Welcome to the Anatomy of a Goal, where each week we dissect one goal (or near goal) from Columbus Crew SCs previous match.

For match 14 of the 2017 MLS Season, we take a look at Toronto FC midfielder Justin Morrows 39th minute goal that put Toronto up 2-0 as part of the 5-0 win over Crew SC on Friday.

Heres a look at the finish from the Toronto FC midfielder.

It was hard to pick just one of Torontos five goals to break down, but Morrows goal is indicative of Torontos successful strategy in this match. When Columbus pushed up the field, Toronto looked to counter quickly, often playing a long pass into the Crew SC defense, looking to build off of a turnover or a win of possession by TFC.

During the first half, Crew SC lined up in what the official lineup called a 4-4-2, with Wil Trapp and Federico Higuain playing together in the midfield. This 4-4-2 sacrificed a defensive midfielder for an attacker, and left Trapp with much more ground to cover. As the lone defensive midfielder, Trapp was often the only player in the middle of the field, leaving acres of space for Toronto runners and creating chaos for the Crew SC defense.

Morrows goal begins with this Kekuta Manneh clearance. Manneh, lined up at forward, stuck to the left side of the field for much of the match. Here, Manneh has tracked back on defense, and seeing no other options, clears the ball up the field.

TFC center-back Eriq Zavaleta, pressured by Ola Kamara, heads the ball forward into the path of Michael Bradley.

Bradley immediately plays a risky pass back to Zavaleta, who is directed to clear the ball by fellow center-back Drew Moor. Notice here that Crew SC has 4 players in Toronto FCs defensive half. Wil Trapps midfield partner, Federico Higuain, provides the most pressure to Zavaletas clearance. By providing this pressure, Higuain leaves Trapp alone to cover much of the midfield.

Once Zavaleta clears the ball forward, Toronto immediately has a numerical advantage over Crew SC. Wil Trapp, highlighted near midfield, is almost totally alone in the midfield, because Higuain was pressuring the TFC center-backs. Jonathan Mensah is back the furthest on defense. Nicolai Naess is marking TFC striker Ben Spencer, while Harrison Afful doesnt seem to realize that Justin Morrow is totally unmarked right behind him.

As Waylon Francis receives the ball, he has two options: get the ball to Trapp, alone in the middle of the field, or send the ball up the sideline/out of bounds.

Francis opts to send the ball toward Trapp, but note the way the he heads the ball. Francis heads the ball with his momentum going away from the ball. Because his momentum is away from the ball, Francis slows the ball down, sending an incredibly weak and slow pass toward Trapp, who has to speed up to receive the ball.

Ben Spencer notices the weak pass, and immediately heads toward the ball.

Trapp and Spencer are in a footrace to the ball while the Crew SC defense drops into shape. Notice that Harrison Afful, just above the highlighted Ben Spender, is still unaware of Justin Morrow.

Trapp appears to be on track to win the ball, but has Ben Spencer bearing down on him. To make a successful pass, Trap would have to immediately play a first touch pass to one of the three Crew SC players near him: Nico Naess, Jonathan Mensah, or Waylon Francis.

However, as the above video shows, the ball takes a high bounce right before it gets to Trapp, and the Crew SC midfielder is unable to play a first touch pass. Forced to take an awkward touch on the ball, Trapp is dispossessed by the much larger Ben Spencer. Trapp is listed at 58 and Spencer is listed at 65 and Spencer easily knocks Trapp off the ball to spring the Toronto attack.

Having just dispossessed Trapp, Spencer has two options. Because Naess has shifted to cover him, Spencer will have to make a pass: a slotted ball to Tosaint Ricketts, who would be marked by Jonathan Mensah, or an easy pass to Justin Morrow, who is running at pace and will be just ahead of Harrison Afful. To Affuls credit, he finally noticed Morrow sprinting behind him, but will start his run too late to catch the TFC midfielder.

With Afful having pushed high up the field, notice now much space is open on the Crew SC defensive right flank.

Spencer opts to push the ball to the onrushing Morrow, who has already pushed ahead of Harrison Afful. As has happened a few times this year, Afful is forced to catch up with a midfielder who has built up pace while Afful was pushed up the field. This isnt necessarily Affuls fault, but the Crew SC right back, and the Crew SC managerial staff, have to realize that teams have punished Afful being pushed too far upfield multiple times this season. When Afful pushes that far up field, he does not have the luxury of being able to mentally switch off, and must be aware of his surroundings at all times. Afful was absolutely switched off until he noticed Morrow streaking over his left shoulder.

As Morrow approaches the ball, Afful catches up to him. If Afful can get in front of Morrow, he can force the TFC midfielder to take a difficult shot or make a cross to one of the, well-defended, TFC players in the box.

As Morrow prepares to shoot or pass, notice the Crew SC defense. For some reason, Naess has totally abandoned Ben Spencer, the tallest player on the field, who is now making an undefended run into the box. Naess may be attempting to get in front of Morrow, but the TFC midfielder already has a difficult angle on goal. Naess should have stayed with Spencer in an attempt to prevent TFCs tall striker from being open for a chipped cross.

