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BOSTON (AP) — It dawned chilly, clear and blue, a parsimonious but perfect serving of New England springtime that — because it came on the third Monday in April — unquestionably called for a celebration.
The kind of morning just right for an 11:05 a.m. first pitch at Fenway Park. A day to remind your kids about the heroes of the American Revolution before heading out to stake a place on the curb and cheer on modern-day heroes of the Marathon. A day, Bostonians say, when their city realizes the best of itself.
And then, in 10 seconds of fury and smoke, the joy founded upon 117 years of sweat and aspiration was stolen away.
When a pair of bombs exploded Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140, it left a scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that terrorized this city. Spectators who moments before had been cheering family and friends were knocked to the ground. Blood stained the pavement. With reports that two more bombs had been found unexploded, Bostonians and visitors hunkered down in fear.
But to appreciate the totality of what Boston surrendered in those moments of horror requires understanding just how much the city had to lose. Other cities have, no doubt, experienced far more horrific tragedies. But few have had their sense of security ripped away at a moment of such singular exultation, on a day that captures an essential part of this city's soul.
Monday in Boston was Patriots' Day, a holiday unique to New England that brings the region's rich history alive with reenactments recalling the battles of Lexington and Concord that marked the beginning of the American Revolution. For the city's children, it means a day off from school as they begin Spring Break. For 23,000 runners from around the world, the day caps months spent preparing to test body and spirit. It is a day when a city feels like a village, when strangers offer high-fives and free food to runners they'll never see again.
When it's over, runners wander through the streets, proudly wearing medals bearing the image of a unicorn. It is a symbol chosen because it represents the endless pursuit of perfection that lives mostly in myth — except, that is, in those all-too-brief hours when Boston finds a bit of perfection in itself.
To see all that shattered is a hard feeling to put in to words, Bostonians say. But they tried nonetheless, because it felt right to do so.
For Meredith Saillant, the day's transformation was summed up in minutes, just after she finished running the 26.2-mile race, when a gathering with friends in a hotel room overlooking the finish line morphed from a party-in-the-making into a search for an escape route.
"I went into the shower laughing, so happy about what this day was all about — and I came out and it was all over," said Saillant, who lives in the Boston suburb of Brookline. "It's just that sense of completely feeling just vulnerable, like something's been taken from us for no reason, for absolutely no reason, and it's just completely senseless."
In an old city that prides itself on its institutions, workers at Boston's hospitals seemed stunned by the shrapnel wounds and ruptured eardrums, as much because of the timing and the place they were inflicted as for their severity.
"This is something I've never seen in my 25 years here," said Alisdair Conn, chief of emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital. "This amount of carnage in the civilian population, this is what we expect from war."
But the pain and despair was hardly limited to the emergency wards. Instead, it spread across the city, echoing off empty cobblestones.
By evening, SWAT team members with machine guns patrolled hospitals and stood outside hotels that were on lockdown. Most bars had closed early on a night when they're typically packed with post-race revelers.
"Be Safe and be #BostonStrong," read one sign posted on the door of a darkened bar. "We urge everyone to please stay safe," said the sign posted at another.
At The Hill Tavern, across the street from Massachusetts General, people hunched over their beers and stared in shock at the television screens broadcasting news of the explosions. The mood was somber.
"You don't ever think something like this would happen so close to home, especially in Boston," said 23-year-old Kaitlyn Kloeblen. "You always think it's such a small, safe city."
Kloeben said she was avoiding the subway system and staying close to home for the night. "We don't want to go anywhere on the T or anything," she said. "We don't really feel safe."
The mood was equally wan in the promenades around historic Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market that would normally be thronged with post-Marathon partiers. Instead, nearly all the bars and restaurants were black, surrendering the streetscape to a few lonely hangers-on, a handful of police officers and a bronze statue of Red Auerbach, the legendary Celtics coach and general manager.
"Today is a very special day. I'm from Boston and I'm devastated," said Laura Gassett, who had brought friends from California, Utah and England to the Marathon before seeking solace at Durgin Park, one of just two bars open. "The terrorists are getting exactly what they wanted. They want to shut Boston down and they did. They cut us off right at the knees."
As Gassett and her friends went in search of a cab, a chain across the entrance to Dick's Last Resort — a bar that posts its closing time as "til I freakin' say so!!" — swung in the breeze and an outdoor loudspeaker broadcast the notes of "Always and Forever," across the emptiness that was not supposed to be.
