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Solo Traveller
We've developed a range of dedicated solo holidays & solo travel packages; exclusively for people booking on their own. Around 40% of all our passengers are solo travellers.
Experience Southern Africa
Transport - Minibus/safari truck, mokoro canoe, 4WD, on foot.
Accommodation - Camping (with facilities) (9 nts), Bush camp (no facilities) (2 nts), Hotel (1 nt), Guesthouse (1 nt), Camping (with basic facilities) (1 nt)
Meals - 7 Breakfasts, 2 Lunches, 4 Dinners
We often have multiple itineraries so please check to see which itinerary is suitable for you, by selecting the relevant tab.
Take an overnight flight - on arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel.
Sawubona! Welcome to South Africa.
Your adventure begins with a welcome meeting at 6:00pm on Day 2.
You can arrive at any time as there are no activities planned until this important meeting. Please look for a note in the hotel lobby or ask the hotel reception where it will take place. If you can't arrange a flight that will arrive in time, you may wish to arrive a day early so you're able to attend. We'll be happy to book additional accommodation for you (subject to availability). If you're going to be late, please inform the hotel reception. We'll be collecting your insurance details and next of kin information at this meeting, so please ensure you have all these details to provide to your leader.
Johannesburg is a sprawling city of remarkable contrasts. In the townships, mansions stand alongside tin shacks and there are as many green parks on the outskirts of the city as there are conglomerations of concrete in the centre. This is a good place to spend a couple of days to get an insight into South Africa's history, and it's a great base for exploring the rest of the country.
Please make sure that if you explore Johannesburg on your own that you get local advice as to where it is safe to walk, especially in the evening. The level of crime here is higher than what you are probably used to, and the risk can be minimised by getting local advice.
Optional Activities
- Apartheid Museum - ZAR75
- Art Gallery - ZAR60
- Gold Reef City and Heritage mine tour - ZAR360
- Museum Africa - ZAR40
Meals Included
1 Breakfast
Hotel (1 nt)
Kruger National Park
Leave Johannesburg and travel through the Mpumalanga Province, driving along the famous Panorama Route through some of the most stunning scenery South Africa has to offer. The sights en route include God's Window, Bourke's Luck Potholes, Three Rondavels (Sisters) and the magnificent Blyde River Canyon (600km, approx 8-10 hrs).
One of the largest game reserves in Southern Africa, Kruger National Park is home to over 500 bird species, 100 species of reptile and 150 mammal species, including the Big Five and the endangered African wild dog.
Your wildlife experience begins as soon as you enter the park, heading straight into prime game viewing areas where you may catch a glimpse of some of the amazing animals found here.
Arriving at camp within the park, there's time to freshen up before heading out on an open vehicle night drive, an amazing experience and a chance to witness the nocturnal activities of the many animals within the park.
Rise early and have a light breakfast of coffee and rusks before embarking on a morning game drive. Most of the day will be spent game viewing, bird watching and stopping at various waterholes and viewpoints.
Your campground within the park has shared facilities and hot and cold water.
Included Activities
- Kruger Park - Game drive
- Blyde River Canyon Viewpoint
Camping (with facilities) (2 nts)
Enjoy a final game drive while travelling out of Kruger National Park.
Make your way towards the bushveld town of Mokopane ( 315km, approx 6hrs).
Mokopane is a vibrant town within the Limpopo region, with its rich mineral deposits and well established farm land contributing to the local economy.
Tonight set up camp just outside of Mokopane on a working cattle farm called Thabaphaswa. "Thabaphaswa" means in the local dialect, the black and white mountain and is located in a natural basin and surrounded by hills.
Tonight you experience South African farm hospitality on this operating Nguni Stud Farm. The Nguni is the most colourful cattle breed of Africa and is deeply intertwined with the traditions and cultures of the local people. Settle into your campsite before departing on a visit to one of the local villages not far from the farm where you visit a traditional artist and gain some more insight into the local culture. Feast on a traditional dinner prepared by your hosts in the village, before returning to the campsite for a night under the African skies.
Included Activities
- Thabaphaswa - Village Visit & Dinner
Camping (with facilities) (1 nt)
Depart Thabaphaswa early and drive north via Francistown to your lodge in Nata (675 km, approx 10hrs).
Your campsite tonight is situated on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans which makes up one of the largest salt pans in the world covering some 12,000sq km.
Facilities include a Restaurant, Swimming pool, Gift Shop and Bar/lounge area.
While here you have the opportunity to explore the pans on a 3 hr excursion in open vehicles.
Surrounded by the Kalahari Desert the pans are naturally dry and salty for a large part of the year. During this time the arid landscape has an eerie feel to it as heat mirages disorientate the senses. However they are seasonally covered with water and grass and as soon as the rains hit become a refuge for migratory birds and animals.
Included Activities
- Nata Pan Excursion
Camping (with facilities) (1 nt)
Victoria Falls
Travel on to Victoria Falls (375 km, approx 6-6.5 hrs). Cross the border into Zimbabwe in time to have lunch on the banks of the Zambezi.
Visit the magnificent Victoria Falls.
