked the fourth convening of the Public Library Association's Annual Conference forum on legal issues in public libraries.
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Lower cholesterol // Reduce risk of cardiovascular disease // Cause muscle pain and fatigue // Fail to significantly prolong your life.
Akira Endo scanned the room, waiting for his turn to speak. The turnout was impressive—some 200 physicians and scientists. Endo had traveled from Tokyo to the sixth International Symposium on Drugs Affecting Lipid Metabolism in Philadelphia on this day in 1977 to elaborate on his discovery of a molecule called compactin in blue-green mold. In college Endo had been impressed by the biography of Alexander Fleming, the Scottish scientist who discovered penicillin in a moldy culture plate. Endo knew that penicillin and other antibiotics can inhibit many enzymes, and he hoped that studying molds might yield a substance that would block HMG-CoA reductase, an enzyme that raises cholesterol levels. After testing more than 6,000 fungal extracts, he finally found one that safely inhibited the enzyme. He thought compactin might hold the key to treating elevated cholesterol, which had recently been linked to heart attacks and strokes.
As a French scientist finished his talk on cholesterol-lowering drugs called fibrates, Endo took the podium—and the room began to empty. Only 30 or so attendees lingered to hear his presentation, "Effects of ML-236B, a Competitive Inhibitor of HMG-CoA Reductase, on Cholesterol Metabolism," and there were no questions when he finished.
Endo left the conference dejected, but before heading back to Japan, he accepted an invitation to visit the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center laboratory of Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, who had read several of Endo's papers on compactin. Brown and Goldstein had met as interns at Massachusetts General Hospital and went on to conduct groundbreaking research on cholesterol metabolism. One major achievement was their 1973 discovery of a receptor for low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, a protein that removes that "bad" form of cholesterol from the blood. Endo signed on to collaborate with the two scientists, and their subsequent research demonstrated that compactin did more than block HMG-CoA reductase; it also turned up the activity of LDL receptors. And while Endo's audience in Philadelphia was blasé about compactin, drug companies could hardly have been less so: Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of the class of drugs born from Endo's discovery, the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, better known as statins.
The first statin sold in this country—Mevacor (lovastatin), approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1987 for patients whose cholesterol levels couldn't be controlled by diet—was followed by a half dozen more, which are now among the most widely prescribed drugs in the United States. Many doctors agree that statins, which have been shown capable of reducing LDL cholesterol by 35% to 55%, represent one of the most important advances in modern medicine. "Statins have had the largest impact of any medicine ever developed, short of penicillin," says Sekar Kathiresan, director of preventive cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Yet the drugs were nearly abandoned during several crucial stages of development, and despite defenders' assurances that statins are safe, they have been linked to reports of side effects from the beginning. Complaints about muscle pain and fatigue are the most common, though some users have reported cognitive and psychological problems such as poor memory and depression. For statins, the common perception that the drugs may cause unpleasant side effects could help explain why so many people quit refilling their prescriptions. In one trial, three of four elderly patients instructed to take a statin stopped using the pills as directed within five years.
One physician looks at a pill and sees a potent defense against the leading cause of death in the United States and much of the world. Another sees an expensive illusion that offers most patients false hope and potential harm. How can that be?
From the discovery of cholesterol to the current state of American heart health, a history of the world's most prescribed class of drugs.
1. "A Historical Perspective on the Discovery of Statins," by Akira Endo, Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences, Volume 86, 2010. The man some scientists insist should receive the Nobel Prize tells the story of how he discovered the first statin, compactin.
2. "Rosuvastatin to Prevent Vascular Events in Men and Women With Elevated C-Reactive Protein," by Paul M. Ridker et al., New England Journal of Medicine, Nov. 20, 2008. The controversial JUPITER trial showed that statins prevented heart attacks in apparently healthy people. Skeptics doubted the study's integrity, while true believers debated how to interpret its results.
3. "Cholesterol Lowering, Cardiovascular Diseases, and the Rosuvastatin-JUPITER Controversy," by Michel de Lorgeril et al., Archives of Internal Medicine, June 28, 2010. De Lorgeril and eight colleagues sharply criticized the JUPITER study, which has been interpreted as evidence that statins are underused.


