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I like to get some input from those of you with experience with owning or repairing equipment with these engines. Comparisons on how they stack up against other well known brands would be helpful too. I am looking at a Ariens Snow-tek snow blower that has an LCT Storm Force engine 208 cc, but I think other blowers use these engines also.
I don't have the exact engine model number, but it looks like the latest Storm Force 208 series version that has changes made to the carb linkages and fuel shutoff. I read about problems with the carb/ linkage on past models.
Things that come to mind are reliability, power, starting, parts availability, component quality . Anything else you can think of would appreciated too.
Our Ariens snowblower was made back around 2007, and it has a Tecumseh engine. The switch to LCT engines happened since then, and there has not been much time to accumulate a service history. I believe that these are manufactured in China. The Chinese have been building small engines since the 1960's, that I am aware of, so they have had plenty of time to learn how to get it right. I am not happy about the demise of Tecumseh engine manufacturing. Here in Wisconsin, we lost something like 5000 jobs when this happened. Nonetheless, I would expect LCT engines to perform well.
I have had one of the snow-tek throwers (smallest one 22") bought it from HD as a refurbished model for $250 towards the end of the season.....
I have had it now for three seasons (if you count Snowtober here in CT) and must say very happy with it and engine; starts on the 1-2 pull every time (except after coming out of storage it took maybe 4-5 pulls) it might be a little smoky till it warms up which appears to happen quickly less then a minutes) And I really abuse it with my steep driveway and moving the ice buildup snow from the towns plow. I would buy another one in a heartbeat!
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Sounds like you got a great deal. How is the sheet metal holding up? Any rust? I'm not sure if the Sno-tek black finish is powdercoat like the regular orange models.
To bad about Tecumseh going out of business and the job loss. From what I read, LCT is a US company that designs the engine an has is made in China to their specs. Ariens has had input on the design. Supposedly some ex-Tec and Brigg employers are working at LCT.
Not bad - looks almost new... the unit has a twin exhaust pipes type muffler (looks like an older 80's honda or subaru design) both tips are rusted good! They don't stick out much so I don't see them "falling apart" but they also might not be as bad as they actually look.
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On my new HP2065 desktop PC I have a 1500Gig hard drive. I split it into two, O S drive is 890 Gig, New volume drive is 495 Gig. HP recovery drive, and Microsoft office click to run, (protected ), Making the four drives that I am allowed. Os and N V drives are too big is there any way to split them
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Birmingham Bears sneaked into the NatWest T20 Blast quarter-finals with the easiest of victories over Leicestershire Foxes - and a helping hand from 120 miles to the north.
Notts Outlaws' thrilling win against Yorkshire Vikings at Headingley meant the Bears took fourth place in the North Group with a point to spare after their 52-run success at Edgbaston, setting up a trip to face Essex Eagles next Saturday.
Varun Chopra's fourth half-century in this season's tournament helped them to 160 for six and, for the second time inside a week, the Foxes' batting imploded as they mustered only 108 after losing their top four in the powerplay.
By their own admission, the Bears have a habit of making things unnecessarily difficult and this Twenty20 campaign has been no exception.
After reeling off four straight wins, they lost the next four completed fixtures and found themselves in the last chance saloon.
They needed to win the last three games - and then hope the Headingley result went their way, which it did when Yorkshire failed to defend a total of 200 for five.
BEARS WIN and through to the @NatWestT20Blast Quarter Finals #YouBears
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Leicestershire, three-time winners of the competition, never got into contention this season and they arrived at Edgbaston at a low ebb after their dismissal for 90 when replying to Nottinghamshire's 121 for nine last Sunday.
Their lowest total in the 12 seasons of Twenty20 cricket ratcheted up the desire to make amends on the last night of the group phase. It simply did not happen.
Skipper Josh Cobb exposed the batsmen to another dismal run-chase by choosing to field first and Chopra's single-minded management of the home side's innings ensured it would be a testing target.
Aside from an opening stand of 50, there was only modest support for Chopra once Jigar Naik bowled Will Porterfield for 28 with his fourth delivery.
The canny Scott Styris picked up a wicket and also ran out Laurie Evans.
The case for taking the pace off the ball was further justified by Naik, who took 2-23, when Rikki Clarke was well caught by Matt Boyce in front of the midwicket rope.
Chopra faced 57 deliveries in a well-paced innings containing half-a-dozen fours and had just hit his only six when he was caught at long-on off Cobb.
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The Bears pushed Jeetan Patel up the order and he promptly smashed 15, including two sixes, from the first four balls he faced and then drove Ben Raine to long-on from the fifth.
The match was over as a contest before Leicestershire could raise a whimper. A fired-up Clarke bowled Cobb with his sixth delivery and when Greg Smith set off for a single after surviving an lbw appeal in the all-rounder's next over, he was run out by Patel.
Dan Redfern was quickly leg before wicket to Oliver Hannon-Dalby and the innings was in tatters by the time Niall O'Brien drove Recordo Gordon to Clarke.
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I am hoping someone can help me identify this tree. I wasn't sure if I should post this on the tree forum but I think this is a native so I came here first. It is growing at the top of a ravine in SW Ohio. Is this a type of oak?
