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Maternal death
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Maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes."[1]
The world mortality rate has declined 45% since 1990, but still 800 women die every day from pregnancy or childbirth related causes. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) this is equivalent to "about one woman every two minutes and for every woman who dies, 20 or 30 encounter complications with serious or long-lasting consequences. Most of these deaths and injuries are entirely preventable." [2]
UNFPA estimated that 289,000 women died of pregnancy or childbirth related causes in 2013.[2] These causes range from severe bleeding to obstructed labour, all of which have highly effective interventions. As women have gained access to family planning and skilled birth attendance with backup emergency obstetric care, the global maternal mortality ratio has fallen from 380 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 210 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013, and many countries halved their maternal death rates in the last 10 years.[3]
World-wide mortality rates have been decreasing in modern age. High rates still exist, particularly in impoverished communities with over 85% living in Africa and Southern Asia.[2] The effect of a mother's death results in vulnerable families and their infants, if they survive childbirth, are more likely to die before reaching their second birthday.[2]
Factors that increase maternal death can be direct or indirect. Generally, there is a distinction between a direct maternal death that is the result of a complication of the pregnancy, delivery, or management of the two, and an indirect maternal death.[4] that is a pregnancy-related death in a patient with a preexisting or newly developed health problem unrelated to pregnancy. Fatalities during but unrelated to a pregnancy are termed accidental, incidental, or nonobstetrical maternal deaths.
The most common causes are postpartum bleeding (15%), complications from unsafe abortion (15%), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (10%), postpartum infections (8%), and obstructed labour (6%).[5] Other causes include blood clots (3%) and pre-existing conditions (28%).[6] Indirect causes are malaria, anaemia,[7] HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular disease, all of which may complicate pregnancy or be aggravated by it.
Sociodemographic factors such as age, access to resources and income level are significant indicators of maternal outcomes. Young mothers face higher risks of complications and death during pregnancy than older mothers,[8] especially adolescents aged 15 years or younger.[9] Adolescents have higher risks for postpartum hemorrhage, puerperal endometritis, operative vaginal delivery, episiotomy, low birth weight, preterm delivery, and small-for-gestational-age infants, all of which can lead to maternal death.[9] Structural support and family support influences maternal outcomes. Furthermore, social disadvantage and social isolation adversely affects maternal health which can lead to increases in maternal death.[10] Additionally, lack of access to skilled medical care during childbirth, the travel distance to the nearest clinic to receive proper care, number of prior births, barriers to accessing prenatal medical care and poor infrastructure all increase maternal deaths.
Unsafe abortion is another major cause of maternal death. According to the World Health Organization, every eight minutes a woman dies from complications arising from unsafe abortions. Complications include hemorrhage, infection, sepsis and genital trauma [11] Globally, preventable deaths from improperly performed procedures constitute 13% of maternal mortality, and 25% or more in some countries where maternal mortality from other causes is relatively low, making unsafe abortion the leading single cause of maternal mortality worldwide.[12]
The four measures of maternal death are the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), maternal mortality rate, lifetime risk of maternal death and proportion of maternal deaths among deaths of women of reproductive years (PM).
Maternal mortality ratio (MMR): the ratio of the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time-period.[13] The MMR is used as a measure of the quality of a health care system.
Maternal mortality rate (MMRate): the number of maternal deaths in a population divided by the number of women of reproductive age, usually expressed per 1,000 women.[13]
Lifetime risk of maternal death: refers to the probability that a 15-year-old female will die eventually from a maternal cause if she experiences throughout her lifetime the risks of maternal death and the overall levels of fertility and mortality that are observed for a given population. The adult lifetime risk of maternal mortality can be derived using either the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), or the maternal mortality rate (MMRate). [13]
Proportion of maternal deaths among deaths of women of reproductive age (PM): the number of maternal deaths in a given time period divided by the total deaths among women aged 15–49 years.[14]
Approaches to measuring maternal mortality includes civil registration system, household surveys, census, reproductive age mortality studies (RAMOS) and verbal autopsies.[15]
According to the 2010 United Nations Population Fund report, developing nations account for ninety-nine percent of maternal deaths with the majority of those deaths occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.[15] Globally, high and middle income countries experience lower maternal deaths than low income countries. The Human Development Index (HDI) accounts for between 82 and 85 percent of the maternal mortality rates among countries.[16] In most cases, high rates of maternal deaths occur in the same countries that have high rates of infant mortality. These trends are a reflection that higher income countries have stronger healthcare infrastructure, medical and healthcare personnel, use more advanced medical technologies and have fewer barriers to accessing care than low income countries. Therefore, in low income countries, the most common cause of maternal death is obstetrical hemorrhage, followed by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, in contrast to high income countries, for which the most common cause is thromboembolism.[17]
At a country level, India (19% or 56,000) and Nigeria (14% or 40,000) accounted for roughly one third of the maternal deaths in 2010. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Sudan, Indonesia, Ethiopia, United Republic of Tanzania, Bangladesh and Afghanistan comprised between 3 and 5 percent of maternal deaths each.[15] These ten countries combined accounted for 60% of all the maternal deaths in 2010 according to the United Nations Population Fund report. Countries with the lowest maternal deaths were Estonia, Greece and Singapore.[18]
In the United States, the maternal death rate averaged 9.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births during the years 1979–1986,[19] but then rose rapidly to 14 per 100,000 in 2000 and 17.8 per 100,000 in 2009.[20] In 2013 the rate was 18.5 deaths per 100,000 live births, with some 800 maternal deaths reported.[21]
Variation within countries[edit]
There are significant maternal mortality intracountry variations, especially in nations with large equality gaps in income and education and high healthcare disparities. Women living in rural areas experience higher maternal mortality than women living in urban and sub-urban centers because [22] those living in wealthier households, having higher education, or living in urban areas, have higher use of healthcare services than their poorer, less-educated, or rural counterparts.[23] There are also racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes which increases maternal mortality in marginalized groups.[24]
The death rate for women giving birth plummeted in the twentieth century. The historical level of maternal deaths is probably around 1 in 100 births.[25] Mortality rates reached very high levels in maternity institutions in the 1800s, sometimes climbing to 40 percent of birthgiving women (see Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever). At the beginning of the 1900s, maternal death rates were around 1 in 100 for live births. Currently, there are an estimated 275,000 maternal deaths each year.[26] Public health, technological and policy approaches are steps that can be taken to drastically reduce the global maternal death burden.
