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2 edition of Edward Elgar found in the catalog.
Powell, Richard Mrs.
memories of a variation
by Powell, Richard Mrs.
Published 1947 by Oxford University Press in London, New York .
Elgar, Edward, -- 1857-1934.
Previous ed., 1937.
Statement Mrs.Richard Powell.
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Ghulam Hassan Mir, AP leaders visit injured pilgrims at Narayana Hospital
Mir expresses concern over loss of life, seeks detailed probe into stampede
Jammu: Apni Party leaders today visited Narayana Hospital to ascertain the well being of the pilgrims injured in the stampede.
In a statement, the Apni Party leaders led by Senior Vice President, Ghulam Hassan Mir, State General Secretary, Vikram Malhotra, State Vice President Youth Wing, Raqeeq Ahmed Khan, ST Provincial President, Jammu, Choudhary Shabir Kohli, Youth Wing, Provincial President, Jammu, Vipul Bali, Tariq Mohi-ud-Din, Arun Chibber, and others visited the ward where the injured pilgrims were admitted for treatment in Narayana Hospital.
Mir has also demanded best treatment for the injured pilgrims in the hospitals and demanded appropriate compensation to the injured persons.
Expressing shock over the incident, he said that the Govt must hold a detailed investigation into the incident and hold the irresponsible officials accountable for their mismanagement due to which the innocent people have lost their lives.
"This approach of administration should not go unpunished and the Govt must make corrective measures so that the pilgrimage should be made more smoother by adopting a rational approach," he added.
Meanwhile, State General Secretary, Vikram Malhotra also expressed his serious concern over the loss of lives. He questioned the bureaucratic attitude which does not consider the genuine pilgrims and put them to unnecessary suffering.
"The relatives and friends of the influential bureaucrats occupy rooms and prefer facilitating the pilgrimage of their known people and ignore the poor people who come from various places of the country," he said.
He said that the investigation must be conducted in a detailed manner to root out the officials responsible for the stampede.

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Administration of Estates Amendment Bill: Deliberations
A summary of this committee meeting is not yet available.
PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Chairperson: Adv de Lange
Relevant Documents :
Administration of Estates Amendment Bill
The Committee voted on two protocols to the International Convention on Political and Civil Rights. The Chairperson alluded to the Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill, saying that this matter would be left for discussion at a later date. Adv de Lange raised the issue of the suspended magistrate. He said that this matter should not be considered by the Committee and insisted that he would make a concerted effort to have the matter removed from the Committee's agenda.
The Committee focused on the Administration of Estates Amendment Bill. The Bill was discussed in its entirety and few significant amendments were suggested. The original Act must be amended to make the South African Administration of Estates Act applicable in the former TBVC states. The amendments are also needed to bring the Act in line with certain rationalisation measures that will be instituted. A number of amendments were purely technical in nature.
Convention on Political and Civil Rights
The Committee voted on two optional protocols on the Convention on Political and Civil Rights. The first protocol concerned the protection of political and civil rights. All ANC representatives present voted for the inclusion of the protocol while all the opposition representatives abstained.
The second protocol concerned the abolition of the death penalty. Again all ANC members voted for all the inclusion of the protocol. Five out of six opposition parties abstained while one opposition member, namely Mr S N Swart (ACDP), voted against the inclusion of the protocol.
Suspended Magistrate
Adv de Lange explained that he had had a meeting with the Magistrates Commission with regards to the suspended magistrate, after which he felt that the matter had been improperly dealt with. He said that the procedure dealing with the issue displayed irregularities. Adv de Lange said he would move to have the matter removed from the Committee's agenda.
Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill
This Bill dealt with the matter of juvenile detention. Adv de Lange said that this Bill was the first to be introduced by a Committee. Adv de Lange said that he had sent a letter to the Minister of Social Development and that the proceedings would be initiated at a later stage
Many of the clauses were unproblematic. Clauses that warranted discussion are mentioned below.
Mr de Lange discussed a letter by Dr P M Maduna. The letter indicated that certain pieces of legislation are not included in the Justice Laws Rationalisation Act due to sensitivities and complexities. This Act now faces the same rationalisation that other Acts had previously undergone. The letter also spoke of the need for a single Administration of Estates Act.
Adv de Lange said that the manner in which the issue was being dealt with, was not ideal but that the subject matter was in need of immediate attention.
Mr Labuschagne , State Law Advisor and member of the drafting team, said that when the TBVC states became independent, they borrowed from the South African Act, but did in fact have their own Administration of Estates Acts. He said that these Acts had to be repealed and the South African Act made to apply in those areas where separate Acts had been applied in the past.
Adv de Lange explained that clause 2 is problematic. This problem was as a result of the fact that the courts had not yet been rationalised. This clause provided for the appointment of masters for all High Courts. Adv de Lange pointed out that in terms of the Constitution, all courts, whether they were provincial or local divisions, would now become known as High Courts. The original Act provided for the appointment of masters for all Provincial Divisions, but the amendment spoke only of the "High Court".
All Courts would be High Courts with no distinction between Provincial and Local Divisions. Many of the former Local Divisions did not have masters. According to clause 2, masters would have to be appointed for all the new High Courts of equal status. This would create problems of practicality and jurisdiction.
The problem in clause 2 is presented again in clause 4. Clause 4 purports to amend s 12 of the original Act. Adv de Lange suggested that perhaps the drafters should give "High Court" a specific definition applicable within the confines of this Act.
Clause 9 purports to amend s 28 of the original Act. An amount changes from R100 to R1000. This amount relates to the minimum amount of money that would oblige an executor to open a cheque account. Adv de Lange enquired as to whether the increase was sizeable enough in light of the consumer price index and other relevant considerations. The issue of bank charges were also discussed. It was suggested that R1000 would be exhausted by bank charges and hence was too small.
It was also suggested that the since the Bill did not specify a cheque account, there should be a wider discretion as to what form of account could be opened.
Clause 10
Clause 10 amends s 34 of the Act and also seeks to raise an amount of money stipulated. This clause raises the minimum sum of money that a creditor can claim for, from R100 to R1000.
Adv de Lange asked to what extent the changing of amounts in this Act would affect amounts that could be found in other Acts.
Mr Labuschagne said that the schedule in the Bill provided for these matters and brought other legislation, such as the Insolvency Act, into line with the new legislation.
Dr J T Delport (DP) remarked that he was not pleased with a schedule in one Act making substantial changes in other Acts. Adv de Lange agreed but said that he was not sure whether this situation could be avoided.
Mr J H Jeffrey asked who had been consulted in relation to the changing of this amount. Mr Labuschagne said that the drafters had consulted the Insolvency Practitioners Association. He said that this body had replied saying they had no detailed comments since they felt that the change in legislation would not affect them.
This clause was flagged, as it too was subject to the problem experienced in clause 2.
Clause 21 extended the application of the Act to the TBVC states. Mr Labuschagne explained that when the TBVC states became independent, they adopted pieces of the South African Act and included these pieces into their own Acts. Now under the new structure, jurisdiction problems were being experienced, in turn calling for rationalisation through the bringing into application of one Administration of Estates Act.
Adv de Lange wanted to know the effect of Clause 22(1)(a).
Mr Labuschagne said that the 1993 Act had a similar provision. Essentially the clause provides that estates which existed before the coming into force of the Act would still be subject to the Act under which that estate was formed. So only estates which are formed after the coming into force of the Act would have the new law applying to it.
The meeting was then adjourned.


