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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.98 no.5 Pretoria Mai. 2008
Determinants and treatment of hypertension in South Africans: The first Demographic and Health Survey
Krisela SteynI; Debbie BradshawII; Rosana NormanIII; Ria LaubscherIV
IMSc, MD, NED; Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town
IIDPhil (Oxon); Burden of Disease Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town
IIIPhD; Burden of Disease Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town
IVBCom; Biostatistics Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town
OBJECTIVES: To identify the groups of patients with high prevalence and poor control of hypertension in South Africa.
METHODS: In the first national Demographic and Health Survey, 12 952 randomly selected South Africans aged 15 years and older were surveyed. Trained interviewers completed questionnaires on socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle and the management of hypertension. This cross-sectional survey included blood pressure, height and weight measurements. Logistic regression analyses identified the determinants of hypertension and the treatment status.
RESULTS: A high risk of hypertension was associated with less than tertiary education, older age groups, overweight and obese people, excess alcohol use, and a family history of stroke and hypertension. Hypertension risk was lowest in rural blacks and significantly higher in obese black women than in women with a normal body mass index. Improved hypertension control was found in the wealthy, women, older persons, Asians, and persons with medical insurance.
CONCLUSIONS: Rural black people had lower hypertension prevalence rates than the other groups. Poorer, younger men without health insurance had the worst level of hypertension control.
South Africa's Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS) in 1998 first described the national prevalence of hypertension.1 Using a cut-off point of 140/90 mmHg and age adjusting, 25% of men and 26% of women had hypertension.2 Using previous cut-off points of 160/95 mmHg, a prevalence rate of 11% and 14% was found for men and women, respectively.1
Hypertension, the degree of its diagnosis and control, and underlying risk factors were included in the SADHS to assess the feasibility of collecting population-based data, and evaluate how well a country is managing chronic diseases. High blood pressure (BP) was identified as a suitable chronic disease risk factor for surveillance, as its measurement is non-invasive and it can be accurately measured electronically.3
In 1998, the recommended cut-off point of 160/95 mmHg was used for diagnosing hypertension: 41% of men with hypertension were aware of this condition, 39% used antihypertensive medication, and 26% had their BP controlled (<160/95 mmHg); for women these rates were 67%, 55% and 38%, respectively.
The poor level of hypertension control highlights the need to identify people needing intervention for early diagnosis and cost-effective control. Groups with the highest risk of having hypertension are identified and patients with poor BP control, who should be targeted for treatment, described. We also examine the potential of using the level of hypertension control as an adult health indicator for South Africa.
This study employed multi-stage sampling to select a nationally representative sample, using the 1996 census, from the nine provinces by urban and non-urban areas.4 All men and women 15 years and older, excluding pregnant women and people who could not stand upright or those in a wheelchair, were interviewed in up to three visits.
Trained interviewers recorded socio-demographic variables. Poverty, measuring ownership of durable goods, dwelling characteristics, source of drinking water, toilet facilities and hunger, was identified using a principal component factor analysis. An asset index was based on 14 items with a factor loading greater than 0.5 and households were divided into wealth quintiles.5 Excess alcohol use was assessed using the CAGE questions.6 Participants reported on their family and personal medical history, and prior hypertension diagnosis by a doctor or nurse. The names of all prescribed medications were recorded after having viewed the containers. The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Index was used to code medications.7
BP was measured using an electronic BP monitor after participants had been seated for 5 minutes in accordance with the JNC V1 methodology. Three measurements were taken and the mean SBP and DBP calculated. Hypertension was diagnosed for participants whose BP was > 140/90 mmHg and/or who were taking appropriate antihypertensive medication. Uncontrolled hypertension was defined according to the South African guidelines applying in 1998, i.e. >160/95 mmHg. Controlled hypertension was defined as being on antihypertensive medication and with a BP below 160/95 mmHg.
Weight was measured to the nearest 0.5 kg with subjects in light clothing and height was measured to the nearest 0.1 cm. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated and subjects classified underweight (<18.5 kg/m2), overweight (25 - 29.9 kg/m2), and obese (>30 kg/m2).8
Descriptive and multivariate statistics were calculated using weighted data that adjust for non-response in each stratum and the size of each stratum according to the 1996 census. Prevalence rates were also age-adjusted to the world population.2 A model was developed using logistic regression analysis to calculate the adjusted odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). The variable categories used for the regression of hypertension were sex, age, poverty, education level, and urban-rural population group to allow for an interaction effect. (Population group classifications used in this article are based on self-reported categories according to the population group categories used by Statistics South Africa. Use of this classification allows for further exploration of previously observed differences in hypertension prevalence. The authors do not subscribe to this classification for any other purpose.) The hypertension risk factors were BMI and excess alcohol use. A family history of hypertension or stroke was included in the model. The survey set option in the STATA statistical package (Release 7.0, College Station, TX) was used to account for the survey design.
A stratified analysis compared the association of hypertension with BMI among black women and among other women using logistic regressions to adjust for age in each group.
The OR and 95% CI for participants with hypertension on the correct medication, or having controlled BP (<160/95 mmHg), were regressed on the same socio-demographic variables, as well as membership of a medical aid. The latter broadly defined the use of public or private health services.
