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Warning that deepening food insecurity in Iraq could leave more than half the population facing “unprecedented levels” of vulnerability, the United Nations emergency food relief agency today called for improving nutrition awareness and strengthening social safety nets and livelihoods in rural areas, to avoid a hunger c... |
In its Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis, prepared jointly with the Iraqi Government, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) also underlined the need to improve access to education, especially for girls, as an important component in the fight against hunger. |
“[The Analysis] should guide the work of the Government, policy makers, and humanitarians across the country to improve the food security and nutrition status of every Iraqi so that no one is left behind,” the WFP Representative and Country Director in Iraq, Sally Haydock, said in a news release. |
The study – one of the most robust technical food security studies ever conducted in Iraq – was conducted prior to the recent offensive in Mosul and does not capture the food security situation among people fleeing these conflict areas. Data collection was concluded in 2016 and included first hand surveys with more tha... |
Findings revealed that 2.5 per cent of the country’s population is already food insecure – a level of need that requires support. On top of this, rather than going to school, nearly 75 per cent of children under the age of 15 work to help their families put food on the table. |
Analysis also showed that 53 per cent of residents and 66 per cent of internally displaced people are vulnerable to food insecurity. |
“The prevalence of food insecurity was twice as high among internally displaced families compared to those remaining in their homes,” noted WFP in the news release. |
The highest concentration of food insecure families was found in the southern portion of the country, particularly in northern Muthanna and portions of Salah al-Deen, it added. |
The recommendations of the study will also be used by the UN agency and the Government of Iraq to work towards the implementation of the food-security related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular Goal 2 on ending hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition. |
It will also provide the basis for five to 10 years of strategic development planning. |
The UN agency has been operating in Iraq since 1968, providing emergency food assistance during crises as well as investing in development initiatives such as school meals, nutrition support for babies, pregnant and nursing mothers, tree planting, and assisting the Government with technical capacity building and reform... |
It has also been providing nationwide support to families displaced by the conflict through cash assistance programmes and monthly family rations. However, lack of funding continues to pose a serious threat to such operations. |
In Iraq, WFP urgently requires $113 million to continue to provide full monthly rations and cash-based assistance to cover the needs of 1.5 million vulnerable Iraqis until the end of September 2017. |
The climber fell above Blea Water in the Lake District while out with a colleague, who were reportedly both well prepared. |
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team received five call outs on Helvellyn over the Bank Holiday Weekend. |
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out to five rescues between 3pm, Sunday 23 July and 3pm, Monday 24 July. |
The Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team rescued a man who got lost while searching for the Priest Hole. |
The 53-year-old lost his way around the Dove Crag fell on Sunday, 25 June. |
The mountain rescue team are now warning people of the dangers of trying to find the Priest Hole. |
They say only competent, or experienced adventurers should do so, as the route is not easy to find and is "surrounded by dangerous ground". |
A walker had to be rescued after getting stuck on a ledge while walking in the Lake District. |
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out at around 8:45pm yesterday to go to the aid of the 47-year-old man. |
He was spotted at Greenside Mines above Glenridding by firefighters out training in the area. |
Although he was uninjured mountain rescuers had to rig up a rope system to get him down. |
The rescue took three and a half hours and involved 11 mountain rescue team members. |
A doctor has been rescued after suffering a suspected fractured ankle while walking in the Lake District. |
The 50-year-old woman was with a group of fellow doctors in Pasture Bottom, near Ullswater, when she slipped. |
She was treated and given pain relief by members of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, and then taken to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle. |
The rescue, which took place at around 4pm on Monday 1 May, involved 14 mountain rescuers and lasted around two-and-a-half hours. |
A man has died after falling 150 feet down the face of Dove Crag in the Lake District. |
