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After a Seven Year Break from Working Out, Dave Finds the Motivation to Join a Gym
I've been telling myself for several weeks that it's time to start taking better care of myself and get back into a workout routine. I suppose my excuses dried up, and the reasons to get back into shape finally won out. So yesterday, I decided to make the time, and committed to joining a gym.This morning was the first time I've worked out since 2006.
I'm not overweight, and I don't have any medical problems that I know of (knock on wood). I'm not interested in bulking up to a point that I look like a leather couch cushion, and I don't believe there will be any dramatic before/after photos, unless I shave my head or get a tattoo. But there are two key reasons that pushed me over the hump and motivated me to get back to the gym. First, a couple of my coworkers have recently joined gyms, and hearing them talk about their experiences has been inspiring. Also, my dad has had some health scares in the past few weeks that has me looking into the future, hoping that's not me 30 years from now. It's eye opening to have someone who is in the hospital, struggling with health issues tell you that you need to be sure to take care of yourself.
As of the moment I'm typing this, I am one hour removed from my first visit to the gym in 7 years. After running (okay, and walking at times) for a mile on the treadmill and doing a very basic upper body workout, my legs are burning and my arms feel very weak. In fact, all I want to do is move my keyboard somewhere so I can continue typing while I rest my arms on my desk. I'm praying that no one asks me to lift anything today. I'm thinking ahead to later today, hoping I will recoup enough use of my arms to pick up my 18 month old daughter - a feat that seems all but impossible at this moment.
I've been through this part before. The first two weeks of beginning a workout routine is the most difficult as you try to retrain muscles that have gone unused for so long. While my aches and pains remind me what I did to myself this morning, I know that when I get through this stage and stick to a routine, I will begin feeling better than I have in years.
Like many people, sticking to the game plan is not the easiest thing for me when it comes to working out. Priorities like family and work will get in the way of my routine. Temptations like deep fried food and stout beers will challenge my motivation. But the plan is to keep focused on the goals of feeling better, staying healthy and being a positive influence on my kids.


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Apple's iconic Fifth Avenue NYC store has gotten a face lift, with the cube itself being completely rebuilt. And it was just unveiled Friday.
The old cube was comprised of 90 pieces of glass held together by visible fasteners. The new cube uses only 15 panes of larger glass, and are held together seamlessly with no fasteners required.
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A marine facing discharge after running a Facebook page criticizing the Obama administration is now backed by a team of lawyers to fight the alleged violation.
Sgt. Gary Stein, 26, will appear before a military board at Camp Pendleton near San Diego Thursday because of a Pentagon policy barring service members from joining political activities, according to the Associated Press. His lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union say his views are protected by the First Amendment.
Stein started a page on Facebook called the Armed Forces Tea Party to "encourage fellow service members to exercise their free speech rights," he said. But once he wrote that he would not follow unlawful orders from Obama, the Marine Corps took administrative action. Stein said the comment stemmed from an online debate about NATO forces allowing U.S. troops to be tried for Koran burnings in Afghanistan and how he would not follow orders to detain or disarm those American troops.
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Free speech for service members has been limited in the U.S. armed forces since the Civil War, and that also means criticizing the commander in chief. Stein could be discharged and have his rank reduced to lance corporal if he is proven to be in violation of military laws.
Call Press:Here cynical, but we would be a lot more sympathetic if this Marine hadn't started an obviously political-themed Armed Forces Tea Party Facebook page. It wasn't like it was "Meeting with Marines," and it was a bunch of Marines chilling on Facebook and then this all blew up. Sgt. Gary Stein knew he was pressing the military's buttons with his Facebook page from the beginning and was courting a military violation. The idea that he's been backed by two Republican Congressmen also seems to reek with partisanship and politics rather than free speech.


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- InformationRio+20 gives the opportunity to produce new proposals to conceive and organize the transition towards sustainable societies. This section will try systematically to gather them progressively during the process.
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- Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation
- Human rights, peoples, territories, and defense of Mother Earth
- Political subjects, the architecture of power, and democracy
- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
October 09 2011 A civilization shift: contribution ot the French Collectif Rio+20 to prepare the Rio+20 Summit
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In July 2010, future formats. associations, environmental NGOs, citizen movements and unions) took the initiative to meet in the form of a collective that discusses the risks around the next Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in June 2012: Rio+20. The Collective RIO+20, which nowadays counts about 40 organisations, has two goals: the valorisation of its expertise and mobilisation, which will be working together during 2011 and 2012. The superior area is destined for the identity sign, and on the rest of the page the verbal message gains space. We are all aware of need of a paradigm shift. It is obvious that Governments and International Institutions won't be able to do it without civil mobilisation. Our duty is thus to elaborate a Declaration of citizens. Regarding the United Nations, the only representative of all countries, we intend to promote an effective re- take of multilateralism, which will include all the actors, truly missing nowadays.
Members of the Collectif RIO+20 : 4D, ACFCI, AEOO, Aitec-Ipam, Artisans du Monde, ATTAC, CCFD Terre Solidaire, CFDT, CFSI, CRID, Comité 21, France Nature Environnement, Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme, Forum pour une nouvelle gouvernance mondiale, HELIO International, IDDRI, Igapu- ra, Institut Veblen, La Ligue de l'enseignement, Les Petits Débrouillards, LittOcean, Orée, Oxfam France, Pactes Locaux, Réseau Ecole et Nature, Réseau Action Climat – France, Réseau féministe « Ruptures », Réseau Environnement Santé, Syndex, Varda Group, VECAM, VivAgora. Others organisations worked with the Collectif RIO+20.Proposals and abstracts
The Rio Conference that will take place in June 2012 shall consider the matters that human kind is facing today, by focussing on two main issues: the ecological and social conversion of our societies, and thus of our economic system, and the construction of new forms of international cooperation, engaging the responsibility of all actors.
The world has deeply changed since the Rio Conference in 1992. On one side, the economic space has been globalised. It is today characterised by the raise of emerging countries and by a systemic crisis, which is affecting the long time industrialised countries, but also the poorest ones. It includes ecological, social, economic and political aspects. On the other side, there is a need of a common management of the planet when it comes to climate change, erosion of biodiversity or even inequalities of access to natural resources, considering they are rarer each day. We simultaneously live in an economic unification of the world, conflicts and a doubled competition to corner wealth, and the confrontation to the limits of our planet. Despite the global growth, it is still impossible to apply the engagements defined by the Millennium Development Goals, to fight against the hunger endured by over one thousand million people, to stop the erosion of social protection mechanisms, to shore up the emergence of chronical diseases noticed worldwide, to stop speculation and financial deregulation. These changes have multiple causes and cannot be solved in a situation of economic deregulation. Market economy cannot take environment pressures into account, neither the disparities of resources. Furthermore, the research of financial advantages causes more social and economic differentials, and accelerates ecological instability, contributing even more to an increasing asymmetry of power. Today's limits of multilateralism show the end of a period in which Nation-States dominated industrial, economic, social and political stakes, thus contributing to the increase of inequali- ties. Nevertheless, the necessary institutions and instruments used to manage the various is- sues, which must be dealt with worldwide, are very insufficient, if existing. We must build the means for a real planetary regulation.
Facing OUTDATED thresholds of acceptability and VIABILITY : PREPARE THE TRANSITION TOWARDS A CIVILISATION SHIFT
Preparing the transition towards a new civilisation means firstly defining the values, which correspond to a general interest raised at the level of all human kind. This notion of general interest must be defined in new terms, inspired on social and cultural diversity. Various experiences in the world, at the initiative of social movements, already draw the different ways of an ecological and social transition in a pragmatic way.
The eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequalities are the first condition to transition
Reducing inequalities and fighting against poverty constitute the first priority. Without signi- ficant progress in these issues, countries' social cohesion and political stability are at stake. Without it there will be no individual adhesion, no collective dynamics, no international agreements. The reduction of inequalities involves the establishment of the International Labour Bureau rules, on decent work conditions and the construction of an universal social protection; the reinforcement of national politics in order to reduce income inequalities and a better distribution of wealth; build supportive systems so that a great amount of people count benefit from the right to healthcare, the fair relocation of activities and the establishment of food and energy sovereignty; the submission of the international economic negotiations to the social and environmental rules; the development of collective consumptions (transportation, housing), connected to efficiency measures and access for all.
Gender, a major transversal issue for transition
The issue of the evolution of social relationships between men an women (Gender) is still the most discharded matter in the systemic crisis, although it is at the heart of both crisis and solutions to solve it. Change the relationships should be a pivot to a strategic discussion on the means to transition towards a sustainable development, which is based on an equal allocation of resources, within the ecological limits of the biosphere. Moreover, women are specific actors and important alternatives to open new paths of social innovation and prefigure a more human and inclusive development.
A global citizenship: from local to global, individual and collective responsibility
The willingness of solidarity and justice will nurture the construction of a collective capacity of action. From this notion of global citizenship, and thus from a common destiny, arises the notion of individual and collective responsibility. It is important to specify the essential components of the new social contract, which will enable the opening of differentiated paths to make transition possible towards fair and sustainable societies… towards a new civilization.
Using resources: optimization, sharing and sobriety
The adaptation of our societies to the limits of the planet will go by the optimisation, but mainly by the sobriety and sharing in the use of resources. Waste is antisocial and anti ecological. This optimisation of the management of resources needs the support to knowledge, to local pilot projects, and an international regulation, which over surpasses today's blind liberalism to integrate superior planet obligations. The notion of ecological space, which articulates sobriety – for the preservation of ecosystems – and equity – in order to satisfy the basic needs of all – promotes a fair and sustainable use of resources.
Recognizing a definition of « global public goods » and « common goods »
From the compelling need to build a vision of general interest on basic goals, it is necessary to agree on the definitions of common goods and also on global goods, making sure that their management obeys to principles that are higher than the rules of competition. Common goods request citizens' commitment and the definition of usage rules. This approach based of cooperation – and not on com- petition and privatization – is more likely to enable an ecological and social sustainability of societies. Moreover, the preservation of global goods (atmosphere, oceans, health…) can only be possible with intergovernmental agreements, which are applicable to users' communities. That is the reason why the United Nations is the place to define the goods and to promote the experiences of collective reappropriation of these goods.
A SUSTAINABLE END OF CRISIS REQUIRES CRITERIA OF GENERAL INTEREST, TAX INSTRUMENTS FOR TRANSITION, SCALES TO ESTABLISH SOLIDARI- TIES… THE NECESSARY PRE-REQUests OF OUR VISION OF TRANSITION
It is a new vision of development that the Rio+20 Conference shall transmit for societies in eco- logical and social transition, for a systemic shift. The strength of issues requests major social transformations, which commit all levels of society and can only be possible on a democratic basis.
Ecological and social transition as a way out of crisis
The answer to financial, economic, social and environmental crises is to be found in news paths of development, which will rely on the sobriety of wealthy people's life style; the improvement of living conditions in developing countries by ensuring the access to essential services and to fundamental rights; the distribution of wealth through tax; new production, exchange and consuming processes; the cheap management of non renewable resources; prioritize short circuits of production and distribution; new society and environmental responsibilities for the firms. This path should be created in the perspective of an economic regulation based on principles of general interest, which are imposed on economic and financial logics, and lead not only to economic changes, but also on a regulated economy and an inflexion of individual and collective behaviours. Therefore, new goals, concepts, actors or institutions must integrate ecological sustainability and social justice, and shall not consider green economy as the only approach as it does not include a social dimension, which not only nurtures progress but also technological illusion. It is important that the concept of « green economy » is based on the fundamental principle of « durability », which is contrary to today's characteristics of our societies, based on over-consumption, individualism and priority to short term.
Green economy, as it should be understood, must correspond to new economic and technological social principles, towards the optimisation of the use of resources and the global reduction of material pressure on non-renewable resources. At the bottom of the economic system stands the construction of sustainable societies, which associate both the well-being of all and the preservation of the planet's integrity; the general improvement of life and health conditions and a just remuneration of Labour; an economy based on functionality which favours the access to consumption goods at the expense of personal property; the coherence of the downstream of technological and professional sectors and technologies which enable the creation of qualified and decent jobs, accompanied by life- lasting trainings; the input of local knowledge; natural or semi-natural spaces and habitats by making the entities at the origin of the damages pay for its restoring; the reduction of waste at source and a circular economy with recycling, the development of short circuits specially in the food sector, and long circuits when they are guarantors of a fair remuneration and a low impact on natural resources and environment; the knowledge of resources for a better perception of limits, an ecological management and a better inter- and intra- generational distribution. The path to prosperity without growth will be long. That is the reason why it is necessary to start it as fast as possible, taking into account the considerable differences between societies in order to enable the access to elementary goods and to decent life and labour conditions, for the whole planet population. The research for new paths of development needs to establish ecological and social transition as a way out of crisis.
An instrument of transition: the revalorisation of the tax role
Financing public goods, the transition towards societies with less carbon and the preservation of biodiversity, request public resources and the establishment of global taxes, such as the tax on financial transactions.
The need to surpass the use of the GDP growth in favour of more representative indi- cators of a sustainable development
New indicators, representative of the non-evaluated dimensions by the GDP such as the quality of life or the ecological and social sustainability, must be created. It is not viable to pilot change with indicators, which ignore the reality of the planet's limits.
The crucial role of local authorities in regulation
In a globalised economy, local authorities become the level of creation of solidarities. From a subsidiary point of view, a partnership with local and regional governments is essential to the establishment of viable and balanced responses, which include the organized civil society as a stakeholder when conducting actions. Territories are essential in multi-level governance.
The need to leave a society of consumption which is unjust and predatory regarding the planet and replace it by a relational society
There is no such thing as an optimisation path of the use of resources and of respect of environ- mental stability with the generalisation of the excessive consumption society model, and thus with a slow progress in education and culture. Today's challenges open a path towards cultural progression, and request a democratic step forward: there are infinite possibilities in this finite world. The infinite is open by the technologies of information and communication, but also by the development of arts, which support human capacities to invent life styles based on solidarity, develop new knowledge and competences, without substituting human and social relations. Relationship with others, social link, access to knowledge, cultural creativity and access to other cultures constitute infinite assets, which are multiplied when shared. Today's consumption society cannot be accessible to the entire human kind as its extension in new emerging counties is incompatible with the respect of the planet's limits (energetic and environmental). Publicity has a key role in today's mechanisms. It distils a promise towards consumers, which consists in promising the improvement of living conditions by the increase of individual consumption. It is thus necessary to open new paths of satisfaction, which are compatible with the constraints of this century, rely on common values, rooted in different cultures and philosophies.
Build a promise to people, put human kind at the centre
Sustainable development must open a successful life perspective, in this century's context. The Rio+20 Conference must send a message of hope for each and every person, in order to enable the change from a civilization of disparities and excess to a cooperative and relational one, representing transition.
Democratic progress, the condition to a reinforced governance based on general interest
A real change in civilisation necessarily requires a democratic progress. The actual change in our civilisation shall answer to this requirement. It is the democratic strengthening that enables to follow the deep upheavals, which destabilise earlier representations regarding economy, technologies, life styles and attitudes. These political progresses must be operated at four levels: at a citizen level, at a grassroots democracy level, at a national level and at a supranational level. It is thus essential that public politics become a phase of an elaboration largely open to structures of civil society and citizens, but also economic actors, and this specifically because of power asymmetry. Such a construction will assess the orientations to take and will build a strong man- date for the elected, which will facilitate both the decision taking and its application.