The results include 12 952 participants with complete data. Table I provides the age-adjusted (to the world population) hypertension prevalence rates. The prevalence according to age and population group is reported elsewhere.1 The prevalence of hypertension was higher in women. Hypertension prevalence decreased with higher education; however, the wealthiest quintile had higher prevalences of hypertension than the poorest. Adults with a family history of hypertension or stroke had a higher prevalence, as did the obese.
Table II shows the results for all participants adjusting for the socio-demographic and known hypertension risk factors. The adjusted risk for hypertension was significantly lower in women than in men. For BMI, the adjusted risk for hypertension was about 2-fold higher in obese participants than in those of normal weight. Being underweight had a protective effect. A family history of stroke and of hypertension was significantly associated with hypertension. Participants who may have used alcohol excessively (positive CAGE questionnaire) had a significantly increased adjusted risk for hypertension. The odds ratio (OR) for hypertension in obese black women compared with black women of normal weight was 1.83 (95% CI 1.47, 2.29). The same comparison among the other women found an OR of 2.35 (95% CI 1.61, 3.42); detailed data not shown.
Table III assesses the relationship between socio-demographic variables and treatment status among people with hypertension (cut-off point 160/95 mmHg and/or on anti-hypertension medication). The use of medication and control of hypertension increased with increasing wealth. Higher levels of education did not improve treatment status to a greater extent than being wealthier. Older participants were more likely to use medication and to have a controlled BP. Participants with hypertension above age 45 were about 28 times more likely to have controlled BP than those aged 15 - 25. Women had significantly better controlled hypertension and took more medication than men.
Asians were more likely to use medication and have higher levels of control of hypertension than blacks. There were no differences in treatment status among the black, white and coloured participants with hypertension.
This study identifies, for the first time, in a nationally representative sample of South Africans with hypertension, groups at highest risk of having hypertension and with the poorest level of BP control. Such data can support targeting those who could benefit most from diagnosis and effective treatment, and serve as baseline observations in the distribution of the determinants of hypertension in South Africans, as the National Department of Health plans to repeat the national Demographic and Health Survey every 5 years.
The data show that observed differences in the prevalence of hypertension9-11 are not ethnically based and can be accounted for by other socio-demographic parameter differences. Rural blacks had a significantly lower risk of hypertension than urban black, coloured and white participants, suggesting a clear urban-rural difference, but no inherent differences among the population groups regarding the risk of developing hypertension. The influence of urbanisation, leading to the emergence of hypertension in the black group independently of the other socio-demographic and risk factors, is reflected. A traditional rural black African lifestyle disappears rapidly with urbanisation. Studies in Kenya of rural men migrating to the cities suggested factors associated with developing hypertension.12,13 Hypertension was associated with consuming excess salt, more stress and less physical activity in urban men.
Analyses showed that the urban-rural differences among blacks were pronounced among women, with OR 1.65 (95% CI 1.34, 20.3) compared with OR 1.16 (95% CI 0.90, 1.51) for men (data not shown). A rural environment appears to protect black women from having hypertension more than black men.
This is in keeping with the fact that historically rural black men have been more exposed to urbanisation influences through the migrant labour system that contracted them to work predominantly in the mines, while restricting women to rural areas by law.
Underlying factors that contributed to the higher prevalence of hypertension among persons of black African descent compared with whites in the USA were studied.14 The high prevalence of hypertension and the steeper slope of BP increases with age among US blacks are unlikely to be attributed to genetic factors; environmental factors probably play a much larger role than had previously been assumed. Although Jamaican and US blacks derived approximately 75% of their ancestry from populations similar to the Nigerians,15 the prevalence of hypertension in blacks was 16% in West Africa, 26% in the Caribbean, and 33% in the USA.14 Differences in the prevalence of hypertension could be ascribed, at least in part, to obesity, high sodium/low potassium intake, psychosocial stress, physical inactivity, and excessive alcohol use.
US data suggest that obesity has a less noxious effect in African-American women than in white American women.16,17 Obese African-American women were found to have a lower prevalence of cerebrovascular disease risk factors and lower mortality than white women.18 Obesity has fewer health disadvantages in black women than in white women, although obesity seems to have little influence on their proneness to hypertension, coronary heart disease and breast cancer.19 Our data show that there are no significant differences between the risk of hypertension in obese black African and other obese women compared with the respective normal BMI groups of women.
Table III identifies groups with poor treatment and control profiles. The finding that young people with hypertension have poor hypertension control is of particular concern as prolonged exposure to high BP can result in serious damage to the eyes, kidneys, and coronary and cerebral arteries. Hypertension was far less well controlled in men than in women, suggesting that young, poverty-stricken men irrespective of their population group have the lowest degree of control.
Participants receiving their treatment in the private sector and having medical aid insurance were no more aware of their condition than those without medical aid. However, medical aid participants took medication significantly more frequently and had significantly better BP control. Participants with hypertension receiving treatment in the private sector and having insurance to cover costs do better than those who receive care elsewhere. Inadequate hypertension care for people attending public health services is probably due in part to failure of service provision rather than non-compliance to treatment.
