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It pains Dom Capers to admit it, because since he took the job as the Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator in January 2009, he'd always believed in his guys. He always felt that when it came right down to it, in a game when it was on him and his defense to win the game, they could do it.
But they couldn't. Not last year.
"You know, last year, there weren't many games where you'd say that," Capers admitted in advance of Sunday night's game between the Packers (7-3) and New York Giants (6-4) at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. "Of course, our offense was playing so well, it was such a different scenario.
"You know, our Super Bowl year, there were a lot. The first year, there were a lot. And now, I think we've got it turned back around to where …"
Capers voice trailed off. But there were plenty of people who could finish the sentence for him: The Packers defense is at a point where it can come through when the Aaron Rodgers-led juggernaut offense isn't its previously unstoppable self.
"For our defense to play that way, it gives our offense a ton of confidence, knowing that we don't have to press thinking that we got to score just about every possession in order to win the game," Rodgers said earlier this week on his weekly radio show on 540 ESPN and ESPNWisconsin.com. "They keep playing like this, we're going to be tough to beat."
There was a time earlier this year – heck, general manager Ted Thompson might still be saying it if he were to be asked – where there was a measure of denial about last year's defense, which ranked dead last in the 32-team NFL in yards allowed, gave up more passing yards than any defense in NFL history and finished a less-than-acceptable 19th in scoring defense: That the unit's struggles were rooted in the offense's success, that shootouts and the defense's inability to stop the pass were the result of teams having to play catch-up and feeling like they had nothing to lose in games against Rodgers & Co.
It was nice of so many folks not to throw the defense under the proverbial bus – before coach Mike McCarthy started getting agitated at the mere mention of the phrase "last year" – and Thompson even went so far as to defend the defense while trying to make it sound like the team's decision to use its first six draft picks on defensive players was simply a function of how the draft board fell.
But now, as the defense is currently 16th in yards allowed per game (343.9), 21st in passing yards allowed per game (244.4), 11th in rushing yards allowed per game (99.5), 10th in scoring defense (20.7 points per game) and second in sacks (33), even McCarthy acknowledges that things are different on that side of the ball. They'd better be, because the coach didn't want a team predicated solely on a dominant offense.
"My whole goal this year was to be a better, more-rounded football team. I feel like we are headed in that direction, clearly," McCarthy said. "Our special teams has graded out consistently as the best unit. The defense graded out this week (against Detroit) as the best unit. Offensively, we have to pick it up. We didn't grade very well.
"But that's how you win the hard games, that's why you win the tough games, that's what good teams do."
And that's why the Packers appear to be a legitimately good team this year, as opposed to last year, when it was easy to see despite the gaudy 15-1 regular-season record that they were a flawed, imbalanced football team.
"Last year, if the offense struggled, the team struggled," sage veteran defensive tackle Ryan Pickett said. "Now this year, I think it's more of a team effort. I think we pick each other. We might not be playing our best on defense and the offense will pick us up, and vice versa.
"I think we're a more balanced team this year, much more balanced, and I think that's helping us a lot."
Never were the Packers' issues more evident than in the two games they played against the Giants.
In the Dec. 4 regular-season meeting at MetLife Stadium, the Packers won a 38-35 shootout on Mason Crosby's game-winning 31-yard field goal as time expired.
In the game, the Packers offense racked up 449 yards, the Giants had 447. The Packers offense scored touchdowns on four of its five trips into the red zone; the Giants scored on three of their four. The Packers' 12 possessions ended in four touchdowns, five punts, one interception, one missed field goal and Crosby's game-winner. The Giants' 12 possessions ended in four touchdowns, four punts, two field goals, one interception and one fumble.
Then, in the Jan. 15 rematch in the NFC Divisional Playoffs at Lambeau Field, when the offense wasn't up to the task of going touchdown-for-touchdown with the Giants, the Packers' goose was cooked.
In a 37-20 loss that wasn't that close, the Packers defense allowed quarterback Eli Manning to complete 21 of 33 passes for 330 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions (114.5 passer rating) while Rodgers was very un-Rodgers-like (26 of 46, 264 yards, two TDs, one INT, one lost fumble, 78.5 rating). The Giants racked up 420 total yards, the Packers managed only one sack and one takeaway, and the Giants converted half of their third-down situations (8 of 16). With the Packers offense turning the ball over four times, the defense couldn't save the day with takeaways of its own.
This year's defense is different, and that's obvious to Giants coach Tom Coughlin, who had Capers as his defensive coordinator in Jacksonville for two seasons.
"The Packers' defensive team last year, had a tremendous amount of takeaways," Coughlin said Wednesday, referring to the Packers' 31 interceptions as compared to the 12 the unit has this season.
"This year's team has not as many takeaways, but they appear to be playing a much tighter, much better defense. The personnel combinations are really obvious, lots of young players contributing. So that's what I see. There's different names, but knowing Dom as I do and the way he prepares his team, why the structure appears the same and they're playing with outstanding quality."
Of course, truth be told, that's been the standard for Capers' defenses in Green Bay – just not last year.
"Obviously coming off a Super Bowl season, you get more scrutiny, but last year if anything was the anomaly, in my opinion," said Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji, the team's first pick in the 2009 draft. "Every year we've been here, it's been a good season except (last year)."

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Thin Wafer Handling
Download SUSS MicroTec technical publications, white papers and application notes about thin wafer handling.
Introduction of a unified equipment platform for UV initiated processes in conjunction with the application of electrostatic carriers as thin wafer handling solution
Introduction of a unified equipment platform for UV initiated processes in conjunction with the application of electrostatic carriers as thin wafer handling solution
This paper introduces the MA8 Gen3 Aligner generation designed specifically for the development of 3D and MEMS packaging technologies. Photolithography on the wafer backside, wafer bonding and replication of microstructures are specific 3D / MEMS processes. They have in common that all of them require precision alignment and often will have to run on ultra-thin wafers. The MA8 Gen3 allows to run all the processes above on a unified equipment platform and therefore offers the ideal equipment solution for 3D and MEMS technologies.Download
Polyimide based Temporary Wafer Bonding Technology for High Temperature Compliant TSV Backside Processing and Thin Device Handling
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Temporary wafer bonding for thin wafer processing is one of the key technologies of 3D system integration. In this
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Based on tests with temporary bonded 200 mm wafers we found a very high compatibility of the bonded compound wafers with standard WLP process equipment and work flows suitable for backside processing of "via first" TSV wafers. Processes like silicon back grinding to a remaining thickness of 60 μm, dry etching, wet etching, CMP, PVD, spin coating of resists and polymers, lithography, electro plating and polymer curing were evaluated and are described in detail. Even at high temperatures up to 300 °C and vacuum levels up to 10-4 mbar, the temporary bond layer was stable and no delamination occurred. 60 μm thin wafers could be processed and de-bonded without any problems using both release methods. De-bonding times of less than a couple minutes can be realized with laser assisted debonding and several minutes with a solvent based release. Compared to glues of other temporary handling systems, the proposed material offers the highest temperature budget for thin wafer backside processing as well as fast and easy de-bonding at room temperature.Download
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Thin Wafer Handling – Study of Temporary Wafer Bonding Materials and Processes
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Thin Wafer Handling Challenges and Emerging Solutions
Thin Wafer Handling Challenges and Emerging Solutions
Temporary bonding attaches substrates to a carrier so that after thinning to the desired thickness further backside fabrications steps can be conducted with "normal" process flows in standard semiconductor equipment. The selection of a suitable temporary adhesive is key to the success of thin wafer handling. The major requirements of temporary adhesives are related to its process flow, thermal stability, chemical resistance, and mechanical strength. The ideal thermal stability should allow high temperature processing up to 400C for dielectric deposition in high aspect ratio vias, polymer curing, solder reflow, metal sintering, permanent bonding or other high temperature processing. The adhesive must be resistant to the chemicals commonly used after wafer thinning. Mechanical strength is required to hold the thin wafer rigidly during processing, especially during permanent bonding applications otherwise the thinned wafer will flex and prevent bonding. The challenge arises in finding a simultaneous solution to these problems while allowing for the gentle release of the thinned substrate to its final, permanent substrate or package without yield loss or stress. This paper will highlight some of the more recent solutions for thin wafer handling that have emerged through technology innovation.Download


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Vegan Blue Cheese Recipe
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The comment system is broken and I have lost all of the comments on the blog... I'm sorry for the delay in answering the question about the Fermented Bean Curd.. you can use either the spicy or regular fermented bean curd.ReplyDelete
I love this recipe. I am going to try it this weekend. I plan on putting on top of coleslaw and stuffing it into dates which I am going to wrap in my smoked chipotle eggplant "bacon". Thank you for your great ideas.ReplyDelete
Hi, Melody. I prepared this three days ago as directed, and left the two separate mixtures out to ripen a few days (lightly covered with a quality cheesecloth).ReplyDelete
Thought you would be interested to know that the BLUE mixture (with the chlorella) developed spots of white mold all over the surface. I tasted the mold and it was innocuous, but I scraped it off. In my house, that mold is probably aspergillus oryzae (as in koji), floating around since I made soy sauce two years ago.