But, Naesss leaving Spencer doesnt matter. Morrow fires a left-footed rocket at the near post. Afful has recovered, and does a good job to cut off Morrows crossing angles, forcing that shot from a tough angle. Afful should expect his goal keeper to have the near post covered from that angle.

However, Zack Steffen is caught flat-footed and is beaten to his near post by Morrows shot. Morrows shot here is excellent and perfectly placed, but Steffen cannot afford to be beaten to his near post from that angle.

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Anatomy of a Goal: Morrow Makes it 2 - Massive Report

By Tony Rice

As summer unofficially begins this weekend (summer officially begins here in the northern hemisphere at the solstice, June 21) weve already begun seeing the staple of summer weather in our area: isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening.

As those storms pass, we are often treated to rainbows.

That is just what happened Thursday evening when a series of small storms passed through the area.

Occasional sprinkles didn't impede preparations for Apex High School's year-ending pops concert at Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary. Showtime was a different story. The combined choirs were barely into the opening song when a small but heavy storm put the show on pause.

Fifteen minutes later, the crowd was rewarded with one of the most brilliant rainbows Ive seen.

You probably know that rainbows are produced by sunlight passing through a raindrop. The light is bent or refracted because the denser water causes the light to travel more slowly. That light, now separated into its component wavelengths (colors), is reflected off the back of the raindrop and back out producing a colorful arc across the sky.

Rainbows are actually circles, centered on a point directly opposite the sun. We see just the portion of that circle above the horizon though. Rainbows most often appear in the early morning and late afternoon. The lower the sun, the more rainbow we see. Look closely and you'll sometimes find much more though.

The large raindrops of that storm and quickly clearing western skies produced an intense rainbow with narrow, well-defined bands of color. Small raindrops produce wider bands of color which overlap recombining those colors to appear more white.

Sometimes a broader, fainter bow appears above the primary bow. This happens as light is reflected once more inside the raindrop. That additional reflection reverses the color order in the secondary bow. Secondary bows are 1.8 times as wide as the primary and less than half the brightness.

Faintly visible just below the primary bow is a supernumerary arc. These alternate pink and green and are the result of interference of light as it exits the water drop.

Light is also reflecting off raindrops. This causes a noticeable brightening of the sky inside the primary bow. Similarly, a noticeable darkening of the sky between the primary and secondary bows is caused as light is reflected away from our eyes. This area is known as Alexanders Dark Band, named for Alexander of Aphrodisias, who first described the phenomenon in AD 200.

Several in the crowd insisted they saw a third dim bow above the secondary bow. They did not. They were looking in the wrong place. In 250 years, only five scientific reports of tertiary rainbows are known to exist.

While each bow is created through the same refractive and reflective process inside raindrops, third (tertiary) and even fourth (quaternary) bows are extremely rare. These form around the sun, not opposite the sun as primary and secondary rainbows do. These higher order rainbows are usually are hidden by the suns glare, conditions have to be just right to see them.

Raymond Lee, a professor of meteorology at the U.S. Naval Academy, and optics expert Philip Laven described the conditions needed to create higher order rainbows in their paper published in Applied Optics in 2011. The sun breaking through dark thunderclouds following a heavy downpour of nearly uniform sized raindrops is required.

The evening of music was topped off when, as if on cue, the International Space Station rose directly behind the stage and over the crowd during the combined orchestra and chorus finale.

Tony Rice is a volunteer in the NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador program and software engineer at Cisco Systems. You can follow him on Twitter @rtphokie.

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Science in the sky: Anatomy of a rainbow - WRAL.com

One up-and-coming mesh network provider has cut metal, produced simulations and conducted dozens of hours of flight tests before going public with a system that could allow airliners to daisy-chain broadband data across the sky. The other went public from the start, forged plenty of deals and watched its penny stock climb from $0.25 to higher than $4.00 per share. Its first demonstration flight was scheduled for the first quarter of this year but is now delayed until the fourth ...

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Greys Anatomy fans can rejoice. Season 13 of the show will be on Netflix US very soon. It will come later to the rest of the world, where the show is currently available. The June release on Netflix is due to a licensing agreement with the United States version of the streaming service and #ABC.

Greys Anatomy season 13 will be available on June 17. This is exactly 30 days after the air date of the season 13 finale. ABC and Netflix US have had an agreement for the last few days for the full season to be made available for streaming 30 days after the finale. Most fans have been expecting this release since knowing the date of the finale, but Netflix has only just confirmed this news.

The same day will see the release of another Shonda Rhimes drama. Scandal season 6 will be made available in full on the US version of the streaming service. How to Get Away with Murder season 3 has been available on the streaming service since March 23, 2017.

For the rest of the world, the exact date is unknown. It is highly likely that most countries will get Greys Anatomy season 13 around the middle of September, just before season 14 starts on the network.

There are a few other notable mentions for Netflix in June. The CW also has an agreement with the streaming service. Eight days after season finales, the full season of all shows will be available. For June that means Arrow season 5 and The 100 season 4 will be available in full on the first of the month and Reign season 4 will be available on June 24.

The Flash and Supergirl will be available at the end of this month. Supernatural is already availablereleased in full just yesterday. Riverdale is also already available on the streaming service, with The Originals, and iZombie coming towards the start of July.

