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Federal law permits only two commemorative coins a year and for 2011 a silver dollar for the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps has already been stuck….the second silver dollar is the 200th anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth.
John Coyne Babbles
Silver Dollar For The Peace Corps
Tour Nepal and Tibet with Nepal RPCV
Don Messerschmidt (anthropologist, writer, Himalayan tour leader and RPCV Nepal 1963–65) has announced that he has openings for travelers wishing to join two of his up-coming tours: (1) a trek in the shadow of Mt Everest, (2) a cross-Tibet tour by vehicle — each having the option of a post-trip Nepal Jungle Adventure.
Nepal Tour, October 21 to November 3, 2009 (17 days)
Sacred Sites Trail, Khumbu (Mt. Everest) Region, Nepal
The trek, which starts and ends in Kathmandu, includes a 13-day trek among Sherpa villages and monasteries plus an optional visit to an high mountaineering camp:
- Arrive in Kathmandu.
- Fly to Lukla (c. 9,000 ft).
- Trek to Namché Bazaar (11,319 ft, in time for you to see the famous Saturday market).
- The trek then continues to monasteries and sacred sites on a Buddhist pilgrimage trail through Thamé, Khumjung, Phortsé, Pangboché and Dingboché (the highest village: 14,272 ft).
- At Dingboche, you may rest for the day or take the optional day-hike to visit Ama Dablam Peak base camp (15,092 ft).
- Spend the next 2 days at Tengboché (12,677 ft) where you can view the renowned Mani Rimdu dance-drama festival.
- Trek out to Lukla
- Fly back to Kathmandul.
* Approximately $2500 per person
Optional Add-on — Lowland Nepal Jungle Adventure (3 days)
Join us on a visit a park/wildlife sanctuary in the Terai lowlands — this can be a relaxing "come-down" from the high altitude on the Sacred Sites Trail. We will see rhinos and other critters — a tiger (if we're lucky) . . .
- 3 nights at a fine jungle lodge.
- Elephant rides — optional.
- Nature hikes — optional.
- Boating — optional.
- Wildlife spotting — optional.
- Bird-watching — optional.
* Approx. $600 per person
Camping in Tengboché (12,677 ft)
Buddhist prayer stone and trekkers on Everest Sacred Sites Trek
Ama Dablam in background, trekker and chorten on Everest Sacred Sites Trek
Tibet Cross-Country, April 2010 (17–19 days — dates being negotiated)
The tour will start in Lhasa and end in Kathmandu, and will be done entirely via vehicle.
- Spend three days in Lhasa while becoming acclimatized to the altitude (c.12,000 ft). While there we will visit the weekend Big Dog Market. Tibetan mastiff pups are adorable in April! (Don's latest book, Discovering the Big Dogs of Tibet & the Himalayas, will also be out by then.)..
- Drive across the Tibetan Plateau (no trekking) to famous historic and religious sites at Gyantsé, Shigatsé, Dingri (northern gateway to Everest) and west to Mt Kailash and sacred Lake Manasarovar (pilgrimage destinations for Buddhists, Hindus, Jains).
- Then out south across the Himalayas to Kathmandu.
* Approx. $3000-3500 each.
Optional Add-on — Lowland Nepal Jungle Adventure (3 days)
Join us on a visit a park/wildlife sanctuary in the Terai lowlands — this can be a relaxing "come-down" from the high altitude of the Tibet Cross-Country tour. We will see rhinos and other critters — a tiger (if we're lucky) . . .
- 3 nights at a fine jungle lodge.
- Elephant rides — optional.
- Nature hikes — optional.
- Boating — optional.
- Wildlife spotting — optional.
- Bird-watching — optional.
* Approx. $600 per person
Tibetan mastiff with wool ruff at Lhasa Dog Market
* All costs are approximate.
Costs will vary by number of clients, and are still under negotiation with the agent in Kathmandu. All fees have gone up, but we are doing our best to keep them low.
INCLUDED IN THE PRICES: Local transportation, lodging, meals, guides, park fees, and porters.
NOT INCLUDED: Air travel to/from Asia; Kathmandu guesthouse lodging; personal travel insurance; drinks, tips.
For more details contact Don at firstname.lastname@example.com (daytime phone: 1.360.256.8596).
RPCVs And The FBI!
The Committee of Returned Volunteers (CRV), the first national organization of RPCVs in 1965 actively opposed the Vietnam war. Their copious writings–newsletters, information kits, analytical papers–portrayed the goals of U.S. foreign policy as exploitative. The true function of the Peace Corps, they believed, was to mask this imperialism by putting a warm and friendly face on America's presence overseas.
CRV members were among the marches showered with tear gas at the 1968 Democratic convention, and in 1970 they occupied the Peace Corps building in Washington for 36 hours to protests the student killings by National Guardsmen at Kent State and Jackson State Universities, as well as the invasion of Cambodia.
All of this is detailed by Karen Schwartz who found out this information by filing a Freedom of Information Act request back in 1988 when she was research her book on the agency, What You Can Do For Your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps published by Morrow. The document, which filled a small carton the size of a phone book, did not arrive until July, 1991, after her book was published. Karen then wrote an article in July 1992 for RPCV Writers & Readers, a newsletter strarted by Marian Beil and myself in 1989.
The FBI placed the CRV and other antiwar groups under the category of "New Left–Foreign Influence." In numerous documents the FBI described the CRV's objectives as "establishing contacts with revolutionary groups, aiding guerrillas, destroying existing governments and transmitting information to Soviet bloc countries."
CRV leaders did meet with representatives of North Vietnam while they were in Cuba, and one actually visited Hanoi, but the idea of the CRV destroying governments and transmitting information is absurd, writes Schwarz. "This was an organization run on $5 dues from a membership of graduate students, social workers, and school teachers."
But by defying a State Department ban and spending four weeks in Cuba, as guests of the Cuban Government, no less, the CRV distinguished itself as no run-of-the-mill antiwar group. Keep in mind, writes Schwarz, "that this was just seven years after the Cuban missile crisis and U.S.-Cuba relationships were strained."
In true cold war style, an FBI special agent reported to 22 field offices that CRV members would be gathering in Austin, Texas before going to Cuba for a two-week "indoctrination" course. (The CRV called it an "orientation.")
Cases were opened on all 39 travelers and, as one document shows, the FBI observed their day-to-day movements in the weeks before their departure. One such report describes members getting into a friend's car. The license and registration were traced and included in the report along with a few details about the owner of the car.
What was particularly disturbing about the documents Karen Schwarz received is that they indicated a heavy reliance on informants–more than a few members of CRV were actually cooperating with the FBI. One list of informants is four pages long, and every name is blacked out.
On a lighter note, FBI agents assigned to monitor the CRV were often lazy. If they had no new information to write up, they would simply summarize the contents of a recent CRV newsletter. Sometimes they didn't even bother to paraphrase–they just re-typed the newsletter or submitted the newsletter itself stapled to a cover sheet. One buried note was that Paul Tsongas (Ethiopia 1962-64), later a senator and presidential candidate, listed as having taken over the job as treasurer of CRV's Boston chapter.
