Subjects Any Subjects gesture (11) musical (10) sound (9) gestures (8) interactive (8) control (7) expression (7) gestural (7) nime (7) machine (6) music (6) expressive (5) interactions (5) learning (5) body (4) context (4) designed (4) designing (4) exploration (4) instrument (4) instruments (4) movement (4) movements (4) relationships (4) sonic (4) sounds (4) space (4) time (4) touch (4) variation (4) action (3) activity (3) adaptation (3) affordances (3) applications (3) continuous (3) creating (3) embodied (3) examples (3) experience (3) free (3) hand (3) independently (3) installation (3) live (3) motion (3) multiple (3) playing (3) practice (3) recognition (3) Authors Any Authors Caramiaux, Baptiste (18) Tanaka, Atau (12) Bevilacqua, Frédéric (7) Schnell, Norbert (5) Donnarumma, Marco (3) Alaoui, Sarah Fdili (2) Altavilla, Alessandro (2) Serrano, Marcos (2) Allison, Jesse (1) Amershi, Saleema (1) Amo, Yehiel (1) Barraclough, Timothy J (1) Beilharz, Kirsty (1) Berdahl, Edgar (1) Bevilacqua, Frederic (1) Bianco, Tommaso (1) Bloit, Julien (1) Bowers, John (1) Boyer, Eric (1) Bukvic, Ivica (1) Bullock, Jamie (1) Canning, Rob (1) Carnegie, Dale (1) Chen, Carolyn (1) Collins, Nick (1) Collins, Quinn (1) Dahlstedt, Palle (1) Dalton, Nick (1) Dublon, Gershon (1) Eloul, Shaltiel (1) Ergun, Cenk (1) Fiebrink, Rebecca (1) Fishman, Noah (1) Flety, Emmanuel (1) Françoise, Jules (1) Garcia, Jérémie (1) Gelineck, Steven (1) Gillies, Marco (1) Goßmann, Joachim (1) Heloir, Alexis (1) Holland, Simon (1) Houix, Olivier (1) Kalifa, Almog (1) Kapur, Ajay (1) Keatch, Kirsty (1) Knotts, Shelly (1) Kulesza, Todd (1) Lee, Bongshin (1) Lee, Jeong-seob (1) Lui, Simon (1) Dates Any Dates 2016 (2) 2015 (3) 2014 (1) 2013 (7) 2012 (1) 2011 (3) 2009 (1) Sources Any Sources CHI Confer. (7) NIME Confer. (7) DIS Confer. (1) GW Confer. (1) TIIS Journal (1) TOCHI Journal (1)
[4] Understanding Gesture Expressivity through Muscle Sensing Special Issue on Physiological Computing for Human-Computer Interaction / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Donnarumma, Marco / Tanaka, Atau ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2015-01 v.21 n.6 p.31
[6] Posters NIME 2014: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2014-06-30 p.26
[7] Muscular Interactions. Combining EMG and MMG sensing for musical practice Session 2: Multimodal / Donnarumma, Marco / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Tanaka, Atau NIME 2013: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2013-05-27 p.4
[8] Machine Learning of Musical Gestures Session 10: Gesture | Space / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Tanaka, Atau NIME 2013: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2013-05-27 p.32
Summary: We present an overview of machine learning (ML) techniques and their application in interactive music and new digital instrument design. We first provide the non-specialist reader an introduction to two ML tasks, classification and regression, that are particularly relevant for gestural interaction. We then present a review of the literature in current NIME research that uses ML in musical gesture analysis and gestural sound control. We describe the ways in which machine learning is useful for creating expressive musical interaction, and in turn why live music performance presents a pertinent and challenging use case for machine learning.
[9] Towards Gestural Sonic Affordances Posters (1) / Altavilla, Alessandro / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Tanaka, Atau NIME 2013: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2013-05-27 p.51
[10] Muscular Interactions. Combining EMG and MMG sensing for musical practice Demos (1) / Donnarumma, Marco / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Tanaka, Atau NIME 2013: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2013-05-27 p.70
[11] Beyond recognition: using gesture variation for continuous interaction alt.chi: Design Lessons / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Bevilacqua, Frederic / Tanaka, Atau Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI'13 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013-04-27 v.2 p.2109-2118
[12] De-Mo: designing action-sound relationships with the mo interfaces Interactivity: exploration / Bevilacqua, Frédéric / Schnell, Norbert / Rasamimanana, Nicolas / Bloit, Julien / Flety, Emmanuel / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Françoise, Jules / Boyer, Eric Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI'13 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013-04-27 v.2 p.2907-2910
[13] MubuFunkScatShare: gestural energy and shared interactive music Interactivity: exploration / Tanaka, Atau / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Schnell, Norbert Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI'13 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013-04-27 v.2 p.2999-3002
[14] Movement qualities as interaction modality Designing for the body / Alaoui, Sarah Fdili / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Serrano, Marcos / Bevilacqua, Frédéric Proceedings of DIS'12: Designing Interactive Systems 2012-06-11 p.761-769
[15] Gestural Embodiment of Environmental Sounds: an Experimental Study / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Susini, Patrick / Bianco, Tommaso / Bevilacqua, Frédéric / Houix, Olivier / Schnell, Norbert / Misdariis, Nicolas NIME 2011: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2011-05-30 p.144-148
[16] Sound Selection by Gestures / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Bevilacqua, Frédéric / Schnell, Norbert NIME 2011: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2011-05-30 p.329-330
[17] From dance to touch: movement qualities for interaction design Works-in-progress / Alaoui, Sarah Fdili / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Serrano, Marcos Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011-05-07 v.2 p.1465-1470
[18] Towards a Gesture-Sound Cross-Modal Analysis Gesture Processing / Caramiaux, Baptiste / Bevilacqua, Frédéric / Schnell, Norbert GW 2009: Gesture Workshop 2009-02-25 p.158-170
Summary: This article reports on the exploration of a method based on canonical correlation analysis (CCA) for the analysis of the relationship between gesture and sound in the context of music performance and listening. This method is a first step in the design of an analysis tool for gesture-sound relationships. In this exploration we used motion capture data recorded from subjects performing free hand movements while listening to short sound examples. We assume that even though the relationship between gesture and sound might be more complex, at least part of it can be revealed and quantified by linear multivariate regression applied to the motion capture data and audio descriptors extracted from the sound examples. After outlining the theoretical background, the article shows how the method allows for pertinent reasoning about the relationship between gesture and sound by analysing the data sets recorded from multiple and individual subjects.


Tag Archive for: African refugees
Global Poverty, Refugees, World Bank, Zambia
World Bank Assists Refugees in Zambia
This $20 million loan will go to the Zambia Displaced Persons and Border Communities Project. They plan to promote social cohesion and the integration of former refugees in Zambia, through investment in the livelihoods and socioeconomic infrastructure of the host0:512020-06-18 13:01:06World Bank Assists Refugees in Zambia
Yishai is anything but alone. Several other high-profile politicians have been swayed by a wave of xenophobia imbued with hostility. Parliament member Miri Regev went so far as to call Sudanese refugees “a cancer in our bodies.” It is the false belief of many in the Israeli government that the vast majority of African refugees are there not because they are actually refugees, but because they can find a better chance at economic gain in Israel.
This xenophobia is evident in the numbers of African refugees that have gained refugee status in Israel. Whereas nearly half of Sudanese and over 80 percent of Eritreans have found refugee status in other countries, less than one percent of refugees have received it in Israel. In fact, since its independence in 1948, Israel has granted fewer than 200 people refugee status.
Si as “We are seeking asylum,” “Don’t split up families” and “We are refugees, not criminals.” M“The Infiltrators Conquered the Square,” with the subtitle “An existential problem.”
Sources: +927, Capital Eritrea, The Guardian, New Yorker, Pravda, San Diego Jewish World, The Times of Israel


olia with light wood laminate flooring and side door.
White WC with hand basin, vanity cupboard and extractor fan.
uPVC double glazed window, blind, radiator, neutral decoration, aerial point. Door leading to en-suite.
uPVC double glazed frosted window, white wash basin, WC, electric shower, extractor fan and radiator.
Neutral decoration, uPVC double glazed window, blind, radiator and aerial point, aerial point.
Feature papered wall, radiator, uPVC double glazed window to both the front and rear of the property, door leading to en -suite.
uPVC double glazed frosted window, blind, white wash basin, toilet and electric shower, extractor fan, radiator and mirrawned garden, security light and block paving with pathway leading around the property. To the rear is a lawned garden with decking area and double garage.
We are currently awaiting EPC completion. </s> There is no onsite parking at the centre but there is parking located at Canterbury West train station. The centre is a few minutes walk from here and is charged at £6.50 a day Monday to Friday (subject to change).
There is also a taxi rank outside the front of Canterbury West train station. </s> Discu. </s> SuiAluminium Pulley Wheels - Made from a light Aluminium alloy that guarantees top performance, whatever your riding discipline. All components of CermicSpeed's pulley wheels are of the highest quality, ensuring the best results. </s> S!
agh Dhar Dharto Hyatt Regency New Delhi. Browse the distance from Bagh Dhar Dharto Hyatt Regency Hyatt Regency New Delhi.
Tagh Dhar Dharto Hyatt RegencyHere is to a very special woman in my life who raised me to be the man I am today!
I love you, Mom.for me. I would like to think a big reason I do what I do is because of you.
It should be remembered more often than one day a year that our mothers, and our parents/caretakers/guardians in general, play such a vital role in who we are and shaping our reasoning and appreciation for education. I am lucky to have several other women in my life who have acted as mother figures, and I want them to know as well how much they mean to me. Thank you all!
The picture is of my brother and I when we were very young with our mom on vacation. </s> The biggest cause of recruiting screw-ups is recruiters making assumptions.
And we make them every day.
But it’s not bad luck at all. It’s bad recruiting. Specifically, the craft of recruitment is lacking.
The status of a candidate job-search or a clients’ job-brief is an fast-evolving, dynamic cocktail of ever-changing reality.
I sit in recruitment offices most days, surrounded by recruiters. I hear their conversations, and we are all making many assumptions all the time.
Is the candidate out on other interviews? Been offered more money where he is? Got cold feet? Been told by her Dad there is a recession coming and not to change jobs? A thousand possible changes. None of them known to you!
Drill down. Ask. Ask differently. Ask Cool Kollektion Led Leuchtmittel Slimline Lightme E27 8 Wntertainment Lawyer position is full-time in Toronto, Ontario and reports directly to Entertainment’s Head of Business and Legal Affairs.
The role of the Entertainment Lawyer is critical to ensure the smooth running of Entertainment’s Development, Production and Licensing/Distribution departments. The Entertainment Lawyer works directly with Entertainment’s Production, Development and Licensing/Distribution Teams to ensure all business affairs issues – from agreements to insurance policies, and copyright protections and clearances – are resolved efficiently on a timely basis. The Entertainment Lawyer will not only be an exceptionally strong technical lawyer, but also be commercially aware, with demonstrable experience working in television production and/or animation an asset. Theng with Spin Master executives to resolve business affairs issues related to development agreements, pre-sales/license agreements, production agreements, exploitation agreements, and other Entertainment-related business affairs issues as they arise. The Entertainment Lawyer outside parties, and will be expected to work closely with business and legal affairs peers and colleagues, commercial colleagues, and