Four elements are essential to maternal death prevention, according to UNFPA.[2] First, prenatal care. It is recommended that expectant mothers receive at least four antenatal visits to check and monitor the health of mother and fetus. Second, skilled birth attendance with emergency backup such as doctors, nurses and midwives who have the skills to manage normal deliveries and recognize the onset of complications. Third, emergency obstetric care to address the major causes of maternal death which are hemorrhage, sepsis, unsafe abortion, hypertensive disorders and obstructed labour. Lastly, postnatal care which is the six weeks following delivery. During this time bleeding, sepsis and hypertensive disorders can occur and newborns are extremely vulnerable in the immediate aftermath of birth. Therefore, follow-up visits by a health worker to assess the health of both mother and child in the postnatal period is strongly recommended.
Medical technologies[edit]
The decline in maternal deaths has been due largely to improved asepsis, fluid management and blood transfusion, and better prenatal care.
Technologies have been designed for resource poor settings that have been effective in reducing maternal deaths as well. The non-pneumatic anti-shock garment is a low-technology pressure device that decreases blood loss, restores vital signs and helps buy time in delay of women receiving adequate emergency care during obstetric hemorrhage.[27] It has proven to be a valuable resource. Condoms used as uterine tamponades have also been effective in stopping post-partum hemorrhage.[28]
Public health[edit]
Most maternal deaths are avoidable, as the health-care solutions to prevent or manage complications are well known. Improving access to antenatal care in pregnancy, skilled care during childbirth, and care and support in the weeks after childbirth will reduce maternal deaths significantly. It is particularly important that all births be attended by skilled health professionals, as timely management and treatment can make the difference between life and death. To improve maternal health, barriers that limit access to quality maternal health services must be identified and addressed at all levels of the health system.[29] Recommendations for reducing maternal mortality include access to health care, access to family planning services, and emergency obstetric care, funding and intrapartum care.[30] Reduction in unnecessary obstetric surgery has also been suggested.
Family planning approaches include avoiding pregnancy at too young of an age or too old of an age and spacing births. Access to primary care for women even before they become pregnant is essential along with access to contraceptives.
The biggest global policy initiative for maternal health came from the United Nations' Millennium Declaration [31] which created the Millennium Development Goals. The fifth goal of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) initiative is to reduce the maternal mortality rate by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 and to achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015.[32]
Trends through 2010 can be viewed in a report written jointly by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and the World Bank.[33]
Countries and local governments have taken political steps in reducing maternal deaths. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute studied maternal health systems in four apparently similar countries: Rwanda, Malawi, Niger, and Uganda.[34] In comparison to the other three countries, Rwanda has an excellent recent record of improving maternal death rates. Based on their investigation of these varying country case studies, the researchers conclude that improving maternal health depends on three key factors: 1. reviewing all maternal health-related policies frequently to ensure that they are internally coherent; 2. enforcing standards on providers of maternal health services; 3. any local solutions to problems discovered should be promoted, not discouraged.
In terms of aid policy, proportionally, aid given to improve maternal mortality rates has shrunken as other public health issues, such as HIV/AIDS, have become major international concerns.[35] Maternal health aid contributions tend to be lumped together with newborn and child health, so it is difficult to assess how much aid is given directly to maternal health to help lower the rates of maternal mortality. Regardless, there has been progress in reducing maternal mortality rates internationally.[36]
Maternal deaths and disabilities are leading contributors in women's disease burden with an estimated 275,000 women killed each year in childbirth and pregnancy worldwide.[26] In 2011, there were approximately 273,500 maternal deaths (uncertainty range, 256,300 to 291,700).[37] Forty-five percent of postpartum deaths occur within 24 hours.[38] Ninety-nine percent of maternal deaths occur in developing countries.[6]
See also[edit]
- List of women who died in childbirth
- Maternal near miss
- Perinatal mortality
- Obstetric transition
- Maternal mortality in fiction
- Sepsis
- Hemorrhage
- Primary care
- Infant mortality
- Child health
- Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths in the UK
- ^ Health statistics and information systems: Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births), World Health Organization (accessed June 17, 2016).
- ^ a b c d e http://www.unfpa.org/maternal-health
- ^ "Maternal health". United Nations Population Fund. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
- ^ Khlat, M., & Ronsmans, C. (2009). Deaths Attributable to Childbearing in Matlab, Bangladesh: Indirect Causes of Maternal Mortality Questioned. American Journal Of Epidemiology, 151(3), 300-306.
- ^ GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death, Collaborators (17 December 2014). "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.". Lancet. 385: 117–71. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMC 4340604. PMID 25530442.
- ^ a b "Maternal mortality: Fact sheet N°348". World Health Organization. WHO. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
- ^ The commonest causes of anaemia are poor nutrition, iron, and other micronutrient deficiencies, which are in addition to malaria, hookworm, and schistosomiasis (2005 WHO report p45).
- ^ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs348/en/
- ^ a b Conde-Agudelo A, Belizan JM, Lammers C. Maternal-perinatal morbidity and mortality associated with adolescent pregnancy in Latin America: Cross-sectional study. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2004. 192:342–349
- ^ [Morgan, K. J., & Eastwood, J. G. (2014). Social determinants of maternal self-rated health in South Western Sydney, Australia. BMC Research Notes, 7(1), 1-12. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-51]
- ^ [Haddad, L. B., & Nour, N. M. (2009). Unsafe abortion: unnecessary maternal mortality. Reviews in obstetrics and gynecology, 2(2), 122.]
- ^ Fertility Regulation and Reproductive Health in the Millennium Development Goals: The Search for a Perfect Indicator
- ^ a b c http://www.maternalmortalitydata.org/Definitions.html
- ^ [ UNICEF, W. (2012). UNFPA, World Bank (2012) Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010. WHO, UNICEF.]
- ^ a b c [UNICEF, W. (2012). UNFPA, World Bank (2012) Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010. WHO, UNICEF.]
