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Knee injuries are a major problem in many sports arounds the world. Many athletes are often found to a victim of torn cartilage and ACLs (Advanced Life Support), because protective and preventive measured hasn't been taken by them. The use of knee compression sleeves help to reduce or completely eradicate the occurrence of knee injuries. It also doesn't inhibit the overall knee mobility even if a knee injury has occurred.
The most common knee brace used by athletes all around the world are the knee compression sleeves. Besides athletes, many people who go to the gym every day and are part of intense workouts are likely to wear knee compression sleeves for all the benefits it provides. Here's what they are, what they do and who needs to wear them.
What exactly are knee sleeves?
Knee compression sleeves are not the same as knee braces. A knee sleeve helps to provide the necessary support to the person wearing it but does not work the way a knee brace would. Knee braces are primarily made in order to protect the injured person from further endangerment. On the other hand, knee compression sleeves are designed in such a way so as to protect the knee from future injuries or any further risk of damage. This is particularly necessary for anyone pressurizing their knees on a daily basis by doing various strenuous activities.
Knee compression sleeves, as the name suggests add a compression element that increases the flow of blood towards the knees thus making it work for longer hours without feeling the fatigue kicking in. The best part is that, it reduces pain, not just during but even after the workout. This aspect is considered to be really important as it helps to encourage the flow of blood to the blood vessels of the knee thus keeping them oxygenated at all times, which in turn reduces the production of lactic acid, which is the prime reason behind all the cramps and fatigue. Thus, a knee compression sleeve reduces the pain, and swelling during and after the workouts.
Knee sleeves are generally made from the material called neoprene which can easily slide over the knee. The knee sleeves add warmth, limits the movement of the patella and increases the capacity to feel the position of a joint in space as sensed by the CNS (Central Nervous System). In other words, it isn't just a support mechanism but is also used to improve proprioception.
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The basic difference between knee braces and knee sleeves is that the cushioning of the knee brace is meant for the anterior knee while the knee compression sleeves don't provide the similar support. Therefore, having an unstable knee and trying to fix the issue by making use of a knee sleeves isn't going to work, you'll be needing to make use of knee braces, or in extreme cases pay a visit to the doctor for investigate the matter further.
When should one use the knee sleeves? Any one who is involved in weightlifting, powerlifting on a regular basis MUST use knee sleeves. Otherwise they might have to face tendonitis. Knee sleeves need not be worn at all times. Especially in cases where the knees aren't involved in primarily lifting the source, it is not necessary at all. However, if worn, they greatly influence the performance in a positive way. Any time your knee is left weak or vulnerable, it is at a great risk for damage which is usually long term damage. So to be on the safer side, it is best to wear it at all times.
Anyone who is new to lifting might not feel the need to wear knee sleeves as their knees are not exposed to as much pressure in the beginning. This is subjective to one's age, whether they play sports at a regular basis, their body form, and techniques used. Poor training and techniques can be disastrous and may leave one's muscles tired and drained, thus requiring support. However, if the workouts go on for a year or more, it is highly recommended to buy knee sleeves to avoid any damage that may be caused.
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Cam Carter was one of 33 people to receive $100,000 each for undergraduate studies
By Agnieszka Krawczynski
Photo: Cam Carter, 17, walks the halls of St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary. (Agnieszka Krawczynski / The B.C. Catholic)
A Grade 12 student at St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary has won the ultimate academic jackpot: the Loran Scholarship, a prestigious award valued at a whopping $100,000.
"I was just lucky to be one of the top ones," Cam Carter told The B.C. Catholic at school Feb. 27.
Carter was one of 33 people to win the Loran out of 4,430 applicants across the country. The award is Canada's biggest undergraduate scholarship and pays for each student's tuition, living expenses, summer internships, mentorship programs, and annual student retreats over four years.
"I'm not buying a car or anything like that," he laughed. "I'm going to school and I'm going to relax a little bit about funding my education."
Carter said he's dreamed of getting a scholarship since he started playing water sports in Grade 7.
"When I was younger, my dream was to win a water polo scholarship. I was so driven to play water polo, to be good at sports. That's pretty typical for a really athletic kid."
His coaches encouraged him to work hard in the classroom, too. So, after failing a course in Grade 8, he pulled his marks up and picked up some more volunteer hours. Then, a bad knee injury in Grade 11 had him sitting on the sidelines of water polo training.
"It was kind of like an identity crisis," Carter recalls. "I didn't have that major part of me. I guess I took that drive I had for sports into school and into community service because I still wanted to go to university. Maybe I couldn't go through water polo anymore, but I could go through grades and community service."
The 17-year-old has served his Abbotsford neighbourhood in various ways over the years, from preparing meals and praying with homeless people with NightShift, a Surrey soup kitchen, to starting a splash ball program for 4- to 8-year olds at the local pool.
He's also volunteered with the Special Olympics since Grade 7, first as a volunteer swimmer, then as a coach. "It's a lot of fun. It's a really accepting, enjoyable community."
At St. John Brebeuf, Carter is also on the student council, running events like school dances and anti-discrimination awareness campaigns. He also befriends and tutors international students.
Though Carter admits these commitments take time out of his social life, he believes they are worth it.
"Being part of communities like SJB, people give you the advice to go out there and do something and really make an impact. I took that to heart," he said.
