How to Make Banana Muffin Tops (V, GF): this moist vegan muffin top recipe is easy & healthy! Learn how to make banana muffin tops – gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free.
When we were little kids, my sisters LOVED tearing the muffin tops off of muffins. They were the best part—crispy top, moist interior and they had this beautiful dome full of goodies, like chocolate chips!
Naturally, I stood in horror when these poor muffin tops were torn off and their did-nothing-to-anybody bottoms were cast aside. You know me, I'm a softie for the underdog/under-muffin… Just… thank goodness the tops can't be ripped off of banana chocolate chip oatmeal breakfast bars or this vegan banana nut bread… is all I'm sayin'.
Since muffin tops were already fully a thing by the time I was an adult, I figured I could contribute to the cause (lol) by creating an easy gluten free vegan muffin top recipe! Today, we're gonna learn how to make/bake muffin tops without a muffin top pan (or a muffin pan).
Who's excited?!? Let's do it!
If you're looking for a muffin top pan recipe, but then realized you don't want or need a muffin top pan (hehe), then look no further than this gluten free banana muffin tops recipe! We're baking these banana muffin tops on a regular 'ol baking sheet!
Store your vegan muffin tops in an airtight container at room temperature, out of direct sunlight, for up to 1 week. Or, you can freeze your GF muffin tops for up to 2 months. Just store the muffin tops in a freezer-friendly container or bag. Thaw for 30 minutes before enjoying, or heat in 10-second increments until just a bit warm. Similar storing instructions for my super yummy vegan peanut butter banana breakfast cookies!
Coconut Oil: sub with melted vegan butter, flavorless oil. Applesauce might add too much moisture in this muffin top recipe, so I wouldn't recommend it.
Gluten Free Oat Flour: sub with gluten free all purpose flour or make your own homemade oat flour.
How to Make Banana Muffin Tops (V, GF): this moist vegan muffin top recipe is easy & healthy! Learn how to make banana muffin tops – gluten-free & dairy-free! Refined Sugar-Free.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or greased foil. Set aside.
Peel bananas and add to a large mixing bowl. Using a sturdy whisk, fork or pastry cutter, mash bananas until smooth. Add coconut oil, maple syrup, flax egg and vanilla. Whisk until well incorporated.
Add oat flour, almond meal, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Whisk together until just incorporated, making sure no flour patches remain. Fold in vegan chocolate chips.
Using a cookie scoop, scoop and drop balls of thick batter onto the prepared baking sheet, spaced evenly apart. I used 3 tablespoons of batter for the tops. Tops will expand and spread just a bit. Optionally, dot each muffin top with chocolate chips. Give the pan a few taps to help lightly flatten the tops.
For smaller tops, bake for 13-18 minutes. My smaller tops took 15 minutes. For larger tops, bake for 15-20 minutes. My larger tops took 17 minutes.
Allow tops to cool on the cookie sheet for about 10 minutes (on a cooling rack). Using a heatproof spatula, transfer tops directly to a cooling rack to cool completely before storing. Storing instructions below. Enjoy!
Adapted from my Best Moist Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.
Try my favorite Gluten Free Vegan Banana Recipes: Banana Chocolate Chip Breakfast Bars, Peanut Butter Banana Breakfast Cookies, Banana Bread Coffee Cake.
- Storage notes: Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
- Freezing instructions: store in a freezer-friendly container or bag for 1-2 months. Allow to thaw at room temperature for about 30 minutes, or heat in the microwave in 10-second increments until just warm.
- Nutrition Information: is an estimate based on the best-selling, most common brands per ingredient. Also, it's estimated based on 29 servings per recipe, without the optional chocolate chip topping.
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The tops are my favorite part! Love this healthier version.
Haha me too! 😊 Now we can eat even more of them!
I love this idea and my kids will too! Who wants to eat the bottom of a muffin anyways?? Haha thanks so much for this brilliant recipe!
LOL I know, right? 😂 Hope you and the kiddos enjoy them!
Well I never! I had no idea such a thing existed! Muffin tops to me means something totally different (size tiny jeans I'm looking at you). Still, it's a genius idea and a fab recipe!
These look so delicious, such an easy, quick & fun recipe to try with kids in the kitchen. Thanks for the share.
Love these for an after school snack for the kiddo!
Woohoo! I know right? So yummy in the morning!
