St. Bernard is the heaviest dog in the world with an average weight of 140 to 220 lbs!

 

St. Bernard named as Benedictine has been acknowledged as the heaviest dog in the world. From the Swiss Alps and famous for its Alpine rescues, it is a working dog with an average weight of 140 and 220 lbs. Its weight is between 27½ inches to 35½ inches. He has taken over Zorva, the heaviest dog before him and enjoyed the status of the heaviest dog of the world with a weight of 367 lbs. its bravery and tilt to the alpine rescue missions bring honor to the St. Bernard.  It came into lime light when it was taken to a travelers’ way-station in the St. Bernard Pass, one of the highest places of Europe. Its presence over there with a height of 8000 feet gave it a universal name throughout the world and it won the status of one of the most popular dogs of the world.

St. Bernard dog is of two types: smooth coat and fluffy coat. Its physique is suitable for going deep into snow and undergoing the severe cold conditions. It was previously named as Noble Steeds, Alpenmastiff, Berry Dog, and Stain Dog. In North America, it is called Saint while the name St. Bernard appeared on the scene near mid 1800s. Since St. Bernard is the heavy dog, it needs exercise though the volume of exercise varies according to its age. The weather conditions are also important as it is specific to the cold weather and cannot cope with the warm weather of the hot regions of the world. It is highly recommended to keep it in the cold places to avoid any heath disorder.

550 hot dogs are eaten every second of the day in the United States.
 

Debenhams Reveals 85% of Women Wear Wrong Sized Bra

Debenhams has revealed that embarrassment is causing 85% of the female population to wear the wrong sized bra.

Despite Debenhams carrying out over one million bra fits a year, the majority of women would rather spare their own blushes than go and get measured for a bra that does the job.

The findings came from a survey by Debenhams, which showed that going topless, feeling uncomfortable and being made to feel embarrassed came out as reasons women felt reluctant to go for a professional bra fitting -- all three are completely false.

Debenhams head of lingerie buying and design Sharon Webb commented: "The results of our survey were shocking -- it's astounding how many myths there are surrounding how a bra fit works.
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Macrumors rendered an artist view of a low cost iPhone using fine quality plastic casing.
 

 The calf drops approximately 6 feet to the ground, but it is not hurt from the fall.

The mother gives birth standing up. The calf emerges head and front legs first, having broken through the fetal membranes, and falls to the ground, severing the umbilical cord. The mother then grooms the newborn and helps it stand up. A newborn giraffe is about 1.8 m (6 ft) tall. Within a few hours of birth, the calf can run around and is almost indistinguishable from a one-week-old. However, for the first 1–3 weeks, it spends most of its time hiding; its coat pattern providing camouflage.

16. The roof will hold 700,000 square feet of solar panels: "enough to generate 8 megawatts of power. (That's enough to power roughly 4,000 homes.)" 

15. The campus will have 6,000 trees divided among 309 different species, plus 15 acres of "native Californian grassland."

14. Lots will happen underground, from the roads and garages to an auditorium for—what else?!—product demos.

13. The project, one estimated to cost $3B, will now cost nearly $5B. That's more than $1,500 a square foot. 

12. The plan will accommodate 12,000 to 13,000 employees. 

11. The structure will "generate all of his own electricity, relying on the grid only as a backup." 

10. "Jobs insisted that the tiny gaps where walls and other surfaces come together be no more than 1/32 of an inch across, vs. the typical ⅛ inch in most U.S. construction." 

9. "All of the interior wood was to be harvested from a specific species of maple, and only the finer-quality 'heartwood'" at the center of the trees would be used, says one person briefed on the plan last year."

8. Jobs "wanted the whole place to look less like an office park and more like a nature refuge."

7. Apricot, olive, and apple orchards will fill the building's courtyard, along with an herb garden. 

6. Windows will "automatically open or close to let in just the right amount of light, wind, and fresh air to maintain a comfortable temperature." In other worlds: Apple employees will never get into fights about the office being too hot or too cold. 

