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YouTube really didn’t have a good time of it in 2017 with ad revenue plummeting by 50% year on year, according to data collected by Superdata Research. Google’s poor handling of a number of key controversial issues is cited as the chief reason, forcing advertisers to abandon the video-on-demand platform in droves.
The total revenue generated by gaming video content was $3.2 billion, with just 22% of this ($700m) heading YouTube’s way. It was left to Twitch to scoop up the benefits of YouTube’s ailing fortunes, garner 54% of the total revenue and amassing $1.7 billion. For gaming content, Twitch is now more than twice as successful as YouTube.
Advertisers' issues with YouTube can be traced back to a number of key moments, but it’s thought the backlash from PewDiePie’s now-infamous racial slur moment was a big reason for advertisers moving away from uncensored, potentially offensive content. YouTube didn’t do itself any favours by implementing a new algorithm designed to demonetise offensive videos. The algorithm is ultimately flawed, occasionally targeting inoffensive videos. A number of popular YouTuber’s moved to Twitch after this, bringing their audience with them. “Due to its poor handling of public relations, YouTube became a much less attractive destination for advertisers and GVC (Gaming Video Content) content creators,” says Superdata.
One other interesting statistic is just how much more engaged Twitch viewers are than YouTube. 51% of Twitch’s gaming revenue came from subscriptions and donations; fans actually willing to drop cash to support their favourite content creators. Ad revenue was only relied on for 20 percent of the revenue. Compare this to YouTube, which is almost entirely ad-driven. 69% of its revenue comes from direct advertising, while a further 11% comes from sponsored content.
In short, right now if you’re making gaming-related video content, Twitch looks to be the place to be. A 50% drop in revenue in a single year for YouTube is absolutely gigantic, indicative perhaps that Twitch has well and truly won the battle for gaming content.
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Inaktivasi pirit dan jarosit terlapuk melalui pelindian dan penggunaan biofilter di tanah sulfat masam
Pyrite and weathered jarosite inactivation of acid sulphate soil by leaching and biofilter use
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Salah satu areal alternatif yang memiliki prospek dan potensi besar untuk dijadikan areal produksi padi adalah lahan rawa pasang surut. Pengembangan sistem usahatani di lahan rawa, khususnya lahan pasang surut tanah sulfat masam perlu kehati-hatian mengingat sifat tanahnya yang rapuh. Kesalahan dalam reklamasi dan pengelolaan lahan dapat berakibat pada rusaknya lahan dan pencemaran lingkungan, sedang untuk memperbaikinya diperlukan biaya tinggi. Oleh karena itu, pengembangan sistem usahatani di lahan ini hendaknya memenuhi tiga syarat, yaitu: (1) secara teknis bisa dilaksanakan dan diterima masyarakat, (2) secara ekonomi layak dan menguntungkan, dan (3) dari aspek ekologis tidak merusak lingkungan baik setempat maupun lingkungan di tempat lain, sehingga sumberdaya alam tetap terpelihara baik dan pengembangan pertanian dapat berkelanjutan.The experiments were conducted in the Laboratory of Soil Chemistry and Fertility, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB from March to July 2009, and greenhouse of Indonesian Research Institute for Swampland Agriculture (IRISA), Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, from October until May 2010. The study was aimed to: (1) investigate the effectiveness of leaching water sources for reducing Fe2+, total-Fe, SO4 2-, and Al3+ concentration in leachate and soil at Eh values of -100 to 400 mV, (2) study the effect of leaching water source (fresh water, brackish water, and peat water) on concentrations of Fe2+, total-Fe, and SO4 2- in leached and soil of acid sulphate soil, and (3) study the effect of leaching water source, root volume (biofilter plant area/pot) and kind of biofilter plants on reducing concentration of Fe2+, total-Fe, and SO4 2- in leached and soil. The results showed that brackish water increased concentration of Fe2+, total-Fe, and Al3+ in leachate, while peat water increased concentration of SO4 2- in leachate. The higher concentration of Fe2+ was found at Eh condition of 100 mV in leachate, while the higher concentration of total-Fe, SO4 2-, and Al3+ was found at Eh condition of 400 mV. Chemical analysis of soil after leaching for eight weeks showed that brackish water decreased concentration of Fe2+ and Al 3+ in soil, while peat water decreased concentration of total-Fe and SO4 2- in soil. Eh condition at 200-300 mV reduced lower concentration of Fe2+ in soil, while at 400 mV reduced concentration of total-Fe, SO4 2-, and Al3+ in soil. During the leaching process, the concentration of Fe2+, total-Fe, and SO4 2- in leachate were decreased. The decrease of that concentrations in the first period was greater than that in the second period. Leaching by brackish water was more effective than by fresh water or peat water in lowering the concentration of Fe2+ and total-Fe in leached. Whereas, leaching by using peat water was more effective to decrease the concentration of SO4 2- compared other treatments. Leaching water sources had no significant effect in improving growth and yield components of Margasari rice variety, but significantly increased dry weight and yield of rice. Dry weight and yield of rice were higher on soil leached by peat water and fresh water than those on soil leached by brackish water. Eliocharis dulcis showed greater ability than Eleocharis retroflaxa to decrease the concentration Fe2+, total-Fe, dan SO4 2- in leachate. Increasing root volume (biofilter plant area/pot) of biofilter plants increased the plant ability in reducing the concentration of those ions in leachate. The leaching water sources had no consistent effect on the difference of Fe2+, total-Fe, and SO4 2- concentration in leachate.
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The influence of ballast- and substrate models on simulated impact response in rail joints of railway track is investigated. In the present, the ballast and substrate are modelled with either the lumped mass or 2-D/3-D continuous models. The 3-D models have the layered or embankment structures. The lumped mass model can be effective only for simulating the impact force at the top of ballast. However, the acceleration of ballast is accurately simulated with the continuous models. Although the 2-D model tends to overestimate the sleeper- and ballast accelaration in comparison with the 3-D model, in particular in 150-300Hz frequency range, the difference between these modellings is rather small. Hence it may be practical to use the 2-D model rather than the 3-D one which consumes huge computational work.

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Â BBC One is to host a brand new live entertainment show for Saturday nights where your belongings become the stars of the show. Hosted by Graham Norton, Totally Saturday turns the tables on members of the audience as it gets hold of their possessions and puts them centre stage â€“ no-one is safe, once you are in that audience your life could be laid bare in front of millions.
Imagine realising that your favourite pop star had “borrowed” your car when you thought it was in for an MOT. Or seeing your childhood teddy bear enjoying a drink on the beach with your favourite TV idol after they’ve read your personal diary.
Totally Saturday sees surprises like these plus many more every week and absolutely everyone can get involved.
Graham says: “I’m totally excited about Totally Saturday. It’s such a fun show which all the family can enjoy together.”
Graham and his team are looking for participants â€“ anyone interested in taking part can contact:Â [email protected] or 020 8576 9772.

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NEW YORK – Fame came quickly when Herbie was near death.
Born in 1978 with a rare birth defect that left his windpipe sandwiched between his heart and his esophagus, Herbie faced death every time he ate.
But his fragile existence took a dramatic turn for the better when the Star crusaded to bring the 7-month-old Brooklyn baby to the Hospital For Sick Children, where chief surgeon Dr. Robert Filler fixed him up good – and for free.
Fast-forward 30 years. Fortune has eluded Herbie Quinones Jr. in good health and adulthood.
"Sometimes things don't always go the way you plan," Herbie, now a healthy, strapping 30-year-old, said last week. "Sometimes you gotta take what life hands you."
Laid off recently from a job as a mail clerk in a large Manhattan law firm, Herbie is back living in the same tough Brooklyn tenement where he was raised.
He had been hoping to visit Toronto to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fund that bears his name. But he's broke.
His parents faced a similar dilemma three decades ago.
