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This latest vaccine campaign has been funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the campaign is being implemented by the countries’ ministries of health with support from the WHO. |
The vaccines are given in two doses, the first gives protection for six months and the second for three to five years. |
Seth Berkley, chief executive of Gavi, described the scale of the campaign as unprecedented. |
He added: “We have worked hard to ensure there is now enough vaccine supply to keep the global stockpile topped up and ready for most eventualities." |
Alongside vaccines, improved water and sanitation are key to preventing disease outbreaks. |
At the World Health Assembly in May – the decision-making body of the WHO – countries affected by the disease will be urged to invest in clean water, hygiene and sanitation. |
Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s regional director for Africa, said: “Every rainy season, cholera springs up and brings devastation to communities across Africa. |
Wales centre Scott Williams has been released from their Six Nations squad and will return to Ospreys for treatment on a back injury. |
The Welsh Rugby Union confirmed the problem was expected to sideline Williams for the rest of the campaign, which continues against England at the Millennium Stadium on February 23rd. |
Williams’s departure follows on from the news number eight Taulupe Faletau had undergone surgery to his broken right arm which also ruled him out of the remainder of the Six Nations. |
Warren Gatland’s squad are currently second in the table following two wins from their opening two matches, securing victory in Paris with a superb second-half fightback before seeing off Italy 26-15 on Saturday. |
After the players reconvened at the WRU National Centre of Excellence on Wednesday, a decision was taken on Williams’s fitness. |
A statement on the WRU website read: “Scott Williams has been released from the 2019 Guinness Six Nations squad to continue rehabilitation of his back injury at his Region. |
“It is felt that his injury will preclude him from taking a competitive part in the competition. |
Wales assistant coach Shaun Edwards confirmed fullback Leigh Halfpenny, who has been out following a concussion, outhalf Rhys Patchell and prop Leon Brown were all able to join in for a large part of training on Wednesday. |
Edwards maintains the players will be ready to push themselves again when they go head-to-head with England in Cardiff. |
“We don’t want to get pumped up too soon,” Edwards said to WRU TV. |
“We probably did not do a good job on that this morning because there was certainly a little bit of fire and brimstone in the training session. |
“It was a very, very tough session and the boss was in great form. |
“We feel that we can play better than we have done in the past two games. |
“We don’t feel probably we have achieved the level of performance we had in the autumn, but hopefully our best is yet to come in this Six Nations. |
“The fact that they are winning and being quite critical of themselves as well, they want to improve. |
Wales later confirmed Halfpenny and Patchell had both been released back to Scarlets, along with Steff Evans, so could feature in Saturday’s Pro 14 game at Treviso. |
A key concept for the new Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, currently under construction in Seattle, is “See Through the Burke.” It’s part of an effort to make labs and artifacts that are hidden from public view in the current museum more visible to visitors in the new one. |
But before the new Burke opens in the summer of 2019, scientists and staff members are already seeing inside the project, thanks to the use of virtual reality. |
Project architect Olson Kundig and builder/developer Skanska used HTC Vive headsets to walk UW biologists through the spaces where they will work so that they could see, in 3D, where a cabinet or sink might land or how high a countertop could be. It’s part of an ongoing trend in the construction industry to give client... |
Stevens said key groups were starting to look at some of their spaces planned for the new Burke, and the biology department in particular determined that it was more space than they needed and offered to have it tweaked. So Skanska made adjustments to the model. |
“We were able to utilize the VR technology to allow the biologists to come in and virtually walk through that space to confirm that the reconfiguration still worked for their needs,” Stevens said. |
The technology allowed Skanska to get immediate confirmation that the new layout was suitable. At that point in the game, with a structure already up and some systems installed, a quick decision proved critical in avoiding costly delays. |
The completely new stand-alone building replaces Washington state’s oldest museum, founded in 1885. It will be 113,000 square feet, 66 percent larger than the current facility on the northwest corner of the UW campus. Construction is 30 percent complete right now. |
Mark King, a virtual design and construction manager for Skanska, said that as soon as the biologists were able to immerse themselves in the 3D model of the new Burke, they were “blown away” because the scale became so evident. |