I've combined the two mixtures, and have frozen the bulk of it for later. The fresh balance will make it into a blue cheese type dressing, just as soon as I get the extra water out of my (home-made) tofu, to crumble and mix with your blue "cheese", and some lemon juice, vinegar, and herbs.
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Hey, I have a question for you since you seem to know more about the mold--I got mold, too, except I had greyish mold on most surface parts. I threw those away...it was like a spiderwebby mold. The conditions were that I put it in a bowl, lightly covered with a paper towel, lots of air, but in a little cabinet type thing on the counter that was 70% closed. And I did not use the tofu; I used tempeh (which forced me to guess about the liquid I needed). I took off all the mold I think, but...will eating this make us sick? I REALLY did get all (visible?) mold off. And if you (or anyone) knows...what did I do wrong in this recipe? Everything else was to the letter.Delete
@Chortle and Sigh.. I would not eat it. I would NEVER use tempeh to culture this because it is a much different bacteria than the fermented tofu. The same way you could not get tempeh to culture if you used acidophilus or fermented tofu as the culture, I'm pretty certain that using tempeh to culture cheese would produce a not very good and possibly dangerous end product. Note, I am not a food scientist and I don't have training in molds, so I can't say for sure, but I wouldn't eat it.Delete
Thanks so much for replying! I will just toss the whole thing, then. My hands were tied and I had to use the tempeh. ''Twas a bummer. Next time I make this recipe, whenever that will be, I will have to INSIST on the correct ingredients.Delete
I just made this. Didn't know what kind of Miso to use. I have red miso and sweet white miso, So I just used the white Miso. Does it matter??ReplyDelete
I used Acidophilus probiotics and just emptied the capsules. I can't imagine where else you would get Acidophilus from, besides as a supplement. I also used chlorella in pill form and just crushed it with a mortar and pestel. I hope this turns out! Very excited, because I have a "stuffed dates" recipe from "Lust for leaf" cookbook, that I can't wait to make.ReplyDelete
You have to get the fermented tofu from an Asian market. The stuff smells like something you should NOT be eating. LOL but I can see how it makes the blue cheese seem authentic.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recipe! May I ask why the two mixtures are cultured in separate bowls?ReplyDeleteReplies
Have you ever tried using rejuvelac as your culture? It would add some liquid, so maybe you could leave out the liquid from the tofu. Also, I have a vegan yogurt starter that I got at the health food store. It is a powder and contains acidopholus, so I will likely use that, but I might try a batch with the rejuvelac also.ReplyDeleteReplies
I was excited when I saw this recipe yesterday. We drove into San Francisco to Rainbow Market to get the more esoteric ingredients, some of which were available. I wish I had read the recipe more carefully first. I say this for benefit of others who might read this as there are a lot of those ingredients for which there are many options. The acidophilus culture alone offered in excess of a hundred, from capsules to liquids and all very expensive. The green algae was another where there were so many options (again, very expensive) that I was dazed. Then countless varieties of sauerkraut (organic, raw, jarred/pickled, etc.) THEN the fermented tofu which I will have to get at an Asian market. The miso alone, well, again, dozens of choices from mild white to dark, etc. Also, there are so many varieties of pumpkin seeds, including white, large green, roasted/salted. To be honest, while I am a pretty serious vegan cook and, I am going to try this, it's going to end up a very spendy experiment. You might want to just offer a little bit of guidance here. It would be helpful and appreciated. ThanksDelete
Thanks for the note.. and I totally agree that I should explain this in the recipe. I will try to simplify this recipe a bit.. I actually created it while I was working as a chef in a health food restaurant, so I had access to all sorts of ingredients.. and talked about it on this blog for a while..and people asked me over and over to share the recipe, so I did.Delete
Well, it's done. I just spooned it into some leftover raw cheese tins I had, lined with parchment. It is really surprisingly good and has not yet been refrigerated.Delete
I used raw cashews and, as you didn't mention it, did NOT soak, rather used them as they were.
I got organic raw pumpkin seeds (at Rainbow in SF) that were a dark green and also used them as they were.
Finally found fermented bean curd....which the lady at the Asian market said was the right thing.
Used raw, organic sauerkraut (again from Rainbow), very pungent.
Used a brand of carrot based acidophilus, in capsule form which I just opened.
Used SUN brand chlorella in a 3gm packet.
Used Kyoto White miso.
Used Maldon sea salt to finish.
I pretty much went by your procedure though improvised with using the nuts raw. I think next time, and there will definitely be a next time, I will double the "light" part and use less of the "green/bleu" part, purely for aesthetics. The taste was really good, tangy, lots of texture and character. The Maldon salt, which doesn't melt like other salt, added an "up front finish" that I like. Going to serve this tomorrow with St. George Terroir G & T's. Thanks for sharing it. Have a great weekend!!!
Do you cover your jars with cheese cloth or put it all in a sealed container?ReplyDelete
The easiest way to get the acidophilus is to use a few spoons of vegan yogurt from the store. The sauerkraut also has live cultures including lactobacillus if it hasn't been cooked or pasteurized. Ditto for the fermented tofu. With all these ingredients this recipe is brimming with beneficial bacteria.ReplyDelete
The BIG question is whether penicillium mold, which is what makes dairy blue cheese blue, will grow in a non-dairy medium. (The penicillium starter can be bought online through Amazon or cheesemaking supply shops.).
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Too delicious! I am a vegan and I love Planet organic ultimate superfood from The Heal co. I like your recipe as well but I am not good in cooking but you have made too easy to cook, I will try it soon.ReplyDelete
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The packing list below has been compiled by PCVs in Ghana and is based on their experiences. The list has been divided into the following sections: Luggage/Suitcases, Clothing, Shoe's, Toiletries, Electronics, Cooking ware, Accessories, Financial, Items Peace Corps Provides, Packing Tips, and Other Important Information.
With the exception of the last three sections, each section is organized into three categories: The Backpacker, The Traveler, and The Settler. These three categories differentiate the importance, cost, and availability of each item.
The Backpacker can be described as a person who only packs the essentials that can be ergonomically placed inside one or two backpacks with a week-long trip in mind. They pack with the intentions of buying more according to the environment of their destination. Therefore, the list in this category are the items PCVs feel are the most important, cannot be easily found in Ghana, or are really expensive.
