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Meet the Ugandan-American Software Engineer Who Co-Developed the Apple Watch Series 6 Blood Oxygen Monitor
Shanique Yates. Nov 23, 2020.
Thanks to a team of software engineers at Apple led by Dr. Jeofrey Kibuule — Software Engineer, Health at Apple — the company has a new life-saving feature, reports Face2Face Africa.
Apple's newly-released Apple Watch Series 6 comes with a special feature — a blood oxygen saturation monitor. The new blood oxygen app allows users to measure the oxygen level of their blood-on-demand directly from their wrist, ultimately providing them with insights into their overall wellness, per Apple.
For users, the new feature comes right on time with many COVID-19 patients having had low blood oxygen levels.
"During a blood oxygen measurement, the back crystal [under the wrist watch] shines red and green LEDs and infrared light onto your wrist," said Apple in a statement on their website."Photodiodes then measure the amount of light reflected back. Advanced algorithms use this data to calculate the colour of your blood. The colour determines your blood oxygen level — bright red blood has more oxygen, while dark red blood has less."
Apple says the measurements taken with the blood oxygen app should only be "for general fitness and wellness purposes."
Dr. Kibuule, 31, snatched up headlines, particularly in the tech world, immediately following the launch of the Apple Watch Series 6.
According to the Daily Monitor, Dr. Kibuule is among the brains behind the blood oxygen app and the team has been working in Silicon Valley for the last five years.
Thanks to his passion for technology and medicine, Dr. Kibuule, developed a lab reference app at age 23 while still in medical school. The app is known as Pocket Lab Values and helps to increase the chances of diagnoses accuracy.
Per a report, the groundbreaking app, "catapulted him [Kibuule] on a global stage to collaborate with medical professionals in Laboratory investigations for health solutions."
The second-born son of Dr. Pascal Kibuule and Mrs. Mawanda Kibuule, of Desoto, Texas, Dr. Kibuule comes from a brilliant family. Four out of five of his family members obtained doctorates, according to Face2Face Africa. At just 18-years-old, he became the first-known Ugandan-American to graduate with a bachelor of science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
In addition to studying medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and earning an M.D. in 2014, he also graduated from the Honors College of Science, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) of Texas at the University of North Texas.
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Situated at Carmarthenshire's most westerly border are Cenarth Falls and the nearby Town of Newcastle Emlyn. Only some 3.5 miles separates the two, making them a perfect day trip out. We couldn't find a picnic spot between the two, but we did find one just half a mile outside of Cenarth in the opposite direction.
The falls at Cenarth are a very popular destination for many visitors to Wales, they have even been used as a backdrop for the a television advert. Timotai used the Falls during the 1980's for a shampoo advert.
Most visitors come not just to see the Teifi River dropping over the Falls but also to possibly catch a glimpse of the famous Teifi salmon that can be seen leaping up the Falls in an attempt to make it to their spawning grounds further up the Teifi.
At certain times of the year there are coracle races held on the Teifi at Cenarth and the National Coracle Centre is also situated in the village nearby.
A Norman bridge also spans the Teifi here, making Cenarth a very picturesque spot.
From Cenarth, take the B4332 sign posted for Boncath for some half a mile. You should now be heading up hill. Keep your eyes peeled for a Forestry Commission sign on your left and follow the lane to the left here, it leads up hill to a parking area with a picnic spot.
There are some short woodland walks you can follow here or just sit and enjoy your picnic in the shade of the trees.
To get to Newcastle Emlyn, backtrack to Cenarth but at the T-junction in Cenarth turn right and follow the road until you arrive in Newcastle Emlyn.
The Town of Newcastle Emlyn has a wealth of History to discover. There are the remains of a Norman Castle and a fine example of a Norman bridge, plus some beautiful buildings lining the High Street.
There is something for everyone in this small Market Town, housed along the High Street you will find cafe's, pubs, shops and restaurants. At one time Newcastle Emlyn High Street was home to more than 15 public houses, today there are still four or five to choose from, the rest converted into shops or cafe's and restaurants.
For the kids there is a small play park nearby the main car park and a few miles east of Newcastle Emlyn you will find the village of Henllan which is home to the Teifi Valley Railway - a narrow gauge railway (currently approx 0.5 miles long) which also has a small covered play area and also a larger uncovered play area.


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Prince William and Kate's royal photographer shares top tips to take the perfect Christmas photos
No more half-closed eyes and blurry shots
December 13, 2021 - 08:06 GMT Ainhoa Barcelona The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's royal photographer, Chris Floyd, has shared his top tips to take the perfect Christmas photos this season
Gathering the family around to take that one perfect picture at Christmas may seem like mission impossible at times. There's always someone who's blinking or not looking at the camera, a baby's in tears or a child's scowling, or there are more blurry shots than not.
As part of our Christmas Digital Issue guest-edited by Martine McCutcheon, we spoke to royal photographer Chris Floyd, the man famously behind Prince William and Kate's loved-up tenth wedding anniversary photos. Chris's portraits broke the internet in April for showing the Cambridges outwardly affectionate with each other and he was praised for his talent and skill.
READ: Martine McCutcheon reveals the other Christmas film she was almost cast in
Here, he shares his top tips for taking the perfect Christmas photos with your loved ones…
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How to choose the best location
If you're shooting inside or at home, have your back to the window and position your subject close to the window so that they're facing it, and a lot of natural daylight streams in. Focus in on the subject quite closely. That will make your picture quite dark in the background but your subject will be quite light, giving a nice dramatic contrast. Light through windows is always gorgeous, it's the best light.
If you're shooting outside, it's actually better to shoot in the shade. Sunlight is the worst thing to make people look good. Photographers love a cloudy day because you have this soft daylight that makes skin look good and hides a multitude of things, whereas harsh sunlight can be very aggressive on people's faces.
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Chris Floyd was the man behind William and Kate's 10th wedding anniversary photos
How to choose the best time to take photos
Either early in the morning or late in the afternoon or evening. In the summer months, you want to take photos during what's called the golden hour when the sun is going down and the light is just above the tree line. It's magical. And you have exactly the same principle in the morning when the sun is going up.
If you have a sunny day, midday is the worst time to photograph people because the sun's high and people start to squint. But if it's overcast, then it's doesn't matter too much what time you choose.
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How to shoot on a smartphone
You can control your exposure. If you hold your finger on the screen for three seconds, it will lock and a slider appears so that you can make the screen lighter or darker. I often think iPhones make everything look a bit too bright so control the exposure. Use portrait mode – everyone loves portrait mode. It makes everything sexier!
His photos showed the royals outwardly affectionate with each other
How to make sure no one has their eyes closed
Take lots of photos. With groups of people, count '1, 2, 3… 1, 2, 3… 1, 2, 3…' and take the picture on the three. Try and get people into a rhythm of not blinking. If, like me, you're someone who takes a lot of photos of people, you'll quickly notice people's blinking patterns and figure out when to take photos in between blinks.
How to make sure children and babies are all looking and smiling
There really are no rules for children and babies! Bribery, sweets… the thing with children is you've really just got to let them be and do as they do.
If you're photographing a family, you can break it up a bit into chaos and calm. You can say to the adults, 'You're the calm in all of this, just be really stable like a rock and don't try and force the children to sit still and smile'. Actually, a good photographer can work with what's thrown at them. So you want the adults to ignore the chaotic children and let the children be the chaos that's happening around them.
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If you just get the adults to look at the camera or do whatever you want them to do, the children are actually the ones that will provide the magic and the energy in the picture. Because you do need energy otherwise it becomes a bit boring and static. Then the photographer can just concentrate on watching the kids and getting the right shot, if they know the adults are sitting calmly.
