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Reproductive health care — including access to screening and well care, contraception, sterilization, abortion and infertility treatment — continues to be one of the most contested issues of our time. The constitutional right to privacy includes the right to control what you do with your body and the choices you make about sexual intimacy. This was established in landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases protecting a woman's right to contraception and abortion and also in Lambda Legal's landmark victory, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down criminal sodomy laws and established the fundamental liberty right to private sexual intimacy for all adults. But these victories have not given the final word on securing equal liberty in family relationships and reproduction. Across the country, reactionary religious and political groups are working to expand the ability of individual health care providers, health care institutions and insurers to limit access to health care for LGBT people and people with HIV based on health care providers' religious beliefs and prejudices.
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Excellent for digestion, Alfalfa (medicago sativa) is a member of the greens family, another gift from the earth to detox, cleanse and feel full of plant life energy!
Alfalfa isn't actually a grass, it's a legume. Unlike grains and other crops which take more from the soil than they give, alfalfa actually enriches it.
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And it is possible to get to the Commune before the Germans, at least as a Canadian player. You just need to form an alliance with the Papacy (difficult but doable), station a bunch of troops there, and intervene where ever possible (I was able to take the Northwestern corner of Spain from the FAI and Michigan from the CSA). Germany seemed to be making headway a bit, but France took Wallonia and a stalemate seemed to form, so I figured the stalemate would be tying up the Communards in Belgium, and took the opportunity to invade via Savoy and Rochelle. By the end most of France was under my/Rome's control, and I barely was able to take Paris before the Germans, and with most of France under my control I figured the Germans would consent to give a small sliver of French territory in return for Wallonian land so I reloaded as Nat France and demanded the territory.
Also, as the descendant of leftist Pied Noirs, I find it sad that Camus isn't a possible minister for a democratic Nat France.


text: Recent disasters have shown that we need to review many of the lessons we assumed we had learned in the field of humanitarian assistance, specifically in the health sector. Each emergency sees the emergence of new intervening agencies that focus on providing direct, immediate health services, often for short periods. The various scenarios should be studied to develop models of collaboration that will enable these stakeholders to apply their efforts and resources more effectively, to avert potential problems and avoid repeating the same mistakes.


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The European Recycling Platform was the only pan-European recycling organization created in response to the European Union's groundbreaking directive to promote recycling of electronic waste. Braun, Electrolux, Hewlett-Packard and Sony established ERP in 2002 as an alternative to the monopolistic e-waste takeback systems then existing in several European countries. ERP was based on the principle of producer responsibility, in which manufacturers are financially responsible for managing the end-of-life phase of their goods. By late 2007, ERP operated in eight countries. It had achieved significant market share and stimulated competition in European e-waste recycling. In November 2007, ERP's board was meeting to evaluate whether the company should greatly expand its scope. Should ERP start handling new product categories such as discarded batteries and packaging? Should it expand to more countries? If so, which countries? If it expanded, could ERP handle the additional business complexity while preserving its low-cost, outsourced model? The case looks at an organization at the forefront of efforts to address the world's growing e-waste crisis. It highlights the importance of managing the end-of-life phase of products. Students will evaluate recycling as a business and market opportunity. They will assess the industry and market changes sparked by Europe's e-waste directive.
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The LGF's staff team, currently equivalent to 35 full-time staff, deliver a wide range of services, many of which are supported by over 200 volunteers.
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Play Ball! Minnesota was created in 2004 as a partnership between the Twins Community Fund and the organizations that operate youth baseball and softball programs throughout the state of Minnesota. It is a first of its kind collaboration on youth recreation in the region. The goals of Play Ball! Minnesota is to promote and advance the games of baseball and softball for youth.
Play Ball! Minnesota members meet bi-annually to discuss the current state of youth baseball and softball in Minnesota and share ideas to improve the leagues and increase participation. In addition, Play Ball! Minnesota and its member organizations host a youth coaches' conference each spring and sponsor traveling coaching clinics, free youth skills clinics, Coaches' Award program, the Terry Ryan Award for service, the Play Ball! Minnesota Mr. Baseball/Ms. Softball Award and the Play Ball! Minnesota High School All-Star Series.
Play Ball! Minnesota celebrates the start of the youth season at the annual Play Ball! Minnesota Youth Coaches Conference. Minnesota Twins alumni, members of the Twins front office and Play Ball! Minnesota members lead general and breakout sessions. The conference features instruction on a variety of timely and pertinent youth topics. The conference is held at the home of the Minnesota Twins, Target Field.
The Play Ball! Minnesota Coaches' Clinics are free for communities to host and are available through an application process. The current clinic format, developed by Play Ball! Minnesota Ambassador Brian Raabe is designed to teach coaching techniques in all of the key aspects of the game. The clinics are perfect for beginner coaches and are also a great way for experienced coaches to learn new concepts and techniques.
The Play Ball! Minnesota Youth Clinics are available to participants and communities free of charge. The Play Ball! Minnesota Youth Clinics format, which focuses on throwing, hitting and base running, was developed by Twins Senior Advisor to the General Manager Terry Ryan and former Twins executive and current Arizona Diamondbacks Special Assistant to the General Manager Bob Gebhard.
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On related note, how much progress has been on LLVM to compile Linux?
I remember hearing attempts to make LLVM compile Linux before.
I know GCC is much faster than LLVM.
But what is the status of Linux on LLVM?
Phoronix: Link-Time Optimization To Speed Up The Linux Kernel
An extensive set of patches have been published that allow the Linux kernel to be built with GCC's LTO (Link-Time Optimization) support for generating a faster Linux kernel binary but at the cost of much greater compile times...
On related note, how much progress has been on LLVM to compile Linux?
I remember hearing attempts to make LLVM compile Linux before.
I know GCC is much faster than LLVM.
But what is the status of Linux on LLVM?
Very nice, I'd like to see this in.
OTOH, I recall Denys Vlasenko's similar patchset earlier to enable the kernel to build with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections (resulting in 10-15% smaller binary) was not merged.
Since Linux uses GCC specific behavior I'd expect LLVM to take several years (if ever) until it's good enough to be used by default mainstream.