At the time, New York State's welfare system was refusing to pay for the operation that would save his life. His father, who worked as a $100-a-week deliveryman for a fish market, couldn't afford it either.
A series of Star stories in February 1979 opened the door for the life-saving operation in Toronto. Six weeks later Herbie went home with a new lease on life.
Before he lost his job in January, Herbie had toyed with the idea of secretly flying to Toronto for Herbie Day, proclaimed by Mayor David Miller for June 5 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Herbie Fund. The fund raises about $800,000 a year and treats 30 children under 14 annually.
"I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the people of Toronto," said the man forever known to us as Baby Herbie. "I owe my life to your generosity."
Created in 1979 by then-Metro chairman Paul Godfrey, the Herbie Fund has helped more than 600 children from 88 countries receive life-altering or life-saving surgeries.
When Herbie first came to us three decades ago, the fragile baby couldn't swallow food without cutting off the flow of air to his lungs, leaving him in what nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital called "dying spells."
Whenever that happened, some 40 times during the first six months of his life, Herbie stopped breathing, turned blue and lost consciousness, sometimes for up to 15 seconds before doctors could revive him.
When American medical authorities balked at performing the operation he needed, Torontonians came to the rescue.
The Star stories led Godfrey to establish the Help Herbie Fund. Within days it reached $16,000, far more than the $5,000 needed to bring the family here.
Dr. Robert Filler, the Harvard-trained surgeon-in-chief at Sick Kids, had pioneered and perfected the procedure Herbie needed – relocating a major artery to relieve the pressure on the trachea.
"He was a special guy because of all the other implications," he said.
"Herbie is such a good boy," said his mother Leticia Martinez. "Given where we lived, we're so lucky he turned out so good. He didn't get into drugs, or gangs. He doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink."
Speaking by phone from Puerto Rico where she now lives, Martinez added: "I will never forget the kindness of the people of Toronto. We were total strangers and these people helped us so much."
And for a kid who nearly died every time he ate, Herbie has sure beaten that problem. Treated to lunch at the famous Carnegie Deli on Seventh Ave., he made short order of a giant corned beef sandwich.

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Harold E. Raugh, Jr., is the Command Historian, U.S. Army V Corps, Heidelberg, Germany. He previously served as the Command Historian, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Presidio of Monterey, Monterey, California, from 2002 to 2006.
Dr. Raugh retired from the U.S. Army in 1998 as a Lieutenant Colonel after twenty years' service as an Infantry officer. He served on active duty in the United States and in West Berlin, South Korea, the Persian Gulf, with the United Nations in Egypt and Jordan, in Saudi Arabia, and as a NATO detachment commander in the former Yugoslavia. He also served as an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Military Academy, West Point, as well as at the Pentagon and at the National Security Agency. Dr. Raugh, who received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), served as an Adjunct Professor of Military History and National Security Studies, American Military University, Manassas Park, Virginia, from 2000 to 2004.
Dr. Raugh is the author of the highly acclaimed Wavell in the Middle East, 1939-1941: A Study in Generalship (London: Brassey’s, 1993), the best-selling Fort Ord (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2004), Presidio of Monterey (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2004), and The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004). His edited work, The British Army, 1815-1914, was published as a volume in The International Library of Essays in Military History by Ashgate Publishing in 2006. Dr. Raugh’s monograph, “British Military Operations in Egypt and the Sudan: A Selected Bibliography,” will be published by Scarecrow Press in 2008. Dr. Raugh has also written over 700 articles and book reviews published in prominent international military and historical journals. He recently served as the associate editor of the Journal of America’s Military Past, and served as book review editor of the Journal of America’s Military Past, Military Heritage, WWII History, and the Defence Journal of Pakistan. Dr. Raugh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom in 2001.

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Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor on Saturday raced home first in record-smashing fashion in the 200m event at the Wes Kittley Invitational at the Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, USA to not only become the world leader in the event so far this year but also smashed the 22.07 seconds African record set by her compatriot Mary Onyali some 22 years ago at the Wetklasse Grand Prix in Zurich, Switzerland.
Okagbare set a new record of 22.04 seconds on the night.
It was Okagbare’s opening race of the year and the tall and beautiful reigning Commonwealth Games sprints queen has already raised hopes of another successful sprints double next month when she goes for the defence of her Commonwealth Games titles in the Gold Coast, Australia.
The reigning Nigeria 100m champion is also close to fulfilling her wish of becoming the first Nigerian woman to run inside 22 seconds in the 200m.
In 2013, Okagbare stormed to a 10.79 seconds African 100m record to become the first Nigerian nay African woman to legally break 10.80 seconds in the blue ribband event.
Although Cote D’Ivoire’s Muriel Ahoure has since supplanted her as the African record holder in the event (10.78), Okagbare still remains the only Nigerian sprinter to duck inside 10.80 seconds.She now holds the Nigeria 100m (10.79 seconds) and 200m records.
She is also one of only two Africans to have hit the 7m mark in the long jump.Her 7.00m leap in Monaco in July 2013 enroute to her becoming the first Nigerian nay African woman to win a (long) jumps medal at the 2013 IAAF World Championships is bettered only by compatriot Chioma Ajunwa’s 7.12m gold-winning leap at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
The 2013 IAAF World Championships double medallist will now shift her focus to the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast,Australia as she strives to become the first woman to successfully defend a 100m/200m sprints double.
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Italy: EU diplomats fail to resolve migrant boat impasse
The move is expected to be announced on Wednesday, in commission president Jean-Claude Juncker’s annual state of the union address.
The force would reportedly have extensive powers to bear arms and even intervene beyond EU borders.
A senior EU official described it as a “moment of truth” if Europe is serious about policing its borders and maintaining its core freedom of movement principal.
But it has already provoked criticism from human rights groups who warned against creating a “fortress” towards outsiders, just because members cannot agree on how to deal with migration.
The move is also viewed in some circles as a precursor to the block establishing itself as a military power, as it pushes towards greater federal integration.
A draft European Commission document setting out the plans, said the force’s role will be to protect “external borders, prevent secondary movements [between EU countries] and significantly step up the effective return of irregular migrants”.
The aim is to enforce rules over movement between member states, such as France which had problems with border camps in Calais, and act outside the EU if it gains consent from external governments, according to the document seen by the Financial Times.
The European Union launched the border force in October 2016, which is reportedly around 1,500-strong at present. The intention is to increase that almost sevenfold by 2020.
Jean-Claude Juncker will announce plans for a 10k border force
EU has no means to solve migration crisis says Spanish minister
The rise of anti-establishment parties across the continent has stoked concern over immigration.
Italy refused to accept boatloads of rescued migrants over the summer. This followed the election of Giuseppe Conte as the country’s prime minister, with backing from the 5-Star Movement which grew from a grassroots protest network, and the right-wing League. He has announced a firm intention to overhaul EU rules on immigration.
German chancellor Angela Merkel also struck an EU deal in June allowing her country to send migrants back to Spain and Greece. This came after she was given an ultimatum from her hardline coalition partners to find a Europe-wide solution to overwhelming migration problems, or risk seeing her government collapse.
Plans were also agreed for migrants rescued at sea to be sent to special “controlled centres” in the EU.
There are still moves from within the EU, however, to ease legal migration - including an idea to offer long-term work visas to skilled workers. An official speaking for the block said: “Now we are taking action on the external borders and there is no crisis moment, it is time to talk about it again.”

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Brazilian, European, and American models have all ruled the modeling world at different points of fashion history but models emerging from Mexico are rising to the top. New York, London, Milan, and Paris all saw Mexican models dominate the runway, and I am so excited that they are getting the exposure they deserve. Here are a few of these breakout stars that are showing the fashion industry and the world how incredible they are.