The Traveler is a person who packs with the intentions of a being lightweight but include a few nonessential items. This list is in addition to The Backpacker list but these comfort or nonessential items can be bought in Ghana if you do not have high standards. That means that the following items are not found everywhere but in most large cities and some market towns, where market towns are typically within an hour or town of most PCVs. These items are moderately priced.
The Settler is a person who packs with the purpose of establishing permanent residence in Ghana. They are people who pack everything in The Backpacker and The Traveler lists and exceed the one luggage weight limit at the airport . . . for both check-in bags. They pack with the intention of purchasing only disposable items in Ghana. This category consists of luxury items that one could bring if you budget for a small boy to help you carry your bags. These items can usually be easily purchased anywhere in Ghana and are relatively inexpensive.
Important Notes:
- If applicable, each category is further divided into sub categories to distinguish gender-specific items.
- This list is not all encompassing but it is a good starting place.
Although airlines have pretty restrictive luggage policies these days, have no fear. Since you are now working for Uncle Sam, Peace Corps will purchase you a full-fare ticket on a U.S. airline (one ticket from your home of record to staging and one ticket from staging to Accra, Ghana) which should entitle you to at least two check-in bags and one carry-on bag at no cost. If you really want to make sure how much you can bring, its best just to call the airline. If the airline charges you for luggage, Peace Corps will reimburse you for any fees you incur (assuming you meet Peace Corps' baggage size and weight limitations – to be sent before staging).
As of April 2011, the two U.S. Carriers that service Accra, Ghana are Delta and United (click on respective airline for baggage policies).
The Backpacker
- 1 Hiking backpack or bag (Should be able to live out of 4-7 days for)
- 1 Rolling duffel bag (come's in handy when consolidating other bags, especially those that have loose straps)
- 1 Day-pack (IE. standard size backpack)
- TSA approved locks for backpacks, suitcases, etc.
The Traveler
- 1 Carry on/shoulder bag
- 1 Money belt
The Settler
You are forewarned that you will have to HAND WASH all of your clothes or pay someone to which is hard on clothes. Cotton clothes are the most durable, practical and comfortable. FYI, you can buy back the clothes you donated in the past to Goodwill and Salvation Army here for cheap in the markets.
Furthermore, tailors are everywhere in Ghana. And even though they are not all created equal, you can have almost anything made because labor and material is cheap. Ghanaians really appreciate seeing PCVs wearing Ghanaian-tailored clothes, be it traditional or modern. In addition, the cloth that is bought here is strong enough to endure hand-washing, and it is also breathable.
The Backpacker
- 25+ Pairs of cotton underwear (half for the first year, the other half for second year)
- 2-4 T-shirts (pretty cheap here)
- 1 Business casual outfit and shoes
- 1 Pair of shorts (for home/sleeping)
- 1 Adjustable belt
- 3-6 Pairs of socks
- Workout/exercise outfit or clothes
- 1 Hat for the sun
- 1 Lightweight waterproof jacket
- 1 Long sleeve shirt, sweatshirt or fleece (You will get cold at least one night, trust me!)
- 1-2 Bandannas/Handkerchiefs (You will sweat a lot, trust me!)
- 2-3 Pairs of slacks/pants: if you're a teacher you're going to live in these. Also if you're a bit on the heavier side now, you'll probably lose weight, so consider bringing one pair that is slightly smaller.
- 3-5 Collar short sleeve dress shirts (you will definitely need these if you're a teacher)
- 1-2 Undershirts
- 1 Pair of board shorts (for swimming)
- 1 Pair of shorts
- 1-2 Dresses (more if you are a teacher; fyi, they are easy to have made here)
- 2+ Blouses (don't bring anything too fancy, bring more if you are a teacher)
- 2 -3 Lightweight knee-length skirts (bring more if you are a teacher)
- Conservative swimsuit
- 2 Sport bras
- 6-8 Bras (Definitely bring bras, you can buy them here, but it's awkward, so bring enough to last. Also if you can get away without using an under-wire do so, since it's really hard to hand wash with it)
The Traveler
- 2-3 T-shirts
- 1 Pair of sturdy pants or zip-off hiking pants: something comfy that you don't mind getting dirty
- 1 Pair of jeans
- 1 Baseball cap
- 1 Extra belt
- 1-2 Pairs of knee-length shorts or capris
- 2-3 Cami-tanks
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- Scrub bottoms or Lounge Clothes
- 2 Pairs of smart wool socks
The Backpacker
- 1 Pair of dressy shoes or sandals (Chacos are permissible)
- 1 Pair of durable sandals (IE. Chacos, Teva's, etc)
- 1 Pair of sneakers
The Traveler
- 1 Pair of hiking boots (especially if you're an environment or health/watsan volunteer)
- 1 Pair of flip flops (for the shower and just walking around; can easily be purchased here)
- Running shoes (these are available in Ghana but are expensive, bringing a couple of pairs would be a good idea if you are into running)
- 1 Pair of flats
The Settler
- 1 Extra pair of flip flops
The Backpacker
- Toothpaste, toothbrush, and floss
- Pack enough to last at least through the 10-week training.
- 2-4 Deodorant sticks (it is hard to find stick deodorant in Ghana, so unless you are okay with roll-on, bring a few with you & have more sent later)
- 1 Towel (camp towel preferable)
- Nail clippers/tweezers
- 1 Travel size soap, shampoo, and conditioner
- 1 Sturdy hairbrush/wide tooth comb
- 2 Bottles of shampoo/conditioner (Use shampoo bars from LUSH, they save on space and smell nice. You can buy shampoo here, but it's either really expensive or really bad, so shampoo bars are the way to go)
- Personal medication (Bring a three-month supply of all medications, including birth control pills, you are presently taking)
- 2 Pairs of prescription eyeglasses (if applicable) - If you wear eyeglasses, bring two pairs with you — your current pair and a spare. If a either pair breaks, gets stolen, etc., the Peace Corps will replace it only once, using the information your doctor in the United States provided on the eyeglasses form during your examination.
- 1 Eyeglasses strap/holder
- 1 Screwdriver for eyeglasses
- 1-2 Pairs of sunglasses
- Contact solution - virtually impossible to find in Ghana
Important Note: Over the counter medications are provided in the first aid kit). Although this kit is provided to you a few weeks after you first arrive, some of the OTC medications are given to you on your first day here in Ghana.
- 2-year supply of aftershave (the antiseptic here burns!)
- 80 Tampons: Bring the O.B. brand, you don't want to deal with applicators here (Also tampons can be used as packing peanuts in packages if you're friends and family feel ok with doing that).
- PC does provide a limited amount to volunteers.
- Face wash
The Traveler
- 1 camping towel
- Leave in conditioner
- Q-tips (can easily be purchased here, but are of poor quality)
- Disposable razors (you can buy cheap razors here)
- Lotion (small travel size is sufficient, bigger bottles can be purchased here)
- Hand wipes or hand sanitizer (maybe one bottle/packet, but most of the time you really just need soap and water to get your hands clean)
The Settler
- Travel-size toilet paper (you never know when nature calls!)
- Travel size toiletries bottles (smaller travel size bottles that you can refill from your big bottles)
- Shower cap
- Shower robe
Since electronics require electricity, and since the electricity in Ghana is quite different than in America, there are a few important things you should know prior to coming to Ghana. Please read the following section on Electricity in Ghana for more information.
In addition, see this important section on mobile phones in Ghana.
The Backpacker
- 2 Flash drives (at least 8.0 GB total capacity)
- 1 iPod/mp3 player with extra headphones (If you have one, bring it. If you don't, buy one because you will have a lot of downtime and you will need a break from reading all the books you read.)
