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Deysi is excited to be taking her seventh loan with Esperanza, after having successfully repaid her previous loans and grown her business. She plans to use this loan to invest in her business, selling clothing, by purchasing underwear, mosquito nets, pants, blouses and skirts in the main market in Santo Domingo and then selling it in her community at a profit. She will use the profits to proviD. the daily needs for her large family and save for her children's education. She thanks you all for your support.
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Hi All
I'm having a cortisone injection for EXTREMELY stubborn posterior tibial tendonitis on May 15th. I had surgery on Dec 6th, 2012 to remove inflamed tissue (tenosynovectomy) When he went it, the tendon was swollen in the ankle, kind of up next to the bone. I had another MRI 2 weeks ago & it seems that the MRI shows my tendon looks like it did before the surgery- swollen, in the ankle, right up next to the bone.My ortho thinks a cortisone shot would be very helpful.
I had a cortisone injection last year in July 2012 (diff ortho)- he said "it's probably something shin splint-esque, it's such a weird case, let's do a cortisone & see if it helps." He wasn't injecting into an area as specific as this doc, but the shot is very close to the same area.
Just two questions
1. Might it be different because he will look at the new MRI to see where to inject the cortisone- if it is in a SLIGHTLY diff spot, will that make a huge difference in effectiveness?
2. Would the cortisone be more effective because I had surgery- as in, it's post-surgical inflammation that's been around for 5 months (as opposed to my first cortisone, which was 11 months after initial pain)?
I really want to not be in pain anymore- I REALLY want the cortisone to work this time, but after a failed surgery & failed previous injection (+ lots of other stuff not even worth going into), I'm not very optimistic. Do I have any reason to think this one might actually work??
Cortisone is well known to cause tendon weakness and possibly rupture. If it was my tib post. tendon I would not go with another cortisone shot ... The first one did not help, so what makes you think the second one will? Specificity of the tib post. is not that difficult, so I'm not convinced that the first injection was not on target.
He's not injecting into the tendon, but in between the tendon & the bone? (not that well-versed in anatomy)- he made the comment that he "almost never injects people with cortisone," but based on the MRI he says he thinks it would really work for me.
I don't want to have another one but I want to walk without pain again SO badly. I feel like I have to do anything anyone thinks might work. I am pretty much thinking what you're saying though- that because the first one didn't work I don't have really high expectations for this one.
I understand 100% about wanting to walk without pain. I hope it is successful for you.
Did you do PT/rehab after the surgery?
I would try accupuncture and maybe a TENS unit first, but docs like the cortisone. Nothing about the MRI will make it more precise/better. Depending on whether you have scar tissue, less may absorb where intended, but, each shot is different and it's possible you'll get relief this time and maybe next time get nothing. I would look into other additional modalities, since the cortisone is really just a bandaid and temporary at that. You want the tendon to heal, not just have inflammation suppressed for a while.
I have been doing PT for 15 weeks now (I did PT before surgery too). They use a TENS unit at PT.
I've tried an AFO brace, orthotics (OTC & custom), PRP, physical therapy, ART therapy, ultrasound, NSAIDs, anti-inflammatory cream, LED light unit (tendlite), (& of course, surgery) so I dunno if I have a lot of other options at this point.
Thanks so much for the thoughts though- I really do agree with you both that cortisone probably won't help! That's basically why I posted in the first place- to see if I'm missing something & that the cortisone would be a good idea, ya know?
I really feel like I am getting it done so I can still say I've done everything that's been suggested. I've really, truly been 100% compliant for a year & a half, and I feel like if I say no to a cortisone shot then it comes off as if I "don't want to get better"- that I'm not willing to try everything (which I have, already, kinda lol).
Unfortunately no one can even tell me what caused the initial injury- everyone's said "too much running," but I hadn't increased my running, or really changed anything (I'd been running for about 4-5 years; tap dancing for 15 years before that). I also don't over pronate. No one I've seen has been able to determine what caused it in the first place. I'm currently in physical therapy- I go 2-3xs per week. I was doing PT exercises at home as well, but my doc thought PT might be aggravating it & so I only do strengthening exercises at PT (I stretch & ice at home. I also use a little ultrasound machine & red LED at home as well). & I understand your fear- I mean, like, I was there literally! I have heard from lots & lots of people online- plenty that have gotten better in a matter of months & a few who have had harder struggles like me. If you have any other questions I'm always up for talking about post tib tendon stuff- it's all I think about & I spend all my free time scouring the internet for weird things to try & fix it, haha
Haha oh believe me- I injured myself in Oct 2011 & I started thinking "poor me" by that Dec. I like, completely understand how frustrating it is- and how SCARY it is even after only a few months!!
I agree completely- I keep trying to come up with an explanation for what is different about me than everyone else using their feet all the time- how could my ankle end up so bad for so long- what's the missing piece?
The handheld ultrasound is OK. I think it wasn't too expensive ($60, maybe?). I also have the Tendlite unit (red LED light) & I do like it more than the ultrasound (its more expensive though- $200). It's way easier to use 'cause it's not messy. I've only started using it the past few weeks & I haven't like, tried to spend a full evening out walking around yet to see if it's effective yet, so it's still in question- it hasn't helped GREATLY, but I'm on the fence as to whether I've maybe seen results at all?
I think all the cortisone is going to do is mask the problem vs fixing it. Have you looked into other variables i.e. different shoes, changing gait/running style, stretching/ART?
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Hi Allybake:
I've been following your story from whenever you first posted about it. Sorry to hear what you're going through.
I have two thoughts - which are admittedly long shots given you've been through so much and seen a number of professionals:
* Have you had any massage done on the calves in general - and on the Post Tib muscle specifically? I wonder if relieving just a little tension might get that tendon over the hump. Over the last couple of weeks I've felt some tightness in my Post Tib tendon and, while it's not swollen or exhibiting the other classic tendonitis symptoms, I've been petrified of it getting worse. So I've been doing cross-friction massage on it myself. In general when I forget to do it it feels worse.