Daniella Valdez is a beautiful, confident, and bold model who was seen often during this past New York Fashion Week. Do you remember that article I wrote about bizarre fashion during NYFW? If you haven’t you should *winkwink.* But she was one of the models who killed it during the show and rocked those strange backwards boots. I cannot wait to see what is in store for this rising model.
Sabinee Camou was seen during London Fashion Week walking in a handful of shows, showing the industry how incredibly talented she is. She is mainly a bikini and lingerie model, but she’s working her way into the high fashion world which is actually a tough thing to do. I wish her luck and believe she is going to do some amazing things in the future.
Joss Corna is making a huge impact in the fashion world. She has made her way from being a commerical model into a high fashion model and is only getting better as time goes on. Corna has used this opportunity of fame to spread a message of body positivity and that is truly a great way for someone to be using their fame. I hope she will become a role model for women everywhere and hope to see her on the cover of Vogue one day.
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CHESHIRE — Put another one in the books for Cheshire Post 92.
The Zone 3 champs won their second game of the American Legion state tournament’s regional round Sunday, defeating Waterbury 7-3 at Burt Leventhal Field.
Cheshire grinded out this game, breaking a 3-3 tie with a four-run sixth inning.
“We’re a solid team,” said Cheshire head coach John Escoto. “I don’t put anything past this group. They’re a gritty bunch of kids.”
Sunday’s win, coming on the heels of Saturday’s 10-0 mercy-rule rout of Stratford, advances Cheshire (27-3) to the Pod F final on Wednesday. With a win there, Post 92 will advance to the Southern Division super regionals at Meriden’s Ceppa Field starting Saturday.
On Sunday against Waterbury, Cheshire struck first in the bottom of the second inning. Ian Battipaglia led off and ripped a single up the middle. Battipaglia swiped both second and third base, then scored on Paul Villecco’s bloop single.
Villecco, in turn, stole second base and came around on a base hit by Evan Sokolic for a 2-0 Cheshire lead.
That lead did not last long. Singles in the top of the third by John Castro and Jalen Monroe sparked a three-run Waterbury uprising off Cheshire starting pitcher Mike Hickey.
Jesse Swartout bunted Waterbury’s leadoff runners into scoring position. Bryant Bonilla plated Castro with a sacrifice fly and, in the wake of Noah Knappe’s infield single, Adrian Velez cracked a two-run single to right field to give Waterbury a 3-2 lead.
The gap could have been larger. After Velez swiped second base, Jalen Kelly singled to right field. Velez, trying to score, was gunned down at the plate by Cheshire right fielder Eli Battipaglia.
Post 92 rode the momentum of that play in the bottom half of the third. Ben Schena led off with an infield single, advanced to second on a throwing error and reached third when Ben Shadeck grounded into a fielder’s choice.
Ian Battipaglia then roped another single up the middle to score Schena and tie the game at 3-3.
That’s where the score stood until the bottom of the sixth. The floodgates to Cheshire’s four-run outburst opened on a two-base error on a ground ball to second by Villecco. Waterbury made another two-base throwing error on Ryan Cyr’s ensuing bunt right back to the box.
That miscue brought Villecco in to score what proved to be the winning run and put Cyr on second base.
Waterbury’s self-inflicted wounds only deepened from there. After Matt Geyda drew a walk and Ryan Strollo singled to center to load the bases, Schena and Shadeck worked back-to-back walks to force in two runs. Two batters later, Cole Escoto drew yet another bases-loaded walk to make it 7-3.
Ian Battipaglia, working in relief of Hickey, closed it out in the seventh.
“We’ve had a lot of games like that this year where we just grind it out and grind out and, somehow, we managed to pull it out at the end,” said Coach Escoto. “We didn’t play great baseball today, but we did enough to win.”
Hickey pitched five innings and gave up six hits. Although he only struck out three batters, his command was excellent and he didn’t give up any walks.
Ian Battipaglia blanked Waterbury over the final two innings and earned the win. At the plate, he went 2-for-4 with two RBI and three stolen bases.
“Their kid wasn’t throwing as hard as most pitchers, so I just tried to stay back and hit the ball up the middle,” said Battipaglia. “Going 2-0 so far [in the tournament] is definitely a big advantage. We now have a couple days off to wait for our next opponent and they’ll have to beat us twice. Our pitching has been great, especially our starters, who have been awesome. We just want to keep rolling.”
The same can’t be said of Stamford, which was eliminated 1-0 by Branford a day after getting upset 2-1 by Guilford. Stamford, the Zone 4 champ, was the de facto No. 1 seed. Instead, the tournament rolls on with new favorites, including Post 92.


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Dependent on international markets for agricultural imports worth CFA250bn (€375m) in 2012, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development (Ministre de l’Agriculture, de l’ Elevage, de la Pêche et du Développement Rural, MAEPDR), Gabon aims to significantly increase its domestic food security by 2020, while also working to expand its cash crop exports. An integral part of efforts to diversify the economy away from dependence on oil exports, successful implementation of its agricultural strategy will have a major impact on its balance of payments and generate significant employment growth. With 5.2m ha of arable land, only 1% of which is cultivated, extensive inland waterways covering some 10,000 sq km and an equatorial climate, Gabon’s goal of cutting its food import bill fourfold by 2020 seems attainable. It will, however, need to overcome challenges in the availability of qualified labour and bridge a significant transport infrastructure gap that has hindered the creation of a vibrant domestic market.
The country’s sizable timber industry – one of the largest in the world – provides an excellent case study for the potential growth of specific segments, particularly following the move three years ago to ban unprocessed logging exports and boost downstream activity. The move, while abrupt, has significantly increased domestic processing, providing a foundation for greater revenues and employment.
LAGGING POTENTIAL: Despite steady non-oil growth over the past five years, agriculture’s economic contribution has seen a long-term decline, dropping from around 15% of GDP in the 1960s to less than 3% of GDP in 2013, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Despite some marginal production of banana (plantain), cassava and small quantities of maize – totalling around 33,000 tonnes a year according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) – Gabon imports some 85% of its food requirements, sourcing 177,000 tonnes of cereal and rice and 72,500 tonnes of meat (about 95% of its meat consumption) from abroad in 2013 according to data from the FAO. Meanwhile, poor transport links to the interior cause major variations in food inflation between coastal ports and inland provincial markets. “There are significant differences in basic food prices province by province, reflecting the absence of a national market for agricultural products,” Christian Renardet, director-general of the Gabon Institute to Support Development (Institut Gabonais d'Appui au Développement, IGAD), told OBG.
Faced with volatile global prices that saw wheat inflation reach 10% in the year to March 2012 according to FAO, the government was prompted to reduce value-added tax (VAT), suspend import duties and set price controls on 65 basic food staples in August 2012, expanding the basket to 166 in March 2013.
FOCUS ON FOOD SECURITY: Beyond such short-term price control measures, the government has initiated a wide-ranging development policy for agriculture as part of its Emerging Gabon vision, aimed at boosting the sector’s weight to 15% of GDP, reducing food imports by three-quarters by 2020, and attaining self-sufficiency in subsistence crops, fisheries and meat. “We are now talking about food security rather than total food self-sufficiency,” Mirabeau Edou Nkogo, the director of research at MAEPDR, told OBG.
Building on the five-year New Agricultural Development Policy issued in 2008 (which originally aimed to reach self-sufficiency by 2015), Gabon’s government is implementing the New Partnership for Africa’s Development’s Detailed Programme for the Development of Agriculture in Africa. Stemming from the 2003 Maputo Declaration, already ratified by 29 African countries, the programme’s aim is to boost spending on agriculture to 10% of the annual budget, up from roughly 1% in 2013, and attain annual growth of 6% for the sector.