"That's why I started doing it and that's why I've kept with it over the course of time. It's really rewarding to make a difference and help people out. To see the impact of your actions really makes you feel good about yourself and what you're doing."
The Loran, in its 28th year, is billed as a scholarship that awards students with character, commitment to serving the community, and long-term leadership potential.
"He's an amazing young man. He's stood out for a long time," said his English teacher, Sandra Tobin Careen.
His humble demeanour and care for his fellow students is obvious, she added. At the recent school dance, Carter did everything from helping set up equipment and dessert tables, to making sure everyone in the building was having a good time.
"It speaks volumes of who he is," she said. It's also a "huge" deal for the school. This is the first time a student at St. John Brebeuf has received the Loran.
Carter went through a lengthy process to apply for the award, including six interviews in Vancouver and another seven in Toronto.
On his way home from Toronto, Carter stopped for a layover in Calgary when he found out his connecting flight was cancelled. Instead of panicking, he called a taxi and caught a ride to the Calgary pool where he knew his water polo team was playing a national game.
Five minutes before the game began, he got the call saying he won the Loran. "I was like: 'This is amazing!' I called my parents and I was bawling at the pool. That was a great experience and I probably played the best game of my life."
Carter hopes to go to the University of Toronto and get an undergraduate degree in kinesiology. He's not sure what he'll do after that, but has his eye on physiotherapy or medical school.
Out of eight B.C. winners, Carter is the only one from a Catholic school.
Photo: Cam Carter with teacher Sandra Tobin Careen. (Agnieszka Krawczynski / The B.C. Catholic)


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She felt good and smoothe. I just need to move the rear sight a bit to the right and maybe put a #8 front sight on.
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How come you ground on the trigger? Was it too sharp on the edges?
The trigger distance didn`t match to my small hands, so I made the trigger a bit thinner......:D
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I tried the short trigger from a P6, that has the same geomitry as the original one, only that is is thinner, but that one is to thinn.
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Since our environment is changing ceaselessly, and ever more dynamically, companies should also improve and develop steadily; they should become more efficient and more modern. Nowadays, a good product or service and a lean organization is not a guarantee of success. In this harsh competition continuous innovation is more and more important to change over and over again and thus develop our operation and the processes which create the value. In business processes the human factor has always been important; however, nowadays there is a growing amount of research about how to contribute to the more efficient operation of companies. The structural utilization of the competence research results and competence-based human resource management is a significant policy.
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The ideal-typical transition from Fordism to post-Fordism: A neopositivist problem setting
The present article discusses a fundamental argument of a series of regulation approaches. Although regulation approaches are heterogeneous, both in their premises and in their analytical instruments, this relatively common argument describes a shift at the level of the economy, the state and the organization of work: from Fordism to post-Fordism and from Keynesianism to neoliberalism. Despite the influence of this argument in economic and social theory and despite its contribution to recent debates about neoliberalization and the crisis of the welfare state, this transition also sets some methodological limitations presented in this article.
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- 3 (1 lb) frozen loaves bread dough, thawed (I just wrap each individually in plastic wrap and thaw in fridge overnight)
- 2 (14 ounce) jarsthick pizza sauce
your favorite pizza toppings
- 1 lb cooked sausage or 1 lb desired meat (+ whatever else you like on your pizza)
- 1 lb mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1⁄2 cup melted butter or 8 tablespoons olive oil
- 9 teaspoons parmesan cheese
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- Cut each thawed 1 lb loaf into 3 equal sections, roll and stretch each section into 9 (8") circles.
- Spread each to within a 1/2" from edge with pizza sauce, top each with favorite toppings, sprinkle each with mozzarella.
- Moisten edges with a little water or beaten egg, and fold over, sealing/pinching edges together WELL.
- Flute edge if desired.
- Place, on sides, on greased cookie sheet, prick tops with fork, brush with butter or olive oil, sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
- Bake at 425º for about 25-35 minutes, til browned.
- (Or 475º for 15-20 minutes).
- *Toreheat leftovers, bake at 350º for 25-35 minutes til hot.


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This detached holiday bungalow, in a wooded valley just 2½ miles from Liskeard with shops, pubs, restaurants and the Looe Valley railway line, is ideal to see all Cornwall has to offer, including fishing villages, beaches and the Eden Project. Guests have use of the adjacent fishing lake (charges apply) and the village inn serves food and offers free wi-fi. Siblyback Lake and Lux Park leisure centre boast many sporting activities and Bodmin Moor is ideal for walkers. The south coast, 8 miles away, has many picturesque villages including Fowey, Looe, Polperro and Mevagissey. The bungalow is also within 10 miles of the famous Jamaica Inn, located in Bolventor near Launceston, broadcasted on the BBC in 2014. There are houses and beautiful gardens to visit including The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Lanhydrock House and Cothele. Shop 2 miles, pub 80 yards and restaurant 3 miles.