The Victoria Falls are an enormous curtain of water, about a mile wide, falling 108 m into a narrow gorge below. In the wet season, the spray created can rise up an incredible 400 m and the falls are an impressive raging torrent. The spray from the falls can sometimes be seen from kilometres away. It's no wonder that the local name Mosi oa Tunya means the 'smoke that thunders'. In the dry season, the view of the falls is unobstructed by spray and it's possible to see little islets in the river below.
As this is a combination trip, your group leader and the composition of your group may change at this location. There will be a group meeting to discuss the next stage of your itinerary and you're welcome to attend, as this is a great chance to meet your new fellow travellers.
Responsible Travel Note:
During your visit to the Victoria Falls area you may notice businesses offering an optional 'Walk with the Lions' experience. We recommend that you bypass this activity as it is contrary to our Responsible Travel guideline stating that we 'actively discourage the participation of groups in activities which exploit animals - wild or domestic.' Professional wildlife conservation organisations, including Born Free and the World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA), advise that habituating lions to humans can shorten their life and may result in lion-human conflict issues. While there is some merit in the argument that the money that you pay for the activity goes towards lion research, we feel that the negative impacts on the lions' rehabilitation far outweigh this.
If you are interested in the Optional Helicopter flight (12 minutes or 25 minutes) we endorse the following operator only: Zambezi Helicopter co CAA Zimbabwe. Your leader can help you arrange this activity.
Included Activities
- Visit Victoria Falls
Optional Activities
- Jet boat - USD95
- Horseback safari - USD80
- Abseiling - USD55
- Flying fox - USD40
- Gorge swing - USD90
- Helicopter flight (12 mins) - USD140
- Canoe trail (half day) - USD100
- Canoe trail - USD140
- Helicopter flight (25 mins) - USD275
- Bungee jumping - USD130
- Village & township tour - USD50
- Rafting & river boarding combo (half day) - USD180
Camping (with facilities) (2 nts)
Chobe National Park
Travel to Chobe National Park in Botswana (100 km, approx 3 hrs).
Botswana's first national park, Chobe, is perhaps best known for its high concentration of elephants, which can often be seen swimming in the Chobe River. The river also attracts wallowing hippos, a variety of birdlife, crocodiles sunning themselves by the water's edge, and cheetahs and lions which come down to drink.
Enjoy a cruise on the Chobe River, a very relaxing way to spend the afternoon.
Your camp is outside of Chobe National Park and has flush toilets and hot/cold showers.
Included Activities
- Chobe - River cruise
Camping (with basic facilities) (1 nt)
Okavango Delta/Maun
Travel into the unspoiled wilderness for an adventurous bush camping experience.
Formed by the Okavango River as it flows from the highlands of Angola down to a basin on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, the Okavango Delta is unlike anything else in the world. The river has no outlet from the desert and spreads out into thousands of small streams to form a wilderness that is totally unspoilt. The 16,000 sq km maze of wetlands is a wonderland of clear meandering waterways, green islands, lush plains and prolific wildlife. The delta is filled with a diversity of flora and fauna that includes hippos, crocodiles, elephants and the big cats. However, it's not for the game that you come as it can't always be found. The delta is about exploring one of the world's most fascinating ecosystems.
Traverse the waterways by mokoro, a traditional dugout canoe navigated by friendly local 'polers'. With luck, you might spot some of the delta's unusual wildlife and prolific birdlife. Spend time exploring the maze of lagoons, lakes and streams on foot, led by experienced and knowledgeable guides.
You will camp on a remote island in the heart of the wilderness. Dig a bush toilet and go without a shower, it's all part of the Okavango experience. At night, the sounds of the African bush are the only things you will hear - a true wilderness experience!
Wake up early the following morning and venture out on a sunrise walk hoping to catch a glimpse of some elephants and Cape buffalo. Returning to camp for breakfast, take the rest of the day to relax, take a swim or test your poling skills before heading out for an afternoon walk or perhaps another mokoro trip - the choice is yours.
After taking down camp, take the mokoro back to the poling station before transferring back to Maun (60 km, approx 2-3 hrs).
Camp on the outskirts of town at a simple campsite with shared facilities.
Included Activities
- Okavango Delta - Mokoro trips & bushwalks
Optional Activities
- Chobe - Dawn game drive - BWP240
Bush camp (no facilities) (2 nts), Camping (with facilities) (1 nt)
Khama Rhino Sanctuary
Travel to the Khama Rhino Sanctuary (520 km, approx 7-9 hrs).
Situated on the edge of the vast Kalahari Desert, the Khama Rhino Sanctuary is a result of local efforts to convert a former hunting area into a conservation project. Built to protect Botswana's only remaining populations of both black and white rhinos, the sanctuary is also home to other wildlife including zebras, giraffes, leopards, ostriches and wildebeest, which have all moved in and can be seen around the many natural waterholes. Visiting this project benefits local communities, as well as contributing to the protection of the highly endangered white rhinoceros.
Head out on a dusk game drive to see the rhinos when they are at their most active before returning to camp.
Your campsite has shared facilities.
Included Activities
- Khama Rhino Sanctuary - Evening game drive
Camping (with facilities) (1 nt)
Cross the border into South Africa and travel on to Soweto, a township of Johannesburg (600 km, approx 9-10 hrs).
