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Cerebral Palsy, Do My Kids Have It?
Before you start asking all sorts of questions and begin to arrive to all sorts of conclusions, let�s start you off with the right facts about cerebral palsy. First thing that you need to learn is that cerebral palsy is not a disease. It is a condition or more correctly a group of chronic conditions which affects the body movement and our muscle coordination. The condition is brought about by damage to an area of the brain and occurs during the development of the baby at the time of pregnancy.
This is where the word cerebral palsy came from: the word cerebral meaning brain and palsy which refers to the weakening or poor control of the muscles. It has been diagnosed that the condition is not progressive meaning it does not get worse over time. Nonetheless, the condition is not the only thing that needs to be considered. There are a number of secondary conditions that result from cerebral palsy which can get worse. So do you think that your kids or someone else�s kid you know has cerebral palsy? Let�s look at some of the basic facts.
When you look for the symptoms of the condition, you will see some very noticeable signs like difficulty with such basic motor functions like writing, balance and even walking, as well as presence of involuntary movements. However, do remember that the combination of symptoms varies from patient to patient. Babies can even exhibit symptoms of the condition. It has been observed that babies with cerebral palsy are slower in achieving development such as crawling, sitting, rolling over, walking and even smiling. Doctors can check through motor skill and reflexes tests as well as the family�s medical history.
An MRI or Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan and a CT or Computerized Tomography are most often ordered for patients suspected of having the condition. However, you need to understand that these tests despite being to advanced are not as conclusive as one might think. What these machines can do is to exclude some other possible brain disorders. However, these scans can show scars, cysts or any other changes in the brain.
There are different kinds of cerebral palsy, just for your information. The types are actually based on the kinds of problems balance and movement patients encounter or where in the body the problem is located. Examples of the former are athetoid and spastic cerebral palsy. While the latter includes the hemiplegia, diplegia and quadriplegia kinds.
When we say spastic we refer to the inability of the muscles to relax and athetosis on the other hand refers to one incapable of controlling movement. Meanwhile, hemiplegia refers to having cerebral palsy in one arm and one leg on one side of the body. The diplegia refers to having the condition on both legs and quadriplegia means having it on all the arms and legs and even in body and neck muscles.
As you might already know, cerebral palsy is not a curable condition. You cannot just ask a doctor for a pill to swallow and everything will go away. Once you have the condition you pretty much will have it the rest of your life. However, one can help prevent it from happening. A pregnant mother can take a couple of precautionary measure to ensure that her baby will not develop cerebral palsy. Among the recommended measures include reducing exposure to infectious virus and bacteria, less exposure to e-rays and various other medications, and even controlling wisely disease like anemia and diabetes helps.
Despite the lack of cure, there are procedures or treatments wherein patients diagnosed with cerebral palsy can help lessen the effects of the condition on their day to day lives. So if you think you�re child do have cerebral palsy, one should be prepared mentally and emotionally to handle the situation.
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Something I never thought of before was that needs and wants could be in both catagories because people with no water could want water but it is also a need. An ahh haa moment I had during social studies was the definition of a right. I think that this is a great topic to talk about and learn during social studies.
some I have never thought of was if Im hungry thats a need for food but that can also be a want because I would want food. I also found out that some needs are just a want.
I never knew that there are so much more needs that just the basic things your body needs to survive. An ah-ha moment I had was when we had to make a list of Wants and Needs because it really cleared up everything, and now I think I understand it. I think that is a good topic, and it can lead to a lot of discussing. Because everyone has there own view on what human rights are.
So thing I never thought of was, to have the rights to practice your language or speak it in differnt countries. I mean if I went to Mexico I would not have to speak Mexican, but most people would probably speak Mexican and it would be easier to understand them.
I wonder if we can come up with any other writes, wants, and needs.
I was wondering what page in the text book is the grade 7 math in pleaseeee someone tell me cause that's tge only thing I didn't write down in my planner.
I'm very interested in our new SS unit. We looked through all the little cards and I thought most of us here have all these things and there are people out there who don't. There are millions of people out there who don't have all these rights. In all of the continents (world). I wonder is there even enough money and supplies to satisfy millions of people who don't already?
Something I have never thought of before is that your needs can also be tied in to your rights. Also, your needs can be your wants. Like say if you live in a less fortunate place and you need clean water, you would probably also want clean water. And it is your right to have clean water. It all kind of ties in somehow. My ah-ha moment was when the teacher told us that playgrounds and recreation was not just a want or a need, it was also a right. I remember this from a few years ago with the right to play thing at school. I think that this is an interesting topic and I think it is an important thing that all people know their rights, needs and wants.
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One thing I never thought was a need was education. I didn't have an ah-ha moment today but my opinion on our SS unit right now is that it is quite interesting and fun to learn about with the projects that we are doing.
Something I have never thought of before was that some wants could also be needs. For example, someone might want a computer or laptop. But they could also need one because without one you couldn't research for a project, or comment on the class website. An ah-ha moment was when the teacher said that playground and recreation is a right. I have never thought of it as a right until today. I think that this unit in social studies will be very interesting.
I didn't know that Playground and Recreation was a right. I find this topic in Social Studies very interesting. Finally getting my facts straight about what a right is. I suppose that would be my ah-ha moment.
I never new that you needed a right to share your options and when I learned you did I had an ah-ha moment. My reaction to this unit is we will learn are needs and wants that other people might have and might not have.
I never knew that there could be things like computers in both the want and need category.
One thing I hadn't thought of was how needs, wants and rights can all be connected even though they can be so different. One ahh-haa moment I had was when we read out our sentences off of the slip of paper. Almost every group had fairly treated as one of the ones it could be connected to. I realized that it makes sense since all the problems were not ones that everyone had so if most kids don't have these issues then it means they aren't being treated equally. I really like the new unit we are starting. I think it is important for us to know the difference between needs, rights and wants because we need to know what we should be standing up for if we aren't getting it. We should also know what is expected for us to get and be able to do.
Some things I never thought about were, that sometimes the things that we need can be a want aswell. But sometimes we don't need it at the time and just want it. For example food. An ah-ha moment I had was when we each got a scenario and had to find out which need goes with it. I only thought of one but then the people in my group pushed my thinking and added on and also we were told another right and I had that ah-ha moment. My thoughts on this topic for SS is I think it's going to be interesting and also think that there is a huge benefit of learning needs, wants, and rights. We get to learn what each of us, human beings, have the right of doing and that can effect our lives later on in life and in the present day. It's going to be a great unit to start.
Something I never thought of was how fair treatment and non-discrimination was a want. I know that it's a need but my ah-ha moment when I found out it's kinda both.
I never knew that playground and parks was something you need I thought is was something you want because you can still get physical education by just going outside and just jogging around or playing. An ah-ha moment I had was when we where talking as a group and putting the rights and wants together because it made a lot more sense. I think this unit is going to be fun because last year with my other teacher he went over some of these things but I'm exited to expand my background knowledge.
Somthing that I thought of is needs can become want or the other way round. That could be an ah ah moment. our topic for S.S is rights wants and needs.
I never knew that wants can be need. For example nutritious foods. You may need them to survive yet you may want one for a snack. An ah ah moment I had was that playground and recreation was a right. As she explain what It was it made alot more sense, because you need to play and you can't just be keeped inside. Also what Rylee said our last year teacher talked about this and I would like to add on my background knowledge. I think this Social Studies unit will be fun!
I never knew that some of the wants and needs can be sort of in the middle of the wants and needs. Like for example, a personal computer Is a want and a need because you want it because you have it all to yourself and if you have other siblings you don't have to wait till they are done with the main computer. But its also a need because you need it for projects, homework and studying. My ah-ha moment was when we had the strips of paper with the small stories on them and we had to figure out which needs went with the story, and how the people in my group expanded each others thinking. I think that the new SS unit would be really cool and interesting to learn about.
What I didn't know was that some of your needs are also your rights. I was only there for the second half of the day, so I don't know if we did any S.S before I arrived.
For matching the cards to the situation, I noticed that a lot of the needs were the same for all of them.
Our new unit may be interesting. I don't know a whole lot about rights and needs, and I also didn't know that playground and recreation was a right that we have.