"We were sitting in the bar and we saw bomb squads walking by with M-16s, checking trash barrels," said Gassett's partner, Candy Shoemaker. "It was like, 'Oh my God.'"
The disbelief seemed most obvious in the faces and the voices of runners. Many recalled how the day had started off so perfectly with cool, clear skies after last year's stifling heat.
"The runners on the course were happy," said Lucretia Ausse, who was running her first Boston Marathon, "and it was wild going through Wellesley. Just everybody - the spectators were off the hook."
Ausse had just crossed the finish line when she turned around and saw smoke pouring into the sky.
The finish line is usually a joyous place in Boston: the ultimate accomplishment in a marathon that's considered among the most difficult in the world to run, owing to its steep hills and competitive qualifying times. But this time, runners surged away from the finish line, anxious to pick up phones that would allow them to reassure their families. Except that none of the calls were going through.
There was anxiety and fear in Boston Common, a historic park just beyond the finish line where runners wrapped in foil blankets usually eagerly reunite with family members.
Instead, people wandered in and out in a confused daze, searching for family and friends who were unreachable. Sirens rang through the air. Helicopters thundered overhead. Runners collapsed on the ground, crying.
"It was mayhem. It was chaotic," said Mike Ferrari, 24, who lives in Boston. "Everyone just started running."
By nightfall, nearly all had departed and runner Tara Redmond, 42, hurried back to her hotel through eerily quiet streets. Tonight, after months of training to earn a Marathon medal, it felt wrong to wear hers as if there was something to celebrate. The only reason she had it on at all was that her mother had told her she deserved it. But Redmond was no longer sure.
She talked about all her fellow runners who'd joined Boston's once-a-year chase of excellence and who had been unable to claim their rightful prize. Together, with this city, they had started the day that held such promise, only to see it evaporate.
"It's such a sad day," Redmond said. Then, she glanced down, running her fingers over the medal — the one depicting the Unicorn that symbolizes a city's search for rarely attainable perfection — and her eyes filled with tears.
ADAM GELLER,Associated Press
MEGHAN BARR,Associated Press
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text: I think I am just needing to vent because I am EXHAUSTED! Between work, housework and dinners, baby, older sibling and the other kid (husband) I am worn out and feeling resentful. My baby is 4 months old now and we have had a string of illnesses in the home. My baby is the type who wants to be held and carried around most of the time (although she is very sweet). Only three rooms in our house are ever clean at the same time. And I hate to admit it but I have grown very resentful of husband. He just doesn't do enough to chip in. The other day, I was picking up his plate in the living room and actually fantasized grabbing the plate and chucking it at his head! Does anyone else feel like this?

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The Geography Blog focusing on all things geography: human, physical, technical, space, news, and geopolitics. Also known as Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! Written by a former National Geographic employee who also proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Ask a Geographer in Afghanistan: Sustainable Practices in Afghanistan?
The first question I received comes from Dr. Robert Brinkmann. He asks via Twitter "how about some things we look at as sustainable practices here: energy, buying local, organic food etc. Interesting comparison"
Short Answer: No
Long Answer: Afghanistan has been in a state of war since 1979. As such much of Afghanistan's development has been set back decades if not more. People survive with what they can, not caring one iota if it is sustainable or not. In much of the Pasthun Belt (eastern and southern Afghanistan along the Pakistan border) there are whole districts that lack electricity. Some people use generators for short bursts of power at night but these people are in the minority. Most cooking is done via charcoal with gas being available at a somewhat high cost to urban dwellers. There have been some efforts to get rural people solar cookers but this is done because of limited energy, not because it is a green practice.
Buying local is not really an option. Most people get food staples like rice and naan bread from the bazaars (if they are not farmers themselves). Meat is available but it is not a daily dish. Because much of Afghanistan is about to experience the fifth year in a row of drought shipping in food staples is a must. USAID grain shipments and rice from Pakistan and India is feeding much of the country. Much of this is handed out by the government but the transit mafia has a large black market share of anything that is shipped to Afghanistan. Any potential inquiry by me into the transit mafia has been met with strong words advising me to change the line of questioning.
As for organic, from the short time I have talked to farmers I am sure they would use any sort of fertilizer that could give them enough crops to feed their families.
Coming up next: Smeeko's question on what Afghans want
3 comments:
- data diplomacy said...