To Karen Schwartz's disappointment, she found no bombshells in the documents. She paid $200 in fees for the material, with much of it blacked out. 63 pages of the F.O.I.A. documents were deemed too "top secret" to be sent to her. "In the interest of national defense or foreign policy" because their disclosures would constitute "unwarranted invasion of privacy" and reveal the "identity of a confidential source."
Schwartz sums up, "As I read the FBI dossiers on CRV leaders I was reminded of how quickly things changed in the 1960s. When these individuals had proudly answered John Kennedy's call, the FBI had done the routine checks on them before they went overseas. Then, when they came home questioning the decisions of America's leaders and scrutinizing the values of democracy, the FBI took a much closer look–and these RPCVs found a totally different place in the history of the sixties."
The PCVs Of The DR-Profiles In Courage
Beyond the PCVs of Nigeria in the fall of 1961, there are other examples of how PCVs kept the Peace Corps going in the early days of the agency, and there is no better example than what a group of brave Volunteers did in the Dominican Republic in the spring of '65.
Let's look at how individual PCVs in the field were as important as early Peace Corps Staff in keeping the agency, alive, well, and on its own. We have to remember that regardless of the administrations who are in power, it is Peace Corps Volunteers who are the heart and soul, and the only reason for the agency. Here is the story of the Dominican Republican Volunteers of 1965.
Back then the PCVs of the DR were overwhelmingly against the 1963 right-wing military coup that overthrew Juan Bosch's newly elected, leftist government (which had invited the Peace Corps to the country). These Volunteers lived and worked among the poor, they were working to remove the stain of the US's long standing support for Rafael Trujillo, and when the civil war broke out in '65 the Volunteers sympathized with the "legitimatist" rebels.
Then President Johnson sent in 500 Marines "to protect American lives" and the American forces quickly increased to 22,000 [are we talking surge here?] The Volunteers opposed the occupation, the deception, and the Marines. Clearly it was not the danger to American lives in the DR that worried Johnson, as Harris Wofford would write in his book Of Kennedys & Kings, but the fear of a radical regime that kept his troops there. It was the first such intervention in Latin America since the ill-fated U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in 1925.
Guess what? With fighting all around them, the PCVs wouldn't leave. No, way. Tad Szulc of The New York Times would write, "These brave young Americans had refused to be evacuated from war-torn Santo Domingo and had gone on working in the hospitals and elsewhere despite the fight and the mounting resentment in the rebel zone against the United States intervention…"
Later [after the U.S. government realized how loved the PCVs were by the people] the State Department proposed that Volunteers be assigned to work with the U.S. Special Forces, the Green Berets, and when the scheme was put to the Peace Corps, the answer from Frank Mankiewicz, who was running the Latin American region was, in a message personally approved by Sarge Shriver: "Not only no, but hell no!"
The PCVs kept at their jobs and in the midst of the fighting. When Volunteers had to move from one place to anther, signs were held up by the rebels to stop shooting, that the American Peace Corps were walking by, and Volunteers moved safely in the slums where they were living their lives working with the people.
A few weeks into the fighting, the respected chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico, Jaime Benitez, who was then serving as an adviser to McGeorge Bundy, and who was in the Dominican Republic seeking a negotiated settlement, suggested that the DR would be better off if the respective numbers of PCVs and Marines on the island were reversed. It never happened, of course.
And that thinking by our government, of course, is why we invaded Iraq. At the end the Marines left the DR and the Volunteers stayed and kept working.
The success and secret of the Peace Corps has always been the work of the individual PCV who couldn't care less about Washington, or for that matter, the APCD. [Those PCVs don't mind if the APCD is buying the beer.]
Yes, we have had many losers PCVs among us, God's knows! But for the most part, and for most Volunteers, the work has been done, the effort made, and those first friendships with the HCNs continue for many of us today. Throughout all these years, we had done what Kennedy first asked us to over four decades ago, we have tried to make a difference, and we didn't ask for honor or praise or anything else, but we are not going to let a bunch of political hacks in D.C. ruin our Peace Corps.
The Peace Corps Volunteers of the Dominican Republic proved that in 1965 when they stood up to the Marines, when they stood up to LBJ, and when they told the world they won't leave their jobs, they won't leave the DR. No they won't leave. Not only no, but hell no!
We now have a former DR PCV– Aaron Williams–as the new Peace Corps Director! We have come full circle.
But We Have No PCVs in Nigeria!
I spotted this article on Nigeria's "peace corps' …we're getting a bad name even when we do have PCVs in country! Now we are truant officers
Nigeria: Peace Corps Launches Squad to Monitor Students
Mustapha Suleiman and Romoke Ahmad
30 July 2009
The Peace Corps of Nigeria recently launched an anti-students loitering squads to monitor loitering among students in various schools in the FCT.The event which held at the Women Development Centre, attracted the Onah of Abaji, Alhaji Baba Yunisa, Abuja Environmental Protection Board's Director, Engineer Abubakar Shehu Yabo, FCT Director of Basic and Secondary Education Department.
AEPB Director Engr. Yabo, lamented over the problems of juvenile delinquencies among youths in the country, despite moral and religious teachings being given to them.
"Despite moral and religious teachings, the youths are still swimming in the ocean of destructions by engaging in armed robbery, drug addiction, exam malpractices, bush burning, illegal quarrying, hawking, begging, littering, improper disposal of wastes which cost government fortunes to clear, and other forms of environmental degradation," he said.
The AEPB boss further lamented that the youths are being used as weapons of mass destruction in various parts of the world and he appealed to stakeholders in the FCT to participate fully in fighting juvenile delinquency among youths in the FCT.
Earlier in his address, the National Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria, Ambassador Dickson Akoh explained that the members of the newly launched squad will be posted to various schools in the FCT with the instruction of curbing students loitering and other acts capable of affecting their educational growth.
He said Peace Corps being a youth's oriented organization will continue to implement initiatives that will add values to youths' development in the county.
What JFK Said About The Postcard At The White House, Part 12
A police escort with sirens blaring led our dozen Peace Corps buses in one long continuous caravan through every downtown light in Washington, D.C. It was high noon in the District the summer after the famous postcard had been found on the Ibadan campus and we–the 300 Ethiopia-bound Peace Corps Trainees at Georgetown University–were on our way to meet John F. Kennedy at the White House.
There were other Peace Corps Trainees meeting the President that afternoon. Peace Corps Trainees at Howard, American, Catholic, George Washington universities, and the University of Maryland, over 600 in all, gathered in the August heat and humidity on the great lawn below the Truman Balcony.
Arriving at the White House, I walked with the others up the slope with the Washington Monument behind me and the White House on the slight rise ahead, thinking how small the building was, no bigger than the country club where I had spent my teenage years as a caddie.
I thought, too, of how lean Kennedy looked, standing at a raised podium with his one hand caught in the pocket of his dark suit jacket as he said, "From Georgetown University, 307 secondary school teachers for Ethiopia." He looked up from the pages and asked, "Perhaps those of you going to Ethiopia could hold up your hands."
We cheered, thrilled at being recognized by JFK.