How to photograph someone who is really uncomfortable in front of the camera
I've had lots and lots of experience with that. Really, it's about being able to do your job without having to think about it, so that you can concentrate all your energy on talking to whoever is feeling uncomfortable. You want to get them to a point where they forget why they're there.
Engage them in meaningful conversation. Be curious. Provide them with an opportunity to talk to you and listen to them. Ultimately that's really what I do – forge connections with people, have a conversation with them, and a photograph is a record of that conversation.
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The oldest and classic UNIX object format. It uses a short and compact header with a magic number at the beginning that is often used to characterize the format (see a.out(5) for more details). It contains three loaded segments: .text, .data, and .bss plus a symbol table and a string table.
The SVR3 object format. The header now comprises a section table, so you can have more than just .text, .data, and .bss sections.
The successor to COFF, featuring multiple sections and 32-bit or 64-bit possible values. One major drawback: ELF was also designed with the assumption that there would be only one ABI per system architecture. That assumption is actually quite incorrect, and not even in the commercial SYSV world (which has at least three ABIs: SVR4, Solaris, SCO) does it hold true.
FreeBSD tries to work around this problem somewhat by providing a utility for branding a known ELF executable with information about the ABI it is compliant with. See the manual page for brandelf(1) for more information.
FreeBSD comes from the classic camp and used the a.out(5) format, a technology tried and proven through many generations of BSD releases, until the beginning of the 3.X branch. Though it was possible to build and run native ELF binaries (and kernels) on a FreeBSD system for some time before that, FreeBSD initially resisted the push to switch to ELF as the default format. Why? Well, when the Linux camp made their painful transition to ELF, it was not so much to flee the a.out executable format as it was their inflexible jump-table based shared library mechanism, which made the construction of shared libraries very difficult for vendors and developers alike. Since the ELF tools available offered a solution to the shared library problem and were generally seen as the way forward anyway, the migration cost was accepted as necessary and the transition made. FreeBSD's shared library mechanism is based more closely on Sun's SunOS" style shared library mechanism and, as such, is very easy to use.
So, why are there so many different formats?
Back in the dim, dark past, there was simple hardware. This simple hardware supported a simple, small system. a.out was completely adequate for the job of representing binaries on this simple system (a PDP-11). As people ported UNIX from this simple system, they retained the a.out format because it was sufficient for the early ports of UNIX to architectures like the Motorola 68k, VAXen, etc.
Then some bright hardware engineer decided that if he could force software to do some sleazy tricks, then he would be able to shave a few gates off the design and allow his CPU core to run faster. While it was made to work with this new kind of hardware (known these days as RISC), a.out was ill-suited for this hardware, so many formats were developed to get to a better performance from this hardware than the limited, simple a.out format could offer. Things like COFF, ECOFF, and a few obscure others were invented and their limitations explored before things seemed to settle on ELF.
In addition, program sizes were getting huge and disks (and physical memory) were still relatively small so the concept of a shared library was born. The VM system also became more sophisticated. While each one of these advancements was done using the a.out format, its usefulness was stretched more and more with each new feature. In addition, people wanted to dynamically load things at run time, or to junk parts of their program after the init code had run to save in core memory and swap space. Languages became more sophisticated and people wanted code called before main automatically. Lots of hacks were done to the a.out format to allow all of these things to happen, and they basically worked for a time. In time, a.out was not up to handling all these problems without an ever increasing overhead in code and complexity. While ELF solved many of these problems, it would be painful to switch from the system that basically worked. So ELF had to wait until it was more painful to remain with a.out than it was to migrate to ELF.
However, as time passed, the build tools that FreeBSD derived their build tools from (the assembler and loader especially) evolved in two parallel trees. The FreeBSD tree added shared libraries and fixed some bugs. The GNU folks that originally wrote these programs rewrote them and added simpler support for building cross compilers, plugging in different formats at will, and so on. Since many people wanted to build cross compilers targeting FreeBSD, they were out of luck since the older sources that FreeBSD had for as and ld were not up to the task. The new GNU tools chain (binutils) does support cross compiling, ELF, shared libraries, C++ extensions, etc. In addition, many vendors are releasing ELF binaries, and it is a good thing for FreeBSD to run them.
ELF is more expressive than a.out and allows more extensibility in the base system. The ELF tools are better maintained, and offer cross compilation support, which is important to many people. ELF may be a little slower than a.out, but trying to measure it can be difficult. There are also numerous details that are different between the two in how they map pages, handle init code, etc. None of these are very important, but they are differences. In time support for a.out will be moved out of the GENERIC kernel, and eventually removed from the kernel once the need to run legacy a.out programs is past.


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Google Wallet Struggles With Being Open, But On Only One Platform: Its Own
When Google last week unveiled its Google Wallet near field communication (NFC) mobile-payment service, its executives repeatedly stressed how open it was. That's an odd claim to make when a service is only available on one platform: its own.
To be fair, Google may have had little choice, with cooperation refusals from Apple and Research In Motion's BlackBerry group pretty much forcing Google to go it alone. That doesn't make the mobile-payment fragmentation any less serious, though. If Apple, PayPal and others opt for their own approaches, which seems inevitable, the fragmentation will make it even harder for consumers to embrace mobile payments and for any retailer to get enough traction for mobile to be profitable.
Indeed, the Google exec who handled much of the rollout—Google Payments VP Osama Bedier—used that event to lay out the case for why multi-platform support is so crucial. At the time, though, he was making the case for openness everywhere other than mobile platforms. Still, his argument works.
"We're building an open-commerce ecosystem, and Google Wallet is built on top of that open platform. By the way, open is who we are at Google. It's a deep part of our culture, a part of our history, and we know that open solutions add value for all players," Bedier said. "Open systems drive competition and innovation. They deliver consumer choice and, most importantly, exponential growth."
One CIO at a major apparel chain said he is finding these latest mobile moves quite frustrating. "The battleground is becoming pretty well defined—carriers versus banks versus Google versus Apple versus Who Knows—but the winner is less clear. Save for it not being the carriers. They've stepped up to their usual standards of excellence," he said.
Forrester M-Commerce Analyst Sucharita Mulpuru said Google's choice to roll out a single-platform offering is going to make adoption a lot more difficult. "This is such a non-starter on so many levels," she said. "If a Droid phone was the only thing you ever needed to complete a transaction, that would be one thing. Alas, it's not. And no one even asks why NFC has been so challenged, even in markets like Japan, where virtually all devices have NFC capabilities and DoCoMo is behind it. All these guys think they can go at it with payments alone. There's a reason they call it a network. Good luck."Mulpuru said going partway open is generally going to frustrate both customers and partners. "It sounds like they see 'open' in the same way that APIs are open: in a select way. Anyone can develop something for it, so long as it's within the parameters of what has been outlined. It's all about not having skin in the game and trying to avoid investing in development support—usually the result is little upside or uptake for anyone."
The Forrester argument is quite legitimate, which is a shame, because what Google unveiled seemed to have most of the elements of a first-class payment system. Despite some payment security hiccups during the demonstration, the Google presentation included what appeared to be a very well-thought-out, seamless user interface. The security is primarily dealt with on the chip, but Google also included the ability to shut off the app. It's possible to activate and deactivate any of the individual cards in the virtual wallet, too. That's a nice touch for addressing the security concerns of cyberthieves who are trying to catch card data in the air. The card is only activated right before the purchase and can be deactivated seconds after the purchase is completed.
But let's get back to Forrester's point about NFC challenges in Japan, which is arguably the most mobile-phone-friendly country on the planet. To paraphrase that old standard, New York, New York, if NFC can't make it there, can it make it anywhere?