Here is my Afghan agriculture in a nutshell
Aid programs in post conflict countries suffer from an immediate gratification requirement. Essentially donor governments and implementing organizations need to be able to show that they have done something. this usually manifests as commodity transfers rather than longer term interventions that change practice, governance and accountability.
As far as green practices in agriculture I would add the following to the post.
fertilizer: cheapest and easiest is urea. However Urea, when combined with diesel fuel creates a very powerful explosive. Distributing large amounts of ready made explosive ingredients is not very sound in the middle of a hot insurgency.
Drought has been going on for at least the last 10 years. Lack of water has been compounded by severe overgrazing and rampant deforestation.
Deforestation is a result of rural dependency on wood fuel and extensive timber poaching by into Pakistan. Efforts at reforestation and water control were stymied by Aid funding classifications. Here is the reasoning. Given a protracted crisis like a drought one would be expected to undertake disaster mitigation efforts. These normally, given Afghanistan's mountainous terrain,comprised building check dams and tree plantings to reinforce slopes and and promote water retention. Unfortunately such programs were deemed agricultural in nature and therfore not suitable programming during a crisis. Another factor undermining this was failure to provide for the medium term maintenance, that is cash to pay workers until the local economy could revive and support communal labor levy's(very much like the traditional irrigation districts).
Wildcat borehole drill rigs also seriously depleted ground water. these undermined traditional irrigation systems such as the centuries old Karez http://www.adkn.org/EN/agriculture/article.asp?a=67 .
buying locally can only work if one is able to raise cash by selling ones surplus. Selling surplus means farm-to-market roads that do not exist or are too risky to travel (bandits, mines, extortion)
Overgrazing is a result of drought reduced forage and traditional laws that favor pastoral rights over sedentary cultivation. These are largely ethnicity based and largely support migratory Pashtun economic interests over local landholders.
Probably the biggest barrier to more effective agriculture is the agricultural debt issue. most farmers are in serious debt. The dept holders, frequently the warlords or other, grow the debt through control of inputs and access to markets. They also demand high value cultivation such as Opium. for many years specialists have insisted that no meaningful change could be achieved in improving food security, boosting agricultral production and opium eradication without solving the debt issue. Such a strategy would entail cash to liquidate the debts, a legal structure to prevent further racketeering and the creation of a crop insurance/agricultural loan structure to provide safe and legitimate support.
Of course all of this presumes that the farmer would earn enough from their crops which requires all of the previously mentioned inputs.
- Catholicgauze said...
Data Diplomacy,
Awesome. Thank you so much!
Interesting post! I really appreciate your response. I think that as we work on sustainability in the US under the three E's of environment, equity, and economic development, we consider the impact of our non-local purchasing on other nations. For example, while I would hate to see offshore drilling going on in Florida where I live, we are importing much of our energy from Appalachia (Mountain top mining) and Venezuela (largely an enemy of our country without strong environmental regulation). One can clearly see the impact of our purchasing within those locations.
In addition, I think it is interesting to point out that buying locally may be really a luxury. I wonder if the current focus on buying local in the western world will have any real impact. The New Yorker recently had an article that largely demonstrated energy savings and efficiency just makes room for more energy use in other sectors. Is this what we will see as we continue with modern sustainability efforts? Are we just making room for more growth?
Bob Brinkmann


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Living conditions and volunteer lifestyles in Rwanda
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|As a Peace Corps Volunteers, you will have to adapt to conditions that may be dramatically different than you have ever experienced and modify lifestyle practices that you now take for granted. Even the most basic practices— talking, eating, using the bathroom, and sleeping — may take significantly different forms in the context of the host country. If you successfully adapt and integrate, you will in return be rewarded with a deep understanding of a new culture, the establishment of new and potentially lifelong relationships, and a profound sense of humanity.
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Few countries in the world offer the level of mail service we take for granted in the United States. Mail takes a minimum of two weeks to arrive in Rwanda. Some mail may simply not arrive (fortunately, this is not a frequent occurrence, but it does happen). We do not want to sound discouraging, but when someone is thousands of miles away from families and friends, communication can become a very sensitive issue. We would prefer you be forewarned of the reality of mail service in the developing world. Advise your family and friends to number their letters and to include "Airmail" and "Par Avion" on their envelopes.