The need for a new compiler for Linux is exaggerated and over-appreciated (like Facebook hehe), GCC is good enough and improving (being cleaned up, moving to C++, LTO).
Well, that's interesting. Once this gets implemented, it will be awesome news for slow devices on Gentoo using distcc. Also, you could compile a kernel normally, see if it works out right, and then in spare time compile it with the optimizations. I just wonder how much difference they'll make.
People have been messing around with the LLVM + linux kernel combo for a long time via the work done at the University of Illinois...
There also happens to be this project, that consolidates that work (the lll work) and others;
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Someone managed to compile parts of it, not all, and maybe with some patches.
Some people in the Linux community are interested in seeing Linux compile under LLVM, because it is argued that having Linux compile under many compilers will improve code quality.
Shouldn't it be ANSI/ISO-compatible?
But would be nice if Linux compiled cleanly with several compilers.
I'd like to see someone try compile Linux with;
* Microsoft Compiler
* LLVM / Clang / DragonEgg
* Intel C Compiler
* Open64
I think i may have also tried Open64 5.0 but it failed. The rest i have not tried but would assume they would all fail OOTB.
Debian already have plans to switch to LLVM and Gentoo is talking about. The big isssue seems the GNU useland.
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Also since many of these GCC compiler extensions were added at the direct request of the kernel developers there's little chance they would decide to suddenly go without them. Also the Linux kernel devs are very performance oriented and I doubt they would forego any efficiency in order to ease porting to other compiler toolchains.
While perfect portability between compilers would be nice, it's really not much of a practical problem since GCC is ported to everything. Also giving up efficiency of generated code in order to have it compiling with compiler X is likely not something end-users would find attractive either.
And then there's nothing preventing other compilers from supporting said extensions, and for the record all compilers supports a variety of compiler extensions, some are cross-supported and some are exclusive.


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city, seat (1855) of Douglas county, eastern Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Kansas River. It was founded in 1854 by antislavery radicals who had come to Kansas under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company to outvote proslavery settlers and thus make Kansas a "free" state. The city was named for Amos A. Lawrence, a New England textile manufacturer who funded the company's settlement efforts. It was a noted station on the Underground Railroad by which slaves escaped into free territory. As a Jayhawker (abolitionist) headquarters, the town was sacked in 1856 by a proslavery militia under David Rice Atchison, a former Democratic senator from Missouri, and in 1863 by Confederate guerrillas under the command of William Clarke Quantrill, who massacred more than 150 citizens and burned much of the city.


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DURHAM — Morgan Frame scored 20 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to lift the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team to a 63-62 America East win over Maryland-Baltimore County on Wednesday night at Lundholm Gym.
The Retrievers shot 51.1 percent (24 for 47) while holding the Wildcats to 33.3 percent (21 for 63) shooting for the game. Patrick Konan scored 19 points to lead the Wildcats, who have now lost six straight games.


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After Chairman Mao's death in 1976, China began a series of reforms that eventually got its economy humming and its society buzzing. These led to a gradual process of liberalization during the 1980s that culminated in a series of protests at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Fearing for its own survival, the communist regime cracked down, deciding to supress the protests and keep power at all costs. A decade later, we at Foreign Affairs were able to publish, for the first time, a trove of secret documents showing why China's leaders opted for violence at Tiananamen Square that fateful June. Now, 25 years after the protests, we are delighted to bring you Tiananmen and After, which includes those documents along with expert commentary on what happened back in June 1989, what it meant, and how China has—and hasn't—changed since then.
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"Praise to God whose love was shown, who sent His Son to earth. �Jesus left His rightful throne, became a man by birth." �This incredible song was recorded by Amy Grant on her very first Christmas album. �A majestic and powerful look at the manger scene written for SATB choir and orchestra!


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It cannot take you from your agony into an ecstatic experience. It cannot take you away from darkness into light, from death into immortality. This is the delusion.
Something so hard to fathom is known by a buddha and no one else.
Remember, by 'buddha' is not meant any personal name. 'Buddha' simply means the awakened one. Anyone who becomes awakened, enlightened, is the buddha. You are also the buddha; the only difference is that you are not aware of it. You have never looked inside yourself and found the buddha there. Your very life source is nothing but enlightenment.
Bodhidharma is saying: Something so hard to fathom is known by a buddha and no one else. You will know only that you are deluded if you enter yourself and find your authentic individuality. Then there will be a comparison. The man who has never seen real roses may remain with plastic flowers his whole life, believing that these are real roses. To wake him up, you have to bring real roses so that he can compare and he can see the difference. The plastic flowers are dead; they don't have any fragrance. They have not grown up; they will not die.
The real flower is fragile. With the morning it comes into existence, dances in the rain, in the wind, in the sun, and by the evening it is gone. It comes from the unknown and moves back into the unknown. The same is the situation of our human life.
We come from the unknown and we go on moving into the unknown. We will come again; we have been here thousands of times, and we will be here thousands of times. Our essential being is immortal but our body, our embodiment, is mortal. Our frame in which we are, our houses, the body, the mind, they are made of material things. They will get tired, they will become old, they will die. But your consciousness, for which Bodhidharma uses the word no-mind - Gautam Buddha has also used the word, no-mind - is something beyond body and mind, something beyond everything; that no-mind is eternal. It comes into expression, and goes again into the unknown.
This movement from the unknown to the known, and from the known to the unknown, continues for eternity, unless somebody becomes enlightened. Then that is his last life; then this flower will not come back again. This flower that has become aware of himself need not come back to life because life is nothing but a school in which to learn. He has learned the lesson, he is now beyond delusions. He will move from the known for the first time not into the unknown, but into the unknowable.
If from the known you move to the unknown, you will be born again. But if you move from the known to the unknowable, to the mystery of existence, you become one with the universe; there is no coming back.


