…call on Govt to provide water transport, assist in travelling expensesRegional health practitioners in Region One (Barima-Waini) are concerned about the lack of transportation in some communities to transport patients, particularly high-risk pregnant women, to and from health facilities in and out of their Region.Public Health Minister Volda LawrenceHealth worker Mark Boyer recently complained to Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence during her recent visit to the Region that although high-risk pregnant women were usually transported to the Suddie Regional Hospital, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) in the Region’s boat, health workers were left to pay the expenses of returning to their villages.“Normally, the Health [Ministry] does the transporting out, but most of patients have to do their own expenses to come back in. They ask why the health workers take them out there and they have to spend their monies to come back home? I am recommending that arrangements be made to bring them back.”He stated that in addition to this, the Amerindian Hostel in Suddie was not in good condition to house pregnant women and was unsuitable for mothers who would have to stay there when they were visiting the hospital.“A proper accommodation [must] be constructed there for the mothers. We need to take care of it,” he noted.Meanwhile, in the Manawarin Village, there is a high “home delivery rate” coupled with the neonatal death rate being high among other pressing health issues that need to be addressed.This matter was pointed out by Elene La Rose, a staff nurse and midwife attached to the Kumaka District Hospital, Region One.“The Region has built a nurses’ duplex and a doctor and medex duplex there and there is a health post, but there are over 2000 residents in Manawarin. What we found is the high-risk mothers, it is like a culture that when we go, the husband as long as it is a male (staff to deliver a baby), they refuse for their wives to be examined by a male. We need more resources; we need a permanent doctor with midwife there…,” she stated.Nurse La Rose further explained that Manawarin village was on the regional border between Region One and Region Two, but health care for residents was left solely in the hands of Region One.“Part of Manawarin is in Region Two …That Region always promises to come on board, they promise to help us … but don’t really … they are more than us, plenty of resources and staff. Manawarin has no form of transportation too; there is need for a boat and engine in that area as well,” she added.Several other nurses and health workers in various communities of Region One have also voiced their concern about the lack of boats with engines to shuttle sick persons and/or pregnant women to health facilities where they can obtain quality treatment.
Fort St. John Indoor Soccer season-end tournament results
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – It was an exciting weekend of indoor soccer action at the Field House Arena as the Fort St. John Soccer Club House League Indoor Tournament took place.Team Silver won the regular season in the U12 Co-ed division, while the U14 Co-ed Division winners were Team Teal, and the U16/18 Co-ed season rankings were dominated by Team Navy. Those three teams were the favourites to take the win at this year’s year-end tournament.After a weekend of games, Team Silver took first place in the U12 division, beating Team Royal Blue in the final. Team Purple were this year’s U12 Bronze winners. Rylin Clement of Team Royal Blue and Kye White from Team Yellow both earned the U12 tournament Golden Boot award.- Advertisement -The U14 division was won by favourite Team Teal, who beat Team Silver in the final, while Team Yellow finished the tournament in third place. Teal’s Harrison Sewell took home both the Golden Boot and the Team Leadership award, while the other U14 Golden Boot was earned by Mykenzie Beech.Team Navy were this year’s tournament champions in the U16/18 co-ed division, followed by Team Yellow and Team Teal. Alex Fowler, Jayd Gorsic, and Ennie Olajide were Golden Boot winners.
