text:
RT @reBUILD313: Interim Dean Snyder welcomes @udmdetroit and @MGCollege scholars to the Summer Enrichment Program. https://t.co/Nhp4U9D8XC
View Wayne State University in a larger map
With a sprawling urban campus of more than 200 acres currently hosting over 30,000 students, Wayne State University is one of the country's largest and most diverse universities, claiming roots dating to 1868. Situated amid museums, the Detroit Public Library, and other cultural and social spots, Wayne State is also the heart of Detroit's University Cultural Center and the academic home of many of Detroit's writers.
Wayne State University in Literature
Philip Levine returns to his alma mater in several interviews and essays, often wavering between pride in and derision for Wayne University, as it was known in his student days of the late 1940s and early '50s, though he scorns some aspects of academia rather than the university itself. He laments Wayne's evolution, in his opinion, from "the city university of Detroit" ("Keats's Letters" 3), which "really functioned as a school for the city" (Interview with Terkel 63, emphasis added), to a state school merely in the city. With its spectrum of scholars ranging from the traditional college student to the decidedly non-traditional in his college days, Wayne
This intersection of the working and the academic worlds during Levine's years at Wayne "made an education, say, in English literature not seem as hopelessly irrelevant as it actually was. [….] Here we were sitting in the classroom pretending that it was important. That somehow life would change if we all read Milton, and we all read Milton, and nothing changed" (Interview with Garrett 114-15). Similarly, reading the poetry of John Keats "potently lifted the gloom that hovered over my small portion of Detroit [….] Wonderful too, it seems to me, that I found him at Wayne, a campus of seedy old homes and temporary buildings bursting with the new students the postwar years deposited" ("Keats's Letters" 8, 12). And yet, though he ponders the worth of literature and of a liberal arts education for his working-class contemporaries, many of whom did not find his success beyond the factories, Levine appreciates the prospect of change that Wayne offered to the proletariat-in his college days, at least: "I was able to go to college because the school welcomed working-class people, and I think that's not quite true anymore" (Interview with Terkel 63). He recalls with admiration a Wayne old-timer gently instructing an imported newcomer in university teaching philosophy and values:
Despite his belief that one's opportunity for an education, particularly at Wayne and schools like it, should be a right rather than a privilege, Levine contemplates life and the world beyond academic pursuits-and the worth of those pursuits themselves-in his essays "The Key," which is "largely a fiction" (Introduction, Bread vii) based upon his days at Wayne, and "The Bread of Time Redeemed," in which he has "taken great liberties with actual events" (Introduction, Bread vii). "The Key" begins with Levine sitting in class at "a long, scarred wooden table in the seminar room on the second floor of Old Main" ("Key" 116), Wayne University's foundation and oldest building, completed in 1896. With a novel, "the holy text […] marred and mangled by […] undecipherable notes" (116), before him, his is the lone dissenting shake of the head in a room of students silently nodding in agreement with their distinguished professor. Dr. Joseph Prescott, Wayne's formidable Joyce scholar, face "clouded with sadness" at the betrayal, asks his student if he cares to speak his opinion. However, Levine cannot ignore the world beyond the historic walls to ponder a potential response: "it is quiet or relatively so at this great urban university, because the traffic light at Warren and Cass is red. [….] The light changes from red to green" (117). He listens to the roar of traffic, of city buses and cars and trucks hauling more cars, and imagines their race to the next traffic lights, cities neighboring and distant, and "beyond that […] the wide world" (117); the question and his "unformulated answer vanish forever in the roar of 1952" (117). And, Levine hints, do this small unfinished professor-student exchange and grander scholarly aims really matter? He returns at the essay's conclusion to Dr. Prescott and the final meeting of the seminar in Old Main, in which the professor asks for any last questions: "We were twelve totally befuddled students who knew at least that it was too late to begin asking. No one said a word. Dr. Prescott began his summation, the magical key by means of which we could open every impossible, Byzantine text." Instead, Dr. Prescott simply declares his many years devoted to the subject of the seminar "a wasted life" (137), his objective unfulfilled.
In "The Bread of Time Redeemed," Levine recounts his relationship with Dorothy Shaughnessy, the thirteen-year-old granddaughter of his landlady during his college years who exhibited both great poetic talent and ambition. At a Wayne University poetry reading to which Levine has proudly brought her with visions of a protégée, Dorothy "chok[es] with hilarity" (271) at the "inept[ness]" (273) of the participants, "expecting something better from a university poet" (273). Her response destroys the golden academic cast that had settled upon the poets and rouses Levine's critical ear and memory: "like so many of the young Detroit poets-myself included-[one poet] cultivated the role of the writer too sensitive for the world. [….] I recalled that the first time I'd heard a poetry reading at Wayne-it too had been given by students […]-I'd been stunned by how seriously these young people took themselves and their writing and how totally opaque and uninteresting I'd found most of the poems" (272). Years later, Levine learns from Richard Werry, "one of two practicing poets who taught at Wayne" (277), that Dorothy, after changing her name to Teo Zoisha,
Though she abandons Wayne and Detroit and ceases to write poetry, "[i]n truth Dorothy was the most precocious child I'd ever met, one who possessed a dazzling gift for language, a gift far greater than my own" ("Bread" 289). Yet, Levine implies that her gift-not typical of most college poets, who learn and write and share with fellow aspirants-prevented her from becoming the conventional college poet, a role that Levine and his contemporaries often embraced without question.
Moreover, Levine declares, Wayne poets had the difficulty of place with which to contend: "Detroit was not Greenwich Village, Cambridge, or even Berkeley; it taught you not to advertise all of your ambitions. Its stance was ferociously masculine, and most of its citizens seemed to have little interest in or tolerance for the arts or for what might be described as 'artistic behavior'" ("Keats" 7). Levine and many of his Wayne contemporaries struggled for lives beyond the seemingly inevitable factory existence, beyond functioning as cogs in the great machine of Detroit-yet his observations often suggest an academic assembly line producing fruitless scholarship or artistic conformity.
Poet Andrei Codrescu's "Detroit Love Song" describes an immigrant's first glimpses of mid-1960s America via Detroit, from the Lodge Expressway to the Wayne State University cafeteria to the rest of the city. Of the university cafeteria "that is no more"-the only campus location that he mentions-Codrescu reminisces about the scene of his "happiest days" and his "best poems," where he pursued women rather than anything as trivial as an education. He wanders away from Wayne State "looking for the center of the city," unwittingly but unflinchingly colliding with "the psychedelic Sixties / [that] came to Detroit & to me." Though the cultural center area is his haunt and haven, he mentions no tangible benefit from Wayne State but his wife, who worked at the university cafeteria lost and found and "found me I guess"-but not at Wayne. He is born into American society not on a campus but in the street, in a Detroit that, for Codrescu, suddenly descends from artistic and social community to rioting.
Former Detroit resident and University of Detroit instructor Joyce Carol Oates's National Book Award-winning novel Them explores, among other themes of Detroit history throughout a thirty-year period, the tense race relations that culminated in the Detroit riots and their supposed connection to Wayne State University and its environs. On a scorching day in 1967, Jules Wendall, a young white man, walks "past big apartment buildings where students from Wayne State University lived, crowded and noisy, in the midst of a clutter of garbage cans and cardboard boxes that the city workers didn't bother to collect" (418); he attempts to avoid the notice of black police officers because "[d]own here white men were more suspect than Negroes. What were they doing down here? Down here? Had they chosen to live down here?" (419). From the student shot for his anti-war beliefs to the drop-out who becomes a prostitute to the drug addict who steals a typewriter from a professor's office, Them stresses the influences of urban tribulation and political strife as they encroach upon the university, which cannot remain emotionally and ideologically detached from the city and its inhabitants.
Oates remarks upon the changing role of the university, from traditional base of education and culture to a simmering core of late 1960s radicalism, determined to destroy the old order of Detroit by any means necessary and regardless of consequences. White sociology professor Mort Piercy laments "getting by, getting along" with "[m]oney from a university, money from the government," feeling no need to distinguish between the two institutions, "while everything around me is rotting, going to hell"(423), yet he declares himself "eminently qualified to sell my brains, goddam it, and figure out a way to burn it all down" (427). He tells Jules of his intention to create controlled chaos, with the ultimate goal of purging Detroit and creating "a new, beautiful, peaceful society" (472):
Idealism and radicalism thus converge, as Oates uses Wayne State as a pivotal setting-recognizing the university's status as intellectual and political center of Detroit-in the planning of the riots: university intellectuals, mostly white, plan and initiate the city riots as a racial and social revolution, intending "'to see this city burned down and built up again'" (423). Candidates for a political assassination range from President Johnson to the Michigan governor to Martin Luther King Jr., but one revolutionary, to the amusement of his peers, proposes "'someone significant like'" Wayne State president William Keast: "'He has more significance than people know-he's a symbol. And the black revolution and the youth revolution should converge on the university, should get together on the campus. The campus will be the battlefield, not the slums'" (432). To "get into this community" (426) may be their objective, but, after the riots begin, those supposedly responsible, "a group of white people […] standing around, drinking beer" (461), watch the revolution "playground" (462) from a rooftop until their relatively safe refuge is raided. Mort and Jules soon abandon the scene of the failed social experiment for Los Angeles, the riots having vastly widened the already considerable gap between black and white in Detroit.
In his 1977 crime novel Unknown Man #89, Elmore Leonard notes the seamier aspects of Detroit as they intertwine with culture and academia. While searching for a missing man, process server Jack Ryan notes the mix of bar patrons, not just students, and the odd banality of everyday urban life: "'I parked near Wayne University and walked south looking in the bars, every bar on Cass down to Temple, then another four or five blocks to be sure [….] I saw a lot of hookers getting their afternoon eye-opener and going to the grocery store" (59). Ryan later meets Denise Leary, who reminisces about "'the art center area […] around Wayne and the art museum, the main library,'" where "'I felt I was into real life, there was so much going on around there. Sort of a Left Bank atmosphere with the art and the freaky students at Wayne and the inner-city stuff, the hookers and pimps in their wild outfits, all sort of mixed together. At the time I thought, wow, beautiful. Or bizarro, if it was a little kinky'" (177). In Leonard's view, the university is not separate from the city; the lines between are more blurred.
In their mentions of Wayne State University in various forms, several writers examine the separation of the university from the rest of Detroit but consider Wayne a haven of intellect and culture and politics entrenched in sometimes unpromising surroundings, made all the more intriguing because of this improbable combination.
Wayne State University Writers
Marygrove staff member Jamie M. Babcock is pursuing her third Wayne State University degree.
Photos courtesy of Wayne State University.
Codrescu, Andrei. "Detroit Love Song." Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001. Eds. Melba Joyce Boyd and M. L. Liebler. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2001. 95-99.
Leonard, Elmore. Unknown Man #89. 1977. New York: HarperTorch, 2002.
Levine, Philip. "The Bread of Time Redeemed." The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography. New York: Knopf, 1994. 260-292.
- - -. Interview with Jan Garrett: Sydney, Australia, Summer, 1978. Don't Ask. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1981. 108-137.
- - -. Interview with Studs Terkel: Chicago, Illinois, Spring, 1977. Don't Ask 60-88.
- - -. Introduction and Acknowledgements. The Bread of Time vii-viii.
- - -. "The Key." The Bread of Time 116-139.
- - -. "Neruda y Yo." So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002. 47-52.
- - -. "On First Looking into John Keats's Letters." So Ask 1-12.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Them. 1969. New York: Ballantine, 1983.


