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Salisbury Stingrays ASC is a self-financing organisation. Therefore we rely on the following for all of our revenue:
1. Swimming fees and membership subscriptions from Club members,
2. Entry fees from hosting Open Meet Competitions,
3. Fund raising
4. Sponsorship.
Fees are reviewed on an academic yearly basis and may be increased to reflect the training being provided and increases in pool costs.
The Club recognises that the fees may be prohibitive to some families. Applications may be made to the tresurer for assistance with the fees. Please speak with Fiona Croager in the first instance.
Club Fees
1. Membership Fee:
This is an annual fee payable by all members of Salisbury Stingrays ASC and is due 1 January.
At present it is £12.50 for LTS, water polo and general membership. £30 for Squad and Masters.
2. Learn to Swim and Water Polo Fees
These regular fees are due at the beginning of each term (1st September, 1st January and 1st April) with an option to pay monthly by standing order (preferred). Cheques made payable to Salisbury Stingrays ASC.
Water Polo Tuesday Juniors – £50 per term Sunday Seniors – £60 per term Tuesday Juniors – £12.50 /month. Sunday Seniors – £15/month.
3. Squad and Masters Subscriptions
These regular fees are paid on a monthly basis by standing order and vary according to which squad you a are a member of or, in the case of the Masters section, the number of swims per week.
Squad swimmers T2 – £184 T1 – £184 SD 1/2 & 3/4 – £156 Senior club – £156 T2 – £45 /month. T1 – £45 /month. SD – £38 /month. Senior – £38 /month.
Masters swimmers One weekly session – £46 Two weekly sessions – £88 One weekly session – £10.50 per month Two weekly sessions – £21 per month
ASA Registration
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There are three categories of registration based on what activities are undertaken. These are broadly summarised below:
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- Category Two: all competing squad members and Masters
- Category Three: committee members, volunteer coaches, officials and parents wishing to help out.
The cost of this registration is covered by the membership fee which is due on the 1st January each year. (see above)
Additional Club costs may arise, such as:
- Squad uniform (caps, shirts etc)
- Competition entry fees
- Course entry fees.
Sundry Expenses
All swimmers will be expected to wear appropriate swimwear and goggles. In addition, they may be required to purchase training aids such as fins, snorkel and kickboards. These are not available through the Club although links to online shops are provided on the home page and if you order your items from these links it will generate some income for the club. (The links are right at the bottom of the every page).


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Edward Scott Emerson was charged with converting pension plan property, consisting of two adjoining parcels of land
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Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that Edward Scott Emerson, age 56, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, was charged in a one-count Information with converting pension plan property, consisting of two adjoining parcels of land.
The property belonged to the Mueller Electric Company Employees' Pension Plan ("the Plan"), which was subject to the provisions of Title 1 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). According to the Information, during 2006 through 2009, Emerson, who is also known as E. Scott Emerson and Scott Emerson, was President and part-owner of Mueller Electric, a corporation with a principal facility in Akron, Ohio, and an office in Cleveland, Ohio. Mueller Electric was the Plan's sponsor and Emerson was the Plan's sole Trustee.
As set forth in the Information, the background for the charge involves Emerson's action in 2006 of having the Plan purchase the subject property, located in Perkins Township, Erie County, Ohio, for use as a parking lot by an adjacent water park / hotel resort known as the Maui Sands Water Park ("Maui Sands"). The parcels ("the parking lot property") were needed to provide sufficient parking to satisfy local zoning laws governing Maui Sands. At the time of the purchase, Emerson was the principal owner and President of two limited liability companies which jointly formed a venture to develop, construct, and operate Maui Sands. The partially-completed Maui Sands resort opened in May 2008 and closed in November 2008, after which the resort's principal lender obtained appointment of a Receiver to take control of Maui Sands.
The Information charges Emerson with converting Plan property during July through September 2009 by selling the parking lot property to a relative at favorable payment terms and subject to an oral agreement giving Emerson joint control over the subsequent disposition of the property. The sale to his relative took place after Mueller Electric defaulted on its own loans and Emerson became concerned that a Receiver might be appointed for the company, who might then replace him as Plan Trustee and thereby gain control over the parking lot property. Emerson's oral agreement with his relative provided that they would work jointly to seek a subsequent sale of the property for use by the Maui Sands resort at a price that would allow a profit to Relative and provide money the defendant could repay to the Plan.
If convicted, the defendant's sentence will be determined by the Court after review of factors unique to this case, including the defendant's prior criminal record, if any, the defendant's role in the offense and the characteristics of the violation. In all cases the sentence will not exceed the statutory maximum and in most cases it will be less than the maximum.
The government's case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney John M. Siegel, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employee Benefits Security Administration, Ft. Wright, Kentucky; the DOL Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations, Cleveland, Ohio; the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Office of Inspector General, Washington, D.C.; and the Cleveland office of Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Despite the fact that the singer is currently undergoing treatment in a rehab facility, a new magazine cover featuring the star just hit newsstands — and it shows a very somber side of Chris. Are you a fan of his emotional shoot?
Chris Brown's first cover since he entered rehab is out, and the 24-year-old singer can be seen posing shirtless, showing off his many tattoos, (and his defined arms), on the Winter 2014 issue of Urban Ink magazine. Chris' arms, neck, and torso are covered with various tattoos, which are visible as he stands with his arms crossed around his chest — but it's the somber look in his eyes that really caught our attention.
Chris Brown's 'Urban Ink' Magazine Cover:
The cover, which was presumably shot before the performer entered the Malibu rehab facility on Nov. 10, captures the star in a very pensive state. The star is posing shirtless, wearing nothing more than a silver chain around his neck — and an emotional look on his face. In fact, with glassy eyes it almost looks as if he is about to cry. It's very telling of the state he was in when the cover was photographed.
Chris Brown's Doing Well In Rehab:
Depsite the fact that the Daily News reported the "Kiss Kiss" singer was sentenced to three additional months in the Malibu rehab facility on Nov. 20, Chris is doing well while in the treatment facility. In fact, he even agreed to complete his remaining community labor hours at a rate of 24 per week. Good for him!
We're so happy Chris is getting the help he needs and we think his latest cover is very artistic and emotional. Do you agree? What do you think of Chris' latest cover? VOTE.
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Posted at 5:48 PM on December 4, 2013
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just hold your head Chris and get the necessary help you need and come out of rehab please! with a new look on your career and let go of the Old people and karrueche and things will change for you! Please Chris put your career on track, Love You Chris Hope You see your way! Number 1 fan.
Navy rocks!
Posted at 1:37 PM on December 1, 2013
Rihanna Navy, lets not even think about this stans anymore, they aren't worth owr time. We aren't accomplishing anything, we are just causing a fight that isn't worth it, because the only thing we are doing is making their azz be known to the world. For example Chris Brown, he just presented Krusty, but Rihanna made Krusty famous by fights. Lets just igonre her and there delusional stans, and i'm sure she won't be in the news again. Lets just wait and see what happens, maybe Rihanna gets a new boyfriend and if that happens, i'm sure that every web would be talking about her and only her, and if that happens I don't think Krusty would be in the news again nor she would get what she wanted! #speakingthetruth
Yup, Yup, Yup
Posted at 10:02 AM on November 30, 2013
Karreuche "jobless, gold digger Tran have destroyed Chris Brown's future. Karreuche is poisoning Chris Brown's mind from his mother. Karreuche is bad news for the R & B community. It's a ploy by karreuche and distractors to deny CB musical success and elevate less deserving R & B Soul singers. It's a plot! to dethroned the R & B King of this era.