Sheep Boy Movie Discriminates Against Women
March 5, 2006 by Nina May·Comments Off on Sheep Boy Movie Discriminates Against Women
Hollywood is perplexed by the fact that the vast rightwing religious, zealot, homophobic, fanatics haven’t protested the gay sheep-boy movie that the left is gushing over. What’s to protest? Let the marketplace decide whether it wants to see two men play . . . newsflash for Howard Dean . . . the real meaning of “hide the salami.” But besides being anatomically challenged, proving once again that public education does not provide kids with a basic understanding of what functions specific body parts play, what point would a protest make?
All a protest of a very boring and mediocre rooster flick would prove is that stereotypes are easy to ascribe too if all parties play the roles the other parties have defined for them. All conservatives and Christians . . .according to the left, are automatically, de facto, homophobic, once again illustrating the grand failure of the public schools to appropriately equip their little minions with even the correct pejoratives to sling at anyone who doesn’t embrace their agendas. Homo (latin) . . . as in homo sapien . . . means “man” . . . phobic . . . is “fear of.” No one is afraid of “man” unless this man is perhaps saying “believe in my god or you lose your head.” So we could start saying homoislamophobic, but then the same open-minded liberals who condemn anyone for not embracing their ideologies would complain about anyone being called homoislamophobic, which means fear of an extremist Islamic fundamentalist man, who would cut off your head for not believing in his form of compassionate theology, is being intolerant and mean-spirited. But somehow . . .calling someone just plain old, homophobic, is not being intolerant and mean-spirited.
But all that is so tedious and hard to massage into a palatable, 20-second sound bite for a populace educated in public schools. (Yes, this is a duel-themed commentary, the second added as a minor irritant.) So let me simplify the logical origin of a complaint about the sheep boy movie that ironically will not be dispensed by the usual suspects from the vast right wing lineup, but should be by the feminists.
Let’s break it down. The feminists have claimed for decades that there is a good old boys network that excludes women, reduces them to irrelevant props in a world drama of ideas controlled and dominated by men. Women are second-class, redundant, and unnecessary for anything other than child bearing. They are to be seen and not heard, remain shoeless in a masculine world and pregnant with the agenda of a male dominated society that does not even regard women as worthy of intimate relations.
The sheep boy movie is a mockery of any relationship where woman is a principal partner and shows that truly, the good old boy network can not only function economically, politically and socially without women . . .but does not regard their intimate relations as a necessary element of culture, and nature. Their most intimate part of their body . . .their vagina . . . is equated to an anus and the functions are determined by this elite group of misogynists, as being interchangeable. And the term “oral” has morphed from meaningful conversation to momentary pleasure paired with simultaneous degradation. Ask Oprah for the details. Their clothes, dress, style and demeanor is further mocked and distorted by men who strut in satins and preen in panties. Women have become the bottom feeders in society as their very existence is mocked ridiculed, reviled and demeaned.
So . . .where are the feminists to revolt against this chauvinistic, misogynist demagoguery? They have become so irrelevant and ridiculous that it is no wonder the men have pleasure at their expense. They have been reduced to caricatures of themselves as they struggle like the proverbial elephant dung cleaner to keep up with the mess that they have created, and their offspring, female-hating men, have produced.
They are the mothers of the misogynist sheep boys who detest the anti-nurturing ways of women who wanted to be men and sacrificed their very virtue on the alter of equality. They are the spawn of vanity and egotism that claimed they could have it all without the tethered burden of a man to bring her down. She could give birth to the child, raise him alone with a day care center full of countless souls searching for the one person they could love unconditionally. They were irrelevant then, and are today.
Feminists have successfully etched themselves off the totem of life, the monolith of society. They are not only a dying breed, but a mocked group of soulless, pitiful beings who gave their whole lives denying their existence, rejecting their femininity, striving to be like men, only to have the very group they emulated, denounce them as irrelevant anus-like beings who have nothing that a man could possibly want . . .except to bear him a child that he can remake into his own image . . . the image of man without the need of a woman to love.
Sheep boys “one” . . . feminists “zero.”
Previous Previous post: Vice President Shoots Man in Cold Blood . . . Media Throws Temper Tantrum
Next Next post: The Liberal’s New Favorite Minority and Victim Class


Citarum. The world´s Most Polluted River in the World. Reading or Test. The water issue.
This one for more advanced students who want to reinforce their language skills. A list of less common collective nouns. Interesting to improve writing skills. Hope you like it.


Throughout National Pizza Month, play around with new pizza options like making it yourself, trying a new pizza joint, or trying single-serve bagel pizzas.
There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
Truer words have, perhaps, never been spoken. Pizza is a wonderful thing, and there’s really no such thing as bad pizza, even the worst pizza is still pretty good. Pizza has been around for an incredibly long time, the word itself going back as far as 997 AD in southern Italy.
National Pizza Month gives lovers of this delicious dish an entire month to celebrate amazing food, and more than ample time (31 whole days!) to enjoy it in all its variations and permutations. Small, large, circle, square, and so much more!
Let’s get started by learning about National Pizza Month:
History of National Pizza Month
From that time moving forward, there have been developments that slowly led to the wonderful comfort food that the world knows and loves as pizza.
Now, this doesn’t mean that it was a straight line, mind you, not at all. Some say that Roman soldiers created the first pizza when they added cheese and olive oil to Matzah bread. But one thing is known for certain, pizza as we know it today came into being as a result of the discovery of the tomato in the Americas, and its return to Europe in the 16th century.
So where did the pizza begin? The pizza as a flatbread with a tomato sauce started in Naples and quickly became popular. Until the 1830’s it was almost exclusively sold from open-air stands and out of pizza bakeries, a tradition that is largely followed even today.
It morphed into something closer to what we know today as “pizza” sometime around the 18th or 19th centuries in Naples, Italy.
Although no one was happy with the devastating effects of World War II, one of the positives was that allied troops who had been stationed in Italy brought the idea of pizza back to their home countries.
One other fun piece of trivia is the source of the ‘marinara’ sauce is the traditional tomato sauce. Have you ever wondered why it’s called marinara? Because it was created by “La Marinara” the mariner’s wife, to serve to her seafaring husband upon return from fishing the Bay of Naples.
National Pizza Month was originally created as an American observance and was celebrated for the first time in October 1984. It was created by Gerry Durnell, publisher of Pizza Today, a magazine dedicated to this delicious pie. For more than 30 years, this month has been a fitting tribute to this iconic dish.
Get ready to celebrate National Pizza Month!
An entire month to celebrate everything beautiful and tasty about pizza? Well, that might be enough time to get started on some of these ideas:
Eat Pizza, Of Course!
If we have to encourage you to go out and eat all the pizza you can get your hands on this month, we’re not entirely certain that National Pizza Month is for you. Who needs encouragement to celebrate this month?
Order in, go out to a local pizza joint and order a pitcher of beer or soft drinks, or just enjoy eating some homemade pizza in front of a movie. Whatever way you slice it, National Pizza Month is meant to be enjoyed for thirty-one whole delicious days!
Whether making dough from scratch or picking up a premade refrigerated dough, making pizza at home can be a fun activity for the whole family. Let every member of the family custom create their own personal pizza pies, bake them up, and enjoy!
Try Out Some New and Different Pizza Toppings
Well, if you’re wanting to truly honor the pizza, then it’s time to try some new toppings on your pizza and experience the full range of what the pizza can be! Go out, try something new, and enjoy pizza!
Consider these ideas for unique pizza toppings to get started with:
Chipotle Cajun Shrimp and Guacamole Pizza. Just the name is a mouthful, but the flavor of this pizza goes far beyond. Cook shrimp with cajun and creole seasoning, spread guacamole over pizza dough like a “sauce”, add shrimp and cheese. Then bake.
Thanksgiving Day Leftover Pizza. Now this is a fun one! On Black Friday when everyone is sick of the leftovers from the previous day’s festivities, go ahead and pile those bits and pieces onto a prepared crust and pop it in the oven. Used mashed sweet potatoes as the “sauce”. Then spread out turkey strips, corn, cranberry sauce, brussel sprouts and shredded cheese on top. Delicious!
Potato and Burrata Pizza. Add thin slices of potatoes to pizza dough that is covered in lemon basil pesto. Top with piles of burrata cheese and bake for a simply delicious and unique type of pizza.
Charred Brussel Sprouts Pizza with Sage Brown Butter. The title practically gives away the recipe! Char some brussel sprouts, brown some butter with sage to drizzle on top, add some prosciutto, and finish off with provolone and fontina cheese. After baking, top with a sprinkling of pomegranate seeds for color and flavor.
Tue Oct 11th, 2022


Finding extra cash isn't the only advantage. Refinancing your mortgage can also mean shortening the length of your mortgage. Typical home mortgages are established on a 30-year timeline. By taking advantage of free mortgage refinancing rates, you may be able to get yourself into a 15-year mortgage and keep your mortgage payment at a similar rate. This allows you to stay in a comfort zone of spending, but ensures you will be out of your mortgage at a faster rate!