text:
Tourist Captures Amazing Video of Giraffe Chasing Jeep
Some things just don't seem like scenes from a movie, even when you know they are real.
This video shows one of those moments!
Henk Roos was in South Africa attending a wedding, and his group decided to go on a safari ride afterwards.
It was all fine until what Roos describes as a 'hormonal' giraffe started chasing their jeep! You can see one of his fellow passengers looking terrified as the giraffe gets closer and closer…
Subscribe to 94.3 The Point on
After 30 terrifying seconds, the giraffe gives up on the chase. Roos said on YouTube,
'After about 5km of being chased I started recording the chase on my phone. You can see how he gets closer and closer after every turn. We started to run out of road and the ranger banged on the side of the jeep to scare him off. We started to make a noise and he stopped.'
That's sure to be a memorable trip!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
I have one, but opt for my XDS more often because the G26 feels like I'm sitting on a brick in a IWB holster. OWB must be the way to go.
This is a discussion on Glock 26 Gen4 within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I've been carrying my M&P Shield for a while now due to it's thinness and easy of carry here in Mississippi and I love my ...
I've been carrying my M&P Shield for a while now due to it's thinness and easy of carry here in Mississippi and I love my Shield. Took a few guns out to the range this past weekend and one of them happened to be my neglected Glock 26 Gen 4. As soon as I started shooting it, I was thinking to myself, "Why did I stop carrying you?". After the first mag or two, I quickly realized why I bought the gun in the first place.....As an awesome carry option.
The thing is dead-nuts accurate and the felt recoil is almost non-existent. It's just one of those guns that always works and works well. I've been carrying it since that range session and feel very confident in it's reliability and my ability with it. I honestly find it very easy to carry OWB under an un-tucked short. Though the grip is beefier than the Shield, it still felt extremely comfortable in my hand and I've never been concerned or bothered by the pinky resting under the mag floor plate.
Anyway, if you're like me and you were kind of "iffy" on the previous Glocks, give the gen 4's a try. I'm not a brand snob in anyway as I own Glock, S&W, Ruger and Springfield pistols. I think each manufacturer has its pros and cons and that's the reason I like to have a variety. But I have to say, the Glock 26 is tough to beat and may be one of Glock's finest......right along side my 19.
I have one, but opt for my XDS more often because the G26 feels like I'm sitting on a brick in a IWB holster. OWB must be the way to go.
My EDC: Springfield XDS
My sometimes EDC: Colt XSE LW or G26
Never owned a Shield, but nothing wrong with the 26 for carry (mine is Gen 3). Easy to shoot, easy to carry and combat accurate. I never found IWB that comfortable, so every weapon carries outside. Stripesdude, if you want a "brick" just try a G30. Mine is an amazing shooter, but it didn't last long as a carry pistol .
Chose a weapon that goes bang EVERY time!
I've had the Gen 4 26 and 100% agree with you. I have a shield in 9mm also. One thing that always makes me lean toward the 26 over the shield is the mag situation. I can carry a 15 round G19 mag as a reload, in the Shield I only have an 8 rounder. I don't like carrying 2 mags to = 1 glock mag.
As Benjamin Franklin left the hall in Philadelphia, he was asked, What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin? He replied: A republic, if you can keep it.
I've really been enjoying carrying my new Gen G26. IWB...after a slight mod to my holster...actually quite comfortable for a short gun.
I've tried so hard to like IWB but it just doesn't work for me. I never tuck in my shirts anyway so OWB is perfect.
Nice gun and I have owned two Gen3 and two Gen4 over the last few years. However, if I am going to carry OWB, I rather go with the G19 because I can conceal a larger gun carrying OWB.
As Benjamin Franklin left the hall in Philadelphia, he was asked, What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin? He replied: A republic, if you can keep it.
Been carrying a G27 OWB for better than 15 years. Nuthin' sexy about a GLOCK, but the are great tools.
Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
― Heraclitus
I have a Gen 3 G26 that I carry in a Galco IWB holster. I have thinner pistols (a S&W 3913 and a Nano) that are slightly more comfortable, but the G26 just works for me. And with the short grip length it prints very little. For me, the appendix carry is the secret to comfort, once I got over the fear of where the gun is pointed
"There are some ideas that are so wrong, only a very intelligent person could believe them." - George Orwell
Maybe one day I'll buy a small single-stack...but I don't know how I'd like a gun that size with my long fingers. The width of a Glock is perfect for my hands.
My most carried gun is my G26 which happens to be a Gen 3. There is almost no difference between G3 and G4. I've shot them side by side and they shoot the same. They both have a dual recoil spring. The texture of the grip is the big difference and Gen 3 is easier on my old hands.
I have an XDs .45 for summer carry. It's just enough thinner to be significantly easier to hide.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety), by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. by H. L. Mencken
I love my G26. It's the first Glock I've ever purchased. I love the fact it has 10 rounds but for summer I'm going to try carrying my Nano. G26 is still a little hard for me to conceal with certain clothes. I'm a short waisted woman so that makes a difference.
I find the Gen 4 Glocks shoot great. They just rub my side too much when carrying IWB without a t-shirt. The 26 is certainly a great carry piece.
I agree.....having carried the Gen 3's on duty before I retired from law enforcement, and having Gen 4's now, I can say with all honesty that I prefer the Gen 4's. Though I thought it would be hard to improve on them, they have done exactly that.
U.S. Army Desert Storm Veteran
Certified Police Firearms Instructor
Former US Customs Blue Lighting Strike Force Commissioned Officer
Advanced Highway Drug Interdiction Specialist
Graduate Regional Counter Drug Training Academy
Graduate of Bullet Proof Mind Course - (Dave Grossman Course)


text:
Footballer Craig Bellamy was banned from driving and fined today after admitting a motoring offence.
The former Wales captain did not attend Liverpool Magistrates Court where he was disqualified for six months and ordered to pay a £900 fine plus £400 costs.
The court heard Bellamy failed to respond to a police notice of intended prosecution.
Simon Leong, prosecuting, said the notice was sent to the Cardiff City player after his Audi was caught by a speed camera travelling at 64mph in a 50mph section of the M62 towards Liverpool at 3.05am on April 3 last year.
At the time the former Manchester City and Newcastle United star was playing for Liverpool FC.
Mr Leong said: "A notice of intended prosecution was sent to his address but the defendant did not respond."
Bellamy, 33, was charged with failing to give a driver's identity as required under section 172 of the Road Traffic Act.
He initially pleaded not guilty and a trial was set for November 27 last year but that had to be abandoned for medical reasons.
The footballer, of Brides-Super-Ely, Cardiff, changed his plea to guilty on December 18, the day his rescheduled trial was due to take place, and the matter was adjourned until today's sentencing.
Mr Leong said Bellamy had totted up nine penalty points for three previous speeding offences.
"This offence carries six points taking him over the threshold for disqualification," he added.
John Rowan, defending, told the court the star initially denied the offence because the notice was sent to an address where he was not living at the time.
"A plea of guilty was substituted in relation to that and he did accept that perhaps he could have done more to intercept the notice and ensure that the details were completed," the solicitor said.
"The defendant understands he will be disqualified, that he is a totter with nine points and this carries a penalty of six.
"This is his first disqualification."
Mr Rowan told the court he was not provided with information about the defendant's income but added: "I should point out that Mr Bellamy is a former Premiership footballer. He is not currently playing in the Premier League but he is a professional footballer."
Deputy District Judge Simmons said: "I must impose penalty points and six penalty points is the required number.
"Given that he has nine penalty points already he must be disqualified from driving for a period of six months under the totting up provisions."
She gave Bellamy credit of 10% for his guilty plea, ordering a fine of £900 plus £400 costs and £15 victim surcharge which he must pay within 14 days.


