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The Spartans (15-3), in search of a third straight state title, will play Section 9’s Port Jervis in a quarterfinal at 11 a.m. Saturday, back at U-E.
Facing a squad that had a long bus ride and a prom the night before, the Spartans started quickly.
Senior Emily Hess struck out two in a 1-2-3 first inning before M-E’s bats warmed to right-hander Gabby Krumper.
Rose led off with a double to the fence in right, and Melissa Demo dropped a beauty of a bunt to leave runners at first and third before DeSantis sent a drive over the fence in right-center for a 3-0 lead.
“That’s the best feeling in the world,” said DeSantis, who also hit a key home run in M-E’s 10-3 Section 4 title-game victory over Union-Endicott last Saturday at BAGSAI. “You see it and it’s gone, right off the bat. It’s the best feeling.
Hess had two more strikeouts as the Panthers went down in order in the second.
M-E’s second started with a single to the base of the fence in right by Jackie Bigelow, a double down the right-field line by Natalie Wunder and an infield error that loaded the bases. Rose’s sacrifice fly made it 4-0, and one batter later, DeSantis’ double to left-center had the Spartans ahead, 6-0.
Two more strikeouts by Hess to start the third, and it appeared this was going to be a laugher.
Sami Blackmen reached on a bunt single to first on which M-E defenders reacted slowly. After Blackmen stole second, another bunt, this one toward third by Dani Scaperrotta, was juggled and Ardsley had runners on first and third. Scaperrotta stole second before Sarah Rende turned on an inside offering from Hess. Her lined shot hit halfway up the fence in left and scored two runs.
Things got even more interesting in the sixth. Sarah Pende walked and advanced to third on a one-out double to right-center by sister Lauren. Hess then hit Alyssa Mangone on an 0-2 pitch to load the bases. Hess came back to strike out Sophia Mangone, but Angelina Scalere hit a two-run single to right, and suddenly, it was 6-4.
A strikeout by Giana Musca ended the Panthers’ sixth.
The bottom of the inning brought some much-needed breathing room for M-E. A one-out double to left by Gabby Mancini was followed by a deep home run to left by Rose for an 8-4 cushion.
Two groundouts and a strikeout in the seventh capped the Spartans’ victory.
Manhattan College-bound Lauren Rende finished with two hits. The catcher also showed off a powerful right arm that kept M-E baserunners from getting frisky.
DeSantis went 3-for-4 with a homer, two doubles and five RBI, Rose homered, doubled and had three RBI, and Hess, Bigelow and Mancini had two hits.
Gabby Krumper (L) and Lauren Rende. Emily Hess (W) and Jackie Bigelow. HR: Amanda DeSantis (M-E), Mere Rose (M-E).
Today, the Pentagon announced that it is scrapping the work thats been done on advanced satellite program called Transformational Satellite program (TSAT) and opening the program to new bids. The Air Force, which has the lead on satellite programs for the Defense Department, will offer a new competition for bidders to the program. If all goes well, the first of 5 launches will now occur in 2019 rather than 2015. This is bad news for military modernization programs, like Future Combat Systems, that rely on ever-present sat communications. Fortunately this is not the only sat program the Air Force is working on.
The Pentagon needs quick ways to get small satellites into space to fill a shortfall in battlefield communication. Military satellites were once considered to be reliably out of harm's way. But antisatellite weapons and solar flares threaten to transform these important pieces of communications hardware into space junk. Even if nothing goes wrong, tech-reliant U.S. forces can easily outstrip the available local bandwidth when they deploy. To fill the gap, the Air Force's Operationally Responsive Space program is developing smarter microsatellites that can be placed in orbit in less than a year and for under $20 million. If successful, the program could help provide reliable radio connections and reconnaissance imagery to troops on the move.
The Air Force is sending platforms called TacSats into space, each one field-testing a new capability. One early experimental craft called TacSat-2, launched in late 2007, was equipped with a wide-band sensor that gathered radar and radio signals from the ground, and an imager to identify the signals' sources. TacSat-3, scheduled for liftoff this year, will beam images to troops within 10 minutes of collection. In September, a fourth satellite is scheduled to rise from Alaska; it will have the ability to keep fast-moving ground units permanently linked with commanders and to provide real-time locations of friendly troops. This series of experimental satellites is paving the way for a working prototype, ORS-1, that the Air Force plans to launch in 2010.