These findings can assess the performance of the health care services in diagnosing and treating people with hypertension and form part of adult health indicators for an ongoing health surveillance system for South Africa, as suggested previously.20 They can also can be used to monitor the impact of policy changes aimed at improving hypertension care when the National Department of Health repeats the SADHS. Repeated surveys of this nature will enable the monitoring of intervention programmes to manage risk factors for hypertension in South Africa.
We acknowledge with thanks the South African National Department of Health as the initiator and main fund provider, the Medical Research Council as co-ordinator and fund provider, the Centre for Health Systems Research and Development and their teams for the fieldwork, OrcMacro International for technical assistance and USAID for additional funding. Each provincial Department of Health provided a provincial co-ordinator to assist the Human Sciences Research Council in monitoring the fieldwork quality. Statistics South Africa provided the sampling frame and sample details. Ms J Fourie provided editorial and technical assistance.
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Chianti is an area of Tuscany, Italy made famous by the red wine of the same name. It has much to offer for a visitor interested in wine, food and natural beauty. Many of the wineries are open for a tour and a tasting, and some offer accommodation services as well.
Chianti is above all a wine region. The Chianti DOCG appellation is divided into seven subregions (Classico, Colli Aretini, Colli Fiorentini, Colline Pisane, Colli Senesi, Montalbano and Rufina), of which Classico is most famous.
The Chianti Classico region in turn is defined by the towns between Florence and Siena: Greve, Panzano, Castellina, Gaiole and Radda. Almost all the famous Chianti estates are located near to one of these towns, although Rufina is to the East of Florence.
In addition to the red wine, many producers make the dessert wine Vin Santo del Chianti as well as "Super Tuscan" wines that do not adhere to the DOC regulations. Some also make olive oil.
From abroad, usually the best way to reach Chianti is to fly to an airport in Tuscany, such as the Pisa or Florence airport, or some other major airport in Italy. Alternatively, from Central Europe one might want to take a train to Italy. Once in Italy and preferably in Tuscany, you have to find your way to Florence; this will be easy as the city has good train connections to the rest of the country. From Florence there are several alternatives to get to Chianti: rental car, bus, taxi, etc.
Precise instructions are difficult to give since it depends so much on from where you are departing and exactly where you will be staying (in Florence, in Siena, in Greve, or some other place in the region).
Chianti is easiest to explore with a car. The most likely place to begin the trip is Florence, where rental services are abundant. The most important road to know is the Chiantigiana from Florence to Siena, as it penetrates the heart of the region, Chianti Classico.
Without car, the region is accessible with SITA buses from Florence. The hills of Chianti are a magnificent place for bike tours. Cycling you can enjoy at best the beautiful landscape of this region. You will rarely be cycling in flat roads, but you will also seldom have to climb steep passes (only, be ware of the hot hours of the day in the Summer). You can start from Greve, for example, where you can rent a bike.
For someone interested in museums, churches and such things it is not necessary to leave Florence or Siena. However, the Chianti area can be an excellent base from which to explore Tuscany as whole without having to stay in these crowded cities. The countryside is beautiful, and absolute gems that should be visited are the hamlets of Montefioralle and Volpaia, and the beautiful towns of Greve, Panzano, Radda and Castellina.
The region is an invaluable treasure for those who are interested in exploring the eno-gastronomic culture of Tuscany.
See also: Wine tourism
With serious competition only from a few neighboring regions in Tuscany and from Piedmont, Chianti is one of Italy's prime wine regions. The best way to tour the wineries and sample their products is on the last Sunday of May when many producers throughout Italy open their doors for the festival of Cantine Aperte. Tastings are free and reservations unnecessary, so if you like wine and happen to be in Tuscany at the time, this is a fantastic opportunity for you. You should however keep in mind that not all the wine produced in Chianti is exceptional and that some of the best producers do not even participate in Cantine Aperte, so it makes sense to plan ahead and be choosy.
Olive groves are also the region's pride, and while it is not normally possible to visit an oil press, olive oil can be purchased directly from the producers. Olives are pressed in November and December and the olio nuovo or new oil, which is very piquant for the first several months, is especially prized on bruschetta and ribollita.
If you want to go to Chianti, the natural assumption is that you want to drink the wine. It is made with the sangiovese grape, although lesser quantities of other grape varieties may be added. There are different philosophies of making Chianti: some prefer traditional blends with sangiovese and other local grapes (including white ones), some use international varieties such as merlot, and finally there are those who use only sangiovese for their Chianti.
The taste of the wine depends a lot on the producer's decisions, but also on the exact place where the vines are grown. Sangiovese is known as a rather difficult grape to grow, and differences in the land affect the taste of the resulting wine. Traditionally Chianti is a light wine with high acidity with a slightly bitter but fruity taste and berry aromas. As international markets demand high-fruit, high-alcohol wines, Chianti is changing as well, and more modern versions have a fuller, although less recognizable taste.