* Have you looked into ASTYM? What I'm not sure about is if it's appropriate for use if the tendon is swollen. My understanding is that it can help when it's more of a tendonosis (degeneration). I think another thing that is required for this treatment is a tendon that is relatively close to the surface of the skin - which Post Tib Tendon certainly is. I had ASTYM done for PF and when I look back on my multi-year effort to get over that ASTYM probably ranks at the top of the list of the things that helped me the most.
Good luck!
I posted under one of your other posts - mentioning that I had been dealing with Posterior Tib troubles since February of last year. I have tried almost all the same things that you have - except for surgery (and maybe a few things you hadn't tried).
Anyhow - yesterday I finally met with the 'specialist' that is supposed to be one of the best in the upper midwest. He looked at my MRI and said everything looked amazing, except for a few OTHER areas (minimal fluid or swelling). No big deal though. He looked at my feet and said I had a nice arch. He also said I overpronate very minimally. He said structurally I'm well aligned and balanced.
THEN - he told me to get rid of all the orthotics, even the custom ones. He told me that was most likely the culprit of my pain at this point (could be true, as I never had arch pain until using the orthotics). Perhaps in the beginning they helped take the tension off my posterior tib tendon. He also told me I needed a neutral running shoe instead of my 4 pairs of motion control/stability shoes. So, I'm going to gradually ditch the orthotics and see if my pain lessons.
I know our problems most likely aren't the same - but I thought you'd be interested to hear that after working with 6 or so different doctors/PT's/chiros that all told me I overpronate and need arch supports - this amazing specialist told me that was hogwash.
Good luck with your cortisone shot!
Good luck with all that. Does anyone know of a good resource to research cortisone treatments and post tub treatments?
Ally bake this is 2015 and your journey mirrors mine exactly! I have had this condition since November 2013. I have gone through therapy, anti-inflammatorys, orthotics, surgery, nothing worked. Tendon remained inflamed and painful. I finally resorted to the final treatment of a cortisone injection directly at sight of the pain. That was last Friday afternoon. No pain since then. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'm not overdoing. I treat my pain free ankle as if it still hurts. In other words resting it as much as possible and still rubbing anti-inflammatory cream on nightly. I hope this is the answer to a healthy pain free ankle. I hope yours is fine. Post and give an update.


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2005-06: Won both the 1M (293.63) and 3M (239.71) events against Indian River C.C. (2/04/06) Named SEC Diver of the Week for his efforts Third in the 1M (266.33) event against Auburn (1/28/06) and fifth in the 3M dive (257.78) Won the 1M dive (282.70) and finished second in the 3M event (282.10) against Alabama (1/20/06) Fourth in both 1M (282.08) and 3M (368.35) dives against Penn State (01/07/06) Finished fifth in the 1M dive (254.93) and fourth in the 3M dive (285.08) against Florida State (11/22/05) Earned a ninth-place finish in the 1M event at the Purdue Invitational (11/18-20/06) with a score of 252.85 Placed 11th in the 3M dive (245.75) . Second in the 1M (256.58) and third in the 3M (271.13) events against Florida Atlantic (11/11/05) Finished fourth in the 3M (271.80) and fifth in the 1M (268.20) dives against Georgia (10/27/05) Earned sixth-place on the 1M board (253.60) against Texas and California (10/21-22/05) Finished eighth in the 3M dive (220.70) and exhibitioned on the platform (173.60) Placed third in the 1M dive (270.90) and sixth in the 3M dive (218.55) against South Carolina (10/15/05) Fourth in the 3M dive (248.18) and fifth in the 1M dive (219.30) against Virginia (10/21-22/05)
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iPod Levis Jeans
News about the clothing first arrived in January, but today a photo surfaced of the iPod-compatible Levi's jeans set to be released in the Fall. Called the RedWire DLX, the set of pants is specifically designed for Apple's digital audio players. One of the side pockets has a slot to hold the iPod and a strap for the player that connects to a set of simple controls on the coin pocket. From there, you can plug in an included set of earbuds and change tracks without having to remove the iPod from your pocket. If you do need to remove the iPod for more advanced functions, the strap keeps the iPod from dropping to the ground. No official pricing has been set.


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|September 13, 1985 – June 26, 1992
Club MTV is a half hour television show molded after American Bandstand that aired on MTV from September 13, 1985 to June 26, 1992.[1] Club MTV was part of MTV's second generation of programming when they were phasing out the original 5 VJs and introducing new ones.
Background and format[edit]
Hosted by Downtown Julie Brown (Kevin Seal hosted the pilot) at The Palladium, a large dance club in New York City, the show cut back and forth between teenagers dancing to a hit dance song and the video of that hit. In later shows they would dance exclusively to freestyle music. Often there were musical guests who performed their new singles; such guests included Paula Abdul, Exposé, Jody Watley, Debbie Harry, Vanessa Williams, Sheena Easton, Salt-n-Pepa, MC Hammer, Deee-lite, Pet Shop Boys, E.U., Vanilla Ice, Samantha Fox, Soul II Soul, Black Box, Company B, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Also some rock groups like The Ramones, Mr. Mister, and INXS also appeared live on the show. The show was taped in a private home once in 1988 with former Go-Go's frontwoman Belinda Carlisle as a musical guest, when a full 24 hours of MTV were broadcast from the home of the "MTV At My House" contest winner. Other shows featured were Remote Control and The Week In Rock.
With the rise in popularity of Freestyle music, Club MTV began using the music nearly exclusively with a few house and hip hop songs thrown in. In 1989, MTV introduced a companion show for Friday nights called Street Party that aired the complete videos of songs used on Club MTV.