Posted at 6:40 PM on November 30, 2013
fried dyed and laid to the side like tamar
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Posted at 6:08 PM on November 29, 2013
Can anyone name another star bsides CB where the public tries to control who they sleep with? Did u buy Whitneys music? Oh, I know, u loved Bobby, right?Let this man live his Life that God not his mom gave him. Idk what all the issues r on that. Child stars always seem to have parent problems. Plant seeds during the planting season, not when everything is grown and there's no space. Now all u can do is water and too much drowns the roots. As soon as u see a weed growing try to pull it out bfore its out of control. Don't act like u don't see it. Once a person is grown out of ur house taking care of themselves, u r entering a new season, that of advisor. Outside of calling for an intervention,what could Whitney's mom do? She was grown. We hope our kids pick the mate we like, make choices we like, spend THEIR money the way we like…Now if we r telling them not to smoke, for ex, and they see us smoking or know we used to smoke, well u know how that goes…Good choices we've made or things.they've seen us overcome helps them to trust we might know a little bit about life. They r not looking for perfection, just stability. They know we've made mistakes. Pic shows yrs of pain and a longing for peace. I pray he learn tools to enter in despite all chaos and confusion that God has not authored.
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Posted at 5:59 PM on November 29, 2013
>>> Google is paying 75$/hour! Just work for few hours & spend more time with friends and family. On sunday I bought themselves a Alfa Romeo from having made $5637 this month. its the best-job Ive ever had.It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out…
Posted at 5:34 PM on November 29, 2013
Chris needed this break a year ago. He has been going 100 mph for at least 2 years. I don't know cb on a personal level but I work in the human services field and I know mental instability when I see it. Chris is most likely bi polar along with being adhd; and has been self medicationg –i.e. marjuana and what ever else he has been using. Take a dose of being 'spoiled' yes, he is a spoiled brat—thanks momma Joyce, and self entitlement of being a celebrity and you have a recipe for disaster. I don't blame Karreuche but she, like many girlfriends/wives etc. to men who have mental and substance abuse issues, she has been an enabler. I am a CB fan and it is my wish that while he is getting treated he takes it serious and get to the root of his issues. He is a bonafied star and needs to start acting like one. All the money he has paid his attorney could have been used for publicist and other PR people to get his image and career on track. I say good luck chris. get the help you need and come out to be the star you were born to be.
Posted at 4:39 PM on November 29, 2013
This girl is only standing for her own career, why couldn't she just visit him without posting a picture, believe me she knew it would make headlines, she was at this magazine event keeping in pictures, I hope Chris clear his head since he already made comments about this girl being sneaky.
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Posted at 11:48 AM on November 29, 2013
Chris Brown haven't caught himself since Rihanna dumped him seven months ago for his womanizing, cheating and lying ways. He has been skidding all over the place while Riri soaring and breaking records all over the globe. Chris Brown you call it karma! Rihanna stuck her neck out for you and you allowed haters to destroy your growth. This is why Mombreezy disapproves of that asian gold digger, jobless whore.
fried dyed and laid to the side like tamar
Posted at 12:30 PM on November 29, 2013
And what's the matter with you ho?….No one wanted to eat your fried dyed and laid a phuck up face like Tamar azz?……Bish go get you a man and stop defending a nicca that's sooo high on anti-depressants that he couldn't tell if the asian gold digger was his woman or a turkey wing tip!
Posted at 3:09 PM on November 29, 2013
me myself and I
Posted at 5:43 PM on November 29, 2013
fried dyed and laid to the side like tamar
Posted at 9:00 PM on November 30, 2013
Darlene…let me upgrade you….bish please. Go run yo azz around the block. All of that Turkey got yo brain cells blocked…. me myself and I…Chile please…that wasn't funny when Charlene the man that's going to hell first said it….and again…if Kae is the side..who is the main and why didn't she bring her man some food for thanksgiving……


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To realize the full potential of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), it will be critical to not only understand, but also control the highly orchestrated combinatorial and temporally restricted sequence of signals that direct their differentiation into specific tissues or tissue progenitors. Our understanding of the fundamental processes driving stem cell tissue specific differentiation remain in its infancy and current, empirically developed, techniques yield heterogenous cell populations. New technologies that can enable researchers to efficiently screen multiple conditions affecting growth and differentiation, as well as identify and select individual cells or colonies, would be a great benefit to understanding stem cell biology, and would greatly accelerate the development of methods to prepare stem cell progeny populations for use in regenerative medicine applications. We propose to develop a single platform technology that enables (1) rapid imaging and sorting of adherent hESC and progeny colonies, (2) high throughput studies of hESC growth conditions, and (3) automated, high volume culturing of cells. This will be built on work already developed by this team in micro/nanotechnology and instrumentation for cell biology. This project will employ three key technologies. The first technology, the micropallet array, is an array very small plastic pedestals on a glass (1" x 3") slide that permits individual stem cells to be grown in a pre-indexed location, allowing researchers to watch a colony develop over time using manual or automated imaging systems, while performing chemical or labeling experiments to identify the characteristics of each progeny population. Specific cells or groups of cells can then be selected and safely removed from the array for further study. This "sorting" capability is extremely powerful for stem cell research, and cannot be done by any method to date. The second technology, a superimposed microfluidic system to produce multiple growth conditions on a single micro-array slide. This technology uses "laminar flow" to produce parallel streams of growth media, each containing different kinds and amounts of signals. By including all the stem cells together in a single cassette and controlling the local medium around each cell, one can study the effects of micro-environment. Cells will grow close enough to communicate and share extra cellular chemistries, however, neighboring cells will be subjected to different stimuli in the form of chemical compositions in their media. The third technology will be the integration of microelectronics and computer control in the small cell culture cassette. Microelectronics will be used to control the temperature and flow rates of liquid media, as well as to monitor growth conditions and imaging of the plate. This will reduce the footprint necessary for performing stem cell studies, and allow one to perform remote, pre-programmed stem cell growth experiments.
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Las Vegas Street Gang Member Sentenced to 60 Months In Federal Prison for Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm
Las Vegas, Nev. - Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, and Keith Heinzerling, Resident Agent-in-Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol and Firearms for announced that JAJUANE HANKINS, aka JAJUANE FISHER and "E-Wak" was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Phillip Pro to 60 months in federal prison. HANKINS age , (INSERT HIS AGE), of Las Vegas, and a known member of the Las Vegas street gang, the Gerson Park Kingsmen, was convicted by a jury in May of this year for possessing a loaded Ruger, millimeter semi-automatic pistol. HANKINS has a 1996 felony conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. Under Title 18 United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), it is unlawful for any person who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to possess a firearm which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.