Johannesburg is a sprawling city of remarkable contrasts. In the townships, mansions stand alongside tin shacks and there are as many green parks on the outskirts of the city as there are conglomerations of concrete in the centre. This is a good place to spend a couple of days to get an insight into South Africa's history, and it's a great base for exploring the rest of the country.
Take to the streets of Soweto on bicycle and learn about the Soweto uprising and the resistance against apartheid, how the community has changed and developed to what it is today, and visit a former migrant workers' hostel and many other local landmarks.
You should finish your cycle adventure at around 3pm.
Your adventure ends on Day 16 and you will be transferred to the airport for your overnight flight home to London.
Included Activities
- Soweto - Cycle tour
Meals Included
1 Lunch
Guesthouse (1 nt)


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Charles Dickens Museum
London, England, WC1N 2LX, United Kingdom
While living in this historic house, Dickens wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, his sister-in-law Mary died at 17, and he welcomed two daughters into his family. The Bloomsbury area residence now contains a collection of more than 100,000 pieces of memorabilia related to the author of Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. Paintings, manuscripts, rare editions, and personal items fill the only remaining Dickens home in London. Private tours of the home are available.
Open / Closes- Accessible by Public Transportation
- Handicapped Accessible
- History
- Interactive
- Kids' Programs
- Self-Guided Tours

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With the honor of being chosen as France's Foreign language film Oscar contender to add to its Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, A Prophet has been rightly lauded by critics. Whether audiences have the stomach for 150 minutes behind bars remains debatable, but there is no denying the persuasive power of a film that takes no prisoners and pulls no punches.
It could have just been another sinewy prison drama, detailing the deprivations and eruptions of violence of life on the inside. It says much for the ability of director Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips, The Beat My Heart Skipped and A Self-Made Hero) that he manages to create an emotional intensity that lifts the commonplace on to a higher plain.
Earlier in the year at the Cannes Film Festival it was the one title that drew universal admiration from the critics and about which there was real buzz. Now it has been selected as France's foreign language Oscar contender, which will do no harm to its box office chances. It probably needs all the help it can muster to break through the barrier of its 150 minutes running time and the no-name cast, most of whom respond magnificently to the challenges.
First-time actor Tahar Rahim gives a tour de force performance as Malik El Djebena, a wayward Arab youth who lands in prison at the age of 19. He is unable to read or write and is a relative innocent abroad. He is at the mercy and prey of the less scrupulous inmates and remains oblivious to the inherent dangers of his predicament. Audiard depicts with no holds barred the violence, assorted humiliations and constant struggle for survival that run through this dark and lawless world.
The youngster quickly learns the game of survival. A gang of Corsicans who have control of the prison force Malik, under threat of death, to befriend and kill a fellow Arab. He accomplishes the mission and then becomes associated with the Corsicans. Despite misgivings, he agrees to do other "work" for them as a means of receiving their protection.
Malik, however, is quick to learn. He educates himself, develops an instinctive cunning and becomes adept at playing one group against the other in a radical confrontation of the prison's power structure. Years down the line he is revealed to have started his own mini-empire.
Audiard examines thoroughly the detail and atmosphere of prison life, the power struggles, the despair and the minutiae of the daily grind. The narrative is equally compelling and powerful.
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb and Jean-Philippe Ricci
Director: Jacques Audiard
Screenwriters: Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain
Producer: Martine Cassinelli
Genre: Prison drama
Rating: R for strong violence, sexual content, nudity, language and drug material.
Running time: 150 min.
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Police: Footprints in snow lead to arrestStaff Report | February 09,2013Rutland Police say they followed footprints from a convenience store robbery to a man they arrested shoveling snow outside a home on Clover Street early Saturday morning.
At 3:15 a.m., police responded to a burglary alarm at the Midway Mobil on South Main Street where evidence showed that someone had smashed out a window with a crowbar, police said.
Numerous cartons of cigarettes were taken during the break-in, police said.
With new snow blanketing the ground, police said they followed a set of tracks across South Main Street to Clover Street where the tracks ended at a driveway being shoveled by 42-year-old Dean Hugerth.
While Hugerth lives in Rutland, the people residing inside the home told police he didn't live there. Review of surveillance camera footage inside the store showed Hugerth breaking in and taking the cartons, police added.
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The Swagg-Less Award goes to @SUNDYCARTER. I'm going to keep this short because I could talk about this all day. Why would you expose your daughter for doing sexual acts on twitter.
Your basically exposing yourself for being a bad mother. You need to spend less time parenting via social media and start parenting in real life. You know what you to old to learn how to start parenting. You should be arrested for child pornography! Way to set black women back!!!
Sundy Carter (side piece,and Larry Hughes baby mother), was having an argument with her 16 year old daughter and in that argument her daughter called her a whore. Well that made Sundy mad and she put a picture of her 16 year old daughter on Twitter kissing her boyfriends penis.
She is not fit to raise children. . . . What kind of mother would put their own daughter on the internet in a compromising position like that, not to mention it is a crime because she is a minor so that would be child pornography. Sundy Carter needs to be exposed.