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From Evidence to Action: What Works for Women and Girls
Posted by Amelia Peltz, Gender Advisor, Office of HIV/AIDS on Thursday, July 19th 2012
In the coming days, thousands of political leaders, public health experts, activists, people living with HIV and other delegates from around the world will gather in Washington D.C. to debate, discuss, reflect upon, and celebrate the achievements that have been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
But in Lesotho, and other southern African countries, the epidemic remains a painful reality.
During my recent trip to the Mountain Kingdom, a tiny country surrounded on all sides by South Africa, conversations about the epidemic inevitably turned to the fact that women and girls are a much greater risk for HIV due to a combination of biological, structural, and cultural conditions. In many ways, Lesotho clearly illustrates the nature of the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, where 60% of those living with HIV are women. In the nine countries in southern Africa most affected by HIV, prevalence among young women aged 15-24 years is on average about three times higher than among men of the same age.
In Lesotho, where women and girls have much higher rates HIV than men, our U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Country Team and implementing partners are acutely aware of the realities facing women and girls and are continuously seeking ways to ensure that programs and services use the most up-to-date evidence to meet their needs.
Fortunately, the evidence of what works for women and girls is just a click away.
What Works for Women and Girls: Evidence for HIV/AIDS Interventions
First launched at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010, this groundbreaking resource is a comprehensive website documenting the evidence for effective HIV interventions. Spanning more than 2,000 articles and reports with data from more than 90 countries, What Works for Women and Girls contains—in one centralized, searchable location—the evidence of successful gender-specific programming from global programs and studies, with a focus on the Global South.
Having the evidence of what works is crucial for organizations working on the front line of the HIV/AIDS response. In Kenya, for example, the evidence has been essential for crafting national policies on gender-based violence and HIV prevention for women.
From Evidence to Action
As we celebrate the rich evidence base in What Works for Women and Girls, we must now focus on what this means for the implementation and scaling up of the HIV/AIDS response. How can we ensure that the evidence is applied correctly and consistently to ensure quality programs at scale? Are our programs and services addressing the underlying gender inequities that not only put women and girls at risk for HIV, but men and boys too? How will we use the evidence to inform sound public health policies and priorities?
Most importantly, how can we ensure that the available evidence helps us to maximize the benefits so that we can, finally, turn the tide against HIV/AIDS?
For the women and girls of Lesotho, and across the southern Africa, there is not a moment to lose.
Title IX creates Opportunities for Women in Sports and Development
Posted by Susan Reichle, Assistant to the Administrator on Tuesday, June 26th 2012
Susan Reichle is the Assistant to the Administrator for USAID's Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning. Credit: USAID
When Title IX was enacted, I was just six years old and had no idea how this one piece of legislation ensuring equal rights for women in sport and education would impact me and millions of girls over the next four decades.
Having equal access to participate in athletics did far more than just pay my way through college on a field hockey/lacrosse scholarship. More importantly, sports taught me and millions of girls critical life skills such as leadership, teamwork and perseverance. Sports empowered my generation to believe we could do anything if we just worked hard enough. No longer were we limited to playing only half court basketball, the barrier that my grandmother had faced because girls were still viewed as the weaker sex.
Because of Title IX and Billy Jean King's iconic victory over Bobby Riggs in 1973, my generation was raised to believe we were just as strong as men and deserved the same rights to the playing field. When our team was given access to the turf only at 5 a.m. so that the boy's football team could practice during prime hours, our coaches began to push back.
Eventually we were taught to demand the same opportunities and equal access as men, and this is reflected today in our drive to compete with men in the workforce, seeking to rise to the highest levels in the workforce.
Has the empowerment that came with Title IX been an easy road for women?
No, there is still debate as to whether women and girls can really "have it all" and achieve full equality. Clearly, there is still work to be done. But as I travel around the world, I see the impact when women and girls are not provided equal rights. When a country leaves 50 percent of its population behind – whether it's denying access to education, sports or healthcare – development suffers.
At USAID, we aim to ensure women are more often seated at the decision-making table to realize their rights and to influence outcomes at all levels. The evidence is clear: investment in women and girls delivers a disproportionate dividend in a country's development.
As many have said during this 40th anniversary, Title IX was more about social change than sports. But sports taught us the importance of competing and never taking ourselves out of the game. Sports also taught us that while we may be able to go faster alone, teamwork is the key to winning.
As we celebrate all that has been accomplished these past 40 years, I am reminded of the words of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, member of the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame and three-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field: "Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals."
Video of the Week: Empowering Maasai Women in Tanzania
Posted by Megan Johnson on Friday, May 25th 2012
USAID is helping Maasai women in Tanzania gain literacy and numeracy skills so that they can obtain land rights, start businesses, and become involved in local government. By 2011, more than 2,000 women had completed the program. Their new communication skills allow them to conduct business activities more easily and empower them to assert their rights. For the first time in their lives, these women are earning incomes independently through small enterprises and farming. One graduate of the program says, "It has helped me to mobilize other women because the program saw potential in us."
Helping Women Feed the World
Posted by Guest Author Seema Jalan, Director, Global Development Policy, Women Thrive Worldwide on Friday, May 18th 2012
Close to a billion people worldwide go to bed hungry every night, and at least six out of ten are women. It's ironic, because women in developing countries are largely responsible for feeding their children and growing the food that will feed their families. Around the world, the traditional image of a farmer is not a man on a tractor but a woman farming a piece of land about the size of a three-car garage.
That's why we're excited that governments, civil societies, universities, and private companies have begun investing in long-term programs to combat hunger and invest in farmers worldwide. Through the U.S. Government's Feed the Future initiative, women are being recognized as playing a major role in tackling global hunger.
Over the next few days, G8 leaders from the world's biggest economies will meet on critical global issues, including the challenge of feeding the world's seven billion people. Here are seven things we at Women Thrive believe any program—whether from government, an NGO or private company– have to do to succeed by reaching women.
Work with female farmers, who often play very different roles than men in agriculture. Women often grow different crops, work at different times of day and have different priorities than male farmers. Coming up with a one-size-fits-all program usually means you don't reach women farmers.
Ensure property rights for women, so that they can actually own the land they farm and gain control over their crops. Over and over, I've seen that women work on the farm, but don't see the income from it because it's usually men who own the land and take the crops to market to sell.
Increase access to credit and financial services, so that women can properly save, and purchase seeds, fertilizer, and other tools to increase their productivity.
Provide women farmers with time and labor-saving tools, which would make farming, cooking, and marketing easier and would allow women to carry out their household and childcare responsibilities more efficiently.
Enhance transportation and technology infrastructure such as irrigation and roads, which would save women time and increase their income. But make sure they are roads from villages to local markets, not just four-lane highways from export-processing zones to ports.
Expand skills training to women farmers so that they are more successful and productive in their work. And that might mean going to train them in their homes instead of setting up a training station far away from the village when women have children to look after at home.
Integrate natural resource management, which simply means teaching women how to conserve things like water, land, and fuel to increase productivity as well as preserve the environment.
Women in developing countries may seem remote and far away but the more I travel the more I realize how much we all have in common. Mothers around the world just want to the basic dignity to feed and provide for their families. And simple, targeted investment can have an enormous gain. If women can feed their loved ones and themselves with maize, cassava and plantains, they can transform their families, communities, and societies. And since women are the majority of farmers in some areas, this makes an enormous impact on food security. We will all be the better for it.
For more information about Women Thrive Worldwide, please visit: http://www.womenthrive.org/
Video of the Week: Planting the Seed for Economic Growth
Posted by Juan Gamboa on Monday, May 14th 2012
Ever wonder how Gladioli bulbs can help an estimated 1,000 families start earning their living and jumpstart a fledgling flower industry in Pakistan? USAID, through the Small Grants Program and the US Ambassador's Fund, seeks to empower grassroots organizations and community groups working to strengthen civil society in Pakistan.
The U.S. Ambassador's Fund provides small grants to improve basic economic or social conditions at the local community level. The Fund supports high-impact, quick-implementation activities, that can be completed within one year without requiring further funding.
On this occasion, we highlight one of the results of the U.S. Ambassador's Fund in Rawalakot, known for its dire economic situation for the 540,000 residents who until recently only planted maize and wheat.
In a strategically located valley just 120 km from the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Rawalakot's high elevation (1,615 m.) makes it ideal for growing gladioli bulbs which are increasingly becoming popular in major cities.
USAID financed the purchase of gladioli bulbs, training sessions for farmers, and consultations of an agricultural specialist to help the families grow the flowers correctly. Thanks to the project, families have increased their revenues by over 70%, with women being the main beneficiaries of the project. This project has enabled women to become salient participants in the flower industry and because of related activities involving the sale and distribution of the flower, it is estimated that many more families in surrounding communities will benefit greatly from this project. As a result of the increase in income, families are now able to invest the money into their children's education and household expenses.
A Mother's Fight
Posted by Florence-Ngobeni Allen on Tuesday, May 8th 2012
The following is a guest blog post from Florence-Ngobeni Allen. She is an HIV/AIDS educator and counselor, and a long-time Ambassador for The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Fighting a mother's fight against HIV has been a very significant part of my life.
Florence-Ngobeni Allen and her baby. Photo Credit: A Mother's Fight
I have worked as an HIV educator for more than a decade, counseling thousands of women in South Africa who have struggled with loss, stigma, and illness because of this epidemic.
As an Ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, I have fought for mothers around the world to have access to the tools and support they need to keep their children healthy and HIV-free.
And I have fought my own, personal battle with HIV for more than 15 years.
I first worked as a counselor at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, helping new mothers who tested positive for HIV. I discovered that my story was not that different from the women I met there.
A lot of the mothers could not afford HIV medicines and services for themselves or their babies. Some would report that they had not eaten for days. Others talked about feeling scared to disclose their HIV status to their partners for fear of violence. Too many of these women came to our clinic with bruises on their arms, their backs, and their hearts.
Every day, I was surrounded by the cries of babies who were fighting the effects of HIV, and mothers who were trying to care for them and keep them alive.
These experiences were so traumatizing for me. To get through the toughest moments, I would lock myself in the bathroom and cry. At that time, there were no treatment options available for HIV-positive mothers or their babies in South Africa.
I knew what was next for them. I knew that their babies were going to die.
The reason I knew is that I had experienced the same thing. I lost my beautiful baby girl, Nomthunzi, to AIDS when she was only five months old.
Nomthunzi was born with no complications to her proud parents. She was just a few weeks old when my husband grew ill. He passed away three months later.
Shortly after, Nomthunzi got sick as well. I brought her in for HIV testing, where I received the worst news a mother can hear. I learned that I was HIV-positive, and I had unknowingly passed the virus on to my baby. Nomthunzi passed away just a few weeks later.
When I became an HIV counselor, I knew the pain these new mothers were experiencing. The pain of losing a child is unbearable. But the pain of realizing that there is nothing you can do to save your child is equally intolerable.
Q&A with the First Lady of El Salvador Vanda Pignato
Posted by Gabriela Chojkier on Tuesday, May 1st 2012
The Impact Blog interviewed the First Lady of El Salvador Vanda Pignato about development issues important to her in El Salvador.
The First Lady of El Salvador and Secretary of Social Inclusion Vanda Pignato meets with Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean Mark Feierstein.
First Lady, I know you are very passionate about women's rights. How are you raising the profile of this issue in El Salvador?
As Secretary for Social Inclusion, one of the main goals during my mandate is to promote public policies based on a human rights approach to ensure the realization, respect and guaranty of rights of historically excluded populations. Women make up over half of the population in El Salvadorand have been excluded from access to governmental services, as these were designed without a gender specific focus. With this in mind, the idea to create a center specifically for women to promote and enhance their fundamental human rights became an issue that needed to be addressed. Ciudad Mujer is a program that has raised awareness of the invisibility women have had when it comes to accessing state services, and has begun to change the model of government by integrating services and having a gender based approach. But what is most important is that Ciudad Mujer is changing the lives of thousands of women and they have begun to recognize themselves as right holders.
Do women in El Salvador have an active voice at the table, be it in politics, business, or civil society? What can be done to enhance the role of women?