With today's retailers, there is a huge investment in NFC integration that has to happen before we even know whether NFC support will translate into NFC transactions. Even if the vast majority of those investments are heavily subsidized by Visa and others in the chain—including Google and Apple—it's not just the investment dollars that are an issue. It's also an issue of time.
The move to retail NFC "is not a 12 to 18 month investment," said Peter Osberg, senior VP for Marketing at Denver-based retail payments vendor IPCommerce, who added that it could take significantly longer.
Anything that will take more than two years in mobile might as well take 20 years, given how quickly M-Commerce is changing. Then there's the issue of getting NFC phones into the hands of enough consumers, many of whom will have to upgrade.A Forrester report on Google Wallet points out how few NFC-capable phones exist today. "Relying on an installed base of phones that is today indistinguishable from zero, a single payment system, a single card issuer and a modest network of merchants capable of accepting these phone-based payments means that the near-term impact will be negligible," wrote Forrester Analysts Charles S. Golvin and Thomas Husson. "However, Google's interest here isn't in the payments. It's in the data that underlies the complete chain of commerce, including consideration, promotion, transaction details, coupons and receipts."
Remarkably enough, that means the interests of Google and retailers are in synch. Retailers don't want to be in the payments business any more than Google does. The more that can be pushed off on the processors and the card brands, the better. The only interests in POS involve CRM and boosting (and tracking) sales. OK, if the system can help with anti-fraud/loss prevention, that's nice, too.
The CIO at that major apparel chain said Google's move is making it explicit that retail mobile will have very little to do with actual payment. "The future potential here is huge and it actually is having less and less to do with payment itself. Think CRM. Sadly, payment is likely the ticket to entry so we'll have to scrape the losers off the battlefield before we can start leveraging the real value. But who are the CRM plays that really get what this technology could do in-store? Please stand. Hello? Hello?"
Getting back to the Google trial and the very near term, how much back-end POS work does the Google Wallet require? According to Google partner Verifone, quite a bit.
What about the chains that are already using NFC readers? Surely they should have an easy transition? Nope. "Of the NFC readers out there, the majority—close to 100 percent—will need to be updated," said Paul Rasori, Verifone's senior VP for Global Marketing. "These readers are much more advanced than" current PayPass terminals, he said. On top of those upgrades will be the usual software changes throughout the network.
With all this effort and cost, is it worth it to get involved in one of these early stage mobile-payment trials? Quite possibly. There are two reasons to want to do so. First, it always has been about the data and improving the customer experience—and upsells. These trials will almost certainly provide much critical data that will be useful no matter what happens next.
The second reason to do so is what we'll call the Gambler's Choice.The second reason to do so is what we'll call the Gambler's Choice. The most likely scenario is that there will be trials with Google and Apple running simultaneously. Within about 18 months, the market—consisting of that tiny subset of consumers and retailers actively involved in trials—will decide a preference. Unless the underdog fights back with a clever new twist, the market will rapidly gravitate to the victor. The loser will then agree to a deal with the victor, with very unfavorable terms, and one mobile standard will emerge.
Here's the gamble: The retailers that happened to have chosen to trial with the victor will have a huge headstart on development. The losers? Not so much; but they'll still be far ahead of the retailers that engaged in no trials. That makes choosing properly very important. Given that Google has announced and Apple hasn't, retailers have no way of knowing exactly what Apple will offer. Therefore, retailers trying to make an informed choice between the two—between something that exists and something that doesn't—have an almost impossible task. Let's look at the partner list, though, for some clues.
Google's primary payment partners are Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint. The most conspicuous missing player is Visa, so there's a fine chance it will be in the Apple camp. That's huge. AT&T and Verizon are up for grabs, and Apple already has strong relationships with them. Being first gives Google some strength, but the potential Apple lineup is powerful.
When asked if Google Wallet would exist on other platforms, Stephanie Tilenius, Google's VP for Commerce, said at a panel discussion this week that "this is an app that works on any phone, and there's an NFC sticker that can be put on the back of the phone." Although true, that's rather misleading. The app might work on the iPhone, but it can't get on the iPhone without Apple's permission.
That's akin to selling a bowling ball to a child. The child balks and says, "Why would I pay you for a bowling ball? There are no bowling alleys anywhere near here. I couldn't use it." The salesperson replies, "This bowling ball will work in the living room of every house on your street, including yours." He just doesn't mention the permission issue.
And then there's PayPal. PayPal and parent eBay sued Google last week and specifically sued Tilenius and Bedier, both of whom used to work at eBay. The accusations are the usual, that the executives breached confidentiality agreements. But the lawsuit also makes it clear that PayPal, which said it had been negotiating a deal to handle payments for Google's Androids until Google backed out of the talks, sees itself competing for payment attention with Google.
"Both PayPal and Google are currently offering their mobile-payment and POS technologies to major retailers for trial use," the lawsuit filing said. "Although PayPal's services and Google's services are not mutually exclusive, at this stage it is unlikely that a retailer would invest time and effort in testing both companies' products."
Is it at all possible for the mobile-payment space to get any less tidy? I didn't think so.


Welcome welcome... Daisy Chain Challenges has it's new challenge running.
The theme for the month of January is Add Some Sparkle.
Why not come on over and show us your creations and also check out what the DT have made for your inspiration.
I have been asked to make Christmas cards for a friend for next year so I thought I may as well start early, whilst my head is still in the Christmas frame of mind, so here I am sharing with you my latest make before I start moving onto more summer themed makes!!
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If you're looking for last-minute decorations to hang for Thanksgiving, check out this cupcake liner garland. It's super easy, fun and whimsical for the holiday season. Gone are the days of solid color cupcake liners. You can now buy them in different colors and designs and use them not just for cupcakes, but other cute DIY projects.
You can purchase these cupcake liners from your local craft store. Typically in the cake baking or decorating section, they will sell a variety of cupcake liners with different holiday designs. All you need is a little bit of twine and a pointed object to poke a hole. Here, I have used a safety pin. You can use yarn, or any other type of string to hold the liners. Another option is to thread twine through an embroidery needle.
This project is very simple. Poke a hole in the center of the cupcake liner and thread the yarn through. Make sure you gently attach each liner as they are very fragile, and as you are stringing them, be careful not to bend or fold the liner paper so it keeps it doesn't lose its shape.
You can create a fuller effect by alternating the way the liners face on the twine: back to back, front to front. If they're all facing the same way, they'll be too condensed, not to mention you'll end up stringing the liners for a long time to get the perfect length. Feel free to string as far as you need with the garland.
And that's it! You should have a long piece of garland to hang on your fireplace, or to use for a kid's fall birthday party. This is a great craft for kids (just choose a not-so-sharp hole punch) to make as a Thanksgiving Day decoration. Depending on how long you want it, this project could take only a few minutes or a whopping few hours to complete. Put on a good movie while you craft it and it will be done in no time. These liners are a cute, whimsical way of adding a little bit of Thanksgiving fun to your home during the holiday season.


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Powers is blessed with one of the more appealingly idiosyncratic voices in indie rock, a kind of eunuchoid Appalachian warble.
As if to answer the charge that his debut navel-gazed and its follow-up meandered, Trevor Powers's third album as Youth Lagoon announces his newfound forthrightness with a minimalist cover design. Savage Hills Ballroom it reads in yellow text, embroidered on blue, followed by a subtitle: "A Collection of 10 Songs by Youth Lagoon." Sure enough, while hardly the pilgrimage to pre-Sgt. Pepper rock n' roll purity suggested by the cover's retro block lettering, Savage Hills Ballroom is forceful and formally rigorous in a fashion yet unseen from Powers. It's a tale as old as Bob Dylan: A once-taciturn, still-young artist, fresh from a few years of touring and good press, amps up the rhythms, dials down the whimsy, and embraces the extroverted energy of playing to a big crowd.
