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Juzzie Smith is an Australian musical one-man-band capable of playing slide guitar, didgeridoo, harmonica, and rhythm instruments, and singing?all phenomenally well?more or less at the same time. Juzzi's music is characterized by a driving energy and brilliant melodic ideas within a traditional (somewhat) roots context. An avid street performer for whom busking has been a creatively liberating experience, Juzzie recently took time off from a busy tour to answer some questions from Wanda Waterman St. Louis.
Never Too Late For a Happy Childhood
I grew up in Canberra, Australia. I loved sports but then that got taken over when I found music. I started playing guitar and harmonica at the age of 13. By 16 I'd started teaching music as a hobby, which lasted 10 years.
At university I studied contemporary music, which was a bit too much mental energy as opposed to heartfelt energy. I went to India and learned the sitar. I feel my real music grew when I became a father, as I decided to put all my talents together and just go out busking. I've been growing ever since. I chose busking as a career option because it suits my rhythm for now and also gets my CDs out to the world.
I was first attracted to the blues because I just loved that sound. It comes naturally to me because I make it playful. I liked the album Play by Moby as it showed me how blues music could be mixed with dance music. Lately I've been listening to a bit of Fat Freddy's Drop and a lot of my own as I'm recording a new album and loving it.
Busking with my family was great and also hard, and we only had one child at that time. We got to see some amazing sights and I also learned a lot about performing. I now realize how important it is to have a place to hold your foundations. My partner is very happy to be in a house now. My kids love to sing and are featured on a song on my next album called ?La La.?
For my new album I created my own studio so I could capture music in the times it wanted to be captured. This album to me is a big leap forward musically and energetically. I've honestly surprised myself with this album and how amazing It's going to be.
I've had lots of great musical experiences but I'd have to say the Byron Bay Blues Festival 2009 was special as the place was vibrating with joy and all I felt while playing was my body tingling.
In order to go on creating new material I need to be honest with myself and make sure I live my rhythm. To relax after work I lie or sit and just connect to my own breath. Breathe your own breath is my only ideology. My social conscience is all part of the rhythm that I create.
When I want to write I wake up early, about 4:00 a.m., and just connect to myself and go for it. I might start with a groove and then I might sing a melody and then put words to it. The clearer I feel the easier music comes to me.
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How to get from Guadix to Almuñécar by bus or car
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The cheapest way to get from Guadix to Almuñécar is to drive which costs 13€ - 20€ and takes 1h 31m.
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Is there a direct bus between Guadix and Almuñécar?
No, there is no direct bus from Guadix to Almuñécar. However, there are services departing from Guadix and arriving at Almuñecar via Granada. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 3h 40m.
How far is it from Guadix to Almuñécar?
The distance between Guadix and Almuñécar is 80 km. The road distance is 133.6 km.
How do I travel from Guadix to Almuñécar without a car?
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It takes approximately 3h 40m to get from Guadix to Almuñécar, including transfers.
Where do I catch the Guadix to Almuñécar bus from?
Guadix to Almuñécar bus services, operated by ALSA, depart from Guadix station.
Where does the Guadix to Almuñécar bus arrive?
Guadix to Almuñécar bus services, operated by ALSA, arrive at Almuñecar station.
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Yes, the driving distance between Guadix to Almuñécar is 134 km. It takes approximately 1h 31m to drive from Guadix to Almuñécar.
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What companies run services between Guadix, Spain and Almuñécar, Spain?
You can take a bus from Guadix to Almuñécar via Granada in around 3h 40m.
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Almuñécar, Spain
Almuñécar is a municipality in the Spanish Autonomous Region of Andalusia on the Costa Tropical between Nerja (Málaga) and Motril. It has a subtropical climate. Almuñécar lies in the province of Granada, and has around 27,700 citizens (2012). Since 1975, the town has become one of the most important tourist towns in Granada province and on the Costa Tropical; it has good transport connections and a football (soccer) stadium. - Wikipedia
Things to do in Almuñécar
Castillo de San Miguel
Castillo de San Miguel is located in Almuñécar, in the province of Granada, Spain. It is bounded by the remains of the original city walls. The castle sits on a small hill, which is difficult to access. The original fortifications date of 1st century B.C. During the Moorish occupation, the castle was enlarged to include 40 towers and three gates. It has a wide moat and a drawbridge. Parts of the building are topped with battlements of pyramid shape. The keep, which was on the inside, is demolished. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural monument in 1993. There is a small museum within the castle grounds.
Caves of Nerja
The Caves of Nerja (Spanish: Cueva de Nerja) are a series of caverns close to the town of Nerja in the Province of Málaga, Spain. Stretching for almost 5 km, the caverns are one of Spain's major tourist attractions. Concerts are regularly held in one of the chambers, which forms a natural amphitheatre.
Castillo de Salobreña
Castillo de Salobreña is located in Salobreña, in the province of Granada, Spain. The existence of a known fortification in Salobreña dates from the 10th century. The current structure which was built during the Nasrid dynasty. Trapezoidal in shape, it has four towers. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural monument in 1993.
Places to stay in Almuñécar
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Hotel Helios - Almuñecar
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Mainstream media: Failing to speak truth to power
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A Woulfe in judges clothing Anthony
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Democratic right to protest under attack
national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report Monday July 22, 2019 11:36 by sp - Socialist Party
Press Release - Socialist Party 22nd July 2019
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has released a report outlining "serious and urgent concerns" regarding the state's attitude towards the democratic right to protest. After consultations with protest groups from across the country, the ICCL reports "severe misuse" of the Public Order Act by Gardai, in the form of arrests without charge, harassment of protesters and imposing limits on where people can protest, seemingly in order to punish and discourage such action.
Attacking the vulnerable
Gardai adopt a "much more heavy handed" approach to protestors "living on the margins of society or protesting out of the media spotlight." The ICCL details some alarming examples of such behaviour, including "activists living in Direct Provision (having to) deal with retribution…including the withholding of food and benefits for holding protests". They also mention housing activists being "subject to degrading treatment, such as strip-searching". Authorities at the heart of the state deciding which protests are acceptable and which are not is extremely problematic and threatens to make the idea of protest redundant. These moves to repress dissent seem to be part of a concerted effort by the state to prevent mass-mobilisation. Many recent advances for the working class, like the Repeal movement and the water charges battle, were won by working-class and young people organising from below. These developments highlighted the true power we have when we are organised. Predictably, this has led to a backlash from an establishment desperate to maintain societal control.
Siding with Landlords
Gardaí have been willing and eager participants in this anti-democratic response. This became especially notable in September when they "teamed up" with masked private security to forcibly remove housing activists from peacefully occupying a vacant property in Dublin City. The image of balaclava-clad Gardaí using overt force against young activists, sending some to hospital, shocked many and appalled others. Socialists shared this outrage, but recognised such actions were not surprising. Socialist Party members, Paul Murphy TD, Mick Murphy and Kieran Mahon were the victims of political policing during the Jobstown Trial. Police choosing the side of landlords and the bosses over working-class people is to be entirely expected. The Gardaí and the apparatus of the state generally exist to protect and serve capitalism. Created to defend a system based on exploitation and oppression from any threat, it's utterly predictable that they find themselves immersed in corruption and malpractice, with the disgusting smearing of whistle-blower Maurice McCabe a particularly stark example of this.
The police force we need
The Gardaí serve as the forceful arm of the state and, as such, represent the interests of the ruling class. This is why we call for a democratically controlled police force, based on elected committees and accountable to the working class. These committees would appoint and dismiss officers and be responsible for day-to-day police policy, while ensuring a genuinely independent complaints procedure. We also stand for the disbandment of the Special Branch, whose sole purpose is to engage in political policing. This system is incapable of delivering real justice and upholding our rights. That's why we must build a socialist alternative to its rule.