There were no reports of any properties or businesses flooding but the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team put these images on their social media feeds last night to say they were glad flood defences were to be installed in the area behind their base later this week. |
Buzz Aldrin signs copies of his book at at Barnes & Noble Booksellers Glendale, Calif. on July 28, 2014. |
The recent big news in space is that our solar system seems to be bigger than we thought. |
Evidence for a giant planet lurking far away from our sun in the murky and cold real estate of the outer solar system is enlightening—arguably for good and bad reasons. |
I’m reminded of an axiom we’re all familiar with: objects in the rearview mirror may appear closer than they are. But in this case the nicknamed “Planet 9” may be more in our face than we realize. |
Planet 9 is a should-be-there world. That is, nobody has yet spotted the object directly. But thanks to mathematical modeling and computer simulations, this distant world could have a mass about 10 times that of Earth. If truly a resident of our neighborhood of planets, this supposed planet would make one full orbit ar... |
Given that a few years ago we demoted Pluto from its planet status, the claim of a “Planet 9” adds up to one fact: the planetary census of our solar system is clearly unfinished business. |
That’s what space exploration is all about—defining new boundaries. A potential new planet offers great satisfaction for those of us who look for things out there. |
The good news is that we finally have the ability to detect large objects remote from our home planet. But “Planet 9” is also a reminder of all the solar system’s unknowns, which include asteroids that could hit Earth. NASA recently formed a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to coordinate U.S. agencies and intergov... |
As the world discusses the potential of “Planet 9,” I’ve just begun my 86th trip around the sun—a birthday celebration made all the more meaningful by recently forming the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, where we’re developing a complete plan for the future called Cyclin... |
It’s a big universe out there. The prospective “Planet 9” in our own backyard reminds us of that—and assuredly more surprises are in the offing. |
Buzz Aldrin, best known for his Apollo 11 moonwalk, holds a doctoral degree in astronautics and continues to wield influence as an international advocate of space science and planetary exploration. Aldrin and co-author, Leonard David, wrote Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration, published in 2013 by the Nat... |
Despite recent financial troubles, E*Trade Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) is not going bankrupt. Citigroup Investment Research analyst Prashant Bhatia caused a minor panic (and a 59% sell-off) earlier this month, when his November 11th report on E*Trade stated, "Bankruptcy risk cannot be ruled out." |
Whatever risk there was earlier this month, it has now been erased. A group led by hedge fund manager Citadel is injecting $2.55 billion into the struggling trading and financial services company, buying a share of the business and taking E*Trade’s riskiest assets off the books. |
Out of Citadel’s total investment, $800 million is going towards the purchase of those risky assets, valued at $3 billion. "What this deal does is, it takes our asset-backed securities portfolio off the table. That’s our biggest source of concern that’s totally behind us," Jarrett Lilien, E*Trade’s acting CEO, told Blo... |
Citadel is acquiring the securities for 27 cents on the dollar, an indication of how weak the credit market remains. |
Another $1.6 billion – with a further $150 million coming in January 2008 – is going towards the purchase of a 20% stake in E*Trade, and a seat on its board. |
While E*Trade shares jumped significantly following the news of Citadel’s investment, the price quickly returned to prior levels. The company’s expected losses in the fourth quarter are reason to remain wary of the stock’s short-term fate. Though the threat of bankruptcy has now disappeared, E*Trade still has to write ... |
E*Trade also announced it expects further blows from its portfolio of home-equity loans, "in excess of the quarter’s expected losses that will result in an ending allowance of over $400 million," reports MarketWatch. |
For a company that controlled $227 billion worth of assets as of October 31st, this is a painful, but not fatal, setback. The fourth quarter will not be a happy one, but the bad news has already been priced into the company’s stock. |
Citadel is known for buying into distressed assets at or near the bottom, and then turning nice profits during recovery. For this reason, some analysts have told Fortune Magazine they see this $2.55 billion contribution as a sign we are nearing the end of the credit crisis, or at least through the worst of it. |
Others, however, are more cautious. Bank of America (BAC) bought into Countrywide Financial Corporation (CFC) in August, and since then the crisis has only continued to deepen. |
