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tecsis GmbH
based in Offenbach, GERMANY
tecsis is a specialist for measuring technology with focus on force, pressure and temperature measurement and switches. Our strength lies in the development of cost effective solutions, resulting from requirements derived from customer's applications. Hydraulic force transducers from tecsis are impressive due to their reliability and wide range of applications: for ...
Ecotech Pty Ltd
based in Knoxfield, AUSTRALIA
Ecotech is an Australian owned company with more than 35 years experience in servicing, maintaining, designing, manufacturing, installing and commissioning ambient air and emission monitoring systems around the world. Ecotech is ISO17025 accredited for the operation and maintenance of ambient air and continuous emission monitoring systems and was first accredited in 1999. ...
Textest AG
based in Schwerzenbach, SWITZERLAND
Textest AG, 30 years of experience with testing instruments for quality control. We specialize in modern testing instruments for: air permeability, hydrostatic head, thread density (ends and pick count), tearing strength (Elmendorf method), residual moisture content, package hardness etc.
Intermountain Environmental, Inc.
based in Logan, UTAH (USA)
Intermountain Environmental, Inc. sells, installs and supports a variety of data collection and environmental monitoring systems. We offer sensors, packaged systems and custom integrated systems. We can provide professional grade weather stations for research applications and less expensive weather stations for basic environmental monitoring. We offer water monitoring ...
based in Bassersdorf, SWITZERLAND
ROTRONIC offers a comprehensive range of humidity instruments: transmitters, data loggers, indicators, probes, sensors and humidity generators for the measurement and calibration of relative humidity, dew point, water activity and other humidity parameters. Problem-free, accurate measurement results from the most stable humidity sensor in the industry combined with our ...
Enviro Technology Services plc
based in Stroud, UNITED KINGDOM
Enviro Technology Services plc (ET) was founded in 1983. Now active in over 45 countries with a multi-million pound turnover. ET is a global provider of air quality and emissions monitoring systems and servicing. The UK-based company sell and lease equipment, systems and services covering the monitoring of ambient air quality (AQM), continuous emissions (CEM) and indoor ...
B&W Tek, Inc
based in Newark, DELAWARE (USA)
Since B&W Tek's establishment in 1997, we've grown into an industry-leading, total solutions provider coupling our core technologies with custom design and manufacturing capabilities. We are an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser instrumentation, as well as laboratory, portable and handheld Raman spectrometer systems. Since our ...
Ashtead Technology Ltd
based in Letchworth, UNITED KINGDOM
Ashtead Technology was formed in 1985 when Ashtead Group plc acquired SubSpek Limited, which at the time provided underwater positioning, survey and inspection equipment rental from a base in Aberdeen. In 1994 the Singapore base was opened, focussing on the offshore oil and gas industry and the subsea telecommunications cable market in Asia Pacific. The first US ...
Ionicon Analytik Ges.m.b.H.
based in Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
IONICON is the world's leading producer of trace gas analyzers with market-leading, real-time, single-digit pptv-level detection limits for VOCs using the unique Proton Transfer Reaction – Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS) and Selective Reagent Ionization – Mass Spectrometry (SRI-MS) technology. IONICON also produces trace calibration devices for analytical instruments and ...
Umwelttechnik MCZ GmbH
based in Bad Nauheim, GERMANY
MCZ has more than 25 years of experience in the construction and manufacture of apparatuses and systems in the area of gas analysis and related fields. MCZ develops and manufacturers devices and systems for end customers as well as OEM systems. Gas Collectors, Calibration Systems for Gas Analyzers, Inspection Stations and Test Benches, Zero and Process Gas treatmentg, Gas ...


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RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar. 3 -- State-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) plans to start development drilling soon in Manati gas field in the Camamu-Almada basin off southern Bahia, Brazil.
Petrobras expects the field to produce 6 million cu m/day of gas at peak. It is waiting on an environmental license.
The campaign will use two rigs to drill seven shallow-water development wells and an exploratory well in shallow water on the BCAM-40 block. Each well should take about 60 days to drill.

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COPIAGUE, NY (WCBS 880) – Health concerns have led to air testing in some homes on Long Island.
WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs reports
Eight years after chemical pollution was discovered in ground water in a Copiague neighborhood, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is testing air quality in and around nearby homes.
It's believed a toxic plume is coming from an abandoned industrial site, which is directly across the street from a man's house.
"I would like to see them taking care of the problem," the man told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs. "I would like to see them remove the soil if it's contaminated… Get rid of it all at once."
Residents say they worry about possible health effects from the pollution.
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Nedbank remains a committed supporter and sponsor of local running. Running provides an opportunity to touch the lives of all South Africans without experiencing cultural, racial or financial barriers – running is truly a sport for all.
Nedbank's involvement in running is aimed at addressing three requirements:
Nedbank Running Club
In early 2008 Nedbank launched the Nedbank Running Club (NRC), with 13 branches based in 12 cities around the country to bring running enthusiasts together at a social and competitive level while identifying and guiding talented individuals to excel at the sport.
The NRC now has a membership of over 3 300 people. The branches are strategically located in the Boland, Gauteng (North and Central), the Eastern Cape, the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, the South Western Districts, the Western Cape, the Vaal Triangle and in central North West.