- ^ [1], [Lee, K. S., Park, S. C., Khoshnood, B., Hsieh, H. L., & Mittendorf, R. (1997). Human development index as a predictor of infant and maternal mortality rates. The Journal of pediatrics, 131(3), 430-433.]
- ^ Venös tromboembolism (VTE) - Guidelines for treatment in C counties. Bengt Wahlström, Emergency department, Uppsala Academic Hospital. January 2008
- ^ [2]
- ^ Centers for Disease Control Maternal Mortality in the United States
- ^ http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/MaternalInfantHealth/PMSS.html
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maternal-deaths-in-childbirth-rise-in-the-us/2014/05/02/abf7df96-d229-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html
- ^ [3],[WHO Maternal Health.]
- ^ Wang W, Alva S, Wang S, Fort A. Levels and trends in the use of maternal health services in developing countries. Calverton, MD: ICF Macro; 2011. p. 85. (DHS Comparative Reports 26)
- ^ [Lu, M. C., & Halfon, N. (2003). Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes: a life-course perspective. Maternal and child health journal, 7(1), 13-30.], [Lu, M. C., & Halfon, N. (2003). Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes: a life-course perspective. Maternal and child health journal, 7(1), 13-30.]
- ^ See for instance mortality rates at the Dublin Maternity Hospital 1784–1849
- ^ a b Maternal Morbidity and Disability and Their Consequences: Neglected Agenda in Maternal Health Marge Koblinsky, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Allisyn Moran, Carine Ronsmans J Health Popul Nutr. 2012 June; 30(2): 124–130.
- ^ Use of the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) to reduce blood loss and time to recovery from shock for women with obstetric haemorrhage in Egypt. S. Miller, J. M. Turan, K. Dau, M. Fathalla, M. Mourad, T. Sutherland, S. Hamza, F. Lester, E. B. Gibson, R. Gipson, et al. Glob Public Health. 2007; 2(2): 110–124. doi: 10.1080/17441690601012536 (NASG)
- ^ Use of a Condom to Control Massive Postpartum Hemorrhage, Sayeba Akhter, FCPS, DRH, FICMCH, et al.
- ^ http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/publications/reducing_mm.pdf
- ^ Costello, A; Azad K; Barnett S (2006). "An alternative study to reduce maternal mortality". The Lancet. 368 (9546): 1477–1479. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69388-4.
- ^ http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm
- ^ http://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/maternal_health/en/
- ^ "Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2010" (PDF). WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and the World bank. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
- ^ Chambers, V. and Booth, D. (2012) Delivering maternal health: why is Rwanda doing better than Malawi, Niger and Uganda? Briefing Paper, Overseas Development Institute. http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/6614-maternal-health-maternal-mortality-health-services-local-goverance-health-providers-malawi-uganda-niger-rwanda-local-problem-solving-accountability-sub-saharan-africa-institutions-mdg5-pregnancy-childbirth-delivery-bottlenecks-imihigo
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ Bhutta, Z. A.; Black, R. E. (2013). "Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health — So Near and Yet So Far". New England Journal of Medicine. 369 (23): 2226–2235. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1111853.
- ^ Nour NM (2008). "An Introduction to Maternal Mortality". Reviews in Ob Gyn. 1: 77–81.
- World Health Organization (2014). Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2013 (PDF). WHO. ISBN 978 92 4 150722 6. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
External links[edit]
- Maternal Mortality in Central Asia, Central Asia Health Review (CAHR), 2 June 2008.
- Maternal Mortality Estimates 2000 by the WHO & UNICEF
- The World Health Report 2005 – Make Every Mother and Child Count
- Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) - UK triennial enquiry into "Why Mothers Die"
- Reducing Maternal Mortality in Developing Countries - Video, presentations, and summary of event held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, March 2008
- Birth of a Surgeon PBS documentary about midwives trained in surgical techniques in Mozambique
- Save A Mother Non-profit focused on MMR reduction.
- W4 Non-profit that supports mothers and their children to reduce maternal and infant mortality through safe births.
- The Global Library of Women's Medicine Safer Motherhood Section - non-profit offering freely downloadable material for healthcare professionals
- Maternal Mortality in the U.S. Merck for Mothers


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Late Nite FDL: One For My Pepys!
(Samuel Pepys, of course.)
From dusty shops neglected authors come,
Martyrs of pies, and relics of the bum. (John Dryden, "Mac Flecknoe")
My dad and step-mom and I went to dinner at their favorite sushi place tonight. As we were sitting there snarfing down edamame and sipping tea from handleless earthenware mugs, we talked about blogging and its impact on traditional media and on political discourse as a whole. I was telling them about the kind of continual dull roar of anti-blogger rhetoric that we hear a lot from your more entrenched trad-media types about how Bloggers are Uncivil, Bloggers are Uninformed, Bloggers Have No Qualifications, They're Ugly, and They Smell Funny, Too. You know the drill.
People act like it's this sudden and inexplicable development that writers on opposite sides of the political line should be furiously self-publishing, hurling all manner of invective at each other in a no-holds-barred frenzy of ideological combat. I, on the other hand, feel that bloggers are merely taking up the same cudgels as all the great satirists and political writers in history, that political writing has always been fiercely ideological, often rude, and sometimes hilarious.
For instance, have a look at this description of the good people of "Eatanswill", the politically divided town from Chapter 13 of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens:
It appears, then, that the Eatanswill people, like the people of
many other small towns, considered themselves of the utmost
and most mighty importance, and that every man in Eatanswill,
conscious of the weight that attached to his example, felt himself
bound to unite, heart and soul, with one of the two great parties
that divided the town–the Blues and the Buffs. Now the Blues
lost no opportunity of opposing the Buffs, and the Buffs lost no
opportunity of opposing the Blues; and the consequence was,
that whenever the Buffs and Blues met together at public meeting,
town-hall, fair, or market, disputes and high words arose
between them.