GREENER GABON: In addition, the Green Gabon policy, a key portion of the Emerging Gabon diversification strategy, aims to establish suburban agricultural supply chains for all of the country’s urban centres, create mechanised farms to meet domestic consumption needs and expand cash crop plantations for export in a sustainable manner. A Blue Gabon policy is also being prepared and is expected to be published by 2014. The policy is aimed at developing a sustainable local fisheries industry with domestic processing alongside expanded maritime conservation efforts.
MAEPDR signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in June 2013 with France’s Valliance Consulting, which advised on a similar green strategy in Morocco, to develop sustainable agriculture in Gabon. Central to its ambitions has been to reposition the MAEPDR as a policymaking and regulatory organisation, and to devolve operational piloting of agricultural projects to a range of agencies led by the National Rural Development Agency and the IGAD.
ENTREPRENEUR CLASS: Cognisant of its small population and its abundant arable land resources, Gabon is placing a priority on mechanised agriculture, cash crops and the development of an agro-industrial entrepreneur class. The ministry estimates some 1m ha of arable land is available for immediate use and has extended a package of 10-year tax holidays and land leases of between 25 and 85 years to induce more private investment. The state offers import duties exemptions for machinery imports as an incentive for local processing. With the last agricultural census dating back to 1975 and a unified land mapping project still under development, the state will need to establish new data gathering methods and expedite the mapping project (due in 2014) to enable clear tracking of progress towards its goals (see analysis).
INVESTMENTS: While major investments in oil palm, rubber, sugar, coffee, cocoa, maize and soya will boost exports and meet domestic demand in the next seven years (see analysis), smaller-scale decentralised initiatives to develop subsistence farming will have the greatest impact on food security.
This will establish domestic supply chains for key staple foods such as plantain, cassava, peanuts, and fruits such as tomatoes and African pears (atanga). These initiatives are supported by traditional donors like the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement, AFD) and the FAO, as well as private investors. The Project for Agricultural and Rural Development, supported by a $3.8m loan from the International Fund for Agricultural Development, is a five-year plan to 2014 to support small farmers in producing plantain, cassava and peanuts. Moreover, the project aims to establish nurseries and training centres for small-scale farmers in peri-urban areas.
The AFD-funded Agricultural Development and Investment Project in Gabon (Projet de Développement et d’Investissement Agricole au Gabon, PRODIAG), which builds on the IGAD’s past five-year Peri-Urban Agriculture Development Support Project (Projet d’Appui au Développement de l’Agriculture Périurbaine, PADAP), has recorded more tangible progress. Expanding from one pilot farm in the outskirts of Libreville in 2004, the project, funded by a €16m loan from AFD and running for five years from 2011, is developing peri-urban farms in all of Gabon’s nine provinces. By 2016 the aim is to reduce food imports to 44% of domestic consumption by supporting the creation of 1030 small farms, overseen by nine nursery farms and generating some CFA7bn (€10.5m) in annual turnover.
The farms will consist of 140 larger-scale market gardening farms (maraîchage), 851 smaller staple-food farms (vivrier), and 39 poultry and pig herding farms. The project is also aiming to follow larger investors inland, like Olam in its oil palm plantations in Mouila. “We are establishing small-scale agricultural supply chains near provincial markets to decentralise the supply of food, as there is disposable income inland, near towns and around major projects developed by investors like Olam,” IGAD’s Renardet told OBG.
STAPLES: The main crops supported will be staples such as plantain, cassava and greenhouse crops like tomatoes, as well as associated processing units. This will create 2200 new direct jobs and 1000 indirect jobs, in addition to the 5000 created by PADAP – a total of 10% of agricultural employment earning above the monthly minimum wage of CFA150,000 (€225). PRODIAG farms, ranging from 1 ha to 3 ha in size, are developed near urban consumption centres on land awarded by the ministry – near all the main provincial towns as well as along the main RN1 from Libreville. By the end of 2012, IGAD had identified 284 farms covering a total of 823 ha, and had started works on many of these, beginning with Estuaire province. The project is acquiring tractors and equipment to improve productivity. “While there is no model for mechanised agriculture in Africa, we can start building one via decentralised farms and generalising this model to all of Gabon to achieve our food security goals,” Renardet told OBG.
MEAT & POULTRY: A number of initiatives are also aiming to increase local production of beef, poultry and eggs. The Belgian group Société d’Investissement pour l’Agriculture Tropicale (SIAT), the largest investor in rubber and oil palm and the first firm to have listed on the regional bourse, currently meets 5% of Gabon’s beef demand with its 100,000-ha ranch, which currently herds 5000 cattle. The Akournam slaughterhouse, run by the Owendo municipality, produces only sporadically. Amidst an artificial insemination drive in 2013, SIAT Gabon expects to expand to 15,000 heads by 2016 and 25,000 by 2018. Investing €1.5m in order to expand its existing 20-cattle-a-week slaughterhouse to reach 125 heads, the company expects to meet some 20% of domestic consumption by 2016. “We are significantly expanding capacity in beef production by 2016 and are considering diversifying into pigs as well,” Gert Vandersmissen, the director-general of SIAT Gabon, told OBG. “For poultry, however, it is very challenging to compete against frozen chicken imports from the US.”
The ministry says some 200,000 ha of savannah are available for further ranch developments. South African group SFM, already active in timber, created a joint venture with the government, the Grande Mayumba Development Company, to develop a mixed-use project on 631,100 ha of land and 260,900 ha of marine area covering ecotourism, sugar-cane, rubber and cattle herding. The feasibility study is still ongoing in 2013, but is likely to involve partnering with SIAT’s adjacent rubber plantation. The only major local producer of poultry and eggs is Société Meunière et Avicole du Gabon, a subsidiary of French Castel Group’s Somdiaa, which also operates the Grands Moulins de Paris. Primarily focused on flour production, using 106,000 tonnes of imported pounded wheat to make 85,000 tonnes of flour a year, as well as 16,000 tonnes of cattle feed, the firm also produces 40m eggs and 127.75m chicks a year. This accounts for roughly 70% of egg consumption, but only a small share of poultry consumption given its sales of chickens past rearing age. The firm hopes to sell a growing share of its chicks to local poultry farmers.
OUTLOOK: Gabon’s plans to develop subsistence farming alongside cash crops will be an important driver of non-oil growth in the coming decade. Leveraging its natural resources for light industrialisation will be crucial, as will be the judicious use of mechanisation and the liberalisation of labour laws. These will ease key sectoral constraints as the government’s ambitious infrastructure development programme starts to bear fruit.
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Type: Heavy Cargo Transport
Origin: Messerscmitt AG
Models: D And E
First Flight: Fall 1941
Service Delivery: May 1942
Final Delivery: March 1944
Engine: Model: Gnome-Rhône 14N 48/49
Type: 14-Cylinder two row radials
Horsepower: 1,140 Number: Six
Wing span: 55m (180 ft. 5.5 in.)
Length: 28.15m (92 ft. 4.25 in.)
Height: 10.15m (33 ft. 3.5 in.)
Wing Surface Area: N/A
Five MG 15 mounted in nose mounts
Six Mg 34 infantry MG's in beam windows
This version also carried several tonnes of armor and bulletproof glass. Eventually it was decided that escort fighters would be more effective and this version did not see wide-spread production.
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The genesis of the Me 323 Gigant (giant) transport was in a 1940 German requirement for a large assault glider. The DFS 230 light glider had already proven its worth in the famous attack on Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium (the first ever assault by gliderborne troops), and would later be used successfully in the Crete invasion in 1941. However, the prospective invasion of Great Britain focused minds on the need to be able to airlift vehicles and other heavy equipment as part of an initial assault wave. Although Operation Sealion was cancelled, the requirement was still a valid one with the focus now on the forthcoming invasion of the USSR.