Though molded after American Bandstand, the show had a more sophisticated, nightclub look. The women especially, many of them aspiring models, dressed in provocative clubwear—skintight dresses, Spandex pants, miniskirts, fishnet stockings—and the show became known for its sexual allure. In an MTV special broadcast in the fall of 1999 on some of the network's more scandalous moments, Rob Fox, casting director for Club MTV during its first year, had this to say: "Club MTV was supposed to be a teen dance show, but in a channel run by men it turned into a show that was pretty much 'Table-dance Afternoon.'" In the book MTV Uncensored (NY: Pocket Books, 2001), Fox goes on to say he was also "the panty monitor. We had a set of rules that any woman or girl dancing on the platform had to wear panties, because of the infamous up-skirt shows of Club MTV. Someone, I'm sure, somewhere, has a director's reel of boobs falling out of low-cut dresses and shots. I would get on the headsets: 'Rob, uh, we really need you to take that girl off the platform because I can see her hairstyle and I'm not talking about her head.'"
The Club MTV Tour[edit]
Late in 1989, MTV launched their first Club MTV Tour featuring Was (Not Was), Information Society, Paula Abdul, Milli Vanilli and Tone Loc. But the tour was marred with troubles. On the first tour, singer Cathy Dennis who was booked for six weeks suddenly dropped out after three days, publicly accusing one of the members of Milli Vanilli, the tour's headline act, of sexual harassment. In addition Milli Vanilli was permitted by tour promoters to lip sync to pre-recorded tracks. One night a track began to skip midway through the song "Girl You Know It's True" while the show was being taped for broadcast. Later that year when it was revealed that neither Fab Morvan nor Rob Pilatus had performed on their album but the vocals had been recorded by other various studio singers, MTV was suspected of knowing that Milli Vanilli was a fraud all along. Tour promoters countered that lip-syncing was a common practice because of the exhausting dance routines artists did while performing.
During the 1992 tour, several acts dropped out midway through their bookings, forcing MTV to book new acts at the last minute. With most of the Freestyle acts no longer interested in the tour, MTV wound up booking hip hop and rap acts to replace them.
MTV and VH1 blacklist dance music[edit]
In 1992, MTV suddenly canceled both Street Party and Club MTV with no explanation. However, MTV executives made some subtle hints that it was in response to the many dance acts dropping out of the Club MTV tour. From that moment on, MTV and VH1 showed a noticeable aversion towards dance videos. Many popular dance artists who up until then had several videos air on MTV were no longer able to get their new videos into rotation. This also marked the time that MTV began to elevate rap and hip hop acts on the channel.
A few months after Club MTV was cancelled, a similar dance show debuted on the channel called The Grind. Much like Club MTV the show cut back and forth between teenagers dancing and the song's music video, the difference being most of the music used on The Grind was hip hop and rap. While the videos for rap and hip hop acts were shown on each episode, whenever dance hits were used their videos were not shown.
In 1997, VH1 debuted Dance Machine, a show notorious for showing regular pop acts instead of acts on the dance charts. The same year, MTV announced they would be replacing one hour of their morning hip hop show MTV Jams with a new dance video show, this in response to complaints by their viewers. But after three days the show was cancelled. Viewers complained that the show actually featured one real dance video an hour while the rest were the same as was always shown in the MTV Jams time slot. Later that month, MTV had a special episode of 12 Angry Viewers where contestants were given four videos to choose the worst on MTV and Gina G's "Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit" won. The dance video was never actually shown on MTV before and the tape was taken and destroyed at the end of the show so that MTV would never air it again.
Dance finally returned to MTV in the form of the show AMP. But the style was limited to Electronica and the show rarely aired earlier than 2 am. When AMP was moved to MTV2 it was soon renamed MTV2 Dance Videos but mainly aired the same Electronica videos. Another MTV2 show called Monster Mix edited a number of videos together mash style and sometimes had an episode with pure dance videos, both classic and new.
On March 20, 2005, VH1 Classic aired a marathon of old Club MTV episodes with a promise that the show would return in the future.
DVD releases[edit]
MTV Networks currently has no plans to release the music show on DVD at this time.
See also[edit]
- VH1 Dance Machine
- The Grind
- Electric Circus
- The Party Machine with Nia Peeples
- Dance Party USA
- Amp
- Camille Donatacci (a regular dancer on the show)
- Party to Go
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State police say they found the lab inside a glass jar in 19-year-old Joshua Caldwell's car.
Troopers stopped him on US 25 in Laurel County overnight Saturday.
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Is Chris Christie Pleased Today?
So Chris Christie is now Bruce Springsteen's friend. In other news: Bergen County Freeholder Board - Democrats sweep two Freeholder seats, Republicans lose control. Cumberland County Freeholder Board - Democrats sweep two Freeholder seats, Republicans lose control. Passaic County Freeholder Board - Democrats sweep 3 Freeholder seats defeating 3 incumbent Republicans who ran and won on Christie's coattails in 2009, Board is now 7-0 Democrats. Burlington County Freeholder Board - Democrats sweep 2 Freeholder seats leaving Republicans with a 3-2 majority. Atlantic County Freeholder Board - Democrat defeats incumbent At large Republican Freeholder leaving Republicans with a 7-2 Majority. Somerset County Freeholder Board - Election of two Freeholders is too close to call between the Democrat and Republican candidates. There were 2 Special Elections for Assembly seats. In the 4th District, the Democrat won handily. In the 16th District, the race is still too close to call. Incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez cruised to an easy victory over Republican (and close friend of the Governor) Joe Kyrillos and will be returning to Washington to represent certain special interests and a very small portion of New Jersey citizens.
With results like that, on top of the Democrat/Socialist President winning re-election last night, virtually all New Jersey conservatives are in a foul mood today.
Coming just a year after Governor Christie failed to pick up a single legislative seat when all 120 were up during New Jersey's mid term elections last year (losing one Assembly seat), is the Governor pleased with these results?
Just last week, Rob Jennings of the New Jersey Herald reported that the Governor does not like when Freeholder boards are dominated by one party. Sandwiched between his out of state campaigning for candidates who can't and won't help New Jersey; and his near endorsement of Obama (for a chance to be friends with Bruce Springsteen) the Governor had this to say at a town hall meeting:
"It's not the way our system is supposed to work because you don't have the appropriate checks and balances. People aren't checking up on each other. The club becomes clubbier," Christie said
In other words, Republicans need Democrats to be able to govern… more like Democrats?