As in most societies and countries, women's visibility within politics, business, civil society and others is not at the same level and condition than that of men. This is the heritage and legacy of secular discrimination based on gender issues, a discrimination that figures some jobs are for men and some jobs are for women, a discrimination that figures some colors are for men and other colors are for women, a discrimination that figures some toys are for boys and some are for girls, and so on. This discrimination has created a cleavage between men and women as an irreconcilable antagonism. No society or country is free of this kind of discrimination. Many countries have developed laws to prevent and punish discrimination based on gender issues. Many societies have advanced in their awareness on women's rights. But the world itself has a long road ahead to walk. Some countries and societies have to walk more than others, but all have to walk.
Bearing that as a starting point, many actors are responsible to enhance the role of women, as much complex work needs to be implemented. The Government has a role to play: eradicate all de jure discrimination, promote the eradication –in a progressive manner– of all de facto discrimination (even using criminal law if needed) and to take the initiative to promote women in higher seats sharing the same responsibilities as men, as in the military forces, in the non-traditional jobs, etc. But what is most important, as a part of the Government's role is to recognize –and conduct itself consequently and coherently– that men and women are not equal, but both have the same rights that must be ensured and respected equally.
How does the spike in crime and violence affect women?
Let me start my point with this view: if discrimination against women is a matter of unequal distribution of power, than that makes women vulnerable –women are not vulnerable per se, however they have been historically vulnerated– so the main victims of crime and violence are women. I am not saying that women are killed more frequently than men; however I am speaking about victimization that is the result of crime and violence.
Many crimes and violent behaviors committed are mainly addressed towards women. Sexual harassment, rape, and all kind of sexually motivated crimes and violent behaviors do victimize women (and children, mostly girls). Domestic violence, in addition, occurs almost exclusively against women. And many –but I think I should say most– of these crimes and violent behaviors fall under the unregistered data, I mean, the system never realizes their occurrence. From this perspective, we will never know how many of these crimes and violent behaviors really occur.
Secondly, I can understand that many other crimes and violent behaviors will victimize men directly. It usually happens with murders and assassinations, but who is the indirect victim? Women. They will alone have to attend to their children's necessities while growing up, as a widowed mother, as an older sister, as a grandmother. What I am trying to say is that women are indirect victims as a result of crimes and violent behaviors. All the exigencies of reproductive work fall upon her shoulders.
Thirdly, the spike of crimes and violent behaviors is not only a matter of quantity (as the frequency of these events) but also a matter of quality. Violence against women is increasing daily and it is hard to pinpoint the source of it. In the past, for instance, drugs were trafficked inside devices, baggage, etc., but now, women's natural anatomic cavities are used to traffic or hide drugs. In the past, a crime of passion usually finished in killing the lover and his or her cheater, but now, most of the time, women's body shows high levels of unnecessary roughness and violence. In fact, this observation applies not only to crimes of passion, but to any other crime or violent behavior where the intention is to kill a woman. The situation of Ciudad Juarez speaks for itself and El Salvador, as well as many other countries, is facing similar situations.
What I have said gives me the opportunity to express something: we cannot continue the traditional approach to analyze and understand crime and violent behaviors. It is absolutely necessary to provide those analysis and understandings with a gender approach too.
As Secretary of Social Inclusion, what are your top two priorities?
It is very hard to pick two priorities, since the Secretariat for which I am responsible for works with various groups; women, children, the elderly, people with disabilities, sexual minorities. We have taken firms steps in promoting these groups' rights and continue to seek social change to include these groups in all public policies. However, the common denominator in my work rests upon two principles: to build and enhance public policies based on a human rights approach (keeping in mind the national Constitution and the international treaties that are operative to El Salvador) and to bring down any form of discrimination. Those principles are linked with reciprocity. I cannot address my work on human rights being tolerant with discrimination; and with the same token, I cannot fight against any discrimination if my work is not supported by an approach based on human rights.
With the intention to answer your question, I must then say, that my top two priorities in my work as Secretary of Social Inclusion is the human rights based approach in public policies and the thorough fight against any form of discrimination.
We work very closely with you and your government; do you have a favorite USAID project in El Salvador?
As Secretary of Social Inclusion I have to thank all the cooperation USAID provides to Salvadoran people and Government. But obviously, I do consider as my favorite, all the aid and help you provide in the coincidence of my work, mainly, the eradication of all forms of discrimination and the promotion, guarantee, realization and fulfillment of women's rights. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude to the contribution you have made directly to Ciudad Mujer; thousands of Salvadoran women appreciate this gesture and would love to express their gratitude.
Celebrating Girls in Information and Communication Technology Day
Posted by Ann Mei Chang on Friday, April 27th 2012
As Featured on State Department's Dipnote Blog
Ann Mei Chang serves as the Senior Advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary of State's Office of Global Women's Issues.
With the global shortage of skilled professionals in Information and Communication Technology, or ICT, why are so few girls pursuing careers in this lucrative and fast-growing field? This is not only a question of equal opportunity, but one of economic necessity. We will not be able to compete effectively in the increasingly global and technologically sophisticated economy if we do not harness the full human potential of all our people.
Today, we are pleased to be joining the ITU (International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency) in celebrating Girls in ICT Day. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, Melanne Verveer, will be joining UN Women Executive Director, Michelle Bachelet, and many others in New York City today to discuss ways we can encourage young women around the world to play a greater role in the technology revolution. By raising the awareness among girls about the many rewarding aspects of a career in ICT and awakening companies to this under-tapped talent pool, we hope more and more girls will be drawn into ICT-related careers.
Although significant issues remain for high-income countries, in developing countries both the opportunities and challenges for girls in ICT may be even greater. ICT will certainly be an integral element of these countries' growth stories through improved efficiency, access to new markets, and the creation of new IT-related jobs. And, with the sector still in its infancy, there is an opportunity to recast the IT profession in gender-neutral terms. In many ways, ICT jobs may be ideal for the complex demands women face, as the possibility of flexible hours and remote location can accommodate other responsibilities women may have in the home. Further emphasizing the potential impact, research recently published by the World Bank indicates that the wage gap between men and women is more significantly impacted by the lower-paying job sectors women pursue than wage differences between similar jobs.
Read more on the State Department's Dipnote Blog
MAMA Bangladesh – Connecting Health Information and Services to Mothers Through Mobiles
Posted by Kirsten Gagnaire on Wednesday, April 11th 2012
Kirsten Gagnaire is the Global Partnership Director of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA).
IDEA/Mobile Solutions is an office at USAID that champions the use of mobile technology for development issues. Mobile Solutions provides support to mobile technology initiatives implemented by USAID pillar bureaus, such as mAgriculture and mHealth. One of the most prominent mHealth initiatives, launched by Secretary Hillary Clinton on Mother's Day last year, is the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA).
MAMA is a Global Development Alliance founded by USAID and Johnson & Johnson, with support from the mHealth Alliance, United Nations Foundation and BabyCenter. In March, MAMA board representatives visited Bangladesh to meet with MAMA country partners and conduct field visits to meet pregnant women, new mothers and family members who have subscribed to the MAMA mobile phone service, which is called 'Aponjon' in Bangladesh. This blog post comes from MAMA Global Partnership Director, Kirsten Gagnaire, and is part of the "blog tour series" reporting on the site visits and experience in Bangladesh. Read how USAID is helping women connect to health services in the developing world.
In Bangladesh, as in so many low-income areas across the globe, pregnant women and new mothers don't have access to timely, reliable and culturally relevant information about how to best care for themselves and their babies. Although there has been some improvement over the past ten years, it remains a fact that death due to pregnancy, childbirth and infancy-related causes are high in Bangladesh. And these deaths are often preventable with basic knowledge and care.
A young mother in Bangladesh using a cell phone. Photo Credit: MAMA
The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) was created to provide new and expectant moms with vital stage-based information via mobile phones. Subscribers who register indicate their expected due date, or the birthday of their recently-born child, and receive weekly messages timed to the stage of pregnancy or the age of their newborn. MAMA's first in-country program is an initiative catalyzed by USAID and local partner D.Net. Catalyzing the support of a public-private coalition in country, with strong support from the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Health, MAMA Bangladesh has developed and piloted an mHealth service called Aponjon, the Bengali word for "trusted friend". Aponjon works as a mobile-messaging based service, providing moms and the gatekeepers within their families (usually spouses, mothers, and mothers-in-law) with information about how to take care of themselves and their babies, and includes an entirely separate service for husbands that reinforces messages that their wives are receiving and includes information on how to best care for their loved ones during pregnancy and early childhood.
MAMA messages include information on self-care during and after pregnancy, as well as information on when to seek care and how to care for a newborn. MAMA Bangladesh recognizes the need for linking subscribers to local health services, and has built strong relationships with local health providers.
"I can only visit my clients once each month," one community health worker told us during a site visit. "But the mobile phone messages continue to provide information between visits; more information than I would be able to share during a single visit."
The importance of the connection between information about health and information on where to seek assistance was highlighted during one of our site visits. When asked what was the most important message they received, Shoma and Sale, new parents, beamed at their healthy baby and said that it was a message that discussed the signs of newborn respiratory illness. They realized their baby was exhibiting the symptoms which required care, according to the message they received. They were able to connect with their local clinic, where their baby was treated and recovered.
Messages to moms and their families are one of the first, and critically important, steps in educating people about their health, connecting them to care and changing behaviors. MAMA Bangladesh has registered 1,800 women in three districts thus far, and aims to launch nationwide later this year.
To learn more about MAMA, visit http://www.mobilemamaalliance.org/.
At USAID-Supported Conference, Yemen's Transitional Prime Minister Endorses Leadership Quota for Women
Posted by Guest blogger Joan Parker on Friday, April 6th 2012
Joan Parker is President and Chief Executive Officer of Counterpart International.
History happens faster than you expect and is usually part of a chain of events. Monday, March 19, in a filled-to-capacity ballroom in a hotel in Sana'a, Yemen, I witnessed an important link in that historical chain.
At the National Women's Conference, co-sponsored by USAID, Yemen's transitional Prime Minister Mohammed Salim Basindwa pledged his support for a top demand from USAID-supported women's organizations—a quota requiring at least 30 percent of high-ranking posts be held by females.
"I truly believe that if women rule the country, that it would be peaceful and prosperous," Basindwa said. "Yemeni women are important factors in our development, and Yemen will prosper only if women are fully involved."
Basindwa also focused on the significance of the conference, which drew nearly 1,000 women (and a handful of men). "Today's gathering represents an unprecedented moment in Yemeni history," he said. "Currently, Yemen is working to build its future. There is a need to have this conference."
"This is the Yemeni spring," declared Yemen's Human Rights Minister, Horia Mashur. "In this Yemeni spring, women are leaders." Mashur recalled how women took to the streets a year earlier in uprisings that resulted in a presidential election on February 17, ushering in what is expected to be a new democratic era for Yemen.
"Discrimination has prevented women from achieving high posts in the government," Mashur said. She is one of only three women who hold high-level national posts; there is one other woman in the Cabinet and one woman among the 301 elected legislators in Parliament.
USAID's Responsive Governance Project, which Counterpart International is implementing, co-sponsored the conference along with Yemen's Human Rights Ministry and the National Women's Committee. The conference is a key step toward a soon-to-be-announced public policy dialogue among the government, civil society, and the private sector, which will include gender issues.
Conferees debated draft positions, including access to education and maternal health services, banning childhood marriage, and eliminating discriminatory practices. A final document is expected later in April. Elizabeth Richard, Chargés d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, delivered a speech with a quote from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that tied the Yemeni spring to events in the rest of the world: "When women organize in large numbers, they galvanize opinion and help change the course of history," said Richard.
In Sana'a, I could see and feel how they were rising to this unique moment in history.
Learn more about USAID's Responsive Governance Project and find more information on women's empowerment in Yemen in this short Counterpart International video.
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Q: Removing Self From observableArray in knockoutJS I'm using knockoutjs to create a treeview of divisions. Next to each node will be three buttons: 1)New child(applies to the node it's next to 2) Remove(This removes the node it's next to, and 3) Copy, which copies the node and all it's children and creates a new node under the parent.
I've got the New button down, and now I'm working on the remove button. I can't seem to get it to work, and instead of doing anything useful it just refreshes the entire page. Here's the code:
View:

