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Nasheed's party, the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP,) is particularly concerned given the controversy surrounding his resignation as president. In February, Nasheed stepped down -- he says he was ousted -- following a violent protest by supporters of the former authoritarian leader, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, following his order to arrest a High Court judge for corruption. Nasheed is currently being tried for abuse of power for this arrest order.
There is some dispute about the level of force used in arresting Nasheed. According to a MDP statement "at 9:45 a.m., 50 heavily armed masked police in full riot gear and wearing gas masks smashed down the door of a house where President Nasheed and his campaign team were staying and took him into custody." They also claimed that the masked police stormed the house, spewing obscenities and that former ministers also in the residence were pepper-sprayed and violently dragged out. The party has been tweeting and posting photos of the damage done to the house during the arrest.
President Mohammed Waheed Hassan's spokesman agrees on the count that police were dressed in riot gear for protection, but claims that they did not use force, expletives, or pepper spray. He asserted that Nasheed was not dragged out and was not even handcuffed.
The U.S. Embassy in Colombo is urging all sides to remain calm but also denies that it has had a hand in the arrest of Nasheed following allegations on Twitter that U.S. trained troops were responsible for the crackdown on opposition activists. If found guilty in Tuesday's trial, the former president could be jailed for up to three years, banished to one of the remote islands and fined to an amount not exceeding MVR2,000. This would disqualify him from running for president.
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As a person, from what we know, I don't know how he could be much more appealing. This is a guy who spent most of the last 25 years in the football minors leagues -- the ARENA Football League and UFL. Come on, seriously, here's a guy who preferred to say near his Floirida home and roots, raise his family and make the Hall of Fame -- in the INDOOR AFL. THEN, after age 40, he started focusing more on NFL career possibilities and, after three good years working with Andy Dalton in Cincy, got the Skins job. Jay is all plucky, not Chucky. Jon was an obsessive type-A achiever. Jay wanted to be an NFL QB, chased the dream as long as he could, but a little lack of arm strength, a bad leg injury and, maybe a few extra pounds, kept him from getting chances. Well, that's his version. Maybe he just wasn't good enough even to get a real shot. He's as close to the football equivalent of Bull Druham's Crash Davis as you could cook up -- wins bush league titles as a QB (and coach) -- then dreams of making the Show as a manager/coach. Well, Jay got there. Seriously, please him somebody, anybody who isn't rooting for him -- take your lunch, 'cause it'll be an all-day job.
He's the Anti-Shanny. I'll deal with that, and other things, in a Skins column. It's "Our Way": Jay -- the empathetic communicator, not "My Way" Mike, the martinet.
There's no doubt that Jay gruden knows offesnive football -- the pro game -- inside and out. His father was on the offensive staff of the Bucs in the NFL. Jay was on the headphones (from the press box) to brother Jon on the sideline for seven years. And he was OC for the last three years in Cincy.
Well, that takes care of about 20 percent of being an NFL head coach.
Can he construct a staff? Can he connect with RGIII and improve him? Will he retain 12-season-losing-streak Haslett, who hired him with the Tuskers in the minors, the job that eventyually set him you to get the OC gig in Cincy. Can he cope with being a distant fourth in the chain of power on the Skins behind Snyder, Allen and RGIII. Or is that Snyder, RGIII and Allen in front of Gruden? Can he motivate his men despite never playing at their level?
Spurrier and Zorn were both NFL quarterbacks, Zorn a good one, who arrived with a Score Points edict. Neither had been an NFL head coach. Zorn hadn't been a head coach anywhere.
I'd say that, with hindsight, Gruden may be better prepared for the pro game that Spurrier, with his college system, or Zorn, with no head coaching experience, not even in the minors.
But coaches with jam-packed resumes -- Schottenheimer, Gibbs II and Shanny -- have found this job too tough for them . So a LOT of patience needs to be shown with Gruden. Will that happen?

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Hotmail holdouts grumble about 'pathetic' new interface
Microsoft isn't having much luck with the redesign of Hotmail, which is currently playing havoc with thousands of user's emails. The software giant has, er, "thanked" nearly 2,000 frustrated Hotmail peeps who have complained about the new interface. Some are unable to view their inbox, while others have lost their sent items …
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I use live mail at home but cant at work so check my email through the web interface which I normally have open only on a small portion of the screen. The new 'framed' look messes this up as I cant scroll down to see my actual emails without making the window bigger, rater frustrating. You also cant just empty your junk email with one click like you used to you now actaully have to go into it to delete it (great security guys)!
We expected different?
Let's face it, they are only doing what they always do. Sling a new product out into the market without adequate testing or real, tangible feedback and let the users make sense of it all. At least Microsoft are being consistant!
The difference here is that Hotmail didn't start life as a Microsoft product and its users are not necessarily Microsoft devotees. If it goes wrong, the howl is that little bit louder. It has been many years since they broke the original interface and they never really learn from their mistakes.
Sounds like another bit of Microsoft kit we are all familiar with, doesn't it?
Have MS poached Sonys PR staff
Seems to be another conglomerate joining the line of those royally shafting their consumer base, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Still has to be said, alls fair in love and war, and given that hotmail is a free service, you've been awarded the pea-shooter as your weapon of choice.
It's free...
so what possible influence do people think they have over what Microsoft decide to do with it? No amount of blogging, whining, question and exclamation marks is going to change MS's mind.
No doubt there's a Facebook group demanding they put the old version back, just like there's a Facebook group of people demanding that that site revert to its former appearance. Ain't gonna happen.
Hotmail on Linux
How's that work then? I've tried to get into LukewarmMail using my moby equipped with Opera For Mobiles, and it just fails to display anything once logged in. I guessed because it was IE-tied.
And I use only HM as a spare account for dubious surfage, not for my PRIMARY email (which I pay for). Anyone who whines about it's inadequacies should consider how much they pay for it... :-O
I like it
and noone cares about the people who like MS products, so... whatever.
I've had to install firefox 3 on my wife's Aspire One netbook for her to be able to send emails from the new hotmail interface. Firefox 2 allowed reading of some emails but not replying to or creating new emails. Of course she thinks it's all linux's fault but she also dislikes the new interface quite a lot.
Short of money?
Microshaft must be getting a bit short, on my hotmail now It is impossible to scroll away from the banner ad at the top of the inbox page which is obviously what the whole thing is about. No improvement for any one's benefit but MS. I wouldn't mind but it looks crap and old fashioned, is slower so massive FAIL for MS.
The Newest T'bird/Webmail Patch Works...
with the new Luke-Warm Mail.
TGFT, cuz I had hundreds of mails to download/backup(25@ a time?). I'll continue to inform my correspondents of the move away from my long-standing('98) HM account.
Hello darkness, my old friend...
There's always one...
And this time its me!
Nice features, I've had a bash, quite happy, works well for me,
Paris - because she also got "Nice features, I've had a bash"
Bad? It's unusable (for me+Ubunutu+Firefox)
If you try to use hotmail.com and your O/S of choice is Ubuntu, and your browser of choice is Firefox, then hotmail is entirely broken!!
You can browse/read your email. But, you cannot 'click' in the message area for newmails.
Apparently, if you 'fake' your useragent as IE it works fine. Go figure.
Reminds me of eBay
eBay has changed the semantics of its search so a carefully tailored search argument for very specific items now throws back in your face all manner of non-hits. If the object of your desires is uncommon — and the longer the argument string, the more likely it is — you end up having to scan the hits visually, thereby eliminating the utility of a search function.