Ok muffin tops used to be my CRACK at Panera. Totally digging this healthier version!!!!
Looks divine! I can make a batch of these at home, definitely a huge hit in our house!
Woohoo! They're so easy and fun to make!
Your Chocolate Chip Cookies look divine!
These will be great to have on hand this week! I love how healthy these are!
Totally! Hope you enjoy them Catalina!
I love that it's only the tops! Perfect! That's my favorite part.
This looks incredibly delicious! This is a perfect afternoon tea snack.
We loved these muffin tops. I generally would put walnuts in banana muffins, but put chocolate chips in and they were great! Loved that they were easy and GF.


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1 fundamental concept in logic
2 Contentious why?
3 Logic bias?
4 Rule of inference
5 Wittgenstein
6 evident circularity?
7 "Just in case"
fundamental concept in logic[edit]
The article says
Logical truth is one of the most fundamental concepts in logic,
Why is it fundamental to logic? I'm no expert but I thought that concepts like "truth" mostly belong to classical logic, which these days is just one particular logical system. I went and changed "logic" to "philosophical logic" since I think it identifies the article's general subject matter a little more precisely. I also don't think "logical truth" is a fundamental concept in mathematical logic. I could be wrong though. 66.127.55.192 (talk) 12:03, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Its fundamental because almost everything that logicians do (including mathematical logicians) can be expressed as accounting for logical truth. They just do it using different methods. I understand your impression, and I certainly believe that your edit was good faith. However it really does consist in a POV edit.Greg Bard (talk) 18:46, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Contentious why?[edit]
"The concept of a rule of inference is very closely connected to the concept of logical truth. Usually when a logical system is constructed, it is constructed so that every rule of inference is equivalent to a logical truth and every logical truth of the system can be transformed into a rule of inference consistent with the others."
There has been a long discussion at Talk:Rule of inference. But no actual question has come up over this language (other than Ghouse calling it "mealymouthed" which is just rhetoric.) What exactly is the controversy with this? Greg Bard 22:57, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Are you being intentionally deceptive, or did you not read the discussion there? Carl pointed out on Jan 21 that your source was speaking only of the Principia Mathematica, not of logical systems in general. On Jan 22 he pointed out that the terms were not usual for formal systems generally, and gave the obvious counterexample. Later that day, he pointed out that your formulation at that time was a category mistake; though your current formulation avoids this, it does so by not specifying how to convert between logical truths and rules of inference. (This unfortunately robs it of all semantic content; I'm surprised the discussion continued after that point.) Emil J. gave an (excellent, IMO) example of why truths and rules of inference cannot be equated except in special cases. I pointed out on Feb 14 that the source you used as reference was extremely dated: a statement true of most of the formal systems known at the time need not be at all representative of the logical systems known today, let alone of all logical systems across all time. The following day I pointed out that you didn't have sources backing your now-expanded claim regarding most constructed systems. The next day Carl and Emil suggested that Ayers was referring to the deduction theorem. This, unlike your proposed addition, is well-defined; I (later) agreed that, if this was the intent, the section could be reworded to become true -- though it's not obvious to me that it would be relevant here at logical truth. (I take no position on that at this time.) I gave an example that same day showing why (a particular interpretation of) your statement is uninteresting. The following day, Carl suggested that the deduction theorem was the intended interpretation of the statement, and (curiously, considering *this* discussion had not yet begun) said that it should not be cast "as a statement about 'logical truth'".
That's a great number of serious objections from almost every editor posting in that discussion (notable exception: Arthur Rubin). At the risk of slight redundancy, I will note that your current statement is unsourced (it's certainly not what Ayers said). I'm usually quite tolerant of unsourced material (relative to other admins), but in a case as clearly contentious as this, you would be remiss to make a claim without good backing!
CRGreathouse (t | c)
00:06, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Please offer a counter-proposal before a more 'mealy' formulation is proposed. So far I have been doing all the work of collaboration.
I would like to include
Daffy Duck is an excellent actor.
to the article. Is this good? If not, please offer an alternate wording.