In addition to the 60 months in prison, HANKINS was also ordered to serve a three-year period of supervised release following his release from prison, and to pay a fine of $1,000 and special assessment of $100.
The prosecution and conviction of JAJUANE HANKINS is the result of an investigation by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen Bliss.


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European wasp (Vespula germanica, family Vespidae, order Hymenoptera) has an unbarbed sting that can be used as a weapon with lethal potential (anaphylaxis) to humans and animals. Generally wasps are a public nuisance and a horticultural pest (eg pest to grapes and staff in vineyards and wineries) in Australia.
The entire life cycle of the wasp lasts 3–4 weeks and the wasp colony generally lasts for one season (approx 6 months).
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At the emergence of the first workers 3–4 weeks after oviposition started, the queen stays in the nest and lays eggs.
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Investigators representing the offices of the Delaware State Police have released a statement to the public that has identified the individual killed in a single-vehicle accident in Delmar, DE on Saturday, June 15th, 2013. Police currently have reason to believe that Mindy Hicks was injured when the vehicle in which she was a passenger suffered a sudden loss of control while navigating Pepperbox Road. The vehicle left the roadway where it overturned a number of times.
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According to the statement released by authorities, Mindy Hicks sustained massive injuries in the accident and was subsequently pronounced dead on the scene by emergency response personnel when they arrived. Police are currently investigating the possibility of alcohol as a contributing factor in the fatal accident. Officials expect to release more information regarding the accident in the coming days.


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Selena is so 'upset' after a series of sexy topless photos of a young woman who looks like her were leaked online on Aug. 6, a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. Does this mean that the scandalous pics are of her after all? Here's what we know.
Whether it's really her in the pics or not, Selena Gomez, 22, is not taking her alleged topless photo leak lightly, a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. Find out more about her true feelings on the alleged scandal — and her ex Justin Bieber's possible involvement in it — right here!
Selena Gomez's Topless Photos Reaction: How She Really Feels About Alleged Pics
Poor Selena! Just one week after getting dragged into Justin, 20, and Orlando Bloom's shocking brawl in Ibiza, Spain on July 30, she now has to deal with an alleged nude photo scandal! Needless to say, the "Come & Get It" singer is not at all happy after a series of totally topless photos, allegedly of her, were leaked online today.
Click Here To See The Alleged Nude Pics Of Selena Gomez — NSFW
"Selena is really upset, she's telling people it's not her but it's hard to believe her since the pictures do look exactly like her," a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "Her phone wasn't stolen but anything is possible in this day and age, people can hack remotely and there are so many sickos out there. She and Justin always send each other a lot of sexy selfies so there are sexy pictures of her out there."
"She's really embarrassed and she has her legal team looking into it," our source adds. "She's not going to just ignore this."
Good for her! Our hearts go out to Selena, because we know this added stress and drama is the last thing she needs right now!
Selena Gomez Nude? — New Leaked Pics Look Just Like The Singer
It's still unclear whether the topless photos are of Selena, although we have to admit that the young women pictured does look an awful lot like Sel. She even has the same moles on her chest that Selena has! Of course, that could totally be the work of a clever Photoshopper.
A source previously revealed to HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that Justin and Selena used to exchange sexy texts and pictures when they were still together, so it's possible that someone could have hacked into her cell phone and leaked some of those photos. But we hope for Selena's sake that the pics aren't really of her!
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Should Selena be embarrassed by these pics, even if they aren't of her? Let us know!
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Those pictures are not of Selena. Those boobs look much bigger and her hands DO NOT look like Selenas. She has slim long fingers and they always manicured. The fingers shown on those pictures look short and puffy. Whoever threw those pictures in sure wants to discredit Selena's image. Selena should take legal action.
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She has nothing to be worried about either way. The person whose responsible for the leak or phony photos should be prosecuted. Its like he has taken all of us to a peep hole in the wall leading to her shower and making us his to unwitting accomplicees ! Happy birthday, Selena.
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It's not her. Coming from a non bias person. I told my boyfriend about it, he's great at photoshop/graphic design etc – he zoomed in very closely to the girls teeth in the nude photos, it's not the same as selena's. Also, selena doesn't have a finger tattoo. AND, selena is a 34B. The girl in the photo most likely is a C cup. the girl in the photo also looks somewhat asian lol
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I think that while the girl in the photos resembles Selena Gomez, there are enough distinct differences that make it clear it's not Gomez. I feel bad for her, though, because a lot of people will believe it's her and will continue to believe it's her even if there's hard evidence that proves otherwise.
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Kate Spade has taken another step toward its goal of being the next Ralph Lauren by announcing new lines of furniture and home goods. "The breadth of our home décor line will feature products at all access points in both pricing and distribution from an $8 notebook to an $8,000 piece of furniture," Kate Spade Chief Executive Officer Craig Leavitt said on a conference call with analysts on ...
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Facebook Q3 revenue jumps 60pc
PUBLISHED: 31 Oct 2013 07:24:17 | UPDATED: 01 Nov 2013 04:41:50PUBLISHED: 31 Oct 2013 PRINT EDITION: 31 Oct 2013The world's largest social network said it earned net income of $US425 million, or 17 cents a share, in the three months ended September 30. Photo: Bloomberg
Facebook posted strong growth in its mobile advertising business on Wednesday but rattled investors after saying that it did not plan to boost the frequency of ads shown to users.
Shares of the world's No. 1 online social network soared as much as 15 per cent in extended trading before suddenly falling to $US47.40, down 3 per cent from its $US49.10 closing price
Revenue from mobile ads, which appear on smartphones, represented 49 per cent of Facebook's total advertising revenue in the third quarter, or about $US880 million ($924 million). Mobile ads generated about $US150 million in the year-ago period, when Facebook was just beginning to develop its mobile ad business.
"It looks like they're firing on all cylinders," said JMP Securities analyst Ronald Josey.
He said Facebook's strong mobile advertising revenue in particular has put to rest the worries that many investors had at the time of the company's 2012 IPO.
"They clearly have the product, they have the traffic and now they have the advertising solution," said Mr Josey.
Facebook said the number of its monthly active users increased to 1.19 billion as of the end of September, up from 1.15 billion at the end of June. Facebook said it counts about 507 million daily active mobile users.
Facebook topped Wall Street's revenue targets on Wednesday, as robust growth in its mobile advertising business drove a 60 per cent increase in revenue.
Total revenue in the third quarter was $US2.016 billion, ahead of the average analyst expectation of $US1.911 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.
Facebook said it earned net income of $US425 million, or 17¢ a share, in the three months ended September 30, compared with a net loss of $US59 million, or 2¢ a share in the year-ago period.
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When Chris Blattman was last in Liberia, we talked about blogs. And Kindles and enumerators and a lot of other things too, but also a lot about blogs. He was just about to launch his new site christblattman.com and was looking for a header image.
I pulled out my laptop and started flipping through files of images. I asked him what kind of thing he was looking for. He wasn't sure, he said.
But, no children.
And, no Africans dancing.
No problem, I said. I have tons of photos of all kinds of things, and since most of his research coincidentally takes place in the two countries where I've spent the most time, this would work out nicely. As I scrolled through some thumbnails, he stopped and pointed to one of them and asked to see it full size.