Rethink international architecture of governance in the united nations for more regulation and new engagements
The construction process of a new world governance requires a reform to be conducted within the United Nations, in order to adapt its architecture and efficiency to all the social and environ- mental issues. Only an Assembly of States can decide to create new international institutions that are necessary to human kind. Beyond the Treaty of Westphalia, which founded the international system based on national sovereignty, the transformation of today's civilisation requires the constitution of an international framework above countries which is legally binding. In fact, the engagements taken by a country in an international negotiation will only be obtained if it has the conviction that the others are also in the obligation to respect their engagement. Betrayal can only be possible with the creation of concepts, institutions and a management culture from local to global, intrinsic to multi-level governance.
The present increase of institutions of governance: the United Nations, G8, G20,… increases confusion and leads to inaction
Keeping economic institutions (International Trade Organisation, World Bank, International Monetary Fund) separate from the United Nations leads to, on one side, a political institution without economic and legal power, and on the other side, to an organised economic power based on the financial contribution of countries. The need to re-regulate the world economy requires a more direct link between politics and economy, a balance between people, societies and the biosphere. Firms cannot create this balance. We need to conceive sustainable sectors, which involve traceability on the whole sector of production and exchange. Rio+20 must be the starting point of a cycle of international negotiations, lead on new bases, which will enable to relaunch multilateralism, establish a negotiation mandate and a global calendar, the constitution of an international commission of management, the establishment of an annual cycle of international negotiations.
Decisions to be taken in the final document of the Rio-2012 Conference
In order to reform the United Nations it is necessary to organise a Conference of highest-level. This reform would consist in enlarging the Security Council; in reforming the Ecosoc in order to guarantee a process of representativeness and participation of local public powers and civil society organisations; in creating an executive organ inside the United Nations, which coordinates the agencies and programs in application of a sustainable development strategy.
A binding legal framework and the establishment of control and sanction bodies
The United Nations must have two types of supranational bodies. On one side, knowledge and control bodies – at a planet level and at a "big regions" level able to establish a recognised report of scientific knowledge, to establish rules for sharing, to observe the respect of global rules and to investigate the responsibilities which originated pollutions and other infringements to rules. On the other side, international jurisdictions that are capable of establishing sanctions against States and multinational firms, whose guilt would be thus established and they would be forced to apply according to an instruments' palette according to an incremental penalty scheme. Finally, we cannot expect to increase the abilities of International Criminal Court regarding the distortions made to environmental heritage if an international environmental jurisdiction is not created.
Establish an Intergovernmental Group of Experts about sustainability
In order to define the conditions for sustainability by integrating its social dimension, and to measure them with indicators dedicated to the finiteness of natural resources and environmental limits, it is essential to establish the equivalent to the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Changes concerning sustainability and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for durability.
The reinforcement induced of environment in the framework of an International Environment Organisation
The establishment of an IEO should be operated in three steps.
- Firstly, a reinforcement of the UNEP, of its missions and of its means, enabling it to cover all international conventions on environment; this will enable to coordinate and adapt the various international conventions on environment;
- Secondly, acquire new abilities in terms of sanctions to the firms and States, which suggests the constitution of an international dispute settlement body.
- Finally, the adoption of a treaty for the creation of the IEO, which mentions that the new agency has the power to subsume the activities, the functions and the resources of the UNEP.
The preparation of new international conventions
Especially on the management of international waters and the seabed; the rights of indigenous people; the rights of climate refugees; and the adoption to existing rules regarding the principles of sustainable development.
Towards a new Breton-Wood in order to establish an international financial regulation to support development
It is necessary to establish an international economic regulation, an initiative that urgently re- quires a redesign of the actual world governance. This implies the integration of the ITO in the United Nations, including its dispute settlement body; the harmonisation of tax at an international level – in order to curb the crisis, this harmonisation must be done through a treaty that collects the agreement of all countries so it is not circumvented by tax havens -; the adoption of international financing rules for development; the effective application of the developed countries' engagement to allocate 0,7% of their gross national income to development aid; the establishment of a tax on international financial transactions, to guarantee the necessary North-South transfer to move towards a new path for development – its product must be affected according to three purposes: the ADP, the funding of a transaction to economies that are sober in carbon (adaptation and attenuation) and a "fair" transition for industrialised countries; the adoption of the following principles: transparency of developed countries' contributions, the principle of direct access for developing countries, decentralisation of the attribution of funding and the quality control of passed investments.
Our role of Bonn in Rio is to contribute to what could be a citizen's declaration. Only one strong speech expressed in front of the whole world, backed up by media, will be able to give the initial push, essential to the change of paradigm in our societies.
Our Propositions:
- Facing OUTDATED thresholds of acceptability and VIABILITY : PREPARE THE TRANSITION
- A SUSTAINABLE END OF CRISIS REQUIRES CRITERIA OF GENERAL INTER- EST, TAX INSTRUMENTS FOR TRANSITION, SCALES TO ESTABLISH SOLIDARITIES... THE NECESSARY PREREQUests OF OUR VISION OF TRANSITION
- Democratic progress, the condition to a reinforced governance based on general interest t rethink international architecture of governance in the united nations for more regulation and new engagements
Actores All actors
Axis Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation ◾ Human rights, peoples, territories, and defense of Mother Earth ◾ Political subjects, the architecture of power, and democracy ◾ Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
Regions Europe
Themes Multi-themes
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I started this blog in 2009. Three years ago, I was a very different person. Well actually, I was the same person but I saw things very differently. I started my blog for the same reason many of us start blogs. The feeling of an escape from life, or perhaps the need to have something new that is utterly and completely in your control. In my case, it was both.
The blank page was my best friend. I could fill it up with whatever I wanted. Life was a mess, but the page was clean.
I didn't really care who read the blog. I loved to write. Writing made me happy, and my happiness had nothing to do with how many views my posts received. I learnt that I was my biggest critic. If I liked my post, then it didn't matter who else did. If I hated it, all the positive feedback in the world wouldn't be able to convince me I did a good job.
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I seemed to have forgotten why I started this blog. The main reason this blog even exists is so that I don't take myself too seriously. Ironically, I've never taken myself more seriously. For example, take this very post. It took me two weeks to write it and an hour and a half to come up with a title.
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My version of the creative process:
Of course, I cannot blame my blogging blocks entirely on Freshly Pressed. A lot of it was also personal issues that added to the mix.
While I may have been absent from blogging, I wasn't completely absent from reading some of the blogs I`m subscribed to. Mainly, you guys. This is where I talk about why Freshly Pressed was the best thing that ever happened to me. Take this any way you want to (actually, please take this in a good way) but I envied you all.
You all are fearless writers. (Yes, you!) Whether it's a post about finding roses in the garbage disposal, or a post about getting mad when people call you by stupid nicknames, or a post about the joy of getting voting stickers, you guys taught me that I shouldn't care too much about other people's opinions. Even if I do, it shouldn't stop me from writing. You all have the metaphorical pair of blogger balls that I really need to start growing.
Eventually of course, my summer pity party ended and I started writing again. Even if it was a post about talking to my blender, it had to be written if only to break the cycle of fear of not being liked. This post has no fancy play on words, no clever puns (except the blogger balls one, which is really a metaphor and not that funny). It`s the first time in a long time that I'm not trying desperately hard to impress everyone.
If you have gotten to the end of this post- Thank You. I may have spent a whole post talking about how you are indirectly the cause of my writing anxiety, but you are also directly the cause of infinite encouragement and inspiration. I could write another 3000 words about how awesome you guys are but I won`t because I'd like to stop being such a sap and get back to my usual no-nonsense sarcastic self.