In other States across the country when a Republican or Democrat Governor is in office, they try as hard as they can to get others from their party elected at all levels of government. It is one of the advantages of controlling the Executive branch. Or at least it should be.
As conservatives and Republicans digest the carnage endured yesterday, everyone should be asking Governor Christie if he is pleased with the outcomes above.
Remember, he said so publicly.
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York City Fire Assistant Chief Patrick Rose said all residents were allowed back into their homes at 11a.m.
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York City fire crews were called to Prospect Street near Charles Street at 7:11 a.m. after a Stewart and Tate employee cutting trenches in the road for a project struck a gas line, according to York City Fire Assistant Chief Patrick Rose.
Fifteen homes were evacuated in the 400 and 500 blocks of Prospect Street, Rose said.
The smell of gas was detectable within a block of the leak, Rose said.
"You could hear it, we could go right to the spot," he said.
No one was hurt, and most residents were expected to be allowed to return to their homes within an hour or two, he said. Some of the houses in the area were vacant, while others had multiple people living in them, so Rose wasn't sure how many people were evacuated. Most of the residents simply left the area, and no evacuation center was set up, he said.
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Have you recently received a juror summons in the mail? It is in your best interest to not throw that notice away — attendance is mandatory.
The Luna County District Court will be holding a Juror Orientation in three sessions; 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday, August 27 at 855 S. Platinum Avenue.
"These sessions are to give jurors an idea of what to expect when they are summoned to jury duty," said Angelic Gutierrez, district court clerk. "We have a burden to ensure we have juries for our court system."
The Luna County District Court has sent out 750 jury summons to residents within the county.
Gutierrez said of those 750 summons, they expect to receive around 200 back.
If you have received a jury summons, it was accompanied with a questionnaire to be filled out and returned in the mail. For those residents who received a summons it was due back last Friday, but Gutierrez said they will still accept the questionnaires.
The United States Constitution and the New Mexico State Constitution guarantee the right to trial by jury. Failure to attend as directed may subject you to penalties provided by law. Residents must comply with the summons unless:
• They are not a citizen of the United States
• They are under 18 years of age
• They have been convicted of a felony and have not completed all terms of their sentence, including probation and or parole
The only exception to not have to attend jury duty is a permanent age exception. Jurors age 75 or older do not have to participate in jury duty.
New Mexico statutes allow for the permanent excusal of all such individuals who request it.
If residents fall into this category, the law requires they complete an affidavit proving the age of the juror.
This document must be notarized and mailed to the Jury Management Division in Albuquerque.
A Prospective juror may request to be excused from jury duty under the following reasons:
• Have a physical or mental disability that would prevent him/her from service. The prospective juror is required to provide a doctor's note attesting to the disability.
• Must provide actual and necessary care for another, and alternate arrangements are not feasible. A doctor's note is required attesting to this situation.
• Will suffer an extreme financial burden if required to serve that would substantially prevent the prospective juror from paying his/her necessary daily living expenses.
A detailed letter describing these circumstances is required.
• Is serving on "Active Duty" with the military and is not stationed in the county. A letter from the prospective juror's superior officer so stating is required.
Jurors are compensated for serving their community. The hourly pay was recently raised and is now $6.75 per hour and $.41 per mile for mileage.
Gutierrez said that her office works with individuals' schedules and tries to accommodate them.
"As long as they work with us, we will work with them," said Gutierrez. "It is necessary to comply with our civic duty. It really is not that bad."
Residents who receive a summons and choose to not comply are at risk to be held in contempt of court said Gutierrez.
For more information on a jury summons residents may contact District Court at (575)546-9611 or by visiting its office at 855 S. Platinum Avenue, Room 10.
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Keith Olbermann again awarded Bill O'Reilly third-place honors in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment, this time for accusing CNN's Christiane Amanpour of having a "rooting interest" in the Iraq war being a disaster.
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On the February 2 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann again awarded Fox News host Bill O'Reilly third-place honors during his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment, this time in recognition of O'Reilly's January 31 assertion -- documented by Media Matters for America here -- that CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour has a "rooting interest" in the Iraq war being a disaster.
Reading O'Reilly's quotes in an imitation of Ted Baxter, a pompous and knuckleheaded newscaster played by actor Ted Knight on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (MTM Productions, 1970-77), Olbermann stated:
OLBERMANN: Number three: it's Ted Baxter again, this time because CNN's Christiane Amanpour said: "Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster." O'Reilly says of Ms. Amanpour: "You can draw by that that she has a rooting interest in it being a disaster." Well -- well, no, you can't, not if you use human logic. Besides which, he wouldn't really take a swipe at CNN after saying, quote, "CNN, for example, usually competes with class, not bitterness."
As Media Matters noted, Olbermann previously criticized O'Reilly for claiming NBC took "cheap shots" at Fox News Network. Olbermann mocked O'Reilly's contention that the competition between Fox News and CNN plays out with "class, not bitterness," noting that "Fox News compared CNN's Paula Zahn to an outhouse and a dead muskrat."


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|Robert and Elizabeth Waters - Riverdale, MD - 1912
My mother died in April 2008. She followed her brother Bob who had died just four months earlier. My mother (Elizabeth) and Uncle Bob were named for my grandmother's sister and brother - Robert and Elizabeth Waters- who died in 1914 just weeks apart. They were 16 and 18 years old.
Robert hit his head while getting off a street car when he was making a trip to DC. He developed meningitis, but the doctors couldn't identify the sickness initially. His older sister Libby took care of him at home. By the time they figured out that Robert was contagious, Libby was already showing symptoms. She was whisked away from Robert's bedside and put in quarantine. She missed Robert's funeral. She died two weeks later.
So many times I heard about how my great-grandmother's hair turned completely white the year after Robert and Elizabeth died - how the deaths of her two eldest children defined her life. She never got over it.
How could she?