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One thing I would love would be old abandoned NES and SNES games emulated on my mobile device! It would also be cool if you had some sort of Bluetooth controller that played nice in iOS/Android/Windows Metro or whatever!
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A bright side to finger prints though, people can't forget them.
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It's an interesting question, but it will take some deep thinking to figure out a non-tongue-in-cheek answer.
On first guess I would say the Zune wouldn't have sucked and phones today would crash just as often as computers.
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Mali Health Awarded Grant from Malian Diaspora
Washington, D.C. — On Saturday, 21 February, friends of Mali gathered at the home of the His Excellency S.E. Tiéna Coulibaly, Ambassador of Mali to the United States, to celebrate the gift of a $5,000 grant from Focus Ebola Mali, Mali Watch, and Mali Link to Mali Health to continue its Ebola-prevention work in the West African nation.
"This is just the beginning of more humanitarian efforts," declared Ms. Aissata Thiam, an international consultant and founder of Focus Ebola Mali. "The Ebola crisis showed to the world that the West African health systems remain vulnerable to a crisis of this magnitude."
The current Ebola epidemic began in Guinea in December 2013, and the first case arrived in Bamako, Mali in October 2014. Mali Health, a long-time health care operator in the Bamako region, had already begun to prepare its communities to combat the disease as early as March of last year. The training of Community Health Workers to educate the public and health clinic staff on proper prevention and treatment of the deadly virus made Mali Health a resource when the epidemic struck Mali.
At the same time, Ms. Thiam was aware of the virus sweeping across the region and creeping into her home country of Mali. She launched Focus Ebola Mali to raise funds and draw attention to the public health crisis. Joining forces with NGOs Mali Watch and Mali Link, Ms. Thiam rallied members of the Malian diaspora, Malian professionals who live now in the United States and Europe, to support continued prevention efforts. Collectively, they raised $5,000, as well as an assortment of medical supplies, which they granted to Mali Health at a ceremony at the home of His Excellency Tiéna Coulibaly, the Malian Ambassador to the US.
With these funds, Mali Health's Community Health Workers will continue to provide important safety information to families in the communities of Sotuba and Lafiabougou, and will provide basic sanitary and personal protective equipment to health professionals in the border town of Kassaro.
Though Mali was declared free of Ebola on 18 January, the epidemic continues in neighboring countries, and therefore poses a threat to Mali as well. "We must harness this opportunity to make real progress in building a stronger health system in our country," said Mali Health Executive Director Kris Ansin. "We must ensure that doctors have the knowledge and resources to treat their patients, that mothers and children can access health care without fear of falling deeper into poverty, and that families know how to keep themselves healthy and avoid preventable illness and injury. This grant from our Malian friends will provide the foundation for these continued efforts, and we are grateful for this help and recognition."
A Blueprint for Hope in Mali
Almost every restaurant, bar, and hotel in Bamako currently has a professional greeter, responsible for distributing squirts of hand sanitizer, ensuring any entrant washes their hands from a newly installed tap, and checking the temperature of every person through the doors with an infrared no-touch thermometer, held an inch away from one's temple. On the streets, billboards, fliers, and a loudspeaker-mounted vehicle announce Ebola education and prevention messaging, while fact and rumor twist through communities and whispers.
In late October, Mali recorded its first recorded Ebola cases. First, a young girl carried the virus across borders from Guinea. Despite her having been in contact with hundreds during her voyage, initially there were no other cases. Then, an imam from Guinea sought treatment in one of Bamako's best clinics, frequented by expatriates, UN soldiers, and Mali's upper class. The imam died, as did a nurse and doctor who treated him, a mosque worker who cleansed his body, a friend who visited the imam in hospital, and a child of the deceased nurse. The second outbreak resulted in hundreds of additional contacts throughout the city, and has inspired deep concern around the preparedness of the public health system in Ebola's newest breeding ground.
Its geographic and political state contribute to the precariousness of Mali's situation, a large, landlocked country that borders seven other nations, including a vast, mostly ungoverned swath of earth – the Sahara Desert – that runs across Mali, Mauritania, Algeria, and Niger. An uncontrolled outbreak here could easily spread beyond the grasp of NGOs and governments, crossing borders unchecked and sharing territory with the likes of banditry and terrorism, both causes and effects of Mali's 2012 coup d'état. Adding to this geopolitical quagmire are refugees in Niger and Mauritania and seasonal food insecurity. A low rate of doctors per capita and a longstanding user fee healthcare system further compound Mali's current fragility.
International actors recognize this gravity. The CDC and WHO softened their predictive forecasting recently, should Mali become the fourth country overrun by Ebola. WHO Director Margaret Chan recently visited to motivate health workers and international actors to respond aggressively. The New York Times editorial board has rung the canary call, appealing for fast, international action, while the UN and USAID have both opened emergency operations offices in Bamako over the last week.