It was of children dancing.
He finally settled on this image, from Karamoja.
Check out his new site for Lenin cakes, development experiments, and a belly proof golden summer.
(If I had been there, nothing could have kept me from taking a picture. Rules about respecting people's wishes to not be photographed be damned!)
And speaking of going dot com, next week I'll be launching ScarlettLion.com. Stay tuned for more info. It's been fun a fun lion sex filled run, blogspot, but it's time for me to go dot com.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Going dot com
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Labels: Blog New and New Links, Images
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Sierra Leone: many photos of the day
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Foreign Policy: War Criminal Charles Taylor Clears the Courtroom
It is nine o'clock in the morning on a rainy Wednesday in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. The main courtroom at the Special Court sits empty, save for televisions filled with former Liberian President Charles Taylor's face. The half-dozen screens are broadcasting live footage from The Hague. Four rows of wooden benches and 14 rolling black office chairs are unoccupied.
The Sierra Leonean government and the United Nations established the Special Court to try those who bear the greatest responsibility for the decade-long war that displaced a third of the country's population of six million and left tens of thousands dead. During the war, which started in 1991, armed factions funded and supplied by countries like Liberia and Libya battled for control of Sierra Leone's diamond mines. They used revolutionary rhetoric and sheer brutality to recruit young men, and often children, to their swelling ranks -- and to the decimation of Sierra Leone.
All the other cases that have been and will be tried by the Special Court have taken place in this very room.
But not Taylor's. The Special Court indicted him on 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law. Sierra Leoneans and the international community agreed that trying him in Freetown was a grave threat to regional security. He still enjoys widespread popular support in Liberia to this day. The fear that his supporters would return to Sierra Leone and wreak more havoc was very real.
His case was transferred to The Hague, to keep him and Sierra Leone safe. It streams live across the world over the Internet. And it is broadcast in this courtroom in Freetown.
As I write this, Taylor is identifying people by name in a faded color photograph, 3,200 miles away. Not that most Sierra Leoneans care. Taylor has brutalized and terrorized this country since 1991. His case sparked a flurry of interest at first. But now, most seem more interested in moving forward than looking back at the Liberian strongman they blame for most of their problems.
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Labels: Images, Original Reporting, Sierra Leone
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The number
In every country, there's a number. It's a number journalists memorize and repeat so often that it's hard to remember it's a real number. In Uganda, the number was two million displaced at the height of the conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army. In Liberia, the number is 250,000 dead during fourteen years of civil war.
I just learned the number for Sierra Leone: it's tens of thousands dead, one third of the population of six million displaced by war.
I don't remember the exact moment when I learned the number for Uganda. I also don't remember the moment I learned Liberia's number, since I read about the country long before I came here.
But just yesterday, I had to learn Sierra Leone's number. I looked it up, because ten days in Freetown didn't teach me that number.
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Labels: Images, Sierra Leone
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sierra Leone: Franco's
Just an hour away from bustling Freetown, a small hotel called Franco's is the perfect getaway. There's fish carpaccio and a tomato salad that reminded me just how good really good olive oil is. I went with my brother and a friend and we drank and swam and ate and relaxed.
It was high tide. While usually there's a big sandy beach right outside the building, the water came up to our room's window. I almost got carried away by the rip tide during an ocean romp, but that's another story for another day.
For now, here's my friend exiting the room via the window. And then my brother. And then a sunset. It was a really lovely trip.
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Labels: Images, Sierra Leone, When Not Reporting
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Context Africa: Senagalese wrestlers captured in monochrome
Candace Feit is an award winning photographer who spent several years in West Africa. She's recently moved to India, and photography from the region is worse for it. Her work is always thoughtful and beautiful, and tells some stories that make headlines and also important stories that don't. I loved her recent series on Senegalese wrestlers, "Tyson vs. 50 Cent," and she agreed to answer a few questions about it for Context Africa.
The point of this series is to highlight projects that go above and beyond daily news to tell a story of a place in its context. I also hope create an ongoing dialogue about what it means to tell contextual stories in Africa. There's a lot of daily news out there that is factually incorrect, slanted, or stereotyped. But, there are also a lot of journalists committed to telling a different kind of story.
See Context Africa posts:
- Mary Wiltenburg documents a year in the life of a refugee
- Sam Reinders pictures the complications of "poverty tourism"
- Paul Sika's technicolor dreamscape
- Andrew Rice on memory, murder and Idi Amin
- Tim Hetherington on the culmination of ten years of taking pictures in Liberia
- Rob Crilly on how to write about a place as contentious as Darfur
- Nicholai Lidow on post-conflict surfing
- Jina Moore's Q and A about forgiveness in Rwanda
There are a lot of wrestlers in Senegal. How did you decide to focus on this particular group? How long did you spend working on this series?
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GlobalPost: Truth Helps Liberia Recover
Controversial Truth Commission report helps many deal with the trauma of civil war.
By Glenna Gordon — Special to GlobalPost
Updated: July 16, 2009 22:49 ET
MONROVIA, Liberia — Gladys Arthur doesn't care about Charles Taylor or Ellen Johnson Sirleaf or any of the other warlords and politicians who are named for wrongdoing in Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report.
The commission sought to understand both the causes and the consequences of Liberia's chaotic 14-year civil war. They collected testimony of nearly 20,000 Liberians, including victims like Arthur and perpetrators like Prince Johnson, head of one of the rebel groups and one of the individuals listed as the single most notorious war criminals.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is publicly sanctioned in the report and it recommends she not be allowed to hold office for another 30 years. Charles Taylor, who is now on trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity committed in neighboring Sierra Leone, is condemned and further prosecution is recommended.
But for Arthur, the only name that matters is on page 334 of the report, number 90 (she knows this off the top of her head) on the list of "most notorious perpetrators" recommended for further prosecution.
"M-A-N-G-O M-E-N-L-O-R," said Arthur, 31, spelling out each letter decisively in her soft-spoken drawl. "Mango Menlor. That's his name. That's the man who killed my mother."
Menlor killed her mother. And he also raped her, forced her to live with him as his wife, separated her twin brothers and gave away her baby sister to another commander.
Arthur was only 12 at the time. After several months, one of Menlor's other wives helped Arthur escape by opening a side window when no one was looking after Menlor threatened to kill the young girl one time too many.
During the war, nearly a million Liberians were displaced, more than a quarter million died, and three-fourths of the country's women were raped or sexually assaulted. In a country of only 3 million people, virtually everyone suffered.
For years, said Arthur, she felt shame and anger. But in 2007, a pastor at her church in a Monrovia suburb asked her what was wrong. She didn't answer at first, but after weeks of quiet prodding, Arthur told her story. Then she told it again.
And now she's telling it again and again.
Some of her friends and relatives who knew about her past judged her as part of an all-too-common blame the victim mentality. But, when her pastor didn't, she felt better. He encouraged her to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and while she was nervous about doing so, she agreed.
Truth commissions to resolve the problems in African countries coming out of civil conflicts were spearheaded by post-apartheid South Africa's approach, and have played important roles in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. The emphasis is often on the victim's opportunity to tell his or her own story.