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Q: How to stop AsyncTask inside fragment A from another fragment B I could access all the fragments objects in the activity .. but I want when click on button in Fragment A to stop the running AsyncTask in Fragment B .. how is possible ?

A: Fragments should not directly interact with on another; it is the Activity's task to manage Fragments.
That being said, you could use an event bus like Otto, to send "messages" to other parts of your application.
It differs from a Broadcast Receiver because there is no IPC overhead, sort of like using LocalBroadcastManager, but more reusable.
You can also use interfaces, but why do so when you can use an event bus and have components
as loosely coupled as possible.

A: Firstly, keep a reference of the task you fire off. You can then use AsyncTask.cancel to cancel the task when the button is pressed. Cancelling here just prevents onPostExecute from being called after doInBackground and results in onCancelled being called instead.
However, if you need to cancel the task during doInBackground, you can extend AsyncTask with your own class and use a boolean and a setter. Depending on the nature of your task, you can check the boolean at different points in doInBackground and handle cancellation appropriately.
It may also be simpler to use lifecycle callbacks such as onDestroyView or onDetach (on the first fragment) to cancel the task.

A: I will prefer communicating using interfaces, same as this link,
You need to define a interface for Stoping AsyncTask, on receiving callback from Fragment B to stop AsyncTask, your activity can ask fragment A to stop AsyncTask.

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By: Kurt Johnston Vendor: Zondervan Publishing Company Publication Date: 2007 Format: Book Page Count: 187
Middle school is like a roller coaster, filled with ups and downs, twists and turns; it's exhilarating and scary all at the same time From piles of homework, to understanding the variety of "interesting" people working at your school, and dealing with the new challenges of changing for gym class in front of everyone, it's normal to feel a little overwhelmed. That's why in My School, from the Middle School Survival Series, we will tackle the things that weigh heavily on middle school students just like you. This book will address important middle school issues like: dealing with bullies, jocks, nerds, and every other category of student you encounter revealing the truth behind the urban legends of middle school pop quizzes, tardiness, and other survival tips This book is filled with short and easy-to-read tips, along with funny stories from the authors (who, believe it or not, used to be middle school morons ), and quotes and questions from students just like you. After reading My School, you'll be able to walk the halls like the confident student you want to be.
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Three-Phase Vaccination Strategy Underway in the Czech Republic
Kim Bingel January 4, 2021 Three-Phase Vaccination Strategy Underway in the Czech Republic2021-01-04T12:33:14+01:00 Czech Republic, Politics
The vaccination strategy of the Czech Republic will be implemented in three phases between now and June 2022. The first 10,000 doses arrived in December, and further consignments will be delivered to regional vaccination centres each Thursday. Photo credit: Freepik / For illustrative purposes.
Czech Rep., Jan 4 (BD) – In December, the Czech government released its Covid-19 vaccination strategy, which aims to vaccinate 65% of the population of 10.7 million (according to June 2020 data from the Czech Statistical Office). Over 30 vaccination centres are being established across the country to facilitate the rapid distribution of vaccines against coronavirus.
The first doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrived in the Czech Republic on December 26th and were divided between hospitals in Prague and Brno. Vaccinations of priority patients have been underway since this delivery. According to the vaccination strategy, the first consignments of vaccines in regional vaccination centres will be delivered this Thursday, January 7th, and will continue to be delivered each Thursday.
The distribution, storage and application of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines will be overseen by vaccination coordinators, appointed in each of the 14 regions, who will work in cooperation with manufacturers, the Ministry of Health and health insurance companies.
The vaccination strategy will be carried out in three stages. The first phase, during January and February, is a 'Targeted Centralised Vaccination' which is not open to the public, but focuses on delivering the vaccine to priority groups. Priority is given to those with a high-risk of infection or with a serious illness, including hospitalized patients over 65 years of age. Emergency workers, frontline medical staff and social care workers are also first in line to receive vaccinations.
The second stage is the 'Centralised Vaccination' which will run from February to April. During this stage, vaccination of first phase priority groups will continue and gradually, members of the public will be able to register for vaccination in the regional centres. An online registration portal will be launched on January 15th, giving priority to at-risk, vulnerable groups according to data provided by the applicant during registration. Preliminary registration will initially only be accessible to those aged over 80 years old and will open to the wider public in February.
The third stage, 'Decentralised Vaccination', will run from March/April until June 2022. By this time, the Czech government hopes to be receiving vaccines from AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Curevac and possibly Sanofi, however, none of these vaccines have been approved by the EU yet. Excluding Curevac, the storage requirements for these vaccines will allow them to be administered by general practitioners. The government anticipates that GPs can provide vaccines to 10 people per day, which equates to 50,000 patients across the nation.
Individuals with legal residence and health insurance in the Czech Republic are eligible for vaccination. Children will not be vaccinated.
According to the vaccination strategy, a central register of those who have been vaccinated will be created – this will at some point be included in an EU-wide system and may have implications for travel purposes.
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Dar es Salaam. The car rental industry faces stiff competition from ride-sharing services.
The coming of Uber, Taxify and the likes expanded the choice of expatriates and company executives who needed to outsource transport services, putting more pressure on car rental firms.
Car rentals involve hiring of automobiles by individuals or corporate firms for short periods of time for a fee.
Car rental agencies primarily serve people who have a car that is temporarily out of reach or out of service, for example travellers who are out of town or owners of damaged or destroyed vehicles who are awaiting repair or insurance compensation.
The companies rent a variety of vehicles including vans, cars and even buses.
Although some car renting companies claim to remain unshaken, others confirm to have experienced revenue declines in recent times.
"Within a week, three cars could generate at least Sh2.1 million when hired but currently the same number of cars can hardly make between Sh600,000 and Sh900,000 per week," says JB Car Rental executive director Jastas Jasson.
According to him, nowadays it is rare and difficult to have reliable customers because most of them opt for taxi-hailing operators, which offer lower prices.
Reports show that Uber Tanzania rates are set at Sh466 per km while rental cars used to charge in dollars per drop or specific time of renting.
MK Kings Car Rental treasurer Yusuph Omary says his company offers pick-and-drop services, but these have so far experienced a slight drop as some of their clients had switched to Uber and Taxify services.
According to him, even if they try to reduce or set fees that were similar to those of Uber and Taxify, customers don't choose them.
Mr Omary says his company also leases cars for weddings and transportation of equipment for construction of development projects.
However, PD Tours International director Derick Godian told The Citizen that taxi-hailing services had not brought any harm to their business.
He said though most car renting business complain about poor business, their business was going on well.
"We have not lost any of our customers. We have not encountered or noticed any pinch because most of services that we provide are on agreements. Most of our clients are corporate," he says.
He stresses on several occasions they sign contracts of three to six months with companies and this makes them easier to run their business.
Uber, Ping and Taxify are currently competing in Tanzania and Kenya's Little planning to launch its services soon.
According to a new report from digital marketing firm Epsilon-Conversant, car rental companies are quickly losing customers to rideshare services.
In an analysis of $140 billion of travel transactions over the past two years, 63 per cent of previous car rental customers reduced their spending on car rentals—almost a $3.2 billion loss. Moreover, 56 per cent stopped using car rental services altogether, with most of these customers moving to rideshare services.
These services include Lyft and Uber which are frequently used.
Car rentals, meanwhile, are retaining a loyal demographic of older individuals, says Epsilon-Conversant's report, leaving room for these companies to capture market share presented by younger travelers.
Uber is a decade old now, and top car rental companies have started to make changes to remain competitive: Avis is moving to implement technology into the rental process, easing the exhausting lines outside airports. Hertz offers car rentals to Uber and Lyft drivers directly, hoping to lure drivers with savings on car maintenance, additional insurance, and mileage. Enterprise, meanwhile, offers a vanpooling service to lessen the carbon footprint of commuters.
While 9.8 million consumers use car rentals but don't use rideshare services, the report says, there's still 9.4 million more who use rideshare services but spend nothing on car rentals, meaning there's still a long way for these companies to go.