The amount of time it takes for mail to reach Volunteers is as varied as their sites. Airmail from the United States to major cities in Rwanda will take about two weeks. More remote post offices receive mail less frequently, and sometimes a local courier is employed to ferry mail from isolated villages to trading centers. Although mail is sent regularly from the Peace Corps office, the timing of its receipt depends on the location of the Volunteer's site.
We strongly encourage you to write to your family regularly (perhaps weekly or biweekly) and to number your letters. Family members will typically become worried when they do not hear from you, so please advise your parents, friends, and relatives that mail is sporadic and that they should not worry if they do not receive your letters regularly.
Packages normally take about four to five months to reach Rwanda from the United States if sent via surface mail. Volunteers are requested to follow the mailing procedures described in the Peace Corps/Rwanda Volunteer Handbook. Your address during training will be:
Kigali, Rwanda
It is your responsibility to forward the postal address at your site (once you know it) to the Peace Corps office in Kigali so mail can be routed directly to you. Remember that it is important to keep in regular contact with relatives and friends, not just for them but also for you. Write often so no one has cause to worry, which a lapse in letters for any period of time has been known to create.
Once at your site, you will receive a notification slip in your post box when you receive a package. Respond promptly; the sooner you pick up the package, the cheaper storage fees will be. Trainees and Volunteers are responsible for mailing personal letters and packages. Airmail letters and stamps are available at local post offices.
Most large cities and provincial capitals have domestic longdistance service; regional centers and some large cities also provide overseas telephone service. In some locations, the service is fast and efficient; in others, it may take several hours to get calls through.
Cellular telephones and service are available in Rwanda, especially in Kigali and larger towns. SIM cards are inexpensive and can be found in Kigali. Peace Corps does not require Volunteers to purchase a phone, but Volunteers may choose to buy a phone and service once they reach their sites and have a clear idea of the network coverage in the area.
Domestic calls: Volunteers are responsible for all toll charges on calls, but you may call the Peace Corps/Kigali office collect or reverse charges if it is an emergency. Peace Corps/Rwanda will provide a monthly telecommunications allowance to cover official and emergency phone calls.
Overseas calls: The Peace Corps occasionally authorizes a Volunteer to call home because of a family emergency. When you receive such notification from the Peace Corps, you may pay for toll charges and bring the receipt to the Peace Corps office for reimbursement. Volunteers will be responsible for personal overseas calls, which can be made from their cellphones for a higher charge per minute. Many Volunteers choose to call home and ask their families to call them back on their cellphones, as cellphones can make and receive international calls.
Computer, Internet, and Email Access
Internet access is available at post offices and cybercafés in towns and cities, but can be slow and costly. Because Internet use appears to be primarily for personal reasons, you are expected to use your living and telecommunications allowances to cover your Internet costs. Designated computers in the resource center at the PC/Kigali office do have Internet access. You are welcome to use these, though priority is given to Volunteers who are getting ready to finish their service, to assist them with graduate school and job applications. Volunteers are prohibited from using staff computers in all offices.
Housing and Site Location
As a Volunteer, you will most likely live in a small town or rural community, and not have access to indoor plumbing or electricity. Expect to use lamps and candles for lighting and to cook using a single-burner kerosene stove, wood, or charcoal.
The standards and conditions of Volunteer housing vary widely, from mud houses with thatched roofs to very modern cement houses with running water and electricity. The type of house you have will depend on your project, the area of the country to which you are posted, and the types of houses available in the community. You may also be required to share housing with other staff or to live in a room behind a shop at a market center. You can expect to have, at the very least, a room to call your own. The decision as to whether housing standards are "acceptable" lies with the Peace Corps staff. When it comes to your housing, you should not lose sight of the guiding goal of the Peace Corps. Maintain your focus on service to the people of Rwanda and not on the level of your accommodations.
Because Peace Corps Volunteers are often posted in poor rural areas to work with communities with little or no money for housing, the Peace Corps sets minimum housing standards:
- There must be at least a private, lockable room if housing is shared with other people.
- The room should have windows.
- The roof should not leak.
- There should be a cement floor and a place for a Volunteer to take a bucket bath or shower.
- There should be a latrine that is private or semiprivate (not used by all schoolchildren at a school, but perhaps shared by other staff members).
- The Volunteer will be expected to use the same water source as the community.