Skill & Weight Divisions

        <button data-bind="click: addDivision"></button>

Template:

View Model and appropriate helper function:
function division(id, name, filter, children) {
        this.id = ko.observable(id);
        this.name = ko.observable(name);
        this.filter = ko.observable(filter)
        if(children){
            this.children = ko.observableArray(children);
        }else{
            this.children = ko.observableArray();
        }
        this.addDivision = function(){
            this.children.push(new division("", "", ""));
        }
        this.removeDivision = function(division){
            this.children.remove(division);
        }
        this.copyDivision = function(division){
            this.children.push(division);
        }
        this.color = randColor();
    };
    function tournamentViewModel(){
        var self= this;
        self.tournamentname = ko.observable('NO NAME YET');
        self.districts = ko.observableArray([new district('Provo',1),new district('Salt Lake City',2),new district('St. George',3)]);
        self.district = ko.observable(self.districts()[0]);
        self.regions = ko.observableArray([new region('Utah',1),new region('Idaho',2)]);
        self.region = ko.observable(self.regions()[0]);
        self.location = ko.observable('WHEREVER YOU WANT');
        self.eventdate = ko.observable('');
        self.startTime = ko.observable('');
        self.image = ko.observable();
        self.flyer = ko.computed(function(){
            var flyerHTML = '
'+self.tournamentname()+'

';
            flyerHTML += 'District: ' + self.district().districtName + ' Region: ' + self.region().regionName+'