We are NOT SNITCHES here. But if any of you guys ARE . . . you may wanna notify CHILD SERVICES regarding this incident. Sundy now lives in LOS ANGELES California.
swagg out,


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What the hell is this? Another one of those special events with the compilation CD featuring Madison's current hack musicians peforming songs that no one knows written by local artists you never heard of? Indeed! It's the third annual Local Love Fest.
For those who don't know or have forgotten, Local Love Fest is a special two day event where four current local bands (two each night) perform unique sets featuring cover songs written by other local bands. Each night also features a special reunion set from a retired local band who gets the urge to dust off their chops one more time. Each year we also put together a unique compilation CD that is made specifically for the fest. Each track is exclusively recorded for the event, and features a local band covering one of their favorite songs from another local band. These discs are an extremely limited release and not available anywhere except at the shows. They are given away to the first 100 paid admissions at each event.
The first night of LLF is Friday, February 15th at The Frequency:
Way Off The Horse (reunion)
Venus In Furs
The second night is Saturday, February 16th, also at The Frequency:
Shotdown (reunion)
Droids Attack
Sir! No Sir!
Both nights: 9pm door, $7.00 cover, 21 and up.
Events on Facebook:
An interview with the LLF dudes:
A video of Digibot in the studio recording the Underculture song we mention in the interview. This track was featured on the first LLF compilation in 2011:


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Cause I know how niggas is
When you in the streets and you hustlin'
You know how niggas is
Cause you was one of them niggas, you know what I'm sayin'
You were on the corner tryin' to get your money
You see a nigga roll around in a Benz or a Beamer, know what I'm sayin'
Fuck that nigga, know what I'm sayin'
I murder that nigga, I ride that nigga, you know what I'm sayin'
Now I'm the nigga in the hood, know what I'm sayin'
Now you guys own the corner, so I know the same speeches comin' up
You know what I'm sayin', it's all good though
Im old enough to know better, young enough to not give a fuck
Rather hold my head high and die than live and duck
Remember I was down to die just to live it up
But lifes a bitch and that judge is quick to give her up
They say life is short, 'cept when lookin' through them bars
Gotta keep your head up,
I be lookin' to the stars
I been through a lot, wasnt lookin' for no cars
Didn't kill me though, now Im here lookin' at the scars
Sometimes you get caught by people lookin' from a far
Thats how it is when you out here takin' cookies from the jar
Thats what my son said, they came and took him and his draws
He support the family, they took his mama favorite bra
The feds snatched my favorite boy
These the rainy days they say you should be savin' for
But when sun shines no one carries umbrellas
And if they did, we would look at them as dumb fellas
Im trying to become something, they probably become jealous
Have a lot to say about it, but afraid to come tell us
Im here to beat the odds that was set against me
Wished the worst luck to anyone who bet against me
I wanna be somebody, somebody thats never been
No squares in my circle, best shape I ever been
Im growing up, my daddy planted a seed
My momma watered me with a plan to succeed
I was that kid in the ghetto, hand full of seeds
But Im here now and I dont plan to recede
Sometimes I think I lucked up at right time
Imagine I wouldve fucked up that night, slime
It hurts to even think about it
Would be in the streets, thirsty, trying to get a drink up out it
I pull that quatro cinco out
And put that iron to your clothes like Im taking wrinkles out it
Take every Franklin, Grant, Jackson, and Lincoln out it
Look you in yo eyes and tell you, "Dont you even think about it"
So as you hear me dropping this rhyme
Know my opportunity could've been stopped at a dime
The life you choose come from lack of options sometimes
Gotta do what you gotta do, even opting to crime
And who am I? Without name-dropping it, I'm
Someone who saw the top and didn't stop, he just climbed
Someone who get money without dropping a dime
And transform to your leader in my optimus prime
So, for dinner, we stopping at
Round of chill Patron, top of the lime
Hold em up, look at your niggas and say
There was no way out, but we figured a way
And now we chill, loaded up a steel
We just wish a nigga would, but we know a nigga will
But for real, good is how you feel
But soon as a nigga good is as soon as a nigga will
And we dont owe these niggas nothing
Put that in a nigga will, yeah
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Vacuum excavators (air & hydro) by Vac-Tron Equipment, Ditch Witch, Super Products, Vermeer by McLaughlin, Vacmasters, Vactor, AmeriVac Group, GapVax, Ring-O-Matic and Vacstar.
Super Products LLC designed and built its new Mud Dog 1600 to meet the demanding hydro excavation challenges inherent in oil field, mining and cold weather applications.
Doosan's new mid-range size hydraulic excavators will now be equipped with roll-over protective structure (ROPS)-certified cabs.
Large and medium excavators from John Deere, Case, Kobelco, New Holland, Hitachi, Volvo CE, Caterpillar, Komatsu America and Doosan.
Bobcat's new, M-Series compact excavators are re engineered to deliver increased performance in a lighter machine.
When Bobcat engineers began work on the E60 and E80 excavators, they committed to a completely new design that set a high standard by increasing service intervals, operator comfort and durability.
Doosan Infracore has expanded its development on its hybrid excavator with enhanced energy efficiency and lower exhaust emissions.