It's strange to ponder that coincidental repetition of another Elizabeth following her brother Robert in death as time circles around us. Death has such a darkness about it. We don't know where they're going... only that they are not with us and we can't see them safely to the other side.
|Robert and Elizabeth Granados - Riverdale - 1941
My mother and Uncle Bob died in their seventies after raising large families and living full lives. But losing a loved one - any loved one - will mark Christmas with that absence forever.
Several people close to us have suffered losses this year, and this will be their "first" Christmas without that loved one. As time goes on, the sting will lessen, and the vacancy left will be filled by remembrances. And those recollections will become the bandages that cover the scars of loss - until the scars disappear - if they ever disappear.
If you are loved, you are never forgotten.
As we navigate through the revolutions of the passing years, Christmas is a time when we pause. We reflect on birth, beginning, light coming into the darkness – a light that the darkness cannot overcome. We look forward to another year and hope for blessings.
It's a time we remember everything we ever loved, when joys and sorrows are magnified and felt stronger than other times of the year.
Love is what knits the Christmases of our past into a warm garment of memory that cloaks future Christmases. It's that love that pushes us year after year to make this season special.
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In doing research for my book, Thin Places – Celtic Doorways to the Otherworld – I read this quote by the late Celtic mystic, John O'Donohue.
If you could interview a baby in the womb, and it asks you, "what's going to happen to me?" You'd say "you're going to go through a dark channel. You're going to be pushed out. You'll arrive into a vacant world of open air and light. The cord that connects you to your mother is going to be cut. You going to be on your own forevermore and regardless of how close you come to anyone, you'll never be able to belong in the way that you've belonged here." The baby would have no choice by to conclude that it was going to die. … when in actual fact .. it's being born.
It can be scary to go on without those we've lost, but every new beginning starts with an end. Christmas is a time we can all beginning anew - together.
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2013 Annual Report
Plant tissue has been collected at alfalfa harvests in 2012 and 2013, and sent to the Ohio State University for analysis. Harvest yields have also been measured. No treatment effects from the gypsum were observed in 2012, most likely due to the serious drought conditions in Wisconsin. Field conditions in 2013 have been much improved for crop growth with more than sufficient rainfall. Yield and plant chemical analysis results from the two years will be evaluated and summarized in late 2013.


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Zach Stillman, left, and Joe Johnson, are both teachers at Salinas High School. They will produce the March 15 and 16 Motown Revue at the School.
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The music of Motown will fill the Salinas High School Performing Arts Center on the evenings of Friday and Saturday. For six years, this popular fundraising event for the school's music program has featured the stage band and choir students. About 20 musicians in the Jazz Band are joined by three of the school's choral groups plus individual vocalists. The program was organized by choral teacher Zach Stillman and music teacher Joe Johnson.
In addition, on Saturday, vintage Detroit autos will be featured at a car show. Parking begins at 10 a.m. and the judging will be at noon , with the awards ceremony following at 4 p.m. Sponsored by Salinas Valley Street Rodders, the car show will also include a tri-tip luncheon. Each show car entry will receive a free meal. Tickets will be available at the door.
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If you like it, then you should put a ring on it! Thanks to Beyonce for that line, but it also served as the message last month from Bishop Rudolph McKissick, who told unmarried couples in his congregation who were cohabitating they were living in sin. As a result of that message, nine couples decided to tie the knot. Saturday they were married in a special ceremony at Bethel Institutional Baptist Church.
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Can anyone give us an idea of the time-line, average cost of getting from Koh Tao by boat to the mainland and across to Koh Phi Phi. Have no idea how we will do this part of our trip.
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Night boat from Ko Tao to Surat Thani (departs 23:00 – arrives 08:00) then bus to Krabi then boat to Ko Phi Phi -- the 14:30 departure should be a safe bet.
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Is it really a 9 hour boat ride from Ko Tao to Surat Thani?
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thinking of doing the same trip. wondering if anyone has an update on this journey re time and cost.
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Distance Ko Tao to Surathani's town pier is not short and the old night ferry chugs along real slow. But I consider the night ferries an excellent way of getting to/from any of the southern Gulf islands (a different one for each island) because you have your numbered mattress and pillow and can zzzzz away for much of the 9 hours or so. Which also saves a night's accommodation cost which can be important for budget travellers. There are touts waiting at the pier in Surathani to take you up to travel agents for minibuses to Krabi 's pier for the ferry to Phi Phi. In the past I've waited maybe an hour in the travel agents and the minivan trip takes 3 hours give or take. You will make the pier in plenty of time for the ferry, which takes maybe 90 minutes. There could be some waiting time at the pier.
It's so long since I did a similar trip I can only guess at prices, but overall it is not going to be expensive. I'd say night ferry 200, minivan-ferry ticket 500-600.
There are (faster) day ferries out of Tao of course but most go to the mainland at Chumpon which is much closer than Surathani but in the wrong direction for Phi Phi. You could get a big bus from Chumpon bus station to Krabi bus station and then get a ferry ticket from the small travel agent there to Phi Phi which should involve transport down to the pier (abt 8km)* - but Chumpon bus station is out of town, Krabi bound buses will not be all that frequent (I reckon every 2 hours at the best) and it is a long bus trip (maybe 6 hours). *You would probably arrive in Krabi too late for the last ferry meaning overnighting there.
There are a couple of day ferries Tao to Surathani. Google Songserm, and I believe Lomprayah now has one of their fast cats going right thru. These will be more expensive than the night ferry, drop at piers out of town (to avoid complications of onward travel, trip agents on Tao could sell you a thru ticket Tao-Phi Phi which avoids you having to worry about getting into Surathani and then transport from there). I have read a post in the past complaining Songerm's thru service involves a lot of waiting around and crap buses etc. Lomprayah has a good rep and if they offer a thru service to Phi Phi or Krabi I'd be tempted to try this.
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Lots of beaches and islands info - http://tezza-thailandbeachesandislands.blogspot.com/
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Just an an update on these times and prices!
Koh Tao to Surat Thani is 500baht, it leave KT at 21.00/21.30 (depending on which boat you get) and you'll get into Surat Thani at around 5.30am.