';
            flyerHTML += '
WHEN: '+self.eventdate()+' '+self.startTime()+'
';
            flyerHTML += '
WHERE: '+self.location()+'
';
            flyerHTML += '';
            return flyerHTML;
        }, self);
        self.clearImage = function(){
            self.image('');
        }
        self.tournamentID = ko.computed(function(){return 't_'+self.district()+'_'+self.region()+'_'+self.eventdate()}, self);
        self.pricingStructures = ko.observableArray([new pricingStructure(3,2.99), new pricingStructure(1,1.99)]);
        self.removePricingStructure = function(pricingStructure){
            self.pricingStructures.remove(pricingStructure);
        }
        self.addPricingStructure = function(){
            self.pricingStructures.push(new pricingStructure("", ""));
        }
        self.promoCodes = ko.observableArray();
        self.promoTypes = ['%','$'];
        self.removePromoCode = function(promoCode){
            self.promoCodes.remove(promoCode);
        }
        self.addPromoCode = function(){
            self.promoCodes.push(new promoCode("", ""));
        }
        self.divisions = ko.observableArray([new division(1, "Men","",[new division(2,"Gi"), new division(3,"No-Gi")])]);
        self.addDivision = function(){
            self.divisions.push(new division("", "", ""));
        }

    }
    ko.applyBindings(new tournamentViewModel());

My main question in all of this is this: Is there a way to access an object's parent array in order to remove that very object from the array? Thanks in advance for the help!
EDIT: Here's a jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/eqY7Z/ However it doesn't seem to be working at all there. If you guys can't get it going, I'll include the link to my site where it's being hosted so you can take a good look at it.

A: I took your idea and made a working fiddle, which behaves exactly how you described. I didn't want to try to sort yours out, sorry. It had a lot of stuff not directly related to your problem, and this solution is general enough that other people should be able to use it. If you need help adapting it, let me know.
One thing to make note of is the clone function. Your copy function isn't deep, and will result in multiple nodes pointing to the same object. If you were to update a nodes value, it would propagate to its clones. Knockout provides a handy deep copy + unwrap observables with ko.toJS. Super useful.
The JS:
var Node = function(name, children) {
    var self = this;
    self.name = ko.observable(name || 'NewNode');
    self.children = ko.observableArray(
    ko.utils.arrayMap(children || [], function(i) {
        return new Node(i.name, i.children);
    }));
    self.newChild = function() {
        self.children.push(new Node());
    };
    self.removeNode = function(node) {
        self.children.remove(node);
    };
    self.copyNode = function(node) {
        var cloneNode = ko.toJS(node);
        self.children.push(new Node(cloneNode.name, cloneNode.children));
    };
};

//Example data removed for brevity, see fiddle
ko.applyBindings(new Node(data.name, data.children));

HTML:
<button data-bind="click: newChild">NewNode</button>

A: I was able to create a working version of your code in the following jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/3eQNf/. It seemed to come down to 2 main issues:

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*You had a context issue with the use of the "this" keyword in your division class. Adding the self variable solved that problem.

*You needed to add a single root-level division and bind to its children. This makes all the recursion work as expected. Doing this also removed the need for the addDivision method off of your tournamentViewModel
Also, FYI, I needed to add stubs for your district, region, and pricingStructure classes since those were not included in your sample code above. Hope this helps.

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Q: Default Preferences in a Firefox Bootstrapped Addon Firefox Bootstrapped Addons do not read the Default Preferences like Overlay Addons.
I understand the need of manually setting default preferences when a Bootstrapped Addon is installed.
After the initial installation, I guess the only benefit of setting default preferences is to enable to reset preferences (unless FF keeps track of it elsewhere).
Question is, do default preference have to be read and set on each startup()?
If so, where are they going to be saved (ie where does getDefaultBranch() get the data from)?
Reference:
How to convert an overlay extension to restartless
A brief guide to Mozilla preferences
Restartless Add-ons Default Preferences
Preferences

A: I have been given an answer via email which I am posting here verbatim for the benefit of users.
From Dave Garrett, developer of Flagfox and author of  How to convert an overlay extension to restartless

Default prefs set during runtime are saved nowhere. There is no on
  disk cache of default prefs.
On Firefox start, default prefs are read from their various locations
  into the preferences system. (Firefox has its own in omni.ja & addons
  have theirs in their install folders/files) A copy of this branch is
  also maintained with the user prefs read from prefs.js overwritten
  into it. Setting of (user) prefs changes the state in the prefs
  system, which (eventually) is recorded in prefs.js (again, only
  non-default pref values are saved). Setting of default prefs changes
  the state in the prefs system, however this is not saved anywhere.
  They need to be loaded on every start. For the old standard default
  prefs system, Firefox loaded them on every start for you. For
  restartless extensions you need to do this yourself. Every addon
  startup needs to load the default prefs.
You can of course use prefs without having a default at all, but you'd
  have to hardcode the default values in your code all over the place.
  Simply implementing a default prefs system for restartless addons is a
  far cleaner solution that avoids mistakes you would otherwise make.
As the prefs system only stores non-default prefs to disk, it also can
  greatly improve the efficiency in saving prefs once they're put back
  to default for any reason. For example, I've got a JSON blob in a
  string pref. (as of v5.0 it's fairly compacted now) If a user alters
  what needs to be saved there by changing something in the options
  dialog, this JSON blob will be stored in prefs.js in full. If the user
  then reverts that change, their JSON blob will be reverted to the
  prior value. If this is equivalent to whatever the default value is,
  then prefs.js simply stores no value and the default is used. This
  reduces what needs to be loaded on start from prefs.js in the default
  case. In fact, I can use the prefs API to detect if the value is
  currently set to default and I entirely bypass loading from the packed
  JSON user pref and go directly to a full JSON file, in which case I
  don't even need to load from the prefs system. It's an optimization
  that is only really applicable in cases like this, but it's another
  example why properly using defaults can be useful.

Regarding the removal of Default Preferences on shutdown()

Generally no, you don't need to remove default preferences on
  shutdown, though there's a legitimate argument that it might be
  correct to do so (but maybe a bad idea). To be clear, there's a few
  separate cases of shutdown to take into account:
1) Firefox shutdown + addon shutdown: In this case you should not be
  doing any shutdown that isn't needed to preserve data. No need to
  unload your stuff as app shutdown is in progress and it'll do that for
  you.
2) addon shutdown due to addon update: In this case you need to
  properly unload everything you've loaded so that the next version can
  load cleanly. However, there's no need to worry about default
  preferences here, generally. The new version's will be loaded and
  overwrite the old. (unless a default has been removed, in which case
  that will linger in memory doing nothing)
3) addon shutdown due to addon disable: Leaving default prefs loaded
  here hurts nothing other than the tiny amount of memory they take up.
  If you have a lot of prefs I guess unloading them might be warranted,
  however this is not a use case that is going to come up very often. I
  wouldn't worry about unloading prefs at all unless you either have way
  too many prefs or prefs so large that you're getting warnings in the
  browser error console about them being too big. (in which case you
  should fix that)
Even if it might be a good idea to clean up default prefs on shutdown,
  deleting a default pref that has a user pref might break things. I
  suggest just leaving them alone.


This recipe comes from Amanda's ventures into trying something new. This time she went to the Edmonton Public Library and browsed their cookbooks. She often take out the gluten free slow cooker cook book, but this time a cookbook called Gluten-Free Italian: Over 150 Irresistible Recipes Without Wheat--From Crostini to Tiramisu by Jacqueline Mallorca caught her attention.
Although the desserts sound really amazing to try, we tested out the Deviled Chicken with Tomato and Eggplant that tasted really good so I had to share. It seems that whenever we make something that has a chicken broth base it turns out really well.
1tbs capers (found near the pickles in the grocery store), rinsed and drained.
Heat 2 tbs of olive oil in skillet and brown chicken on both sides. You don't have to cook it through because the chicken will go back into the pan.
Return chicken to skillet and add tomatoes and stir.
Add chicken broth, bring to a boil and simmer partially covered for 15 minutes. This will help cook the meat right through.
Turn the chicken pieces over and add olives and capers, and cook for an additional 10 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
Be sure to taste to see if more seasoning is needed.
Stir in corn starch mixture to thicken up.
Recipe book says to serve with steamed rice or creamy polenta and some bread. Maybe a Kinnikinnick gluten free french bun?
Tammy, a Watkins representative contacted me about their line of products and wanted everyone to know that Watkins has a line of gluten free products available. Tammy covers the city of Edmonton, Sherwood Park, Stony Plain, Spruce Grove and Fort Saskatchewan/Gibbons/Bon Accord areas.
Watkins has products such is gluten free spices, seasonings, sauces, soups, desserts and oils. All products with Watkins are 100% money back guarantee. The following is a list of Watkins Gluten-Free Products.
All products are available on line through Tammy's website, www.watkinsonline.com/woroschuk and are deliverable or by pickup. All pickups receive a 10% discount.
Food labeling is certainly an on going topic. Something that I have written about before and will probably bring up every now and again. Last time I wrote about labeling, I wrote about Health Canada Labeling Regulations for Allergens including Gluten and how changes were coming.
Well, guess what, those changes have come into effect as of August 4th 2012. I will try not to overload you with information, but I will certainly have a tonne of links for you to get as many opinions and facts as possible because I can't take credit as being the know all of all government policy and gluten free food regulations.
First to dispel some myths. One, Health Canada is NOT lowering any standards to allow foods to be labeled gluten free. There has been talk going around that that is the case. The labeling regulation for gluten free always has been and current still is 20ppm of gluten (parts per million) with these new regulations.
To explain this further, I need to turn to Kinnikinnick Foods, industry experts to explain. They have been in the business way longer than I have known about this connection, and I feel that they have a firm grasp of the gluten free diet, manufacturing process and government regulations. They wrote a really good blog post providing their opinions and explaining the benefits of these new regulations and offering some areas of improvement. Check out the blog post titled Health Canada Releases New Guidelines for Gluten Free, for this great explanation.
But in general, there will be more transparency when it comes to package labeling. Consumers will not have to be as scared to pick up a package and question the ingredients list. If gluten is an ingredient in that product, it will state it. Such a relief!
Have any questions for Health Canada about regulating 20ppm of gluten? Contact their Bureau of Chemical Safety for more details.
Click here for some details from the Canadian Celiac Association on the new labeling regulations. You can also learn more about how to define gluten free.