Your site assignment is made during pre-service training, in collaboration with the training staff. The assignment is based on their assessment and recommendation regarding community needs and your skill levels in the technical, cross-cultural, and language areas. You will be interviewed prior to an actual placement decision so additional personal preferences can be considered in making the site assignment. Site placements are made using the following criteria (in priority order):
- Medical considerations
- Government of Rwanda needs
- Site requirements (community needs) matched with demonstrated technical, cross-cultural, and language skills
- Peace Corps/Rwanda needs
- Personal preference of the trainee
The final decisions on site placement are made by the Peace Corps staff. If you choose not to go to the site assigned to you, you will be given the opportunity to terminate your service with the Peace Corps.
Living Allowance and Money Management
Each Volunteer receives a monthly allowance sufficient to cover basic costs. The allowance enables you to live adequately according to the Peace Corps' philosophy of a modest lifestyle. It is based on the [[Media:Media:Example.ogg--~~~~Insert non-formatted text here]]local cost of living and is paid in local currency. Your living allowance is intended to cover food, housing, clothing, transportation from home to worksite, utilities, household supplies, recreation and entertainment, incidental personal expenses, communications, and reading material.
Food and Diet
In most parts of Rwanda there is a wide choice of foods, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetables (such as cabbage, avocadoes, mangoes, bananas, carrots, and passion fruit) to starches (such as potatoes, plantains, corn, rice, and cassava) to meats (primarily goat and beef, with some chicken and fish). With a little creativity, you can enjoy a varied diet. Fruits and vegetables are seasonal, which means some items may not be available at all times. Vegetarian Volunteers will have little difficulty in continuing their diets after becoming familiar with local food items and their preparation.
All Volunteers will be expected to travel in Rwanda using local transportation (i.e., foot, public buses, or vans). This includes getting from your training center to your site both during and at the end of pre-service training.
Volunteers may not own or operate motorized vehicles, but they are allowed to rent vehicles during approved vacation periods. Trainees and Volunteers are not allowed to drive any vehicle during training or at their sites.
Social Activities
The most common form of entertainment is socializing among friends and neighbors. Some Volunteers visit other Volunteers on weekends and holidays. The Peace Corps encourages Volunteers to remain at their sites as much as possible to develop relationships with community members, but it also recognizes that they need to make occasional trips to regional centers and to visit friends.
You will find it easy to make friends in your community and to participate in weddings, funerals, birthday celebrations, and other social events. It is impossible to overemphasize the rewards of establishing that rapport with one's supervisors, co-workers, and other community members. A sincere effort to learn the local language will greatly facilitate these interactions.
Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
Volunteers will find that most Rwandans are very hard working. They expect the same of all foreigners, including Volunteers, and expect them to conduct themselves in a mature and professional manner.
Present-day transformations have made managers hesitant to confront issues, provide constructive criticism or to simply say "no" when they feel it might result in conflict. Volunteers will have to find ways of creating comfortable working relationships at all levels of the organization and in the community.
The business culture in Rwanda presents a unique set of challenges. The Volunteer will need to gain a thorough understanding of the host culture and then work to adapt strategies to fit within acceptable practices. For example, the process of giving direct feedback, which in the United States is expected, may be interpreted as rudeness or disrespect by your Rwandan colleagues. Women, particularly young women, and younger Volunteers need to be aware of a very different gender and age dynamic in Rwanda. Gaining the respect of colleagues and traditional leaders may require more effort than you may expect.
It is likely that you are curious about the events of 1994, specifically the genocide, and how the people you will meet and work with survived during that extremely tragic time. Rwandans do have their personal stories about the events of 1994, but it is extremely insensitive to broach this subject or ask questions. Rwandans, although polite and friendly, can be rather reserved about sharing intimate details without first establishing a relationship based on trust. Thus, you should refrain from asking questions about the genocide, but rather allow people to tell you their stories as they feel comfortable and ready.
Rwandans are conservative in professional and casual attire. It is considered disrespectful to be dressed too casual or in an untidy manner. The settings in which Volunteers are placed make this a particularly important consideration. Men wear trousers such as chinos and button-down shirts in work settings. Jackets and ties are occasional requirements. Blue jeans, T-shirts, and very casual sandals are not considered professional attire. Shorts should only be worn when engaged in athletic activities. Women wear dresses, skirts, or trouser suits with tunic style tops in both work and leisure environments. Short, low cut garments are not appropriate for women. You must be willing to comply with acceptable Rwandan social norms of dress and grooming. This may require that you modify the manner of dress to which you are presently accustomed. Men must wear their hair neat. Dreadlocks are not appropriate. Facial piercing should be kept to a minimum, with discreet studs. Accommodating Rwandan sensitivities in dress and grooming will greatly facilitate your own professional credibility and effectiveness in your assignment.