Of course it was essentially and indispensably necessary that
each of these powerful parties should have its chosen organ and
representative: and, accordingly, there were two newspapers in
the town–the Eatanswill GAZETTE and the Eatanswill INDEPENDENT;
the former advocating Blue principles, and the latter conducted
on grounds decidedly Buff. Fine newspapers they were. Such
leading articles, and such spirited attacks!–'Our worthless
contemporary, the GAZETTE'–'That disgraceful and dastardly journal,
the INDEPENDENT'–'That false and scurrilous print, the INDEPENDENT'–
'That vile and slanderous calumniator, the GAZETTE;' these,
and other spirit-stirring denunciations, were strewn plentifully
over the columns of each, in every number, and excited feelings
of the most intense delight and indignation in the bosoms of the
And here we are, nearly a hundred and fifty years later, except instead of the Gutenberg press, now we have MacBooks.
So, bloggers, hold your heads high! You are the rightful descendents of Swift, Pope, Dryden, and Boswell! You are the children of Trollope, Dickens, and Twain! It's our job to excite feelings of the most intense delight and indignation in the bosoms of our fellows, huzzah!
Frankly, I think that in times of great political strife and unrest, people like ourselves are called by duty to wade in and articulate that which other like-minded souls are struggling to put into words. We comfort the distressed and distress the comfortable.
And I, for one, couldn't be happier. It's kind of marvellous to me that in our age of technological wonders and miracles that the written word is still one of the most powerful and provocative instruments of change. It seems that we've been hearing for years that the Internet would mean the death of reading and writing. We'll all end up talking in emoticons and video clips, right?
Well, no, obviously not. Reading and writing are alive and well. Long live the blogs!


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YouTube is an increasingly important educational resource that's not only a great way to study but can also help you pick up DIY basics, blossom as an artist or learn to cook. If you can create an instructional video about it, chances are there are whole channels dedicated to it on YouTube, though there are often subjects that users simply can't quite deliver on like the big boys can.
In this case, it's science and the pursuit of knowledge. It's unfair to expect a simple home physics enthusiast build their own particle accelerator, and for experiments on this scale we're lucky enough to have some of the United States' top scientific facilities showcasing their work on YouTube.
In addition to expanding knowledge, increasing safety and pushing the boundaries of science, these labs have real-world impacts on many of the products and services we use, as you'll see in the videos below.
Jefferson Lab
Jefferson Lab is a US Department of Energy facility that spends millions of dollars each year "exploring the nature of matter". There are 17 national laboratories pushing the boundaries of our knowledge with expensive bits of kit like particle accelerators.
In case you need to brush up on some scientific terms you may only have heard in video games or movies – like cryomodule – then Jefferson Lab have made a series of videos to bring you up to speed:
And just what is a photomultiplier tube?
Like most science-themed channels on YouTube, Jefferson Lab provide some easy to digest experiments, a lot of the time involving our old friend liquid nitrogen.
In addition to short experiments and physics class brush-ups, the lab makes available a number of full lectures online. One example is the talk below given by Italian scientist and Time person of the year runner-up Dr. Fabiola Gianotti of CERN. Her talk involves the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, and the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle and how it affects our lives.
Berkeley Lab
Scientists at Berkeley Lab conduct all kinds of experiments and enable better understanding of design and often consumer products. Many of the discoveries made at Berkley Lab have a very real knock-on effect years down the line when you go to buy something, like a range hood for example:
This is just one of the ways in which science affects the ways products make it into your home. The scientists at Berkeley are also happy to answer some user questions, and apply their scientific minds to the subject of energy efficiency.
Environmental issues are never far away, like in this snippet from Blake Simmons' eight minute talk on replacing the barrel of oil with plants and microbes. You can watch the full talk here.
The channel's most popular video is this silent computer animation created using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of a simulated trip through a small slice of the universe, complete with more than 400,000 galaxies.
Sandia Labs
Sandia Labs are in charge of safeguarding and maintaining the United States' nuclear weapon stockpile. Initially established thanks in part to the post-second World War Manhattan Project, the research facilities have now branched out to explore areas surrounding energy research, supercomputing, treaty verification, nanotechnology, and nonproliferation.
Defence research involves things like the robotic hand above, a device designed to be used in the removal of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on the battelground. Another of Sandia's projects was an efficient water disruptor, as can be seen below.
Sandia Labs have built their fair share of robotics over the years, though it's not all about bomb detonation and warfare – here's a mine-rescue robot designed to overcome piles of rubble and floods:
Perhaps one of Sandia's more "useful" products (in terms of future consumer electronics) is the Sandia Cooler, a vastly improved cooling system that uses an impeller design and a barrier of area to transfer heat from a stationary source like a CPU and cooling it using 2000 rpm and some clever engineering.
One final project that MakeUseOf readers in particular might find especially interesting is Sandia's MegaDroid, 300,000 virtual networked Android devices powered by a small cluster of home PCs. Why? Click Play and find out.
You can keep up with these science labs and the work they are doing on the next big things via their respective YouTube channels. Let us know what your favourite science channels are in the comments, below.
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The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
Jeffrey A. Frankel
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
February 5, 2010
HKS Working Paper No. RWP10-005
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is the phenomenon known as the Natural Resource Curse. The principle is not confined to individual anecdotes or case studies, but has been borne out in econometric tests of the determinants of economic performance across a comprehensive sample of countries. The paper considers six aspects of commodity wealth, each of interest in its own right, but each also a channel that some have suggested could lead to sub-standard economic performance. They are: long-term trends in world commodity prices, volatility, crowding out of manufacturing, civil war, poor institutions, and the Dutch Disease. The paper concludes with a consideration of promising ideas for institutions that could help a country that is rich in, say, oil overcome the pitfalls of the Curse and achieve good economic performance. They include indexation of oil contracts, hedging of export proceeds, denomination of debt in terms of oil, Chile-style fiscal rules, a monetary target that emphasizes product prices, transparent commodity funds, and lump-sum distribution.
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Keywords: Natural Resources, Commodity Wealth, Econometrics
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MADISON, Wis. -- Southeast Missouri did not fare well in a snapshot of well-being by counties across the United States.
Pemiscot County is the least healthy county in Missouri and Platte County has the healthiest residents in the state, according to a new report released today by the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The County Health Rankings are the first to rank the overall health of the counties in all 50 states -- more than 3,000 total -- by using a standard formula to measure how healthy people are and how long they live.