And because it’s a working lab space that’s on view to museum guests, the scientists were able to virtually stand outside a window and see what students and visitors will see. |
Eldon Tam, the project manager for the UW, said about 30 staff members will work in the building along with a countless number of students. He reiterated the fact that VR was a huge help for staff members who wanted to poke around two years before they go to work in the new building. |
“It’s been particularly important for the labs, since the labs have such technically precise work, much like kitchens,” Tam said of allowing users to get a better sense of how to make spaces more ergonomic and as functionally efficient as possible. |
Tam said the old Burke’s behind-the-scenes tours revealed that visitors were always amazed at the amount of work that went on away from the public eye, and that knowledge led the Burke to take the “bold step” to expose everything with its “museum inside out” philosophy. |
Just because cutting-edge technology is being used to help visualize how the new $99 million Burke will come together, don’t expect tech to overtake the museum when it comes to how visitors interact with the facility. The museum, like many that have the ability to update facilities and displays, will surely be adding t... |
Learn more about the new Burke at the project website, which breaks down the budget and funding sources and also offers a view of construction progress through a timeline, videos and a webcam. |
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The junior partner in the Czech Republic’s ruling coalition will allow the government to survive a motion of no-confidence by abstaining from the vote, the party said on Wednesday. |
The decision announced by Jan Hamacek, head of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, makes it unlikely that Friday’s vote could gather 101 votes necessary to declare no-confidence in Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s government. |
Babis has been under pressure over allegations from opponents that he tried to hinder an investigation into whether he and family members committed fraud. |
Police charged the billionaire businessman and his two adult children last year with manipulating ownership of one of his firms a decade ago to receive a 2 million euro EU subsidy. He denies wrongdoing. |
A news report this month said his adult son said Babis wanted him to hide last year from being questioned. The son said he was taken to the Russian-annexed Crimea against his will last year by his assistant. |
Babis said his son, who has Swiss citizenship and lives in Switzerland, was being treated for mental illness and that he had travelled to Crimea voluntarily. Police were looking into the son’s complaint after ruling earlier there was no suspicion of a crime. |
“The prime minister’s personal problems are burdening the government,” Hamacek told reporters, adding that the party had unsuccessfully lobbied for Babis’s ANO party to reshuffle the cabinet with another prime minister. |
“Therefore our deputies will not take part in Friday’s vote, and at the same time we stated that the current government make-up has no alternative in the current division of power on the political scene,” he said. |
ANO and the Social Democrats run a minority government backed by the far-left Communists, who have said they would continue to support Babis. That gives the opposition no chance of gathering the 101 votes necessary to declare no-confidence. |
The Social Democrats said they would support an early election, which would however require 120 votes in parliament. |
Shortly there after, Brockmeyer had a care package sent to Tinley from Thin Blue Line USA, Embrich said. |
“He was my bestest cop friend,” Tinley said. |
On Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, Brockmeyer was killed in the line of duty while in vehicle pursuit of a suspect in Chester. |
“We found out on the news, and she was devastated. We went to the memorial service held at the local high school and there were just pictures of Brockmeyer and Tinley at every turn it seemed like. So it was hard to shelter her from it, but she is strong and just took to all the people,” Embrich said. |
Now, Tinley hands out bracelets and hugs to support her mission — thanking police officers for keeping her safe. |
“Brockmeyer inspired her. She knows no fear or stranger, especially of them in uniform. She doesn’t really ask for hugs anymore, she just runs to them and gives it,” Embrich said. |
Embrich said the company supplies Tinley with bracelets for her to share with officers she meets wherever they go. |
“Believe me, it makes running errands take longer, but it’s worth it seeing her make someones day or show another kid they don’t have to be scared of them,” Embrich said. |
Because of Tinley, the company even started making kid-sized bracelets. |
“I told them that the ones they were sending us fall right off of her arm, because they’re just too big for her little wrist,” her mom said. |
Besides the officers she happens to meet out on the street, Tinley has also made special trips to several departments. Since last year, Embrich said Tinley has visited 16 law enforcement agencies ranging from state police to county sheriff’s offices, and municipal departments. |