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In a press release yesterday, DynCorp International announced that the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) had awarded the company with a $48.6 million contract. The purpose of the contract is to "recruit and support up to 100 UNPOL and 10 U.N. Corrections Advisors. DI will also provide logistics support to the Haitian National Police (HNP) Academy and each academy class. In addition, DI will supply five high-level French and Haitian Creole speaking subject matter experts to advise senior HNP officials."While the press release went out yesterday, the contract was actually awarded to DynCorp a year ago, and the first funding through the award was given to DynCorp in November 2012 in the amount of $12.9 million. DynCorp is one of the largest government contractors, receiving well over $3 billion in 2012.As the company points out, its previous work in Haiti began in 2008 and involved the training of over 400 police officers. That work, part of the Haiti Stabilization Initiative, also entailed increasing the size of the U.N. military base in Cite Soleil. DynCorp, which continues to receive funds through that task order, has received over $23 million since 2008 for its work in Haiti. One of the primary tasks of the U.N. military mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is to recruit and train members for the Haitian National Police, so that they could eventually take over for the foreign troops. With this latest contract, DynCorp has gone from training police to take over for MINUSTAH, to simply supplying troops directly to MINUSTAH. But the awarding of the contract to DynCorp is also problematic given the company's terrible track record in the same exact program areas where they will now operate in Haiti. In Bosnia in the late '90s, DynCorp was contracted by the State Department to provide "peacekeepers" for the U.N. police there, just as in Haiti now. One employee, Kathryn Bolkovac, was eventually fired after blowing the whistle to her superiors at DynCorp on the participation of her colleagues in sex trafficking, among other abuses. The case was the basis for the 2011 Hollywood movie, The Whistleblower. Unfortunately, these types of abuses have been all too common in Haiti since the arrival of U.N. troops in 2004. And similar to the situation in Bosnia, there have been only sporadic and piecemeal efforts to hold those responsible, accountable.
The New York Times reported yesterday that the Obama administration plans to change the way U.S. food assistance to other countries is conducted. The reforms, according to the Times' Ron Nixon, would notably focus on local procurement of food rather than shipping U.S.-grown crops overseas. This is something we and other groups have proposed be done to both assist Haitian farmers and food insecure people in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Despite some interest from some congressional offices, the proposal never went anywhere.
Nixon notes that current U.S. food aid practices are unique: "The United States spends about $1.4 billion a year on food aid and is the only major donor country that continues to send food to humanitarian crisis spots, rather than buying food produced locally." A recent op-ed by the Center for Global Development's Charles Kenny in Bloomberg Businessweek noted additionally that "The U.S. food aid program… spends roughly an additional $1 billion transporting the crops overseas, in most cases using U.S.-flagged ships."
U.S. food aid to Haiti is emblematic of the program as a whole. As we have previously noted, in roughly the first year after the 2010 earthquake, USAID signed nine contracts with three shipping companies to send 73,000 metric tons of rice and other commodities in Title II emergency food aid to Haiti, at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of over $18 million dollars.
The Associated Press' Mary Clare Jalonick reports on other controversial aspects of the U.S. food aid regime:
Particularly controversial is the process of what is called "monetization," or selling the food once it arrives overseas to finance development projects. A 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office found monetization cost the U.S. an extra $219 million over a three years, money that could have been used for other development projects.
Aid groups are split on the point, since some finance their activities through monetization. But major aid groups like Oxfam and CARE say the process can destroy local agriculture by dumping cheap crops on the market at a price too low for local farmers to compete.
Particularly controversial is the process of what is called "monetization," or selling the food once it arrives overseas to finance development projects. A 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office found monetization cost the U.S. an extra $219 million over a three years, money that could have been used for other development projects.
Aid groups are split on the point, since some finance their activities through monetization. But major aid groups like Oxfam and CARE say the process can destroy local agriculture by dumping cheap crops on the market at a price too low for local farmers to compete.
Today, CEPR released a new report authored by Jake Johnston and Alex Main on USAID in Haiti. The paper looks at the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance, what we know about how it is being administered, to what extent it is adhering to the USAID Forward reform agenda and what steps can be taken to ensure more effective and transparent delivery of aid to Haiti. While one can see who the primary awardees are, the lack of more detailed data creates the impression that U.S. foreign assistance goes into a "black box" where it becomes nearly impossible to tell what happens afterwards.
The report notes that the few audits and evaluations of USAID's programs in Haiti since the earthquake present a "troubling picture of the manner in which U.S. relief and reconstruction efforts have been conducted so far." Contractors have hired far fewer Haitians than promised, Haitian businesses were largely excluded, goals were not met, there was inadequate supervision of grantees, and USAID had not conducted internal financial reviews of contractors.
The paper makes several recommendations for how to improve transparency and accountability around the $1 billion in outstanding obligated U.S. aid funds for Haiti, as well as around any additional aid funding in the future. These include making data available on subcontractors; ensuring awardee compliance with federal regulations and contract requirements; reducing reliance on large, multi-year contracts that favor traditional partners while increasing direct contracting to Haitian entities; strengthening USAID's capacity to carry out effective monitoring and evaluation of assistance programs; making all evaluations publically available; ensuring the involvement of local populations; and making all available information on assistance programs accessible to Haitians – including via translations to Haitian Creole.
"Without transparency, not only is it impossible for U.S. taxpayers to know what is being done with their money, but the Haitian government and the Haitian people have little opportunity to ensure that U.S.-funded projects actually assist Haiti in rebuilding and dealing with ongoing urgent humanitarian needs," paper co-author Alex Main said.
Below are a series of graphs from the report, illustrating what we do know and the limitations of the data available.