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in Once Upon a Time, TV Review
Once Upon a Time Season 7 Episode 21 – TV Review
Does being a Wish Realm copy count as being back, though?
I thought that this was going to be a trademark OUaT double episode finale, so let me just start by saying how grateful I am that it wasn't.
Nobody deserves to sit through two hours of OUaT.
TL;DR With Wish Realm Rumple on the loose, Regina, Gold, Henry and Fook journey to the Wish Realm to stop him and save an abducted Lucy and Cinderella; this is, of course, all part of Wish Realm Rumple's plan, which is to actually manipulate Henry into finding the Author's pen; which he then hands over to Wish Realm Henry, who has an understandable bone to pick with Regina; Tiana gets a worthless subplot about adjusting to her two lives' worth of memories; Alice and Robin saddle up as the cavalry to help our heroes, and stop off at Storybrooke to pick up some more party members.
Magic beans apparently have two uses in them, now?
So it's party time in Hyperion Heights as everyone is un-cursed. Tiana has some middling worries about who she's supposed to be, but otherwise it's a good time. Until Wish Realm Rumple whisks Lucy and Cinderella away to the Wish Realm, and demands Henry get him Gold's Dark One dagger to save them (apparently if Gold gives it to the Guardian, whoever the fuck that is, it will also drain Wrumple of his power, too). Henry takes Regina, Fook, and Gold along with him on the rescue mission, determined to find a way around the dagger deal, but things become dire when Wrumple puts a ticking clock on things by locking Lucy and Cinderella in a freeze-to-death snow globe. Cool. Fook and Gold try to enact a plan to use some squid ink procured from Ariel (friends with Fook in the Wish Realm) to freeze Wrumple and murder him, but the plan is foiled, and Wrumple reveals he doesn't even want the dagger: he wants Henry. Meanwhile, Henry grows frustrated and sets out to use his Author powers to save the day. He convinces the Wish Realm's Sorcerer's Apprentice to give him the pen, and extracts the ink he'll need from Cruella's hair, whom they had earlier battled in Wrumple's castle. But just as Henry is about to use it, Wrumple shows up with his own ally: Wish Ream Henry (still in teen form). He's made a deal with Wrumple to use his Author powers in exchange for a chance to get revenge on Regina for killing his grandparents and stealing his mother (he's not wrong). Whenry writes the Guardian's powers out of existence, and Regina is left at his mercy after Wrumple whooshes the others away (into the snow globe, I think). Meanwhile in Hyperion Heights, Alice gets a bad feeling, so she and Robin petition Tiana to rally the people to find a way to realm hop. The citizens come up with a magic bean, and the girls are on their way to save the day. But first, they make a pit stop in Storybrooke. Oh, and there's a weird flashback at the beginning of the episode of our teen Henry getting friend-zoned by Another Realm's Sleeping Beauty, and Wrumple popping up to make him an offer. Henry refuses, obviously, but I expect this will come back around in the finale.
The only enemy our heroes couldn't defeat was arbitrary appearances by alternate universe copycat characters. It was right in front of us all along!
I think what most bothered me about this episode was how much Season 7 bullshit was still in it. I thought the hilariously rushed wrap-up from last episode meant that we'd get two solid episodes with our legacy characters to close out the series.
But we're still having to sit through existential crises with Tiana and Naveen? And rousing speeches to a bunch of citizens we literally don't know?
Just get to Storybrooke. We don't have time to waste. Because we've already wasted twenty episodes' worth this season.
The fact that the Wish Realm is what the finale comes down to is also a horrendous insult. This partial reboot Hyperion Heights/Another Realm stuff was only barely tolerable. But now the final conflict of seven seasons of Once Upon a Time is because of the Wish Realm that came out of fucking nowhere in Season 6 basically only as an excuse to get Robin back? Jesus. At least the Dark Fairy, as pathetically realised as she turned out to be, had the mystique of being mentioned a few times in the early seasons.
Are we ever going to find out who the Guardian is? I mean, come on.
Pan's cameo is pretty disappointing. He has one scene when Henry and Regina first arrive in Wrumple's castle where he just warns them, while restrained in some stocks, that Wrumple is a bad guy. Yeah, duh.
Ariel's cameo is similarly blah. She just gives Fook some squid ink and fucks off.
And the worst part about these cameos is that they aren't actually cameos of the characters we know. They're the Wish Realm counterparts who we've never met before. I can't understand why OUaT decided to play things so carefully with the literal series finale. Just have our characters find some bullshit excuse to go to the actual Enchanted Forest to get cameos from actual characters. You don't have to preserve it for anything else.
Do we care about Tiana's identity woes?
Oh, and as a final insult to the fact that we never got any explanation for what happened to Maleficent and Lily, this episode begins with Henry attempting to save what appears to be Sleeping Beauty from a dragon, only for a prince to waltz in and do it. Is there any chance of Maleficent appearing in the finale? I mean, she was there at the beginning. It only makes sense.
On the other hand, it'd only be the Wish Realm version of her, so it wouldn't count, anyway. Maybe it's better that she did get left behind after Season 4, with a decent subplot to her name before everything really went to hell in the subsequent three seasons.
As rubbish as the cameos were, OUaT knows how to wring that little bit of brand recognition sensory response out of you. I never cared much for Ariel, but I liked that she showed up holding her father's trident, which I assume means she is queen, now. And Pan was one of the better villains of the show, owing to the fact that he was a repugnant, irredeemable monster. Cute.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice doesn't do much, but the callback to one of the more intriguing mysteries in the show was nice.
Cruella gets the most cameo time, and she uses it well. Top marks go to her shifting from threatening Regina and Henry to openly flirting with Henry pretty sexually. How could he say no?
Henry also makes a fantastic continuity callback when he comes back to her (they threw her in a cage after defeating her) in need of some magic ink (but not squid ink. Confusing) for his Author pen. He saps it out of her hair, which I myself had forgotten was dyed black because of the ink. Well done, Henry.
Still on the nostalgia train, I will admit that when the episode concluded with Alice and Robin driving into Storybrooke, I felt a tingle. You got me, show.
I'll give Gold some points with his rationale about changing his mind to hand over the dagger to Wrumple. He figures that when he's tried to give it to someone good before, he's pulled back because he doesn't want to curse them with it. So why no give it someone purely evil? I know, right?
In a moment of desperation, Henry also considers this option in a bid to save his family, because he proclaims their happy ending is more deserving than Gold's. Again, it's fair.
Evil Whenry is giving me sassy bitch realness. I wonder how he intends to exact his revenge on Regina?
Oh, and as grateful as I am that OUaT is finally almost over, I've realised that this is the second last time we'll ever see Regina. And that's worth mourning.
"Oh, and Henry's real mother. Fuck Emma."
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6 responses to "Once Upon a Time Season 7 Episode 21 – TV Review"
SlayerNina Fansub (@slayernina) says : May 13, 2018 at 1:17 pm
I think I'm going to miss this shitty show. And your snarky reviews. Have you thought to be snarky on stuff like anime, Buffy, Orphan Black, Sense8, Harlots or Downton Abbey?
Henry got friendozoned. LOL. At somehow adresses the Disney stuff of "being in love after being rescued by prince" XD
The nostalgia callbacks. Cool. Rumple being an ass. More cool
Also, now I want a super gay spin off of Alice and Robin rollin' in the lesbian truck of beignets
Versailles is full of divas in high heels and wigs. I think you would like it, BTW
ijusthateeverything says : May 13, 2018 at 10:17 pm
I watched a bit of Versailles a couple of years ago. The wigs were indeed phenomenal.
SlayerNina Fansub (@slayernina) says : May 14, 2018 at 9:28 am
Check out Monchevy or Monchelotte. Cheesy gay drama and bi-gay-hetero triangle drama with 2 divas and a cinnamon roll XD
As long as they also pick up Alice and the Red Queen from OUaT in Wonderland, too, then I'm in.
Once Upon a Time Season 7 Episode 22 – TV Review | I Just Hate Everything - May 20, 2018