Nick Bester, a past winner of the Comrades Marathon and an incredible multidiscipline athlete, serves as the club's national manager. Bruce Fordyce, one of South Africa's leading proponents of distance running and winner of nine Comrades Marathons and three London to Brighton races, is the Public Relations Manager of the NRC and CEO of NRC Central Gauteng.
Nedbank Green Dream Team
The Dream Team consists of a mixture of top South African athletes who compete in all the recognised distances as well as many of South Africa's ultramarathons. This elite squad has been individually selected after consultation with experienced managers and coaches. Many are worldclass runners in their own right and athletes such as Bongmusa Mthembu, Ludwick Mamabolo, Claude Moshiywa, Charne Bosman, Irvette Van Zyl, Rutendo Nyahora and Sibusiso Nzima form part of the team.
The Green Dream Team is supplemented by a talented squad of promising young athletes who are nurtured by the NRC.
Comrades Marathon
Nedbank has been a proud major co-sponsor of the 'world's ultimate human race' since 2006, although the brand was previously supported by NBS and Peoples Bank in the years before their renaming and inclusion in Nedbank.
Nedbank Green Dream Team athletes have dominated recent Comrades Marathons, with the club securing seven of the 20 gold medals on offer in 2014. This impressive medal haul included a spectacular men's first and second finish as well as the women's first-place finisher.
Despite the presence of a talented international contingent, the run was a triumph for South African men, who took the first three places – the first time this has happened since 1992 – and a total of seven spots in the top 10.
In 2013 Nedbank scooped the Discovery Sports Industry Award for best live sporting experience for the Nedbank Green Mile and spectator spot. The location alternates between Kloof (for the down run) and Camperdown (for the up run), both situated next to the national freeway 26 kilometres from the end of the up and down races.
This iconic Nedbank Green Mile and spectator spot is free to all supporters and provides a welcoming place to watch the drama unfold, while creating an electrifying atmosphere of over 1,6 kilometres in length, giving an uplifting boost to runners when they need it most.
Nedbank Runners' Guide, Nedbank Winter Race Dates and Nedbank Summer Race Dates
These popular annual publications, published by running guru Tom Cottrell, are the runner's bibles for races in South Africa. Listing over 900 races, the Nedbank Runners' Guide continues to serve the entire running community. Included in the guide are race details, costs, contact information, profiles, editor's notes and handouts. Nedbank Winter Race Dates and Nedbank Summer Race Dates are two supplements that keep runners informed on race dates during the year, and include popular training programmes and logbooks. The Nedbank Runners' Guide is also available for mobile devices on iTunes for Apple and Play Store for Android.


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BMW's Vision ConnectedDrive Concept is one of the real show stars in Geneva. BMW's Director of Group Design, Adrian van Hooydonk talks more about the overall strategy behind the concept here. And Head of Interior Design at BMW, Marc Girard has talked us through the interior here and here.
This car had a tough act to follow in the form of the acclaimed Vision EfficientDynamics Concept shown at the IAA in Frankfurt in 2009. Based on pictures released some weeks before Geneva, some were also questioning whether this car would live up the high standards of design and originality set by that car. In photos, some of the resolution and surfacing made this car look a little slab-like. Yet in the flesh the car has a lithe, elegant form and a lightness of execution that belies its complex technology.
There is some surprisingly poor surfacing on show on other cars here in Geneva, but the BMW is not one of them . It might not have quite the level of originality the Vision EfficientDynamics Concept displayed, but it's still an impressive piece of design in its own right and a logical evolution of a set of ideas. Along with the Mini Rocketman, it illustrates the depth of talent within design at BMW right now. Hidden throughout the concept are a series of incredibly complex, yet ultimately quite background technology features, which we'll explore in greater depth in a longer design review. For now though, here are some of our favourite detail elements of the car, and our flickr photo gallery.
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PHOENIX (AP) - An Iraqi man charged with detonating a homemade explosive device outside a Social Security Administration office building in Casa Grande has pleaded not guilty.
Abdullatif Ali Aldosary was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges of maliciously damaging federal property by means of explosives and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Authorities say the 47-year-old researched bomb-making materials and gathered chemicals before detonating an explosive outside the Social Security office on Nov 30. No one was injured in the blast.
Trial is set for Feb. 5 in federal court in Phoenix. His public defender has declined comment.
Officials say he came to the U.S. legally in 1997, but was denied a green card because he fought with anti-government forces trying to overthrow former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein.
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Defending Sun Belt Conference tournament champion and 2008 NCAA Sweet 16 participant Western Kentucky University released its 2008-09 men's basketball schedule today, WKU head coach Ken McDonald announced Monday.
The 29-game regular season schedule includes 13 home games, 14 away games, two games at neutral sites and has match ups with six teams that participated in post-season play a year ago. WKU will also host two exhibition games at Diddle Arena on October 31 and November 8. Additionally, ESPN2 will televise the February 7 game at Diddle Arena against South Alabama live at 1:00 p.m. (central).
"This is a very strong and challenging schedule," McDonald said. "Our scheduling philosophy is to be aggressive and play the best teams we can to help us prepare to win the Sun Belt Conference. I am really excited about the season ahead, and the exposure we will receive from an ESPN2 home game is beneficial in many ways. All of us are looking forward to the upcoming challenges."
