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'Lost opportunity': Another Manitoba Housing building sits empty in downtown Winnipeg
Government-assisted housing in high demand with 1,699 on wait list for social housing
A government-owned social housing building in Winnipeg's downtown core has been sitting empty for nearly a year — the second such building CBC has found this week.
- Province spends $3M fixing vacant Manitoba Housing highrise
- Manitoba Housing tells Gretna it will host reception centre for asylum seekers
The vacant Manitoba Housing building has room for about 40 residents. Together, the two vacant properties have nearly 400 units. That's raising alarm bells among some housing advocates.
"It's just this lost opportunity," said Christina Maes Nino, a community advocate with the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.
The building has been sitting empty since last June when Syrian refugees, who were living there temporarily, moved out into other housing.
A government spokesperson said the future of the building, which is a former women's shelter, remains unknown. CBC is not identifying the location of the building to protect any women who may move into it.
The building has an issue with a ventilation system, which makes it "unsuitable" for clients, the spokesperson said.
There are 1,699 people waiting to get into Manitoba Housing as of this week, according to the province.
On Monday, CBC revealed a highrise on Smith Street with 373 units has been sitting empty for more than two years.
The West Central Women's Resource Centre said it wants the building to be turned into transitional housing for homeless women or a shelter for the vulnerable population.
"There are women being turned away and their only options right now are to return to violence or to access the homeless shelter system," said Lorie English, the centre's executive director.
A 2015 census of Winnipeg's homeless community found at least 1,700 people were experiencing homelessness on one fall night.
English said resources for women fleeing violent relationships in Winnipeg are stretched thin and having living space for 40 could go a long way.
The building's future, like the downtown highrise, will be determined by a provincial review of Manitoba Housing that's underway, the Manitoba Housing spokesperson said.
- 'It's a nightmare' — Manitoba Housing residents move out of Charleswood building
- Manitoba Housing tenant sleeping in van after suite floods
Families Minister Scott Fielding said the provincial Tories are working on creating a modernized provincial housing plan.
"We are taking the time to work through this and we will ensure a sustainable housing program that meets the needs for our vulnerable populations in Manitoba who depend on us to shelter them in both the long and short term," he said in an emailed statement.

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text: A team From Broadmoor Middle Lab in Shreveport won first place at Northwestern State University’s Robotics Competition with robots that competed in challenges related to speed, strength and accuracy. Fifteen middle schools participated in the event, sponsored by the Department of Engineering Technology. On the front row from left are Dr. Jafar Al Sharab, event coordinator; Mack Hernandez, Columbus Espree, Cole Cooper, Jose Salguero, Team Sponsor Janet Melanconand Connor Corothers. On the back row are Dr. Muhammad Benalla, Curtis Deselles, Jason Powell,Dr.Rafiqul Islam and Ross Hennessey.Teams from Caddo Middle Magnet won second and third places. Middle school within a 100-mile radius of Natchitoches were invited to participate. Organizers say the competition will be an annual event and preparations for future competitions have already begun.


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Beta-Blockers Therapy for the Treatment of Hypertension
Beta-blockers should not be recommended as first-line therapy for hypertension in patients without heart disease, according to a new study. Researchers from Sweden performed a meta-analysis on 13 randomized controlled trials comparing treatment with beta-blockers with other antihypertensive drugs. Seven other studies were reviewed in which beta-blockers were compared with placebo or no treatment. The relative risk of stroke was 16% higher for patients who were treated with beta-blockers (95% CI, 4-30%) compared to other drugs. Beta-blockers reduced the relative risk of stroke by 19% compared to no treatment or placebo; however, this was about half the reduction expected from previous hypertension trials. There was no difference seen in the rates of myocardial infarction or overall mortality. A possible mechanism for these findings is that beta-blockers reduce brachial blood pressure out of proportion to central blood pressure compared with other antihypertensives.
The authors suggest that beta-blockers are less effective than other antihypertensive drugs in preventing stroke, and should not be a first choice in the treatment of primary hypertension (Lindholm LH, et al. Should Beta Blockers Remain First Choice in the Treatment of Primary Hypertension? A Meta-Analysis. Lancet. 2005;366:1545-1553). This same group published a study in 2004, suggesting that atenalol was a poor choice for treatment of hypertension (Carlberg B, et al. Atenolol in Hypertension: Is It Wise?Lancet. 2004;364:1684-1689). An accompanying editorial states "Surely, therefore, the era of beta-blockers for hypertension is over," but suggests that these drugs should not be discontinued abruptly, and should be discontinued with extreme caution in patients with coronary artery disease (Beever DG, et al. The End of Beta Blockers for Uncomplicated Hypertension? Lancet. 2005;366:1510-1512).
Treatments for Acute Migraine
Two studies in the September issue of the Journal of Headache find that sumatriptan alone is inferior to other treatments for acute migraine. In the first study, 972 migraine patients were randomized to treatment with sumatriptan 50 mg, naproxen sodium 500 mg, sumatriptan 50 mg plus naproxen 500 mg, or placebo at the onset of headache symptoms. The sumatriptan plus naproxen group fared the best, with 46% of subjects achieving a 24-hour pain relief response. Sumatriptan alone resulted in 29% of patients achieving the same result, while naproxen alone resulted in the 25% response, and placebo resulted in a 17% response (P < .001). Relief of pain at 2 hours was achieved in 65% of the combination group, 49% of the sumatriptan patients, 46% of naproxen patients, and 27% of placebo patients (P < .001). The incidence of recurrent headache 24 hours later was also lowest in the sumatriptan plus naproxen group. Other migraine symptoms, including nausea, photophobia, and phonophobia were also most effectively treated with sumatriptan plus naproxen. Adverse effects were similar in all the treatment groups (Smith TR, et al. Sumatriptan and Naproxen Sodium for the Acute Treatment of Migraine. Headache. 2005;45:983-991). In the second study, sumatriptan was compared with acetaminophen-aspirin-caffeine (AAC) in the early treatment of migraine. In a randomized, controlled clinical trial, 171 patients took either sumatriptan 50 mg or AAC (acetaminophen 500 mg, aspirin 500 mg, and caffeine 130 mg [Excedrin Extract Strength 2 tabs], or Excedrin Migraine 2 tabs at the first sign of a migraine attack. AAC was significantly more effective (P > .05) than sumatriptan in the early treatment of migraine, as shown by superiority and summed pain intensity difference, pain relief, pain intensity difference, response, sustained response, relief of assisted symptoms, use of rescue medications, disability relief, and global assessments of effectiveness (Goldstein J, et al. Acetaminophen, Aspirin, and Caffeine Versus Sumatriptan Succinate in the Early Treatment of Migraine: Results From the ASSET Trial. Headache. 2005;45:973-982).