Oumar Niasse at Goodison Park on Saturday.
He was not deemed fit enough to feature in the 3-0 win over Stoke last Saturday, but Roberto Martinez could throw him into action this weekend after a full week of training.
“Shaw received 86 per cent of the vote, with second place going to Ross Barkley’s strike against Manchester City on six per cent.


The budget shall be designed to reflect the district's objectives for
the education of the children of the district. Therefore, it must be organized
and planned to ensure adequate understanding of the financial needs associated
with program support and development. This necessitates a continuous review
of the financial requirement of district programs.
All of the pre-audit functions and duties of the School Controller as
prescribed by law shall be exercis system of accounts and
expenditure controls
of Education and in accordance with law. The Superintendent shall, as soon
as iBoard
an annual financial statement for the district for the past year. Such
statement shall include itemized data with respect to all assets of the
district, school taxes and receipts, outstanding indebtedness and sinking
funds, if any, and such other information relating to the finances of the
district as the Board may deem necessary or proper.
The Board shall, consistent with law, determine which officers and employes
shall be required to furnish surety bonds, conditioned on the faithful
performance of their respective duties, to determine the amount of such
bonds, and to approve the surety or sureties in each case.
The Board shall have the power to amend the budget to authorize the
transfer ofone appropriation
to another or from one spending agency to another.
The Board shall have the power to make additional appropriations or
increase existing appropriations to meet emergencies which could not be
anticipated when the budget was adopted, the funds therefore to be provided
from unexpended balances in existing appropriations, from unappropriated
revenues if any, or from temporary loans. Under no circumstances may the
Board increase the aggregate total of budget appropriations unless unappropriated
revenues become available in sufficient amount to maintain the budget in
balance, in which event the Board may make additional or increased appropriations.
The Board of Education shall, at least thirty (30) days before the end
of the fiscal year, adopt by majority vote of all its members an operating
budget setting forth in lump sum amounts the proposed expenditures of the
Board during the next fiscal year as to each principle administrative unit
of the District, according to such classes of expenditures as the Board
may determine, and the estimated receipts of the Board during the next
fiscal year including approximate estimates of proposed revenues and all
other receipts. The total amount of proposed expenditures shall not exceed
the amount of funds available for School District purposes.
At least sixty (60) days prior to adoption of the annual operating budget,
the Board shall adopt and submit to the Mayor and Council a lump sum statement
of anticipa and a
request for authority to levy taxes to balance its budget for the year;
provided, however, that if Council shall no longer have the power to authorize
taxes for School District purposes the statement need not be submitted
Home Rule Charter: 12-303
Home Rule Charter: 12-403 (a,b)
Board Policy No. 006


All you need is a modern web browser (Safari, Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Firefoxn’t have to install a thing! eps’s or tiff’s.  what ever you throw at us!


les, TN.
Down home service with a smile. Good food and good service. It's family owned and operated. Being a small town, everybody knows everybody and this is no exception. The owners, managers and staff make you feel welcome the minute you enter until you walk out the door. The food is amazing. They cook and prepare their food more on the level of upscale restaurants yet it's priced reasonable and portions are ample. From vegetables, to salads, to their signature burgers, onion rings, and desserts....it's all good !!! 9 and 1/2 miles from I-40 (12 minutes) on Hwy 46/Hwy 100 just outside of Dickson, Tn. A little off the beaten path but well worth checking out. Before you know it, you will become a regular.


"Team Save Coach Petrino""Arkansas Football: It's the players running through the A, Hog Hats. It's more than 70,000 fans calling, "WOO PIG SOOIE!"


In case you missed it, we have exclusive previews of tomorrow’s “Justice League Dark” #12, and Dark Horse’s “Fight Club 3” #6.
— There’s a new independent comics publisher in town: Ablaze, cofounded by comics industry veteran Rich Young, will debut its first title this September with the English language debut of “Vampire State Building,” a four-issue horror series drawn by Charlie Adlard and written by Ange and Patrick Renault. Ablaze plans to release 10 titles in 2019 and as many as 50 in 2020.
— Archie Andrews is getting the royal treatment in issue #302 of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest. “Name Fame” is a five-page story that details what happens when Archie learns aboute real-life British prince and son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (perhaps better known as Harry and Meghan), who shares both his first name and hair color. Deadline hasand colorist Rosario “Tito” Peña.
— Deadline reports that filmmaker Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) has signed on to “crack” how to reboot Flash Gordon: he is rumored to be writing and directing the project as an animated feature film, though Fox/Disney has yet to confirm any concrete details about his involvement. Kingsman‘y were previously set to reboot the property as a new live-action film.
— First Second revealed on its Twitter account the cover for “Cottons: The White Carrot” by Jim Pascoe and Heidi Arnhold. The second volume of the fantasy graphic novel series is out February 18, 2020.
— Watari Kubota will draw a manga adaptation of Weathering With You, an anime film from Makoto Shinkai set to open in Japan on July 19. The manga will publish starting with the July 25 issue of Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine, with no word on an English translation yet. GKIDS has licensed the film in North America and plans to release it to a wide audience in early 2020.
— Finally, “Yu-Gi-Oh” creator Kazuki Takahashi will have four pieces of artwork displayed at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, part of the gallery’s “Yu-Gi-Oh” Tribute Art Show opening July 5. The show will also include works by artists such as Allison Bamcat, Tom Whalen, Dan Mumford, Anthony Petrie, Matthew Skiff, Dave Perillo, and Steve Dressler, and an interactive exhibit from Pretty in Plastic.