CRGreathouse (t | c) 01:03, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
That is not good faith collaboration is it? Do you see that as equivalent? Really? I think you need to take a break.Greg Bard 01:08, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Funny, I feel just that way about you. CRGreathouse (t | c) 01:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
But consider my perspective for a moment. You add something to an article; someone removes it. You put it back up; it's removed again, and many editors explain why it's not appropriate. You persist in adding it, the arguments continue, and it's removed again. The selection you suggest never changes much, and the changes do not address the fundamental issues pointed out. You wait a week and post the same flawed content to a different article, while denying that any issues were raised against it. I wade through *over a month's worth* of discussion and summarize all the issues with it, including several that show that it's essentially irreparable. You then say that, by not suggesting a change to it, I'm the one acting in bad faith?
Logic bias?[edit]
I thought Greg would get a kick out of that title. :) The article has, in section Logical truths and tautologies, two types of tautologies: those formulas or propositions that are true under every assignment of truth values, and truth-functional tautologies. These exclude intuitionistic logic (and probably most paraconsistent logics). Why?
It should be explicit in the MOS that exceptions caused by appeals to non-classical, non-standard interpretations, and very esoteric counterexamples should be held as special exceptions, not deal-breakers for the whole article. If you want to elucidate on those distinctions, they should be in a separate section. Greg Bard 00:45, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
I don't consider that esoteric at all. It [that is, intuitionistic logic] is an extremely popular logic, often used in many fields outside of logic proper. (I grant that paraconsistent logics are niche, though.) CRGreathouse (t | c) 01:19, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Rule of inference[edit]
The latest version seems not incorrect, at least for classical logic. I'm not sure that it needs a section*, but as this article is quite short that doesn't seem to hurt. I would like a better source, if at all possible; if anyone comes across one, feel free to add it. (The current source is quite dated; the majority of work in formal logic has been done since it was published!) Also, there's no mention of where in the source the connection is made, which makes using the reference inconvenient.
* Actually, I don't really see a need for this sentence at all. This seems a quite tenuous tie to rules of inference; many more closely related things are not mentioned at all. But since the sentence is clearly very important to User:Gregbard I'm happy to oblige him, as long as the sentence is correct. :)
Wittgenstein[edit]
"A logical truth was considered by Ludwig Wittgenstein to be a statement which is true in all possible worlds."
I understand the point that is made here but Wittgenstein mentions neither possible worlds nor logical truths in the Tractatus directly, so this statement is at best anachronistic. Possible world semantics were developed in the 50s by Saul Kripke. Larion Garaczi (talk) 19:10, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I agree and I don't remember any discussion of logical truth in the technical sense of this article in Tractatus.159.92.9.130 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:33, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
evident circularity?[edit]
"A logical truth is considered by some philosophers to be a statement which is true in all possible worlds."
How is possible world defined? Can one define it in a substantially different way than:
A pssible world (for me) is a world (?) in which all necessary truths (in my view) hold.
Subsidiary question: what is a world here?
denis 'spir' (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:03, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
"Just in case"[edit]
On behalf of the general audience, I have replaced the misleading and confusing expression "just in case", with its correct, and easily understood equivalent, "if, and only if" (also, in more technical writing, "if and only if"). The following explains the error:
Language Log: "Just in Case"
Southern California Philosophy for philosophy graduate students: "Just in Case".Dr Lindsay B Yeates (talk) 21:44, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
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Novelist Paula McLain loves bringing forgotten women in history back to life.
But this passion can trigger backlash from some readers.
"I'm attracted by women who have somehow been forgotten by history," says McLain, whose new novel, Circling the Sun, recreates the early life of Beryl Markham, who achieved fame during the 1930s by being the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic while also brooking notoriety in her private life.
"I get to shine a light on their lives and their accomplishments – to reintroduce them to the world in a way, and reinsert them in what I see as their rightful place in history."
However, McLain has also learned that her books can trigger controversy.
With her 2011 novel, The Paris Wife, she made the bestseller lists by writing about a woman that virtually nobody remembered – Hadley Richardson, the first of novelist Ernest Hemingway's wives. The Paris Wife was assailed by feminists who simply couldn't stand Hemingway and the macho image he cultivated. They were angered by Hadley for not standing up to her egotistical, self-absorbed husband.
"Somebody called her a bath mat," McLain, 50, is laughing over the phone from her home in Cleveland. "But you certainly wouldn't call Beryl Markham a bath mat!" Born in England and raised in what is now Kenya, Markham was very much a free spirit – and often a reckless one whose freewheeling sexuality reputedly led to a fling with the present Queen's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester.
Markham's moment in history came in 1936 with her historic solo flight. She resurfaced in the public consciousness in 1942 when she published a poetic memoir, West With The Night. She then returned to the shadows and died in poverty.