"This is a very demanding schedule, and I commend Coach McDonald on the quality opponents he has scheduled in his first season as head coach," WKU Director of Athletics Dr. Camden Wood Selig said. "We all believe this is a job with no ceiling, and the best way to measure yourself prior to conference season is to play quality non-conference opponents. While playing teams from the ACC, Big East and SEC is challenging, it also provides opportunities for our program on a national stage. This also enables us to bring quality opponents to Diddle Arena in future years and meets our fans' desire for an improved non-conference slate."
WKU opens the regular season at Houston on November 15 before opening the home schedule against Campbellsville on November 18. The Hilltoppers play six teams who participated in post-season play in 2008, including a November 30 game in Nashville against Louisville (NCAA Regional Finalist) along with home games November 26 against Southern Illinois (NIT 2nd round), December 2 against Georgia (SEC Tournament Champion) and February 7 against Sun Belt foe South Alabama (NCAA) on ESPN2.
The Toppers also travel to South Alabama December 18, play Florida State (NIT) in Miami on December 28 in the MetroPCS Orange Bowl Classic, and play at Mississippi State (NCAA 2nd round) on January 5.
The Sun Belt Conference Tournament begins with first-round games on campus sites on Wednesday, March 4. Eight teams will then descend on Hot Springs, Ark., for the quarterfinal, semifinal and championship rounds March 8-10.
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WFISD avoids program cuts
Budget in administration slashed first
For now, librarians in the Wichita Falls Independent School District can still recommend favorite books, teachers can give benchmark tests, and pregnant girls can receive prenatal and baby help, with shuttles to school and day care.
But no raises for teachers or other employees for 2012-13 are in sight — yet.
The 32 program budget cuts — introduced into budget discussions for 2012 and 2013 by interim superintendent Tim Powers — would have funded teacher raises, but were decisively sidelined last week and replaced by new Superintendent John Frossard's budget reduction plan.
Frossard's 11 reductions sliced away mainly at administrative costs at the Education Center — starting with a 7 percent decrease in his own superintendent office budget. It also included a 3 percent reduction to the curriculum and instruction budget and a 3 percent reduction to the athletic program.
His reduction plan was accepted by board members without changes, causing board members to cancel a scheduled board work session for Tuesday because discussion no longer was needed.
In addition, Frossard was given the go-ahead to validate revenue projections, as he had requested.
"It was a little off last year," Frossard said of the 2011-12 budget, which projected revenue of $101.2 million that was later revised downward by $5 million to $96.4 million. "Without having a CFO, and without having Skyward (software) fully implemented, I want to be cautious. With technology, the numbers are only as good as what's been inputted. They're still working on getting all the personnel in there."
He also was authorized to bring in an outside agency to do a staffing study — also his request — and to hire both a chief financial officer and a director of operations, whose job description is being written now.
The CFO position already is posted, and the operations director position should be posted within a few days, Frossard said Tuesday.
Raises for WFISD employees will not be included in the budget that's being prepared. But once revenue projections have been verified, raises could be added retroactively, either as a percentage raise or a one-time bonus, according to Frossard.
The cuts proposed by Powers, which had been drawn from a Budget Action Committee's suggestions, are not completely off the table, Frossard said.
"They're just not on the table right now. Many of those were pretty significant ... some of them, the timing was not real good either to make cuts in August."
Frossard said he wants to study each proposed cut in detail.
"We need to determine if cutting one program results in an increased cost in another program and what the implications are," he said. "It doesn't mean those aren't legitimate areas to scrutinize. But in my opinion, they deserve more study."
While the original list of 32 cuts had one glaring omission — administrative cuts, because those cuts had already been made in years past, Powers had said — Frossard's 11 cuts for 2012-13 were mostly administrative — and all will be implemented as he proposed.
He cut the human resources budget by 5 percent, the CFO's office by 3 percent, the finance department by 5 percent, the maintenance budget by 5 percent, and the technology budget by 1 percent.
"What I was trying to do was lead by example," he said Tuesday. "I don't want to cut people out in the field closest to the students at the eleventh hour without first looking at the central office. I just don't think it's fair to people."
He also cut travel, remodeling projects and will recapture $50,000 by charging summer school fees.
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Bruno Mars and Rihanna's singles are heading back into the UK top three after being performed on The X Factor, but they will not catch Olly Murs.
Sales of Mars' Atlantic-issued Locked Out Of Heaven are up 67% on the week so far to lift it 9-2 in midweeks, while Rihanna's Def Jam/Mercury track is up 36% to rise 10-3, according to the Official Charts Company.
Both tracks were performed on last Sunday's X Factor results show, the same platform on which the releases currently occupying positions 1, 4, 5 and 6 on the midweeks were also performed in previous weeks. Heading the race, Epic act Olly Murs featuring Flo Rida's Troublemaker is currently ahead by around 11,000 sales and should secure a second week at No 1 on Sunday. Labrinth's Syco single Beneath Your Beautiful featuring Emeli Sande holds at 4, while RCA act Alicia Keys' Girl On Fire remains at 5, while Robbie Williams' Island-issued Candy climbs back up 8-6, no doubt helped by his O2 arena shows in North Greenwhich.
Murs is also leading the artist albums midweeks as he looks to simultaneously head both main sales charts for the first time in his career. The newly-issued Epic album Right Place Right Time was nudging 90,000 sales by the end of business on Thursday and should safely accumulate a six-figure sales number by the end of the week, while Syco act One Direction's Take Me Hone holds at 2 and Rihanna's Def Jam/Mercury album Unapologetic drops 1-3. An expanded version of Michael Buble's Reprise/Warner Bros set Christmas lifts 5-4, while Girls Aloud's new Polydor best of Ten is new at 5.