Statin Therapy for ACS Patients
Early aggressive statin therapy is beneficial for patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), according to a new study. In a continuation of the Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation and Infection Therapy-Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction 22 (PROVE IT -TIMI 22) trial, the timing of intensive statin therapy was evaluated in patients with acute coronary syndrome. A total of 4162 patients with ACS were randomized to intensive statin therapy with atorvastatin 80 mg or standard therapy with pravastatin 40 mg. The composite end points of death, MI, or rehospitalization for recurrent ACS were determined for each group at 30 days. ACS patients who were started in the hospital on intensive statin therapy fared better than those with standard therapy (composite end point at 30 days 3% intensive therapy vs 4.2% standard therapy [HR = 0 .72; 95% CI, 0.52 to 0.99; P = .046]). The authors conclude that ACS patients should be started on aggressive statin therapy in the hospital and continued long-term (Ray KK, et al. Early and Late Benefits of High-Dose Atorvastatin in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes: Results from the PROVE IT-TIMI 22 Trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005;46:1405-1410). In another follow-up from the PROVE IT-TIMI 22 study in the same Journal, researchers looked at whether very low LDL levels from aggressive statin therapy are associated with adverse effects. Thirty-one percent of patients treated with atorvastatin achieved LDL levels between 80 and 60mg/dL, with another 34% between 60 and 40 mg/dL, and 11% less than 40 mg/dL. There were no significant differences in safety parameters, including muscle, liver, or retinal abnormalities, intracranial hemorrhage, or death in the very low LDL groups. Patients with LDL levels less than 60 had fewer major cardiac events, including death MI and stroke. The authors conclude that very low LDL levels are not associated with adverse effects, and appear to be associated with fewer adverse cardiovascular outcomes (Wiviott SD, et al. Can Low-Density Lipoprotein Be Too Low? The Safety and Efficacy of Achieving Very Low Low-Density Lipoprotein With Intensive Statin Therapy: A PROVE IT-TIMI 22 Substudy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005;46:1411-1416).
The Correct Dosing for Onychomycosis
Many physicians have prescribed terbinafine in a pulse-dosing regimen of 2 pills per day for one week, one week a month, for 3 to 4 months for the treatment of onychomycosis. The regimen is thought to increase compliance, as well as reduce cost. Pulse dosing however is not an approved therapy, and now a new study suggests that it is not as effective as once daily dosing.
The study recruited 306 volunteers with onychomycosis, involving at least 25% of the toenail. Patients were randomized to terbinafine 250 mg daily for 3 months or terbinafine 500 mg daily for one week per month for 3 months. Mycological cures were higher with once-a-day dosing (71% vs 58.7%; P = .03). Clinical cures were also higher with once-a-day dosing (44.6% vs 29.4%; P = .007), as were complete cures of target toenail (40.5% vs 28.0%; P = .02), and complete cure of all 10 toenails (25.2% vs 14.7%; P = .03). Tolerability of the regimens did not differ significantly between groups.
The authors conclude that once daily dosing appears to be superior to pulse dosing, however, they also found "this expensive therapy to me much less effective than previously believed, particular for achieving complete cure of all 10 toenails" (Warshaw EM, et al. Pulse Versus Continuous Terbinafine for Onychomycosis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005;53:578-584).
The FDA has approved the once-a-day oral iron chelator for the treatment of chronic iron overload due to blood transfusions. Novartis will market deferasirox (Exjade) as an oral alternative to intravenous chelating agents.
This supplement was written by William T. Elliott, MD, FACP, Chair, Formulary Committee, Kaiser Permanente, California Division; Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco. In order to reveal any potential bias in this publication, we disclose that Dr. Elliott reports no consultant, stockholder, speaker’s bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study. Questions and comments, call: (404) 262-5416. E-mail: [email protected].Beta-Blockers Therapy for the Treatment of Hypertension; Treatments for Acute Migraine; Statin Therapy for ACS Patients; The Correct Dosing for Onychomycosis; FDA Actions
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And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
– William Blake
They fought on the way to church
this time ugly.
Was it the tone he took,
or her throbbing resentment
that kicked in the door
like a demon repo man
turning up to repossess their souls?
Mud rushed in
a roaring sludge
of sorrows, lashes
burying the light.
The back seat was silent.
In the sanctuary they stood mute
in the crowd of flourished palms
hosannas fluttering like petals
watching their kids in the happy throng
pass by with pain in their eyes.
Across town the detective
poured herself another cup of coffee
scanned reports from last night
homicide, hit and run
three break-ins, some domestics.
Robert rolled over,
knees up to his chin, gripping the covers.
He hurt so bad. He couldn’t get those feelings
for Andy to go away, nor the horror
in the cafeteria when they snickered and laughed.
Lester sat at his kitchen table, thumbing through his Bible.
He got the diagnosis the day before.
The words didn’t make sense.
He looked around.
Everything seemed tilted sideways.
Does cancer cause this? he wondered.
Alice in a back pew waved her palm like a white flag.
During the week she goes into a house full of roaches
and mice to treat the baby of a twelve year old girl.
People so desperate, so much pain. Plse pray,
she texts her friend and waves harder,
counting on this Jesus to make a difference.
Nations thrash and groan. Politicians rage.
The bomb ticks in the parked car.
Seas haul homes and lives
out to watery oblivion.
Some peasant playing a fool on a donkey
rides into town saying he is the King.
He is going to turn things around,
unseat the emperors,
release the grasp of greed,
cure the lust for money,
and heal the virus.
Sure enough the fool gets himself killed.
Everyone is looking for a goat to carry off
that mudslide of shame, regret, and responsibility.
For a while we can pimp up the peasant,
wave some foliage, call him king
as the bullies and the haters
the fear mongers and the betrayers
the self- righteous and the proud hitch
a ride on his back like fleas.
Then we can go home, relax
watch the ball game and root for our team.
But the peasant with pain in his eyes
on the donkey has his own agenda.
I am not your Palm Sunday ornament,
a wonder super hero
your ticket to respectability
a card to play in your political games.
Look again. I am you.
I am you riding high into town.
I am you awash in disgrace and humiliation.
I am you having done the unthinkable
and there is no way you can repair the damage you caused.
I am you, holiness, hawking yourselves day and night
in the holy places you have turned into markets.
I am you, holiness, stuck
right down in the middle of a profane life in a profane world.
I am you, holiness, betrayed by a sneer, or the grab for influence.
I am you, holiness, trampled on and defiled.
Will you duck out now
skip those other services
and only show up year after year
in your new clothes
to see the lilies and hear the music?
Or will you come back
to listen to my commandment
to let me wash your feet
and drink to a new covenant?
Will you stay awake with me
and with yourself one hour in our suffering?
Will you say, not my will, but thine?
Will you face your betrayer, see what you need to see
become truth in the face of authority?
Will you strip off all your disguises, costumes
facelifts, masks, and self-deceit?
Will you hand over your assets for others to toss the dice?
Will you watch at our dying?
Will you thirst?
Will you feel your own pain?
Will you cry out why has God forsaken us?
Will you rest in the tomb
that silent womb of mystery
dead with me?
Will you come early on the third day?
Note to readers: This blog is part of a series of Lenten “short takes” on the themes of lent, which follow more or less the lectionary Scripture lessons for this season. Like a note you find tucked under the bark of a tree, a lozenge to let melt in your mouth, an amulet to wear around your neck, I hope these little reflections may hold a small dose of truth or comfort or challenge for your life on the way to Easter.
In the abundance of words which inundate us daily, it is easy for the message of redemption to be buried under the latest disaster, outrage or scandal. Likewise the familiar stories and passages of lent may grow dull and trite to ears and hearts already stuffed with words.