Its similarly trite social commentary notwithstanding ("Everybody wants to think they're not what they ate, that their body's great/Everybody wants to think that they're good at heart, when they're full of hate"), "The Knower" represents the album's most unqualified triumph. The swift crescendo from aching soliloquy to prolonged trumpet aria is a stirring testament to what could happen when Powers goes all Florence and the Machine on his simple, sticky homespun hooks. The rest of Savage Hills Ballroom, for the most part, is more routine, even commercial. Formulaic radio-rock structures, midtempo beats, and pristine, spiraling pianos balanced by tasteful splashes of distortion make for sad-guy stadium pop with a slight edge—suggesting Coldplay fronted by Joanna Newsom.
Most peculiar is "Again," which awkwardly channels the trip-hop sound native to Bristol, where Powers and Chant recorded. There's no reason the Boise-based Powers shouldn't make himself at home in more urbane sonic settings as he progresses artistically. But so much of the lasting charm of past Youth Lagoon singles like "Dropla" and "Afternoon" is that they're both submerged in, and looking back on, a naïve feeling of wonder and wanderlust. On Savage Hills Ballroom, Powers seems much too concerned with slick sophistication that doesn't quite suit him.


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Lloyd George becomes prime minister
The 6th of December 1916 AD
When David Lloyd George's time at Number Ten was up, his government felled by scandal, a world war had been won, and a society drastically reformed.
His ignominious end was out of step with his political achievements: he was the man that gave women the vote in 1918; it was his tenacity that helped arm the Western Front, and coalesced the Allies war efforts under the charge of one man, the French general Ferdinand Foch.
Welsh by way of Manchester , George moved back to Ty Newydd after is father died. David Lloyd George was the only British prime minister whose first language was not English. Imbued with liberal ideology from an early age, he became politically active in 1885. He was then a young lawyer with big ideas, and was seduced both Joseph Chamberlain 's radicalism.
George entered the business of government when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman appointed him president of the Board of Trade. It was a post which stood him in good stead for his next role as chancellor of the exchequer. George was a working class chancellor. His budget of 1909 was rejected by the House of Lords. The second house has never been popular in the mindset of Liberal thinking, not at a time when the House of Commons was populated by hereditary peers, the majority Conservative.
The rejection of his budget led to the Parliament Act of 1911, reining in the Lords' veto. George succeeded HH Asquith in 1916, leading a coalition government at a time when Britain had problems at home and abroad. The First World War was still killing young men by the thousands, and revolution in Ireland brought the Gladstone question of Irish home rule to the forefront of the political agenda.
After a split with the Conservatives in 1922, the coalition fractured over disputes over foreign policy, the selling of peerages scandal brought an end to his time in office. He died on the 26th March 1945 in his home town of Ty Newydd. The controversial end to his career as prime minister didn't fully eclipse a political legacy built on reform.
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HER NAME IS KITTY AND HAS A COLLAR WITH A PHONE NUMBER ON IT.
MISSING FROM 7318 GLEN BROOK LANE.
A young black and white tuxedo cat with white cheeks, white paws and white whiskers has been spotted traveling between the homes on Glen Brook Lane and Woodnotch Court. The cat does not have a rabies tag, and appears to be very hungry and thirsty.
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Boasianism as a cult
Gelya Frank. Jews, Multiculturalism, and Boasian Anthropology. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 99, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 731-745.
THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a lively, if sometimes hushed, in-house discourse about American anthropology's Jewish origins and their meaning. The preponderance of Jewish intellectuals in the early years of Boasian anthropology and the Jewish identities of anthropologists in subsequent generations have been downplayed in standard histories of the discipline. Jewish histories foreground the roles and deeds of Jews, actually a vety small minority: less than 3 percent of the world and of this nation's population (Schmelz and Della Pergola 1995). From that vantage, the development of American anthropology appears part of Jewish history. This essay brings together strands of these various discourses on Jews in anthropology for a new generation of American anthropologists, especially ones concerned with turning multiculturalist theories into agendas for activism.
The public silence or omission concerning anthropology's Jews is due mainly to the tone of liberal humanism and cosmopolitianism set by founder Franz Boas (1858-1942), himself a Jewish German immigrant, who in 1896 established the nation's first department of an- thropology at Columbia University. There has also been a whitewashing of Jewish ethnicity, reflecting fears of anti-Semitic reactions that could discredit the disci- pline of anthropology and individual anthropologists, either because Jews were considered dangerous due to their presumed racial differences or because they were associated with radical causes. [. . .]
Leslie White, a critic of Boas and a non-Jew, argued that the Boasians gained dominance by exclusionary practices and provocatively termed the Boasians a "cult" (1966:4). White labels Boas's analysis of race "inflexible," based as it is upon Boas's background as a Jew and belief in the ideals of the Revolution of 1848. Reworking statements by Boas's students into a polemic, White writes:
Boas, who was "of Jewish extraction" (Lowie, 1947, p. 310), had been intensely concerned with anti-Semitism since his formative years" (Kluckhohn and Prufer, 1959, p. 10). He wrote voluminously on racial problems, as did some of his prominent students. As I have argued elsewhere (White, 1947a), however, he never got to the heart of the matter. Much of his argument was based upon anthropometry and anatomy, which were largely irrelevant because race prejudice and conflict do not arise from lack of knowledge of facts of this sort.... Boas had virtually a closed mind, if we may trust Kroeber's [1956] judgment on this point. [1966:1S17]
White further charges that Boas had a closed attitude toward American-born scholars who were not Jewish (such as Clark Wissler and Ralph Linton) and tended to criticize or overlook anthropological work done by people who were not in the circle of educated Germans and "Forty-Eighters" (supporters of the liberal and socialist revolutions of 1848). White continues:
Let us have another look at the Boas School, the small, compact group of scholars that were gathered about the leader. The earliest were principally foreign-born or the children of immigrants. Goldenweiser was born in Kiev; Radin in Lodz; Lowie in Vienna, and Sapir in Pomerania. Kroeber's father was born in Cologne, and his mother was AmeIican-born, of Gelman antecedents. All were fluent in the German language. Like Boas, most were of Jewish ancestry. John Sholtz, writing in Reflex: A Jewtsh Magaztne (Vol. 6, p. 9, 1935) has observed that in the one field of anthropology alone, it is interesting to note the dispro- portionate position held by Jewish scientists in this country. Men like Boaz [sic], Golden weiser [sic], Lowie, Radin are easily the leaders in the field." . . . A school by definition tends to be a closed society or group. Kroeber tells of how George A. Dorsey, an American-born gentile and a Ph.D. from Harvard, tried to gain admittance to the select group but failed. [1966:26]
[White, Leslie A.
1947 Review of Franz Boas, Race and Democratic Society. American Journal of Sociology 52:371-373.
1966 The Social Organization of Ethnological Theory. Monograph in Cultural Anthropology. Rice University Studies, 52(4). Houston: William Marsh Rice University]
Labels: anthropology, history, Jewish ethnocentrism, Jews
How do we account, then, for the two most prominent "Boasians," at least by American standards, of the 20th century: Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict?
What's there to account for? You just named the majority of non-Jewish first-wave Boas disciples -- and Boas disciples is the key phrase.
