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I've been obsessed with Lea's Facebook profile since January 2006, when she joined, just a month after I created my own account. In high school, we had a consuming friendship—together we did things we'd never do alone, like skinny-dip in Lake Michigan while rolling on Ecstasy. In summer, our sleepovers lasted weeks. At 1 a.m., we'd sneak out and trudge through the woods to a field, where we smoked cigarettes and got blackout drunk on wine stolen from our mothers. We talked a lot about getting wasted and breaking out of dead-end northern Michigan; anthems of small-town girls. We called ourselves unbreakable without a hint of irony. Our friendship took place entirely offline—which is strange, because for almost 10 years, most of my interaction with Lea has been with her Facebook profile.
A few months ago, motivated by the purchase of an iPhone 5, I refreshed all the apps on my phone. I barely use any of them—Chase, Twitter, Groupon, Facebook, iPeriod—and normally wouldn't bother upgrading unless prompted by some breakdown of functionality. One of Facebook's newer features is a change to private messages, so that they're less like email and more like instant messaging. Now, if you visit someone's profile and click on the messages button, a circular icon containing their profile picture appears on the screen, and with it, the entirety of your mutual correspondence.
On March 2, more than four years ago now, Lea died of substance-abuse-related liver failure. June 10 would have been her 27th birthday. This time of year is when she's always most on my mind, and I'm sure that some Facebook technician who keeps track of what we all do on the site would report that my visits to Lea's profile increase exponentially as the weather gets warmer. I don't know how, exactly, I managed to open up my old messages with Lea. I want to say that Facebook put the messages there—that I didn't click the button, that they just appeared, Lea's face popping up because she had something to say, she wanted to chat. But I must have clicked. Maybe by accident. Still, I can't ignore the pull of my bookworm's interpretation, arguing that technology is the closest human beings come to magic. I know nothing about the way the Internet works. I still half-believe the Internet is simply air. So why isn't it plausible that Lea's messages appeared in response to how much I miss her, to my own guilt about her death.
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Lea was the kind of person you join Facebook to stalk. At 16, I was in love with her in a not-entirely platonic way, which every woman who has been the sidekick in a teenage girl-duo will completely understand. And, like a true sidekick, I didn't question our bad choices—I followed Lea whole hog, in the spirit of best-friendship, of adventure. But part of me anticipated the person who writes this now, by which I mean that even as we chased a night of cocaine with Xanax and Lifetime movies, I already knew that this was the stuff of my wayward youth, and that I'd outgrow it. We promised to be friends forever, but then I went away to college in New York City and she moved to Costa Rica with her boyfriend of the moment. After that, I watched her downward spiral from afar—or more precisely, from close-up, only separated by a computer screen.
My freshman year, Lea's status updates were consistently funny and weird and her. A year later they'd become disjointed: Hallmark quotes that the Lea I'd known would have made fun of, misspellings, late-night fragments that had clearly been posted after a hundred drinks and who knows what else. Her profile pictures changed too. Early-on, she was Lea at the beach, grinning through a sunburn. Later, she was Lea 30 pounds thinner than I'd ever seen her, her cheeks squirrel-swollen, staring at something beyond the camera. When I went home to Michigan on winter break, I'd bump into her at bars and parties, or get incomprehensible calls from her in the middle of the night. We'd grown apart swiftly and irrevocably. I might drink too much with my high school friends over the holidays, but in New York I was living the kind of life Lea and I had imagined for ourselves, if only we could escape Michigan. At 19, I didn't understand what her life had become, and why she hadn't grown up with the rest of us, why she couldn't get it together.
By that point, she'd become a fixture in home-for-the-holidays gossip. From Facebook, I knew she was dating someone who, in high school, we'd made fun of for being a scary burnout. More than once she had a black eye. She'd had a seizure at Walmart. Everyone from my graduating class loved to talk about how messed up Lea had gotten—but when we saw her, we used her drugs and stayed awake with her until dawn, reminiscing about the good times, before most of us went back to school and left her behind.
I think I recognized the hypocrisy of our behavior then, and maybe even drunkenly mentioned it. But after Lea died I told myself I'd tried to help. That I'd done what I could. I'd reached out and she'd ignored me. She stopped responding to my texts, my emails, my phone calls. At her funeral, I felt guilty that I hadn't done more but also angry at her for leaving us, for leaving me, someone who loved her, someone who—still—would never let her go.
