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President Goodluck Jonathan says the great challenge in rescuing the abducted schoolgirls of Chibok, Borno State, is the need to rescue alive.
Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, in a statement, said Jonathan disclosed today while meeting 17-year-old Pakistani advocate of girls' education rights, Malala Yousafzai.
Abati said the president described the notion that the government had not been doing enough to find and rescue the abducted Chibok girls as very wrong and misplaced and noted that the government was definitely doing everything possible to ensure that the girls were rescued alive and safely returned to their parents.
He said Jonathan however explained to Malala that the government's efforts were constrained by the overriding imperative of ensuring that the girls' lives were not endangered in any rescue attempt.
Abati quoted Jonathan as saying: "Terror is relatively new here and dealing with it has its challenges. The great challenge in rescuing the Chibok girls is the need to ensure that they are rescued alive".
He said the president stressed that the Federal Government and the security agencies were very mindful of the need to avoid the scenario in rescue attempts in other parts of the world where lives of abductees were lost in the effort to rescue them.
According to Abati, the president said despite this challenge, the government was very actively pursuing all feasible options to achieve the safe return of the abducted girls.
"The time it is taking to achieve that objective is not a question of the competence of the Nigerian Government. We've had teams from the United States, Britain, France, Israel and other friendly nations working with us here on the rescue effort and they all appreciate the challenges and the need to thread carefully to achieve our purpose," Jonathan was quoted to have said.
Abati said Jonathan also told Malala that he fully empathised with the girls' parents' pain and anguish and that he would meet with the parents himself before they left Abuja to personally comfort them and reassure them that the government was doing all within its powers to rescue their daughters.
He said the president also reiterated his administration's commitment to ensuring the safe and proper education of all Nigerian children.
"I personally believe that since about 50 per cent of our population are female, we will be depriving ourselves of half of our available human resources if we fail to educate our girls adequately or suppress their ambitions in any way. We are therefore taking steps to curb all forms of discrimination against girls and women, and have also undertaken many affirmative actions on their behalf,"Jonathan was quoted to have said.
According to Abati, Jonathan said that his government was also proactively evolving and implementing policies and measures that would benefit the abducted Chibok girls when they are safely rescued as well as others adversely affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.
"These, President Jonathan said, included the establishment of a Victims' Support Fund, the Safe Schools Initiative and the Presidential Initiative for the North East. He announced that he would inaugurate a National Committee to oversee fundraising for the Victims' Support Fund, which will also cater for families of security men and women who have lost their lives in the war against terrorism, on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. The President thanked Malala for coming to Nigeria to support ongoing efforts to rescue the abducted Chibok girls and promote girl-child education", Abati said.
"We appreciate your efforts to change the world positively through your powerful advocacy for girl-child education,"the president was also quoted to have said.


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BED MAKER Mattressman has sold out of its inexpensive Andy Pad Pro tablet via its web site in an unlikely success story.
In two versions, the Andy Pad went on sale just over a month ago offering a 7in Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet for £129. The slightly higher end model, the Pro, retails for £179 and is now sold out, but more are on their way.
Andy Pad said via Twitter, "Andy Pad Pros out of stock! A recent rush of sales has left us with very few left. More on their way within a couple of weeks!!"
Paul Edwards, business development executive at Andy Pad said, "We are thrilled with the response from the community, and our sales have been fantastic. We couldn't have predicted a better start for Andy Pad, and the team are tremendously proud. A lot of hard work has gone into the Andy Pad project, so we are thrilled that customers are buying."
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Just a few short weeks ago, Anderson Valley Brewing Company was sold to Trey White. While the rumors had been going around, it still caught a lot of people off guard. Today, even more shocking news hit the wire as Anchor Brewing Announced its sale to The Griffin Group.
Acquisition Continues the Legacy of a San Francisco Icon
(San Francisco, CA) – April 27, 2010 – The Griffin Group, an investment and consulting company focused on beverage alcohol brands, announced its acquisition of Anchor Brewing Company which includes its portfolio of craft beers and artisan spirits, including the award winning Anchor Steam Beer.
The Griffin Group is led by beverage alcohol veterans, Keith Greggor and Tony Foglio, two longtime San Francisco residents who have been working with Anchor Brewing Company's owner, Fritz Maytag to maintain the iconic brewery and distillery in San Francisco.
"Anchor Brewing Company has a long history in San Francisco and The Griffin Group is ushering in an exciting era while maintaining our proud, time-honored history," said Fritz Maytag. "Combining Keith and Tony's passion for the Anchor Brewing Company, their industry experience and expertise only means that Anchor will be enjoyed in San Francisco for generations to come."
"Since 1896, Anchor Brewing Company has been an icon of San Francisco's history and culture," stated Griffin's Founding Partner, Keith Greggor, "I am honored to bring Anchor Brewing Company into our family of craft beers and artisanal spirits through establishing Anchor Brewers & Distillers, LLC."
Anchor Brewers & Distillers intends to establish a "Center of Excellence" in San Francisco for craft brewers and artisan distillers from around the world. An epicenter of development, education, entertainment and innovation, all designed to further contribute to the culture and heritage of craft beer and artisan spirits.
"San Francisco is the perfect place to establish this center," stated Tony Foglio, "Through our extensive portfolio of craft beers and fine spirits our focus will be to educate and satisfy the increasing consumer demand for authentic, quality and natural products that reflect the passion of their creators."
Continuing the Anchor heritage, Mr. Maytag has been named Chairman Emeritus of Anchor Brewers & Distillers.
The Griffin Group operates as both boutique merchant and investment bank for premiere craft beers and artisan spirits. In addition to the Anchor Beers, The Griffin Group will assume control of the spirits brands including Old Potrero Whiskey, Junipero Gin and Genevieve Gin through the acquisition of Anchor Brewing Company. Additional affiliated companies to be held under Anchor Brewers & Distillers include Preiss Imports, a leading US specialist spirits and beer importer, and BrewDog USA, LLC, the US division of the leading UK craft beer.
The Griffin Group is headquartered in Novato, Marin County, California.
Doing a search of the The Griffin Group will lead to a lot of confusing links. Keith Greggor and Tony Foglio have been connected with Skyy vodka, BrewDog of Scotland and Preiss Imports. Preiss Imports has a laundry list of products, only two of which are beer: BrewDog and Coopers of Australia.
It's difficult to say what the purchase will mean in the long run for Anchor. The press release says all the right things, but the new company worries me. While the Preiss lineup seems to be more top-shelf than their previous experience with Skyy, I'm always worried by a conglomerate.
It will be interesting to see what other news emerges over the coming days. I will keep you updated with anything newsworthy. Thanks to Jesse at Beer & Nosh for the news. He's the first one I heard it from.


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University of Texas historian Charles Hackett and four of his colleagues persuaded the Board of Regents in 1940 to found an Institute of Latin American Studies, later to be known worldwide by its acronym, ILAS. The founders noted that the University of Texas already had a remarkable library collection of Latin American materials and that Texas, because of its Hispanic heritage and its proximity to Mexico, should be particularly concerned with Latin America. Thus UTs Institute of Latin American Studies became the first academic center of its kind in the United States.
Sixty years later, in November of 2000, President Larry Faulkner announced that Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long had pledged an endowment gift of $10 million to support the instituteone of the crown jewels of this Universityin building toward greater excellence. As one outcome of this gift, the institute is now known as the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and has a new acronym, LLILAS.
