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Stomping Out Malaria in Africa was built on the vision that through strategic partnerships, targeted training and mobilization of Volunteers, intelligent use ofinformation technology, and radically efficient use of seed funding, Peace Corps will focus the efforts of over 3,000 Volunteers in sub-Saharan Africa to make an immediate and measurable impact in the fight against malaria.
Malaria, an infection caused by the plasmodium parasite, has been a critical public health challenge for thousands of years. From the first recorded sighting in China in 2,700 BC, its signature high cyclical fever and anemia have gone on to kill hundreds of millions of people and the total number of infections is in the billions. In the year 2005 alone, World Health Organization estimates indicated that malaria infected between 350 and 500 million people and killed over 1 million, 90% of whom lived in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of those were children.
Since 2005, a massive international malaria control effort has begun to make significant progress. In 2010, WHO estimated that the number of malaria deaths annually had dropped to 655,000, with the majority of the decrease attributable to increased availability and usage of long lasting insecticide-treaded nets (LLINs). With the LLIN coverage across the continent reaching high levels, however, the potential for additional gains through net distributions diminishes. The international malaria prevention community, while maintaining high levels of net coverage, has increasingly turned its focus to training community health workers to diagnose and treat malaria in the home. As an organization supporting grassroots development, Peace Corps Volunteers work closely with CHWs across Africa.
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then-Sen. John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. From that inspiration grew a federal government agency devoted to world peace and friendship.
Throughout its history, the Peace Corps has adapted and responded to the issues of the times. In an ever-changing world, Peace Corps Volunteers have met new challenges with innovation, creativity, determination, and compassion. Malaria has been part of the Peace Corps experience from the beginning. In a 1961 memo to President Kennedy, Sargent Shriver, who spearheaded the creation of the Peace Corps and became its first director, outlined the three programmatic areas Peace Corps would address: education, food security, and malaria.
Since Sargent Shriver's first malaria-focused Volunteers began their services in 1961, 200,000+ Americans have served in the Peace Corps, working in 139 countries in diverse sectors including agriculture, health education, small enterprise development, and conservation.
On May 5th, 2009, President Barack Obama announce the creation of the Global Health Initiative (GHI), an effort to coordinate the activities of all US governmental organizations engaged in health related foreign assistance. Since that time, Peace Corps has been working to deepen its integration with partners at the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and its constituent agencies: the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Stomping Out Malaria in Africa
On April 25, 2011 Peace Corps launched its Stomping Out Malaria in Africa initiative at a World Malaria Day event at Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington DC. Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams along with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and PMI Coordinator Admiral Timothy Ziemer advanced a grand vision for a unique collaboration between Peace Corps Volunteers in the field, US Government malaria prevention professionals at partner agencies, partner NGOs and host country institutions across Africa.
Peace Corps would train a cadre of highly specialized malaria prevention Volunteers – the Malaria Team – and embed those Volunteers in every malaria-focused organization in Africa with an urgent need for human resources. PMI would provide expert trainers, professional and technical mentoring of Malaria Team members and support in liaising with host country institutions and NGOs. Malaria Team Volunteers would make the organizations they worked in more effective and coordinate between those organizations and the field network of over 3,000 Volunteers in sub-Saharan Africa to bring the full focused effort of the Peace Corps Volunteer network to bear on the issue of malaria prevention.
Embedding Volunteers in partner organizations would create a significant increase in inter-organizational communication bandwidth. This increase in communicationwould lead to increased synergies among USG agencies and organizations funded by USG funds in line with the vision of the GHI.
Fighting Malaria in Our Communities
Peace Corps will work to ensure every malaria-impacted Peace Corps Volunteer community (village or urban neighborhood) has universal bed net coverage and comprehensive malaria prevention and treatment education programs.
Partnering to Defeat Malaria in Target Countries
Peace Corps will work with partners in all malaria-impacted countries to achieve the internationally agreed upon of milestone or near zero deaths caused by malaria by 2015.
Building an International Malaria Prevention Community
Peace Corps will work with partners to catalyze a community of practice for frontline malaria prevention professionals, using the internet to facilitate documentation and sharing of malaria prevention best practices internationally.