text:
Passengers tell of cruise ship nightmare
A disabled cruise liner arrived in California after three nightmarish days adrift on the Pacific amid cheers from passengers who told of limited food, blocked toilets and dark cabins.
The 4,500 passengers and crew members trickled off the Carnival Splendor in San Diego throughout yesterday, the process slowed by disabled lifts, out of order since the engine room fire on Monday that left the ship adrift off Mexico.
Pulled by six tugboats and escorted by US Coast Guard cutters, the nearly 1,000ft liner reached the dock at about 8.30am local time (4.30pm GMT), unable to steer or propel itself.
The first of the nearly 3,300 passengers walked down a ramp about an hour later, dragging suitcases into a tent on the dock.
"I love being back on land," said passenger Ken King, who was 42 yesterday.
Mr King said he and his travelling companion were celebrating their birthdays on the cruise, so Carnival chose them to be in the first group off the ship.
"The staff was excellent. Only a few people on board were rude. The food was horrible. Starting at 5am on Monday, we didn't have toilets for 13 hours," he said.
People on the decks and about 100 onshore cheered loudly as the ship reached the dock, while all along the harbour, tourists, joggers and fishermen stopped to take photos.
Seventy-five buses arrived to drive passengers north to Long Beach, where the Splendor is based. Passengers were also given the option of staying overnight at San Diego hotels.
"It's been like a nightmare," Fahizah Alim, 26, said. "There's been no food, no power, no electricity, no flushing toilets. I spent the night tossing and turning in my cabin in the dark."
The ship left Long Beach, California, on Sunday for a seven-day trip to the Mexican Riviera, only to return days early without ever reaching the beaches holidaymakers had hoped for.
A fire in the engine room knocked out power on Monday morning, leaving passengers with no air conditioning, no hot food, hot water, or casino. The swimming pool was also off-limits because there was no way to pump chlorine.
Aboard the ship, lines for cold food stretched for hours during the days after the power went out. Navy helicopters flew in Spam, Pop Tarts and canned crab meat and other goods for the passengers and crew, passengers said.
Some passengers carried food to others who used walkers and canes and could not climb up nine decks of stairs to reach the food lines, Ms Alim said.
Passengers spent their last night drinking free wine and beer at the bar and singing old songs.
After the Splendor docked Gerry Cahill, chief executive of Carnival Carnival Cruise Lines told passengers via ship's intercom: "I'm very sorry. I would like to thank you for all your patience and understanding that you showed throughout the situation."
The National Transportation Safety Board said today that the probe into the fire would be conducted by Panama.
Panama has agreed to let the US Coast Guard join the investigation because most of the passengers were US citizens and two NTSB experts would assist.
Mr Cahill said earlier the crankcase on one of six diesel generators "split", causing the fire. He said he doubted other ships in the Miami, Florida-based company's fleet were at risk.
The ship was 200 miles south of San Diego and about 44 miles offshore when the fire knocked out its power.
Carnival first planned to tow the ship to the Mexican port of Ensenada - not far from a movie studio complex used to film Titanic - and bus passengers to the US.
But the cruise line decided it would be better to go a little further to San Diego, sparing passengers the 50-mile bus ride to the border. San Diego also offered more transport and hotel options.
See our Comments Policy Comments are submitted under the express understanding and condition that the editor may, and is authorised to, disclose any/all of the above personal information to any person or entity requesting the information for the purposes of legal action on grounds that such person or entity is aggrieved by any comment so submitted. Please allow some time for your comment to be moderated.


text:
The first instalments of the next development cycle in Melbourne are helping to open up some whole floor vacancies in existing buildings.
Big tenants – NAB, Mercer, the Australian Taxation Office, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, and BHP among them – are moving into new and refurbished space.
That will eventually create backfill blocks of space. Even so, full floor options available right now remain in short supply, Savills agent Nick Farley said.
In October, there were 56 full- floor options in prime space, down from 60 in January, he said.
"We have around 107 full floors available in October in A-grade buildings but those options are halved for businesses seeking prime space and of course location and amenity requirements can further reduce those options for this sector of the market," Mr Farley said.
The number of backfill spaces entering the market over the next 12 months – in particular those created by the Tax Office's move to Docklands – would create more full-floor options, he said.
Tenant advocate Anthony Ludeman at CBRE agreed the full floor situation is tight. Floors at 530 Collins Street, the St James project at 555 Bourke St, Australand's redevelopment of the former Stock Exchange House and the Rialto were among the few available.
Mr Ludeman said he did not expect supply to pick up until the third quarter of 2013. Many tenants had anticipated the current shortage, and were busy in 2009 and 2010 bringing forward their lease expiries to renegotiate. "We brought forward jobs so we don't have to transact in this market if possible. If you are proactive enough to look beyond 2013, you are starting to deal in a market with supply returning."
The Australian Financial Review


text:
So has any uk/bass player ever tried to tune a bass gcea I just dont want to learn a new fretboard
So has any uk/bass player ever tried to tune a bass gcea I just dont want to learn a new fretboard
It would probably work, but I'd be scared to try it. I'd guess it would put a lot of strain on the neck. Use light strings and make sure you have a good truss rod or a graphite neck. Or tune it GCEA slack key...
But really, it isn't that tough to make the transition. I'm going the other way, bass-->uke. The main issue is the different interval between the 2nd and 3rd strings. Have you considered tuning it EAC#F#? That would be a little weird, but would put a lot less strain on the bass. Just a thought.
LoPrinzi Model B tenor (cherry)
Cordoba 20TM-CE tenor
Oscar Schmidt OU53 baritone
Makala Dolphin (thanks Chap!)
Many and various bass guitars
Hmm I was just thinking about this before, It could be interesting. I would try it out if I had another bass, but I can't be bothered going to all the trouble of adjusting the bridge to change the intonation.
How did the GCEA tuning work out? I've been wondering whether ukulele players could easily transition to bass. Thanks for any tips!
It's not a difficult transition to go from uke to bass and back. The bass keyboard is the same, just pitched lower. You just need a diagram to show you where GCEA are on the bass fretboard if that's your worry.
You could instead get a set of EADGBE six-string bass strings, use only the first four, and tune it DGBE, which is the same relationship in tuning instances. The GCEA notes will all be found at the fifth fret, respectively. However, it's probably better to learn the standard layout so you have more flexibility when playing bass.
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.
Robert Bringhurst: The Elements of Typographic Style
Ukulele reviews * Vintage Uke Music * Tequila * Henry Hudson * Harmonica reviews * Blog
Chording on a bass is much harder than on a uke. The strings are large, widely spaced, and the frets are farther apart, requiring a lot more effort and strength to press and hold for a chord. Bass strings buzz annoyingly if not properly pressed, especially the low-register strings. And bass chords are often murky sounding (as are many really low chords on any instrument).
I do some chording on a 6-string bass, but it's not as easy or fast as on a guitar or uke. If you want low register sounds, it's easier to put the uke output through a pedal that has an octave-lowering effect. Some pedals actually will give you octave down/octave up choices and even add the regular output as a twin sound.
What's the advantage of re-entrant on a bass? I can't imagine any. You'd lose the lowest string. Is it to play chords along with a tenor or other uke but one octave lower? In that case you don't want bass strings on it.
You can also simply replace the baritone uke's strings with the last four strings of a guitar set and get a piccolo bass that is strung like a regular bass (EADG) but one octave higher. Run it through an octaver pedal to drop the pitch and you get a funky acoustic-bass sound.
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.
Robert Bringhurst: The Elements of Typographic Style
Ukulele reviews * Vintage Uke Music * Tequila * Henry Hudson * Harmonica reviews * Blog
You could tune your bass E A C# F# and then you'd be able to finger your gcea chord shapes.
5 yrs between posts, just sayin'
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)


text:
© 2012 American City Business Journals. All rights resereved. Use of this Site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 3/14/12) and Privacy Policy (updated 3/14/12).
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of American City Business Journals.
Forums: Admins | Moderators
Lacrosse news straight to your inbox.
Thursday April 24th, 2014 9:10am
Major League Lacrosse kicks off this coming weekend, and it should be another excellent season for the professional outdoor league.
As usual, we'll be premiering all of the custom protective gear for the league's eight teams. Here, we give you a look at the Brine Triumph II glove for the Florida Launch, the first gloves we've ever seen for the first-year team out of the Sunshine State.
This version of the Triumph II arrives in an eye-popping yellow and royal blue colorway, with "Launch" embroidered on the royal cuff in yellow and the Florida logo stitched into the wrist. Here's more on the Triumph II from Brine.com.
Added impact protection and improved palm and thumb construction make the Triumph II the ultimate glove for throwing down the gauntlet on the field.
For more from Brine, head to Brine.com for more. See tons of custom lacrosse gear and more in our all-new Equipment section. Visit InsideLacrosse.com for coverage of Major League Lacrosse, and visit MajorLeagueLacrosse.com for more info on the league.
Follow @IL_Gear on Twitter for the best lacrosse gear, fitness, instruction, Xs and Os, and lifestyle content. Also, follow our Instagram account at @il_gear.