We were the Peace Corps, the shiny new creation that Kennedy had proposed in the last days of the 1960 presidential campaign, his experiment in international development that others had called a wacky and dangerous idea. The Daughters of the American Revolution warned of a "yearly drain" of "brains and brawn..for the benefit of backward, underdeveloped countries." Former President Eisenhower declared it a "juvenile experiment," and Richard Nixon said it was another form of "draft evasion." The following year, in 1963, Time magazine noted in a cover story that the Peace Corps was "the greatest single success the Kennedy administration had produced."
And now we were at the White House and John F. Kennedy was saying, "I hope that you will regard this Peace Corps tour as the first installment in a long life of service, as the most exciting career in the most exciting time, and that is serving this country in the sixties and the seventies."
Looking again at the old photographs taken that afternoon, I see the President smiling down at the group of young women in bright flowery dresses, and young men with short haircuts, white shirts, narrow ties, and serious dark suits.
"The White House," Kennedy said, summing up, "belongs to all the people–but I think it particularly belongs to you."
Kennedy ended his remarks and instead of returning to the White House stepped from the podium and walked down the slope and along the line of Trainees to shake our hands. He asked us where we were going in the Peace Corps and wished us good luck. Finally he stopped and said, "Well, I guess I better get back to work." He brushed back his hair in that famous gesture we all came to cherish and nodding goodbye walked a few yards towards the Oval Office, but stopped once more and glancing around raised his voice and told us to write, to tell him how it was going. He nodded goodbye, slipped his hand into the jacket pocket, and then, almost as an afterthought, he grinned and added, "But no postcards."
[The Beginning]
Murray Frank Remembers The Postcard Affair, Part 11
In the Fall, 1999 issue of the Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, Frank recalls the incident and those early tense days in Ibadan, Nigeria. Murray writes:
The Postcard Affair began October 14, 1961. That was the day Peace Corps Nigeria almost came to an end . . . before it started. And I was in the middle of it all.
Nigeria I had arrived in Ibadan early in October. Volunteers were settling into dormitories at the University of Ibadan (then a part of the University of London and called University College of Ibadan) where they would continue the training started at Harvard.
I was the Western Region Peace Corps Representative. My family and I arrived in September, ahead of any other Regional Representatives and their families. Brent Ashabranner, who left AID to become Nigeria's first Peace Corps Director, helped us get settled. We had a house in Bodija, a middle-class development between the center of Ibandan and the University. Residents included professionals and senior government officials - not quite the Peace Corps mold - but quite a comfortable area for a family with children aged two and four.
I had nothing to do with Volunteer training. My job was to arrange Volunteer assignments. I would visit a potential location, meet the principal and staff, establish that there was a position for the Volunteer to fill, and check out living conditions. I had not gotten very far by Friday, October 13. But, I was getting to know Volunteers as work assignments were developing.
Volunteers went to class and studied Monday through Saturday mornings. Friday night, October 13, PCV Marjorie Michelmore wrote some letters and picture postcards to folks back home. She mailed them on the way to class Saturday morning. One of the postcards described her first impressions.
When Volunteers arrived at dormitory dining halls for lunch Saturday, October 14, there was a copy, word for word, of that postcard at each place. Marjorie's comments described how the average Nigerian lived. While not inaccurate, her comments were not flattering, and to a Nigerian student - especially one concerned about Western imperialism - the comments seemed downright insulting.
God help me!
A couple of Volunteers hitched a ride from the university to bring me the news. Protests were beginning on campus, Volunteers were being ostracized. This was clearly not a training issue. Now, I was in charge, God help me!
I arranged for all of the Volunteers to come to my house while I went to the USIS library to phone Lagos. I didn't have a phone. I told Ashabranner what I knew. He cabled Peace Corps Washington.
By coincidence, the second-in-command at the American Embassy, the Deputy Chief of Mission, was on his way back to Lagos after a trip up North when the story broke. I met him at a local rest house with Marjorie and we agreed that she should go with him to Lagos. There was an AP stringer at the rest house. He could see that something was up.
I went home to meet with Nigeria I Volunteers. I was totally unprepared for this.
Initially the group felt anger - at Marjorie for getting us into this, at the Nigerians for making such a big deal out of one person's comments on a postcard and holding us all responsible. Should we issue a statement disassociating ourselves? If so, to whom? How? We got by that quickly and went on to examine how representative these students and their feelings were of the country, and especially of the people with whom we would be working
Intense nationalism
We knew that Nigeria was newly independent but, in retrospect, I don't know if we fully absorbed how deeply this influenced the students' behavior. It had not been very long since independence had been won. The visages of the colonial period were still all around, including and especially white people who symbolized a colonial past. A Nigerian self-image based on new freedom was developing. Nigerians, at least by this group of young intellectuals, demanded respect.
I understood it better after I attended the inauguration ceremonies when the University College of Ibadan became the independent University of Ibadan. Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zeke), the father of independence, was the main attraction. When it was his turn to speak, the excitement - the electricity - in the crowd was palpable. A zzzZZZEKE cheer went wherever he did. They cheered and cried for him and for the event that reaffirmed independence. Zeke insisted that the University of Ibadan was "our" university, free of London's influence and now part of Nigeria's development. It was thrilling - the closest I ever came to such intense nationalism.
But on October 14, 1961, most of us had just confronted this intense nationalism for the first time. All of us had experienced student protests in the States. But this was quite different. It was not really about a postcard. We knew there were those who opposed foreigners "invading" their country and those who would use this incident for their own purposes. Some feared that we would not really be able to help Nigerians if that was how we wrote home about them.
We asked many questions. Do we have a choice, or have our chances of success been reduced significantly? Why try to stay where so many don't want us? Shouldn't we go somewhere else where we are invited and start fresh? Can we continue to live and train at the University where there is such hostility toward us?
And then the counter arguments came. We know Nigeria needs teachers. We can teach. We are not imperialists, nor CIA agents, nor ugly Americans. We know who we are. We can make a difference.
We were agitated but the discussion was mostly calm, always serious. It was hard work that afternoon. Concensus was a long time in coming. I saw my role as the discussion leader. These were the folks who would be on the firing line. They had to decide for themselves.
We were all young
We were all young. The oldest in that room was 34. We were newly transplanted to a very different culture, confronted with a situation for which none of us had any real preparation. But the Volunteers had spirit and maturity.
We continued to try to answer many questions. What are we doing here? Should we leave, or stay and prove that we have something to give? After many hours we made a decision.
We wanted to stay.
Marjorie's postcard appeared in all Nigerian newspapers the next day. The story was in the American press, too. There were no directives nor advice from Peace Corps Washington or our Embassy. Only one message came. It was from the State Department asking "Were there really over 256 words on one-half the side of the postcard?"
In coming days and weeks, Volunteers continued to take some meals and sleep in the dormitories, but they were always isolated. One of the Volunteers, Aubry Brown, had training and experience in non-violent resistance. He told the Nigerian students in his dorm that he would not eat if he couldn't eat with them.
Aubry Brown makes his stand
After a while, the Nigerians saw Aubry meant it. When they brought a dinner tray to his room he refused it. Soon the Nigerians invited him to join them at meals. Other Volunteers and students did the same. A dialogue began between students and the Volunteers - more valuable than if the incident had not taken place.