The population of the city of San Antonio has quietly grown to make this pleasant south Texas city the second largest city in the state and seventh largest in the U.S. With a population of more than 1.3 million, San Antonio ranks just behind Houston and ahead of Dallas in population.
The president and CEO of Super Products, Jim Wurster, retired from the company effective Dec. 31, 2008, and Mike Vanden Heuvel has assumed the role.
Following the Northeast Trenchless Association's (NTA) fifth annual meeting, immediate past president Bruce Hubbard reflected on the association's accomplishments in 2008 and outlined goals for 2009.


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Skater – portraits by Nikki Toole
30 June 2012 to 9 September 2012
Since July 2009, Nikki Toole has been making photographic portraits of skateboarders around the world. Her subjects are photographed in the spaces they inhabit, captured in still frontal pose against the textured backdrop of the urban environment or in landscapes at the edge of cities.
Curated by Dr Christopher Chapman, Senior Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, this special exhibition features 19 black and white photographic portraits that examine identity within skater culture. Toole asks whether there is a 'global look' or if there is still a place for the individual or the loner to express him or herself. She is driven by the desire to understand and commune with her subjects while exploring the forces of identity that define the lone skateboarder.
Rather than depict the skaters in action shots, Toole has chosen to focus her lens on a different angle. As a result these black and white portraits evoke stillness and depth as each subject holds their skateboard, and their gaze, as they stare intently into the camera towards the viewer.
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Since her time as a community volunteer, Sherri has been working to get new lifeguard towers built at La Jolla Shores, Children's Pool and La Jolla Cove in order to improve our lifeguards' ability to protect our beaches.
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The Children's Pool Lifeguard Tower started construction in June 2013 and is scheduled to be completed in 2014. The new tower will be located in the best vantage point along this stretch of the coast and allow for 270 degree views of five surrounding beaches. This tower is critical because there are dangerous rip currents and reefs nearby and a significant number of rescues and preventative actions in the area.
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CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Foodbank distributes more than 100,000 meals everyday and prepares 10,000 warm meals every day for children.
It also sends a backpack filled with groceries home on Fridays with thousands of school kids, so they have enough food to get them to Monday at school.
Sequester cuts would mean the food bank loses $50,000 in federal funds to handle the food.
Not a ton of money but it's another blow when food supplies for those in need are already dangerously low.
Sequester cuts will also hurt the federal WIC program which helps women, infants and children.
That means more demand from families turning to food banks.
"If you look at the beginning of 2013, we all make less money, those tax cuts affected us immediately. Gas prices have gone up 50 cents in the last 30 days, so we have faced hardships already in 2013 that have nothing to do with sequestration," said Anne Goodman President and CEO of the Cleveland Foodbank.
Goodman said food prices soared 7% last year and are still rising.
That means, just like when you buy groceries for your family, the food bank's' federal funds buy less food at a time when poverty is at a 50 year high, Goodman added.
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Reproductive illnesses and unintended pregnancies undermine economic development by weakening and killing adults in the prime of their working lives, by disrupting and cutting short the lives of their children, and by placing heavy financial and social burdens on families. In most developing-country settings, much of the loss of life and human productivity that is due to poor reproductive health could be prevented with affordable and cost-effective programs.
How significant are reproductive illnesses?
In developing countries, reproductive illnesses are a major threat to the health of adults,many of whom are in the early years of their working lives. According to the World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO), the reproductive health burden is highest in Africa and South Asia. In sub-Saharan Africa, reproductive illnesses, including complications of unsafe abortion and AIDS, cause about one-third of all disability and premature death among females, and about one-quarter in males. In India, they cause roughly 18 percent of the total health burden of females.
How does a lack of access to reproductive health care stall economic development?
Early pregnancies undermine girls' schooling, health and aspirations. Increasingly, girls aspire to attend and finish secondary school. Without sufficient schooling, women find it harder to improve their economic and social status. For many teenage girls, childbirth and child rearing become virtually insurmountable obstacles to school attendance and advancement. If faced with unwanted pregnancies, teenagers often resort to self-induced abortions or use the services of untrained providers. A study estimated that about 700 teenagers resort to unsafe illegal abortion each day in Kenya. Teenagers account for 30 percent to 80 percent of the cases of abortion complications in sub-Saharan African countries, and often overload the meager health care facilities that exist.
Maternal illness often locks women and children in a vicious cycle of poverty. For poor women in the poorest nations, pregnancy and childbearing are risky. The WHO estimates that more than 500,000 women die each year from pregnancy-related causes and unsafe abortion. Some 70,000 die from unsafe abortion alone. The poor and uneducated are more likely than other women to die or be disabled during pregnancy, to bear the costs and consequences of clandestine unsafe abortions, to have children who are malnourished, or to lose their children to disease. More than twice the proportion of the world's children live in poverty (1 in 3) than do adults (1 in 7), in part because poor couples often lack access to family planning services and accurate information about contraception.
