International conference to explore health of descendants of transatlantic slave trade

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Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

On July 5-8, 2012, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will host the first major international conference on the health of the descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora ICHAD 2012 will explore the health status of people of African descent living throughout the Western Hemisphere from Canada to Argentina. Today, there are approximately 160 million African descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade living across the region.

Organized by the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ICHAD 2012 will convene at the Baltimore Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The multidisciplinary conference will focus on more than a dozen countries, including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jamaica, Peru, United States, and Venezuela.

During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, African captives were shipped across the Atlantic and dispersed widely throughout North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. The demise of slavery was promptly followed by regional patterns of racial marginalization.

Today, roughly 3 out of 4 blacks in the region live south of the U.S. border. Throughout the region, people of African descent tend to be poorer and sicker, receive less health care and a lower quality of care, and die younger than the general population. Afro-Brazilians are twice as likely to live in poverty compared to the general population. In Colombia, babies of African descent are twice as likely to die before their first birthday compared to the national average. The same pattern holds true for African-American babies in the United States.

ICHAD 2012 keynote speakers include Sir George Alleyne, PAHO Emeritus, the Honorable Donna Christensen, U.S. House of Representatives (Virgin Islands), the Honorable Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. House of Representatives (Maryland), and Dr. Gail Christopher, Vice President, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Funded in part by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, ICHAD 2012 recently announced over 30 featured presenters from major US and international organizations and institutions, including:

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
  • Organization of American States
  • Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
  • University of the Southern Caribbean
  • University of Toronto

For a full list of presenters and more, visit http://www.ichad.com.

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[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 20-Apr-2012
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Contact: Tim Parsons
tmparson@jhsph.edu
410-955-7619
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

On July 5-8, 2012, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will host the first major international conference on the health of the descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora ICHAD 2012 will explore the health status of people of African descent living throughout the Western Hemisphere from Canada to Argentina. Today, there are approximately 160 million African descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade living across the region.

Organized by the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ICHAD 2012 will convene at the Baltimore Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The multidisciplinary conference will focus on more than a dozen countries, including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jamaica, Peru, United States, and Venezuela.

During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, African captives were shipped across the Atlantic and dispersed widely throughout North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. The demise of slavery was promptly followed by regional patterns of racial marginalization.

Today, roughly 3 out of 4 blacks in the region live south of the U.S. border. Throughout the region, people of African descent tend to be poorer and sicker, receive less health care and a lower quality of care, and die younger than the general population. Afro-Brazilians are twice as likely to live in poverty compared to the general population. In Colombia, babies of African descent are twice as likely to die before their first birthday compared to the national average. The same pattern holds true for African-American babies in the United States.

ICHAD 2012 keynote speakers include Sir George Alleyne, PAHO Emeritus, the Honorable Donna Christensen, U.S. House of Representatives (Virgin Islands), the Honorable Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. House of Representatives (Maryland), and Dr. Gail Christopher, Vice President, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Funded in part by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, ICHAD 2012 recently announced over 30 featured presenters from major US and international organizations and institutions, including:

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
  • Organization of American States
  • Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
  • University of the Southern Caribbean
  • University of Toronto

For a full list of presenters and more, visit http://www.ichad.com.

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Tiger Moms Craving SUVs Drive Next Wave of Chinese Demand: Cars

Source: Bloomberg News

Zhou Na, a 37-year-old Beijing mother, says she knows why sport-utility vehicles are the fastest-growing segment in the world?s biggest automobile market: kids.

?I have to drive my kid around practically non-stop on Saturday,? said Zhou, who ferries her eight-year-old son to Kung Fu and English classes on weekends to the Children?s Palace of Beijing before joining her friends for yoga. ?It?s pretty tiring, but I feel very good driving my BMW X5 around.?

Zhou represents the growing army of so-called tiger moms who may fuel the next spurt of growth for the automotive industry in China, where the middle-class population is projected to double over the next decade. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), Daimler AG (DAI) and Ford Motor Co. (F) are among automakers unveiling new models, particularly SUVs, at next week?s Beijing International Automotive Exhibition to vie for families looking for a second vehicle to drive around children and buy groceries.