Institutes Resources. It is not difficult to see why the Longs were drawn to the institute because its resources, both human and material, make it a most impressive place. In the next few paragraphs, we outline several of the institutes most distinguished achievements.
A great university needs a great library, and one of the stellar resources of Latin American studies at the University of Texas is the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the largest university library collection of Latin American materials in the United States. It attracts scholars from around the world and continues its impressive acquisition of new documents.
The institute is heavily committed to teaching. LLILAS supervises nearly 250 undergraduate majors in Latin American studies and each year helps nearly that number spend a semester studying abroad. Growth in the study abroad programs has been astronomical in the last decade. UT now sends more students than any other U.S. university to study in Latin America, and with the Lozano Long gift, opportunities for students to spend time abroad will increase markedly.
A new addition to our undergraduate program is language component courses. Traditionally, students choosing not to major in Spanish had no good alternative for continuing Spanish language study. To address this problem, LLILAS now offers language component teaching assistants to professors interested in conducting part of their course in Spanish.
These teaching assistants have two basic responsibilities: they help the professor organize a parallel syllabus and reading packet that include materials in Spanish, and once the course begins, they conduct discussion sections in Spanish. In recent years, courses in history, political science, sociology and anthropology have been taught as Spanish language component courses. Thus, this program has three cardinal virtues. It enriches undergraduate instruction by allowing students to continue advanced Spanish study, it gives much-needed employment to graduate students, and it gives professors needed assistance while encouraging them to offer Latin American content courses.
The institute is also heavily involved in graduate education, offering masters and doctors degrees in Latin American studies. These degrees are interdisciplinary and thus attract students whose interests cross traditional departmental boundaries. Latin American studies graduate students can also obtain joint masters degrees with UT professional schools, including Business, Communications, Law, Public Affairs, and Urban and Regional Planning. LLILAS allows its graduate students considerable freedom in constructing concentrations in subjects like environmental studies or economic development which need a confluence of history, politics, policy and science to be studied properly.
A recent survey of graduates from the LLILAS masters program showed that close to 40 percent go on to graduate or professional schools. An impressive 60 percent spend time working in Latin America. LLILAS graduates also end up in influential positions in business, government and nonprofit organizations. An interesting illustration is that in a recent labor conflict involving a Mexican border assembly plant (maquiladora), the leaders of the two opposing negotiating teams were both LLILAS graduates.
Regional Centers. Because Latin America is such a vast region (Brazil alone is larger than the continental United States) with so many different countries and concerns, the institute houses several semi-autonomous centers dedicated to specific regions or programs in Latin America.
Mexican Center. The Mexican Center is the oldest, established in 1980. With more than sixty Mexicanist faculty on campus, the Mexican Center sponsors symposia, conferences, guest lectures and research projects in a staggering variety of areas, including folk culture and Nahuatl language, the Maya, colonial and modern history, the sectoral implications of free trade, water resources in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, gender and contemporary Mexican politics, environmental change, petroleum engineering, social policy, migration and urbanization, and housing and urban development, to mention just a few.
Of great visibility to the Mexican Center is the Distinguished Mexicans in Texas lecture series, which included among its recent speakers Mexicos president Vicente Fox. In February 2001 the center sponsored a conference dedicated to reviewing the First 100 Days of the Fox presidency. Indeed, with its publications and conferences, the Mexican Center will continue to provide timely evaluations and assessment of the progress of the Fox administration and its relations withTexas and the U.S.
In recent years the center has organized a number of benchmark conferences on topics as varied as Mexicos democratic transition, electoral campaigns and their aftermath, women in Mexican politics, Mexican and Tejano corridos, the literature of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, colonia housing in Texas and Mexico, Mexicos cultural patrimony and inner city renovation and the cultural impact of free trade. It regularly runs a political periscope graduate seminar monitoring contemporary political events and provides informed opinion pieces for national and international media.
Over the years, a bi-national executive council that includes several leading Texans dedicated to fostering linkages with Mexico, including Martha Hyder, Gary Jacobs, Chrys Dougherty, Roger Wallace, Tom Frost, Joe Thompson and the late Burton Grossman, has advised the Mexican Center. Currently it is chaired by Mexican UT graduate Dr. Roberto Newell.
Brazil Center. In 1994 LLILAS organized the Brazil Center in recognition of Brazils central importance to Latin America, both as its most populous country and its largest economy (eighth in the world). The Brazil Center sponsors a dizzying number of lectures, symposia and conferences of different sorts, including a highly successful Brazil Week each spring.
A major supporter of the Brazil Center is the Brazilian government, which, after looking at several U.S. universities, decided that UTs major commitment to Latin America justified additional support in the study of Brazil. As a result, in each of the next five years the University of Texas will receive a visiting professor from the Brazilian governments Rio Branco Institute who will not only teach at UT, but will also be commissioned as a kind of academic ambassador to seek ways to increase opportunities for Brazilians to study and do research here.
The Brazil Center has also negotiated an agreement with the Phillips Foundation to support a yearly professorial exchange between UT and the Instituto Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo. In addition, the Brazil Center has secured funds to bring both a writer and an artist from Brazil each year to lecture and direct workshops. What the Brazil Center has accomplished in five years is truly remarkable. Placing the Brazil Center on solid financial footing is one of llilass principal short-range goals.
Argentine Studies Center. A third regional center at LLILAS was created in 1999 with a grant from the Argentine government. In spring 2000 the Argentine Center sponsored a visit by former Argentine President Carlos Saúl Menem as the first in its distinguished speakers series. The center helps support five Argentine graduate students at UT, and it cosponsored a conference in April 2001 on MERCOSUR, the free trade agreement that seeks to increase trade among Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.
New Centers and Programs. Given the complexity of Latin America, the institute will seek future growth through creating other regional centers. We are specifically interested in increasing activities regarding the Caribbean, Central America and the Andean countries. Not all centers and programs at LLILAS, however, will be based on geographical regions.
In fall 2001 LLILAS initiated two new centers: the Center for Latin American Social Policy (CLASPO), and the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA). Created with funds from UT and the Ford Foundation, CLASPO will work to strengthen cooperation among all those who study or work for the improvement of social conditions in Latin America. CILLA will promote research and teaching programs about indigenous languages, which form an important part of the society and culture of Latin America. At a time when indigenous populations in Latin America are actually growing and acquiring increasing political strength, a center of this sort is particularly important.
The institute also seeks to serve a community much beyond UTs borders. Perhaps our most spectacular success in this regard is LANIC, the worlds most important academic Web site on Latin America. An acronym for Latin American Network Information Center, LANIC provides directory pages with links to more than 12,000 Latin Americarelated Web sites, all of which have been evaluated and catalogued by LANIC staff. Its comprehensiveness and ease of use partially explain why it receives more than three million accesses per month.
No less important in LLILASs commitment to education beyond the UT campus is our Outreach Office, which in the past few years has greatly expanded activities geared to elementary and secondary schools. Working with the College of Education, LLILAS Outreach conducts pre-service workshops for teachers to inform them of Latin Americarelated resources available to them through the instituteincluding the free loan of books, videos and artifacts. Outreach works with the college to develop resources for and expand the reach of its Professional Development School.