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Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] to embark on UK tour
The tour opens next spring in London
UK tour 03 December 2022
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Rock opera Tony!, based on the life of that slightly notorious former Prime Minister Tony Blair, will embark on a new tour and run in central London.
The show was first seen at the Park Theatre in north London earlier this year, following years of development and refinement.
Creators Harry Hill and Steve Brown said yesterday: "After the great response from audiences on its launch this summer, we're thrilled that Tony! is going on the road in 2023. It's a show for Tony Lovers and Haters everywhere - and everyone in between - don't expect a history lesson - in our world Tony's born singing and dancing, Saddam Hussein is played as Groucho Marx and Gordon Brown occasionally turns into the Incredible Hulk - let's just say all the facts are there... but not necessarily as they occurred!
"Tony hasn't yet replied to our invite to see the show, but we do hope he'll pop along to his old stomping ground of Sedgefield to give his verdict when we open there at the Parish Hall. Tony? If you're reading this we've put a couple of tickets in your name on the door."
The tour will open with a lengthy stint at the Leicester Square Theatre, running from 15 April to 21 May 2023. It will then visit the Guildford Yvonne Arnaud, Cardiff New Theatre, Brighton Theatre Royal, Chester Storehouse, Malvern Festival Theatre, Darlington Hippodrome and Sedgefield Parish Hall, within Blair's former constituency.
The production was keen to clarify: "Neither Tony Blair, the Tony Blair Institute...have endorsed the production or its marketing materials and are in no way affiliated."
The show is directed by Peter Rowe, with set and costume design by Libby Watson, lighting design by Mark Dymock and choreography by Francesca Jaynes.
The Park Theatre production of '''Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] is produced by Nicholson Green Productions.
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Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat – Ancient Civilisation Revisited
Visiting Angkor Wat, experiencing hundreds of years of history and architecture, and the pinnacle of an entire civilisation in a mere three days…
The Angkor complex is truly one of the wonders of the world. It is a sprawling complex that spans five hundred acres and consists of around 72 temples. The temples are of varying condition and size – some seem like fortresses, others resemble small chapels.
The procession of statues before the South Gate to the Angkor Thom complex
The complex is often referred to as Angkor Wat. In reality, Angkor Wat is a temple city build in the 12th century. It is the best preserved and most complete of all the temple complexes in the area. Angkor Thom was a fortressed city state built in the 13th century with multiple temples, with the Bayon (the one with many faces) at its heart.
The Ta Prohm Temple (also famously known as the jungle temple) is outside Angkor Thom.
It is not only the temples in the Angkor Wat complex – there are many statues and other works of art still preserved
We booked the three day pass, which we encourage if you have the time and enjoy walking around, and photographing in, archeological sites. We were here in January, and the weather wasn't too hot, so three days was easily doable. I remember being here a decade ago sometime in April – the hottest month in Cambodia – I gave up sometime after lunch on day two, opting for the pool instead. Our visit this time was much more pleasant.
Some temples are in a better shape than others, but an odd tree or two have found their way between the crumbling stones of most of them
I enjoyed revisiting Angkor – I love Siem Reap and I've been there twice now. When I do go back again, I would certainly drop by the temples once more. They never get old, and there's so much to see you can never quite remember what you've seen before and what you're seeing for the first time. Although I've spent many hours there and tried to hit as many temples as I could, I'm sure there are still quite a few which I haven't visited.
Also, the temples are under constant conservation works, so there were some temples that were inaccessible the last time that might be fully restored the next time we visit.
The towers of Angkor Wat are silhouetted by the rising sun, an amazing sight
We visited the main temple – Angkor Wat – early in the morning. We would highly recommend this. We arrived at the picnic area in front of the temple, facing East, before the sun rose. The air was fresh and cool and there was excitement in the air as the people who gathered to witness this natural spectacle waited for dawn to arrive.
The morning sun just reached the top of Angkor Wat as we climbed the last flight of stairs
I still remember the moment the sun came over the horizon, painting the sky a beautiful pink first, and the bright blue that followed. The light mist that had settled over the temple lifted with the first rays of heat and the silhouette of the temple came into full view. It was amazing to see it in increasing detail as the sky lightened.
But of course it wasn't just the temple itself, it was everything around it. The beautiful parkland, the huge ponds with lillies in them, it was a beautiful, meditative moment.
Still standing structures right next to the ruins of the ones that could not withstand the onslaught of time and strangler figs are a common sight, particularly in Ta Prohm
After Angkor Wat, the second most famous temple must be Ta Prohm, otherwise known as the Jungle Temple, made famous in Tomb Raider. This temple is truly unique among all the temples – it seems dug into the very earth itself, with the roots of the banyan tree and strangler fig wrapping around the doorways of the buildings.
Panoramic view from within one of the standing structures in Ta Prohm, its floor covered with fallen stones
Ta Prohm is probably my favourite temple. I remember being there at lunchtime (when it was hottest) and there being almost no one else around. It's the best place to find a cool spot to take a break from your hike around the complex. Under the shade of the banyan roots, it's surprisingly cool.
The strangler fig strengthening its hold over one of the walls of Ta Prohm, in a hug that will result in the ultimate demise of the stone structure
When we were there this time, we noticed the famous "stegosaurus" relief. We tried to disprove it – maybe it was a lizard of some sort, and not an actual dinosaur… But try hard as we might, however we looked at it, it still seemed like a Stegosaurus with the bony fan over its back and the knobbly head.
The famous "stegosaurus" relief – it really does look like one, no matter how many "reasonable" explanations we tried to conjure 🙂
One thing I noticed about the temples was how there were a lot more walkways built over the stone compared to when I was here first. I suppose it's both to protect the archeological site and to prevent tourists from slipping up and killing themselves over the smooth, worn limestone.
One of the doorways leading to the inner part of the Bayon temple
On this second visit, I also noticed there were a lot more touts then there were previously, and they seemed to really like the jungle temple. There are all sorts around and its pretty difficult to get rid of them once they think they have your attention. Most of them are "fake guides" that attempt to chat you up and then tell you silly details about the temple (ones that you already know, or are self evident). They make your visit unpleasant and then try to charge you for it at the end. If anyone attempts to approach you, we recommend ignoring them, hard.
The four faced structure, one of many still preserved in the Bayon temple
Bayon is one of the most iconic temples in Angkor. You know those pictures of large stone faces you see in photographs about the temple complex? They're from Bayon. The amazing thing about this temple is how well the faces have been preserved and restored. The smiling bodhisattvas have truly serene visages – as a matter of fact we were here just as the day was really starting to heat up and I felt looking at those faces subjectively lowered the temperature for me by a couple of degrees.
A corridor lined with square stone doors leading into the inner courtyard of the Bayon temple
A temple I find really impressive is Baphuon. It was built about a century before Angkor Wat (mid 11th century) and is one of the first mountain temples constructed, built in the representation of Mt Meru, something like the Khamer version of the Greeks' Mt Olympus. This temple rises up several tiers to a "pinnacle" that is a square summit cornered by four towers. People usually don't bother to climb all the way up, so this is the best place to enjoy a beautiful view of the temple complex all on your own.
Baphuon is actually one of the best preserved temples in the Angkor Thom complex
Up here, alone, you're free to imagine how life must have been like for those who lived here back then, deeply tied into nature and rooted in their communities.
At the end of the day, all these structures are religious in nature, so spirituality was a big part of the lives of the Khmer back then (and still is). It's a bit difficult for me, as an atheiest, to imagine why anyone would expand so much effort putting these wonders together – but then again, a lot of ancient civillisations did. The pursuit of eternal life, whether literal or metaphorical was a big deal in our past.
The view form the very top of the Baphuon temple is well worth the climb
Angkor Wat, and by extension, Angkor Thom, was shortlisted for the new seven wonders of the world but unfortunately did not make it in. I thought it was a real pity that nothing from South East Asia made it into the list, especially something so unique as the temples of Angkor.
One of the most magical structures of the entire Angkor Thom complex is to be found in the Baphuon temple