Malod-According to Napoli (2011) Zimbabwe’s commercial maize (staple food) planting was drastically reduced from 150 000 ha to 45 000 ha during the 1999–2000 agricultural season. This was partly because of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme implemented by the Zimbabwean government between 2000 and 2002 (Moyo 2010). Little maize was produced by the communal farmers, who depended mainly on employment and supplementary maize from commercial farmers. Richardson (2004) confirmed this by stating that agricultural yields in Zimbabwe had fallen considerably since 2000. Thus, the food security in Zimbabwe was becoming increasingly compromised and the government had to import food from outside the country. In the 2005–2006 agricultural season Zimbabwe failed to produce enough cereals to meet the country’s needs (USDA Foreign Agricultural Services 2005). Because of the political and mostly economic challenges the country was facing, it became impossible for Zimbabwe to import adequate amounts of cereals to cover the deficit. The World Food Programme (WFP) initiated the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme, which was designed to cushion more than 3.4 million food-insecure Zimbabweans (WFP 2005). Since then, the programme has been implemented every year because of recurring droughts and food insecurity facing southern Africa and Zimbabwe in particular. By 2009 Zimbabwe’s food situation had deteriorated more drastically than expected, because of the worsening cash crisis and political situation resulting in many people needing food aid. Mutisi (2009) further confirmed that since 1995 food production in Zimbabwe had declined steadily, resulting in food importation and upsurge in food aid needs. The WFP intervened and intensified the distribution of food to vulnerable communities in Zimbabwe. The VGF programme, a programme aimed at alleviating short-term hunger (Médecins Sans Frontières 2006), was rolled out to many places throughout the country, which were considered to be food insecure. One such food-insecure area was the Mbire district, which benefited from the programme. The purpose of the study was to assess how the VGF programme impacted on the nutritional vulnerability of the pregnant women in Mbire district, Zimbabwe. Table 1 shows the commodity list of the VGF programme basket intended to relieve short-term hunger (WFP 2000).
TABLE 1: Vulnerable Group Feeding Programme food basket,approximately 800 million do not receive sufficient calories in their diet. The report also records a stunting prevalence of 27.6% as well as a 28.4% anaemia prevalence in woman of reproductive age in Zimbabwe. The survey on the national nutritional status conducted in 2010 revealed that the prevalence of malnourishment in the country stood at 33.8% (Zimbabwe National Nutritional Survey 2010). According to the Zimbabwe Multiple Indicators Monitoring Survey (MIMS) report (2009) an infant death rate of between 8.7% and 13.7% was caused by undernourishment and HIV and/or AIDS, one of the highest in the world. Inadequate food and some diseases were immediate contributing factors of malnutrition, while socio-economic, political and water and sanitation were among some of the root causes. These were (1997) framework for the underlying causes of malnutrition and mortality and were also confirmed by the WFP on nutrition policy in 2000, which emphasised that poor hygiene and unsuitable and worm infestation, causing malnutrition. Undernourished individuals can easily succumb to these vulnerabilities because of their weakened immune system (Médecins Sans Frontières 2006). Children and non-pregnant women were, however, included in these studies and thus the results reflect children’s health. As food insecurity results in malnutrition especially among the poor and vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, this study assessed the impact of the VGF programme on pregnant women in Mbire district in Zimbabwe.
receive (Sheetal et al. 2013). The existence of malnutrition and other related threats results in communities and individuals being nutritionally vulnerable (Hewitt et al. 2006). Nutritional vulnerability refers to a reduced physical reserve that limits recovery in the event of an acute health threat, as well as limited resilience and other predisposed factors arising from a reduced dietary intake (Starr, McDonald & Bales 2015). In many developing countries the effects of malnutrition on pregnant women are under-investigated because the focus is mostly on infant mortality and morbidity issues while neglecting the direct link between antenatal care and infant well-being (Hardee, Gay & Blanc 2012).
A study that Tomkins conducted in Nepal in 2001 concluded that maternal mortality rates can be drastically reduced by simply using vitamin B and A supplements. In Nepal also, it was established that there was a 44% reduction in maternal mortality because of this vitamin supplementation programme (Tomkins 2001). According to Insel and Wardlaw (1999), expectant mothers are more at risk if their diets do not supply the required nutrients. These nutrients are for the mothers’ nutrient needs and consequently the foetuses’ (Almurshed et al. 2007). It is therefore necessary that expectant women receive extra nutrients to meet their increased physiological needs. Pregnant women need extra kilocalories, iron and folates, which are scarce in situations where there is food insecurity (Ladipo 2000).
The majority of the malnourished groups are pregnant women living in developing and Southern Sudan) andChina) (State of Food Insecurity [SOFI] Report 2010). China and India together account for 40% of the total malnourished groups that include pregnant women, which is contrary to the popular view that malnourishment is increasing only in Africa (Webb et al. 2006). Webb et al. made an estimate that 1 in 16 African pregnant women living in undernourished, unhealthy and inadequate maternal care environments are likely to succumb to pregnancy-related complications. Wisner et al. (2004) pointed out that during the 2002 drought in Malawi the WFP revealed that almost 70% of Malawians suffered from nutritional deficiencies. This contributed to a compromised immune system that made them more vulnerable to HIV and/or AIDS, cholera and bubonic plague, among other diseases. Pregnant Malawian women were particularly at risk, because of their malnutrition levels (Malawi Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2006). That brought to the fore the vulnerability of child-bearing women in the pre- and postnatal periods in some developing countries.
The Mbire district (Figure 1) was chosen as the study area because it is one of the four districts in Zimbabwe with 39% – 42% food-insecure households and hence part of the WFP-VGF programme (Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee [ZIMVAC] 2010). The same report showed that most studies conducted in the Mbire district concentrated on food security, and no special attention was paid to the more vulnerable groups such as pregnant women. The district is divided into 17 wards. Of these, three wards, namely Chapoto (Ward 1), Angwa (Ward 2) and Masoka (Ward 11), were identified as the most food-insecure wards (ZIMVAC 2010). In that district the majority of the population depended on food aid because their agricultural livelihood practices were compromised by recurrent drought characterised by low, erratic rainfall with the average yearly precipitation ranging from 450 mm to 650 mm (Fritz et al. 2003). The peak rains are experienced in January and February, usually coinciding with the flooding of the rivers and resulting in poor crop yields. The area is characterised by highly unreliable rains with severe dry spells, recurrent seasonal droughts and high temperatures averaging 40 degree Celsius in sum06). Additionally, the people of Mbire grow maize, which is not drought tolerant (Le Bel, Stromberg & Duckworth 2004).
FIGURE 1: Map indicating the location of the Mbire district.
The case study was descriptive in nature,total population of the Mbire district is about 115 000 with the people residing in 17 wards (Mbire district Baseline Survey Report 2009). Purposive sampling was used to select the 100 respondents for the survey, and the anthropometric assessments were conducted at the respective health centres. A two-stage sampling procedure was followed. Firstly, simple purposive sampling was used for the wards to minimise sampling error and bias (Saunders, Lewis & Thornhill 2003). The two most food-insecure wards were chosen, namely Angwa (1) and Chapoto (2). These were sampled because of their proximity to each other. The actual number of pregnant women at any given time was difficult to establish, and so the researchers relied onin the area. One hundred pregnant women who were attending monthly antenatal care at the health centres were also100 women was that, according to the nurse-in-charge, the population of the pregnant women in the area was homogenous as they were all food insecure and depended on food aid owing to the recurrent drought in the Mbire district. This choice is supported by Maree et al. (2007), who stated that lesser samples may sufficientlyparticipants are similar with respect to the variables that are central to the study.
The data were collected in the month of August 2011, a peak period when food shortages are experienced in the Mbire district. August was also ideal as it was a dry month and the people were able to travel to the health centres. In this way more women could be involved in the study. The rivers (Angwa, Manyame and Hunyani) and the bridges are usually inundated during the rainy season and people are confined to their homes (Madamombe 2004). The transport system in the area is also very poor with the gravel roads getting flooded and the bridges submerged. Before data collection commenced, the researchers obtained a letter of introduction from the University of the Free Statdistrict Ministries of Local Government and Health and Child Welfare. The headman, representing traditional leadership structures in the area, was also approached to seek his permission as the respondents were his subjects. Respondents agreed to participate in the study and that their medical history could be used because no personal identities were required from themconsisting of demographics (ageer of wives in the marriage and language of communication), maternal health (age of first pregnancy, total number of prior pregnancies, birth intervals, receipt of different supplements and distance to the clinic), water and sanitation issues, food basket composition, utilisation and satisfaction, assets and other livelihoods and finally anthropometric information (total meals per day, sickness in the past 14 days, Body Mass Index [BMI] and mid-upper arm circumference [MUAC]).  researcher who is a nurse and supported by nurses working in those clinics.
Data were collected over 2 days, during the period when the women from various settlements visited the clinics for their monthly antenatal check-ups. Fthe pregnant women. The face-to-face interaction with the respondents was beneficial as it gave the researchers an opportunity to clarify issues that might be misconstrued and perhaps vague to some respondents. The face-to-face interaction also gave the researchers, via the researcher who was a state-registered nurse, the opportunity to do clinical assessments for clear signs of micronutrient deficiencies. The personal information identification of the respondents was not captured in the study. Observations and content analysis of the food basket were conducted as discussed further in the article. The nutritional content of the food rations distributed and nutritional risks associated with malnutrition in pregnant women were assessed. In addition to the observations, some of the anthropometric data of the pregnant women were obtained from the health centres.
After all the data had been collected the researchers checked for completeness of the questionnaires and verified if all the measurements were conducted correctly. After verification, the complete questionnaires were assigned identity codes and the quantitative data were then captured into a Microsoft Excel sheet and in Summaries of the observations and qualitative data were entered into a word document and also arranged according to themes. The nutritional status of the respondents and the prevalence rates of malnutrition were estimated utilising the anthropometric data. The data were then interpreted, analysed and discussed in thematic forms and others were presented in tables, figures and graphic formats.
All of the 100 respondents were beneficiaries of the WFP-VGF programme. The demographic i Most (34%) of the respondents were adolescents and youths (between 15 and 20 years), followed by 27% respondents who were between 21 and 30 years, 24% between 31 and 40 years, 3% under 15 years and 12% were above 40 years of age. The respondents in the 15–20 years age group and under 15 years were adolescent and young girls. According to Wardlaw (2000), pregnant adolescent women or young girls are at risk of exposure to maternal anaemia and pregnancy complications among many other nutritional deficiency-related difficulties. A study by Kazaura, Kidanto and Massawe (2006) found that adolescent and youth pregnancies were one of the causes of the high mortality rates among pregnant mothers in Tanzania. Wardlaw (2000) further states that this exposure is attributed to the women’s underdeveloped physical structures. Insel and Wardlaw (1999) then argue that the nutritional demands of an expecting woman who is also still developing require them to obtain sufficient nutrition. The young maternal age of some of the women in Mbire contributed to their nutritional vulnerability as confirmed by Insel and Wardlaw (1999), Wardlaw (2000) and Kazaura et al. (2006).
TABLE 2: Demographic information of pregnant women in the Mbire district.
Other challenges, like previous pregnancies, might have an impact on the women’s nutritional fitness. A third (33%) of the respondents indicated that they had had more than four pregnancies before the current one. Thirty per cent of the respondents indicated that it was their first pregnancy. Others, 16%, had one child, 7% had two children and 14% had three children. The number of children that these women have has an effect on their nutritional vulnerability because of physical body deterioration. Short inter-pregnancy intervals cause depletion of nutrients, resulting in the mother and the unborn baby being malnourished (King 2003). In the USA it was found that women with inter-pregnancy intervals of less than 8 months were between 14% and 47% more likely to have very premature and moderately premature infants than women with intervals of between 18 and 59 months (Fuentes-Afflick & Hessol 2000).