In conjunction with the three other UT area studies centers (Asian; Middle Eastern; and Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian), Outreach conducts summer institutes providing in-service training for teachers and co-publishes a newsletter highlighting their joint activities. It organizes workshops for individual schools and recently worked with teachers to develop a curriculum unit entitled Discovering Latin America through Sixth-Grade Eyes.
The institute also has an extensive publications program, including an award-winning book series co-published with UT Press, which specializes in first-time translation into English of major works from Latin America in the social sciences. Although the focus is on textbook adoption for undergraduate and graduate courses, many of these titles appeal to general readers as well, such as Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora about women workers in the assembly plants along the Texas-Mexico border. In addition, the Institute publishes the weekly LLILAS Calendar of Latin Americarelated events on and off campus, and a spring and fall newsletter that highlights the activities and accomplishments of LLILASs students, faculty and alumni.
Lozano Long Gift. Given the excellence of our programs, we feel that Joe and Teresa Long did indeed find something that was already very good. But we also seek to honor their confidence by using their gift to make LLILAS even better. The Lozano Long gift is structured so that 60 percent of its resources will benefit students in a variety of ways:
The Lozano Long gift also recognizes that research and teaching are major components of the Universitys mission. It provides for visiting professorships to bring distinguished scholars from Latin America to teach at UT; professorships to support the hiring of Latin Americanist faculty and thereby maintain the integrity and preeminence of our professorate; and funds to form international research teams to produce and gather the best information on important issues like immigration, economic development and use of resources. In this endeavor, the Institute will become increasingly a think tank charged with educating policy makers and the public at large on such matters.
In 1940 Professor Hackett and his colleagues showed extraordinary vision in founding the institute of Latin American Studies. Since that time, countless faculty, students, librarians and administrators have built on their vision to bring the institute to its current status as the premier center on Latin American studies in the United States. And now with the Longs generous gift, the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies will build on that legacy, moving from excellence to greater excellence for many generations to come.
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Two LA TV stations have announced a pilot project to test channel sharing technology to help free up spectrum space for more wireless use. KLCS and KJLA will test compression schemes to fit two station's signals into what is normally one station's 6 Mhz channel allocation. The test is backed by the wireless industry's main lobbying group CTIA, and is expected to help drum up interest in the FCC's so called "incentive auction" of television spectrum.
"Since spectrum is a finite and valuable resource, channel sharing is truly a win-win-win for consumers, broadcasters and wireless providers. This helps broadcasters ensure that over-the-air customers may continue to enjoy their programming while the wireless industry continues to invest and innovate so it can meet the insatiable demands of its consumers for everything from broadband access to the 'Internet of Things,'" said Steve Largent, President and CEO, CTIA.
From the broadcaster's perspective Dennis Wharton of the NAB issued a statement on the channel sharing tests.
"We look forward to any new information arising from this pilot program. The industry already has a good deal of technical experience with channel sharing, as many stations multicast today, which is channel sharing under another banner. On a technical level, one of the main challenges to channel sharing concerns the ability of the sharers to offer new and innovative services as they are limiting their available spectrum."
The FCC is looking to receive as much as $25-30 billion dollars from the spectrum auction, some of which will be used for a new public safety wireless network. Large broadcast stations are not expected to participate in the auction process, but smaller financially challenged operations could benefit by selling some or all of their spectrum allocations.


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OXFORD, Miss. - Alabama senior Kelsi Dunne tossed her ninth career no-hitter to lead Alabama to an 8-0 win in the series opener against Mississippi, Friday evening at the Ole Miss Softball Complex. With the win the Crimson Tide claims the SEC Western Division title and improves to 43-7 overall and 17-6 in SEC play.
Dunne (22-3) allowed only one baserunner on the day, hitting a batter while striking out nine and walking none. The game lasted 1:38 as Dunne only threw 67 pitches. The no-hitter was her third of the season as she blanked Jacksonville State and South Carolina previously.
Alabama was paced at the plate by junior Jazlyn Lunceford as the outfielder batted 2-for-2 with three runs scored. Freshman Kaila Hunt and sophomore Courtney Conley each drove in a pair and as a team the Tide swiped seven bases and banged out nine hits.
Alabama got back into the swing of things early as the Tide plated four runs to open the game in the top of the first. Junior Amanda Locke did most of the damage as she blasted a changeup over the wall in left to give Alabama a 3-0 lead. The Tide added one more on a fielder's choice off the bat of Hunt that scored Lunceford from third.
Alabama increased its lead to 5-0 when it plated a single run in the third inning. Hunt tallied her second RBI of the ballgame as she lined a single to left that scored Lunceford from second.
The Tide capped off its scoring when it added three more runs in the fifth inning to extend its lead to 8-0. Junior Kendall Dawson hit a sac fly to center that scored Lunceford and then Conley cleared the bases with a two-run double to right-center that scored pinch-runner Keima Davis and Hunt.
Before the game the Rebel softball team presented a check to Alabama to put towards the UA Acts of Kindness Fund to assist the recovery efforts. The UA Acts of Kindness Fund has been established to support an emergency-assistance program for UA employees and students.
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For the last few years from Twelfth Night onwards I can be found lurking in some unlikely places - around dustbins, recycling areas and back alleyways. These aren't my usual hangouts, but it's where the abandoned Christmas trees are.
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especially when you consider that a few days earlier they were the glamorous focal point of the festive home, festooned with extravagant decorations, lights, edible goodies and home to mountains of presents.
This book is dedicated to the Abandoned Christmas Trees of 2009.
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Michelle Fairley will be playing Margaret Langston, a new "returned" character. She is Henry and Fred's mother, who has been dead for three decades. When she comes back, she will appear to be younger than her children and will reveal some secrets about the family business. Producer Aaron Zelman told TV Guide that the secret she reveals will uncover a huge part of the phenomenon of the returned.
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When does a shortage—or excess—of water become a disaster rather than a temporary inconvenience? The answer may be obvious in prolonged drought or widespread flooding, but not so clear-cut in communities already at health risk from poverty, poor sanitation and limited coordination of health care and other services. Such communities may be unable to restore normality after a water emergency.
Water disasters can be sudden, as in flooding, or progressive and long lasting, as in drought. This affects both the way the disaster is identified and managed, and the timescale of the health effects. The health effects can be classified as:
The long-term health effects of water disasters are usually due to the lack of prompt restoration of public health services and interventions, with the resulting risk of epidemics and other ill health. The health effects of climate phenomena such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) also tend to develop gradually. The recent ENSO during 1997-8 was particularly severe in its effects: the associated natural disasters affected an estimated 160 million people (WHO, 1999). The slow time scale of droughts means that ill health may not be identified until the drought has persisted for months, affecting food supplies as well as the water needed to maintain health.
Whether a water emergency turns into a disaster depends on whether the community can take effective measures without external assistance. One working definition of a disaster is that it causes at least 10 deaths or results in an appeal for outside assistance (WHO 1999). Whatever the definition, disasters involving water are increasing. In recent decades there has been an increase in the numbers of deaths and the numbers of people affected by weather disasters such as droughts and floods (WHO 1999). Climate change appears to be responsible for at least some of this increase: and while global warming has been acknowledged, the term is misleading because it leaves out the key element of water. Floods are the second most frequent cause of natural disaster, after windstorms. The largest cause of deaths through natural disaster is drought, because of the associated severe food insecurity: examples include the high death rate in Sahelian people in Africa in the early 1970s and mid-1980s - and droughts are not only increasing, but also lasting longer.