Carleton Coon on the origin of races
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Admixture studies
Nordics aren't Meds
Upper Paleolithic Europeans: not fat, not Khoisanoid
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Fine-Scale Population Structure in Humans
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Auster faggotry
Blue-eyed Siberians
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Ancestry of Madison Grant and others
Civilization and health
Genetic data consistent with Aryan invasion theory
African genetic structure
Grant vs. Boas


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Bruce Springsteen Surprises South American Audiences With Classic, Political Songs
4:23 PM PDT 9/20/2013 by Agustin Mango
Bruce Springsteen Chile - H 2013
The Boss played for crowds in Chile, Argentina and Brazil on his Wrecking Ball Tour.
BUENOS AIRES – The South American portion of his Wrecking Ball Tour has Bruce Springsteen winning over the crowds in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Twenty-five years after his last show in the region -- with Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! Tour -- The Boss added classic (and political) songs to his playlist, which surprised audiences at a series of hugely anticipated shows that kicked off last week.
Last Thursday, on the first of his four shows in the region, Springsteen opened the encore portion with "Manifesto," a classic by Chilean political songwriter Victor Jara, who was murdered by the Chilean dictatorship in 1973.
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Last weekend in Argentina, after a three-hour show, Springsteen asked the Buenos Aires audience to check his website for a rendition of Leon Gieco's political anthem "Solo le pido a Dios (I Only Ask of God)," which he learned from Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa. At the show, Springsteen apologized for being too exhausted to play a proper rendition of the song and promised to return.
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Infertility means not being able to get pregnant after one year of trying (or six months if a woman is 35 or older). Women who can get pregnant but are unable to stay pregnant may also be infertile. About 10 percent of women (6.1 million) in the United States ages 15-44 have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
WASH interventions, such as toilet facilities, access to improved and safe water supply, and hand washing are associated with improved nutrition and health of entire communities (13, 14, 125–128). For women and adolescent girls, WASH interventions were associated with improved menstrual hygiene (126), reduced diarrhea and intestinal worm infections (128–131), and reduced maternal mortality (132). Women and young girls are also more affected by the physical and time burdens of collecting water (126), and harassment and violence associated with inadequate and unsafe toilet facilities (133, 134). Closer water points and sanitation facilities eased these gendered burdens (126, 135). WASH interventions and perceived water availability were associated with less time spent on water-related chores, and improved school attendance, women's empowerment, and self-esteem (126, 135, 136).
There were also supplementation programs that targeted nonpregnant women. National supplementation programs that provided food baskets to low-income families increased maternal BMI and improved household food insecurity (92, 93). However, there were some unintended consequences. In Mexico, food transfer programs disproportionately increased weight gain in overweight women compared with underweight women (93), and 1 study in Bangladesh found that food transfers had larger impacts on men's intake than women's intake, except with less preferred foods (94). Adolescents who received protein-energy supplementation at school showed an increase in weight gain during supplementation, as well as improvements in school attendance and mathematics scores (46, 95). However, the impact of supplementation on micronutrient deficiencies and, specifically, hemoglobin concentration, was limited (46).
Stress can wreak serious havoc on our bodies, but we actually need stress to a certain extent. For example, if we were running from a bear, we would need our stress response to kick in full force. We would start breathing faster, sending more oxygen to muscles to fuel movement, then our bodies would release stress hormones from our adrenal glands (cortisol) to heighten our focus by tapping into energy reserves for fuel so we could flee the danger. Cortisol isn't always the bad guy, but when this response is high and chronic it tells your body to eat more than it "needs" because it's thinking much more about survival, not stress over a work deadline or relationship woe. Cortisol is needed, but high levels of cortisol over time will contribute to those mentioned health impacts, especially abdominal weight gain! The problem is when we're actually not in danger and our bodies are living in this state chronically. THIS is the magic piece of the puzzle – learning how we can turn off that heightened stress response when it's not needed.
While the rates of the leading causes of death, cardiovascular disease, cancer and lung disease, are similar in women and men, women have different experiences. Lung cancer has overtaken all other types of cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in women, followed by breast cancer, colorectal, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers. While smoking is the major cause of lung cancer, amongst nonsmoking women the risk of developing cancer is three times greater than amongst nonsmoking men. Despite this, breast cancer remains the commonest cancer in women in developed countries, and is one of the more important chronic diseases of women, while cervical cancer remains one of the commonest cancers in developing countries, associated with human papilloma virus (HPV), an important sexually transmitted disease. HPV vaccine together with screening offers the promise of controlling these diseases. Other important health issues for women include cardiovascular disease, depression, dementia, osteoporosis and anemia. A major impediment to advancing women's health has been their underrepresentation in research studies, an inequity being addressed in the United States and other western nations by the establishment of centers of excellence in women's health research and large scale clinical trials such as the Women's Health Initiative.
Violence was declared a global health priority by the WHO at its assembly in 1996, drawing on both the United Nations Declaration on the elimination of violence against women (1993)[134] and the recommendations of both the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) and the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)[140] This was followed by its 2002 World Report on Violence and Health, which focusses on intimate partner and sexual violence.[141] Meanwhile, the UN embedded these in an action plan when its General Assembly passed the Millennium Declaration in September 2000, which resolved inter alia "to combat all forms of violence against women and to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women".[142] One of the Millennium Goals (MDG 3) was the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,[143] which sought to eliminate all forms of violence against women as well as implementing CEDAW.[101] This recognised that eliminating violence, including discrimination was a prerequisite to achieving all other goals of improving women's health. However it was later criticised for not including violence as an explicit target, the "missing target".[144][85] In the evaluation of MDG 3, violence remained a major barrier to achieving the goals.[31][37] In the successor Sustainable Development Goals, which also explicitly list the related issues of discrimination, child marriage and genital cutting, one target is listed as "Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres" by 2030.[109][145][138]
In the past, women have often tried to make up deficits in their diet though the use of vitamins and supplements. However, while supplements can be a useful safeguard against occasional nutrient shortfalls, they can't compensate for an unbalanced or unhealthy diet. To ensure you get all the nutrients you need from the food you eat, try to aim for a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, quality protein, healthy fats, and low in processed, fried, and sugary foods.
Many nutrition-sensitive approaches were delivered in broader community-based settings and more equitably reached women across the life course. Non-facilities-based settings more equitably delivered nutrition interventions to women who were not pregnant or lactating, and who were less engaged with health clinics and schools. For instance, food fortification, which was often delivered through markets, home visits, and community centers, seemed to be more effective at reaching women of reproductive age than health center–based delivery platforms. Community-level interventions are often reported as more equitable than platforms that require access to "fixed and well-equipped health facilities" (212). This aligns with our findings, where we found that community-based platforms such as home visits, community centers, homes of community leaders, work, mass media, mobile phones, and commercial settings were effective at reaching women across the life course (Table 1). Other delivery platforms such as marketplaces, water points, tailoring shops, and agricultural points for seeds or inputs were also effective. These locations need to be context-specific in order to capture where women spend their time. For instance, in countries where many adolescent girls do not attend school, school-based delivery platforms might be less effective. Delivery platforms also need to be sensitive to the sociodemographic differences that influence where women spend their time, such as differences for women in rural and urban areas, and of different socioeconomic statuses. Additional research needs to identify and report where women and adolescent girls are, and how best to reach them.
Dietary fiber is found in plant foods like whole-grain breads and cereals, beans and peas, and other vegetables and fruits. At least one study suggests that women who eat high amounts of fiber (especially in cereal) may have a lower risk for heart disease. High-fiber intake is also associated with lower cholesterol, reduced cancer risk and improved bowel function. And one long-term study found that middle-aged women with a high dietary fiber intake gained less weight over time than women who ate more refined carbohydrates, like white bread and pasta.