I have noticed in my work as spiritual director that it is hard for many of us to take in the goodness and grace, as well as the challenge of the story of Jesus and God’s redeeming love. Perhaps we need to titrate the gospel. Sometimes a well- timed, tiny dose, carefully administered, may be what the Physician orders for our healing. And so slowly we build up our tolerance for love and more and more joy finds the faith in us through which to invade our being.
Dose titration: adjustment of the dose until the medication
has achieved the desired effect
- Redemption Titration* – A Gentle Dose for the Sin Sick Soul (theprayinglife.com)
- Love – In Small Doses for the Sin Sick Soul (theprayinglife.com)
- Love – in Small Doses for the Sin Sick Soul #3 (theprayinglife.com)
- Love – in Small Doses for the Sin Sick Soul #4 (theprayinglife.com)
- Love – in Small Doses for the Sin Sick Soul #5 (theprayinglife.com)
- Love – in Small Doses for the Sin Sick Soul #6 (theprayinglife.com)
Beautiful. Penetrates the soul.
Oh thanks, Chris. You shine too!
Oh how I hope I will come back & listen & let Jesus wash my feet & that I’ll stay awake & watch & strip off my disguises! But oh how hard it all is!
Someday, I’d like to worship with you!


Amber Benson’s The End of Magic lives up to its name, wrapping up the Echo Park Coven trilogy without necessarily answering every question.
(Note: Although this review will refer to the ending of Amber Benson’s The End of Magic, it will not reveal the ending itself, merely describe how the ending impacts the work as a whole.)
When one reaches the end of a trilogy of novels, it often seems like an author feels pressure to have everything come out right in the end. Granted, we as readers often expect a properly happy ending for genre fiction. But Amber Benson’s The End of Magic has such an ominous title that the ending rather fits.
The End of Magic follows Lyse MacAllister and the rest of her blood sisters (or, to use the term that you may be more familiar with, witches) as they attempt to stop The Flood from taking over the world, which would be, you know, bad. Half of the problem is that they’re not quite sure how to do it.
Over the past two books, The Witches of Echo Park and The Last Dream Keeper, Benson had created an immensely complex system of magic that incorporated all sorts of different traditions into a syncretic kind of magic. Here, she manages to finally pull things back together and turn out a good ending, one that gets 3.5/5 stars from yours truly.
It is really hard not to discuss what makes The End of Magic good without discussing its ending, because it’s there that Benson makes the trilogy’s story really settle into place. The last section of the novel as a whole rewards readers who had paid attention to clues left behind throughout the previous novels. It may not be necessarily what readers expect, but after putting the book down, it’s hard to deny that Benson’s choices make sense. Kudos to her for choosing the route she did.
Additionally, as in the previous two novels, due to the multiple viewpoints, she deploys cliffhanger-esque endings to nearly every chapter. Instead of fatiguing a reader, though, it’s hard to deny that it doesn’t keep one pushing forward to circle back around to Lyse, Niamh, Arrabelle, Daniela, and the rest of the sisters who have point-of-view chapters. In a book like this, where there’s plenty of action, it certainly helps maintain the pace.
On the whole, Benson’s choices on what to resolve and what not to resolve actually also make sense. A little ambiguity goes a long way, especially in the world she’s created where secrets are pretty much always a factor. (Who doesn’t like a few dramatic reveals, though?)
Unfortunately, pulling so many disparate elements together does require quite a bit of explanation, both of characters’ feelings and the systems in which they’re operating. Benson’s text walks a fine line, but coming straight from the other two books, it felt a touch on the side of too much. For those who are picking this up with some distance between reading The Last Dream Keeper and this book, it likely works better. Frankly, it’s by no means a deal-breaker, because trying to figure out what’s going on without some of those reminders probably would have made the reading experience worse.
The End of Magic — and the two preceding novels — make up a pretty great set of urban fantasy works that don’t hesitate to get a little weird, which is practically the point of urban fantasy in this reviewer’s eyes. None of them are too terribly long, so if you’re looking for something to read this coming summer or during a weekend trip, give them a shot.
The End of Magic is on shelves now.


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From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks in a classroom of students who cannot remember the event but live through the aftermath of its cultural shift. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window, Dèja can't help but feel confused. She sets off on a journey of discovery, with new friends Ben and Sabeen by her side. But just as she gets closer to answering big questions about who she is, what America means, and how communities can grow (and heal), she uncovers new questions, too. Like, why does Pop get so angry when she brings up anything about the towers? Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a powerful story about young people who weren't alive to witness this defining moment in history, but begin to realize how much it colors their every day.
While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dáeja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world.
From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window, Dèja can't help but feel confused. She sets off on a journey of discovery, with new friends Ben and Sabeen by her side. But just as she gets closer to answering big questions about who she is, what America means, and how communities can grow (and heal), she uncovers new questions, too. Like, why does Pop get so angry when she brings up anything about the towers? Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a powerful story about young people who weren't alive to witness this defining moment in history, but begin to realize how much it colors their every day.
War. Fire. Destruction. Xhea believed that the Lower City had weathered the worst of its troubles—that their only remaining fight would be the struggle to rebuild before winter. She was wrong. Now her home is under attack from an unexpected source. The Central Spire, the City’s greatest power, is intent on destroying the heart of the magical entity that resides beneath the Lower City’s streets. The people on the ground have three days to evacuate—or else. With nowhere to go and time running out, Xhea and the Radiant ghost Shai attempt to rally a defense. Yet with the Spire’s wrath upon them, nothing—not their combined magic, nor their unexpected allies—may be strong enough to protect them from the power of the City. From Nebula Award–nominated author Karina Sumner-Smith, Towers Fall is a fantastic climax to this amazing and thought-provoking trilogy. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist. It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her family's magical legacy. And when a disastrous oil leak threatens the bayou, she knows she may also be the only one who can help. Does she have what it takes to be a hero? Jewell Parker Rhodes weaves a rich tale celebrating the magic within.
In Falling Towers, J. A. Richardson examines how The Waste Land, The Dunciad, and Speke Parott are built upon similar patterns of conflict and anxiety. In each of the poems the poet presents his society and himself as under threat. He tries to counter the threat with some kind of assertion of poetic authority but fails since he dramatizes this conflict in such a way as to reveal his own insecurity. The presence of the flood in the three poems provides an example of the pattern. The flood acts both as a metaphor of the problem the poet is confronting, and, through hints of impending catastrophe, as his imaginative way of dealing with it. But in predicting a deluge the poet also dramatizes the prophecy in such a way that it appears self-interested, personally motivated, and unreliable. The dramatization implies the poet's unacknowledged anxiety about his own authority. The similar casts of the imagination shared by these three poems can be traced back to the similar cultural conditions under which the poets wrote. Each stood in, and indeed stood for, a cultural tradition that was exhausted and dying. Skelton was arguably the last medieval poet, Pope the last Renaissance poet, and Eliot the last romantic. One important pattern of conflict that can be seen in all three poems is between age and youth. Each poet speaks with an aged voice. Skelton's parrot is a very old bird and the poet himself is not very far behind him; Pope is present behind The Dunciad in the character he publicly cultivated in the 1730s of the wise old philosopher; and Eliot's speaker in The Waste Land, who is probably much like Eliot himself, is implicitly aged. The speakers' worlds are dominated by youth, a motif that is quite marked in each of the poems. Confronted with a youthful world that they neither understand nor like, the poets try to assert their own authority, but the dramatic situations give them away. The old man railing against the excesses of youth appears less as sage and authoritative than as threatened, aggressive, envious, and uncertain. The second, more general pattern of conflict is that which exists between a world grown too confusingly crowded and a poet who insists upon limitation and selection. Profusion and crowds are important images of the corrupt world in all three poems, and the threat they represent is intimately embodied in the poems' many voices. Although Falling Towers concentrates on three poets and three poems, it aims not merely to analyze the poems but also to suggest something about their place in literary history. At its most ambitious, the book proposes an argument about the importance of a poet's position in the development of his or her tradition and about the pattern of English cultural change.