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For two hundred years, the city of Ember has been the last refuge of the human race. But the lamps that light the city are growing dim, which could mean the end of Ember. 12 year old Lina and her friend Doon have found an ancient message that might hold the key to saving the city. Will they be able to decipher the message, before it's too late?
this book is a real cliffhanger. it took me less than a day to read it
I really enjoyed this book, and I think it is a great one for kids to read. It is set in a dystopia, but not one that is as dark as "The Hunger Games". Pretty enjoyable, and I will check out the rest of the series!
This is an awesome book.I recommend you read it
My Grade 4 teacher read this book to our class and everyone loved it. Then we watched the movie, I think this is one of the few books that the movie hasn't disappointed me. Now I realized there is an entire serious so I'm going to re-read this book, watch the movie, and then finish the rest of the serious! I love this book and I defiantly recommend it! Enjoy!
Amazing. I am now going to start the next book, and I hope it its as good as this.
I'm always envious of kids who are reading this for the first time (and without watching the movie version) because they are going to get that awesome feeling at the surprise ending. This is one of the best sci fi books written for kids in the last 20 years.
Can't believe I watched the movie first! The book was better. Revealed more than what the movie portrayed. A good read as post-apocalyptic books go.
I really loved this book, it brings me into a whole new world and I loved when it got to the Journey part. The ending was so good and it made me wanna read the second book so bad. I would definitely recommend this to all ages
I enjoyed Lina and Doon, they are very brave.
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The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she's sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever! This stunning debut novel offers refreshingly clear writing and fascinating, original characters.
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Lina wants to be a messenger but instead has to work underground.
The City of Ember is a magical story about two teens who finds their way out of a dark, underground city
In the City of Ember, lived two young teenagers named Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow. Surronding their city is nothing but total darkness. For 200 years, the citizens of the City of Ember lived in a world of amazing lights. But now, the buildings are crumbling, the supplies are decreasing and worst of all- the lights are starting to go out. When Lina finds an old box whos content may save the city from going to utter darkness, she discusses it with Doon. And unfortunately, as the contents of the box were ancient and that Lina's little sister has chewed on it, there are holes in the paper. The papers seem to be instructions for something..... can it be intructions to save their city?
A young girl lives in a city where the lights are turned off at the exact same time every day, and where the generator that powers those lights is breaking down. Surrounding them is nothing but total darkness. Will she be able to save the whole city from living in utter darkness?
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But Ember is NOT prospering!!
"There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets."
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember
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A wonderful, interesting, action-packed book that gives this series off to a great start.
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Wed, Apr 29, 2009
ANN is monitoring
reports of more aggressive cost-cutting at GA giant, Cessna
Aircraft. What we know so far is this... about 1600 jobs are being
eliminated, the Citation Columbus program is being suspended with
applicable deposits returned, and the former Columbia plant in
Bend OR is being closed.
Jet deliveries are expected to be 20 per cent less than
originally forecast and that will affect cash flow drastically...
hence the cost-cutting-- and it is unlikely that we have seen the
last of the jet order cancellations that are rocking this company.
It is also unlikely that we have seen the last of such
workforce reduction measures, as curtailing the Columbus
development program (among other issues) is reported to pose as
many as 700 more losses by the summer. In the meantime, though, a
number of Citation programs and the SkyCatcher LSA program
survive... for now.
Among the not-so-pretty stats from Textron's analysis of the
most recent quarter:
A memo from CEO Jack Pelton pretty much sums up the
decision-making process, and is reproduced below:
Late yesterday, Textron released its financial results for the
first quarter of the year. They reiterated, as we told you at the
end of March, a continued decline in global demand for our
aircraft, which in turn requires us to reduce our production rates
for this year and next. That also means a reduction in revenue that
will require us to be very strategic in our investments to ensure
the long-term success of Cessna.
Our primary near-term objective is to focus on our strengths and
protect our core products in the light and mid-size business jet
market segments, our leadership position in the single-engine
piston and turboprop product segment, and our world-class customer
support. This strategy brings with it more hard decisions, but
necessary in this trying economy.
To ensure our focus is
on our strong products in existing markets, we are suspending our
development of the Citation Columbus. This was a very difficult
decision, but critical to sizing our business to the realities of
today's market. We looked at every possible scenario before coming
to this decision. We still feel this is a program with great
potential and one we will pursue when the market recovers.