In all, most of the analysts Fortune spoke with admit that the credit crisis is so large, it is still difficult to predict exactly when it will end or what sectors it might damage next. |
All this cash infusion really means isthat when credit does rebound, E*Trade will still be around to enjoy the recovery. |
ALEX PEARCE headed Reading to their fourth straight Championship win as The Royals strengthened their play-off credentials. |
The defender rose to nod in Jobi McAnuff’s free-kick just after the hour to make it 12 points from 12 for Brian McDermott’s side, who are now cemented in fifth place in the table. |
A delighted McDermott said: “That was a terrific performance – not vintage but the attitude, desire and will to win was there. |
Ipswich bossed the early exchanges with Jay Emmanuel-Thomas’s rising shot grazing the bar, before Aaron Cresswell let fly from 30 yards with a drive which home keeper Adam Federici was relieved to see flash wide. |
Reading’s first-half attacks invariably ended at the edge of the area, where former Royals favourite Ibrahima Sonko was in dominant form for the visitors. |
As Reading continued to struggle to work their way into decent shooting positions, McDermott sent on Noel Hunt for Adam Le Fondre. |
And within a couple of minutes the Royals boss saw his side take the lead. |
Lee Bowyer’s handball enabled McAnuff to swing in a free-kick from the right and Pearce rose to beat Arran Lee-Barrett with a close range header. |
The 64th-minute goal lifted The Royals and it took a double save from Lee-Barrett to prevent Simon Church extending the lead from Jimmy Kebe’s cross. |
Ipswich boss Paul Jewell said: “We were the better team in the first half and I felt we deserved something out of the game. |
The G-Steel may not be a smartwatch, but this more affordable metal G-Shock won't be obsolete in a few years and is solar powered. |
Casio's G-Shock watch line is known for its shock-resistant structure, but in recent years the company dipped into the more luxury watch market with some $1,000-and-up metal-body models under its MT-G and MR-G lines. However, according to Casio, G-Shock fans have been asking for something a little different, and it was... |
That's what they're getting with the new G-Steel line, which is just hitting stores now and starts at $280 (£250 UK). The series comes in both stainless steel and resin bands and is shock resistant (of course), 200M water resistant and solar powered, so you don't have to worry about battery life unless you live in a ca... |
I got an early look at the new line, and while it isn't quite as swanky as the MT-G or high-end MR-G (made out of lighter weight titanium) lines and is missing the automatic GPS time-setting feature -- Casio calls it GPS Hybrid Wave Ceptor -- it costs significantly less. I also like that it has some digital elements. |
For those looking for something a little more upscale, Casio has also introduced the new top-end MR-G GPS Atomic Solar Hybrid Basel Special Limited Edition MRGG1000RT- 1A, which is crafted with a new titanium alloy treatment -- Titanium 64 (it's composed of 90 percent titanium, 6 percent aluminum, and 4 percent vanadiu... |
My research project has seen many twists and turns this semester, but things are finally starting to look up. |
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Digital Humanities, Dissertation Research, History, Kasey Sease, Public Science Education, Tropy, Washington D. C. |
In this last week of classes, my calendar is adorned with different colors. Each one signifies a specific subject that needs attention—work, classes, fundraisers, etc. Sprinkled throughout is a theme of turquoise, a color that reminds me that the Healthy Beginnings Project will be seeing many family participants in the... |
Since May of 2018 I have been involved in the Healthy Beginnings Project, a group of professionals and students whose work focuses on improving child outcomes, especially of children whose mothers are incarcerated. With this focus in mind and practice, Healthy Beginnings team members have established and been involved ... |
While we would all love to foresee and plan for every possible hiccup in the research process, we are still human, and thus we must continue to make adjustments all along the way to ensure the validity of our data and the ease of its collection. So, it is no surprise that after beginning a new semester of progress on m... |
DAVID DE GEA will sign a new contract with Manchester United in the coming weeks after turning down the opportunity to join Real Madrid. |
The Spain international had been tipped to leave the Red Devils for Carlo Ancelotti's side after consistently putting in top performances between the sticks at Old Trafford. |
De Gea, who joined United from Atletico Madrid in 2011 for around £18million, is one of Louis van Gaal's key players, and reports now claim that the 24-year-old will extend his stay in England until 2020 after telling Real that he has no interest in joining their ranks. |