On the last day of our three days in Angkor Wat/Angkor Thom, we left in the late afternoon, having seen quite enough of the temples. They are beautiful and impressive, but it's also quite a lot to take in, hundreds of years of history and architecture of an entire civilisation in a mere three days. On our way out, we walked past an exposed stone passage that cut across a field of grass. The air was staring to cool down and the grass rustled in the cool breeze, as if saying goodbye.
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Implementation of the new WHO antenatal care model for a positive pregnancy experience: a monitoring framework
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0934-1488Samantha R Lattof1,
Allisyn C Moran1,
Nancy Kidula2,
Ann-Beth Moller3,
Chandani Anoma Jayathilaka4,
Theresa Diaz1,
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5370-682XÖzge Tunçalp3
1Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
2Intercountry Support Team for East and Southern Africa, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe
3UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
4Department of Family Health, Gender and Life Course, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Correspondence to Dr Allisyn C Moran; morana{at}who.int
Monitoring the implementation and impact of routine antenatal care (ANC), as described in the new World Health Organization (WHO) ANC model, requires indicators that go beyond the previously used global benchmark indicator of four or more ANC visits. To enable consistent monitoring of ANC content and care processes and to provide guidance to countries and health facilities, WHO developed an ANC monitoring framework. This framework builds on a conceptual framework for quality ANC and a scoping review of ANC indicators that mapped existing indicators related to recommendations in the new WHO ANC model. Based on the scoping review and following an iterative and consultative process, we developed a monitoring framework consisting of core indicators recommended for monitoring ANC recommendations in all settings, as well as a menu of additional measures. Finally, a research agenda highlights areas where ANC recommendations exist, but measures require further development. Nine core indicators can already be monitored globally and/or nationally, depending on the preferred data sources. Two core indicators (experience of care, ultrasound scan before 24 weeks) are included as placeholders requiring priority by the research agenda. Six context-specific indicators are appropriate for national and subnational monitoring in various settings based on specific guidance. Thirty-five additional indicators may be relevant and desirable for monitoring, depending on programme priorities. Monitoring implementation of the new WHO ANC model and the outcomes of routine ANC require greater attention to the measurement of ANC content and care processes as well as women's experience of ANC.
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Summary box
The monitoring framework for antenatal care (ANC) is composed of four key components:
A list of required ANC measures for monitoring the new World Health Organization (WHO) ANC model.
A menu of existing ANC indicators to be used in global, national and/or subnational monitoring.
A monitoring framework for interventions and strategies aimed at improving the delivery and experience of routine ANC.
A research agenda highlighting areas where ANC recommendations exist, but indicators still need to be developed.
To assist countries in monitoring implementation of the new WHO ANC model, nine core indicators are proposed that can be monitored globally and/or nationally, depending on the preferred data sources, and six context-specific indicators are appropriate for national and subnational monitoring in various settings based on specific guidance.
Most indicators are currently collected from population-based household surveys; however, as health information systems improve, we recommend collecting the majority of these indicators from routine health management information systems.
Monitoring implementation of the new WHO ANC model and the outcomes of routine ANC require greater attention to the measurement of ANC content and care processes, as well as adolescent girls' and women's experiences of ANC.
In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) released comprehensive recommendations on antenatal care (ANC) for a positive pregnancy experience. The new model for delivering ANC is a goal-oriented approach to delivering evidence-based interventions focusing on the quality and content of care, which includes both clinical care and the adolescent girl's or woman's experience of care.1 In contrast to the basic or four-visit focused ANC model that the new WHO ANC model replaces, the new model recommends interventions to be delivered at a minimum of eight ANC contacts.1 By using the word 'contact' rather than 'visit', the new WHO ANC model promotes a more active connection between ANC clients and their healthcare providers. To provide guidance to countries and health facilities and to enable consistent monitoring and assessing progress towards implementation of the new model, a monitoring framework is required. Monitoring the implementation and impact of routine ANC, as described in the guideline, requires monitoring ANC content and care processes that are not captured in the global benchmark indicator of four or more ANC visits.2 Although monitoring the number of visits or contacts remains important, the new WHO ANC model's focus is on the quality and content of the care received.
To enable the monitoring of recommendations in the new WHO ANC model, we first customised WHO's conceptual framework for quality maternal and newborn healthcare to address three dimensions of quality ANC: (1) health systems, (2) content of care and (3) women's experience of care. These dimensions influence antenatal outcomes and experiences at the individual and facility levels.3 Health system factors, such as service delivery models and community engagement, impact the accessibility and quality of the ANC processes. Quality of care is dependent on the provision and content of ANC, as well as women's experiences of ANC, which rely on the availability of the health provider and physical resources.4 Content of care includes ANC interventions related to maternal and foetal assessment and management, nutrition, infectious disease testing and management, and counselling and information sharing. Women's experience of ANC is currently limited to the assessment and management of physical symptoms, based on the recent ANC guideline. We plan to expand this limited concept of experience of care so that it more closely aligns with the WHO quality of care framework in which effective communication, respect and dignity, and emotional support are included within women's experience of care.5
The conceptual framework for quality ANC can help assess the characteristics required to deliver quality ANC; however, monitoring implementation of the new WHO ANC model and the outcomes of routine ANC requires greater attention to the measurement of ANC content and care processes, as well as women's experience of ANC. The purpose of this paper was to describe the process of developing the monitoring framework for the new WHO ANC model and to provide guidance on recommended indicators and data collection platforms.
The ANC monitoring framework builds on the conceptual framework for quality ANC and a scoping review focusing on indicators for routine ANC.3 A scoping exercise first mapped existing indicators for recommended interventions in the WHO ANC model. Based on the scoping review, and following an iterative and consultative process, we developed a monitoring framework consisting of core indicators for monitoring the recommended ANC interventions in all settings, as well as a menu of additional measures for context-specific recommendations. Finally, we present a research agenda highlighting areas where ANC recommendations exist, but measures require further development and validation. The monitoring framework aligns with other WHO recommendations pertinent to improving communication and support for women and families during pregnancy, as well as global monitoring efforts undertaken by initiatives such as ending preventable maternal mortality.6 7
Step 1: measures for ANC recommendations
To identify existing ANC measures and gaps where new measures are needed, we conducted a scoping review of indicators for routine measurement of implementation of the new WHO ANC model. Searches were conducted in four databases (PubMed, ISI Web of Science, ScienceDirect and Popline) and five websites (WHO, MEASURE Evaluation, The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Programme, UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Countdown to 2030), following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses flow approach for searches and application of inclusion/exclusion criteria. The resulting measures came from a variety of sources, including household surveys, research studies and other monitoring frameworks. Data were extracted on measure information, methodology, methodological work and implementation. This scoping review focused specifically on the new WHO ANC recommendations.1 The search strategy did not include indicators for recommendations from other relevant guidelines. We acknowledge this limitation and recognise that additional guidelines include recommendations relevant to ANC for a positive pregnancy experience.1 6 8 While it may appear that indicators for certain areas of ANC are missing from the scoping review, they are present in other monitoring plans.9
The scoping review revealed 58 items describing 46 existing ANC measures that align with the new WHO ANC model and good clinical practices for ANC.3 Among the 42 WHO-recommended ANC interventions and four good clinical practices included in the scoping review, 14 recommendations and three established good clinical practices could be measured immediately using existing measures (table 1). Good clinical practices, while not specifically recommended in the 2016 guideline, are considered to be essential components of ANC.1 As such, they should be implemented as part of the new WHO ANC model. Therefore, four key good clinical practices of ANC were included in the scoping review: counselling on birth preparedness and complication readiness, counselling on family planning, monitoring of foetal heart rate and monitoring of blood pressure.
