Six months into the 10th and largest Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, officials said many confirmed cases are coming from health care centers.
"As we look back on the 6 months, we can see the strategies that have been successful in controlling the outbreak in some areas ... though we continue to see flare ups and outbreaks in other areas," Matshidiso Moeti, MBBS, MSc, WHO regional director for Africa, said during a news conference.
Strategies that have worked to control the outbreak, she said, have involved engaging with communities, especially with women and religious groups, and case investigation and contact tracing. Widespread use of an investigational vaccine and investigational drugs also have aided the response.
However, as Moeti explained, transmission remains a problem, with one in every five confirmed cases reporting contact with a health center before the onset of the disease.
According to WHO, the outbreak in Katwa and Butembo health zones is partly being driven by nosocomial transmission in health centers. WHO said 86% of cases in these areas since Dec. 1 reported having visited or working in a health care facility before becoming ill. Additionally, in the past 3 weeks, 49 health structures were identified where confirmed cases were hospitalized and eight new infected health workers were reported.
Moeti said strengthening the health system is crucial to fight outbreaks, including an ongoing malaria outbreak in Beni. Officials had to deploy additional WHO teams to work along with the Ebola response teams to get control of that outbreak.
"Ultimately, this outbreak has put into even sharper focus the weaknesses and the gaps in the health care system and reinforced our ultimate message — stronger health systems are the only way to rapidly detect, respond to, and eventually, end outbreaks," Moeti said.
The case count in the Ebola outbreak has reached 759, including 705 confirmed cases and 414 confirmed deaths. So far, more than 70,000 people have been vaccinated in the DRC, and 2,600 health care workers in bordering Uganda and South Sudan also have been vaccinated. Moeti said preparing bordering countries is a priority in controlling the outbreak, although an international public health emergency of international concern has not been declared.
Techno; thank you for the Ebola-updates.
-A "melting pot" for virusses, bacteria etc. (not only in humans but also other species) could-maybe-produce a new virus/bacteria (or add to a flu-virus ???) wich would worsen the healthcrises even further.
DJ-In my opinion this outbreak (with the mix of climate change, enviromental problems) is not getting enough attention (and thus money).
It is like a "small fire" going on for a longer period suddenly exploding.
There are at present to many countries with failed/weak governments, to many extremists willing to use bio-weapons-for now ebola is a central-africa problem, but "a new disease" may develop and could turn into a major global health risk.
Ebola has never really been considered a threat to us in the West. Consequentially it is usually underfunded, Josh.
Things are slowly improving and the main problems in this case are the remoteness of the location and the lack of previous funding for research (for instance: there is a vaccine but it does not travel well).
Online training has increased the knowledge of health care workers about effective prevention of Ebola up to 19 percent and reduced critical errors to 2.3 percent in a small cohort. These findings suggest that the program could improve protection of health care workers from Ebola and, because it will be easily accessible via the Internet, could be especially useful in low-resource settings.
Medical University of South Carolina. "Protecting those on the frontline from Ebola." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 2 February 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190202171849.htm>.
Over the weekend and through today, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry reported 22 more cases, many from the current hot spot Katwa, but seven other areas also reported new cases.
In other developments, a group of experts today urged the World Health Organization's (WHO's) emergency committee to meet again to consider declaring a public health emergency, and clinical experts pushed for more use of renal replacement therapy to prevent kidney failure in critically ill Ebola patients.
Of the 22 new cases, the health ministry announced 11 of them in its update today. Among those lab-confirmed cases, 10 are in Katwa, with the following areas also reporting cases: Kyondo (4), Butembo (2), Kalunguta (2), Mabalako (1), Mangurujipa (1), Mutwanga (1), and Vuhovi (1). The increase lifts the outbreak's overall total to 785 cases, 731 of them confirmed and 54 listed as probable.
Health officials are still investigating 165 suspected Ebola infections.
In its latest updates the health ministry said 13 more people have died from their infections, 7 in community settings and 6 in Ebola treatment centers. Locations for community deaths, a factor that increases the risk of virus transmission, include Mangurujipa, Mutwanga, Mabalako, Kyondo, Katwa, and Vuhovi.
In a promising development, the ministry said contacts identified in Komanda have completed their 21-day follow-up period. And the number of people immunized with the experimental VSV-EBOV vaccine has risen to 73,309, roughly half of them in Beni and Katwa.
Writing in a Lancet commentary today, several global health experts called for the WHO to reconvene its Ebola emergency committee and consider declaring a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) to address the threat of cross-border spread and to trigger more high-level support for the response. Several of the international experts are from Georgetown University's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Johns Hopkins' Center for Health Security.
The emergency committee last met in October 2018, and its members said they didn't consider the event at that time to be a PHEIC. WHO emergency committees typically meet every 3 months or sooner, if needed.
The authors of the commentary said cases have more than tripled since then, with illnesses detected in 18 health zones and less than 20% of cases coming from known contact lists. They also said a widening outbreak could destabilize the region, especially in South Sudan, where tenuous peace is haunted by continued violence and predicted famine.
Declaring a PHEIC could specify proactive measures that are needed to shore up the response and send a clear signal that UN leadership and high-level political, financial, and technical support are urgently needed.
The expert commenters acknowledged that a PHEIC might escalate conflict by raising the international response's profile. "Like any complex multilateral negotiation, cultural competence and smart diplomacy are required. Outsiders are unlikely to be privy to all on-the-ground realities and risks," the team wrote, adding that problems—if they happen—would require urgent reform of the process.
"WHO has shown leadership and operational endurance, working tirelessly to combat the DRC Ebola epidemic. But WHO and partners cannot succeed alone," they wrote, noting that the WHO and United Nations will likely increasingly be called on to response to complex humanitarian crises.
Experts from Canada and Africa writing in The Lancet today pushed for higher standards for supportive care for patients in Africa's outbreaks. Pointing out the role of renal failure in critically ill patients whose conditions deteriorate, they said that, although conventional dialysis isn't always feasible in many field settings, renal replacement therapy is an option when sterile water is scarce. They wrote that the bags are sealed until use, the approach is feasible, and the treatment would give patients time to recover from Ebola and associated acute renal failure.
Georgia State University scientists who analyzed reporting dates in the DRC's current outbreak in the journal Epidemics yesterday described a two-wave pattern early in the outbreak, with the one surge in the first half of August and the other in late September, likely linked to local armed conflict. They said reporting delays have shown an 81.1% decline and that the epidemic appears to have reached a steady state, averaging about 35 cases a week during the 8 weeks preceding Jan 15.
With at least 680 cases, it's already the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history.
But as Ebola expert Laurie Garrett wrote in Foreign Policy last week, Ebola in Goma could also trigger a rare global public health emergency declaration by WHO, escalating the severity of an already dangerous outbreak.
There's also some more encouraging news, according to Salama: The outbreak of more than 200 people in Beni, a North Kivu town marred by decades of violence, has been brought under control.
The current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now so severe it should be declared an international health emergency, experts have warned.
In an article in the Lancet medical journal a group of international lawyers has urged the World Health Organization to declare the situation a public health emergency of international concern, which they hope would shine an international spotlight on the outbreak, currently the second largest in history.