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With a cholera outbreak bringing extra hardship to a region already battling civil unrest, drought and famine, UPS facilitated a third flight to the Sahel Region in Africa — and the second flight for Interaction, the largest alliance of United States-based international non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
The airlift served as a timely precursor to World Humanitarian Day on August 19 which is "a global celebration of people helping people" according to the United Nations website. This year's theme, titled "I Was Here," spotlights the dedication of humanitarian workers throughout the world.
"When a humanitarian crisis occurs, logistics immediately becomes key to saving lives. This is the third movement of critical relief supplies to the Sahel Region of Africa that UPS has been involved in since April as there's a lot of need," said UPS International President Dan Brutto. "UPS's role has been to make the shipments of our NGO partners more efficient by consolidating them and we're honored to be able to help by providing that expertise."
This Frankfurt, Germany to Bamako, Mali airlift was the culmination of a trio of humanitarian aid flights. The first flight took wing for UNICEF in April. The subsequent June and August airlifts were on behalf of Interaction.
"We must do everything we can to try to curb the further spread of cholera in northern Mali and this latest shipment will help reach that goal," said InterAction President & CEO Samuel A. Worthington. "InterAction members are grateful for the support given to us by partners such as UPS to respond to this crisis."
With 156,394 pounds of relief supplies, the people in the Sahel Region received:
- AmeriCares water purification kits that will provide 25,000 people with clean water
- AmeriCares emergency medical kits that will treat 15,000 people in Mali
- CARE high energy biscuits that will feed 39,000 malnourished children in Mali
- Shelterbox tents that will protect 497 families in Niger
- UNICEF medical kits that will cover the needs of 10,000 people for a month
- UNICEF oral rehydration salts that will help 2 million people
- UNICEF water purification kits that will serve 2,640 families
To learn more about the situation in the Sahel Region, connect with others about this issue, or make an individual donation, go to www.unicefusa.org/sahelups.
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I sure hope you don't have any plans for this coming weekend, because the Network of Ensemble Theaters is hosting MicroFest USA: Detroit from August 17-19. The action-packed weekend begins with an opening reception at Art Effect Gallery at 6:30 p.m. with a performance by the poet and Detroit native Jessica Care Moore. But that is just the very beginning. There are widely diverse performances happening all weekend and all across the city at practically all times of the day. A few highlights just from Saturday include a micro-granting dinner hosted by Detroit SOUP at 5:30 p.m. at 2051 Rosa Parks; a site-specific collaborative performance between the Hinterlands Ensemble and Power House Project called "Boom Town, Bust Town, Bangtown" at 7:30 p.m.; and a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the African World Festival at the Charles H. Wright Museum (a Knight Arts grantee) at 9:30 p.m. A full listing of events is available here.
Promotional poster for the 3-day event. Image courtesy of the Network of Ensemble Theaters
The Network of Ensemble Theaters is "a national coalition of ensembles by and for artists" that encourages cross-discipline collaboration among artists, and "strives to bring about change in the world beyond [themselves] through the transformative power of collaborative theater." This description, as incredible and electrifying as it is, is hardly adequate to describe the amazing work that this group is doing, and the energy they're spreading across the nation. Of course, there's no better way to see what they're doing than by experiencing it firsthand, so get out of the house, participate, and enjoy some incredible performances this weekend. You won't be disappointed.
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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. [96-180 A.D.]
Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Two lives that once part are like ships that divide. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Source: A Lament
Democracy is something we must always be working at. It is a process never finished, never ending. And each new height gained opens broader vistas for the future. Thus it has been as one looks back over the sweep of history; thus it must continue to be if democracy is to continue as a working tool in the hands of free men.
Edmund de S. Brunner
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Source: Letter i. On a Regicide Peace. Vol. v.P. 311.
The queen of Sheba . . . lives on now, nearly thirty centuries since her visit [to Solomon in Israel], as a woman whose spirit of adventure and whose resourcefulness, courage, and curiosity have not bee surpassed by any queen in history. And certainly her sense of good public and international relations is unparalleled among women of the Bible.
Edith Alderman Deen (1905 - 1994)
There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
Edgar Dale
Source: 16-Sep-66
The history of mankind is one long record of giving revolution another trial - and then limping back at last to sanity, safety and hard work!
Ed Howe (1853 - 1937)
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.
Ed Crane
Source: 1986
If anyone wants to understand the course of man on earth, he must consider the fact of the long pause, three million years on the level of savagery, ten thousand years on the level of dependence on the fruits of hand labor, and a hundred or a hundred and fifty years of sudden sharp rise. One hundred or 150 years is the time included in what we call progress in man's history.
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The Mountain Volleyball Club won the Tribe Classic 16-and-under volleyball tournament at Lehighton Middle School on Sunday. The Mountain Volleyball Club went undefeated in pool play with an 8-0 record and defeated the Delaware Rafters in the final. Members of the team are: From left, Emily Cramer, Julia Heyward, Mara Batt, Kyla Artis, Victoria Deihl, Britney Hewitt, Sydney Willis, Mariam Appiah, Tereya Edwards, Sydney Clothier, Jessica Mangarell and Emen Inyang.