ANC areas for measurement by monitoring domain based on ANC recommendations
Given thematic overlap between measures in the final scoping review inventory, some recommendations and established good clinical practices within ANC have multiple existing measures: iron and folic acid supplements (n=7), HIV and syphilis screening and treatment (n=7), tetanus toxoid vaccination (n=6), monitoring of blood pressure (n=5), intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (n=4), intimate partner violence (n=2), tobacco (n=2), counselling on birth preparedness and complication readiness (n=2) and counselling on family planning (n=2). Thus, existing measures in table 1 (denoted by an 'X' under the column 'Measure status: exists') may include multiple unique measures for a particular ANC topic for measurement. Twenty-eight of the guideline's recommendations and one established good clinical practice lack existing measures. Table 1 lists these existing and non-existent measurement areas by monitoring domain.
Existing measures could permit immediate measurement of 14 ANC recommendations in the 2016 WHO guideline using currently available data sources. Three of the 14 recommendations (B.1.7, C.6 and E.7) are perfectly aligned with existing measures.1 The 11 remaining recommendations have subtle gaps or discrepancies with the existing measures and would require minimal modification or disaggregation to be relevant. Furthermore, some of the existing measures are used solely in research settings and may not be applicable or feasible for routine monitoring and use. These measures require modification based on the new recommendations. Among the recommendations lacking existing measures, these non-existent measures relate to interventions involving health systems (n=8), nutrition (n=7), maternal and foetal assessment (n=7), common physiological symptoms (n=6), preventative measures (n=4) and counselling and information sharing (n=1).
Patient and public involvement
While the scoping review did not involve patients, the need for this scoping review was initiated by the WHO ANC guideline. Women's views, specifically the desire for a positive pregnancy experience during ANC, informed the development of this guideline and are central to evidence-based practices included in the guideline. As part of the guideline's development, a systematic review synthesised qualitative evidence on women's needs and perspectives during ANC to inform the scope of the guideline, and the guideline development panel included a patient representative and members representing women.
Step 2: identifying core indicators and additional indicators
To monitor implementation of the new WHO ANC model, WHO facilitated an iterative and consultative process to reach consensus on indicators and an ANC monitoring framework. Following the scoping review, this process involved (1) soliciting written feedback from stakeholders within WHO; (2) facilitating working groups at the Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results technical advisory group meetings in May and November 2018 to reach consensus on the core and context-specific indicators, as well as indicator metadata; and (3) facilitating consultations in writing on the monitoring framework from experts and stakeholders participating in the July 2018 WHO Regional Office for Africa meeting on the dissemination of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health guidelines; the July 2018 WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia Regional Meeting on Accelerating Reduction of Maternal, Newborn Mortality and Stillbirths: Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; and a September 2018 Expert Advisory Group on Maternal Immunisation. Selection of the core indicators was influenced by these consultations, as well as the criteria in WHO's Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators:
The indicator is prominent in the monitoring of major international declarations to which all member states have agreed or has been identified through international mechanisms such as reference or interagency groups as a priority indicator in specific programme areas.
The indicator is scientifically robust, useful, accessible, understandable as well as specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound.
There is a strong track record of extensive measurement experience with the indicator (preferably supported by an international database).
The indicator is being used by countries in the monitoring of national plans and programmes.10
Core and context-specific indicators
Based on the criteria listed previously and feedback from the various consultative processes, WHO recommends a list of universally relevant core indicators to be measured and monitored by all countries, as well as a menu of additional indicators from which countries can select indicators based on programme priorities (figure 1). Monitoring priority, indicated by the arrow in figure 1, starts with core indicators. The core indicators, indicated in green, can be collected immediately for global and national monitoring. Context-specific indicators, in yellow, will be appropriate for national and subnational monitoring in various settings (eg, undernourished populations, high-prevalence settings and malaria-endemic areas) based on the ANC recommendations. Additional indicators, in orange, may be relevant and desirable for monitoring, depending on local priorities. Some additional indicators can be used immediately in their current form, depending on the implementation context and available data sources. Other additional indicators exhibit serious measurement issues, warranting caution and additional research before they can be implemented. The research agenda reflects the challenges with these additional indicators.
Menu of indicators.
Table 2 outlines the nine core indicators for monitoring the new WHO ANC model. These nine core indicators will track seven recommendations and three established good clinical practices. However, additional indicators should be developed to monitor adolescent girls' and women's experiences of ANC. Two core indicators (ultrasound scan before 24 weeks and experience of care) are included as placeholders requiring priority by the research agenda; these recommended indicators will be updated in the future once additional research is conducted and the indicators have been validated. Table 2 also includes the data sources for each indicator, including the preferred data source and other potential data sources. At this time, the majority of indicators are collected from population-based household surveys; however, in the future, as health information systems improve, it would be better to collect the majority of these indicators from routine health management information systems (HMIS) and other administrative data sources. Core indicator metadata are detailed in table 3.
Core and context-specific indicators for monitoring routine ANC
Catalogue of core indicators and metadata
There are gaps in the core indicators for some recommendations due to a lack of existing and validated measures. We envision moving towards a monitoring framework that better measures content and experience of care, filling gaps in these crucial domains. This shift requires additional research and greater data collection from client exit interviews or observations, as this information cannot generally be captured from population-based surveys. It would also require strengthening HMIS to facilitate better measurement of ANC content, such as improved measures of alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy, as well as moving to individual records as opposed to aggregated information that does not allow for tracking individual women over time.
Multiple ANC recommendations are unique to specific contexts and may be monitored nationally and subnationally.1 Existing indicators to monitor six context-specific recommendations are listed in table 2. Depending on the setting and the health system's capacity, countries may track one or more context-specific indicators, in addition to the set of core indicators. Context-specific indicator metadata are detailed in table 4.
Catalogue of context-specific indicators and metadata
Additional indicators
Many of the measures found by the scoping review were limited to research studies and may not yet be feasible for routine monitoring. Thirty-five existing indicators (online supplementary annex 1) do not meet the criteria of core or context-specific indicators but may be relevant and desirable for monitoring, depending on priorities.3 Some of these indicators (n=22) can be used immediately in their current form, depending on the implementation context and available data. Other indicators exhibit serious measurement issues (n=13), such as variation in their definitions or limited testing, and require additional research before they are implemented. Countries are advised to proceed with caution in selecting additional indicators that require further research. With continued development and input from stakeholders, additional indicators could provide valuable insight into the delivery of routine ANC. Given that multiple indicators may align with the same recommendation (eg, A.2.1 and B.1.7), individuals monitoring ANC could choose the most appropriate indicator based on available data sources and country preferences.
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Step 3: monitoring framework for routine ANC