ABC also has an agreement with other shows. Quantico and Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D will be available on June 14 and June 15 respectively. Shooter season 1 and Baby Daddy season 6 are also coming to Netflix this month.

Of course, fans also want to know when new episodes will be released. There is currently no confirmed date for the release of Greys Anatomy season 14. However, fans can realistically expect towards the end of September 2017. September is usually when new episodes are released on ABC. The show will keep its Thursday night 8 p.m. slot for the fall 2017 schedule. #Grey Anatomy #Grey's Anatomy

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By Douglas Anele

Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the dominant political parties that emerged in Nigeria before independence and played prominent roles in defining the direction of her future political evolution were largely regional parties. For instance, in northern Nigeria, the political landscape was dominated by the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC), whose catchphrase One North, One People, accurately encapsulates its core agenda.

It was unabashedly a political organisation specifically set up to cater for the concerns of northern region alone, particularly the interests of the domineering feudalist conservative elite, to the extent that it refused to present candidates for elections in the south. Interestingly, NPC leaders were surprised that its gesture of separateness was not reciprocated by political parties in the south.

Consequently, they strongly resisted efforts by parties in southern Nigeria to field candidates in the north, which Balewa saw as appropriate to response to the invasion of northern region by southerners, and considered southern politicians campaigning in northern Nigeria an unwelcome challenge to norths territorial sovereignty. Action Group (AG) was the major party in western Nigeria, whereas the first truly national political party was the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), although it eventually mutated into a regional party called the National Council of Nigerian Citizens dominated by the Igbo.

Given this tripartite regional political configuration, two scenarios were inevitable. One, although the NPC was dominant because of British preferential treatment and the norths huge land mass compared to the other two regions in the south, none of the parties could govern Nigeria without forming a coalition with at least one other party. Two, because the three main parties were established along ethnic lines (except for NCNC which in its earlier stages was truly nationalistic in outlook) ethnic rivalries and mutual suspicion created a fertile soil for inter-ethnic conflicts.

The first indication that post-independent Nigeria would be problematic was in 1953 when, through Anthony Enahoro, the AG and NCNC tabled a motion in the federal House of Representatives calling for Nigerias independence in 1956. But the NPC led by Ahmadu Bello, for whom independence on that date was an invitation [for the north] to commit suicide, objected, claiming, correctly, that the north did not have adequate administrative machinery and educated personnel to run a modern democratic government independently of Britain.

That was why, when northerners who were majority in the House diluted Enahoros motion by recommending that independence should be attained when it is practicable to do so, they were heckled and jeered at by crowds in Lagos for foot-dragging on the independence issue. Some key members of the northern establishment and a broad section of northerners neither forgot nor forgave the south for that embarrassment.

Most Nigerians do not know that Britain had already made up her mind to hand over power to northerners by October 1, 1960, thereby laying the foundation for caliphate colonialism, despite the huge educational gap between the north and the south, the economic dependence of the former on the latter, and reluctance of prominent northern leaders to key into the quest for self governance.

That was why the British colonial office abruptly brought Sir James Robertson from Sudan as the last expatriate governor-general of Nigeria to conduct the 1959 elections, which he manipulated to favour the NPC. Ordinarily, in the interest of merit, fairness and justice, Sir Robertson and his cohorts ought to have worked hard to ensure that the first set of leaders for indepemdent Nigeria emerged from a free and fair election.

Of course, that is wishful thinking: the colonial master was not interested in transferring power to the most competent Nigerians or in building a strong and viable black nation that would eventually explode the white supremacist myth that black peoples are incapable of managing their own affairs without the guidance of whitemen. Besides, northerners preferred British rule to what they imagined as the dangers of being dominated by the south. Their leader, Sir Ahmadu Bello, expressed this fear: A sudden grouping of the eastern and western parties (with a few members from the north opposed to our party) might take power and so endanger the north.

Thus, aside from wanting to reward the north for its pro-British stance, Britain rigged Nigerias independence elections so that its compliant friends in the north, such as Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa, would win power, dominate the country and serve British interests after independence. This is in line with the psychology of oppressors and colonilalists identified by the psychiatrist and political political philosopher, Frantz Fanon, who posits that colonial masters invariably prefer stooges as their successors, those who would depend on them and who they can easily manipulate.

Chinweizu reports that Sir Robertson named Balewa as Prime Minister in 1957 inspite of the fact that the NPC controlled only one region and a third of the ministers in the federal executive council whereas the NCNC members were dominant in the east and west and had two-thirds of the ministers at the federal level. There is a personal angle to this brazen unfairness as well: the British Man Friday confessed that he became very close to Sir Tafawa Balewa to the extent that they could discuss virtually everything, including Balewas difficulties with noisy southerners who seemed to take all their squabbles and troubles to him.

As I pointed out earlier, Sir James Robertson was seconded to Nigeria from Sudan, a country dominated by muslims. Therefore, since like old soldiers old habits die hard, he was more comfortable handing over power to a muslim school teacher who the western world had hyperbolically and cynically propped up as a great statesman rather than to Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, leader of the NCNC and a brilliant political philosopher with a doctorate degree from Lincoln University, United States.