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Robert De Niro's Best to Worst Movies
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Cast: Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Robert De Niro
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: "All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Trav... [MORE]
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Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with hi... [MORE]
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Cast: Elizabeth McGovern, James Woods, Robert De Niro, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams
Director: Sergio Leone
Synopsis: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinema... [MORE]
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Cast: Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Cathy Moriarty, Nicholas Colasanto, Robert De Niro
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, a violent m... [MORE]
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Cast: Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino, Robert De Niro, Lorraine Bracco, Ray Liotta
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life a... [MORE]
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Cast: John Savage, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
Director: Michael Cimino
Synopsis: One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The ... [MORE]
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Cast: Harvey Keitel, Amy Robinson, David Proval, Robert De Niro
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the a... [MORE]
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Cast: Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Robert De Niro, Ed Herlihy
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's satirical comedy/drama caustically explores the lengths to which a nobody will go to be as famous as his idol. Practicing his pat... [MORE]
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Cast: Mickey Rourke, Charlotte Rampling, Lisa Bonet, Robert De Niro
Director: Alan Parker
Synopsis: The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to locate a pop singe... [MORE]
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Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
Synopsis: Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy ... [MORE]
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence
Director: David O. Russell
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, Kevin Costner, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin Smith
Director: Brian De Palma
Synopsis: Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Nes... [MORE]
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Cast: Michael Keaton, Bridget Fonda, Robert Forster, Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1995 Rum Punch, switching the action from Miami to LA, and altering the ce... [MORE]
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Cast: Taral Hicks, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Robert De Niro, Francis Capra
Director: Robert De Niro
Synopsis: Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, ... [MORE]
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Cast: Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Al Pacino, Jon Voight, Robert De Niro
Director: Michael Mann
Synopsis: A successful career criminal considers getting out of the business after one last score, while an obsessive cop desperately tries to put him behind... [MORE]
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Cast: Yaphet Kotto, Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Dennis Farina
Director: Martin Brest
Synopsis: Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitt... [MORE]
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Cast: Joe Pesci, James Woods, Sharon Stone, Don Rickles, Robert De Niro
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and ... [MORE]
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Cast: Nick Nolte, Joe Don Baker, Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's Good... [MORE]
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Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Robert De Niro, Charlie Cox
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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Cast: Denis Leary, Robert De Niro, Woody Harrelson, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche
Director: Barry Levinson
Synopsis: In a 29-day shoot, Barry Levinson filmed this $15 million political and media satire, adapted by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet from Larry Beinhart'... [MORE]
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Cast: John Heard, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro
Director: Penny Marshall
Synopsis: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Saye... [MORE]
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric
Director: Barry Levinson
Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly cal... [MORE]
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Cast: Hume Cronyn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton
Director: Jerry Zaks
Synopsis: Two sisters try to set their familial differences aside -- one in hopes of saving her own life -- in this drama with comic accents. Bessie (Diane K... [MORE]
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Cast: Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, Natascha McElhone, Robert De Niro
Director: John Frankenheimer
Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directed this $20 million international action thriller from a screenplay by Richard Weisz (pseudonym for David Mamet) and J.D. ... [MORE]
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Cast: Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro
Director: Jay Roach
Synopsis: In this comedy from Austin Powers director Jay Roach, Ben Stiller plays a young man who endures a disastrous weekend at the home of his girlfriend'... [MORE]
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Gary Farmer, Marlon Brando, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett
Director: Frank Oz
Synopsis: Three generations of method acting giants unite for this crime thriller written by Kario Salem and directed by Frank Oz. Robert De Niro stars as Ni... [MORE]
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Cast: Joe Viterelli, Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lisa Kudrow
Director: Harold Ramis
Synopsis: In the same year that a hit cable television series, The Sopranos, successfully mined the same premise, this comedy about a mobster seeking advice ... [MORE]
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Cast: Ray Liotta, Harvey Keitel, Sylvester Stallone, Peter Berg, Robert De Niro
Director: James Mangold
Synopsis: The second film from writer/director James Mangold, the corruption drama Cop Land stars Sylvester Stallone as Freddy Heflin, the much-denigrated sh... [MORE]
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Cast: Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis
Synopsis: Robert Rodriguez brings a new breed of antihero to the big screen in this hyper-violent adaptation of the "fake" trailer originally featured in the... [MORE]
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Cast: Mary Kay Place, Liza Minnelli, Barry Primus, Lionel Stander, Robert De Niro
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Cast: Jeremy Irons, Aidan Quinn, Liam Neeson, Ray McAnally, Robert De Niro
Director: Roland Joffe
Synopsis: Featuring a majestic score by Ennio Morricone and lush Oscar-winning cinematography by Chris Menges, Roland Joffé's The Mission examines the events... [MORE]
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Cast: Tammy Blanchard, Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon
Director: Robert De Niro
Synopsis: One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In 1939, Edwa... [MORE]
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Cast: Anna Friel, Andrew Howard, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish
Director: Neil Burger
Synopsis: A struggling writer unlocks the full potential of his brain by taking a cutting-edge pharmaceutical, only to find that his newfound abilities have ... [MORE]
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Cast: Enver Gjokaj, Edward Norton, Frances Conroy, Milla Jovovich, Robert De Niro
Director: John Curran
Synopsis: A convicted arsonist schemes to get out of prison by convincing his debauched wife to seduce his retirement-ready parole officer in director John J... [MORE]
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Cast: James Franco, Frances McDormand, William Forsythe, Eliza Dushku, Robert De Niro
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Synopsis: A man struggling to come to terms with the sins of his father makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime in a dr... [MORE]
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Cast: Lili Taylor, Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Olivia Thirlby, Julianne Moore, Dale Dickey
Director: Paul Weitz
Synopsis: Robert De Niro and Paul Dano headline writer/director Paul Weitz's adaptation of Nick Flynn's memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. The story... [MORE]
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Lucian Maisel, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell
Director: Kirk Jones
Synopsis: Widower Frank Goode has had to make plenty of adjustments since losing his wife about a year ago, but maybe the hardest one has been maintaining hi... [MORE]
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, Sean Penn
Director: Barry Levinson
Synopsis: Inspired by the personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson, Barry Levinson's fictional showbiz comedy stars Robert De Niro as a struggling m... [MORE]
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Cast: Charlize Theron, Hal Holbrook, Cuba Gooding Jr., Aunjanue Ellis, Robert De Niro
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Synopsis: This military drama is based on the true story of Carl Brashear, who was the first African-American to serve as a diver in the United States Navy. ... [MORE]
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Cast: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renee Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese
Director: Eric Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, Rob Letterman
Synopsis: Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) is the patr... [MORE]
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Cast: Rene Russo, Eddie Murphy, Pedro Damián, Mos Def, Robert De Niro
Director: Tom Dey
Synopsis: Robert DeNiro continues to lampoon his tough-guy persona with this spoof of buddy cop movies that teams him with comic co-star Eddie Murphy. DeNiro... [MORE]
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Cast: Ethan Hawke, Hank Azaria, Anne Bancroft, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert De Niro
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Synopsis: Alfonso Cuaron (The Little Princess) directed this Mitch Glazer screenplay, a modernization of the 1860-61 classic by Charles Dickens. Some situati... [MORE]
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Cast: Blythe Danner, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller
Director: Jay Roach
Synopsis: After suffering the humiliation of being given the third degree by his girlfriend's father, one man now faces the even more embarrassing task of in... [MORE]
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Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, John Cleese, Robert De Niro
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Synopsis: Director Kenneth Branagh's interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel stars Robert DeNiro as a terrifying monster created in an obsessiv... [MORE]
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Cast: Randy Quaid, Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Piper Perabo, Robert De Niro
Director: Des McAnuff
Synopsis: The pride of Frostbite Falls and Whatsamatta U's most famous alumni find their way onto the big screen (and the real world) in this comedy inspired... [MORE]
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Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Skipp Sudduth, Barry Miller, Christopher Bauer
Director: Joel Schumacher
Writer: Joel Schumacher
Synopsis: Can a homophobic former rent-a-cop find happiness learning to sing with a man in a dress? That's the big question in this comedy-drama. A retired s... [MORE]
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Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Edward Burns, Avery Brooks, Melina Kanakaredes, Robert De Niro
Director: John Herzfeld
Writer: John Herzfeld
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By San Jose Sharks Staff
SAN JOSE, Calif -- While the hockey season may have come to an end for the San Jose Sharks, giving back to the community continues. On June 3, the Sharks Foundation presented a check for $7,335 to Environmental Volunteers.