5. "Jobs wanted no seam, gap, or paintbrush stroke showing; every wall, floor, and even ceiling is to be polished to a supernatural smoothness." 

4. The glass exterior walls will be curved on-site in a factory in Germany, and shipped in. In total, there are six square kilometers of glass. "There's not a straight piece of glass in this building," Jobs once said. 

3. Another prefab component will be "26-foot-long modules in various configurations—bathrooms, utility closets, and banks of offices complete with carpets and window treatments."

2. Floors will be made of terrazzo (a composite stone material) and "buffed to a sheen normally reserved for museums and high-end residences." 

1. The ceilings will be made from polished concrete, which will be cast in molds on the floor and elevated into place so the "unsightly ruts where the scaffolding puts extra pressure on the surfaces" won't be visible—"a far more expensive approach that left one person involved in the project speechless."

If you think these images from the North Pole look more like a lake than the snow-covered expanse you'd expect, that because it is is—the North Pole has melted.

It's not, perhaps, quite as dramatic as it sounds. April saw the ninth heaviest snow cover on record measured in the Arctic, covering the Pole in more of the white stuff than it's seen in a long ol' time. But by May, temperatures increased and almost half the cover melted.

Throughout July temperatures have been uncharacteristically high—up to 1-3°C higher than usual on July 13th, for instance—and the result has been an abrupt thaw of the snow cover that was left. These images, acquired from the North Pole Environmental Observatory, show the thaw in progress, between June 30th and July 25th.

 

 John Paul II and Galileo

This is not, however, the attitude of Pope John Paul II. In 1979, he expressed the wish that the Pontifical Academy of Sciences conduct an in-depth study of the celebrated case. A commission of scholars was convened, and they presented their report to the Pope on October 31, 1992. Contrary to reports in The New York Times and other conduits of misinformation about the Church, the Holy See was not on this occasion finally throwing in the towel and admitting that the earth revolves around the sun. That particular debate, so far as the Church was concerned, had been closed since at least 1741 when Benedict XIV bid the Holy Office grant an imprimatur to the first edition of the Complete Works of Galileo.

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A "camel" brush is not made of camel hair. It is a generic term for soft-haired brushes that are made of various inexpensive hairs such as pony, bear, sheep, and lesser grades of squirrel mixed together and supposedly named after the man who originated it. Camel hair brushes received their name from "Mr. Camel", who invented them.

Actual camel hair is too woolly for brushes and they range greatly in softness, quality and cost. These soft-haired brushes are made of pony, ox, goat or other inexpensive hair, or a mixture. Horse of pony hair is taken from the mane, tail, hock or belly. Natural tips are used in better brushes. Camel hair brush is most commonly used in inexpensive school grade brushes or as cosmetic brush. Ox hair is taken from the ears or hock. It has medium stiffness and resiliency, carries much fluid but will not point well s it has a blunt tip. Goat hair has a naturally blunt tip but retains a large volume of fluid.

Camel hair brushes are used in mottler, mops, cosmetic brushes and Oriental brushes. Lesser grades are used in school brushes and, like pony, it can be used in blends or filler. These brushes work well for dusting parts and also in touch-up work for applying paint and adhesives.