?You look at the trend for more utility and family- oriented vehicles and behind that is women,? said Bill Russo, a senior adviser at Booz & Co. and formerly Chrysler Group LLC?s China head. ?In the U.S., we call it the soccer moms.?

SUV demand in China jumped 20 percent last year, more than triple the growth in total passenger-car deliveries, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. SUV demand continues to outpace other vehicle segments, with sales up 18 percent in the first quarter, bucking the slump in the broader market, where deliveries fell for the first time since 2005.

Car Sales Increase

The average Chinese consumer now earns more than $4,000 a year, crossing a threshold that Macquarie Group Ltd. (MQG) says typically spurs car purchases to increase at twice the pace of income growth.

?A car parked outside follows on the heels of home ownership as part of the middle-class Chinese dream,? Janet Lewis, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Macquarie, wrote in a February report. ?Private car ownership was not common prior to 2000, but a family car is quickly becoming a desired -- and attainable -- consumer product.?

China?s middle-class population will reach 600 million to 800 million in the next 10 to 15 years, compared with about 300 million now, according to Macquarie.

?Tiger Moms?

?For tiger moms -- and other moms -- SUVs offer great appeal as the whole family can be transported safely and in style,? said Trevor Hale, Ford?s Shanghai-based spokesman, in reference to the nickname coined by author Amy Chua for strict Chinese mothers. ?We see great potential to grow this segment and are bringing more of our SUVs to China.?

Ford will display three SUV models at the Beijing auto show, including the Kuga that?s aimed at families with a small child. The Dearborn, Michigan-based carmaker currently sells the imported Edge SUV in China and plans to build the Kuga at a new plant in Chongqing, southwest China, Hale said.

BMW will show the X3 xDrive 28i and revamped X6 at the Beijing show, which opens to the public on April 27. Sales of BMW?s X-series SUVs surged 92 percent in the first quarter to more than 20,000 units, according to the company.

Porsche AG, which depends on the Cayenne for half of its deliveries, will show a refreshed version of the luxury SUV. Maserati will exhibit its new Kubang, which the company said it expects to go into production in 2013. Volkswagen AG (VOW)?s Lamborghini will unveil an SUV study at the Beijing show, almost two decades after discontinuing the so-called Rambo Lambo military vehicle, a person familiar with the company?s plans said in February.

?Year of SUVs?

?Automakers are swooping in with SUV models, even those that never had SUV models before,? said Zhang Zhiyong, an independent automotive analyst based in Beijing. ?The segment is getting more crowded, which will definitely lead to price competition.?

That doesn?t deter Daimler?s Mercedes-Benz, which predicts 2012 to be the ?year of the SUV? for the German carmaker, which will unveil its China-made GLK in Beijing next week. Mercedes-Benz boosted SUV sales in China by 85 percent last year, while total sales in the country rose 35 percent.

?With the rising middle class in the country, SUVs are among the most popular choices for Chinese consumers,? said Bjorn Hauber, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Mercedes-Benz (China) Ltd.

Demand for SUVs will continue to increase as more families buy their second car and the number of women owners increases, said Hui Yumei, head of automotive research at Sinotrust International Information & Consulting (Beijing) Co.

Changing Times

?In the past, most Chinese families had one car and it?s driven by the men,? said Hui. ?Times have changed and there?re now more women car owners. SUVs will be the most important segment for automakers in China for a long time.?

Automakers are counting on Hui?s prediction to come true after sedan sales in China declined 2.2 percent in the first quarter, weighed by record fuel prices and a slowing economy. So-called dual-purpose vehicles used to ferry goods and people have slumped 8.5 percent, while truck sales have dropped 6.8 percent, according to data from the auto association.

That?s a contrast to 2010, when overall auto demand jumped 32 percent after the government introduced subsidies and rebates. Sales then slowed to 2.5 percent last year after the incentives ran out. This year, vehicle sales will probably miss the 8 percent growth forecast by CAAM, Gu Xianghua, deputy secretary general of the state-backed auto association, said last month.

The slowdown may be short-lived. Macquarie estimates SUVs will revive annual total vehicle sales growth to at least 10 percent from next year as incomes grow, Chinese cities become increasingly urbanized and public transportation remains inadequate.