Today, it is critically important to support the markets
we compete in by strengthening our existing product line and
support services. Our strategic investments will be in these areas.
To that end, we will continue programs such as the Citation CJ4 and
the 162 SkyCatcher. We also will continue to work on research and
development of numerous yet-to-be-announced new products, all of
this while exploring new ways to strengthen our customer support
The reduced production rates, regrettably, require another
reduction in the work force as I told you in my last memo a few
weeks ago. We began today issuing layoff notices to approximately
1,600 Cessnans at every level of the company. As we have done in
the past, these colleagues will remain on the payroll 60 days. As
we re-evaluate our requirements in the coming weeks following the
changes in our product development plans, we will issue additional
layoff notices within the salaried work force - up to 700 - by
mid-June. This sizes our work force for our currently planned
production in 2010.
Quickly reducing the number of aircraft we produce is somewhat
more involved than simply slowing our operations. It will require
us to extend the planned companywide employee furlough to four
weeks, running June 22 through July 19. This companywide furlough
will coincide with various assembly line furloughs already
instituted to match production to demand. This action is required
to remove the aircraft and the associated costs from this year's
production schedule.
We will still have the people on duty we need to support
customer deliveries, customer service and a few programs and
operations that must continue uninterrupted. The rest of us are
expected to take part in this furlough unless notified by your
supervisor. Additional information regarding the furloughs will be
shared soon.
A key part of our activity is cost reduction and that will
include consolidation of facilities. We continue to look at a
number of options, but some decisions have already been made. While
very painful to share, we will be closing the facility in Bend
(pictured below-Ed.) and moving that assembly line to Independence.
This is not a result of any dissatisfaction with the Bend
operation, but is driven by the need to consolidate facilities for
factory efficiency.
I will be meeting today with the Cessna Leadership Team to share
details of the state of the market and the economy and of our plans
to weather the downturn. They will, in turn, be cascading this
information throughout the company in smaller meetings to continue
to promote open dialogue through this difficult period.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of good news for Cessna right
now, but times will change. That does little to lessen the pain and
disappointment brought on by what we're all going through. For
those employees who will be leaving Cessna, I want to thank you for
your dedication and hard work. For those who will remain, we need
to work together to ensure we continue the highest level of service
to our customers, survive this economic recession, and prepare for
the days when we begin to grow again.
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A Loxahatchee grandmother said she is in shock after her grandson was run over and killed Sunday in Loxahatchee.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office released a report Monday saying that Christopher Pollard, 28, was reversing his pickup truck when he accidentally ran over his 3-year-old son, Michael.
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Michelle Alimenti, the boy's grandmother, said the family is devastated.
"I am just trying to do everything I can to keep them stable, and I'm trying to seek some kind of help and direction for help," she told WPBF 25 News.
Alimenti said Michael, whom they affectionately called Pie, had a 6-year-old brother who witnessed the accident.
"It's going to be a really tough road," she said. "We are going to make sure he gets the help that he needs."
Alimenti said Michael was a very kind and loving boy. She said the family plans to donate his organs in hopes of helping other families.
"In some way, in my heart, I would feel at least he is still living," she said.
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Music | 'Kwass Meda,' a soccer field 'where we will be joyous'
At the conclusion of the 2008 African Cup of Nations, we offer a new translation of Ejigayehu Shibabaw's, or Gigi's, song "Kwass Meda" (Soccer Field). The song features on the 2000 release One Ethiopia, with the translation from Amharic by Solomon Abebe and his nephew, Befekadu.
As a note to the translation, Solomon Abebe, associate professor of education at Taylor University, Indiana, writes that Gigi's frequent exclamation "Yaho" provides joyous affirmation, in the manner of conversation partners. "When you are talking to someone exchanging ideas, for every sentence that you make the person will utter 'eehm' or 'yes' or 'ya' indicating the person is actively listening to you. The word 'Yaho' is used in that sense, except it is celebratory and joyous."
Soccer field (3x)
Soccer field & play
Habesha person, my countryman where I could see
Those who were lost would be found
Those who longed will find each other.
Gathered all Habesha, Yaho
They all congregate, Yaho
Let us join soccer field, where we celebrate, Yaho
Let us join soccer field, where we will be joyous, Yaho
Let us join soccer field, where we all show off, Yaho
Let us join soccer field
Audience, the game is about to start.