National Malaria Control Programs
The prime partners for all malaria work, including that of Stomping Out Malaria in Africa, are the National Malaria Control Programs in the countries where we work. Over the course of the last year, Peace Corps programs in all Stomp countries have strengthened or begun relationships with their NMCPs. In The Gambia, this has resulted in a Volunteer being seconded directly to the NMCP to support their IT and program management needs. In Kenya, Volunteers have been assigned as counterparts to the NMCP's District Malaria Control Officers in key high prevalence
President's Malaria Initiative
The President's Malaria Initiative is the largest institutional partner of Stomp, with 14 Stomp countries hosting PMI programming. Since the inception of Stomp, PMI has supported the program by offering their expert staff to Boot Camp trainings that have trained over 50 PCVs and 12 Peace Corps staff members. Those trainees in turn have trained hundreds of Volunteers throughout Africa.
Instead of 'partnerships by occasional meeting,' Stomp assigns volunteers to key partners, exponentially increasing the quantity and quality of institutional partnerships.
Building institutional relationships with partners is key to the success of Stomping Out Malaria in Africa. Many organizations want to be better partners with their peers but struggle with the logistics of opening and maintaining clear lines of communication and processes of coordination. Based on an internal review of the efficacy of various Peace Corps partnerships, Stomp identified that those partnerships which involved the embedding or seconding of a Volunteer directly to a partner organization experienced an exceptional success rate. Embedded Volunteers dramatically increased the bandwidth between the organizations and simplified the process of coordination and joint strategic planning.Based on this insight, Stomp has followed an innovative strategy of identifying key malaria prevention organizations at all posts and assigning Volunteers to those organizations with a dual mandate. Assigned Volunteers support the work of the organization directly and are also tasked with ensuring that all of the Volunteers in country are aware of the organization's activities and synergize their malaria prevention activities with those of the partner. Over the past year, 30 malaria prevention organizations across Africa have benefited from the direct support of a Peace Corps Volunteer.
Malaria No More is an organization dedicated to eliminating malaria in Africa by 2015. Their projects include the innovative Net Guarantee program for LLIN procurement, Nightwatch, a public awareness radio and television campaign, and Speak Up Africa, a project aimed at highlighting local African malaria prevention champions. Malaria No More staff have provided expert trainers for all Malaria Boot Camp trainings and Volunteers in Senegal and Cameroon are assigned directly to MNM. Additionally, curriculum for primary school malaria education developed by MNM is being rolled out for use by Volunteers across the continent.
JHUCCP's NetWorks program in Senegal was one of the earliest institutional partners of Stomp. Volunteers in Senegal have worked with NetWorks on nationwide universal coverage campaigns and routine distribution logistics. Networks staff have been instrumental in training Volunteers at the Boot Camps.
Well-trained Volunteers are the key to Stomp,
knowledgeable trainers are the prerequisite for great trainings, and having the best and brightest attend trainings together enhances learning. So Stomp created the Malaria Boot Camp program, a 10 day intensive training held in Thies, Senegal with over 30 expert trainers from partner organizations. Over the course of 3 Boot Camp trainings, Stomp has trained 51 Volunteers, 12 staff members and 1 member of the National Malaria Control Program staff member. Together they represent a Peace Corps Malaria Team currently covering 18 countries.
Well-trained Volunteers are the key to Stomp, knowledgeable trainers are the prerequisite for great trainings, and having the best and brightest attend trainings together enhances learning. So Stomp created the Malaria Boot Camp program, a 10 day intensive training held in Thies, Senegal with over 30 expert trainers from partner organizations. Over the course of 3 Boot Camp trainings, Stomp has trained 51 Volunteers, 12 staff members and 1 member of the National Malaria Control Program staff member. Together they represent a Peace Corps Malaria Team currently covering 18 countries.
Learning doesn't end when you walk out the schoolroom door and it doesn't end when Malaria Team Volunteers return to their countries. Ongoing knowledge sharing ensures that Malaria Team members have the most up to date information about key issues and knits these Volunteers into one team, with a shared purpose and vision. Innovative ideas no longer need to spend the months or years that they used to take traveling from the field to HQ and out to other Volunteers in the field. Volunteers want to share their operational knowledge with their peers.
Facebook Groups
Almost 100% of Volunteers and a growing number of staff already use Facebook. These two insights led Stomp to leverage Facebook Groups as a tool for communication and best practice sharing, both within the Malaria Team and with key partners. Volunteers, staff, and key partners have access to the Malaria Team Facebook Group, a bulletin board for asking questions, sharing the latest events, and receiving encouragement and insight from their peers.