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Fiercely independent of Russia and yet hugely tainted economically by the fall of communism and the subsequent loss of local jobs, responsible tourism in Kamchatka is about a region striving to reapply boundaries that have been broken for some time and so have fallen out of line with its vision for a positive and sustainable tourism future. Salmon poaching has become synonymous with survival and efforts must be made to ensure that new generations of Kamchatkans recognise the value of their abundant natural resources and are able to seek out work to support them. Similarly, trophy hunters may bring in big bucks, but the wildlife theyre diminishing is priceless and conservation efforts across the peninsula will need a significantly increased amount of funding and support if the balance is to tip back in favour of preserving Kamchatkas incredible wildlife instead of destroying it. A Kamchatka conditioned by a well oiled but invasive tourist industry is not what responsible travellers will come out for, they will come to see nature as it should be and as it is rarely seen elsewhere.
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There's this guy I've liked for over a year. We never went out, although he liked me too. can't forget about him. He's always on my mind no matter how hard i try. I've tried HARD. I don't look at him, avoid places he might be. How the heck do i move on? I haven't cried this hard in 10 months. He's got a girlfriend and it's so painful to be around him.(we 're all seniors in HS) She use to purposely try and make me jealous of her but it never worked. I don't care about her. He avoids me now too since i stopped texting him.
I don't want someone else, i just want to stop thinking about him.
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The hardest thing to have to endure is when someone you used to care about And Still Do is in your sights instead of out of Sight Nor out of Mind And-----It's so painful to be around him.
Yes, a real killer indeed, Aud_Queen and More like no Thrill Kill when you have the Other not so sweet half, Purposely putting salt in the war wound you have not had a chance to begin to lick.
Until school lets out, sweetie, grin and bear it. Continue your route to Avoid him and her like the plague. Thanksgiving vacation is coming and Christmas holiday too and That will be some time you can spend soul searching time away this sticky situation at hand that is stinging like a bee at your broken heart.
You're stronger than you think. And with the way he picked up this snob instead of a gem, shows me Who the Queen bee is and who the Real Princess is. And with time, that eventually does heal all wounds, in Time, He will be just a memory you can lock away in your closet forever.
They deserve each other... you deserve better. Before you know it, school will be out for good and then you can leave That part of your life behind as well with the likes of them.
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A more ore eloquent summary of technological innovation is difficult to imagine than the words of this song. Since 2009 FARA has been promoting the cultivation of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) in Rwanda. Although traditional sweet potato is a solid staple, it is not particularly nutritious. OFSP, on the other hand, is full of vitamin A – sadly lacking in the diets of many farming families in Rwanda.
Good nutrition is important for everyone, but for the TT Mwogo Cooperative in Bugesera, it is literally life-saving. The thread that binds the members of this platform together is that most of them are HIV-positive and can live full lives only if they eat healthy food.
Costanzia Uzamukunda, leader of the cooperative, is 32 and has been HIV-positive for the past three years. But she is quite healthy and so is her vegetable garden. She is a very successful farmer. OFSP has changed her life.
Faustin Musonera, president of the cooperative, says: 'We grow a variety of crops here, mostly vegetables. But OFSP has won us over completely. Gorretti Nyirahabimana is only 26, but her eyesight started failing last year. She was terrified about losing her sight.
But once the cooperative started cultivating OFSP and she started eating it and her eyesight returned.' Patricia Kankindi, 51, who has been HIV-positive for several years, adds: 'OFSP is different. It tastes very good and our children love it. Now when we weed our fields, we sing together.' Copamanya Cooperative is the other cooperative workingwith DONATA in the Bugesera area. Rahab Uwimana, the senior woman in the group, extolled the virtues of OFSP.
She says: 'This orange vegetable is very healthy. We use its flour to make cakes and bread. We even make a drink from it. It tastes good and our children love it.' Ruth Mukankagara, 36, is shy by nature. Speaking very quietly but articulately, she talks about how OFSP had improved her family's livelihood far beyond her expectations. Her neighbour, Emerita Musabyimana, is clearly delighted at hearing Ruth speak so eloquently and confidently with strangers. Laughing, she says: 'Ma Mukankagara hasn't spoken that many words at one time in years – you see how OFSP makes her talk!'
The farmers of Duhange Cooperative in Rwamagana District, about 100 km east of the capital, Kigali, have been spectacularly successful. The cooperative was established in 2006 and includes 36 members, 21 of them women. Unlike most Rwandan farmers, including Bugasera's, these farmers collectively own the land they cultivate. They also own an impressive Hyundai truck and are in the process of building a sizable bakery to prepare their own products for sale, cutting out the middlemen who traditionally siphon off much of the profit of farming.
But a big bakery needs a reliable supply of electricity and their village has never had it. Undeterred, the cooperative members exhibited remarkable business expertise and recently succeeded in brokering a deal
with the government, with assistance from the Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB), to install electricity in the village.
Dativa Mukanyandwi, a vivacious 26-year-old cooperative member, provides a tour of the new bakery for OFSP products. She shows the various pieces of equipment the cooperative has purchased in preparation for supplying an array of baked products to neighbouring villages. 'Until now', she says, 'we all had to travel to the town of Rwamagana to buy bread.
Now we will supply it right here. Let the people of Rwamagana come to us instead!' Martin Karemera, 60, uproots several sweet potatoes to show that they are ready to be harvested. Although all varieties of OFSP are characterised by their orangecolour, there is considerable variation. The cooperative grows them side by side.