After Arthur told hers to Liberia's commission, she says she felt like a new person.
"When I put my story out, I felt better. I let go of the bitterness, of the burden I was carrying," she said. "If you keep it, it can hurt you."
It took her five hours of testimony to explain what had happened to her during the first round of hearings by the TRC, and a similar amount of time during a subsequent testimony. And now, every time she can grab a few minutes, she writes out more of her story on unlined white pages. First she used a blue pen, and then a black one. Her handwriting is careful and timid at points, bolder in some places, small and compressed in others.
The title page says, "A true story that happened to me."
"Being able to unburden yourself as a victim can be really powerful experience," said Lizze Goodfriend, a programs associate with the Liberia office of the International Center for Transitional Justice. "That's what truth commissions can accomplish that a prosecution process can't." She also mentioned that hopefully human rights and justice groups will continue to create spaces that give victims a place to tell their stories and connect with each other on a community level.
To Arthur and many of the victims of the war, the TRC was less about what will happen next than a point in itself.
Menlor now lives in the same area in Monrovia as Arthur. "I see him every morning, and I feel bad, but I have been letting go. When I see him, I walk on the other side of the road."
Arthur has high hopes that Menlor and other warlords will be further prosecuted for their misdeeds. Though it's unclear if or when this will happen, what is clear is that for Arthur, the war is finally over.
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Remember the really, really cute kids?
They're kinda famous now! I sent this photo to AFP, and didn't know it had been syndicated until I saw it in USA Today recently. I was tickled -- these kids are my neighbors. They hang out in the empty lot near my house playing and being generally adorable. The other day when I was walking down the path to my house, they embraced me in a sort of kamakaze style hug, five kids deep in every direction.
Unfortunately, there's now a big metal wall around the lot and someone's doing construction. The kids have lost one of their play spots. The cute quotient in my life is dropping rapidly.
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Wettin de happen na Freetown
Two weeks away from Monrovia in lovely Freetown feels like vacation, even though I'm here working. Freetown is cheaper, easier to get around, has less security issues, and is generally a breath of fresh air after sitting in too many concrete compounds with barbed wire walls in Monrovia. Here are a few tales of Freetown since I'm currently enjoying a fabulous internet connection and some Nescafe.
- The hotel I'm staying at is very Chinese. On the signpost outside the main gates, the name is in Chinese and then in English. When you fill out a room card, there's a place to write your Chinese name. Most annoyingly, all the outlets in the room are designed for Chinese plugs. I guess this makes sense since every appliance and scrap of furniture in the room was clearly imported from China. The TV remote control is so confusing it may as well be in Chinese. Oh wait, it is in Chinese.
- The other day, I went to a music producer's studio. It didn't have a sign. The producer had told me that everyone in the area knows the place and that I'll find it easily. After I'd asked three people who had no idea where it was, I called him. "It's just by the prison." Ah, of course!
- I jumped in a shared taxi late on Saturday night with two other women. One woman said to me, "You've come from Liahberah." I didn't recognize her, and was surprised she knew me. She said that she sees me around Newport Street and Carey Street with a camera, that I love taking pictures. I didn't have my camera out, so there's no way she could have guessed this. Clearly, she had seen me around. Sometimes I feel invisible because my MO is generally to hang out at some place long enough that people forget about me and go about their business. But she hadn't forgotten. She was very nice and we chatted a bit. She's a Fula lady from Guinea, visiting friends in Freetown right now, though she lives in Monrovia. I said I might head there sometime next month. She said, "Then I'll see you in three countries!"
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Off to Salone...
I'm headed to Sierra Leone for ten days. Blogging will be intermittent, but I'll be back online after that.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Context Africa: A Year in the Life of a Refugee
Today's Context Africa is a special kind of post. Over at Christian Science Monitor, journalist Mary Wiltenburg and editor Clara Germani have worked together to follow "Little Bill Clinton," a refugee displaced by the conflicts in Congo and Rwanda, currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. The effort took place in real time with a lot of multimedia pieces to help explain a complicated story. Both Mary and Clara agreed to answer questions for this post about context, sustaining interest in a long term projects, and the complications of cross-cultural exchange.
Read the blog (my favorite entry is African Kids Decode Michael Jackson), and check out this week's CSM magazine cover story What it's like to be a refugee in America, complete with great sidebars about refugee resettlement and a refugee gatekeeper's lament.
Question for Mary: Can you tell me a bit about how this project got started and what's next?
Mary: This project started with a question: What can we as journalists learn from the way people communicate online – through Facebook, Twitter, all of it – to inform our thinking about new models of storytelling they're likely to respond to? The idea of a story unfolding over time, in intimate detail and a variety of media, appealed to me. It seemed like a natural pace at which to get to know a family and a community – both for me and for readers. Conversations with Clara about the idea led to a second question – What and who would be worth devoting a year to in this way? – which led us to the International Community School and Bill Clinton Hadam.
What's next could be much more old-school: after the Monitor series wraps up next month, I'm hoping to write a book that will continue and expand the story.
Question for Clara: As an editor, how is working on a series like Little Bill Clinton different from the daily grind? How does the "real time" element change things?
Clara: Usually you edit only a slice of a story like this. Maybe 1,500 words on the sadness of a refugee child struggling to make it in a US school or 1,500 words on a UN refugee camp where safety from conflict is a cruel cheat because life doesn't get better for most. But in this project, I – and our readers – lived week in and week out with Mary's daily experiences in Bill Clinton Hadam's home and classroom. It was the day-to-day blogging that was astonishing, delightful, and heartbreaking in it's detail and insight: The roaches swarming Bill's homework as he diligently tried to finish it alone at night; Bill's verdict that the refugee camp had been kinda "stinky," the slow piecing together of Bill's mom's traumas during 33 years as a refugee (losing a husband and son to genocide in Rwanda, losing a daughter who fled the refugee camp after being raped), the wonder of Bill and his brother overcoming language and cultural issues to actually get to grade-level status in an American school. So much richness went into the blogs that normally would have been sliced out by editing.
Another aspect of the project was that the reporter was going to become a part of the story by virtue of being so close to it. We anticipated this and never tried to deny that it would happen to some degree. At the beginning, it was my daily nightmare that a huge burden was being placed on Mary as a person as well as a journalist who had the newspaper's ethics to uphold. These innocents were telling her everything, beginning to rely on her because she was one of few Americans paying attention to them. Early on we faced the dilemma of Mary's frequent visits to Bill's apartment and the fact that the kids were hungry: What do you do when you know that for the next year your reporter is going to be asking these people for access and information? The subtle quid pro quo of modern journalism (you give us information, we write about it and presumably civic forces will come to bear on your behalf in time) isn't the kind of quid pro quo you're going to be able to live with in a situation like this. These were the kind of struggles that weren't going to end with a deadline in a few weeks – we had to cope with them throughout the year and apply our sense of integrity as we went, moment by moment.
Question for Mary: How was reporting with refugees in America different than reporting with refugees in Africa?
Mary: Really different – and counterintuitively so. You'd think the farther from home, the more "foreign" the reporting experience would be, but for me the opposite has been true.