The Nigerian-American Society, and organization of Nigerians trained in America, also came to our defense in meetings, through letters to the editor, and with friendship. I remember particularly H.A.. Oluwasanmi, who taught agronomy at the University of Ibadan and later was Chancellor of the University of Ife. His support and advice on how to understand the situation was invaluable.
Richard Taiwo, an engineer in one of the Western Region ministries was a likeable, garrulous supporter, praising the Peace Corps everywhere. He and others organized a party for us at one of the very visible clubs in Ibadan. There was plenty of Star beer and lessons in Highlife.
Another outspoken and effective supporter was Tai Solarin, principal of the Mayflower School which he founded and named for our Mayflower. Had it not been for the support and advice from the Nigerian-American group, it would have been far more difficult to weather the storm. We might not have made it.
The Volunteers' behavior after the tumult of the Postcard Affair was special. PCVs remained calm and were not retaliatory with Nigerians who taunted them. These young men and women balanced individuality and group allegiance, knowing that the issues were not personal. They remained reasonably self-confident and able to listen and learn
I assume that there will be PCV's going into Nigeria again soon.
I hope they will be as good as Nigeria I volunteers were. They couldn't be better.
Murray Frank
Nepal RPCV Wins National Press Club Journalism Award
Marlena Hartz, who served in Nepal, and is a reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, won this year's National Press Club's Dennis Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism.
Marlena Hartz of Lubbock, Texas, won a $5,000 stipend for graduate school. She is headed to the University of Denver, where she plans to study print and digital journalism.
Hartz has previously won awards for stories in competition with much bigger papers. A narrative writer who knows how to tell a good story, she's found a lot of stories in her small corner of the world. Her articles include the story of a local soldier wounded in Iraq and the revelation that the president of Texas Tech's medical school spent thousands of dollars of university funds on travel for his wife.
As a Volunteer in Nepal, she said, she met people who she cannot forget and they inspired her to tell stories back home. "The recipe for successful journalism is good storytelling that taps into our shared humanity, regardless of where on the globe we call home," Marlena told the National Press Club when presented with her award. Nicely done, Marlena!
Who Stole Marjorie's Postcard? Part 10
In 1965 Bob Gale, then running the Peace Corps Recruitment Office, traveled out to Ibadan, Nigeria, for a COS Conference. Gale had been a vice president at Carlton College and had developed the famous Peace Corps recruitment blitz [the most famous of all was the first in early October 1963 when teams of recruiters hit college campuses; these were mostly non-RPCVs as the first PCVs were just arriving back in the States. These all-out assaults on college campuses were very successful at recruiting Trainees. These early blitz teams were replaced by '67 with teams of RPCVs working out of regional offices, and HQ non-PCV staff rarely traveled outside of Washington to recruit Volunteers.]
Back in Nigeria, Gale arrived late in Ibadan from Washington and met up with a Nigeria APCD and headed for a local bar where he was the only white man having a drink. Then in walked another huge white American kid and a smaller African. Gale recognized the American. He had recently been the co captain of the Carlton College football team when Gale was there, and was a PCV in Ghana. He was hitchhiking through Nigeria and had been picked up by this smaller Nigerian who, when learning his rider was a Peace Corps Volunteer, immediately told him that he was the person who had discovered the famous postcard of October 1961, four years earlier.
The Nigerian explained that he was then working at the post office in Ibadan and had been told by a group of left-wing students at the University to look for any postcards from PCVs that might discredit the Peace Corps.
In her book, Come As You Are Coates Redmon asked an RPCV from Nigeria about the claim and the RPCV replied that "We've heard stories and stories. I think that no one knows the whole truth. But one thing is certain. Peace Corps Volunteers in Nigeria never send postcards. They are haunted."
Who Is Aaron Williams And What Does He Know About The Peace Corps And International Development?
A lot I'd say. Williams is a Chicago kid. He graduated from Chicago State University in 1967 with a B.S. in Education and Geography. Next he was in the DR as a PCV from 1967-70. When he returned home, he worked for the Peace Corps in Chicago and Washington (1970-71) as the Coordinator of Minority Recruitment, then went to the University of Wisconsin for his MBA in Marketing and International Business, graduating in '73. He is fluent in Spanish and also speaks French.
He worked in Minneapolis with General Mills before beginning a long USAID career with various positions and stationed in Honduras, Haiti, Costa Rica, Barbados and South Africa. In 1998, he went to Baltimore as the Executive Vice President of the International Youth Foundation.
He has received the USAID Distinguished Career Service Award in 1998, and the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service in 1992 and 1988 for his government service.
A board member of the NPCA since 2006, he is also a member of the Society for International Development among other organizaitons.
In 2002, he went to work for RTI International. The international development side of RTI is (according to their website) "dedicated to improving the human condition in developing countries. With more than 200 international development staff members based around the world, we deliver advisory and training services at the national, sub-national, and local government levels, providing institutional development through the transfer of analytical tools and methods. We often work in multidisciplinary teams that cut across traditional sector boundaries."
Their clients are: are (of course) the United States Agency for International Development, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and several agencies of the United Nations, as well as foundations and other regional and international organizations.
Married to Rosa Maria Williams, they have two sons and live in Reston, Virginia.
About John Coyne Babbles
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Congratulations to Patrick Jane, Buffy Summers, Archangel Michael, and Temperance Brennan for advancing to the third round. Yesterday saw the biggest round of voting yet with all 4 polls over a thousand votes. Thanks so much for participating. Today we have two heavy hitters in the round, including the character that got the most votes in round 1. Should be some interesting matchups. Remember to keep those pictures coming for characters going into round 3 and thanks so much to everyone who has already sent pictures. You can get them to me by either posting them in the comments, e-mailing them to me at email@example.com, or tweeting them to @dahne1. I appreciate any help you can give. Until tomorrow, keep commenting and happy voting!
Previous contest results - To see final rankings for all characters out in the first round, scroll to the bottom.
Polls end - Wednesday around 5 pm CST
Prediction contest results - Today broke everyone's brackets. For the first time in the contest, we don't have anyone with 100% correct. Tough set of polls. However with 4 total misses, Janna pulls into the lead once again. Here's hoping that everyone does better today.
TV Job - Yep, I am putting you to work. I've selected pictures for this round but chances are you have better ones. Therefore, it's your job to find a picture of anyone moving into round 3 or be stuck with the first thing I found on Google Image. You can pop a picture into the comments below, e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com, or tweet me @dahne1. Guidelines:
1. Must be fully clothed and PG please!
2. Clearly shows the character's face
3. Is just the character and not a group thing
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TV Talk Topic - Today it's all about TV pet peeves. What irks you about TV these days? Is there a TV trope you hate? Are there things ceertain genres do that drive you up a wall? Is there anything that has become so cliched that you groan even thinking about it? Is there a character that just drives you batty? Feel free to vent away. Hopefully we'll all feel better afterwards.
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WikiLeaks is blamed as Iran executes 'spy'Comment on this story
Iran may have used a secret cable published by whistleblower website WikiLeaks to target and hang an alleged Israeli spy.
The disturbing development emerged after the alleged spy, kickboxer Majid Jamali Fashi, was executed in Tehran on Tuesday for assassinating an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010.
Although WikiLeaks redacted the name of the intelligence source on a leaked US diplomatic cable, it published a description of him as "a licensed martial arts coach and trainer", writing from Azerbaijan.