Rewards and Frustrations
Challenges are many in this placement. If this were not the case, there would be no need for Volunteers! The Rwandan government has very high expectations for the performance and work of expatriates, even those who are Volunteers.
As a Peace Corps Volunteer, you will be expected to act professionally and maturely at all times, as your behavior on and off the job will be noticed. Some challenges which Volunteers find most difficult to deal with are: the psychological aftermath of the genocide; the poverty of many community members; the overwhelming number of orphans and the difficulty in envisioning how to assist them; issues of death and dying; limited resources and minimal facilities and the misuse of resources which do exist; hunger among children; beliefs which limit the ability to implement "simple" solutions to enormous problems; too many demands placed by the community; the sense that there is too much to do; the need to slow down and understand; and the lack of organization and collaboration among partner agencies.
It is difficult to share these challenges in such a limited way, as each is so complex. Coping with them, as well as with the challenges that come from daily life, demands flexibility, patience, humility, and good humor. It is not possible for a Volunteer to "fix" things. Volunteers work creatively to get around the fact that there are so few resources available, or that the systems to deliver resources are in their infancy. Volunteers develop relationships with community members, build trust among the various stakeholders in the health system, and find ways to motivate the staff of health facilities and organizations about their role in contributing to the well-being of their service areas and communities. Each activity Volunteers become involved in brings its own reward, small steps forward, enjoyable moments, "Aha!" experiences, and a sense of connection. With all the "challenges," it is nonetheless universally agreed upon by Volunteers: We gain more than we could ever hope to give.
The AIDS pandemic strikes across all social strata in many Peace Corps countries. The loss of teachers has crippled education systems, while illness and disability drain family income and force governments and donors to redirect limited resources from other priorities. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, you will confront these issues on a very personal level. It is important to be aware of the high emotional toll that disease, death, and violence can have on Volunteers. As you strive to integrate into your community, you will develop relationships with local people who might die during your service. Some Volunteers will be meeting and working with people who are HIV positive and living with AIDS. Volunteers need to prepare themselves to embrace these relationships in a sensitive and positive manner. Likewise, malaria and malnutrition, motor vehicle accidents and other unintentional injuries, domestic violence, alcoholism, and corporal punishment are problems a Volunteer may confront. You will need to anticipate these situations and utilize supportive resources available throughout your training and service to maintain your own emotional strength, so you can continue to be of service to your community.
Although working in Rwanda can be a tremendously gratifying experience, the new life and job you are considering will be challenging. Please take some time to seriously reflect on your decision to live and work in Rwanda. Working in Rwanda requires great sensitivity and maturity related to the genocide. We encourage you to exercise caution when discussing the genocide. As you work and interact on a daily basis with the people of Rwanda, you may notice that almost everyone has a story, and the genocide (to which most Rwandans refer simply as "the war") pervades nearly every aspect of society. Working in Rwanda will require an understanding of and respect for historical events and their aftermath. As a Volunteer you might experience the "gacaca," a process during which suspected génocidaires are brought to justice. The death penalty is not permitted and generally the punishment is to work on a neighbor's field, to repay the cost of stolen goods, or to perform general public works. Non-Rwandans are not permitted to attend gacaca and the Rwandan government has been very careful to ensure that this somewhat private process continues to be locally owned and driven, without outside influence. Rwanda has made great strides in its reconciliation, but its wounds have not yet fully healed. Genocide memorials, which you will be visiting as part of pre-service training (PST), are scattered across the country and are integral to understanding the extent of the trauma suffered by the Rwandan people. In an effort to unify the country and, hopefully, make the ethnic divisions a thing of the past, the post-conflict government has instituted a policy that ethnicity no longer exists and that everyone is simply Rwandan. It is illegal in Rwanda to inquire about or discuss ethnicity, as this is perceived as divisive, and one can be prosecuted for doing so.
Lastly, while Rwanda is considered to be a peaceful country, we urge you to exercise vigilance and use common sense during your service. We strongly discourage cultural or safetyrelated "adventurism" that can put you at risk.