Google Docs
While Facebook is a fantastic platform for instant feedback from a large peer group, many resources are too large to fit in an FB post, and finding information and documents can be difficult. However, 95% of all Volunteers use Google's Gmail as their email provider and thus have access to Google Docs, an online file repository. Stomp has developed an online resource library in Google Docs available to all Malaria Team Volunteers. There, Volunteers can access lesson plans, case studies, and other media resources for malaria prevention. It is entirely searchable using standard Google Search and Malaria Team Volunteers can access it through their existing Gmail logins. Country-specific portions of the Google Docs library are made available to all Volunteers from that country.
Wordpress Content Management System
Stomp maintains a public facing website at www.stompoutmalaria.org that highlights Volunteers, their counterparts, and their unique malaria interventions. Built on a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) content management system, the site offers Volunteers with virtually no experience in website building simple tools to create, edit, and publish their projects in real time.
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Definition of sinusoid in English:
Syllabification: si·nus·oidPronunciation: /ˈsīnəˌsoid
- 1A curve having the form of a sine wave.More example sentences
- The Fourier transform decomposes or separates a waveform or function into sinusoids of different frequency which sum to the original waveform.
- Most transient signals, which are exponentially damped sinusoids, cannot be wavelet basis functions because of their nonzero mean.
- A digital tone generator produced a pure tone sinusoid, and the intensity envelope was visually adjusted to fit the envelope of a representative call of the population.
- 2 Anatomy A small irregularly shaped blood vessel found in certain organs, especially the liver.More example sentences
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- In the liver, larvae move freely in the sinusoids.
- Occasionally, the spindle cells invaded the sinusoids, replacing the normal endothelium.
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- Many standard curves occur as sinusoidal spirals.
- Visual observations of hair bundle motion showed sinusoidal or nearly sinusoidal motion.
- If you're not familiar with the Fourier transform, its purpose is to decompose a function into sinusoidal basis functions.
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- Modulating the current density periodically with a pseudo-sine wave generates the sinusoidally varying porosity gradient that creates the rugate filter.
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Pronunciation: /ˌsīnəˈsoidəlē/
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In the April 17, 2013 issue, Part 1 explained that the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) says that they want only to reorganize current rules regarding the production and sale of raw milk into one document.
But other members appointed to the IDPH Food Safety Advisory Committee's Dairy Subcommittee - notably the members that either produce and sell raw milk or who purchase the product - do not see any reason to compromise on rule changes that they say are not necessary.
Part 1 ended with Steve Divincenzo, Public Service Administrator for IDPH, stating that the vast majority of producers in the State of Illinois - over 90% - are able to meet the Grade A standards currently in place for the corporate dairy industry. "It would be incumbent upon us to have these standards for all of the dairy farms, especially for those individuals producing raw milk."
Donna O'Shaughnessy, who operates South Pork Ranch LLC in Chatsworth, IL, is concerned about the requirement for the Grade A permit, simply because the IDPH has no idea how many raw milk dairy farmers are in the state, nor do they know how many consumers actually purchase raw milk.
"To say that 90% of these farmers could meet the Grade A standards is definitely not true at this point," O'Shaughnessy added.
Divincenzo clarified his statement, saying "I don't have [data] for all of the states, but I do know from speaking to someone in one of our co-ops, that they have over half of the Illinois producers in this co-op. They are between 92 and 95% at meeting these standards."
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O'Shaughnessy said she also needed clarification regarding the 100 gallon limit proposed by the subcommittee.
"100 gallons is about 3.3 gallons a day. The average cow is producing about 8 gallons a day. That 100-gallon limit is equal to about 1/3 of a cow. If I am understanding this correctly, you're saying that if a farmer has one cow, or 3 or 4 goats, and is selling raw milk, they need to have a Grade A permit.
"The question is, if they can only sell 100 gallons a month, that is equal to less than one cow. So if a person is going to try to meet this [limit], they would only have one cow, and you are requiring them to have a Grade A permit?"
"Initially, we were talking about 'incidental sales,'" said Divincenzo. "When this statute came into being many years ago, it was [directed] to farmers that supplemented their income . . . several states have had to define what 'incidental' meant. We're thinking maybe once or twice a week. Some states actually have the 100 gallon limit a month . . . and with goats, several states only allow 9 goats for the sale of raw milk.