There are lots of lovely hill-top towns in Chianti with plenty of good hotels and B&B's. However, if you want to get away from the traffic and noise, then this is your chance to stay in one of dozens of 'agriturismi' in the area, working farms that also rent out apartments or rooms to travellers who would like to experience at close hand the Chianti countryside. It makes good sense to pick a central location and to use this as a base for your trips to Florence and Siena, as well as your trips to the beautiful towns and villages, like Castellina in Chianti, San Gimignano, Panzano, Rada, and so on.
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The lineup for this year's wingding at Treasure Island has been announced. Lest I sound like a broken record, writing about previous year's fests here and here and here and here and here and here and here, I think Treasure Island is really the perfect festival for people who hate festivals—it's small, it's manageable, it's scenic as hell and the only corporate sponsor is Heineken. Historically, it's also boasted a lineup usually way more impressive than other festivals, catching bands on the ascendant wax instead of the sad wane.
That's mostly the case again in 2010. Here's who's playing:
Saturday, October 16
LCD Soundsystem, Deadmau5, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Miike Snow, !!!, Die Antwoord, Little Dragon, Four Tet, Holy Fuck, Phantogram, Jamaica, Wallpaper, Maus Haus
Sunday, October 17
Belle & Sebastian, The National, Broken Social Scene, She & Him, Superchunk, Rogue Wave, Surfer Blood, Ra Ra Riot, Monotonix, The Sea & Cake, Phosphorescent, Papercuts, The Mumlers
LCD Soundsystem has put out one of this year's best records, so they'll make a memorable headliner. Kruder & Dorfmeister, who are billed specifically as "Kruder & Dorfmeister (LIVE)," should probably just play all of K&D Sessions. Expect Jerry Fuchs shout-outs from !!!. Weirdly, Die Antwoord is way down on the schedule even though their show at the Rickshaw Stop was fetching $150 for tix; expect the stage to be mobbed.
I really feel like the bombastic, festival-perfect Broken Social Scene should be headlining Sunday instead of Belle & Sebastian. M. Ward makes a festival reappearance with She & Him, Monotonix is going to wind up banging on drums while hanging from the motherfucking Ferris wheel, and Superchunk really should have booked a club date instead of playing a truncated festival set, but what can you do?
Two-day tickets are available now for $120; single-day tickets go on sale on Friday, July 16. All da deets over at the offish fest site.


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Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
It's rare to see a video from way back in the day that actually explains anything better than we could, what with our fancy computer generated graphics and the whatnot. This video from Chevrolet in 1936 though is probably one of the most thorough and yet simple explanations of a transmission I have ever seen.
It looks like this is from the same series of films that produced the excellent piece on how a differential works, and to that end they present a great series of demonstrations and shots starting from the basics. As you watch the video, try to keep track of how many new things you actually learn. I'm not talking about the big stuff, either (i.e., yes you're learning how a transmissions works), but smaller things. Sure, I know what a gear is, but I had never really thought of a cog as a series of interlocking levers.
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New Lucasarts president Paul Meegan certainly isn't wasting any time. Barely two months into the job and we hear he's already swinging the axe and cancelling high profile sequels.
If you were wondering why it was strange that Force Unleashed II creative director Haden Blackman would leave mid-project, this may explain things: according to sources at Lucasarts, Meegan has cancelled a third Force Unleashed game that was already in development, and members of Force Unleashed II's team (though we're not sure exactly how many) will be shown the door once that game ships.
Another unnamed project, due to ship next year, has avoided the axe, but has been "put on hold" while developers have been told to "expect management and reporting changes". Those changes are down to the departure of Blackman, who as work was winding down on Force Unleashed II had been leading development on this secret project.
These sources say "morale and productivity are at all-time lows" since Meegan took over, with most Lucasarts developers only finding out about Force Unleashed II's cancellation on the PSP by reading it on gaming news sites.
We've also been told that another sweeping change made by Meegan is that the majority of "external" development of Lucasarts properties is coming to an end, with BioWare's Old Republic MMO to be the last game not developed internally at Lucasarts. That would presumably mean, for example, no more LEGO Star Wars or LEGO Indiana Jones titles after the upcoming LEGO: Clone Wars, as those have all been handled by Traveller's Tales.
So, yes, if this is all indeed correct, big changes are afoot at the house that Star Wars built. Lots of them bad news for the developers currently there, but looking at the big picture, the silver lining could be that such drastic shake-ups could be exactly what's needed at a publisher and developer that, courtesy of its licenses and history, should be doing a lot better both commercially and critically than it currently is.
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Political donors from across the country will descend on Big Sky tomorrow for the 10th Annual "Camp Baucus" fundraiser. Here's a link to the invitation.
But in order to get to Big Sky Resort, the site of the three-day hike/fish/horseback ride event, donors will have to drive Big Sky Highway past dozens of single-payer health care reform advocates who are steamed over the direction Congress is taking on reform.
Max Baucus, as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is the Senate's point man on health care reform. For weeks hand-picked members of his committee have been meeting behind closed doors to hash out some a compromise on a reform bill.