Since the outbreak was declared last August there have been 774 cases of the disease and 481 deaths, and emergency responders have had to contend with outbreaks of violence and high levels of mistrust among the affected communities.
WHO's emergency committee last met in October but since that time the number of cases of the disease have tripled, the outbreak has expanded into 18 health zones and governments have withdrawn personnel "fearing for their safety", the Lancet warns. And the risk of the disease spreading across the border to Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan is also high.
Mark Eccleston-Turner, one of the authors of the Lancet paper and a law lecturer at Keele University, said that declaring an international health emergency would not give WHO any more funding but he added: "Its main function is as a signal to the international community that this outbreak is serious, it requires more effort, more resources and a coordinated international response."
At the beginning of the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which eventually led to nearly 30,000 cases including 11,000 deaths, the WHO came in for heavy criticism for being slow to grasp its severity and to declare an international emergency.
Dr Eccleston-Turner said that when an international health emergency was finally declared in August 2014 it triggered the involvement of the United Nations which described the outbreak as a threat to global peace and security.
But the situation in the summer of 2014 was very different: Ebola was spreading like wildfire in three countries, there was concern it would spread beyond Africa and there was no clear strategy for dealing with the disease. There was also no vaccine to control the spread of the disease or treatments for those infected.
By contrast today, international agencies have at their disposal a vaccine, four experimental treatments for patients as well as a tried and tested containment strategy.
Speaking to the Telegraph last week Mike Ryan, WHO assistant director general for emergencies, said the current strategy was working as the outbreak is being brought under control in the affected areas.
But while the outbreak has been largely contained in the cities of Beni and Mangina it has now moved "like a bush fire" to the city of Katwa, which has seen around two thirds of the new cases of the disease over the last month.
"The real challenge is containing the disease before it moves on to the next city. We know that's been the pattern in the past - this is a highly mobile population which means there's a high risk that cases will move to another city or region," said Dr Ryan.
This is the 10th outbreak of the disease in DRC, after being identified in what was then Zaire in 1976. But it is the first time that Ebola has been in the North Kivu region in the north east of the country.
Dr Ryan said that there was much distrust of the international community and even some health workers have refused the vaccine.
He added that standards of care had much improved during this outbreak thanks to the work of agencies such as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and US-based Alliance for International Medical Action (Alima).
"Credit to MSF and Alima - standards of care are definitely rising. We have intensive care specialists embedded in treatment centres and they provide extra assistance with managing patients. There is now improved hydration and monitoring of blood chemistry - the centres are more like intensive care units now," he said.
Unlike the West African outbreak which suddenly explode across a region, this Congo outbreak seems to be very slow moving. But, sadly, it is moving in the wrong (outward) direction.
Flooding could worsen the situation in the area. March-May could be wet.
In one study cited, multiple respondents raised concerns over individuals offering Ebola-related services, such as vaccinations, in exchange for sexual favours.
The ministry said it was aware of separate rumours, spread on social media, that women working on the Ebola response had been given jobs in exchange for sexual favours. In a statement, it said it took such claims seriously, and advised that women should only meet with recruiters wearing an official badge.
Recently, several rebel militia members fighting over the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) died of Ebola. Rebels dying from Ebola is a development that merits deeper examination.
The fact that Ebola, which has killed more than 500 people in this outbreak, is now truly mixing with the country's violent landscape is a complicating factor, as international health care officials are developing an inoculation ring in Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan that began in mid-January. In effect, a program of spatial containment is being instituted.
This Ebola outbreak is the second worst case so far. Luckily, experimental vaccination programs are working, but administering these programs in violence-prone areas is difficult at best. DRC Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga said that the vaccination program had been administered to 76,425 people and had prevented "thousands" of deaths by stopping the spread of Ebola to "big cities." The vaccine is not 100 percent effective as it is still experimental. International health authorities are concerned that the disease can still spread.
The DRC security situation is most problematic in the east of the country, where dozens of armed militias struggle over resources such as gold, diamonds, copper and coltan for profit and power. The area is home to the vast majority of the country's 70 armed groups, all pursuing shifting local and national agendas. Most of them are small, numbering less than 200 fighters, but the havoc they have wreaked over decades, especially in North and South Kivu, have made eastern DRC the epicenter of deadly violence and humanitarian crises. This mix makes treating Ebola problematic, as this is the first time that an Ebola outbreak is occurring in an area with daily violence. The DRC's ongoing instability caused by militia activity is creating mistrust in the population toward health workers.
For international aid organizations, this is a worst-case scenario, where victims carrying a deadly disease are unable to be treated because of attacks by machete-carrying rebels with heavy caliber weaponry. An attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) late last year killed 18 people in the town of Beni, halting local efforts to contain the spread of Ebola through this unstable area.
The DRC's ongoing instability caused by militia activity is creating mistrust in the population toward health workers.
Armed militias that target DRC civilians and foreign aid workers make it difficult, if not impossible, for response teams to reach and work in the nation's most isolated areas — a serious issue since the beginning of this outbreak. The ADF militia was initially created by rebels to oppose Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, but the rebel group has also focused operations on the DRC's North Kivu province.
This part of Central Africa is where 2.5 million people, mostly civilians, were killed between 1998 and 2002, especially involving ethnic hatred between the Hutu and the Tutsi people, which had formed the basis of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. One cannot overstate the complex landscape of ethnic identities and shifting alliances that occur between these groups. Throwing a deadly disease on top of this rebel instability makes for a combustible situation. An attack by any one of the dozen or so militias in an Ebola outbreak area collapses the ability to conduct safe practices. In the chaos, village mobs are known to try to bury their dead who died from Ebola by trying to steal the corpse, in a complete break of protocol.
The implementation of a set of spatial protocols that, from the start of the current Ebola outbreak, quickly identified areas of disease activity with the goal of preventing diffusion is now expanding instead of shrinking. Disease infection rates among the militia groups are unknown and, given their population, these groups could act as not only an incubator but also a transmitter into more distant areas. The number of fighters and their supporting infrastructure is likely to number in the tens of thousands. These rebels fall outside any international Ebola protocols, unless they are capable of stealing the medicine and then administering it themselves in highly unstable conditions, which would lay the foundation for further infections. These militias have access to medical facilities and possess a particular level of capability and capacity, yet are clearly unprepared for a disease such as Ebola.
Other military actors on the ground matter too. Naturally, the DRC's military is actively engaged against the militias. The DRC military's role in the Ebola crisis is focused on securing supply lines, but it frequently needs to concentrate on other internal issues. The Congolese army receives support from the UN's Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), which has helped in the Ebola response since the beginning of the outbreak through the provision of logistical support, office facilities, transportation, communication and security.