text:
Basement Stairs
I'd like to close in the open space along my basement stairs. Here are a few pics.
I want to close the open side in. I am thinking I could install some drywall or add a railing. Any tips/advice you can provide is apprciated greatly. I am a novice DIYer, but I am motivated and willing to take my time to complete the job well. Thanks!
Build a wall as high as you want.
First Time Framing
As I mentioned in a previous post, my current project involves adding a wall along my open basement stairs, more for child safety than anything else. At this point, I have no plans of finishing this space, ceillings are really low and we get water in the back. I am also interested in learning how to frame a wall.
Lack of space and an uneven floor caused me to try to stick frame.
First, I snapped a string line and laid the bottom plate, inserting with a hammer drill and tapcon screws. I used a plumb bob to try to find where I should place the top plate.
In the picture above, only the first stud on the left is nailed, and only at the bottom. I toenailed it and am thinking I might use a drill for the other studs since I struggled keeping the stud in place when hammering.
Although I used the 4' level repeatedly to finish my last project, a small garden wall, I didn't feel confident when using it to check for plumb. I did manage to get the level bubble in the middle, it seemed like this could have just been due to my hand moving a bit, a problem I didn't face with the wall since I would just sit the level down and check it. Do I just hold the level up against the wood, like I did in the photo? I thought about tying it to the stud with a belt to remove my shakey hand.
Also, I think I read you should check for plumb on two adjacent sides of the stud. Is that correct?
And finally, I noticed that even when the level said the studs were plumb, when I checked the distance between two studs it varied as I moved toward the ceiling. Does this mean the wood I selected isn't that straight?
Thanks for all of your help!
As far as holding the level goes. It sounds to me like you may have cut the studs a little too short and they were wobbling around a bit. I don't know for sure that this is what happened to you; but in the future cut your studs tight. This way you can stick them close to where they need to be and then use a hammer to tap them into their final resting place.
You should be able to hold the stud and level tight together in one hand, that's what the holes down the level are for, to stick your fingers through!
thanks for the reply...I actually have the studs in there pretty snug. I know it sounds silly, but think I am just not used to using a level to measure for plumb.
I am no specialist but I would seriously get that water you mentioned have a look at. It could mean foundation issues or weeping tiles not working properly.
I will. I recently made a post about the water.
Also, as far as the studs being plumb, I think you may be worrying about plumb in the "wrong direction" so to speak. In other words, you want to hold that level along the "side" of those studs; resting on the 1-1/2 inch side. Not on the inside or 3-1/2 inch side. This seems so obvious and maybe you are doing it correctly, but I just thought I may as well bring it up just in case!
I actually was checking on the 1.5" side and on the 3.5" of the stud. I wasn't sure if I had to do both.
Looks like you have a few things to consider first:
You can extend the existing partial wall all the way down to the floor but you are going to have to build around the steel column.
Also, the treads overhang the stringers on the open side. You will need to cut them off so the new wall installs flush with the existing wall. How easy are the treads to remove? You may even want to consider ripping them off and replacing them.... if your cat will move :laughing:
If you are going to put up wallboard, you will need to build the wall leaving a consistent 1/2" space along the stairway to slide the wallboard in. A suggestion might be to put the wallboard in place first, then install your framing. Afterward you can screw your wallboard to the framing.
You will want to either purchase some concrete screws (Tapcons work well) or get a powder actuated nailer to anchor the bottom plate (pressure treated BTW) to the concrete floor.
When you are framing the wall in place as opposed to building then standing it is a little more challenging. As long as you laid the top and bottom plate along side one another when you did your layout; and as long as your aligned the top of the stud and the bottom of the stud with those marks when you were nailing them in, you should be fine. If it is out of plumb on the 1.5 inch side you need to correct it.
I always put blocks in between the studs, this helps keep the studs from bowing in and out and makes for a straighter wall. If 16" on center block will be 14 1/2" nailed in between studs at the center or roughly the center of the wall. This ties everything together well. You can offset blocks a couple inches so are easier to nail every other one.
Alright, I am struggling in my first attempt to frame, stick framing in my basement. SO far here is what I've done, step by step.
Secured bottom plate to floor.
Hung plumb bob from ceiling to determine location of top plate.
Secured top plate.
Put in first two studs, 16" on center.
The problem is my level, which is in working order, is telling me the studs are plumb, when I place the level on the front of the stud, the 1.5" side. (Do I also check for plumb on the side, the 3.5" side.) But when I check the distance between the two studs I am finding that the distance between them increases. Does this mean the studs are not level? Or might this mean the lumber is not striaght, although it looked fine to me? Thanks for taking a look!
I wouldn't worry to much if the studs vary slightly between the valleys. As long as they fall on center for the most part your fine. If your off an 1/8" to 1/4" let it go. If your off more than that the studs where installed to tight or your layout is off.
Is the third picture in your original post showing how you are checking for plumb? I shouldn't be able to see the stud behind the level like that. It looks like you are trying to eyeball the edge of the level along the edge of the stud. If so, it would be more accurate to hold the smaller, flat edge of the level against the stud to check for plumb. Or maybe your level isn't accurate? Unlikely to be the problem - but possible.
|All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:36 PM.
vBulletin Security provided by vBSecurity v2.2.2 (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2017 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.
User Alert System provided by Advanced User Tagging (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2017 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.


text: With more than $5 billion in assets, Gaz Métro is a leading energy provider. It is the largest natural gas distribution company in Quebec, where its 10,000 km underground network of pipelines serves 300 municipalities and more than 185,000 customers. Gaz Métro is also present in Vermont, producing electricity and distributing electricity and natural gas to cater to the needs to some 300,000 customers. Gaz Métro is actively involved in the development of innovative, sustainability-oriented energy projects such as the production of wind power, the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel and the development of biomethane as a renewable energy source. Gaz Métro is committed to ensuring the satisfaction of its customers, providing support to businesses, local organizations, families and communities, and meeting the needs of its partners (Gaz Métro inc. and Valener) and employees. www.gazmetro.comSOURCE VALENER INC.


text:
Miss America Katie Stam Gets Engaged
As she readies to pass her crown to the next lucky lady, 2009 Miss America Katie Stam has gotten engaged to fiance Brian Irk!
Attending a fundraising event at The Planet Hollywood Towers on Friday night (January 29), Miss Stam's personal trainer beau got down on one knee and popped the question with 600 guests looking on.
Talking about the moment, Katie tells, "I started hyperventilating because I was so excited. He dropped down on one knee and he said 'I love you so much. Will you be my Miss America forever?'"
Scheduled to hand over Miss America duties during the ceremony airing on TLC at 8PM tonight (January 30), Katie still can't believe that she's on her way to being a married woman.
"This morning, I pulled my hand up from underneath the covers and stared at my ring for a little bit," she gushes, adding that she and Brian are eyeing a fall wedding in Indianapolis.
Celebrity Gossip
Enjoy the pictures of Katie Stam at the Miss America festivities in Las Vegas (January 29).
Photo Credit: SplashNewsOnline.com, Wenn.com


text:
Excuse me Mr. Lerner, what I have for you is below but first I have to do my game report.
Game Report
The Browns lost again. The defense wasn't bad. The offense was abysmal. Overall the team is one of the worst in the NFL.
Letter To Mr. Lerner
I've been a Browns fan for over 30 years. My father has been one for over 55 years. We bleed orange and brown like so many other Cleveland fans and we are frustrated and disgusted with the 2009 team.
I have a question for you.
Why didn't you, when you hired Mangini/Kokinis, say to them:
"I've made an investment in Brady Quinn. I want him to be the starter in 2009. We may have to go through a rough season or two . It happened in Dallas with Troy Aikman who won 1 game in his first year. Peyton Manning went 3-13 his first year. I expect Brady Quinn to have similar struggles but you will stick with him and I will give you cover with the fans by communicating that to them."
If you had done that Mr. Lerner at the beginning of the season, your real fans would have understood that and supported you.
Everything starts from the top.
I don't blame Mangini or Kokinis as they're trying to find a way to win, NOW.
They needed you to clarify the Brady Quinn situation at the beginning of the year and let them know you would back them in explaining the Browns long term goals.
Without that clarity, you have the current mess.
You need to call a press conference and explain to the best fans in the NFL that you are going to start Brady Quinn for the rest of the year, win or lose (because he deserves a full season just like Aikman and Manning had).
Tell the fans there are no quick fixes but from this point on you are going to be transparent and build for the future.
Then give the team over to Mangini and let him coach it while you back him and Kokinis 100%.


text:
After she tweeted that Asians need to shut up and speak English, which we reported Monday, KING 5's Robert Mak follows up this morning:
Kathlyn Ehl resigns from McKenna campaign over offensive tweets on her personal Twitter account.#waelex
— Robert Mak (@MakUpFront) July 18, 2012
Mak explains in another post that Ehl, who worked as a policy assistant on McKenna's Republican campaign for governor, "met with McKenna's Asian American Coalition. Co-chair Walter Liang says 'even an immature error cannot be overlooked.'"
McKenna's campaign has accepted Ehl's resignation. I've posted their statement—which, of course, the McKenna campaign didn't send to The Stranger, even though we broke this story, but whatever—after the jump.
On Monday, the Rob McKenna for Governor campaign learned of two offensive tweets sent by a staff person, Kathlyn Ehl. Ms. Ehl started work as a campaign volunteer in April and, following her graduation from the University of Washington, became a paid policy assistant last month. Pending an investigation into these actions, which took place before she began volunteering on the campaign, Ms. Ehl was suspended without pay. Today, after facilitating an exchange between Ms. Ehl and the leaders of the campaign's Asian American Coalition, her resignation was accepted.
"I felt it was important to provide an opportunity for our Asian American Coalition leaders, who have spent countless hours over the last year working to advance our campaign in their community, to let Kathlyn know how hurtful her comments were to them," said Randy Pepple, McKenna's campaign manager. "It was important for her to thoroughly understand their feelings and to apologize to them for her comments.
"After consulting with the leaders of our Asian American Coalition, members of our Seattle Steering Committee, and several others I reached out to, I accepted Kathlyn Ehl's resignation from our campaign this morning," Pepple added.
"As the father of two young women, it pains me to accept the resignation of a young woman for a mistake which occurred before she had even begun her career. However, as we have said, and Kathlyn readily acknowledges, her tweets were offensive and insensitive. Kathlyn suggested, and I agreed after consultation with some of our campaign's grassroots leaders, that her ongoing involvement on the campaign would be a constant reminder of her lapse in judgment.
"Life teaches us difficult lessons, and sometimes at a very young age. My hope is that she will find some benefit from having learned this lesson now, as it will undoubtedly be a long-lasting one," Pepple concluded.
Pepple's decision came after a meeting had been arranged to encourage direct dialogue between Ms. Ehl and McKenna's Asian American Coalition and Seattle Steering Committee leaders.
"My fellow volunteers appreciated hearing from Ms. Ehl and the campaign's willingness to seek input from us," said W. Walter Liang, McKenna's Seattle-North King County Steering Committee chairman and Asian American Coalition co-chair. "My colleagues and I are confident Ms. Ehl's apology is sincere, but we also feel it is important to show the community that even an immature error cannot be overlooked when it has such a profound impact."