At that same time, Baucus is busy raising money for his 2014 Senate campaign. Baucus' people aren't saying who'll be at the event, but if you look at the list of industries that gave most to Glacier PAC in recent years you'll find that health professionals, pharmaceutical/health products, insurance companies, and hospitals and nursing homes top the list. Organizers of Friday's protest expect lobbyists and executives from those industries will be driving up Highway 64 on Friday.
"A lot of biggies show up at these events. When Max has a fundraiser, they show up. That's what we're trying to bring attention to," said Gene Fenderson of Helena, a retired labor leader and co-founder of Montanans for Single Payer.
Fenderson, one of the chief organizer of the rally, said protesters will line the road holding signs with slogans that read "Buy Back Baucus" as well as large scale faux checks that read "Max — A seat at the table. What does it cost? $4 million. Buy Back Our Senator!"
According to the invitation for Camp Baucus, the event is billed as "a trip for the whole family" where attendees will "enjoy Big Sky's fly fishing, golf, horseback riding and great hiking." The minimum "requested contribution" to Glacier PAC — Baucus' primary political action committee — is $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for PACs.
Baucus' people say the event isn't as unseemly as Fenderson and other activists make it out to be because A) Max can't be bought, B) Camp Baucus was scheduled long before Congress got tangled up in health care reform negotiations, and C) political fundraising is a necessary part of politics.
"Max's number one priority is crafting a health care bill that lowers costs, improves quality and can pass the U.S. Senate," said Baucus spokesman Ty Matsdorf. "He is keeping his eye on the ball and staying focused on the task at hand to help the thousands of Montanans who are being crushed by the high cost of health care."
Reform advocates say the fact that Baucus has taken more money from the health and insurance sectors than any other Democrat in Congress — more than $3 million from the health and insurance sectors from 2003 to 2008 — should disqualify him from leading reform efforts in the Senate.
Fenderson said it's inappropriate for Baucus to hold an upscale fundraiser with lobbyists from the health care sector at a time when his committee is in the process of drafting a national health care reform bill.
"We don't get the money from the corporations to bring forward our position, so this is the way we have to do it," Fenderson said.
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Radmilla Cody knows the way home. It's not an easy journey. The dirt roads are canoe-shaped and gouged by rain. They curl around hills and plunge into deep draws, finally bringing us to the family homestead near Grand Falls, on the Navajo Reservation.
Cody grew up on these lonesome sage flats. Her Navajo mother, Margaret, took off to Georgia shortly after giving birth to Cody at age 18. Her father, Troy Davis, was a 43-year-old black man who worked as a driver for a Ford dealer in Flagstaff. Her grandmother, Dorothy, raised her the Navajo way.
Out here, without running water or electricity, Cody learned rug-weaving and sheepherding, and began to sing -- first to the sheep in the corrals, then, at the age of 7, in her grandmother's Christian church. In junior high, at Leupp Boarding School, she decided to make a career of it, influenced by her Uncle Herman, a musician, and her grandfather, Archie Cody, a medicine man.
She needed all her Navajo skills to win the title of Miss Navajo in 1997, at age 22 -- the reservation's first bi-racial beauty queen. Then her life took a sharp downward turn. She became entangled in an abusive relationship with a drug dealer and ended up in federal prison.
In 2004, after her release, she came back here for a ceremony to cleanse her spirit of that painful experience, seeking to free herself from the shadow of domestic violence. Now, she's back again, on this overcast morning in July, to touch her roots and share her story with a journalist. Some of the talk is about a recently completed documentary titled Hearing Radmilla, made by Angela Webb, a substitute teacher in Burbank, Calif. It takes a tough-minded look at Navajo racism and Cody's personal struggle.
"I have to keep moving forward," Cody says, "because that's how change happens."
On the front porch, we wade through chickens to reach Cody's grandmother's kitchen, where Cody begins making a Navajo breakfast (heavy on bacon), dressed in Nike running shorts and a sleeveless blouse, her hair tied back.
The arrival of a half-black baby didn't sit well with some in her family, Cody recalls. They warned that she'd be an outcast and a source of shame to her family, never accepted or loved on a reservation where, at least for some, old ideas still held. Classmates tormented her, pushing her to tears, and even some of her uncles echoed the treatment.
"It came out when they were drunk," she says. "I remember sitting at the table and Uncle Elmer hitting me on the head with a spoon and calling me a black pig."
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West African leaders met in Ghana Sunday to discuss deploying troops to end the 12-day rebellion.
What began as an apparent coup attempt in Ivory Coast's commercial center, Abidjan, is looking increasingly like the prelude to civil war.
The country is now effectively partitioned, with rebel soldiers controlling most of the country's major northern cities and many of the smaller district centers between the north and the south.
In recent days, the exodus from the north has increased from a trickle to a steady flow. With children in tow and their worldly belongings balanced on their heads, thousands have left their besieged city, Bouaké, and marched toward the capital, Yamoussoukro.
"The entrances and exits are all blocked now," says a nervous university student, who gave his name only as Jean. Jean says he walked 30 miles under cover of night before finally catching a bus to the capital city. "The only way out is on foot."
It is no longer just Westerners who are fleeing; many Ivorians, too, are getting out while they can. Aid workers are bringing worrying information about the deteriorating situation in the north.