Meanwhile, the DRC's military engagement with these militias is now also being influenced by Russian advisers. Let us also recall that Russia's private military company, Wagner Group, is involved across several sectors of the country. Finally, the US is nearby in Gabon. How these actors respond to the next chapter of this outbreak of Ebola in a violent, rebel-infested zone will most likely be determined by a highly uncoordinated effort among security actors.
A deadly disease such as Ebola being carried through rebel communities and their networks is an issue that needs urgent attention from government authorities, in addition to a communication plan to educate those who may be assisting such networks. Add in the terrain, corruption and crime and the ability for authorities to address the spread of the disease is severely weakened. The ability for militias to transmit Ebola unchecked is a public health and national security concern.
Dr. Theodore Karasik is a non-resident senior fellow at the Lexington Institute and a national security expert, specializing in Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East. He worked for the RAND Corporation and publishes widely in the US and international media.
If more fighters die, will that change the dynamics to allow health care workers access?
In the latest developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak, the health ministry reported four new cases, as details emerged about a suspected Ebola death that triggered a swift response in Uganda, where the man's samples tested negative for the virus.
The new cases signal continued activity in some of the outbreak's current main hot spots, and the close-call in Uganda shows how fear of cross-border spread has prompted intensive tracking of contacts.
The newly confirmed Ebola cases in the DRC include two patients in Katwa and two in Butembo. Also, health officials are still investigating 177 suspected illnesses.
One more person died from Ebola, a patient who was being treated at Katwa's Ebola treatment center.
The new cases lift the outbreak total to 823 cases, which includes 762 confirmed and 61 probable cases. So far, 517 deaths have been reported.
In the VSV-EBOV immunization campaign, 79,464 people have been vaccinated since Aug 8, 2018, more than half of them in Beni, Katwa, and Butembo.
A family's transport of a Ugandan man who died on Feb 8 in the DRC's outbreak region across the border and back into Uganda sparked intensive contact tracing, location of the body, and sample testing, according to a statement yesterday from the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office.
The 46-year-old man was a construction worker who had been living and working the DRC for the past 8 years. He was first admitted to the hospital in Bunia, one of the towns in Ituri province that has reported Ebola cases, in November 2018 with symptoms that included chest pain and a sometimes-bloody cough.
Over the past week his condition worsened and he died at Bunia Hospital, where staff issued a death certificate and released his body to relatives, which included a group of 13 people from Tororo in Uganda. The group used the death certificate to cross the border and other checkpoints with the body. According to the statement, the death certificate said the man's cause of death was cardiac failure and pulmonary tuberculosis.
After learning of the incident, Uganda's health ministry—with support from the WHO—intercepted the man's relatives and the vehicle with the dead body in it before they reached their village in Tororo district. A ministry burial team and surveillance officer took oral swabs, conducted a verbal autopsy, and made plans to conduct a safe and dignified burial.
Yonas Tegegn Woldermariam, MD, the WHO's Uganda representative, said in the statement, "The immediate reporting by UMA and quick action by health workers as exhibited last night in this particular incident is what determines how quickly we respond and contain Ebola. I urge other Ugandans to take this as an excellent example as we prepare for a possible importation of EVD cases."
Uganda's health ministry said on Twitter that its teams conducted a dignified burial of the man in Tororo and that all people who were in close contact with the body have been quarantined. It added that samples taken from the dead man were sent to the Uganda Virus Research Institute, where they tested negative for Ebola. It emphasized that there are no confirmed Ebola cases from Uganda.
As part of preparedness efforts for possible spread of the virus across the border, Uganda has been vaccinating healthcare and front-line workers in high-risk districts since Nov 7. So far 3,587 have been immunized, the health ministry said.
Rapid risk assessment: Ebola virus disease outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo – third update risk assessment.
This is the third update of the rapid risk assessment published on the 9 August 2018. It addresses the public health risk associated with the current Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and its implications for EU/EEA citizens. This update was triggered by the persistence of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) transmission in urban settings, the continuous increase in the number of reported cases during the last four weeks, the persistent occurrence of new cases among contacts unknown at the time of EVD diagnostics and current challenges for the prevention and control of EVD.
This epidemic in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces is the largest ever recorded in DRC and the second largest worldwide. As of 6 February 2019, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported 791 Ebola virus disease cases, including 737 confirmed and 54 probable cases. A total of 492 deaths occurred during the reporting period, consisting of an overall case fatality rate of 62%.
As of 29 January 2019, 65 healthcare workers have been reported among the confirmed cases.
While the majority of the cases have been reported in urban settings, some have also been reported in rural health zones surrounding urban centres. This suggests that transmission is also ongoing in rural areas. The weekly number of cases has increased to approximately 40 for three consecutive weeks, indicating that the viral circulation in the community is persistent.
Despite the impressive mobilisation of response actors, significant challenges remain in this complex setting marked by a long-term humanitarian crisis and an unstable security context. According to WHO, the persistence of Ebola virus circulation in the community is driven by the sub-optimal infection prevention and control practices in primary healthcare, incomplete contact tracing and follow-up, delays in detection and isolation of new cases and community deaths leading to potential exposure of relatives to EVD.
Efforts are on-going to strengthen community-led efforts to support key EVD prevention and control interventions. Outbreak response activities continue in order to offer high quality case management, perform ring vaccination campaigns, provide the community with safe and dignified burials and ensure Points of Entry screening.
New EVD cases are expected to be reported in the coming weeks. A geographical extension is still possible, given the prolonged humanitarian crisis in the region, the important crossborder population flows to and from neighbouring provinces and countries, and the observed adverse impact of security incidents and community reticence which is hindering the implementation of EVD prevention and control measures.
The probability that EU/EEA citizens living or travelling in EVD-affected areas of DRC will be exposed to the virus is low, provided they adhere to precautionary measures. There are no international airports in the affected areas with direct flights to the EU/EEA Member States, which limits the risk of the virus being introduced into these countries. The overall risk of introduction and further spread of Ebola virus within the EU/EEA remains very low. However, the risk can only be eliminated by stopping transmission at local level.
12 February 2019, Juba – South Sudan conducted an Ebola virus disease (EVD) Tabletop exercise (TTX) for National Rapid Response Team (NRRT) on 12 February 2019. The exercise aimed at enhancing NRRT's operational readiness by familiarizing participants with the EVD Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on Rapid Response Team (RRT) activation, deployment and field investigation procedures. It also provided participants with an opportunity to evaluate current capabilities and resources for prompt deployment in response to any suspected EVD case.
A total of 70 participants drawn from eight teams comprising of epidemiologists, clinicians, risk communication experts, laboratory technicians, and infection prevention and control experts were engaged in the one-day TTX exercise. The scenario developed for the exercise allowed the participants to be tested on all the aspects of RRT activation, mobilization, deployment, and field investigation. During the simulation, the participants identified gaps in the current SOPs and proposed recommendations for improving the current guidelines.
As the EVD outbreak in DRC evolves, the risk of cross border spread remains high for South Sudan along with 3 other countries neighboring DRC. It is therefore important that the country attains and maintains operational readiness for prompt response to suspected EVD cases. A multi-disciplinary RRT that works to ensure rapid, coordinated detection, investigation, and response to outbreaks of disease are one of the key pillars of the EVD preparedness framework.