"This was never meant to be a 'business,' if you will. This was to supplement income [from] incidental sales, and also, in order to minimize the affect that may come from this transaction. That's why we were limiting the sales of that product."
Divincenzo again pointed out that the IDPH does not know how many raw milk producers, or farms that sell raw milk, there actually are in Illinois.
"We were thinking at one point in time that once this [regulatory proposal] came out, it would drive [raw milk farmers] further underground. We just don't know how this is going to affect those individuals. But we just wanted to minimize the amount of [raw] milk that was being produced on a monthly basis, and there are others on this subcommittee that are concerned about the limit."
Molly Lamb, Division Chief of the IDPH Division of Food, Drugs and Dairies, said that based on the draft prepared in January, they recognize that people that drink raw milk, will continue to drink it, and not 'incidentally' drink raw milk one month, then never drink it again.
"The terminology for this has really changed from 'incidental' to 'unsolicited' sales," Lamb continued, "unlike the milk in the grocery stores that advertise all over the place. We're not trying to ban it here, we're trying to work to make sure procedures are clear as to how the sale of raw milk is going to happen in Illinois. In so doing, we understand that there is going to be unsolicited sales that are going to re-occur."
Lamb said that the 100 gallon limit is not set in stone, but that there are some on the subcommittee that feel a certain threshold should be agreed upon, and suggested that if anyone has a "better solution," to bring it to the attention of the subcommittee.
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But O'Shaughnessy sees a contradiction in this goal to regulate the raw milk industry compared to the direction taken by the State, the University of Illinois, state-wide Chambers of Commerce and other organizations, to promote consumers buying more locally-grown food at Farmer's Markets, and their obvious desire to have more fresh, local food available.
"Honestly, if a limit is put on production, first of all, you will dramatically affect incomes of many, many farmers in Illinois. I don't think you understand - there will be farms that will close. Not only will there be angry farmers, who have had their income interfered with, consumers will be very upset. These are the moms with their babies, a group that has a lot of power.
"This limit, while we are pushing so hard to make good food available for people at Farmer's Markets and in the schools, is a contradiction compared to what's being done in other areas by the State of Illinois."
Lamb appeared to disagree with O'Shaughnessy by saying that, "Right now, the sale of raw milk can only be from dairy farms." Lamb then questioned O'Shaughnessy about her farm's production numbers and consumer base, asking her to give the subcommittee an idea of how many gallons per month would be sold from her dairy farm.
"Well Molly, I have to honestly say that I would be very cautious about sharing that information," O'Shaughnessy stated. "When we decided to sell only raw milk direct to consumers after Foremost (referring to Foremost Farms USA Dairy Cooperative based in WI) said they would no longer buy our milk from us because we were selling raw milk, we called IDPH and asked them to continue with our Grade A permit. They told me, very abruptly, that there was 'no box on the form' for our [type of] farm. They did not want to know that we existed. We wanted to be certified, we wanted to continue to be tested, but the IDPH told us 'no.' That's why I am cautious.
"But I can tell you, if we were limited to 100 gallons, it would dramatically reduce our income and the ability of our farm to survive. This is our livelihood."
Divincenzo pressed on, asking O'Shaughnessy if she would at least give them an approximate volume of what she believed would be "adequate and fair."
He also pointed out the fact that, as in her case with Foremost Farms, as well as many other co-ops, if they find out that a farmer is "selling raw milk 'on the side,' you're going to be on the outside looking in. They are not going to have you as a member anymore."
He again asked her for an estimated volume that she would recommend, "since we don't have a clue at this point in time of how many individuals are doing this, how much they are producing, or how much they are selling."
O'Shaughnessy said she could get those figures, but at a later date. "I want it to be accurate."
Leonard Sheaffer, the retired farmer and +25-year dairy producer, reminded the subcommittee that the raw milk industry has changed dramatically in the last 20 years.
"There were a lot more dairy farmers then, and people were selling a little raw milk on the side. But today, the purchasers don't want to buy milk unless you say that you are not going to sell raw milk. I see no reason at all why there needs to be a limit. If you get $5 a gallon, that's only $500 a month. Nobody is going to make a living on that. It seems to me that the more milk somebody sells, the more money they will have to invest back into their operation to make it better."