“She’s become their biggest fan, really,” Embrich said. |
“We still stay in touch with Brockmeyer’s family and visit, we actually have ice cream with them recently at a park,” Kern said. |
Eddie and Lindsay Lee of Chester, as well as the Chester, Caseyville, Normandy and St. Mary’s police departments all converged together in Chester over the summer to throw Tinley a surprise birthday party, Embrich said. |
Word of Tinley’s acts of kindness has made it way throughout police ranks around the country, and the globe. As an expression of mutual admiration, departments have been sending her their uniform patches. Her collection now stands at 98 law enforcement agencies, including one from Queensland Police Department in Austra... |
When Tinley grows up, she said she wants to be a police officer just like her heroes. |
“She has like three police dress up outfits, but I was able to get an old police uniform shirt from Chester PD and had a friend sew it up so she had her very own Chester PD uniform,” said Embrich. |
Tinley’s reaction to the present? |
“Happy doesn’t begin to cut it,” her mom said. |
People can follow Tinley’s story as it continues to unfold on Facebook, Tin Too’s Path to Blue, a page Kern started less than a year ago, but already it boasts over 500 members. |
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobile World Congress — McAfee researchers have uncovered two new vulnerabilities within connected devices that allow hackers access to the personal lives of consumers. A vulnerability within BoxLock smart padlock could have enabled hackers to unlock the device within a few seconds, a... |
Surface was the single biggest genuine tech surprise of the year so far. Microsoft tantalized us with a tablet that made the iPad look stale. Its snap-on keyboard made all laptops look immediately old fashioned. And it promised The Future of Computers. |
We hadn't looked forward to something this much in a long, long time. Now it's here. And it's been just as long a time since a gadget has been so disappointing. Surface is good, but Surface RT sure isn't the future. Not yet. |
The laptop is about as far advanced as one can imagine. The MacBook Air and a horde of ultrabook clones are hitting a brick wall in terms of form and physics. The tablet, likewise, isn't exactly pushing civilization forward; it's still fundamentally a luxury device, a delightful toy for reading email on the couch or wa... |
Microsoft's pearly promise for Surface was to pioneer a strange new kind of gadget: all the grace and leisure of a tablet, combined with the ability to actually make stuff that a computer brings. Convenience with input. Type, edit, change. Work. Power! Microsoft claims outright that Surface will bring together the best... |
The men who built the Surface from a pile of cardboard prototypes into the thing I've been using for the past week stood in front of me at their headquarters and said exactly that. Microsoft is trumpeting a historical change here. And it has a recent track record of building exceptional things. Sure, there's a Surface ... |
Whether Microsoft can keep this promise matters more than anything else in technology this year. Surface could be the blueprint for the machine you'll be typing on well into the next decade. No pressure. |
Surface is Microsoft's attempt to out-Apple Apple. The thing is designed to hell and back, and most of the time it shows. This means a lot of attention to detail—attention that sounds silly until you actually hear it—like the kickstand with an extra, custom-designed hinge to guarantee a satisfying chkkk every time it's... |
And most of the time, Surface is a thoughtful computer. It's a beautiful computer, in your hand or on a tabletop, its shifting angles clean and secure like a Danish prison. It's a little too heavy—slightly heftier than the iPad 3—but otherwise comfortable to hold, with an angled bezel that melts into your hand. There's... |
But more importantly, Surface is handsome. That ineffable Hey, this thing feels good quality is lacquered all over Surface. You'll appreciate it every time you pick it up and turn it on. It's a simple, joyful experience. Open the Touch Cover keyboard/trackpad hybrid, snap out the kickstand, and lay the thing on your de... |
The Surface is instantly more charming than any Windows device that's come before it. It's nearly the perfect size, and the form is almost beyond reproach. If you want a tablet, use it like a tablet. If you want a laptop, use it like a laptop. Both modes seem right, like a genuine seachange step forward. The Next Kind ... |
Tablets aren't for work. That's the old refrain. But if they're going to be more than great toys someday, tablets have to become every bit as viable as a desktop tower as a way to write (and edit) long emails, presentations, and poems. Surface RT is the first evidence we have that this is possible, because you'll use i... |
Flip out the keyboard. Hit power. Swipe up to unlock. Type in your password. A dozen super-colorful tiles give you a snappy report of what's new: Who's tweeted at you, what's arrived in your inbox, news headlines, photos of your beautiful face, and incoming Facebook IMs, as they drop. You'll touch one thing, scroll to ... |