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Create a map of all the Eichler homes on the market and it'll be obsolete within a month or two. In the early 1950s, the first owners of these post-and-beam tract homes paid as little as $800 down (about $7,899, in today's dollars), and these days they routinely sell within a few weeks of listing, often for over $1M, thanks to an overheated Bay Area housing market fond of midcentury modernism. While the cul-de-sac full of McMansions has become a routine symbol of despair, developer Joseph Eichler's vision, it would seem, is the kind of suburban idyll we can get down with. So it's no surprise some people are building new Eichlers. What's claimed to be the first one built since 1974 will be finished in about two weeks, in Palm Springs, California, where no Eichler has gone before.
It's got a Zillow page and everything. This first "Desert Eichler," a variation adapted from one of Eichler's original blueprints, is being built by Troy Kudlac, a Palm Springs broker and developer who buys, remodels, and resells midcentury homes. Before the Eichler, KUD Properties specialized in flipping Palm Springs tract homes similar to Eichlers, but not quite as plentiful or popular; those developed by George and Robert Alexander. KUD's list of other renovation projects includes homes designed by William Krisel, Donald Wexler, William F. Cody, and E. Stewart Williams. Kudlac's first foray into creating modernism from scratch traces back to Palm Springs Modernism Week 2012, when he met Bay Area real estate agent Monique Lombardelli at a screening of her Eichler documentary, People in Glass Houses.
Lombardelli built her reputation as one of the "most recognizable Eichler Realtors in America" upon the short documentary, which she produced, and briefly appears in. That quote is from a 2013 Architect Magazine profile, which, like her film, recounts the origin story of her Eichler obsession: agent on a prospecting run drives her Volkswagen sedan into an Eichler neighborhood in Sunnyvale, flags down a resident who fills her in about "Mr. Eichler," and soon enough, she's spending three months in Frank Lloyd Wright's Bazett House, to experience the space that is said have inspired Eichler to bring modernism to the masses.
On the heels of Glass Houses, Lombardelli founded Modern Homes Realty, a small brokerage focused on midcentury homes that only represents clients intent on preserving them. That, and selling a handful of Eichler plans she's had designer Thomas Sylvia and architect Stuart Grunow update to meet California building codes. (She's also consulted with architect Leo Marmol.)
When Eichler died in 1974, after developing about 11,000 homes, including tracts in Orange County and Los Angeles, and a few homes in Rockland County, New York, of all places, the rights to the Eichler plans went to their architects: Anshen & Allen, Jones & Emmons, Claude Oakland, A. Quincy Jones, and Raphael Soriano. The 70-or-so plans Lombardelli has been given leave to update and sell come from two architects. She licensed the Anshen & Allens from design services company Stantec, which acquired the firm in 2010, and the Claude Oaklands are from the UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives, which owns Oakland's collected plans. Archive curator Waverly B. Lowell says that the decision to license the Eichler plans to Lombardelli, as well as to the website Houseplans.com, came because "these homes are meant to be lived in," and "it was not in conflict with the intent of these designs to license a limited number of Eichler designs to build new."
 

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Troy Kudlac's rendering of the first new Eichler home since 1974. Images courtesy KUD Properties Lombardelli has fielded inquiries about her blueprints from Florida, Colorado, London, France, Brazil, and Australia, as well as from a man in Virginia, her only other taker besides Kudlac. When asked if they've had any success selling their Oakland Eichler plans, House Plans CEO James T. Roche said that "we have had many people interested in the Eichler plans, especially in CA. Unfortunately once they hear the cost to redraw the plans to meet modern code requirements and living preferences they opt to go another way."
House Plans charges $4,500 per Eichler blueprint, while Lombardelli charges $5,000. "I wouldn't feel comfortable charging more," she says, comparing that figure to the tens of thousands of dollars people pay to hire architects. A portion each sale, which allows the buyer to build one home, goes back to either Berkeley or Stantec, depending on the architect.
Before marketing any Eichler plans—which she started doing in part because she "was pissed that people were tearing them down left and right"—Lombardelli paid a visit to Ned Eichler, who worked as head of purchasing, and later, marketing manager for his father's company. At the time, he told Architect Magazine, "she thought she needed legal clearance to sell the plans or alter the plans. Totally absurd. Who is there alive who cares?"
Still, she also met with Ned's son David, a photographer, and Steven San Jule, the son of Eichler Homes' original marketing director, who each gave her their blessing to market the updated plans under the Eichler name.
Kudlac is nearly finished with the first new Eichler in four decades, in the Andreas Hills neighborhood of South Canyon, a development at the southernmost portion of Palm Springs. The world's first "Twenty-First Century Desert Eichler" is based on a Claude Oakland A-frame, model MS234. To allay potential concerns about authenticity, it comes with a certificate of Eichlerhood from Berkeley. After this one sells, he says, "I'll have a case study, so I can prove that there's a desire for this in Palm Springs." So far, Kudlac has licensed four plans from Lombardelli, and has sites ready for two of them.
Kudlac has made his own changes to the MS234 plan, beyond Lombardelli's own, to fit with the strict building codes and hot desert climate of Palm Springs. Small changes include a foam-insulated roof, and Low-E glass windows, to meet the requirements of Title 24, the recently updated California Energy Code; one larger, more noticeable change is the nixing of three clerestory windows above the garage, which was done for structural reasons. To stick with the original plywood siding inside and out would have been "hard to maintain and bad for the desert, basically like living in a matchbox," says Kudlac, so he tried to recreate the look with an exterior of smooth-coat stucco poured over aluminum expansion joints. "If I rebuilt an Eichler the way that Mr. Eichler built it today," he continues, "I'd probably have someone trying to hunt me down and shoot me a year later."