The U.S. Air Force is pursuing other radical satellite designs, including the new CUSat. If small satellites could inspect their brethren in orbit, the information could be used to prepare replacements. A concept hatched by the Air Force and Cornell University would launch two tiny satellites; one would take pictures of the other. Officials expect a CUSat launch late this year.
Orbital experiments like TacSat-2 may help preserve the U.S. military's space dominance.
Oral nutritional interventions help increase nutritional intake and improve some aspects of quality of life (QOL) in malnourished cancer patients or those who are at nutritional risk, but do not effect mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The American Cancer Society estimated 12 million new cancer diagnoses worldwide in 2007, expecting this to more than double in the next 50 years. While international guidelines have suggested a nutritional intervention with dietary advice and/or oral nutritional supplements for malnourished cancer patients or in cancer patients who are at nutritional risk in the past, these suggestions are based largely on expert opinion as opposed to clinical trials.
In order to determine the effectiveness of oral nutritional interventions on the QOL of malnourished cancer patients and those who are at nutritional risk, Christine Baldwin, Ph.D., RD, Lecturer at the Nutritional Sciences Division at King's College in London and colleagues, electronically searched several databases for randomized control trials (RCTs) of cancer patients who were malnourished or at risk of malnutrition and receiving oral nutritional support compared to patients who received routine care. The researchers examined 13 studies for a total of 1,414 patients. They measured the mortality, weight, energy intake, and QOL of patients taking nutritional interventions compared to those on routine care.
The researchers found that nutritional intervention resulted in a wide range of effects on both weight and energy intake. The researchers also found statistically significant improvements in aspects of QOL such as emotional functioning, dyspnea, and loss of appetite. But the nutritional intervention had no influence on mortality.
"The findings suggest that oral nutritional interventions have no effect on survival and that the effect on body weight and energy intake is inconsistent but that statistically significant improvements in some aspects of QOL may be achieved," the researchers write. Despite these findings, the researchers note the limitations of the study, namely the heterogeneity of the studies - both clinically and statistically. They conclude, "It is not possible, therefore, to explain the difference found between studies, but it is likely that the factors such as site and stage of disease and indeed variations in the duration, nature, and intensity of the nutritional intervention will account for difference in effects in patients."
In an accompanying editorial, Ann O'Mara, Ph.D., RN, and Diane St. Germain, MS, RN of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute write that malnutrition can independently predict poor outcomes with cancer treatment, but that not all patients will benefit from oral nutritional support either in improved survival or in QOL. They feel that oral nutrition supplements are suggested because they are perceived to come without negative side effects. "Dietary counseling may be beneficial for patients at high risk for malnutrition and their caregivers," the editorialists write. They also feel that since the research contains limitations, it's challenging to apply the findings to practice. "Until future research provides clearer answers regarding who will benefit from nutritional interventions, the use of a comprehensive assessment, published nutritional guidelines, and early interventions are essential."
Journal of the National Cancer Institute. "In Malnourished Cancer Patients, Oral Nutritional Interventions Improve Nutritional Intake And QOL." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 17 Feb. 2012. Web.
On 5 June 2018, the United Nations General Assembly elected Ecuadorean Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, as President of its 73rd session; only the fourth woman to hold that position in the history of the world body, and the first since 2006.
The President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, has more than 20 years of multilateral experience in international negotiations, peace, security, defence, disarmament, human rights, indigenous peoples, gender equality, sustainable development, environment, biodiversity, climate change and multilateral cooperation. She has served Ecuador as Minister of Foreign Affairs (twice), Minister of National Defence, and Coordinating Minister of Natural and Cultural Heritage.
In those capacities she coordinated the Sectorial Council on Foreign Policy and Promotion, which includes the Ministries of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, Foreign Trade, and the Environment. Ms. Espinosa Garcés was Chair of the Group of 77 and China until January 2018, and also served as Chair of the Andean Community. At the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, she promoted the adoption of the resolution presented by Ecuador entitled “Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication”. She was a chief negotiator at the sixteenth and seventeenth Conferences of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, where she facilitated the adoption of key elements in the outcome document entitled “The future we want”.