On October 18 1940, Junkers and Messerschmitt were given just 14 days to submit a proposal for a large transport glider. The emphasis was still very much on the assault role: the ambitious requirement was to be able to carry either an 88mm gun and half-track tractor, or a PzKpfw IV medium tank. The Junkers Ju 322 'Mammut' reached prototype form, but was completely unsatisfactory and was scrapped. The Messerschmitt was originally designated the Me 261w, was then changed to Me 263, eventually becoming the Me 321. Although the Me 321 saw considerable service, it was never used for a Maltese invasion, or for any other such undertakings.
Early in 1941, the decision had been taken to produce a motorized variant of the Me 321. It was now realised that a serious heavy-lift requirement would exist outside the specialized assault role, and that a huge glider that needed specialised towing aircraft, rocket packs and other equipment was simply not the answer. After much study and testing with a converted Me 321 with four engines, it was decided to fit six French Gnome-Rhone GR14N engines. These were in production and readily available, and could easily be bolted on the wing, which consequently needed to be strengthened. A cabin for a flight engineer was added in each wing between the inboard and centre engines, although the pilot could override each engineer’s decision on engine and propeller control. A brand-new permanent landing gear was bolted on to the side of each fuselage, and gave the resulting Me 323 superb rough-field performance. Compared to the Me 321, the Me 323 had a much-reduced payload of between 10–12 tonnes, which was the price that had to be paid for an aircraft that could operate autonomously. Even with the engines, rocket assisted take off packs were still frequently used.
Some ME-321 was converted to ME-323, but the majority was built as 6-engined from the beginning, the early ones had wooden 2-blade propellers which later was replaced by metal 3-blades one.
Operational Record - Source: Wikipedia
Capable of carrying 100 combat-equipped troops or a similar freight load of about 15 tons, the Me 323 was used in 1943 to ferry supplies and reserve troops from Italy and Sicily to the German Afrika Korps in Tunis and the area of North Africa. However, from Ultra intelligence, the transport formations' flight schedules were known to the Allies who used this information to send fighter squadron to ambush the aerial convoys and shoot down the transports.
For example, on 22 April 1943 near Cape Bon, several squadrons of Spitfires and P-40 Kittyhawks attacked a unit of 14 petrol-carrying Me 323s and their fighter escorts. All 14 were shot down with the loss of about 120 crew and 700 drums of fuel.
213 Me 323's were built before production ceased in April 1944. There were several production versions, beginning with the D-1. Later D- and E- versions differed in the choice of power plant and in defensive armament, with improvements in structural strength, total cargo load and fuel capacity also being implemented. Nonetheless, the Me 323 remained significantly underpowered. There was a proposal to install six BMW 801 radials, but this never came to pass. The Me 323 was also a short-range aircraft, with a typical range (loaded) of 1,000–1,200 km. Despite this, the limited numbers of Me 323's in service were an invaluable asset to the Germans, and saw intensive use. The Me 323 was something of a 'sitting duck', being so slow and large an aircraft. In the final weeks of the North African campaign in April/May 1943, 43 Gigants were lost, along with much greater numbers of Ju 52's. In terms of aircraft design, the Me 323 was actually very resilient, and could absorb a huge amount of ene
my fire, unless loaded with barrels with fuel - the Afrika Korps' nickname of Leukoplastbomber (Elastoplast Bomber) was somewhat unfair. However, no transport aircraft can ever be expected to survive without air superiority or at least, comprehensive local air cover, and it is believed that no Me 323s survived in service beyond the summer of 1944.
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Earlier this week, the winners of the 2022 Oregon Book Awards were announced. While the awards honor books by Oregon writers rather than books specifically about Oregon, a fair number of the award finalists are usually set in the state or explore some aspect of it.
Soon, I’ll be posting a review of one of this year’s finalist, rough house by Tina Ontiveros (this site’s first book review), but today I’m thinking of a wonderful and unique award winner I picked up at the ceremony a few years ago.
The book, written by George W. Aguilar, Sr., a descendant of Chinook Indians who lived, fished, and traded along the Columbia River for centuries, is called When the River Ran Wild!: Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation. The subtitle makes it sound like an academic text, but Aquilar’s book is so much more than that.
While he quotes from some academic sources–such as Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown’s classic look at the Columbia Chinook, The Chinook Indians: Traders of Lower Columbia (University of Oklahoma Press, 1976)–Aquilar’s main sources of information are other descendants of the Columbia tribes. And his intention isn’t to add to the historical record so much as give his people a sense of their own traditions, customs, and, yes, history.
“In a recent visit to Wolford Canyon, where I was brought up,” he writes, “there was only silence. The memories remain, but the echoes of the canyon are calm. No children play in the springwater pools. No sweathouse fires heat the rocks. No deer hides are soaking. No buckskin tanning. No gardens. No wheat or hay growing. The fields are now teeming with juniper trees where the golden heads of wheat once swayed to the whispers of the wind.”
To replace that silence, Aguilar excavates the memories of people he knows and others whose reminiscences have been recorded. Out of these and his own experiences, he weaves a kind of handbook for Chinook descendants like himself, especially the younger generations of the 21st century, who have no contact with anyone who lived by the old ways.
In the midst of chapters that explore the Chinooks’ traditional foods (both plants and animals), religions and beliefs, myths and legends, and warfare, Aguilar includes set pieces on practices such as the sweathouse, meat drying, the use of traditional nets, and something known as “butt slapping,” a way for native fishermen on platforms over the Columbia River to indicate which fish they’ve caught they want to keep for themselves.
The chapter on salmon fishing on the Columbia is worth the book’s cost alone. Not only does Aguilar evoke the heyday of Celilo Falls, he also talks about salmon runs, salmon festivals, fishing techniques, and customs that regulated how and where the salmon were fished for.
In other sections, he writes about the other species the Chinook relied on–Pacific lamprey, crayfish, sturgeon, smelt–and gives an exhaustive list of the plants they ate or used in other ways, as well as how they prepared them.
Beginning with his own experiences in forced boarding schools and government programs ,like one in the 1950s that attempted to get younger Indians to move off the reservation into cities, Aguilar takes us through the hardships his people have had to endure while also celebrating the endurance of a vibrant culture in danger of being completely lost.
One of the most important aspects of Aguilar’s project is his naming of individual tribal members, past and present–names that have been left out of the history books. He traces the lineage of individual names, tells us how names have been given, and looks at the meanings of those names. He is careful to name important local figures who are unknown to the general public and tell their stories too.
“The River People are the Northwest Klickitat and the Eastern-speaking Chinookan Kiksht,” Aguilar writes. “They are the Wascos, the Cascades, the Wishxams, the Clackamas, the Multnomahs, the Hood Rivers, the Skamanias, the Skilloots, and others who lived in villages on both sides of the Wilmaɬ, the Columbia River.”
By naming and writing for the descendants of these people–his people–Aquilar is trying to make sure they and their ways are not forgotten.
When the River Ran Wild!
Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation
by George W. Aguilar, Sr.
Published by Oregon Historical Press, in association with the University of Washington Press
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Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Last post I said that the only Trollope I had in hard copy was The Warden. I was wrong. I also had #123 Barchester Towers.
At night it was hard to read the spine on this book, as you can see it is dark. But I discovered it when I put The Warden back. Happily, this is the next in the Barsetshire series, so I figured it was fated that I read it.
This edition is a 1945 Doubleday Literary Guild version.
It has lots of color illustrations – these, I strongly suspect, were added in this edition. I enjoyed them, although of course, the people didn’t look how I imagined them. But I found it interesting to think of them how the artist created them. I actually probably don’t tend to visualize faces or even, really, body types as I read (do you?).