Earlier this week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures in favor of the 567 families that have been under constant threat of eviction in the Grace Village camp. Given the "imminent" threat to those in the camp, the IACHR urged the Government of Haiti:
1. To adopt the necessary measures to avoid the excessive use of force and of violence in any eviction. In particular, to guarantee that the public authorities' actions as well as those of private parties pose no risk to the life and personal integrity of the camp residents;2. To implement effective security measures, in particular, to ensure that there is an adequate patrol around and inside the camp and to install police stations close to the camp. To this effect, the IACHR asks the Government to provide special protection to women and children;3. To ensure that the residents have access to the potable water required for basic needs;4. To consult with the beneficiaries and their representatives regarding the measures that need to be taken. In particular, ensure that the camp residents' committee as well as grassroots women's groups can fully participate in the planning and execution of the measures implemented for the benefit of residents, including measures focused on the prevention of sexual violence and other forms of violence in the camp; and5. To inform [the public] regarding the adopted measures so as to investigate the events that justifies the adoption of precautionary measures
As we have written previously, the residents of Grace Village have faced significant and on-going harassment, which has included government complicity at both the local and national level. The alleged owner of the land is Pastor Joel Jeune, the founder of a Florida based 501(c)(3) organization, Grace International Inc. As the request for precautionary measures points out, the pastor's close "ties to the mayor's office and the local police force him to enlist the help of Haitian police to carry out illegal evictions. With his private security forces and the Haitian police, Pastor Joel Jeune has orchestrated and participated in violent, forced evictions of displaced families living inside Grace Village."
The Haitian government's Société Nationale des Parcs Industriels (SONAPI) hired a U.S. lobbying firm in February to draft documents and arrange meetings "with Congressional Members and staff and Administration officials to seek change to trade legislation" and to help "implement" worker rights provisions, according to Foreign Agent registration documents. SONAPI is the government entity which owns the newly-opened Caracol industrial park, and is the institution responsible for locating, organizing and managing industrial parks throughout Haiti. Yesterday, a presidential decree named business owner Bernard Schettini as the new head of SONAPI, replacing George Sassine, the ex-president of the Association of Industries of Haiti and the former Executive Director of CTMO-HOPE, the commission in charge of implementing U.S. preferential trade legislation. Lobbying disclosures show that Sorini, Samet & Associates has been hired at the rate of $5,000 a month to help SONAPI lobby congress. Andrew Samet, the co-founder and principal of the firm, was the Deputy Undersecretary of Labor under President Clinton and later worked for law firm Sandler Travis and Rosenberg which counted the industry group the American Apparel and Footwear Association as a major client (the Association in turn has supported "free trade" deals such as CAFTA and HELP legislation for Haiti). Samet was hired as a lobbyist by Colombia in 2008 when it was pushing for passage of a "free trade" agreement with the U.S. Samet was hired to provide "a strategy on labor issues directed to support favourable consideration" of the FTA with the U.S. and to assist "the government of Colombia in presenting information on labor issues with relevant U.S. stakeholders, including U.S. Congress, the administration, labor advocacy groups, trade unions and the media." The FTA with Colombia was eventually passed despite the ongoing killing of unionists in the country, which continues to this day. In June 2012 the AFL-CIO issued a report documenting how the Labor Action plan attached to the FTA was failing to prevent labor and human rights violations. For six months of work in 2008, Sorini, Samet & Associates received over $100,000, according to lobbying disclosuredocuments. The firm has also done previous work for Sassine and the Haitian government during Sassine's tenure at CTMO-HOPE, earning nearly $400,000 from 2008-2010 lobbying Congress for the passage of new trade legislation and the implementation of "worker rights provisions." Industrial parks and garment manufacturing are seen as vital development tools by the Haitian government and many of its international backers. The industry is reliant on trade preferences offered by the United States which started in 2006 with the HOPE act and culminated in the "HELP" act, which was passed soon after the earthquake. According to stakeholders, the HELP legislation, which extended the length of the preferences and increased the amount of textiles that would be subject to benefits, was a key part of bringing in Sae-A Trading, the global manufacturer that recently opened a factory at the Caracol industrial park. While Sorini, Samet & Associates was previously hired to help implement "worker rights provisions" associated with the HOPE legislation, factories in Haiti are still in violation of a significant number of provisions under the preferential trade legislation. The most recent Better Work Haiti report found that 21 of 22 factories covered in their analysis (Caracol is not covered yet) were non-compliant with minimum wage laws, for example. This past summer, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, in their annual compliance report, found that "there was sufficient credible evidence to conclude that three specific producers were non-compliant with one or more of the core labor standards." This was the first time in four years that the report named specific factories. The violations included non-compliance in: sexual harassment, freedom of association and forced labor.
According to reports on Twitter yesterday, the United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in Haiti, Michel Forst has resigned for "personal reasons," even though his mandate was supposed to continue for another year. In one of his last acts, Forst's report for the U.N. Human Rights Council was presented yesterday, recommending to Haiti and the international community that they "throw light" on the cause of the cholera outbreak and "respond to any compensation requests". The cholera outbreak has killed at least 8,050 and sickened over 650,000 more.In his report Forst notes that the "question of what caused the outbreak of the epidemic in Haiti remains a burning issue that has attracted significant public controversy." Over the last few years, a number of scientific reports have identified U.N. troops as the source of cholera's introduction. Forst's report, which was issued before the U.N.'s denial of victims' compensation claims, notes "that silence is the worst response."The U.N. broke their "silence" on the issue by rejecting the victims' claims, yet they have continued to stonewall on the issue of responsibility. While Forst "deplores" the exploitation of the issue by "certain organizations…for political ends," he recognizes the "need that victims or their families have expressed to know the truth and perhaps even to be given compensation." In addition to recommending shedding light on the cause of the outbreak, Forst also calls on the international community and Haitian government to, "Secure international assistance to combat the spread of the cholera epidemic." The claim against the U.N., in addition to seeking damages, also asks for the U.N. to fund the needed infrastructure to eradicate cholera from Haiti. A 10 year, $2.2 billion eradication plan has been announced, but thus far the funding for it remains in doubt. The plan for the first two years notes that "The total cost for implementation of the Action Plan for 2013–2015 is estimated to be US$443,723,100." So far, little more than half of that - $238 million - has been secured, most of it from existing funds. On Sunday, the New York Times editorial board added their voice to those critical of the U.N.'s immunity claim, noting that the U.N.'s "handling of cholera is looking like a fiasco." The Times adds:
While it insists that it has no legal liability for cholera victims, it must not duck its moral obligations. That means mobilizing doctors and money to save lives now, and making sure the eradication plan gets all the money and support it needs.Its record so far is dubious. A U.N. appeal last year for $24 million for cholera programs ended the year only 32 percent financed, and in December, the U.N. said it would contribute $23.5 million to the new 10-year plan — about 1 percent of what is needed.