In the hardest-hit African nations, 30 percent to 75 percent of all hospital beds are occupied by AIDS patients, and one in 10 infants is projected to be orphaned by the disease during childhood. In sub-Saharan Africa, funerals for AIDS deaths now are a major cause of job absenteeism and family debt. In 2001, 2,590 Zambian teachers died of AIDS—a toll equivalent to about 6.5 percent of all teachers trained by the nation that year. Not surprisingly, UNAIDS—the United Nations agency coordinating efforts to combat HIV/AIDS—fears that in the hardest-hit countries, the dissolution of families and the ongoing loss of skilled workers will slow economic development for decades.
Who suffers most?
Women and children, especially those in poverty, bear the burden of poor reproductive health. Because women experience pregnancy and childbirth, they are about seven times more vulnerable to reproductive illnesses than men. In addition, women's risk of acquiring HIV is five to 10 times higher than men at each exposure. Women in poverty experience the greatest reproductive risks; they lack access to the full range of services and information that could spare them from these illnesses, and they often have little power to negotiate the conditions of sexual intercourse and contraceptive use with men. Because women are disproportionately affected by reproductive health problems, the economic hardships created by these illnesses are readily transmitted to the younger generation. Numerous studies show that maternal death lowers the chances of survival and school advancement for the children left behind.
Will economic growth alone improve reproductive health
Economic growth does not eliminate each country's need for a well-designed reproductive health program. Economic growth is vital to the poor, in part because income and tax revenues can finance expanded health care and other social services. But even with economic growth, many countries—including developed countries—have failed to confront pressing social and health problems concerning sex and reproduction. Cost-effective reproductive health services are unlikely to develop quickly or sustainably without strong commitments from national leaders, access to a worldwide network of health information and expertise, and organized efforts to reach high-risk and underserved populations. Successful reproductive health programs promote social and economic development.
What can be done to bring reproductive health services to those who can least afford them?
Donor countries and developing country governments should make basic reproductive health services a priority in all poverty-reduction strategies. These services include:
- family planning for all who want it—including adolescents—and subsidized services for those who can least afford them;
- care during pregnancy and childbirth, including access to emergency obstetric care; treatment for complications of abortion;
- safe and accessible abortion in circumstances where abortion is not against the law;
- treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and promotion of safer sex and awareness of HIV/AIDS and other STIs in each and every development project.
Reproductive health and poverty reduction
The poor are those with meager resources, little opportunity and few means to rely on when they are in poor health or otherwise in need. Given the amount of disability and premature death caused by reproductive health problems in the poorest nations, it is difficult to imagine young adults—especially young women —lifting themselves from poverty without full access to basic reproductive health—information and services. If national strategies aimed at reducing poverty are to succeed, policymakers need to assure that reproductive health services operate effectively and are easily accessed by those who can least afford them.
- Bulatao, R.A. 1998. The Value of Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries. Santa Monica: RAND.
- Mumford, E.A. and others. 1998. Reproductive Health Costs Literature Review.Washington DC: The Futures Group.
- Murray, CJL, AD Lopez, CD Mathers and C. Stein. 2001. The Global Burden of Disease 2000 Project: aims, methods and data sources. Geneva: World Health Organization.


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STAFF WRITER | May 13,2013DANBY Police said a sleeping driver sent a family of three including an 8-month-old boy to the hospital Sunday afternoon.
Shortly after 4 p.m., Vermont State Police and rescue personnel from Wallingford and Manchester responded to a crash on Route 7 near the intersection of Scottsville Road just south of the Wallingford town line.
According to Trooper Michael Tietz, Antonio J. King, 29, of Wallingford, was driving north in a gray Toyota Tundra pickup when he crossed the center line, went off the west side of the road and overturned, with the truck coming to rest upon its roof.
The driver said he fell asleep at the wheel, said Tietz, noting a lack of skid marks on the blacktop that would indicate a driver hitting the brakes. Once they caught the culvert, they were done.
Also in the truck at the time of the crash was Amanda King, 29, of Wallingford, and the Kings 8-month-old son. Antonio King sustained facial lacerations, Tietz said. He was uncertain of what injuries, if any, were sustained by Amanda King or the child.
At the request of the parents, Tietz said, an ambulance took the child to the Kings residence nearby, before they were convinced to bring the child to a hospital. All three were taken to Rutland Regional Medical Center by Manchester Rescue Squad.
Amanda King was listed in good condition Sunday night, according to a hospital spokeswoman. Conditions were not available for Antonio King or the child.
Tietz said he screened Antonio King for drunken driving and found he had not been drinking.
Police interviewed a witness who was also traveling north behind the Kings, who said the driver did not hit the brakes as the truck crossed the line and went off the road, Tietz said.
There was no property damage and no other vehicles were involved in the crash, which restricted travel along Route 7 to one lane for about an hour.