Dallas J Baker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Whether or not creativity can be taught is still a contested question, though it really shouldn't be. The evidence is well and truly in on this question. The idea that creativity cannot be taught is based on two misunderstandings: a misunderstanding of what creativity is and a misunderstanding of what teaching is.
For many of us, when we think of creativity we think it is some kind of internal personality trait or characteristic inherent to a rare type of person. Many of us also think that creativity is difficult to define. Both of these notions miss the mark.
The first notion, that creativity is an inherent personality trait, a rare characteristic in exceptional people, has its roots in the notion of creative genius that we have inherited from the Romantics. The Romantic ideal of the creative genius is epitomised in the figure of Lord Byron – brooding, eccentric, solitary, difficult. This Romantic notion leads us to believe creative types are not only rare but born rather than made: people cannot be taught to be creative, they just are or they aren't.
Over the last few decades a lot of evidence has been generated that not only disproves the idea that creativity is an inborn trait, but actually indicates the direct opposite.
This research into creativity has occurred mostly in the fields of psychology and neuroscience.
The evidence shows that creativity is a learned behaviour: it is not restricted to exceptional people and it is not even a solitary activity. Creativity, the evidence shows, is most often socially-engaged and often undertaken in group situations.
This research also demonstrates that creativity is not an ill-defined, somehow esoteric quality but a set of cognitive approaches that generate innovative ideas. Basically, creativity is just a way of thinking and acting differently to the way we are normally encouraged to think and act. American scholar R. Keith Sawyer compiled and discussed much of this evidence in his 2008 book Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation.
And yet the idea of the poet or artist born to suffer in isolation for their art continues to be a potent cultural idea.
The second misunderstanding, the one about teaching, comes from our own experience of education. The dominant model of teaching of which we all have experience is often referred to as "direct instruction", which is routinely teemed with learning by repetition.
In direct instruction we are basically given information or techniques that we are asked to remember or assimilate. The idea that direct instruction is the ideal model of teaching is, thankfully, on its last legs, but it is still how most of us were taught. It is therefore perfectly reasonable for us to expect that if creativity were to be taught, it would be taught using this method.
Some aspects of creativity can be taught with direct instruction, but others cannot.
Part of learning to be creative is acquiring knowledge about our field of endeavour. We can teach the history of ideas within visual art, poetry or physics and show the benefits of thinking differently in those disciplines. We can demonstrate that innovations in physics, poetry and visual art are often breaks from tradition, departures from received wisdom or belief.
Direct instruction is also valuable in showing how things are done: how paint can be applied to give texture, how atoms respond to each other when placed in proximity, how white space on a page can make a poem breathe.
Nevertheless, teaching creativity needs to go further than direct instruction; it needs to be a relational kind of teaching in which the teacher mentors, encourages and inspires the student. To teach creativity we need creative teaching, and creative teachers. We cannot expect to be more creative if those who teach us are not capable of inspiring and encouraging us.
That's why the best teachers of creativity are also practitioners, those engaged in creative practice, whether in visual art, writing or chemistry.
Creative teachers need to be experts in their discipline and also experts in teaching creatively. Too often we assume that success in a field of endeavour qualifies someone to teach. This is not the case. Teaching is in itself a creative undertaking that requires real commitment and expertise.
Most of all, teachers of anything needs to have confidence in their students, they need to believe that their students can learn what it is that they are teaching, that their students can acquire the creativity they need and become great in their chosen fields.
As esteemed educational expert Sir Ken Robinson has noted, you can be creative at anything, creativity is simply "the process of having original ideas that have value".
As a process, a way of thinking and acting rather than an inborn trait, creativity is something we can all learn to apply in our lives.


The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S500 Plug-In Hybrid is coming soon, so why not reveal it in all its glory today?
That's exactly what Mercedes has done.
Consider this the official S500 Plug-In Hybrid reveal.
M-B had planned to debut the plug-in S500 at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show in September, but the automaker decided to jump the gun.
More details will surely come out in September when the S500 plug-in hits the Frankfurt stage.
Prcing? It's a Mercedes-Benz S-Class, so expect it to be through the roof.
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S500 Plug-in Hybrid will arrive at dealerships in 2014.