BREWERY BAR SET TO ROCK LETTERKENNY THIS WEEKEND
ENTERTAINMENT: The Brewery Bar is the No.1 place to be every weekend, the popular venue caters for all ages and has created a fabulous atmosphere since re-opening under a new management team. Every weekend is a big one at The Brewery, but this weekend is going to be HUGE.Tonight, John Kohlmeyer will be playing LIVE and they’ll kick-start the weekend for you!On Saturday, resident DJ Oisin will kick things off and he’ll be followed by Murphy’s LawOn Sunday, it’s everybody favourite ‘Karaoke Sunday’s‘ – are you up for the challenge?? On Monday, Martin Orr and The Honky Tonk Heroes will keep the party going!BREWERY BAR SET TO ROCK LETTERKENNY THIS WEEKEND was last modified: June 10th, 2016 by Mark ForkerShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:Brewery BarEntertainmentweekly lineup
ALL SAINTS! ST VALENTINE’S NIGHT PARTY AT ST EUNAN’S CLUB HOUSE
IT’S where many matches were made in the past – and this St Valentine’s Night, St Eunan’s GAA club house will be open once again for a special night out.The greatest hits from the 70s and 80s will be played at the special night out at the Letterkenny club.Doors open at 9pm. There is a €5 entry fee. All pints €3.50 all bottles €3.50 all halves €3.00. All proceeds will go towards bettering the facilities at O’Donnell Park.Dance shoes optional! ALL SAINTS! ST VALENTINE’S NIGHT PARTY AT ST EUNAN’S CLUB HOUSE was last modified: February 11th, 2015 by John2Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:70s80spartySt Eunan’s GAA clubSt Valentine’s Night
Brand South Africa host panel discussion on the next 50 years of African integration
Johannesburg, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 – During 2013 the African continent is celebrating fifty years since the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The OAU, which was created in the days of African struggles for liberation from colonial rule, and its successor the African Union (AU), stand as institutional symbols of liberation, integration and development of the continent. However, the African continent has changed dramatically in the past 50 years and South Africa’s importance as a growth frontier in the global economy has also increased significantly.In the context of continued global economic uncertainty, it is necessary to interrogate the economic potential that is yet to be unleashed as a result of African regional integration. The Brand South Africa panel discussion to be held on Thursday 25 July at the Hyatt in Rosebank, with Minister Collins Chabane will be the keynote speaker; will focus on the future of African integration and the extent to which it can enhance the continent’s internal and global competitiveness.The panel discussion will share perspectives on the key opportunities, trends and issues that will shape and impact on the African integration agenda and Pan Africanism, in the next fifty years. This event will also be a platform where Brand South Africa will officially launch the South African Competitiveness Forum to take place on 5 November 2013.“Our reputation as a country is important as it affects our national competitiveness which impacts on investment, jobs, growth and conversely on our national sense of pride and social cohesion. The Brand South Africa dialogues are an important step in seeding a positive perception about South Africa with international investors and the global community at large. It is important that we engage on these important issues to share our perspective, enable trade and attract foreign direct investment” says Miller Matola, Brand South Africa CEO.Note to EditorsBrand South Africa, previously known as the International Marketing Council of South Africa, officially changed its name to best align with its mandate of building South Africa’s nation brand reputation in order to improve its global competitiveness.For more information, please contact:Maredi MogodiPublic Relations International+27 11 712 5057 Mobile: +27 (0)83 760 0970Email: maredim@brandsouthafrica.comVisit www.brandsouthafrica.comENDS.
More from the National Biodiesel Conference
Share Facebook Twitter Google + LinkedIn Pinterest Jason Johnson with Paccar had some big news for The Ohio Ag Net’s Dale Minyo at this week’s National Biodiesel Conference in Tampa.Jason Johnson Paccar B -20 AnnouncementNational Biodiesel Board‘s Anne Steckle vists with Dale about some of the issues her industry faces in Washington DC.NBB Anne Steckel Where From HereOhio soybean producers Jerry Bambauer talks with Dale about the takeaways from the 2016 National Biodiesel Convention.NBB Jerry Bambauer Wrap Up
The Growth of Linked Data
Why Tech Companies Need Simpler Terms of Servic… You can see how Linked Data has grown over the years. Its emergence is seen in the ways we can use the data to discover relationships in an variety of manners. How big will this diagram be by the end of 2011? The number of data sets has pretty much doubled every year since it was first created. It should be no surprise if it doubles again 2011.(Linking Open Data cloud diagram by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch.) 8 Best WordPress Hosting Solutions on the Market In 2009: Top Reasons to Go With Managed WordPress Hosting In 2008: Tags:#Analysis#cloud 