Mr Mathew Tut, the Director for Emergency Preparedness and Response and PHEOC Manager of the Ministry of Health said: "due to the history of previous EVD outbreaks, increasing global travel and proximity to DRC and the threat of cross-border spread, it is our responsibility to be prepared for effective alert management at any time".
Although South Sudan has not confirmed any EVD case, the risk of Ebola importation from North Kivu and Ituri of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) within the country and regionally is very high due to porous border, trade, IDPs and refugees coupled with insecurity, says Dr Olu Olushayo, WHO Representative for South Sudan.
We acknowledge our donors, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department for International Development (DFID), Canada, and Germany for supporting the ongoing efforts to strengthen the country's preparedness capacities and mitigate the risk of EVD importation.
Irish aid workers are bracing themselves for a potential Ebola disaster in war-torn Congo.
Mark Johnson, 33, is on the ground with charity Concern as they fight to contain the fatal virus.
The lawyer from Goatstown, Dublin, told the Irish Mirror on Tuesday night that tackling the health crisis is hampered by the armed conflict.
Irish Aid has stumped up €100,000 in emergency funding to back Concern's life-saving work.
Mark said: "At the moment it is confined to North Kivu, we are working in the more southern parts to prevent it spreading.
"We are doing this by distributing masks, gloves, chemicals to clean healthcare centres and also train healthcare workers on what to do in the situation.
"The DRC is already a humanitarian crisis, Ebola is now another layer to it. Beni in North Kivu is the epicentre of the breakout, but it is also gripped by a violent conflict.
During the Ebola crisis in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, the World Health Organisation was slow to react but Mark insists lessons have been learned.
The number of recorded deaths was 370 at the beginning of this year, the death toll had reached 537 by the end of last week. This is an increase of 45%. At least 22 of the dead are health workers.
Concern are using the new funding to train more than 350 health workers in how to control the outbreak as it nears Goma, the capital city of North Kivu with a population of over one million.
Mark said: "It is vital that we do all that we can to contain the spread. There are a few theories about how it is transmitted.
"It's believed to be carried by bats and ends up transmitted to other animals. In this territory they eat a lot of bush meat. Hunting and killing an animal like that, the blood is transmitted from animals to humans. The symptoms – there is nothing very distinctive about it.
"[It is] very difficult for healthcare workers to identify Ebola as a lot of cholera is also in the region.
"When the patient is extremely sick, they are also extremely contagious. When the person dies, the corpse is very contagious.
Ebola has killed just over 500 in this outbreak and has an R0 of between 1 and 2. According to the most recent figures (2018 is not calculated yet) measles killed 110,000 in 2017 and has an R0 of between 12 and 18.
Vaccines are available for both.
The Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) grew by 5 cases today, according to the daily update from the country's ministry of health.
There are now 853 cases (788 confirmed and 65 probable), including 531 deaths, and 177 cases are still under investigation. The new confirmed cases include three in Katwa and one each in Kyondo and Kalunguta.
Also reported today were two community deaths in confirmed cases in Katwa. Community deaths raise the risk of transmission.
The ministry of health also detailed the temporary halting of surveillance activities in Vuhovi, after a nurse from the Bisongo health center was abducted and murdered. Officials said a group of unidentified people carried out the attack.
"Contrary to certain information that has circulated, the patients of the Vuhovi General Reference Hospital have not been hunted, and they continue to be cared for on site," the health ministry said, adding that it is encouraging health workers to resume outbreak activities.
Today front-line workers in the Lolwa health zone, which lies between Komanda and Rwampara on the road connecting Beni to Bunia, were vaccinated in a preventive effort, the ministry said.
Since August, 82,144 people in the DRC and surrounding countries have been vaccinated with Merck's rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine. About half of those vaccinations have taken place in Katwa and Beni.
Today the World Health Organization (WHO) published an outbreak update and noted that Katwa and Butembo remain the areas of concern.
No new cases have been recorded in Beni for more than 3 weeks, but, from Jan 30 to Feb 19, 40 health areas in 12 health zones recorded 79 cases: Katwa (46), Butembo (15), Kyondo (4), Vuhovi (4), Kalunguta (2), Oicha (2), Biena (1), Mabalako (1), Manguredjipa (1), Masereka (1), Mutwanga (1), and Rwampara (1).
"Trends in the case incidence have been encouraging; however, other indicators (such as the continued high proportion of community deaths, persistent delays in case detection, documented local travel amongst many cases, and relatively low numbers of cases among contacts under surveillance) suggest a high risk of further chains of transmission in affected communities," the WHO said.
"Response teams must maintain a high degree of vigilance across all areas with declining case and contact tracing activity, as with areas with active cases, to rapidly detect new cases and prevent onward transmission."
The WHO said the case-fatality rate for the outbreak is 62%.
In research news, today the Journal of Infectious Diseases published a retrospective study on survival rates of Ebola patients who received favipiravir in Guinea during the West African Ebola outbreak in 2015.
Favipiravir, also known as T-705 or Avigan, is an experimental antiviral drug manufactured by Toyama Chemical of Japan.
In the study, the case-fatality rate in favipiravir-treated patients was lower than in untreated patients (31/73 [42.5%] vs 52/90 [57.8%], P = 0.053 in univariate analysis), but the authors write that the effect did not reach statistical significance.
Late last night rebel forces set fire to a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Ebola treatment center in Katwa, forcing MSF to evacuate patients and staff. The attack—coupled with new cases recorded in the city this weekend—have made Katwa the epicenter of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Ebola outbreak.
"Attacks like this could undo the progress we have made. Despite this setback, we will keep working with the government, partners & communities to end this outbreak," said World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, on Twitter earlier this morning.
According to Reuters, MSF announced on Twitter today that the treatment center is closed. Today the ministry of health said a nurse died while trying to escape the fire, but the 10 patients housed in the center had all been safely relocated to other treatment centers.
The attack is the latest setback to Ebola response efforts. Since the outbreak began last August, several rebel groups of have attacked both health workers and clinics and spread misinformation about vaccination and Ebola transmission.
Over the weekend and through today, the DRC recorded 13 new Ebola cases, 8 in Katwa and 5 in Butembo. Katwa has now surpassed Beni as having the most cases during this outbreak. There were also 12 deaths recorded, including 5 community death in Katwa.
"Katwa remains the main focus of the epidemic. In the last 21 days, 86 new confirmed cases were reported, of which 49 (57%) were reported in Katwa," The DRC health ministry said in its update yesterday.
"Katwa surpassed Beni in terms of number of cases and deaths. To date, Beni has reported 235 cases (226 confirmed and 9 probable) and 127 deaths while Katwa is 239 cases (228 confirmed and 11 probable) and 182 deaths."
The mortality rate of cases in Katwa has also been markedly higher than in Beni, 76% versus 54%. Health officials said the difference is attributed to the higher percentage of community deaths and vaccination refusals in Katwa.
"This situation demonstrates the importance of increasing community engagement and active case finding in the community and health facilities in Katwa," the ministry said.
The new cases raise outbreak totals to 872 cases, of which 807 are confirmed and 65 are probable. There have also been 548 deaths, and 176 suspected cases are still under investigation.
Since the outbreak began, 83,517 people have been vaccinated with rVSV-ZEBOV in a ring vaccination campaign, including 21,357 in Katwa and 20,613 in Beni.
Currently only Merck's unlicensed rVSV-ZEBOV has been okayed for use in the DRC. But today the Journal of Infectious Diseases published two phase 1 trials involving prime-boost Ebola vaccines, Ad26.ZEBOV, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, and MVA-BN-Filo, made by Bavarian Nordic.
Both vaccines were well-tolerated and immunogenic up to a year in healthy volunteers from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.