There are also Top 10 new entries at this stage of the week from Neil Diamond and Jeff Wayne. Diamond's Columbia set The Very Best Of is at 9 and Wayne's The War Of The Worlds - New Generation from the same record company is at 10.
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English National Ballet Christmas Party - Inside
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Israeli Troops Continue To Gather On Border As International Ceasefire Efforts Intensify
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The twin GRAIL spacecraft are in orbit around the moon, and now they've been named Ebb and Flow.
A fourth grade class in Bozeman, Mont. won a contest to name the lunar probes.
First woman in space, Sally Ride, also announced an education program called "Moonkam," which lets classrooms around the world control cameras on the GRAIL spacecraft.
This same class will be the first one to take pictures of the moon. Engineers at Lockheed Martin in Colorado helped build the spacecraft.
"NASA's scientific missions and the exciting discoveries that they reveal are wonderful catalysts for getting students interested in studying science... and it's really cool. I mean like, really cool to study science," NASA Deputy Administrator for Education Leland Melvin said.
More than 2,100 classrooms are already signed up to participate. They represent more than 150,000 students.
The classroom that won the naming contest is a class at Emily Dickinson School in Bozeman.
Scientists hope the probes will help them create a map of the moon's gravitational field and provide new clues to what lies below the lunar surface.
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The FHS Choral Booster Parents Organization is designed to support the Choral Program at Fondy High School. While we support the program through a variety of means, the most tangible is through financial support. The organization raises funds for the program as a whole, as well as offers opportunities to raise funds for individual student trip accounts.
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Kenya's cultural mosaic is Africa in miniature, with almost every main African tongue spoken and over forty distinct ethnic groups. Kenya is one Africa's most diverse travel destinations and a fantasic family destination! Watch a lion-cubs in the true African wilderness, take off on a thrilling balloon safari over the Maasai Mara, visit the nomadic, ochre-clad Maasai, gaze at the breathtaking views of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro or watch pink flamingoes rise over the Rift Valley soda lakes all in one day.
Day 01: Nairobi, Kenya
Arrive Jomo Kenyatta International. Upon clearing Customs and Immigration, you are met and transferred to your hotel for check - in.
Nairobi. As the sun rises each morning in equatorial East Africa, Nairobi is already bustling with traffic, streams of pedestrians and people pushing carts. In the city's markets, the floors are washed, and fresh produce is artfully arranged; the tea sellers unlock their stalls and light their fires; merchants raise the iron screens from their store windows. Flowers are everywhere.
This afternoon visit the Karen Blixen Museum and the Giraffe Center.
The museum, once part of Karen Blixen's vast coffee estate, 'Mbogani' was Karen's home from 1917 until 1931, and made famous by the film 'Out of Africa'. Here you get a glimpse of typical colonial life in Kenya at the turn of the twentieth century. As well as many of Karen's original belongings, and replicas replace items that have been lost over the years.
The Giraffe Center is the headquarters for the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife. Giraffe Manor was established in 1983 as a sanctuary for the then endangered Rothschild giraffe. The breeding program has been a great success and you can watch these gentle giants at eye level from a raised platform.
Probably Kenya's most famous hotel - and certainly its oldest - The Norfolk has been drawing the rich and famous to its hallowed doors since they first opened on Christmas Day 1904. In many respects, Nairobi grew up around the Norfolk, which occupies a central but quiet location opposite the National Theater.
Norfolk Hotel
Day 02: Sweetwaters Game Reserve
Transfer to Sweetwaters Game Reserve. This game sanctuary is the closest reserve to Nairobi (2.5 hours drive) home to all the big five game, and has the highest ratio of game-to-area of any park or reserve in Kenya. Enjoy a afternoon game drives and visit to the Chimpanzee Sanctuary. Additional activities (extra cost) are camel riding, horse riding and nature walks.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Sweetwaters Tented Camp
Day 03: Lewa Downs Private Reserve
Transfer to Lewa Safari Camp, your home for the next two nights. Lewa Safari Camp is set on the 45,000 acre privately owned Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Lewa Downs. The conservancy, formerly a working cattle ranch and otherwise known as Lewa Downs, has been in the Craig family since 1924. With wildlife densities as high as anywhere in Africa, it is possible to see all of Africa's Big Five on Lewa, and the conservancy provides a refuge for several endangered species.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Lewa Safari Camp
Day 04: Lewa Downs Private Reserve*
Activities at Lewa Safari Camp include day and night game drives in search of rhino and other wildlife, guided walks, and visits to pre-historic sites. Cultural excursions to visit the II'Nguesi, Ndorobo and Samburu people; horseback riding and camel riding are available at an extra cost. Time at Lewa Downs is a unique combination of hospitality, spectacular scenery and abundant wildlife.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Lewa Safari Camp
Day 05: Maasai Mara Game Reserve
Transfer to the airstrip for the scheduled flight to the Maasai Mara. You will be met at the Ol Kiombo Airstrip and transferred the short distance to the Mara Intrepids Camp, your base for the next three nights. Mara Intrepids is a delightful camp set in one of Kenya's prime wildlife-viewing areas. Mara Intrepids also boasts its exciting Adventurers' Club - a club specifically for children between the ages of 4-12. Accompanied by highly trained naturalists and cultural specialists, children are treated to an enlightening series of walks, talks, games and activities, designed to help them better understand their wild surroundings. After checking in, there's time to freshen up before taking lunch. This afternoon take your first game drive in the Maasai Mara in search of its famous inhabitants.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinnr
Mara Intrepids Club
Day 06: Maasai Mara Game Reserve
You have the whole day to enjoy the sights and sounds of Maasai Mara on your early morning and late afternoon game viewing drives. The jewel in Africa's crown, Maasai Mara is host to the most spectacular array of wildlife. Her 320 square kilometers of open savannah, woodlands and tree-lined rivers creates an eco-system that supports huge numbers of bird and mammal species. The western border of the park is the spectacular Siria Escarpment, and together with the acacia dotted plains, creates scenery of stunning beauty.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Mara Intrepids Club
Day 07: Maasai Mara Game Reserve
You have another full day to enjoy the splendors of the Maasai Mara. There will also be the option to take a balloon safari or visit to Rusinga or Mfangano Island on Lake Victoria (at an extra cost). The afternoon is available for a game viewing drive and/or other activity in the Mara whether or not you take the optional adventure.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Mara Intrepids Club
Day 08: Nairobi - Depart
Enjoy an early morning game drive and breakfast before your transfer to Masai Mara Airstrip for your scheduled flight to Wilson Airport. On arrival you will be transferred to Norfolk Hotel where you can relax in your dayroom. Enjoy lunch and dinner (meals for your own account) before your transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Norfolk Hotel - Dayroom
*Lewa area may be closed over the low season (dictated by bookings) but Samburu would be a suitable alternative.