I hardly bother with eBay since they did this. Yes, you can invoke the old search, but it requires clicking through multiple screens and simply isn't worth the effort.
Hotmail and eBay both violate a fundamental rule of website design: design it for the users, not for your own internal needs. No one cares about those!
Fuck eBay. And fuck Microsoft.
<<"We're reading all of your comments, and we're working on fixing many of the issues that we're hearing matter most to you," wrote Windows Live Hotmail program manger Ellie Powers yesterday.
I love these responses. From experience I've found it means "you all can go $$£$% yourselves, we'll put in what we can get away with; now leave me the $$%$£ alone. Luser."
Oh dear
Why can't people stop moaning, its free ffs. Ok, the paid customers should have a choice, but us peeps who use it as a free service shouldn't moan about it...
PH: Cos I Can !!!
My missis uses hotmail and I have it working fine under linux.
You have to look at the general.useragent.vendor parameter that your browser reports itself as. Needs to be set to "Firefox" rather than a distro specific version. This fixed the problem for us - although the problem was simply certain components (like the message pane) not working.
boohoo I've lost my business critical information...
To all those complaining about lost business critical data on a free mail hosting service - TOUGH. Maybe now you'll learn the importance of paying for continuity and take responsibility for your business critical assets.
using hotmail for business is a ridiculous idea...
I wouldn't touch hotmail with a bargepole
but I still have to put up with broken replies from other people using this godforsaken service. The quoted text comes out on one line with indent strings inserted where the newlines should be, but no newlines.
@Hotmail on Linux
It works just fine in linux (apart from it telling me I need to upgrade my browser, but I've gotten used to ignoring that message).
And as AC stated above, it wasn't the spawn of MS when I signed up (and, unlike my experience with gmail, was able to get a sensible looking e-mail address!!) so yes we are a little entitled to be miffed MS are taking it further and further under their live wing!
If I'd had my clairvoyant hat on the day I signed up I'd have gone for another free alternative (although how far away from the MicroHoo! conglomerate are we?), but it was at the dry cleaners.
"Those rare creatures out there who use Linux and have a Hotmail account can only currently access the full working version of their email via the mobile version..."
Fedora Core 9, Firefox 3, just opened my hotmail inbox and it displays everything fine. Or as fine as it gets with the new design anyway.
Still insists that I need to upgrade my browser every time I sign in though.
@AC Hotmail on Linux
I don't know about mobiles but on a Linux laptop, hotmail will open in Firefox. However, it complains that FF is not the latest version, even though it is (which means they are sniffing the use agent string and getting it wrong). There have been reports that it's broken with Opera though. Nothing new there: as usual MS have completely ignored any web standard in designing their new interface and have been using their own standards instead. If they can't build a browser that follows web standards, what are the chances they can build a web site that does?
That said, I don't particularly care, I moved my main web email away from HM a long time ago due to their pathetic spam filter. I only use it as a spam honey pot now.
And as for people who say that because it's free, MS doesn't have to care, think again. The basic service is free but they have extended features that you pay for. Also, if they start losing users (note, I didn't say customers) through something stupid like this, that's one less avenue they can use to lock people in and cross sell other products so they'll want to make sure they limit discontent.
ARRRRGH! I hate it too much!
Not only the redesign but ever since Microsoft took over they made it mandatory to sign in using an email address....... That is like so lame.
Major props to microsoft for being a N00B.
Great response from MS
"because of these performance improvements it is no longer necessary to offer the classic version."
Nice excuse there! Too bad nobody buys it!
I suppose
"just leave it alone" isn't an option for MS? Hotmail was fine for years. It was a good, basic, web mail service. Now that MS has bought them, it's one "improvement" after another. You'd almost think they're *trying* to break it in as many ways as possible...
I've seen the future, and it's advertising
Ultimately, all "free" services like Hotmail are about pushing ads. The idea is that the longer you use the service, the harder it would be to leave, hence the more ads you'll put up with. The ad banners will continue to get bigger and more intrusive.
RE: It's free...
"So what possible influence do people think they have over what Microsoft decide to do with it? No amount of blogging, whining, question and exclamation marks is going to change MS's mind."
Maybe when the users leave in droves, they'll pay attention?
Actually, the only users for years now have been the die-hard old timers, newbies, spammers and people just wanting a throw away address to feed the "you must enter a valid email here" line.
Way back when, I had a hotmail address for about a month, and the spam on my other email accounts went through the roof! So I abandoned it, and eventually, the spam dropped back down.
As for the complaints about hotmail's spam filters, I thought they were excellent.
I always found all my legitimate mail in the spam folder, and all the spam in my inbox! (I wish I was joking here, but I'm not.)
Trust me I know what we are doing
Of course this is the same Microsoft that promises us that Windows 7 will be ever so much better than Vista. We have learned lessons they claim ...... NOT!
Hold the boos, but congrats to Microsoft
As someone commented above you are out of luck with Opera...or...at least...I was until yesterday. It appears that all those fine, upstanding, dilligent, incredible bods at Microsoft worked and solved this one. Yes, we may complain about the lack of testing AKA the Google beta release approach, but Props are due, for once. I love you Microsoft - a phrase I thought I'd never utter. Oh BTW the new interface's suckiness is only highlighted by it working:-)
@It's free...
"so what possible influence do people think they have over what Microsoft decide to do with it?"
True, although that happens when you pay (too much) for their stuff too.
To those who say "it's free - you get what you pay for"
While perhaps it's in some ways a reasonable argument, email addresses are increasingly becoming part of our identity. It's no trivial thing to change your email address, so if you've signed up for a service, then someone else comes along and buys that service, then screws with it, it means you're locked into something you didn't sign up for.
Personally I think it will be interesting to see how personal email address ownership develops. Unlike your phone number, you obviously can't take it with you when you go somewhere else as it's tied to the domain. However a personally owned transferable email address (possibly have some kind of digital signature and an overall "email address routing service") would be quite an interesting prospect. It would be good if we could jump our accounts between yahoo, hotmail, gmail etc. dependent on who was offering the best deal.
A Microshaft product that doesn't work? Whatever next?
If you don't like it...
...why not ask for your money back?
Replace "Hotmail" with "Vista" or "Office 2k7's interface" and you've got the same whining you get EVERY SINGLE TIME MS makes a change to a service. I expect we'll get the same whining when the new 360 interface is released too.
If you don't like the way MS does business, why are you using their service? It's not as though hotmail is even that good. If you've seriously got important mail in a hotmail account, and you can't figure out how to retrieve it, you deserve what you get.
If you change an email interface for a set of users, even if it's for the better, a small but loud minority will bitch about it. This *always* happens. Thankfully, they all shut up about it in the end. People don't like change.
On the subject of eBay, I've had several angry Email exchanges with them about the new search functionality and my listings not being returned against sensible search criteria. It stinks! Why do these numbnuts always ignore the golden rule - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. For Webmail I use Yahoo! and still using the classic interface, I'd drop it quick if they ever forced me to use the new interface.
Paris, because she ain't broke.
I'm a paid customer and...
Well, I'm a paying customer, paying £15/year. (Long, long story as to why)
I can use it just fine in Firefox and I see no ads.
But the new interface is shite although I can live with it. But like others I'm a pre MSN-out user of Hotmail and I would love to go back to that. It worked so much better then.