The referees are on the field,
Players are in their respective positions
Supporters are chanting for their teams
It is about to start, It has started.
Repeat chorus 2x
They all assemble from different places
Let's all put our Sunday best on and show up.
One searching for the other, Yaho
Running and pushing crowd, Yaho
Those who longed, Yaho
Crying with embrace, Yaho
Soon and in laughter, Yaho
Resort back to crying, Yaho
There she is, Yaho
There he is, Yaho
Looking in the crowd, Yaho
Around the stadium, Yaho
Vertically, Yaho, Horizontally, Yaho
Let us search who all are present (2x)
San Francisco's, Yaho
Atlanta's, Yaho, D.C.'s Yaho, L.A.'s Yaho,
Dallas' Yaho, Texas' Yaho, the South's Yaho,
The East's Yaho, The West's Yaho
I wouldn't want to be you [the ball] Yaho.
Who Yaho would score you Yaho
Who? Yaho would be engaged Yaho
Who is going to score Yaho
The war at the Congo Yaho, Your property didn't resemble the score
The goal kick chest-trapped by number 8, passed to number 10
Number 10 moved lateral then passed to number 9
9 dribbled forward and gave it back to 8
8 gave it back to 9 again
9 again dribbled it and passed it to number 10, and 10 aimed, kicked,
at the goal
Bravo goalier, the goalie has it
They pass the ball to each other, Yaho,
And finally kick to the goal, Yaho,
The flying goalie, Yaho,
Pick it off the air, Yaho,
The referee's whistle, Yaho, the spectators' noise
Exuberation Yaho, the joy, Yaho, the memory, Yaho
And the fun Yaho (repeat 2x)
The return kick by number 5, reached the wing number 7
7 dribbled forward and crossed to the goal.
9 received but lost, 10 got it back.
10 maneuvered forward then kicked!
Oh my! Hard kick. The goal shook. Oh my!
What a game, oh game, what a game!
D.C. proved it, what a game. Dallas proved it!
What a game Texas what a game!
What a game Canada proved it what a game!
What a game the North proved it what a game!
What a game the South proved it what a game!
What a game the East proved it what a game!
What a game the West proved it what a game!
—Translated from the Amharic by Solomon and Befekadu Abebe. Copyright © 2007. All rights reserved.


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Ramunas Navardauskas of Lithuania took the lead in the Giro d'Italia after his Garmin-Barracuda squad won the team time trial in the fourth stage Wednesday.Previous leader Taylor Phinney visibly struggled with a swollen right ankle following a crash on Monday. The American BMC rider went off the road at one point onto grass and nearly fell into a ditch.Garmin clocked 37 minutes, 4 seconds over the mostly flat 33-kilometer (21-mile) route in Verona - the first stage back in Italy following three legs in Denmark. Katusha finished second, 5 seconds behind, and Astana and Saxo Bank were next, both 22 seconds back.Garmin riders are 1-2-3-4 in the overall standings, with Navardauskas 10 seconds ahead of American sprinter Tyler Farrar and South African veteran Robert Hunter, with overall contender Ryder Hesjedal of Canada fourth.Alex Rasmussen, who entered third overall, couldn't keep up with his Garmin teammates and dropped in the standings.Phinney, who needed three stitches to close a wound to his right ankle on Monday, dropped to fifth, 13 seconds behind. After going off road, he had to slow for a moment to clean a clump of grass off his shoes, but a weed remained attached to his bike."I didn't have anything today,'' Phinney said. "The team waited for me a couple times... Luckily I didn't fall today, too. I'm upset, there's not much else to say. I didn't have any power.''Swept alongBMC finished 10th, 31 seconds behind Garmin."I have to thank the team, because they could have left me behind, but they brought me to the finish,'' Phinney said.Navardauskas also struggled at times, especially in the final third of the time trial, but he managed to stay with his teammates."I'm so happy to stay with these guys,'' he said. "I was so tired with 10 kilometers to go.''Among pre-race favorites, Joaquin Rodriguez is 30 seconds back, followed by Roman Kreuziger (40 seconds behind), two-time winner Ivan Basso (47 seconds), Frank Schleck (1:09), 2004 winner Damiano Cunego (1:19) and defending champion Michele Scarponi (1:22).Stage 5 on Thursday is a 209-kilometer mostly flat leg from Modena to Fano on the Adriatic coast, before the first hilly stages Friday, Saturday and Sunday.The race ends May 27 in Milan.