- 1 Socket/outlet adapter and voltage converter/transformer (See Electrical Plug/Outlet and Voltage Information for for acceptable plugs, converters, adapters, etc. in Ghana)
- 1 Point and shoot camera with memory card, battery, and charger
- 1 Head lamp
- 1 Flash light
- AA/AAA batteries: Make sure they're rechargeable and bring a charger for them, you'll be happy!
- Quality batteries, like Duracell, are expensive and only found in Accra.
The Traveler
- 1 Laptop/Netbook with waterproof case (It is absolutely feasible to bring a laptop or netbook. They come in handy during all the down time you have. However, have a mindset that whatever you bring you are willing to part with it. That is because their are many hazards like electrical fluctuations, viruses, and theft. Therefore, bring a computer at your own risk! (Please read the Computers in Ghana section for more relevant information).
- 1 External hard drive (At least 500GB for all the TV shows and movies you'll watch during your down time. Also bring new stuff for the older volunteers, we'll love you for it!)
- Small portable speakers
The Settler
- Kindle
- There are enough books at the Peace Corps offices, but bring one at your own interest.
- Digital SLR Camera
- Solar charger
- Radio
- BBC is broadcasted in Ghana.
- Cell phone (if you want to get it unlocked here in Ghana)
- Spare computer parts (ie. power adapter, network cables, hard drive) - quality replacement parts are difficult to find and expensive in Ghana.
Important Note: Since many of your electronics are valuable, it is also recommended to insure these items prior to coming to Ghana. Information on insurance will be included in your invitation packet.
Cooking ware
You can easily buy most kitchen supplies here — dishes, pots, glasses, and utensils. But if you are particular about your kitchen supplies (as the quality of these might not live up to the standards you are accustomed to in America), then there are a few items we highly recommend bringing:
The Backpacker
- A good-quality small non-stick Teflon fry pan
- Two dozen Ziploc baggies (freezer bags are best)
- A good-quality small cutting knife (knives here in Ghana are of poor quality)
The Traveler
- 1 Set of utensils
- Powdered cheese (in general, cheese is difficult to find in Ghana)
The Settler
- Drink mixes
- Powder sauce packets
- Seasoning (Italian, taco, etc.)
The Backpacker
- 1-2 sturdy water bottles (IE. Nalgene)
- 1 Travel alarm clock
- 2 Rolls of duct tape
- 1 Multi-tool/knife
- Leatherman's Skeletool or Swiss Army Knife is great but remember don't pack it in your carry-on.
- Books
- Even though there is a well-developed collection of books at all of the offices and an unofficial system of exchanging the most popular books, you may want to bring a couple of your top choices to last through the 10-week training.
- Pictures of family and friends (including the 4-legged ones)
- 10 Extra passport pictures (they can be used for visas if you choose to travel to neighboring countries)
- 1 Pair of scissors
- Small games or deck of cards
- These are like travel chess boards, Yahtzee, Frisbee, American football, soccer ball, etc.
- Ziplock bags
- 1 Set of earplugs
The Traveler
- 1 Paper hand fan
- 1 Set of sheets: (You can buy sheets in country but they're typically poor quality, so bring one good set with you, you'll be happy)
- Photo album
- 4 Folders (PC will give you about 4 clear plastic folders throughout your training)
- 2 Notebooks/Journals (definitely journals, cheap notebooks can be bought here)
- 15 Envelopes (letter size and manila; you can also buy envelopes in Ghana)
- Host family gifts: Definitely!!!! Good ideas: headlamps (Ghanians love our headlamps), multi-tools (if you can find some inexpensive ones), small toys, and American candies.
The Settler
- Guitar
- Ones of decent quality can be purchased in country.
- 1 Small tent or any camping gear (there are some places here like the beach where they allow you to camp for cheap)
- 1 Nylon hammock with mosquito net (During the hot season a lot of PCVs sleep outside in a hammock. Unfortunately you won't know if you have a place to hang a hammock until you go to your site, so it's kind of a gamble.)
- 1 Travel-size pillow
- 1 Small sewing kit: Tailors are everywhere here, so you can buy needle and tread easily.
Although all PCVs receive a per diem during training, a sizable move-in allowance (from which you can buy items for your house/room and a cell phone), and a regular living allowance, it is always a good idea to bring some extra financial resources in the event of an emergency:
The Backpacker
- Cash $100 USD
The Traveler
- Travelers checks: $100 - $200 USD (use American Express – they never expire)
- ATM card (see "Financial Management" section in the Pre-Departure Checklist for Ghana.)
- ATM's are located in numerous locations across Ghana.
The Settler
- Credit Card (see "Financial Management" section in the Pre-Departure Checklist for Ghana.)
- Can only be used in large cities
- Checkbook
Items Peace Corps Provides
- Mosquito net
- Water filter
- First-aid kit (For a list of items in the first aid kit click here)
- A bunch of books - there are plenty of books here that we all trade around, so just bring one or two that you can read and then pass on
- Travel Guides/Map of Ghana (There are a ton of Ghana, West Africa, and other travel guides here in the offices. Plus you'll get a map when you first come to country.)
- DO NOT BRING A BIKE HELMET! They can be bought after training and COSing volunteers donate them or sell them for cheap. Save that space for something important.
Packing Tips
Other Important Information
- As a Peace Corps volunteer, you are eligible for many discounts offered by companies selling footwear, clothing, outdoor gear, electronics, and more.
Ghana Price List
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With Joey Lawrence celebrating his 40th birthday on Wednesday, what better time to check in to see what the stars of the hit 1990s sitcom "Blossom" up to today?
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Unequal, 1932
Vasily KandinskyRussian, 1866-1944
Oil and gouache on canvas
23-5/8 x 27-5/8 in. (60.0 x 70.2 cm)
Norton Simon Museum, Museum Purchase for The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander P. Hixon
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After moving to Munich at the age of 30 to paint, Russian-born Vasily Kandinsky quickly assumed the role of leader among the city's avant-garde artists. Coming of age as a painter in this vibrant milieu led Kandinsky to create the first non-objective paintings in the history of art. Originally he was inclined toward the expressionist qualities of color, but by the time he completed a decade of teaching at the Bauhaus and moved to Paris, he began to prize form over color. Nevertheless, his works created during this transitional moment in 1932–33 project a spiritual quality that always rested at the core of his abstract painting. The floating rectangles and glowing orb of Unequal give a sense of objects hovering in space, particularly as the thin brushstrokes of sky-blue give way to the infinite black background beneath. Interestingly, this picture had been purchased by Galka Scheyer but was missing from her collection when it was bequeathed to the Norton Simon Museum in 1953. Lost for nearly two decades, the painting was found and acquired in 1972 and returned to its place alongside the other works of her collection.
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Laurette G. Thiverge RitesApril 06,2013
Laurette G. Thiverge Rites
BARRE CITY A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Laurette G. Thiverge, 87, of Howard Street on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at 10 a.m. in St. Monica Catholic Church in Barre. She passed away on March 28, 2013, at the Woodridge Nursing Home in Berlin.
The Rev. Leopold J. Bilodeau, pastor of the church, was the celebrant.
Crucifer, Fred Letourneau was altar server and led the Prayer of the Faithful.
Words of remembrance were offered by Julie Bliss, daughter.
Organist and soloist, Rosemary Badeau accompanied vocalists, Romeo Bilodeau and Ronald Routhier in the hymns, Be Not Afraid, Father of Peace, Your Words, Lord, Are Spirit and Life, Here I Am Lord, Lead Me Lord, Ave Maria, Song of Farewell and On Eagles Wings.
Scripture readings from the Old Testament were read by Solange Thiverge, sister-in-law, and Linda Wadkins, a niece, read scriptures from the Old Testament.
Offertory gifts were presented at the altar by Pam Thiverge and Jocelyn Thiverge, both daughters-in-law; Scott Bliss, son-in-law, Christina Thiverge, granddaughter, and Buffy Thiverge, daughter-in-law.