Too much water: the health effects of floods
The early health effects of floods include death through drowning and accidents such as falls, electrocution and the effect of landslides. People lose their homes and often also lose their source of food and water. If the drinking water supply and sanitation system is already inadequate, flooding poses a further major health threat. Sanitation is a major problem in all flooded areas, as demonstrated by recent floods in Mexico, Ghana and Mozambique(Box 1). Industrial waste, such as engine oil and refuse dumps, adds to the health risks. In tropical countries, the floodwaters provide an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes and an increased risk of diseases such as dengue, malaria and Rift Valley Fever. They also displace rodent populations, which may cause human outbreaks of leptospirosis and hantavirus infection. The combined effects of open sewage and reduced opportunities for good personal hygiene also favour the spread of infections causing diarrhoea, such as cholera and gastrointestinal viruses. Flooding in the horn of Africa in 1997, associated with ENSO, caused an upsurge in cholera deaths due to the lethal combination of damage to sanitation and contamination of water supplies (WHO, 1998). During flooding in Bolivia and Peru in the mid 1980s, increases in diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory diseases were recorded (WHO, 1999). Prolonged heavy rainfall causes less deaths than floods, but the infection risk is just as high in areas of poor sanitation: cholera showed a marked increase after heavy rains in Tanzania, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Chad and Somalia in 1997 (WHO 1998).
Box 1: Flood stories 2000: Mexico, Ghana and Mozambique
Mexico: In June 2000, heavy rains ruptured the wall of an open sewer in Mexico. This forced 6,000 people out of their homes in the low-income areas of Chalco valley. Although emergency shelters were available, many residents camped on their roofs to protect their homes from looting. Residents blamed the spill on the local authorities for failing to install piped sewerage.
In northern Ghana, clean drinking water became scarce three months after severe floods. Water sources had been polluted by tons of untreated human and industrial waste. More than 200 dams, wells and boreholes in the upper West Region were reported to be polluted with sewage and used engine oil. In addition, the floodwater had submerged refuse dumps due to rising river levels. The costs of the flooding raised dramatically due to the need to resettle people in other areas and to rehabilitate the polluted dams in the three northern regions.
The widespread floods in Mozambique in February 2000 made international headlines. Coupled with the lack of access to adequate sanitation and drinking water, nearly 800,000 people were put at increased risk of infectious diseases. The dam management was criticised, for example with claims that water had not been released in time, but it is possible that, with such overwhelming floods, better dam management would have had only slight effects. The key issues were to strengthen existing monitoring and early warning systems, to control settlement of flood plains and promote activities to limit human and economic casualties and a new flood is threatening in 2001.
As the examples in Box 1 show, flooding affects health indirectly through the widespread damage to the infrastructure of a community: its roads, buildings, equipment, drainage, sewerage and water supply systems. For example, during flooding in Peru in 1997/98, nearly a tenth of the health facilities were damaged: in Ecuador during the same period 2% of the hospitals were put out of action by a combination of flooding, mud, damage to sewerage systems and contamination of the drinking water supply. The mental distress of flooding may persist long after the floods have receded, because people have lost their homes, their livelihood and their confidence. The severe flooding in China in 1998 killed more than 5,500 people and left at least 21 million homeless (Kriner, 1999).
Too little water: droughts
"There it overtook me that I fell down for thirst, I was parched, my throat burned, and I said, "This is the taste of death"
Anonymous sufferer of drought in Ancient Egypt
According to an old French proverb, they that are thirsty drink silently. They also die silently: drought is a major cause of death worldwide and accounts for about half of the victims of natural disasters (WHO, 1999). Death is mainly due to lack of food and worsening of pre-existing malnutrition, but also through other pathways (Figure). In hot countries or during heat waves associated with drought, mortality may also be directly related to a combination of heat and water shortage.
Food production, such as the grain harvest, is particularly at risk in arid regions with a seasonal rainfall pattern. Loss of livestock is also a major problem during drought: arid regions, such as in SE Asia are particularly vulnerable (Box 2). Early warning systems such as climate forecasts can help communities to prepare for drought: other important early actions include coordinating the supply of water and any necessary rationing, as in the recent drought in Kenya (Box 3). While famine is the biggest killer in drought, the health effects include increased malaria and forest fires. In Venezuela and Colombia, malaria cases increased by more than a third following dry periods associated with ENSO; a fourfold increase in malaria was documented in south west Sri Lanka during ENSO (WHO, 1999). Drought has a major impact on infection because there is less water available for drinking and for personal hygiene: in addition to increasing diseases such as trachoma and scabies, people are more likely to risk drinking unsafe water and its load of infection. Studies have shown than in times of shortage, people tend to use water for cooking rather than for hygiene (WHO, 1999).
Box 2: Drought in SE Asia
In 2000, loss of livestock due to a serious drought in South Asia and the Near East caused the death of many people. In southern Afghanistan, the entire population (300,000 families) of the Registan desert fled when their water sources dried up. In Pakistan, the drought in Baluchistan and Sindh provinces were reported to be the worst in the country's history. This has led to indirect appeals to India to help battle the drought. Forty years ago Pakistan and India signed the Indus Treaty, to officially recognise that the Indus River is the main source of water for both countries. In Iran, 18 of the counties and 28 provinces also faced a severe drought. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq also dropped to about 20% of their average flow.
Box 3: Drought in Kenya
Kenya experienced its worst drought in 40 years in 2000 and the President claimed it put 80% of the Kenyan population at risk. The World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed that 3.3 million people were seriously affected. Acute shortages of food, water and insecurity forced 15 primary schools in Kenya's north-central Samburu district to close, according to the local district education officer. Nairobi City Council had to ration water in the city from May.
With water already in short supply in many countries, it is not surprising that drought can also lead to water being used as a political tool, for example the water bargaining in Central Asian countries (Box 4). Water politics also affect attempts to relieve drought in countries in the throes of civil war, such as Ethiopia (Box 5).
Box: 4 Drought in Central Asia and water as a political tool
Shared water resources in the drought-affected nations of Central Asia have been used to bargain between countries. For example, in 1999 Kyrgyzstan succeeded in getting much needed coal from Kazakhstan after closing down water reservoirs. In 2000, Uzbekistan cut water supplies to Kazakhstan, citing non-payment of debt. Kazakhstan asked Tajikistan to release more water to Uzbekistan, in return for Uzbek electricity. The aim of this exchange was the hope that water flowing to Uzekistan would be likely to also flow to Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, a proposed Chinese water diversion project involving the Ertis (Irtysh) River poses more water problems for Kazahstan, as the river provides the drinking water for the industrial northeast region of the country.
Box 5: Water shortages due to drought and war in Ethiopia
A long-term drought as well as the effects of civil war has afflicted the Somali region of Ethiopia. The drought affected 8.3 million people. Heavy rainfall in April 2000 brought some relief, but the continuing conflict has restricted efforts to sort out the water supplies and sanitation in the region. The aid programme includes the installation of water reservoirs and digging or repairing wells. Emergency repairs have been conducted by UNICEF, associated with the distribution of water treatment chemicals and jerry cans throughout the hardest hit areas. 'Donor fatigue' and cynicism about the use of aid is a serious barrier to the international relief efforts to improve water supplies in the region.