To all of you awesome WordPress bloggers, seeing you guys regularly on my reader has inspired me by kicking my ass into gear. Now I'd like to know your secrets: Why did you start blogging? How do you get past social acceptance fears? Does blogging ever feel like a job?


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By Amanda Paniagua, Shipments Manager, MedShare
This week, thanks to a generous grant from an anonymous benefactor, MedShare's Regional Repesentative in Ecuador Marco Galarza, MedShare supporter Dr. Dan Goldberg, and myself, Shipments Manager Amanda Paniagua, have had the remarkable opportunity to visit several recipient health care centers in Ecuador's Amazonian basin. We arrived at midday on Monday in Puyo, the capital city of Pastaza Province, to the warmest of welcomes. The Municipal Government of Puyo, which has just sponsored the shipment of two containers of medical supplies and equipment from MedShare for the local healthcare system, had prepared a most touching ceremony for us in the Coliseum, complete with a brass band and local press! After speeches by the Mayor Mr. Gérman Flores, his wife and President of the municipal charity foundation Mrs. Jimena Brito, and other community representatives, donated walkers and PET vehicles were ceremoniously presented to local disabled children, adults, and the elderly.
After lunch, we were taken on a tour of Puyo Hospital, one of the central Ministry of Health referral hospitals for the entire Pastaza Province, a territory that expands over 29,800 square km and 60,000 inhabitants! "The hospital is running over 300% capacity right now," said Dr. Barroso, Chief of Pediatrics and Medical Director of the Municipal charity foundation that sponsored the container. "The average hospital stay for is 3-5 days per patient, and we don't have enough beds." As luck would have it, MedShare received a donation of electric hospital beds just in time to include 26 on one of the two containers that were shipped to Puyo in December.
Puyo Hospital's jurisdiction includes thousands of square miles of thick Amazon jungle, where seven different ethnic tribes live in tiny rural settlements without electricity, running water or roads to Puyo city. In many of these indigenous communities, the only way to reach the hospital during medical emergencies is by small planes called in via two-way radio. But when the weather is foggy or rainy, which happens frequently, the planes can't fly.
During our hospital visit we met a young boy who had been bitten by a poisonous snake in his jungle village and had been flown into Puyo in under emergency evacuation. He was a member of the Waorani tribe, which was explained to me to be the most isolated out of the seven indigenous tribes. The child had arrived naked, as the Waorani traditionally wear only very beautiful and intricate head adornments and body paint, so the hospital staff had dressed him in a pair of pajamas. When we visited, he was visibly scared of the strange surroundings, but was receiving the best of medical care and was expected to make a full recovery. Snake bites are one of the most frequent medical dangers seen in this region of Ecuador.
The Ministry of Health and the Municipal government are obviously deeply committed to their people and are working tirelessly to improve the health care delivery system to reach those in the most isolated areas. While at the Puyo Hospital we met a young mother from the indigenous Kichwa tribe who had been flown in from the jungle community of Pakayacu with her infant daughter. The child was eight months old, but due to extreme malnutrition, weighed only a staggering 3500 grams- about the average weight of a healthy newborn. Chief Nurse Irma Naveda told me that these critical cases of malnutrition had been a chronic problem in that particular village in the past years, but thanks to the efforts of a 4-person medical team stationed by the Ministry of Health a few years ago in Pakayacu, they the rate was reduced by over 50%.
MedShare is fortunate to have such qualified, committed partners as the Ministry of Health and Municipal government of Puyo. Deep thanks to Mayor Gérman Flores, Mrs. Presidente Jimena Brito, Dr. Barroso, Nurse Irma Naveda, and all others for their warm hospitality and for showing us their outstanding work in the public health system of Paztasa province. Their dedication and love for the local people is truly an inspiration. MedShare is fortunate to have such qualified and committed partners, we hope to work together again on more containers for Paztaza Province very soon!
Special thanks goes to Marco Galarza for all his hard work coordinating this donation.


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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, Sept. 16
Picks of the day
- 7-for-14 (.500) vs. WSH LHP Odalis Perez
- .379 AVG vs. LHP in '08
- 4-for-11 (.364) vs. PHI LHP Jamie Moyer
- .481 AVG during 6-game hit streak
Top 5 current leaders
1. jtfluet5 (Dustin Pedroia)
2. flyers228 (Ichiro Suzuki)
3. bert7 (Dustin Pedroia)
3. jwwadd (Magglio Ordonez)
5. KELVIN (Michael Young)
5. chrisr_777 (Ichiro Suzuki)
5. greencircle (Ichiro Suzuki)
BTS season leader: Robert Paradise, 48
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
After joining elite company over the weekend, BTS leader jtfluet5 went one step further yesterday, extending his streak to 41 games when Dustin Pedroia went 1-for-3 vs. Tampa Bay. It marks the second-longest streak all season, behind the memorable 48-game run from spooky93.
Pedroia was tabbed by nearly 11 percent of users, making him yesterday's most popular BTS pick. The Red Sox second baseman also pushed bert7's streak to 25 games, alongside third-place counterpart jwwadd.
And six Top 10 competitors benifited from Ichiro Suzuki's 1-for-4 performance against Kansas City, including chrisr_777, greencircle and second-place competitor flyers228.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 10.7%, 1-for-3
2. Manny Ramirez (LAD): 8.9%, 3-for-4
3. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 8.3%, 1-for-4
4. Matt Holliday (COL): 4.5%, 0-for-5
5. Derek Jeter (NYY): 4.3%, 0-for-4
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Spooky93 with his wallet a little fatter would like to give Carlos Beltran a big thanks for his 0-4 last night. Sleep well pickmaster!
Yeah, I don't quite understand the picks when the leaders lose. Odalis Perez is quite a good left handed pitcher and his BAA is probably no better than .250. Coupled with a team struggling to score runs and a guy who bats 4th in the order, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Manny Ramirez made a lot more sense yesterday, since he was going against Jeff Karstens who has struggled recently, is batting .329 on the season, the Dodgers are hot, etc.
Hey Ojvairo, Woulda seemed like a great pick if he got a hit wouldn't it have…How far did you get in BTS you dink!
looks like spooky93 takes home the $10,000 cash prize.hope mlb.com isn't having trouble like some of our banks.best of luck collecting pickmaster.if you do have any trouble let me know,my uncle guido works on only 20%.
"Hey Ojvairo, Woulda seemed like a great pick if he got a hit wouldn't it have…How far did you get in BTS you dink!"
No, it still would have been a bad pick. He just would have gotten lucky that time.
For example, suppose he picked a guy batting .220, hit 8th in the order, the team was home, and going up against Tim Linecum.
That would be a terrible pick…even if he got a hit. Because even if he did get a hit, would you suggest continuing to pick under those same conditions over and over?
For a good pick, you would obviously say yes. But would you say that for a bad pick?
Another example was when someone was at 35 games earlier in the year and picked Jorge Posada against Roy Halladay when Halladay was in a zone. Posada typically only hits 6th in the order and wasn't even that hot at the time and I remember seeing a big red flag go up and sure enough he went 0 for 3 and the Yankees got 2 hits as a team.
My career best is ~ 20, how about you?
And do you play Beat the Streak: Home Run Edition and MLB.com Survivor contests also?
Note: For anyone from the MLB fantasy department, we need a separate blog next year for those contests as well.
Also, the prize for MLB.com Survivor needs to be seriously amped up, especially the prize if no one reaches 27 games.
Finally, those same in-depth searching features found in the Beat the Streak leaderboard need to be unlocked for Beat the Streak: Home Run Edition and Survivor as well.
And also, one last quick thing, when will registration for the Postseason Survivor begin and will there be any Beat the Streak contests for the postseason this year?
I am confused as to their omission in years' past?
Thank you for your time!