Related Posts alex williams A Web Developer’s New Best Friend is the AI Wai… The concept of Linked Data has largely been the domain of academics and geeks. But this is a new time and space for the Web and the possible uses of Linked Data are becoming more widely recognized.To illustrate the concept of Linked Data, Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch created the Linked Data Diagram of the Cloud. This image is widely used but it shows how much data has been added to the Internet in the past few years. But first, let’s look at a definition of Linked Data by LinkedData.org:The Web enables us to link related documents. Similarly it enables us to link related data. The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. Key technologies that support Linked Data are URIs (a generic means to identify entities or concepts in the world), HTTP (a simple yet universal mechanism for retrieving resources, or descriptions of resources), and RDF (a generic graph-based data model with which to structure and link data that describes things in the world).(Contributor: Tom Heath, including excerpts from Bizer, Heath and Berners-Lee (in press))The image shows data sets that have been published in the Linked Data format. Contributions are from the Linked Open Data community project and various individuals and organizations.Clicking the image takes you to an image map. Click on any of the circles and it will take you to the home page for the data set. The first cloud diagram was created in 2007 with one data set. Today there are more than 200 data sets. The size of the circle on the map correlates to the amount of data in the data set. Arrows and the thickness of the lines relate to the number of links and other associated information.Here is the size of the Linked Data Cloud in 2007:
Caught in the Vise
The dramatic wave of popular revolts cascading across the Middle East has already toppled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak and Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. As we went to press, Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi, who goes by the laughable honorific title of Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Revolution of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya — currently the longest serving head of state — was hanging on by a thread. Opposition forces have overrun the vast majority of the country and Col. Gaddafi is defiantly threatening a bloody last stand in Tripoli. His brutal 42-year rule will likely come to a violent end in a matter of weeks, if not days.But these are just the earliest salvos in an uprising that is likely to engulf the autocratic — and they are all autocratic with varying degrees of brutality — Middle East regimes. Already tremors are being felt in Yemen, Bahrain, Iran and Iraq. It is only a matter of time before protest movements rock the monarchies of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.It cannot happen soon enough. For centuries, the ruling kings, sultans and emirs in the region have plundered their national resources to finance their extravagant lifestyles. In recent decades, hundreds of billions of dollars in annual oil revenues have been squandered for the hedonistic indulgences of the ruling elite. Instead of using their natural wealth to build up domestic economies, the sheikhdoms import indentured foreign labor for the most menial, as well as the most important tasks. As a result, almost 80% of UAE’s population is foreign, as is 75% of Qatar’s, 68% of Kuwait’s and 54% of Bahrain’s. When the current regimes of these countries implode, the global impact will not just be economic — on oil, the most common U.S. concern. It will equally be humanitarian as millions of expatriates working in these countries are dislocated. The problem will be especially acute for the 5 to 6 million Indians — the single largest foreign group — who toil in the Middle East, nearly 3.25 million in Saudi Arabia and UAE alone. Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and Yemen (see table) between them have another 1.5 million Indian laborers, who will all be caught in the vise should civil strife engulf these countries.Neither Tunisia nor Egypt had significant Indian presence. Libya has fewer than 20,000. Nonetheless, the Indian government was caught flat-footed when the simmering protest movement erupted there. Thousands of Indians in Libya escaped only by fleeing to the Tunisian border by road. Imagine the gravity of the humanitarian crisis when the number of Indians that has to be rescued is in the hundreds of thousands or even millions. Bahrain, which is already at the tipping point, has 290,000 Indians, almost a quarter of the country’s population. Yemen, where the regime is tottering, has 101,000.There is little evidence that the Indian government has developed any contingency plans to cope with the impending disaster facing its citizens in the Gulf. It cannot simply pray that these regimes not implode. On quite the contrary, we hope that they do, so that their brutal medieval grip on the region is broken at long last.The Indian government — and the overseas Indian community — should begin to prepare now for the humanitarian disaster that will inevitably follow. CountryIndian Population% of Total PopulationUAE1,750,00035Saudi Arabia1,500,0006Kuwait580,00017Oman450,00017Bahrain290,00024Qatar125,00010Yemen101,0000.4Libya20,0000.3 Related Items
Partial knee replacement