The village of Nyirangarama, in Rulindo district, 30 km north of Kigali, is where DONATA first introduced OFSP. Cultivation of the crop there, and throughout the country, has brought new prosperity to the farmers as well as improved nutrition. The significance of this village to FARA, and to Rwanda, was clearly demonstrated when FARA's board visited in May 2012. After seeing the fields, they visited Sina Gerard Urwibutso, a private company that uses OFSP to make various products. The factory is a world-class operation employing nearly 100 staff and business is booming.
But DONATA is not the only FARA project operating in Rwanda. The Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme (SSACP), an initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), is coordinated by FARA at its secretariat in Accra. The SSACP has been working with farmers in northern Rwanda for the past three years. The farmers of Gataraga village in Musanze district, near the Ugandan border, cultivate Irish potatoes. Here, the emphasis is on integrated agricultural research for development (IAR4D), an initiative that takes seriously the maxim that a chain – in this case the value chain – is only as strong as its weakest link.
In Gataraga, the weakest link was marketing – specifically, how to get the potatoes to market and present them to customers in an attractive way. Potatoes are good to eat, but they are heavy. Moreover, once they are harvested, they are dirty and unattractive.
The SSACP team strengthened the 'weakest link' by identifying a creative whirlwind named Josephine Mukankusi. Together they developed an ingenious packing method for selling potatoes made from freely available local materials. Josephine has prospered significantly through this technology, recently buying a car and employing several neighbours to help prepare potatoes for market. They wash the dirt off and then package them in convenient baskets that are attractive and easy to carry.
Eunice Ishimwe, Health and Nutrition Coordinator for World Vision International, FARA's partner in promoting OFSP in the southern part of the country, has been working closely with DONATA since the project was initiated. She told the DONATA team that the farmers of the Copamanya cooperative in Bugesera composed the song that features at the beginning of this chapter bythemselves, the complete words of which are as given in the box.
Malawi: money for production-savvy smallholder farmers
For Billy Volonje, a smallholder farmer in Village S5 in Malawi's Salima District, making about 165,000 Malawian Kwacha (USD550) in a season is a big difference. This was the surprising windfall after he sold 37 bags of sweet red sorghum crop to Chibuku Breweries in the 2011 farming season. Volonje's livelihood is dependent on weather and yield, and the ability to earn new income is thanks to an innovative project being promoted by FARA. Volonje, who has been growing sorghum since 2009, is one of 100,000 smallholder farmers in Salima, who have benefited from the PSTAD funded by the AfDB. The project is promoting red sorghum in the Chinguluwe Extension Planning Area (EPA) under the Salima Agricultural Development Division (SLADD). Salima, a traditional sorghum-growing area, is witnessing a small revolution as farmers enjoy the fruits of better management in growing the cereal.
Red sweet sorghum is ideal for beer production, making it a favoured cash crop in Salima, a district 120 km east of Malawi's capital, Lilongwe. Now with a secure market, farmers are looking to the future and turning their 0.2-hectare plots of mapira (the Chichewa word for sorghum) into profitable fields. 'I have been growing sorghum for three years and I learned that if you do not thin down your crop, the harvest would be poor,' Volonje says. 'Doing this enabled me to produce enough grains, some of which I sold for 165,000 kwacha – my best result in recent years. I have used the money I earned from my sorghum crop to buy 10 acres [4.4 hectares] of land to build my house. I currently live in a government settlement area.' Volonje harvested 62 bags of sorghum and sold 37 bags to Chibuku who offered a higher price than the traders who took his crop in 2009 for 52 kwacha a kilogramme. In the 2012 season he was planning to increase his acreage. 'Getting sorghum seed is a challenge,' says Volonje, 'but I have some saved from the last season, and I wish the government can, in future, include sorghum seed as part of its subsidy package. This will change my farm forever.'
Gilbert Malota, focal person for the RAILS project in Malawi, says that if sorghum is to demonstrate impact in terms of income for farmers, there is a good chance it can be included in the government voucher programme that allows farmers to buy maize seed and fertilizer.
'PSTAD has brought together all stakeholders and made people open up and share,' says Malota. 'Through the programme the department will be connected to the Internet with a server and other ICT equipment and accessories, which should strengthen the platform to discuss and share information within the sorghum and maize value chains.' Another farmer, Grace Chapota Liwonde, harvested 20 bags of sorghum in the last season from her 0.4 hectare plot. She would have harvested more had it not been for a dry spell in 2011. 'This year I plan to increase the land on which I grow sorghum,' says Liwonde, who is also a teacher at the primary school in Mkukhi, her village. 'I have put my two boys through school with the proceeds from sorghum and I intend to see them through university as this crop is providing good income.' Liwonde said sorghum has also been an easy crop to grow as a woman famer, because it is not as heavy work as maize. 'Sorghum is not just for money but for food as well, and an opportunity for women to do better in farming,' she added. In Malawi, the PSTAD programme whose two projects include DONATA and RAILS has supported sorghum production with inputs and knowledge sharing, resulting in yield increase from 0.8 tonnes to 1.1 tonnes during the first year of the programme. The programme has helped bridge the gap between research outputs and farmers' adoption of new technologies. Agriculture is Malawi's economic mainstay, says Stella Kankwamba, Director of Agricultural Extension Services
in the Ministry of Agriculture, noting that the PSTAD programme was a timely intervention in Malawi's quest for food security and drive to equip smallholder farmers with agribusiness skills.