Depart any day! Contact an iExplore Adventure Consultant for details.
Pricing Information
2009 Prices:
February and July to October:
Adult price: $5,395 per person, double occupancy
Child price (under 12 years): $2,575
January, March, June and November:
Adult price: $4,995 per person, double occupancy
Child price (under 12 years): $2,375
Adult price: $4,495 per person, double occupancy
Child price (under 12 years): $2,095
*Prices based on minimum of 2 full paying passengers per room
*There is no age restriction with this program
*Quad rooms cannot be accommodated
*Holiday surcharges apply for travel between December 16-31, please call for an exact quote.
Upgrade to 7 seater Landcruiser - $640 per vehicle.
· All transfers with assistance
· Accommodation in standard twin/double bedded rooms/tents
· Internal scheduled flights (Lewa/Mara/NBO)
· Full breakfast throughout
· Meals as indicated (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) as indicated on safari
· Laundry, beers, bottled water, house wines, soft drinks at Lewa Safari Camp
· Ground transportation in - 7-seater mini bus except at Lewa & Mara in resident camp 4x4 vehicles (sharing with other participants)
· Game drives as specified
· Night game drives at Lewa Downs
· All park and conservation fees
· Porterage of two pieces of luggage per person
· Government taxes and levies
· International airfare
· Upgrade to 7-seater landcruiser $640 per vehicle
· Entry visa fees currently US$ 50.00 per person
· Personal and trip insurance
· All soft and alcoholic beverages except as specified
· All expenses of a personal nature
· Tips and gratuities to your courier, driver/guide, hotel/camp staff etc
· Travel and medical insurance
· Holiday surcharges
Optional activities on safari - paid locally. Age limit is 7yrs and written authorization/permission from the parents is required for children under 12yrs.
· Night game viewing drive in Sweetwaters - US$90 per person
· Guided walk in Sweetwaters Game Sanctuary - US$35 PP/hour
· Camel riding in Sweetwaters Game Sanctuary - US$35 PP/hour
· Horse riding in Lewa - US$35 PP/hour
· Camel riding in Lewa - US$35 PP/hour
· Visit to Il Ngwesi cultural village at Lewa - US$35 PP (minimum 2)
· Maasai village visit in Mara - US$25 PP
· Balloon safari - US$435 PP Adult / $350 PP Children ages 7-11yrs
· Lake Victoria adventure - US$500 PP
All prices are in US dollars and do not include international airfare, unless otherwise noted.
Prices displayed are based on the lowest season base price and assume double occupancy. Prices are shown in U.S. dollars and may or may not include administrative fees, taxes, meals, airfare (where applicable) and Single Supplements. Cancellation penalties, blackout dates and other restrictions may apply.


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Bei Bei Shuai, the woman being prosecuted by the state of Indiana for feticide after her daughter died following Shuai's failed suicide attempt while 8 months pregnant, rejected a plea deal from prosecutors that would have dropped the murder charge Shuai faces. The fact that prosecutors refuse to negotiate away the feticide charge but will negotiate the murder charge proves this is a political prosecution. Never before has a pregnant woman been charged under Indiana's feticide laws because that is not the harm they were intending to remedy.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may have refused to sign on to new abortion regulations because he doesn't think they go far enough.
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13.5 years ago, I had severe health problems that caused my pregnancy to end, and I nearly bled to death myself. Considering that with death, there is no time limit, am I going to be prosecuted because my 33.5 week gestation baby died?
Or how about the doctor, who refused to discuss the details of my health condition, and did nothing but put me on bed rest with no one to help me out? Or how about the two nurses who told me that I didn't know what I was talking about when I spotted about 10 days before this event, and said it's old blood that came out, and this may be my normal?