Getting to know Bill's parents in Atlanta has meant taking them out of context. It's a peculiar way to meet people, torn out of their social fabric, stripped of the major relationships and clues – extended family, religious community, neighbors, jobs, educational backgrounds – that I would normally use to make inferences about people's pasts and consider their presents. In writing about the family, I've tried to be sensitive to this – and I do think there are many things I've understood about them, and vice versa, that transcend cultural markers. But I couldn't really place them, and I assumed this might be beyond me.
In the refugee camp I visited in Tanzania, though, I met a group of friends who had become Dawami and Hassan's extended family over the decade they spent there together. It was a revelation. These friends – high school teachers, human rights activists, journalists, printers – were middle-class people uprooted from their lives. They had a nuanced analysis of the Tanzanian government's refugee policy; education was their priority, and they were furious about the closing of their kids' camp schools. For me, this made them feel very familiar. Despite our obvious differences of circumstance and culture, it was like talking with my parents' friends in a mud-brick house on the other side of the world.
Question for Mary: How did traveling to Tanzania change or reinforce some of your opinions?
Mary: After spending time in those camps, I feel really impatient with the immigration debate back home in the US. It seems obvious to me that countries around the world need to establish paths by which those who cross their borders – whether fleeing violence or economic hardship – can work to earn their citizenship. While I was in Tanzania, the country was granting citizenship to 170,000 Burundian refugees who'd been living the country in productive, peaceful settlements since 1972 – an unusual move, and an excellent idea. It was also in the process of expelling several hundred thousand others who'd been warehoused in camps for decades, people with talents and skills who wanted to work and become contributing members of some society somewhere.
It's not a perfect analogy to our situation in the US, of course, but I think for both countries, it does greater harm than good to keep families growing up within their borders in educational, professional, and legal holding patterns. The International Organization for Migration estimates 3 percent of the world's population, 192 million people, now live outside the country where they were born. As an international community, we have to find better and more dignified ways of addressing this.
Question for Clara: How do you make sure your audience will connect to things happening in Tanzania? Or for that matter, even in their backyard?
Clara: One great thing about the Monitor is that there's a presumption of reader interest in world events, that there is a presumption of importance of stories like this. Yes, we have to try to make them relevant to people who have never heard the word "mzungu" and don't know if Dar es Salaam is a person or a place. And, yes, we have to figure out ways to "market" them via the web so that we get sufficient hits to justify the effort.
That's what this project was designed to do: to use rich, compelling storytelling through words, audio, and video to seduce readers to what might ordinarily be unfamiliar and difficult to access. For those who found us, I think we accomplished that (look at the comments sections). The hardest problem was getting the project the exposure it needed to bring in readers for a first look.
Question for Clara: Is it hard to sustain a readers' interest on a long term project like this one?
Clara: Well it's not "The Bachelor" or "American Idol" – it's REAL "reality" and it can be heavy. For readers with an interest in African issues, or refugee issues, or American poverty or education, the predisposition is to follow a project like this, and I believe there was a base of readers who did. But I'll admit that it would take more than the average reader's commitment to return daily to this boy's story. I will say that once a reader's heart was broken or warmed by one of these blogs, it would be hard for them not to occasionally pop back in for a look on the latest developments.
See Context Africa posts:
- Sam Reinders pictures the complications of "poverty tourism"
- Paul Sika's technicolor dreamscape
- Andrew Rice on memory, murder and Idi Amin
- Tim Hetherington on the culmination of ten years of taking pictures in Liberia
- Rob Crilly on how to write about a place as contentious as Darfur
- Nicholai Lidow on post-conflict surfing
- Jina Moore's Q and A about forgiveness in Rwanda
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Foreign Policy: Interivew with Senator Prince Johnson
About two weeks ago, I began the process of requesting permission to speak with Prince Johnson and take his photo. His handlers, unsurprisingly, put me off. They knew why I was there. But I persisted. Finally, speaking to one of them, I said, "What can I do to help you feel like you can trust me?" I explained that I live in Liberia, I'd be here this week, next week, and for months afterward. That I understood this place more than someone who flies in for a week and disappears back to another country. That I don't just write scandalous things, that I do projects about teddy bears and surfing.
The next day his handler called and told me to be at Prince Johnson's house at 11 am. I was a bit nervous, but I had a driver wait outside for me. And really, it was the middle of the day in Monrovia. Prince Johnson would never want the kind of incredibly bad press that would come with any harm inflicted on a young freelance American journalist. Especially at a time like this. So I went.
We chatted a bit about his kids and his family, the house he's building, and then moved on to other questions. I was surprised by how much he told me, but people who crave power also crave attention and adoration, and just a bit of flattery and interest got him to open up about Charles Taylor, the TRC, Samuel Doe, and more.
Read the whole interview with Senator Prince Johnson here on Foreign Policy.
At the end, I even got him to pose for a photo with his pet eagle, whose leg is tied by a string. When I walked in to the compound, I immediately noticed the bird (though thought it was an owl) and the pet dogs, monkeys, sheep and goats. As I was on my way out, I asked him about the bird and told him that I really, really loved birds and asked if I could take a photo of it. He volunteered to hold the eagle for the picture, despite the advice of one of his handlers who said it would mess up his suit.
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Labels: Images, Liberia, Original Reporting
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
TRC news roundup
It's not often that Liberia is in the news, but this week, it is. Here's a best of:
- Myles Estey attends a press conference with the most warlords in one room EVER
- Shelby Grossman figures out a few of the differences between the originally released TRC report and the revised version. Read more about this on VOA.
- Ceasefire Liberia, a cool project that's connecting Liberians in Staten Island with this side of the Atlantic, has a few posts on the TRC report
- The Independent publishes a story called The plot to oust Liberia's leading lady. I think this story makes this sound way more conspiracy-esque than it is, but it's a good blow-by-blow read.
- AFP runs a story, Liberian former warlords warn against arrest. I'm not sure how much is talk and how much will be action, but I'm hoping for the former.
- Prince Johnson on Charles Taylor's conversion to Judaism and how he's not looking back because Jesus didn't look back. An exclusive interview on Foreign Policy, straight to you from Scarlett Lion HQ. More on this later, but if you were wondering what I was waiting for, this is it.
- Tim Hetherington showcases more amazing images from Liberia, this time of all too telling graffiti called the Walls Speak
- Chris Blattman points out there are never just angles or demons in politics
- Time.com runs a story that points out all of this will probably not dent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's reputation. Also from Scarlett Lion HQ.
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Labels: Blog New and New Links, Images, Liberia, Original Reporting
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Beer: photo of the day
I need a beer! I've just filed the fourth of four TRC related stories. Will post here soon...
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Friday, July 3, 2009
TIME: In Liberia, President Johnson Sirleaf's Past Sullies her Clean Image
My story on time.com today:
By Glenna Gordon/MONROVIA -- Friday, Jul. 03, 2009
Six years on from the end of Liberia's long and bloody civil war, the country is finally on the mend. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund regularly applaud President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — Africa's first elected woman leader — on the huge strides she's making to stamp out corruption and rebuild her shattered country.