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The Vaping Epidemic
Vaping is proving to be detrimental to teens' healths, as studies of vaping related illnesses are surfacing and the government fails to pass legislation to protect them.
Chloe Chu, Managing Editor|January 6, 2020
The company will begin to sell pods with a 3-percent nicotine concentration in its mint and Virginia tobacco flavors later this year, according to a statement Thursday.
Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Vaping is now the newest and biggest health threat to teenagers. This technology, supposedly created to help adult smokers quit smoking, is now creating addiction problems for the new generation.
With extensive ad campaigns and coverage in schools, smoking rates of traditional cigarettes have reached their lowest level yet. However, vaping levels have spiked in recent years, especially among the youth.
Many call this an epidemic. As of Dec 5, there have been 2,291 cases of vaping illnesses and 48 deaths, the majority of those affected being teens and young adults.
Vaping use among teens has significantly increased. (credit: New York Times)
In America, vaping products are unregulated by the FDA. Vaping companies, such as JUUL, are given free rein over what they make their vaping liquids with. As companies compete with each other for sales, they continually raise the levels of nicotine in their liquids and diversify the number of flavors they sell.
Vaping liquids usually contain a tirade of chemicals. Many of the long term side effects of vaping are unknown since they vary so greatly in composition. Counterfeit vaping products plague the market as well, adding to the problem since their contents are a mystery.
This map details the current number of deaths due to vaping per state (credit: New York Time)
"When discussing vaping in class, I've always said, 'I'm not a doctor, but I know a chemical entering your lungs can't be good for your long term health,'" said Mr. Leonard, a health teacher in North High.
There is relatively little research that has been done on vaping. New reports seem to be coming out daily as the CDC and other organizations scramble to find clarification on what exactly is causing vaping related illnesses and what actually is happening to those who become sick through vaping.
"While new studies on vaping related illnesses are very eye-opening to regular vapers on the actual health problems it causes, there is still so much that is unknown," said Nina Phillips, a junior peer leader of freshmen at North High. "Vapers should consider not only the released studies but also the fact that long-term damage probably won't come to the surface until a couple of decades from now and proceed with caution."
The CDC suspects that Vitamin E acetate is the main culprit of vaping illnesses but there are still many cases of vaping illnesses that the CDC has not been able to fully explain.
In order to tackle the problem, federal, state, and local governments have been trying to work on certain restrictions for vaping with a seemingly low success rate.
Few states or cities in America actually have any measure in place to restrict the use of vaping products. (credit: New York Times)
On Sept 17, a New York State ban on flavored vaping products was stalled due to an ongoing lawsuit with vaping companies.
On Nov 4, Trump decided to put aside his ban on flavored vaping products with the economy and his supporters in mind.
"I do think it was a mistake for Trump to pull back from the vaping ban," said Mr. Leonard. "This was an opportunity to put the people's health first and to make a strong statement against the vaping industry. Pulling back from this ban can prolong the effects of vaping."
Only a few places in America have any bans in place to protect the new generations, one being New York City.
"I think health classes and the government are trying their best to inform students of the harmful effects of vaping but it's still not reaching the whole population of students that need to hear it," said Arabella Notar-Francesco, a junior who is a peer leader at North High.
Vaping continues to be a difficult health problem to solve as teens struggle with pressures from peers and vaping companies.
Chloe Chu, Managing Editor
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Mouth Full of Blood is a powerful, erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us all. It celebrates Morrison's extraordinary contribution to the literary world.
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Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state of politics. The duty of the press and the role of the artist. Throughout Mouth Full of Blood our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise is met by Toni Morrison with controlled anger, elegance and literary excellence.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Whose Novels Plucked Truth From High Fantasy, Dies At 88
Robin Marchant
Ursula K. Le Guin speaks at the 2014 National Book Awards, where she was presented with lifetime achievement honors.
Ursula K. Le Guin, a prolific novelist best known for the Earthsea series and The Left Hand of Darkness, died Monday at the age of 88. Across more than 20 novels and scores of short stories, Le Guin crafted fantastic worlds to grapple with profoundly difficult questions here on Earth, from class divisions to feminist theory.
Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, confirmed to NPR that she died at her home in Portland, Ore., where she lived with her husband of more than six decades.
"She was a peaceful warrior," he said Tuesday, "but for us as family, her legacy as a wife and mother is just as extraordinary."
Across the decades-long span of her career — from her first short story submission at the age of 11 to her work well into her 80s — Le Guin stood as a towering figure in science fiction and fantasy. Indeed, she completed a triple crown of the genres' biggest prizes, earning the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards several times over.
Still, while Le Guin deployed alien planets and impossible societies in her novels, fellow Hugo winner Mary Robinette Kowal told NPR's Petra Mayer that Le Guin's work could not be confined to a simple label found atop bookstore shelves.
"Throughout her life she embraced new forms of technology; she was constantly pushing boundaries and barriers. That is inspiring to me," Kowal said.
A child of anthropologists, Le Guin approached her worlds with the investigative eye of one encountering a culture for the first time.
In The Left Hand of Darkness, released in 1969, interplanetary visitor Genly Ai struggles to make sense of a world in which gender is fluid — when it's not altogether absent in the androgynous natives. And in the different societies of The Dispossessed, published in 1974, Le Guin explores the frictions born of vastly different ideologies scraping up against each other.
And, as her characters often grappled with new worlds, Le Guin herself blazed a trail rarely trod by female writers before her.
"She was one of the first really big voices in science fiction and fantasy who was a woman," Kowal added. "And I think she did a lot for science fiction and fantasy — not just for women and women's roles because of her feminism but also legitimizing us as an art form. There are a lot of people who will read an Ursula Le Guin book and go, 'Well, this isn't science fiction, it's literature.' But of course, it is science fiction. A lot of times, she can be a gateway drug for people."
For evidence of this mainstream respect, a reader need look no further than the lifetime achievement honors bestowed on her at the 2014 National Book Awards — where she also delivered a fiery defense of the practice of literature as a whole.
"Hard times are coming," she warned, "when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries, realists of a larger reality."
Many of those writers mourned her death on Tuesday.
"Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul," tweeted Neil Gaiman, who presented that 2014 National Book Award to her. "I miss her as a glorious funny prickly person, & I miss her as the deepest and smartest of the writers, too."
Her words will live beyond her death Monday, ringing still in the worlds she opened in her fiction, poetry and essays.
"Writing is a kind of way of speaking, and I hear it," Le Guin told Weekend Edition in 2015. "And I think a lot of readers hear it, too. Even if they hear it in silence."
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'Dune' And The City Of Destiny: How Tacoma Inspired One Of The World's Most Acclaimed Sci-Fi Authors
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This story originally aired on November 18, 2017.If you go to the base of Point Defiance in Tacoma and look east, you'll see a finger of earth jutting…


GENEVA, Switzerland - Dec. 13, 2016 - PRLog -- A second major Italian bank has announced a round of fundraising as UniCredit Banco, Italy's largest bank looks to remove up to €18bn of bad debt off its books.
The move comes as the world's oldest bank, Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena, also Italian, announced it needs to raise €5bn in private investor cash to stave off a government bailout.
UniCredit confirmed that it is seeking to raise over €13bn over the course of the first three months of 2017 as it looks to strengthen up its balance sheet. It also confirmed that it plans to close a quarter of its branches, and axe 14,000 jobs, equivalent to nearly 11% of its workforce over the next two years.
Chief Executive Jean Pierre Mustier spoke after the announcement and said that something significant needed to be done whilst outlining achievable goals for 2019. With an objective of raising its Core Capital Ratio above 12.5%, a return to paying dividends and posting a profit set for the end of 2019 the plan is ambitious.
After the news shares in UniCredit fell over 5% in Milan, continuing the trend as the banks shares have fallen 50% in 2016 alone reducing its market value to €15bn.
Whilst UniCredit have until the end of the first quarter of 2017 to raise the required cash, Monte Dei Paschi have not been as fortunate.
The banks request for an extension from the ECB till the 20th January to complete its proposed €5bn round of fundraising was denied and placed serious time constraints on the financial institution.
They now have only until the end of the year to secure the required funding to avoid a state bailout, if the plan fails, the government, already under pressure will be pushed into providing assistance to Monte Dei Paschi, a move seen by many analysts as a step back towards a European recession.
Although the ECB has confirmed it will continue its QE policy through next year, the fact that Monte was Europe's worst performing major bank after a recent stress assessment by the European Central Bank will not help its situation.
Many believe only government assistance will keep the bank operating.
The FTSE MIB opened lower and continued to fall in early trading Tuesday, but by 9am had started to try and claw back some of the lost ground. With the Federal Reserve's meeting tomorrow expected to announce a rate increase and key data due out of the UK today, European markets are most likely to be cautious today ahead of the impending news out of the US.
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Infections – including cord sepsis – account for 31 percent of all neonatal deaths in Ghana, making it one of the top three causes of mortality for neonates, according to the Ghana Newborn Strategy and Action Plan 2014–2018.
Chereponi Government Hospital, in the Northern Region, observed a high rate of cord sepsis, with an incidence of 9.7 percent and 8.2 percent of all live births in the district for 2015 and 2016, respectively.
In 2016, the USAID Systems for Health project trained district-level staff as quality improvement (QI) coaches to initiate and lead QI projects in health facilities across the country. The training builds staff capacity to address service-delivery gaps with QI methods and, ultimately, improve health outcomes. The QI coaches decided to focus on reducing the rate of cord sepsis in the district by 50 percent — from 8.2 percent to 4.1 percent — by December 2017.
The approach yielded results. At Chereponi Government Hospital, the occurrence of umbilical cord sepsis at the hospital declined remarkably, from 68 in 2016 to 15 in 2017 — a reduction of 80 percent. The gains were larger than expected despite an increase in total birth in the hospital, from 834 in 2016 to 914 in 2017.