Browsing in Internet Explorer is just as easy a flopping into a couch-cushion Netflix marathon, or working in the full Microsoft Office suite. It all feels seamless, natural, a culmination of useful things. This ease, the effortless transfer between watching stuff and making stuff, reading and writing, listening and ta... |
You can thank Windows 8's radicalism for that. Traditional Windows would be absolute hell to use on this—or hey, so would OS X. But Metro is the best foundation for The Next Computer I can imagine, and if you can get over UI squeamishness, you'll love it. It'll make you more powerful the more you rub your hands on it. ... |
We're not there yet. Surface is a fantastic promise, and holds fantastic potential. But while potential is worth your attention, it's not worth your paycheck. Surface RT gets so many things right, and pulls so many good things together into one package. But it is undercooked. For all Microsoft's claims to hardware perf... |
Want to use Surface RT as a laptop? Sorry, the Touch Cover is a letdown. It's a phenomenal engineering effort, and the most terrifically-integrated mobile keyboard ever. It doesn't compare to the junky Bluetooth options you can slap against your iPad. Microsoft's keyboard cover is perfectly integrated with the device, ... |
But it only approximates a real keyboard—the buttons are pressure activated, barely buttons at all, and spaced in such a way that typos are inevitable and constant. Unlike the first time you pinched an iPhone or gazed at E-ink, there's zero that's instantly intuitive about the Touch Cover. And in order for this to be a... |
The Touch Cover also approximates, dismally, the sturdiness of a laptop: thanks to the cloth-like floppiness of the thing that's necessary for making it easy to open and close, it can't support itself on anything but a flat, rigid (apologies) surface. You can't type on your lap, like laptop. It's hard to imagine what a... |
Perhaps most galling is the Touch Cover's $100 addition to the Surface's already pricy $400 base MSRP—akin to selling your windshield wipers separate from the car. Microsoft also offers a Type Cover, that promises actual physical keys instead of the flattened solution, but that will add critical bulk to your Surface ex... |
But it's Windows on Surface RT that's the greatest letdown of all, the lethal letdown, because it's not Windows 8, but Windows RT. You can't tell the difference by looking at them, but you certainly will once you use it. Windows RT is underpowered (everything opens and syncs slightly too slowly), under-functional (you ... |
In the end though, this is nothing more than Microsoft's tablet. And a buggy, at times broken one, at that, whose "ecosystem" feels more like a tundra. There's no Twitter or Facebook app, and the most popular 3rd party client breaks often. The Kindle app is completely unusable. There's no image editing software. A Peop... |
The app selection, overall, is worse than the already pathetic Windows Phone app fare, looking like the software equivalent to a barren Soviet grocery store. The difference is that Windows Phone, used in quick, informative bursts, skates by on the strength of its excellent with integrated features. At the moment, there... |
You can do work, yes. But productivity is limited to a "preview" (beta) version of Microsoft Office. It also hurts that Office requires plunging into Windows RT's Desktop mode, where users of actual Windows 8 are able to install a decade's worth of legacy software. Normally, this would compensate. But RT users can't in... |
I pity Microsoft's retail staff. |
No. The Surface, with an obligatory Touch Cover, is $600. That's a lot of money. Especially given that it's no laptop replacement, no matter how it looks or what Microsoft says. It's a tablet-plus, priced right alongside the iPad and in most ways inferior. |
That could change. Maybe there will be a new Touch Cover that retains the original's terrific physical qualities while actually allowing good typing. Maybe the quasi-vaporware Surface Pro, which eschews Windows RT in favor of the real-deal Win 8, will make all the difference, opening itself up to the open seas of PC so... |
But those maybes aren't worth putting money on. As much as it looked (and even felt) like it for a bit, the future isn't here quite yet. |
KUCHING (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A policeman in Kuching has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy. |
State CID chief SAC Datuk Dev Kumar said the victim lodged a report at the Batu Kawa police station at 12.45am on Saturday (Sept 9) alleging that a family friend had assaulted him sexually. |
The 33-year-old suspect, who is attached to the management department at the state police headquarters, was picked up from a house at Jalan Pinang Jawa at 5.30pm the same day. |
According to SAC Dev, the incident occurred at 1.10pm on Monday in the suspect's car. |
"The suspect had earlier gone to the victim's house at Jalan Batu Kawa and offered to send him to his sister's shop. |
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