The monitoring framework depicting core and context-specific indicators for the new WHO ANC model (figure 2) was adapted from the evaluation framework for the scale-up for maternal and child survival and from the WHO's 100 core health indicators by results chain.10 11 It depicts the pathways by which routine components of ANC are implemented. At the top of this framework, we include the domains under which indicators may be monitored. At the bottom of this framework, we recognise that equity and contextual factors (eg, social, technological and epidemiological) may affect the progress of the pathways depicted previously. Headings in black (eg, ANC policies, capacity building and improved nutrition) capture routine components of ANC from WHO recommendations, including recommendations for good clinical practices and health promotion.1 5 6 8 Male involvement, for example, would fit within community engagement. The bulleted points in figure 2 illustrate where core indicators (in green) and context-specific indicators (in yellow) from the new WHO ANC model (eg, iron and folic acid supplements, ultrasound scan before 24 weeks and anthelmintic treatment) and other recent recommendations (eg, syphilis testing and counselling on pregnancy danger signs) fit into the framework. Indicators are currently available to measure recommendations primarily under the 'outcomes' domain.
Monitoring framework depicting core and context-specific indicators for the new WHO ANC model core indicators are in green. Context-specific indicators are in yellow. *Placeholder indicator. ANC, antenatal care; MNCH, maternal, newborn, and child health.
The new WHO ANC model aims to achieve maternal outcomes (eg, infections, side effects and symptomatic relief), foetal/neonatal outcomes (eg, preterm birth, congenital abnormalities and low birth weight), test accuracy outcomes (eg, sensitivity and specificity) and health systems outcomes (eg, ANC coverage and facility-based delivery).1 These outcomes of interest guided the development of the new WHO ANC model and provide clarity on what the monitoring framework's 'impact' domain means for ANC. This illustrative monitoring framework is not static. As indicators are developed and as guidance changes, this monitoring framework will be updated, along with the accompanying menu of indicators.
Step 4: research agenda for monitoring ANC
Among the ANC interventions recommended by WHO, 28 recommendations and one good clinical practice lack existing indicators (table 1).1 3 Monitoring and assessing the quality of routine ANC requires urgent attention to the development of new standardised measures. Specifically, monitoring routine ANC requires developing new measures for the content of ANC (n=19), the health system (n=7), and adolescent girls' and women's experiences of care (n=6). Researchers must also address challenges, such as a need for additional validation studies, in order for selected existing indicators to be reliably implemented with confidence.
Adolescent girls' and women's experiences of ANC are located at the core of the quality of care framework for routine ANC.3 Women consider experience of care to be a crucial component of quality of care and respectful care.4 12 Yet, unlike intrapartum care,13 we have no valid measures to capture adolescent girls' and women's experiences of ANC. Measuring the quality and delivery of ANC requires greater attention to adolescent girls' and women's voices, if healthcare services are to effectively implement a woman-centred approach.14 Furthermore, research on ANC indicators must also fill gaps in needed indicators to measure quality of care, including respectful care. In addition, limited measures exist for counselling services during ANC, as well as tobacco and alcohol exposure. These critical areas require additional research to develop measures, as well as greater collaboration with allied fields in the development and monitoring of ANC.
Based on the scoping review and iterative consultative process, WHO recommends nine core indicators for measuring and monitoring the new WHO ANC model in all settings and six context-specific indicators that are unique to specific national and subnational contexts. To monitor all 42 recommended interventions in the new WHO ANC model, improved data sources are required. Women's individual ANC records (case notes) and health policy guidelines/directives could provide data for eight recommendations lacking existing indicators; however, data from existing clinical records are often not linked for each ANC contact and could be challenging to procure. Population-based surveys (eg, DHS and MICS) fall short in capturing the data required for these recommendations. Properly monitoring quality ANC requires additional reliable, high-quality data sources, as well as stronger HMIS and routine data systems at the patient level.
To facilitate comparability across settings and time, new and existing measures to monitor ANC must be standardised in definition, measurement, and level of data collection and usage. Standardising and strengthening the development of ANC measures would benefit efforts beyond monitoring the new WHO ANC model. New and refined measures would assist researchers and programme implementers in their efforts to analyse the content and quality of ANC, locate ANC implementation bottlenecks, evaluate equity of ANC programme coverage and use, and evaluate the effectiveness of new innovations for delivering maternal health services.15–18
We envision a future in which monitoring routine ANC moves from only coverage measures to more comprehensive and meaningful measures of quality-adjusted ANC that include content and appropriate actions taken. It is simply not enough to measure whether a health provider measured a woman's blood pressure once during pregnancy. Did the woman receive the recommended package of quality ANC services at each contact? If the woman's blood pressure was high, did the provider act on the high measure? We encourage researchers to take the aforementioned points into consideration when designing and testing these much-needed indicators for monitoring routine ANC.
We thank participants at the May and November 2018 Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results advisory group meetings in Geneva, Switzerland; participants at the July 2018 Regional Office for Africa meeting in Kigali, Rwanda; participants at the July 2018 Regional Office for Southeast Asia meeting in New Delhi, India; and members of the Expert Advisory Group on Maternal Immunization who met in September 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland for their input on this monitoring framework. We also acknowledge inputs from Dr Maurice Bucagu, Dr Doris Chou, Dr Juan-Pablo Pena-Rosas and Dr Lisa Rodgers.
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Contributors SRL wrote the first draft of the manuscript, and all authors contributed to subsequent revisions. SRL and ACM contributed equally to this paper.
Funding This work was supported by the United Nations Development Programme-United Nations Population Fund-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, a cosponsored programme executed by the WHO.
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Data availability statement The data extraction workbook for the scoping review is available on request from ÖT (tuncalpo@who.int) at the WHO.
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3. We bring 5,000+ unique employers to campus every year (this includes 39 Global 100 companies, including 6 of the top 10, and 78 Fortune 100 companies, including 8 of the top 10). Investments go both ways, and one way Illinois invests in its students is by hosting several career fairs every year. You're able to attend one of these events as early as your first semester on campus! Not only that, but we actually hold 16,000+ job interviews on campus every year (that means you might not even have to travel to interview for an internship or a job!).
4. 27% of students participate in study abroad (15th most number of students studying abroad according to Open Doors). Studying abroad is an AMAZING opportunity. If you have any inkling that you're interested in seeing other parts of the world or gaining a global perspective, I would highly recommend looking into study abroad. We have 400+ programs in 60+ countries (the top five are the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and China). Also, all of our majors can study abroad; it's definitely not limited to just international business or global studies majors.
5. 1,000+ academic, athletic, cultural, philanthropic, political, religious, and social student groups. If you're worried that you're going to have trouble finding your niche on our campus, joining a registered student organization (RSO) is the perfect way to make friends and find your place at Illinois. The picture in the background of the link is Quad Day. It occurs the Sunday before classes start in the fall, and all of our RSOs set up booths in the Quad and the surrounding areas. Here you're able to figure out which one(s) you're interested in and get involved before classes have even started!
BONUS: I know I said I was giving the top five reasons, but I couldn't resist one more! Champaign-Urbana is the 2nd best college town in America according to Business Insider. There are a ton of great things to do on and off campus. Some personal favorites of mine are Jarling's frozen custard, campus food trucks, and Black Dog BBQ. There's also live music at Cowboy Monkey and The Accord, Curtis Apple Orchard, Ebertfest, the Art and Virginia theatres, and more!
These are my personal top reasons to come to Illinois, and I'm sure that once you're an Illini, you'll come up with your own list!
Also, if you've read my blogs before, you'll notice that they all end with a cat gif. So I wanted to be sure to include my "end of blog cat" … BUT it also happens to our #117 reason to #chooseILLINOIS!
Currently I am a student of IB-Year 1 in one of school in India.
My major subject are Mathematics, Chemistry & Economics. I have Physic as SL.
What would be the best course combination for me for undergraduate programme.
Here at Illinois we have 150+ majors for you to explore. I would recommend taking a look at all of them here (https://admissions.illinois.edu/Discover/Academics/majors). You're able to sort majors alphabetically, by the college or academic community they're located in, as well as by interest!
Also, it sounds as though you have several different interests at this time which is totally normal. If you still haven't decided what you'd like to study by the time you're applying to Illinois then you're welcome to apply to the Division of General Studies (DGS) where our undeclared major is housed. In DGS you're able to explore your interests while completing your general education requirements in order to ensure that you're still able to graduate on time.