As Minister of National Defence of Ecuador, Ms. Espinosa Garcés participated in debates on women, peace and security, and promoted the creation of the South American Defence School of the Union of South American Nations, among other initiatives.
In 2008, she was the first woman to become Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in New York. During that posting, she cofacilitated the Working Group on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. She also led efforts at the global level towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
As Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, she led and supported various negotiation processes at the Human Rights Council. She chaired the work of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Geneva, and at the twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP 21) on Climate Change in Paris.
Ms. Espinosa Garcés was Special Adviser to the President of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the Constitution of Ecuador in 2008 and Regional Director (South America) and Adviser on Biodiversity (Geneva) at the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In both positions, she worked for approximately 10 years on various initiatives at WIPO and WTO; participated in negotiations on intellectual property, and traditional and ancestral knowledge; and supported the Andean Community and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization on strategic management and sustainable development.
Before beginning her political and diplomatic career, Ms. Espinosa Garcés was Associate Professor and Researcher at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador. During her time in academia, she received scholarships and grants from the Latin American Studies Association, the Ford Foundation, the Society of Woman Geographers and the Rockefeller Foundation towards her research in the Amazon. She also received awards from the German Agency for Cooperation, Deutsche Gesellschaft fϋr Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and Natura Foundation for her research work.
Ms. Espinosa Garcés has written over 30 academic articles about the Amazon region, culture, heritage, sustainable development, climate change, intellectual property, foreign policy, regional integration, defence and security. She has studies from Rutgers University. She holds a master’s degree in social sciences and Amazonian studies and a postgraduate diploma in anthropology and political science from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador, as well as a bachelor’s degree in applied linguistics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
The travel recommendation specialist shot up on talk about a possible acquisition, but it's only superficial.
Shares of TripAdvisor Inc. (NASDAQ:TRIP) were gaining today after comments from Chairman Greg Maffei prompted speculation about a potential merger and acquisition deal. As of 3:28 p.m. EST, the stock was up 6.2%.
In an analyst note from Cowen & Co., the research firm highlighted comments Maffei made at a conference earlier this week, where he said the company's appeal to a potential buyer acts as a floor on the stock. Maffei named Facebook, Amazon.com, and Alibaba as possible buyers, saying they would understand the value of the business.
TripAdvisor shares have indeed been hammered over the past year as the company's transition away from click-based advertising to offering booking services similar to online travel agents like Priceline Group and Expedia is taking longer than expected and resulted in profits falling last year.
Strangely, Cowen's commentary on Maffei's remarks seemed to be negative, and for the chairman to be using the company's buyout appeal to prop up the stock signals that he may not be particularly bullish on its fundamentals.
TripAdvisor, which was spun off from Expedia a few years ago, has been talked about before as a buyout target, but likely buyers are more likely to be other online travel agencies rather than the companies Maffei listed above.
Either way, the market seems to be overreacting to this news as it does not indicate that TripAdvisor is seeking a buyer, nor is it evidence that it's been approached by one.
If Simon had the chance to tell his class about his summer holidays, the seven-year-old Simon would no doubt mention the large tarpaulin sack that for almost four months served as his sleeping bag and his magic carpet.
When the family fled their home in the town of Batibo, in Cameroon’s north west, his mother used grain bags to carry her two youngest children as Simon ran alongside. Later, out in the open jungle, all three children slept inside the bags.
“It protected them from the snakes and the mosquitoes,” says Rebecca, Simon’s mother, 25, her voice still sounding panicked as she describes the exodus and the stray bullets she feared could hit her children.
Swapping a home for an open camp in the bush with neither clean water sources nor access to food and medicine has become routine for people fleeing the violence that has engulfed Cameroon’s two anglophone regions.
But Simon will not be telling any summer holiday stories this year. Like tens of thousands of other Cameroonian children, school has been suspended for yet another year.
The crisis in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions – the north-west and south-west – began in October 2016 with peaceful protests by lawyers and teachers demanding the wider use of English, rather than French, in local courtrooms and schools, as well as more English-speaking school teachers, adherence to a dual legal system and a fairer allocation of resources.