'For some of our farmers who have never earned enough money to think of saving, the production and marketing opportunity that PSTAD has offered sorghum farmers is life changing,' she says. 'The programme helped us improve information sharing, and more importantly access new technologies to smallholder farmers.' Kankwamba believes that linkages created and promoted by PSTAD are not only transforming the livelihoods of smallholder farmers but also strengthening her department's capacity to deliver better extension advice.
'PSTAD has come at the right time by providing us with the tools for information sharing – a critical component in developing our agriculture,' she adds. 'The impact on farmers is obvious. They are earning more income and buying assets. There is increased use of fertilizer by sorghum farmers, something unheard of in the past; better planting methods have been adopted, leading to high yields; and the market linkages developed with companies like Chibuku also drive production.'
The Deputy Director for Agriculture Research Services in the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr M. Phillimon Banda, concurs with Kankwamba on the improved information sharing triggered by the PSTAD programme. But he
regrets that inflexible policies have limited information sharing and collaboration between researchers and
'One of the solutions PSTAD should pursue is sensitization of policy-makers because they have not shown enough concerned about sharing information,' says Dr Banda, speaking at the Chitedza research station. Through this programme, he says, FARA has facilitated 'a paradigm shift among researchers by offering a welcome window for putting their research up for scrutiny and discussion.
'The rate of adoption of our technologies is low because most scientists are poor communicators. But if we share
information that should be in the public anywhere, it is he same as telling a good story because we are living in a different world now in which information is an asset.' According to Dr Banda, the adoption rate of maize hybrids was below 30 percent until recently. But of late it has increased due to the subsidy programme as well as greater awareness. The adoption rate is now up to 50 per cent. Sorghum is grown in the low-lying Shire valley and in the highlands, where it is a popular snack. With climate change, sorghum is a viable cash and food crop.
The challenge is to find appropriate language to convey the information to farmers, many of whom cannot read
or write.
'PSTAD can help us craft better approaches to be implemented at the village level to boost technology adoption, and subsistence agriculture is not really development,' he says. 'Agribusiness is the way to go. Almost all inputs – fertilizers and pesticides – are imported, except seeds. The seed is grown by multinational companies and the price is high, and that is one of the factors that affected production. Hence the need for the programme on seeds subsidy.' Agriculture contributes 80 percent of Malawi's GDP and employs over 90 percent of the population. Salima is known mostly for maize, cotton and red sorghum. Sweet red sorghum is grown mainly for cash; white
sorghum is consumed at home.
With a short rainy season, from December to March, the country is vulnerable to dry spells. Salima is perfect for sorghum growing and can survive low rainfall, unlike maize, says Martin Kausi, programme manager for the Salima Agricultural Development Division, who oversees the sorghum project involving 100 farmers.
Smallholder farmers have been trained on seed selection and improved farming methods. 'Previously farmers had a mentality that you do not need to apply fertiliser to this crop, but the project introduced the idea, and farmers have benefitted from yields of 3000 kg per hectare compared to 500 kg per hectare,' Kausi says. 'With extra to sell, we have sought to impart negotiating skills to our farmers to deal with traders and companies for a fair price.' Kausi adds that farmers have learned the importance of thinning their crop to ensure better yields. The project is the start of better farming prospects for farmers, if only it spreads throughout Malawi. He adds: 'We should not say maize is our staple – let's go for diversification and promote cash crops such as sorghum, cotton and rice apart from tobacco. In Salima we have less reliable rain, and we need to promote drought-tolerant crops where farmers are assured of harvesting something, even during a bad season. Sorghum offers that opportunity.'
Farmer Blinite Kalima, from Village 5 in Salima, says he built his house through earnings from sorghum. This year he is aiming to have more than a hectare under sorghum, and become a top sorghum grower for Chibuku Breweries. 'I make traditional beer with part of my sorghum and sell it, and in addition I make sorghum flour for sale,'he says. 'If we can tackle the issue of seed, I am convinced we will be better farmers and enjoy an even better lifestyle when we sell our sorghum.'
Daison Mafiyo, from Mkukhi 2 village, said storage was an issue because he often has to sell his maize crop first in order to have money to buy bags for the harvested sorghum. 'I have made a good income from selling my sorghum and am planning to open a bank account so that I can save,' says Mafiyo, who has used his earnings to buy goats and pay school fees.
Maxford Moloseni, Agricultural Extension Development Coordinator in the Chinguluwe EPA under the Salima district, echoes farmers under the Chinguluwe Green and Legume cooperative who have made financial and
knowledge gains through growing sorghum. 'On an average each farmer who received 2 kg of seed which was enough for just 0.1 hectare realised about 36,000 kwacha after selling their crop – more than they would have got for maize,' he says. The other phase of the PSTAD programme has been the promotion of open-pollinated maize (OPV) in the Mpenu EPA of Lilongwe district, 50 kilometres south of the city. MZ 721 is newly released, high-yielding maize with a potential yield of 6 tonnes per hectare in a country where most smallholder farmers barely harvest 2 tonnes of maize per hectare. About 100 farmers are participating in the programme with 0.2 hectares each. About 20% increase in yield has been recorded on farmers' field (2.5 mt/ha to 3mt/ha) since the programme started in 2011.