Sorry to say, my blood pressure was text book normal before that, and then became 200+/120+. I was retaining so much water that I had to basically wear socks with no shoes because my feet wouldn't fit into regular shoes. This was in the winter time, with snow on the ground, and then I also had kidney failure, where proteins were spilling into my urine. I didn't just have preeclampsia, I was toxic. Yet the medical staff refused to even give me a name for what I had. I didn't even know that water retention was called edema.
And yet people would blame me for my situation? Poop on you!
Tracey - what we are talking about is the lack of compassion for this woman who is obviously mentally ill. I'm going to share this story even though I don't really want to. My sister is married to a man who has a brother with mental disease. After years of behaviors that almost began to seem normal, he killed his full grown son in a moment of mental anguish and doesn't even remember doing it. We are all angry and enraged at the same time we realize that he could not help it. Therefore, we realize he will have to pay for his crime, but we are fighting to have him tried in mental health court so that he can do his time in a mental hospital instead of prison. His mental disease is so bad that a regular prison will cause him serious harm. His mental disease is so bad that he is writing letters to the family and asking us to please be safe as he tells us of horrible conspiracies that are so real in his mind but that when we read the letters they are so crazy sounding. So, if anyone has a right to have an opinion here, I think I do, because I lost an already born child in my family to a person who married into the family with mental disease. As we talk to each other, we admit that we are mad as heck, but we are still able to understand that it was not his fault (he doesn't even realize he did it) and that we need to fight the system to get him in a mental hospital where he can be stabilized instead of a prison where every day will be torture. Jesus taught love and compass
Why would she be charged with murder if the baby has no rights???
@ Diane H. You are so right! The Catholics have their own set of rules. And if you were to get divorced it is a sin in the eyes of the church and unless you get it anulled they won't let you recieve the host. Unbelievable! What about a forgiving God?! Also if you have money, it talks for them. They will let things slide if you have enough of it. Then no to mention all the hidden secrets they have and hurting the children of the church. Just appalling!
Each day I am more and more terrified of how things are handled in this country. I can understand how many people would be shocked and appalled by this woman's actions. However, can we not try to understand this person and even show some compassion? It feels like compassion, tolerance, and understanding are gone nowadays. We don't know what led this woman to attempt suicide - I can assure you she did not do it "just because". As someone who has battled with depression her whole life, and yes, even attempted suicide a long time ago, I can assure you that it is really hard to see things clearly when you are suffering. I think it is a little unfair to treat this woman as a selfish human being when you have not even been in her shoes. I am also sickened by the prosecution she faces. I remember when I was young and attempted suicide, that the hospital personnel was quite mean to me, and someone who has attempted suicide under these conditions (8 months pregnant!) clearly needs help, not jail. (That is something else that upsets me, we keep sending to jail all these people while some real crooks walk free - and while we complain of our government's money being drained). I know it is hard for people to be compassionate with pregnant women, as this society seems to value the fetus much, much more than the grown living being who is carrying it (?). But try it. Try to be a little more compassionate in your everyday life. You may be surprised by what you find.
I wonder how many Catholics came running to this woman's side to guide her in her most desperate hour. I'm so sick of "sin" being thrown in my face (and especially my face as I am female). After finding that my belief in god was more based on fear than faith-I bailed on believing in any of it. I've found religon to be the most judgemental, divisive and unequitible entity there is. Any religion that begins itself with blaming a woman for the ills of the world (I give you Eve) seems very convenient. This woman is being vilified and the priests that have ruined countless lives of children are being harbored by the church and simply slapped on the wrist as we speak. Disgusting.
John Z you quote from the anti-christ.
This country needs to keep church (and all citizens' religious beliefs) and state separate, as the founding fathers wished in order to keep us from becoming a country ruled by one religion, like Islamist nations. As a woman who had to make a decision to end life as a medical necessity and who belonged to a Christian church, I was deeply torn although there was no alternative except for me to die. I chose life, my life, even though an ectopic pregnancy as I had would not have resulted in a baby, just death for us both. I have friends who have had abortions for their own reasons and none have made the decision lightly. We each have a conscience to answer to and NO ONE has the right to judge unless you are God. It doesn't sound like God is weighing in here in any of these comments. And I've seen too many idiots hiding behind religion declaring that abortion is a "sin" yet these same people drink and smoke away their family's future, treat their own children poorly, and never say "Give me that unwanted baby, I'll raise it." Hypocrisy and hypocrites, all of you. Do something positive rather than trading insults and judging other people.
Lis - Thank you for your comment about Melinda Gates. I am glad she is doing that. My family is from deep in the Appalachian Mountains where in my mom's childhood there was not modern medical care. In many instances, herbs and other medical practices were used and quite successfully in many cases. However, herbs do not work for trauma situations such as emergency surgery. By the 1960's when I was born, medicine was coming to the mountains. Herbs were still used, but dying people were often taken to the hospital. I grew up listening to my mom and my grandmother talking about women they watched die in labor, and often they were talking from a viewpoint of disgust such as, "She was lying there dying and her husband was off running around with other women while she died." We don't realize how good we have it in this country, and we approach everyone as if they have the same resources we do. The bible says the meek will inherit the earth, so God has mercy on people with needs.
@John Z. I have no idea of your religious affiliation but you purport to be male (?) so I find your views a bit ridiculous. If every time you had a screw or masturbated (95% of men masturbate; the other 5% are bloody liars) you might have impregnated some women, would you still be so sanctimonious and hypocritical. No, you as a male don't have to bear children. If you did you might be more understanding.