That image has now taken a hit. In its final report, released yesterday, Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a body modeled on South Africa's historic truth commission, says Johnson Sirleaf should be banned from government for 30 years for her early support of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Taylor, who played a central role in Liberia's conflict, is on trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity that stem from his part in the civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone.
he Commission's 370-page report collected more than 20,000 statements and took three years and several million dollars to complete. It investigates the causes and consequences of Liberia's conflict, a war that displaced a third of the people in the small West African country, left a quarter of a million dead, and countless more raped, disabled, and traumatized. Johnson Sirleaf is among 50 people the Commission recommends should not be allowed to hold public office. The Commission also says that dozens of individuals should face further investigation and prosecution, though does not include Johnson Sirleaf on those lists. Still, to name the president as the TRC does, is tough censure for someone so widely respected. "To exclude someone from the right of running for political office is a very serious position to take that has to be extremely grounded in facts," says Corrine Dufka, a senior research with Human Rights Watch's Africa division who focuses on West Africa.
Perhaps. But in a conflict that went on for nearly two decades, it's hard to find any Liberian officials whose hands are completely clean. When she testified at the TRC, Johnson Sirleaf admitted that during the early years of the war she had brought food, supplies and financial assistance to Taylor. At the time, she said, she wanted to see an end to the repressive and tyrannical regime of President Samuel Doe. If she cast her lot with a war criminal, she said, she did so unwittingly.
But the TRC says Johnson Sirleaf didn't go far enough. One of the ideas behind a truth commission is that people responsible for past errors show remorse. By not apologizing or showing more remorse, the TRC says, Johnson Sirleaf denied both her own responsibility and undermined the TRC process. Those who disclosed their misdeeds in greater detail and showed remorse were not recommended for further censure or prosecution. Milton Blayi, whose nomme de guerre was General Butt Naked because he entered the battlefield completely naked but for his boots, admitted culpability for as many as 20,000 deaths, for example. But, he now speaks often and publicly about repentance.
The President's defenders say the fact Johnson Sirleaf took part in a process that highlighted her early role in Liberia's meltdown is proof of her commitment to good governance. "She allowed the whole process to roll out and that shows that she is concerned about the truth," says Suliman Baldo, the Africa Director for the International Center for Transitional Justice. Many Liberians probably agree with that.
Outside of Liberia, where few people until now have been aware of Johnson Sirleaf's early association with Taylor, the revelation could tarnish Johnson Sirleaf's image somewhat. Still, the President's unlikely to come under too much pressure from donors. Says one political observer who has worked in Liberia and asked to remain anonymous: "It will take a lot to dent her reputation."
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Labels: Liberia, Original Reporting
Robertsport fisherman: photo of the day
From Robertsport, a photo that didn't make the Surfing Liberia cut but one that I like anyway.
Posted by Scarlett Lion at 8:33 AM 1 comments
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Context Africa: Samathan Reinders pictures the complications of "poverty tourism"
The debate about "poverty tourism" rages on the blogosphere on the pages of the HuffPo, Bill Eastery's blog, and elsewhere. But, as Jina Moore (previous Context Africa feature), who wrote a great, nuanced piece about this for Christian Science Monitor, says,
If it's that easy to be flip, you're probably missing something.Part of my goal in Context Africa is to look at projects that aren't interested in easy answers. There are people out there asking difficult questions, and coming back with stories, photos, and other works that don't provide straight answers. There's a lot of daily news out there that is factually incorrect, slanted, or stereotyped. But, there are also a lot of journalists committed to telling a different kind of story.
Today, I'm happy to highlight the work of Samantha Reinders, who is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her take on Township Tourism shows that nothing is as straightforward as it might seem and even something as divisive as "poverty tourism" can be looked at with nuance.
Here's what she has to say about Township Tourism:
South African townships are historically rich, vibrant suburbs. It is in these townships that you can see the tangible legacy of apartheid as much as the insatiable hope for a brighter future. Touring them is important for visitors to begin to understand the complexities of modern day South Africa.
As a phenomenon it is as interesting as it is controversial. These images serve to create awareness of both the positive and negative aspects of township tourism – as a way to contribute to the very small pool of research done into the socio-cultural impacts of the trend.
My personal views on township tourism have changed considerably since I started the project in 2004.
I have seen the industry at large, as well as the actual tours, change for the better since the beginning of my study. Both the practice of touring the townships (solely looking through the window of a tour bus) as well as the perception that these tours are exclusively voyeuristic tours of poverty has changed slightly. Through encouraging media reportage, as well as positive word of mouth experiences, awareness of the positive aspects of township tourism has slowly been created. Tourists are treading more lightly in the neighborhoods they are visiting.
While many people take pictures during the Township Tours, most people don't take pictures of the tourists themselves. How did people react to your presence and project on the tours?
People were initially surprised by my presence. Just after the tour guide introduced himself I also introduced myself and explained what I was doing. Everyone I came across was interested in the project, most asked many questions, and I think that my presence on the tours made the tourists really consider the impact of their visit. Most tourists came loaded with hundreds of questions about South Africa's past and present, and I became quite involved in the tours in that I was another person who they could direct their questions at. In almost all of the cases the tour guides were black South Africans, living in the townships we were visiting. I'm white and live in the city…so I think it was interesting for the tourists to get both perspectives.
What made you decide to focus on this particular activity for a photo story? How does this differ from more straightforward travel photography?
Township Tourism, especially when it just became popular in the mid 90s, got really bad press in South Africa. And admittedly I was swept up in that. I thought the concept was horrible. A Brazilian friend in town was determined to do one of these tours and I went along with him and had a surprisingly good experience. So I decided to do a story on it and investigate the industry in a little more depth. As time went on I changed my mind about Township Tourism. Whilst there are definitely negative impacts on the communities involved when tours are run badly and mismanaged, I saw the positive impacts out way these in many cases. I left the project with a more 50/50 view of the industry.
It differs from normal travel photography in that is trying to tell an important story, trying to explain to the viewers the impact of this type of tourism, and show potential tourists how they can improve their experience on a township tourism for the community members of the townships they are touring. I'm hoping it will have a direct impact on the conduct of both tourists and tour guides.
What kind of reactions have you gotten to the photos?
Generally people are intrigued by the story. When I show editors it always leads to interesting discussions. No one has picked up the story to publish though ☹
Do you think photography has a role to play in post-Apartheid South Africa?
Absolutely. I really feel that photography has a massive historical importance. As South Africa moves away from the Apartheid regime I think it is integral for its unique story to be captured for prosperity. Much of South Africa's past has been documented thoroughly through photography (the work of Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbrook, Jurgen Schardeburg, Greg Marinovich, David Goldblatt and many others) – and its legacy is evident in many museums and books. So I hope that through this people can realize its importance in the historical sense.