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- Developed SOLVE and RESOLVE and contributed to PHENIX, all of which are protein-structure-solving software packages. SOLVE automatically carries out all the steps of macromolecular structure determination, from scaling data to calculating an electron density map. RESOLVE, SOLVE's sister application, improves electron density maps by using a statistical approach to combine experimental x-ray diffraction data with information about the expected characteristics of an electron density map
- Performed large scale molecular simulations of molecular machines to identify new antibiotic targets. Such understanding could help scientists develop new antibiotics to battle "superbugs" such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections, as well as engineered strains of anthrax and plague. Also performed the first structural study of an entire long non-coding RNA, a class of molecules that play key roles in cancer and epigenetics.
- Created a new strategy for vaccine development using mosaic proteins—proteins that represent the best consensus when working with highly variable pathogens such as HIV. Mosaic proteins were used to make an HIV vaccine that is currently in a Phase 1 human trial.
- Using mosaic proteins for other vaccines, such as one against the Ebola virus.
- Designed an optical biosensor that quickly detects protein toxins and other biological pathogens. Applications for this sensor include detecting biothreat agents, food inspection, and medical treatment (from early diagnosis of infection to disease screenings to diagnosing breast and other cancers).
- Developed the Green Fluorescent Protein Toolbox to help scientists understand and solve the mysteries of protein dysfunction, including misfolding, aggregation, and abnormal movement. Los Alamos scientist Geoff Waldo improved GFP's flexibility, usability, reliability, and sensitivity by engineering it to have more desirable characteristics. Applications for GFP range from monitoring the expression level of a target protein to performing more effective drug discovery.
- Engineered (in collaboration with University of California–Davis and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service) grapevines that produce a hybrid antimicrobial protein that recognizes and blocks Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that causes Pierce's Disease. This engineering approach may also protect other economically important plants from this bacterium, and a similar strategy could be used against a broad range of pathogen-induced plant and human diseases.
- Created CHAMPS—chimeric antimicrobial proteins—that can rapidly eliminate bacteria from infected sites in plants and humans. These proteins have a very low susceptibility to antibiotic resistance. CHAMPS applications include therapeutically treating human infections, protecting crops against disease, and countering biothreat agents.
- Collaborated with the University of Florida to create a thermostable enzyme that can capture carbon with much greater efficiency. Such an enzyme might serve as a biocatalyst for carbon sequestration and biofuel production. This enzyme could (1) reduce carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants and (2) play a valuable role in the production of algae-based biofuels.
- Engineered enzymes designed to be highly resistant to high pH and high temperatures while maintaining functionality. For example, Los Alamos scientists created a consensus green fluorescent protein whose subject enzymes did not degrade (for more than 12 hours) after exposures greater than 80 degrees Celsius and pH greater than 10. Applications for such enzymes include pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, paper and pulp, and bioenergy.
- Used complementary neutron and x-ray scattering techniques to resolve molecular-scale structural details of human tau protein. This protein may play a role in the development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
- Developing mosaic proteins that may one day become the first viable vaccine that can protect humans from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
- Developing an automated pipeline to generate antibodies against human gene products without the use of animals. Traditional methods use to expose a specific gene's function is to take the protein it produces and generate specific antibodies (usually by vaccinating an animal, such as a mouse or rabbit). Instead of animals, Los Alamos scientists will use "antibody libraries" expressed in bacteria and bakers yeast. The ultimate goal of this project is to identify antibodies in the libraries that recognize each human protein. Such work will facilitate the understanding of human disease and provide likely targets for therapeutic intervention.
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- High-Throughput Gene Cloning and Protein Production Facility: This facility serves the Tuberculosis Structural Genomics Consortium. Scientists here collaborate with various universities and other national laboratories to better-understand how proteins work, as these are considered the "machines of life."
- SpatioTemporal Modeling Center: NIH-funded collaboration between Los Alamos and the University of New Mexico, with the Laboratory providing modeling expertise and technology development, particularly in the field of novel affinity reagents, and UNM providing cell biology expertise in IgE receptor signaling, modeling, and single molecule imaging.
- Phenix: based on an NIH-funded collaboration with LBNL, the University of Cambridge, and Duke University (www.phenix-online.org) is a comprehensive x-ray crystallography structure determination software package that includes SOLVE, RESOLVE, and many other powerful algorithms and that is used worldwide by macromolecular crystallographers.
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A school bus driver who took a busload of autistic kids on a wild ride down the interstate last fall while sipping whiskey out of a soda bottle has struck a plea deal that will bar him from driving a commercial vehicle for the next two years.