text:
Showgram Class Reunion: 1993!
What was going on in 1993??
* The hit TV series "Saved By The Bell" aired its series finale.
* Michael Jordan announced his retirement from basketball to pursue his dream of playing pro baseball.
* The 1st "Got Milk" ad ran.
* Childrens Colorful Action heros "Power Rangers" aired its first episode.
* The greatest baseball movie "The Sandlot" hit theaters.
What were you doing in 1993??
Photo Courtesy: Flickr User-mealmakeovermoms// ]]>


text:
Course handbook
The study of Administrative Law involves examination of the legal rules and institutions through which governmental decision-making is authorised, effected, limited and reviewed. This course examines both the exercise of executive power by administrative agencies and officials, and the means by which administrative decisions can be supervised, controlled and challenged. Whilst judicial review of administrative action is at the heart of the course, extra-judicial mechanisms (including merits review and the ombudsmen) are also considered. Means of accessing information held by the administration are also evaluated.
Availability2017 Course Timetables
Newcastle City Precinct
- Semester 2 - 2017
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Developed knowledge and understanding of the concepts and principles of administrative law.
2. Advanced skills in analysis and critique of relevant primary and secondary legal materials.
3. Advanced capacity to apply legal reasoning and provide appropriate responses to hypothetical administrative law problems.
4. Critical appreciation of the circumstances in which administrative law may be relevant.
5. Critical understanding of lacunae and uncertainties in administrative law.
6. Advanced skills in written communication, in the context of administrative law.
The course will comprise five key areas of study:
- The Nature and Functions of Administrative Law;
- Judicial Review of Administrative Action;
- (Extra-judicial) Merits Review of Administrative Action (including the Administrative Appeals Tribunal);
- Means of investigating administrative action (the Ombudsman);
- Access to information held by the administration (Freedom of Information and Privacy Law).
This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Laws and associated combined degree programs or Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and associated combined degree programs.
Assumed knowledge
Assessment items
Formal Examination: Formal Exam
Quiz: In class - Multiple choice test
Written Assignment: Case Analysis
Contact hours
Newcastle City Precinct
Online Activity
Online 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Face to Face Off Campus 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term


text:
urethane and polyurethane
View Single Post
Last journal entry:
Suggestions worth sharing
Last photo:
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 132
Edits: 0
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
powderbill's Photo Album
powderbill's Project Journal
Well, first off, it's much harder to make predictions about the quality of one formulation versus another if you don't have access to the formulas. Typically, one can get a few tidbits of information about the composition of the products from either labels or MSDS, but the information is typically very limited. For example, one who is familiar with the various commercially available isocyanates can typically pretty well guess what isocyanate curing agent is being used by looking at the solvent composition, VOC, and wt./gal. on an MSDS or even some labels. Information on the non-hazardous components such as acrylic resin solids is typically much more limited.
For a few broad generalizations, with all other factors being equal, mix ratios that use more isocyanate are typically higher in chemical resistance, and may often have an edge in gloss retention. However, comparison of higher solids (lower VOC) products to a lower solids product may make such predictions less reliable. The main factors that ultimately determine mixing ratios are the hydroxyl equivalent weights of the resins used and the quantity of resin solids present.
With respect to buffing behavior, I would expect that rate of hardness development would be affected by the molecular weight and monomer composition of the acrylic resin used, the solvent blend, and most especially by the accelerator package used in the formulation (eg concentration of certain metal salts). A tradeoff in this case is potlife versus cure rate.
Kenseth's experience using the isocyanate for a primer with a topcoat may work fine in some cases, and not in others depending on the individual formulations. There are some good reasons for a manufacturer to utilize a relatively small number of different isocyantes in a product line, and sometimes two entirely different products may use exactly the same isocyanate curative. Other times, they may be very different. Again, without access to the specific formulations or doing some analytical work, it would boil down to a calculated risk. Availability of good labeling information or MSDS info could definitely tilt the odds in your favor of guessing correctly, however.
With respect to toxicity of isocyanates, the ones used in 2K paints are typically selected to have much, much less toxicity than the monomeric isocyanates they were derived from due to their vastly reduced vapor pressure. Still, they should be handled with respect, particularly owing to the possibility of sensitization if an aerosol containing them is inhaled into the lungs.
I hope these comments are interesting to readers. Let me know if comments on a particular aspect are wanted.
View Public Profile
Find all posts by powderbill