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Top bands at Chicago street fests 2012
Not all of the best acts perform at big fests like Lollapalooza and Pitchfork. With that in mind, we look at some of the must-see bands playing at Chicago street fests this summer. (Additions will be made as more lineups are announced.) -- Matt Pais, RedEye Sound Board
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Sub-saharan African markets are attracting interest from foreign fund managers seeking to diversify risks in their global portfolio. André DeSimone, executive director at Kestrel Capital tells us why Africa's stock markets continue to perform remarkably well despite their small size and low liquidity.
The global financial crisis affected African markets resulting in, among other problems, the drying up of credit lines. What is the status now?
As Africa's financial system was not highly integrated with America's or Europe's, it was not so heavily impacted by the global financial crisis. Also, most African countries never experienced the sort of financial, real estate or consumer leverage that was experienced in the US and Europe, for example. Aside from a few Nigerian banks, generally the banking systems in Africa weathered the storm quite well. In fact, in Kenya, no major bank suffered badly and many, if not most, continued to record positive earnings growth over the past year. So while the days of easy credit may be gone, in places like Kenya credit is still available to creditworthy clients and real estate development continues briskly.
Is Africa the new frontier for emerging market investors?
It was somewhat remarkable that several new Africa funds were actually launched during this difficult time. While the level of trading volumes has certainly declined since 2008, there are significantly more Africa funds today than there were last year. Much of this activity is being driven by the fact that Africa remains relatively undeveloped and ripe for growth, compared to most other parts of the world like Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Mideast where industries are generally more mature. Whether one is talking about banking, telephone services, or sales of beer and cement, average per capita consumption figures are generally low in Africa. Couple this fact with the expectation of much greater development of natural resources and infrastructure over the next several years, and one sees that opportunities for growth are substantial. So yes, it certainly seems that Africa has become the new frontier for emerging markets investors and Kestrel Capital continues to see and set up accounts for new Africa funds.
What are some of the risk factors in frontier stock markets? How would you rate Kenya's risk factor?
Historically, the concerns with frontier markets included issues like corporate governance, the regulatory environment, Government
interference and foreign exchange controls. Today, all but the last issue would apply to the USA as well. So, relatively speaking, frontier stock markets today look more attractive and developed markets less attractive.
In Kenya's case in particular, there are no foreign exchange controls, no capital gains tax, a fully automated stock exchange, well regulated capital markets, and listed companies which all adhere to IFRS accounting standards. Moreover, the Nairobi Stock Exchange is led by many well known, large, blue chip companies with a focus on delivering shareholder value, including Safaricom, East African Breweries, Equity Bank and Barclays Bank.
Which African countries are foreign fund managers mostly attracted to?
The biggest concerns which foreign investors have in Africa are "liquidity" and "settlement". In Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) the biggest recipient of foreign portfolio investment has been Nigeria primarily due to its large size and trading liquidity. Other Sub-Saharan African markets which are attracting foreign portfolio investment include Kenya, Ghana, Mauritius, Zambia, and even Zimbabwe. As countries like Uganda and Tanzania automate their trading and settlement systems, we expect these countries to begin attracting more money from smaller specialized Africa and frontier markets funds.
Is now a good time for funds to acquire undervalued companies particularly in Zimbabwe?
Defining "undervalued" companies is often a matter of perception. Many companies in Zimbabwe are trading at historically low valuations for obvious reasons of political risk. Deciding to invest in Zimbabwe is a matter of one's risk appetite. Other markets like Nigeria experienced a dramatic fall in valuations as investors deleveraged and banks stopped lending against shares. Many Nigerian banks appear undervalued but it's unclear what further charges they may experience against earnings. In markets like Ghana, Uganda and Zambia, companies are often perceived as undervalued primarily due to low share trading liquidity which restricts many potential buyers from investing. In Kenya, for example, Kestrel Capital estimates that the stock market trades at around 13x trailing earnings which is a relatively reasonable valuation ratio as Kenya also has a relatively liquid stock market. In general, as in any market, one must weigh valuations against perceived risk, including trading liquidity and settlement, and earnings growth expectations.