Seventy-fhad their first pregnancy when they had been between 15 and 17 years old. Respondents who first fell pregnant between 18 and 24 years were only 24%. Two per cent of the respondents had their first pregnancies between 21 and 25 years of age. Fuentes-Afflick and Hessol (2000) stated that young or adolescent women are not biologically prepared for conception especially if they are within 2 years of their menarche. Scholl et al. (1994) confirmed this when they found that young pregnant women competed for nutrients with their foetuses as they themselves would also still be growing during gestation.
According to Lilungulu et al. (2015), short inter-pregnancy intervals impact negatively on pregnant women’s nutritional health status. Nutritional risks, such as immunodeficiency and anaemia, are usually experienced by women who have inter-pregnancy intervals of less than one and a half years (Wardlaw 2000). This is because their nutrient stores have been diminished during the previous pregnancy and are not able to provide for the current pregnancy. Positively, this study discovered that a small number of the women, about 29%, experienced inter-pregnancy intervals of less than 2 years, while the majority of about 71% fell within the inter-pregnancy interval of more than 2 years. The poor health of the women cannot only be attributed to the shorter intervals between births. Other factors such as an inadequate diet could have contributed to this. Nevertheless the 71% women with longer inter-pregnancy intervals could also be nutritionally vulnerable.
As in many other African countries, as stated by Von Struensee (2005), the women from the Mbire district were not exempt from the challenges that come with polygamous marriages. Polygamy is part of the culture of many African communities (Anderson 2000). About 57 of the 100 in a polygamous marriage. In most polygamous marriages, the husband moves out from the pregnant woman’s house to live with the other wife or wives (Bove, Vala-Haynes & Valeggia 2014), hence the pregnant women’s increased nutritional vulnerability.
The study ascertained whether the respondents received adequate nutrients in the form of vitamins, iron and folic acid, as these are critical to a pregnant woman for the growth of the unborn baby(2010), vitamin A supplementation coverage was 25.2% (189 μg retinol activity equivalents [RAE]), which was far below the internationally acceptable threshold of a minimum of 750 μg RAE (World Health Organization [WHO] 1995). Iron and folic acid were also far below the expected threshold of 30 mg – 60 mg of elemental iron and 0.4 mg of folic acid per day (WHO 2012). The results from the study could be insignificant because the mentioned low literacy levels indicated in Table 2 could have led to the miscomprehension of the question, when the women actually received the supplements without knowing them. To help triangulate these results, the researcher had to investigate this issue further. It was confirmed by the nurses that supplementation was indeed inadequate because of resource shortages in the whole country.
The monthly ration of the feeding basket consisted of the following (Table 3).
TABLE 3: Monthly ration of the feeding basket.
The ration was given out to complement existing household food stocks and not for nutritional measures of the communities. It was established that most of the women (68%) depended on the food basket for themselves and their households. On the other hand, 32% of the respondents indicated that they had other food sources. The food basket lacked diversity as the protein from the pulses constituted low biological value because of the presence of phytate, which inhibits iron absorption into the body (Abbaspour, Hurrell & Kelishadi 2014). Therefore, if pulses were the only source of protein or iron for the respondents they would be prone to malnutrition, leading to diseases like anaemia, one of the main (Müller & Krawinkel 2005). Mahan and Escott-Stump (2000) argue that because protein is one of the main components of antibodies, the deficiency of protein could result in a weakened immune system. UNICEF (2007) confirmed that though the food distributed to the beneficiaries was fortified it did not provide adequate micronutrients. The vitamin A that was provided by the vegetable oil was not adequate to meet the nutritional requirements, and this resulted in weak immunity for the respondents and compromised their health. The food basket does not cater for vitamin C, which is also an essential nutrient.
The respondents were asked to name some foodstuffs that pregnant women usually ate every day in addition to the food basket. This exercise was conducted to investigate whether respondents were following an appropriate diet that could cater for the nutritional requirements during pregnancy. Figure 2 shows how food was consumed on a daily basis. Fish and eggs hardly featured in their diets. The respondents indicated that they consumed eggs (5%), meat (13%), fish (7%), legumes or pulses (22%), milk and milk products (9%), sadza (mealie pap) (23%), tubers and roots (10%), vegetables (14%) and fruits (10%). The above statistics indicated that the respondents relied mainly on the food basket provided because very few had other foodstuffs to eat. Pregnant women require food products for a number of functions such as iron and proteins for a healthy immune system, an increased volume of blood, the growth of the foetus, tissue maintenance and the production of antibodies. The respondents who indicated that they had fish in their diets revealed that the fish was acquired from Mozambique’s Cahora Bassa Dam. This demonstrated some form of supplementary food provision by the respondents, whose spouses and relatives got the fish from the dam.
FIGURE 2: Variety of food eaten on a daily basis.
The nutritional status of the women could be determined by anthropometry as it was regarded as a biological outcome of the nutritional security level (Zahid Khan et al. 2013). In order to determine the nutritious welfare of women who are pregnant, an anthropometric indicator should be utilised; these include height, weight and MUAC. Other contributory effects that can disturb the nutritional status of pregnant women were taken into consideration. These included an inadequate diet and the diseases the respondents suffered from 2 weeks prior to the survey. The information was obtained from the nurses in charge of the healtht only 32% of the respondents benefited from vitamin A supplementations; however, many of the respondents (68%) were not given supplementation as confirmed by the nurses in charge. According to WHO and WFP standards, less than 22 cm of MUAC was a total indication of malnutrition, and 24% of the women in the study fell in this category.
The women’s records were obtained from the clinic through the nurses in charge. The findings showed that the respondents’ height was between 1.44 m and 1.76 m. The range of their weight was between 48 kg and 72 kg. Although weight and height could be the result of genetics, the diet of an individual because they were young was another causative element (Rivera 2003). The weight range of the pregnant women revealed that some of them were underweight, with their BMI ranging from 20 to 26.3. The recommended BMI according to WFP (2004) is 19 to 21 for women who are not pregnant and come from developing countries, excluding the Samburu of Kenya, which is 17.6 and the Dinka of South Sudan, which is 17.6. Nevertheless, BMI was hardly applied in anthropometric surveys for pregnant women because it added some extra work in interpreting the extra weight gained.
The results of respondents who had an MUAC of greater than or equal to 22 cm were better (76%) than those with an MUAC of less than 22 cm (24%), which the WFP (2000) indicates as malnutrition. According to the Sphere handbook (2011), an MUAC of smaller than 20.7 cm is an indication of a serious threat of malnourishment. In the study, only two respondents had an MUAC smaller than 20.7. This was out of a total of 24 respondents with an MUAC of less than 22 cm which indicates the dominance of malnutrition among pregnant women in Mbire. The result of the study is in line with statistics of the malnourishment rate of Zimbabwe at 33.8% (Zimbabwe National Nutrition Survey 2010).
A lack of variety and the quality of the food that the pregnant women were consuming resulted in failure to achieve the recommended dietary allowances for women who were pregnant. The WFP-VGF food basket complements existing diets and is not the main source of food for the respondents and their households. The VGF feeding basket could not be expected to meet all the nutritional requirements of pregnant women in Mbire.
The partnerships Agriculture and Extension Services (AGRITEX), the Lower Guruve Development Association (LGDA) and other non-governmental organisations could assist in initiating food safety and nutritional measures such as poultry, orchards, vegetable gardens and goat rearing projects. These projects can assist the vulnerable people, including pregnant women, to gain access to a sufficiently balanced diet.
The Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe launchmeans to intensify micronutrient supplements through health facilities to minimise the dangers associated with a lack of micronutrients, such as impaired immunity and anaemia. It is recommended that such programmes must be intensified to cover areas like Mbire district.
The WFP could work together with the government through the health ministry to assist with the special programmes targeting pregnant women to reduce complications associated with maternal challenges, therebye WFP resources would help the government augment its effort to reduce or even eradicate maternal challenges facing women in Mbire and in Zimbabwe as a whole.
Although vulnerable pregnant women in Mbire received food aid, these women, especially adolescents and those who had short inter-pregnancy intervals, lacked some micronutrients needed during pregnancy. Tbabies was compromised. This indicated that the Zimbabwean government was challenged in its effort to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) 1 (eradication of extreme poverty and hunger) and 5 (improving maternal health). It is yet to be seen what measures the country will impl.N. was the project leader and did the drafting of the article and desktop research. O.K. and compilation of some graphs and tables. M.N. helped with the desktop research and checking on the referencing. S.M. did the actual research and data collection in Mbire, Zimbabwe.
Abbaspour, N., Hurrell, R. & Kelishadi, R., 2014, ‘’, Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 19(2), 164–174.
Almurshed, K.S., Bani, I.A., Al-Kanhal, M.A. & Al-Amri, M.A., 2007, ‘Aa’, Journal of Family & Community Medicine 14(1), 9.
Bove, R.M., Vala-Haynes, E. & Valeggia, C., 2014, ‘Polygyny and women’s health in rural Mali’, Journal of Biosocial Science 46(01), 66–89.
Christian Care, 2010, Vulnerable group feeding end programme of term report, Christian Care, Hara, Food and Nutrition Paper 84, FAO, Rome.
Fritz, H., Saïd, S., Renaud, P.C., Mutake, S., Coid, C. & Monicat, F., 2003, ‘The Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe’, Landscape Ecology 18, 293–302.
Fuentes-Afflick, E. & Hessol, N.A., 2000, ‘’, Obstetrics and Gynecology 95, 383–390.
Insel, P.M. & Wardlaw, G.M., 1999, ‘Perspectives in nutrition’, USA Times, Mobsy College Publishing,: Ending malnutrition by 2030zaura, M.R., Kidanto, H.L. & Massawe, S.N., 2006, ‘Levels, trends and risks for early neonatal mortality at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania, 1999–2005’, East African Journal of Public Health 3, 10–13.
Ladipo, O.A., 2000, ‘Nutr 72(1), 280s–290s.
Le Bel, J., Stromberg, N. & Duckworth, K., 2004, ‘Child and adolescent inpatient restraint reduction: A state initiative to promote strength-based care’1), 37–45.
Madamombe, E.K. 2004, Zimbabwe: Flood management practices – Selected flood prone areas Zambezi basin, Unpublished Paper.
Mahan, L.K. & Escott-Stump, S., 2000, Krause’s food, nutrition and diet therapy, W.B. Saunders Publishers, University of Michigan, Philadelphia, PA.
Marbire District Baseline Survey Report, 2009, Lower Guruve Development Association, Guruve, Zimbabwe.
Moyo, P., 2010, Land reform in Zimbabwe and urban livelihoods transformation, Working Paper 15, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
Mutisi, C., 2009, Implementa training (ICART) in the SADC Region, phase 3 report: Situation analysis ofgiSADC Secretariat, Gaborone, Botswana.
Napoli, M., 2011,, Master i.
Richardson, C., 2004, The collapse of Zimbabwe in the wake of the 2000–2003 land reforms, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY.
Rivera, J.A., Hotz, C., González-Cossío, T., Neufeld, L. & García-Guerra, A., 2003, ‘ As’, The Journal of Nutrition 133(11), 4010S–4020S.
S., Prentice Hall, London.
Scholl, T.O., Hediger, M.L., Schall, J.I., Khoo, C.S. & Fischer, R.L., 1994, ‘Maternal growth during pregnancy and the competition for nutri60(2), 183–188.
Sheetal, A., Hiremath, V.K., Patil, A.G., Sajjansetty, S. & Kumar, S.R., 2013, ‘Malnutrition and its oral outcome – A review’, Journal of Clinical Diagnosis and Research 7(1), 178–180.
Wardlaw, G.M., 2000, Contemporary nutrition: Issues and insights, McGraw-Hill, Chicago, IL.
Webb, P., Coates, J., Frongillo, E.A., Rogers, B.L., Wilde, P.E. & Houser, R., 2006, ‘’, The Journal of Nutrition 136(5), 1438S–1448S, Routledge, New York.
World Food Programme (WFP), 2004, Nutrition in emergencies. WFP experiences, challenges and micronutrient fortification: WFP experiences and ways forward, WFP Policy Papers, World Food Programme, Geneva.
World Food Programme (WFP), 2000, Food and nutrition handbook, World Food Programme, Rome, Italy.
World Food Programme (WFP) Nutrition Policy Papers, 2000, ‘Food for nutrition. Mainstreaming nutrition in WFP – Executive summery’, Food and Nutrition Bulletin 27(1), 46–75.
World Health Organization (WHO), 1995, The management of nutritional emergencies in large populations. (DRAFT)WHO), 2012Switzerland, Geneva.
Zahid Khan, A., Rafique, G., Qureshi, H. & Halai Badruddin, S., 2013, A, ISRN nutrition, Karachi, Pakistan.
Zimbabwe National Nutrition Survey, 2010, Zimbabwe national food and nutrition council and ministry of health and child welfare preliminary findings, Ministry Of Health and Child Welfare, Harare.
 2010, Zimbabwe rural food security assessment national report, Government of Zimbabwe, Harare.