Among those driving demand may be women like Nina Zhang, a 35-year-old accountant living in Beijing, who bought a Land Rover Freelander 2 last year to run errands and take her daughter to dance and art lessons on weekends at Jingshan Park, a former imperial garden.

?We used to go away a lot to the countryside before we became parents,? said Zhang, whose husband drives a Volkswagen Magotan sedan. ?Now we don?t have as much time, but this SUV reminds us of the lifestyle that we love.?

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James Bond Throws A Pool Party And Hopkins Does Hitch

It's only appropriate that for his 50th anniversary James Bond throw a pool party for all his friends. That's what's going on in this poster from a Bond marathon taking place this week in San Francisco. Also, we have video of Anthony Hopkins doing his Hitchcock impersonation and a look at the alien from "Battleship," [...]

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AMD reports net loss of $590 million for Q1 2012, calls that 'solid results'

AMD reports net loss of $590 million, calls that 'solid results'

We're not sure about you, but we wouldn't call losing over half a billion dollars, "solid results." Still, we're not 100 percent ready to rain on AMD's parade yet. The non-GAAP results (which disregard a pile of one-time charges and investments) turn the $590 million loss into a $92 million profit. Though, the GAAP results do make two straight quarters of losses and revenue clearly continued to decline -- falling to $1.59 billion. That's down six percent from last quarter and two percent from the same time period last year. Revenue from the graphics division held steady from last quarter, though, it's down seven percent year-over-year. For more financial fun hit up the PR after the break.

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Best Boston Restaurants for Southeast Asian Flavors

People hear the word Indian or Thai and they get nervous that the food is going to be too spicy or maybe they will not like any of the options that the restaurant offers. If you want to try something new then follow my guide for Best Boston Restaurants for Southeast Asian Flavors. If you can?t enjoy another country?s flavors then your taste buds are dead.? Indian food is not always super intense and spicy, it is flavorful. The same is true for Thai food, Vietnamese food and Korean food. All of these countries use the most amazing combinations of spices to turn what would be plain food into a master piece. These restaurants are similar to any other American food restaurant; they use meat, cheeses and vegetables in their dishes. You are not going to be forced to eat a full grown python every time you step into a Thai restaurant, sometimes yes, but not every time.

When venturing into the new Indian restaurant that has opened down the street do not be scared, I will give you a list of food that will be safe for you to try without catching your tongue on fire.

Trying the Best Boston Restaurants for Southeast Asian Flavors is going to be an adventure, but hopefully I can alleviate some of the anxiety.? Curry is a dish that usually scares people, but curry does not have to turn everyone into a fire breathing dragon. The restaurant will usually warn you if a curry dish is especially hot and will usually give you options if you want mild, medium or hot curry. Now at an Indian restaurant naan is going to be your best friend. Naan is a form of Indian bread that is unleavened. It can come plain or with different ingredients mixed in. Naan can be used as an appetizer, paired with your entr?e or eaten as a dessert; the opportunities at the Best Boston Restaurants for naan are endless because it can be paired with so many different ingredients. For an appetizer samosas are always a good choice. You can either order vegetable or meat samosas. These delicious little treats are crispy turnovers that have been stuffed with potatoes, usually spiced, peas and meat if you so choose. The meat is mostly likely going to be lamb so if you are not a fan of lamb then you should probably order the vegetable option. Also, do not be afraid to try all the different sauces that they give you; you might be surprised by what you like and which ones you will want to use later in the meal.

When eating Indian food I find that family style is the best way to go. For entrees be sure to try the restaurant?s panir tikka, pieces of cheese that have been spiced, marinated and baked to perfection. Also the chicken tikka masala is always a good choice. Boneless chicken tandoori is cooked in a creamy, rich tomato sauce. If you are feeling brave and up for a little heat, beef or lamb vindaloo will wake up your taste buds and clear out your sinuses.

Trying new restaurants can be scary, especially if you haven?t ever tried that cuisine before. However, you can find some real gems when trying some of the Best Boston Restaurants for Southeast Asian Flavors.

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