According to a report yesterday, Fashi, 24, had visited Azerbaijan for a kickboxing tournament just days before the cable was sent.
Experts said they believe the US Embassy document could have raised Iranian suspicions.
The file detailed a US diplomat's debriefing of the source, who told how the Iranian regime put pressure on martial arts clubs to train members of the Revolutionary Guards and used them to put down the popular uprising three years ago.
It did not refer to the Israelis or any plot to kill a nuclear scientist.
But Fashi was arrested and charged days after the cable was published in December 2010.
Tehran said the kickboxer confessed to murdering Massoud Ali-Mohammadi on behalf of Mossad, Israel's secret service, in January 2010 using a remote-control bomb put on the scientist's motorcycle.
Birmingham University professor Scott Lucas, an authority on Iran, said yesterday that Tehran could have become suspicious about Fashi because of the cable, adding: "Alternatively it could have been used as a pretext against him; to set him up as a person who could take the fall for the assassination."
Ali Ansari, head of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, said: "I have always considered the release of the WikiLeaks files, without consideration for those consciously or unconsciously named in them, to be grotesquely irresponsible."
WikiLeaks had no comment on the report yesterday.
Israel has always denied any role in the scientist's killing. - Daily Mail
UPDATE: 29 May 2012
In an email to IOL Wikileak's Julian Assange said that there were many factual errors in this article and he asked for the opportunity to provide additional facts. We reproduce those below as they were received.
Assange wrote:
- Majid Jamali Fashi is not the source named in the cable: http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/09/09BAKU687.html
- The cable does not even mention Israel.
- Fashi was not a martial arts expert, he was a kickboxer. The source mentioned in the cable was a Taekwondo coach.
- At no point have the Iranian authorities mentioned any US embassy cable in connection with Fashi's case.
- The cable was published by Der Speigel on 3 December 2010, which then uploaded its redacted version of the cable to WikiLeaks' website.
- Fashi was arrested in January 2011, not 'days' after the redacted cable was published on 3 December 2010.
- Fashi was sentenced in August 2011, prior to the release on 1 September 2011 of the unredacted cables onto the internet following publicity about Guardian investigative reporter David Leigh's publication of the encryption key to the entire cable set in his book, in contravention of WikiLeaks' contract with the Guardian newspaper.
- Scott Lucas, the Iranian expert on whose speculative article of 29 August 2011 The Australian's article is based, has written a follow-up article complaining that his comments were misconstrued: http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2012/5/18/iran-special-the-nuclear-scientist-wikileaks-and-the-execute.html
- WikiLeaks commented at length on the inaccuracy of this story in a series of tweets on 16 May 2012: http://wlcentral.org/node/2598
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May 16, 2014
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LARAMIE, Wyo.--The Rams track and field team wrapped up the third day of competition at the Mountain West Outdoor Track & Field Championships with multiple remarkable finishes at the Madrid Sports Complex.
The men's team sits in the lead with 58 points, six points ahead of second place Wyoming. The women have also performed spectacular thus far. They are currently in second place with 52 points. San Diego State leads the women's pack with 68.5 points.
Head Coach of the Rams Brian Bedard is excited about the weekend's turn out so far. "It was a great day for the Rams. The athletes need to execute and finish strong, but the coaching staff is very excited."
After winning the event multiple times throughout the outdoor season, Montana native Jessica Sharbono finished at the top of the discus throw finals with a personal record, while also breaking the previous Mountain West championship record. Her furthest mark reached 193 feet, 1 inch. That mark was 14 feet ahead of the runner-up. Aaliyah Pete and Kiah Hicks came in one after another in third and fourth. Pete threw 176-5, while Hicks reached 174-3.
Beating her season-best time in the event, Gabby Pajak finished eighth in the preliminaries of the women's 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.11 qualifying for the finals. Senior Trevor Brown won the 110-meter hurdles running a 13.64, meeting his season-best time and the CSU record he set earlier this year. In fourth place, Sam Little clocked 14.21 in the same event.
Brown also took first place in the 400-meter hurdles preliminaries after running a time of 51.86. Little came in third at 51.95. Also hurdling for Colorado State, Mariah Witt competed in the 400-meter hurdles preliminaries and came in fifth at 1:02.18. Pajak came in eighth in the event.
Hicks, a junior for the Rams, was only six feet away from winning the women's hammer throw after she tossed 206-2, finishing second. Her teammate Monet Jackson finished sixth at 192-10, and Sharbono came in 10th. For the men, Jake Schneeberger was the third place competitor with a mark of 204-3. Alec Pott and JT Van Veen grabbed the fifth and 10th spots, respectively.
Chloe Phillips placed fourth in the 1,500-meter run, nearly outpacing the first place competitor in her heat. She came in behind her by only .07 seconds, with a time of 4:49.10.
Three Rams qualified for the finals in the men's 100-meter dash. Josh DeLoach, Marcus Harris, and Troy Johnson will compete Saturday for solid places in the finals.
Christian Meyer took after his fellow Rams grabbing high finishes by crossing the finish line second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. His time clocked 9:24.92 seconds. Kaitlin Hanenburg placed third for the women in the same event.
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Delsea Regional High School teacher James Rafferty stands outside a mural dedicated to him last week. / Submitted photo
FRANKLIN — A popular Delsea Regional High School teacher was honored in a unique way last week. A mural, Raffs Corner, was unveiled to a packed hallway right outside of James Raffertys classroom.
It includes one of his well-known quotes, Today is another day to excel.
Principal Paul Berardelli said, Raff is a Delsea icon.
Hes one of the most beloved and respected individuals to ever work at the school, Berardelli siad. From the 70s to 2013 and beyond, you would be hard-pressed to find an individual who has positively impacted more lives.
Shera Jahn, who spearheaded the mural effort, said: Raffs Corner is a well-known spot where you can find Raff giving out congratulations on the previous nights game, keeping peace and offering advice. He is a legend at Delsea and such a great man; it was only appropriate that this corner be officially dedicated to him.


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Re: Having Trouble with Literally Everything but OfflineHadria Nov 11, 2013 5:35 PM (in response to Chiggles)
Shut the hell up, obviously ***** going on and they're working to fix it. calm your panties
Re: Having Trouble with Literally Everything but OfflineChiggles Nov 16, 2013 6:22 PM (in response to Chiggles)
I understand that, but if you're going to release a game it should be kept up with. The game has been out for two weeks and we've only had one minor update. I'm just saying we should have more from a company who employees people to fix these things.
Re: Having Trouble with Literally Everything but OfflineChiggles Nov 16, 2013 6:37 PM (in response to Kandagawa)
i understand the fact that these things take time. But ive had many games, less and equally as popular than these mind you, that have released patches for known issues quite a bit faster. I understand we all have our opinions, but Ive noticed a rapid decline in upkeep and patching with each COD title released.
And the modding thing has been a recurring problem, this i know. But for example, black ops 2, they had a program running that automatically detected hacks and mods when in use, and would glitch the account making it quite hard to play the game, as well as completely shattering the players stats and saves. Thats my point really.