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The latest GAC communiqué was published and seems more interesting to read - in terms of new gTLDs NEWS - than the latest Adopted Board Resolutions from the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board which offers more "Thank you to" than resolutions.
When I have a look at these documents, I often wonder if ICANN knows that real interested parties (from the real world) then need to decrypt these documents. I wish there was an understandable report for end users and a report for insiders where they could auto congratulate each other without polluting the interesting information. Find all links to these contents in tonight's newsletter.
Using new generic TLDs for customer email/websites?
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this is one of those days. I came across a woman hating website that blames single mothers for all the problems of difficult teens, the lack of morality in the world. While said site rants on about the failures of single mother led families, it fails to mention POVERTY and LACK OF RESOURCES as possible reasons/explanations why women led houses may have multiple challenges. I will write more on this at a time when i am not so challenge by a day.
further on my day, i had a productive morning working on the NAAS survey. i have gathered what are hope are the key articles, read and made notes on them and now i write.
my reminder, from the servants of the gods, that I am only a single woman with disabilities and two sons with challenges beyond even professionals capable hands, is this--no daycare for you woman, parent, activist. I was fully funded and had been lead to believe all would be fine and so patiently waited while they were late with the paperwork. NO IT IS NOT OKAY to change a woman's funding like this. what it means is that i have to withdraw my sons out childcare and try to still work from home with them arriving a little after 3 PM and that they will be home and active as ever on all pro-D days and all holidays ( i have to work through this and it may mean working at night and sleeping while they are at school. I certainly do not wish to turn to the days when i was working, completing school and not sleeping leading me down the path of nervous breakdown.
I am going to rant and rail at those of you who are sleepy or lazy or ill-informed...get your sorry butts out there with your ID and your proof of address and VOTE on the 14th. you can find what you need on the web and you can research online the candidates. make good choices. show respect for the diversity of people who live in our country when you think about who should lead them. do not live as a person who does least harm, but as a person who does their most good in all situations. and when you can't breathe and think how you can still keep working. I have experienced great moments when like minded people came together, organized and stood past the cold and voted. the ability to change the world takes commitment of the best that you can give. that best changes on a day to day basis but it is the potential in each individual to do this.
I am off for now and hope a better day is ahead. I have not yet written my experience attending STAND for Housing put on by CALM at Little Mountain. personally, i wanted to squat in one of those empty suites to escape my heatless hell called home.


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Coronavirus news and updates: Does Florida's spike in cases make it a new 'epicenter'?; mask rules on airplanes from the FAA
Cara Richardson
As several states start to see a surge in COVID-19 cases since reopening, Ohio has not.
Ohio has gradually lifted its stay-at-home order over the past six weeks. The result: a plateau in newly reported cases and a decline in hospitalizations, both reported and estimates of people currently hospitalized. The trend in New York is also looking good right now.
Florida, meanwhile, has had a noteworthy increase. Critics are saying Gov. Ron DeSantis is letting the outbreak get out of control but he is attributing the rise to more testing among low-risk individuals. He says he won't roll back reopening efforts.
CNN takes it a step further. They talked to an expert who said the state has the makings of becoming the "next large epicenter."
Not just Florida: Florida is one of 22 states seeing a rise in cases right now.
Your questions, answered: Amid concerns about coronavirus spikes caused by reopenings or mass protests, USA TODAY spoke with Dr. Caitlin Rivers, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, about the state of the pandemic.
By the numbers: The coronavirus isn't going away anytime soon. Confirmed cases in the United States are more than 2.1 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard. America's death toll is nearing 118,000. Globally, there are more than 8.4 million confirmed cases and almost 450,000 people have died.
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What's in the news
😷 Masks on a plane: The FAA won't require the wearing of masks on commercial aircraft. It will still be up to individual airlines. - USA TODAY
Arizona sheriff tests positive: He was supposed to meet with Trump, so he got tested. He also was opposed to those stay-at-home orders. - Arizona Republic
Female scientists:They are losing out. It matters not only for equality but for how the disease is researched. - CNN
Kudos from space: The next rover on Mars will have an aluminum plate as a tribute to healthcare workers who have been fighting the pandemic. - Space.com
Parenting: How to talk with your child about real-world fears. - Reviewed.com
FYI: Employers cannot require COVID-19 antibody testing for employees returning to work, the EEOC says, but they can require other things of you. Read more from USA TODAY's Jessica Guynn.
'Smoke and mirrors': Coronavirus infections at meatpacking plants have risen from under 5,000 cases at the end of April to more than 24,000. President Donald Trump's meatpacking order has failed to keep workers safe, a USA TODAY investigation finds.
Can HIV research help find an answer? Researchers are diving deep into human genetics, hoping to find clues that might explain why many people brush off COVID-19 without even knowing they have it, while others are hospitalized or even die from the disease. Read more.
Can dogs 'sniff out' coronavirus? Unclear, but USA TODAY's fact check team finds a claim that researchers are looking at dogs as a possible candidate to detect the disease is indeed true.
Please call for help if you need it. Thousands of anxious, stressed, isolated and uncertain callers are flooding helplines nationwide. They are teenagers and senior citizens. They have lost jobs, homes and relatives. Some express suicidal thoughts or fears that their positive COVID-19 test is a death sentence. Others reach out in the throes of a panic attack. Read more.
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Contributing: Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati Enquirer; John Kennedy and Zac Anderson, Palm Beach Post


O mg Your Style just impressed me what a style with Black….so beautiful!
Thank you for providing inspiration and advice for we "women of a certain age". You've given me hope that I can still be relevant entertaining my 60's.
You're gorgeous, you're fashionable, and you are FABULOUS!! Age is just a number. My taste in fashion is mine alone. No such thing as dressing 'age appropriate'. We are who we are. Age is a state of mind. Your fashion suits you. I saw your commercial on TV and I admire you. You're true to yourself. We should all be so confident in ourselves.
I think this is such an important conversation to have. In some ways, I find it shocking that people think I am courageous for being myself. Let's be talking about here what kind of support, encouragement and representations can help people to feel free to be who they are.
Thanks for sharing your time with us..
I just found your website today, and it was like being resuscitated! It is a treasure for this 67-year old disabled Navy retiree.
Before I delve into it, there's something I'm wondering if you might address. I just moved and the movers overcharged me by 50 percent. This kind of thing happens to women all over America, especially older women. I think Europeans are more respectful of senior citizens.
The way you present yourself is powerful. How can we be empowered to stand up for ourselves? Thank you so much!
Let's keep talking about this as we have very outdated stereotypes about being older which people take actions on like we are disabled, demented and frail. Not so and we should be re-writing the story of what it means to be old.


Do you have any idea what you're getting for Christmas? Well this is the "hinting season" and if you already know what you'd like to receive it's probably a good idea to let your significant other, friends and family members know what you might like to see under the tree this year. I always like when people who have me on their gift list ask me what I want for Christmas and I try to have a few gift ideas in mind that I can share to hopefully make their shopping easier, like one of these fabulous cameras from Best Buy. I am constantly taking pictures of the kids and I think that precious holiday memories are some of the most important ones to record. I would love to upgrade my camera in time for all the many holiday photo opportunities!
These three cameras from Nikon, Sony and Samsung all have built-in WiFi so sharing the amazing photos you take is easier than ever! The Nikon D5300 DSLR with 18-55mm VR Lens shown above is a great choice for sharp photos and video footage and it has optical image stabilization to prevent blurring and ensure image clarity.
The Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 shown above is a great compact digital camera that allows you to shoot, share and use Android apps. It has a 16.3 megapixel, 1/2.3″ BSI CMOS sensor to capture sharp images and high-definition video footage. It also has built-in WiFi and a 4.8″ touch screen to simplify operation.
The Sony a6000 Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera is a compact system camera with the "World's Fastest Autofocus". It features a 24.3-megapixel, Exmor APS-C CMOS sensor that makes it easy to shoot scenes in stunning clarity, plus it has built-in WiFi that lets you share stored content across devices. Which of these awesome cameras would you like to see under your tree this year? Whichever one you prefer you'll sure to get some outstanding pictures of holiday memories that you can enjoy for years to come.