Yet right now, it's fast action and small efforts that can go a long way. A small dedicated CDC team seemingly managed to track most or all of the contacts across the city. Mali Health has been working since September to educate, inform, and prepare, as our community-based efforts to improve maternal and child health dovetail seamlessly into effective Ebola response. And most recently, our redeployed Community Health Workers have worked as Contact Monitors to check in with every contact twice daily, taking temperatures and monitoring any symptom development. Their gridded pages have been slowly filled as contacts reach their 21 days.
Active case finding – sending local teams into communities to screen for the sick and educate families and parents about prevention and healthy habits – is one of the many roles a Community Health Worker can play, and if effective, can make enormous difference. Another is developing trust. While Ebola is spread by the contact with fluids, rumors are airborne, often complicating prevention or treatment efforts. The new Ebola Treatment Unit in Bamako, staffed by MSF, is where people are killed. Ebola is a white man's conspiracy. Even, Ebola isn't real. These sentiments highlight the very common breakdown of trust and understanding between communities and the health system, both local and international. In Sierra Leone, despite heroic efforts, this resulted in the forced quarantine of all residents in its capital city. In Mali, it's clear how easy this would be. Already there are whispers of cases being hidden by their families.
But there is also a dose of heavily guarded optimism. Mali has had two Ebola survivors walk out the doors of its treatment center over the last weeks. If Mali reaches January 18thwithout another case, it can be declared Ebola free. But with more cases closer to the border in Guinea and the very real ongoing risk of complacency, there remains a strong likelihood that cases could return. Trust must be built and nurtured between the health and local communities through a national response of coordinated Community Health Workers. Early treatment must be promoted and adhered to in order to limit contacts and increase survival, and the system to support such practices put into place. If an early warning system can be implemented, trainers trained, clinics prepared with proper screening and protocols, and enough equipment and medical personnel in place to quickly trace, place and face each case, Mali could avoid the breakdowns incurred by Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, and would provide a blueprint for hope and effective execution.
A Victory Against Ebola
Mali Health has seen its first major victory in the fight against Ebola! A woman who was confirmed to carry the disease has been completely cured. This is a victory not only for Mali Health, but for all of the members of our coalition who are working tirelessly to quash this outbreak. This victory required a tremendous coordination between our Community Health Workers, the staff at the clinic, and our community partners. We are doubly excited to share this news with our community because it proves what we have been advocating for months: Ebola is preventable and curable with the proper care.
While we hope that this is the last case of Ebola that our country sees, we can use this experience to inform our response to the rest of this outbreak. Two important lessons we can take away: 1) It is imperative to call emergency services as soon as a person shows symptoms; if the person must be moved to a health center, it should be done by professionals who have the training and equipment to do it safely. 2) We must educate as many people as possible to combat the stigma around this disease and allow those who are sick to come forward and get the care that they need. Together, we can end this outbreak before it affects any more families.
Equipping our Clinics
In September, the Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation generously donated lab equipment to the community health center in Sikoro-Sourakabougou (CSCOMSiSou). It was a request the staff at the clinic had long held; even the best-trained personnel could only provide basic primary care without the equipment necessary to diagnose and then treat many less common diseases. Patients who needed this higher level of care were faced with two choices: remain at CSCOMSiSou, the closest clinic to them, and receive whatever care doctors could provide; or venture much further away, incurring the cost of transportation and time spent, to a clinic that had the equipment necessary to provide full and appropriate care. Until now, patients have largely chosen the latter option, sometimes even bypassing CSCOMSiSou altogether to seek care at other clinics. As a result, CSCOMSiSou saw fewer and fewer patients, and its revenue began to fall dramatically. Those patients who elected to stay and receive treatment at their home clinic often paid a higher price for medication that didn't always address their condition.
This lab equipment, provided by the DHR Foundation, has already served to better diagnose and more effectively treat patients at CSCOMSiSou. With quicker and more accurate diagnoses, patients receive treatment faster, and doctors are able to prescribe appropriate medications, often resulting in reduced costs at the pharmacy. With the improved ability to provide more advanced care, the center retains more patients, increasing its revenue and therefore the resources to further invest in stocking diverse medications and training its staff in new and more effective consultation and treatment techniques. Mr. N'fally, the president of the ASACO community health committee, and Dr. Diarra of CSCOMSiSou, had this to say about the new equipment and the clinic's renewed ability to provide more advanced care to its patients:
Turning Strong Partnerships into Stronger Health Systems
Written by Danielle Hull, Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator
Earlier this year, Mali Health proudly announced we'd been awarded our largest grant yet: $100,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to implement a health system strengthening project at four community health clinics on the outskirts of Bamako. The grant, which aims to support bold ideas in global health and development, represents a momentous opportunity for Mali Health to address a problem we've confronted time and again through our work: major advances in maternal and child health require strong, resilient health systems, which are lacking in our communities.
Our project aims to support local clinics to better care for their populations though quality improvement and better management strategies. Within the clinic, itself, our approach will focus on the entire patient experience, from the check-in process to follow-up care. We will ensure that every patient receives the highest possible quality of care by working with medical staff to follow a standardized consultation process and to provide all appropriate tests. We will also work to ensure that clinic staff have access to all necessary materials for care provision and that they follow basic hygienic practices. Outside of the consultation room, we will work with medical and administrative staff to reduce patient wait times, improve doctor-patient communication, and identify and eliminate bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
The project – known as "Projet Amélioration de Qualité," or PAQ (pronounced like "pack," meaning Quality Improvement Project) – will stretch across four communities and clinics: Boulkassoumbougou, Lafiabougou, Sotuba, and Sikoro-Sourakabougou. In August, we held a three-day training with community health association members, clinic staff, and patient representatives from each of the four communities to cover tools and strategies for continuous quality improvement.