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Q: Can someone tell me why he suddenly cant find the fml i think the folder structure is right . i also tried with classLoader nothing changed package application;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class Main extends Application  {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);

    }

    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
        try {

            Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("../view/fxml/LogIn.fxml"));
            Scene scene = new Scene(root);
            primaryStage.getIcons().add(new Image("file:KI.png"));
            primaryStage.setTitle("KI GmBH CRM_System");
            primaryStage.setScene(scene);
            primaryStage.show();
            primaryStage.setResizable(false);
        } catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();

        }
    }
}
java.lang.NullPointerException: Location is required.
at javafx.fxml@18.0.2/javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3324)
at javafx.fxml@18.0.2/javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3287)
at javafx.fxml@18.0.2/javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3255)
at javafx.fxml@18.0.2/javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3227)
at javafx.fxml@18.0.2/javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3203)
at javafx.fxml@18.0.2/javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.load(FXMLLoader.java:3196)
at application.Main.start(Main.java:22)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication1$9(LauncherImpl.java:847)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runAndWait$12(PlatformImpl.java:484)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$10(PlatformImpl.java:457)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:399)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$11(PlatformImpl.java:456)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:96)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.lambda$runLoop$3(WinApplication.java:184)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)

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I dont know yesterday everything worked but today i open eclipse and he cant find the main .
i tried also add ClassLoader() . nothing changed. Why java fx make it so hard for me :D :D Everything works then i close it another day nothing works -.-

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Q: Dynamically add new field with same key name in MongoDB Im trying to create a list on one of my collections in a dynamic way, here is an example.
var user = mongoose.Schema({
"NAME": String,
"LAST": String,
"EMAIL": String,
"TasksUploaded": {}

})
And what I want to do in mongoose is update the user with the tasks he has already uploaded, what is the best way to do this? what i want at the end is this:
{
    "Name" : "John",
    "Last" : "Doh",
    "Email" : "john@doh.com",
    "TasksUploaded" : {
        "Task" : "Task A"
        "Task" : "Task B"
        "Task" : "Task H"
        "Task" : "Task F"
        "Task" : "Task C"
    }
}

As you can see the task are not always consecutive and the user can upload them as he wants.
Im new to all this new NoSQL and MongoDB stuff, so if you could tell what is the best practice i would appreciate it.
This is how I currently update it but what happens is that the "Level" gets replaced and y need to add a new line to the docuemnt.
User.findOneAndUpdate({ _id: id}, { $set: { 'TasksUploaded.Task': req.body.task} }, { returnNewDocument: true, new: true }, function (err, result) {
      if (err) {
        console.log("Error saving task: " + err);
        return;
      }
      console.log(result);
    })
  }

A: Nope, that's not possible. You can't have several keys with the same name in an object. Just imagine, how would you address them?
It seems that you need to restructure your data and use arrays.

A: thanks to @Sam,
I modified my structure to add the upload tasks in a form of an array
TasksUploaded ["TaskA","TaskB","TaskC"]
Thank you


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Smooth sailing for Jimmy Buffett at Fenway
By James Sullivan Globe Correspondent,August 10, 2018, 2:49 p.m.
Beach balls were flying as Jimmy Buffett performed at Fenway Park. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)
You may have seen the recent footage of the great white shark lunging out of the water off the coast of Wellfleet, at the foot of a researcher. Or the shot from a couple weeks ago where a shark took a seal, right near a group of surfers off Nauset Beach. Yes, it's high shark season around these parts.
At Fenway Park on Thursday, the headline performer noted that the tracking doesn't stop at water's edge. "This is a great place to study the land shark population," Jimmy Buffett said as he surveyed the crowd.
That, of course, cued the floral-printed Buffett faithful to the next song, his band's 19th or so of the night. It was "Fins," the one where fans form a triangle with hands above their heads, then follow the instructions: "Fins to the left, fins to the right."
Buffett, still grinning at 71, has built an empire out of his lifelong fixation on marine life — the boats, the islands, the pirates, the boat drinks. The Fenway Park show was his last of the year, he said: "Who knows what could happen?" In fact, the "Son of a Son of a Sailor" tour-closer featured all the usual menu items — margaritas, cheeseburgers, plenty of corn.
Buffett sang "Come Monday," his lovely, uncharacteristically somber early tune, his first Top 40 hit, with help from Caroline Jones, a young songwriter in Daisy Dukes and a Red Sox jersey. She had opened the show with a brief set that featured a nice tribute to Joni Mitchell.
Peter Wolf and his Midnight Travelers played the middle set, setting the table for Buffett with a mix of Wolf's wistful recent solo material and a healthy helping of J. Geils Band classics. They wrapped up their 40 minutes just in time for the darkness to descend on Wolf's dazzling black dinner jacket, which he threw off during a rousing four-song finale: "Musta Got Lost," "Love Stinks," "Looking for a Love," and "House Party."
On a warm summer night, Buffett took the stage in the most tasteful Hawaiian shirt in the house, white shorts, and bare feet. After opening with "Livingston Saturday Night," an older song that spent years in mothballs, Buffett and his 11-piece band revisited their customary cover of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl." In the first of several references to Fenway's home team, the singer changed the opening line about the "days when the rains came" to "days when there was no game."
In his wilder days, Buffett spent a good bit of time around Boston, and he shouted out Bruins great Derek Sanderson for his role on the night Buffett was inspired to write "Boat Drinks." Later, Buffett mentioned WBCN's Charles Laquidara as an early supporter and recalled nights at Paul's Mall and the Jazz Workshop, as well as the Chicken Box on Nantucket.
The high-tech backdrop display was a kinetic marvel. During "Boat Drinks" the band was dwarfed by gorgeous, hyper-realistic footage of a remote lagoon at sunset. The band took the stage to an enlarged blueprint of a sailboat; throughout the course of the night, there were old home movies of Buffett goofing on various watercraft.
Onstage, members of the band took turns spelling the captain at the wheel. Longtime associate Mac McAnally took the Alan Jackson part on "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" and the lead vocal on his own "Back Where I Come From." Steel drummer Robert Greenidge and guitarist Peter Mayer gave the other musicians a break during their atmospheric version of "Eleanor Rigby."
When the band returned, they crowded to one side of the stage for an acoustic medley ("Grapefruit — Juicy Fruit," "Manana"), which Buffett called "Bluegrassville." It was less bluegrass than, say, jug band, but who cared?
"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane," Buffett sang, as true as ever, during "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes," the closing song of the regular set. A couple more crowd-pleasers were in store with the band's encore versions of Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Southern Cross" and Bob Marley's "One Love," sandwiched around Buffett's own "Love and Luck."
"Things will get better," he promised, with a little of those last two things. For now, Jimmy Buffett is going — where else? — on vacation.
JIMMY BUFFETT AND THE CORAL REEFER BAND
With Caroline Jones, Peter Wolf and the Midnight Travelers
At Fenway Park, Aug. 9
James Sullivan can be reached at jamesgsullivan@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @sullivanjames.