What kind of investment opportunities are most likely to interest private equity investors?
As has been reported regularly in the international
press, natural resources like oil and gas, minerals, agricultural and forest products have been the primary targets of private equity investors in Africa. However, a market like Kenya which to date has not benefited greatly from any particular natural resource wealth, has witnessed substantial private equity investment in areas like banking, technology, telecommunications, energy generation and
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His name is Saw Doo Plout Soe, he was born on March 9, 1989 in Perhelu refugee camp in the border of Thailand and Burma. Kipho as he is fondly called has never stepped out of Maeramoe camp until he was given scholarship to study learn about Identity, Human Rights and Transformation. Learning about his background made one forget about his talents and many spectatros for once forgot the music and came back to tthe reality when he narrated the experiences of living in a refuggee camp, a place where there is no identity but his UN Number, his number is 005984. Patiently, he narrated his ordeal, life and graphically explained what life looks like in the camp while praying that there be no end to his course in Peace school India because breathing air of freedom to Kipho was the first experience of confidence and dignity, he was shattered, broken and oppressed, he hardly look at anyone in the face when we first met.
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Olutosin: Can you please give a brief intorduction about yourself, I mean your family too?
Saw Doo: My parents got married in Perhelu in the refugee camp in 1986, I am the second child and was born in 1989, my parents have seven children, four boys and three girls and she delivered all in the refugee camps. Some families have twelve children because they do not have work to do, that is why they just deliver many children and they do not know anything about birth control in the refugee camp. We first lived in Perhelu but later on moved to Maeramoe camp, when we first got there, there was no food and each family source for what to eat, but when the NGO came they began to distribute food.
Olutosin: How was she able to cope with the children and life in the camp?
Saw Doo: The International NGOs were supporting us with food and some form of education
Olutosin: You were able to sudy
Saw Doo: Yes
Olutosin: So how were your parents susrviving before the NGO came?
Saw Doo: My mother was not working but taking care of her children, doing all the household chores, so I will say she was working for her children though unpaid, while my father was one of the officials of the camp committee, all we do is eat and discuss in the camp, we must never discuss politics.
Olutosin: So how do you move around in Thailand?
Saw Doo: We are not allowed to move around outside the refugee camp, any refugee who moved outside would be arrested by Thai police and will remain in custody before being sent back to Burma.
Olutosin: Burmese and Thailand citizens here look so much alike, how will the police differentiate?
Saw Doo: There are gates that lead out of the refugee camps to the cities and there are several police check points and without the identity card, the police will arrest such a person. There are few brave ones who work in the neighbouring villages of Thailand, these ones are used by Thai farmers as cheap labourers, they earn a dollar per day and they are expected to arrive at the farms by six in the morning and close in the evening and they must come with their foods, because the farmers will not feed these labourers. Our women are also engaged in this cheap labour but becasue of survival many people risk their lives to work in these farms.
Olutosin: What about the people left in Burma?
Saw Doo: This is a complicated issue, most of the times, the women and children are beaten and raped, some are killed after the raping, most of the times, younger girls will escape to tell the stories of how their mothers were raped and tortured before killing, no one will understand, I mean it is very complicated that these ones are killed by Burma military men. They are referred to as the Internally Displaced People (IDP) . They are vulnerable to attack especially in Summer time when the military will come for what we refer to as "various activities", this is the worst time, summer time. The military will burn the houses and the villages and whenever they are leaving, they will plant landmines for our people, these have killed thousand of Burmese. In 2010 alone, that is January to April when I left, more than 2,000 people left their villages and are living in the forest, some of them inside caves, children hardly survive and they die everyday. Many corpses are left to be eaten by animals, we do not have time to bury the dead ad everyone flees. There are no schools in the forest and NGO's do not and cannot supply these ones with medicine, but at least once a year the NGo will visit the forests to make some supply of medicine to children, this is very rare becasue the forest is very dangerous and NGO's are afraid of landmines.
Olutosin: But the refugee camps are safer, not so?