A prayer service was held Monday evening at the Pruneau-Polli Funeral Home in Barre, and was led by the Rev. Daniel Lokanga, Parochial Vicar of St. Monica Catholic Church in Barre. The Rev. Leopold J. Bilodeau also led a prayer service on Tuesday morning at the funeral home.
Pallbearers were Jerimy Thiverge and John-Marc Thiverge, both grandsons; Danielle Schneider, granddaughter; Pierre Grenier and Danny Grenier, both nephews; and Gilles Lavigne, brother-in-law.
A later burial will be held in St. Sylvester Cemetery in Lower Websterville, Vt.
Following the Mass, family and friends gathered at the Barre Elks Lodge # 1535 in Barre for a time of fellowship and luncheon.
Arrangements were in the care of the Pruneau-Polli Funeral Home, 58 Summer St., Barre.MORE IN ObituariesFrederick A. Full StoryBonnie L. Full StoryRichard E. Lemery
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Oshkosh expands, increases share buyback
Oshkosh Corp. said Friday it plans to repurchase up to $300 million of its common shares over the next 12 to 18 months, with at least $75 million to be repurchased in the next three months.
The Oshkosh-based truck maker said it has increased the number of shares authorized for repurchase to 11 million, or about 12% of the shares outstanding as of Sept. 30, replacing and expanding the prior share repurchase program authorized by the board in July. »Read Full Article
Metro-area home sales up almost 33% in October
The metro Milwaukee housing market continued its long climb back with a strong month in October for both sales of existing homes and permits to build new ones.
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Startup Weekend Milwaukee launches 15 companies
Fifteen new companies were launched Sunday night, the result of Startup Weekend Milwaukee 2012, a 54-hour marathon event where teams formed around initial ideas that participants presented on Friday.
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Madison utility electric rates will rise nearly 4% in 2013
Utility customers in Madison will see a nearly 4% increase in January following a decision by state regulators that trimmed the size of the rate hike sought by Madison Gas & Electric Co.
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Anodyne plans new roasting facility, cafe
Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. plans to move its roasting facility from Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood to a Walker's Point location, where it also would open a second cafe.
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Apartments planned for riverfront near Humboldt
A development firm is hoping to build apartments on a site overlooking the Milwaukee River just downriver from Humboldt Ave.
HSI Properties LLC is planning the project for a 1-acre site at 1887 N. Water St., the former home of Pro Graphics Inc. That building, which has been vacant for several years, would be demolished and replaced by anywhere from roughly 80 to 100 apartments, said Ryan Schultz, HSI co-owner. »Read Full Blog Post(13)
Spectrum Brands buys majority interest in hair removal business
Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc., of Madison, says it has paid $50 million for a majority interest in Shaser Bioscience Inc., a Boston firm that develops hair removal systems.
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Roadrunner Transportation acquires South Dakota trucker
Roadrunner Transportation Systems, of Cudahy, has acquired a South Dakota trucking company for about $24 million.
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Trek moves on without Lance Armstrong
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Mayor Charlie Hales spoke, along with State Sen. Ginny Burdick, who has proposed legislation during the 2013 Oregon legislative session to curb gun violence.
Hales, who took office last month, has made it a priority to push for laws and legislation that would reduce the amount of illegal gun violence in the nation.
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And Felton that was ridiculous why didnt Woodson pull him or just simply tel him you are a PG move the ball. I rarely get angry during Knicks games since their arent my main team but this game pissed me off, terrible pg play and coaching.
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Woodson said he needed 3 more Tyson Chandlers but only played Camby 5 minutes. WTF?
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If Novak isn't making 45%+ on his 3s then he's useless. He gives it right back on defense. I'm surprised these guys were so lost on defense when it seemed like woody had them zoned in on defense this year. The player who had gone downhill the most defensively is Chandler.
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Tom Georgens is out as CEO at NetApp, as the storage vendor's board of directors appoints George Kurian, executive vice president of product operations, as the company's new CEO.
Pure Storage Unveils First Custom-Built Hardware For Its All-Flash ArraysPure Storage is ending its use of industry-standard server hardware for a custom hardware approach to increase performance and density, and backing it up with a new program that provides nondisruptive capacity, controller and software upgrades.
Carbonite: Windows Server 2003 Migration Failures Could Present Huge Costs For SMBsThere could be pitfalls around migrating from Windows Server 2003. Here's how to avoid them.
Silicon Valley: One Earthquake Away From IT Disaster?The U.S. Geological Survey just increased its estimation for the chance of a massive earthquake striking California. And the potential impact on IT and the supply chain is scarier than any Hollywood movie.
NetApp Grabs Former Brocade Channel Chief To Head Global Channel SalesThe hiring of Bill Lipsin is part of a plan to expand NetApp's channel presence in the wake of a slow customer transition to Clustered Data Ontap and looming layoffs.
Lenovo Enters Enterprise Storage Market Without EMC, IBM HelpLenovo, which resells storage solutions from EMC and IBM, has unveiled a new line of enterprise storage solutions based on its own intellectual property.
NetApp Rebrands SteelStore As AltaVault, Boosts Cloud Connectivity, PerformanceNetApp, which last year acquired the SteelStore cloud-integrated storage acceleration platform from Riverbed, has renamed it as AltaVault and given it a new hardware platform.
Massive Houston Flooding Knocks Servers OfflineExtreme storms Monday and Tuesday knocked the servers at many Houston-area businesses out of commission and boosted demand for disaster recovery protection.
Rubrik Lands $41M Funding, Looks To Simplify Data ProtectionThe Rubrik r300 combines a full-featured data protection application with industry-standard hardware to offer a scalable hybrid-cloud backup and recovery solution.
NetApp CEO Georgens Sees 'Re-Balancing' AheadNetApp Chairman and CEO Tom Georgens told CRN that the vendor will be investing in more training and go-to-market efforts as part of a way to get past a slower-than-expected transition to Clustered Data Ontap.
Springpath's New CEO Sets Sights On Building Hyper-Converged Infrastructure BusinessTerry Cunningham, Springpath's new CEO, touts a subscription model for bringing its hyper-converged infrastructure software to customers' choice of server hardware.
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EMC Channel Chief: New Enterprise Appointment Tightens Links Between Indirect, Direct SalesEMC wants to tighten alignment between direct sales and the channel so partners and customers can deal with it seamlessly.
Pure Storage Beefs Up Partner ProgramPure Storage, which only last month hired its first channel chief, has added more MDFs and other resources to its channel program.
OpenStack: Red Hat Integrates Manila File Storage With GlusterRed Hat, a leader in the OpenStack Manila scale-out shared file system, said it has integrated Manila APIs into Red Hat Gluster Storage to provide file-based services in OpenStack environments.
Axcient Unleashes Appliance-Less Cloud-Based Disaster RecoveryThe new Axcient Direct to Cloud service lets small businesses and remote offices with little or no hardware to replicate servers and data to a cloud for cloud-based disaster recovery without an on-premises appliance.
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hi ladies,
i am on day 8 of amoxycillan and i am seeing a drop in the amount of milk i am pumping for the past 3 days or so. I normally pump around 4oz in 3.5 hours and now only 3oz or a little less. did anyone else have this happen?
hi ladies,
i am on day 8 of amoxycillan and i am seeing a drop in the amount of milk i am pumping for the past 3 days or so. I normally pump around 4oz in 3.5 hours and now only 3oz or a little less. did anyone else have this happen?
mom to ds daniel 12/16/09 and ben 2/27/11
this never happened to me but i see that your post has gone by without a reply so i'm bumping--perhaps someone who's been through this might read it.
my only thought is that the decreased supply might be because of illness/infection (i.e. the reason you were prescribed the antibiotic in the first place).