Ego: The Fall of the Twin Towers and the Rise of an Enlightened Humanity by Peter Baumann and Michael W. Taft is the first book to explore the positive evolutionary potential hidden in one of the most destructive events in history. In their examination of the evolutionary implications of 9/11 and its aftermath, the authors contend we are not falling into the grip of a new dark age at all; rather, we are on the verge of a much brighter one as the Darwinian process of natural selection continues to advance humankind. The authors’ inquiry led them to the roots of human suffering: the ego. That the ego underlies our problems as a species may come as no surprise. But a deeper look into the ego’s origin and history is full of unexpected revelations: The modern human is dominated by a Stone Age brain Energy consumption and the environmental crisis is nothing more than the evolutionary drive to survive gone haywire Evolution has wired us to be riveted to bad news, bad outcomes, and worst-case scenarios When beliefs are challenged it triggers a life or death stance in the human nervous system Emotions are mostly physical, not mental The self we identify with—along with its biases and beliefs—turns out to be an evolutionary tool that made its first appearance some 50,000 years ago during what’s called the conceptual revolution, arguably the biggest developmental leap in human history. The emerging ego accompanied our ability to construct complex tools, create art, and redefine social structure. For the first time as a species, we were able to imagine the future, consider the thoughts of others, and picture ourselves in our own minds. The ego is a cognitive trick of natural selection intended to insure the survival of the individual. Baumann and Taft say the problem comes when we take the ego’s conceptualization of reality as the truth about who we actually are. Using the latest research from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and paleontology, Baumann and Taft show that modern humanity may be on the verge of an expansion of cognitive abilities akin to the development of the ego. This next step will free the human mind to see beyond the confines of the prison, and open the vast potential of conscious awareness.
American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures
Bringing together the most popular genres of the 21st century, this book argues that Americans have entered a new era of narrative dominated by the fear—and wish fulfillment—of the breakdown of authority and terror itself. • Provides an interesting new framework in which to examine popular culture • Examines films, television shows, and primary texts such as novels for evidence of cultural anxiety and a preoccupation with terror • Offers insightful and original interpretations of primary texts • Suggests possible conclusions about cultural anxiety regarding breakdowns of tradition and authority
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina. Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. So when Mama Ya-Ya's visions show a powerful hurricane--Katrina--fast approaching, it's up to Lanesha to call upon the hope and strength Mama Ya-Ya has given her to help them both survive the storm. From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Boys and Towers Falling, Ninth Ward is a deeply emotional story about transformation and a celebration of resilience, friendship, and family--as only love can define it.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal “Visceral...I repeatedly cried…This book captures the emotions and unspooling horror of the day.” —NPR “Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.” —Katie Couric The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001—a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government’s definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. But one perspective has been missing up to this point—a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning journalist and bestselling historian Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived—in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet. Beginning in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes. In New York City, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker underneath the White House, officials watch for incoming planes on radar. Aboard the small number of unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to bring it down. In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United Flight 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place. Then, as the day moves forward and flights are grounded nationwide, Air Force One circles the country alone, its passengers isolated and afraid. More than simply a collection of eyewitness testimonies, The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real time: the father and son working in the North Tower, caught on different ends of the impact zone; the firefighter searching for his wife who works at the World Trade Center; the operator of in-flight telephone calls who promises to share a passenger’s last words with his family; the beloved FDNY chaplain who bravely performs last rites for the dying, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; and the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try to rescue their colleagues. At once a powerful tribute to the courage of everyday Americans and an essential addition to the literature of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky weaves together the unforgettable personal experiences of the men and women who found themselves caught at the center of an unprecedented human drama. The result is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.
The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading scholars, 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature is a wide-ranging guide to literary responses to the attacks and its aftermath. The book covers the most widely studied texts, from Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom to responses in contemporary American poetry and graphic narratives such as Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers. Including annotated guides to further reading, this is an essential guide for students and readers of contemporary American literature.
An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen—as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed or fail. They can live. And, sooner or later, they die. In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue. Soap operas on the grandest scale, they feature war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope. Frequently their afterlives have been no less dramatic—their memories used and abused down the millennia for purposes both sacred and profane. They provide the stage for a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and even Bruce Springsteen. The twenty-one structures Crawford focuses on include The Tower of Babel, The Temple of Jerusalem, The Library of Alexandria, The Bastille, Kowloon Walled City, the Berlin Wall, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Ranging from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile and the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London and New York, Fallen Glory is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture. And, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history’s scattered ruins can tell us about our own future.
A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. An instant New York Times bestsellerAn instant IndieBound bestsellerThe #1 Kids' Indie Next PickA Walter Award winner Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father's actions. Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today's world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death.
Relates how the lives of four children living in different parts of the country intersect and are affected by the events of September 11, 2001.
Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy, the white plantation owner's son. Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to help harvest the cane. The older River Road folks feel threatened, but Sugar is fascinated. As she befriends young Beau and elder Master Liu, they introduce her to the traditions of their culture, and she, in turn, shares the ways of plantation life. Sugar soon realizes that she must be the one to bridge the cultural gap and bring the community together. Here is a story of unlikely friendships and how they can change our lives forever. From Jewell Parker Rhodes, the author of Ninth Ward (a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al's Book Club for Kids pick), here's another tale of a strong, spirited young girl who rises beyond her circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter future.
From the author of the award-winning Moth Smoke comes a perspective on love, prejudice, and the war on terror that has never been seen in North American literature. At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with a suspicious, and possibly armed, American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting. . . Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by Underwood Samson, an elite firm that specializes in the “valuation” of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on the energy of New York and the intensity of his work, and his infatuation with regal Erica promises entrée into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez’s meteoric rise to personal and professional success. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love. Elegant and compelling, Mohsin Hamid’s second novel is a devastating exploration of our divided and yet ultimately indivisible world. “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America. I noticed that you were looking for something; more than looking, in fact you seemed to be on a mission, and since I am both a native of this city and a speaker of your language, I thought I might offer you my services as a bridge.” —from The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder. Fall and Rise will open new avenues of understanding for everyone who thinks they know the story of 9/11, bringing to life—and in some cases, bringing back to life—the extraordinary ordinary people who experienced the worst day in modern American history. Destined to be a classic, Fall and Rise will move, shock, inspire, and fill hearts with love and admiration for the human spirit as it triumphs in the face of horrifying events.
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his es-tranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.