Yes it's a long old journey, but most people manage to get some sleep in!
The return journey leaves ST at 23.00 and arrives KT at 8am. Same price.
If you manage to make any Thai friends, they can get the ticket for 100 baht less...just in case you really need to save.
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Thanks for the update han.
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Have any of the night ferries sunk and people died? 9 hours on a ferry no thanks. You wouldn't get a wink of sleep and would feel like crap in the morning. Better to get a speed boat or ferry to Samui and stay there a couple of nights then ferry it to the mainland during the day. Day ferries are good cause you can enjoy the scenary.
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Lol Leonard, night ferries would be much safer then day ferries since the wind and waves are almost always calmer at night...
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New contest time. You can never have enough contests. Congrats to our Terminator winners and Sam Raimi signed poster winner from earlier. As soon as all the winners turn in their addresses that swag will be mailed. In the meantime here is another contest. The Unborn on DVD It will be on DVD July 7th.
Writer/director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn and follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves. Starring Odette Yustman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet and Gary Oldman, The Unborn is a thrilling tale of one woman's survival as she fights a family curse and struggles to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.
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Henry Eames, son of John and Mary, was born April 28, 1698 in Framingham, Massachusetts. As a farmer, he grew rye, potatoes, turnips and sold cider and cord wood. He also performed farm labor and carpentry in exchange for goods or services. In addition, Eames served as selectman in the town of Framingham for three years.
Eames married Ruth Newton of Marlborough on November 7, 1722; the couple had eleven children. He died in the town of his birth on May 16, 1761.
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Collection consists of one small leather-bound volume containing accounts for John Newton, 1687-1689, Henry Eames, 1752-1761, and an unidentified person, 1762-1789. Henry married Ruth Newton in 1722, and it is possible that the volume came into Eames' possession through this connection. Newton's accounts are placed at the beginning and end of the volume. Many pages in the volume are missing.
Accounts relating to Henry Eames make up bulk of volume. Entries reflect farming pursuits and sale of agricultural products and services. Included are accounts for Joseph Butler, Daniel Biglow, Joseph Graves, Michah Haven, Thomas Eames, John Eames, Lois Eames, Ezekel Rice, Jesse Haven, Phineas Graves, Joseph Stone and Nathaniel Eames.
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A Fort Pierce couple, Juan Moreno, 34, and Joanna Moreno, 31, are accused of forcing one of three girls living in their home to spend most of her time in the backyard, reports TCPalm.com.
She was allowed inside only at night to sleep on the floor — without sheets and blankets.
The girl told deputies she was not allowed to use the bathroom in the house, had to shower outdoors, wash her clothes in a bucket and store them in a plastic shed.
Now the couple are in jail, where they are getting three hots and a cot — which is more than they provided for the child.
Joanna Moreno is on a hold for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. DCF took custody of the children.
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Recently and ambitiously renovated, the historic New Sheridan Hotel has retained its 1895 charm, but now has stylish rooms with iPod stations and heated bathroom floors.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - A pastor who travels the world preaching against pornography is moving his ministry to Las Vegas with the backing of a growing suburban church.
Craig Gross, a 33-year-old minister who has run the online ministry XXChurch.com from Michigan for seven years, says he decided to relocate because the adult temptations in Las Vegas are, in his words, "more powerful and strong than any place I've ever
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This week, with orders for its laptop having failed to meet expectations–and the plunging dollar driving up the computer's purchase price–the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program installed a new president who says that he'll seek fresh industry alliances to boost the marketability of the maverick machine. OLPC was founded in 2005, with the aim of improving education in poor countries by putting cheap, rugged, low-power laptops in the hands of schoolchildren.
Charles Kane, OLPC's finance chief and a former software company executive, is stepping into the role of president and chief operating officer following last month's resignation of president Walter Bender. Bender had adamantly opposed efforts by the organization's founder, Nicholas Negroponte, to depart from a pure open-source-software approach and include a version of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system on the laptops.
While Kane wouldn't talk specifics about Microsoft, he made it clear which way OLPC is heading. "The OLPC mission is a great endeavor, but the mission is to get the technology in the hands of as many children as possible," he said. "Whether that technology is from one operating system or another, one piece of hardware or another, or supplied or supported by one consulting company or another doesn't matter."
"It's about getting it into kids' hands," he continued. "Anything that is contrary to that objective, and limits that objective, is against what the program stands for."
Bender is the architect of an open-source interface known as Sugar, which runs on the Linux operating system and is designed to allow children to easily collaborate on documents, art, music, and other projects. For example, with Sugar, activating a tool that allows two children using different laptops to edit the same document requires a single mouse click. Such novelties suit the interface to the so-called constructionist model of education, in which children learn by collaborating and creating.
Bender says that his biggest fear is that if OLPC embraces Microsoft, it will "become just another laptop company" whose products run Windows and Microsoft-compatible programs. Negroponte says that the organization is working to ensure that Sugar can run smoothly on Windows.
Despite its technical achievements–including extremely low power consumption, innovative software, and extremely low cost–OLPC has sold few laptops, at least relative to its initial ambitions. About 500,000 machines have been delivered; early national adopters include Uruguay and Peru. In early 2006, however, Negroponte was predicting sales of more than 100 million machines by this year.
One reason for the slow uptake, Negroponte says, is that the existing computer systems of some government and educational bureaucracies around the world run on Windows. And in some countries, including Egypt, he says, the lack of Windows compatibility stalled interest. "When I went to Egypt for the first time, I met separately with the minister of communications, minister of education, minister of science and technology, and the prime minister, and each one of them, within the first three sentences, said, 'Can you run Windows?'" Negroponte says.


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This book presents a way to formulate, from several points of view, "Psychoanalysis as an encounter between two persons", and highlights the aspects of symmetry and affective exchange of this encounter where analysis is seen as a relationship between two minds. In this shared experience the study of the mind of the Analyst and of his method of work grows in importance as the source of benefits and misdirections which can be exchanged in the encounter with the patient.