The first day of the training, I must admit I was cautious, even skeptical. Quality improvement and monitoring really aren't a part of the work culture in Mali's under-resourced community health clinics. I wondered if participants would be willing to openly discuss problems that exist at clinics. Would they react defensively? Would we be able to meaningfully engage clinic staff and community members, who are often under- or unpaid?"
My anxiety was quickly quelled. After we'd gathered in the meeting room, the patient representatives stood up, introduced themselves, and immediately began to engage their audience, acknowledging the hard work of the clinic staff, all the while respectfully advocating for the concerns of the patients who frequent the clinic. I could tell then that this meeting was a turning point, a significant step in the right direction, the start of an honest and open discussion of how to improve the care available to community members.
Where at first I had feared that clinic staff would be even more reluctant to engage — wishing not to acknowledge problems within their home clinics — I was astounded at their eagerness to speak up and offer their perspective. Our discussion progressed to quality improvement case studies, and doctors, nurses, and midwives from every clinic came forward to volunteer their own stories and acknowledge cases where they and their teams could benefit from a focus on quality improvement.
We are several weeks into this new and long-term project, and it is not without its challenges. Each clinic faces different deficits, whether in terms of supplies, personnel, or management experience. Each community will face individual struggles on the path to improving patient care and services and ensuring clinic self-sufficiency. But in the face of big problems, the key is to focus on small targets and small victories, such as this midwife's reaction to a new supervision strategy to ensure a complete and standardized approach to prenatal consultations: "I've been doing [obstetrics work] for years, but in the past few weeks, I feel that I, myself, have learned so much! I know now that I'm doing quality work and every chance I get, I review the steps so I can improve."
A Return to Mali-la
Written by Diana Vergis Vinh, Mali Health volunteer & champion. All photos courtesy of Diana Vergis Vinh.
Would people still eat pounded millet porridge? and Would they have the same teasing cousins? were some of the questions going through my head as I returned to Mali to work with an American health organization 30 years after serving as a Peace Corps health volunteer. Looking at the old Malian man sitting next to me in his traditional dress and beard I thought, Not much has probably changed. Then he took out two cell phones from his flowing brocade shirt and shook several SIM cards from a used pill bottle into his hand. "Because I am a merchant I travel a lot and have a different card for each country," he said as he expertly switched out his phones. Hmm, maybe a lot has changed, I thought as the plane touched down in the Bamako airport.
Security measures are much tighter, I observed as a soldier in a glass booth carefully took my fingerprints and examined my passport. Then I walked through the airport doors onto the same tiled patio I had crossed before and the warmth of the sun and the smell of ripe mangos hit me. I saw a cab driver holding up a sign for Mali Health and made my way towards him. As I sunk down into the car, the Bambara language came flooding back and I asked him about his day, his family, his friends and finally his name. When he replied that he was a "Traore," I informed him with great gusto that he was "not a serious person and that his preferred food was beans." Surprised, he gleefully replied, "Oh no! Your last name is not Diarra, is it? Walai! You are the bean eater!" One question was answered: the joyful tradition of teasing cousins was still going strong.
I was completely lost as we made our way towards the office; Bamako is one of the fastest growing cities in the world and it is enormous. Happily, the driver knew exactly where to go, and soon I was meeting the skilled and friendly staff at Mali Health. The brightly painted cinder block structure looked familiar, but as I talked with staff I learned that many of the health conditions I had seen — such as guinea worm, cholera, measles, onchocerciasis and leprosy — were much reduced. Maternal and infant mortality were lower as well. Sadly, malaria is still going strong, and it is one of the main things Mali Health is now focused on fighting.
The next morning, I went out to a suburb of Bamako to take pictures and videos of staff and patients at the Mali Health partner clinics. A lesson on water sanitation for the community health workers was being presented via a Powerpoint projection on the plaster wall. Midway through the talk, everyone broke up into small groups to brainstorm and create posters on ways water could be contaminated. I asked the workers about whether people were resistant to treating their water or using the suggested 20-liter containers. "No, they have seen that their children are healthier when the water is cleaner and there are few problems getting people on board," was their response. This heartening reply was a far cry from my failed efforts at getting people to screen their water to prevent guinea worm.
So what did it feel like to be back after so long? In short, it was wonderful; so many of the things I loved about Mali — the warmth and energy of the people, the beauty of the country and the delicious food (I did have the porridge) — were still there, and now good health practices, such as regular vaccinations, water treatment, and prenatal care, seem to be taking hold as well. There is concern about the revolt in the north and worry about politics in general, but as I got on the plane to fly home, the Bambara proverb, "An orphan is not a person who has lost their parents, but someone who has lost hope," still seemed to ring true.