I used to use it on a 56k dialup (averaging 3K/sec), now I use it on 256K/sec broadband and it's slower, I think.
Anonymous as I didn't want to be lynched for owning up to paying for it!
Software is supposed to improve over time right?
When I first connected to the net in 1997, one of my first actions was getting a take-anywhere email address, so I signed up for a hotmail account. It was still owned by Jack Smith then, and it was great - fast, reliable and did everything you could do in PINE.
How is is that after eleven years of development, they have only managed to make it slower, more frustrating and difficult to use?
Never had a Hotmail account, but all the fuzz made me curious. So I registered, and used it with Opera on FreeBSD, and Opera Mini on a Motorola Z8. It works perfectly and the UI makes sense. Can't see what's so bad about it.
Definate step backwards
I use hotmail on Mac OS running Firefox and it "works" fine. The new inferface is much harder to read than the old one and definately has less functionality. I have been using it for years as a convenient free mail address that doesn't need to change when switching ISPs but the new interface is so bad I'm thinking of putting up with the pain in the arse of moving contacts to a new address rather than put up with the new interface.
Microsoft's new font looks awful, it looks terribly compressed and there is no real visual distinction between the various frames on the page so it looks very messy and confused. It's like Microsoft's approach to "clear type" on some of their products along the lines of "our surveys say its better so we're not allowing you to switch it off".
Microsoft are completely losing the plot on interfaces, if I remember rightly they even change the display properties screens in XP (nice use of tabs keeping all options together) to totally separate control panel items with, how is that better also?
Microsoft = f'ing idiots
Possible work around for some people
As one of the rare Linux/Hotmail users ..
Provided a user has had a hotmail account for a certain amount of time prior to MS removing web-dav access, there is a workaround to avoid using the horrible UI of hotmail.
If your account was created after this time, the following won't work, however if your account *predates* the switch over, your`re in luck.
[Receiving mail]
Hotwayd provides a pop3 interface to hotmail, configured as part of Xinetd
You'll need to configure it, here is my /etc/xinet.d/hotwayd
service hotwayd
# comment out following if you want other hosts to access your gateway
only_from = localhost
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = nobody
port = 6667
server = /usr/sbin/hotwayd
# uncomment following if you're behind a proxy
# server_args = -p http://quadbrsprx:8080
# -u proxy_user -q proxy_password
log_on_success += USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
Now that you have this you can configure any pop3 client to grab your mail from localhost:6667 , you can't send mail via hotmail's smtp gateway for some reason, so this is only a partial solution.
[Sending Mail]
I tend to use my isp's smtp gateway and forge the headers on the mail using nbsmtp which has all params passed on the command line, here's mine with user/pass changed.
I just added this to my ~/.muttrc
set sendmail="/usr/bin/nbsmtp -U firstname.lastname@example.com -P myisp-password-with-special-chars-escaped -d hotmail.com -h mail.myisp.com -f firstname.lastname@example.com"
Hope it helps
and I will change the interface as much as I want. I like it and no matter if there are thousands of you I will keep it how it is
MSN Designer of the wonderful new user interface that everyone will love, you will obey, you will obey
MS not the only ones having such problems
Yahoo have also managed to make a huge bungle with their 'Profiles' - http://www.yprofileblog.com/ - upwards of 2500 user comments, almost universally negative. Excite e-mail (also managed to vex what little users they may still have with their 'upgrade' back in the summer. Surely there are rick pickings here for a Jakob Nielsen et al case study.....
who cares
all the whingers and whiners out there jumping on the 'lets say MS are cr@p' bandwagon, ITS FREE YOU DON'T PAY ANYTHING
don't like it go to another free mail service or flying spaghetti monster forbid, pay money.
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The Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, Diocese of New Hampshire
The Rt. Rev. Kirk Smith, Diocese of Arizona
Lambeth Journal Episcopal Life blog featuring the following bishops:
Sean Rowe of Northwestern Pennsylvania (lead blogger)
Laura Ahrens, Suffragan of Connecticut
Marc Andrus of California
Larry Benfield of Arkansas
Sergio Carranza, Assistant of Los Angeles
Neff Powell of Southwestern Virginia
Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera, suffragan of Olympia
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The Rt. Rev Alan Wilson, Area Bishop of Buckingham, Church of England.
The Rt. Rev. Christopher Epting, TEC Ecumenical Officer.
The Rt. Rev. Charles Jenkins, Diocese of Louisiana.
The Rt. Rev. Mike Hill, Bishop of Bristol, Church of England.
The Rt. Rev. James Stanton, Bishop of Dallas.
The Rt. Rev. Dorsey Henderson, Bishop of Upper South Carolina.
The Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus, Bishop of California.
The Rt. Rev. George Packard, Bishop for Chaplaincies TEC.
The Rt. Rev. David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, Scotland.
Province of Brazil by the Rev. Francisco Silva, Provincial Secretary, Province of Brazil.
The Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen and The Rt. Rev. Stephen Lane, Diocese of Maine.
The Most Rev. Mauricio Andrade Province of Brazil.
The Rt Rev. Pierre Whalon, Churches in Europe TEC.
The Rt. Rev. Wayne Smith, Diocese of Missouri.
The Rt. Rev. Michael Hough, Diocese of Ballarat, Australia.
The Rt. Rev. Porter Taylor, Diocese of Western North Carolina.
The Rt Rev Larry Benfield, Diocese of Arkansas.
The Rt. Rev. Bob Duncan, Diocese of Pittsburgh.
The Rt. Rev. Tom Ely, Diocese of Vermont.
The Rt. Rev. Greg Kerr-Wilson, Bishop of Qu'Appelle (Canada)
The Rt. Rev. David Rossdale, Grimsby, UK:
Other sites more or less going all-Lambeth for the next several weeks:
LGBT Anglican Portal / Lambeth 2008, information gateway to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Anglicans at Canterbury during the Lambeth Conference.
epiScope Episcopal Church news site.
Newsline Episcopal Church site for the Press.
Dave Walker, Official Cartoonist for the Lambeth Conference and Church Times blog editor.
Did we miss any blogging bishops? Let us know.
Another blogging bishop id the Rt. Rev'r Greg Kerr-Wilson, Bishop of Qu'Appelle (Canada). His blog is at bishopgreg.blogspot.com
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The Compass Rose Society will be blogging from http://norris.typepad.com/canterbury_tails/.
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Bishop Leo Frade of the Dio of Southeast Florida has also started a blog from Lambeth:
This is Bishop Frade's third Lambeth Conference. His evolution on the subject of sexuality and the Church is quite amazing.
The following is a link to a sermon he gave at Trinity Cathedral in Miami in 2007:
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Partnering with Boys and Men
-Men's Roles in Achieving the Millennium
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-The Impact of Gender Roles on Men
-Reaching Out to Boys and Men
-Reinterpreting Masculinity
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-Accelerating Progress
Reaching Out to Boys and Men
Spurred initially by the ICPD's call to involve men and then by the urgency of the AIDS epidemic, innovative projects have reached out to men in bars and brothels, in barbershops and truck stops, at sports fields and youth centres, in military barracks and police academies, in mosques and churches, and in classrooms and clinics.