A number of implementation challenges exist for micronutrient supplementation. Access to care is often associated with socioeconomic status and may influence women's access to and use of supplementation programs. For instance, in one study, the highest wealth quintile of pregnant women had the highest use of iron and folic acid supplementation during antenatal care (33). However, even for women who have access to micronutrient supplements, the coverage and quality of micronutrient supplementation programs were limited (39). Incorrect doses, inadequate supplies, and incomplete adherence were major limitations (33), and poorly performing programs had limited impact on nutrition outcomes (59). Integration of supplementation programs with behavior change interventions improved knowledge, adherence, and coverage of supplementation interventions (32, 33, 60). The use of local micronutrient-rich foods can also help overcome limitations associated with supplement provision. In Nepal, improvements in the dark adaptation of night-blind pregnant women did not differ significantly between food and synthetic sources of vitamin A (61). When available, consumption of micronutrient-rich foods can be as effective as micronutrient supplements.
Community centers 	↑/NC knowledge about hygiene and sanitation, ↑ water quality, ↓ diarrheal morbidity 	↑/NC knowledge about hygiene and sanitation, ↑ water quality, ↓ diarrheal morbidity 	↑/NC knowledge about hygiene and sanitation, ↑/NC hand-washing, ↑ water quality, NC waste disposal, ↓ diarrheal morbidity 	↑/NC knowledge about hygiene and sanitation, ↑ water quality, ↓ diarrheal morbidity
Omega-3 fatty acids — essential to health and happiness, reviewed by Dr. Mary James, MD. From conception to old age, every cell in our bodies needs omega-3's. Learn how omega-3 fatty acids benefit every body system — from the brain to the heart, breast, bones, colon, skin and more, this is one nutrient that can make all the difference to our health, our happiness, and — perhaps best of all — our longevity.
Community centers ↑ MN provision, ↑ health care utilization, ↑ knowledge about FP, ↑/NC use of FP ↑ MN provision, ↑ health care utilization, ↑ knowledge about FP, ↑/NC use of FP ↑ knowledge about nutritional needs, ↑ MN provision, ↓/NC maternal mortality, ↓ parasitemia, ↑ health care utilization, ↑ hospital deliveries, ↑ knowledge about FP, ↑/NC use of FP, ↑ STI testing
Behavioral differences also play a role, in which women display lower risk taking including consume less tobacco, alcohol, and drugs, reducing their risk of mortality from associated diseases, including lung cancer, tuberculosis and cirrhosis. Other risk factors that are lower for women include motor vehicle accidents. Occupational differences have exposed women to less industrial injuries, although this is likely to change, as is risk of injury or death in war. Overall such injuries contributed to 3.5% of deaths in women compared to 6.2% in the United States in 2009. Suicide rates are also less in women.[27][28]
The Center for Young Women's Health (CYWH) is a collaboration between the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and the Division of Gynecology at Boston Children's Hospital. The Center is an educational entity that exists to provide teen girls and young women with carefully researched health information, health education programs, and conferences.
The U.S. Public Health Service recommends that all women of childbearing age consume 400 mcg of folic acid (a B vitamin) daily to reduce their risk of having a pregnancy affected with spina bifida or other neural-tube defects. Women who are actively trying to get pregnant should consume 600 mcg, and lactating women should consumer 500 mcg. Women of childbearing age should also take care to meet the daily requirements for calcium, fiber, iron, protein and vitamin D. Discuss supplements with a health care professional, however. Iron and vitamin D in particular can be dangerous in high amounts.
Social protection Health centers ("condition" and delivery platform) ↑ knowledge about health and nutrition, ↑ HH food consumption, ↑ food expenditures, ↑/NC food share, ↑ dietary diversity, ↑ HH intake of fruits, vegetables, and ASF, ↑/NC intake of fats and sweets, ↑ participation in social networks, ↑ self-confidence, ↑ control HH resources ↑ knowledge about health and nutrition, ↑ HH food security, ↑ food expenditures, ↑/NC food share, ↑ HH food consumption, ↑ dietary diversity, ↑ HH intake of fruits, vegetables, and ASF, ↑/NC intake of fats and sweets, ↑ self-confidence, ↑ participation in social networks, ↑ control HH resources, ↑ ANC coverage
When you're at the bar or a party and starving, your options aren't always the best. But if it's bruschetta, chips and salsa, or wings, go for the chicken (though nuts would be even better). Protein fills you up faster than carbs do, making it less likely that you'll overeat, says Christopher Ochner, Ph.D., a research associate at New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center. And since it'll keep you satiated longer, you won't be as tempted when your friend orders a brownie sundae or brings out a tray of blondies.
Calcium: Although some bone loss is inevitable with age, women can slow the process by getting enough calcium and vitamin D. Women between the ages of 50 and 70 need 1200 mg of calcium and 600 IU of Vitamin D a day. Women older than 70 require 1200 mg of calcium and 800 IU of Vitamin D a day. Because the skin becomes less efficient at converting sunlight to vitamin D as we age, older women may need more vitamin D in the form of supplements. Talk to your doctor.
Nutrition-sensitive approaches are difficult to link to women's nutritional status (5, 102). This is due to limited measurement of benefits to program beneficiaries, families, households, and communities, limited timeframes to evaluate long-term impact, logistical and political realities that make implementation difficult, and different priorities of different stakeholders in multisectoral programs (102). Many nutrition-sensitive approaches, as will be described, thus focus on more distal measures of impact (e.g., coverage, knowledge) and not more proximal measures of women's nutritional status (e.g., BMI, anemia status, etc.).
Trying to balance the demands of family and work or school—and coping with media pressure to look and eat a certain way—can make it difficult for any woman to maintain a healthy diet. But the right food can not only support your mood, boost your energy, and help you maintain a healthy weight, it can also be a huge support through the different stages in a woman's life. Healthy food can help reduce PMS, boost fertility, make pregnancy and nursing easier, ease symptoms of menopause, and keep your bones strong. Whatever your age or situation, committing to a healthy, nutritious diet will help you look and feel your best and get the most out of life.
A related issue is the inclusion of pregnant women in clinical studies. Since other illnesses can exist concurrently with pregnancy, information is needed on the response to and efficacy of interventions during pregnancy, but ethical issues relative to the fetus, make this more complex. This gender bias is partly offset by the iniation of large scale epidemiology studies of women, such as the Nurses' Health Study (1976),[162] Women's Health Initiative[163] and Black Women's Health Study.[164][6]
Women who are socially marginalized are more likely to die at younger ages than women who are not.[21] Women who have substance abuse disorders, who are homeless, who are sex workers, and/or who are imprisoned have significantly shorter lives than other women.[21] At any given age, women in these overlapping, stigmatized groups are approximately 10 to 13 times more likely to die than typical women of the same age.[21]
The effect of education programs on nutrition outcomes is difficult to assess because programs often have poor baseline data or nutrition outcomes are not evaluated (174, 182). Studies that used longitudinal analyses and "natural" experiments (e.g., before and after a national education policy) found that education was associated with reduced fertility (183, 184), and delayed early marriages and pregnancies (184–187). The impact was more significant for higher levels of education (185). However, 1 study in Malawi identified negative associations between education and timing of first birth, although these findings were largely not statistically significant (188). Secondary education for adolescents and women of reproductive age also showed no impact on women's empowerment (184), although it did show an impact on improved literacy and leadership (174). Educational interventions that provided conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and school feeding, as well as other forms of social protection to families of enrolled girls, were associated with greater school enrollment and attendance (189–191), improved test scores (189, 190), reduced gender gaps (192), and reduced hunger (190, 191).