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There's nothing in Hale about amoxicillin having any effect on milk supply. It is pretty common to have a drop in supply when you're sick though. Or if baby's been sick and his appetite is affected, it could cause temporary fluctuations in milk supply. Some cold medicines containing antihistamines are known to reduce milk production too. I don't know if any of those are relevant here.
I'm sorry we missed this when you posted it. I hope you're feeling better!
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Did you take any Sudafed when you were sick? That can also affect supply.
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I'm dealing with the same thing - but I finished my Antibiotics a week ago and my supplly has actually dropped more since then, but I'm still fighting it off. So I'm going under the assumption that my supply is suffering due to being sick. I'd been combating it with frequent pumping, but going to start taking fenugreek to see if that helps.
thanks for responding. finished medicine quite a while ago now and i'm feeling well, still battling low supply (only know this via what i am pumping) baby seems fine when he is at the breast. i am using a new pump on wed so hopefully the pump performance is my problem. thanks again.
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Former Potsdam Town Court Clerk Accused Of Stealing $117K
It was an emotional and teary-eyed Mary Jo Guyette who entered Pierrepont Court wearing sunglasses to answer to charges she stole more than $117,000 from Potsdam Town Court where she once worked as a court clerk.
Accompanied by her attorney Edward Narrow, Guyette turned herself in to State Police investigators Tuesday morning.
Guyette pleaded not guilty before Justice Robert Camp to felony charges of second-degree grand larceny and falsifying business records.
She is accused of stealing from fines, surcharges and other court accounts and then allegedly tried to cover the thefts up by destroying case files over a four year period from May 2009 to June 2013.
The discrepancies were discovered by then-deputy Court Clerk Sherry Stone and Town Justice Sam Charleson, which launched a State Police investigation and a state comptroller's audit, which found more than $117,000 missing.
"I am dismayed by the flagrant manner in which this local official abused her position," said State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli in a prepared statement. "Town officials deserve credit for bringing their concerns about the justice court's finances to my office. My auditors and investigators did a tremendous job uncovering the extent of this theft, and District Attorney Rain and the New York State Police took every step to ensure this individual was held accountable."
For now, Guyette's case is being handled by local prosecutors but could be turned over to the state Attorney General's office.
She has reserved her right for a preliminary hearing at a later time while her attorney wouldn't rule out a possible plea bargain.
Guyette was released under probation supervision.
She's due back in Pierrepont Court on April 21.


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Soon after Leeward Auto Wreckers began its island-wide contract for police initiated tows last year on Nov. 1, alarms bells rang.
"They had a difficult time in training their personnel, in ensuring that the right rates were used (and) in calculating mileage," said Sheri Kajiwara, director of the Department of Customer Services.
Once the problem was brought to light by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in December, the city began auditing Leeward and the overcharges were corrected. A total of 643 customers received refunds averaging $15 each.
Leeward general manager Albert Ternora admitted Wednesday during a Budget Committee hearing that it was human error that resulted in overpayment. He said he looked at an outdated document when setting rates, and not a revised contract that was eventually accepted by the city.
"I take blame for that," Ternora told the committee. "I failed to look further into what we had put into our best and final offer."
Under the current contract, Leeward is allowed to charge a maximum hook-up fee of $165. However, the company can charge customers overtime for off-hour service, as well as a $25 per day storage fee.
"If you claim your vehicle within 24 hours, then that fee would be $25," explains customer services executive secretary Randy Leong. "If it's over seven days from that, then it goes down to $20 per day."
In addition to overcharging customers, Leeward experienced difficulty in paying the city a $60,000 per month premium, twice bouncing checks in January and February.
"We agreed that they would pay us an additional $15,000 per month, in addition to their $60,000, until we're made whole," said Kajiwara. Adding to the company's woes, Leeward was evicted from one of its storage lots, causing the city to question whether it could maintain the 1,900 parking stalls required under the contract.
After the long list of problems the city and the tow company agreed to end their contract, but not until a new agreement is in place, which is expected in mid-October. Kajiwara said Leeward would be allowed to rebid, but must continue to fulfill the terms of its current contract with the city. If not, an emergency contract could be issued, but that would likely result in added costs to consumers.
"We really would lose control over the rates charged to the public, and we couldn't guarantee that the public would pay $165 per tow," she said. "It could double."
Budget chairwoman Ann Kobayashi said the city may have no choice but to revert to towing contracts that are divided into zones, and not a single vendor.
"When you just have one company doing everything, there's the possibility of abuse," said Kobayashi. "It's the customer who doesn't know a lot of these rules about no drop charge (and) your car should go to the nearest lot, and they're just paying."
The city's new bid request is expected to be issued in two to three weeks. Kajiwara said it would be focused on customer service.
"The bottom line is service to the public and maintaining lower rates with the public, that's where our priority is going to be," she said.
Company keeps towing despite overcharges
Soon after Leeward Auto Wreckers began its island-wide contract for police initiated tows last year on Nov. 1, alarms bells rang.
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Last month, few members of the Drake University football team's defensive unit felt positive about their performance.
The low point came Sept. 15 in a 27-10 loss to Indiana State when Drake gave up 349 rushing yards to ISU running back Shakir Bell.
"We were definitely embarrassed," said Cary-Grove graduate Jake Underwood, the team's senior starting strong safety. "We put our foot down and said, 'This is going to stop.' "
The Football Bowl Championship subdivision's Bulldogs have made strides since last month's disappointment, posting two impressive wins in which they created eight turnovers and allowed a combined 17 points over the past two weeks.
Drake (4-2) enters today's 1 p.m. game at Valparaiso (Ind.) University with a 3-0 Pioneer Football League record.
"Things have improved a lot for us," said sophomore Drew Ormseth, a Crystal Lake South grad who starts at cornerback. "The past couple of weeks, we've found an identity."
Senior defensive end Brandon Coleman (Cary-Grove) said the defense's personality has been an ongoing adjustment.
"Last year, we were big and physical … a Midwest, farm-raised Iowa football team," he said. "With the guys we have like Jake and Drew, we're finding out that we're a more athletic, playmaking defense."
Last weekend, Drake won 38-10 in a conference showdown against San Diego, the preseason favorite to win the PFL.
"It was a big deal," Coleman said. "It was a big part of reconstructing our identity as a defense."
While Coleman has followed his All-PFL season of a year ago with nine tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks, the team has gotten a boost from the defense as a whole as well.
Ormseth, who also is the team's primary punt returner, is tied for the team lead with two interceptions and has 20 tackles. Underwood has 33 tackles and is tied for the team lead with three pass breakups.
"We're clamping down a little more, especially on third downs," Ormseth said.
Along with the three defensive starters, Drake's roster boasts nine local athletes, including sophomore quarterback Stephen Covalt (Prairie Ridge), sophomore offensive linemen A.J. Erb (Huntley), Philip Hespen (Crystal Lake South) and John McMahon (Jacobs), junior defensive end Nick Underwood (Cary-Grove) and freshman defensive back Caz Zyks (Jacobs).
Soccer standouts: Illinois State's Aimee Wronski and Montana's Allie Simon were named the Missouri Valley Conference and Big Sky Conference women's soccer players of the week, respectively, this week by CollegeSportsMadness.com.
Wronski, a sophomore forward from Huntley, scored the game-winning goal Oct. 3 in a 1-0 victory against Loyola of Chicago. For the season, she is tied for the team lead with four assists to go along with two goals for the Redbirds (8-3-2).
A sophomore forward from Cary-Grove, Simon also was named Big Sky Co-Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. Simon scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 win Oct. 5 against Northern Colorado. She added another goal two days later in a 4-0 win against North Dakota. Simon's first two goals of the season helped the Grizzlies improve to 7-6-2.