McLain aims to rescue this unusual woman from what she sees as an undeserved obscurity. "The few negative reviews that have come in focus on the unlikeable parts of Beryl's personality, that she was a notorious woman with a lot of scandal in her life, that she was selfish. But you can't please everyone – right?" However, for some readers, Circling the Sun may commit a bigger offence by casting a harsh light on one of the 20th century's mythic romances as enshrined in the Oscar-winning Hollywood film, Out of Africa, and the book of the same name that inspired it.
The 1985 movie, shot in Kenya, starred Meryl Streep as married Danish baroness Karen Blixen (who wrote under the pen name of Isak Dineson) and Robert Redford as Denys Finch Hutton, the big game hunter who was Karen's lover.
"All we know from Out of Africa, and particularly the movie, is that this was one of the greatest love stories of all time," McLain says. Her book suggests that Out of Africa is a rather sanitized version of what actually happened.
That's because Beryl Markham and Denys Finch Hutton were also lovers. This strong-willed young woman, driven by passion, became a participant in a doomed love triangle while sustaining a friendship with the older women she was betraying – Karen Blixen.
McLain manages to sound tactful about the shortcomings of Out of Africa.
"It glossed over the more complex details of Denys and Karen's relationship," she notes. "There were tensions, there were obstacles. And Beryl, intimately involved with both of them, has sort of been written out."
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There's a harrowing scene early in the novel when the young Beryl is mauled by a lion.
"I like that moment," McLain says. "She in a way identifies with the lion and sympathizes with him because he has a wild nature and is simply being himself by attacking her."
As a wild spirit herself, Beryl was under pressure to conform – which is why she was pulled into a disastrous first marriage at the age of 16. She knew nothing about sex back then, but she learned quickly and after the collapse of that marriage, embarked on a series of affairs. In the novel, she says she's taking a cue from her African friends: "For them, sex doesn't get tangled up with guilt or expectations. It's something you do with your body."
The novel offers an in-depth look at the culture of a privileged white society in colonial East Africa – a society in which indolence could be a lifestyle, marital vows were disregarded and "pounds of opium were smoked."
"This was between the wars when the world had upended. People were trying to reinvent themselves with a wildness which some see as recklessness. People were pushing back against – forces."
She considers Beryl Markham a striking representative of this age, but there were times when she became exasperated as she sought to bring this often maddening but mercurial woman to life in her novel.
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Innovative Malaria Research in Southeast Asia: a UCI GHREAT Initiative (Video Review)
August 17, 2013 August 13, 2015 by ihsection, posted in Information and Social Media, Research, Stories from the Field
by Niniola Soleye
The University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) recently released the first video in their four-part series showcasing the success of their Global Health Research, Education and Translation (GHREAT) Initiative. The initiative is headed by IH section member Dr. Brandon Brown. The goal of the video series is to demonstrate how GHREAT projects are enhancing health and saving lives all over the world. This first video was shot in Thailand and focuses on malaria research in Southeast Asia.
Myanmar has the largest number of malaria cases in Asia. Due to the poor economic conditions in the country, people immigrate to neighboring countries, including Thailand, to look for employment opportunities. Additionally, there has been an increase in drug-resistant malaria and an influx of counterfeit drugs. That, coupled with poverty and people not having funds to travel to the hospital or buy medicine, has resulted in malaria becoming a major public health problem in the region.
UC Irvine faculty, staff, and students partnered with the ministry of health, hospital workers, local health workers, and academic researchers in China, Myanmar, and Thailand to study malaria control in the border regions, and develop solutions for containing the malaria outbreak.
The video shows the UC Irvine team observing local health workers as they perform diagnostic blood-tests for malaria in Thai villages. Their observations led them to focus their efforts for this project on developing an innovative, non-invasive diagnostic test using saliva instead of blood.
Untreated, malaria can lead to death two to three weeks after infection, so early diagnosis and treatment are key. Blood testing requires workers to send samples away daily, delaying the start of treatment. Using saliva would allow for a fast, portable, low-cost diagnostic tool, all critical factors in a developing country setting.
One scene that stood out showed a young child getting tested for malaria. She was crying because she didn't want to get her finger pricked, and also because she was afraid of the health worker. In situations like that, the new test would be quite beneficial.