But the situation has spiralled out of control amid a vicious war of kidnapping, decapitations and the burning of entire villages.
Classrooms have become part of the ongoing warfare between the government and separatist forces. School attendance is compulsory for all Cameroonian children until the age of 12, but gunshots on the streets and threats from separatist forces mean many are denied this right.
In recent months, teachers who dared to show up for work have been killed, and buildings burned. This week an unknown group of men stormed a school in Buea, capital of the south-west region, attacking students and teachers with machetes and guns. This followed reports that on 3 September, the first day of the academic year, gunmen attacked a secondary school in the town of Bafut, about 25km from Bamenda, the capital of the north-west region, kidnapping five pupils.
Unicef estimates published this month show that, of more than 300 million five- to 17-year-olds not in school worldwide, one-third live in conflict areas.
But Unicef is not providing any educational support for people living in the affected regions and there appears to be little help from other organisations. Cameroonians are being left to get on with things themselves.
The country’s two Anglophone regions are home to approximately a fifth of the country’s population, estimated at 23 million. More than 180,000 people have fled their homes in the Anglophone areas, and families are growing increasingly anxious about the impact of missed schooling on their children.
Such fears may already be a reality. Claire, 38, from Kumbo, north-west region, says children she used to see in her church now run around the neighbourhood with guns.
Today, she can shoot a gun. “But what will happen to her when she is arrested?” says Claire.
There are also worries that lack of schooling will increase already high teenage pregnancy rates. According to the Cameroon Medical Council, one in four pregnancies in the country are among school-age girls.
Though there are no official statistics, parents from the north-west region who have fled to the capital, Yaoundé, say they have noticed more pregnant teenagers. With shops and businesses closed, schoolgirls are looking for cleaning or babysitting jobs, leaving them at risk to abuse.
More affluent families have sent their children to schools in the French-speaking parts of the country, and cities like Douala and Yaoundé are beginning to feel the squeeze.
During last summer’s exams season, she said students had to turn up extra early to claim a desk or face being turned away.
For those stuck in the crisis-ridden regions, private education – which is becoming ever more expensive – is the only option, says Frances, a mother of one in Kumba.
“The teacher charges 30,000 [West African CFA] francs per month, so for nine months the fees will be 270,000 francs (£370), while school used to cost just 90,000 per year,” she says.
Organising home schooling is not always possible, adds Frances, since group gatherings of more than five people can attract the attention of the authorities.
Simon and his family are now living in a crowded, filthy compound with 30 other people in Yaoundé, hosted by relatives. His mother says he won’t be able to attend school this term.
“I haven’t got a job, and I can’t afford the school fees,” she says. She does not speak French, the working language in the capital. She is afraid people will turn on her when they realise where she is from.
“We are too afraid to even go outside and speak English,” she says. Other mothers nod in agreement.
Surveying the calm Yaoundé traffic, Claire, about to return to Kumbo, says she fears young people in her hometown will be a lost generation.
*All names have been changed at the request of the interviewees, who feared repercussions if identified.
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About 100 people were slaughtered last week in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the latest massacres to shake the restive region, regional deputies told AFP on Monday.
The carnage took place on Thursday near the town of Beni in the North Kivu province, where mainly Muslim Ugandan rebels have been blamed for killing more than 200 civilians in gruesome attacks since October 2014.
“I have a figure of 95 bodies buried in a common grave,” as well as “nine others that were shown to authorities in a morgue,” opposition MP Juma Balikwisha told AFP.
“We still don’t have a definitive toll. It lies between 70 and 100 people killed,” said Albert Baliesima, an MP for the parliamentary majority backing President Joseph Kabila.
“We were told that the (Congolese armed forces, FARDC) didn’t want people to go further into the bush, where more bodies could yet be discovered, he added. Officials who spoke to AFP said they did not know who carried out the massacres, but they took place in a region where rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU) battled the army early in November.
An administrative source in Beni said killings took place in four villages located near each other between the market town – 250km north of the provincial capital Goma – and the town of Mbau, 20km further north.