They have addressed men in their roles as sons, fathers, husbands, sexual partners, elders, educators, health providers, journalists and policymakers. They have used comic books and rap music, Internet sites and hotlines, peer educators and group counsellors, games and theatre productions, radio and talk shows. Several countries are increasingly addressing men's parenting role.(22) Because men are more likely to listen to other men, projects have enlisted respected community figures from high-ranking political officials to religious leaders. Clerics in Saudi Arabia have banned fathers from forcing marriage on their daughters, traditional monks in Cambodia have spoken out on HIV prevention, and national and state officials in Brazil have encouraged men to help end violence against women.(23) In 2005, UNFPA organized a regional conference of Islamic associations from 17 African countries. Imams and other religious leaders adopted a declaration urging the promotion of women's rights and reproductive health as "indispensable to saving the lives of our sisters and daughters and to reducing poverty in Africa".(24)
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These varied efforts reflect several approaches to working with men.(25) The most common and earliest approach focuses on men as clients and aims to make reproductive health information and services more accessible and attractive to men.(26) This includes overcoming the idea that reproductive health is a woman's concern and the fact that services are often designed for, or are, primarily used by women. Men often report shame in seeking health services and are likely to do so only as a last resort.(27)
The men as partners approach recognizes men's influence on reproductive health options and decisions (28) and encourages men and women to deal jointly with issues such as contraception, emergency plans for labour and delivery, voluntary HIV counselling and testing, and post-abortion counselling. This approach may go beyond reproductive health to engage men in wider issues, such as gender-based violence and female genital mutilation/cutting.
A third approach, emphasizing men as agents of positive change involves men more fully in promoting gender equality and social change. It offers men opportunities to reflect on their own history and experiences, to question gender attitudes and to recognize how gender inequities harm their partners and themselves.
Programmes working to involve men more effectively face a dilemma that raises ethical and human rights issues. Programmes that overlook existing power imbalances between men and women may have the unintended consequence of reinforcing inequities and male control over women's decisionmaking. This is especially critical in the area of reproductive health. This is why a clear and explicit gender-responsive approach is necessary in order to develop policies and programmes.
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Ken and Danielle Lambert are seen in a family photo with their children, Shane and Kaleigh, who were killed with their aunt when she carried them into traffic on Interstate 495 in Lowell, Mass., in 2007.
BRENTWOOD - It's hard to imagine the grief felt by the parents of the 20 young children gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., unless you're Ken and Danielle Lambert.
Four years ago, the Brentwood couple had just celebrated Christmas with their 5-year-old daughter, Kaleigh, and 4-year-old son, Shane, when they received the news that will haunt them forever.
Their only children were supposed to be going to a sleepover with their aunt, Marci Thibault, but instead, she pulled over on the side of Interstate 495 in Lowell, Mass., and intentionally walked them into oncoming traffic. Thibault and the children were struck and killed in a horrific accident that the Lamberts say resulted from a misunderstood mental illness.
While the circumstances surrounding the deaths in Newtown and the Lamberts' loss aren't exactly the same, the grief is no different.
"Not a lot of people know what those parents are thinking or feeling or facing. Obviously Danielle and I know and you don't wish that on anyone. With one town to have all of that at once is really unbelievable," Ken Lambert said Tuesday while reflecting on his darkest days and how he and his wife found the strength to move forward.
The Lamberts have since formed a mental health awareness group called Keep Sound Minds, and 17 months ago began a new chapter as a family while keeping the memories of Kaleigh and Shane close. "We were blessed 17 months ago with twin baby boys, who have been a joy and have given us a 'second chance' in many ways. Due to this we are in a much better place than we were three to four years ago. We are very grateful," Lambert said.
Like many, the Lamberts have watched some of the news coverage from Newtown, but they've had to turn the television off at times. The tragedy has brought them back to that awful night - Jan. 11, 2008.
"It's hard. I don't want to watch that much of it, but it's tough to avoid because it's everywhere. It's very sad and it's certainly the time of year similar to our circumstances. The last few days have been pretty difficult for us," Lambert said.
The ages of the children killed in Newtown are similar to those of Kaleigh and Shane, and much like what happened in the wake of their deaths, there is speculation about the mental health of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza.
Only a few months after losing their children, the Lamberts began working on forming a nonprofit organization that later became known as Keep Sound Minds. The goal was to raise awareness of mental health issues, especially for those in the law enforcement community who come face to face with the mentally ill on a regular basis.
"For us, it was very important to do something positive and productive," Lambert said. The couple also wanted to find a way to keep the memory of their children and Danielle's sister, Marci, alive.
"A parent doesn't want to see their name disappear," Lambert said.
As the parents in Newtown struggle to find ways to cope with the loss, Lambert recalled the difficulties he and his wife faces in those early days.
"After the first two weeks, the hardest part was just an empty and quiet household; that being a constant reminder that they're not there. That quietness, it doesn't disappear," he said.
It will also be difficult in a month or two when others not directly affected by the tragedy in Newtown begin to move on with their lives.
"That's just the way it is, but the parents and the siblings, they won't get back to their normal lives in a couple of months. They won't ever, really," Lambert said.
Meanwhile, the Lamberts are still active with Keep Sounds Minds. This year they were involved with public seminars on general mental health education and awareness and continue to offer mental health interaction trainings for police and fire departments in New Hampshire and Massachusetts at free or reduced rates. They have also planned a comedy night fundraiser in late February and will hold its first large-scale dinner/educational fundraiser in May.
More information on the group's activities can be found on its website, keepsoundminds.org. Lambert urged anyone interested in scheduling a training to contact the group through the website.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The Tea Planting Pioneers
Over the past week I read the most fascinating book about the early tea planters called "The Pioneers: The Early British Tea and Coffee Planters and Their Way of Life 1825-1900" by John Weatherstone (Quiller Press, London, 1991). I was expecting an interesting but somewhat dry historical account. Instead, I found myself reading this like it was the latest blockbuster novel, filled as it was with adventure and mystery and unexpected plot twists!
Weatherstone, who was himself a tea planter in Ceylon, gives a brief account of how the Brits first acquired their tea from China but in 1823 learned the tea plant was growing wild in the jungles of Assam. A few years later, a "tea committee" was set up to investigate the possibility of growing tea commercially in India. The book includes more than 300 photos and illustrations, and I learned a great deal just from reading the photo captions. For instance, I knew that tea pluckers tossed the tea leaves in baskets, but I'd never given a moment's thought to how that tea was packaged and transported back to England. I have much more respect for that hard work after reading and seeing illustrations of how workers had to chop down trees, haul the trees to the tea garden via elephant (!), build their own boxes from the wood and then package the tea for the next leg of its journey.
Since I've been reading "The Harney and Sons Guide to Tea" this year, I've gotten a nodding acquaintance with methods of tea production. Obviously we have better (and certainly more efficient) production methods today, but some of the old-fashioned methods are still around. There are still hand rolled teas today, and this drawing from the 1860s shows workers hand and foot rolling the leaf. (It calls to mind Lucy and Ethel stomping grapes, doesn't it?)
The tea planter's early dwelling was at times little more than a straw hut, with insects and creatures large and small often posing a threat, but once the tea plantation was established and making money the housing improved. You may notice a tiger skin in the foreground of this photo taken near Darjeeling in 1876. The author, who donated royalties from this book to the World Wildlife Fund, bemoaned the fact that animals were killed purely for sport, greatly reducing the number of tigers and elephants. Tea planters occasionally had to kill a tiger that was roaming about mauling workers, but astonishingly, one "sportsman" of the 1840s was credited with killing 1,400 elephants! (To quote my husband: "ONE ought to be enough for anybody!")