An op-ed in Bloomberg Businessweek yesterday lays out the case for USAID reform, highlighting the case of contractors in Haiti (and citing this blog) as an example. The piece, by Charles Kenny of the Center for Global Development, also examines the politicized nature of USAID practices. Kenny writes:
When it comes to buying friends at the United Nations, or buying crops in the Midwest, or creating jobs around the Capital Beltway, the U.S. foreign aid system is a paragon of effectiveness. Take the goal of buying friends. Eric Werker, a Harvard Business School associate professor, and Ilyana Kuziemko, now a Columbia Business School associate professor and Harvard Ph.D., estimated in a 2006 Harvard paper that countries rotating onto the UN Security Council were likely to see their U.S. aid increase by 59 percent. The aid then fell as the countries finished their terms. In a 1999 study, Illinois State University's T.Y. Wang found that U.S. aid successfully affects UN voting patterns on issues vital to America's national interests.
When it comes to buying friends at the United Nations, or buying crops in the Midwest, or creating jobs around the Capital Beltway, the U.S. foreign aid system is a paragon of effectiveness. Take the goal of buying friends. Eric Werker, a Harvard Business School associate professor, and Ilyana Kuziemko, now a Columbia Business School associate professor and Harvard Ph.D., estimated in a 2006 Harvard paper that countries rotating onto the UN Security Council were likely to see their U.S. aid increase by 59 percent. The aid then fell as the countries finished their terms. In a 1999 study, Illinois State University's T.Y. Wang found that U.S. aid successfully affects UN voting patterns on issues vital to America's national interests.
It is notable that the fifth largest USAID vendor is the government of Pakistan, currently a U.N. Security Council member. (The top four vendors – as September 30, 2012 – were the World Bank, the U.N. World Food Program, Chemonics (whose work in Haiti we have examined on this blog), and John Snow, Inc.)
Kenny also describes problems with USAID's food assistance to developing nations:
The U.S. food aid program, for instance, purchases about $1 billion worth of American crops a year. It spends roughly an additional $1 billion transporting the crops overseas, in most cases using U.S.-flagged ships.
Economics professors Nathan Nunn of Harvard and Nancy Qian of Yale demonstrated in a 2010 paper that what determines the size of U.S. food aid shipments isn't recipient need, but the size of the U.S. crop. And about half the funding is used on shipping. That same money could buy supplies in local markets and help farmers in developing countries.
The U.S. food aid program, for instance, purchases about $1 billion worth of American crops a year. It spends roughly an additional $1 billion transporting the crops overseas, in most cases using U.S.-flagged ships.
Economics professors Nathan Nunn of Harvard and Nancy Qian of Yale demonstrated in a 2010 paper that what determines the size of U.S. food aid shipments isn't recipient need, but the size of the U.S. crop. And about half the funding is used on shipping. That same money could buy supplies in local markets and help farmers in developing countries.
The U.N. Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued a press statement at the end of last week "express[ing] the grave concern of the humanitarian community in country regarding the recent incidents of forced evictions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in Port-au-Prince."
The OCHA release follows a visit to the Acra 2 IDP camp in Port-au-Prince which "followed evictions of about 1,000 displaced families in camps Acra 1 and 2 (Petionville) and Gaston Margron (Carrefour) in metropolitan Port-au-Prince on 17 February 2013."
The OCHA press statement notes:
Today, a little less than 350,000 displaced people live in 450 camps, most of them unable to find a return solution and without access to appropriate services. The humanitarian community estimates that more than 66,000 internally displaced persons (in 150 camps) have been victims of forced evictions since July 2010. More than 73,000 people living in 87 camps (20 per cent of the total displaced population) are facing threats of eviction in 2013. A forced eviction is the permanent or temporary removal against their will of individuals, families or communities from the homes or land they occupy, without the provision of access to appropriate forms of legal or other protection.
The statement was an improvement over past OCHA mischaracterizations of some forced eviction cases as "voluntary returns."
According to the release, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Ross Mountain "met with the Minister of Human Rights and the Fight against Extreme Poverty, Mrs. Rose Anne Auguste to discuss the issue of forced evictions in IDP camps." Ms. Auguste
stated that a judicial inquiry was ongoing and security presence was being strengthened around camps at risk. She pointed out that President Martelly had on several occasions condemned forced evictions and that the Government-designed 16/6 programme for camp closure remains the way forward. The 16/6 project supports the return and resettlement of displaced persons living in camps, as well as the rehabilitation of the neighborhoods affected by displacement.
But as we have previously noted, the Martelly administration's "16/6" program has failed to assist the majority of Haiti's IDP's. We noted in October that after one year, only some 44,000 people had been resettled through the program, significantly less than had been forcibly evicted, and just 60 of the remaining IDP sites were planned to benefit from return programs similar to 16/6. As we have also noted, there has been no systematic tracking of what has happened to people leaving the camps, and there is a need to examine what will happen to former camp residents once the rental subsidies they receive under the 16/6 program end.