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CSB, moderate acute malnutrition, mortality, RUSF, super cereal
Cost-effectiveness of community-based screening and treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Mali
In Under-nutrition on May 6, 2019 at 3:20 pm
source: BMJ webpage
By Sheila Isanaka1, Dale A Barnhart2, Christine M McDonald3, Robert S Ackatia-Armah4, Roland Kupka5, Seydou Doumbia6, Kenneth H Brown4, Nicolas A Menzies7
Introduction Moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) causes substantial child morbidity and mortality, accounting for 4.4% of deaths and 6.0% of disability-adjusted life years (DALY) lost among children under 5 each year. There is growing consensus on the need to provide appropriate treatment of MAM, both to reduce associated morbidity and mortality and to halt its progression to severe acute malnutrition. We estimated health outcomes, costs and cost-effectiveness of four dietary supplements for MAM treatment in children 6–35 months of age in Mali.
Methods We conducted a cluster-randomised MAM treatment trial to describe nutritional outcomes of four dietary supplements for the management of MAM: ready-to-use supplementary foods (RUSF; PlumpySup); a specially formulated corn–soy blend (CSB) containing dehulled soybean flour, maize flour, dried skimmed milk, soy oil and a micronutrient pre-mix (CSB++; Super Cereal Plus); Misola, a locally produced, micronutrient-fortified, cereal–legume blend (MI); and locally milled flour (LMF), a mixture of millet, beans, oil and sugar, with a separate micronutrient powder. We used a decision tree model to estimate long-term outcomes and calculated incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) comparing the health and economic outcomes of each strategy.
Results Compared to no MAM treatment, MAM treatment with RUSF, CSB++, MI and LMF reduced the risk of death by 15.4%, 12.7%, 11.9% and 10.3%, respectively. The ICER was US$9821 per death averted (2015 USD) and US$347 per DALY averted for RUSF compared with no MAM treatment.
Conclusion MAM treatment with RUSF is cost-effective across a wide range of willingness-to-pay thresholds.
Affiliation of the authors:
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, USA
Department of Nutrition and Program in International and Community Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
United Nations Children's Fund, Nutrition Section, New York, NY, USA
Faculty of Medicine and Odontostomatology, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, Bamako, Mali
Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Correspondence toDr Sheila Isanaka; sisanaka@hsph.harvard.edu
fortified blended foods, moderate acute malnutrition, research, RUSF
The role of dairy in the comparative effectiveness and cost of fortified blended foods versus ready-to-use foods in treatment of children with moderate acute malnutrition
In Under-nutrition on June 6, 2016 at 8:41 pm
from FASEB journal
Authors:Devika J Suri, Denish Moorthy and Irwin H. Rosenberg1
Objective Recent meta-analyses found treating young children with MAM using ready-to-use foods (RUF) versus fortified blended foods (FBF) resulted in higher recovery rates and weight gain. This analysis aimed to compare studies of RUF and FBF with and without dairy to determine whether the addition of dairy to these food supplements modified the comparative effectiveness and cost of treatment.
Methods A review of literature on the comparative effectiveness of FBF and RUF in treatment of MAM was conducted. Outcomes of recovery from MAM, weight gain and length gain were compared among study cohorts, which included FBF with dairy (FBF+), FBF without dairy (FBF−), RUF with dairy (RUF+) and RUF without dairy (RUF−). Data on recovery from MAM was pooled among the 4 supplement categories. The cost per 500 kcal of each category of food supplement was averaged among studies that reported cost data.
Results Among the 7 studies included, 9 RUFs were tested, of which 5 contained dairy, and 9 FBFs were tested, of which 3 contained dairy. Children treated with RUF+ had higher recovery rates compared with FBF− in 5 out of 5 study cohorts, higher weight gain in 4 out of 4, and significantly higher length gain in 1 out of 4. Children treated with RUF+ vs FBF+ had higher recovery rates in 1 out of 2 study cohorts, with no differences in weight or length gain. No differences were found in the 2 studies comparing RUF− and FBF+. Finally, children treated with RUF− had higher recovery rates compared with FBF− in 1 of 2 studies, higher weight gain in 2 out of 2, and no differences in length gain. Recovery from MAM among the 7 studies was 65% (FBF−), 79% (FBF+), 82% (RUF−), and 80% (RUF+). Four of the 7 studies included cost data; on average per 500 kcal costs were $0.15 (FBF−), $0.18 (FBF+), $0.17 (RUF−), and $0.35 (RUF+).
Conclusion Our results suggest that addition of dairy to FBF make it comparative in effectiveness to both RUF with and without dairy, but does not appear to be a factor between the RUF categories. RUF with dairy was twice the cost per kcal compared with the other food supplement categories. Cost-effectiveness analysis will be useful to help determine the most appropriate food supplement for treatment of MAM.
F100, F75, moderate acute malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition, undernutrition, WHO
WHO: Updates on the management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children Guideline
In Under-nutrition on April 27, 2015 at 7:02 am
(from WHO website)
Editors: World Health Organization – 2013
(Full document)
This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on a number of specific issues related to the management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children, including in the context of HIV.
The guideline will help Member States and their partners in their efforts to make informed decisions on the appropriate nutrition actions for severely malnourished children. It will also support Member States in their efforts to achieve global targets on the maternal, infant and young child nutrition comprehensive implementation plan, especially global target 1, which entails achieving 40% reduction by 2025 of the global number of children under 5 years who are stunted and global target 6 that aims to reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than 5%.
The guideline is intended for a wide audience, including policy-makers, their expert advisers, and technical and programme staff in organizations involved in the design, implementation and scaling-up of nutrition actions for public health. The guideline will form the basis for a revised manual on the management of severe malnutrition for physicians and other senior health workers, and a training course on the management of severe malnutrition.
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Picot J, Hartwell D, Harris P, Mendes D, Clegg AJ, Takeda A.
The effectiveness of interventions to treat severe acute malnutrition in young children: a systematic review. Health Technol Assess. 2012;16(19):1-316. doi: 10.3310/hta16190.
moderate acute malnutrition, nutrition research, prevention, RCT
Preventing Acute Malnutrition among Young Children in Crises: A Prospective Intervention Study in Niger
In Under-nutrition on September 15, 2014 at 11:14 am
Céline Langendorf, Thomas Roederer, Saskia de Pee, Denise Brown, Stéphane Doyon, Abdoul-Aziz Mamaty, Lynda W.-M. Touré, Mahamane L. Manzo, Rebecca F. Grais
PLoS Med. 2014 Sep 2;11(9):e1001714
Finding the most appropriate strategy for the prevention of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in young children is essential in countries like Niger with annual "hunger gaps." Options for large-scale prevention include distribution of supplementary foods, such as fortified-blended foods or lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNSs) with or without household support (cash or food transfer). To date, there has been no direct controlled comparison between these strategies leading to debate concerning their effectiveness. We compared the effectiveness of seven preventive strategies—including distribution of nutritious supplementary foods, with or without additional household support (family food ration or cash transfer), and cash transfer only—on the incidence of SAM and MAM among children aged 6–23 months over a 5-month period, partly overlapping the hunger gap, in Maradi region, Niger. We hypothesized that distributions of supplementary foods would more effectively reduce the incidence of acute malnutrition than distributions of household support by cash transfer.
Methods and Findings