(This proverb is a little more genteel than my favorite: "You can't run and scratch your butt at the same time.")
To see more of Diana's wonderful photos, please click here!
Mali Health joins Sustainia100 with Radio Program
This week, Mali Health's long-standing Health Radio program was named one of the Sustainia100. Sustainia, a Copenhagen-based NGO, recognizes development programs around the world that employ a sustainable approach to improving the well-being of communities.
Health Radio reaches thousands of listeners, broadcasting on Bamako's most popular radio station. Radio remains the dominant form of media in Africa, and therefore has the potential to reach the highest number of local residents. Crowding, land use, and sanitation have all become increasingly important challenges in the slum communities of Bamako, and Health Radio mobilizes local residents to address these and many other health concerns together.
You can read more about this year's Sustainia100 here (we appear on page 128). And you can read more about Health Radio and its role in our larger advocacy efforts here.
Ali, Djeneba, and Our Inclusive Model
In early 2011, Djeneba, a resident of peri-urban Sikoro, became pregnant. Identified as eligible through a local survey, Djeneba was recruited and enrolled in Mali Health's Action for Health program. Impoverished and isolated, Djeneba would not have had access to vital health services without the help of our program, but through it, she received counsel, education and monitoring by one of Mali Health's Community Health Workers, Fanta.
That November, Djeneba gave birth to a healthy boy, Ali. Mali Health continued to monitor and aid Djeneba and Ali after birth – Fanta made frequent home visits and ensured Ali was immunized against the preventable diseases that all too often keep Malian children from reaching their fifth birthday.
Six months after Ali's birth, Djeneba left Sikoro to spend several months in her family's rural village. Immediately after she returned, Fanta made a visit to their house to check on mother and child and was met with an alarming sight: Ali had lost significant weight during his time away and exhibited signs of severe malnutrition. Fanta took action immediately, rushing Djeneba and Ali to the closest health center.
Through Action for Health, Ali received lifesaving medical care and access to qualified health workers. He remained in the hospital for 10 days, during which time he regained enough weight to be returned to his mother's care. Though Ali was no longer in immediate danger, Mali Health's work was far from over, knowing Ali would continue to require close monitoring to ensure his complete recovery.
Even after his release, Fanta observed that "Ali was so weak initially that he could no longer support the weight of his head." Neither Djeneba nor her husband had jobs at the time, however, so Ali's recuperation was in jeopardy. In response, Mali Health provided Djeneba with milk, grains enhanced with vitamins, fish, fruits, and legumes for Ali for the next two months. Fanta continued her close care, sometimes visiting Djeneba every day to check on Ali's progress.
Today, Ali is 3 years old. He is no longer malnourished and lives a happy and healthy life with his mother in Sikoro. Djeneba is enrolled in our Health Savings program, where she can borrow pooled money for future health expenses or to earn a small income. Mali Health's Action for Health program has helped 2,000 children like Ali, employing community-based solutions that not only provide for short-term health successes but also long-term improvements in education and care. Mali Health believes that everyone has the right to experience childhood without the looming threat of illness or death. Ali's mother thanked Mali Health, stating, "I think God has sent Mali Health to help poor persons like us… May God accompany those who fund Mali Health's activities."
A World of Difference
Written by Danielle Hull, Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator
At age 28, Fatoumata Diarra is the mother of four young children. However, she only received pre- or postnatal care for one. "For my first three children, I never went to the CSCOM to see the doctor or midwife. I'd stay at home and not talk about my pregnancy" [a common practice in Mali as some women are worried that talking about a pregnancy will lead to bad luck with the pregnancy]. Fatoumata, like many women in Mali, used to give birth unassisted in her home high atop a hill, a difficult walk to the nearest clinic. This lack of geographic access to professional care is one of the reasons maternal mortality remains high in Mali. "It was always a little scary," she said. "I never really knew what was going to happen, or even supposed to happen, during each birth."
But that changed with her last pregnancy; by then, she'd been enrolled in Mali Health's Action for Health program. Her community health worker made regular visits to her hilltop home to monitor her pregnancy. With the help of Mali Health, Fatoumata made all four of the WHO-recommended prenatal visits, where she received counseling and advice from midwives. Also for the first time, she had access to medication to prevent malaria and a vaccine against neonatal tetanus, both life-saving medicines. And when she was ready, she gave birth at Mali Health's newly-constructed maternity ward with the assistance of trained doctors and midwives.
"There is definitely a difference between my births. Before, it was very scary and my children were small and sickly. The last time, I knew that everything was going to be okay, because I'd gone to prenatal visits and was with doctors, and my baby was born bigger and has stayed healthier." Too often in Mali, the day a baby is born is the most dangerous in the life of mother and child, and 1 in 28 mothers in Mali will die from pregnancy-related causes. But Fatoumata Diarra will not be one of them.
On the Occasion of Labour Day, A Heartfelt Thanks
Dear colleagues,
Today, May 1st, is Labour Day, and I wish each of you a good day of deserved rest.