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Progress shots from South Canyon. Photos courtesy KUD Properties Troy also made a few changes renovation-minded buyers often make to Eichlers, "while trying to be as minimally invasive as possible." He left out a small wall between the living room and kitchen, and moved the kitchen back a few feet, so that it faces the great room, with the interior courtyard off to one side, because a "seamless open living concept is what people want." There was also a small "powder room" put in "where many homeowners have done the same." Where the original Eichlers had radiant heating, this one has a fully integrated mini-split HVAC system.
Walnut paneling was used on the doors, cabinetry, and on some walls, beside stretches of smooth-coat drywall. In place of what would have been Formica floors, he went with "nice, high-end porcelain tiles." There's also going to be a circular pool and a separate spa on the back terrace, with an Eichler-esque guest casita further back designed by Lombardelli collaborator Thomas Sylvia.
The first Desert Eichler will have its debut on February 18, as part of Palm Springs Modernism Week's Eichler day. If Palm Springs buyers prove interested, Kudlac's got a "decent chunk of land" he could potentially build a small neighborhood of Desert Eichlers on. Either way, he thinks this one is part of a "new wave of getting people into houses, getting them the product they need," without the need for an architect in the equation. Or at least not a contemporary one.

1. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
2. If you fake laugh long enough you’ll start to really laugh, really, really hard.
3. The book cover to the prize winning short story collection, Spellbound, was chosen because author, Joel Willans, bought his wife’s engagement ring with poker winnings.
4. The Beatles used the word “love” 613 times throughout their career.
5. These websites exist.
6. Every year, millions of trees grow thanks to squirrels forgetting where they buried their nuts.
7. On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. had a pillow-fight in his motel room.

8. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of star dust.
9. Cancer death rates are down 20% in past 20 years.
10. The miles travelled by the Apollo 11 crew to the moon were greater than every single exploration mission to the New World combined.
11. Penguins only have one mate their entire life and “propose” by giving their mate a pebble.
12. There’s an animal called a Dik Dik. And it’s the cutest antelope you’ll ever see.
13. Despite high infant mortality rates and lower life expectancies, not one of your direct ancestors died childless.
14. Cuddling releases Oxytocin which helps speed healing and recovery from physical wounds.
15. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other.
16. Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
17. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever.
18. Wayne Allwine (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Russi Taylor (the voice of Minnie Mouse) were married in real life.
19. We now have less crime, a lower death rate and longer life expectancy than at any other time in human history.
20. The clitoris has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis, and is the only organ in the body, which has evolved purely for pleasure.
21. Butterflies can taste with their feet.
22. For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the most amazing day of their life.
23. When you die, your body decomposes, and the atoms that contained “you” are recycled into Earth to be used again.
24. Every year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World War.
25. Rats giggle when you tickle them. Their voices are so high-pitched you need special equipment to hear them, but when you do, their laughs are immediately evident.
26. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and travel together by holding on to each others tails.
27. The guy at the end of this video was born.
28. If you say “my cocaine” you sound like Michael Caine saying his own name.
29. Male puppies, when playing with female puppies, will intentionally let the female win.
30. The next Star Wars will not be directed by George Lucas.