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The Daily Word in Mi Vida Loca, close calls and deep sea treasure
Egypt's polarized runoff election continues to heat up.
A damaging earthquake in Italy is the second to hit the country in 10 days.
Western countries increase diplomatic pressure on Syria's president Bashar al-Assad in the wake of civilian massacre.
Johnny Tapia's New York Times obituary.
Miguel Abeyta, 72, thwarts his wife's would-be purse snatcher.
The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire is still zero percent contained, and growing.
The Trust for America's Health named New Mexico the
riskiest state in the country for leading in the number of preventable deaths.
A new poll shows Martin Heinrich and Heather Wilson leading the race for Jeff Bingaman's vacant senate seat, while Eric Griego and Michelle Lujan-Grisham appear to be in a dead heat for the 1st Congressional District.
Zombie-averse residents in Miami witnessed a "growling cannibal" on an overpass before he was fatally shot by police.
The virus infecting Iranian computers is called "Flame," and it's part of a sophisticated cyberespionage project.
Ancient Roman shipwrecks were discovered in deep waters.
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When it rains, Reds lose on Opening Day
In 10 years at ballpark, it's rained four times
In the 10 years that Great American Ball Park has been open, it has rained on Opening Day four times.
Great American Ball Park opened in 2003. In the years it has rained on Opening Day, the Reds have lost. The Reds have lost six of the 10 opening-day games. They won last in 2011 and 2012.
There was measurable rainfall on Opening Day in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
The average high on Opening Day is 61 degrees. The average low is 40. 2008 was the wettest Opening Day.
The warmest Opening Day at Great American Ball Park was 81 degrees in 2010. The coldest Opening Day was in 2011 when it was 44 degrees.
WLWT meteorologist Randi Rico said a passing cold front will drop temperatures during the day Monday. The high is likely to be at midnight with temperatures falling throughout the day. Monday will be windy with a chance of rain or maybe even snow showers.


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The third-year Bay Area native will depart on Wednesday for a two-week stint with the defending Danish Superliga champions. He has five appearances during his three seasons in San Jose. Bingham was an All-American at Cal before landing with the Earthquakes through a weighted lottery on Jan. 26, 2011. He started one regular season game in 2013, a 2-1 win against FC Dallas on Oct. 26 at Buck Shaw Stadium.
FC Copenhagen is fourth in the Danish Superliga through 14 games this season.


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This is especially true when considered in the wake of the Court's much earlier 5-4 "Kelo" decision, which permits local governments to claim "eminent domain" as an excuse to seize private property from some individuals and transfer it to other private individuals (political cronies).
If the U.S. Constitution can be construed so as to permit government to force you -- under penalty of law -- to buy designated products from crony-capitalist companies, or allow it to simply take your private property and hand it over to politically connected cronies, then the Bill of Rights is a dead letter. Any way you cut it, today's ruling affirms the premise of collectivism over the rights of individuals. In essence, it says that the government, through legislatures, is in principle unconstrained in its power over the individual.
That this latest ruling was made possible only with the complicity of a pragmatic judicial "conservative," Chief Justice John Roberts, only underscores the philosophical chaos reigning in the nation today. It is so symbolic that the Court's left was united in their support of the mandate, but that the conservatives were philosophically fractured: That, in a microcosm, has been the case throughout our modern political history, which is why we see steady, inexorable triumphs by the political left.
I said before this morning's decision that the Court was likely to "split the difference" between conservatives and liberals in their decision. I was too optimistic: This decision was a complete surrender to the united far left of Court. The reason is this: Conservatism has never been a coherent political philosophy, rooted in a defined, consistent set of principles. There are as many varieties of "conservatives" as there are vegetables in a supermarket. Without any definite grounding in specific principles, conservatives in practice typically wind up compromising and "splitting the difference" with the left...which is committed to a specific principle: to the subordination of the individual to the state. Statism is the uncompromising principle of the left; statism is the principle underlying the "individual mandate"; and statism is the principle which Chief Justice Roberts joined the Court's liberals in championing today. (See my award-winning essay "Up from Conservatism.")
The only thing that could have spared America this sorry day would have been a commitment by a Court majority to the premise of individual rights: to the view that individuals are ends in themselves -- not mere means to the ends of some tribal collective, ends imposed by the brute power of the state. That was the Enlightenment view held by our nation's Founders, and by the Framers of the Constitution, who intended that document to be a barrier to the unlimited exercise of power by the state over individuals. Well, that view, and that document, have been obliterated today.
Do we still have liberties that we can exercise? Yes, in many respects, but only by sufferance of our rulers and by the accidents of the political process -- and no longer by legal right. The only thing that we can do now is to fight endless political and legislative battles for supremacy over the statists, but unsupported by the legal framework and precedents bequeathed to us by our forefathers.
We can begin those battles in earnest this November.
UPDATE. After having a day to peruse many commentaries about the decision, I wanted to add this about the legal travesty that just occurred.
During the legislative debate, Obama and the Dems explicitly denied that the individual mandate penalty in Obamacare was a "tax." They always referred to it as a "penalty" and a "fine." They knew that, politically, passing a giant "tax" on the middle class would be suicidal. And in fact, they never used that term anywhere in the bill.
Moreover, on the first day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court, the government lawyer, the Solicitor General, also denied that it was "a tax" under the Commerce Clause. Why? Because on legal grounds, if it was a tax under the Commerce Clause, it would run afoul of another federal law: the Anti-Injunction Act. That Act would render such a tax illegal, and therefore, Obamacare would have to be rejected as unconstitutional.
But...on the second day of the hearing, the government was also permitted to argue that it was "a tax" -- under the "taxing power" clause of the Constitution. In other words, the government was allowed to argue, simultaneously, that the "fine" was not a tax, but also that it was a tax!
In his Supreme Court opinion, Chief Justice Roberts discarded all those facts. Even though the Congress that passed Obamacare had explicitly, repeatedly denied that the fine was "a tax," and Obama (who signed it) explicitly, repeatedly denied it was a tax, Roberts arbitrarily seized upon the cynical last-minute argument from a government lawyer that it was a "tax" in order to rule that Obamacare's individual mandate was permitted under the Constitution.
Here is what Roberts actually wrote: "Under [my] theory, the mandate is not a legal command to buy insurance. Rather, it makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income."
That the federal government could tax inactivity?
This is the same John Roberts who -- earlier in his same opinion -- wrote: "The Framers gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it, and for over 200 years both our decisions and Congress's actions have reflected this understanding."
So, like the government attorneys, Roberts also was arguing out of both sides of his pen. He argues that government has no power to "compel " commerce with a "fine"; yet a few pages later, he says the government has the power to do exactly that: force people to engage in "commerce" (buy insurance) or else be hit with a whopping fine (which he arbitrarily calls a "tax").
This was a breathtaking, completely unjustified, fraudulent stretch of law and logic that nobody anticipated. And Roberts's "reasoning" incensed the four dissenting Justices, as a potent Wall Street Journal editorial points out:
In their brutal (and, in a rarity, jointly signed) dissent, Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito write that the Chief Justice's logic "is not to interpret the statute but to rewrite it.... One would expect this Court to demand more than fly-by-night briefing and argument before deciding a difficult constitutional question of first impression." They score the Chief Justice for carrying 'verbal wizardry too far, deep into the forbidden land of the sophists."
In other words, as Rush Limbaugh put it, "the whole thing is a fraud." Trickery was used at every turn to push Obamacare through Congress; fraud was now used to uphold it in the Supreme Court.
And no less a figure than the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has made the fraud possible.
The U.S. Constitution has been left in tatters. In Limbaugh's term, no longer is there a legal "backstop" to protect individual rights. If courts can simply invent, out of cloth, language and arguments that don't even appear in the laws they are adjudicating, and if those laws can swipe and transfer property, or compel you to buy government-mandated products, with no legal recourse or Bill of Rights protections, then the Constitution is -- just as I said -- truly a dead letter as a limitation on governmental power over the individual.