And since I need to wind this up, I'll just share a few of the photos I enjoyed in the book. Here is the interior of one tea planter's dwelling, a fellow who obviously enjoyed hunting.
A postcard series from Lipton showed a "Muster of Coolies" spelling out the name of their employer in Ceylon.
Most tea planters were bachelors (the author had to agree not to marry for the first five years of his employment), but when there was a wedding the tea community came from estates near and far to attend. (Note the folks hanging out the window.)
Here workers are weighing the leaf. (Pruners, I learned, actually earned more than pluckers since pruning required more bending over, more back-breaking work.)
And finally, I was amused by the Mazawattee Ceylon Tea Company's promotional efforts. Wouldn't you do a doubletake if this "delivery van" showed up with your tea in tow!
And I'll leave you with one final quote from Weatherstone's fascinating book: "It is doubtful whether we who live in the 20th-century comfort of our homes -- with nothing more than a tame cat roaming around in the garden, with instant light at the touch of a switch and water at the turn of a tap -- can possibly imagine the lonely and often dangerous life of these first planters whose courage, endurance and fortitude in the face of all adversity made them what they were ... the pioneers."
10 comments:
- Frivolitea said...
Fascinating! Thank you for this fulfilling review.
- October 27, 2009 at 7:12 AM
- parTea lady said...
That looks like a very interesting book. Thanks for sharing some of the photos and highlights.
- October 27, 2009 at 8:05 AM
- Steph said...
Cool! Is this a new book, or a tea one I've managed to miss?
- October 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM
- Angela McRae said...
Steph, this book was first published in 1986 but the version I got was the reprint from 1991. I first saw this on eBay (it may be the copy that's still listed there for $149.99). I got mine a tad more reasonably ($8.88) from a seller on Amazon.com - and in great condition!
- October 27, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Marilyn said...
Fascinating! I noticed the picture of rolling the tea with the feet. Your comparison to the grape stomping was very funny.
What a great find on Amazon.com
- October 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Ginger said...
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
- October 27, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- ooglebloops said...
A great book - will have to look for it!!! Imagine, zebras pulling a cart!!!! Visit us on tea on Tuesdays!!!!
- October 27, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- Jason Witt said...
What an exciting blog post! Yes, those were the tea pioneers, the people who brought tea to the West so it was cheaply available to everyone. Their goal was the right one and we're blessed with their efforts today. --Spirituality of Tea
- October 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Another great find, Angela! I love the photos and it does bring to mind 'Lucy & Ethel,' stomping grapes. Thanks for sharing, Joanie
- October 28, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Bernideen said...
These photos are amazing -those zebras - wow!
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A rescue dog known as Britain's "real-life Lassie" is retiring after saving 14 lives.
Mij, a 10-year-old Welsh collie, led more than 200 search and rescue missions during her seven-year career, becoming known as the country's most dependable rescue dog, The Telegraph reported.
Born with health problems, she was nearly put to sleep when she couldn't keep up in search-and-rescue training classes.
But her handler, Iain Nicholson, refused to give up and helped Mij become a star student.
The pair is now a pioneering duo, becoming the first human-canine team in the United Kingdom to successfully follow the trail of a person missing for more than 24 hours, according to The Daily Mail.
"The woman Mij saved would never have been found, but thanks to her she was rushed to hospital and made a full recovery," Nicholson said of his canine companion.
No word on Mij's plans for retirement.
Nicholson, one of the U.K.'s leading rescue dog trainers, is now using Mij's success to rear the new generation of rescue dogs.
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A paramedic will be demoted and placed on leave for 28 days after being accused of delivering the wrong medication for a man found hanging by his ankle for two days, according to board's finding this morning.
Timothy Waldo will hold the new title of emergency medical technician and will be placed on probation, according to a statement released after a five-member board held a hearing on the incident.
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While some might think it is rude to ask, this paramedic, cops, judges, lawyers, elected foul up but how come none do jail time or fired, even elected officials/lawyers/medics/doctors/etc busted in payoff scams never get license pulled. Seems like do the screw up and you end same or better then prior to such, but let the regular person foul up, and DA's etc all over them
A person who works in a patient related medical field knows that any little "screw up" can have serious life/death consequences. With corresponding serious consequences on their career or finances. It might be a small typo for you at work but in the medical field, a small typo like a decimal point in the wrong spot could hurt someone. Medical malpractice is different than fraud, falls under the board of health, and is treated differently.
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Valentino: Master Of Couture Exhibition Is Now On, So Here's 10 Reasons We Love Valentino!
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Head to the Valentino: Master of Couture exhibition at Somerset House this weekend and you'll be in for one heck of a fashion treat. Mr Valentino Garavani may no longer design for the House of Valentino (after retiring in 2008 – the reins are now held by Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri) there's no denying the imprint he's indelibly left on the style industry. The ardent maximalist is renowned for many things – that distinct shade of Valentino red, his exquisite use of lace, the seminal '60s look he created for Jackie Onassis and the many Hollywood stars and supermodels who adore him… Hit the retrospective and you'll see all of these gorgeous signatures and more, plus moment-making dresses and a velvety rich history surrounding this adored and revered fashion figure – but until then, feel free to reference our list of the ten reasons why Mr Valentino rocks. Scroll away…
The Jackie O Look
Mr Valentino was responsible for those natty little swing skirt suits and pretty shift dresses. He also designed the demure knee-length, high-necked wedding dress she wore for her marriage to Greek shipping entrepreneur Aristotle Onassis.
Valentino red
Garavani told Grazia's Susannah Frankel, "When I was around 18, I went to the opera in Barcelona and I was blinded by so much red. I decided then that if one day I was going to be a designer in my own right, red was going to be my colour." Consider that achieved, Signor.
Valentino never ages
And we're not just talking about the undying beauty of his clothes. The man himself has maintained that perfect coif, fresh skin, dapper style and formidable tan for decades now. We'll have what he's having!
Dreamy lace and couture surface detailing
From this enduring 1968 Valentino look (just how much has that been beautifully referenced for the modern runways?) to a close-up detail of fine beading-work from '97, this man embellishes like no other.
The many celebrity friends
In addition to Jackie O and Liz Taylor (scroll along for more on Liz T) there's Liz Hurley, Sophia Loren, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joan Collins. You name a powerful woman, Mr V will be pals with them.
The Valentino Supers
Valentino was booming when the original supermodels were also enjoying a major moment. So it's no surprise to see them lined up après-runway: Christy, Carla, Naomi, Claudia, Helena…
The new brigade of Valentino girls
The luxury of being covered up in one of Valentino's many current dresses has lured a new set of style mavens to this existing club. Alexa Chung, Anne Hathaway, Olivia Palermo
The Liz Taylor Connection
Valentino told Grazia's Susannah Frankel this week that Elizabeth Taylor – who he started to dress when she was about 40 years old - once said to him, "Vava, please, listen to me, you want to make me a chic woman but I'm a peasant."
The pure and unashamedly feminine look of every piece
Frothy, swishy, practically so tasty you could eat them – Garavani's gowns, suits and slinky dresses have always been masterpieces in the divinely girlish. One of our favourites is this one-off piece he made for Natalie Vodianova last year.
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The Dallas Mavericks have signed free agent center Samuel Dalembert, putting them a step closer to securing another overhaul of their starting lineup.
The deal announced Friday means four of the projected starters in Dallas are under contract. The other, shooting guard Monta (MAHN'-tay) Ellis, has a verbal agreement.