We conducted a prospective intervention study in 48 rural villages located within 15 km of a health center supported by Forum Santé Niger (FORSANI)/Médecins Sans Frontières in Madarounfa. Seven groups of villages (five to 11 villages) were allocated to different strategies of monthly distributions targeting households including at least one child measuring 60 cm–80 cm (at any time during the study period whatever their nutritional status): three groups received high-quantity LNS (HQ-LNS) or medium-quantity LNS (MQ-LNS) or Super Cereal Plus (SC+) with cash (€38/month [US$52/month]); one group received SC+ and family food ration; two groups received HQ-LNS or SC+ only; one group received cash only (€43/month [US$59/month]). Children 60 cm–80 cm of participating households were assessed at each monthly distribution from August to December 2011. Primary endpoints were SAM (weight-for-length Z-score [WLZ]<−3 and/or mid-upper arm circumference [MUAC]<11.5 cm and/or bipedal edema) and MAM (−3≤WLZ<−2 and/or 11.5≤MUAC<12.5 cm). A total of 5,395 children were included in the analysis (615 to 1,054 per group). Incidence of MAM was twice lower in the strategies receiving a food supplement combined with cash compared with the cash-only strategy (cash versus HQ-LNS/cash adjusted hazard ratio [HR] = 2.30, 95% CI 1.60–3.29; cash versus SC+/cash HR = 2.42, 95% CI 1.39–4.21; cash versus MQ-LNS/cash HR = 2.07, 95% CI 1.52–2.83) or with the supplementary food only groups (HQ-LNS versus HQ-LNS/cash HR = 1.84, 95% CI 1.35–2.51; SC+ versus SC+/cash HR = 2.53, 95% CI 1.47–4.35). In addition, the incidence of SAM was three times lower in the SC+/cash group compared with the SC+ only group (SC+ only versus SC+/cash HR = 3.13, 95% CI 1.65–5.94). However, non-quantified differences between groups, may limit the interpretation of the impact of the strategies.
Preventive distributions combining a supplementary food and cash transfer had a better preventive effect on MAM and SAM than strategies relying on cash transfer or supplementary food alone. As a result, distribution of nutritious supplementary foods to young children in conjunction with household support should remain a pillar of emergency nutritional interventions. Additional rigorous research is vital to evaluate the effectiveness of these and other nutritional interventions in diverse settings.
Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01828814
iae, iaea, International Symposium, moderate acute malnutrition, Moderate Malnutrition, research, Stable Radioactive Isotopes
IAEA Malnutrition Symposium Ends With Calls for Action
In Under-nutrition on June 1, 2014 at 9:15 am
from the IAEA website:
Following four days of intense discussions and detailed presentations, the IAEA International Symposium on Understanding Moderate Malnutrition in Children for Effective Interventions came to a close on 29 May 2014.
The Symposium brought together health professionals, policymakers, the private sector, research institutes and universities, national and international organizations.
The more than 350 participants from 65 countries and 50 agencies discussed a wide range of issues including: what works in the management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM); maternal malnutrition and its effects on infant growth; nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches to preventing MAM; the usefulness of cash transfers under different circumstances; and how to formulate national policy and address the concerns of governments seeking to tackle MAM in the face of information gaps.
Countries that are successfully addressing MAM presented their case studies, giving advice and accepting suggestions.
"This Symposium was filled with people who are passionate about the field of nutrition, so there was quite a lot of interaction for potential collaborations between the many experts from different areas of the field," said Najat Mokhtar, Head of the IAEA Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies Section, which organised the gathering in association with the World Food Programme, Valid International, and Micronutrient Initiative.
Symposium Conclusions
Noting that the Symposium has started an important conversation, Kwaku Aning, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, highlighted the key conclusions:
"First of all, strong government commitment and country ownership of initiatives to address moderate malnutrition are essential, particularly in efforts to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls for a good start to motherhood.
"More evidence-based, cost-effective interventions are needed, and this will require the establishment of links with multiple sectors. The quality of data must be improved to inform policy. The use of stable isotope techniques as well as anthropometrics to evaluate the effectiveness of nutritional intervention programmes must be optimised.
"It is also important to take into account the range of agencies working in the area of malnutrition, and to avoid multiple, parallel actions to treat malnutrition.
"Capacity building is going to be key to addressing moderate malnutrition in childhood. Here, national governments must take ownership. Partnerships with academia will be important for programme formulation and evaluation," Aning said.
– By Sasha Henriques, IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication
(Note to Media: We encourage you to republish these stories and kindly request attribution to the IAEA)
children, conference, conference web, moderate acute malnutrition, RUSF
International Symposium on Understanding Moderate Malnutrition in Children for Effective Interventions
In Under-nutrition on March 30, 2014 at 8:56 am
Vienna 20 – 29 May 2014
I will be there. If you also participate and wish to link up in Vienna,
send an email to this email address.
(for detailed info see the conference web site or download the flyer)
Objectives of the conference
The symposium will have the following objectives:
• To share experience related to the implementation and evaluation of programmes to prevent and treat MAM in infants and children, particularly during the first 1000 days;
• To support overall policy and specific evidence-based programmes dealing with the management of MAM;
• To identify knowledge gaps and define needs for future research to improve the management of MAM;
• To issue recommendations on how to improve the monitoring and evaluation of programmes dealing with the management of MAM; and
• To identify the role of the IAEA in addressing knowledge gaps and evaluating programmes to prevent and treat MAM.
acute malnutrition, cmam, moderate acute malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition, UNICEF
UNICEF – 2013 Global: Evaluation of Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM): Global Synthesis Report
from UNICEF web page
Approximately 20 million children are affected by severe acute malnutrition (SAM) worldwide – some residing in countries facing emergencies and many others in non-emergency situations. Children suffering from malnutrition are susceptible to death and disease and they are also at greater risk of developmental delays.
Treatment of SAM has evolved as a major development intervention over several decades. Alongside other partners, UNICEF works to ensure that women and children have access to services, including through timely provision of essential supplies – especially therapeutic foods for the treatment of SAM. The advent of ready to use therapeutic food (RUTF) and a community-based approach – community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) – has made it possible to treat the majority of children in their homes.
CMAM is generally a preventive continuum with four components: 1) community outreach as the basis; 2) management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM); 3) outpatient treatment for children with SAM with a good appetite and without medical complications; and, 4) inpatient treatment for children with SAM and medical complications and/or no appetite. A key objective of CMAM is progressive integration of all four preventive components into national health systems. By the end of 2012, governments in 63 countries had established partnerships with UNICEF, WFP, WHO, donors, and NGO implementing partners (IPs) for CMAM. The Ministries of Health (MoH) assume leadership and coordination roles and provide the health facilities.
UNICEF's inputs for CMAM include policy development, commitment of funds, coordination, and technical support available to the MoH and other implementing partners. UNICEF has made significant investments to scale up treatment of SAM through CMAM including procurement of therapeutic foods, medicines, and equipment. UNICEF currently procures approximately 32,000 MT of RUTF annually which represents an investment of over 100 million dollars.
Purpose/ Objective:
This evaluation is the first systematic effort by UNICEF to generate evidence on how well its global as well as country level CMAM strategies have worked, including their acceptance and ownership in various contexts and appropriateness of investments in capacity development and supply components. The evaluation was conducted by a team of independent external evaluators and included comprehensive assessments of CMAM in five countries (Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal and Pakistan) and drawing synthesized findings and recommendations based on broader research and a global internet survey targeting all countries implementing CMAM. A wide range of stakeholders, including national and international partners, beneficiaries, and donors, participated in the exercise. The resulting conclusions and recommendations are intended to strengthen UNICEF's contributions to CMAM and to support governments, UN agencies, NGOs and other stakeholders in modifying CMAM policy and technical guidance for both emergency and non-emergency contexts.