31. It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.
32.The kingdom of Bhutan use ‘gross national happiness’ as a key national indicator.
33. The majority of European children born in 2013 will live to see the year 2100.
34. Cows have best friends.
35. Neurologically speaking, seeing somebody else smile actually makes you happier.
36. Every human being spent about half an hour as a single cell.
37. There are people, ombrophiles, who have a passionate love for rain.
38. Once your brain realizes that you’re dying, it releases DMT, one of the most powerful known psychedelics. This dilates your perception of time and allowing you to live inside your own mind for hours or even days.
39. No matter how long you live there will always be an amazing new food for you try.
40. A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
41. Aside from a sample in a lab, Smallpox is completely extinct. No one else will ever die from it again.
42. A pig’s orgasms last thirty minutes.
43. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
44. Sloths only leave their tree once a week, to pee and poo.
45. Spinner dolphins sleep in pairs, one with the left hemisphere asleep, the other with the right. They each keep watch with one eye and half a brain. They are known to sleep-mate for life.
46. At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
47. Cows produce the most milk when listening to the song Everybody Hurts by REM.
48. Somewhere, someone is losing their virginity right now.
49. If you spell out numbers in order, the first time you get to the letter “a” is at one-thousand.
50. We’ve all been here forever. Every bit of matter we see has been here since the beginning of time and it always will be.
51. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
52. Happiness is a skill. You can learn it and it’s not hard.
53. Except when breeding, the Common Swift spend their entire lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in flight. They drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing
54. Baby rabbits are called kittens.
55. Baby puffins are called pufflings.
56. Costa Rica is statistically the happiest nation on Earth.
57. Worms communicate by snuggling.
58. 2013 is the first year since 1987 that consists for four different digits.
59. With our horseless carriages, flying robots, space travel, long-distance communication at the speed of light, cloning, lasers, connection to people all over the world, we are living in the future people dreamed of.
60. If you blend a sea sponge, it will re-form back into a sea sponge.

Mwenyekiti wa Kamati ya Bunge ya Hesabu za Serikali (PAC), Zitto Kabwe akifafanua jambo mbele ya ujumbe kutoka Wizara ya Uchukuzi pamoja na Mamlaka ya Bandari jana. Katikati ni Makamu Mwenyekiti wa PAC, Deo Filikunjombe. 

Dar es Salaam. Kamati ya Kudumu ya Bunge ya Hesabu za Serikali (PAC), imeitaka menejimenti ya Mamlaka ya Bandari Tanzania (TPA) kurejesha nyongeza ya fedha zote za malipo ya safari ilizowalipa watendaji wake tangu mwaka 2011, baada ya kubainika kuwa zililipwa bila kuidhinishwa na Msajili wa Hazina.

Ukaguzi maalumu uliofanywa katika mamlaka hiyo na Mdhibiti na Mkaguzi Mkuu wa Hesabu za Serikali (CAG) mwaka 2011/12, unaonyesha kuwa TPA iliomba nyongeza ya malipo ya safari lakini kabla ya kupewa kibali na Msajili wa Hazina, ilianza kuwalipa watendaji wake nyongeza hiyo.

Msajili wa Hazina ametoa kibali cha nyongeza ya malipo hayo ya safari Januari 2, mwaka huu na kwa takriban miaka minne mamlaka hiyo imefanya malipo bila kupewa kibali na Serikali.