The contract is reportedly worth $7.5 million over two seasons.
Dalembert is likely to be the fifth starting center in the past five seasons for the Mavericks, who are retooling their roster for the third straight offseason. Their first priority in free agency was center Dwight Howard, but he chose Houston.
The 32-year-old Dalembert is the NBA's only Haitian-born player and has career averages of 8.0 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.8 blocks. He played for Milwaukee last season.
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Violence and crime toll rises in Chattanooga
Behind closed doors, Chattanooga is swirling with hatred. Halfway between a city moving towards the high and mighty metros like New York, New York and San Francisco, California, and halfway between being a little old town like Ringgold or some other far flung city disconnected from reality. It seems like Chattanooga is in this misty swirl of confusion. Should we leave behind traditionally ignorant southern values like racism, judgmental behavior and materialism, or should we become corporate tycoons that weave malice behind the scenes by making it hard for the minorities to be employed and leaving poor whites to remain poor whites to make room for the elite? I am a black woman, married with child. I am not poor, and I am far from uneducated, yet my race is still stigmatized and I still get nasty stares and second class service, so moving from the ghettos is not the magic potion. Regardless of what a black person achieves, they will still only be seen as black, and no matter how many of you try to deny that racism IS at work in many ways, unfortunately it is, and I am living proof. I am traveled, I am young, and I can say that yes I am disappointed in the black community, but I am also disappointed with the white community as well. Speaking so lowly of blacks, but refusing to see their own mistakes, and how many blacks do you see on this message board besides a few (at least, those who identify themselves as black)? This is the problem: Both communities, black and white, are in danger of themselves. Not wanting to understand themselves, let alone each other, we keep Chattanooga, which has so much potential, from becoming something wonderful. I would never tell anyone to come here...there are other places where people just aren't this way. And a lot of us, we only think in black and white. What about everyone else? Do they just not exist? We all need to come together to fix this problem people. It is not black and white, it's our community that needs some fixing, inside the flesh and out.


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A student from Cleveland, Tenn., was in the semifinals Saturday afternoon in the American Legion Oratorical Contest in Indianapolis.
Victoria Vest and eight other teens from across the nation were the top finishers in a field of 53, according to a news release. They were to go head-to-head later Saturday in hopes of making the final three. The winner will receive an $18,000 college scholarship. The first and second runners-up receive $16,000 and $14,000 scholarships respectively.
The annual American Legion High School Oratorical Scholarship Program encourages young people to improve communications skills and study the U.S. Constitution, the release stated.
Today's finals will be webcast live at 10 a.m. on www.legion.org.
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Link to MDGs
- MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger
- MDG 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education by 2015
- MDG 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women by 2015
- MDG 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
The challenge in education is ensuring equitable access to schooling that results in not only diplomas but learning, and that ultimately helps children develop labor market-relevant skills. Yet learning levels in many countries are alarmingly low, especially among disadvantaged populations. More schooling has not resulted in more learning. Even when children complete school, they often do so without acquiring basic skills, which is particularly detrimental when unemployment is high and labor markets are demanding more skilled and agile workforces than ever before. Youth are leaving school and entering the workforce without competitive competencies, and there is a wide gulf in test scores among students from different income levels. To begin to improve learning involves systematically measuring learning and using these data to improve classroom learning and hold educators accountable.
Major challenges in accessing meaningful education remain for the most disadvantaged populations, and there is an urgent need for increased financing to close these gaps. Among International Development Association (IDA) countries, as of January 2012, 45 were off track (36 of them seriously off track) to meet the goal of universal primary completion, while 18 countries had no data. For the goal of gender equality in primary and secondary schooling, 30 countries were off track (and 19 of them seriously). As of 2009, 67 million primary school age children were still out of school (even after a drop of 38 million since 1999); almost half these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and around a quarter in South Asia. About 42 percent live in poor countries affected by conflict. While early child education can contribute to better learning outcomes, less than half the world's pre-primary age students were enrolled in pre-primary education in 2009, and the rates for Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa lagged far behind other regions. Regarding higher levels of education, the demand for secondary and tertiary education has grown sharply. Nearly 60 percent of secondary school age students were enrolled in 2009 (an 8 percent improvement over 1999); however, Sub-Saharan Africa lagged far behind other regions. The global tertiary gross enrollment rate was 27 percent in 2009.
The World Bank is the largest external education financier for developing countries, managing a portfolio of US$11 billion, with operations in 78 countries as of April 2012. The Bank helps countries achieve their education goals through finance and knowledge services in the form of analytic work, policy advice, and technical assistance. This support includes working with countries to help identify the role and contribution of education to their overall development strategies. It also means understanding countries' priorities, needs, and constraints, and jointly designing programs in response, while collaborating with other donors. In 2011, as part of its long-standing support to countries for education, the World Bank unveiled its "Learning for All" education strategy, and introduced Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER), an important new initiative that helps countries assess their education performance and map out ways to improve their performance.
Education Strategy. In 2011, the Bank launched a new Education Sector Strategy 2020, entitled "Learning for All". The strategy recognizes that learning drives development and encourages countries to invest early (because foundational skills acquired early benefit lifelong learning), smartly (in efforts proven to improve learning), and for all (focusing not only on privileged but on all students). To achieve learning for all, the Bank Group is promoting country-level reforms of education systems, and building a global knowledge base to guide reform. The Bank will measure the success of its strategy in terms of the share of countries that have: Applied SABER tools and collected and used system data; Undertaken learning assessments; Shown measurable improvement in at least one SABER area, and; Taken new steps to attain the MDGs.
SABER. SABER helps countries move toward learning for all through tools that assess education system performance and guide reform. It fills a critical gap in worldwide policy data and knowledge on what matters most in improving education quality. The Bank is working with partners to develop and deploy SABER diagnostic tools based on data it is collecting regarding countries' education policies. Countries can use these data to objectively assess performance, compare their education policies against evidence-based global standards and policies of comparator countries, and identify policy and institutional changes needed to improve learning. SABER covers several policy domains: Early child development, Education technology/ information communications technology; Engaging the private sector; Equity and inclusion; Finance; Education management information systems; Resilience (for fragile/conflict-affected states); School autonomy and accountability; School health and nutrition; Student assessment, Teachers; Tertiary education, and; Workforce development.
Support for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In September 2010, the Bank pledged to increase its support of countries not on track to reach the education MDGs, committing to "top up" US$750 million over five years. The commitment is significant; nearly 60 percent of Bank support to education already goes to basic education (compared with 38 percent for bilateral donors). In 2011, the Bank reaffirmed this commitment at the pledging conference for the Global Partnership for Education in Copenhagen. By the end of fiscal year 2012, the Bank will be nearly halfway toward meeting this pledge.
World Development Report on Gender Equality. The Bank's new World Development Report, entitled Gender Equality and Development, notes progress but highlights the gaps that remain in many areas, including education, and particularly for marginalized populations. In countries participating in the Global Partnership for Education initiative, girls have accounted for 60 percent of new enrollments, but the real payoff (in terms of health, income, and employability) for investment in girls' education will come only when learning levels improve. During the past five years, more than 60 percent of Bank education lending has promoted gender equality in education.