In this context, the patient has an active role as an attentive and sensitive observer of the Analyst, signaling errors and showing the road to be taken. This change in the concept of psychoanalysis has evolved through many years; from the Analyst acting to open the patient within himself, while at the same time struggling against his own resistance to change, to a vision of a "Couple at Work". Psychoanalysis is now a "shared experience", in which the listening and creating of internal space to the other, within the self, is the instrument and the journey.
The aim of analysis is not the discovery of hidden truths, but rather the recover of alienated areas, new beginnings of natural development, and the construction of new meanings.
The editors and contributors, all from the Centro di Psa Milanese, are members of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis and of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
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How one start-up company found happiness with the source of capital that everybody loves to hate -- factoring
Ada, Okla.; population 17,500. Everyone knows everyone here. It's the kind of place where a crop duster can count the owner of the local bank as a friend.
Indeed, long before Clyde Leach began spraying peanut and alfalfa crops, his older brother was double-dating with John Lowry, the future president of Oklahoma State Bank. Lowry's wife, Edwina, started a cosmetics business just about the time that Clyde's wife, Jamie, designed a cloth and Velcro restraint to keep their baby son in his high chair.
So whom did Clyde and Jamie look to for working capital when they decided to turn Jamie's invention, dubbed Wiggle Wrap, into a business? Not John Lowry. "When you have a new idea, especially here in Oklahoma," says Clyde, "banks want to see the bottom line." They didn't go to control-hungry venture capitalists. Instead, they unearthed one of the least used -- and certainly least respected -- financing techniques available to start-ups: factoring.
Factoring doesn't involve borrowing money, but rather selling your receivables for cash. It has a sorry reputation primarily because it's expensive compared with ordinary bank loans. For example, financing monthly receivables of $100,000 through a conventional line of credit would cost about $12,000 in yearly interest charges, while factoring those receivables could cost $36,000 to $60,000 annually (see "The Awful Truth," page 2).
Naturally, you'd avoid paying that kind of money if you could borrow elsewhere. The companies that factor usually don't have anywhere else to turn and often are desperate for cash. Troubled companies, for example, and bankrupt companies. Certainly not your kind of company.
Or so Clyde and Jamie were told by bankers and accountants in early 1988. The trouble was, says Clyde, C. J. Leachco Inc. didn't have any other options. Clyde had already sold 8% of the company to individual investors to raise money for start-up materials, a patent search, and a patent application for Wiggle Wrap. The Leaches were willing to give up more of their equity -- up to 30%, they decided -- but not all at once. Clyde's plan was to sell Leachco's shares in stages, as the value of the company went up. That way, the couple could raise more capital per share each time.
In the meantime, they needed cash to buy fabric and pay their contractor for the Wiggle Wrap orders that had begun trickling in. Waiting even 30 days for Leachco's new customers to pay was too long. Six months later, when orders began doubling and tripling, Leachco would need even more cash just to keep up with the growth.
Enter Cliff Boyd, a former accountant and auditor who established Cash Flow Management Inc. in 1979. Clyde found Boyd through a Leachco supplier who had used his services. After visiting the Leaches and evaluating Leachco's three retail customers, Boyd agreed to factor Leachco's receivables. The first month that the Leaches factored, the company's receivables amounted to $1,100. During the past six months, they've ranged between $20,000 and $24,000 per month.
Here's how it works. Leachco types up its invoices and ships them to Boyd's Duncanville, Tex., office. Boyd enters the billing amounts in his bookkeeping system, stamps the invoices payable to Cash Flow Management, and sends them on to Leachco's customers. Boyd also immediately pays Leachco. He charges a 5% discount, which means that he gets 5% of the value of the invoices. The Leaches get 95% -- but not right away. Boyd sends them a check for 75% of the total within two days and the remaining 20% when Leachco's customers pay him.
So, if the Leaches ship $20,000 worth of invoices to Boyd, they receive $15,000 two days later. They get the last $4,000 within a month, because Leachco sells most Wiggle Wraps under terms of net 30.
What if customers don't pay on time? Boyd's discount goes up. Boyd charges 7% on invoices that are paid between 31 and 60 days after being billed, and 9% on those that come in during the next 30 days. When a bill hasn't been paid after 90 days, Leachco buys it back.
The Leaches are thrilled with this arrangement, even though a 5% discount is a hefty charge. Jamie likes the administrative support that Boyd provides: complete credit checking of all customers, biweekly updates on each customer's payment history, phone calls to collect from slow-paying customers. She figures that Leachco was able to get by with just a part-time clerk for the first six months, thanks to Boyd. Boyd has also introduced the Leaches to some important business contacts, and he's been a useful reference in trying to win large retail accounts, such as J. C. Penney.
All of this comes at an enormous price: profitability. By incorporating such a high variable expense in their operations, the Leaches have dramatically raised their cost of production. That means it will take a much greater volume of business for them to start making money. With Leachco's current cost structure, Clyde figures that the company will break even with monthly orders of $45,000 or so. At that volume, their yearly factoring costs are $27,000. If, instead, they had a $45,000 line of credit available to them at prime plus two, or 12%, their annual interest costs would come to $5,400. Obviously, with conventional financing, the Leaches could be logging profits much sooner.
But the Leaches couldn't -- and still can't -- get conventional financing. Leachco doesn't have the earnings to pay back debt. Nor does it have any equipment or real estate to pledge as collateral. If it weren't for factoring, Clyde and Jamie argue, they would have a much tinier business or no business at all. Instead, they have been able to grow Leachco from a start-up with two retail accounts in mid-1988 to a company that is writing $25,000 in orders monthly from a list of customers that includes Toys "R" Us and J. C. Penney two years later.
For the Leaches, the real verdict on factoring is still out. If they can show profits, and show them consistently, while still factoring, it will have been the right thing to do. For then they'll be able to arrange bank financing, and the cash that had been eaten up by ultrahigh factoring expenses will instantly enrich profits. That's what makes factoring such a challenging proposition. It's the best thing to do only if you're sure that, someday, you won't have to do it.