I know that I am demanding and that I ask the very best of you in everything that you do for Mali Health. I also see that you not only meet, but exceed what I ask of you. You all work tirelessly to advance our mission and to help reduce maternal and child mortality in our communities. You help us to realize our vision of a more just world, one in which everyone has access to quality primary care at a lower cost, one in which everyone's dignity is valued and preserved. You all should be proud of yourselves and your colleagues because you have chosen to take on this life-changing work each and every day.
The photo below shows the thrush, also known as the Lily of the Valley, a symbol of Labour Day. It is also a symbol of renewal, rejuvenation, which you help bring to the families in our communities every day. Many live in desperate conditions, lacking money, lacking information on how to stay healthy and avoid disease, how to access care when they need it, not knowing how to work in partnership with health professionals to get affordable and effective treatment. You are there to help them bridge those gaps. You are the lily in the valley of the poor.
Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for your work!
And together we thank our donors, without whom, we would not be able to do this important, life-changing work, improving the lives of thousands of mothers and children in Mali. Thank you to all who help to make this world a just place.
Mariam Fofana Diallo
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Home Goods & Tuesday Morning
I had never heard of the "Home Goods" & "Tuesday Morning" stores before here. So...are they good places to shop for organization and other kitchen & bath accessories?
How does their quality rank in comparison to WalMart, Target, HD/Lowes, IKEA, BBB, The Great Indoors/EXPO, etc.?
Hi Buehl,
We live in So Cal and our local Tuesday morning is somebody's bad yard sale nightmare! Home Goods has higher quality merchandise and better prices. I would say they have the quality of stuff like the Great Indoors, BBB etc. with much more reasonable prices. They always have rotating stock and accessories galore. Hope this helps
I can't speak to Home Goods; however, I do shop at Tuesday Morning. It's a good place to find outstanding deals, but you never know what you might find, and it's unlikely to see the same thing there twice. I have found beautiful copper pots, le creuset items, rugs, lots of bedding and table linens, etc.
Another place I sometimes get great deals is Ross. Every now and then I stop in on my way home work and check the housewares section to see what I might find. There are often great deals to be had on high quality items, but you have to look.
At either TM or Ross, if you're looking for something specific, they don't have it. If you're open towhat you might find, then they've got some good stuff.
Home Goods and Tuesday Morning are not like the other stores you listed. They are stores that sell everything at a discount. I can't speak about TM, but I love HG. It's owned by TJ Maxx. There's a lot of "crap" to sort through, but there's also a lot of higher end merchandise at discount prices--Cuisinart, All Clad, KitchenAid, Roi olive oil, etc. There's also a lot of middle-end merchandise. I just bought Lipper bamboo drawer organizers, Kamenstein paper towel holder (read about it on GW), and two gorgeous counter stools made in Italy for $80 apiece. There was even a Heartland Paragon stove at the HG near me last week. And did I mention the amazing deals on cookbooks? I'm a big fan :)
I love HomeGoods, as well. Our store is huge and very well organized, with tons of furniture and decorative accessories as well as kitchen goods and linens. I usually find I'm forcing myself to put stuff back because I really don't need it, but I really like it and it's such a deal. I've been in some Tuesday Morning stores that were cramped or disorganized, but the ones near me now are much neater. There I've gotten great deals on a Le Creuset crepe pan, microplane graters and Bodum accessories, to name a few. They always seem to have some really good prices on planters and decorative garden accessories when Spring arrives.
My Tuesday Morning is not very nice, but HomeGoods is worth visiting on a regular basis.
It's one of the places I take out of town friends to shop and they always end up having a great time and buying half the store.
Great deals on high end (All Clad, La Crueset, Sferra) merchandise as well as great deals on middle of the road accessories. Pricing is great. Quality blows Walmart away, and is better then Target and Ikea.
Take a trip, bring your wallet and a large car! Also if you see something you like, buy it, it will be gone if you come back later for it, and they have a good return policy.
buehl... I found a Lexington Furniture dining table that I loved but Lexington discontinued at Home Goods. It retailed for 3K and the cheapest I ever found it a an online discount retailer was $1700. I got it a Home Goods, leaf included and in perfect condition for $400... might have been the greatest bargin of my life!
I hate Tuesday Morning. The deals are never that great on the few good things I find, the rest is junk. I was in Home Goods last week and they had the MOST gorgeous Boos butcher block island, dark stained base, nice thick cherry slab on top...oh man was it beautiful!!! And it was marked down to $360! But dang it all, I was on a girl's night out with my friend and was driving our "fun car" (little orange Miata) so only 2 seats. It was gone, naturally, when I went back.
I agree about Ross, though a lot of times it's pretty junky, I've found some great accessories there. Olive themed plates, metal wall art, tile trivets, cutting boards, interesting platters along with things like colanders, Kitchen Aid utensils, baskets, bedding, and every now and then I'll find a great deal on a pair of really cute shoes!!! My favorite Kenneth Cole sporty flats...original retail $98...I got them for $18!! Okay, so maybe they are like...SOOO last year (said with the attitude of a 16 year old girl) but I love them anyway! ;o)
My FAVORITE FAVORITE STORE!!! Home Goods is Awesome!!! A lot of their stuff is unique and orginal. And there is a little something there for everyone. Another good place to look for ideas on orgnization is The Container Store (www.containerstore.com), they can be a bit pricey, but a great source for ideas.