And until you can pass a watermelon out of your fundamental orifice, only to have it die because of malnutrition, disease or other human related circumstances, you might be a little more understanding. I am truly sickened by male animals like you who would spread their seed but take no responsibility for the results.
There are millions of suffering children worldwide, many of them sick and dying from malnutrition and disease. I don't hear you doing anything about them.... Just your six children all conceived in conjugal bliss. Just hope none of them gets into a sticky situation and brings home some unplanned grandchildren. I feel sorry for your partner ("wife" in your case) and will pray for you both that perhaps you might have an epiphany.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, leaving the funeral of a murdered Border Patrol agent Wednesday, scolded a reporter for asking her to address the victim's family's concerns that not enough is being done to secure the southern border.
The family of agent Brian Terry had complained that Napolitano had offered them "empty words" when she called to express her condolences. Terry's father, Kent Terry, in an interview with ABC affiliate KGUN, said he told Napolitano to "wake your man up in the White House," to which she replied that he's done more in two years than any president.
Napolitano attended the Detroit funeral Wednesday where she vowed "swift justice" for Terry's killers. But asked about the family's concerns outside the service, Napolitano said "now is not the time to talk about all that has been done."
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She said more agents and technology are on the border than ever before, but told the KGUN reporter it's time to remember the fallen agent and not start picking fights.
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From the Archive: every month, his foundation receives over a thousand requests for his help. Adam Roberts watches Nelson Mandela in action and talks to those closest to him
From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Summer 2008
Double acts don't come much better. Nelson Mandela enters grinning from a door on the right and shuffles forward, one hand clasping an ivory-white cane, the other arm held by a blonde assistant. His eyes are twinkling but watery, his ankles are permanently swollen, and his knees hardly bend--the result of an accident in prison with a pile of seaweed. "Madiba!" murmurs an excited crowd, using his clan name. "Tata Madiba."
He makes it to the centre of the room and is met by the one person who can upstage him. Anyone sensitive to bright colours should look away now. As usual, Mandela is a tropical pensioner: white hair with a touch of grey; a white vest under a shirt of shimmery blue, gold and brown; a pair of gold pens in his top pocket. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, also smiling, bounces up. He is resplendent in full-length purple and his head is smooth, shiny, a contrast to Mandela's shock of white. Around Tutu's neck swings a golden cross, the size of a ping-pong bat.
Politicians and veterans of the struggle for democracy have gathered in Johannesburg to launch the celebrations for Mandela's 90th birthday, which falls on July 18th. The launch is in March: the festivities will take months, and will include a charity concert in Hyde Park, London, featuring Queen, Annie Lennox and leading African bands. Film crews and cameramen pack the room and late-summer sunshine pours through the windows as the two old men hold court. Tutu stands with his back straight, palms pressed together in front of his face, looking not so much like a bishop as a schoolboy imitating a bishop. Mandela steps forward as Tutu bows deeply from the waist and holds himself low, showing off his bald pate. Somehow he makes the gesture both respectful and slightly mocking.
Mandela: "I am a sinner."
Tutu (standing back up): "I will absolve you!"
Mandela: "If you clear the way, I can knock on the doors of heaven!"
The two men break up laughing and the room roars along. We are giggling about the impending death of probably the most popular person on the planet.
Mandela looks healthy, for one who has had tuberculosis and prostate cancer, but he is growing frail. He struggles to get up from his chair, and gone at last are the prison habits of rising at dawn, making his own bed and polishing his shoes. His wife, Graca Machel, later tells me: "For his age and for his life story, he is in remarkable shape. If you find him sitting, you will not realise this is a man who has problems. Only when he stands you realise that age is taking its toll. The only signal of old age is the knees--they are weak and he needs support. And yes it is true that he forgets. His short-term memory is weak, but when it comes to things of the past he will tell you stories exactly as they were told before."
Mandela likes to joke about his own demise. He regularly promises that the first thing he will do in heaven is to look for the local branch of the African National Congress (ANC), the liberation movement turned ruling party to which he has devoted his life. His friends say he is a believer, a Methodist, but not devout; his faith in the ANC seems stronger. In prison, he would attend Muslim as well as Christian prayers, but these days he rarely bothers with either.
I am back in South Africa, where I was a correspondent for four years, to talk to some of Mandela's nearest and dearest. I want to know about the man, but the myth keeps getting in the way. As Mark Gevisser, a South African writer, has noted, a fetish has been made of Mandela's biography: his suffering in prison and subsequent forgiveness of his tormentors opened the way for South Africans as a whole to seek reconciliation after apartheid.
Mandela discourages the mythology, but he is up against a powerful tide. He still draws vast crowds. In New York he was greeted by a ticker-tape parade, in Toronto by a sports stadium filled with frantic teenagers, and in Calcutta the crowd lining his route was said to be 3m strong. Statues have been erected: Parliament Square, in London, got one last year and an ill-proportioned dancing Mandela looms over a mall north of Johannesburg. A businessman in a South African coastal town proposed another, on an Ozymandian scale: a lighthouse-sized figure, intended to pull in the tourists as well as warn off the ships. Fortunately the plan foundered.
As a correspondent, I trailed him whenever I got the chance. If he was at a book launch, an AIDS press conference, or the funeral of an ANC veteran, I would go to listen and shake his hand. Even in retirement, a few words from him could make world headlines. Perhaps it was celebrity-chasing dressed up as journalism, but my behaviour was not unusual. Achmat Dangor, who heads the Nelson Mandela Foundation, says: "Mandela survived 27 years in prison and now he has to survive the affections of the world."