At independence, the incendiary plan of British colonial administrators was successful. Sir Balewa became Prime Minister while Sir Ahmadu Bello decided to remain Premier of northern Nigeria. Aside from Britains complicity in the process of northern entrenchment at the centre, two critical observations must be made at this point. First, before independence most prominent northern politicians preferred the north to the entire country, and they did not change their obsessive fixation with the region even after independence.

Sir Ahmadu Bellos arrogant and insensitive remark that I would rather be called Sultan of Sokoto than President of Nigeria sums up the attitude of key members of the northern ruling elite to the idea of a united Nigeria as a sovereign geopolitical entity. Therefore, when Nigerian leaders from the north claim that Nigerias unity is not negotiable, as if notherners are more patriotic than their southern compatriots, they must be reminded that Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa and most of the prominent northerners assassinated in the first military coup of January 15, 1966, and whose deaths were avenged by northern soldiers and civilians who murdered and maimed tens of thousands of Ndigbo, including many senior Igbo military officers, never really believed in or worked for Nigerian unity.

Instead, they used threats of separation and violence to armtwist wily British colonial administrators and squabbling disunited southern politicians to get concessions favourable to the conservative ruling elements in the north. The change from threats of secession by Ahmadu Bello and his cohorts to morbid obsession with Nigerian unity by successive northern military dicatators and prominent politicians was motivated by the ideology of caliphate colonialism set forth shortly after independence by Sir Ahmadu Bello himself: The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use minorities of the north as willing tools and the south as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their own future.

In other words, Sir Ahmadu Bello proposed that external colonisation by Britain should be replaced after independence with internal caliphate colonialism by muslim northerners so that Nigeria would remain perpetually the inheritance of the arch jihadist, Uthman Dan Fodio. In my opinion, no single pronouncement by any Nigerian explains better the fixation of the dominant faction of the northern ruling power bloc to our feudalistic federalism and irrational quest for political power at the centre.

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The anatomy of caliphate colonialism (2) - Vanguard

Was it a shove? Or more of a brush or jostle. Or perhaps just a friendly slap on the arm, a casual guy-greeting.

In fact, shove was probably the most common word used to describe the fleeting, at best awkward interaction between Trump, the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth, and Dusko Markovic, the leader of Montenegro, a small Balkan nation of 600,000 attending its first summit as a NATO member after a nine-year accession process.

It occurred as NATO leaders strolled toward a group photo in Brussels.

According to the Merriam-Webster definition, shove is on target: to push along or to push or put in a rough, careless, or hasty manner.

Lets break it down.

A slow-motion viewing of the video indicates no words spoken by Trump as he approaches the group from behind. No Excuse me or Pardon me.

Trump reaches out his right arm, grabs Markovics right shoulder and pushes him aside. Markovic looks surprised. Trump doesnt acknowledge his existence as he moves past him. Its as if Markovic isnt there.

Markovic abruptly looks back at Trump but gets no eye contact from Trump in return.

Then he pats Trump on the back, or perhaps the arm, displaying a slight grin as Trump, at the front of the group, stands tall and adjusts his suit coat. Trump begins conversing with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite as Markovic looks on from behind.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer later told reporters that spots for the family photo for which the leaders were preparing were predetermined, as is usually the case implying that Trump was not trying to get a better position, The Washington Post reported, but rather that he was heading for the position reserved for him.

But of course, where Trump was headed was not the issue. It was the way he got there.

Markovic, afterward, responded to questions by shrugging it off.

This was an inoffensive situation, Markovic said. I do not see it in any other way.

He said he had the opportunity Thursday to thank Trump personally for his support of Montenegros entry into NATO and of course the further development of our bilateral relations.

But, when journalists are differently commenting this scene, the prime minister said. I want to tell you that it is natural for the president of the United States to be in the first row.

Montenegrin news websites were brimming with articles describing how this minor exchange captured the attention of many major U.S. and European news outlets.

Some Montenegrin news outlets included headlines quoting author J.K. Rowling, who tweeted the video, saying You tiny, tiny, tiny little man along with a retweeted video depicting Trump as a small man.

Montenegrin radio station Antena M included a photo of Trump above the story with the words Days without being a national embarrassment: 0. (Thats the numeral zero.)

It seems Donald Trump did not want anyone overshadowing his presence at the summit, said the Montenegro newspaper Vijesti

Other Balkan websites ran headlines such as America First and Where do you think you are going?

As expected, the Trump shove captured the late-night shows.

The President Show on Comedy Central depicted an exaggerated scene, replacing the Montenegro prime minister with the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg.

Excuse me, excuse me, get out of my way, the shows Trump says to the secretary general, pushing him aside as they walk into a press briefing. America first. America first.

Seth Meyers, host of Late Night With Seth Meyers, also riffed on the exchange, saying Look at this guy. Wow.

Youre a world leader at a meeting of dignitaries and you act like they just called your number at KFC, Meyers said.

Me, thats mine, the 12 piece, Meyers said, mimicking someone pushing and shoving others out of the way.

I want to tell you that it is natural for the president of the United States to be in the first row

Others on social media also viewed the shove as an attempt by Trump to revel in the spotlight and assert his America first mentality.