Last week, after the passing of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, Haiti declared three days of national mourning. President Martelly stated that Chávez was a "great friend of Haiti who never missed an opportunity to express his solidarity with the Haitian people in their most difficult times." It's not the first time Martelly had such kind words for the Venezuelan president. Last year, Martelly told the press that it was Venezuelan aid that was "the most important in Haiti right now in terms of impact, direct impact." In February, Martelly attended the 11th summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our Americas, a regional political organization spearheaded by Venezuela, and announced that Haiti was debating joining the group as a full member. While most of the coverage around Chávez's legacy in Haiti and the greater Caribbean has focused on the Petrocaribe initiative, which provides subsidized fuel to the region, Chávez developed close ties to the Haitian people well before Petrocaribe. Following the earthquake of 2010, Chávez, in cancelling Haiti's debt to Venezuela, declared, "Haiti has no debt with Venezuela -- on the contrary, it is Venezuela that has a historic debt with Haiti." As Chávez was quick to point out, it was Haiti that provided a vital safe-haven for Latin American independence hero Símon Bolívar before he went on to liberate much of South America from Spanish rule. Opposition to 2004 Coup In 2004, following the U.S.-backed coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Chávez was one of only a few voices in the region condemning what had taken place and refusing to recognize the coup government. Chávez told the Organization of American States that, "The President of Haiti is called Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and he was elected by the people." He formally extended an offer of asylum to Aristide in March of 2004. Perhaps the solidarity was in part due to the fact that just two years previously Chávez had been temporarily ousted in a coup, and similar actors were involved in both the Venezuelan and Haitian coups. As detailed in a 2004 investigation by Mother Jones, the International Republican Institute was active in both organizing and training those involved in the 2004 coup in Haiti as well as opposition factions before the 2002 coup in Venezuela, and its point man in Haiti at the time – Stanley Lucas, now an advisor to Martelly – had been in Venezuela some seven times prior to the coup. Senior Bush administration officials Roger Noriega and Otto Reich also actively supported both the Venezuelan and Haitian coups. One with the People In 2007, President Chávez traveled to Haiti; Brian Concannon and Mario Joseph described the scene at the time:
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez found a hero's welcome when he visited Haiti on March 12. People from Port-au-Prince's poor neighborhoods lined the streets of the capitol to cheer, to chant, to dance and sing, with the infectious enthusiasm of Haitian celebrations. President Chávez returned the affection. He jumped from his motorcade and joined the party, marching, even running with the crowd. At the National Palace, Mr. Chávez climbed up on the perimeter fence to shake and slap hands, like he had just scored a World Cup goal. He publicly thanked the Haitian people for their hospitality and enthusiasm, and for their historic support for liberty in the world.President Chávez and the Haitian people hit it off so well for reasons of principle and of practice. Haitians consider Chávez a leader in the global fight against the global power inequalities that keep people in Haiti, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America poor, hungry and uneducated. They see him standing up to the most powerful leader in today's world- President Bush (whose name was frequently invoked that day, not charitably) – and to the World Bank and other powerbrokers. Even better, unlike their President Aristide (whose name was frequently, and charitably, invoked), Chávez keeps getting away with standing up to the powerful.
Petrocaribe Of course, while the solidarity between Chávez and the Haitian people has long existed, the more recent direct impact of this solidarity has been through the Petrocaribe initiative. The agreement, which was nearly blocked by the U.S. government and major oil companies, has provided Haiti with 23.6 million barrels of oil since 2008. Through the agreement Venezuela finances part of Haiti's fuel import bill, allowing for a portion to be paid up front and the remainder to be used as a loan with a long maturity and low rates. Since the program's inception, Venezuela has provided oil worth nearly $2.5 billion. Haiti has paid back over $1 billion of that and although Venezuela cancelled nearly $400 million in debt after the earthquake, Haiti retains a debt of roughly $950 million to Venezuela. Most of this will be paid back over a period of 25 years at a 1 percent interest rate. In the meantime, there is a two-year grace period. The IMF estimated fiscal year 2012/2013 external debt payments to be 0.1 percent of GDP, or less than 0.5 percent of government expenditure.
As of March 4, 2013, cholera has killed 8,057 Haitians and infected nearly 650,000 more. Despite some claims of progress, the epidemic, which was introduced by United Nations troops, has been significantly worse in 2013 than during the same period the year before. From January 1, 145 cholera victims have officially been reported dead, compared to just 22 last year. Worse, this occurred during the dry season, when cases generally taper off. The latest bulletin from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) noted that compared to February 2012, this year "the Centre department has seen an increase of 67 per cent during this period, while the Artibonite and Ouest departments have seen increases of 38 per cent and 35 per cent respectively."Three weeks ago the U.N., after 15 months of dodging and evading, formally rejected a claim brought on behalf of over 6,000 cholera victims for damages. The claimants had also demanded the U.N. provide funding for the new infrastructure needed for the clean water and sanitation that would eradicate the epidemic. A new, 10-year, cholera eradication plan was announced less than a week later. The ambitious plan, if carried out, would provide lifesaving infrastructure, which previously had been blocked due to political pressure from the United States. Yet, while the plan was welcomed as a positive step forward, there is little funding available for its implementation. The U.N., for its part, committed just $23 million, a far cry from the $2.2 billion needed. While the infrastructure which is needed may be a long way off, some groups are already looking at new solutions to combatting the cholera epidemic and creating a more sustainable country in the process. Isabeau Doucet reports for The Guardian:
"If we can take all the poop that's making people sick right now," said Dr Sasha Kramer as she stuck a thermometer into a large mound of faecal waste in the middle of Troutier, Port-au-Prince's city dump, "and turn it into this really valuable resource that could be used for reforestation or for increased agricultural production, then you really take a problem and turn it into a solution."Every week, Soil (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) collects the human waste from 56 dry toilets built in camps for displaced earthquake victims, and mixes it with chips of sugar cane bagasse, a byproduct of local rum production.
And it's not just NGOs which are taking part:
The Haitian government recently built several sewage treatment plants that process traditional pit latrine waste in open-air stabilisation ponds. It and sewage treatment companies such as Jedco are experimenting with the alchemy of transforming a potentially deadly substance into a rich and much-needed fertiliser.In order to treat human waste safely and kill pathogens, the waste must sit for at least seven days at 50C, according to the World Health Organisation. After six to nine months, the potentially toxic waste is transformed, with low carbon emissions, into fertile soil, simultaneously helping to fight cholera and deforestation, and revive food production.
The government has opened two sewage treatment plants on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince and there are a number planned for other major cities in the coming years. The plants are the first ever in Haiti's history. SOIL is exploring ways to transform their composting process to be able to handle waste from pit latrines, which are currently emptied at the government sewage plants, and not just the dry toilets that they distribute. In addition to composting, the sewage treatment plants hope to be able to use the water they are treating for irrigation. Together, the reuse of waste could have a large impact on sustainability. Doucet continues:
In Haiti's northern region of Cap Haïtien, where Soil built its first toilets in 2006, there is now a farm and the compost is used to grow peanuts and fight malnutrition. Collaborating with farmers and Scouts, Soil aims to fight Haiti's extreme deforestation – it has only 2% forest cover – by planting 10,000 mango, cashew, orange, lemon and other indigenous fruit trees.