"Most of the gendarmes [government military police] have fled," says a Peace Corps volunteer who made her way from her posting near the northern city of Korhogo to Yamoussoukro. "The rebels came to my village and said they were going to attack. But the gendarmes were already gone."
Last Thursday, some 2,000 Westerners were evacuated from Bouaké, and French and US troops evacuated 250 more from Korhogo early yesterday, including some 30 Peace Corps volunteers and American missionaries. At the Yamoussoukro airport, Westerners and a few African nationals filed off deafening C-130 cargo planes, clutching backpacks and trailing rolling suitcases.
"We've been waiting for 10 days for them to come for us," says one American. Embassy officials herded foreign nationals onto a bus heading out of this decaying city of abandoned granite buildings and four-lane highways that lead to nowhere.
This exodus of whites from the north harkens back to Africa's independence days, when Belgians, Portuguese, and British fled new nation-states that had just been handed over to African rulers. But unlike those days, when Africans cheered the departure of whites as the beginning of a new African-led era, today the exodus of Westerners brings concern. "When the whites are gone, it's a bad sign," Jean predicts pessimistically. "That's when the fighting will really begin."
The Ivorian government has declared the center and north of the country a war zone and plans an offensive that could start as early as Monday.
The government has asked for support from former colonial power France and other West African nations in subduing the rebels, whom it calls terrorists. The government says the rebels are funded and supported by neighboring countries such as Burkina Faso and Liberia, but no hard evidence of this link has been established.
The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States, as well as the head of the African Union, South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, met in Ghana yesterday to discuss the possibility of deploying troops, though Ivory Coast is asking for transportation and munitions, not personnel. Nigerian war planes have already landed in Abidjan.
France says it will will provide transport, communications assistance, and food, but will not order its soldiers to fight. France and Ivory Coast maintain a defense pact that calls for France to intervene in Ivory Coast in any foreign-backed conflict. France says that evidence of foreign involvement is not yet clear, so it will continue to play only a supporting role.
But even with foreign help, extricating the rebels from the cities where they now hold strategic positions and have seized government weapons and barracks, will not be easy. Attempts to retake Bouaké and other northern cities have so far failed, with fleeing residents saying government forces were easily turned back.
"The government came and tried to fight the rebels, but they were all killed," says Vincent Corbel, a French citizen who was working at a malaria research center when rebels took the city last week.
Although it is now clear that rebel soldiers control much of the north, little else is known about them. They have no known leader and say they have no ties to any political group or foreign nation.
At least some of the rebels are mutinying soldiers from the Ivorian Army, and say they are tired of being treated as foreigners because they come from the largely Muslim north. The Ivory Coast has been ruled by Christian southerners since independence, and many northerners resent their lack of political power and suggestions that they are not truly Ivorian, as the government has implied.
"I am a professional soldier, a member of the 3rd Battalion of the Army of the Ivory Coast, and I am no rebel," says Sgt. Dauda Konate, a red beret-clad rebel at a checkpoint outside Bouaké. "But when the government starts to say all foreigners are rebels, all outsiders are enemies of the government, then we must stand up and say no."
Refugees and evacuees say the rebels are well-organized and well-behaved. So far, they say, mutinying soldiers have attacked only military targets and, in several cases, have escorted citizens to safety. There are also reports that looting soldiers have been severely punished, even killed, by superiors.
Despite some reassuring actions of the rebels, the mood here is one of nervous anticipation. Fighting has so far been minimal, and reports of fatalities are unconfirmed. But many fear this is simply the calm before the storm.
"We're sitting here asking God to solve this problem," says Konate Souleymane, worker in Yamoussoukro. "We don't know what will happen now, but we are very afraid."
Food supplies in many occupied cities are running low and communications have largely been cut off.
"We Ivorians never knew war," Oulai Boniface Medard, the lone guard outside Yamoussoukro's now ghostly-quiet university, says sadly. Shaking his head, he adds: "But now we are fighting each other. Why?"


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Classic review: Lamentations of the Father
Ian Frazier – winner of the 2009 Thurber Prize for American Humor – turns his dry wit on everything from parenthood to global warming.
[This review from Monitor archives originally ran on June 30, 2008.] When editors at The Atlantic Monthly celebrated their magazine's 150th anniversary, they paid homage to the category of "humorous essay" with the works of four writers: Mark Twain, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ian Frazier.
Company like that is what you'd call the icing on the top of the crème de la crème. If you're curious as to why Frazier (a longtime writer for the New Yorker) rates so high, try reading the title essay of his collection Lamentations of the Father. (It's also the selection included to run with Twain et al.)
Capturing the rant of a contemporary dad in biblical prose, Frazier decrees, "Of the beasts of the field, and of the fishes of the sea, and of all foods that are acceptable in my sight you may eat, but not in the living room." He goes on to implore, "Bite not, lest you be cast into quiet time. Neither drink of your own bathwater, nor bathwater of any kind" and further warns them, "For I will come to you at the first of the month and at the fifteenth of the month with the bills and a great whining and moan. "
Frazier's is a dry and sometimes a dark wit. He touches on the stresses and strains of family life but also uses the absurd to mock our self-promoting and celebrity-obsessed culture.