Natan Jemulo, from Mzongo village outside Lilongwe, found that growing OPV maize boosted his harvest to 16 bags last season, up from 11. The father of 5 said the OPV was also easily ground into flour. 'I have seen a big change and have also bought livestock, goats and chickens,' Jemulo said. 'If I have a bumper harvest, I will sell the surplus in the capital city and as a group we will convert our grain into flour for income.' Enita Dayoni, from Chilima village, now prefers growing OPV which produces tastier flour, matures early and gives better yields. Her main challenge is currently accessing enough seed, something Edward Katunga takes seriously.
Katunga, Chief Agricultural Information Officer in the Department of Agricultural Extension Services, has responsibility for disseminating information on new technologies to farmers at grassroots level. Working with 200 farmers for maize and sorghum, he says demand for the programme means it will be extended in two new areas of Dova – a maize-growing region in the central part of Malawi – and to Balaka, in the southern sorghum-growing region.
'The PSTAD programme has ensured that farmers access the new technologies we have released,' says Katunga. 'It was unheard of to put fertilizer to sorghum. Now farmers practise one plant per station and we now talk of 75 cm between ridges and 25 cm between plant stands. This has seen movement from 37,000 plants per hectare to over 50,000 plants per hectare in under a year, and that means more plants and higher yields for the farmer, making it easy to promote the technology.' DONATA focal person Mzondwase Mgomezulu says the PSTAD programme has motivated farmers to grow more maize and sorghum. 'The biggest lesson has been the training that imparted skills on farmers to do what is expected of them, and in this way deepened the trust between stakeholders,' she said. 'The programme is a model for empowering farmers because once they have been trained they are motivated to work without constant supervision.'
The financial independence of the smallholder farmer is the goal of the Malawi government's push for agribusiness and the consolidation of market value chains. Noel Sangole, Coordinator of the Malawi Agriculture Partnership (MAP) working with the Netherlands-based International Centre for Development Oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA) understands market value chains well. An ICRA alumnus, Sangole is a key partner in the PSTAD programme, backstopping IPTAs for maize and sorghum. 'We wanted farmers to have a value chain approach by starting with the market, identifying the key players, what are the quality issues and how to bring the right partners aboard so that farmers can know the breakeven price and determine price based on production costs,' says Sangole. 'We have also shown farmers that we are bringing new technology to help them increase their production and that we can link them to the buyers, as with sorghum farmers and Chibuku brewery.'
Sangole says the value chain approach helps farmers map out key service providers and direct actors, and understand the challenges at each point in the chain, and plan adequate responses to them: 'We think a farmer can gain by producing more from a unit area.
Why should farmers lag behind when there is the potential that the same area they are cultivating can produce three tonnes instead of one tonne?' Chibuku Malawi Breweries, a subsidiary of SABMiller, has partnered with the PSTAD programme to buy red sorghum from farmers around Malawi. Sorghum constitutes a major ingredient in brewing, and red sorghum is preferred because it gives a brown colour to the traditional commercial beer enjoyed mostly by low income earners.
Operations Manager for Chibuku Lilongwe, Barter Chunga, believes that with the right support there is no reason why smallholder farmers in Malawi should not supply the bulk of the 1.5 million kgs of red sorghum required by the brewery. Half of this is currently imported. Working with experts in the Ministry of Agriculture, Chibuku has signed contracts with farmers to supply sorghum of the best quality.
'We believe if our farmers really look after their crop, they can get up to three tonnes per hectare,' says Chunga. 'Our aim is for farmers to gain financially and for us to get the best sorghum. This must be a win-win situation:we do not have to import sorghum and money stays in the country.' Chibuku is also importing sorghum seed from Zimbabwe; something it hopes will not be necessary when local production is boosted.
Sipriano Wiscot, a farmer from Masotudzu village in the Mpenu EPA, has improved his skills as a result of the PSTAD programme. He has increased his yield of maize, beans and groundnuts, and has also gone into livestock.
Practising pit planting, composting and mulching has made a big difference in his farming, explains Wiscot, who last year harvested 15 bags of maize which would last him until the next harvest season in April. Grace Thengezu has been farming maize for the last 8 years in addition to beans and groundnuts. But switching to OPV last year, she got 18 bags of maize from 0.8 of a hectare. Previously she had harvested 10 bags. For Namalezo Kamingi, of Chakwawa village, growing maize secures the family food needs. When there is a bumper crop, he sells the excess to raise income. For him switching from planting three seeds per stand to one has improved his yields. Last season he got 12 bagsof maize compared to ten in the previous year. 'I need skills in legume production and livestock keeping so that I can improve our food security as I believe applying better techniques gives more yields,' says Kamingi.
The food success of other farmers has made an impression on those who have not adopted OPV, like Falisi Baluki, a farmer in Chimphonongo village. 'I saw the gains made by other farmers in our group and this season I am planting OPV. I would like to realise the same harvests as my neighbours and that is why I have signed up. I plant soy bean, groundnuts and maize.'