Mwenyekiti wa Kamati ya PAC, Zitto Kabwe alisema malipo ya safari kwa wafanyakazi wa ngazi za chini wa mamlaka hiyo kwa siku, awali ilikuwa Sh94,000 na sasa ni Sh123,000 na watendaji wa juu awali ilikuwa Sh270,000 na sasa ni Sh500,000.

Alisema malipo kwa safari za nje watendaji wa ngazi za chini kwa siku, awali walikuwa wakilipwa Dola 296 za Marekani na wa ngazi za juu Dola 600 na kwa sasa wanalipwa Dola 800.

“Tunataka mrejeshe fedha hizi tangu mlipoanza kuzilipa mwaka 2011 maana mlifanya makosa kwani mmelipa bila kupewa idhini na Msajili wa Hazina,” alisema Zitto na kuongeza: “Wote ambao mmewalipa mnatakiwa kuwakata katika mishahara yao.”

Kamati hiyo ilikutana jana na TPA katika ofisi ndogo za Bunge, Dar es Salaam kujadili hesabu za mamlaka hiyo kwa mwaka 2011/12.

Akijibu suala hilo, Kaimu Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa TPA, Madeni Kipande alisema kati ya waliolipwa, wapo waliostaafu, kuacha kazi na kufariki dunia, huku akisisitiza kuwa ukusanyaji wa fedha hizo utakuwa mgumu kwa watu hao.

Hata hivyo, Zitto alijibu: “Hayo mtayaeleza katika taarifa yenu mtakayotuletea kuhusu urejeshaji wa fedha hizo.”

Katika hatua nyingine, kamati hiyo iliibana TPA kutokana na kutokuwa na nyaraka za uthibitisho wa matumizi ya fedha kutokana na kutokuwa na mfumo wa kisasa wa kutunza kumbukumbu na kuitaka kuwasilisha taarifa hizo haraka.

“Ripoti inaonyesha kuwa mmetumia Sh6.4 bilioni kwa ajili ya matangazo, tuliwabana na mmetuletea uthibitisho ila kuna Sh384 milioni matumizi yake hayaonekani,” alisema mjumbe wa kamati hiyo, Abdul Marombwa.

Awali, mamlaka hiyo ilieleza kuwa imetumia Sh9.6 bilioni kwa ajili ya mikutano na kushindwa kuonyesha mchanganuo wa matumizi na baada ya kubanwa ilitoa nyaraka huku zikiwa na pungufu ya Sh686 milioni.

Na Fidelis Butahe, Mwananchi

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• 805 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number is down more than 100 million over the last decade, and 209 million lower than in 1990–92. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• One in every nine people on our planet go to bed hungry each night. FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• The vast majority of hungry people (791 million) live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is chronically undernourished. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than one in four people remain chronically undernourished, while Asia, the world’s most populous region, is also home to the majority of the hungry – 526 million people. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• Price and income swings can significantly affect the poor and hungry. When prices rise, consumers often shift to cheaper, less-nutritious foods, heightening the risks of micronutrient deficiencies and other forms of malnutrition, which can have long-term adverse effects on people’s health, development and productivity. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
• Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. Source: The Lancet, Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2013
  
• One out of six children — roughly 101 million — in developing countries is underweight. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
  
• One in four of the world’s children are stunted — an indicator of chronic malnutrition and calculated by comparing the height-for-age of a child with a reference population of well nourished and healthy children. In developing countries the proportion rises to one in three. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
  
• 80 percent of the world’s stunted children live in just 14 countries. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
  
• 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone. Source: WFP, Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals 2012
  
• In 2012, there were 57.2 million primary school-aged children not attending school. Of that total, 30.6 million were female. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2014
  
• One study showed that women’s education contributed 43% of the reduction in child malnutrition over time, while food availability accounted for 26%. Source: FAO, Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development
  