Overall, the video does a good job of emphasizing how direct, firsthand experiences and observations are important when trying to innovate and solve problems in global health. I would have liked to hear more about the technique behind the saliva test, their border control efforts, how they plan to deal with the counterfeit drug problem, and how they'll address drug-resistant malaria but the video doesn't go into detail on those topics.
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Global Health News Last Week (plus interest in a new working group!)
March 9, 2011 August 13, 2015 by ihsection, posted in News
Attention IH Section Members: Dr. Kaja Abbas, MPH student at the University of Rochester, is gauging interest in forming a working group focused on using system science to improve global health, similar to the intitiaves being promoted by NIH. Her interests are in conducting system science research on global health policy by modeling population and disease dynamics and economic evaluation of public health interventions and systems, with a focus on HIV and TB. Dr. Malcolm Bryant, our section chair, has encouraged the expansion of our section's activities in areas of technical expertise, and Dr. Abbas is enthusiastic about a working group within the section that promotes system science methodologies for global health solutions. She welcomes your thoughts and suggestions at kaja [dot] abbas [at] gmail [dot] com.
Global Health Delivery online's HIV prevention community is hosting a "virtual expert panel" March 7-11 to continue the dialogue around PrEP as a novel approach to prevention. Panelists from Uganda, South Africa and the United States will lead the online discussion, highlighting various barriers and opportunities to implementing PrEP in clinical settings; how to encourage long-term adherence; and what additional research questions need to be answered. Panelists include (1) Douglas Krakower, MD, a fellow in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, (2)Andrew Mujugira, MBChB, MSc, the East Africa regional medical director for the Partners PrEP study, and (3) Vivek Naranbhai, PhD, who was involved in CAPRISA microbicide gel study. All GHDonline members can participate in this online discussion. You can sign up here if you are not currently a member.
Paramount Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni people in the Eastern Province of Zambia has urged his subjects to get circumcised in order to reduce the chances of spreading HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases in his land.
Britain is threatening to pull out of the Food and Agriculture Organization due to "patchy" performance.
Due to uncertainty in past estimates, the Indian government has formed a 16-member expert group to determine the annual death rate caused by malaria in the country each year.
The breakdown of the air conditioning in the plenary hall of the Philippines' House of Representatives stalled the heated debate of a controversial reproductive health bill. The bill is vehemently opposed by the Catholic Church and pro-life groups and has caused a stir in the largely Catholic country.
A massive demonstration rally was held in New Delhi to protest a free trade agreement between India and Europe, which many fear may threaten the production of low-cost generic drugs, particularly HIV medicines.
US researchers believe that half of men in the general population may be infected with human papillomavirus or HPV, the human wart virus that causes cervical and other cancers, strengthening the case for vaccinating boys against HPV.
A recent study published in the WHO bulletin argues for the need to implement gender-specific tobacco control activites to curb the growing tobacco epidemic.
The World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, announced the launch of the Global Health Data Charter, a project designed to improve global health by leveraging the collection and management of data.
A new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation found that the poorest in Thailand have significantly more difficulty accessing diabetes care than the general population.
A research trial found that a microbicide gel with the ARV tenofovir, initially designed for vaginal use, may also be effective in stopping HIV transmission during anal sex.
A report released by UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children 2011," highlighted India's poor child and maternal health conditions.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative, discusses why it is so difficult to eradicate polio. Meanwhile, former US President Jimmy Carter is leading his own campaign to make guinea worm the second disease (after smallpox) to be eradicated.
Amanda Glassman writes about Bangladesh's success story in drastically lowering its maternal mortality rate.
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is expanding its project (which is funded by the UK's Department for International Development) to reduce HIV-related maternal mortality in South Sudan.
Prompted by Burma's (Myanmar's) transition to "civilian rule" after last November's elections, the Global Fund has returned and is providing grants for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB programs.
The WHO has declared Nepal polio-free after no infections were reported during a six-month period, while a new outbreak is spiking in the DRC.
The massive flow of refugees fleeing violence in Libya has created a humanitarian crisis, as organizations struggle to provide for the basic needs of nearly 175,000 people who have crossed the border into Tunisia, Egypt, and Niger.
After losing 4,500 lives to the cholera epidemic that raged through Haiti after the January 2009 earthquake, doctors in Port-au-Prince say they are bringing the disease under control. Unfortunately, health experts fear that the rainy season will cause a fresh outbreak in Nigeria.