It also has lots of little line drawings. Again, I don’t think these are original (so to speak). The color and black and white picture style reminded me so much of the books I read growing up – I think it is a style from the mid-century (20th) and maybe earlier. Because I was a desperate reader (and by this I mean that I had to always be reading in a spare moment – I read and re-read cereal boxes at breakfast – and lived in an area with a small, but excellent library which I exhausted) I read lots of older books. These came from my parents (Laddie of Sunnybank Farms and the whole Albert Payson Turhune series – note many are in the public domain and free for laptops and ereaders), grandparents (I inherited some of my grandparents’ 19th century childrens books that they gave me as a child), and as gifts (I got a classic children’s book series that my parents picked up at an auction – do you know the one, I’ve found it in recent years, but couldn’t today – it had Toby Tyler (10 weeks in the circus) and Black Beauty, about 20 or so young adult books…). So, I was used to these kinds of drawings – it brought back memories.
Barchester Towers is not for the faint of heart – it is 500 pages long! I read it over the weekend. It continues the story of many people encountered in the first book – The Warden. Mr. Hardy and his daughters Eleanor and Susan (Mrs. Grantly) are back, as is Archdeacon Grantly. Funny that Trollope gave Dickens such a hard time for his characterizations – Trollope is more subtle with people’s descriptions, but he takes just as much liberty with names! The bishop and his wife are the Proudies. There is a doctor named Dr. Fillgrave. And a man with 14 children named Mr. Quiverful (did you know there is a current Quiverfull movement in the US – it aims to encourage people to have big families. I suspected Trollope didn’t invent the name – a quick Wikipedia check says that this is a recent movement, but based on a biblical quote: “Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them [them being children]” – but maybe he did… I couldn’t find earlier roots (other than the biblical one).
Barchester Towers is a good, long romp. Trollope wraps his reader around his little finger – getting you caught up in the plight of Mr. Hardy (will he or won’t he get his wardenship back?) – in what has to the longest sequence of ups and down, tricks, and other roller coaster rides in the history of literature. You see so many people ostensibly working to do one thing, doing the thing that will undo themselves, out of pride. In the course of reading Trollope you get something of an education in the Church of England and other 19th century issues – the Corn Laws, for instance, and high versus low church (a huge! issue at the time and in the book). You don’t HAVE to understand the references, but I found consulting Wikipedia a few times on the ins and outs of things very helpful – it helped me understand the subtleties. I’m not a religious person, so if Trollope can make the intricacies of Anglican doctrine interesting to me, he can fascinate anyone. Actually, I always really enjoy fleshing out and connecting the dots – things you have a word for or a little bit about, but getting more of a sense of the context and details. That was an enjoyable aspect of the book for me. As always, Trollope is incomparable at portraying power relations. I was thinking that we could move the story to a university and it would work PERFECTLY.
I do have to say, and I’m not the first to say it, Trollope got a bit wordy with this book (500 pp!) – it would have been a better book at 300 or 400 pages. But he was learning his craft. I think he was flushed with the success of the much shorter (just right length) The Warden and gave himself license to overdo it a bit on this book. Many consider Barchester Towers his best book, but I think The Warden is better. They are both excellent, but The Warden is faster-paced and superb.
But patience rewards us, whether when reading a very good, lengthy book or when waiting with bated breath for another dog to drop a rawhide.
Happy Reading, Ruby


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Nicki Minaj Grammy Awards 2011 in Leopard Print - If only a What Were They Thinking category existed, rapper Nicki Minaj would surely take home the trophy for her eccentric leopard-lady look on the 2011 Grammy Awards red carpet.
Minaj went animal print head-to-toe, boasting a mile-high 'do that was a little bit leopard, a little bit Bride of Frankenstein, with one thick black stripe running up the side of the monstrous platinum-blond wig. Leopard-print fringe and face-framing cropped layers completed her mane.
But the feline accents didn't end there. Minaj's makeup artist got in on the act with cat eyes and lengthy lashes. For her pout? Oh, just a swipe of bright-pink lipstick, you know, to make this otherwise subtle look pop.
Of course, we'll never know if Minaj outdid her outrageous-style competitor Lady GaGa, who arrived on the carpet concealed in a pod carried by an entourage of scantily clad model types.
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Zacks Investment Research Upgrades Dynavax Technologies Corp. (DVAX) to Hold
Dynavax Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:DVAX) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Thursday.
According to Zacks, “Dynavax Technologies discovers, develops, and intends to commercialize innovative products to treat and prevent allergies, infectious diseases, and chronic inflammatory diseases using versatile, proprietary approaches that alter immune system responses in highly specific ways. Dynavax’s clinical development programs are based on immunostimulatory sequences which are short DNA sequences that enhance the ability of the immune system to fight disease and control chronic inflammation. “
A number of other research analysts have also weighed in on DVAX. S&P Equity Research raised their price target on shares of Dynavax Technologies Corp. from $11.28 to $16.01 in a research note on Friday, September 2nd. RBC Capital Markets reaffirmed a “sector perform” rating and issued a $16.00 price target on shares of Dynavax Technologies Corp. in a research note on Wednesday, September 7th. Cowen and Company reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $45.00 price target on shares of Dynavax Technologies Corp. in a research note on Tuesday, September 6th. Finally, William Blair reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $45.00 price target on shares of Dynavax Technologies Corp. in a research note on Tuesday, September 6th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the company. Dynavax Technologies Corp. presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $25.86.
Dynavax Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:DVAX) opened at 10.49 on Thursday. The company’s market cap is $403.83 million. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $13.60 and its 200-day moving average price is $15.91. Dynavax Technologies Corp. has a 1-year low of $10.11 and a 1-year high of $29.86.
Dynavax Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:DVAX) last posted its earnings results on Friday, August 5th. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.75) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.68) by $0.07. Dynavax Technologies Corp. had a negative return on equity of 64.43% and a negative net margin of 2,068.75%. The firm had revenue of $2.65 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.58 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned ($0.80) earnings per share. The company’s revenue was up 70.8% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts forecast that Dynavax Technologies Corp. will post ($2.96) earnings per share for the current year.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Legal & General Group Plc raised its position in Dynavax Technologies Corp. by 19.2% in the first quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 6,235 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $117,000 after buying an additional 1,003 shares during the period. Meeder Asset Management Inc. acquired a new position in Dynavax Technologies Corp. during the second quarter worth $107,000. Alpine Partners VI LLC acquired a new position in Dynavax Technologies Corp. during the first quarter worth $192,000. Boston Advisors LLC raised its position in Dynavax Technologies Corp. by 1.3% in the second quarter. Boston Advisors LLC now owns 12,330 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $180,000 after buying an additional 155 shares during the period. Finally, State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System raised its position in Dynavax Technologies Corp. by 12.7% in the second quarter. State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System now owns 15,836 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $231,000 after buying an additional 1,779 shares during the period. 83.82% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Dynavax Technologies Corp. Company Profile
Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Dynavax) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company uses toll-like receptor (TLR) biology to discover and develop vaccines and therapeutics. Its development programs are focused on vaccines and cancer immunotherapy. The Company’s lead vaccine product candidate is HEPLISAV-B, an investigational adult hepatitis B vaccine, which combines its TLR9 agonist adjuvant and recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen (rHBsAg).
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Calcium is important in the human body for development of the skeleton. Calcium is stored in the teeth and bones, where it provides strength and structure. It is especially important for children, because their teeth and bones are forming, developing and growing. Sufficient calcium is vital in order for a person to reach their peak bone mass. This is the maximum ‘strength’ of their bones. It usually peaks at around 25-30 years old and then begins to slowly decline after this. Peak bone mass is determined by genetic factors, but sufficient calcium, vitamin D and physical activity help ensure that it can be reached.
If blood calcium levels fall, the body begins to break down bone to release calcium and ensure blood calcium levels remain steady. Low intakes of calcium and Vitamin D in children can lead to a disease called rickets, where the bones become soft and bendy, and growth can be stunted. In New Zealand, we are seeing increased rates of rickets. Those at higher risk of having children with rickets are those who do not consume dairy products, those who do not have much sun exposure (e.g. housebound or those that cover their skin) and those individuals with darker skin. Low calcium intakes in adults can lead to decreased bone density, increased risk of fractures and falls, as well as osteoporosis. This occurs when the bones become brittle and can break easily. Osteoporosis is one of the major causes of disease among older New Zealanders.