The evaluation scope consists of two interrelated components. First, the evaluation undertook detailed analyses of CMAM in Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal and Pakistan. The criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and scaling up were applied to CMAM components and to cross-cutting issues. Data were obtained from secondary sources, health system databases, and observations during visits to CMAM intervention areas. The community perspective was analysed through collection of opinions from caretakers, extended family, community leaders, and community-based health workers in addition to stakeholders from government and assistance agencies. Quantitative data were analysed to determine whether performance targets were met and qualitative data supported the analysis. Secondly, building upon case study evidence, broader research resulted in compiled lessons, good practices and recommendations for UNICEF and partners globally. A global internet survey targeting all 63 countries implementing CMAM, helped to triangulate and validate conclusions from the five country case studies.
Findings and Conclusions:
1. Relevance of CMAM Guidance and Technical Assistance
• The CMAM approach is appropriate to address acute malnutrition, particularly to the degree that CMAM is being sustainably integrated into the national health system.
• Demand for CMAM services has increased; efficient use of community resources for prevention and identification and referral of children with MAM and SAM contributes to demand.
• National contributions to CMAM are growing but scale up (expansion) is challenged by funding constraints for regular programming and reliance on emergency funds and external sources of assistance.
• Global UNICEF and WHO guidance for SAM treatment has contributed to development of national guidelines which offer high value in promoting district ownership. However, lack of agreement on the best approach to address MAM has contributed to inconsistency among countries for MAM management and concomitantly, prevention of SAM.
• Global and national guidance is generally adequate for treatment protocols but lacking or fragmented regarding: planning and monitoring, integration of CMAM, equity and gender, community assessment and mobilization, and MAM management.
• Technical support has resulted in significant gains in process, coverage and outcomes; creation of parallel systems is not sustainable and slows national ownership.
• Within UNICEF overall, there has been effective support for fund mobilization, emergency nutrition response, and supporting nutrition protocols; expansion of regional roles is important to meet national technical assistance needs.
• Capacity development has significantly promoted quality of services […]
2. CMAM Effectiveness and Quality of Services
3. Promoting Equity in Access
4. Progress and Issues related to National Ownership
5. Efficiency – Costs, Supply and Delivery of RUTF
6. Sustainability and Scaling Up (Expansion of CMAM)
[see Executive Summary for more information]
Overall, the evaluation recommends that UNICEF continue to promote and support CMAM as a viable approach to preventing and addressing SAM, with an emphasis on prevention through strengthening community outreach and integrating CMAM into national health systems and with other interventions.
Ownership and Integration, Strategy and Policy, Guidelines
• UNICEF should continue to work with governments, WFP, WHO, IPs, and other stakeholders to secure a common understanding on the most effective means of addressing MAM in order to unify approaches, to strengthen community-based preventive measures, and to prevent SAM and relapses into SAM.
• Establish a guideline or framework for integration of CMAM into the health system and with other interventions that is useful at national level when based on capacity assessments and integrated with national health, nutrition and community development strategies.
• Facilitate coordination and technical support at regional/national level to expand or develop national CMAM guidelines as CMAM is integrated with other interventions such as IYCF.
Performance and Quality of Services
• Strengthen community outreach by ensuring adequate investment in CMAM awareness raising activities and their integration with outreach for other public health interventions.
• Decentralize nutrition information systems to strengthen data collection and analysis at district level supporting and reinforcing the MoHs' lead role and joint accountability among the MoH and partners for improving quality.
• Define a standardized monitoring system to assess the quality of the CMAM services to inform the MoH, UN partners, IPs and other stakeholders where more capacity is needed.
Equity in Planning and Coverage
• Strengthen planning for CMAM through conducting community assessments, and greater use of joint integrated results-based planning exercises and mapping information […].
acute malnutrition, CSB, linear programming, moderate acute malnutrition, RUSF, supplementary feeding
FORMULATION OF SORGHUM-PEANUT BLEND USING LINEAR PROGRAMMING FOR TREATMENT OF MODERATE ACUTE MALNUTRITION IN UGANDA
In Under-nutrition on November 16, 2013 at 7:14 pm
by Andrew K. Amegovu, Patrick Ogwok, Sophie Ochola, Peter Yiga, Juliet H. Musalima, Emma Mutenyo
from Journal of Food Chemisty and Nutrition – Vol 1, No 2 (2013)
Infant and young child feeding practices in low-income countries are still inadequate leading to high rates of acute malnutrition. Formulas from local food materials are vital in formulations for management of child malnutrition in poor countries because they are affordable. Nutrient composition of sorghum-peanut blend (SPB) mixed with honey and ghee, and micronutrient-fortified corn-soy blend (CSB), a traditional food supplement, were analyzed. Proximate components and beta-carotene amounts were high in both products. Vitamin A level was higher in CSB than SPB. Proportions of essential fatty acids were low. Levels of iron, zinc, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, manganese and sodium were adequate for recovery from moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). Energy content of CSB was 421kcal/100g while that of SPB was 430kcal/100g. Levels of condensed tannin, phytates, trypsin inhibitors and aflatoxins were below prescribed limits. In conclusion, levels of nutrients in SPB and CSB were adequate for treatment of MAM in children.
action against hunger, acute malnutrition, conference, coverage survey, moderate acute malnutrition, nutrition organisations, severe acute malnutrition
International Conference: A Decade Of Community-based Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition
by Coverage Monitoring Network
Action Against Hunger (ACF International) and the Coverage Monitoring Network are pleased to invite you to a unique, two-day Conference titled "What We Know Now: a Decade of Community-based Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition". The two day conference will bring together technical experts, field practitioners and policy makers to help identify priority areas for research and action. The event will review available evidence and emerging performance data of community-based SAM treatment.
SAVE THE DATE: October 17th – 18th 2013 London, UK
Field practitioners, academics and nutrition organisations are invited to submit proposals for presentations. Abstracts should be sent to: Sophie Woodhead [s.woodhead@actionagainsthunger.org.uk] by Friday August 2nd 2013.
health, medicine, moderate acute malnutrition, RCT, RUSF, science, upper arm circumference
Children successfully treated for moderate acute malnutrition remain at risk for malnutrition and death in the subsequent year after recovery
In Under-nutrition on February 27, 2013 at 7:50 pm
J Nutr. 2013 Feb;143(2):215-20. doi: 10.3945/jn.112.168047. Epub 2012 Dec 19.
by Chang CY, Trehan I, Wang RJ, Thakwalakwa C, Maleta K, Deitchler M, Manary MJ.
Moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) affects 11% of children <5 y old worldwide and increases their risk for morbidity and mortality. It is assumed that successful treatment of MAM reduces these risks.
A total of 1967 children aged 6-59 mo successfully treated for MAM in rural Malawi following randomized treatment with corn-soy blend plus milk and oil (CSB++), soy ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF), or soy/whey RUSF were followed for 12 mo. The initial supplementary food was given until the child reached a weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) >-2. The median duration of feeding was 2 wk, with a maximum of 12 wk.
The hypothesis tested was that children treated with either RUSF would be more likely to remain well-nourished than those treated with CSB++.The primary outcome, remaining well-nourished, was defined as mid-upper arm circumference ≥12.5 cm or WHZ ≥-2 for the entire duration of follow-up.
During the 12-mo follow-up period, only 1230 (63%) children remained well-nourished, 334 (17%) relapsed to MAM, 190 (10%) developed severe acute malnutrition, 74 (4%) died, and 139 (7%) were lost to follow-up.
Children who were treated with soy/whey RUSF were more likely to remain well-nourished (67%) than those treated with CSB++ (62%) or soy RUSF (59%) (P = 0.01).
A seasonal pattern of food insecurity and adverse clinical outcomes was observed. This study demonstrates that children successfully treated for MAM with soy/whey RUSF are more likely to remain well-nourished; however, all children successfully treated for MAM remain vulnerable.