"Again, I understand where you're coming from," said Divincenzo, "but from our perspective . . . based on the first paragraph of the draft, we say that 'this is not an endorsement from the IDPH for the sale of raw milk.' What we're trying to do is minimize the potential problems that may occur from raw milk. That's a concern for us . . . and we understand that this is apparently a growing industry, because we just don't have any figures here. But at the same time, it is our responsibility to protect consumers as best we can."
Protect whom?
Leslie Cooperband of Prairie Fruit Farms in Champaign observed that while the role of the IDPH to protect the public health and safety is a "noble cause," she proposed that through testing, "if farms could demonstrate that their milk is safe and pathogen free, why not place NO limit on the number of gallons of milk they could sell?"
Larry Terando, a representative of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), gave his opinion on that matter.
"You're talking about testing the milk once a month. So if there are no pathogens in the milk on that sample, that means it's safe - that day. It does not mean that it is safe the other 29 days of the month. Pathogens will appear, disappear, re-appear; they come and go and the milk is squat."
Cooperband suggested that one could look at test result patterns over time. "If a farm has incidents that show up, they're going to show up in a monthly sample. We can only do so much, and we should be approaching this from a risk-based perspective."
"I am thinking in terms of risk management," countered Terando. "The only way to make raw milk safe is to pasteurize it. We're talking about 150 years of science being turned back. There were many, many, many people sick and dying from milk consumption, but that was way-back-when, and everybody thinks they've cured the problem. As long as we continue to pasteurize the milk, we have cured the problem. If you stop pasteurizing, we're going to have many more sick people.
"Food borne illness is one of the most under-reported diseases out there," Terando continued. "People get a little sick, they have an upset stomach, they get diarrhea, they say, "oh, I've got the flu.' OK, that's fine. But then someone in a more weakened condition might get deathly ill from that same bacteria. We're talking public health, and prevention of illness, not the advocacy of more risk."
Lamb again suggested that if the subcommittee had better information of the actual figures from the raw milk producers, the subcommittee would be able to have a "more articulated discussion from our perspective in the department for this level of discussion. Because right now, we're unsure."
Joe Green (an unidentified caller), asked to "clarify' some points mentioned by the raw milk proponents. "First, regarding who pays for the testing, the state does not pay for milk testing, the co-op does. I want that clarified. The second point brought up was about the outbreaks from deli meat. The consumption of deli meat is a thousand-fold times the consumption of raw milk. So that is an irrelevant statistic.
"Let's get back to some facts as to why we need these regulations," Green continued. "On the CDC site, there is a 93 outbreak of raw milk to raw milk products reported to the CDC from 1998 to 2009. Of those outbreaks, 3/4's are from states where the sale of raw milk is legal. And, of the illnesses, it is reported that it is 13 times more likely for someone to be hospitalized from raw milk illness versus pasteurized milk. Most of these illnesses associated with this report are from E. Coli, Campylobacter, and Salmonella. That is why those pathogens should be tested for."
Divincenzo added that the IDPH does test pasteurized milk for Salmonella, and they also have started a program within the last year of testing certain cheese products at various facilities for Salmonella, Listeria, and E. Coli. on a quarterly basis. "Thankfully, so far, we have not had any positive results."
An Illinois dairy producer that serves on the Illinois Milk Producers Association board, Don Mackinson said he thought it was a good idea that raw milk samples be collected by certified samplers, but that they should be taken several times per month, not just once a month as proposed. "I am not in favor of raw milk, but if that's the way it's going to have to be, it's going to have to be tested for safety."
O'Shaughnessy asked if Mackinson was proposing that there be increased testing of pasteurized milk farms, or just raw milk farms.
He said "Our milk is tested every load; our milk is tested all the time. When it goes into Peoria, it's tested for everything Prairie Farms tests for."
"Are you asking for testing that is greater for the raw milk farmers versus you?" O'Shaughnessy asked.
"No, I don't know how it could be any greater," Mackinson replied. "Our milk is tested every load. I think [raw milk] should be tested several times a week. Today, you're fine. Tomorrow, you could have a bacteria breakout. Not just once a month; we need our milk tested. As you know, milk is the most highly-tested product on the market, and I am in favor of that. Yes, I've had problems with bacteria."