It is important children have adequate calcium intakes because they only have one chance to form their bones and adult teeth. During the growth spurt in adolescent years, calcium requirements are increased to keep up with the rapid bone growth. Postmenopausal women are especially at risk of osteoporosis because less calcium is absorbed due to lower oestrogen levels in the body
Recommended Daily Intakes
Many individuals are unable to meet their requirements for calcium. A study by the Ministry of Health and the University of Otago study done in 2011 found that as many as 88% of adolescent females and 58% of adolescent males do not meet their respective guidelines for calcium intake.
Calcium is mainly found in milk or milk-based foods, such as cheese, cottage cheese and yogurt. Bread and bread-based dishes can also contribute to the calcium intakes of New Zealand children and adolescents as they are consumed frequently and contain small amounts of calcium through fortification. Smaller amounts of calcium are found in some fish, legumes, nuts and some vegetables such as zucchini or kale. If you cannot tolerate dairy, plant-based sources may be more appropriate. To find out about what alternative milk choices that are available, then go to: https://www.jumpstartnutrition.co.nz/2016/08/22/if-not-cows-milk-then-what/. If your infant cannot tolerate cow’s milk, see https://www.jumpstartnutrition.co.nz/2016/10/31/milk-for-the-allergy-baby/ for more information on non-dairy options for your baby.
Calcium Sources and Serves
An adequate intake of Vitamin D is needed to maintain calcium levels in the body. Vitamin D helps the absorption of calcium in the small intestine. Vitamin D levels in New Zealand tend to be lower during the winter and higher in the summer, as majority of Vitamin D comes from the sun. It is found in small amounts in the diet from fish such as tuna, eggs and breakfast cereals with added vitamins, but these levels are quite low. It is important to get out in the sunshine, especially in the winter time. In the summer months, expose your skin to sunlight at the very beginning or the end of the day to avoid burning. Physical activity and weight-bearing exercise, such as running, jumping and changing directions, also helps children and teenagers to develop strong bones for life.
So, to ensure you and your child meet your respective calcium requirements, eat plenty of green vegetables, such as broccoli, have milk or other dairy products such as yoghurt if you can tolerate them and get outside for some exercise or playtime to expose your skin to the sun. This will help ensure your bones become as strong as they can be and reduce the risk of developing osteoporosis later in life.
Ministry of Health, 2006. Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand Including Recommended Dietary Intakes. Canberra: National Health and Medical Research Council.
University of Otago and Ministry of Health. 2011. A Focus on Nutrition: Key findings of the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey. Wellington: Ministry of Health
Jennifer Douglas is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian specialising in children’s nutrition, allergy and gut health. She runs clinics in Dunedin and sees individuals on skype. She also runs workshops in Dunedin and virtually to parents groups around the country on baby feeding and family nutrition.
Disclaimer: This blog is written by Jennifer Douglas who is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian. It is intended as a source of additional information but does not replace that of your medical professional. If you have concerns about your health, then contact your health provider.

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Above a Noise Floor: On Kimberly Alidio’s “Teeter”
By Rebecca TeichNovember 21, 2023
Teeter by Kimberly Alidio
Alidio’s oeuvre confronts enmeshments, yearnings, and mediations of intimacy, relationality, and structures of power. With devotion to experimental language, Alidio’s past works—including after projects the resound (Black Radish Books, 2016), : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2020), and why letter ellipses (selva oscura press, 2020)—meld together rich archival research on 20th-century Filipinx diaspora with scenes of queer postcolonial domesticity and desire. Teeter (2023) extends these rich poetic inquiries, this time with sound at the heart of her exploration.
The smallest units of sound, called phonemes, are both the building blocks of Alidio’s inquiry and the objects of interrogation. The many complex and at times contradictory significations and effects of phonemes, represented in writing as graphemes, interact and enmesh. These sonic layers of language reverberate throughout the book’s three sections (“Hearing,” “Ambient Mom,” and “Histories”), as Alidio works through discourses of musicology, physics, psychoanalysis, coloniality, political economy, aesthetics, and beyond. Rather than reinscribe disciplinary boundaries, she weaves discourses together within the poetic line: “A language lost is returned to / quantum/ universe / The womb / realm / + everywhere / in dictionaries / on youtube / in the / ear that / longs.”
Alidio, born in the United States to Filipinx immigrants, often prefaces this collection as arising from her attempt to learn her mother’s language, Pangasinan, which the maternal side of her family spoke yet in which she herself never acquired traditional fluency. Learning is no simplistic task for Alidio. They are wary of forms of pedagogy and knowledge that discipline the learner and commodify what is learned, well aware of colonialism’s chokehold on language acquisition. They are uninterested in domesticating sounds, frequencies, and phonemes into legible categories of institutional knowledge and cataloging. Instead, Alidio yearns for acquiring intimacy with language that does not reproduce domination in either methods or content, as she writes:
The point of what you do is absolutely bound up with the person who rigorously
& beautifully confounds the disciplinary foundations of the
imperial university & who is a key contribution to ending that
violence, transmitted to the edge of a former bed, by the angled narrow
beam of sun & suspended dust, above a noise floor.
What are the multifaceted and multivalent routes through which we emit or receive utterance? What does it really mean to acquire or lack language? What are the unconventional ways we acquire knowledge through sound and noise? Alidio’s quest to learn becomes less a narrative arc than a question that is also an offering to the reader.
The absence of conventional fluency, lost in diasporic translation-inheritance, becomes a cacophonous space from which underground knowledge propagates. In the third and final section of the book, “Histories,” in one of the several poems titled “Autohistoriography of Arrival at a River,” Alidio writes: “A maternal language, because I don’t know it, is a landscape of land & sea, kinship, kitchens, unorthodoxies, rebellions, dramas of mystic devotion, intergenerational polyamory with the Virgin Mary.”
Alidio sounds the anti-institutional, undisciplined noise of kinship, rebellion, land, and sea. Through sonic-sense memory and somatic-psychic transference, we are welcomed into a “full-on underworld / in the subconscious real.” Both ambient subconsciousness and the physics of sound return us to the palpable and material. The oscillations of sonic frequencies become a way to understand movement through space and time; in fact, sound is movement through space, which is time, which is autohistoriography. The poet insists on the made-ness of sound; to “make noise" might be a metaphorical turn of phrase, but Alidio is interested in the fact that sound waves quite literally shape, contort, and construct the environment.
Diasporic sound waves also live under the uncertain threat of being disciplined into coherence or having forms of incoherence dismissed as silence. In a poem toward the beginning of the book, “A name intends where there is noise that soothes,” Alidio writes: “Limbed shadows get a bit uncertain / because layers are mostly dissonant. Cohering for a / moment & then not & overheard chatter begins again.” The poet inaugurates a practice of listening that refuses to reduce shadow, chatter, and dissonance to background noise. Noise and dissonance live at the surface of her syntax, where other poets might rely on harmony, clarity, and conventional naming.
The poems in Teeter cohere into legible words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs for a moment before presenting the reader with words that don’t cohere into full sentences (“spittle / airplane sounds / blubber”), syllables that don’t cohere into dictionary-recognized words (“Orge struct tici tizen ditches fant!”), letters that don’t cohere into pronounceable sound (“you + mkr”). Alidio encourages us to “read” everything—words, letters, images, sounds, noise, chatter, and shadow.
By listening to what might at first sound like noise, reading what might at first look like non-words, readers enter into a playful space of practicing experimental meaning-making and literacies alongside Alidio. This might inaugurate a kind of listening akin to Alidio’s own experience of regularly hearing the mother tongues their parents spoke but that they did not. Author and reader become co-conspirators in anti-authoritative reading practices beyond adherence to conventional lexicality.