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Mama Drama: The Value of Traditional Birth Attendants
December 11, 2010 August 13, 2015 by Jessica, posted in Maternal and Child Health, MDGs / SDGs
I often seem to have babies on the brain these days, most likely because many of my college friends who got married a year or two ago are beginning to have children. For my generation, this of course means that pictures of a now-pregnant friends or new babies wrapped tightly in blankets are constantly popping up on my Facebook feed. One particular friend's experience caught my eye, however, because she impressed (or shocked) most of us by delivering her first child, a baby girl named Evelyn, at home. While thinking about it, it struck me that while home births are so unusual (and often frowned upon) in the U.S., they are much more supported in Europe – and they are often the only option for mothers in developing countries.
According to the WHO, skilled attendance at births is considered to be the single most important intervention for ensuring safe motherhood – this means both the presence of a accredited health professional (doctor, nurse, or midwife) and an environment that allows for access to emergency obstetric care. Increasing the number of births with skilled attendance is crucial to reducing the 536,000 maternal deaths and 3.7 million newborn deaths that occur globally each year. Unfortunately, only about 62% of births in the developing world are attended by a skilled practitioner; in some countries, this figure is less than 20%. Additionally, there are regional disparities: while improvement in the proportion of assisted births has increased worldwide, sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia lag behind other areas, and rural and impoverished women are less likely to receive skilled care.
Many of communities in rural or resource-poor areas already have traditional birth attendants who, though they have no formal medical training, are respected by the residents. While some countries, such as Kenya, have banned these women from practicing to try to encourage women to go to the hospital, others argue that this will only marginalize women who cannot afford medical care (or the transportation to get there). A more constructive approach, utilized by the MOM Project (mobile obstetric medics) on the Thai-Burma border, mobilized the traditional birth attendants in the area to improve health outcomes and could serve as a model for other resource-poor areas. Burma (Myanmar), which spends about 50 cents per capita (about 3% of its budget) on healthcare, has some of the worst health indicators in the world, and the ethnic groups along the borders are even worse off than the rest of the country. This intervention, designed by researchers at Johns Hopkins, incorporated traditional birth attendants into a three-tiered provider network designed to improve access to skilled care. Traditional birth attendants improved antenatal care services, health workers provided supplies and worked to prevent post-birth complications, and maternal health workers provided oversight, training, and emergency care. The intervention increased prenatal care and postnatal visits within seven days, malaria testing and ITN use, de-worming, and vitamin use. Other studies have shown similar improvements in mortality and referral rates after training traditional birth attendants. This underscores the importance of mobilizing traditional birth attendants to improve maternal and newborn health, particularly in areas where medical facilities and trained personnel may not become available any time soon.
MDG 5, which focuses on maternal health, aims to reduce maternal mortality rates by 75%. As countries strive toward this goal, traditional birth attendants could serve as a valuable resource to bridge the gap to skilled maternal care until the capacity of health systems can be built up to provide skilled attendance for every birth.
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T-Mobile is first carrier to remotely kill Note 7 batteries
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BARCELONA, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 22: A logo sits illuminated outside the Samsung pavilion on the opening day of the World Mobile Congress at the Fira Gran Via Complex on February 22, 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world's largest communications companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and wearables gadgets. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) -- Samsung Galaxy Note 7 holdouts will soon have dead phones.
T-Mobile released an update on Wednesday to prevent Note 7 users from charging devices, rendering them useless. AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint will roll out similar updates the first week of January.
The move will force the hands of those who have not yet traded in the faulty device to finally get an alternative.
Samsung announced the U.S.-based battery-killing program earlier in this month. Verizon initially said it wouldn't participate due to "added risk" for users without alternate phones, but the company changed its mind and will push an update on January 5.
Carriers killing the Note 7 is the grand finale of the exploding phone debacle that began with a massive recall of Samsung's flagship devices. In September, the company recalled millions of Note 7 phones after a battery issue caused some to catch fire.
Most users already exchanged their phones. According to Samsung, about 93% of Note 7 devices have been returned in the U.S.
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Top anti-Google investigator quits European Commission
Nicholas Banasevic, who led the charge against Google, will join the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
EU competition czar Margrethe Vestager is losing another of her most experienced commanders in the campaign against Google to a large law firm, just as she is escalating her battle against Big Tech.