Please see below for a series of pictures from the SOIL composting site in Port-au-Prince and from the Haitian government's two new sewage treatment plants.
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Psalms 51:5 address it, David claims he was sinful from the moment his mother conceived him, and sinful at birth. The psalms is about his sin against God and was written right after he committed adultery. I don't see how else we can interpret it other than literally. The entire song is pretty straight forward.
I know why it was written, but that doesn't mean David was literally born with original sin. That's a Catholic concept. Thanks, Augustine. Why take it literally? You wouldn't take v. 2 literally, nor would you take v. 4 literally. David didn't just sin against God only. He sinned against Uriah by committing adultery with his wife, by lying to him, and by having him killed in the battlefield. V. 7 isn't taken literally, either.
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Regardless man has been cursed with a sinful nature, that of which we inherited from Adam and Eve. I don't know what babies are doing that's sinful before God, either way they had sinned, for everyone has sinned.
Adam and Eve never existed. The Hebrews and ancient Israel didn't believe in a sinful nature.
Never mind my Christian interpretation then.


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Educational opportunity under attack on many fronts
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Educational opportunity is something we all want for our children. But it is under threat in New Hampshire. While the wealthy can choose among many options to find the best education for their children, two small programs that increase options for poor people in New Hampshire are under attack. If opponents succeed in killing the state's modest charter school program and the school choice scholarship program, educational opportunity will still be a reality for rich people, but not for poorer members of the Granite State.
Similarly, last year the Legislature passed a modest program of school choice scholarships. It allows tax credits for businesses that donate to organizations that give scholarships to students from lower-income families. The program is just starting, but it promises to give poorer children another choice.
This contorted logic, by the way, would also suggest the closure of every other charter school (after all, the next Legislature could theoretically not fund them) and most public schools (the Legislature could suddenly decide we'll only have 14 really big schools and no one else gets money). That's ridiculous, of course, but so is the back-door moratorium.
The second attempt to limit opportunity is being conducted openly in the Legislature. Opponents are trying to repeal last year's school choice law. The law limits scholarships to students in the lower half of incomes in the state. It would allow tax credits for business donations to scholarship organizations. The scholarships would help parents purchase an education at any approved school in the state. This law, like the charter school law, is about increasing opportunities for people who have limited educational opportunities today.


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1/2 cup Icing Sugar
11/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
1cup Plain Flour
2 Pinch Baking Powder
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100g Dark Cooking Chocolate
30g Butter
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Shift the Plain flour and Baking powder and Mix them well,till the mixture is smooth.
Drop the mixture into a piping bag fitted with 1cm pipping nozzle.
In a grease Paper,pipe mixture into 6cm wavy lengths.
Bake them at 180 degree Celsius for about 15 minutes/lightly golden.
Transfer biscuit to wire rack to cool.
Prepare the chocolate dip by double boil the butter and dark chocolate,till smooth mixture.Dip half of the each biscuits into melted chocolate.
Allow to set in for few minutes and then transfer it in an airtight container for up to 2 days.
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April 23 - N.E.W. DIRT officials met at the Seymour Speedway this afternoon and have cancelled their 2013 season opener set for this week, Sunday April 28. Club President, Tom Schmidt said "the weather has not co-operated enough to allow crews to work the track at all this "spring", and we do not want to have problems on opening night."
The opener will now be set for Sunday May 5, racing at 5 PM.
Schmidt also announced a track work day for this saturday, April 27 starting at 9 AM. There are several projects that need attention before the first race. Anyone is welcome to come out and lend a hand.
There will also be a practice set for this Sunday, April 28, weather permitting. Drivers will have a chance to shake down their cars before the opener and it will also help to pack the track in. Practice will run from 2 til dark. Concessions will also be available Sunday as staff gets everything in final order for the opener. Grandstand will be open free of charge.
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Giovanni's Original White Shrimp, O'ahu
Aloha from Waikiki, O'ahu!
We stumbled upon the world-famous Giovanni's White Shrimp truck at the north shore of O'ahu today, at Kahuku. Along the drive to the north shore, there are many shrimp trucks selling shrimp scampi, garlic shrimp or shrimp plates; there are also a few road site joints selling live shrimps caught from the nearby shrimp farms.
Totally unassuming in its appearance and set-up, Giovanni's shrimp is basically a mobile truck selling shrimp, but their shrimp is known to be the best on the island of O'ahu according to the locals and also many guide books. Plus, a truck load of people waiting eagerly in line for their shrimp can't be wrong.
One local told me that the current operator is the second owner and bought the business from the original "Giovanni" for a hefty $400,000, including his secret recipes. Giovanni then regretted his decision and got some local thugs to try to take back the business but to no avail. From what I gather, this shrimp truck is a mean business and a cash cow that pulls in thousands of cash by selling only shrimp plates, priced at $13 for a dozen of shrimp with two scoops of white rice.
I tried out Giovanni's signature shrimp scampi and hot and spicy shrimp but opted out the rice. The shrimp is delicious! I am especially partial to the hot and spicy shrimp in their special blend of hot sauce. The spicy shrimp got my tongue burning with the fiery kick from the hot sauce but I wanted more. The shrimp scampi was good, but I thought it lacks salt.
In any case, as a shrimp fan, I thoroughly enjoyed Giovanni's Original White Shrimp. The throng of tourists and locals who patiently waited for their shrimp plates obviously enjoyed their meals very much, too.
Giovanni's Original White Shrimp
Kamehameha Hwy, Kahuku,
O'ahu North Shore, Hawaii
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Hi!! I discovered your site among foodblog and I like very much. I often read you.
Today I have to submit a comment, because I have been in O'ahu last summer and I enjoyed the shrimps and all the Island….Well, thank you to your post you are remembering me of a great Holiday!
How long are you staying in Hawaii?