In "Tomorrow's Bird" he envisions himself as a pitchperson for crows ("Crows: We Want to Be Your Only Bird" is the slogan he suggests.) In "My Wife Liz" he insists he is a forgotten husband of the much-
married Elizabeth Taylor. ("Ask anyone about Ms. Taylor's husbands and you'll get the usual recitation of Mike Todd and Eddie Fisher and Richard Burton and John Warner and so on with never a mention of me…. It hurts to be left out.")
Frazier's range in this collection stretches from global warming to his wife's ire at the way he loads the dishwasher. His career at large has caromed from a meaningful interest in the American West and native Americans ("Great Plains" and "On the Rez") to essays on New York ("Gone to New York") to other humorous bits ("Dating Your Mom").
Being a funny guy doesn't always mesh with being a smart guy. In Frazier's case, however, the two seem one and the same.
Marjorie Kehe is the Monitor's book editor. Send comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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(AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney poked gentle but sharp fun at one another Thursday night during an esteemed New York Catholic charity dinner that has long been a required stop for presidential candidates. Romney mocked his own wealth while taking aim at the president for running up the federal debt while Obama noted the "nice long nap" he had taken during the first presidential debate.
The two rivals donned tuxedos and white ties to share the dais at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, an annual gala that has drawn political leaders and other notables since the end of World War II.
The event was a comedic pause in a contest that has drawn increasingly nasty and close with less than three weeks left before the Nov. 6 election. On Tuesday, Obama and Romney sparred in a nationally televised debate in which each questioned the other's character and truthfulness.
Romney spoke first at the dinner, which was set to raise $5 million for Catholic charities. Addressing the elegantly dressed crowd, Romney, a millionaire many times over, said "it's nice to finally relax and wear what Ann and I wear around the house." Of Obama, Romney said: "You have to wonder what he's thinking. So little time, so much to redistribute."
Obama followed, noting his soporific performance in the first debate but also chiding Romney for his wealth.
"Earlier today I went shopping at some stores in Midtown," Obama said. "I understand Gov. Romney went shopping for some stores in Midtown."
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Obama noted that he was preparing for the final debate with Romney on Monday, which will focus on foreign policy.
"Spoiler alert: We got bin Laden," Obama said, referring to the military mission that killed the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
In a television interview earlier Thursday, Obama rejected criticism that his administration has offered a confused response to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, an accusation Romney has made repeatedly in the campaign for the White House. Of any breakdown that might have led to the killing of four Americans, Obama declared, "We're going to fix it."
Obama made the comments on "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. Host Jon Stewart turned serious in pressing Obama over the government's changing explanation about the attacks in Benghazi. When Stewart suggested that even Obama would concede his administration's coordination and communication had not been "optimal," Obama said: "If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal. We're going to fix it. All of it."
Romney has pointedly questioned Obama's handling of the matter and his honesty about it to Americans. Those accusations led to the fiercest conflict of the presidential debate on Tuesday and will surely come to the fore again on Monday in the campaign's final debate.
Obama insisted information was shared with the American people as it came in. The attack is under investigation, Obama said, and "the picture eventually gets filled in."
The exchange came on a day when Vice President Joe Biden compared the policies of Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, to a gun pointed at Americans, and after Romney's son said he was tempted to "take a swing" at Obama when the Democrat questions the GOP candidate's honesty.
Ryan, speaking at a campaign stop in Ocala, Fla., before Biden made his comments in Nevada, accused Obama of sending a divisive message.
"He's basically trying to disqualify his opponent with a sea of negativity," Ryan said. "He's trying to divide this country, pitting people against each other. He's trying to win this election by default. You know what? We're not going to let him get away with that."
The sharpness of the barbs is a reflection of just how tight the race is 19 days out. Hard campaign decisions are being made, state by state.
Romney aides said Thursday that no staff had been dispatched to Michigan or Pennsylvania, where they once suggested he would compete aggressively but has not.
The bickering between campaigns eased briefly at the Smith dinner, named for the four-term Democratic governor of New York who lost the 1928 presidential race to Republican Herbert Hoover. Smith was the first Catholic to run for president and the dinner named for him is organized by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York for the benefit of needy children.
Democrats are pushing the accusation that Romney is being dishonest, taking up Obama's refrain since Tuesday's debate that the GOP nominee is offering "a sketchy deal."
"I don't think they were just sketchy," Biden said at a rally in Las Vegas. "I think they were Etch-a-Sketchy."
Obama and Biden are to campaign together next Tuesday in Ohio after Monday night's debate.
On Libya, Obama has faced scrutiny for shifting explanations of what happened. He pushed back on "The Daily Show."
"We weren't confused about the fact that four Americans had been killed," Obama said.
"I wasn't confused about the fact that we needed to ramp up diplomatic security. … I wasn't confused about the fact that we had to investigate exactly happened so it gets fixed. And I wasn't confused about the fact that we're going to hunt down whoever did it and bring them to justice," the president said.
On another national security issue, Obama said he still wants to close the prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a big unmet promise of his 2008 campaign. The effort was blocked by Congress, which passed a law prohibiting the government from moving prisoners to the U.S. for detention or trial.