See previous Context Africa posts:
- Paul Sika's technicolor dreamscape
- Andrew Rice on memory, murder and Idi Amin
- Tim Hetherington on the culmination of ten years of taking pictures in Liberia
- Rob Crilly on how to write about a place as contentious as Darfur
- Nicholai Lidow on post-conflict surfing
- Jina Moore's Q and A about forgiveness in Rwanda
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Flip-flop soccer, with deflated soccer ball: photo of the day
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SPLINTERS! (Stickers in the Foot)
My 2 yr old recently stepped onto a large sticker weed while at a party. YEEOWCH! Poor thing. There were many stickers right in the arch of her foot. I pulled out what I could immediately. Later tried to tweeze, I say TRY. A 2 yr. old does not like this for obvious reasons. So I ended up not really being able to remove all of the splinter/sticker rements. My question is: Is there anything I can do, should do, call the doctor, leave them??? I have basically left them alone. Kept her foot clean and she doesnt seemed bothered. I can still see little specks left in the bottom of her foot and it bugs me, but I can't get them out as they are under the skin.
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Thanks to everyone who replied. I will definitely try tape asap the next time someone in my family gets a splinter or sticker. In this case it was too late for that to work , but what actually happened was the splinters started to work themselves back out. Seems weird they're under the skin and then they come back out. As I could feel them sticking out of her foot again, I tried the tape. I was able to remove one of the larger ones which I could tell was bothering her that way. I did have to prick slightly with a needle on another one, but it's resolved now and no infection or problems. Whew!
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B.E. answers from San Francisco on October 13, 2008
If there is no inflammation to the area, I'd just keep doing what you're doing. If it looks like infection is starting, soak the foot in warm water with epsom salt repeatedly to draw out the splinters.
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C.B. answers from San Francisco on October 14, 2008
Ouch! Poor baby! I would try tweezing either while she's in the bathtub or just after she gets out. The skin is softer and the stickers will come out easier.
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M.G. answers from Modesto on October 13, 2008
This may sound strange, but it does work. Cut an onion in half, place it on her foot and let her sit down for a half an hour. The onion will draw out the splinters/stickers.
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C.C. answers from Sacramento on October 13, 2008
There is this stuff that I have always known as black sauve... you can get it at your pharmacy... it smells like tar. You put in on and put a bandage over it. What it does is draw out whatever is there... it's good for splinters, infections, etc. Great stuff... wouldn't be without it.
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B.E. answers from San Francisco on October 13, 2008
If there is no inflammation to the area, I'd just keep doing what you're doing. If it looks like infection is starting, soak the foot in warm water with epsom salt repeatedly to draw out the splinters.
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G.P. answers from Modesto on October 13, 2008
Ouch is right! Splinters should be removed, they can irritate & cause infection. Praise her if you find a way to get it out. She will feel it when she walks on it. Picking it with a needle or pin might help. Good luck. G.
J.M. answers from Sacramento on October 13, 2008
You might try some tape...
Just put the tape over the splinters and rub gently once or twice to make sure the ends are in the sticky of the tape and then pull it off. Works on wood chip splinters! :) Good luck!
S.A. answers from Sacramento on October 14, 2008
Duck tape. Let her walk around with it on for half a day, or as long as she'll do it. Then pull it away, and the stickers should come off with it.
K.N. answers from Sacramento on October 13, 2008
Have you tried using some tape? That worked pretty well for my daughter.
A.P. answers from San Francisco on October 13, 2008
I have found that laying tape over the splinter(s) and then pulling it off in the opposite direction that it goes in, usually takes it our without too much fuss. Just a thought. Those under the skin are more difficlut, but using something like a credit card to push them back out has worked without the pain.
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Solar, utility companies clash over changes to net metering
In the sunny Southwest, a fight between utilities and solar companies is heating up, casting a shadow over future renewable energy growth.
At stake are revisions to net metering, a key incentive for rooftop solar installations in the United States. Under these policies, the utility gives the homeowner a credit for the energy his rooftop photovoltaic panels put onto the grid that is subtracted from the electricity his home uses when the sun isn't shining.
Currently, 43 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S. territories have net metering policies in place, with differing capacity limits. Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, all public utilities are required to offer net metering to customers upon request.
According to the Energy Information Administration, the number of residential net-metered utility customers exploded from almost zero in 2003 to more than 300,000 in 2012. Falling panel prices, coupled with attractive incentives, expanded the market for rooftop solar. Last month, even the White House installed a rooftop solar array.
This rapid growth is leading some utilities to rethink rules favoring solar energy, citing unexpected consequences and issues of fairness. But rooftop solar developers are aggressively pushing back, accusing utilities of attempting to quash an emerging competitor and entrenching their energy monopoly.
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Things really hotted up in Istanbul Park in Saturday morning practice, even though the track and ambient temperatures were cooler than yesterday.
A flurry of late activity saw many of the leading runners having serious problems with the notorious Turn Eight, with the spin of the day award going to Lewis Hamilton who did what Felipe Massa did yesterday only a lot faster. The outer kerb bit him between the second and third apexes, but the greater momentum of the McLaren carried it backwards into the gravel. The marshals pushed him out, and he limped back to the pits, shades of Gilles Villeneuve, with all four tyres totally flat-spotted through to the carcass and three of them flapping rubber.
Subsequently, Hamilton returned to the track to set the fastest time in 1m 27.396s. When Sebastian Vettel speared off the road and ran round the run-off area in Turn Eight on his last attempt to go fast it seemed that Hamilton's time would hold up, but Vettel got one lap more and sliced the benchmark down to 1m 27.086s.
On his last lap Nico Rosberg also beat the Englishman, but without any drama, as a super-smooth lap in his Mercedes stopped the clocks in 1m 27.359s.
Behind Hamilton, Mark Webber had lots of drama in terms of technical glitches and then errors, finally spinning in Turn Eight while trying to beat the 1m 27.553s lap that left him in fourth place.
Robert Kubica avoided trouble take an unobtrusive fifth for Renault in 1m 27.784s, pushing Fernando Alonso down a place. The Spaniard lapped his Ferrari in 1m 27.861s. Then came Michael Schumacher in 1m 27.879s in the second Mercedes, Jenson Button in 1m 27.963s in the second McLaren and Massa in the second Ferrari in 1m 27.969s.
Vitaly Petrov completed the top 10 with 1m 28.344s for Renault, chased by Sebastien Buemi's Toro Rosso on 1m 28.610s, Pedro de la Rosa's BMW Sauber on 1m 28.652s and Jaime Alguersuari's Toro Rosso on 1m 28.734s. Kamui Kobayashi went off in Turn Five while trying to improve on 1m 29.036s in his BMW Sauber, and was just ahead of Nico Hulkenberg's Williams on 1m 29.044s. Tonio Liuzzi's was the sole Force India to run as Adrian Sutil experienced a hydraulic leak after his installation lap which could not be fixed in time. The Italian recorded 1m 29.211s for 16th ahead of Rubens Barrichello in 1m 29.305s for Williams.
It was Jarno Trulli's turn to be fastest of the new team runners after he lapped his Lotus in 1m 30.618s, and team mate Heikki Kovalainen was close behind with 1m 30.864s.
Timo Glock got back in control at Virgin with a lap of 1m 31.341s, with team mate Lucas di Grassi nearly a second further back on 1m 32.180s. Karun Chandhok was HRT's pacesetter today with 1m 32.230s, and Bruno Senna was 23rd on 1m 32.762s.
If Turn Eight continues to be malignant this afternoon, there could be some surprises in qualifying.


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