Alidio’s pages are noisy—often dense with blocks of language, diagrammatic visual poems, or lines that span the entire page vertically and horizontally. Alidio tunes into seemingly incomprehensible graphemes and phonemes, revealing how this noise is material that fills our world. To produce noise as foreground rather than background requires modalities of experiment.
Alidio sifts through the histories of avant-garde poetry in search of potential methods. Teeter performs a disidentificatory engagement with what Alidio uncovers from 20th-century experimental poetic movements to activate an oppositional poetics (to borrow a term from “Notes for an Oppositional Poetics,” Erica Hunt’s crucial essay on innovative Black writing and feminist aesthetics), revealing and unseating the racialized, gendered, and sexual norms that constitute what is classified as sound and what as noise. Through poetry, rather than criticism or theory, Teeter presents a rich lesson on avant-garde poetic history, and, in doing so, offers a profound practice in animating minoritarian languages.
In the process of writing Teeter, Alidio published an essay titled “Language Poetry Soothes Me,” where she describes how she probes Language poetry for generative techniques, recycling and rethinking them without absolving the poetic movement’s pitfalls. The leftist avant-garde poetic movement, predominantly based in California and New York, originated in the 1970s and was invested in disarticulating normative structures of syntax and grammar and displacing the singular authority of the author by including the reader as a co-meaning-making agent. Language poetry asks: What are the ideological underpinnings that structure language and meaning-making? What grammar and syntax might resist, rather than reproduce, capitalist ideology? How is language an effect of the material world and an agent affecting it? Alidio asserts that Language poetry “may offer a set of practices relevant to our present catastrophe: a space beyond recognition, legibility, surveillance, conditioning, incentivization, and expectation.” They press forth to redirect and translate the movement’s ideology and provocations towards a queer postcolonial diasporic lens.
Alidio sifts through the Language poetry of Lyn Hejinian, the sound poetry of Tracie Morris, and the concrete poetry of N. H. Pritchard and Johanna Drucker, treating phonemes, sound, and noise as material interactions that shape the world. It isn’t only that the physics of sound waves reveal sound’s material effects. Linguistic utterance is a dense archive that contains historical traces; Alidio peels back the layers to show how these histories and their structuring logics are sounded into a complex present. By teasing out how language can be a foot soldier that materializes ideology, Alidio illuminates the often insidious and contradictory workings of the academy and the populations it disciplines:
what is archived by a language is not
its working as it sort of lays down an empty track, a substratum
upon which focusing smearing finding in an improvisatory ear
brings us back to what is written, overheard registers channels
wordways branch headlong double-consciousness
of lineage + facture say
What hides behind a phoneme or grapheme? How do they circulate over and across time? What are the disorderly, radical, insidious, extractive, sensual effects of a word beyond, in spite of, or even counter to its definitional meaning?
Teeter tracks how language is contorted by structures of oppression, how a term’s meaning might move and multiply across time, torqued by institutional grip on the ordering of meaning. The phonemes and graphemes precariously teeter back and forth, from institutional capture to queer, anti-colonial happenings that “exceed the structural violence.” If capitalism thrives on the absorption of contradiction, Alidio reveals that such contradictions extend to the definitions and effects of words and phrases. Rather than absorb contradictions into illusory stability, the book magnifies the teetering. Each utterance variously “reproduces, voices, becomes, uncovers, is revelatory, is unveiling” in an unsteady tango between capture and agency, order and disorder, love and aggrievance.
Teeter trains poetic ears to hear what queer, feminist, and critical race theorist Sara Ahmed theorizes as “nonperformative” language or “institutional speech acts” that “‘work’ precisely by not bringing about the effects that they name.” Alidio indexes lexical terms that have become nonperformatives through their use by academic, arts, and nonprofit institutions and therefore “no longer do it for” her, such as the terms “mutual aid,” “world building,” “representation matters,” and “imagining otherwise.” She is not arguing against, say, mutual aid itself, but is cautioning us about the term’s uptake (and defanging and resignifying) by institutions whose main aim is often to reproduce the institution. Ahmed uses the term “nonperformative” particularly to discuss higher educational and arts institutions’ dismissal and manipulation of complaints of institutional racism through institutional speech acts that claim to promote diversity/equity/inclusion while they actually retain the status quo, which she elaborates on in her 2021 book Complaint! Perhaps “complaint” by another name might be “making noise.” Teeter insists on staying with that noise. The title itself is noisy.
Many of Alidio’s poems, especially in the “Histories” section, revel in the perverse humor of the workplace that claims to stand against the structural violences it relies on: “Sardonic humor marks / the bind of naming a violation of some sort, probably work related, now named / microaggression.” Alidio wants to sound a language that can imagine and produce queer anti-colonial worlds of interstitial autonomy and ample “femme plaid” while revealing that words sometimes do the opposite of what they seem to do.
Teeter’s capacious brilliance brings to light a poetics of friction that teaches us that language is also a site of struggle, noncompliance, humor, and beauty. The stakes are high and infused with a kind of phonemic magic. Language is material and transforms materiality. To believe in language as material and action is to believe it can enable access through unconventional routes just as much as it can blockade. Together, writer and reader are “floating in vibrosphere in / non-lexical togetherness,” a floating-space in which Alidio’s speaker “tr[ies] to leave some / noise. Of opening toward mutual autonomy from / exchange value. A property relation between speaker & / word softens.”
Alidio produces work with the same commitment they bring to their world: listening to the sound, the noise, and what we might be trained to hear as silence. As she puts it, “Every utterance, to a certain ear, unmade & remade a world, was a portal to an existing world that remained hidden, fringe.” Teeter torques utterance into a revolution, a turning, a disordering of value on every conceivable level—semantic, syntactic, sonic. Alidio awakens us to how forms of colonial, cisheteronormative, and capitalistic valuation seep into the semantic value of sonic transmission. Between breath and speech, between phoneme and grammar, between lovers and haters, Alidio plots out the frequencies that are able to value and sustain an “art dyke / genderqueer life.” Their portaling poetics unmake and remake a world through the collaborative activity of language.
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Sep 23, 2013, 1:48 PM EST
It’s been assumed for a while now that the Mets would bring back Terry Collins as manager next season and sure enough Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports that the two sides are engaged in contract talks.
According to Rosenthal general manager Sandy Alderson is traveling with the team in Cincinnati and is expected to meet with Collins to hammer out the details.
Collins has a 222-257 (.463) record in three seasons as Mets manager, including 71-84 this year. Alderson has previously stressed that the front office’s evaluation of Collins extended beyond wins and losses, and certainly the roster he’s been working with was never particularly impressive even before being wrecked by injuries this season.
- Daniel Murphy on Billy Bean: “I do disagree with the fact that Billy is a homosexual” 230
- Blue Jays sign Dayan Viciedo to a minor league deal 8
- Chris Sale will be sidelined for three weeks with foot fracture 11
- Aramis Ramirez says 2015 will be his last year 32
- Francisco Rodriguez re-signs with the Brewers 9
- If addiction is an illness — and it is — Josh Hamilton shouldn’t be suspended 307
- Pirates open to massive extension for Andrew McCutchen 18
- Report: Josh Hamilton had a relapse this offseason that “involved at least cocaine” 86
- If addiction is an illness — and it is — Josh Hamilton shouldn’t be suspended (307)
- Daniel Murphy on Billy Bean: “I do disagree with the fact that Billy is a homosexual” (234)
- Curt Schilling lowers the boom on some men tweeting threats against his daughter (136)
- San Francisco — and all of California — will consider a smokeless tobacco ban that includes MLB parks (131)
- Ichiro is happy to be away from Joe Girardi (88)

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