• The first 1,000 days of a child’s life, from pregnancy through age two, are critical. A proper diet in this period can protect children from the mental and physical stunting that can result from malnutrition. Source: UN Inter‑agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, Levels & Trends in Child Mortality Report 2011
  
• Malnourished mothers are more likely to give birth to underweight babies. Underweight babies are 20 percent more likely to die before the age of five. Source: UNICEF, Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children
  
• Around half of all pregnant women in developing countries are anemic. This causes approximately 110,000 deaths during childbirth each year. Source: FAO (citing Smith and Haddad), The Female Face of Farming

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Mtangazaji wa Brazilian TV,  Andressa Urach, na mshindi wa mashindano ya Brazil's Miss BumBum akiwa Hosipitali akipatiwa matibabu.

  Mtangazaji huyo alikaa hospitali kwa muda wa mwezi mmoja chini ya uangalizi wa madaktali.

  Mtangazaji huyo mwenye umri wa miaka 27 akionyesha sehemu aliyoathirika na operesheni hiyo

Mshindi wa mashindano ya urembo ya Brazil Miss BumBum amebainisha madhara aliopata baada ya kufanyiwa upasuaji wa plastiki kwnye mwili wake ili kumuongeza makalio pamoja na mapaja.

Andressa Urach, mwenye umri wa miaka 27, alitumia mwezi kupata huduma ya matibabu na madaktari wamedai kuwa waliogopa angeweza kupoteza mguu wake baada ya vidonda vilivyotoka mapajani mwake kuanza kuoza pamoja na misuli yake ilibidi kuondolewa.

Picha hizi zinaonyesha kiasi kikubwa cha madhara aliyopata mtangazaji huyo wa Brazil,
Miss Urach, ambaye.alifanya upasuaji huo kwaajiri ya maekebisho ya uso wake kupunguza taya, na kifua, pamoja na uke kupungua mdomo.
Habari zimeripotiwa kuwa alichoma sindano ya filers mbili, hydrogel na PMMA, Lakini Julai alianza kulalamika kutokana na usumbufu na maumivu na alikuwa amechoma kiasi cha 400ml za hydrogel mchanga katika kila moja ya mapaja yake juu. 

Pamoja na kazi, aliendelea kuwa katika maumivu na Novemba alipelekwa Hospitali ya Conceição katika Porto Alegre baada ya kuanza kutoka vidonda katika mguu wake wa kushoto.

Damage: The sobering, graphic photos show gaping holes in Miss Urach's thighs, all in the name of beauty

 As Miss Urach lay in hospital, her mother Marisete De Favari asked her 220,000 Twitter followers to pray

 The model wrote on December 26: 'My loves, thank you for the affection and chains of prayers'

 Slow going: The recovery from sepsis acts as a warning to the millions of Brazilians having plastic surgery

Pain: Miss Urach when her legs began hurting last year 

• 805 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number is down more than 100 million over the last decade, and 209 million lower than in 1990–92. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
  
  
• One in every nine people on our planet go to bed hungry each night.FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• The vast majority of hungry people (791 million) live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is chronically undernourished. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than one in four people remain chronically undernourished, while Asia, the world’s most populous region, is also home to the majority of the hungry – 526 million people. Source: FAO,The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• Price and income swings can significantly affect the poor and hungry. When prices rise, consumers often shift to cheaper, less-nutritious foods, heightening the risks of micronutrient deficiencies and other forms of malnutrition, which can have long-term adverse effects on people’s health, development and productivity. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. Source: The Lancet, Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2013
• One out of six children — roughly 101 million — in developing countries is underweight. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
• One in four of the world’s children are stunted — an indicator of chronic malnutrition and calculated by comparing the height-for-age of a child with a reference population of well nourished and healthy children. In developing countries the proportion rises to one in three. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
• 80 percent of the world’s stunted children live in just 14 countries.Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
• 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone. Source: WFP, Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals 2012
• In 2012, there were 57.2 million primary school-aged children not attending school. Of that total, 30.6 million were female. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2014
• One study showed that women’s education contributed 43% of the reduction in child malnutrition over time, while food availability accounted for 26%. Source: FAO, Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development
• The first 1,000 days of a child’s life, from pregnancy through age two, are critical. A proper diet in this period can protect children from the mental and physical stunting that can result from malnutrition. Source: UN Inter‑agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, Levels & Trends in Child Mortality Report 2011
• Malnourished mothers are more likely to give birth to underweight babies. Underweight babies are 20 percent more likely to die before the age of five. Source: UNICEF, Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children
• Around half of all pregnant women in developing countries are anemic. This causes approximately 110,000 deaths during childbirth each year.Source: FAO (citing Smith and Haddad), The Female Face of Farming