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Hope everyone is surviving the heat this month!
In case you've been seeking shelter in your air-conditioned office, let me catch you up on last Thursday's HR Breakfast. Tons of HR professionals braved the thunderstorms to join our discussion with Verizon, Peloton and Uncubed. Attendees walked away with a better understanding of how to ace social media for recruiting, identify great sources for authentic content (your own employees!) and how to use contextualized targeting to stay relevant in the digital age.
For this week, to honor our nation's 242nd birthday, let's talk about re-invention. America is revered for its ability to mutate and transform itself (for better or worse) during unpredictable social, economic, and technological change.The workforce is no different. Reinvention is alive and well.
The transformation of marketing and HR: Harvard Business Review discusses how marketing strategies (like merging human interest, goals and revenue) have reinvented and bolstered flagging employee engagement levels.
Reinvention desperately needed for the male workforce: Unemployed males, that are not active job seekers, are left absent from this spring's otherwise rosy unemployment stats. This study points out that their tools for reinventing their careers are deficient. Without improved access to educational opportunities and skills-based instruction, this sector of society will fail to re-enter the workforce.
Watch ADstruc metamorphose the media world:Video time! No secret that ADstruc is a trailblazer in advertising but their Project X has completely re-energized ho-hum media buying. By utilizing big data and growing cross-functional collaboration with their engineers, their team is shaking up media strategy.
Tesla rethinks the process of building a product: I know most of us work in HR and are not designing Elon's latest and greatest tech ventures as a side job. However, his process towards design can lend inspiration to HR strategy too. Case in point, the Justworks team displayed how their product design mentality allowed them to improve their diversity & inclusion policy at our conference.
Speaking of reinvention, we're always supportive of young, aspiring tech experts that are improving their professional development skills. We'll be organizing for a group of diverse front-end and back-end engineers to visit employers' offices in the city. If you're interested in joining us on this venture, please reach out to me.
Have a happy, healthy and safe Fourth of July!


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Q: AutoMapper ignoring extension method I have 2 models:
User.cs:

*

*Firstname

*Lastname

*Email

*Password

Authentication.cs

*

*Email

*Password

I would like the Email and Password from the Authentication model to map to the Email and Password within the User model so in my MappingProfile I have:
public UserProfile()
    {
        CreateMap<User, Authentication>()
            .ForMember(dest => dest.Email, o => o.MapFrom(src => src.Email))
            .ForMember(dest => dest.Password, o => o.MapFrom(src => src.Password))
            .IgnoreAllNonExisting();
    }

The IgnoreAllNonExisting is a custom extension like so:
   public static IMappingExpression<TSource, TDestination> IgnoreAllNonExisting<TSource, TDestination>
        (this IMappingExpression<TSource, TDestination> expression)
    {
        var flags = BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance;
        var sourceType = typeof(TSource);
        var destinationProperties = typeof(TDestination).GetProperties(flags);

        foreach (var property in destinationProperties)
        {
            if (sourceType.GetProperty(property.Name, flags) == null)
            {
                expression.ForMember(property.Name, opt => opt.Ignore());
            }
        }
        return expression;
    }

Despite the extension I still get this error:
Unmapped properties:Firstname;Lastname
It's almost as if my extension is just being ignored?
Does anyone know what im doing wrong?

A: Need to create the mappings from User to Authentication and vice-versa (not one mapping for both directions).
Since the names of properties are the same for User and Authentication the AutoMapper makes the automatic mapping.
The extension method IgnoreAllNonExisting is not needed, the AutoMapper makes this work for you.
public static void Test01()
{
    var config = new MapperConfiguration(cfg =>
    {
        cfg.CreateMap<User, Authentication>();
        cfg.CreateMap<Authentication, User>();
    });

    var mapper = config.CreateMapper();

    var authentication = mapper.Map<User, Authentication>(new User { Email = "email", Password = "pass", Firstname = "first", Lastname = "last" });

    var user = mapper.Map<Authentication, User>(new Authentication { Email = "email", Password = "pass" });
}


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Jennifer Lopez Shared The Sweetest Video In Honor Of Her Mom's 74th Birthday
Copyright Getty Images | Dia Dipasupil
Getty Images | Dia Dipasupil
It's been quite a year for singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. The star celebrated her 50th birthday with a glamorous bash, a concert tour and a new single. She won a CFDA award, for which she was recognized as a fashion icon. She went viral during fashion week after wearing a stunning green Versace gown that was a version of a dress she wore nearly 20 years ago. She starred in "Hustlers," which is in theaters now. And her boyfriend of two years, former New York Yankees star Alex Rodrigeuz, created a romantic proposal for Lopez on a beach in the Bahamas.
But Lopez knows she didn't get to where she is today without help. One of her biggest supporters? Her mom.
J. Lo's mom, Guadalupe Rodríguez, celebrated her 74th birthday on Dec. 13. In honor of the woman who's inspired her since she was a child, Lopez posted a loving tribute to Instagram. In it, she shares a video from a 2012 concert in Australia, during which she called her mom up on stage so they could dance together — also in honor of her mom's birthday.
Spoiler alert: Mom's got some fierce moves!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5_GXiRpt4_/?utm_source=ig_embed
"People ask me where I get my energy from, my drive, my dance moves," writes Lopez on Instagram. "Well now you know…Guadalupe…my mommy."
Lopez goes on to write about how her mother instilled in her a love for music, singing and dancing.
"For as long back as I can remember, I can see her dancing, laughing and lighting up every room she was in," writes Lopez. "She is the definition of youthful and timeless at every age. She loved music and movies and history and musicals and believed in true love…and she put all that into me."
Thousands of fans joined J. Lo in wishing her mom a happy birthday on Instagram. Here's to many more!
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namespace Concur\Resource;
// http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/2.x/advanced.html
class Twig extends \Twig_Extension {
	public $resources = [ ];
	public function getFunctions() {
		return array (
				new \Twig_SimpleFunction ( 'ResourceList', array (
						$this,
						'ResourceList'
				) )
		);
	}
	public function getTokenParsers() {
		return [
				new Resource_TokenParser ( $this )
		];
	}
	public function ResourceList($group, $key = null) {
		if (empty($key)) {
			return $this->getResources ( $group );
		}
		$resllist = [ ];
		foreach ( $this->getResources ( $group ) as $res ) {
			$resllist [] = $res [$key];
		}

		return $resllist;
	}
	public function getName() {
		return 'Resource File Helper';
	}
	public function addResource($group, $name, $twigpath) {
		if (! isset ( $this->resources [$group] )) {
			$this->resources [$group] = [ ];
		}

		$hash = md5 ( $name );
		if (! in_array ( $hash, array_keys ( $this->resources [$group] ) )) {
			$resource = [ ];
			$resource ["name"] = $name;
			$resource ["twig"] = $twigpath;

			$this->resources [$group] [$hash] = $resource;
		}
	}
	public function getResources($group) {
		if (! isset ( $this->resources [$group] )) {
			$this->resources [$group] = [ ];
		}
		return $this->resources [$group];
	}
}

?>

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Q: Split a .txt at each period instead of by line? I am attempting to split a .txt file by sentence into a list, but my coding efforts can only split by line.
Example of .txt contents:
This is line 1 of txt file,
it is now on line 2. Here is the
second sentence between line 2 and 3.

Code
listed = []
with open("example.txt","r") as text:
    Line = text.readline()

while Line!="":
  Line1 = Line.split(".")
  for sentence in Line1:
    listed.append(sentence)
  Line = text.readline()

print(listed)

This would print something like: ['This is line 1 of txt file,\n','it is now on line 2\n', 'Here is the\n','second sentence between line 2 and 3/n']
If the entire document was on one line, this would work correctly, except for cases like "Mr." and "Mrs." and such. However, that's a future worry. Does anyone out there know how to use split in the above scenario?