text:
The Constitution of Guinea was revised in 2001 to introduce the principles of non-discrimination and gender equality.[1] Article 8 upholds equality between men and women as a fundamental right.[2] Guinea ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1982, but has yet to ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.[3] Since 2007 Guinea's Civil Code has been under revision to remove a significant number of discriminatory measures regarding parental authority, divorce, child custody and the choice of a place of residence and is scheduled to be submitted soon to the legislative body for adoption.[4] In addition, a draft of a special law on gender equality has been drafted and is in the process of being adopted, and a national policy on gender was adopted in 2011.[5]
The World Bank classifies Guinea as a low-income country.[6]
[1] CEDAW (2005) p.6 [2] Idem, p.14 [3] African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (2013) [4] CEDAW (2013) p.27 [5] Idem, p.33 [6] World Bank (n.d.), data: Guinea
Article 284 of the Guinean Civil Code states that both men and women under the age of 21 cannot marry without the consent of their father (or the head of the household, if the father is absent).[7]In terms of the legal age of marriage, the Guinean Child Code prohibits men and women under the age of 18 from marrying.[8]Early and forced marriages are, however, still practiced in Guinea.[9]The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) reports that Guinea has one of the highest child marriage prevalence rates in the world. In 2005, 37.9% of girls aged 15-19 were married, divorced or widowed, and over half of women age 20-24 (63%) were married/in union before age 18.[10]More recent data is not, unfortunately, available.
The Civil Code awards certain rights exclusively to the husband, such as parental authority, by which the husband is the sole head of the family. Women are heads of households only when widowed, married to a polygamist who is declared the head of another household, or married to an absent husband.[11] As such, the husband has the right to choose the marital home and has sole guardianship of minor children. In the event of divorce or the father's death, a family council selects a guardian, who in turn may also decide who has care of any children over the age of 7. In addition, while men transmit the nationality to their wife and children through marriage, the same is not true for Guinean women who marry foreign men. All of these inequalities are, however, presently under review, and will be eliminated should the draft revised Civil Code be adopted.[12]
There is no specific inheritance code, although under the country's Civil Code, widows are entitled to receive one-eighth of the total inheritance; the bulk of the estate is distributed to the couple's children and first-degree descendants.[13] Under civil law, daughters have the same inheritance rights as sons.[14] In 2005, 25.4% of widows (or their children) inherited the majority of assets after their spouses.[15] Customary forms of levirate and sororate continue to be practiced.[16]
The Civil Code also prohibits polygamy[17] although UNICEF reports that 53% of women aged 15-49 are in polygamous unions.[18]There is clear relationship between early marriage and polygamy, with just under 80% of women aged 20-24 who had been married before they turned 18 reporting that they were in a polygamous union.[19]
The right for women to divorce is recognized under Guinean law, but women tend to fare poorly in proceedings as men are generally awarded custody of children over 7 and they tend to receive the majority of communal assets.[20]
While more recent data is not available, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) reported that in 2005, 47.4% women report that it their husbands alone who make decisions about important household purchases, and 39.7% declare that it is their husbands who solely make decision concerning daily purchases.[21]
[7] Civil Code of the Republic of Guinea, Article 284 (Code Civil de la République de Guinée) [8] Child Code of the Republic of Guinea, Article 268 (Code De L'Enfant Guinéen)[9] CEDAW (2013) p.28 [10] UNFPA (2012) p.65; DHS 2005 [11] IMF (2012) p.25 [12] CEDAW (2013) p.28 [13] Civil Code of the Republic of Guinea, Articles 483-485 (Code Civil de la République de Guinée) [14] CEDAW (2007) p.11 [15] Chronic Poverty Research Centre (2011) p.20 [16] CEDAW (2013) p.25 [17] Civil Code of the Republic of Guinea, Article 315 (Code Civil de la République de Guinée) [18] UNICEF (2005) p.21 [19] UNICEF (2005) p.7 [20] Emery (2013) p.524 [21] DHS (2005) p.53
There is a lack of legislation criminalizing domestic violence, although charges for wife beating can be filed under the Penal Code, for general assault, which carries sentences of two to five years in prison and fines up to 300,000 Guinean francs.[22]Due to fear of stigmatization and reprisal, women rarely report abuse, and although assault constitutes grounds for divorce under civil law, police rarely intervene in domestic disputes.[23]In 2007, a survey by the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) found that 22% of women declared themselves victims of domestic violence.[24]As most incidents are not reported and are dealt with within the family, it is likely that the actual prevalence rate is much higher.[25]Domestic violence appears to be widely accepted among women as a fact of married life: when presented with a list of five different 'reasons' for a man to beat his wife in the 2005 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) questionnaire, 86% of women agreed with at least one of them.[26]
There is similarly no law that addresses sexual harassment in Guinea, nor is sexual harassment addressed in other legislation.[27]
Rape is also punishable under the criminal code, but a strong social stigma discourages women from pressing charges, and very few cases are prosecuted.[28] The US State Department reports that police records indicate that in 2012, 18 rape cases were brought to the Office for Protection of Women, Children and Morals. The law does not recognize the concept of spousal rape, and thus makes no special provisions for its punishment.[29] The Child Code is somewhat stricter with regard to perpetrators of all forms of violence against girls: article 352 bans the rape of children, with prison time and fines rising when children are under the age of 14.[30] While support for victims of domestic violence and rape remains limited, four pilot shelters have been established in areas with the highest prevalence of gender-based violence[31], and Government bodies for the advancement of women and NGOs continue to campaign widely for the eradication of gender based violence.[32] In addition, in early 2013, a member of the gendarme was indicted for rape during the stadium massacre of pro-democracy protesters linked in the military junta in September of 2009.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been illegal under the Penal Code since 2000, and the government has supported national campaigns to promote eradication.[33]But legislation appears to have been largely ineffective, as approximately 9 out of 10 of women are circumcised (the 2005 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) reports 96% of women have experience FGM), and there is little variation in regard to place of residence (urban and rural), region, or education levels.[34] Complaints against FGM have never been filed, in that victims fear judges will refuse to punish such acts.[35] In addition to the Penal Code, the Government has prohibited the practice in medical centres, although this measure has had little effect in that the procedure usually takes place outside of the formal medical system. Joint programs to fight FGM have also been organized between the Guinean government and local NGOs and international organizations.[36]
Abortion is only legal in Guinea on certain grounds, such as to save a woman's life.[37]
Under Guinean law, women have the right to decide the number and spacing of their children.[38] Recent data on contraception for Guinea is not available. However, the 2012 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) reports that 7% of sexually active women use a modern method of contraception (the same percentage reported in the 2005 DHS).[39]The same survey reports that 24% of women do not want to become pregnant but are not using contraception[40] Women's access to reproductive and general health services may be controlled by their husbands: in the 2005 DHS, 50.6% of women reported that their husbands made decisions about their wives' health without consulting them.[41]
[22] Penal Code of the Republic of Guinea, Article 295 (Code Penal de la République de Guinée) [23] US State Department (2012) [24] Treaty Monitor Body (2007) [25] CEDAW (2007) p.27 [26] DHS (2005) p.55 [27] CEDAW (2013) p.33 [28] US State Department (2012) [29] Idem [30] Child Code of the Republic of Guinea, Article 352 (Code De L'Enfant Guinéen) [31] CEDAW (2013) p.8 [32] CEDAW (2013) p.25 [33] CEDAW (2013) [34] Idem, p.29; DHS (2005) p.222 [35] CEDAW (2013) p.29 [36] Idem [37] Center for Reproductive Rights (2013) [38] US State Department (2012) [39] DHS (2012) p.9; DHS (2005) p.80 [40] Idem, p.114 [41] Idem, p.53
The male/female sex ratio for the working age population (15-64) in 2013 is 1 and the sex ratio at birth is 1.03.[42]
There is no evidence to suggest that Guinea is a country of concern in relation to missing women.
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 2012 indicates that parents are slightly more likely to vaccinate boys than girls – 48.3% as against 39.3%.[43] Both boys and girls suffered from stunting and malnutrition in relatively equal proportions.[44] While education levels are not available in the preliminary results of the 2012 DHS, the 2005 DHS found a considerable discrepancy between the literacy levels of boys and girls aged 15-19 – 63.4% of girls could not read at all, against 33.4% of boys.[45]
Son preference is not marked in regard to early childhood care, but is marked in regard to access to education, and may also be linked to the on-going practice of early marriage.
[42] CIA (2013) [43] DHS (2012) p.13 [44] Idem, p.18 [45] DHS (2005) p.40
Guinean land law grants equal rights to women and men.[46] However, customary practices prohibit women from inheriting land. Instead, they are entitled to hold land only on a usufruct basis, which authorises them to work family-owned land and draw a wage.[47]
The Guinean Constitution (articles 1 and 15) guarantees men and women equal access to non-land assets, at the time of marriage, spouses can establish a contract specifying the division of ownership.[48]When women marry, they have the right to retain control over and use of assets that they own independently of their husbands.[49]
The Civil Code does not discriminate against women in Guinea with regard to their legal right to access financial services, including bank loans and other forms of credit.[50]But in practice, access to bank loans is difficult for Guinean women, particularly in rural areas; this is mainly because they are unable to meet the conditions set by commercial banks.[51] Local credit systems have had limited impact.[52] As a result, a traditional form of accessing credit, the 'tontine' remains the main means by which many women access credit (according to the 2005 Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) report, 41% of tontine members at that time were women).[53] According to the Permanent Secretariat for the Strategy for Poverty Reduction, women face de facto discrimination in accessing financial services.[54]
[46] CEDAW (2013) p.25[47] FAO et al. (2004) p.33 [48] CEDAW (2005) p.19 [49] CEDAW (2005) p.36 [50] CEDAW (2013) p.25 [51] Idem [52] CEDAW (2005) p.36 [53] Idem [54] Permanent Secretariat for the Strategy for Poverty Reduction (n.d.)
Freedom of movement and access to public space within the national territory is a constitutional right, but married women are not entitled to choose their place of residence: this is the husband's right as head of the household, under article 331 of the Civil code (in the redrafted civil code this clause has been removed).[55] Women's movement may also be restricted on a day-to-day basis: in the 2005 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), 41.1% of women reported that they were unable to visit friends and relatives without their husband's permission[56]and 72.4% agreed their husband was justified in beating them if were to go out without telling him.[57]In addition, while men may pass their nationality to their wife and children through marriage, the same does not hold for Guinean women who choose to marry a foreign man.[58]
Although the Constitution provides for freedom of assembly, the latter is restricted both in law and in practice. For example, the law bans meetings that have either an ethnic or racial nature, or 'whose nature threatens national unity.' Permits are required for public gathering and requests are frequently denied or prohibited due to the belief that they pose a threat to public order. Demonstrations that have taken place are often characterized by the use of excessive force on the part of security forces. For example, a women-led sit-in in April of 2012 to express concern over legislative election procedures was dispersed with tear gas, kicking, and hitting, justified by the government deeming the demonstration to be unauthorized.[59]
Women have full right to equal participation with men in the formal political sphere.[60] As of 2012, there were 36 women on the 155-seat National Transition Council (CNT), Guinea's current legislative body, including the president. Five of the 28 cabinet ministers were women.[61]There are only 8 sub-prefects compared to 296 men, and only 1 out of the 301 assistant prefects is a woman, while 3 out of 38 mayors are women.[62] The electoral code, however, requires not only that every district or neighbourhood council must reserve at least 30% of its membership to women (article 103), but also that this same quota applies to candidate lists for elections to municipal councils (article 115) and national assembly seats (article 129).[63] However, at the local level, women are underrepresented. For instance, there is only one female Region governor, compared to 7 men and 3 female prefects, out of 33. The low representation of women in decision-making bodies stems in part from the fact that these laws are not well known, nor applied in practice.[64]
The principle of equality in employment is outlined in article 20 of the Constitution, and gender discrimination in employment recruitment is outlawed under Guinea's Labour Code.[65]Pregnant women are entitled to 14 weeks paid maternity leave paid by the employer and the government, and cannot be dismissed during this time.[66]There are no discriminatory provisions regarding remuneration, although a gender pay gap persists.[67] These laws only apply to women working in the formal economy. In 2008, the World Bank considered 79% of women to be economically active.[68]Continued hostility in society to the idea of women's financial independence limits women's employment opportunities in Guinea, as do low levels of education among women.[69]
[55] CEDAW (2013) p.28 [56] DHS (2005) p.53 [57] DHS (2005) p.55 [58] CEDAW (2013) p.28 [59] US State Department (2012) [60] CEDAW (2013) p.13 [61] US State Department (2012) [62] CEDAW (2013) p.14 [63] CEDAW (2013) p.13 [64] Idem, p.14 [65] CEDAW (2013) p.13 [66] Idem [67] Idem [68] World Bank (n.d.) data on labour participation rates [69] CEDAW (2013) p.31
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (2013) 'List of countries which have signed, ratified/acceded to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa' (http://www.achpr.org/instruments/women-protocol/ratification - accessed 7 November 2013).
Amnesty International (2009) Amnesty International Report 2009, State of the World's Human Rights, London: Amnesty International.
Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (2005) 'Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Guinea', Combined Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Periodic Reports of States Parties, CEDAW/C/GIN/4-6, CEDAW, New York, NY. (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/cedaws39.htm - accessed 7 November 2013).
CEDAW (2007), Responses to the list of issues and questions with regard to the consideration of the combined fourth, fifth and sixth periodic reports of Guinea, CEDAW/C/GIN/Q/6/Add.1, CEDAW, New York. (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/cedaws39.htm - accessed 6 November 2013).
Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (2013) 'Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Guinea', Combined Seventh and Eighth Periodic Reports of States Parties, CEDAW/C/GIN/4-6, CEDAW, New York, NY. (http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Countries.aspx - accessed 7 November 2013).
Center for Reproductive Rights (2013), The World's Abortion Laws Map 2013 Update, http://reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/AbortionMap_Factsheet_2013.pdf (accessed 11 June 2014).
Central Intelligence Agency (2013) The World Factbook. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2018.html - accessed 7 November 2013).
Child Code of Republic of Guinea (Code de l'Enfant Guinéen) (https://sites.google.com/site/guineejuristes/codes - accessed 6 November 2013).
Chronic Poverty Research Centre (2011) Widowhood and asset inheritance in sub-Saharan Africa: empirical evidence from 15 countries (http://www.chronicpoverty.org/uploads/publication_files/WP183%20Peterman.pdf - accessed 7 November 2013).
Civil Code of Republic of Guinea (Code Civil de la République de Guinée) (https://sites.google.com/site/guineejuristes/codes - accessed 6 November 2013).
Direction Nationale de la Statistique (DNS) (Guinée) et ORC Macro. 2006. Enquête Démographique et de Santé, Guinée 2005 (DHS 2005). Calverton, Maryland, U.S.A.: DNS et ORC Macro.
Direction Nationale de la Statistique (DNS) (Guinée) et ORC Macro. 2012. Enquête Démographique et de Santé, Guinée 2012. Rapport Preliminaire (DHS 2012, Preliminary Report). Calverton, Maryland, U.S.A.: DNS et ORC Macro.
Emery, Robert (ed.) (2013) Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia. Sage Publications.
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), ILC (International Land Coalition) (2004), Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries: Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, FAO Gender and Population Division, IFAD Technical Advisory Division, and ILC, Rome. (http://www.landcoalition.org/pdf/cedawrpt.pdf - accessed 7 November 2013).
International Monetary Fund (2012) Guinea: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper – Annual Progress Report.
Permanent Secretariat for the Strategy for Poverty Reduction (n.d.), http://www.srp-guinee.org/secretariat.htm (accessed 17 October 2014).
UNICEF (2005b), Early Marriage A Harmful Traditional Practice – A Statistical Exploration, New York: UNICEF. (http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Early_Marriage_12.lo.pdf - accessed 6 November 2013).
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)(2012) Marrying Too Young. End Child Marriage. United Nations Population Fund, New York.
Penal Code of Republic of Guinea (Code Penal de la République de Guinée) (https://sites.google.com/site/guineejuristes/codes - accessed 6 November 2013).
Treaty Monitor Body (2007). CEDAW Report on Guinea. (www.ishr.ch/hrm/tmb/treaty/cedaw/reports/cedaw_39/cedaw_39_guinea.pdf - accessed 7 November 2013).
World Bank (n.d) 'Data: Labor participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15+) (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS - accessed 7 November 2013).
World Bank (n.d.) 'Data: Guinea (http://data.worldbank.org/country/guinea -accessed 7 November 2013).