UPDATE #2: Chief Justice Roberts actually was AGAINST the individual mandate before he was FOR it, according to reporting by CBS. Along the way, he changed his mind, sources tell CBS, because he was worried about "public opinion" -- meaning: what politicians and the media would think of him and the Court. Read this and weep. Specifically, this is truly sickening:
"Over the next six weeks, as Roberts began to craft the decision striking down the mandate, the external pressure began to grow. Roberts almost certainly was aware of it.
"Some of the conservatives, such as Justice Clarence Thomas, deliberately avoid news articles on the Court when issues are pending (and avoid some publications altogether, such as The New York Times). They've explained that they don't want to be influenced by outside opinion or feel pressure from outlets that are perceived as liberal.
"But Roberts pays attention to media coverage. As Chief Justice, he is keenly aware of his leadership role on the Court, and he also is sensitive to how the Court is perceived by the public.
"There were countless news articles in May warning of damage to the Court – and to Roberts' reputation – if the Court were to strike down the mandate. Leading politicians, including the President himself, had expressed confidence the mandate would be upheld.
"Some even suggested that if Roberts struck down the mandate, it would prove he had been deceitful during his confirmation hearings, when he explained a philosophy of judicial restraint.
"It was around this time that it also became clear to the conservative justices that Roberts was, as one put it, "wobbly," the sources said.
"It is not known why Roberts changed his view on the mandate and decided to uphold the law. At least one conservative justice tried to get him to explain it, but was unsatisfied with the response, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation....
"Roberts then engaged in his own lobbying effort – trying to persuade at least Justice Kennedy to join his decision so the Court would appear more united in the case. There was a fair amount of give-and-take with Kennedy and other justices, the sources said. One justice, a source said, described it as 'arm-twisting'....
"The fact that the joint dissent [by the conservative Justices] doesn't mention Roberts' majority [opinion] was not a sign of sloppiness, the sources said, but instead was a signal the conservatives no longer wished to engage in debate with him."
Folks, what Roberts did is the complete antithesis of the rule of law -- the premise that we should be a nation "of laws, not of men." The "absolute" governing his ruling was not his oath of office "to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States," but public opinion.
But if public opinion is to govern the nation without limit, then why bother having a Constitution or a Supreme Court at all? In pandering to public opinion, Roberts achieved precisely the opposite of his apparent goal: He has delegitimized the reputation of the Supreme Court.


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When comics fans invaded the town of Angoulême, France, two weeks ago for the Angoulême International Comics Festival, children were well represented. That's not surprising: Children's comics are big business in France.
The big news of the festival came at the end, when Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson was awarded the Grand Prix d'Angouleme, a prize that recognizes a creator's entire body of work over his or her lifetime. Traditionally, the winner is the president of the following year's festival, but Watterson does not make public appearances and it is unlikely that he will attend.
The festival takes over the entire town, with tents and historic buildings housing exhibits, sales areas, panels, and performances. A special section, the Quartier Jeunesse, was set aside for children, with drawing and crafts workshops and the opportunity to meet artists and writers and vote for their favorite comics. During the first two days of the festival, school groups snaked through the tents that held the mainstream exhibits as well. In these tents, major French comics publishers such as Casterman, Soleil, and Dargaud hosted creator signings and sold stacks of graphic novels to eager attendees of all ages.
This year marked the 80th birthday of Le Journal de Mickey, the weekly comics magazine that popularized American comics in France and helped create modern French comics (known as bandes dessinees, or BDs). A series of billboards about the history of the magazine drew a steady crowd to the small outdoor plaza where they were displayed, alongside a car with a giant Mickey Mouse figure perched atop it. At the end of the same plaza, tourists posed next to a giant head of Herge, the creator of Tintin, possibly the most famous Franco-Belgian comic in the world.
Many of the children's properties on display in Angoulême would look familiar to an American visitor, either because they are American properties licensed in France or vice versa. A number of North American graphic novels officially were honored at the show, including the French editions of Paul Pope's Battling Boy and Ben Hatke's Zita the Spacegirl, both part of the Selection Jeunesse, and Joseph Lambert's Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller, which was included in the Selection Officielle.
Publishers were also promoting their properties via creator signings, panels, and press events. Rue de Sèvres, which publishes Zita the Spacegirl in French, brought over Ben Hatke to sign autographs at their booth, and they were also featuring another imported title: Rep. John Lewis's graphic memoir of Civil Rights movement, March Book One, retitled Wake Up America (in English) for the French audience. The publisher's press materials for the show included Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's young adult graphic novel This One Summer (Cet été la), which will be released in May, shortly after its U.S. release date.
In terms of French comics that are well known in the U.S., the festival included a special exhibit of artwork from the French comic Ernest and Rebecca (published in North America by Papercutz), the story of a sickly young girl who makes friends with a germ, a relationship that no one in her well-meaning but fractured family understands. Writer Guillaume Bianco and artist Antonello Dalena were on hand to give several drawing workshops throughout the weekend. In addition, Philippe Coudray, whose Benjamin Bear books are published Stateside by Toon Books, made an appearance at the booth of his French publisher, La Boîte à Bulles.
Manga, licensed Japanese comics, is an important part of the French comics scene—more manga were published than original Franco-Belgian comics last year—and the teen genres are the most popular, with Naruto One Piece, and Fairy Tail topping the lists.
And then there were the comics that were distinctly French, such as the girls' comic Mistinguette and the manga-ish teen property Les Legendaires. The latter seems to be something of a phenomenon, as there was both a large display about the comic and a cosplay contest (virtually the only cosplay at the festival). Despite a deluge of novelties, the legacy children's comics have not been forgotten; panels at the festival included an earnest discussion of "Tintin; What's Next?" that contemplated the possibility of a new volume of Tintin, something that is not likely to occur until after 2054, when the copyright period expires.


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hana::map part of the benchmark?
hana::map into a single json file but it takes forever.
<%= benchmark("whatever") %> you don't want to run.
.erb.json file is given to ERB, a program that executes the code inside
<%= … %> tags as Ruby code.
<%= … %> is replaced inside the file. This
benchmark(…) function is what runs the compilers 1000000x times and takes so long, so just remove those that you don't want to run.
<#% blah %> which comments out the tag
Storage to see if the keys satisfied that.
fold_left(…, insert) for creating the map.
from_just, ...) :P
optional interface, but I felt like it was better to make it closer to C++'s upcoming
insert method, though.
update_bucket metafunction over all the buckets. But the
update_metafunction is specialized such that it always does nothing, except for the bucket with some precise
Hash, it will append the index to the end of the list of indices.
hana::replace on types only with the comparison predicate being
std::is_base_of is actually very hairy, IIRC.
benchmark/map subdirectory with
benchmark/map/{at_key,make,insert}, etc.. I'm tending towards this because I feel like the baselines are otherwise not meaningful. For example, the current baseline for
at_key is a map, but we're benchmarking a tuple against it too.
hana::at_key on a
hana::make on a
hana::at_key on a
hana::tuple, and so on), and then mix and match them into charts as we want.
hana::make_map, and we'll see whether the initial cost of creating a hash map is going to be a problem in practice. Hopefully not.


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Steampunk creations, crafts, Raspberry Pi, educational kits, learn to solder areas, trebuchets, 3D printers and food trucks were among the featured exhibits at the Portland Mini Maker Faire, which was held Saturday and Sunday, September 15 and 16, 2012 at OMSI. Portland is a city that embraces DIY culture and so we've long anticipated having Maker Faire become part of the Portland scene. I was glad to be on hand for the inaugural event.