Flooding after storms
Severe storms and hurricanes may cause water-related health problems through both excessive precipitation (heavy rains) and disruption of the water and sanitation infrastructure. Hurricane Mitch in 1998 was one of the worst recent natural disasters, estimated to have killed more people than any Atlantic hurricane in the last 200 years (NCDC, 1999). More than 3 million people were left homeless and at least 11,000 dead, with thousands of others reported missing. The storm started in late October, producing enormous amounts of precipitation as it travelled west, caused in part by the mountains of Central America. Floods and mudslides destroyed the entire infrastructure of Honduras and devastated parts of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador. As well as loss of many homes, approximately 4.5 million people in Honduras (75% of the population) were left without access to clean drinking water: around 1500 rural water mains were destroyed. Following this major natural disaster there were also critical shortages in medicine and food supplies. Fever and respiratory illness were widespread and in the following months increases in malaria, dengue and cholera were reported (NCDC 1999).
Reducing the effects of water disasters
Although the epidemiology of floods and droughts has been well studied (Noji, 1997), we still know more about the effects than how to prevent disasters occurring. Also, the death toll and immediate effects of sudden disasters tend to be given more emphasis than the gradually unfolding ill health following a disaster, or during a lasting disaster such as drought. Countries can reduce the effects of floods and droughts in two main ways: by being prepared for a disaster, and by disaster mitigation.
The aim of disaster preparation is to be able to reduce the immediate mortality and morbidity with a better prepared, well equipped service. The preparation includes early warning systems for seasonal changes in climate, the ENSO, and risk of flood or drought, such as electronic information systems and satellites that can provide information over large regions and continents. Separate systems are needed to cater for the agricultural sector, cities and people in rural or remote communities. The public health infrastructure is particularly important for the immediate measures needed and for public information on reducing the health risks. Being prepared also means thorough disaster contingency plans, covering emergency housing, repairs, replacement of essential equipment and protection of the most vulnerable people in the community: the sick, the very young and the old. Improvement of water supply and sanitation systems is an important way of reducing the effects of a water disaster: countries with a good infrastructure for drainage and disposal of human waste and adequate water supply facilities have far fewer direct health problems during water-related disasters Sanitary inspections are an important tool to assess the water supply and sanitation facilities and these should be conducted systematically. The logistics of the predicted need for health and social services also need to be laid down in advance, including early warning systems to detect health effects. Planning should be on a regional, national and international level and include planning for climate change: as global warming and its water effects will increase the frequency of water disasters. Finally, public information and education can serve two purposes in preparing for disasters: ensuring early warnings to communities at risk; and giving information about how to conserve water and keep it safe from contamination.
Once a disaster has occurred, or has been identified, all the measures in disaster preparedness will be needed and if not in place, outside help is probably needed. At the least, the mitigation efforts must include:
Both disaster preparedness and its mitigation require multisectoral cooperation and joint planning. Both need evaluation after a disaster to reduce the ill effects of later crises. While our world is never likely to be free of water disasters, there is much that can be done to minimise their health effects.
Further information:
IRIN, 23 June 2000,
- The Nation, 25 May 2000
- More information
- Environment News Service, 3 Feb 2000,
African Eye News Service, 21 Feb 2000
- Floods and dam management in Mozambique, New Scientist, 22 April 2000
Hurricane Mitch
Noji E, The public health consequences of disasters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997
WHO, Cholera in 1997. Weekly Epidemiological Record, 1998; 73: 201-8
WHO, El Niño and its health impacts. Weekly Epidemiological Record, 1998; 73: 148-152
WHO, El Niño and Health. Task Force on Climate and Health. Geneva: WHO, 1999. WHO/SDE/99.4[an error occurred while processing this directive]


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Actress Kate Bosworth is a contemporary style icon for both the trendy and traditional sophisticated Boho chic fashionista.
Bosworth has her go to classic fashion essentials however her good taste in refined sophistication reveals both her thoughtful simplicity and effortlessly sweet Boho chic preferences.
Fashion reporter Marshall Heyman for W Magazine writes, "Flying high, it's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Kate Bosworth."
Underneath the surface Bosworth's icon style smolders with an Americana vibe with her Boho braided hair, occasional long flowy locks, small prints, tiny ruffles, denim chambray shirts, and jeans.
Tara Lamont-Djite for the FashionSpot writes, "Always brimming with California-style sunshine, Kate knows the right way to wear denim short shorts. Teamed with a floaty lace blouse, super cute and easy small shoulder bag and desert boots, she proves that less is always more and simple is always chic. Even in winter, we want to steal her style! An oversized bag, pointy flats instead of round and an extra large jacket make Kate look perfect for coffee with a friend or a spot of shopping. Can we steal her bag please?"
Bosworth can also express her delight in glittering details like metallic fabrics, beaded gowns, vintage inspired glamour all the while dripping in diamonds and more.
Here are six Bosworth fashion essentials that place her on the list as a truly sophisticated Boho chic icon:
- Mini skirts and dresses showing lots of leg
- Denim chambray shirts, shorts and jeans
- Braided hair, long flowy locks and flower crowns
- Diamonds, metallic and shiny surfaces
- Classic silhouettes that accent her waist
- Country girl meets city slicker in printed Americana tees, leather jackets and high heel pumps
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Sluggish Growth Hurts Merkel
It's supposed to be good to live in Germany right now. The unemployment rate is lower than it was before the crisis. Yes, the global economy is headed for a soft patch, but German GDP growth last year, a moderate 3.5%, was the second-highest rate since 1991.
Why then are Germans unhappy with their political leadership? Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have lost elections in Hamburg and the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg this year. Her party and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, face low approval ratings, as they have for the last two years.
The answer, according to political economists at the University of Braunschweig, is that Germany's economic performance is actually dragging on Ms. Merkel's popularity. The after-tax income of the average German, adjusted for inflation, fell sharply during the worst of the economic crisis in 2009, and it has been growing only moderately since. This measure — the growth-rate of real, per capita, disposable income — does a remarkably good job of predicting electoral outcomes in many countries, Germany included.
Braunschweig Thursday sent us its most recent version of its Government Performance Index, based on newly-released data from the German government on disposable (after-tax) income for the second quarter. The index fell in the second quarter to -2.39 from -2.07 in the first quarter, meaning the economy would cost her coalition that many percentage points of the vote if an election were held today.
"The only-moderate economic growth of the German economy in the 2nd quarter and rising energy prices contribute significantly to the negative appraisal of the German government's economic performance," the university said in a statement.
Disposable income adjusted for inflation fell 1.15% in the quarter compared to the period a year ago. It was hit hard by higher energy prices.
(See our previous discussions of the GPI here and here.)
Ms. Merkel's unpopularity has consequences for the euro zone. There's the widespread feeling that she is being punished by voters for bailing out Greece, Ireland and Portugal. That has surely made her oppose more decisive policies to keep Spain and Italy out of the crisis. And it has also encouraged the German parliament to resist changes to the bailout programs she signed up for at the euro-zone summit in July.
But the GPI suggests skepticism that this is the sole explanation of her unpopularity. If the German government were doing a better job delivering strong disposable income growth, then it's likely Ms. Merkel would be significantly more popular — and have more political latitude to sign Germany up for bailouts.