Bank assistance has helped contribute to the following global achievements in education:
- Many countries are on track to meet gender parity in primary education (89) and secondary education (82), and 32 IDA-eligible countries have achieved this goal and another seven are on track to do so;
- A total of 55 countries are on track to attain universal primary completion. Fifteen IDA-eligible countries have achieved this goal and another two are on track:
- Between 1999 and 2009, the total number of out-of-school children worldwide declined from 105 million to 67 million, 36 million of whom are girls; the total fell by more than half in South Asia;
- All regions increased pre-primary enrollments during 1999-2009, and South Asia more than doubled its gross enrollment rate from 21.6 percent to 47 percent;
- Net primary enrollment increased from 82 percent in 1999 to 88 percent in 2009;
- In terms of Primary Completion Rates, South Asia had a large gender disparity in 1999 (14.5 percentage points) but decreased the difference to 3.2 percentage points in 2009;
- In the last decade, IDA-financed projects helped recruit or train 3 million additional teachers and build more than 2 million new classrooms, benefitting more than 100 million children every year.
Additionally, IDA support to national education initiatives has contributed the following country-level results:
- In Ethiopia, the net primary enrollment rate increased from 69 percent in 2005 to 88 percent in 2010;
- In Mozambique, net primary enrollment more than doubled between 1998 and 2010 to 95 percent. The primary completion rate for grade 7 increased from 34 percent in 2004 to 48 percent in 2009;
- In Bangladesh, gross primary enrollment rose from 76 percent in 1991 to 108 percent in 2010, while the gross secondary enrollment of 57 percent in 2008 was three times higher than in 1980;
- In Pakistan's Sindh province, the female-male primary net enrollment in rural areas rose in 2006/7 from 61 percent to 72 percent as of June 2010, while primary net enrollment increased from 48 percent in 2004/5 to 53 percent as of May 2011;
- In the Philippines, 2 million poor households benefited from a program providing cash to chronically poor households with children, provided that the children were sent to school.
Bank Contributions
The World Bank contributes to results in low- and middle-income countries through its country-level operations as well as analytic services and technical assistance, funded by IBRD, IDA, and trust funds. It supports education through an average of US$2.2 billion in new financing a year, with more than 50 percent of new commitments made through IDA (which channels about 12 percent of its financing to education). In 2011, for example, the Bank invested US$1.8 billion in education.
In the 2011 fiscal year, Africa and South Asia received the lion's share of IDA funding for education (US$1.2 billion), while Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Central Asia together accounted for 80 percent of IBRD's US$700 million for education. The Bank also produced 130 education publications, research papers, and knowledge products in FY11 and was active in generating new knowledge in the form of policy papers and tools, including SABER tools.
Many Bank operations are focused on workforce skills. Sixteen out of 19 education sector-managed projects approved in FY11 had activities related to labor markets and employment, and in many cases, skills development was the central objective. Several projects also supported tertiary education. These operations are helping countries expand the supply of skilled and employable labor, reduce short-term skills gaps, strengthen institutional aspects, and raise the relevance and efficiency of technical and vocational education.
Analytical work on skills was also important in 2011. Regional flagship reports highlighted the shortage of labor market-relevant skills as a key constraint to company hiring, the role of higher education in delivering the skills needed to produce a competitive labor force, and the need for reforms to focus on improving education quality and systematically measuring learning.
SABER has begun to influence policy dialogue and the design of Bank operations. SABER has to date been applied to inform work in one or more policy domains in over a hundred countries. In Cambodia, the government is using the SABER-Teachers framework to design a comprehensive teacher policy reform program and in Chile, SABER tools helped benchmark governance arrangements in top-performing education systems and inform education legal reforms. In Nigeria, a state-level project used SABER tools across four policy domains including student assessment and teachers.
A policy paper produced in FY11 highlights the government's vigorous and sustained reform following the "alarming" results of the first international tests taken by the country's 13-year olds. Noting Jordan's consecutive and comprehensive reforms, the paper shows how assessment results can provide significant returns and make the cost of assessment worthwhile.
Support to Sri Lanka led to institutional progress in undergraduate education. The project introduced information technology (IT) centers, English/IT programs, and quality assurance accreditation, as well as new concepts such as competitive funding based on proposals. A project impact evaluation showed a sizeable drop in graduates' average waiting time for the first job, significant improvements in undergraduate learning during the project period, and an increase in graduates' employment.
The World Bank collaborates with United Nations (UN) agencies and development partners to support countries' education goals, including progress toward the MDGs. The Global Partnership for Education (formerly the Education for All-Fast Track Initiative) has been a critical partner in basic education since 2002. The Bank was instrumental in creating this multi-donor partnership – involving over 30 bilateral and multilateral partners – and in its funding since inception of around US$2 billion.
The Bank also partners with bilateral donors, including Russia. The Russia Education Aid for Development trust fund supports SABER-Assessment as well as learning assessment in eight countries. The World Bank also collaborates on operations or knowledge work through trust funds backed by Australia, the European Commission, Ireland, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Moving Forward
The Bank will continue moving toward increasing IDA assistance for education and meeting its US$750-million commitment, ultimately supporting innovative interventions that reach the most underserved populations. Bank assistance to low- and middle-income countries will continue to focus on learning for all, skills development, and the transition from schooling to jobs.
An evaluation of a teacher incentives pilot within the Kyrgyz Republic Rural Education Project has helped to better understand project impact. The pilot aimed to increase teacher motivation, improve teaching practices, and ultimately boost student learning achievement by providing monetary incentives to teachers for improved performance. The evaluation has shown that the pilot improved teachers' motivation and skills and that teachers used what they had learned to improve their teaching. Principals rated the program positively for increasing teacher motivation and improving school quality. Teachers found the program effective for motivating them to change teaching practices, take professional development courses, continue to work as teachers, and refine their skills to improve student learning.


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Double Cheddar Hash Browns Recipe
This comforting side dish from Renee Hatfield of Doylestown, Ohio starts with convenient frozen hash browns and canned soups. Shredded cheese and crunchy cornflake crumbs are the fast finishing touch to this potato bake.
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of onion soup, undiluted
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cheddar cheese soup, undiluted
- 1 package (30 ounces) frozen shredded hash brown potatoes
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup crushed cornflakes
- In a large bowl, combine the soups. Stir in hash browns. Pour into a greased 2-1/2-qt. baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese and cornflake crumbs. Cover and bake at 350° for 50 minutes. Uncover; bake 10 minutes longer or until golden. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Double Cheddar Hash Browns in Quick Cooking March/April 2000, p8
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It's International Women's Day today. The Oxford International Women's Festival is taking place in the city, 1st - 13th March. (I read at Blackwell's in Oxford last night as part of the festival.)
TIME magazine celebrated the event by asking some famous Oxford residents, including Helena Kennedy, Susan Greenfield and festival coordinator Anna Hobson, for their tips about how to spend a perfect day in Oxford. It's great to see Anna's recommendations, as well as international recognition of all the effort she puts into organising the festival, now in its 23rd year.
Over at Freedom From Torture's site, there's a post about International Women's Day and the work the organisation does with women and children who are survivors of torture. you can hear from the Write to Life group where I run workshops and volunteer as a mentor. There are poems on the site from four women writers in the group: Stephanie, Amina, Nadine and Jade.
Staff at Random House chose Freedom From Torture as their chosen charity last year and raised £24,500 which was handed over at the publisher's offices at the beginning of March. If you'd like to get involved as a fundraiser or volunteer, take a look at Freedom From Torture's site here.