Hi Valued ACD Customer!We're so excited to announce the new ACD monthly newsletter!What's so new about it?


home About Us Our People David Silber’. Day


Most of those killed in the volcanic eruption that hit the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in AD79 were suffocated to death by a gaseous cloud that covered the city for about 20 minutes, a study has concluded.
According to a scientific analysis involving the examination of the layers of ash and pumice deposited on the city and the plaster casts of the indentations in the ash left by victims’ bodies, researchers were able to rule out extreme heat and direct trauma as the most common cause of death.
Previous studies of the bodies had assumed that they were shocked into rigor mortis as they went about their lives, killed instantaneously by temperatures suddenly soaring as high as 300C.


While much of the attention up until now has, as the industry moves, new customers will be more concerned about consuming third party models and building on top of existing best practices rather than building their own from scratch. This means that these companies will be most concerned with the quality and reliability of existing models more so than building a data science organization and investing in tools and technology and people to build their own models. As opposed to the portion of the puzzle focused on machine learning development and model building, AI & Machine Learning Operations, or ML Ops, is focused on the consumption-centric aspects of machine learning model usage and deployment.
Band engineering firm, has teamed with an impressive list of AI software companies such as NVIDIA, HyperGiant, and Orbital Insight to announce the release of Modzy, designed to help organizations and agencies rapidly deploy, manage and secure AI models. Modzy provides functionality for organizations to rapidly scale their ML models across the enterprise by offering a combination of a growing ‘marketplace’ of software defined models, combined with an AI platform accessible through an API that provides model management, operationalization support, governance, and adversarial defense security.


Category "AIS"
December 14th, 2022 in AIS, AIS Station Update, Updates, Community by Stephanie Duscha
For the last time of the year, the latest achievements regarding FleetMon's AIS station network extension.
The largest expansion of our network was achieved in Europe.
AIS Partnership: Cooperation Between Fleetmon and Rostock Maritime Museum Sealed
October 21st, 2022 in AIS, Sponsoring, Partnering by Stephanie Duscha
Since 1970, the DRESDEN is used as a museum ship. ©Maritime Museum Rostock
Supporting Research at Heriot-Watt University & Expanding Our AIS Network in Scotland
FleetMon has a network of over 5,000 AIS receivers to guarantee the best coverage for our customers and partners. Our stations are installed at ports, ships, private buildings, and institutions. The group of AIS partners actively setting up stations worldwide has been built up over the last 15 years at FleetMon.
July 8th, 2022 in AIS, Updates, AIS Station Update, Community by Stephanie Duscha
May 10a


The four minute film-hokku, which is devoted to the medieval Japanese poet of XVII century Matsuo Basho, was pictured within one breath, when once it happened to the author, who was "caressed" by unexpected balloon on the lonely street...
GLITCH ART...KLIMT ART...…
Film "Awakening"..
Human being lives for 60, 70, 80 …years. But there is the extraordinary life we live for 9 months within some enigmatical space, before our birth. By means of necessary modern equipment we can observe what is happening there. It is clear seen that embryo moves, breathes, and what is more interesting...


WWWebTek is proud to announce the new barneymillers.com website. WWWebTek and our Marketing Partners, CATalyzing Communications and Bringing In The Green, LLC., have completed design of Barney Miller's w Barney Miller's marketing team at Bringing In The Green, LLC. and.


For the past three years the orchestra has been performing in nightclubs in the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara areas (most notably The Knitting Factory, The Cinegrill, The Gig, Sixteen Fifty, and the Whiskey A-Go-Go), and has built a loyal following. The Orchestre Surréal has the distinction of being the largest group ever to perform live on KXLU Radio. The group recently did a run of sold-out performances a, in a theatrical production (a variation of their nightclub show) entitled, "Dismembering The Classics."


that we're integrating into our proprietary case system is already FDA cleared.
Deal Review </s> Let's Move It Right
Shauntelle's Review
Cesar and his crew were the best. They were professional, fast, easy to work with, etc. I will request them and recommend them :D </s>
K! </s> World's Strongest Coffee
-% natural.
- We will refund you in full if it's not the strongest coffee you've ever had!
Join our thousands of caffeinated fans by ordering today! </s>
Stylish, High-end shopper, Trendy, Casual, Comfort-oriented, Practical.
from Moorpark CA
This was purchased as a gift for a friend out of state. He loved it, it was his first Stetson. My husband is a Stetson wearer and I will definitely purchase from here for him. Good qualityelp row, not steer: Lessons from the Ebola crisis response
The World Health Organization has been given a long to-do list, following its lackluster performancea.
In a new report by the African Governance Initiative titled “State of Emergency,” the charity, known for working alongside government leaders to accomplish their national development goals, identified a number of instances when international development actors’ well-intentioned but uninformed actions led to delays, complications and gaps in the response.
In Guinea, surveillance teams were only able to move ahead with their policy to conduct tests on deceased persons in districts to rule out Ebola after the problem reached the government, which then released a circular making the tests compulsory. Working with the government, which is a formal structure that citizens respond to in the country, was crucial, but was missing in the early part of the response because development actors didn’t take local contexts into consideration.
In one instance, an international expert allegedly pressed for change in the way one district task force was set up, applying a structure that worked in another country. But failing to understand the local circumstances that make it unfit in that particular situation — the members of the team were not willing to be supervised by someone they considered as having less experience than them — the structure “collapsed” within a week.
In Liberia, a nongovernmental organization’s critical ambulance dispatch service delayed the work of government contact tracers, simply because the service was ran outside the government system.
Many of these instances happened because international actors had limited understanding of local contexts, adhered too much to best practices, or shied away from working with government and therefore “missed the point,” Nick Thompson, CEO of AGI, told Devex.
“But I think it comes back to the point that development ultimately has to happen in the country, and by the country, and led by the people of the country. It can’t be done to them, but by them, and facilitated by the international community,” he pointed out. “So to get to sustainable development, then we need local leaders running local systems. And it is the job of the outside world to take stock of that point, and adapt to local contexts rather than hope that local contexts will adapt to the solutions that we’re bringing.”
The rapid turnaround meant little time to build relationships, trust and local understanding.
The same is true with flexibility — a critical element of the response, which was changing almost every single day.
In the report, AGI underscored the importance for international organization to be flexible, as it “often made the difference between whether things got done, and whether they stalled.”
One organization for example refused to use the protective equipment the government of Guinea purchased for those working in Ebola treatment centers, because it went against its internal policy. Another organization meanwhile was not able to immediately shift available funding to where it became more needed.
“I do think we need a conversation about risks and how development and funding organizations understand risk taking … because the ability to flex does involve risk-taking,” he said.
Many times in the response AGI also found itself falling into the same spheres of error.
In AGI’s experience, there were times when it was working on a performance management system in another country and realized it was pushing its own ideas “too much” and had to step back, reassess with partners about what they were trying to achieve, and realign around the outcome that they wanted to work on.
This likely happens in other settings as well, and with other development organizationsConstruction Solicitor 3 PQE+
Working in a supportive environment, there is a broad range of contentious work on offer. As a result of their reputation, the team act for a variety of clients comprising employers, insurers, main contractors and sub-contractors. Their work spans the spectrum of contentious construction work and they regularly complete international arbitrations, adjudications and construction insurance workthree years PQE and will have gained demonstrable construction litigation and adjudic


where ready mobility and plenty of space is ndiameter 1.1 metres and four evenly spaced metal legs.
Wk grey  foolscapa
If you need to move a lot of chairs around, you can save time and your back by investing in a chair-carrying trolleyFacilities St 4kg, the Trexus unit is rated as having the capabaili  </s> m! </s>  soft)dUnify to build katicfact, many application w.
academic institutions that provide student enrollemt verification information and federate them with EdUnify's interoperability services. This application could determine student enrollment status and more to poll teacher employement status, district, teaching level, teaching courses and tenue traced back to where they attended college and completed their academic studies. Colleges and Universities will be able to evaluate and publish how their teacher programs of study have produced graduates and teachers in the K12 field and State governments will be able to measure the success of institutions contributing to the teacher population within their state.
Once EdUnify and its ontologtagging services to codify a common dictionary of terms such as learning outcomes as tags and share them across all institutions. The learning outcomes would be a meta data structure. A program or course is at the abstract level, a service with inputs and outputs, no different than a web service. Applications could be developed to render new course services enabled by common tags. Learning outcomes could be requested for instance by meeting or assignment. Another application could utilize the search to find similar or like courses by the ontology tagging such as find a course that offers nuclear+engineering or basket+weaving. This approach would eliminate or reduce the complexity of collecting course or program data to enable crosswalks. The services can be called to determine comparability and equivalencyby utilizing the tags and calculating goodness of fits the search services to make knowledge and semantics relevant programatically. Today, we all utilize Google or other search engines (which utilize indexes) to find what is most relevant determined by page ranking, a means of simply measuring the reference links. Imagine using ontology services to link services, documents, artifacts, or anything, that relates to a keyword used by a common dictionary. This form of index would be more useful and accurate than a web search, and could offer new applications to find things on the web across repositories that have been uncoded until now. The Cancer research project funded by the NSF is an example of enabling researches to codify and now find who is researching what in greater detail. Imagine if we could do the same for the business of teaching and learning across all courses. Imagine building simulation games that would have access to smart tags.


Core Practices: Students will demonstrate independent, creative exploration in various media and in the history and theory of the visual arts.
Core Sensibilities: the roles that artists and their art have played, and continue to play, in our world, and a discerning grasp of the contours of our current art world.
Curriculum Map A curriculum program curriculum. The map charts program courses, syllabi, and assessments as they relate to the intended program learning outcomes. In other words, a curriculum map is the intellectual linkage that presents twenty plus courses as a story of learning.


Summer School ""
Hodge-theoretic and arithmetic aspects of families of Calabi-Yau varieties (mainly in dimensions 2 and 3), in particular differential equation for periods, degenerations at the boundary, compactifications of moduli spaces, and relations to modular and more general automorphic forms, as well as to physics.
The school is intended for both mathematicians and string theorists with interest in mathematical aspects of Calabi-Yau manifolds.