• 805 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number is down more than 100 million over the last decade, and 209 million lower than in 1990–92. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
  
  
  
• One in every nine people on our planet go to bed hungry each night.FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• The vast majority of hungry people (791 million) live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is chronically undernourished. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than one in four people remain chronically undernourished, while Asia, the world’s most populous region, is also home to the majority of the hungry – 526 million people. Source: FAO,The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• Price and income swings can significantly affect the poor and hungry. When prices rise, consumers often shift to cheaper, less-nutritious foods, heightening the risks of micronutrient deficiencies and other forms of malnutrition, which can have long-term adverse effects on people’s health, development and productivity. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
• Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. Source: The Lancet, Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2013
• One out of six children — roughly 101 million — in developing countries is underweight. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
• One in four of the world’s children are stunted — an indicator of chronic malnutrition and calculated by comparing the height-for-age of a child with a reference population of well nourished and healthy children. In developing countries the proportion rises to one in three. Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
• 80 percent of the world’s stunted children live in just 14 countries.Source: UNICEF, Improving Child Nutrition, 2013
• 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone. Source: WFP, Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals 2012
• In 2012, there were 57.2 million primary school-aged children not attending school. Of that total, 30.6 million were female. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2014
• One study showed that women’s education contributed 43% of the reduction in child malnutrition over time, while food availability accounted for 26%. Source: FAO, Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development
• The first 1,000 days of a child’s life, from pregnancy through age two, are critical. A proper diet in this period can protect children from the mental and physical stunting that can result from malnutrition. Source: UN Inter‑agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, Levels & Trends in Child Mortality Report 2011
• Malnourished mothers are more likely to give birth to underweight babies. Underweight babies are 20 percent more likely to die before the age of five. Source: UNICEF, Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children
• Around half of all pregnant women in developing countries are anemic. This causes approximately 110,000 deaths during childbirth each year.Source: FAO (citing Smith and Haddad), The Female Face of Farming

Watu wenye silaha nchini Somalia wamempiga risasi na kumuua mwanamke mmoja Muislam kwa kukataa kuvaa hijab, wamesema ndugu zake.
Ruqiya Farah Yarow aliuawa nje ya nyumba yake karibu na mji wa Hosingow, na watu wenye silaha kutoka al-Shabab, wamesema ndugu wa mwanamke huyo.
Watu hao walimtaka avae hijab, wakaondoka, na waliporudi na kukuta hajafanya hivyo wakamuua, wameongeza kusema ndugu hao.

Hata hivyo msemaji wa al-Shabab amekanusha kuhusika na mauaji hayo.
Al-Shabab haidhibiti eneo hilo kikamilifu amesema.
Alipigwa risasi mara mbili na kufa papo hapo. Ameacha mume na watoto. Mwandishi wa BBC anasema kutokana na al-Shabab kukanusha kuhusika na mauaji hayo inaonesha kuna kundi ndani ya kundi hilo waliotekeleza mauaji hayo.
Amesema inawezekana pia al-Shabab wanajiweka mbali na tukio hilo kwa kuwa huenda likaleta ghadhabu kutoka kwa wananchi.