Divincenzo said that while the co-op may test every load on a routine basis, the IDPH only takes one sample per month, basically for the somatic cell quality counts, as far as enforcement is concerned. (Each load tested comes from the dairy tankers that collect several farms' milk into one truck, then delivered to the respective dairy, where the whole load is tested).
Tony Graves, another Illinois dairy producer, said that he agreed "strongly" with Mackinson. "We're required to test on a daily basis, and I can see no reason why a raw milk producer should have any special considerations, and not meet the same standards that we have to for the safety of the public."
Cooperband pointed out that she did not think that pasteurized milk producers had to test for the same pathogens that are listed in the proposal. "I think you're tested for total bacterial plate count, somatic cell, inhibitor; I don't think that for every load, those pathogens are being tested by the co-op. You can correct me if I am wrong."
Graves said that only the pasteurized milk was tested for pathogens.
Divincenzo wants to clear up the two different testing points. One is for pathogens, more than once a month, the other for the quality testing which includes the choloform, bacteria and somatic cell counts. "Are we suggesting that the quality tests should be done once a month, or are we talking about including pathogens as well?"
Mackinson stated that on unpasteurized milk, "Yes, it should be tested more than once." Then he asked if anyone on the conference call was from Prairie Farms' laboratories in order to confirm his testing claims. "How often are we tested? I am not positive about that."
Joe Delaney responded, saying he is not from the labs, but is in Quality Control on the pasteurized milk side of Prairie Farms. "Basically, every load is tested for bacteria every day; that's the total load. Then each individual producer is rotated by random sampling, but the minimum testing takes place once a week, and typically, 2 to 3 times a week for bacteria, CI and somatic cell counts."
Random testing is important, Divincenzo added, so that the producer does not know exactly when he will be tested, which gives an overall more accurate picture of the farm environment, as well as the quality of the milk itself.
O'Shaughnessy wondered that since the raw milk producer that sells the product to the public is not allowed to be in a co-op - the ones that pay for the testing of the pasteurized milk producers - who will select the approved samplers, and who would set up the random testing?
Divincenzo has researched several different laboratories that offer these services, both in-state and out, many of whom are connected to co-ops, but also has services that work with individuals.
The next proposal on the 2nd draft states that "Any confirmed positive result of the above listed pathogens shall result in the suspension of the dairy farm permit from selling or distributing raw milk." Divincenzo said that is "standard operating procedure" for any type of dairy. "Once a negative result is received by the Regulatory Agency, the dairy farm may resume selling or distributing their raw milk."
The last proposal states "The dairy farm shall assume all liability involved with the sale and distribution of the raw milk. This includes liability insurance, which O'Shaughnessy said is about $1000/year on the average.
Most agreed that obtaining liability insurance on any farm is a business decision, not a public safety issue.
Additional "Points of Consideration" were then discussed, and include the following:
- The term "cowshare" needs to be defined.
- The sale of raw milk is considered income and must be reported to the IRS.
- IDPH will provide laminated warning signs.
- The term "sanitary" needs to be defined.
- The IDPH will have a different permit number for those farmers that only sell raw milk to a consumer. The permit will end with the letter "R."
- The farmer will be required to have a Grade A permit.
- The farmers will provide a label for the container, but the consumer is not required to put the label on the container.
- The farmer will be required to test for coliform, bacteria, somatic cell counts, temperature and drug residues.
- The standard for coliform will be less than or equal to 10, and for bacteria less than or equal to 20,000.
- Currently, there isn't a validated test for drug residues for individual cow samples. Dr. Thomas Graham will be contacted about this matter.
- The log the farmer will be required to keep will include the date and volume sold. IDPH will need to check with the legal dept. to see if they can include customers' names on the list.
To some, these "Points of Consideration" were presented more as "directives" from the IDPH, rather than considerations for a committee to discuss.
Currently, the raw milk subcommittee membership is weighed in favor of the pasteurized milk industry. There are approximately 5 raw milk farmers that were asked to serve, (but not until after the "2nd Draft Amended Rules for the Sale of Raw Milk" was produced on Jan. 11, 2013) and a member of the Illinois Farm Bureau, while Divincenzo and Lamb represent the IDPH, a representative of the University of Illinois Veterinary Clinical Medicine, one with the FDA, five (5) representatives from Prairie Farms, an Illinois Milk Producers Association board member, and two from Dean Foods.