According to Paul Fatch, Extension Methodology and Systems (Training) Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, ensuring that information from researchers reaches farmers and vice versa is a key change that has been boosted by the PSTAD programme. Demonstration plots have been used to teach farmers the whole process from 'seed to seed'. 'We have noted with demonstrations in Africa that people go on and appreciate the good practices, but it ends there and there is no guarantee that they will be applied,' says Fatch, who is also a member of the Malawi Forum for Advisory Services (MFAAS). 'PSTAD is creating a platform for the marketing of agricultural produce and reducing the market chain of middlemen, and the prospect of money brings in young people as, in Malawi, we have family farming. Our aim is to move sorghum from a food crop to a commercial crop, and that is where gender issues come in.'
Farming is not complete without a specific focus on the major food producers: women. While the PSTAD programme has ensured that smallholder farmers have access to new technology and practices like compost
manure-making and pit planting, more should be done for women farmers.
'More women should be involved in this programme because in Malawi 80 percent of farmers are women and we want more to practise improved technologies in agriculture,' says Evelyn Chima, the Principal Agrarian Extension Officer responsible for women's programmes in the Lilongwe Agricultural Development Division. 'Government should bring in more technologies to reach female farmers. We forget that women have their own challenges such as cultural beliefs and come second after men,' says Chima. 'So even if you bring any new technology you find that it is the men who grab it, and it is usually difficult for them to pass it to women. Yet women are the custodians of our farming technologies and we want policies to target women farmers. Planting a hectare or an acre of land means she still has to forgo some of her responsibilities at home.' The success of the programme in its initial year has seen farmers eagerly enlisting in the next phase because of the benefits, some of which are immediate while others will take time to realise.
According to Ken Tindwa, Agricultural Extension Coordinator for Mpenu EPA, 'I expect farmers to change their practices. We hope they can have a mindset of opening farmers' own accounts so that they are able to source their own inputs and implement better farming practises like minimum labour and minimum use of land, rather than a lot land for a low harvest.' World Vision Lilongwe, impressed with the concept of the PSTAD programme, has come aboard as one of the project partners by promoting seed production among smallholders and linking them to commercial suppliers of seed. 'Seed production on its own is not enough,' says Esau Mwendo Phiri, a food-security manager at World Vision in Lilongwe. 'We need information dissemination to the farming communities and working with DONATA in the Department of Agricultural Extension Services (DAES) has enabled our front-line staff to learn more methodologies of extension.'
Phiri said World Vision, as a partner to the PSTAD programme, is working with 350 farmers in 2 cooperatives who produce seed: 85 tonnes of seed sorghum has been produced and 20 tonnes of maize seed. 'Through the PSTAD programme we have brought technology and services to farmers' doorsteps that have enhanced their livelihoods,' said Phiri. 'We are now able to access and share information from the eRAILS website.'


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ANNA MARIE STEPHENS (PH), PALLIATIVE CARE NURSE, KINGS' COLLEGE HOSPITAL, LONDON. Yeah, hi, Marylou here. We've got a patient here called Mary Lynch (ph), who's currently...
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: Often it's the nurses who spend most of the time at the bedside of dying patients. At Kings' College Hospital, a member of the palliative care team, nurse Anna Marie Stephens, offers guidance to staff nurse Yvonne Francis (ph), who's worried about a patient she suspects has cancer.
YVONNE FRANCIS, STAFF NURSE, KINGS' COLLEGE HOSPITAL, LONDON: He just broke down to me this morning, saying, you know, he's -- it's had enough and it's all waiting and it's really frightened. And, God, you know, you want to give him a big hug and tell him it's all going to be OK. But it's not. You can't -- you can't do that. So...
ANNA MARIE STEPHENS: I think the hug's OK. You know, the sort of physical interaction with people -- if that's what they want -- you know, if someone's leaning towards you, or whatever, then obviously they want comfort from some description.
But I think knowing that the worst thing you can say is it's going to be OK is good, because a lot of people don't. And...
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: Since palliative care became a specialty in Great Britain, the country has produced 220 specialists, and there are over 3,200 beds in hospitals and hospices devoted to palliative care.
Increasingly, doctors in the U.S. say the same should happen here, where the vast majority of dying patients receive no palliative care at all. They point to alarming studies, like one recent Harvard University survey, which found nearly half of all medical students in their third year of clinical training had never observed a supervising physician talk with a dying person. Nearly three quarters said they'd never observed a surgeon tell a patient bad news, following an operation.
In New York, Mt. Sinai Medical Center has one of the few palliative care medical departments in the U.S. Chief Resident of Internal Medicine Dr. Carl Fear (ph) says there should be more. As a medical student, Fear says he received only minimal training in pain control, and no training at all in how to talk with dying patients.
CARL FEAR, CHIEF RESIDENT, INTERNAL MEDICINE, MT. SINAI HOSPITAL, NEW YORK: We're oftentimes the one that initiate the work up and, in fact, find out that the diagnosis is one that has a very poor prognosis -- oftentimes, you know, giving them a survival of maybe six months to a year.
And it's an awesome responsibility to be the one to first give that news to a patient who's sitting in a room with loved ones around, with children that are often younger than we are.
And I think that 99 percent of the time, it's easier to avoid that discussion, and to basically say, "well, we're not sure yet," or "we want to look into this further," when you're -- you know, you know full well that the diagnosis is as serious and most likely one that will lead to their death.
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: Avoiding difficult discussions is a natural outcome for young doctors like Fear, says Mt. Sinai Medical Professor Dr. Diane Meyer (ph). After all, she says, these doctors in training are only following the lead of their supervisors.