At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York - reading emails, making calls, eating croissants... over the next 102 minutes each would become part of the most infamous and deadly terrorist attack in history, one truly witnessed only by the people who lived through it - until now.Of the millions of words written about that unforgettable day when Al Qaeda attacked the western world, most have been from outsiders. New York Timesreporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken the more revealing approach - using real-life testimonies to report solely from the perspective of those inside the towers. 102 Minutesis the epic account of ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever in this kamikaze act of terrorism. This unique book about unique people, includes incredible stories of bravery, courage and overcoming unbelievable odds. Immortalised in this non-fiction masterpiece are the construction manager and his colleagues who pried open the doors and saved dozens of people in the north tower; the police officer who was a few blocks away, filing his retirement papers, but grabbed his badge and sprinted to the buildings; the window washer stuck in a lift fifty floors up who used a squeegee to escape; and the secretaries who led an elderly man down eighty-nine flights of stairs.Chance encounters, moments of grace, a shout across an office shaped these minutes, marking the border between fear and solace, staking the boundary between life and death. Crossing a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and herosim one person at a time, Dwyer and Flynn tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women - the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished at Ground Zero on September 11th 2001 - as they made 102 minutes count as never before.
A novel from one of the country’s most prolific and popular YA authors, this book, set in New York City on September 11th, shows us how the experiences of that day profoundly changed one teen’s life and relationships. Today is September 10, 2001, and Will, a grade nine student, is spending the day at his father’s workplace tomorrow. As part of a school assignment, all the students in his class will be going to their parents tomorrow, but Will isn’t excited about it–he’d rather sleep in and do nothing with his friends. His father doesn’t even have an exciting job like his best friend James’s father who is a fireman. Will’s dad works for an international trading company and has to wake up early every morning to commute to his office on the eighty-fifth floor in the south building of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Will doesn’t see his father very often because of the hours he puts in at the office. He doubts that his dad will bother making time for him tomorrow even when they are supposed to be spending the day together. In this fast-paced and dramatic new novel by bestselling author Eric Walters, Will discovers a new side of his father during an event that continues to affect the world. As Will’s new teacher says, tomorrow “might be an experience that changes your entire life.” From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Child Poverty Rates Drop -- More In Some States Than Others
August 11, 2000
Nationwide, the proportion of children living in poverty has declined significantly during recent economic boom times. And some states have made greater progress than others. Nevertheless, child poverty is still higher than it was 20 years ago, according to a study by the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University.
- More than 13 million children live in poverty, the study reports -- 3 million more than in 1979.
- From 1994 to 1998, the child-poverty rate nationwide declined 17.1 percent -- following an increase of 38.8 percent from 1979 to 1993.
- Some states -- such as Illinois and New Jersey -- have seen significant declines in the numbers since 1979, while others have seen increases or relatively minor declines.
- States which have a poor record in this area include New York, California and Georgia.
Experts note, however, that Illinois started overhauling its welfare system in 1993 -- earlier than most other states. And it allowed welfare recipients to continue receiving health benefits and food stamps while easing into full-time employment.
New Jersey's success may be due, in part, to its policy of using savings from cuts in welfare payments to help people who get off welfare. For example, the state shifted $100 million that had previously been spent on welfare checks to subsidies for child care.
Source: Don Terry, "U.S. Child Poverty Rate Fell as Economy Grew, But Is Above 1979 Level," New York Times, August 11, 2000.
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Apr 11th, 2013
Bees: Mountain of Science
By Megan Bentall
Last week the Environmental Audit Committee reported that they too supported the stopping the use of the harmful pesticides blamed for killing bees. They called the environment minister Owen Paterson’s stance “extraordinarily complacent”.
The science is stacking up. Scientists across Europe have released so many studies showing the damage these pesticides cause our bees. In the shadow of this mountain of evidence, DEFRA’s single study pales in comparison.
Last month thousands of 38 Degrees members wrote to their MPs, asking them to talk to Owen and persuade him to vote to stop the pesticides being used.
Some MPs have been repeating DEFRA’s claim that more tests are needed before a decision can be made. However DEFRA themselves have admitted that their study so far “lacks statistical power“.
Below is the list of scientific reports from across the world showing these pesticides are harmful.
Sign the petition to protect our bees, and demand that the government stop these pesticides being used now. Let’s show Owen Paterson that he’s not only going against science, but he’s going against public opinion too.
EFSA – European Food Safety Authority
EFSA scientists have identified a number of risks posed to bees by three neonicotinoid insecticides
PesticideActionNetwork UK-s fact sheet
A series of fact sheets collected by PAN-UK rounding up multiple scientific studies
Journal of Experimental Biology
Exposure to multiple cholinergic pesticides impairs olfactory learning and memory in honeybees
Cholinergic pesticides cause mushroom body neuronal inactivation in honeybees
Bulletin of Insectology
In situ replication of honey bee colony collapse disorder
Japanese Journal of Clinical Ecology
Influence of dinotefuran and clothianidin on a bee colony


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Income-generation activities Home visits ↑ health knowledge, ↑ health care utilization, ↓ poverty ↑ nutrition and knowledge, ↓ anemia, ↓/NC night blindness, ↑ intake of vitamin A–rich foods, ↑/NC intake of vegetables, ↑ intake of ASF, ↓ underweight, ↑ health care utilization, ↓ poverty ↑ health knowledge, ↑ health care utilization, ↓ poverty
Downloading that new weight-loss app may not be as beneficial as you think. A study published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine rated the top 30 weight-loss apps using criteria set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Diabetes Prevention Plan, which consists of 20 behavior-based strategies, including willpower control, problem solving, stress reduction, motivation, and relapse prevention. Twenty-eight of the programs offered 25 percent or fewer of these essential tummy-trimming tactics. If you’re into tech, use your apps to log food and share your progress on social networks, but don't rely on either too heavily to make lasting lifestyle changes.
It's even more important for older people to stay hydrated. Age can bring a decreased sensitivity to thirst. Moreover, it's sometime harder for those who are feeble to get up and get something to drink. Or sometimes a problem with incontinence creates a hesitancy to drink enough. Those who are aging should make drinking water throughout the day a priority.
When trying to adopt new healthy habits, it's important to work around other long-standing practices that could sabotage your efforts if overlooked. For example, if you are a morning person, working out in the a.m. is likely best, but if you’re a night person, exercise after work, says Tara Stiles, owner of Strala Yoga in New York City. [Tweet at Tara!]“Don't try to become one or the other if it's not natural to you. You're more likely to stick to it if you like the time of day and the whole experience.”
Some fat is an important part of your diet; fat is part of every cell. It maintains skin and hair; stores and transports fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K; keeps you warm; and protects your internal organs. It even helps your mental processes—not surprising given that fat comprises about 60 percent of your brain. But many women consume too much fat. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that you keep your total fat intake between 25 and 35 percent of your total calories.
The U.S. Public Health Service recommends that all women of childbearing age consume 400 mcg of folic acid (a B vitamin) daily to reduce their risk of having a pregnancy affected with spina bifida or other neural-tube defects. Women who are actively trying to get pregnant should consume 600 mcg, and lactating women should consumer 500 mcg. Women of childbearing age should also take care to meet the daily requirements for calcium, fiber, iron, protein and vitamin D. Discuss supplements with a health care professional, however. Iron and vitamin D in particular can be dangerous in high amounts.