The news will come as a massive boost to Van Gaal, who is already looking to make several signings in the upcoming January transfer window. |
A new centre-back is at the top of the Dutchman's wishlist, with the likes of Borussia Dortmund's Mats Hummels linked with a big-money move this winter. |
Dear Readers: Last month, I posed a question to everyone: “If you had to do it all over again, would you have kids?” Thousands of you responded. |
Two days ago, we heard from parents who would gladly have children if given a redo. (They constituted 77 percent of responses overall.) Yesterday’s column was dedicated to people who don’t regret not having children (the second-most common group, at 12 percent). Today we’ll hear from the third-most populous group (9 pe... |
Read on, and check back tomorrow to hear from the final group: people who regret not having children. |
NO NAME, PLEASE: Never! All they do is grow up and hurt you. Take it from a mother whose grown son wants no contact. |
IN THE SOUTH: Yes, but not the same ones. |
KENTUCKY: I am 69 years old, and I wish I had never had kids. I could write quite a dissertation about what a pain in the rear my son and daughter have been over the years, but I won’t bore you with that. Let’s just say they have screwed up my retirement years, and for that, I am bitter. I would just like some peace so... |
HURTING: I had two children. One died. My daughter, now an adult, has been a heartache over and over. I wish I’d never had a child. I have a niece and a nephew, and I make a great aunt. They love me with all of their hearts. I wish I had stuck to that. |
LOUISIANA: Thirty years ago, I was promiscuous and struggling with addiction. My plans did not include children. At age 25, I became ill with what I thought was the flu. After seeing a doctor, I was told I was approaching my fourth month of pregnancy. Talk about a game changer! I had to make a decision, because it was ... |
ON SECOND THOUGHT: Though I love my present two children, after much thinking, I would prefer not to have had any. |
DISAPPOINTED: I most definitely would not have children again. I had two children, who are now middle-aged. My son has suffered from mental illness, and life with him has been a roller coaster. He is still pretty much a child, and I have to handle all his affairs. My daughter and grandson moved to the other side of the... |
BROKENHEARTED: I feel like a bad person for even thinking this, but I would say no. |
He is treated as the bogeyman of conspiracy entertainment, and Alex Jones has become a prominent figure for advancing a host of unsavoury views. High on his list of incendiaries is the claim that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting never took place and was the work of paid fantasists, with the victims’ parents bein... |
There are seemingly few limits to the Jones armoury of hyper-scepticism. But Jones has been in the business of such production for years. Now, a campaign for banishing him from various platforms, including Infowars, has been enacted with a degree of censorious ferocity. Summary bans have been made, ranging from the gia... |
Apple took the lead in this competitive banning binge, removing five of the six Infowars podcasts available via iTunes this week, including “The Alex Jones Show” and “War Room”, while Facebook removed four Infowars pages for violating the company’s guidelines. |
Who is guarding whom, and who should decide which ideas are significantly safe, less discomforting or otherwise? Contraries are, by definition, discomforting; the contrarian, by definition, dangerously disruptive. The idea of social media platforms becoming a constabulary for the controlling of opinion – located in the... |
Words do move and change worlds, and care should, at select times, be taken, but who polices their dissemination and exchange remains key. Dorsey has simply diagnosed an inherent problem in the information ecosystem about rage and counter-rage: who controls the participants, bars or muzzles the competition, should not,... |
The other issue in such summary bans is how they are challenged. Tech platforms acting as righteous disciplinarians seems an odd thing, appropriating a degree of power they simply should not have. And foolishly, the campaign against Jones has given him a sense of dangerous frisson. His information and views will not ne... |
This article was posted on Thursday, August 9th, 2018 at 3:09pm and is filed under Censorship, Freedom of Expression/Speech, Internet, Language, Media, Social media. |
An Oklahoma cop facing a manslaughter trial in last year's shooting death of Terence Crutcher said in a tearful "60 Minutes" interview that he is to blame for his own death. |
Tulsa police Officer Betty Shelby said Crutcher's apparent drug-induced behavior contributed to the fateful September confrontation. Shelby said she drove past the 40-year-old Crutcher standing "zombie-like" in the roadway about 10 minutes before the shooting occurred. |
"And he's standing there motionless. And I thought, 'Hmmm. I wonder if he's on PCP,'" Shelby told CBS journalist Bill Whitaker. |
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