Women and men have approximately equal risk of dying from cancer, which accounts for about a quarter of all deaths, and is the second leading cause of death. However the relative incidence of different cancers varies between women and men. In the United States the three commonest types of cancer of women in 2012 were lung, breast and colorectal cancers. In addition other important cancers in women, in order of importance, are ovarian, uterine (including endometrial and cervical cancers (Gronowski and Schindler, Table III).[6][120] Similar figures were reported in 2016.[121] While cancer death rates rose rapidly during the twentieth century, the increase was less and later in women due to differences in smoking rates. More recently cancer death rates have started to decline as the use of tobacco becomes less common. Between 1991 and 2012, the death rate in women declined by 19% (less than in men). In the early twentieth century death from uterine (uterine body and cervix) cancers was the leading cause of cancer death in women, who had a higher cancer mortality than men. From the 1930s onwards, uterine cancer deaths declined, primarily due to lower death rates from cervical cancer following the availability of the Papanicolaou (Pap) screening test. This resulted in an overall reduction of cancer deaths in women between the 1940s and 1970s, when rising rates of lung cancer led to an overall increase. By the 1950s the decline in uterine cancer left breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death till it was overtaken by lung cancer in the 1980s. All three cancers (lung, breast, uterus) are now declining in cancer death rates (Siegel et al. Figure 8),[121] but more women die from lung cancer every year than from breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers combined. Overall about 20% of people found to have lung cancer are never smokers, yet amongst nonsmoking women the risk of developing lung cancer is three times greater than amongst men who never smoked.[119]
Community centers (e.g., women's groups, community kitchens) ↓ anemia, ↑ nutrition knowledge, ↑ HH food security, ↑ HH food consumption, ↑ dietary diversity, ↑ intake of Fe-rich foods, ↑ intake of ASF, ↑ income, ↑ control over resources, ↑ decision-making ↑ nutrition knowledge, ↓/NC anemia, ↑ food expenditures, ↑ HH food security, ↑ HH food consumption, ↑/NC dietary diversity, ↑ intake of vitamin A–rich foods, ↑/NC intake of vegetables and meat, ↑ intake of fruits and ASF, NC BMI, ↓ underweight, ↑ income, ↑ control over resources, ↑ decision-making ↑ HH food security, ↑ dietary diversity
Although women in industrialised countries have narrowed the gender gap in life expectancy and now live longer than men, in many areas of health they experience earlier and more severe disease with poorer outcomes. Gender remains an important social determinant of health, since women's health is influenced not just by their biology but also by conditions such as poverty, employment, and family responsibilities. Women have long been disadvantaged in many respects such as social and economic power which restricts their access to the necessities of life including health care, and the greater the level of disadvantage, such as in developing countries, the greater adverse impact on health.
The implications of direct nutrition interventions on women's nutrition, birth outcome and stunting rates in children in South Asia are indisputable and well documented. In the last decade, a number of studies present evidence of the role of non-nutritional factors impacting on women's nutrition, birth outcome, caring practices and nutritional status of children. The implications of various dimensions of women's empowerment and gender inequality on child stunting is being increasingly recognised. Evidence reveals the crucial role of early age of marriage and conception, poor secondary education, domestic violence, inadequate decision-making power, poor control over resources, strenuous agriculture activities, and increasing employment of women and of interventions such as cash transfer scheme and microfinance programme on undernutrition in children. Analysis of the nutrition situation of women and children in South Asia and programme findings emphasise the significance of reaching women during adolescence, pre-conception and pregnancy stage. Ensuring women enter pregnancy with adequate height and weight and free from being anemic is crucial. Combining nutrition-specific interventions with measures for empowerment of women is essential. Improvement in dietary intake and health services of women, prevention of early age marriage and conception, completion of secondary education, enhancement in purchasing power of women, reduction of work drudgery and elimination of domestic violence deserve special attention. A range of programme platforms dealing with health, education and empowerment of women could be strategically used for effectively reaching women prior to and during pregnancy to accelerate reduction in stunting rates in children in South Asia.
Micronutrient supplementation Health clinics ↓ anemia and Fe-deficiency anemia, ↑ Hgb, ↓ soil-transmitted helminth infection, ↑ cognitive function ↓ anemia and Fe-deficiency anemia, ↑ Hgb, ↑ serum ferritin, ↓ soil-transmitted helminth infection ↓/NC anemia, ↑/NC MN status (Hgb, folate, zinc, retinol), ↑ MN status [ferritin, B-12, 25(OH)D], ↓/NC gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia, NC gestational diabetes, ↓/NC hyperthyroidism, ↓/NC night blindness, ↓ bone mineral content, ↑ weight gain (among underweight women), ↓ maternal mortality, ↓/NC placental malaria, NC parasitemia, NC maternal infection, ↓/NC depression and perceived stress
Sweet chili peppers may not be a winter food, but continue eating them in your burritos, stir-fries, and soups, and you may burn more fat during your outdoor cold-weather runs. These not-hot veggies contain chemicals called capsinoids, which are similar to the capsaicin found in hot peppers. Combine capsinoids with 63-degree or cooler temps, and you increase the amount and activity of brown fat cells—those that burn energy—and give your metabolism an extra boost, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
If you usually head to the gym after work, take heed: Mental exhaustion can make you feel physically exhausted, even when you have plenty of energy, reports a Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise study. When people played a brain-draining computer game before exercising, they reported a subsequent workout as being harder, yet their muscles showed the same activity as they did doing the same workout after an easy mental game. So if you think you can't eke out those last 10 minutes on the rowing machine, remember: You can! [Tweet this motivation!]
According to the American Heart Association, it's better to eat more complex carbohydrates (vegetables, fruits and whole grains) than simple carbohydrates found in sugars. Complex carbohydrates add more fiber, vitamins and minerals to the diet than foods high in refined sugars and flour. Foods high in complex carbohydrates are usually low in calories, saturated fat and cholesterol.
Women who have very low levels of sunlight exposure or have naturally very dark skin are at risk of vitamin D deficiency. Those affected may include women who cover most of their body when outdoors, shift workers, those who are unable to regularly get out of their house or women in residential care. Women who have certain medical conditions or are on some medications may also be affected.
Women have traditionally been disadvantaged in terms of economic and social status and power, which in turn reduces their access to the necessities of life including health care. Despite recent improvements in western nations, women remain disadvantaged with respect to men.[6] The gender gap in health is even more acute in developing countries where women are relatively more disadvantaged. In addition to gender inequity, there remain specific disease processes uniquely associated with being a woman which create specific challenges in both prevention and health care.[18]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) food pyramid system (www.mypyramid.gov) provides a good start by recommending that the bulk of your diet come from the grain group—this includes bread, cereal, rice and pasta— the vegetable group; and the fruit group. Select smaller amounts of foods from the milk group and the meat and beans group. Eat few—if any—foods that are high in fat and sugars and low in nutrients. The amount of food you should consume depends on your sex, age and level of activity.
Three related targets of MDG5 were adolescent birth rate, contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning (where prevalence+unmet need = total need), which were monitored by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.[64] Contraceptive use was part of Goal 5B (universal access to reproductive health), as Indicator 5.3.[65] The evaluation of MDG5 in 2015 showed that amongst couples usage had increased worldwide from 55% to 64%. with one of the largest increases in Subsaharan Africa (13 to 28%). The corollary, unmet need, declined slightly worldwide (15 to 12%).[37] In 2015 these targets became part of SDG5 (gender equality and empowerment) under Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, where Indicator 5.6.1 is the proportion of women aged 15–49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care (p. 31).[66]
All of the identified studies focused on LNSs for pregnant and lactating women through antenatal care–based and –affiliated delivery platforms (97–101). These studies relied on antenatal care to recruit mothers but delivered the intervention through home visits. There was no evidence evaluating use of LNSs for women who were not pregnant or lactating. The majority of studies evaluating LNS interventions involved children with severe or moderate acute malnutrition. Although LNS supplementation could be an intervention to provide essential nutrients to women and girls, it is expensive. Filling energy gaps using local foods or other commodities can often be done at a lower cost (97). LNS supplementation should be limited to contexts in which cheaper, more sustainable solutions are not available.