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Psst, Kate: Your gray hair is showing! Busy new mom Duchess Kate of Cambridgegot caught with a few strands of gray showing in her new center part during an outdoor engagement in bright sun last month. According to the British media, Kate colors her hair through a process that uses fewer chemicals and takes hours, but new ...


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MTS Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results MTS Reports Operating Profit of $420,000; Operating Activities Generate $1.0 Million in Cash Flow in the First Quarter The Company's Audit Committee and Board of Directors Approved an Update to the Compensation Terms of Mr. Yaakov Goldman that are Equal to the Amounts Paid to the Company's Outside Directors PR Newswire RA'ANANA, Israel, May 9, 2013 RA'ANANA, Israel, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --MTS – Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (Nasdaq Capital Market: MTSL), a global provider of Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE), Mobile Money and telecommunications expense management (TEM) solutions and services, today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Revenues for the first quarter of 2013 were $3.3 million, compared with $3.0 million in revenues during the same quarter last year. The Company's operating profit was $420,000 in the first quarter of 2013, compared to operating profit of $280,000 in the first quarter of 2012. Net income in the first quarter was $344,000, or $0.07 per diluted share, compared to net income of $310,000, or $0.07 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2012. As of March 31, 2013, MTS had cash and marketable securities of $5.4 million as compared to $4.3 million as of December 31, 2012. "Our first quarter results were in line with our expectations. The Company is continuing to develop its Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) activity and to promote both this activity and the Company's Telecom Expense Management products through partners, new customer acquisitions and expanding our existing customer base. In parallel, we are closely monitoring our operating expenses and we will make the necessary adjustments based on the business needs and changes we see," said Eytan Bar, CEO of MTS. The Company further announced today that in meetings held during May 2013, the Company's audit committee and board of directors approved a resolution that the compensation terms of Mr. Yaakov Goldman, a director and member of the audit committee, be equal to the compensation terms of the Company's outside directors, as defined under Israeli law. Pursuant to the approval of the audit committee and board of directors, effective May 8, 2013, Mr. Goldman will be entitled to receive an annual fee, payable quarterly, of NIS 30,500 (currently approximately $8,500) and a per meeting attendance fee of NIS 1,700 (currently approximately $470). He previously received an annual fee of $16,800 and a per meeting fee of $400. The Company's audit committee and board of directors determined that the payment of the aforementioned sums to Mr. Goldman complies with the requirement set forth in Regulation 1A(2) of the Israeli Companies Regulations (Relief for Transactions with Interested Parties), 2000 (the "Relief Regulations") as they do not exceed the maximum amounts applicable to the compensation of the Company's outside directors pursuant to the terms of the Israeli Companies Regulations (Rules regarding Compensation and Expense Reimbursement of Outside Directors), 2000. In accordance with Regulation 1C of the Relief Regulations, if one or more shareholders holding at least one percent of the Company's issued share capital or voting rights notifies the Company in writing of their objection to the provision of this relief no later than fourteen days from publication of this press release, the relief based on Regulation 1A(2) will not apply and the change in the terms of Mr. Goldman's compensation will be subject to approval by the Company's shareholders as required by the Israeli Companies Law, 1999. About MTS Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (MTS) is a worldwide provider of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators and Enablers (MVNO/MVNE) and Mobile Money services and solutions used by mobile service providers. The MTS TEM Suite solution enables enterprises to gain visibility and control of strategic fixed and mobile telecom assets, services and IT security policies that drive key business processes and crucial competitive advantage. The MTS cloud, consulting and managed services solutions -- including integrated management of invoices, assets, wireless, optimization, usage, mobile device management (MDM), procurement, help desk and bill payment ,along with dashboards and reporting tools -- provide professionals at every level of the organization with rapid access to concise, actionable data. MTS's solutions for telecommunication service providers are used worldwide by wireless and wireline service providers for interconnect billing, partner revenue management and for charging and invoicing their customers. MTS provides MVNE service to allow quick launch of new MVNO initiatives in a pay as you grow and revenue share models. In addition, MTS has pre-configured solutions to support emerging carriers of focused solutions (e.g. IPTV, VoIP, WiMAX, MVNO) to rapidly install a full-featured and scalable solution. Headquartered in Israel, MTS markets its solutions through wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States, Hong Kong and distribution channels. MTS shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market (symbol MTSL). For more information please visit the MTS web site: www.mtsint.com. Certain matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, risks in product development plans and schedules, rapid technological change, changes and delays in product approval and introduction, customer acceptance of new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, market acceptance, the lengthy sales cycle, proprietary rights of the Company and its competitors, risk of operations in Israel, government regulations, dependence on third parties to manufacture products, general economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Contacts: Company: Alon Mualem CFO Tel: +972-9-7777-540 Email: email@example.com CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS U.S. dollars in thousands March 31, December 31, 2013 2012 ASSETS CURRENT ASSETS: Cash and cash equivalents $ 5,261 $ 4,190 Restricted cash 440 38 Restricted marketable securities 141 139 Trade receivables, net 886 1,066 Deferred income tax 286 371 Other accounts receivable and prepaid 194 175 expenses Total current assets 7,208 5,979 LONG-TERM ASSETS: Severance pay fund 704 658 Other investments 4 4 Total long-term assets 708 662 PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET 232 245 OTHER ASSETS: Goodwill 3,479 3,479 Other intangible assets, net 709 759 Total other assets 4,188 4,238 Total assets $ 12,336 $ 11,124 CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS U.S. dollars in thousands (except share and per share data) March 31, December 31, 2013 2012 LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY CURRENT LIABILITIES: Trade payables $ 287 $ 279 Accrued expenses and other 2,633 2,393 liabilities Deferred revenues 2,104 1,648 Liabilities of discontinued 435 435 operations Total current liabilities 5,459 4,755 LONG-TERM LIABILITIES Accrued severance pay 852 800 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY: Share capital 13 13 Additional paid-in capital 20,224 20,120 Treasury shares (29) (29) Accumulated other comprehensive 13 5 loss Accumulated deficit (14,196) (14,540) Total shareholders' equity 6,025 5,569 Total liabilities and $ 12,336 $ 11,124 shareholders' equity CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS U.S. dollars in thousands (except share and per share data) Three months ended March 31, 2013 2012 Revenues: Product sales $ 595 $ 833 Services 2,702 2,151 Total revenues 3,297 2,984 Cost of revenues: Product sales 243 268 Services 908 817 Total cost of revenues 1,151 1,085 Gross profit 2,146 1,899 Operating expenses: Research and development, net of grants 344 374 from the OCS Selling and marketing 588 524 General and administrative 794 721 Total operating expenses 1,726 1,619 Operating income 420 280 Financial income, net 19 32 Other income, net - - Income before taxes on income 439 312 Taxes on income, net 95 2 Net income $ 344 $ 310 Net income per Ordinary share: Basic and diluted net income per $ 0.07 $ 0.07 Ordinary share Weighted average number of Ordinary shares used in computing basic net 4,639,899 4,459,057 income per share Weighted average number of Ordinary shares used in computing diluted 4,784,153 4,466,034 net income per share SOURCE MTS - Mer Telemanagment Website: http://www.mtsint.com
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How incredible are these paper relief sculptures from artist Cheong-ah Hwang? Each piece is so dynamic and intricate, it's easy to get lost in them. Cheong-ah Hwang: website Via: honestlywtf.com
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The Japanese designer and architect Yusuke Oono uses laser cutting books and plays with it with talent to create real sculptures. Very successful for these books containing 40 different layers to discover in the following thicknesses creations. Yusuke Oono: website Via: fubiz.net
Inspirations and Whimsy, paper sculpture by Ashley Chiang
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356UIK 7 years
Gail wears an earpiece. They tell her what to say. She covers her ears with her hair all the time. Without them telling her what to say, she'd have no freaking clue how to comment on anything. She's an idiot.
ilanac13 7 years
i didn't see this before last night but YES YES YES - i made it a special point to be home to tune into it. i love this show and i'm so happy that it's back!