The recommended daily intake for vitamin E is 15 mg. Don't take more than 1,000 mg of alpha-tocopherol per day. This amount is equivalent to approximately 1,500 IU of "d-alpha-tocopherol," sometimes labeled as "natural source" vitamin E, or 1,100 IU of "dl-alpha-tocopherol," a synthetic form of vitamin E. Consuming more than this could increase your risk of bleeding because vitamin E can act as an anticoagulant (blood thinner).
The guidelines also establish ranges (called acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges or AMDR) for fat, carbohydrates and protein, instead of exact percentages of calories or numbers of grams. The report maintains that since all three categories serve as sources of energy, they can, to some extent, substitute for one another in providing calories.
WASH interventions, such as toilet facilities, access to improved and safe water supply, and hand washing are associated with improved nutrition and health of entire communities (13, 14, 125–128). For women and adolescent girls, WASH interventions were associated with improved menstrual hygiene (126), reduced diarrhea and intestinal worm infections (128–131), and reduced maternal mortality (132). Women and young girls are also more affected by the physical and time burdens of collecting water (126), and harassment and violence associated with inadequate and unsafe toilet facilities (133, 134). Closer water points and sanitation facilities eased these gendered burdens (126, 135). WASH interventions and perceived water availability were associated with less time spent on water-related chores, and improved school attendance, women's empowerment, and self-esteem (126, 135, 136).
The extent to which interventions target women more generally, as opposed to just mothers, is not well documented. It requires reflecting on “Who is the woman in women's nutrition?” to identify which women are actually targeted in nutrition interventions, which are not, how they are reached, and gaps in policies and interventions to reach women who are missed. To address this, in this comprehensive narrative review, we 1) summarize existing knowledge about interventions targeting women's health and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries, 2) identify gaps in current delivery platforms that are intended to reach women and address their health and nutrition, and 3) determine strategies to reshape policies and programs to reach all women, at all stages of their lives, with a particular focus on women in low- and middle-income countries.
Maintaining a healthy weight is important piece of the puzzle to achieve good health. A healthy weight can be determined using the body mass index charts (see web source below). If you find you are overweight or obese, weight loss may be beneficial for you. Before you begin any weight loss efforts, consult with your medical provider and/or consult a registered dietitian to create a weight loss plan. If you are underweight, consult a medical provider to assess your weight status.
If you lose weight suddenly or for unknown reasons, talk to your health care professional immediately. Unexplained weight loss may indicate a serious health condition. And even if it doesn't, simply being underweight is linked to menstrual irregularity, menstrual cessation (and sometimes, as a result, dental problems, such as erosion of the enamel and osteoporosis) and a higher risk of early death.
Community centers ↑/NC knowledge about hygiene and sanitation, ↑ water quality, ↓ diarrheal morbidity ↑/NC knowledge about hygiene and sanitation, ↑ water quality, ↓ diarrheal morbidity ↑/NC knowledge about hygiene and sanitation, ↑/NC hand-washing, ↑ water quality, NC waste disposal, ↓ diarrheal morbidity ↑/NC knowledge about hygiene and sanitation, ↑ water quality, ↓ diarrheal morbidity
Most Americans get far more protein than they really need. In theory, that may not be wise. Like carbohydrates, protein provides 4 calories per gram, and excess calories from any source will be stored as body fat. Excess dietary protein increases calcium loss in the urine, perhaps raising the risk for osteoporosis ("thin bones," more a worry for women) and kidney stones (a particular worry for men).
Our review highlighted how a focus on delivery platforms could indicate who is missed by different nutrition interventions, by evaluating where there is overlap or divergence in where interventions are delivered (as represented in the Venn diagram in Figure 1). Our findings showed that a large proportion of nutrition-specific interventions were delivered at clinic-based settings or community-based health posts. Health centers are important delivery platforms, particularly for pregnant and lactating women (113, 210). However, only half of women worldwide even attend the appropriate number of antenatal care visits (with nearly 86% of women attending 1 visit) and only 59% receive appropriate postnatal care (211). Other delivery platforms, such as schools and universities, were more effective at reaching some adolescents and women of reproductive age. However, interventions delivered at “facilities” (schools, health clinics, health posts) require participation with those facilities, and participation is often limited because of time, costs, distance, and other responsibilities, including work and childcare (116). Facilities-based care is also more likely to miss certain groups, including older women.
Grains, vegetables and fruits are essential to getting the vitamins, minerals, complex carbohydrates (starch and dietary fiber) and other nutrients you need to sustain good health. Some of these nutrients may even reduce your risk of certain kinds of cancer. But experts say we rarely eat enough of these foods. To make matters worse, we also eat too much of unhealthy types of food, including fat (and cholesterol), sugar and salt.
To achieve these goals, cut down on saturated fat from animal products (meat and the skin of poultry, whole-fat dairy products, and certain vegetable foods — palm oil, palm kernel oil, cocoa butter, and coconut). And it's just as important to reduce your consumption of trans fatty acids, the partially hydrogenated vegetable oils found in stick margarine, fried foods, and many commercially baked goods and snack foods.
Not getting enough fiber can lead to constipation and can raise your risk for other health problems. Part of healthy eating is choosing fiber-rich foods, including beans, berries, and dark green leafy vegetables, every day. Fiber helps lower your risk for diseases that affect many women, such as heart disease, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, and colon cancer. Fiber also helps you feel full, so it can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight.
Most traditional fitness plans happen in predictable patterns that usually involve moving in two planes of motion—up and down or forward and backward—ignoring the third plane of motion, lateral. “Move your body in all directions to create the most fit, functional, and athletic physique,” Stokes says. If you're a runner, cyclist, or walker, remember to include movements such as jumping jacks, side shuffles, side lunges, and carioca (the grapevine-like move) in your warm-up or cool-down, she suggests.
Women’s health magazines have always highlighted female celebrities at the peak of fitness: workout guru Jane Fonda next to a headline shouting “Perfect Your Body” on a 1987 Shape cover is a classic example. Peering at the local magazine counter this month, I noticed a lot of women’s health magazine still had life- and body-empowering messages, but they stressed the mental gains over the physical: “Your Best You!” next to Brooke Shields on the cover of Health; “Hot & Happy!” aside E!’s Maria Menounos. Shape magazine now even has an online section called #LoveMyShape, in which Orange Is The New Black star Danielle Brooks discusses how she learned to embrace her curves through her Lane Bryant ads, and model Katie Willcox wants you to know that you’re so much more than you see in the mirror.
We only included studies that reported on women's health and nutrition outcomes, and excluded studies that were targeted to women but that reported only on health and nutrition outcomes of children (including birth outcomes). We included outcomes for adolescent girls ages 10–19 y, pregnant and lactating women, nonpregnant and nonlactating women of reproductive age (>19 y), and older women. Studies that described interventions targeting a wider age range of adolescent girls (e.g., ages 8–24 y) were also included but adolescent girls aged >19 y were reported in this review as nonpregnant and nonlactating women of reproductive age. Although many adolescents in low- and middle-income countries are married and bearing children, adolescents (10–19 y) as reported in this review reflect girls who are nonpregnant and nonlactating. The few interventions in low- and middle-income countries that target pregnant and lactating adolescents are reported under pregnant and lactating women. A description of the articles included in this review can be found in Supplemental Table 1.