Saw Doo: Yes, but still the children in the forest cannot attend schools, hospital or any social amenities, presently the Thai government does not want Burmese to cross over to the refugee camp again, and people are turned back into these forests. If the refugee camps are relatively safe, is the future of Burmese safe? There are 140, 000 Burmese inhabiting these seven refugee camps in Thailand, the camps are:
Mela refugee camp
Ompia camp
Nopo camp
Meramo camp
Melaheu camp
Bandoya camp
Tamihe camp
In meramo, there are more thatn 25,000 refugee, there are 10 sections, four hospitals built by NGO's , these hospitals are built with bamboo and leaves but they have thick and solid woods serving as pillars. There are ten primary school in the camp but each scool has six classes and we have three High schools with four libraries all these are built by NGO's.
Olutosin: What are the youths engaged in in the camps?
Saw Doo: In the refugee camps, the youths are hopeless, many of them do not attend classes because those who have graduated cannot get any job, so those who are in school are not enthusiatic about completing their education, what is the use of education that cannot liberate a man? Our girls are getting married at their early age and delivering babies, the population in the camps is growing at an alarming rate, many women have twelve children, some ten children, the average is nine children in these camps. We are very far from the reality, there is no hope for the Burma child in refugee camp, there is no future for my people.
Olutosin: There is hope, all hope is not lost:
Saw Doo: Is it hope in the daily wage of a dollar per day? The wage cannot sustain those who work for it not to talk of thier families.
Olutosin: You play guitar so well, where did you learn it?
Saw Doo: I learn through reading books, it was so difficult at the begining, but because I love music in church and when I discovered that I could not sing because of my voice then I decided to learn guitar, I can play piano and the drum very well. I am very talented.
Olutosin: Oh yes, I can see that. I wish you peace in Burma.
Saw Doo: I want peace in Burma, freedom for my people and land.
Olutosin: May all your wish come true. I wish you well.
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or overlook our common interests
it requires us to work and to live together.
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Gerald V. Vaughn-Tifft, 54, of Sandgate, was arraigned Wednesday in Bennington criminal court on misdemeanor charges of stalking and driving under the influence of alcohol.
In an affidavit, Sgt. Jesse Robson, a trooper with the Vermont State Police, said he and another trooper were sent to Roy's Road in Arlington on Tuesday around 10:30 p.m. Police were told a "male stalker," later identified as Vaughn-Tifft was passed out in his truck near a woman's home.
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Robson said police found Vaughn-Tifft passed out behind the steering wheel of his truck on a side street near the woman's home. Robson said he opened the door and, "smelled the strong odor of intoxicants and urine."
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" AWWWW! Boo-hoo! This guy is one of the many who have gone out of their way to insure that Quassapaug remains a private little playground for shoreline property owners and "outsiders" are not invited. When I was a kid, there was a public access for launching car-top rowboats and canoes. Now, it is completely inaccessible to the general public. It is one of the largest and most beautiful lakes in the greater Waterbury area, but unless you are a Middlebury resident or shoreline owner, "Keep Out". Live in Waterbury and want to go fishing there? Too bad. This is in spite of the fact that the State of CT continues to spend hundreds of thousands supporting the lake. I hope he chokes on his weeds. "
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- Phone: (+44) 020 7734 1677
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Barnardo's - "Home for Christmas" - Bartle Bogle Hegarty
- Home for Christmas
- Barnardo's
- Barnardo's
- Bartle Bogle Hegarty
- United Kingdom
- Home for Christmas
|Product Category
|Charities, Foundations, Volunteers
|More Information
|Date of First Broadcast/Publication
|December 2012
|Media Type
|Web Site
|Creative Director
|Dominic Goldman
|Creative Team
|Rob Ellis
|Creative Team
|Alex Ball
|Creative Team
|Felipe Guimaraes
|Creative Team
|Lambros Charalambous
|Head of Digital Production
|Josh Tenser
Every year around 75,000 young people in the UK risk spending the festive period on the streets.
But it doesn't have to be this way. To help, donate as much as you can to help Barnardo's in their fight against homelessness. In return, we'll select an entrant's home address each day, remodel it, before using 3D printing to make a beautiful bespoke snow globe containing their house.
A small reminder of the joy of being at home for Christmas.


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Faculty Highlight
Libby Nutt Williams
Dr. Libby Williams has been elected the 2013 Woman of the Year for the Section for the Advancement of Women (SAW) of the Society of Counseling Psychology at the American Psychological Association. Congratulations, Libby!