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Upon cutting open my avocado, I realized I had to change my plan. The avocado has just slightly slipped past its prime—it was still fine to eat, but a little too mushy for a real salad. Change of plan: salsa! Chopped up the avocado (okay, maybe "mushed" would be a better verb), and then cut the mangoes (found a complete beetle inside one of them, but no path leading to the outside, how did it get there?? The mysteries of this world…)
Mixed the avo/mango together, and then added:
Chili powder (about 1 tsp)
Garlic powder (about 1 tsp)
Salt and pepper
A generous squirt of lemon juice
Not the prettiest salsa but COMPLETELY DELICIOUS. And so easy. Kind of like guacamole with a tropical flair. I ate it with leftover spicy potatoes and some chicken. A little red onion or cilantro would have been a nice addition, in an idealistic world. : )


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Advancing an anciend ammendment for the NW
By Andrew Rodman
Word is that one of Cortez's grunts stumbled onto a civilization deep in the jungles of Amazona. The mythic metropolis supported by "black soil," Terra Preta in Portuguese.
El Dorado had been found.
Modern scientists found that a few tropical ancient societies created Terra Preta soil by incorporating charcoal, manure and household wastes into it, "biochar," creating a host of benefits that are still active after thousands of years.
Can this traditional practice be wed with modern innovations, and help with our strained soils of the Northwest and beyond? Can the promise of biochar be applied to remediate some of the most pressing concerns of the planet and agriculture at large?
Biochar's offers wedge solutions for an array of problems including reducing wildfire fuel loads, countering nutrient loss in soils, building tilth and adding water retention. These are benefits we need right now!
The platitudes about the possibilities got my attention.
Location location
Up near the Hanford Reach, where tumbleweeds drift in the Columbia River past the town of Richland, Wash., lies the sprawling Pacific NW National Lab. The PNNL, is a high-security science campus focusing on microbial and cellular biology, environmental, analytic and interfacial sciences. Its denizens sport multiple security badges, and walk over manicured lawns tended by leaf vacuumers. This is where I ended up, mid-May after a wrong turn into the Umatilla Weapons Depot, and a cruise past Richland's Hanford High.
What I found was over 75 biochar enthusiasts from a host of backgrounds and regions- agronomists, scientists, venture capitalists, Forest Service rangers, deep ecologists, activists, composters, gardeners and urban scavengers; all gathered together to work out a process that would proliferate the pyrolysis of biomass and pepper our fields with carbonized black gold.
The PNW Biochar Group meeting - organized in part by PNNL's Dr. Jim Amonette, John Miedema from Corvallis and Max DeRungs from Canby, Ore - was a major effort to unlock the biochar movement socially, systemically and scientifically.
Bio what?
Biochar is the baking of woody biomass, to create charcoal that is ground up and added to the soil. The biomass is cooked in an oxygen-starved kiln, (a pyrolysis process) where the volatile hydrocarbons are burned or driven off. These vapors can fuel the incineration process.
The charcoal is a carbon-enriched black solid with a structure that resists chemical and microbial degradation. It is then ground up, and applied to the soil, creating edge-effects for micro-organisms, and adding porosity and water retention to the soil. This in part, is how char becomes biochar.
Mass to gas
Excess biomass, such as slash piles on timberlands, tree prunings from orchards and yard waste from urban areas could all be turned into a biomass feed for biochar production. Biochar production processes can potentially utilize virtually any agricultural or forestry waste biomass, including wood chips, corn stover, rice or peanut hulls, tree bark, papermill sludge, or animal manure, adding to the attraction.
The heat capture from pyrolysis can be used to cook, to heat spaces, or for power generation.
Integrating the kiln onto an already heat requiring industry (paper mills, dairies, etc.), can provide much (if not all) of the required thermal drive of the given process, while yielding biochar as a co-product. Design integration of kilns into industrial or even residential architecture offers unbounded opportunities.
Biochar International notes on their website that "Energy and biochar can be co-produced from biomass using thermal processes. The energy produced from the remainder of the biomass is used to heat the pyrolysis unit and/or provide energy for on-farm use, such as heat and electricity for lighting, fans, refrigerators, etc."
The co-production of biochar from a portion of the biomass feedstock will reduce the total amount of energy that can be produced, but basic soil science research indicates that even at today's energy and fertilizer prices the net gain in soil productivity is worth more than the value of the energy that would otherwise have been derived from that charcoal.
Once the cost of carbon emissions starts to rise and the value of CO2 extraction from the atmosphere is also considered, the balance will become overwhelmingly attractive.
Questions of scale
At what scale would the practice need to manifest in order for it to achieve its glory?
The answer comes in many sizes. Art Donnelly co-founder of SeaChar.Org (Seattle Biochar Working Group) and his partner Don Hennick demonstrated a small, almost free, biochar producing "stove," fabricated from street scrap and found objects. A personal, portable, pyrolysis unit. These rust-punk prototypes will soon be adapted by SeaChar for widespread developing world collaboration, application and distribution. The goal is millions of these household energy systems, proliferating over the world's soil starved landscape, making charcoal that can heal the land, one plot at a time.
Kelpie Wilson, who came to biochar with a love of ecological systems and engineering, was inspired to build a more substantial backyard kiln in her yard in Takilma, Ore. Constructed out of cinderblocks and rebar, her kiln was expanded to a pizza oven. She demonstrated how the captured heat can ultimately warm greenhouses, homes and schools, and how community-level incentives for labor, forest land and fuel loads could all dance together systemically.
On the other end of the spectrum, Tom Miles of T R Miles Technical Consultants, gave a dizzying presentation on "The Economics of Biochar Production" concluding that large-scale pyrolysis systems can be economically and environmentally viable.