ShePirate2010 7 years
never watched it b4....heard of it but never cared to see it
lexichloe 7 years
I voted yes, but I forgot to tune in!! Oh, the disappointment! I'll catch it on another day.
verily 7 years
Fab, Padma has a huge scar running down that arm.
danielle854 7 years
In Mexico for another two weeks. I'll catch up on my missed episodes when I get home just after Thanksgiving!
teegaall 7 years
Ooh oooh I am!
teegaall 7 years
Ooh oooh I am!
ann418 7 years
At first I was disappointed that my fiancee would be out of the house...and then I realized Top Chef is on. Now I'll be able to watch it uninterrupted. Woo hoo!!!!
sugar_me_sweet 7 years
Super duper excited :D
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Super duper excited :D
cddlykoala 7 years
So Excited! Best Show on TV!!!
kgr3p18 7 years
i don't have bravo at school, but christmas break i will catch up cause this and project runway are two of my favorites!!
NdHebert 7 years
Cant wait! Planned dinner around it!(I dont like her as the host, but they dont put her in the show that much. Hopefully I dont jinx it and she ends up being on the show all night!)
NdHebert 7 years
Cant wait! Planned dinner around it! (I dont like her as the host, but they dont put her in the show that much. Hopefully I dont jinx it and she ends up being on the show all night!)
Dana18 7 years
I am very excited for this season. And my co-work is the cousin of one of the chef. Tony!
Entertainment 7 years
I'm so excited! It's like a holiday or something.
mswender 7 years
I love Top Chef!!! I can't wait for the Yumsugar recaps afterwords too. I a big Top Chef geek! Padma is awesome, and Katie Lee Joel was a wax figure.
Fashion 7 years
Fo sho. I wasn't that into last season so I'm trying again. Hopefully New York will make it more competitive. P.S. Why is Padma's arm all shiny? xo
fashion4ward 7 years
YES!!! I'm watching last season's marathon right now.
chiefdishwasher 7 years
There is an article in today's SF Chron that talks about how it does make it as a reality show.
mlen 7 years
well i didn't know it was on tonight but now that you have told me- of course i'll watch it!
lawchick 7 years
Oh and I think Padma is awesome. Smart and cool.
lawchick 7 years
My husband and I love this show, but he has to work tonight -- I haven't decided if I will watch it without him!!
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Heck yeah! And I'm with Shoneyjoe - Katie Lee Joel was practically a talking wax figure. At least Gail gets a little feisty every once in a while.Those pictures of Tom and Padma are quite amusing, btw.


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Latest figures show that nearly 100,000 more patients attended accident and emergency units across England during December than the year before.
A total of 1.5 million patients sought emergency care, 92,601 more than last year, an increase of almost 7 per cent.
In some areas the increase rise was even higher, including the South East Coast region, where it was 13.5 per cent.
Wards have had to be closed and patients diverted to other hospitals to deal with the surge in demand.
Hospitals have scheduled extra GP cover in casualty units, drafted in social services staff to fast-track discharges and cancelled routine operations.
They have also appealed to patients with flu to stay away and to call ambulances only in an emergency.
The rise in the number of cases was mainly due to the cold weather over Christmas and New Year.
Alan Dobson, from the Royal College of Nursing, said: "The pressure is going to take its toll. Where you have a 7 per cent increase, and that continues, departments are going to be at breaking point. Staff become sick and that compounds the problem. It is an issue across the country."
Mr Dobson warned that the problem could get worse if the temperature plummets again, as hospitals have fewer spare beds available because they have begun to schedule elective operations cancelled over Christmas.
The figures, obtained by the Nursing Times, show patients numbers from 10 strategic health authorities between December 8 and January 4.
Sian Thomas, director of NHS Employers, said: "Some hospitals have said that it has been the worst winter for nine or 10 years.
"The pressure is making it difficult to free up one single bed.
"When you are already working at 90–95 per cent capacity, it has pushed people over the edge."
The number of patients attending casualty departments controlled by Southend University Hospital Trust were 25 per cent higher last month than the previous December, a separate Telegraph investigation has found.
Patient numbers also increased by more than 10 per cent in A&E units in Northumbria, Hartlepool, west Middlesex, the west midlands, the North West and parts of London.
Hospitals in the west midlands were forced to divert patients to other hospitals 38 times during December, because of the strain.
Most trusts said that they had emergency winter plans in place to deal with an increased number of patients at this time of the year.
Don MacKechnie, vice president of the College of Emergency Medicine, said: "The most significant increase in patients has been in the sick and elderly.
"While minor patients can be dealt with by A&E departments fairly quickly, older patients will often need admission and longer care, and that is what places the most strain on the system.
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We split seasons that are twice the size, simply because we don't allow for as much lead time before airing the first episode of the season as the BBC does. The split is causing BBC America headaches (and money for ads to get the viewers back come spring); it's not making anything more appealing...
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Why we ventured on such a thing despite the accumulating evidence that our own parents had met with complete and utter failure, was not altogether clear to us at the time. But if life teaches you anything, it is that the shortest path to wisdom is to stick your finger in odd places labelled 'don't'.
Entering U's room one afternoon circa august 2002, I found him and S delicately examining a fur ball at odd angles with a curiosity that would have made Galileo proud. I joined the quest not entirely sure what we were looking for in a palm sized, brown puppy when it was explained to me that they had found it outside the hostel gates snuggled in the bushes and because the mother hadn't shown for the whole hour that they had scouted the litter, S and U decided that the most vulnerable-looking of them needed a home – survival of the unfittest being the civilisational parallel to the natural world. Since obviously the puppy needed a name, the present search was to determine whether it was a boy or a girl. Several people stopped in to offer their opinions and after much debate lasting most of the afternoon, it was decided that the fur-ball was a boy and we christened him Doogie.
The first order of business was to feed doogie. It was decided that all babies are the same don't you know and so we should treat it just like one did a human baby. This involved dropping Doogie repeatedly into an ashtray full of milk. It didn't work. Then it was suggested that given Doogie's propensity to vacuum anything within sucking distance and given U's prominent nipples (cause for much pontificating in his early college days), U should take one for the team and offer his services and look, its going to be difficult for us too since we would have to smear those with milk in between sucks. Worried that U was showing only mild horror at this suggestion, the ever resourceful S engineered an ink dropper into a feeder and the problem had been solved.