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ABC Awards Mandarin Chinese Qualification Leads to 100% Pass Rate for Learners
In celebration of Chinese New Year on Friday 16 February 2018, we spoke with some former learners who studied ABC Awards Mandarin Chinese qualifications at Prince Henry's Grammar School.
Joanna Barber, Faculty Leader, told us:
"Since delivering the ABC Awards Mandarin Chinese Qualification, for the past 10 years, we have entered 107 students from our afterschool Chinese club classes with a 100% pass rate."
Former learner, Kathrine, comments:
"I would say that the qualification was the first step for me on the path to employment. Learning Chinese through ABC Awards qualification really sparked an interest and led me to choose to study Mandarin at University.
I now know that after graduating in summer I want to be able to use my language skills in a future profession, and this is all thanks to the initial qualification."
Prince Henry's Grammar School offer an afterschool club once a week in which many of their students have also taken part in their Chinese Exchange. All students have a short beginner's course in Chinese in timetabled lessons and then can opt to continue with it in afterschool clubs which then lead to an ABC Awards Qualification in Chinese.
When speaking about his experience learning Mandarin, former learner Ruaridh, said:
"It gave me a solid Mandarin knowledge base from which to move forward at university, whilst also broadening my knowledge and interest in foreign cultures and customs."
Katharine, who is now in her final year at university studying a BA (Hons) in Chinese and Spanish, added: "I have always had a passion for languages and China so I thought it would be a great taster into learning a new, completely different language. At that time I was considering what to study at university and had seen that Leeds University offered Mandarin and Spanish, so I wanted to have some experience learning Chinese through the ABC Awards qualification before deciding if I wanted to carry on studying it in higher education."
We also asked Kathrine if she has always been interested in Mandarin, she said:
" I've always been interested in China, but I would say an exchange visit to Hangzhou in 2010 with my school really inspired me to learn Mandarin. I stayed with a Chinese family for ten days, meaning I was fully immersed in the culture and I fell in love with the food and the fast-paced lifestyle. Now, having studied Mandarin for four years at Leeds University, I have had the opportunity to go back to Hangzhou twice and see the family that I stayed with. It's amazing how learning languages can help you make long lasting friendships all over the world!"
And finally, we asked both students what they would say to someone who's thinking about learning another language…
Ruaridh said:
"Go for it. There are few things more rewarding than being able to speak to a foreigner in their mother tongue.
Mandarin is initially difficult but eventually rewarding."
Kathrine said:
"I would say that learning a language is the best decision you could ever make. Not only can you learn more about another country and its culture, you can also make friends all over the world. Another important point is that learning a language gives you transferable skills such as communication, team work and analytical skills. In addition to these skills, employers are increasingly looking for people who can speak more than one language, meaning that you will stand out in the job market. The list is endless!
大家一定要学习汉语吧!
Learning Chinese is for everyone!"
Start learning Mandarin with ABC Awards, or for more information about our language qualifications please click here. Alternatively please contact our Centre Support team by email on or by phone on 0115 854 1620.
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The Department of Agriculture has confirmed to IFA hat the closing date for the establishment of green cover / catch crops has been extended from 15 September 2016 to 30 September 2016. IFA had sought this extension in light of this year's late harvest.
Grain Chairman Liam Dunne welcomed this as a positive move which will ease the pressure on many farmers who are struggling to complete harvest and or clear straw off fields as weather deteriorates.
The extension only applies where the farmer or an advisor on his/her behalf submits a completed application – available here or on the Department of Agriculture Website.
Completed forms must be returned by 16 September 2016. In the absence of the receipt of a completed application form the original planting date for catch crops remains 15 September 2016.
GLAS participants availing of the catch crop action must ensure they continue to comply with the requirements set out in the GLAS specification provided to each GLAS participant which is also available on the Department's website www.agriculture.gov.ie.