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Sanitation conditions in Haiti are gradually improving thanks to the efforts of aid workers following the earthquake that devastated the capital Port-au-Prince on 12 January 2010. However, progress has been slow and there are many obstacles that still need to be overcome.
As of 31 January 2010, the damage from the earthquake has left 112,405 dead, 196,595 injured and over 11 million people homeless, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The Haitian capital lacks sewerage infrastructure and the earthquake ruptured the city's water lines. Garbage is also accumulating in the streets which is exacerbating the health risks.
The WASH Cluster is now reaching 500,000 people with 5 litres per person per day, according to the DFID situation report of 2 February 2010. With water provision now adequate, sanitation is the next priority. The cluster reports that 7,000 latrines are needed. A distribution plan for 1,169 latrine slabs has been agreed with partners in Port-au-Prince, Leogane and Jacmel.
UNICEF video on emergency water and sanitation in Haiti
The WASH Cluster Haiti Update of 30 January 2010 reports that 292 latrines have been completed or are under construction across the country, serving a potential 29,000 people assuming 1 latrine serves 100 people. The Sanitation Strategic Working Group composed of the WASH Cluster, UNICEF, Oxfam, Care, World Vision, ACF and ICRC are proposing the use of portable chemical toilets through a joint venture between a local sanitation firm and Armal Inc.
Slow Progress
Action Against Hunger (ACF) is distributing potable water and food, although the recovery process is moving slowly, according to Lucile Grosjean from ACF in Haiti. "There is garbage everywhere," Grosjean said.
The local government did not allow ACF or any organization to dig trenches in the Haitian capital's central plaza, the Champs de Mars, said Grosjean. These trenches were to be used to dispose of the accumulating waste and human feces of between 20,000 and 25,000 people which have congregated in the area.
As a result, ACF has started to build above-ground latrines and began digging trenches to install the latrines in the Croix Deprez area, according to Grosjean.
At the same time, International Migration Organization (IOM) is distributing tents, hygiene kits, blankets, jerry cans, plastic sheeting, water bladders and water purifying kits, donated by the US, Japanese and Turkish governments. These efforts are expected to benefit some 26,000 people, IOM reported on its website.
Meanwhile, international aid organization Care is distributing hygiene kits and training survivors to purify contaminated water.
Care representatives are showing people how to use the purifying packets, since the objective is for Haitians to start carrying out the process by themselves.
"We are trying to identify people in neighborhoods or communities and train them so they can then go on to train more people," the official added.
Care will be distributing PUR packets in the coming weeks together with large buckets where water can be purified. The organization will also provide other items such as soap and sanitary napkins.
During the emergency phase of the earthquake, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ensured a round-the-clock supply of water by trucks to Cité Soleil, the poorest area of the capital Port-au-Prince.
Removing the rubble
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) is working to remove rubble and garbage, in an effort to improve general sanitation conditions.
UNDP is currently employing more than 1,000 Haitians to restart economic activity. After the emergency, the organization hired 700 inhabitants to remove rubble and rehabilitate essential social infrastructure, such as street repairs and electricity.
Prior to the earthquake UNDP had 400 employees carrying out an ecological project in Carrefour, a neighborhood located south of Port-au-Prince. Following the earthquake, the workers and trucks from this project started to remove the rubble and clean streets so other trucks carrying aid could go through, the official said.
In spite of the urgency to reorganize capital Port-au-Prince, resources continue to be limited. UNDP estimates that a US$41.3mn donation is needed for early recovery initiatives in Haiti. This is part of a nearly US$600mn flash appeal launched by UNDP on January 15. The organization estimates some US$58.8mn needs to be invested in water, sanitation and hygiene programs.
Using free transport provided by the government, more than 235,000 people have left Port-au-Prince and moved to rural neighborhoods where the effects of the earthquake were not so severe. Some 62,000 have relocated to Artibonite, for example. However, 800,000 people are still living in temporary camps in the capital, OCHA reported.
To avoid the spread of diseases, the government is planning to relocate another 400,000 from Port-au-Prince to new settlements which are being set up. The relocation program will be carried out in the coming weeks.
Next Steps
Haiti declared the search and rescue phase over on 23 January 2010 so international rescue teams are concentrating more on humanitarian aid for those who need it, instead of searching the rubble for survivors.
Multilateral entities such as the World Bank and IDB are already taking steps to waive debts. UK-based charity Oxfam has urged donor countries to have Haiti's foreign debts cancelled. It called for about US$900mn owed to the UN, the World Bank and countries including the US, France, Canada and Brazil to be written off.
Go the Reliefweb site for latest Haiti earthquake water and sanitation updates.
Source: Indiana Corrales, BNamericas.com [subscription site], 25 Jan 2010 ; OCHA, 31 Jan 2010 ; DFID, 02 Feb 2010 ; ICRC, 29 Jan 2010


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Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending the Kit Strange Memorial Lecture at the Houses of Parliament.
It was the inaugural lecture delivered by Steve Read from the Somerset Waste Partnership, in honour of the late Kit Strange who, as director of the Resource Recovery Forum, pioneered the idea of waste as a resource. I never had the chance to meet Kit, who died unexpectedly in 2011, but from the warmth, memories and respect demonstrated by Steve Read and many of his peers, it was clear that he'd had an incredible impact on the waste sector in many ways, which as householders detached from the policies, strategies and innovation, we naturally take for granted.
Over the last six years since I became curious about waste, I have found myself in a unique position as a blogger in seeing how this industry works, meeting influencers, policy makers, waste management companies, researchers, campaigners, designers and technological innovators that are directing the old dinosaur of a single stream landfill culture to one where our rubbish is treated as a valuable resource that is fed back into the economy. Many attended the lecture yesterday and it was a great opportunity to catch up with just some of the people who are continuing to develop the resource economy through recycling, organics and redesign for reuse and repair.
To coincide with the lecture, Resource Magazine also announced its highly anticipated annual Hot 100 of influencers within the Resource sector. Kit Strange was a former winner of his inspirational work.
It was great to see Iain Gulland, Director of Zero Waste Scotland heading up the this year's list. I've heard Iain speak on a number of occasions about improvements to Scotland's recycling infrastructure and his vision for and practical steps towards Zero Waste.
In a list that features such high calibre professionals and visionaries from across all sectors of the waste and resources industry, you can imagine my delight when the Top 10 was announced and I discovered I was featured at No. 7.
I'd like to thank everyone who voted. It feels an honour to be there and was a total surprise. For me, it represents the relevance of capturing peer-to-peer enthusiasm, community based knowledge sharing and empowering people with new purpose and motivation to think differently about waste. And I'm chuffed to share the platform with my colleague Rachelle Strauss of My Zero Waste and National Zero Waste Week, who was listed at No 11.
Congratulations too to everyone listed. I can't list the full 100, but the Top 10 goes like this:
1: Ian Gulland, Director - Zero Waste Scotland
2: Emma Marsh, Head of Love Food Hate Waste - WRAP
3: David Palmer Jones, CEO, - SITA UK
4: Steve Lee, CEO - CIWM
5: Jonathan Straight, Chief Executive - Straight PLC
6: Janez Potočnik , European Environment Commissioner
7: Karen Cannard, Blogger - The Rubbish Diet
8: Dominic Hogg, Director - Eunomia
9: Ray Georgeson, Chief Executive - Resource Association
10:Liz Goodwin, CEO - WRAP
In his lecture, Steve Read indicated that consumers and citizens are often the missing stakeholders in the waste and resources sector. And it is true, for both the engaged consumer and the detached. Yet we are a vital ingredient that's needed to help the industry maximise its efficiency. How much we understand the impacts and how we choose to use our bins has a direct influence on the country's economy. I recognise that much of this depends on the media and I continue to strive to drive media interest, develop audience engaging formats and push for greater aspirations among communities.