DIANE MEYER, MEDICAL PROFESSOR, MT. SINAI HOSPITAL: And if we see that our mentors and teachers never ask the patient about pain or other symptoms, are uncomfortable breaking bad news, avoid the rooms of patients who are dying -- that's a very powerful message.
Nothing is ever explicitly said, but the message of avoidance and lack of priority is very clearly understood by the students. And the message that they get is it's just not part of their job.
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: As a result, what residents don't know about care of the dying is often appalling, says Meyer. During one of her recent lectures, residents were asked to estimate the rate of drug addiction among patients on pain medication. The estimates ranged from 10 to 50 percent. In fact, Meyer says, it's extremely rare for dying patients to become addicted to drugs.
But Carl Fear says these are the misconceptions that cause most residents to hold back adequate doses of pain medication.
CARL FEAR: The side effects of the medications are taught to be severe and potentially fatal. You know, you're taught that if you give too much morphine to your patient, they'll stop breathing and die.
And so, you make an equation in your mind -- "OK, this patient's having a lot of pain, but I don't want to do something that's going to kill this patient, because I don't have the experience of using this medication."
So what's worse? Having them suffer overnight until someone with more experience or more seniority comes in or, doing something which I wish that I was comfortable doing, but running the risk of killing the patient?
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: This is a complicated ethical dilemma doctors in both the U.S. and Great Britain have worried about: the potential double effect of providing adequate pain medication to patients in need.
Britain's Dr. Robert Dunlap argues that patients who might die as a result of too much morphine are extraordinarily weak and within days, or even hours, of death anyway.
DR. ROBERT DUNLAP: When somebody is dying, the ethical decision is not whether to prolong life or not. The ethical decision is based upon the need to prevent or relieve suffering. That is the most crucial thing.
It's important for the patient -- who of course, by this stage is so weak that even, sometimes, minor pains will become very severe and distressing. So the key issue is relief of suffering in the first instance, irrespective of whether that might accelerate death.
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: If palliative medicine were a specialty in the U.S. -- just like it is in Great Britain -- then such ethical issues would be better addressed in medical education, according to Diane Meyer; so would pain and symptom control as well as issues like talking with patients about death.
Meyer's opinion is not universally shared. In fact, the debate over whether to make palliative care a medical specialty in this country, has become something of a turf battle -- a battle between those who believe there should be a distinction between palliative medicine and general medicine, and those who do not.
ROBERT MAYER (PH), ONCOLOGIST, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: All right, and let's check your blood count from today. And your white blood count's actually a little lower than it was the last time you were here, which is good.
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: Boston Oncologist Robert Mayer is president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Mayer argues that palliative medicine should not become its own specialty.
He says it should be integrated into general medical education. And all doctors, he says, should be taught how to manage pain and symptoms, and how to communicate with patients about death. Creating a specialty status for palliative medicine, says Mayer, could be harmful to a patient's sense of well-being.
ROBERT MAYER: I believe that by separating active care from palliative care, one, erodes the relationship that a physician has with a patient. For me, caring for a patient becomes a covenant and I'm there to take care of that person from diagnosis to death.
For someone such as me to turn my back on that patient or transfer that patient to someone else, at a time when they're doing poorly, I personally believe is ill-advised.
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: There are ways to integrate palliative care into a patient's medical treatment. In Great Britain, specialists in palliative care see a patient from the beginning, when they are initially diagnosed with a terminal illness. But Mayer's concern is shared by many other physicians, who also worry that patients could feel abandoned.
On the other hand, doctors like Diane Meyer argue, patients are already being abandoned. And Meyer adds that the debate over the role of palliative medicine in the U.S. will only grow bigger and more powerful, precisely because dying patients are suffering.
ROBERT MEYER: The contribution that Jack Kevorkian has made to public and professional debate on this should not be underestimated. Because of the attention that he and the patients, who were so desperate for relief, that they felt no choice but to travel to a strange town in Michigan and die in a VW van, was a very loud call to the medical profession that we're failing our patients, and the medical profession has begun to respond in a very substantive way.
PATRICIA NEIGHMOND: Meyer agrees with British doctors, who predict the need for better and more effective palliative care will only become more critical, as the population continues to age and as more people face the likelihood of terminal disease.
Patricia Neighmond, NPR News.
ROBERT SIEGEL: For more information on palliative care, visit our website at npr.org. There, you'll find transcripts of all the reports in our end of life series, as well as readings and other resources for people with life-threatening illnesses, and for their families and caregivers.
LINDA WERTHEIMER: Today's report on palliative medicine was produced by Jane Greenhalgh and Joe Neel.
ROBERT SIEGEL: Our report on the Missoula Demonstration Project was produced by Deborah Schifrin.
LINDA WERTHEIMER: And our story on Helen Payne and her family was produced by Sara Sarasohn and recorded by Linda Mack, with help from Flawn Williams and Stacey Abbott.
ROBERT SIEGEL: The senior producer of this week's series was Sean Collins, the senior editor, Jonathan Kern.
LINDA WERTHEIMER: The series: "The End of Life: Exploring Death in America," will continue on this and other NPR News programs over the next several months. For a schedule of those reports, look on our website at npr.org.
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