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The men's singles was a tennis event held as part of the tennis at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme. It was the sixth appearance of the event. A total of 44 players from 15 nations entered in the event; 41 players from 14 nations competed. The event was held from 16 to 23 August 1920 at the Beerschot Tennis Club. Nations were limited to four players each. The event was won by Louis Raymond of South Africa, the nation's second consecutive in the event (second-most all-time behind Great Britain's three). South Africa had nearly had both finalists again, as it had in 1912, but defending champion Charles Winslow fell to Japan's Ichiya Kumagae in the semifinal; Winslow took bronze by walkover against Noel Turnbull of Great Britain. Kumagae's silver was Japan's first medal in the event.

Background

This was the sixth appearance of the men's singles tennis event. The event has been held at every Summer Olympics where tennis has been on the program: from 1896 to 1924 and then from 1988 to the current program. Demonstration events were held in 1968 and 1984.

As in previous Games, the field for this event was relatively weak and without top competitors. The Olympic tennis tournament was no longer scheduled adjacent to or concurrent with Wimbledon, as it had been in 1908 and 1912; however, it was at the same time as the U.S. Championship this year. Bill Tilden and Bill Johnston, and all the other American players, thus did not enter. Australia's Gerald Patterson did enter, but withdrew.

Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland each made their debut in the event. France made its fifth appearance, most among all nations, having missed only the St. Louis 1904 event.

Competition format

The competition was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze-medal match. All matches were best-of-five sets.

Schedule

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

The match between Lowe and Zerlendis was played over two days, and lasted for nearly six hours. At one point the ballboys, bored by the long rallying, left the court and went to lunch, forcing the match to stop until they returned.

Results summary

References

Sources

  ITF, 2008 Olympic Tennis Event Media Guide

Men's singles
Men's events at the 1920 Summer Olympics


Have you ever dealt with a system that wasn't partitioned properly when it was built and now it has gone into production? You'll probably be hard pressed to find the time and patience to rebuild the system any time soon. Luckily there is a way to step around many of the limitations of a poorly partitioned system using bind mounts.
Bind mounts are quite simple. Instead of mounting a device (with a file system) on a particular path you are mounting one path into another path.
For example: Let's say you have a small /var but a very large /opt partition and you need additional space for your growing log files.
At this point you are ready to restart the previously stopped services.
And there you have it! Its not beautiful, but it will help you keep the lights on until you can get a long-term fix in place.
From the man page on 'mount'.
After this call the same contents is accessible in two places.  One can also remount a single file (on a single file).
Bind mounts are more useful for when you can't use symlinks, i.e. linking a directory inside a chroot or VM.
That's another approach, but it has it's own set of problems as well. Keep in mind that a symlink is just a file. In my case I want /var/log to function exactly as it would if there was a filesystem mounted there.
Take backups as one example. It's a common use case to explicitly define the directories that will be included in backups. So, if your backup system is expecting /var/log to be a directory containing logs, and it's changed to a symlink, you will have effectively disabled backups of your logs. Instead, you'll have only a backup of the symlink file itself.
What I'm trying to say is that if the problem would be solved by repartitioning or growing a filesystem, but you can't afford the immediate downtime to reconfigure the system, bind mounts are a useful stopgap solution.
My backups usually do NOT cross mount points, so I can backup root without everything else. If "find" treats it as a mount point, it won't be crossed by most backup programs or scripts. But I see your point if the mount-directory itself is specified to a backup program that can't be told to follow symbolic links.
If i want to mount across the server. can someone suggest me the command.
Bind mounts are useful as more than a stopgap measure. An example would be under Android, where this is used by the S2E application to extend older phones' limited storage (think HTC desire with only 148MB available for apps/data/cache) by creating a second partition on the SD card and bind-mounting folders in there onto the corresponding folders of the internal memory.
I like this bind mount but why is it described as a stop-gap measure? It appears to be elegant. Suppose I have disk full on my disk1, and trying to relocate some directories to disk2. By using bind mount, I don't need to worry about partition sizing but just with one disk2 partition housing the several directories from disk1, and bind mount to disk2's directories accordingly. Did I miss something more crucial?
I had a production server hitting a NAS storage through a NFS mount. In order to reproduce the behavior in QA without buying a NAS, we just faked it with a bind mount. Test program doesn't know the difference.
Maybe this is stupid question… but maybe bind mount can solve it.
What steps must i follow?
The way I used the –bind – I have an ftp server with chrooted users. I wanted to allow 3 people to access the same files. The files are outside their jail – as mentioned above. What I did not want to do was just have all three people ftp in using the same login – so each user has their own login/password – but all have access to the same files (root owns the files, and all have the same group ownership, and these users are all in the same group – 774 permissions on the files). Now if down the road, I need to remove a user I can remove that user from the group, unmounts their binded directory – and viola – no more access to those files – and didn't need to have the other users change their passwords.
Does mount do an auto bind? Just curious – On Fedora 21 – I just did 3 mounts, mounting the same device to three different mount points. the system allowed it just fine. I was surprised I didn't get a device busy message on the second mount attempt.
And how does one do a rbind with rslave in the fstab?
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India marks 50 years 1971 victory over Pakistan, liberation of Bangladesh
India on Monday marked 50 years of recognizing Bangladesh as an independent and sovereign country. India commemorates December 6 as Maitri Diwas with Bangladesh as the Indian government had recognised the erstwhile East Pakistan as a separate country on this day in 1971.
Jammu and Kashmir: When nation came first, life second
Taking to Twitter, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, "Today we mark 50 years of India recognizing an independent, sovereign Bangladesh. India was one of the first countries to establish bilateral diplomatic ties with Bangladesh on December 6, 1971."
"Maitri forged in shared martyrdom during the Liberation War, has traversed a 50-year journey towards scripting Shonali Adhyaya in bilateral relations. This year both countries jointly celebrate #MaitriDiwas under the leadership of PM @narendramodi & PM Sheikh Hasina," Bagchi tweeted.
ICYMI:
Brave Sons of India: When lionhearted warrior Brigadier Rajinder Singh snatched Kashmir from Pakistan
During the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh in March 2021 to attend the national day of Bangladesh, it was decided to commemorate December 6 as Maitri Diwas (Friendship Day), the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement.
"Ten days before the liberation of Bangladesh, India had recognised Bangladesh on December 6, 1971. India was one of the first countries to establish bilateral diplomatic ties with Bangladesh," read the statement.
The Maitri Diwas is being commemorated in 18 countries around the world apart from in Dhaka and Delhi. These countries are Belgium, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Russia, Qatar, Singapore, UK, Australia, France, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, UAE and the US.
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Munda: 'Bhagwan' of tribals who became icon of resistance against British rule
The holding of Maitri Diwas is a reflection of the deep and abiding friendship between the peoples of India and Bangladesh that has been forged in blood and shared sacrifices, the statement added.