For girls and adult women, educational interventions are considered a powerful means of improving their health and nutritional status throughout their lives. Education level is often associated with maternal caregiving practices and the nutritional outcomes of their children (174, 175). Few studies, however, evaluated the impact of education as an intervention on women's nutrition outcomes. Instead, many studies used survey data and reported on associations between education and nutrition. For instance, in low- and middle-income countries, higher levels of education were associated with lower prevalence of underweight and higher prevalence of overweight among women (176, 177). However, this depended on the type of employment in which women participated (178, 179). In addition, in many high-income settings, the converse was true (177). Level of literacy was also associated with improved anthropometric measures. In southern Ethiopia, literate mothers were 25% less likely to be undernourished than were illiterate women (180). One econometric analysis suggested that doubling primary school attendance in settings with low school attendance was associated with a 20–25% decrease in food insecurity (181). Overall, though, these associations were limited in their ability to draw conclusions about causality and the effect of education interventions on nutrition outcomes.

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Nike has revealed that the upcoming AMBUSH Nike Dunk High in black/white is part of larger, holistic collection in partnership with the NBA, fully interpreted through the lens of the multi-faceted YOON of Ambush Design. The focal point of the collection was to offer a women’s spin on repping their favorite NBA teams, and with this introductory launch is a dedicated set to the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers.
In addition to the AMBUSH Dunks is a set of over-sized team gear – tear-away warm-up pants, oversized parka jackets with massive team logos, and other choice options. The Dunk itself are inspired by the globally recognized car and bike culture in Japan, with the extend Swoosh tails mimicking tailpipes of these tricked out vehicles.
Nike confirms a December 11th release date for the AMBUSH x NBA x Nike capsule. There are indeed other AMBUSH Nike Dunk colorways as well, although Nike has not yet officially announced them.
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AMBUSH x Nike Dunk High
Release Date: Dec 11th, 2020 (Friday)
Color: Spruce Aura/Black/Spruce Aura
Mens: $180 Style Code: CU7544-001
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|Publication number||US4900570 A|
|Application number||US 07/208,592|
|Publication date||Feb 13, 1990|
|Filing date||Jun 20, 1988|
|Priority date||Jun 20, 1988|
|Publication number||07208592, 208592, US 4900570 A, US 4900570A, US-A-4900570, US4900570 A, US4900570A|
|Original Assignee||Jac Creative Foods, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (17), Referenced by (9), Classifications (7), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates generally to a unique seafood product, one example being a crustacean product in the form of a shrimp, and to a process for making that product from comminuted fish meat.
The process of mechanically deboning fish meat has received increasing attention during the last twenty years throughout the world in order to utilize efficiently nutritious proteinaceous resources, such as numerous underutilized marine species. Many efforts have been made recently to produce less expensive, more attractive, more acceptable fabricated products for human consumption from mechanically deboned fish meat.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,303,008, there is disclosed a process for producing a restructured food product from fish meat paste; however, that process is complex, and requires elevated pressurization of the paste in a mold during cooking.
There is need for a simple, reliable process to produce a fish paste crustacean product such as a superior shrimp product the shape of which closely simulates the shape of a natural shrimp; and there is need for such a process wherein, with very simple mold structure or tooling, a superior shrimp product, as disclosed herein, is produced, the back of the molded product being indented along the curvature thereof, to simulate a vein groove. Also, there is need for a process producing a shrimp product which is juicy and tender, the meat of which is not undesirably compressed, and which has the texture and shape of the crustacean.
It is a major object of the invention to provide an improved process, and product thereof, and which meets the above needs. Basically, the process includes the steps:
(a) providing a mold having at least two cavities therein, each cavity shaped in the form of said shrimp product, each cavity having a first opening adjacent to the shrimp end portion, and a second opening adjacent to the shrimp curved back portion,
(b) injecting the shrimp paste mix into both cavities via said first opening while maintaining said second openings closed,
(c) and subsequently accessing the curved back portion of the shrimp paste mix in the cavities, via said second openings, and forming simulated vein grooves in each curved back portion.
As will appear, injection nozzle bodies are provided to have porting via which shrimp paste composition is simultaneously injected into mold cavities, the bodies located to close the second openings to provide for molding of the curved and indented shrimp back portions; i.e., the nozzle bodies also act as shrimp back curvature molds, thereby greatly simplifying the process and mold tooling.
A series of molds may be provided, and the step of heating of the composition in the molds may advantageously be carried out by traveling a multi-cavity mold or molds in sequence past an exterior radiant heat source, such as flame-producing burners (with such nozzle bodies carried by each mold), and to a zone wherein the molds are sequentially opened and inverted while traveling, for gravitational discharge of the products. Such travel and mold-opening facilitates subsequent rotary brush-assisted removal of the products from the downward-facing and exposed cavities of the opened molds, and subsequent brush-cleaning of the re-closed molds at their surfaces adjacent to the vents, so that subsequent filling of the molds and vents can occur to produce the products.
In addition, further processing typically comprises broiling the formed product for between 50 and 70 seconds, and at a broiling zone wherein the temperature is between 160° C. and 200° C.; and subsequent cooking in a steam-containing zone, to impart juiciness to the bodies of the non-compressed crustacean-like products under time and temperature conditions as will appear. The use in the process of a mix of both fish paste and pieces of shredded, gelled fish paste ensures that the final product textures will closely simulate that of an actual shrimp.
These and other objects and advantages of the invention, as well as the details of an illustrative embodiment, will be more fully understood from the following specification and drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of apparatus used in carrying out the process;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged side elevation on lines 2--2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a closed mold, with fish paste in the mold cavities;
FIG. 4 is an elevation showing injectors and removable/movable mold parts positioned during fish-paste injection into mold cavities;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged section showing fish-paste injection through a nozzle in a removable mold part;
FIG. 6 is a section on lines 6--6 of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is an enlarged plan view taken on lines 7--7 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 8 is a fragmentary section on lines 8--8 of FIG. 7; and
FIG. 9 is a fragmentary section on lines 9--9 of FIG. 7.
In FIGS. 1 and 2, comminuted fish is supplied at 10 to be treated in equipment to be described. Regarding such supply, and in one example of the process, for forming a crustacean-like product such as shrimp, frozen blocks of surimi (washed minced fish) are tempered at room temperature until partially thawed. Blocks of tempered surimi are then put into a grinder, and ground. Some hot water (at about 70° C.) is added to the surimi in the grinder to raise the temperature of the mix, for example, to about -1.0° C. Salt is then added to the formulation. After grinding for about 2 minutes, with temperature increased to about 3° C., more salt is added, and grinding is continued for 6 more minutes. Shrimp flavoring is added, and grinding is continued for another 6 minutes. The temperature of the finished paste is then around 8° C. The paste is then separated into two portions.
One such portion of the finished paste is spread onto rectangular pans, and allowed to set at about 8° C. for 20 hours, during which the paste physically transforms into an elastic gel.
After setting, the surimi gel is transferred to a steam cooker, and cooked at about 90° C. for about 80 minutes. The cooked gel is then shredded into small pieces, i.e., elongated pieces between 30 and 70 millimeters in length, 5 to 15 millimeters in width, and 0.5 to 1.0 millimeters in thickness. Three percent (by weight) of citric acid is added to the shredded gel, and the mix is allowed to soak for 15 minutes. The citric acid concentration is 10%. Acid is then pressed from the shredded gel, which is then combined with the second portion of flavored surimi paste, and the mix transferred to a shrimp-forming machine to be described. The ratio of shredded gel to flavored surimi paste is about 35:65.