Pacing the Pumas: Richmond-Burton grad Richard Kaht helped D-II Saint Joseph's College of Indiana's men's cross country team to a fourth-place finish at last weekend's Eagle Invitational in Lisle.
Kaht, a junior for the Pumas, was the team's top individual finisher with his fifth-place effort in 25 minutes 44.9 seconds. The 8-kilometer invitational included runners from 13 teams.
Superb Star: Cary-Grove grad Rachel Taddy was one of 13 singles players named to the All-Northern Athletics Conference women's tennis team this fall.
Taddy, a junior, has an 8-4 record at No. 1 singles for the D-III Stars.
• Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at email@example.com, check out his On Campus blog at McHenryCountySports.com and follow him @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.


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To set the stage, allow me to quote in full the text placed at the beginning of the film on the 2005 Region 1 DVD released by Grindhouse Releasing:
The following motion picture contains intense scenes of extreme violence and cruelty.No, of course not, the chance to make money by releasing the most controversial film in history had nothing to do with it, you noble defenders of liberty and intellectual freedom! That is verily why you are named for that beloved and wildly influential freethinker and social activist, John Stuart Grindhouse.
As distributors of this film, we wish to state with absolute sincerity that by no means do condone the artistic decisions employed by the makers of this film. However, as firm believers in the constitutional right of free speech, we do not believe in censorship.
To quote Thomas Jefferson, "It behooves every man who values the liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others."
Therefore, we are presenting CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST for the very first time in its uncut, uncensored original form, with all sequences photographed by the filmmakers, however offensive and repugnant, presented fully intact.
What you will see will definitely shock and offend you. Nonetheless, it should be viewed as a disturbing historical document of a bygone era of extreme irresponsibility which no longer exists, and, hopefully, will never exist again."Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
-George Santayana
Snark aside, I quoted that in full because it is illuminating in its incredible desperation, with two separate Appeals to Authority, shrill and sober-minded words like "believe" and "offend" over-used something dreadful, and "historical document" wielded like a paladin's shield. Leonard Maltin begging us on his bended knees not to be angry that, 75 years ago, Disney animators were racist, could not possibly have put together a more neurotic, hackles-raised defense than that.
Which should tell us, even if we do not know it already, that Cannibal Holocaust is a major thing that a hell of a lot of people are terrified to touch, and what is especially major about it, as you may or may not know, is its scenes of animal murder. Look at any consideration of the movie, positive or negative, and it will spend a lot of energy on the animal murders - and I certainly do say "murder" and not "slaughter" with intent. For, whatever else I might think and argue, the animal scenes are the wrong choice, full stop.
If you don't know what I'm talking about: in the course of filming, a number of actual wild animals that were actually alive were killed, on camera, by the actors. This most notoriously includes a turtle that is dragged out of the river, decapitated, stripped down to the bone, cooked, and eaten, all in front of our eyes. It is not fun to watch; nor is it meant to be fun to watch. But more to the point, it is morally indefensible to kill an animal in the creation of a work of art, if that animal would otherwise have remained alive. I will not merely concede that, I will trumpet it from the hills.
But still...
There is absolutely no way in which Cannibal Holocaust can be said to be particularly outrageous in this regard, and why this film, of all films, garnered the reputation as the "watching animals get killed" film is forever going to remain a mystery to me. The fact is, just about every single Italian movie about cannibals in the '70s and '80s - there were a lot - involves footage of live animals being killed, and in nearly every case, that animal would not have been killed if not for the filmmakers' whim. Then we must add to that tally all the non-cannibal narrative movies in which an animal is killed onscreen - the Italian and Spanish film industries were not terribly shy about this into the '80s, and it's not impossible to find even in American films of sufficiently old vintage - and then head over to the nasty realm of Mondo cane and its bastard children, "documentaries", which were mostly just shocking footage strung together in no real order. In fact, I am just about willing to guarantee that you have watched a movie in which an animal is killed on-camera, because it happens in Apocalypse Now - and while that is effectively documentary footage, it's still pretty fucking obvious that the cow involved is suffering pretty nastily.
(And don't even get me started on Jean Eustache and Jean-Michel Barjol's Le cochon, a phenomenally poetic documentary of one pig's journey through a small country slaughterhouse).
Deodato has since apologised for the animal footage in Cannibal Holocaust; but he didn't have to, because there are easily dozens and probably hundreds of films that do exactly the same thing. They're just not, for whatever reason, notorious. And truth be told, Deodato's film isn't even all that offensive: from all I'd heard of the turtle scene, I anticipated a miserable five minutes of watching an animal getting tortured to death. Instead, the very first thing that happens is that its head is chopped off - while its subsequent limb-spasms are hideous to watch, we can rest assured that the now-dead animal suffered for a fraction of a second, at most.
And again, just because it happened hundreds of times doesn't mean that those hundreds of films weren't equally guilty of incredible, disgusting immorality; no turtle should ever have to die for art (though at least the actors and crew subsequently ate it, so it wasn't a complete and utter moral crime). I'm just arguing that context and perspective are definitely things that need to be brought to bear in every case, even in the case of something as wanton as Cannibal Holocaust.
That took way too long, but it's the elephant in the room - you can't even pretend that you're here to discuss Cannibal Holocaust without dealing with the Animal Question, and I wanted to get it out of the way. Because the film in which those animal deaths are found is, even without bringing them into the picture, an absolute hell of a thing to consider: so unsparing and explicit in its depiction of human death and dismemberment that Deodato and producer Franco Di Nunzio were brought up on charges in two separate countries that they had, in fact, murdered their actors (these charges were dropped on account of being goddamn ludicrous, when the actors in question appeared on Italian television to demonstrate their relative lack of being deceased). Whether the film in question contains even the slightest degree of aesthetic value... but we will get there.
The first thing you notice is that the film is meta-textually dense; any more layers of extrapolated meaning and it would start leaking representational structures like a rusted-out bucket. The very first images after the credits (which are aerial shots of the Amazon basin), establish the conceit that all of Cannibal Holocaust is a news report, or maybe it's a documentary, about the assignment by NYU anthropology professor Harold Munroe (Robert Kerman) to find out what happened to a team of documentary filmmakers who went missing in South America months before. This outermost documentary framework is quickly and silently dropped, but still, the idea that we're watching a fake documentary about a man watching documentary footage that is real in his world, and which was meant to be theoretically real in our world as well, though it is faked - well, that's just a whole lot of meaning to sift through. And I have not mentioned that the missing documentarian, a certain Alan Yates (Carl Gabriel Yorke) is said, within the movie, to have shot footage of guerrilla executions in Africa for a documentary called The Last Road to Hell; when we see this footage, it is genuine, our-world footage of guerrillas executing men in Africa (including this footage, I'd argue, is every inch as distasteful and morally objectionable as the animal deaths: I suspect it's not similarly condemned because a) it's not prominent; b) it's not obvious that it's actually legitimate footage of people being shot, because c) it's not even a little bit bloody). By this point, we have a slurry of true/false dichotomies that begin to make my head a bit woozy just trying to keep track of them all.
All this meta-narrative density has two effects: the first is related to one of the film's pet themes, which is the unreliability of media. Deodato conceived of the movie while watching TV news, and noting with dismay how much emphasis the program placed on the borderline-fetishistic treatment of violent acts. His film is therefore a broadside against the manner in which media producers obfuscate and confuse and leave things an intractable mess of truths and constructed "reality", and to a degree, this is borne out in the very structure of the thing - and by the way, this theme, as well as the bog-standard cannibal film idea that "it is we in the 'civilised' West who are the true beastly savages", is presented with an inordinate lack of anything approaching grace or subtlety (by the way, I am not maintaining that a lack of subtlety is an aesthetic crime in a movie titled Cannibal Holocaust). If you can watch the movie, and the actions of Alan Yates, an immensely shitty man, without noticing that the argument is being made that it's just terrible how the media treats violence as entertainment, then you are being willfully ignorant.