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23 August 2016 - Nutraingredients - Vegans should take vitamin B12 supplements "permanently": German Nutrition Society
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It is "difficult or impossible" for vegans to get enough of nutrients like vitamin B12, the German Nutrition Society (DGE) has said in a position paper now cited by the government.
"With a pure plant-based diet, it is difficult or impossible to attain an adequate supply of some nutrients. The most critical nutrient is vitamin B12," the DGE wrote in its review of scientific literature now cited on the German government's website.
Other potentially critical missing nutrients include protein, "indispensable" amino acids, long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins like riboflavin, vitamin D and minerals like calcium, iron, iodine, zinc and selenium.
"Since rejecting any animal foods increases the risk of nutrient deficiencies and thus of health disorders, a vegan diet is not recommended by the DGE during pregnancy or lactation, or for children or adolescents of any age."
However they said people who do choose to follow a vegan diet should "permanently" take vitamin B12 supplements and have vitamin B12 intakes regularly checked by a physician and "select very specifically nutrient dense foods and fortified foods, in order to ensure supply of nutrients, particularly critical nutrients".
The report also said vegans should "possibly" have the supply of other critical nutrients regularly checked by a physician.
"Any diet that does not lead to the intake of adequate levels of essential nutrients and energy is unfavourable. The DGE recommends a diet that includes all groups of foods in the nutrition circle - including animal products," it said.
International opinion
The report cited the differing opinions of several international nutrition bodies.
In the past the likes of the US Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and the Canadian Paediatric Society have said an appropriately planned vegan diet that includes food supplements and fortified foods is nutritionally adequate and therefore appropriate for individuals during all life stages, including pregnant and lactating women.
"In the opinion of the British Nutrition Foundation a well-planned, balanced vegetarian or vegan diet can be nutritionally adequate. More extreme diets, such as strict macrobiotic and raw food diets, are often low in energy and a range of micronutrients, making them wholly inadequate and inappropriate for children," the report said.
The Portuguese National Programme for the Promotion of a Healthy Diet recommends vegan infants are breastfed beyond the recommended period of six months up to two years during the complementary feeding phase to make sure they receive enough high quality milk protein.
Meanwhile the Nutrition Committee of the German Society of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine "rejects" a vegan diet for healthy infants, unless supplements are taken.
Making the impossible possible?
Yet spokesperson for the pan-EU Vegan Society, Jimmy Pierson, told us: "With a little knowledge and planning, rest assured you can get everything you need from a vegan diet for great health."
He said the British Dietetic Association (BDA) backed this idea.
In 2014 BDA and the Vegan Society signed a Memorandum of Understanding seeking to: "Ensure that medical professionals and service providers know that well-planned plant-based, vegan-friendly diets can be devised to support healthy living at every age and life-stage."
Pierson said: "A reliable source of vitamin B12 is essential, either from cereals, non-dairy milks, yeast extract or any other foods fortified with B12; or from a supplement. And we recommend that everyone in the UK, regardless of diet, considers a vitamin D supplement."
Fastest growing lifestyle trend
DGE said vegan and vegetarian diets were increasingly popular in the Western world, with the typical vegetarian in this region being female, young, educated and wealthy, living in a city and following a 'healthy lifestyle'.
It said data of veganism in Germany varied from between 0.1% and 1% of the population, amounting to between 81,000 and 810,000 people following this diet.
According to the Vegan Society, veganism is one of the "fastest growing lifestyles" in Britain with at least 542,000 people following a vegan diet, compared with 150,000 a decade ago.
"More and more people are acting upon the health and environmental benefits of veganism, and becoming more savvy about the realities of animal agriculture and deciding they do not want to contribute to the pain and suffering of animals," Pierson told us.
He cited the World Health Organisation's (WHO) report last year, which classified red meat consumption as "probably carcinogenic to humans" and processed meats consumption as "carcinogenic to humans".
"We know from several major studies that a varied, balanced vegan diet is effective in preventing several cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and strokes – all serious chronic health conditions," he added.
"Vegans, on average, also have lower obesity rates than any other dietary group; particularly important as obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges we face, according to the World Health Organisation."
In a post on the DGE report entitled 'Vegan diets can have risks' (translation), the German government said nutrition was a private matter to be decided by the individual.