Y Bsc OT: Is ita Good Option for Your Future?
What are the other uses of live chat software except customer service? </s> How many have I had of them? Not many.
Last Winter was bitter cold, it snowed, but in February (and that did lead to some complications).
Here are some photos of snow that I took 9 years ago in Zakopane in Poland.
Thank you for stopping by, and if you are wondering I am still looking for 4-5 contributions (stories, memories, pictures, paintings, music, videos…). If you are tempted, let me know!
If you’re someone who insists on a white Christmas and needs a hot roast with your boiling hot Plum Pudding, perhaps you’d better visit someone else for Christmas lunch. </s> A great Sacred Heart Tin ornament, made in Mexico. Very decorative, this piece measures 12.75″ across, 6.75″ long and 1.5″ thick. Nice! </s> Make your vision real with our real-time shadow and reflection effect, and automatic matching keying process.
At Radical Angle 3D real-time production tool for Visual Broadcast industry. Radical Angle powerful 3D virtual set solution, RadStudio, combines robotic vision technology research with dedicated graphic processing hardware with super-computing performance. RadStudio enables any program producer to generate a stunning CNN quality broadcast content without expensive and time consuming production set approach. </s>“Rambo”g againstcountrynce. </s> Plwild tigers in 3 different ways...and look grrrrreat doing it!versible tote features International Tiger Day art on one side and image of Arthur the tiger on the other side. </s>ck join Mayor Tom Bates in calling for a one-year moratorium on the sale of historic post offices.
"Overwhelming public opposition to the sale"
Thank you for fighting to save our post office. Let's expand the post office not shut it down. Article 1 Section 8 of establish post offices and post roads this was to deliver the news. Since the new/future delivery of the news is over the internet and the internet is the new/future post road, shouldn't we as citizens be able to buy our internet through the post office for a reasonable price rather than having to pay the outrageous rates charged by the internet companies. </s> This will be the second part of this segment. This segment will be in between the Giants and Marlins series. I actually didn’t make it to the Saturday game of the Giants series since Matt and I were doing other things. Basically, all I’m gonna do is dump some pictures, and give some captions.
Matt and I went to Kennywood the next day. This is us on Garfield’s Adventure. We got the ride stuck, because they had the


21-YEAR-OLD man has been conditionally cautioned and two youths have been reprimanded after causing criminal damage at Acle Recreation and Social Club.
The trio were caught on CCTV damaging fence panels at the club back in September which costs around £150 to replace.
The action to clampdown on criminal damage at the location was part of a priority, set by the Acle Safer Neighbourhood Action Panel (SNAP), in response to concerns around the number of youths congregating and the increase in criminal damage offences at the venue.
Sgt Julia Sandell said: “Since setting the Social Club as a neighbourhood priority we have taken action and caught some of the offenders involved.
“The number of calls relating to the venue has decreased over recent weeks and the cold weather would have played a factor.
“This does not mean to say that the area will not receive any police attention as it will remain to be one of the teams daily patrols and we will take police action if offences are committed”.
In addition to enforcement, officers have carried out high visibility patrols on a weekly basis, spoke to youths meeting in the area and on few occasions’ confiscated alcohol and issued warnings to two young boys kicking a football against a window, within the last six weeks.
At the latest priority setting meeting SNAP decided to focus on promoting youth diversionary activities, promoting home security to residents, and working with schools to fight bullypperoni and Sweet Corn Tarts
A fun twist on the pizza classic, these tarts are perfect for any meal or could even as finger food for a party.
- 318g g pkt Jus Rol 6 rounds puff pastry, thawed
- 9 c Heat the oven to 220C/gas 7.
- Bake in the oven s crisp and the cheese has melted.
Tip: Add some torn basil leaves if available. </s> Coporate Dental Insurance
Greenlife Dental Clinic is a dental partner of the following insurance companies:
- Aon Care
 </s>  Housekeeper / Nanny job in North Essex
Live in or live out Native Italian speaking Housekeeper / nanny is required in North Essex Start ASAP ( as soon as safe) Salary LI£20-23k Gross Per annum ( Approx £320-350 npw) OR LO £25-30k Gross per annum ( Approx 380-440 npw)
Lovely family with a baby need the help of a switched on Housekeeper / Nanny to look after them and two houses ( 10 minutes drive apart). Both parents work in the city so the role will be either over 4 longer days or 5 shorter ones - they are flexible. They also have a small friendly dog so you need to love animals. The role is 70 / 30 Housekeeping / nanny duties helping to look after a baby so you must be confident with babies but you don't need any experience. The family has antiques and fine furnishings so experience with care of these would be a bonus but training can be given. The family have strong links to Italy and the Italian culture and they are looking for a native Italian speaker to become a part of the family and settle for the long term.
Accommodation 2 bed cottage near the main house
Consultant to contact ;-Rebecca Liljeros </s> We are going to employ the innovative intervention called storytelling using interactive literature and culturally sensitive stories from people who successfully controlled their hypertension living in similar communities, having similar access to health services and similar social status as our target participants
- To conduct pre-implementation local needs assessment and formative planning in 16 partnering communities in Hung Yen province, Vietnam leading to a context-specific protocol for implementing the Vietnam National Hypertension Program in both intervention and comparison communities and proposed enhancements (expanded community health worker services, home blood pressure self-monitoring, and storytelling) in the intervention communities only.
After approval by the Ministry of Health in Vietnam, the project established a study site of four districts in Hung Yen Province with local focal points selected at all levels (province, district, and commune) and a steering committee at the central level. In May 2018, our US team visited the Vietnam site, to review the results of the needs assessment survey that was conducted at the study site.
During this visit, we also held discussions in preparation for the trial intervention and the development phase. Since June of 2018, the project has been developing intervention tools (Story-telling DVDs) by conducting story development group discussions with patients, to select storytelling “stars”; videotaping the “stars”, and editing and producing the DVDs (on-going).
The project will be conducted in four rural districts of Hung Yen ProvinceThe province has


Ursuline wins its 6th volleyball state championship in school history
There's a determination that only failure can provide. For the seven seniors on Ursuline Academy's volleyball team, their first three years of high school ended in heartbreak, so it was fitting that they capped their careers together by winning the sixth stateWright State's Nutter Center in a dominant display over Saint Joseph Academy, 25-14, 25-11, 25-22.
" . v."
More:Ursuline Academy survives and advances to OHSAA state volleyball final
Senior Suzanna Lang said, "Best feeling of my life. Knowing that every person on this team made a difference in how we played, whether they played or not, they were such a big part of our team."
Coach Jeni Case and her players agreed, Saturday's state fina"We'd been saying throughout this season, 'We didn't get here just to get here.' It's an awesome experience, but we're here to win. Just to have that work out for us and have us play one of our best games in the state finals, it's unreal," said Maddy Taylor, who led the Lions with 12 kills and 14.5 points.
Ursuline sprung out of the starting gate with confidence, poise and creativity. The Lions won the first two sets without trailing. Saint Joseph did not take its first set, which after the momentum Ursuline built in the first two sets seemed insurmountable to overcome.
Sophomore setter Logan Case was dynamic in the way she distributed scoring opportunities to her teammates, while Lang, Thompson, Taylor, Lexi Reinert, Amanda Robben and Peyton Breissinger were accurate and lethal on the attack, and the defense was just as daunting behind Maggie Huber's team-high 25 digs.
Having just won the school's first state title since 2012, the smile on Jeni Case's face never faded while speaking about her team... I, who's been coaching since she was 20 years old, said this title was extra special because she got to coach her daughter, Logan.
"(It's a) dream come true for me to coach my daughter at state because she's my only kid," said Case. "And this team, they're just awesome. I don't know what the girls are gonna do who are gonna be here next year because they're gonna miss these guys so much. It's gonna be hard. There's gonna be a lot of consoling with a lot of the players on this team because they love these (seniors) so much."
Taylor smiled once more and said, "It's a darn good way to end your senior year."


Acurio says no one in his family really liked to cook. "Since I was a little, little kid, I loved to eat, and that was a terrible problem in my house. One day I decided to start cooking my own food. I was 9, 10 years old."
"I sat there ...19-years-old, I remember the waiters thought I wasn't going to pay the bill," he says. "...It was the most important investment I did in my life. With this $200 or $300 I spent on the dinner that night changed my life forever."
After three years of "cheating his family," he says, he went back to Peru. And he had to tell them he was a chef, not a lawyer. He says they were surprised. "Disappointment, absolutely disappointment. They were really worried of my future."


c PP2 in vitro aged <5 years.
“Objective:s according to age, sex, and the presence of peritonitis were evaluated..
cohort analysis considered patients Selleckchem Adavosertibes.


"There will be a bit of gap, then we'll be back in business," she said. "There were light volumes anyway, so it's not like we're going from huge volumes to nothing."
"It's always better when the plants are dormant," she said. "It makes them more hardy when we get into production."
"It's been a bit of a rough spot with the warm weather the last couple of weeks,"Plant City, Fla.-based Wish Farms. "There's a little extra production, and prices have slid quite a bit this week."


Every dog deserves clear, consistent information. We help people discover their own ability to shift their perspective on communicating with their dog. Learn More
Our dogs value a good massage as much as we do. They would love to accompany you to this workshop. Learn More
Become a healthier you! dog. Learn More
Latest News from Paws in Harmony
Learning to perform an obstacle safely and correctly focus and to bond with your dog [...]
Pet CPR/First Aid Class
Pet CPR/ [...]
Tellington TTouch is a unique approach to training and healthcare r [...]


“er,” Kolison said. “H.”
‘Saturday Night’ more than alright in Jamestown
A female with a vehicle and then later striking that ...
Stop leads to drug finds, charges for Indiana man


Walker, who has had spells in charge of Crusaders and Glenavon, succeeds Paul Millar who was sacked by the Glens after 16 months.
Former Cardiff City and Port Vale forward Millar was axed despite steering the east Belfast club to runners-up spot in the Premier League.
The move sees Walker return to the game seven years after quitting at Glenavon.
"Glentoran were my boyhood team and are probably the only club which could have attracted me back," said Walker.
Glentoran finished the Premier Division campaign eight points behind fierce Belfast rivals Linfield despite being five points ahead at Christmas.
That cost Millar his job even though the Glens had won the CIS League Cup earlier in the season.
Walker guided Crusaders to Irish League titles in 1995 and 1997. Since leaving management he was a match analyst with BBC Radio Ulster.