I've heard a lot of good things about Tuesday Morning, but the stores I've been to have never lived up to the hype.
The big bummer is....that Home Goods doesn't offer online sales.
Like everyone else, love Home Goods! But I really, really, love Tuesday Morning. I have found amazing deals on quality brand-name stuff. Great crystal, linens, kitchen stuff. Depends on your location, but definitely check it out. The one near me is fabulous.
good luck!
Buehl, there's a Home Goods right in Snowden Square in Columbia. It's my favorite store; I was given a gift certificate as a thank you, and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Great deals and beautiful things. They get new things in almost daily and so you never know what you're going to find. It's worth a trip.
Another Home Goods buyer here, but it's really hit or miss there. If you see something you like, get it because more than likely it won't be there when you go back.
Tuesday Morning is okay. I've found a few things there, but it's usally disorganized and messy.
I do check out Ross, TJMaxx, and Marshalls all the time for home decor bargains too.
Thanks everyone! More "encouragement" to go this week!
Sue, there's one in Columbia as well? The one I was thinking of is in Mt. Airy...I'll have to check out both to see which is better :-)
After all this hype, I'm really looking forward to it...but it probably won't be until Thursday or Friday since I have a big customer meeting tomorrow & today's the dry run!
I live in Columbia, right near the HomeGoods at Snowden - it is wonderful, but you have to go there with some frequency as items cycle thru quickly. There is also another HomeGoods in Olney and I've usually found great items there, as well. Happy shopping!!
THank God for HomeGoods. If I had to shop in Bloomingdales, or any other high end store (BYT, HG has all the highend stuff that they sell)I would be broke. TJ Maxx is also a great store depending on where it is, certain stores have crap. I have never found anything in Tuesday Morning, it's an glorified Odd Job (when it was in business)
Home Goods is owned by TJ Maxx (Marshalls, etc) -- the bargains are sometimes not really bargains. Other posters have covered its good points.
Tuesday AM is very, very hit or miss. They are, IMO, the single best source for very upscale bed sheets on a downscale budget -- usually have a good selection of 500+ thread count Italian linen sheets for under $100/set. Nice selection of xmas wrap & ornaments in season. Other than that, it's sort of an upscale Pic & Save or Big Lots -- occasional great deals from well known mfrs closing out stuff, lots of junk, very disorganized. I go there for new sheets.
The Home Goods near me is hit or miss. I've gotten nice sheets, lamps, and storage containers there. They're also good for bath items.
But one visit to Tuesday Morning will do it for me. It was enough to give me a headache--cramped aisles, disorganized, overflowing shelves. The few items I picked up were either broken or missing parts. I keep expecting it to go out of business.
O.k....I'll be the odd-man-out and argue FOR Tuesday Morning! Yes, it is hit-or-miss, and Yes, some are "messy"... but they often have wonderful, unusual objects that i've never seen anywhere except neiman marcus, etc. And when I do find them, they're a fraction of the price.
Conversely, I LIKE Homegoods, but wouldn't say I love it. It's really what they use to call a "super t.j. maxx", though now they refer to them by tjx/homegoods. We actually have a MARSHALLS/Homegoods in chicago burbs now... in case you haven't seen that combo.
I am definitely no Tuesday Morning apologist, but I have to completely agree with the claim that you can't find better sheets cheaper than TM. It has become pretty much the only place I do buy sheets anymore. Watch out for the Peacock Alley ons that are specifically made for TM-- I don't care for those as much. But overall, you can find some fabulous sheets quite inexpensively there. You can also find some good deals on some good quality wood kid's toys. Not really on topic for a kitchen discussion, but an FYI nonetheless ;)
One more suggestion...
If you go to one Tuesday Morning and don't like it, try another one before giving up on the store. There are two near my home. One of them is very well organized, clean and has some wonderful finds (great buys on Sferra linens). The other one is a real disorganized disaster - You couldn't pay me to shop there. It apparently just depends on whether the store manager is any good....
The only thing I buy at Tuesday morning are bed linens. You can find Italian made sheets at less than 50% off their original price, i.e., Sferra brand. These sheets do not have any additives or poisons in their fibers like you'll find with some other sheets imported from Japan or other countries. Only thing is I can't find the ones for the extra thick queen bed. Can only find them for the single. So I go online and find sales for the bed with the very deep mattress. The rest of the Tuesday morning store is basically junk as far as I'm concerned.


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OT - landscape art for the inside of the home...
I've bought four original oil paintings by Canadian artists over the winter. It must have been subliminal but I noticed later that each work represented a different season. For some reason, "spring" won't post here although it does show up in flickr.
I started because I had previously bid and lost a vintage "prairie" work that literally took away my breath. It's the last photo here (sigh...) What about you? Is your "inside" art reflective of your outdoor landscape aesthetic? What do you like - or avoid?
I very much like those paintings you've collected, Adrienne. Those raw landscapes really call out to me, make me feel a connection between man and earth.