Is there relief on the horizon for Ms. Merkel? With growth in the third quarter looking even weaker than in the second, it's possible the GPI will fall further in the quarters to come.
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It is, of course, almost impossible to narrow my list of hotly anticipated TIFF movies down to just five; there are at least two dozen movies I badly want to see. But these are the five for which I'll clamber over my colleagues in the press line. (Guys, you've been warned.)
1) The Cobbler
For the first time in more than a decade, I'm excited about an Adam Sandler movie. That's because this project puts the actor in the hands of writer/director Thomas McCarthy. After his note-perfect character studies The Station Agent, The Visitor and Win Win, I trust him absolutely. Yes, it's about a New York City shoemaker who magically quantum-leaps into other people's lives or something, but whatever. "Adam Sandler plays a salesman with rage issues" sounded pretty flimsy, too, and we got Punch-Drunk Love out of that one.
September 11, 9 pm, Elgin; September 12, 9:45 am, Scotiabank 1
2) Miss Julie
Literally every time I have interviewed Jessica Chastain, the eponymous heroine of August Strindberg's searing stage play somehow comes up in conversation. She's been wanting to play this role for a very long time. And now she's doing it – opposite Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton – in a screen version adapted and directed by Swedish legend Liv Ullmann. Chastain is the greatest female actor of her generation; I can't wait to see what she does with a part she knows this well.
September 7, 2 pm, Winter Garden; September 9, 5:30 pm, Scotiabank 12; September 12, 11:30 am, Scotiabank 2
3) A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson makes movies that are instantly, identifiably his – films of elaborate tableaux, meticulously constructed and choreographed, which play out absurdist existential conflicts for our amusement. In 2000, Songs From The Second Floor followed a glum businessman as the world ended around him. His 2007 film You, The Living brought a tuba to the dark night of the human soul. I know nothing about his latest beyond TIFF's assertion that "it muses on man's perpetual inhumanity to man." And really, that's all I need.
September 8, 7:15 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; September 10, 5:15 pm, Scotiabank 2; September 13, 3:15 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
4) Rosewater
In 2009, Jon Stewart invited Iranian journalist and documentary filmmaker Maziar Bahari onto The Daily Show to discuss his country's ongoing political convulsions. Shortly after returning home, Bahari was imprisoned, interrogated and tortured for five months on suspicion of collaborating with Western governments. Last year, Stewart went to Jordan for three months to shoot a fictional drama about Bahari's ordeal, starring Gael García Bernal as the reporter. Stewart has spent a decade and a half telling people he's a comedian, not a political commentator. We're about to find out what happens when he embraces the other role.
September 8, 6:30 pm, Princess of Wales; September 9, 12:30 pm, Winter Garden
In Noah Baumbach's latest, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play a long-married couple who meet a pair of younger lovers (Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver) and start to hang out as a foursome, leading to blurred generational lines and at least a little emotional confusion. Stiller was pretty high on it when we spoke last Christmas. Having loved pretty much everything Baumbach's done, I'm curious to see whether this will somehow merge the mid-life flailing of Greenberg (which starred Stiller) and the youthful ebullience of Frances Ha (which featured Driver in a small role). But whatever it is, it'll be interesting.
September 6, 7 pm, Princess of Wales; September 7, 12:30 pm, Roy Thomson Hall; September 11, 11:30 am, Elgin
Hey, I like big starry premieres as much as the next guy. Last year's TIFF features Gravity and 12 Years A Slave both made my Top 10 Movies list. But there are other films that provide more intimate pleasures. Here are five that should fit the bill.
1) Winter Sleep
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's slow, meditative films aren't for everyone. As in his 2011 masterpiece Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, there's often more mood and character than conventional narrative. His latest, which won the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes, is loosely inspired by Chekhov stories and concerns a former actor who runs a mountaintop hotel. It's 196 minutes. Sounds like bliss.
September 5, 3 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; September 14, 9 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Visionary director Julie Taymor obviously has a thing for Shakespeare. She's directed bold film adaptations of Titus Andronicus and The Tempest, and even her best-known work – the revolutionary stage production of The Lion King – is essentially a retelling of Hamlet. And now comes this film version of her acclaimed production (from Brooklyn's Polonsky Center) of the Bard's most popular comedy. Expect lots of imaginative visual effects and a deep humanity. After the screening, part of the Mavericks series, Taymor stays for an extended talk. Will anyone dare mention the Spider-Man musical debacle?
September 8, 5 pm, Isabel Bader
3) I Am Here
There have been many documentaries about the new China, but few as powerful as Lixin Fan's Last Train Home, which captured the painful generational split within one family during the New Year's holiday. His new film looks at the finalists of one of China's most popular TV shows, a singing competition called Super Boy. It looks a little lighter than Last Train, but I'm sure there'll be just as many insights, not to mention some rousing music.
September 9, 6:30 pm, Scotiabank 1; September 11, 12:30 pm, Bloor Hot Docs; September 14, 9 pm, Scotiabank 11
4) Guidance
The irresponsible high school teacher is a familiar figure in films (think: Election, Bad Teacher), and now that sub-genre gets a Canadian twist in Guidance, about an alcoholic former child star (writer/director Pat Mills) who happens to luck into a job as a guidance counsellor for troubled kids. Mills is known for his award-winning shorts, including the queer charmer Pat's First Kiss (which played at TIFF), and he should get the child actor details right since he was part of the YTV series You Can't Do That On Television. His feature debut is part of the Discovery series. Sounds about right.
September 5, 6:30 pm, Scotiabank 3; September 6, 4:30 pm, Scotiabank 8
Is there such a thing as a "gay voice"? Documentarian David Thorpe takes a look at this politically incorrect but potentially hilarious concept, talking to acting coaches, linguists and celebrities like comic Margaret Cho, actor George Takei, fashionista Tim Gunn and writer David Sedaris. Thorpe and NOW's Savage Love columnist, Dan Savage, who's also in the film, discuss it afterwards. See ya there, girlfriend!
September 7, noon, Ryerson
When I check my TIFF list, I'm looking for works by smart women, films with strong performers and entries that challenge political norms. Here's what I found in 2014.
I love it when artists fight about aesthetics – and sex, for that matter – which is why this Alan Rickman-helmed pic about a landscape designer rattling the cage of King Louis XIV's chief architect is high on my list. Kate Winslet plays the designer – it's always promising when an Oscar winner's around – but it's her pairing with Matthias Schoenaerts (superb in Rust And Bone) that makes this an intriguing entry. A period piece set at Versailles, it's an art director's wet dream, too.
September 13, 6:30 pm, Princess of Wales, and 8 pm, Roy Thomson Hall; September 14, 9:45 am, Scotiabank 1
François Ozon's follow-up to Young And Beautiful again steps into taboo terrain with this story of a woman (Anaïs Demoustier) who finds out that the husband (Romain Duris) of her recently deceased best friend is a cross-dresser, which leads to a surprising friendship. Y&B – about a middle-class teenager turning tricks – wasn't exactly a laugh riot, but Ozon is known for exploring gender and sexual identities with humour and subtlety. This one should be a lot more sly.