It did not go unmentioned that Trump brushed aside the leader of a country that last month defied Russia and pro-Russian opposition by ratifying its membership in NATO a historic turn toward the West.

The Balkan country is joining the alliance as its 29th member; Thursday was its first summit. Only 18 years ago, NATO aircraft were bombing targets in Montenegro then part of Serbia in a campaign that forced troops out of Kosovo, as the Guardians Alec Luhn reported. The bombing remains a painful memory for many Montenegrins, and polls have shown the population evenly divided on NATO membership.

Many hope NATO membership will end the tumultuous east-west struggle in Montenegrin politics, Luhn wrote.

With that tense history in mind, some on social media did not take Trumps gesture as the kindest welcome to the alliances new member.

Trump shoved Prime Minister of Montenegro at NATO meeting to please Putin, once again, said one Twitter user.

Others presumed Trump was simply moving to his assigned spot, and that the uproar over the shove or push was just another media dig at Trump.

As Dan Calabrese wrote in the Canada Free Press: Look, I understand theres a frenzy out there now to alert on anything and everything Trump does and to characterize it as insane, out-of-control, evil and whatever else. But if you see this and think you see a shove, I dont know what to tell you.

On the other hand, whatever it was, President Trumps treatment of Montenegros prime minister was a sharp contrast to say, the little curtsy he performed for King Salman bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia.

With files from Travis Andrews

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Anatomy of an American shove: Breaking down the moment Trump pushed past Montenegro's leader - National Post

A 2011 report of The National Nutrition Survey revealed that women and children were not getting micronutrients including iron, folic acid, vitamin A and D in their daily diet. Fifty one per cent of pregnant women suffer from anaemia, 37% from iron deficiency, 46% are deficient in vitamin A, and 69% in vitamin D. The problem repeats itself in children under five, with 62% suffering from anaemia and 54% from vitamin A deficiency. Consequently, the deficiency of these micronutrients seriously affects childrens health, growth, mental development and learning abilities.

For children, micronutrient deficiencies increase the risk of death due to infectious disease, limit their ability to fight disease and contribute to impaired cognitive and physical development. Providing a child with nutritious food from birth has an important impact on their physical, mental and cognitive development. It is important that all growing children take recommended daily amounts of vitamins and minerals, sufficient to maintain good health, improve better learning abilities and mental development.

In a current scenario, the daily consumed food items are not purred and enriched with micronutrients, especially, open edible oil/ghee, wheat flour often loss the essential micronutrients during the processing, similar is the case with the broiler chickens eggs, chicken and beef meat. Common citizens cannot afford a balanced diet.

It is high time to address micronutrient malnutrition through food based approaches which are easily accessible to all. Food fortification is the safest and most cost-effective means of improving micronutrient malnutrition.

What is Food Fortification?

Food Fortification is adding vitamins and minerals to staple food to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in the body. Fortified foods provide a preventive rather than a therapeutic benefit.

Why Fortified Food?

We cannot get essential micronutrients from our body. The only source is external balanced and nutritious diet. Fortified food reduces micronutrient deficiencies among pregnant, lactating women, women of reproductive age, children and general population.

Many neighbouring countries have adopted wheat flour fortification as a strategy to tackle micronutrient malnutrition and developed fortification standards, mandatory legislation and regulations.

Micronutrients requirements for children

Research findings revealed, as children grow, they need an adequate amount of micronutrient. It is essential that children are provided with the fortified wheat flour and edible oil/ghee made meal for their healthy development.

Iron, folic acid, zinc, Vitamin A and Vitamin D deficiency affect the cognitive development of children which ultimately impacts on their ability to better perform at school. This is a principal factor behind Pakistans low educational performance and poor economic progress. Deficiencies in iron, folic acid, zinc and Vitamin B12 have also been associated with increased vulnerability to infectious diseases. It is essential, therefore, that children consume fortified food in order to ensure adequate intake of essential micronutrients including vitamins and minerals. Adequate nutrients supplied through fortified wheat flour and edible oil/ghee made meal should ideally form part of a balanced diet.

Benefits of fortified food

1. Reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality rates

2. Improve children's mental and physical growth and development.

3. Increase childrens IQ level

4. Reduce anaemia and iron deficiency in women and children

5. Fortified wheat flour and edible oil/ghee, being enriched with vitamins and minerals, provides stamina and the energy.

What needs to be done

1) Setting up fortifications legal and regulatory regimes: It is important formulating harmonized fortification standards, according to international standards and populations dietary requirements. Mandatory legislation on food fortification is important for setting up the legal framework around fortification.

2) Ownership and acceptability from wheat flour and edible oil/ghee milling industry is highly important. The business community can potentially contribute to improving the nutritional status of populations in Pakistan.

3) Public Private Partnership between government relevant departments and wheat flour and edible oil/ghee milling industry is required to jointly contribute to improving the nutritional status of populations

4) Waiving of sales and custom tax on the procurement of fortification equipment. Government of Pakistan has exempted tax on the procurement of premix/fortificant added into the staple food fortification.

Public awareness and demand generation

Recognizing the micronutrient malnutrition challenges in Pakistan, communication, marking is vital to increasing consumers awareness about the benefits of fortified food and generating demands.