I am also attracted to landscapes, and began collecting a few when I purposely gave my home a craftsman feel and was drawn to the plein aire painters in the county where I grew up. The central coast of California with its live oaks and dry grassy hills verging on the blue Pacific Ocean is like glue for me, it sticks with me wherever I may roam.
I've assembled examples -- most of these are not my paintings, but similar works from artists whose paintings and pastels I've collected.
'Sunday Race', Ted Goerschner - oil. I like the way he captures the sky. The painting I have is of a storm coming over a deep canyon.
Arturo Tello, oil (apologies for the tiny pics). I have a similar painting of the Santa Barbara coast. This one is looking west; in my painting the view is to the east at a surf break called Naples.
'Early Harvest', Whitney Brooks Abbot, oil. The painting I have is more abstract with bold impasto strokes, but stand back and the hills and dirt roads appear.
Not shown: Glenna Hartman, pastels. She captured the last sunrays of the day casting a glow over the late summer hills and live oaks outside Santa Ynez.
These last two are pastels by Katherine Plank, my northern California connection. She captures the more frigid landscapes of Sonoma County. The first is 'Clouds and Fence'; the last one is 'Winter in the Siskiyous', part of my collection.
While I can't say I love everything these artists do, now and then they sink an arrow dead center to my heart.
Too bad you lost out on "Rushing Wind." It's absolutely fascinating but, being unschooled in these matters, I can't explain why. Perhaps it's the total avoidance of "prettiness," sentimentality, nostalgia, or nonrepresentational gimmicks. You can really hear the wind there, and the rustling of the grasses.
Wow, I think you both hit the nail on the head there, catkim and whitecap. I am always drawn to en plein air impressionist oils because they DON'T just add a tree here where there was none nor add a fluffy little cloud because it makes the artist happy to have it in "his" world. There was a lovely fellow years ago on a public television show who painted just such landscapes on TV for the audience to copy. It was entertaining but I don't think it was really art...
And I think that my dislike of artificial "prettiness" in art leads me to avoid the effusive style found in cottage gardens or those heavily reliant on annuals. I can certainly appreciate it in someone else's yard (especially the expense and maintenance) but that fussiness has no place in mine. Instead, I prefer to see realistic contours of trees, rocks, water and foliage in my home landscape, both inside and out.
I love the light in the Artur Tello painting and the immediacy of the brush strokes. Actually, all of your choices catkim share that same great visceral feeling. My personal favourite I think would be the one by Katherine Plank.
I was willing to sell my firstborn son in order to get "Rushing Wind" but I must have lost because I placed a greater value on him
than the auctioneer did, lol.
CRAZY. Adrienne, you and I have the same taste in art also!
Here are two paintings by local artists that I own, followed by a painting a friend made of my "backyard". I think its safe to say my fast in art reflects my taste in landscaping.
I love this topic.
Sorry about the size - I don't know how to change it!
Oooh, I love the exuberance of the first one, especially in the background.
I've often wondered if people in dull, rainy climates or in the southern sun find that they are more drawn to vibrant colours in their home interiors than us "cold" northerners. Snow blindness can do that to you. Even the small sampling here rather highlights that.
Do you find that there can be regional differences when approaching the exterior landscape? Besides the obvious geographical and horticultural considerations, would ink be able to design for residents of California or bahia for Canadians and Brits with effectively equal ease or are there compromises to be made?
I don't know, I'm not a professional. But I suspect that if I were to ever move to the American desert, my current aesthetic perspective would probably change radically. I might even start to like the colour orange on anything other than my breakfast drink and Karin's house...
Of course there are regional differences that will impact landscape design, as well they should. Personally I feel more comfortable designing gardens in regions/climates that I've spent time living in, it's difficult to really grasp the subtleties unless you live with it, in my view. I find that it can be difficult to grasp the full measure of sites here in my own region if I only see/experience it in one season.
As to interior use of color, surely this is as much a personal preference as it is a regional or climate influenced preference? For my own house, I've got little art work actually hung on walls, but most is either photos or abstract paintings rather than landscapes. I have made a conscious decision to frame every view out my windows to have some focal view of plantings as an accent; lots of different palms or tropical looking foliage, bamboos or flowering subtropical shrubs and trees. Mainly because I am surrounded by closely set houses only 8 feet away and no unobstructed bay or hill views. Views out to favorite plantings from all windows allow me to enjoy my garden even when I don't set foot outdoors. One of the benefits of living here is that year round foliage and winter flowers are easily possible, even when its cold and windy/rainy outdoors.
I'm late to the party here.... :-)
Our interior art works are a mixed bag! Some original paintings (all horticultural in some way...)plus lots of prints of art we couldn't possibly afford! (Some are botanical prints, plus several prints of Emily Carr paintings, a print of Lawren Harris's North Shore Lake Superior, and a print of Picasso's Old Guitarist.) And then there is the 'gallery wall' of DH's photos of the garden....
The painting I like best is Bev Rodin's one of dogwoods. It hangs over the bed in the master bedroom and always makes me feel like I'm in a sunny woodland in spring! We'd like to get another one by her but she doesn't have a gallery that carries her stuff near here now for some reason.
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