DefinitionA partial knee replacement is surgery to replace only one part of a damaged knee. It can replace either the inside (medial) or outside (lateral) parts of the knee.Surgery to replace the whole knee joint is called total knee replacement.Alternative NamesUnicompartmental knee arthroplasty; Knee replacement – partial; Unicondylar knee replacement; Arthroplasty – unicompartmental knee; UKA; Minimally invasive partial knee replacementDescriptionPartial knee replacement surgery removes damaged tissue and bone in the knee joint. The damaged areas are replaced with a man-made implant, called a prosthetic.Before surgery, you will be given anesthesia, which is medicine that blocks pain. You will have one of two types:General anesthesia makes you sleep through the procedure and unable to feel pain.Regional (spinal or epidural) anesthesia numbs you below your waist. You will also receive medicines to make you relax or feel sleepy.The surgeon will make a cut over your knee. This cut is about 3 to 5 inches long.Next, the doctor examines the entire knee joint. If there is damage to more than one part of your knee, you may need a total knee replacement. Most of the time, however, this is not needed since the tests you had before the procedure would have shown this damage.The damaged bone and tissue is removed.A man-made part made of plastic and metal is placed into the knee.Once the part is in the proper place, it is attached with bone cement.The wound is closed with stitches.Why the Procedure Is PerformedadvertisementThe most common reason to have a knee joint replaced is to relieve severe arthritis pain.Your doctor may recommend knee joint replacement if:You can?t sleep through the night because of knee pain.Your knee pain prevents you from doing daily activities.Your knee pain has not gotten better with other treatments.You will need to understand what surgery and recovery will be like.Partial knee arthroplasty may be a good choice if you have arthritis on only one side of the knee, and you:Are older, thin, and not very activeDo not have very bad arthritis on the other side of the knee or under the kneecapHave only minor deformity of the kneeCan move your knee in a good rangeHave stable ligaments in the kneeHowever, most people with knee arthritis have a surgery called a total knee arthroplasty (TKA).Knee replacement is most often done in people age 60 and older.RisksRisks for this surgery include:Blood clotsFluid buildup in the knee jointFailure of the replacement parts to attach to the kneeNerve and blood vessel damagePain with kneelingReflex sympathetic dystrophy (rare)Before the ProcedureAlways tell your doctor or nurse what drugs you are taking, including herbs, supplements, and medicines bought without a prescription.During the 2 weeks before your surgery:Prepare your home.Ask your doctor which medicines you can still take on the day of your surgery.You may be asked to stop taking medicine that makes it harder for your blood to clot. These include aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Naprosyn, Aleve), blood thinners such as warfarin (Coumadin) and other drugs.You may need to stop taking any medicines that weaken your immune system, including Enbrel and methotrexate.If you have diabetes, heart disease, or other medical conditions, your surgeon will ask you to see the doctor who treats you for these conditions.Tell your doctor if you have been drinking a lot of alcohol (more than one or two drinks a day).If you smoke, you need to stop. Ask your doctor or nurse for help. Smoking slows healing and recovery.Let your doctor know if you get a cold, flu, fever, herpes breakout, or other illness before your surgery.You may want to visit a physical therapist before surgery to learn exercises that can help you recover.Practice using a cane, walker, crutches, or a wheelchair.On the day of your surgery:You will usually be asked not to drink or eat anything for 6 – 12 hours before the procedure.Take the drugs your doctor told you to take with a sip of water.Your doctor or nurse will tell you when to arrive at the hospital.After the ProcedureMost patients go home the day after surgery.You can put your full weight on your knee right away.After surgery, you will be encouraged to do as much as you can for yourself. This includes going to the bathroom or taking walks in the hallways with help.Most people recover quickly and have much less pain than they did before surgery. People who have a partial knee replacement recover faster than those who have a total knee replacement.advertisementOutlook (Prognosis)Many patients are able to walk without a cane or walker within 3to 4 weeks after surgery. You will need physical therapy for 4 to 6 months.Most forms of exercise areOK after surgery, including walking, swimming, and biking. However, you should avoid high-impact activities such as jogging.ReferencesMihalko WM. Arthroplasty of the knee. In: Canale ST, Beaty JH, eds. Campbells Operative Orthopaedics. 12th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 7.Berger RA, Meneghini RM, Jacobs JJ, et al. Results of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty at a minimum of ten years of follow-up. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87(5):999-1006.Patil S, Colwell CW Jr, Ezzet KA, et al. Can normal knee kinematics be restored with unicompartmental knee replacement? J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87(2):332-338.Richmond J, Hunter D, Irrgang J, et al. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee (nonarthroplasty). J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2009;17:591-600.Review Date:8/12/2013Reviewed By:C. Benjamin Ma, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service, UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, San Francisco, CA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.