text:
Garden Sleeps 6 (4 Bedrooms)
Garden is a generous family space with kitchen/dining room and separate extra-large living room with lovely views and private garden. Oak floors throughout. There is a twin bedroom on the ground floor plus a separate WC and shower. A further twin bedroom, two singles and a bathroom located on the first floor.
• 2 (Twin) bedrooms,
• 2 SG bedrooms,
• 1 Bathroom, shower over bath
• 1 Shower room ,
• 1 Cloakroom/WC,
• Garden
• Living room with chesterfield sofas, Flat screenTV/DVD,
• Kitchen/dining room, dishwasher, microwave,
• Large pantry with chest freezer
The Courtyard accommodation offers bright, clean, contemporary styling. In this arts and crafts property there are some period features such as high ceilings and large windows, dating back to Edwardian times. Located in the village area of the private island, as a guest you can enjoy the communal heated outdoor pool ( available 30th April - October 1st) Beaches, sunbathing and sea swimming, Ornamental pond housing approx 1000 carp. Tennis Court, Barbeque areas, Home Farm & Wild life: donkeys, pheasants, turkeys, rabbits, owls and an abundance of bird species, Orchard & Walled garden. One can also enjoy fishing, bird watching and cycling. It's not just the destination that is unique, the journey onto the island involves crossing a tidal road built by the romans connecting Osea to the mainland. Tide charts are provided for you prior to your stay with us to help establish your arrival and departure times. Wonderful for families, romantic couples or adventurous getaway breaks.
About the Owner
About Michaela Brown
Osea Island is privately owned and for almost a 100 years it has been a well-kept secret amongst those in the know, but now this beautiful historic island, accessible by car only during low tide, will be open to the public to enjoy as a holiday destination. Be amongst the first to experience this well protected haven, just 45 miles from central London at the base of the Thames estuary. Remove the hassle and expense of long haul flights and reduce your carbon footprint by escaping to this rare and romantic gem, right here in England. And for those who are travelling from overseas let us show you how breath-taking an English coastline can be.
Michaela Brown purchased this apartment in 2001
Available Rentals
- Booking Notes:
50% secures your booking with final payment required 8 weeks prior to your arrival: Payment is by cheque or bank transfer and all funds must clear before arrival. For full terms and conditions please go to our website.
Changeover Day:
2 night stays are either Friday and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday. Weekend breaks (3 nights) are Friday - Monday , Midweek Monday - Friday (4 nights) and Week bookings (7 nights) Saturday - Saturday - longer rentals are also considered.
Notes on prices:
Prices include Vat and weekend prices are available with a min 2 night stay.
0 Reviews
Activity and Interests
Special interest holidays:
For large groups cooking classes, painting masterclasses, yoga weekends can be arranged.
Enclosed by four miles of beaches and coastline, privacy is guaranteed in this unspoilt marine sanctuary, with its abundant variety of wildlife and rare birds. One can walk to the coast/beach in under 5 minutes, you can in fact walk the around the whole island in just over two and a half hours.
A car is reccomended however there are numerous ways of getting onto Osea island. By Train - take the train from London Liverpool street to Witham station and then a taxi journey to the island. By car - just under two hours from london and drive over the Roman built tidal road. Of course for the less adventurous or if you miss the low tide, there is a water taxi , which can hold up to six people and that can take you across. By helicopter (Battersea 20 minutes) Nearest airport Southend 12miles
Nearest Town : Maldon 5 miles
Nearest Pub: Under 3 miles
Nearest grocery store: Tescos Direct- Bentalls shopping centre in Heybridge under 5 miles
Further Details:
The Essex coast is of huge appeal, and provides a wide range of things to do The coastline is perfect for outdoor enthusiats from the unspoilt salt marshes, mudflats and estuaries, to the coastal paths all providng a great platform for walking, cycling and exploring.
Property Type
- apartment
Pool / Spa
- Heated Pool
- Outdoor Pool
Location Type
- rural
- Bathroom 1 - Toilet, Bath (no shower), Shower Enclosure
- Toilet 1 - Toilet
- Shower room 1 - Shower Enclosure
- 4 Bedrooms, Sleeps 6
- Bedroom 1
- Bedroom 2
- Bedroom 3
- Bedroom 4
- Golf ...
House Rules
- Max. occupancy: 6
- pets considered
- Notes on accommodation: There is communal laundry room on the island and housekeeping can be arranged, internet access is complimentary and can be accessed in The Gamesroom a few minutes walk away. Other facilities on the island include bike hire, fishing, gyms, sauna, and The Gamesroom which hosts the table tennis, pool table and a 12 seater viewing room. Outside: Each downstairs apartment has individual garden access with garden furniture perfect for barbecues. The communal outdoor heated pool which is available at the end of April to 1st October is right next door.


text:
Candice Swanepoel & Adriana Lima Announce Victoria's Secret London Fashion Show!
It's one of the hottest events of the year for the lingerie industry, and the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show will be coming to London, England on December 2nd at Earls Court.
Candice Swanepoel and Adriana Lima showed up at the company's London flagship store on Bond Street to make the big announcement today (April 15) along with Chief Marketing Officer Ed Razek.
Ms. Lima told press, "The Victoria's Secret Show is the biggest fashion show in the world, for sure, so it will be amazing to bring the show to London. I love it here."
And while details are still scarce at this point, it's likely that local ladies like Cara Delevingne and Lily Donaldson may hit the runway!


text:
Representing imprecision in engineering design: Comparing fuzzy and probability calculus
- Cite this article as:
- Wood, K.L., Antonsson, E.K. & Beck, J.L. Research in Engineering Design (1990) 1: 187. doi:10.1007/BF01581211
- Citations
- 103 Downloads
A technique to perform design calculations on imprecise representations of parameters using the calculus of fuzzy sets has been previously developed [25]. An analogous approach to representing and manipulatinguncertainty in choosing among alternatives (design imprecision) using probability calculus is presented and compared with the fuzzy calculus technique. Examples using both approaches are presented, where the examples represent a progression from simple operations to more complex design equations. Results of the fuzzy sets and probability methods for the examples are shown graphically. We find that the fuzzy calculus is well suited to representing and manipulating the imprecision aspect of uncertainty in design, and that probability is best used to represent stochastic uncertainty.


text:
We're quite used to Hercules turning out unusual products that set themselves apart from the competition in one way or another. For instance, Hercules produced one of the first 7.1 channel sound cards, yet it still doesn't have any 7.1 speakers in its product range. It came as little surprise therefore that Hercules chose an odd path with the 3D Prophet 9600, but that doesn't mean that we liked it.
Our test results show that the Radeon 9600 GPU is a decent budget DirectX 9 part that's caught in a fierce tussle for market share with the FX5600 and FX5600 Ultra. It can't quite compete in terms of performance so price is of critical importance. We feel that Connect3D has the right idea by producing a basic card that sells for under £100. By contrast Hercules has priced its 3D Prophet 9600 at a whopping £150, so you'll be glad to hear that Hercules has tried to make the 3D Prophet 9600 stand out from the competition.
Cosmetically Hercules has done a fair job, producing the card on a blue PCB and adding copper coloured heatsinks to the memory and GPU. We know that the GPU will work perfectly well with a passive heatsink, yet Hercules has stuck a fan on this card. The major difference between this card and the competition is that it has a full 256MB of memory installed. This could be useful if the graphics core was limited by the quantity of memory, but with a Radeon 9600 the issue is the speed of memory that the manufacturer uses, rather than the quantity. The chip simply doesn't have the raw power to use 256MB of memory and our test results show that the Hercules only has a tiny advantage over the 128MB Connect3D card.
We hoped that Hercules would add a decent amount of extras to the package to justify the price, but it wasn't to be so. There's a TV-Out cable, much like the one supplied by Gigabyte, but what's this on the driver CD?
Aha, Hercules has supplied the Hercules 3D Tweaker LE overclocking utility, so perhaps there is some extra performance in the 3D Prophet 9600 that is waiting to be unlocked. The utility offers a maximum core speed of 422MHz with memory speed of 526MHz. That's a 30 percent increase, so potentially this card could be a winner. Unfortunately our testing showed that the core would only overclock by 1MHz and the memory wouldn't overclock at all.
This strikes us as a complete waste of time, and it sums the card up nicely as all show and no go. No doubt the shelves of high street PC stores will be stocked with Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 cards but we strongly advise you to ignore this model.
The 256MB of memory is purely cosmetic, making the Hercules very poor value for money. The overclocking feature is pointless and this particular 3D Prophet brings a far less welcome message than its more auspicious forefathers.


text:
It looks like replacement seems to be the new mantra of the Indian channels to increase thier TRPs. After Sony & Star Plus, joining the bandwagon is Zee TV. Rumor has it that two shows of the channel, Choti Bahu from DJ's Creative Unit & Ek Nayi Choti Si Zindagi from Hats Off Productions aren't able to earn much TRP for the channel. Earlier this month, Sanskaar Laxmi was axed due to the same reason. What we find amusing is that Choti Si Zindagi recently took a 10-12 year leap, while it is the second season for Choti Bahu, with the same lead pair and a different storyline & still it hasn't worked in favour of the channel.
What we make out from the past is that Zee TV doesn't want to lose what we term as 'the Reality show slot'. From the two past years, either Dance India Dance or Sa Re Ga Ma Pa has occupied the 9.30- 11 pm slot every Friday & Saturday on Zee TV. And just to keep audiences glued to their television sets many variations were brought into their two year dance contest Dance India like DID for juniors, doubles and also the evergreen second season. Having already benefited from the second season, the third season of Dance India Dance is also on the cards of Zee TV.
Now that Sa Re Ga Ma Pa is nearing its finale we hear that Zee Tv is coming up with another reality show named, "Star Ya Rockstar", & the show will replace Lil Champs This show will various TV artists competing with one another through their singing skills. While actors Manish Paul & Chhavi Mittal are believed to be signed for the show, other names like Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Varun Badola, Rajshri Thakur and Vikas Bhalla are also being considered.
Again the Reality Show slot comes into the picture. 'Star Ya Rockstar',as believed, will air until the launch of action based talent show 'Jaanbaaz' which will be judged by action hero, Sunny Deol.