Kent Quillia, 59, of Hartford will spend 30 days on the Corrections Department work crew as part of an otherwise suspended one-to-two year sentence. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of gross negligent operation and reckless endangerment on Wednesday. Quillia will spend two years on probation during which time he will be barred from using his commercial driver's license.
Quillia was fired on the spot in September after a para-educator called the Butler Bus Company once the bus stopped at Whitcomb High School in Bethel and reported that Quillia had swayed repeatedly over the center line, driven into the rumble strips on the highway four separate times and bent a "one-way" sign while exiting a parking lot.
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Good news for millions of Americans taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to help prevent heart disease and stroke. A brand new study finds these drugs work well-. with very few side effects.
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1) The current Peace Corps' staff directory (2010).
Enclosed please find the Peace Corps Alphabetical Employee Directory which consists of seventy-one (71) pages. After careful review, seventy (70) pages were redacted pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(2) which prohibits from disclosure records related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency. The remaining one (1) page is releasable in its entirety.
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Governor promised in 2010 to create 250,000 jobs
Gov. Scott Walker says he is developing a new way to measure Wisconsin's employment needs.
Walker has complained about the accuracy of monthly unemployment data based on a survey of about 3.5 percent of Wisconsin businesses. The more accurate data, based on a census of nearly all Wisconsin businesses, comes quarterly and has a six month lag.
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TACOMA, Washington - An Afghan villager and two of his sons, who survived a night-time shooting rampage in March, testified on Saturday that they saw only one U.S. soldier attacking their compound, backing the U.S. government's account.
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The U.S. government says a coherent and lucid Bales acted alone and with "chilling premeditation."
Some villagers told reporters shortly after the attacks that more than one U.S. soldier was involved, but sworn statements to that effect have not been made publicly.
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Early Saturday, three survivors answered questions via video-link from Kandahar Air Field to a hearing at a U.S. Army base in Washington state - the first time Afghan witnesses have testified under oath about what transpired on March 11.
"He shot me right here," said Haji Mohamed Naim, the father of nine sons in the village of Alkozai, the scene of the first shootings.
Speaking through an interpreter, he said all he could see was a strong light on the head of a soldier who was not more than half a yard away from him when he started shooting.
Naim said he was awoken in the night by sounds of shots and dogs barking, and then children from the next door house knocked on his door. He then described how an "American" jumped from a wall before confronting him and starting to shoot.
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Two of Naim's sons, who were also in the compound, said they saw only one U.S. soldier on the night in question.
"Yes, I saw him, he came after me, I went to another room," said Naim's son Sadiquallah, who said he was 13 or 14 years old. He described how he hid behind a curtain in a storage room with one other child, and was hit in the ear with a bullet, but did not see who fired the shot.
"How many Americans did you see?" one of the prosecution attorneys asked Sadiquallah. "One," he replied.
'I saw the American'
His older brother Quadratullah, who said he was 14, was unscathed in the attack, but said he saw a U.S. soldier shooting other children.
"Yes I saw the American," he answered a government attorney. "I said 'We are children, we are children', and he shot one of the kids," Quadratullah said, through an interpreter.
"We saw only one American," he added.
At a courtroom at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Bales sat impassively throughout the proceedings, watching the witnesses on a TV screen in front of him.
The Afghan villagers testified on the fifth day of a hearing to establish whether there is enough evidence to put Bales before a court martial.
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A veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bales faces 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder, as well as charges of assault and wrongfully possessing and using steroids and alcohol while deployed.
Prosecutors have presented physical evidence to tie Bales to the crime scene, with a forensic investigator saying a sample of blood on Bales' clothes matched a swab taken in one of the compounds where the shooting occurred.
Bales' lawyers have not set out an alternative theory, but have pointed up inconsistencies in testimony and highlighted incidents before the shooting where Bales lost his temper easily or appeared unbalanced, possibly setting up an argument that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Gathering evidence and witness statements was complicated by the speedy burial of victims, the inability of U.S. investigators to access the crime scenes for three weeks after the violence for fears of revenge attacks, and the dispersal of possible witnesses after treatment at a Kandahar hospital.
Bales' lead civil defense attorney John Henry Browne, who is in Kandahar to question the witnesses, complained early in the investigation that his team was denied access to villagers wounded in the attacks.
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