Longtime official Nicholas Banasevic, who spearheaded the European Commission's antitrust probes against Google, will join the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. The date of the move is still to be confirmed.
Banasevic is far from being the first high-profile name to jump ship this year. His move follows the departure of two other top competition officials with long experience in fighting Silicon Valley giants — Cecilio Madero Villarejo and Carles Esteva Mosso — who also are joining law firms that act for the very same companies. Madero was the chief of antitrust within the Commission's competition department when Vestager launched her crusade against Google.
Banasevic has "decided to leave DG Competition and the Commission to join private practice," Olivier Guersent, director general of the European Commission's competition department, informed his staff on Monday morning. "Nick has been key to the success of a number of the landmark cases that have made the reputation of excellence of DG Competition," Guersent wrote in an email seen by POLITICO.
Regulatory news outlet MLex first reported the move on Monday.
Banasevic, a British national, has worked at DG Competition for more than 20 years. Since 2012, he has headed the unit that brought three Google investigations that hit the search giant with more than €8 billion in fines. On November 10, the EU General Court will rule on Google's challenge of the first of those cases, which saw the company fined €2.42 billion over its shopping comparison service.
While the Commission has successfully concluded these cases with fines against the search giant, complainants in the cases grumble that Brussels' action has been less effective at reining in Google's dominance of the market.
The announcement of Banasevic's departure comes right after a five-day court hearing in Luxembourg over the Commission's €4.3 billion Android case against Google. At the court, the case team was represented not by Banasevic, but by his long-time deputy Brice Allibert.
Since May 16, Banasevic has also temporarily been in charge of the overarching Information, Communication and Media directorate following the promotion of Guillaume Loriot.
Christian Riis-Madsen, the EU chair of Gibson Dunn's antitrust and competition practice, welcomed his new recruit in a statement.
"We have admired Nick's achievements and dedication to the Commission over a long career and we are excited to welcome him to Gibson Dunn in the near future," Riis Madsen said.
The departure of a third top competition official from the Commission in less than a year triggered concerns about revolving doors.
A Commission spokesperson said Banasevic was "granted an authorization" for the move "with the appropriate restrictions imposed." The aim of the procedure "is to prevent any risk of a real, potential or perceived conflict with the Commission's legitimate interest," the spokesperson added.
Gibson Dunn frequently represents Apple in U.S. lawsuits, including in its recent antitrust battle with game developer Epic. Vestager in April issued a charge sheet against Apple following a complaint from Apple Music rival Spotify. This and another investigation into Apple's app store rules were not handled directly by Banasevic's unit, but by two units that reported to him in his capacity as acting director.
Earlier this year, Madero and Esteva Mosso joined law firms specialized in antitrust after working for years as deputy director-general at DG COMP.
Madero, who was involved in high-profile battles such as those against Microsoft and Google — hand in hand with Banasevic — joined law firm Clifford Chance less than a year after he left his position at the Commission. The announcement came in May, a few weeks after the news that Esteva Mosso would leave his job as a deputy director general in charge of state aid to join law firm Latham and Watkins. The two announcements in rapid succession fueled concerns and debate over former top competition officials joining law firms.
Clifford Chance does work for Amazon, while Latham and Watkins does work for Facebook — two companies that are also involved in pending EU antitrust investigations.


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Browse:Home Featured News Frisbee matches ultimately lead to something bigger
Frisbee matches ultimately lead to something bigger
Published by peedeepost on January 23, 2015 | 0 Comment
Contests are a draw for youth ministry
By Kevin Spradlin
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ROCKINGHAM — It's been raining much of the day and the temperature peaked at 40 degrees. If that.
The field beside Mount Olive Baptist Church is nothing but a giant puddle. C.J. Smith eyes the field and smiles.
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Ultimate frisbee is supposed to be a sport with little, if any, contact. That's not always the case with a jump disc.
Smith, the church's youth pastor, is not alone. With him stand between 25 and 40 teens. Sometimes more. Begging pardon from area postal workers, these people will work through rain, snow, sleet or hail for a chance to be Ultimate frisbee. Ranging between formal and recreational, depending on who shows up each Sunday afternoon at 2, each match serves as an opportunity to relate to youth on their own terms — and can lead to more important conversations off the field of play.
"It's kind of weird how it all started," Smith said. "It just started with some of our kids at Mount Olive. We decided to play one Sunday."