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Nova Ruth and Her Song from the Sea
Nova Ruth Setyaningtyas is not just a musician, but also a sailor. Along with her partner, Grey Filastine, who is also a colleague, the Malangnese raises a sail while setting a big dream: to [...]
Gearing up for Master Plan for the Cultural Advancement
Jakarta – Advocacy Manager of Koalisi Seni, Hafez Gumay, appreciated the government for issuing Presidential Regulation No.114 of 2022 on Cultural Strategy. The document is mandated by the [...]
Indonesia has Its First Cultural Strategy, Let's Speed Up Its Implementation
The Government finally ratified the long-awaited Cultural Strategy in the Presidential Regulation No.114 of 2022 on September 14, 2022. It took almost four years for the President to sign it [...]
Koalisi Seni: The Government Must Evaluate The Copyright Governance
Several problems arise during the implementation of the rule regarding intellectual property as an object of loan collateral. Koalisi Seni demands the government to evaluate its scheme, [...]
Koalisi Seni: Three Potential Barriers of Using Artwork as a Loan Collateral
On July 12, 2022, President Joko Widodo ratified Government Regulation No. 24 of 2022 which related to the creative economy, or known as PP Ekraf, which became a legal basis for the use of [...]
Celebrating Five Years of the Law on Advancement of Culture: The Missing Cultural Strategy
Since the enactment of The Law Number 5 of 2017 on Advancement of Culture in 2017, The Indonesian Arts Coalition continuously held an annual evaluation regarding its implementation. In this [...]
Opening the New Chapter of the Cultural Endowment Fund
Opening the New Chapter of the Cultural Endowment Fund The analysis of Presidential Regulation number 111 of 2021 on Endowment Fund for Education Written by: Hafez Gumay – Manager of Advocacy [...]
The Story of Being a Woman Artist in East Java
Caption: Portrait of artwork "Woman 5/2 Identity" after it was reconstructed by Syska La Veggie, to respond to negative views from some circles. By Syska La Veggie, artists, member of Koalisi [...]
Move forward, don't hesitate: four years of the implementation of the law on cultural advancement
By: Hafez Gumay – Advocacy Manager, Koalisi Seni April 27, 2021, exactly four years have passed since the enactment of the Law on Cultural Advancement. However, until now the government has not [...]
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import json
import subprocess

g_root_url = '/'

def set_root_url(root: str):
    global g_root_url
    g_root_url = root

HTML_HEAD = '''

autolite

'''

HTML_TAIL = '''

'''

TABLE = '''

{head}

{rows}

'''

TH = '{}	'
TR = '
{cells}
'
TD = '{val}	'
A = '{val}'

def html_table(data: [dict] = None, columns: [str] = None, click_url: str = '/') -> str:
    return TABLE.format(
        head=html_table_head(columns),
        rows='\n'.join(
            html_table_row(row, columns, onclick="loadUrl(\'{}\')".format(click_url + row['name'])) for row in
            data) if data else '',
    )

def html_table_head(columns: [str]) -> str:
    return ''.join(TH.format(col.title()) for col in columns) if columns else ''

def html_table_row(row: dict, columns: [str], column_styles: dict = None, onclick: str = "") -> str:
    return TR.format(
        cls='' if len(columns) == 2 else 'Record',
        onclick='onclick={}'.format(onclick) if onclick else '',
        cells=''.join(
            TD.format(val=A.format(val=row[key]) if row[key].startswith('http') else row[key],
                      style=column_styles[key] if column_styles is not None and key in column_styles else '')
            for key in columns),
    )

def html_record(data: dict = None, fields: [str] = None, head: bool = True, empty_values: bool = False) -> str:
    columns = ['field', 'value']
    return TABLE.format(
        head=html_table_head(columns) if head else '',
        rows='\n'.join(html_table_row(row=dict(field=field+':', value=data[field]), columns=columns,
                                      column_styles={columns[0]: 'text-align:right; font-style:italic'})
                       for field in fields if field in data and (empty_values or data[field])),
    )

# HTML

def index() -> str:
    return HTML_HEAD + '''

Tasks | Systems

'''.format(root=g_root_url) + \
           html_table() + \
           HTML_TAIL

def html_tasks() -> str:
    data = json.loads(subprocess.getoutput('autolite task list -J'))
    columns = 'name parent schedule state resources last'.split(' ')
    return HTML_HEAD + '''

Tasks | Systems

'''.format(root=g_root_url) + \
        html_table(data, columns, click_url='{}tasks/'.format(g_root_url)) + \
        HTML_TAIL

def html_task(name: str = '') -> str:
    tasks = json.loads(subprocess.getoutput('autolite task list {} -J'.format(name)))
    task = tasks[0] if tasks else dict()
    fields = 'name parent schedule state condition command resources log email last'.split(' ')
    return HTML_HEAD + '''

Tasks | Systems

'''.format(root=g_root_url) + \
        html_record(task, fields, head=False) + \
        HTML_TAIL

def html_systems() -> str:
    data = json.loads(subprocess.getoutput('autolite system list -J'))
    columns = 'name user comment'.split(' ')
    return HTML_HEAD + '''

Tasks | Systems

'''.format(root=g_root_url) + \
        html_table(data, columns, click_url='{}systems/'.format(g_root_url)) + \
        HTML_TAIL

def html_system(name: str = '') -> str:
    systems = json.loads(subprocess.getoutput('autolite system list {} -J'.format(name)))
    system = systems[0] if systems else dict()
    fields = 'name ip user comment installer cleaner monitor config'.split(' ')
    return HTML_HEAD + '''

Tasks | Systems

'''.format(root=g_root_url) + \
        html_record(system, fields) + \
        HTML_TAIL

# REST API

def get_tasks(name: str = '') -> dict:
    data = json.loads(subprocess.getoutput('autolite task list {} -J'.format(name)))
    return data[0] if len(data) == 1 else data

def get_systems(name: str = '') -> dict:
    data = json.loads(subprocess.getoutput('autolite system list {} -J'.format(name)))
    return data[0] if len(data) == 1 else data

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April 16 (Renewables Now) - Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) said on Monday it has offloaded its portfolio of wind farms in the UK and Ireland to Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) in a deal worth GBP 50 million (USD 65.5m/EUR 57.9m).
The portfolio consists of 64 turbines, ranging from single-turbine sites across the Orkney and Shetland Islands to utility-scale parks in Curraghderrig, Ireland and the Port of Tilbury in London. It was acquired by PiP's Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund and will add to PiP's existing assets, which include the 16-MW Aura wind park, touted as one of the largest stand-alone feed-in-tariff wind projects in the UK, and a minority interest in a 550-MW portfolio of EDF.
"Over the last four years, we have added significant value to the portfolio through active management and a hands-on approach. We believe this is the appropriate time for our fund to exit [..]," said Peter Bachmann, a director in SEP's technology infrastructure team.


Are PWAs the next big thing in mobile web design?
Before May 2015, PureFormulas Inc. didn't have a website that rendered properly on smartphones. In short, it needed a website overhaul.
PureFormulas did what most e-retailers were doing at the time: It relaunched its site using a responsive web design, a mobile-friendly design technique that uses one code base and automatically formats to the screen a consumer is viewing it on.
The new site was a big step forward, says Michael Cosh, PureFormulas' software solutions architect. But less than a year later it built a progressive web app on top its responsive website to make the mobile site faster and more user-friendly. .A progressive web app, or PWA, offers the look and customer engagement of an app, but in a mobile website. For example, PWAs allow retailers to send web push notifications to a shopper's smartphone and typically load faster than traditional mobile websites. A PWA uses responsive techniques to format the web page to the size of the screen the consumer is viewing it on. It can be coded to have the same URL as the desktop and tablet site or it can operate on a separate URL, like a standalone mobile site.
"Progressive web apps are the future of the web," says Julie Ask, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc.
PureFormula's new mobile site launched in May 2016 and the results have been dramatic, Cosh says. PureFormulas.com's mobile average order value increased 9% and its mobile conversion rate 14%, he says. While Cosh can't attribute all of these increases to the new site, he's confident it contributed.