Annual Colloquium - 2002
Hardware, Software, Wetware, and Women
A Colloquium on Women and Technology
Third Annual Women Studies Colloquium
March 20-22, 2002
Wednesday, March 20
4:30 PM, Cole Cinema
Rachel P. Maines
Cornell University
Medicine, Technology, and the
Androcentric Model of Sexuality
Wednesday, March 20
8:00 PM, Cole Cinema
Faith Wilding
Studio for Creative Inquiry
at Carnegie Mellon University
Cyberfeminism and
Performing Reproduction
Thursday, March 21
4:00 PM, Cole Cinema
Karen J. Hossfeld
San Francisco State University
The 'Low Side' of 'High Tech':
Gender, Race, and Class Inequality
in Silicon Valley
Thursday, March 21
8:00 PM, Cole Cinema
Marta Bohn-Meyer
NASA, Dryden Flight Research Center
A New Bill of Rights: Right Place,
Right Time, Right Qualifications,
Right Enthusiasm
Friday, March 22
3:00 PM, Cole Cinema
Take Back the Byte
A panel discussion
with all four speakers
Friday, March 22
8:00 PM, Performance Studio
(Montgomery Hall 25)
subRosa Art Collective
with Steffi Domike, Christina Hung
Laleh Mehran, Faith Wiliding, and Hyla Willis
Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century
an interactive performance-workshop
2002 Women Studies Colloquium Committee
- Mark A. Rhoda, co-chair, Dramatic Arts
- Gail Savage, co-chair, History
- Jennifer Cognard-Black, English
- Fozia Qazi, Mathematics
- Joanne Klein, Dramatic Arts & WGSX Coordinator
- Kristin Effland, student


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Hi everybody,
First time I'm doing this, so bare with me. I imported a lot of the new year 7 students and some of the new other years students already (through Routines > Data In > CTF) but I am getting a lot of errors along the way. The most recurrent one is "Aspect not found for KS2, 2008, SCI, TA, AT3, NL. Result not imported" -- which means that I can get their results in the system. Is there any way I can do this manually, and then probably link to an aspect that I am quite sure which it is?
Is there any other way of doing this? Maybe I'm doing something wrong or else, since I am having to find everything by my own, I and all this I done so far was me looking around since there is not a single person that knows how to do things like this here.
Please let me know - thats kind of important...
The message suggests that the data isn't in the CTF file. If you have the KS info in a spreadsheet that can be imported through the assessment section.
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April 4, 2013
FORT WORTH – The TCU men's tennis team opens the Big 12 portion of its schedule Friday when it travels to Oklahoma State before heading on to Oklahoma on Sunday.First serve against the Cowboys is set for 2:30 p.m., while Sunday's match with the Sooners is a 1 p.m. start. No. 33 TCU closed nonconference play at 15-5. Oklahoma State is 11-8 on the year and is also playing its first Big 12 match. No. 11-ranked Oklahoma is 13-5 and opens league play with Texas on Friday.TCU is 5-9 all-time against Oklahoma State, with the Cowboys claiming each of the last five meetings. The schools last faced in 2009, a 5-2 OSU win. The Horned Frogs hold a 9-6 edge on OU in the all-time series, though the Sooners have claimed the last four matches.The Frogs are beginning play in their fifth conference, having won 20 combined league regular season and tournament titles in their history. TCU won 12 Southwest Conference crowns, three in the WAC and five in the Mountain West. Conference USA did not host a conference championship.When playing its first match in a new conference, TCU is 2-1 in its history. The Frogs dropped their first-ever conference match in 1974 as a member of the SWC, were winners in their first WAC match in 1997 and the same for their first MWC match in 2006.Nick Chappell (No. 103) and Arnau Dachs (No. 119) represent TCU in the ITA singles rankings. The sophomores are 6-8 and 14-3 this spring, respectively. Senior Orlando Superlano is 15-3 on the year for the Frogs' top mark.In doubles, Chappell and Will Stein make up the nation's No. 79 doubles tandem and are 12-4 this spring. Dachs and Superlano are 10-3 and have won their last six matches.Three Sooners are among the nation's top-61 singles teams. Costin Pavel is 30th, Guillermo Alcorta is ranked 51st and Dane Webb is No. 61. Paval and Webb are ranked 29th in singles. For OSU, Richard Del Nunzio and Denys Pume are the 70th-ranked doubles tandem.Live scoring for Sunday's match will be available at soonersports.com.


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