When all else fails, it may be your best bet
When all other financing sources have turned up nil, factoring may be your only alternative. Once primarily used by companies in the garment industry, factors now work with a broad range of industries. You can find one by looking in the Yellow Pages and asking your suppliers and customers for references.
Here are two things to keep in mind to make factoring work for you:
* Factors are less closely regulated than banks, so check them out thoroughly. Talk to the factor's current and past clients. Look for factors who have helped customers make the transition to bank financing.
* You have room to negotiate. Factors actually buy your receivables, so they're far more interested in your customers' creditworthiness than in your company's. Try to negotiate the lowest discount (they range from 3% to 10%, but average 5% to 6% of the value of the receivables) and the lowest reserve -- the portion of your payment the factor holds onto until he's paid.
Factors may keep your business going, but you'll pay for it
Jamie and Clyde Leach's 5% discount fee doesn't sound so bad, does it? The prime rate, after all, has been hovering around 10% for months. But actually factoring is many times more expensive than borrowing from a bank. Here's why:
Monthly receivables $100,000
Terms Net 30
Bank line of credit $100,000
Interest rate Prime + 2 (or 12%)
$100,000 x 12% = $12,000 in annual interest costs
Monthly receivables $100,000
Terms Net 30
Factoring discount 5%
$100,000 x 5% = $5,000 in monthly factoring fees
$5,000 x 12 months = $60,000 in annual factoring fees
In this example, factoring fees are five times as much as interest charges would be. While that's a shocking difference, factors do provide services that banks don't. In addition to substantial administrative support, factors give clients important credit information about their customers. Most important to fast-growing companies: once your customer is approved, you can exchange all its receivables for cash -- even if you get an order that's a whopper. In contrast, a bank is likely to cut you off once you draw down your line of credit.


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Johannesburg - The Mail&Guardian published a video on its website on Friday of a rhino hunt by game farmer Marnus Steyl, against whom criminal charges relating to rhino poaching were withdrawn this week.
The video, which was filmed in January last year, shows Steyl, accompanied by a professional hunter, repeatedly shooting a rhino.
It shows the animal crying as it struggles to stand up after the first shot, then shows several people taking turns posing next to the animal with a rifle.
The National Prosecuting Authority withdrew charges against Steyl in the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court this week.
He had been accused alongside Thai national Chumlong Lemthongthai with, among other things, illegally trading in and exporting rhino horn.
Lemthongthai pleaded guilty and was convicted this week. He is said to be the most senior member of a rhino horn smuggling ring ever convicted in the country.
Charges against another Thai national Punpitak Chunchom were also withdrawn, reported the Mail&Guardian.
It quoted NPA Gauteng spokeswoman Phindi Louw as saying there were several reasons for the withdrawal of the charges, including that the case was "based on circumstantial evidence".
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Nadereh Chamlou has addressed gender and development concerns in the Middle East for nearly three decades. So it's no surprise that in looking at the region after the Arab Spring, the question on her mind is if and how the changing political landscape has benefitted women.
Chamlou, the senior advisor to the chief economist at the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa Region, recently visited The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy to share her perspective on women's access to justice in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. "Once you've worked on gender issues, you tend to see any aspect of development from that lens," she said.
Driving her research is Chamlou's firm belief in the importance of an empirical basis for defining the gaps in women's access to justice, not just in the Middle East but throughout the world. The discourse on gender mainstreaming has often been criticized for being anecdotal and reactionary, but this narrative is now changing. Chamlou and other economists are leading the way in grounding normative concerns from a data-driven standpoint.
In Chamlou's view, the Arab Spring holds promise but also presents challenges. For instance, countries in transition, like Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, now have an opportunity to effectively integrate gender into the rule of law, she said. "The World Bank is pretty optimistic about the prospects for women in governance, but women, in conjunction with civil society groups, need to work on issues of agency," she said.
Better social indices for women, especially in the field of health and education, have to be a priority – but equally important, according to Chamlou, is their ability to trigger responsive measures from governments.
In many instances, written constitutions offer 'formal' equality to women but they do not guarantee 'substantive' equality – formal equality merits that everyone be treated equally before the law, while the notion of substantive equality posits the converse: those in unequal circumstances must be treated unequally. Women may be in need of preferential treatment, given the history of gender-based discrimination in the Middle East and North Africa region, Chamlou said. This is especially true in the sphere of access to justice. Women in the Middle East rarely interact with law-enforcement agencies or the judiciary, even when they are desperately in need of legal remedies, Chamlou said.
To address this issue, Chamlou and a small group of fellow researchers have surveyed nearly 97,000 women (including many in the Middle East) about their experiences with civic-legal matters. Those experiences may include filing civil or criminal lawsuits, approaching the police for assistance, interacting with bureaucrats and government officials for effective dispensation of services, and so on.
The project has revealed several interesting patterns about women's access to justice. For instance, Chamlou and her team found that MENA civil servants were less likely to request bribes from women than from men. On the other hand, female employees were less likely to complain about discrimination or even harassment in the workplace as compared to their male counterparts.
The most surprising findings, said Chamlou, came from the responses of urban women – mainly those living in and around capital cities in the Middle East. They were found to be reluctant to file police complaints or lawsuits to redress grievances, despite having higher levels of education. "This could be also a result of urban women having a more hectic working schedule compared to others, which don't permit them to allot time for filing suits or complaints," suggested Chamlou.
For much of the history of the MENA region, women have been reluctant to seek legal recourse to their problems – if they have engaged the law it has been mostly on account of marital disputes. Beyond the realm of personal law, however, they have not been able to exercise their rights as part of the free citizenry. This is a result, Chamlou observes, of not just reluctance.
The Arab Spring may have the potential to change all that. As countries begin to draft new Constitutions, initiate police reforms and replace old bureaucracies, it is imperative that policymakers account for the role of gender in participatory governance. Chamlou is optimistic about women's access to justice in the MENA region. At the same time, she said, "women have to take the initiative if they are to claim equality before the law– there can be no question about that."
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