At press time on Monday evening, April 22, The Prairie Advocate had received no further response regarding its "Open Meetings Act (OMA) Request for Review" with the Public Access Bureau (PAB) of the Illinois Attorney General's office. The Request for Review alleges that the IDPH did not comply with OMA concerning the posting of agendas for the Feb. 22 meeting referenced in this article. In the meantime, it has been noted that the January 11 and possible prior meetings held are also under scrutiny. It is important to note that the agenda for the May 1 meeting has been posted on the IDPH web site.
In next week's May 1 article, Part 3 will address some final comments made at the Feb. 22 conference call meeting regarding the "Points of Consideration," and information from the raw milk farmers that was received in discussion with the IDPH after the meeting. May 1 is also the day the set for the IDPH Food Safety Advisory subcommittee's Dairy Subcommittee meeting in Springfield. Part 4 will address that meeting.


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09-16-2012, 11:16 | #1 |
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Hammock Forums Live Chat Forum? Interesting? (e.g. HF on Teamspeak)
Hi guys,
I was just wondering if anyone ever gave thought to a online chat channel for Hammock Forums structured just like the home HF site. I regularly use Teamspeak for gaming and thought it might be a great new way for people to take interacting on the forums to a new level. Having channels that replicate the HF topics could keep the discussions focussed on the matter at hand. Also, I've made many good "online" friendships using an application like Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Skype.. Just throwing it out there. Hammock forums is already such an amazing site and I truly believe that if it ain't broke don't fix it. This was just an idea.
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This has been brought up several times before. It's an interesting idea, but we've never thought it was the right fit for HF. Chat is a good option for people that are doing something at the same time, like gaming. But it's not really a good fit for sharing info.
With chats, the members that aren't online at the time don't benefit from the discussions as they do on a forum. Since there's no running record to refer back to, the information shared there is just 'one time', rather than able to be referenced. Also, chats tend to wander wildly in topic rather than being focused. That can be frustrating for both readers, and for moderators. I know that you mean that a chat session would be in addition to the forum rather than a replacement, but if you want to talk to another member in real-time, a direct chat session is a fine method (Google Talk, Skype, AIM, Teamspeak, etc). On-topic discussions would benefit everyone by being had in the forum threads though. JMO
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09-16-2012, 13:54 | #3 |
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I've thought about this too. I was once very active on a similar forum (very different topic, but very similar environment), and I thought a chat worked very well. If off-topicness is the concern, why not make it accessible only to donating members? Then it going off topic from time to time wouldn't be an issue since donating members get off-topic forums anyway, and moderators would only need to make sure things stay civil, a much easier task especially on forums like these.
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I played with the idea of setting up an IRC chat room a few days ago, but didn't bother. I think that might be a more viable option than TS or Vent, though.
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That's a thought, too. Someone just make an unaffiliated IRC chat room. It's been way too many years since I've dealt with IRC to even consider that though. Lol.
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I'd go for that over the other options. I don't like most web broswer based chat programs. I think an unaffiliated hammock irc channel would free the mods from having to deal with extra stuff, and it would give people who wanted to chat a place to chat.
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Just a thought but what about a twitter to keep up with the latest on the forums for those of us who use the mobile apps on the go.
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I've been on several forums that had a live chat function and it ended up causing less activity in other specific forums. Not a good fit where people are constantly searching for info and sharing new discoveries.
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Chat would be great. It gives a chance for the members to talk in real time. It doesn't slow posting in forums, I know from being an admin on a motorcycle forum for five years. Generally, members come to the forum to read the threads and get info, but the chat becomes like a "lounge" area for people to hang out. As long as it is moderated, it's a great thing. Being able to speak to people like Dutch, Brandon, Adam, etc etc would be a really cool thing
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Not for me but then I don't facebook, twitt, text or even use my cell that much. If it wasn't for the Forum I probably wouldn't be on the computer as much as I am. Probably has something to do with my age.
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Creator: | Flowers, Eleanor Gaillard Simons |
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April 18, 2006, (unprocessed) 2500 items, 5.00 cubic feet; Papers (ca. 1946-2005) relating to the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Children of the Confederacy, and miscellaneous family, genealogical, and professional activities in North and South Carolina. Donor: Eleanor Gaillard Simons Flowers
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