For a strong backside that will turn heads wherever you go, Marta Montenegro, a Miami-based exercise physiologist and strength and conditioning coach, recommends completing 100 kettlebell swings nonstop with a moderate weight at the end of a legs workout. [Tweet this tip!] If you can't access a kettlebell, do deadlifts and hip-thrusters instead. "Women tend to overemphasize the quadriceps even when they think they are working the butt. With these two exercises, you'll have no problem engaging the glutes and posterior muscles of the legs," Montenegro says.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared last week National Women's Health Week (May 14-20th), but in reality we should be taking care of ourselves and have this awareness all year round, right? To kick this month off inspired by women's health, let's talk about health, nutrition, and of course answer your questions from Instagram, Twitter, and email from over this year!
If you lose weight suddenly or for unknown reasons, talk to your health care professional immediately. Unexplained weight loss may indicate a serious health condition. And even if it doesn't, simply being underweight is linked to menstrual irregularity, menstrual cessation (and sometimes, as a result, dental problems, such as erosion of the enamel and osteoporosis) and a higher risk of early death.
World Health Organization. Salt reduction and iodine fortification strategies in public health: report of a joint technical meeting convened by the World Health Organization and The George Institute for Global Health in collaboration with the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Global Network, Sydney, Australia, March 2013 . Geneva: World Health Organization; 2014.
Family planning and birth spacing can influence the nutrition of adolescent girls, women of reproductive age, and women with young children by reducing the number of adverse outcomes associated with pregnancy and abortion. For adolescent girls, in particular, pregnancy is associated with increased risk of birth complications, anemia, hindered linear growth, and loss of educational attainment (8, 107). Delaying early child marriages and providing access to family planning, particularly for young wives, allow girls to achieve their maximum growth potential (8, 142). However, for women with young children, there was scarce evidence from observational studies to suggest that greater birth spacing had any impact on anthropometric status (BMI, weight), micronutrient status (anemia, as well as serum zinc, copper, magnesium, and folate), and maternal mortality outcomes (13, 107, 143–147). Findings were mixed, which was attributed to sample size and other confounding factors such as maternal age, breastfeeding status, and supplementation status (146, 147). The strongest evidence of the impact of birth spacing on women's nutrition was related to increased risk of preterm delivery and maternal anemia in interpregnancy intervals <6 mo (14, 146, 147) and increased risk of pre-eclampsia in intervals >5 y (107).
Johnson, Paula A.; Therese Fitzgerald, Therese; Salganicoff, Alina; Wood, Susan F.; Goldstein, Jill M. (3 March 2014). Sex-Specific Medical Research Why Women's Health Can't Wait: A Report of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (PDF). Boston MA: Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology.


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What a month May has been for great music. Stalwarts made a strong mark, with Vampire Weekend releasing a highly-lauded fourth studio album and Tyler the Creator releasing a fifth – and his best-rated – record. Newcomers, too, blew it out of the water: notably, British rapper slowthai and relative newbie Jamila Woods, who has put out one of the best albums of the year. With all this great music, we really had our work cut out this month picking five great songs to share: but here goes.
5. "We Belong Together" by Vampire Weekend feat. Danielle Haim
As longtime readers would know, anything with one of the Haim sisters is almost always alright in our books. "We Belong Together" – the second Danielle Haim collab from Vampire Weekend's fifth album, Father of the Bride – is a great, old-school duet love song with a quintessentially-Ezra-Koenig melancholy twist. Black and white, day and night, left and right, bowls and plates – Koenig and Haim list off the timeless and kitschy ways pairs the two lovers belong together. But wait, what's this? "Baby, there's no use in being clever / Baby, it don't mean we'll stay together," they say, on a sugary-light bop, following it up with a devastating "We go together like lions and lambs / Oh, we go together". This is another irresistibly great song from what has been a solid album front to back. Look out for a full review of FOTB from us soon – until then, take a listen through this track (and the other we've covered in our playlists!).
4. "Doin' Time" by Lana del Rey
Speaking of melancholy crooners, the absolute queen of mournful murmuring is back. Lana del Rey has announced a new album in 2019 (the brilliantly-named Norman Fucking Rockwell), and "Doin' Time" gives us a good taste of the excellent things to come. A cover of the ska / punk band Sublime's 1996 single – and itself sampling the jazz standard "Summertime" – "Doin' Time" is a head-fake that starts off like a cheery hit and segues into an adult-contemporary drive through Lana's, well, sublime vocals. The result, as you may expect from a story about feeling trapped by an unfaithful partner, is a mixture between fuzzy contemplation and spiky regret. More to come from Lana this year, and we couldn't be more pumped.
3. "Record Collection" by Kaiser Chiefs
In another throwback to the mid-aughts, Kaiser Chiefs are back with "Record Collection", a song that's basically an updated version of every one of your favorite songs from your high school years (think Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs themselves, and so on). According to lead singer Ricky Wilson, the band recorded their seventh studio album Duck, slated for July 26th (featuring this new track) after going back and reminiscing over their own first few records. You can hear it too: after a forgettable couple of records in the middle, Kaiser Chiefs finally sound rejuvenated. A thick bassline and poppy drums elevate Wilson's vocoder-style vocals on "Record Collection", and the song is peppered with the sort of supple hooks that made "Ruby" all the rage more than a decade ago. (Has it really been that long?!) With "Record Collection", it looks like we have yet another great summer album to await – mark your calendars!
2. "Vacancy" by Havelock
With so many releases from well-known artists this month, it's easy to miss tracks like "Vacancy", the second track (ever) by English singer Havelock. But, wow, are we glad we didn't miss it – and we are so happy to recommend it to our readers, too. "Vacancy" tells a tale well-known by young people around the world – hustling until you make it, with an end in mind but not in sight. Beyond his chill vocals and the warmth of the production, what Havelock really cracks is that clever yet effortless turn of phrase. In fact, there's a line on here that we loved so much that we'll transcribe it here in full: "'Cause you got a brand-new vacancy, and I want to join the agency; I hope that it can give me something that I could hold, somewhere that I could go, without working to the bone: can you give me that?," he asks; achingly poetic in his naivety. "My snooze is on repeat / I know I'd better wake up or I'll wake up in the streets" goes another splendid couplet. We haven't been this excited for a new artist in a long time – and we hope you feel the same way, too. (If you liked this tune, you'll love "Pig Latin", his debut single.)
1. "Inglorious" by slowthai, feat. Skepta
From an arrangement standpoint, "Inglorious" has a very simple layout: a short intro, followed by a verse by slowthai and the hook, followed by another verse by Skepta and the hook. But what happens in those five parts may well have changed the topography of British rap. Of course, Skepta is already famous; his unapologetic display of British culture – in a genre dominated by American culture – has placed him on a 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK. On "Inglorious", his talents and persona are put to the best possible collaborative use with newcomer – and inevitable star – slowthai. A dreamlike intro leads into one of the best beat drops we've heard all year, along with a volley of British-isms and descriptions of struggle ("Remember when they wouldn't let me in / Now their wages just a day's per diem"). "Inglorious" features on slowthai's debut album, Nothing Great About Britain, which is honestly one of the best albums we've heard all year. Listen to "Inglorious" – if you like it, you're in for a treat for the rest of the album.
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