Hearing of the immense commitment, achievements and drive of people like Kit Strange and other professionals always increases my vigour to keep tickling people into increasing their support and contribution on the homefront.
Huge thanks to everyone involved in organising yesterday's event. It was a real pleasure to be there. And I did my bit for food waste too. Thanks to the caterers and organisers for encouraging delegates to take away the leftovers in compostable containers. A resource-focused event at its very best.


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Spike Lee showed a surprising flair for genre filmmaking with 20606's "Inside Job," so the idea of him making a gangster revenge epic is helping us forget about Johnny Depp's descent into artistic irrelevance.
Lee is considering a remake of Park Chan-wook's "Oldboy," according to Twitch, three years after a Steven Spielberg-Will Smith collaboration on the project fell through.
It's unclear if Smith is still in play, but he just turned down Tarantino's "Django Unchained," so either he was trying to keep his calendar free or he's decided to stay out of the revenge business.
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The day's top national and international news.
"Oldboy," which was the second installment of "The Vengeance Trilogy" based on the Japanese manga of the same name, tells the story of a man imprisoned for 15 years in a hotel for reasons unknown to him. Once freed, he has only five days to find out what the hell happened to him.
The film won the Grand Prix Jury Award at Cannes, as well as a slew of others from festivals and academies around the world.


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This Sunday, July 25, Musical Bridges Around the World will present Dr. Kensuke Ota in a FREE concert called "Quantum Piano — An Evening with Chopin and Rachmaninoff. The piano recital will be at the San Fernando Cathedral (115 Main Plaza ) and will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Japanese physicist/pianist Kensuke Ota is making his San Antonio with this concert. Dr. Ota is the winner of numerous national and international competitions for amateur pianists. In 2007 he won first prize at the Japanese National Piano Competition "PTNA" and Grand Prize and Audience Award at the Rocky Mountains Amateur Piano Competition. He won third prize in the Amateur Division of the 2006 Osaka International Music Competition.
Kensuke Ota started playing piano at the age of 6 and gave his first recital when he was 14 years old. Since then he has performed in numerous venues around the world. Dr. Ota holds a Ph.D. in Physics and resides in Japan and makes his living as a research scientist. The concert will be followed by a free dessert reception in honor of Dr. Ota.
Sundays at 2 p.m. on KPAC 88.3 FM and KTXI 90.1 FM
July 25: Dvo?ák, Shostakovich, Brahms; Rossen Milanov, conductor.
August 1: Assad, Debussy, Prokofiev, Beethoven; Alondra de la Parra, conductor.
August 8: Strauss, Beethoven, Dvo?ák; Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor.
August 15: Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Mendelssohn; Christoper Seaman, conductor.
August 22: Haydn, Rodrigo, Nielsen; David Angus, conductor.
August 29: Bartók, Webern, Strauss; Julian Kuerti, conductor.
September 5: Williams, Holst, Saint-Saëns; Andrew Grams, conductor.
September 12: Turina, Piazzolla, Rachmaninoff; Josep Caballe-Domenech, conductor.
September 19: Schubert, Golijov, Stravinsky, Canteloube; Cliff Colnot, conductor.
September 26: Beethoven, Bruch, Elgar; Christopher Seaman, conductor.
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As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I'll share one of those with you. They're always brief and always focused. Enjoy!
Q: I'm writing a very (very) important paper and all of a sudden, the screen is frozen. I can't save it, or anything else. What do I do?
A: Programs do freeze for no reason sometimes, but not often (I'm assuming you take care of your computer–defrag, don't download with abandon, update it occasionally). Before you declare a dog-ate-my-homework sort of catastrophe, try this:
- Check your desktop for an open dialogue box and close it. You might have to answer its question first.
- Push escape four times. You might have inadvertently got yourself into something you don't even know you're in. Escape often lives up to its name.
- Click your program on the taskbar. You might have gotten out of it by accident.
90% of the time, your computer is back to normal. If you're one of the ten percenters, I hope you saved early and often (every ten minutes).
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For a time I have let the San Marazano tomatoes remain in the cupboard. Their bright acidic tang blended with the soft heat of garlic and the subtle touch of dried oregano has served our pizza night's well, but now I turn to creme fraiche.
It began with a nudge from a friend who encouraged me to make Tarte Flambee for our Alsatian themed dinner party. Having never heard of this dish before I had visions of me bringing a large dish of sorts to the table filled with dinner guests who eagerly looked to me as I set the food aflame.
Pleased to find out that I would not be creating any sort of fire hazard I quickly realized, with the help of Google, that Tarte Flambée is simply a thin crusted pizza with fromage blanc or creme fraiche as the base. Crispy bacon and onions are scattered on top as well as a light dusting of freshly ground nutmeg. Which to me is the reason why this pizza is uncommonly good.
Since that night I have made this pizza numerous times. So often in fact, my husband is probably ready for the return of a simply tomato sauced and mozzerella topped pizza. Not yet, dear.
I assure you there will be no longings for cheese as you bite into this rich pizza. The creme fraiche melts into the crust and intensifies leaving an impossibly creamy base for the sweet and smokey layer of bacon and onions.
I implore you to use freshly grated nutmeg. There is no replacement. Although, don't go running to the fancy kitchen shop to get a nutmeg house/grater. I simply use one of my favorite kitchen tools, the microplane. (I also use this for garlic, Parmesean, citrus zests, ginger, and even grating fresh fruit and vegetables to use for baby food).
While there will not be any showy flames emanating from this dish there will be plenty of very pleased diners.
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Working with one ball at a time, using your hands, slowly stretch the dough to your desired size leaving a bit of a crust around the outer edge. If the dough becomes tight and hard to work with, let it rest for a few minutes while you move on to the next ball of dough. Sometimes the dough just needs a moment to relax (don't we all).
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Tarte Flambé
Pizza Dough
makes enough for 3 or 4 pizzas
4 cups all purpose flour (1 lb 4 oz.)
1 T salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon instant yeast
2 cups water, room temperature
Additional flour, for dusting.
Combine flour, salt, sugar, and yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add 2 cups of room temperature water, then mix on low speed using dough hook until dough binds, about 1 minute, adding more water as necessary. Let rest for 5 minutes. Knead on second-lowest setting for 5 to 7 minutes, until dough pulls away from the bowl and forms a smooth ball.
Turn out onto a floured surface, knead and form into a ball, then let rest in a bowl for 3 to 4 hours.
By this point the dough should have doubled in size. Punch down and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Place in the fridge overnight. It is possible to use this dough the same day with great results although the long rest in the fridge improves the texture and becomes much easier to stretch, so we do highly recommend it.
Take it out of the fridge two hours before you want to eat dinner and let rest on counter. After approximately 90 minutes, turn out the dough onto a floured surface and cut into 4 8-ounce pieces. Fold and knead each three or four times until it forms a smooth ball. Let rest/rise for 30 minutes.
Tarte Flambée
makes plenty for 1 12" pizza
½ cup creme fraiche (try making your own!)
salt and pepper
¼ teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
1 small garlic clove, minced
4 slices bacon, cut into ¼" strips
½ medium onion, julienned
1 tbl fresh chopped chives
Combine the creme fraiche with salt, pepper, nutmeg and garlic. In a skillet over medium heat cook the bacon until crisp. Add the onions and cook until gently caramelized, about 10 minutes.
Preheat your oven for at least 45 minutes with pizza stone inside, to 485 – 550 degrees.
Create 12" round using your dough. Place on semolina dusted pizza peel. Spread with creme fraiche mixture and top with bacon and caramelized onion. Slide onto pizza stone and bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Sprinkle with a nice finishing salt over top, such as Maldon or Fleur de Sel.
Garnish with fresh chives then slice and serve immediately.