Deep ecology reality checks came from Gloria Flora of Sustainable Obtainable Solutions, who reminded us that a potential woody biomass bonanza has implications for wildlife habitat and forest health, given the U.S. Forest Service's focus on getting the cut out on public lands.
Occasionally, the piercing whistles of MaryAnn Simonds (of EcoTechnologies Group) kept us on track, moderating the discussions. Though looking like a cowgirl, MaryAnn gave an inspired dinner keynote at the Siam Thai Restaurant on her approach to listening to nature, and her days as a rattlesnake hugger.
Farming in the black
Agriculture has a huge carbon-positive footprint. Six to 20 calories of energy are needed to deliver one calorie of food to an American kitchen. All over the Earth, soils—disturbed by deforestation and plowing, sterile from chemical fertilizers, pesticides and acid rain—are losing carbon and life, leaking fertility into air and water.
Yet, agriculture can be a huge net carbon sink to absorb vast volumes of carbon out of the atmosphere and store it as stable carbon in soil.
One benefit of biochar is as a carbon sink. Its ability to sequester atmospheric carbon and attract and hold on to nitrous oxide and methane in the soil, could potentially be a wedge in countering greenhouse gasses. If the practice was widespread across major geographic regions, it could potentially become a player in the complex world of carbon trading.
Peter Weisberg from The Climate Trust noted that they might support biochar projects financially by buying the carbon that is sequestered in biochar, instead of released as CO2 to the atmosphere; monetizing the climate change benefits of biochar projects.
Peter notes that, "There is a tradeoff between producing energy and producing sequestered carbon. Energy can be sold, but without a carbon market, sequestered carbon cannot. Offsets provide an avenue to sell this benefit."
Yet, substantial carbon sequestering would need vast regions of biochar application, requiring char on the order of gigatons.
So much infrastructure to build, while simultaneously building a market for the biochar product itself. Part of that puzzle is in research.
Biochar is one of a handful of new, high-priority research and extension areas identified in the Research Title of the 2008 Farm Bill.
This is how we came to meet USDA researcher Hal Collins, on a tour of the WSU research farm in Prosser, Wash., near the Horse Heaven hills. testing how 10 tons of biochar per acre can help grow his corn.
This USDA ARS Biochar/ Pyrolysis Initiative Field Trial, using char from Dynamotive, is one of only five USDA test sites for biochar domestically, far shy for a whole assessment of how biochar will react in the wide variety of soil regions.
Hal noted that biochar is quite expensive to truck in, being classified as a combustible material. Meanwhile, down the hill from the test plot, a whole pile of wood slash sat, awaiting a likely fate in a burn pile. This reinforced how biochar processing onsite - on a farm-by-farm basis, with a colony of mobile kilns - could offer some localized solutions.
Getting respect
Biochar is getting some positive attention. It is mentioned in negotiations for use as a mitigation strategy during the second Kyoto Protocol commitment period, which begins in 2013.
Biochar is allowed for use in organic crop production, with some restrictions.*
On the whole, I saw a hunger, a passion for positive solutions, tempered with the humility that ancient technologies can be the best way to deal with the cumulative impacts of mankind.
So fitting that this Hanford company town of Richland should host a summit of radical ancient ag - that the most powerful tools of science at PNNL are analyzing biochar's properties, and that a celebration of Terra Preta happens in the midst all this arid scrub rangeland, so in need of some black tilth and moisture retention itself.
There is so little time to actualize the wholesale solutions that biochar represents on a meaningful scale. So much infrastructure to build, so much work to do.
All these possibilities were making my brain carbonize.
This is what I love about all the biochar enthusiasts that I met. With all the sense of global urgency, and biochar's promise, with all the drive and passion and selflessness, there was such a yearning to vet the science, to foster cross-discipline solutions, to seek reality checks.
John Miedema summed it up nicely saying, "How can we make sure we're not such true believers that we end up drinking the Kool-Aid?"
So much work to do, before we can create the next El Dorado.
*If wood is burned and then mixed with non-human manure, it could be allowed in organic production, but restricted to the pre-harvest interval. Biochar made with sewage sludge of any kind, used in any way is not allowed. Burnt manure is not allowed in organic production.
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Prior to leaving he saw the President [2], Secretary of State [3], Welles [4], Hombeck [5] today.
Regarding the Pacific, President says that it is unwise from the point of view of American public opinion (clear that this means election) that there should be anything that could be interpreted as commitment beyond international date line for the present. What United States has done lately (economic embargoes and recommending American citizens leave Far East) has a momentum that will last a little time.
President went on to say that he was keen to send a small force of fast light cruisers to Samoa, Australia, the Netherlands East Indies and Singapore, and that he was having conferences to ascertain practicability of this. Although the President did not say so British Ambassador got the impression that if this came about it would not be before November 5th.
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Participants use humor in creating parody songs. Divide participants into groups of three to five. Invite them to come up with parody songs that they can share with each other. One of the most common, "On Top of Spaghetti," follows. Can they share different versions with each other?
On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese.
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table, it rolled on the floor,
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It rolled in the garden and under a bush,
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