It is often said that this theme makes Deodato something of a hypocrite, which I don't agree with: there's a significant difference between being an exploitation filmmaker, wringing entertainment out of extreme gore and sexualised violence that is scripted, staged, and altogether fake; and being a news producer who leads a broadcast with the story of a child being raped and murdered because it helps you to sell laundry detergent. Admittedly, Deodato does himself no favors in a film with violence extreme enough that the filmmaker should really have run screaming from even the possibility of hypocrisy. Then again, Cannibal Holocaust is such a massively ugly, brutal, punishing movie, that calling it "entertainment" is disingenuous at very best.
Back to the plot: Munroe travels to South America, worms his way into one (non-cannibalistic) tribe, observes several dreadful things there, and then travels on to a (cannibalistic) tribe where he finds the missing Yates and his crew - their bones, anyway - along with all their reels of film. Back in New York, he and Yates's producers view the parts of the film that could be salvaged (four months in the jungle isn't very nice to celluloid, especially celluloid being kept by people who have no concept whatever of photography), which basically means that we in the audience watch the footage, with frequent cutaways to Munroe loudly bemoaning how ungodly wicked the producers are for ever imagining that this could or should be shown to any human being anywhere.
In that footage, we find Yates, his girlfriend Faye Daniels (Francesca Ciardi), and cameramen Jack Anders (Perry Pirkanen) and Mark Tomaso (Luca Giorgio Barbareschi) tearing their way through Amazonia, staging atrocities (at one point burning down a straw hut with people trapped inside), raping the local girls, giggling with enthusiasm at the mutilated bodies they find, and finally, being destroyed in a particularly vengeful manner by the cannibal tribe that they have so epically pissed off. No gore movie in my experience has ever done such a thorough job of making its victims as impossibly hateful as Cannibal Holocaust: the best example I can think of to demonstrate what I mean is a moment where Faye, the "good" one of the crew, objects to the others filming their gang-rape of a young native woman, on the grounds that it's a waste of their precious remaining reels of film, since it can't be shown to an audience.
As such, Cannibal Holocaust not only veers close to the awkward position of inculcating and then rewarding a desire for savage vengeance against its characters, it plunges right over the cliff, laughing as it goes. You'd have to be Jesus Christ reborn not to find yourself a bit gratified at some of the brutality meted out to these unutterable assholes. Which is, along with the animal thing, and the African footage thing, one of my serious problems with the movie, and the one where Deodato has the hardest time avoiding the hypocrisy charge: you can't depict a whole-hearted psychopath getting his genitals chopped off by a mob of cannibals in such a way that we cannot possibly avoid agreeing that he deserves it, and then say in all seriousness, "turning violence into entertainment is unethical".
That being said, it's not very likely that anybody is cheering at this or any other point during the film, unless they suffer from some kind of social disorder. Cannibal Holocaust is joyless, as devoid of anything remotely resembling pleasure as any motion picture I've seen that didn't involve that other Holocaust. It is grueling, I think it's fair to say, not because of its gore (which isn't really any more convincing or outré than in any other cannibal movie, though it is probably the goriest of all subgenres), but because of how Deodato frames that gore - and as I've already claimed this summer, regarding The House on the Edge of the Park, Deodato was some kind of genius when it comes to hyper-violent cinema.
I mentioned that the meta-narrative underpinning the whole film had two effects: the second is that it leaves the audience fairly incapable of extracting where "reality" lies within the film's boundaries, and this merely serves to give it a bit more heft than most other cannibal movies - until the 53-minute mark, when Munroe starts watching the footage, and it becomes entirely possible to understand why people actually thought this was a snuff film. The "found footage" is of an entirely different quality than the rest of the movie: faded, full of terrible light damage, scratches, stains, and emulsion damaged so badly the image can't be made out whatsoever. It is absolutely plausible that it was sitting out in the heat and humidity for ages. Moreover, since we (presumably) have been completely flummoxed by where the edges of the mise en scène are meant to be, the footage is far more convincing than any of its contemporaries, despite possessing gore effects that are as patently false as in any of them (take the film's signature effect, a woman who has been spitted on a pole: once you know the trick, it's impossible not to see it). And it's not just the treatment of the physical film, but the massive shift in how the film is composed, lit, focused, that makes it seem like a wholly other object than the preceding "movie" footage (so, kudos to cinematographer Sergio D'Offizi for being an incredible genius).
Beyond any of that, Deodato simply approaches the film with a level of gravity and commitment not to be found in any of the other prominent cannibal films, not even his own earlier Jungle Holocaust/Last Cannibal World. The great majority of cannibal films are, bluntly, cheesy and ramshackle; they are disgusting and sickening almost without exception, but they're next to impossible to take seriously. It's hellishly easy to take Cannibal Holocaust seriously: everything about its construction puts us into a heightened state of acceptance, and Deodato's greater skill (by far) than an Umberto Lenzi or Jesús Franco means that what we're being asked to accept is already more potent and difficult to deal with than in the others.
It's for this reason, I think, that Cannibal Holocaust has such an infamous reputation, despite being in and of itself no more obnoxious and degrading than any given cannibal movie: it makes you feel it. Whereas Lenzi's depiction of monkey decapitation is gross and upsetting, Deodato's lingering treatment of turtle butchery - again, despite the obvious fact that his turtle suffers less than Lenzi's monkey - makes your soul feel scabbed-over.
The question then comes down to: why on God's earth would anybody watch Cannibal Holocaust? I have a partial reason, if not a terribly good one. It's an extension of why we like any horror film (not that it's really horror: it's just sheer gore exploitation): there's nothing inherently "pleasant" about being terrified, except that for a great many people, it's a primary motive in watching a certain kind of film. And this is because, despite what you might have been led to believe, art isn't about making you feel nice; it's about making you feel. At the risk of sounding unbearably trite they're called movies because they move you (okay, not actually), and being moved to a place of absolute misery is no less valid than being moved to happiness or lust or pleasant sorrow. There is no catharsis here: but there is the ability to access negative emotions that are an equally valid part of human experience as joy or the like, and it is inherently right that we should be able to access true emotion via art.
Like I said, not a terribly good reason. The fact of the matter is, Cannibal Holocaust is basically perfect: it achieves its goals (emotionally if not intellectually) in virtually every respect. Deodato made a movie whose purpose is to make me feel awful, and I do. So awful, in fact, that I cannot imagine ever deliberately watching the film again; so awful, that the closest I will ever come to recommending the film to anyone is that if someone mentioned their intention to watch it, I would clap their shoulder and say that it's not my place to stop them. It's not quite true what some people have said, that the film makes life itself a bit less joyous (and I have, for the record, seen films that have done that to me); but it absolutely leaves you feeling dreadful in a way that, however true to human emotion it may be, is the farthest it could possibly be from "satisfying". It is a powerful thing, though - when you gaze into Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Holocaust will also gaze into you.
Human Body Count: 20, plus an indeterminate number in the hut-burning, and even the thought of counting the African footage in something as essentially superficial as a body count makes me feel a little queasy.
Un-faked Nonhuman Body Count: 6 or 7, depending on how you count:
1. Coati (referred to as a muskrat), throat slit
2. Turtle, beheaded and butchered
3. Tarantula, bashed into pieces
4. Snake, beheaded
5. Monkey, skullcap chopped off
5b. A second monkey from a different angle
6. Pig, shot in the head.
Nastiness Rating: 5/5, truly Nasty. I mean, come on, it's Cannibal fucking Holocaust.


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