On the celebrity front, Obama picked up the endorsement of rock star Bruce Springsteen, who also backed the Democrat in 2008 and Thursday campaigned for him in Ohio with former President Bill Clinton.
"For 30 years I've been writing about the distance between the American dream and American reality," Springsteen said, reading from a statement on his music stand. "Our vote is the one principal way we get to determine that distance."
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Apple became the biggest buyer of semiconductors last year, ahead of Samsung Electronics and Hewlett-Packard, Gartner said on Tuesday.
Apple's increased semiconductor spending is the result of a number of factors. The company sold more smartphones, and its tablet business was also highly successful in 2011, according to Gartner. The success of the MacBook Air also increased Apple's semiconductor demand, it said.
Apple spent a total of US$17.3 billion on semiconductors during 2011, compared to $12.8 billion during 2010, according to Gartner's estimates.
In general, smartphones, tablets and solid-state drives were the major spending drivers in 2011, according to Gartner.
Samsung remained the second-largest semiconductor purchaser, thanks to its improving fortunes in the smartphone sector. The company's semiconductor spending grew by 9.2 percent to $16.7 billion.
With semiconductor products such as memory priced as commodities, PC and phone vendors' semiconductor spending is related to sales of their finished products.
The shaky PC market pushed HP's semiconductor spending down. HP was still the largest PC maker in the fourth quarter of 2011, but shipments declined 16.2 percent year-over-year, Gartner recently said. HP spent a total of $16.6 billion on semiconductors during 2011, compared to $17.6 billion during the 2010.
Nokia's semiconductor spending, on the other hand, dropped over 20 percent to around $9 billion, making it the fifth-largest chip buyer, behind Dell but ahead of Sony (excluding Sony-Ericsson) and Toshiba.
In eighth place was Lenovo, which saw the strongest growth among the top five PC vendors during the fourth quarter, as its shipments grew 23 percent. It also increased its semiconductor spend by 23.7 percent to $7.5 billion, Gartner estimated.
The top ten semiconductor buyers spent $105.6 billion, or 35 percent of semiconductor vendors' worldwide chip revenue, according to Gartner.
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We started with really good bread and extra-virgin olive oil, doctored with herbs and filled with an assortment of olives. (Olives in olive oil is the new table setter in the North End.) Then we moved on to the very modern broccoli or artichoke dorati appetizer ($8.95), eggy fritters of (our choice) broccoli, fresh fried without excess grease. Two orders of this take care of any vegetarians in the group that don't like eggplant. (An eggplant report is coming up right after the appetizers.)
Italian antipasto ($16.95) has apparently evolved from a flat plate to a bowl of salad. The good news is that the mozzarella is now fresh, and that the salami and provolone are as good as they've always been. A caprese salad ($13.95) was a game try on an April visit, but tomatoes will be better in July. We could, at this price, use more shredded basil and somewhat softer mozzarella.
Clams casino ($12.95), however, are not what they used to be. The ones at La Galleria 33 are chopped into bread crumbs without the expected bell peppers and topped with bacon. It's greasy fun, but six of these don't justify the price or the saturated fat. Pasta fagioli ($4.50/cup; $7/bowl) is a best buy. The cup is the size of most dinner bowls, and this simple soup of ditalini and shell beans never lets you down.
Now, for the eggplant report. La Galleria 33's eggplant Parmigiana ($15.95) is as gooey and greasy and wonderful as ever. You can hardly go wrong with a dish like this — until the tomato sauce. The North End has its issues, but no one ever serves an undercooked tomato-sauce dish, so that, too, was superb. A guest had the side linguine with it, which wasn't bad at all.
How cool is this, starch fans? La Galleria 33 has a ravioli del giorno (a/k/a ravioli of the day). Our visit it was eggplant ravioli ($18.95), obviously house-made, in a tomato sauce with a little cream. It's worth ordering for the pasta quality alone, but the eggplant filling was not remarkable.
Regular cheese ravioli is everyday fare at $12.95. You get nearly the same excellent pasta quality as the eggplant ravioli with an order of homemade pappardelle ($14.95), wide ribbons with a choice of Bolognese or marinara sauce. I chose Bolognese and didn't regret it.
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Enough is enoughJuly 24, 2011 11:41 pm gnome, ubuntu
I waited several month for Ubuntu 11.04 to stabilize on my good old Power G5. No way in hell. Even X does not start properly. Had to spend several months in MacOS :(( So… considering that I have no interest whatsoever in Unity and other heavily patched gnome components of Ubuntu … It is Debian now, testing + gnome 3 from experimental. Well, gnome 3 starts in fallback mode only so far – but at least that's better than absolutely non-working X.
On my laptop, virtualbox for some reason went to disagreement with Ubuntu (inside) as well, so now I have FC15 inside VB, with nearly vanilla gnome3 (working properly with gnome-shell!).
I was some kind of fan of Ubuntu. I am leaving that camp for now. Political reasons, personal reasons, technical reasons… Perhaps, for me 10.10 was the finest hour of Canonical. So long.


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