The local nonprofit organization promotes the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education and the Foundation grant will provide scholarships to low-income students in Santa Clara County to off-set the costs associated with this science discovery program.
"No issue has become so prominent in the past few years as protecting our environment and we are thrilled to support EV's efforts to promote conservation among youth," said Foundation Manager Laura Johnston. "Hopefully their efforts today will have a deep impact on our community long into the future."
With a focus on low-income public schools, EV offers a concentrated educational program directly in the classroom, conducts follow-up field study explorations in local nature preserves and, supplies teachers with supplementary resources to help them meet the state science curriculum standards.
"Through our partnership with the Sharks Foundation, over 1,700 low-income students will receive science and environmental education programs," said Executive Director Allan Berkowitz. "They will taste, touch, and smell their way to an appreciation of our local ecosystems."
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Curious to know how Connecticut addresses early childhood development, delegates from the government of Singapore toured several facilities in Norwalk on July 24, 2007, as guests of the Commission on Children.
Delegates from Singapore's Ministry of Community Development, Youth, and Sports began the day at the Stepping Stones Museum for Children, where they were greeted by Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia, state Senator Bob Duff of Norwalk, and Commission Executive Director Elaine Zimmerman.
Commission Chair Emerita Laura Lee Simon explained the Commission's mission and history. Janice Gruendel, Gov. M. Jodi Rell's senior advisor on early childhood, gave an overview of the state's Ready by 5 & Fine by 9 by Nine program.
After a tour of the museum, the group went to Norwalk Community College for a look at NCC's Early Childhood Lab School, which gives students hands-on experience in child care: Three classrooms there serve 42 children, ranging in age from six months to five years.
Also on the tour was Room to Grow, a full-day
grant-funded preschool at St. Thomas the Apostle School.
After lunch, the delegates heard from Patti Keckeisen, past director of the Danbury site of the Parent Leadership Training Institute, a Commission initiative. She explained how PLTI gives parents the skills to participate more in local and state government, always with an eye toward improving services for children.
That participation can range from running for the Board of Education or some other office to simply gathering the courage to attend a PTA meeting or speak to a teacher, she said.
Tan Hwee Seh, coordinating director of the Family Development Group of the Ministry, seemed most impressed by the age-appropriate activities at the NCC school and Stepping Stones. "I think it's refreshing," she told the Advocate newspaper of Stamford. "You're looking at the holistic development of the child. It's not just academically, but the whole child. You're teaching the child to play and to develop values."
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Insulted, spat at and attacked -- by ordinary Germans. Unable to bear the daily racism, a pastor's family fled from a small town in eastern Germany back to the their former home in the west.
Sometime last year, Miriam Neuschðfer, who has dark skin because her mother is Indian, decided it was time to record the daily instances of racism she and her family were suffering. The 32-year-old mother of five and wife of a German clergyman wrote down her encounters with the citizens of Rudolstadt, a small town in the eastern German state of Thuringia.
"It helped me work through it," she says, "and some day I want the children to understand everything that happened to us."
A slight woman, Neuschðfer sits at her kitchen table, flipping through the yellow file. She constantly shakes her head. Ten pages filled with black writing. She has more just like it in a drawer -- perhaps 50, she estimates.
When she first started she would write in full sentences but ended up just jotting down bullet points. The files are a disturbing account of the events that drove the family out of Rudolstadt after spending almost eight years trying and failing to get on with the locals. They have moved back to western Germany, to the town of Erkelenz in the Rhineland where they are not subject to daily abuse.
She could no longer stand the racism, the hostile comments from everyday citizens, the feeling that she was hated in her own country. "It was an escape," she says. "It was a matter of survival."
Neuschðfer grew up in the Lower Rhine region of Germany, studied theology and speaks perfect German. Her husband, Reiner Andreas Neuschðfer, 40, is a pastor. In 2000, he was offered the position as schools administrator for the southern Thuringia region.
It was an attractive job, and the family had no qualms about moving east. The Neuschðfers and their two young children moved to Rudolstadt, a former royal retreat in a pretty valley near Erfurt. It's a small town with 25,000 residents. A family would find its footing and make new friends in a place like this, they thought.
But the Neuschðfers remained strangers in Thuringia.
From the beginning, says Reiner, the family sensed major "cultural differences." They found it hard to get to know people and the few friends they did make had also come from western Germany. They felt isolated. But they didn't lose heart. Perhaps, they thought, they had just misread the local character. After all, even native Thuringians admit they have a tendency to be grumpy and aren't the easiest people to please.
It will work out in the end, thought the Neuschðfers. But it didn't. In fact, things started to get worse.
The Neuschðfers began to sense something more profound than just cool distance. "We could sit here for hours, and I could just keep coming up with examples," says Miriam, as she browses through her accounts of hate and animosity.
"Your Skin Isn't Right"
The alarm bells first went off in 2002 during a conversation with the kindergarten teacher of Jannik, the oldest son, who is now 10 years old. The conversation suddenly turned to the issue of integration. "Your skin isn't right," the other children said to him. It got so bad that Jannik tried to scrub his skin white with a coarse brush.