Mmm, I agree, people standing in line to buy shrimps can't be wrong! These sound yummy.
Hi! i love ur website and have made a few of ur dishes, of wich the Cashew Chicken is a family favorite, as is the Kung Pow Chicken! I love the tip of baking soda. makes the chicken so soft!
Today i opened ur site in hope of seeing the recipe to these delicious shrimps im reading about but alas! there are only pictures tempting me even more!
Kindly post some recipes for spicy shrimps, or garlic shrimps. My husband and I love shrimps and squid, and especially those made in spicy sauces.
Also, do u know anything about peanuts roasted in a sweet and spicy chilly paste?
Ive had some at a local Szechuan Chinese place and they are simply delicious. Would love to have their secret recipe… or yours if u have one.
An avid fan of your recipes,
Bee I was there in 07 and actually ate at giovanni's..killer good
Gio's is pretty good. Have you had some good Hawaiian food here on Oahu yet? I have a couple recommendations!
Its rather strange that over here shrimps are both a poor man's enjoyment ( prawn mee/ckt ) and also a rich man's ( drunken prawn ) luxury ! Tts nutritious & delicious but sadly many older people in Malaysia avoid it as "got too high cholesterol" ( which we think is ignorance of the highest order )
I was just there yesterday!!! Sorry I missed you by 1 day.
We've been to Giovanni's. Love eating the sauce w/ the rice!!! Yum.
I live in Honolulu. While here you should try the garlic ahi at Irifune's at Kapahulu Ave, near Waikiki.
Delish Bee! Thanks for the tip. Next time I'm in O'ahu I'm definitely stopping by.
been on a shrimp kick lately and this looks delicious!
Hmm.. I must be the exception then. I've been to Oahu twice (2001 and 2006) and I got to say the shrimps and prawns at Giovanni is really not that great to me. It is basically bland shrimp (not marinated obviously), boiled/sauted and served over heavy heavy sauce. Something that reminds me of the bad chinese take out in US. Reminds me of General Tso chicken – breaded fried chicken with sweet sauce dumped over it. Also, the hot sauce is generally too hot for you to actually enjoy the sweetness of the shrimps and prawns. Funny they insist I try the sauce first in a souffle cup before making up a batch for me.
OTOH, around north shore area at one particular grocery store, I came across a guy in a pickup truck grilling chicken in the parking lot. That was at least good. Reminds me of Ayam Mas.
I live here in Honolulu and everything on your blog looks delicious!! My husband and I are foodies so if you need any suggestions, just let me know. There is one place you must try. It's called Side Street Inn. Not too far from Waikiki. If you get a chance to go there, you have to at least try the fried rice and spicy chicken.
Have fun!!
What makes it a white shrimp? Is it a white/pale variety of shrimp? Does it refer to the cooking process like "white boiled chicken"?
Eh, you stay Hawaii!
Shrimp at another truck (Romy's) is better.
Be sure to visit our Chinatown. Eat the Chinese Beef Stew made with beef tendon at Eastern Chinese Food Center on Hotel St.
Romy's is also very good, but the line is too long. I like Giovanni's much better. You can ask for extra garlic sauce or purchase a side order of rice with garlic butter for $1. OMG, I could make a meal from just the rice with garlic butter.
If you decide to try Romy's, I suggest you call in your order ahead of time.
I tried these famous shrimps. I HAD to try them when i read about them on a local hawaii food blog…. [http://tastyisland.wordpress.com] and, i'm not sure if i liked them, but i'm glad i tried them. the shrimps were cooked rather tough in texture, tho spicy and flavored enough. I can't say the the other "trucks" were better. it was rather simple to replicate tho. butter, salt, tobasco, pepper and lots of garlic, omit the tobasco and pepper for your basic shrimp scampi. you can kick it up by adding some thai chilies, and of course lemon….. make the sauce first by slowly blanching garlic in butter then adust the heat by adding tobasco, pepper and/or crushed chili. merry the flavors. then add shrimp and quickly cook. i definitely think the shrimp scampi is better had elsewhere. and i didn't think local farmed raised shrimps that were used were better than others you can find at any local market, it didn't seem so for me.
hope you ate well….. i know i did when i was there….
I love Giovanni's. In an effort to play the pity card, I sent photos of the truck & my food back to my office during a site visit a couple of years ago and told them that in the interest of trying to save the company money, i was eating out of a truck.
Love it that you're covering my neck of the woods. Giovanni's is a must when circling Oahu. Glad you think it's a charm, too.! Hope you filled you opu (stomach) on your visit here.
Wow, those shrimps look really good! Just too bad Hawaii is a world away from where I am now :(
The best scampi I ever had!!! The hot sauce is fiery and delicious!!!
Just an FYI – Giovanni didn't send his thugs to get the truck back. It was his ex-wife and her thugs who did the dirty deed and she's still doing time for the crime.
Do you have the recipe for this?
Hey..looks good!! Can you somehow work out a recipe for this? hahahaa.. both garlic and hot & spicy flavour.. thanks!! waiting for it…
Garlic Shrimp yummmyyy….
You should try this out with bit of more curry and with plain rice…
You can't beat that combination. Simply mind blowing…


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Dover woman seeks donations to benefit African women
Thursday, January 10, 2013
CAMEROON — Dover resident Joyce El Kouarti has begun what she hopes will be 18 months of Peace Corps volunteer work in the country of Cameroon, in west Central Africa. While there, she is helping people learn how to save money and manage credit.
"Through the Peace Corps Partnership Program, I'm trying to raise enough money to set up and maintain at least 10 more VSLA groups," El Kouarti noted. "Seriously, lives are changed through this kind of work. But there are costs involved."
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In this prequel to the highly praised The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman reaches back to her youthful experiments in living a fully sustainable and natural life in the 1960s and '70s in rural Minnesota and on a commune in Ohio, forming alliances with the eco-minded and antiwar counterculture. From those riveting days as a self-taught midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on farms, sometimes in harrowing circumstances, Patsy takes us into the present day, where she faces the challenges of running a women's health clinic with her husband, mothering adult sons, and holding true to her principles and passions in the twenty-first century.
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