Free Essay:... Free American History Essay Example | Write-Right.net WelcoSecond Mexican Empire - Wikipedia… Mexican Americaxitle: THREE ESSAYS ON MEXICAN MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES Approved: Dr. Glen R. Waddell This dissertation consists ofthree essays that empirically address aspects ofthree common questions posed in the Mexican immigration literature: What characteristics define migrants from Mexico? How does US border-enforcementpolicy affect migrant behavior?
Mexican Immigration Essays: Over 180,000 Mexican Immigration Essays, Mexican Immigration Term Papers, Mexicanxican - Introduction - Immigration ... - Library of Congress...
Background Essay on Early Twentieth Century Mexican ... This essay outlines the reasons for Mexican me. Mexican Immigration | ReVista The Mexican dual nationality initiative whereby Mexican immigrants who became nationalized U.S. citizens would retain a host of political and other rights in Mexico is also the product of this emerging transnational framework. Three features characterize the new Mexican immigration to the United States.
Characteristics of Mexican Immigrants by State. Impact of Mexican Immigration on Public Coffers. 2nd- and 3rd-Generation Mexican-Americans. Conclusion and Policy Recommendations. Mexico Immigration Guide visas, work, Temporary Resident...


The cherub songster of the Jackson Five. Then the singer whose performances included moves which didn't look possible -- the Moonwalk was merely the best known. The singer with one glove. Thriller. Probably the perfect production mind for the early MTV video era. Weird Al practically made a career of song and video parodies of Jackson -- with his approval. Then came isolation in an age of media frenzy. People asking What happened to Michael?


Tribeca Coverage Top 10 Lists International News Comedies Action Movies
February 12 2015, 11:30 AM
So, Superman and The Lone Ranger meet in a bar and the result is ... well, rather a lot different than what I expect would have happened if Steven Soderbergh had directed this thing as originally planned but the first trailer for Guy Ritchie's The Man From UNCLE is here and it would appear that between this and Kingsman: The Secret Service - directed, of course, by Rproducer Matthew Vaughn - it would appear that there's a move afoot to make the whole espionage thing into a bit of good, escapist fun again. Cue socio-political commentary are harder to sell to audiences these days here.
armie hammerguy ritchiehenry cavillman from uncletrailer
More about The Man From UNCLE
Review: THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. Targets Style Over Spying
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E: A More Serious Comic-Con Trailer


70 South Street in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130-3948. You can contact by phone |||PHONE_NUMBER||| .


The.
He said that many Darfuri students fear they may be charged with killing , the), last week, though authorities in Khartoum announced that the perpetrators have been arrested.
Dozens of students from Darfur were detaiparty, was killed in clashes at Sharg El Nil College on 29 April.
About 150 militant NCP students, backed by university guards, reportedly at the campus. Seven Darfuri students were seriously wounded. The campus was raided again on Thursday. At El Ahliya University in Omdurman, students were beaten and detained on Thursday too.
In“Tasami”
“s”.to “form a broad solidarity coalition”, to protect the Darfuri students “from oppression and racial discrimination”.
An“No to Racism” campaign against “the regime’s militia targeting of Darfuri students”.
It“the Khartoum regime is overthrown”.


The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will from next week unveil standard roadblocks of at least fourper province, as Government respondspresence on the roads.
Police CommissionerGeDr Chombo, who was accompanied by his deputy Cde Obedingwa Mguni, was giving oral evidencebeforeChegutu West MP Cde Dexter Nduna (ZanuPF).
He said Gd integrate (VID), Zimbabwe National“He is seized with the matter.
is too much roadblocks, I cannot mount a roadblock. You have got to. But I think you cannot mounta roadblock simply because you want to raise money. No.
“That is why we are saying “necessary”. We want the police to do their work, but we also want the public to have a hassle free travel. We really want to ensure that a proper balance is maintained.
Deputy Minister Mguni weighed in: “By next week, we would have started zoning system where road blocks will be put according to province and a province should have not more than four roadblocks”.
vehicles, the route whether or not it is the correct route of the bus.
Deputy Minister Mguni said roadblocks would be carried out by traffic police alone, while other officers would be deployed at highway patrols to check for speeding motorists, particularly passenger service vehicle.
Minister Chombo said some of the roadblocks on highways would be those that would have been requested by State agencies such as the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation to collect radio listener fees and VID checking fitness of vehicles.
Some of the roadblocks mounted by the police were to check compliance like speed limits, fitness of vehicles, while others had been for security checks where law enforcement agencies would randomly search vehicles.
In other instances, the police mounted roadblocks to assist the VID, ZBC in collection of radio licences and Zinara to check for motor vehicle licences.
Highway, Minister Chombo said police were still making investigations surrounding the accident.


Ever dreamed of being an actor? The cable show “The Food That Built America” are looking for extras for season two here in CT. The series takes place from the early 1900s-1970s. Applicants must be able to portray men, women, or children from that era. They will be shooting in the Hartford area between Sept. 21 and Oct. 31.


See how new laws must be proposed.
Please read before you consider posting a new law.
A player must create a new thread for every new law or new variable they wish to request be added in to Particracy Classic. If you are requesting a new law, your opening post must have the title of the new law and include the information suggested in the PROPOSED LAW TEMPLATE.
Once a final draft has been decided upon by the playing community, the creator of the final draft must post a reply in the Final Draft Approval Thread with a link to the specific post containing the final draft.
After step 3, moderation will evaluate the proposed law. There is no time frame for this step and you must have patience.
You should make a search within the archives and the topics within this section of the forum, in order to see whether your idea has already been proposed or has been passed or denied.
Currently, we can only add multiple-choice laws that require a simple majority - anything else is not within the powers of the moderation team. That means that all bills concerning obvious constitutional matter, or text boxes (like Anthem bills, or bills for tax rates), or other "unusual" variables (like the capital city law), will automatically be rejected, because we just can't implement them.


Tritaxitaxilincaperitaxilina en la familia ValvulTritaxilina balearica
 Tritaxilina laevigata
 Tritaxilina suturanodosa
 Tritaxilina zealandica
Otra especie considerada en Tritaxilina es:
 Tritaxilina atlantica, considerado sinónimo posterior de Tritaxilina caperata


A 62 foot Celtic Cross could soon be greeting motorists as they cross over the Tamar Bridge into Cornwall. It is one of three projects in the South West bidding for £450,000 of lottery funding. Hear our reports and have your say...
"I researched the Celtic Cross, and I found the Welsh and the Cornish ones were narrower than the Scottish and Irish ones. Hopefully if all goes well with the public consultation and the funding application we will now see it."
I support the idea fully, but why couldn't the cross look like a Traditional Celtic cross?I think the modern design looks silly, its faux Celtic. There are plenty of crosses in Cornwall representing thousands of years of culture and history why the need to alter it to look modern?


Lee’s journey began in 2002 when he joined his nation’s military armROTC commission. He served as a second lieutenant and team leader for one and a half years and was then promoted to first lieutenant, serving as an intelligence officer focusing on illegal immigration and illegal contraband until he left active Army duty in 2004 and began work as a business negotiator. He remains a reserve officer.
It was his supervisors in the military who encouraged him to change paths and consider a career in criminal justice. But there is little formal study in the discipline in South Korea, so study abroad was necessary. “I applied to, and was accepted, to a number of criminal justice graduate programs in the U.S., but was most impressed with Penn State Harrisburg,” Lee said.
Lee also was named winner of the program’s Criminal Justice Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the annual student awards convocation in April.
Barbara Sims, criminal justice, Harrisburg, international student, James Ruiz, Joongyeup Lee, South Korea


5/10 - Serial killer film that never really goes anywhere
A team of detectives are working the late shift when a strange man covered in make-up wanders into the station and announces that he has killed somebody, giving them a name. The detectives go round to the home of the alleged victim and find him to be still very much alive, so on returning to the station they chastise the man for wasting their time and send him away, dismissing him as crazy (which his appearance and behaviour do strongly suggest).
The next day a body turns up and the detectives are horrified to discover that it is the man their crazed visitor claimed to have killed. Evidence at the scene further links the crime to the suspect, but for fear that they will be in trouble for letting him go they decide to hide that evidence. Soon another body turns up, linked to the same killer. The detectives realise that both deaths can be related to fairy tales, andpretty much know who the suspect is, but needso they can find him and stop him - without revealing their own misdeeds.
FAIRY TALE KILLER is reminiscent of SE7EN, and therefore pretty much every serial killer made after SE7EN I suppose. Unfortunately it is nowhere near as good as SE7EN, as tends to be the case with films that wish they were.
There's nothing wrong with the technicals - Danny Pang is certainly an accomplished visual stylist (as is his brother), and the film is consistently slick and atmospheric. Unfortunately the Pangs are much less strong on characterisation and narrative, and FAIRY TALE KILLER falls pretty flat because of weakness in those departments. The fairy tale theme is woefully underdeveloped, with little internal logic and only a tenuous connection to the way the story unfolds. If the cops didn't tell us that their was some sort of fairy tale thing going on we probably wouldn't notice.
The characters on both sides of the case are poorly developed - the scraps of back story for the killer and the home life problems for main cop Wang serve do little to create the narrative tension between them which was presumably the intention, and the dynamics within the team that their decision to hide evidence creates don't really have any pay off.
In the end we feel little sympathy with the killer, the cops or any of the victims, and we have little interest in seeing the case resolved one way or the other.
The film does look good, with effective use of some interesting paintings (which allegedly illustrate the fairy tale theme) and generally good lighting and camera work, but the script never really goes anywhere, and the film's potential is largely wasted. This would be a great candidate for a Hollywood remake - there's the kernel of a solid serial killer film in there, and with a director whose skills are more dramatic than stylistic in charge it could probably be turned into one.
Wang Bao-Qiang
Joey Man
Jessica Chu Kit-Ying
Ronald Ng Luk-Sing