It was intended to be a one-time event. It's been anything but, and "after a while, we started playing every Sunday."
It's gotten to the point where the kids don't even bother sending Smith a text if there's inclement weather. They know the answer: He'll be there.
"People," Smith said confidently, "don't question if we're gonna play. Everybody knows, come to Mount Olive at 2 o'clock."
The weekly Ultimate frisbee contests have brought to the field young athletes who don't attend Mount Olive Baptist. Smith said some attend smaller churches that don't offer a youth program. Others don't attend anywhere else. Last September, a youth event coordinated between Mount Olive, Second Baptist and Freedom Baptist served as a stage to gather all who might be interested in playing.
They showed up. They played. And from there, "it's exploded."
"Did I plan for it to be a huge outreach event? Not at all," Smith said. "We had one week we had like 60-something kids. We've had over 200 students come out and at least try to play just in the last two to three months."
Players come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes a member or two from Richmond Senior High School's football comes out to play. Sometimes it's a wide receiver or tailback. Sometimes it's a lineman.
The games are likely the most perfect type of event. After all, Ultimate players regulate themselves. There are no referees. There is no instant replay.
"Ultimate stresses sportsmanship and fair play," according to sport rules published on WhatIsUltimate.com. "Competitive play is encouraged, but never at the expense of respect between players, adherence to the rules, and the basic joy of play."
C.J. Smith, youth pastor at Mount Olive Baptist Church, is using Ultimate frisbee to reach out to youth.
The games give Smith an opportunity to talk with youth when he might not otherwise know what's going on in their lives — or even know them at all. One regular Ultimate player lost his grandmother a few weeks back. The players huddled on together on the field.
"We took time to just pray for him out there," Smith said.
Another young man survived a rollover car accident. It offered Smith a chance to reach out to the family.
"I had no clue who he was six months ago," Smith said. "Ultimate frisbee is a good way to know kids I otherwise wouldn't have known."
The games, Smith said, allow him to indirectly build relationships "that lead to other conversations."
"For me, that's the No. 1 part of youth ministry. If they don't know you, they could care less what you have to say."
Early on in Ultimate play, Smith realized that Sunday afternoon games featured mostly white players. That was a problem.
"God's not color-specific in any way," said Smith, who took over the church's youth ministry a little more than four years ago after relocating with his wife from Greenville, S.C.
He said Ultimate frisbee has brought out players of all ethnic types.
"It's definitely been a great way to build relationships."
Have disc, will travel
Smith, 26, is less than three weeks shy of the start of his first international mission trip. On Feb. 12, he will fly from Miami, Fla., to Guatemala City in the Central American country of Guatemala. After an eight-hour ride covering 239 land miles, he and other missionaries will arrive in Poptun, in the El Peten department of the country.
Smith and other missionaries with Light of the World Ministries, based in Jacksonville, Fla., will spend a week distributing repaired wheelchairs to children who can't afford them. He'll also help build three houses for the less fortunate.
"It's gonna be tiring, but at the same time it's gonna be rewarding," Smith said.
The mission trips began about three years ago when Smith and students from Mount Olive Baptist's youth ministry began visiting Jacksonville Beach each summer with Light of the World Ministries. Smith said he plans to "learn the ropes" there this year and perhaps as soon as next year be a part of a Mount Olive Baptist-organized team.
And yes, "I'm taking frisbees down there."
"Soccer's probably bigger down there," Smith said. "They probably don't know what a frisbee is."
Chances are they'll soon find out.
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Syna Schreiber (born 20 November 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. Up until her marriage in 2003, she competed under her maiden name Syna Schmidle.

Biography
Schreiber was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, the daughter of tennis instructor Wolfram, who began teaching her when she was four.

Aged 14 she received a wildcard into the main draw of a WTA tournament in Leipzig and played her first tour match against Steffi Graf.

In 1997, she won a $25k tournament in Flensburg, and that year reached her career-high ranking of 152 in the world.

As a doubles player, she made WTA Tour semifinals at the 1999 Bol Ladies Open with Barbara Schwartz, and Palermo in 2001, partnering Antonella Serra Zanetti. She won eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

She had her only Grand Slam main-draw appearance at the 2000 US Open, as a qualifier in the women's doubles with Maja Matevžič.

ITF finals

Singles: 9 (3–6)

Doubles: 16 (9–7)

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Living people
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