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I Macroglossini  sono una tribù cosmopolita di lepidotteri appartenente alla sottofamiglia Macroglossinae della famiglia Sphingidae.

Distribuzione
I numerosi generi compresi in questo taxon sono diffusi in tutti i continenti, e presentano talora marcati endemismi.

Tassonomia

Sottotribù e generi
Questo taxon comprende 2 sottotribù, con 56 generi, suddivisi in 668 specie:
 Sottotribù Choerocampina
Genere Basiothia Walker, 1856
Genere Cechenena Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Centroctena Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Chaerocina Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Deilephila Laspeyres, 1809
Genere Euchloron Boisduval, 1875
Genere Griseosphinx Cadiou & Kitching, 1990
Genere Hippotion Hübner, 1819
Genere Hyles Hübner, 1819
Genere Pergesa Walker, 1856
Genere Phanoxyla Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Rhagastis Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Rhodafra Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Theretra Hübner, 1819
Genere Xylophanes Hübner, 1819

 Sottotribù Macroglossina
Genere Acosmerycoides Mell, 1922
Genere Acosmeryx Boisduval, 1875
Genere Altijuba Lachlan, 1999
Genere Ampelophaga Bremer & Grey, 1853
Genere Amphion Hübner, 1819
Genere Angonyx Boisduval, 1874
Genere Antinephele Holland, 1889
Genere Atemnora Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Cizara Walker, 1856
Genere Clarina Tutt, 1903
Genere Dahira Moore, 1888
Genere Daphnis Hübner, 1819
Genere Darapsa Walker, 1856
Genere Deidamia (zoologia) Clemens, 1859
Genere Elibia Walker, 1856
Genere Enpinanga Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Eupanacra Cadiou & Holloway, 1989
Genere Euproserpinus Grote & Robinson, 1865
Genere Eurypteryx Felder, 1874
Genere Giganteopalpus Huwe, 1895
Genere Gnathothlibus Wallengren, 1858
Genere Hayesiana Fletcher, 1982
Genere Hypaedalea Butler, 1877
Genere Leucostrophus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Maassenia Saalmüller, 1884
Genere Macroglossum Scopoli, 1777
Genere Micracosmeryx Mell, 1922
Genere Microsphinx Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Neogurelca Hogenes & Treadaway, 1993
Genere Nephele Hübner, 1819
Genere Odontosida Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Philodila Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Proserpinus Hübner, 1819
Genere Pseudenyo Holland, 1889
Genere Pseudoangonyx Eitschberger, 2010
Genere Rethera Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Sphecodina Blanchard, 1840
Genere Sphingonaepiopsis Wallengren, 1858
Genere Temnora Walker, 1856
Genere Temnoripais Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Genere Zacria Haxaire & Melichar, 2003

Sinonimi
Non sono stati riportati sinonimi.

Bibliografia

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Voci correlate
 Dilophonotini
 Philampelini

Altri progetti

Sphingidae
Taxa classificati da Thaddeus William Harris
Fauna africana
Fauna asiatica
Fauna centroamericana
Fauna europea
Fauna nordamericana
Fauna oceaniana
Fauna sudamericana

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Captured Obedience by Tasha Winters
Sep 16, 2018 | 0 |
Today, she will meet her destiny.
While attempting to escape a skinwalker bent on possessing her against her will, Maya runs into a forbidden cave. Instead of succumbing to her doom, she confronts her attacker and finds herself in a world so alien and dangerous, she prepares for a fate worse than death.
Crazed with fear, Maya fights unsuccessfully for her freedom until three powerful men rescue her from the cruel captors. Relieved, she soon discovers these men have their own expectations and methods to achieve the obedience they demand. She is now a captive of another kind, and at their insistence, she must complete her training as they claim her mind, body, heart, and soul.
Internationally renowned scientists Sterling, Paxton, and Zander can't believe the terrified, uncontrollable woman is the one from Sterling's dreams. Finding themselves irresistibly drawn to her, and against all recommendations, they quickly take possession of Maya. But danger lurks in many forms…
Publisher's Note: This steamy reverse harem sci-fi romance contains elements of power exchange and ménage scenes.
She wasn't fighting them, she was fighting coming apart. Maya was not allowed to orgasm with Paxton at will, like she was with the other two men. She needed his permission.
"Not yet, Maya. I will scorch your ass if you come before you have permission."
She nearly came at his threat. The evil man knew it, too. He lined his cock to her brown entrance and pushed with firm, steady pressure. It wasn't her first breeching as Paxton had worked with her once a day for a week before taking her every day for the next three days. She knew how to relax and allow him in, but it still ached and there was a twinge of pain.
"Let go Maya." The head of his cock breached her entrance smoothly. He stopped to give her a chance to adjust.
"Please can I come?"
For his answer, he leaned down and slid his hand under her hair and closed into a fist, tight to her scalp. She knew he didn't want to pull her hair out, just give her a little tingle. He moved in and out slowly.
"Please, let me come."
"What do I want to hear?"
Her moans sounded like muffled cries. "I'm yours to punish, yours to love, yours to claim."
"Shall I claim you now?"
"Then come, baby. Come hard for me."
He yanked her hair and pounded into her ass. Her cries of pain-laced pleasure overtook them all and she stiffened, squeezing his cock hard, as though she would strangle him and then he was shooting his seed deep into the recesses of her core. The burn was overwhelming, her muscle spasms painful and his release seemed as unending as hers.
Both spent, he withdrew from her used backside and joined the other two in kissing and caressing her sweetly. He kissed her bottom and soothed the red rear he'd given her. Satiated, Maya lay just off the center of the mattresses.
"I love you, Paxton. I love you, Zander. I love you, Sterling." The men tucked themselves around her. They each found a spot and slept touching her, holding her, protecting her. A cocoon. She slept.
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