Food fortification is new in Pakistan and it is the first time that Pakistan is going to fortify wheat flour and edible oil/ghee unless consumers are aware about the fortified food and demand is generated then production and supply of fortified food may be affected.

Therefore, it is important that wheat flour and edible oil/ghee milling industry to contributeI in mass public awareness through marketing communication and media campaign activities. The most effective means of increasing consumers awareness is point of sale marketing where dealers, wholesalers, retailers and traders associations can effectively contribute.

Sustainability

Sustainability of fortified wheat flour and edible oil/ghee can only be ensured if harmonized fortification standards are in linewith the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authoritys standards as well as mandatory law, rules and regulations and regulatory environment are placed.The acceptability and ownership from wheat flour and edible oil/ghee milling industry is the core element of producing fortified food in Pakistan.

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Grey's Anatomy Season 14 Is Shaping Up to Be Pretty Dramatic

Even though we only just witnessed the season 13 finale of Grey's Anatomy, it's never too soon to look ahead. In the wake of everything that has happened, it's clear there are plenty of planted seeds that will surely bloom once the show returns in the Fall. Granted, Stephanie will no longer be with us, but with a few new faces, a couple of new flames, and that trademark drama we've always loved, there's plenty to look forward to. There isn't much available information about the 14th season of Grey's, but we do have potential things figured out.

Owen's sister is alive! At the very end of the finale, Owen reconnects with his long-lost sibling, Megan. This could cause all kind of upheaval. It will certainly change Owen's entire life. Then there's Riggs, who was in love with Megan before she vanished. The timing is terrible: Meredith has just opened herself up romantically to Riggs, and now she risks losing him. Will Megan and Riggs be able to pick up where they left off?

There's also a chance Megan will join the ranks at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Once she recovers from the years of trauma, obviously. But if she does end up on the hospital staff, it'll be interesting to see what kind of ripple effect it has on everyone else.

And by "might" we mean "almost definitely." By the time the finale rolled around, the show had been dropping hints that Maggie and Jackson would pair up. Even in the last episode, April tells Maggie that she's pretty sure Jackson has feelings for her. The question is, will either of them act on it? Call us crazy, but we're still holding out hope for Japril.

Now that Minnick has been fired, there's a strong chance she's leaving Seattle. It seems like Arizona is about to have another wound to tend to unless, for some strange reason, Minnick sticks around. We'll admit, we didn't exactly love Minnick, but it was nice to see Arizona happy!

The storyline with Jo's husband has only heated more and more since we first found out. At the end of the season, Alex meets him in person but fails to follow through with any actual action. The thing is, the show wouldn't have put a face to the name unless we're going meet him again. We have a feeling he's going to be a major player in the episodes to come.

We caught a glimmer of love remaining between Owen and Amelia near the end of season 13 when they embrace and cry it out together in the elevator. Is there a chance Amelia is coming around? Could Owen's sister have softened his hard shell? It's absolutely possible.

ABC has already released the Fall TV lineup for 2017, and Grey's will continue to dominate the Thursday night spot. The show has almost always kicked off the season near the end of September, so we've just got four months to wait.

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On May 10th the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation issued a statement by its late founders fellow former Robben Islander, 86-year old Laloo Isu Chiba, that called on South Africans to join a 24-hour food strike in solidarity with the more than thousand Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike for improved prison conditions.

The prisoners demands include the right to higher education study, appropriate medical care, and an end to solitary confinement, imprisonment without trial and the denial of family visits.

As a prisoner on Robben Island for 18 years from 1964, and a detainee subsequently under South Africas 1985 State of Emergency, these demands have a painful echo for Isu and his own hunger strikes to improve prison conditions.

I am duty bound today to support the Palestinians who are in the same condition that we were in all those years ago, Isu says in the statement by the foundation. And he adds in conversation with me that he cannot but feel for political prisoners held fundamentally unjustly anywhere in the world.

I had the privilege of being detained with Isu for the length of the 1985/86 State of Emergency, and participated with him in two hunger strikes at Johannesburg Prison. The Palestinians hunger strike, and Isus solidarity with it, inevitably evokes our own experience of hunger strikes. These took place under the guidance of Isu and felt imbued as if with fatherly bequest by our leaders on the Island.

We had already been in detention for about four months when a well-known student leader was brought in.

Hunger strike! Hunger strike! he began shouting, literally within the very first hour of his detention, as the scores of us queued for some or other reason, perhaps for food, in a passageway in the bowels of the prison. Isu was visibly irritated.

This is not the way to behave, he muttered. Its ill-discipline.

Sure enough. A hunger strike, as Isu imparted, is a tool of struggle to be strategically deployed, requires proper preparation, and should not be undertaken on a whim with feigned militancy.

First, the need for consultation and mobilisation. The two full and a bit dormitory cells in which we were locked up, 23 hours a day, buzzed with intense small group discussions on the proposal to embark on a hunger strike, the demands it would be in support of, and the personal sacrifice it in turn would demand.

Our demands ranged from tables and chairs for eating, more time out of our cells and visitor rights, to our unconditional release, the withdrawal of troops from the townships, and the end of the State of Emergency.