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 Ship of Fools – gruppo musicale britannico
 Ship of Fools – traccia dell'album Morrison Hotel dei The Doors del 1970
 Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (Running) / Ship Of Fools – singolo dei Van der Graaf Generator del 1977
 Ship of Fools – album dei Tuxedomoon del 1986
 Ship of Fools – album degli Ship of Fools del 1988
 Ship of Fools – traccia dell'album Now and Zen di Robert Plant del 1988
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 Ship of Fools – traccia dell'album Face the Heat degli Scorpions del 1993
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The new pannists were part of a Scotiabank-sponsored South East Steel Orchestra summer programme, which held a graduation ceremony on Wednesday, at the Stubbs Primary School.
Janine Defreitas, Personal Banking officer at Scotiabank, congratulated and commended the new pannists for their accomplishments over the two weeks of the workshop, and stated that her institution was proud to have the rising orchestra under its Bright Future Programme.
"We at Scotiabank are very pleased to be the official sponsor of the Scotia Bank South East Steel Orchestra for the past three years.
"Under the Bright Future Scotiabank programme, we decided to embark on this exciting initiative in 2011, which we know will have an impact on the youths of St Vincent and the Grenadines for many years to come," Defreitas said.
The banking officer indicated that by partnering with the South East Development Inc (SEDI), Scotiabank was fulfilling part of its mandate under the Bright Future Programme, with its goal of giving hope to youths by supporting education, arts, culture, the environment, as well as helping the underprivileged and abused.
"I will also like to say a heartfelt thank you to the members of South East Steel Orchestra, for choosing us to be a part of their organization. We are very proud of you, we are very proud to be associated with you and we encourage you to continue to help our youths to be deeply rooted with steel pan and music and we sincerely hope you will join the Scotiabank steel orchestra," Defreitas noted.
Also addressing the graduation ceremony were Rosita Snagg, president of SEDI; Assistant Superintendent of Police Jonathan Nichols, representing the Pan Against Crime Committee; Maureen Cupid of the National Commission for Crime Prevention; manager of the Scotiabank South East Steel Orchestra Cecil Ryan; and Oneka Morgan, president of the Youlou Pan Movement.
Apart from their certificates, some members of the graduating class were presented medals for outstanding performances.
These include: most enthusiastic student Neejay Shallow; most improved Jermaine Grant; the student who displayed most leadership skills Xaveon Caesar; and musical excellence Lomar Morgan.


While flicking through the in-flight magazine yesterday, I spotted a short article on the BBC Good Food Show which started today at Olympia. Celebrity guests included Heston Blumenthal and Nigella Lawson, two of my food heroes (for different reasons).
I sallied forth to West Kensington and looked at the prices which were an order of magnitude higher than expected. What the heck...came all this way. Heston at 3 p.m. in the Cookery Experience theatre. Splendid. Nigella was appearing on Sunday. Drat.
The exhibition hall was full of middle-age ladies sampling Britain's finest; cheese, ham, sausages, wine, beer, bread, hand-made super-expensive crisps, jam, pickle and liquorice (85p for a liquorice pipe?). A handful of men and a group of schoolboys took refuge in the Bose speaker display. There were cookery demonstrations and stands selling knife sharpeners and 'miracle choppers' which brought back memories of being dragged around the Ideal Home Exhibition as a small boy. I miss those tiny Hovis loaves.
At 3 o'clock we entered the theatre for Heston's show which was based upon his Christmas programme from last year. And where did it start? Oman. We had to open envelopes which contained a gel strip of frankincense to eat while he was describing how gold, frankincense and myrrh were included in the first course. Tasted just like home.
The show continued with more videos and whimsical stories enhanced by different smells, tastes and sounds which are an integral part of the Blumenthal eating experience.
After the question and answer session, I was determined to get some advice on building an oven on the beach. I fought my way to the stage past people trying to take photos or shake the hand of the celebrity. After a quick chat, I came away with an email address to get detailed instructions.
I made a few more circuits of the drink sections after the performance in an attempt to get rid of the taste of frankincense before heading back to the train. Not sure what all the other passengers were thinking, but I bet it wasn't about cooking a family-sized turkey on an Omani beach at Christmas.
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