A: split on a string will split on whatever you ask it to, without regard to line breaks, just do read to pull the whole file instead of readlines.  the issue becomes whether that's too much text to handle in a single read, if so you'll need to be more clever. you'll probably want to filter out actual line breaks to get the effect of one-string-per-sentence.

A: Assuming all sentence ends with a dot .

You may just :

*

*read the whole file : fic.read()

*remove return char replace('\n', '')

*split on dot

*apply strip on each sentence to remove spaces padding and leading spaces

*keep the sentences

with open("data.txt", "r") as fic:
    content = fic.read().replace('\n', '')
sentences = list(map(str.strip, content.split(".")))

A version more detailled
with open("data.txt", "r") as fic:
    content = fic.read()

content = content.replace('\n', '')
sentences = content.split(".")
sentences = list(map(str.strip, sentences))
#  same as
sentences = [s.strip() for s in sentences]


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Bound Together: Research shows children with Autism are attached to their parents
Nancy Sadka Josephine Barbaro | April 24, 2013
A common view of autistic children is that they are unable to form emotional attachment. Nancy Sadka from the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre shows that they indeed do exhibit a secure attachment towards their caregiver.
Population ageing beyond the balance sheet
Rafal Chomik | April 16, 2013
As the population ages, Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), lays out the research about how Australians might use their additional healthy years after retirement.
Redefining old age: Baby Boomers re-write the history books
Garry Jennings | April 4, 2013
As Australia's Baby Boomers get older, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute Director, Garry Jennings, examines how a new-found sense of longevity is redefining the ageing process.
A new age for Australia's workforce
Neil Batt | April 3, 2013
Australian Centre for Health Research Executive Director, the Hon. Neil Batt, discusses the history of Australia's pension scheme and questions whether a standard retirement age is still relevant in the 21st century.
Purple Day – educating the world about epilepsy
Carol Ireland | March 26, 2013
On Purple Day, Epilepsy Action Australia CEO, Carol Ireland, explains why we need to raise awareness about epilepsy and breakdown lingering misconceptions.
Australian Curriculum online consultation
Open Forum | March 7, 2013
The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is conducting an online consultation on draft national curricula, from Foundation to Year 10, concerning health and physical education, Chinese and Italian language education, design and technologies, and digital technologies.
April Falls Day
April Falls Day, Wednesday 3 April, was initiated to promote falls prevention best practice in hospitals, communities and residential aged care.
How policy makers fail students living with disabilty
Theresa Duncombe | March 1, 2013
Assessing recent education reforms throughout the country, disability advocate, Theresa Duncombe, shares her experience as a mother of a child living with intellectual disability and the constant struggle in campaigning for equal education opportunities.
Brain health is important too!
Glenn Rees | July 6, 2009
How's your health? Have you thought about it lately? Remember to mind your mind.
You've probably thought about what you can do to stay physically healthy. But what about your brain health? Have you given it much thought?
If you haven't, then now is the time to start. Even though you may feel perfectly healthy now, the changes that lead to dementia could already be occurring in your brain.
Australia's population is ageing, and with it the prevalence of dementia is increasing. Dementia is a general term for more than 100 conditions causing progressive deterioration in thinking, memory and everyday abilities. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia.
Talk Openly: Indigenous e-Health Forum with special guest blogger, The Hon. Tony Abbott
editor | November 24, 2008
The Hon. Tony Abbott MHR, Federal Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, was our guest blogger in a forum on the potential benefits of e-Health practices for Australia's remote Indigenous communities.
EXCLUSIVE: Question & Answer with Tony Abbott
olgabodrova | March 3, 2008
In an effort to facilitate a higher level of consultation between our community and decision makers, we are planning a number of "Question & Answer" sessions with Australia's key thought leaders. Our first guest is The Hon. Tony Abbott MHR, former Federal Minister for Health and Ageing. Here are his thoughts on the national health care reform, hospital crisis, electronic health records, community consultation, and more.
TALK OPENLY: The Hon. Tony Abbott, Minister for Health and Ageing, Answers Your Questions
editor | May 30, 2007
In an effort to facilitate a higher level of consultation between our community and key decision makers, Open Forum has invited a number of thought leaders to facilitate an Open Forum discussion. Our first "Talk Openly" session will be facilitated by The Hon Tony Abbott, Minister for Health and Ageing. Details of the session will be posted in our Events section.
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2021 – "Rough and tumble quality to his game … can ignore pain and the impending crunch or slash in pursuit of the lacrosse ball … this hungry dog hunts … cerebral acumen for defense has skyrocketed during his three years here." 2020 – "After two years of playing multiple positions for us, including carrying a long stick, and overcoming injury, Chris is in the correct role and is prepared to have a break out season. Without fail, he proves himself daily to be one of our most tenacious competitors. Chris' repertoire of traits makes him an ideal short-stick defensive midfielder: gritty, a ground ball vacuum and in possession of a powerful, neutralizing two-handed check." 2019 – "Back and forth between the offensive and defensive meetings, film sessions and drills, this versatile, ball-swarming midfielder continues to prove his tireless work ethic in all of our training." 2018 – "Chris' role this spring will be as both an offensive and defensive midfielder while he learns our system. Having just entered UVA in January of 2018 after a semester at IMG, Chris will be asked to learn a great deal in a short amount of time."
• Appeared in all 18 games as a SSDM
• Picked up 17 ground balls and caused three turnovers
• Had a season-high three ground balls vs. Duke
• Appeared in all six games as a SSDM
• Picked up five ground balls in the season-opening win over Loyola
• Caused two turnovers against Lehigh
• Missed season with an injury
• Appeared in 16 of UVA's 18 games
• Saw all his time as a SSDM
• Collected one assist, picked up 11 ground balls and caused four turnovers
• Recorded first career assist against Dartmouth
• Picked up three ground balls against VMI, Princeton and High Point
• Spent the Fall of 2017 at the IMG Academy
• A 2017 graduate of Westhampton
• Notched a school record with 79 points (44 goals, 35 assists) in 2017
• Named all-county in 2017, along with being team MVP and the CH12 Award winner
• Spent two years at St. Anthony's where he earned all-league honors
• Helped St. Anthony's win the NSCHAA Championship
• Helped St. Anthony's go 3-0 vs. rival Chaminade for the first time since 2001
• Also played football at Westhampton and St. Anthony's
• Son of Hugh and Christina Merle
• Has one brother, Zack, who plays lacrosse at Lafayette
• Grandfather, Robert Deuber, was a running back at Penn and was drafted by the Baltimore Colts
• National Honor Society
• St. Bonaventure Award winner
• Honor Roll Annual Recipient
• Won the Paul Harris Fellow Award for community service
• Is a B.S.A. Eagle Scout
• Enjoys snowboarding and basketball
• Major is foreign affairs