Not a morsel of food was to be consumed during the strike. Only water was to be drunk, periodically a little at a time to ensure life-saving hydration, with one mug in the evening taken with a spoon of sugar. This was to offset, to a minimal extent at least, the expenditure of stored energy. Boy, did I look forward to that glass of sugar water at the end of every day! It tasted so good and sweet, and the prospect anchored each hungry day.

It was crucial to have virtually everyone on board. Eating by anyone would be exploited by the prison authorities and the security police to undermine the strike as a whole as sham. Of course, the frail, much older and very much younger among us were offered exemption from the strike. No one chose to be exempt. But the few Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) aligned activists detained with us refused as was their wont, to join with us as United Democratic Front (UDF) and African National Congress (ANC) aligned activists in any joint action. We were, however, more than sufficient in number and cohesion as a detainee population to go ahead with the hunger strikes.

Among the decisions was to determine and commit in advance to the period to go without food. Our first hunger strike, in November 1985, was for three days, and the second, in February 1986, for ten days. On neither occasion was this planned period of strike revealed to the authorities. They were to be left with the impression that it was open-ended and ongoing so as to apply maximum weight to its impact. We knew, again from the lessons of Robben Island shared with us by Isu, that to go beyond 10 days was to begin to do harm to our internal organs.

It is an irony that the hunger strike appeals to concern for the imprisoned by the very ones that harmfully imprison them. Considerations like the spotlight of the media and public backlash may motivate political concern, but the hunger strike is truly a Gandhian tactic of self-sacrifice to harm, to force the oppressors to confront their conscience and the brutalisation of their humanity.

The prison doctors in particular, who daily weighed us and tested our urine, openly expressed their concern for our health and exhorted us to end the strike. This even as the prison authorities put out statements saying we were falsely claiming to be on a hunger strike while in fact eating much like the tactics being employed by the Israeli state against the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti and his fellow hunger strikers. Food was still served daily and even left at the entrances of our cells to tempt.

The Gandhian motive of the hunger strike was most forcefully brought home to me in 1989 during the later open-ended hunger strike by detainees held under the following State of Emergency, which was declared in June 1986. Then hundreds of detainees across the country went on a hunger strike for up to 24 days before its end was negotiated with the Minister of Law and Order by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Reverend Allan Boesak. Many were hospitalised, facing risk to their lives.

I remember sitting at the time with the struggle lawyer Krish Naidoo at his offices near the Carlton Centre, and said to him: If they have any humanity, theyll respond to the demands of the detainees to be released.

Adriaan Vlok, the then Minister of Law and Order, indeed did begin to release detainees. This stirred in me the first hope that oppressor and oppressed, black and white, could find one another. When post-apartheid Vlok went about, in penance and atonement, to wash the feet of those who had been harmed by his incumbency and complicity in apartheid, it came as no surprise to me.

The dates for the start of our hunger strikes were projected weeks in advance and necessary planning and organisation was undertaken in the lead up. This included establishing channels of communication with comrades and solidarity organisations like the Detainees Parents Support Committee on the outside to organise solidarity support action and mobilise the press; drafting statements and memoranda and arranging for their smuggling out; building up and storing rations of sugar for that all important once daily drink; and most vitally, psyching up and preparing ourselves mentally.

The first of our hunger strikes, for three days, with no food whatsoever, morning, day and night, seemed a formidable undertaking for those of us for whom it was an absolute first. I recall an apprehension too about how the authorities would respond to our defiance, and total uncertainty about it as a whole new terrain of our relationship with them. But we were now doing something about our situation; about the hopeless, helpless, stifling conditions of imprisonment; feeling power and agency course through our bodies just as fat, muscle mass and strength left it.

Isu must have known that three days was a necessary first step, preparatory for a bigger, longer strike to come; and strategically an opening gambit that allowed for escalation.

The hardest part of the second hunger strike was the first three days. Thereafter we seemed to settle on some track of quiet, peaceful, ongoing gravitation, the feelings of hunger dissipating. Our bodies gave way to dramatic weight loss and ever more weakness. My body memory serves an image of movement like that of a chameleon.

In some way, I think of this state as a dangerous one, for when the 10th day of no food whatsoever came, we could easily just have gone on. This may be because ones stomach shrinks and hunger is not felt as acutely. Researchers say the body begins burning fat stores instead of glucose and this is accompanied by the cessation of hunger pains and feelings of well-being, even of euphoria.

Thankfully we began to win some of our immediate demands, including the delivery of steel tables and benches to the kitchen, and called off the hunger strike after the planned 10 days. Isu negotiated with the prison head to provide us with oats on the morning after, not something we had ever had in prison and which I was not particularly familiar with. To this day, I relish oats - and it always takes me back to that morning of its blessed offering.

At the time of writing the Palestinian political prisoners have gone without food for almost 40 days. A Palestinian media committee covering the hunger strike reports that many are in a critical health condition, which includes vomiting, loss of vision and fainting.