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Pat Foran: It's almost 'lights out' for traditional bulbs
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Date: Thu. Sep. 1 2011 8:23 AM ET
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It's almost lights out for the traditional light bulb. Countries around the world including Canada are moving towards phasing out the sale of inefficient incandescent bulbs.


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The Environmental Protection Agency continues to give the green light to E15, but the biofuel doesn't have to come from corn ethanol. The exact source of the ethanol in gasoline – whether its 10 percent ethanol (E10) or 15 percent (E15) – isn't impacting the E15 debate, it does in the "food vs. fuel" debate, and that's why a potential solution coming out of Colorado caught our eye.
Ethanol producer Front Range Energy, based in Windsor, CO, has successfully tested a new process to make ethanol from waste wood. The company has a patented technology for making fuel from woody biomass instead of corn, and is the second major US ethanol producer to do so. Front Range will begin commercial production next year and plans to covert seven percent of its ethanol production from corn to woody biomass during that time. Switching over to that much biomass will reduce corn consumption by about 1.2 million bushels a year.
The Colorado ethanol producer has signed a 15-year, $100-million deal with Rochester, NY-based Sweetwater Energy to use Sweetwater's process for converting biomass to sugars, which are then distilled into ethanol. If that conversion process works well, Fort Range will increase its use of biomass. Sweetwater plans to acquire waste wood primarily from lumber mills. Some of it may come from beetle-killed pine (pictured), a source that's plentiful in Colorado.
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Ten Hands was a rock band based in Dallas, Texas and was active between 1986-1995. The band consisted of:
Paul Slavens (keyboards, lead vocals),
Steve Brand (guitar, backing vocals),
Gary Muller (Chapman stick, backing vocals),
Earl Harvin (drums, backing vocals 1986-1991),
Mike Dillon (percussion, backing vocals 1986-1991), and
Alan Emmert (drums, backing vocals 1991-1995).
Described as a cross between the jazz-rock-art style of Frank Zappa and the psychedelic punk of the Meat Puppets, Ten Hands had a unique style that was better appreciated live, more so than in the studio. The late 80's local scene adored them and the Dallas Observer awarded Ten Hands numerous accolades in 1988-1989.
The band officially called it quits in 1995; however, reunion shows every few years regularly draw a large following in Deep Ellum.
About Ten Hands
Born from Denton, Texas, in the mid-'80s, north of Dallas, Ten Hands briefly enjoyed heaps of acclaim and an impressive following in their home state. Their music tended to be high in energy, syncopated and funky. Matched with Paul Slavens]' charismatic vocal stylings and political assertions that denigrated the ruling elite, the complacent middle class, and environmental evils, Ten Hands was one of the more politically oriented Texas bands of the era. They rarely forgot to be fun, however, and their musical playfulness and frequent lyrical absurdism belied any pretensions they may have had.
Sometime in late 1986, Mike Dillon, Gary Muller, and Matt Chamberlain were playing in Dallas-based band Zane Grey, who actually appeared on Star Search. They did not win, but Muller did get to touch Ed McMahon (specifically, his hand). Meanwhile, Steve Brand and Slavens were playing in a Denton band called the Gonemen. Dillon, Muller, and Chamberlain lived in the same Denton house as other members of the Gonemen, and when dissatisfaction with both groups began to appear, the idea for a new band was spawned.
The first Ten Hands rehearsal (documented on videotape) took place late 1986 in Denton. Shortly thereafter, Zane Grey's manager, Tony Johnson, accepted an offer to manage the fledgling band. For the first year, Ten Hands played mostly small venues in Denton and performed a weekly gig at the Prophet Bar, a seminal Deep Ellum club in Dallas. During this time, a studio recording was made and handmade cassettes were sold and distributed in and around the Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Denton area.
Chamberlain and Dillon were already well-known in Denton as top players in the University of North Texas Jazz program, and interest in the band soon grew. It was also during this time that the New Bohemians were becoming a major draw in Dallas. It happened that several members of that band were friends with a few Ten Hands members, and ultimately, New Bohemians finagled some opening slots for Ten Hands at Deep Ellum's celebrated Club Dada. The Club Dada shows helped expose the band to a much wider audience, and the venue would later host many of Ten Hands' most memorable performances.
In late 1988, Earl Harvin joined the band as drummer after the Matt left to play with the New Bohemians. The band went into the studio to record Kung Fu...That's What I Like. As New Bohemians vacated Dallas for bigger and better things, Ten Hands stepped in to fill the void and began what would be a three or four year run as one of the region's most popular draws. The band won numerous Dallas Observer Awards in 1988-1989, and shortly after the release of their first live CD, The Big One Is Coming, and sold over 20,000 copies. Joe Cripps joined the band to replace Dillon on percussion.
Earl left the band to play with Mike Dillon's Billy Goat and "Big" Al Emert became drummer. Ten Hands started to tour heavily and built a large following with college audiences.
At a SXSW performance, the band was offered a record deal by an independent producer in L.A. Desperate to release an album after two years of inactivity, the band agreed and began work on Be My Guru in late 1991. While the album contained some of the band's best songs, the recording itself was a disappointment and the relationship with the label grew stormy. By the time the band left the label, much of their earlier momentum was lost.
As the band's popularity began to wane, a friend of the band, Byron Wilson, offered to produce a CD. Jazz for Jerks was recorded in early 1993 with the assistance of the band's friend and longtime collaborative producer, David Castell.
Steve Brand left the band in 1993. New guitarists, Chris Claridy and Chad Rueffer joined and the band wrote some new songs and continued to gig around the area. In the next incarnation, guitarist, Ed McMahon, and drummer Greg Beck were hired. A demo record was recorded with the brand new lineup, but the album was never mixed or released.
Ten Hands continues to play, with various lineups, several times a year in the Dallas area.
Ten Hands Discography
Kung Fu ... That's What I Like
The Big One Is Coming (live)
Be My Guru
Slipped Disc
Jazz For Jerks
The Big One That Got Away (live)
All Ten Hands lyrics
- Alligator Brain
- Amoeba
- Bushlock Sadie
- Bye Bye
- Cast Out Your Demons
- Castle On The Hill
- Crawl
- Do It For Love
- East Coast Jones
- I Was Confused (About The Television Set)
- Little Man In Your Head
- Love Is The Question
- Moses In My Life
- Old Eyes
- Pancho Villa
- Pray For Rain
- Say The Word
- Spade Tight
- The Big One Is Coming
- The Buffalo Club
- The Greenhouse Effect
- Underwater
- World With No Money
- Yeah Right
- You Are My Fix
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UPDATE: Employee at Dona Ana Detention Center Speaks Out
POSTED: Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 4:18pm
UPDATED: Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 5:22pm
A Dona Ana Detention Center employee is speaking out a day after an inmate almost gets released by accident.
We reported that Javier Molina pretended to be his sleeping roommate when officers came by the cell to release the man.
An officer trainee in the booking center who saw the incident unfold told News Channel Nine that they were very busy when it happened, but they caught it just in time.
"We were really, really busy that day, and to be honest, it could happen to anybody," Jeremy Maldonado said. "We were too much in a hurry and we ended up making a mistake."
Maldonado said they realized they had the wrong man when they got the tattoo check.
"He ended up coming out all the way until getting his property," Maldonado said. "I'm pretty sure that our booking staff is going to have to have a meeting and let them know this is what we need to do from now on."
A spokesman on behalf of the detention center said all staff members followed normal procedure and the inmate never left the secure area.
Molina now faces additional charges.