September 6, 6:30 pm, Roy Thomson Hall; September 7, 1 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; September 13, 9 pm, Elgin
It's a relief to see that Denmark's Susanne Bier, foreign-language Oscar winner for In A Better World, is returning to drama after her much less assured English-language comedy Love Is All You Need. This time out, she tells the story of a police officer who reconnects with his junkie parents and is forced to make a difficult decision. Few filmmakers explore moral complexity as skilfully as Bier.
September 9, 6 pm, Elgin; September 10, 11:30 am, Elgin; September 14, 9:45 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3
As the world watches Gaza go up in flames, observers are wondering what artists are doing to develop new strategies for peace. Riffing off a quote from Nelson Mandela – "Education is the only power to change the world" – Tamara Erde does her part in a revealing documentary about how three Palestinian and three Israeli schools are teaching the history of this painfully persistent conflict.
September 7, 7 pm, Scotiabank 13; September 9, 10 pm, Scotiabank 9; September 13, 9:15 am, Scotiabank 3
5) October Gale
Patricia Clarkson was a revelation in Ruba Nadda's 2009 Cairo Time. The two collaborate again in this film in which Clarkson plays a doctor who takes in a man (Scott Speedman) washed ashore at her cottage who's been wounded by gunfire. Nadda's last pic, the political nail-biter Inescapable, was a departure for the Canadian director and not as successful as the small, tender stories she had become known for. She's stayed with the taut thriller genre here, but Clarkson's been a gift for her before and could make magic again.
September 11, 8 pm, Winter Garden; September 12, 9:15 am, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice is skipping Toronto so it can premiere weeks later at the New York Film Festival. I'm hoping at least one of the following films makes up for that massive disappointment.
1) Nightcrawler
Fresh off his stints for Canada's Denis Villeneuve in Enemy and Prisoners, Jake Gyllenhaal goes gaunt in his latest thriller. The actor/producer lost about 20 pounds to play Louis Bloom, a petty thief turned driven freelance crime journalist who chases scenes of mutilation like the paparazzi chase celebrities. There isn't a lot of info around this title, directed by Dan Gilroy. But the marketing has been particularly appetizing, kicking off with a Craigslist ad posted by Gyllenhaal's character selling his mantra in a video resumé. If the movie is as impressive as the viral campaign, this could be our generation's Network.
September 5, 9 pm, Elgin; September 6, noon, Ryerson; September 12, 9 pm, Ryerson
The last film from the Dardenne brothers, The Kid With A Bike, played TIFF 2011 and never returned to a Toronto theatre. So I'm going to make a point of catching their latest. This one stars Marion Cotillard, whose recent string of glamour-free, down-and-out characters (Rust And Bone, The Immigrant) makes her a natural fit for the Belgian filmmakers. In their latest working-class, neo-realist tale, Cotillard's Sandra tries to rally her peers in a factory to help save her job. Word from Cannes is that Two Days, One Night is more of the same from the Dardennes, which is exactly what I'm hoping for.
September 9, 8 pm, Winter Garden; September 10, 12:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
3) Phoenix
For the past decade, writer/director Christian Petzold (Jerichow, Barbara) has been a talent to watch, tinkering with Hitchcockian influences in national allegories about today's Germany. His latest is a post-WWII drama starring regular muse Nina Hoss as a concentration camp survivor whose face has been disfigured to the point that her husband, who may have betrayed her to the Nazis, doesn't recognize her.
September 5, 6 pm, Elgin; September 6, 11:30 am, Elgin
4) Top Five
Chris Rock writes, directs and stars in this dramedy about a comic/movie star who wants to be taken seriously. So essentially, he's playing himself. This insider look at the industry is produced by Scott Rudin, an award magnet whose stellar track record includes The Truman Show, There Will Be Blood, The Social Network and so much more. Makes me think this one could be a surprise hit. If not, at least we get to see Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler and Whoopi Goldberg join forces in the supporting cast.
September 6, 10 pm, Princess of Wales; September 7, noon, Princess of Wales; September 13, 9 pm, Ryerson
5) The Good Lie
I approach this film with cautious optimism. The trailer makes it look like shameless Oscar bait: Reese Witherspoon plays a saintly but sassy white woman out to help those poor, funny Sudanese refugees. This could be The Blind Side all over again. But it's directed by Philippe Falardeau, one of Canada's finest exports, whose last two films, It's Not Me, I Swear! and Monsieur Lazhar, gave us plenty of reasons to be proud. Here's hoping Hollywood hasn't spoiled one of our most treasured talents.
September 7, 3 pm, Elgin; September 8, 12:30 pm, Roy Thomson Hall; September 12, noon, Princess of Wales


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Jhené Aiko puts on a mesmerizing performance in her new heartbreaking video for "Comfort Inn Ending (Freestyle)." Her debut album, Souled Out, is set to release in May.
Film about Northern Soul in the UK: Souled Out Trailer
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With the influx of blue-eyed soul coming out of the UK in the past decade (from Winehouse to Duffy to our lady Alice Russell), one has to question where these deep, obviously soul-influenced voices came from. Hint: watch this video to see what their parents were doing in the mid-seventies. This is a trailer for the soon-to-be-released movie, Souled Out (aka Soulboy), and it's about UK's Northern Soul scene and the famous Wigan Casino dance club. After the jump, check out a vintage video of the real thing: dancing at the Wigan Casino crica 1975.


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Young adult author Jennifer E Smith on why we shouldn't be cynical
Having written a novel called The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, I find myself in an unusual position. The question that's put to me again and again is a logical one: do I believe in it - ie love at first glance? But that doesn't make it any easier to answer.
All things considered, I'd like to believe it exists. As both an optimist and a romantic, I'm easily prone to this type of belief. It seems a hopeful thing, to put your faith in something as unquantifiable as chance. In many ways – probably in most ways – it has nothing to do with science or facts or even statistical probability. It has far more to do with the mysterious workings of fate.
But like anything uncertain or controversial or just downright inexplicable, it's difficult to prove, and it's made me wonder about whether other writers might have run into this sort of problem too. For example, did anyone ever ask Charles Dickens whether he really believed there was a Ghost of Christmas Past? Or did they question W B Yeats about fairies? And what about Shakespeare? Did anyone ever think to challenge him about the way Romeo met Juliet? Or was the conventional wisdom of the time just more accepting of that sort of thing?
Maybe in the late 1500s, it didn't seem like such a stretch, this whole love at first sight thing. Maybe people were less jaded then, more prone to grand gestures and sweeping declarations. The stories certainly make it seem that way, like everyone just walked around locking eyes across rooms, defying their families and laying down their lives based on little more than a fortuitous glance. I suppose it's entirely possible that all-encompassing, utterly passionate, instantaneous love was nothing more than the Shakespearean equivalent of our more modern tradition of poking someone on Facebook.
After all, there are so many great old love stories that seem to have started at first sight. Not just Romeo and Juliet, but also Antony and Cleopatra, Scarlett and Rhett, even The Little Mermaid and her prince. It's the stuff of history, the stuff of theatre, the stuff of fairy tales.
And maybe that's the problem. Maybe we've all gotten too cynical. If we're told enough times that something is a fairytale romance or has a fairytale ending, how are we ever supposed to believe it could happen for real?