The fish slurry (such as a mix of fish paste and pieces of shredded gelled fish paste), is supplied at 11 to injectors 12 for injecting the mix into heated molds 13. A series sequence of such molds is shown as provided on an endless-chain conveyor 63 entrained about sprockets 14. The conveyor is driven at 15 so that the travel of each mold is interrupted while the mold cavity or cavities are filled with the mix via the injector or injectors 12. See for example FIGS. 4 and 5 showing injector nozzle bodies 16 in down position and discharging mix at 17 into mold cavities 18. FIG. 3 shows a typical mold 13 to include the elongated and like mold sections 13b, which form multiple cavities 18 when the sections are closed together. FIGS. 5 and 6 show the shrimp-shaped configuration of the mold cavity. Note approximately C-shaped cavity region 18a corresponding to the shrimp body, and narrowed region 18b corresponding to the shrimp tail. A cavity air vent is formed at 21. The cavity 18 may alternatively have lobster, or other crustacean shape.
In FIGS. 4-6, each cavity has a first opening 80 adjacent to the shrimp larger end portion, and a second opening 81 adjacent to the shrimp curved-back portion. Paste is injected into each cavity via the first opening 80, while the second opening 81 is maintained closed.
Not only does the removable nozzle body 16 provide a port or passage 17 for paste to flow to and through opening 80, to fill cavity 18, but it also provides surface 82 that closes the second opening 81, referred to. This occurs in down position of the nozzle bodies, which are moved down and retracted upwards, in unison and relative to the molds, as by actuator means 85. FIGS. 5 and 6 show a curved projection 86 integral with the nozzle body projecting toward the cavity, so as to form a simulated vein groove 87 in the curved-back portion of the formed shrimp product, 86 being elongated.
Accordingly, the nozzle body 16 performs three functions:
provides a passage 17 for shrimp-paste flow to cavity 18, via opening 80,
provides curved closure surface 82 to close the second opening 81,
provides a curved projection 86 that forms the vein groove 87.
Note in FIGS. 5 and 6 that the nozzle body seats at 89a and 89b, on mold 13, in down position in the opening 90 formed in that mold. Water is desirably dripped, via port 91 in the nozzle, to lubricate the nozzle body surfaces 82 and 86 that contact the shrimp paste as it initially cooks (prior to withdrawal of the nozzle bodies and opening of the molds to release the product). This permits freeing of those surfaces 82 and 86, without sticking to the meat of the preliminarily cooked product.
Prior to injecting the mix into the mold cavities, a suitable colorant may be sprayed or otherwise transferred into the mold section cavities and onto the cavity surfaces. Such colorant may be water-soluble, and conveyed from a tank source 22, and via a line 23, to injectors 24. The injectors may be lowered so that their nozzle ends 24a penetrate the mold vents 19, to spray colorant in water into the cavities. A suitable cavity lubricant, or release composition, may also be conveyed in the spray, to coat cavity surfaces.
As the filled and heated molds are transported to the right, in FIG. 2, they are further heated exteriorly as by gas flames 64 rising from gas burner 25, or other heat source means. Combustible fuel heating is preferred due to simplicity of equipment, and temperature control. Such heating is typically continued while the mold travels distance D over the flames, and for between 60 and 100 seconds, and optimally for about 72 seconds, and at a temperature or temperatures to cook the mix, causing it to cohere and form a unitary, soft product, discharged at 25 onto a second conveyor 26. The product temperature upon such discharge is between 60° and 75° C., and preferably at least about 65° C.
Note that the vents 19 are directed upwardly, away from and out of the path of the flames 24, so that the exposed mix outwardly of the vents 19 is not directly contacted by the flames. Further, such cooking causes expansion of the mix in the cavity, and its outward expansion or displacement (see broken lines 20b in FIG. 5) from and relative to vent 19, the portion thus protruding being randomly uneven in surface texture, to simulate the neck region of an actual shrimp after pull-off of the shrimp head. This is made possible due to the process described and to be described, and further characterized by an absence of pressurization of the mix in the continuously vented mold cavity, during cooking in the mold.
FIGS. 2 and 7-9 also illustrate mold opening, to downwardly expose the mold section cavities, for product fall-out, by gravity, onto conveyor 26. See for example the opened sections 13b in FIG. 2. A rotary brush 27 may be employed to brush against the underside of the molds to clean the cavities of any remnant cooked mix, and/or to assist in product discharge from the mold sections.
FIG. 7 shows the molds conveyed in direction 30, with slidable camming units 31 attached to the section 13b. The units 31 are activated in response to sideward displacement of rollers 32 traveling along rails 33, which diverge laterally at 33a. As rollers 32 are displaced laterally by the rails, cam unit sides 34 interact with followers 35 to pivot each mold section about 90°, one forwardly and the other rearwardly, to open the mold. Thereafter, the molds are closed as the rollers 32 travel along the rails that converge at regions 33b. See also mold section hinges 66.
Referring back to FIG. 1, product 25 on conveyor 26 is transferred to and by another conveyor 40, to further processing equipment. Such further processing typically includes broiling the product at 41, for a time interval t1 between 50 and 70 seconds, and at a broiling zone wherein the temperature is between 160° C. and 200° C. For best results, the product is broiled for about 64 seconds, and at a temperature or temperatures of about 180° C., the product temperature at the end of broiling being about 60° C. Such broiling is desirably carried out while the product is supported on a slowly traveling openwork metal grid that includes conveyor 44 in the broiling zone, and by combusting gas at upper and lower sides of the grid to directly transmit broiling heat to opposite sides of the product.
Subsequently, the product is cooked in an enclosed, steam-filled zone 50 for a time interval t2, between 9 and 11 minutes. Zone 50 is typically at atmospheric pressure, and the temperature therein is kept between 80° C. and 110° C., and preferably at about 85° C. for best results. The product may be traveled on a conveyor 52 in zone 50.
Finally, at the end of t2, the product is transferred into a cooling zone 55, kept at a temperature of around 0° C. The cooled product is then packed for shipment.
In the above, the mold may be metallic, with coating surfaces formed by TEFLON to prevent product adherence. Due to the non-smooth configuration of the cavity surfaces having shrimp-body shape, the sprayed-in reddish color will not coat the surfaces uniformly, so that the resultant color transferred to the product will impart a true shrimp surface look to the product.
The red color can be any standard FDA-approved red color.
Upward removal of the nozzle bodies loosely severs the simulated shrimp product at the head ends thereof, i.e., adjacent to openings 80, to give a natural look to that head end of the product. The paste remaining in nozzle body ports 17 may be so injected into mold cavities 18 of a subsequent mold advanced by conveyor to the injection positions.
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|U.S. Classification||426/250, 425/542, 426/513, 426/643|
|Jun 20, 1988||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: JAC CREATIVE FOODS, INC., A CA. CORP.,CALIFORNIA
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:MATSUBARA, HIRO;REEL/FRAME:004940/0356
Effective date: 19880603
|Nov 9, 1993||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
|Feb 13, 1994||LAPS||Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees|
|Apr 26, 1994||FP||Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee|
Effective date: 19940213

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