Reached by telephone, a local resident told AFP that 95 bodies picked up in the bush had been buried in the village of Tepiomba.
North Kivu’s governor, Julien Paluku, last Friday said that nine bodies had been taken to a morgue in the affected region. The Civil Society of North Kivu, an association based in Beni, said that at least 50 people had died, according to “one of the survivors”.
The ADF-NALU rebels have been hiding out in the Ruwenzori mountains that straddle the border with Uganda since being driven out of their homeland by President Yoweri Museveni’s soldiers in 1995.
In January, the Congolese army and troops of a special UN intervention brigade launched a joint offensive against the insurgents.
Hey Facebook! Bigger photos are great, but here's how to really improve your photo app.
Hey Facebook! Bigger photos are great, but here’s how to really improve your photo app.
The recent acquisition of Divvyshot by Facebook got me thinking about the humble photo app. Given the chance, how would I improve Facebook photos?
I decided to keep in mind that photo sharing on Facebook is about being social. Photography enthusiasts have plenty of sophisticated services to support their needs. I was trying to think of features that make it easier to upload, share and enjoy photos among family and friends.
Support a limited amount of the EXIF data to be retained on upload and displayed alongside the picture. Specific fields that I think would be useful are timestamp, caption, geo-location and tags.
Supporting captions would allow me to caption pics in Picasa before upload meaning I have the captions available for anything else I use the pictures for.
Geo-location would open the door to displaying albums on a map, great for travel pictures. Also, sharing among friends or groups based on locations. I reckon it would be interesting to create an album of all my friends pics taken in the same city.
Time stamps would allow me to quickly sort albums chronologically, something I often want to do when uploading pics after a trip. I often find that Facebook’s order after upload is a bit dodgy and I need to manually move pictures around.
Allow me to upload to a “staging area” where I can edit (ordering, tagging, captions) before publishing. Often when I upload albums after a big trip, I find that by the time I’ve gone through writing captions people have already started browsing the album.
Introduce automated people tagging. Photoshop and Picasa have been experimenting with these features for a while now and its time Facebook played a bit of catchup. I’m not advocating pure automated tagging, just the ability for Facebook to identify and prompt likely matches.
Improved gallery features. Facebook’s gallery is pretty straightforward, how about some Cooliris style galleries and carousels? But, to give credit where its due, Facebook was the first site in common use where clicking a pic brought up the next pic in the album – I still find this much more intuitive than solutions like Flickr’s photostream control.
Some fun captioning tools. Speech bubbles, thought bubbles and the like. Nothing too fancy, I don’t envisage feature rich Picnik style editing – just enough to add some fun to shots I am sharing.
More social features around albums. At the moment, albums are largely created by one person. The use of groups and events to create shared albums feels a bit clunky. I suspect this feature is at the core of the Divvyshot acquisition.
Allow me to embed albums from other sites. Its a bit counter-intuitive but bear with me – Facebook’s revenue comes from ads (among other things). Embedded Flickr albums would still have me looking at Facebook’s page and ads. I’d probably spend more time on Facebook as I wouldn’t need to go out to other sites. There is no particular advantage in Facebook storing the content itself. In fact, if Facebook tried to use my pictures for anything other sharing I’d quite quickly shut down my account.
With more than 3bn photos being uploaded each month, Facebook is by far the worlds biggest photo sharing site. Hopefully in the coming months, as Facebook incorporates some of Divvyshot’s engineering, we may see some spit and polish applied to the humble gallery. In the meantime, I’d be interested to hear your suggestions in the comments.
A Turkish delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Önal left for Washington Aug. 7 to resolve the current crisis in relations after the U.S. slapped sanctions against Turkey over the detention of pastor Andrew Brunson, while the two sides’ foreign ministers held a phone call on the same day, in a sign of wanting to put diplomacy back on track.
Officials from Turkey’s justice, finance and foreign ministries make up the nine-member delegation going to Washington, according to diplomatic sources who asked to remain anonymous. The meeting is expected to take place on Aug. 8.
"We can confirm that a Turkish delegation will meet with State Department officials today," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Aug. 8. "The meeting will be led by our deputy secretary John Sullivan," she added.
The Turkish delegation will also meet U.S. Treasury officials.