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Abstract

Background

This paper estimates the impact on childhood drowning rates of community-based introduction of crèches or playpens or both in rural Bangladesh for children aged 0–47 months.

Methods

A baseline census of the whole population of , households in 51 unions, villages from 7 rural sub-districts in Bangladesh was conducted in The baseline census determined retrospective, age-specific, and cumulative drowning incidence rates (IR) experienced in the target households in the 12 months prior to the intervention. Beginning in late , creches for drowning prevention were established across the study area. Acceptance into creches was provided and written assent to attend a creche was obtained for all children aged 9–47 months in all participating unions. Playpens were provided to 45, of these children, of which children received only the playpens. All children were followed-up until their month birthday or administrative censoring (fixed timepoint to stop observing the drowning deaths), after a two-year implementation period (–). Drowning IR were estimated for children and compared to corresponding baseline rates from Age-specific drowning IR under different “as treated” categories (playpen-only, creche-only, and playpen-plus-creche) were compared to the baseline rates experienced by the categorized households prior to intervention.

Results

A total of creches (average of 7 creches per village) were established, and , children aged 9–47 months were exposed to the intervention packages. Aggregated drowning IRs between age 0 and 47 were estimated per , population per year at (95% CI: –) and (95% CI: –) in the baseline and post implementation period, respectively. Risk ratios were (95% CI: –) overall, and (95% CI: –), (95% CI: –), and (95% CI: –) in children under the creche-only, aged, 1, 2, and 3 years old respectively. Inexplicably, drowning rates were statistically significantly higher post-intervention in children  months. There was no mortality reduc

Natalia Jones-Pinkney was a school pupil in the class that US President George W Bush was visiting when he was told of the 9/11 attacks. The media descended on her community - but much of what they reported was at odds with what Natalia had seen for herself. The experience shaped the way she views the current election.

For weeks, her family had been reminding her that she would remember this day for the rest of her life. On this particular Tuesday morning, in Sarasota Florida, seven-year-old Natalia Jones-Pinkney's mother, Stephanie, woke her up earlier than usual, to put extra tight half-braids in her hair.

"Remember what we talked about," she said as she smoothed out Natalia's crisp white shirt and grey shorts. "You're going to keep it down and be on your best behaviour. The world is going to see you today."

The girl nodded. It was a valuable reminder. Natalia knew that she had a theatrical streak. When she played in the road, she told anyone who'd listen that she was going to be famous one day, that she would make millions, and she'd help her whole family. But that outgoing persona had to be contained every now and then, her mother would tell her, especially on a day like this Tuesday.

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"There were limousines everywhere. There were police on horses," she says. "I thought 'Oh my God!' There were men in suits and sunglasses, the secret service, it was like a scene out of Men in Black. And there were so many white people."

School was an extension of home for Natalia. Her aunt Josephine worked in the cafeteria there, and it was less than a minute's walk. This was the first time Natalia had seen so many unfamiliar faces in the area.

Ushered through a metal detector, Natalia was taken to a classroom wh

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On his father's property on Pope's Creek in Westmoreland county, Virginia, George Washington, the most famous person in American history, was born on February 22, Augustine, his father, was thrice married and was a third-generation English colonist who was well-established in the middle classes of the gentry of Virginia. Before his first wife, Jane Butler Washington, passed away in , he had two sons, Lawrence and Augustine Jr,in the years and George was born the following year after Augustine married Mary Ball () in After Samuel, Charles, John Augustine, and Mildred, there were five more kids. In the early s, the Washington family moved from Westmoreland County to Augustine, Sr. Plantation, located on Little Hunting Creek. They continued to reside there until they relocated to a property on the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg.

An Early Career for a Young Washington: Surveying the Land

Even though he lost his father as a young child, George Washington became known as the "Father of his country." When Augustine Washington passed away in , when George was eleven, his half-brothers received most of his wealth. Augustine, Jr. inherited the Westmoreland County estate where George was born. At the same time, Lawrence obtained the Little Hunting Creek farm, which he eventually called Mount Vernon after Admiral Edward Vernon, a general with whom he had served in the War of Jenkins' Ear. Even though George had inherited the relatively modest Rappahannock River estate where he had lived with his mother and brothers, this was not enough to keep him in the Virginia gentry's middle class. George's mother rejected the suggestion from his half-brother Lawrence that he pursue a career in the British navy. Instead, he received training to become a land surveyor, a career of great significance in Virginia, as a colonial settlement quickly encroached on the Shenandoah Valley and other regions of western Virginia.

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