Isu is deeply concerned for the Palestinian political prisoners in the face of a stubborn Israeli government. He is outraged at the denial of basic rights to them in their suffered imprisonment, and hopes that a tragedy is averted. The Israelis seem to have expressed some favour for the Thatcher option, he says. Margaret Thatcher, then British Prime Minister, intransigently allowed the death by hunger strike of Bobby Sands and nine other Irish Republican Army prisoners in 1981.

The Palestinian political prisoners will either win some of their demands or expose the Israeli states brutalisation. For the hunger strike is an assertion of humanity, for humanity.

- Feizel Mamdoo is a filmmaker and heritage, arts and culture practitioner.

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Imagine you have an amazing office visit with Dr. Wunderbarwho offers the following:

Clearly, Dr. Wunderbar is wonderful.

Problem is there is no Dr. Wunderbar.

But there are plenty of drug websites that offer all this and more using the slickest of graphics, videos, and eye-catching statistics andwithout having to deal with that crowded waiting room, stodgydoctor, and ho-hum degrees on the wall.

Direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs was approved(New Zealand 1981, US 1997, and Brazil 2008 ) for the most part before the internet emerged as the most far-reachingmarketing tool of ourtime. After all, the internet isin our office, home, car, phone, andeven our wristwatch.

It has proven to be a target-rich venue for the pharmaceutical industry, and one they have capitalized on with techniques that are sometimes informative but can also be manipulative, misleading, and even potentially harmful.

Lets look at a few drug websites to see what sort of strategiesare commonly employed and how they can be hazardous to your health.

About a week ago I wrote a story about the only FDA-approved drug to treat a condition called pseudobulbar affect, or PBA. That drug is called Nuedexta and like so many new drugs that pharma companies are heavily invested in it has its own website: http://www.nuedexta.com.

The website is a virtual blueprint for the 5 marketing tools I see most commonly used to hook customers (pharma would likely counter they are 5 tools to educate). Here they are:

The primary goal of these websites is not hard to spot. Theyare clearly trying to expand the pool of people who are eligible tobe diagnosed with the condition their drug treats. The companies will counter that this is simply an attempt to identify the undiagnosed. But, it not only increases the demandfor their drug, but also runs the hugerisk of diagnosing people without the condition. For example, I took the Neudexta quiz and it looks like I may have pseudobulbar affect:

And here are the 7 questions, of which I answered occasionally to all 7 because thats my honest reply. Of note, had I answered rarely to all 7 questions Iwould have scored >13 and still been considered a possible candidate for PBA:

After convincing you that you may have a disease or that you need their medication for the condition youve already been diagnosed with its typical for drug websites to offer a helping hand in paying for their drug.

Ad for type 2 diabetes drug, Farixa (dapagliflozin)

Financial support tabs (or co-pay calculators) are on most drug websites and seem harmlessenough. ButAlan Cassels, a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria and a regular contributor toour blog, says thats not necessarily the case:

Co-pay or coupon programs have the veneer of charity and corporate philanthropy but they are only giving deals on marginal newer drugs, when there areoften cheaper and more effective generic drugs available like metformin instead of Farixa. Also, once a patient enters one of these programs they become a data point. Youve now established a direct line between the drug company and the patient. Patients can become dependent on that company for their supply of drugs. And the company can turn around and use your data for further marketing, patient reminders, gifts, and other types of largesse.

Cassels goes on to point out that most of these drugs are usually third line treatment options. In other words, clearly not the safest, most affordable, or most effective drugs available.

If a drug isnt worth taking, says Cassels, then making it cheaper doesnt make it any more attractive or worthwhile.

Andas veteran health care journalist Trudy Lieberman wrote on this blog, what on the surface may look like a win-win with patients paying less and drug companies gaining a loyalcustomer actually shieldsus from knowing the true price of the drugs. While a select few patients may see savings, the high cost of the drug will be shifted to someone else.

I cant tell whether this Allergan website for Chronic Dry Eye disease or CDE is incredibly sexy, bizarre, or ingenious.

Its called Eyepowerment and uses a video (soundtrack is the song Bette Davis Eyes popularized by Kim Karnes in 1981) featuring famous women to inform us that: Before We Had Our Voice, We Had Our Eyes. After a parade of recognizable faces were told: Burning, itchy, dry eyes may send the wrong message. These are symptoms of Chronic Dry Eyes.

Were led to believe this is a medical disease when its actually a symptomassociated with some very serious illnesses. Andit affects a lot of people. How many?

Well, in 2014, Allergan said20 million people were affected by CDE. In 2015, it was 25 million people. This year it jumped to 33 million people. And one ophthalmologist (who in 2015 made over $33,000 consulting for Allergan and other companies) claims over 60 million people worldwide may suffer from CDE.

Drug companies have a business to run. So whats the matter with using these 5 common strategies to reach consumers? Lets answer that question with these questions:

These websites are high budget and very sophisticated. They can be visually stunning and when you combine that with the effective tactics mentioned above they have tremendous potential to influence both medical opinion and health behavior. All the more reason that we as consumers need to stay wary of both their intent and content.

Why? Because these sites can be hazardous to your health just ask your doctor.

With the cost of medications approaching stratospheric levels, criticisms of the drug industry have been

In December the Chicago Tribune published an expos, the third in a three-part series on

Last week the FDA approved two more pricey new drugs labeled breakthroughs by some news

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