This document summarizes significant changes since the last production release of BIND on the corresponding major release branch. Please see the CHANGES file for a further list of bug fixes and other changes.
The following resource record types have been implemented: AVC, CSYNC, NINFO, RKEY, SINK, SMIMEA, TA, TALINK.
Added a warning for a common misconfiguration involving forwarded RFC 1918 and IPv6 ULA (Universal Local Address) zones.
Contributed software from Nominum is included in the source at contrib/dnsperf-2.1.0.0-1/. It includes dnsperf for measuring the performance of authoritative DNS servers, resperf for testing the resolution performance of a caching DNS server, resperf-report for generating a resperf report in HTML with gnuplot graphs, and queryparse to extract DNS queries from pcap capture files. This software is not installed by default with BIND.
When loading a signed zone, named will now check whether an RRSIG's inception time is in the future, and if so, it will regenerate the RRSIG immediately. This helps when a system's clock needs to be reset backwards.
Updated the compiled-in addresses for H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
The default preferred glue is now the address type of the transport the query was received over.
On machines with 2 or more processors (CPU), the default value for the number of UDP listeners has been changed to the number of detected processors minus one.
Zone transfers now use smaller message sizes to improve message compression. This results in reduced network usage.
named -V output now also includes operating system details.


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Former chairperson of the audit and membership committee. Also served on the by-laws committee.
Staff – Doran Avni, CPA, Eva Hang, Amanda Kou, Sabrina Cagnat, Anthony Tallini, Annette Scarpa, Joseph C. Scarpa, and Sophia Scarpa and Matthew Scarpa age 7 in the waiting in the wings.


This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.


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Q: Как в андроид создать меню внутри фигуры (например, восьмиугольника). И каждый пункт меню разместить в отдельном кликабельном секторе? Хочу создать контекстное меню в виде восьмиугольника, и каждый пункт меню в отдельном секторе.
Меню создать не проблема. Но вот не знаю как отобразить это меню в виде восьмигранника с секторами, и чтобы каждый сектор был кликабельным.
Нашел в одной программе такое меню:

Подскажите, как можно запихнуть меню в какую либо фигуру, разбитую на сектора? Может, есть библиотека или пример, можно даже в виде других фигур.

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Address by President Nelson Mandela at luncheon before receiving the Freedom of Howick
Your Worship, Mayor Dlamini; Councillors; Members of the Provincial and National legislatures; Distinguished guests; Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you can well imagine, my visit to Tweedie this morning has stirred up many memories of a very different period in our country's history.
Revisiting the scene of my arrest makes me feel a little impatient to be given the Freedom of Howick later this afternoon, and I hope you will understand if my comments look to the future rather than the past.
Not that we should deny our past. Gaining a shared account of our divided past is part of the process of building our new nation. Howick, like any other part of our country, has its burden of memories which still haunt its people. Dealing with them through the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission and in other ways will strengthen us for the future.
What is encouraging about this town is that, in spite of the pain and suffering it has endured, it has been able to look to the future in order to help resolve conflicts which could have had a profoundly destructive effect on the whole region.
I draw great hope from the decision of the Howick Town Council to make me an honorary citizen of Howick.
This tribute to the achievements of our Rainbow Nation expresses the council's commitment to the vision which is now enshrined on our country's constitution.
The representatives here today from civic organisations; NGOs; trade unions, organised business and many other organisations of civil society, make it clear that the council does indeed represent the people of Howick in making this commitment.
The presence of Councillors from so many other councils and of provincial political leaders gives great assurance and hope.
The peaceful character of the local government elections in KwaZulu/Natal in June confounded the prophets of doom, who had falsely labelled this province as hopelessly addicted to violence.
But it did leave us with an important challenge, in the political dividing line which is drew in much of the province between town and country. This area is no exception.
Development cannot be confined to urban or rural areas. Peace is ieving either of these goals, and sustaining them will be impossible if the political parties, and in particular the ANC and IFP, do not work together.
In working together in your councils, and in reaching out as widely as you are doing today, you are setting a shining example as political leaders.
Co-operation and tolerance will help remove the causes of tension and conflict which stand in the way of development. Peace creates the conditions which allow the best that is in our people to flourish, and releases the great potential that has been denied to us by our divided past.
I am deeply moved by your decision, and I look forward eagerly to the opportunity later today to meet the people whom you represent.
It builds confidence in the future of this town; this province and our rainbow nation.
I thank you.
Issued by: Office of the President
Source: South African Government Information Website


Christian Dickinson, IUP professor of Trombone, performed at the International Trombone Festival in June 2011 in Nashville, Tenn.
Dickinson organized and performed in a memorial concert featuring alumni of Florida State University. The performance was in honor of Dickinson's trombone teacher, the late William Cramer.
Included in the reptertoire was a commissioned piece by IUP alumnus Derek Cooper. The work, "Eternally Strong," is based on the Navy Hymn.
Dr. Cramer was a Navy veteran of World War II and a commander in the Naval Reserves and also a founding member of the International Trombone Association.


The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed lawsuits against the governors of Maryland and Kentucky, claiming they violated constituents' First Amendment rights by blocking individuals from official social media accounts.
The organization's Kentucky branch filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of several constituents, while its Maryland branch filed suit on Tuesday. Both suits ask for injunctions to stop Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) from blocking constituents on social media accounts.
"The highest purpose of the First Amendment is to protect the right of Americans to engage in political speech and to petition the government to address their concerns," Deborah Jeon, who serves as the ACLU of Maryland's legal director, said in a statement.
"As the Supreme Court ruled in June, and a federal judge in Virginia echoed just last week, social media has become a vital means for constituents to communicate with their elected officials. It violates both the First Amendment and Maryland's own social media guidelines for government officials to block out any voices of dissent or those simply raising questions about positions taken by public officials sworn to serve."
A spokesperson for Hogan's office dismissed the lawsuit as "frivolous" and "a waste of taxpayer dollars."
"The governor's office has a very clear social media policy, and we will continue to remove all hateful and violent content and coordinated spam attacks to foster an open and constructive dialogue," said deputy communications director Amelia Chassé in a statement.
One of the Maryland plaintiffs said she was a Democrat who voted for Hogan and was blocked from his Facebook page after asking the governor to issue a statement on President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Dems demand Barr cancel 'inappropriate' press conference on Mueller report DOJ plans to release 'lightly redacted' version of Mueller report Thursday: WaPo Nadler accuses Barr of 'unprecedented steps' to 'spin' Mueller report MORE's travel ban.
"My comment was deleted and I was blocked from the page. From the moment it happened, I couldn't believe Governor Hogan would block people who disagreed with him, but who weren't rude or threatening," Meredith Phillips said. "Deleting any comment from constituents that doesn't praise or agree with Governor Hogan is a violation of free speech."
The lawsuits come several weeks after a First Amendment group sued Trump for blocking social media accounts that exhibit dissenting opinions.
"And even when the government seeks to enforce permissible limits in such a forum, permanently excluding individuals for violating those limits goes too far," Sharp added.