According to the parents, when Jannik went to grade school later, the teasing continued. "Mom, what's a *****?" the young boy asked at home. His classmates had taunted him, saying: "You are this brown because you rubbed shit all over yourself." One day, nine school mates reportedly beat Jannik up on the playground so badly that Reiner called the police. The school administration scolded the small boys who had roughed him up.
The second-oldest daughter, Fenja, who is now eight, also came home with stories of being bullied. And the mother, Miriam, had her own harassment experiences, too. She recalls how an elderly gentleman in a supermarket said: "Amazing the kind of people they let shop here" as she and her children walked past. "Go back to the jungle!" she remembers another man yelling at her once. She was in a parking lot and hadn't closed her car door fast enough for his liking as he tried to pull his car into the adjacent spot.
Less Than Helpful Authorities
It wasn't long before just being stared at by people started to get to Miriam. "I just kept my eyes on the ground and counted the paving stones, she says. It wasn't long before she stopped venturing out of her house on her own.
Even when she was accompanied with her large and powerfully built husband or with the few friends they had, Miriam and the children sensed people's animosity. Whenever the family showed up at a busy playground, it would empty out abruptly. "In glorious sunshine," according to the mother. One day a teenager spat at her as she walked through a park with an acquaintance, she says.
"Spat at? I can't imagine that," says Georg Eger, the deputy mayor, vigorously shaking his head in his office on the second floor of the Rudolstadt town hall. He raises his finger and continues: "I even rule that out." City spokesman Michael Wagner tries to soften that categoric statement a little. Of course, one can't vouch for every single citizen, he says.
There's a whole lot of head shaking in Rudolstadt's town hall these days. "We've been steamrolled," Eger says. Steamrolled by reports about the Neuschðfers' flight from the xenophobia of some of Rudolstadt's inhabitants.
Crisis management is what is called for now, says the spokesman. He adds that he is drafting a public statement by the city in response to the matter. Every sentence counts. The example of M■geln (more...) made that clear. In that small town in Saxony, in August 2007, a drunken mob attacked a group of Indian men after a confrontation at a street festival. The group shouted racist taunts, but M■geln's mayor played down the problem and blamed the violence on visitors from out of town.
Fear of the M■geln Effect
Like M■geln, Rudolstadt is worried about its reputation. In recent years the city has fought an uphill battle to improve its image. In 1992, after 2,000 neo-Nazis marched here in memory of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, the town was labelled a bastion of the far right. Today, Rudolstadt's inhabitants proudly point out that the town is home to Germany's largest world music festival, which draws 10,000 people from all over the world each year.
Now the town's administration fears its reputation is slipping again. The mayor's office has received hundreds of hate e-mails. Their message: "We won't be returning to Rudolstadt."
The town has to walk a fine line. It has to fight against the blanket judgment that it is a nest of xenophobia, but it must also avoid publicly dismissing the Neuschðfers' claims as being made-up stories. At times, the latter is particularly hard. The deputy mayor speaks of "schoolyard scuffles." The mayor intends to meet Reiner Neuschðfer soon to clear up the matter as soon as possible. Until then, he'll ask around about something that he never cared to hear about before. He'll talk to the police, who confirm the Neuschðfers filed two legal complaints. And he'll talk with the school, which is currently defending itself against the accusation that it didn't do enough to help.
The Neuschðfers say they aren't bitter, that this is not about stigmatizing eastern Germany or Rudolstadt. They did not seek out the publicity. The story of their flight from Thuringia leaked out gradually, reaching the press by coincidence.
Miriam and her children finally moved to Erkelenz last October. At first it was just intended as a vacation, as rest and recuperation. But it became an "act of liberation". They found they couldn't bring themselves to return to Rudolstadt.
Miriam and her children Jannik, Fenja, Ronja, Jarrit and Jannis Neuschðfer are enjoying life in their former home. Their father is still looking for a job back in the Rhineland. For now, every weekend he drives the 430 kilometers (267 miles) between Erkelenz, where he spends time with his family, and Rudolstadt, where he sleeps during the week on a mattress in their empty flat.
At the moment, he is on vacation. Next Tuesday, he will drive back to Thuringia for the first time since the accusations of racism were made public. He has "mixed feelings" about the looming trip, he says. He knows "it could be a gauntlet."
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BEIJING: The global equities bull market will weather any halt in bond purchases by the Federal Reserve amid rising US consumption and investment in emerging markets, according to Templeton Asset Management's Mark Mobius.
US stocks rose, sending benchmark indexes to almost three-year highs, after the Fed on Wednesday renewed its pledge to keep interest rates near zero to stimulate the economy. The Federal Open Market Committee agreed to finish $600 billion of Treasury purchases in June. Another round of buying isn't needed to sustain the rally and there won't be an economic slump in the second half, Mobius said in a phone interview from Bucharest on Wednesday before the Fed statement.


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SIKESTON -- Lavada Jean Pobst, 72, died Feb. 17, 2006, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.
Born Aug. 8, 1933, in Cole Hill, Ark., daughter of the late B.E. and Audrey Rowland, she had worked as a pharmacy technician for Heisserers and Super D pharmacies before retiring.
On May 3, 1952, at Sikeston, she married Floyd Pobst who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, Chuck and Debbie Pobst of Sikeston; one daughter, Patty Wilcox of Sikeston; one sister, Bea Heisserer of Sikeston; four grandchildren, Jeremy Wilcox of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Jason Pobst, Matt Pobst and Chris Pobst of Sikeston; three great-
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He has recorded 46 albums.
He graduated from the University of Alabama.
He received a liver transplant in 1994.
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Jim owns and operates a macadamia nut farm in Hawaii.
Jim was considered by Carol Burnett to be her "good luck charm" and as such was a guest star on each season's premiere of The Carol Burnett Show (1967).
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Jim is a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.
Jim, in his entire career, has put out 46 albums.
Jim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Alabama.
A foundation that awards grants to teachers every year named a grant in honor of Jim Nabors in 2003. The foundation is based in Sylacauga, Alabama, his home town.
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