Doogie soon learnt to feed himself and to see him attack the milk-ashtray with such savagery filled us with pride little realising that this was a survival response to the 6 droppers of milk we were giving him at feeding time. Life then subsequently fell into a pattern and U and S's rooms which were next to eachother, soon became the olefactory centres in the hostel. U and his room continually smelt of milk for years while S's room, one thinks with some prodding from U, was identified by Doogie as the potty zone. This was fitting since in all our experimentation with personal hygeine in those days, S was the true pioneer (multi-coloured fungi that talked back when prodded). Rumour has it that his room is still being fumigated.
Doogie's upbringing met with several bumps in the early days, many of them literal. According to one estimate, Doogie got cozy with Newton's laws at least 442 times from varying heights depending on who was paternally flinging him in the air, sitting, standing or lying down. Doogie, a quick learner, would frantically work his legs whenever any one approached his belly with baby noises.
But in one thing we did not fail as parents – we gave Doogie culture.
We taught him how not to play the guitar, showed him how not to woo women and taught him how to roll a joint. Informed him on Gilmore, Knopfler and Tarantino and showed him Pune from behind a rucksack atop a scooter. It would later prove that Doogie in fact was a girl but as U would say, "Ah! that's ok. We've raised her as a boy". She turned out alright in the end although her left eye still twitches when occasioned with photographs of U bare chested.
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Having moved to Chennai recently I found myself in the now familiar situation of looking for student lodgings. Something that would fit the budget and the psychology in so far as the former constraint would allow. Below is described the fruition of these efforts.
I stay as a paying guest in a very humble home at a very modest part of town, 3 kms from MatScience alongside the IIT back wall. The home belongs to the father of one Mr Nageswara Rao, of whom, more later. This area was an erstwhile slum which in the years since has grown concrete walls and discovered sanitation (hidden underground pipes, septic tanks,plastic flush tanks that go woosh and generally a little more intimacy about the morning rituals). The gate opens into a paved sitting area, shielded by an asbestos sloping roof, to the right of which, opposing the compound wall is what we shall call loo#1 and loo#2. (more about loo#2 later) As you move past this sitting area and through the main door, you find yourself in a corridor which opens onto 3 doors. Through the central door you will see a room furnished with two beds, a cupboard and an elderly, dilapidated couple who will stare you down until you make apologetic bubbling noises. The left door opens into the kitchen and the right into 1.5 rooms, containing three hospital beds. while you are taking all this in, you will also notice a smell. a sweet smell. but the kind of sweet smell which always made you suspicious as a kid. a sweet medicinal smell. if you move towards the kitchen, the smell will change in shape to include that of sambar or alternately a thick dal, which apart from being genuinely very tasty has the distinction of ending up on my plate every single day, unaccompanied as it were, by any of its more illustrious cousins from the plant family. Its dal and bhath in this house. thats our motto. thats our creed.
My hospital bed is in the room furthest from the kitchen and the corridor and therefore the smell. I will soon be sharing it with one Mr Nirmal, who is soon-to-be-joining me, anyday now, in the hospital bed opposite, or so Mr Rao assures.
The elderly couple in the central room are the people who brought Mr Rao into this world, "into a world of Uttter poverty", in the words of Mr Rao. From those modest, humble beginnings, including a 36 hour period without food in the govt hostel("free accomodation"), Mr Rao caught his destiny by its loins, twisted it for good measure and guided it into the present; a present that sees him as a CSIR employee, father to an MTech doing son, and the sole purveyor and undisputed king of a 'paying guest' empire of 51 souls (including mine). Coverting his parents place to include 3 more paying guests is the latest in his strategy for world domination. As he said to me himself " My dream is to have one complex where all kinds of full business interactions will be taking place. So that next time you come to Chennai, i can provide for you and your wife. and also i want send car to airport to receive."
Mr Rao's mother is the defacto matron of the house. Mr Rao's father, after retiring from work as a gardner, now has a 25% efficient heart and is mostly bedridden, and gets up, on average, once everyday to go to loo#2. He has severe food restrictions including consuming not more than one litre of liquid in any form per day. Most of this liquid finds its way into a transparent medical pouch attached to his bladder/ groin by means of a tube. When he walks, he has to carry that pouch along with him and manages to do it with a surprising dignity. So, that leaves Mr Rao's mother, a woman with a most severe, angry set of eyes, as my sole point of contact in the house. Our conversations, which are essentially logistical in nature, are conducted in Telugu (which is great since its not tamil but only marginally so). This being somewhat of a hurdle, my basic strategy during these exchanges is to essentially get a few words right and using them as a sort of basic reference point, try and strike the approximate tone of voice, and all of this while waggling my head, kinda like trying to hypnotize her while speaking. After that its basically luck and good fortune. Its working so far.
In truth, its a decent place. Its walking distance from the institute, i get breakfast and dinner and its 3,500/- which i suppose is cheap given that there is also a washing machine and a maid who'll do the laundry. And Mr Rao put in a false ceiling everywhere so i don't think the asbestos will be a problem. The loo, loo#1 is clean though it has a faint smell of the sewer. the smell must have an external source since the loo and the bathing area is actually kept clean. The toilets actually double up also as a bath. Loo#2 in addition to having a western toilet and a bathing area , actually has a urinal! I was most intrigued by this on my first day. I have however, a grim determination to never set foot in there again after that first day. I treat it like a black hole event horizon, a most distressing singularity in space; stay away at all costs. Anyway, I kinda like Mr Nageswara Rao and his sincerity. He's busy today completing all the fittings, appointments etc which will make the place fully operational before the two others arrive tommorow. I think he likes me but i suspect it may be because i am from the "elite class"(his words) and this oppurtunity to hobnob with the elite of the land is not to be missed. I haven't told him yet that Ma acted in a film, but i think i'll save it for his birthday.
I forgot to mention the cow. facing the house and a few paces to the right is a cow shed.You wouldn't believe the amount of cowdung that one cow can produce. its a fucking massacre. Anyway, she sort of acknowledges me as i walk past her bum to the institute every morning. Its really just a subtle nod of greeting, but who knows, could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
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Hi , I m living Bangkok since 5 years . Few years ago , I Ve lost my passport then recently the thai police arrested me because somebody used it to pass clandestine (Pakistan people) from bkk to Norway !! I showed them my actual passport and explained them that I had nothing to do with that , I m French , swimming teacher , leaving with wife and kids in a perfect harmony . They don't want to know anything about it except a fee of 800 000 bahts to clean my name of the report !!!! I cannot pay it of course (crazy) ,right now I m in the retention room at the airport waiting for my flight back to France, I m in the blacklist now , means cannot come back until 5 years !! Well I will fly back to Cambodia and try to cross the boarder illegally coz I cannot leave my family there , so here the question from a desesperate man : Any ideas please ?
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Yeah - don't come back across illegally, go to your government offices in France and the Thailand embassy and sort things out legally.
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Thx , but I had done everything already like go back to France find a legal way to solve this crazy situation here . Unfortunaly when I came back they stopped me at the immigration , even with prove from France into my pocket , then put me in this stincky retention room without process ! That s why the Cambodia plan is the last option for me ....
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Sounds like a question made for MADMAC (or maybe sayadian) - perhaps you should repost this in the Thailand section and with a more precise subject matter.
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Schurman said the victim was transported to a local area hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
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