text:
Helen Johnston, 27, who lived in Stoke Newington while studying nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said she had regularly seen skeletal and "other-worldly" children in Badakhshan province.
The deeply conservative area, in which women are unable to go out alone and have been beaten for taking their children for treatment, has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world.
The reason is chronic malnutrition, caused largely by food shortages and ignorance about feeding methods. Four clinics run by the charity Medair have treated more than 2,000 severely or acutely malnourished under-fives since Ms Johnston and Swedish nurse Nadine Eriksson started work there in April.
Ms Johnston said: "The international emergency level is a 15 per cent malnutrition rate, but here it is 30 per cent for under-fives and for the under-ones it's 60 per cent."
The causes of malnutrition in Yawan, Raghistan and Kohistan - the three districts of Badakhshan where Medair operates - also include lack of dietary variety as tea and naan bread are the staple foods for much of the year.
Ignorance over the need for breast feeding and the use of "complementary food" for babies aged over six months is another major factor, as is illness and diarrhoea caused by poor hygiene.
Badakhshan's infant mortality rate is about 60 per cent higher than Afghanistan's, which itself is the second highest in the world after Chad.
Ms Johnston said: "Some of things I have seen I have had a very emotional reaction to. The children come to the clinic draped in clothes, looking quite big, but then you roll up their sleeve to measure them and you see their tiny little frames. They look other-worldly.
"There was one little boy and I just thought 'what is going to become of you?' He wasn't going to have the physical or mental capacity to move beyond a life of sheer survival at best."
Ms Eriksson, 33, has also worked in Sudan but said the malnutrition in Badakhshan was "much, much worse". She added: "Kids don't run around naked here and aren't dying on the streets, but they are definitely dying and in the same numbers."
She described the case of one baby who died this summer after being brought into one of Medair's clinics. "He was five months old and he was really bad, but I have seen two or three children like that here, whereas I worked in Sudan for two years and I never saw anything like that. Almost all the mothers I ask have lost a child and many have lost two, three, four. For them it is such a normal thing.
"But it feels so unnecessary because most of the severely malnourished are very young. They don't need a lot of food at that age, just the right sort."
Medair's clinics hand out fortnightly supplies of "plumpy nuts", a combination of peanuts, milk powder, sugar and oil, fortified with vitamins and minerals, that provide a child's full nutrition needs. Local women are also taught about feeding infants properly at classes which use pictures because of the high illiteracy levels.
However, only half the 100,000 population of the area covered by the clinics are within two hours' walking distance and mothers can only make the journey if a man will escort them.
As a result, the clinics are thought to have seen fewer than two out of five of the area's malnourished children. Medair will send out mobile clinics next year.
Ms Johnston said it was worth putting up with the "gruelling" nature of life in an often "cold, damp and miserable" region where she and Ms Eriksson must go out covered up and escorted. "It can be frustrating and hard, but there is no doubt that there is a fundamental need for us to be here. Too many children are suffering for us not to be."
- More about:
- Hygiene
- Medicine
- Nutrition
- Pharmaceuticals
- Stoke Newington


text:
Alan Carr: Chatty Man - C4, 10pm
We waited ages for Robbie Williams to make up with his song-writing chum Guy Chambers and, when he does, what do we get?
A new expletive-filled ditty called Brits 2013 in which he slags off the show for being boring. But one word you'd never use to describe Chatty Man is boring, so as Alan Carr returns for the 10th series of his award-winning chat show, we can rely on him to keep things lively as he gate-crashes Robbie's performance of his new single Be A Boy and the pair compare muscles.
Also on the sofa tonight Sue Perkins, whose sitcom Heading Out started this week, spills the baking beans from behind the scenes of The Great British Bake Off, actress Jaime Winstone tells us what it's really like to hang out with Harry Styles and Dara O'Briain gets to tell the story of how he nearly died when he sailed up the Zambezi with Jack Dee and Melanie C for Comic Relief.
All three of them lived to tell the tale and tell Alan all about it tonight.
The Walking Dead – Fox, 10pm
Fans of this show will mark tonight's episode down in their diaries because it contains a real Walking Dead first – a dirty car.
Despite battling zombies for over a year, never knowing if they'll make it through to the next day, anybody who drives a car seems to have time to clean it and wax it.
Most of the vehicles Rick and his crew use are so pristine, they look as if they could have just been driven off the factory floor.
But tonight, we have a car so filthy it's a wonder the person driving it can actually see out of the windscreen.
That person is Andrea, who sneaks out of Woodbury, where the governor is preparing for war, to visit her former friends at the jail.
She's acting as a peacemaker but Carol has a more practical suggestion for how she can help.
Elsewhere, Tyreese and his friends, who ran away from the prison two episodes ago when Rick went into scary hallucination mode, end up in Woodbury. The governor can't believe his luck.


text:
As I raved about in another post, I love my CZ75 P-07 Duty that I've had for about 90 days now. You should be able to pick one up for $380-$430 or so I would think.
Well, maybe $380 might be a bit low after looking over at gunbroker..........
This is a discussion on Quality semi auto on a small budget, advice wanted. within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Hello everyone. I am new to guns and I am learning what I can from reading. I am looking for my first handgun for legal ...
Hello everyone. I am new to guns and I am learning what I can from reading. I am looking for my first handgun for legal concealed carry, home defense in an apartment, and fun practicing at the range. A Glock is nice but they start at $500. I am looking in to the total over all cost to own and shoot the gun. It seems that the 9mm is a good over all round for edc and a newbie. I have around $500 total to play with, $50 of it will be for my ccw permit. That leaves $450 for gun, holster, etc. in my price range, what should I be looking at? Ruger LC9, S&W sd9 ve, Taurus milinium pro, etc? I know there are better guns out there such as a Sig or HK, but they are over budget. The goal here is edc and practice at the range, not to win a shooting contest. Thanks for the advice in helping me narrow down the choices for my first firearm.
As I raved about in another post, I love my CZ75 P-07 Duty that I've had for about 90 days now. You should be able to pick one up for $380-$430 or so I would think.
Well, maybe $380 might be a bit low after looking over at gunbroker..........
Last edited by boutaswell; December 3rd, 2012 at 11:33 AM. Reason: quick research
Richard, SFC US Army (Ret)
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ― Patrick Henry
The Taurus PT-111 is a decent gun but if you keep your eye out for a used Glock 19 (usually a Police trade-in) you can find one just as cheap as a new Taurus.
I would keep my eye out for a used S&W of Glock semi auto in 9mm, search Gun Broker
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Beretta Nano. Can be had for high 3's to low 4's and I enjoy mine.
Uncertain whether you have any maximum size/weight limits on the gun, but here's a search tool that can help narrow the choices a bit, at least for currently-available guns: Genitron Handgun Database.
Smith & Wesson built one heck of a good series of guns with their third-generation 3900, 5900 and 6900 pistols. Their second-gen pistols were also fairly well regarded. While no longer currently produced, there are a lot of them out there. They were good enough for police agencies around the country. And you can pick them up, pre-owned, for a "song" (relatively speaking), particularly when compared to the NIB pricing on many current guns. Example: S&W 3953 9mm DAO, ~$400; S&W 6904 9mm, ~$340; list of older S&W pistols (2G, 3G) @ World.Guns.ru, listing a variety of 9mm, .40S&W and .45ACP alternatives.
Check out the Bersa Thunder Ultra Compact Pro, as well. Given your budget, it might well be one of the better NIB options for you.
My personal recommendation would be for any of the CZ pistols (75, 75 Compact D PCR, P-01, P-06, P-07, 2075 RAMI). Extremely reliable, durable, well-made. The RAMI is reasonably concealable.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
Don't over look SIG 250 compact. On sale at Academy for 399 now.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around laws. Plato
I think you may have been a little quick to rule out Glock on price. We have a couple of Glock 26's, both of which were acquired for about $450. Regardless of what you choose, be sure to read many reviews when you start to narrow your field as some makes and models have reputations for quality troubles and can be hit or miss. If you are lucky enough to get one that works great, your good to go, but you can also get one that is a lemon.
Used Hand Guns
On a budget, looking at new guns seems unnecessary - you mentioned Glock in your first post. Above is a link for some used ones - there are plenty more out there.
Aint noyhing wrong with the Ruger , check out the Kahr line as well
Kahr CM9. In your price range, accurate (even at longer distances), reliable (not one problem from first round), highly concealable, various holsters available, great construction (Kahrs have an excellent reputation among most), +P capable (shoots everything I have fed it-no failures), and carries 6+1 in mag included with pistol. Just my opinion, good luck.
Best Regards,
"Doc" aka Bill
Kahr or Ruger are in your price range if you want to buy new.
Glocks can be found used.
I would avoid Taurus and Kel-Tec. That is my personal opinion based on first hand experience with both.
NRA Member
Certified Kitchen Gunsmith
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
- C.S. Lewis
Keep in mind that the purchase price of the handgun will soon be over shadowed by the cost of ammo required to become proficent.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around laws. Plato
Kel Tec PF9 is a bargain. $275, 9mm, easily concealable.
Kimber Solo 9mm, Walther PPS 9mm
Kel Tec PF9 9mm, Ruger LCR .38
Walther PPQ M1 9mm
Maverick 88 Tactical 12 ga shotgun at bedside
Lifetime NRA member
One of the reasons I am looking at the 9mm is the ammo cost over something like the 45acp. I want a quality self defense gun but also want to be able to afford to shoot it to stay in practice. LOL :)
There are many optios, but id stay away from the LC9 if you want to have any fun at the range. I have an XD for my ccw, but for a budget ccw and plinker check out SCCY CPX-2. Around $300 and American made.