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A's Movies: 'Amina' Review.
Post date 7th Dec 2021
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Amina is a movie directed by Izu Ojukwu and produced by Okechuku Ogunjiofor starring Lucy Ameh, Clarion Chukwura, Ali Nuhu and Magaji Mijinyawa. Amina is based on a true story that revolves around the Zazzau empire warrior queen, Amina. Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom. After watching Amina the movie, I was quite disappointed with the production of the movie. Amina queen of Zazzau is such an important part of Nigerian history and more work should have been put into producing an amazing movie. The movie failed to keep me engaged, it lacked cohesion and failed to bring to life the story of Amina the warrior of Zazzau. I felt that the story was too ambitious and needed a lot of time and work to bring the story of Amina the warrior of Zazzau to our screen.
Amina. Lucy Ameh as Amina in Amina. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2021
Key Moments.
The Father-Daughter relationship between Sarki and his daughter Amina was so beautiful to watch. Both actors did a great job of giving life to such strong-headed and complicated characters. The beautiful interaction between them felt natural and there was no atom of fear on Amina's path to speak her mind and ask for what she wanted from her father. Just like any relationship between father and daughter, we see Amina use her charm to persuade her father to let her learn how to fight and keep the slave Aladi Ameh played by Madaki Asabe as part of her court. Although Sarki did not always agree with Amina's life choices he still respected Amina's choice and always had her back even till his death.
The death of Amina's sister, Zaria, was very chilling and emotional. The acting in that scene was very well executed by the actress who played Zaria. Watching Amina break down and feeling hopeless because she was unable to stop her sister from hurting sent chills down my body.
The amazing costume design which was headed by Millicent T. Jack stayed true to the cultural dressing of the people of Northern Nigeria, Zaria. The details of the different traditional attires worn by the traditional rulers in that period really added life to the movie.
The actresses who played young Amina (Ogunjiofor Genevieve) and older Amina (Lucy Ameh) did a great job of bringing the character to life in such a strong and authentic and fun way.
Although Amina the movie lacked in various areas, This movie should never have been made. However, I do give the team hats off for even attempting to tell the story of Amina the warrior of Zazzau who has continued to be an inspiration to all women across the world.
Special Recognition: Clarion Chukwura (Priestess) and Magaji Mijinyawa (Madaki) for bringing such complicated characters to life with their amazing talent.
Movie Rating: 3/7
Costume: 5/7
Have you seen it? What did you think?
Zulurang Kanwa a freelance writer and lover of all things film.
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It All Adds Up: Cultivating Girls in Math and Science
CLEVELAND: Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, president of Brown University and the first African-American to head an Ivy League school, will speak about promoting young women in the fields of math and science at noon on Friday, March 9, 2007, at The City Club of Cleveland.
A French professor before entering university administration, Simmons also holds an appointment as a professor of comparative literature and of Africana studies at Brown. She graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans before completing her Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures at Harvard.
Simmons served in various administrative roles at the University of Southern California, Princeton University, and Spelman College before taking over as president of Smith College, when she became the first African-American woman to head a major university. At Smith, she launched an engineering program, the first at an American women's college.
Simmons is the recipient of many honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the 2001 President's Award from the United Negro College Fund, the 2002 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, and the 2004 Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal. She has been a featured speaker in many public venues, serves on a number of boards, including Pfizer Inc., Texas Instruments, and The Goldman Sachs Group, and has been awarded numerous honorary degrees.
Tickets for this City Club Friday Forum are $18 for members and $30 for non-members. Lunch is included. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org.
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Table support for Oracle NoSQL Database.

Uses of MultiRowOptions in oracle.kv.table

Methods in oracle.kv.table that return MultiRowOptions

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

MultiRowOptions
FieldRange.createMultiRowOptions()

A convenience factory method to create a MultiRowOptions
 instance using this FieldRange.

MultiRowOptions
Table.createMultiRowOptions(List<String> tableNames,
                     FieldRange fieldRange)

Returns a MultiRowOptions object initialized with ancestor
 and child tables from the list of table names and/or FieldRange.

MultiRowOptions
MultiRowOptions.setFieldRange(FieldRange newFieldRange)

Restricts the selected rows to those matching a
 range of field values for the first unspecified field in the target key.

MultiRowOptions
MultiRowOptions.setIncludedChildTables(List<Table> newChildren)

Specifies the child (descendant) tables for which rows are selected by
 the operation.

MultiRowOptions
MultiRowOptions.setIncludedParentTables(List<Table> newAncestors)

Specifies the parent (ancestor) tables for which rows are selected by
 the operation.

Methods in oracle.kv.table with parameters of type MultiRowOptions

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

int
TableAPI.multiDelete(PrimaryKey key,
           MultiRowOptions getOptions,
           WriteOptions writeOptions)

Deletes multiple rows from a table in an atomic operation.

List<Row>
TableAPI.multiGet(PrimaryKey key,
        MultiRowOptions getOptions,
        ReadOptions readOptions)

Returns the rows associated with a partial primary key in an
 atomic manner.

List<PrimaryKey>
TableAPI.multiGetKeys(PrimaryKey key,
            MultiRowOptions getOptions,
            ReadOptions readOptions)

Return the rows associated with a partial primary key in an
 atomic manner.

TableIterator<Row>
TableAPI.tableIterator(IndexKey key,
             MultiRowOptions getOptions,
             TableIteratorOptions iterateOptions)

Returns an iterator over the rows associated with an index key.

TableIterator<Row>
TableAPI.tableIterator(Iterator<PrimaryKey> primaryKeyIterator,
             MultiRowOptions getOptions,
             TableIteratorOptions iterateOptions)

Returns an iterator over the rows matching the primary keys supplied by
 iterator (or the rows in ancestor or descendant tables, or those in a
 range specified by the MultiRowOptions argument).

TableIterator<Row>
TableAPI.tableIterator(List<Iterator<PrimaryKey>> primaryKeyIterators,
             MultiRowOptions getOptions,
             TableIteratorOptions iterateOptions)

Returns an iterator over the rows matching the primary keys supplied by
 iterator (or the rows in ancestor or descendant tables, or those in a
 range specified by the MultiRowOptions argument).

TableIterator<Row>
TableAPI.tableIterator(PrimaryKey key,
             MultiRowOptions getOptions,
             TableIteratorOptions iterateOptions)

Returns an iterator over the rows associated with a partial primary key.

TableIterator<KeyPair>
TableAPI.tableKeysIterator(IndexKey key,
                 MultiRowOptions getOptions,
                 TableIteratorOptions iterateOptions)

Return the keys for matching rows associated with an index key.

TableIterator<PrimaryKey>
TableAPI.tableKeysIterator(Iterator<PrimaryKey> primaryKeyIterator,
                 MultiRowOptions getOptions,
                 TableIteratorOptions iterateOptions)

Returns an iterator over the keys matching the primary keys supplied by
 iterator (or the rows in ancestor or descendant tables, or those in a
 range specified by the MultiRowOptions argument).

TableIterator<PrimaryKey>
TableAPI.tableKeysIterator(List<Iterator<PrimaryKey>> primaryKeyIterators,
                 MultiRowOptions getOptions,
                 TableIteratorOptions iterateOptions)

Returns an iterator over the keys matching the primary keys supplied by
 iterator (or the rows in ancestor or descendant tables, or those in a
 range specified by the MultiRowOptions argument).

TableIterator<PrimaryKey>
TableAPI.tableKeysIterator(PrimaryKey key,
                 MultiRowOptions getOptions,
                 TableIteratorOptions iterateOptions)

Returns an iterator over the keys associated with a partial primary key.

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