But that's what art is for: to inspire us, to remind us, to give us hope. That's why we read the books and watch the movies. It's why we still find comfort in fables and fairytales. Without love at first sight, Romeo might not have thought it was worth the trouble of waiting underneath Juliet's balcony. Without that kind of belief, the characters in my own book might still be sitting across from each other at the airport, each destined to spend the flight alone with their thoughts, though I'd like to think they might have met anyway. Because the important thing isn't that it was love at first sight for them; it was that they found each other at all.
When I wrote the book, I wasn't actually trying to make a point about the odds of love at first sight. I was simply telling a story about two people who met, largely because of timing, and felt an immediate connection. In fact, the title came along much later in the process; it refers to a line toward the end of the book, an inside joke between Hadley and Oliver, the two main characters. For them, it isn't so much love at first sight as a kind of instant recognition of each other, a sense of potential, a feeling that this person might turn out to mean something to them.
But there are plenty of people out there who have experienced this phenomenon themselves, and plenty more who believe it on faith alone. Maybe their best friend once saw a guy across a crowded pub, and now they're married with three children. Or maybe their grandmother met their grandfather only once before getting married, just long enough to know it would be forever. Or maybe they read Romeo and Juliet when they were 14, and just like that, it became a part of them, the way the best stories do. Maybe, even after finishing the book, it stuck with them: not the tragic ending, but that sense of possibility, the hope of a deep and instant connection.
Life is known to imitate art. So why not love at first sight? Just like all the rest of it – the fairies and the ghosts – maybe the point isn't whether or not it's possible. It's whether or not you believe.
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith is published by Headline.


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Mustangs Set To Stampede Into Fall Practice
June Jones After Saturday's Practice
DALLAS (SMU)- With the 2013 season kicking off just 30 days from today, the SMU football team is set to stampede into fall practice later this week. Players will report to campus on Friday, Aug. 2, and the first practice is set for Saturday, Aug. 3. The Mustangs will conduct 29 practices over the following four weeks in preparation for their 2013 season opener - a Friday-night, ESPN-televised home game against Texas Tech on Friday, Aug. 30.
On the heels of their fourth-straight bowl appearance, the Mustangs' 2013 schedule is highlighted by six games at Ford Stadium on the SMU campus. In addition to the Red Raiders, other 2013 visitors to Ford Stadium will be Montana State and American Athletic Conference foes Rutgers, Temple, UConn and UCF.
SMU football tickets are a hot item, with over 1,600 new season tickets sold in the last three months. To get your season tickets, please call 214-768-4263 (SMU-GAME).
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Huskies place 11 on NACGC/W All-Academic Team
The award is presented to the "Best of the Best" in athletics and academics
Graduates represent 14 NIU teams and 19 different majors
Stepp and Nortz earn second-straight Academic All-MAC honors
Stepp and Van Voorhis highlights team's performance
The Huskies celebrated Senior Day with their highest score of the season in a win over Eastern Michigan.
Northern Illinois defeated Bowling Green in its 2013 MAC opener at Victor E. Court.
Northern Illinois took on MAC heavyweight Central Michigan on Senior Day (Feb. 26) in Victor E. Court.
NIU Career Bests: Vault - 9.750 (3x last at BGSU/Alaska, 2-15-15); Floor - 9.850 (Eastern Michigan, 3-15-15).
2015: Saw action in every competition this season on both vault and floor exercise, with her career high on the floor coming against Eastern Michigan (3-15) with a 9.850, while scoring a 9.725 in vault. Her highest vault score came against Bowling Green and Alaska (2-15) with a 9.750 on the vault while also scoring a 9.825 on the floor. Matched that score on the floor at Central Michigan (2-6) and while also scoring a 9.675 in vault. Scored a 9.675 on the vault and a 9.800 on floor exercise against Kent State (1-16). At Southeast Missouri State (2-20), she tied for sixth on vault with a 9.725 and tied for fourth on floor with a 9.750. On vault, she put up another 9.675 against Lindenwood (1-23), a 9.650 at Western Michigan (2-1) and a 9.550 at UIC (1-9). On the floor, she posted a 9.700 against Lindenwood and a 9.500 at UIC. Scored 9.700 on vault and 9.650 on the floor at the MAC Championships (3-21).
2013: In the Huskies' line-up in every meet on vault, seven times on bars and five times on floor exercise in 2013; Recorded a career-high 9.775 on vault at the MAC Championships as part of NIU's record-setting day on that event; Also scored a 9.700 on vault at Western Michigan and posted a 9.650 or higher five times; Had a pair of fourth-place finishes on bars vs. Bowling Green and Kent State with a career-high 9.750 vs. KSU; Earned a career-high 9.750 on floor as an exhibition gymnast in the Kent State meet; Scored 9.650 or higher on floor exercise three times with a 9.675 vs. Southeast Missouri State. Victory Scholar (3.5 and above) in NIU's Academic Excellence Program; Named to the Academic All-State Team.
2012: Competed in nine meets for the Huskies on the vault and floor exercise before being sidelined by injury. Competed as an exhibition gymnast on the uneven parallel bars against Illinois-Chicago (1-8) and Ball State (2-4) Finished fifth on vault against New Hampshire (1-28) with a score of 9.550. Scored a career high of 9.700 on vault against Central Michigan (2-26). Averaged a 9.510 for the season on vault. Scored above a 9.600 on floor exercise seven times. Twice recorded a career high 9.750 on floor exercise, against Western Michigan (1-22) and again at Kent State (2-19).
Prep: Trained at Great Lakes Gymnastics in Avon Lake, Ohio as a Level 10 gymnast for three years, and competed on her high school gymnastics team at Magnificat. Two-time high school state all-around champion in Ohio. Won the all-around at the state meet as a senior with a score of 37.475 after placing second on the vault (9.500) and bars (9.375), third on floor exercise (9.425) and sixth on balance beam (9.175). Dominated at the Ohio state meet in 2009 as she won event titles on vault, bars and floor and took the all-around crown with a 37.250 to lead her team to a second-place finish. As a junior, took third on uneven parallel bars as her season was limited due to injury. Won the high school state vault title and was the runner-up in the all-around as a freshman in 2008. Named the Ohio High School Gymnast of the Year by the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2009 and 2011 and was a four-time All-State selection by the OHSAA (Ohio High School Athletic Association). A three-time all-region selection as a prep gymnast and won all-conference honors all four seasons. Served as team captain as a senior. As a club gymnast, posted career-best scores of 9.400 on vault and floor exercise, and 36.675 in the all-around. As a junior, she was a part of the Region 5 winning team at Nationals where she placed 18th all-around and 13th on floor exercise. Took fifth on bars at the 2011 Ohio State Championships. Third on vault with a 9.350 and seventh in the all-around (36.525) at the 2009 Region 5 Championships.
Personal: Daughter of Patrick and Ann Nortz of Bay Village, Ohio. Born in Columbus, Ohio. A volunteer at Fairview Hospital in her hometown. Admires Amanda St. John. Plans to pursue a career as a nurse anesthetist. Named a Victory Scholar with a GPA above 3.5.


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February 19, 2014 | Volume 101 / Number 8
Once called the "Noble Experiment" and actually named the National Prohibition Act of 1919, and written not by its sponsor Andrew J. Volstead of Minnesota but by Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League, the Volstead act went into effect on Jan. 1, 1920, much to the dismay of about 80% of the general population.
To this day it has been the only amendment to be repealed. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the act but was overridden by Congress the same day, Oct. 28, 1919, and Prohibition began January 1920.
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