Even at nearly 90, and having gone into a well-publicised retirement, he gets around 100 serious requests a month from politicians, activists, lobbyists, business people, writers and fellow celebrities, all wanting him to add his name to something. "We're lobbied from two ends of the spectrum for him to issue statements over Israel and Palestine," Dangor says. "The assumption is that he can apply some kind of magic wand to fix things."
Dangor gives examples ranging from a suggestion that Mandela speak about a particular case of repression or conflict, "to requests for messages over global hunger, to AIDS matters, to energy conservation". There are "ten to 20" less credible requests for every serious one. "We have a team of three staff who just deal with the requests. They mark a wider problem, that people are looking for a miracle worker."
Those closest to Mandela are adamant that he is not a miracle man. His third wife, the Mozambican Graca Machel, is anyway not the sort to be easily wowed. Last year she was made a Dame of the British Empire for her humanitarian work, an old-fashioned title that must delight Mandela, who still calls diplomats from London "envoys of the British empire". The only person who has been married to presidents of two different countries (she is the widow of Samora Machel, Mozambique's liberation leader), Machel is frank about her relationship with Mandela.
"It wasn't love at first sight," she says with a laugh. Some saw it as a union of two prominent political families--it was clear that Mandela liked the idea of the match as well as the person involved. He may be a symbol of democracy, but he is also an African aristocrat, son of a chief. He admires Britain's constitutional monarchy, and pushed for democratic South Africa to enshrine a role for traditional leaders. He feels at ease with royalty and likes to ring the Queen for a chat ("Hello? Elizabeth? It's me, Nelson.").
Machel says her relationship with Mandela was at first a meeting of minds, a shared interest in working for children. One close friend of Mandela, however, tells me that he pursued his future wife assiduously. She chose to keep her name and he agreed that she would live and work in Mozambique for a time. Now, as they head for their tenth anniversary--they married on Mandela's 80th birthday--you can see that a closer bond has grown up. Mandela needs more of Machel's attention to get through the day.
This is a precious time for those close to Mandela as--stating the obvious, yet it feels almost taboo--he nears the end of his life. Despite the birthday celebrations, he is fading from public view. He gives few speeches, hardly ever grants interviews, seldom comments on current affairs. The much-awaited second volume of his autobiography will not be finished in his lifetime. And as he fades, the chance to understand a compelling character slips away too. It is already growing more difficult to go beyond the brittle shell of the official biography, to see Mandela's imperfections and contradictions--the details that make him human. Once he has received his state funeral, it will be harder still. As with Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, the myth will take over and the person will become a mere icon, hollowed out and revered, but little understood.
Speak to those who know Mandela best, who are least in awe of the myth, and they make it clear their friend has some less attractive qualities. A common gripe is that he is aloof. Ruth Fischer, a psychologist and the daughter of the South African Communist leader Bram Fischer, has known Mandela for decades. She confides over coffee that, for all his star quality, "I certainly wouldn't like him to be my husband or my father. The reserve, the lack of spontaneity--there is something of an autocrat. He restrains himself, he is always careful, thinking through how he is perceived."
She is also at pains to make clear that he is charming and considerate, but, as with many a successful leader, and typical of an African prince, his reserve is what helps to generate his charisma, and thus his clout.
Mandela can be pernickety. He insists on carbonated water and complains if he gets the wrong brand. At one lunch I attended, the host resorted to mockery: "Did they give you Perrier on Robben Island, Madiba?" He has a sweet tooth: he spoons honey into his coffee, breakfasts on Frosties, shares double-toffee ice cream with his grandchildren and sips sugary South African white wine.
Prison has left its mark in unexpected ways. Graca Machel points to his obsession with reading all the daily newspapers, something inmates were denied. Cuttings are faxed to him when he travels. "He's worse than ever with newspapers. And the way he folds them, it is exactly the same every single day, it is amazing. If I throw it down, he asks me to give it to him and he folds it. He reads the newspaper and folds it, reads and folds. It is too organised for my taste.
"Everything has its place. Even today he will take off his hearing aid and line it up on the table, and then place the HIV/AIDS pin [badge] in position, then the pens, and everything has the same line. It shows how organised his mind is. If I change the order, he will realise and tell me 'no mum, this first'. In such a small place [as a prison cell], he needed to be extremely organised to give himself a sense of space."
Mandela runs on self-control, structuring his life down to the smallest details. In prison, he became a fanatical gardener, poring over books, collecting bones on the rare occasions when meat was served and then crushing them into powder, by hand, for days on end to make fertiliser, compelling other inmates to lug soil and water, all to make his tomato plants a success.
Machel observes no lingering pain from his incarceration, aside from his guilt at missing his children as they grew up. "He developed a selective memory and he cherished the good things. Maybe it is a part of him having decided not to be bitter, so he talks of the positive side." Bill Clinton tells of asking Mandela if he was angry about the years lost to jail. Mandela said that he felt furious until the night before his release, when he decided to quash his emotions, because "if I stay bitter, then they will still have my mind in prison."
But for all his reserve Mandela is not cold or emotionless. "He is definitely not a saint!" says Machel, with feeling. "Those who think that way, they don't know the person, they know his values and how he articulates them. He is like anybody else, he has his own weaknesses. He is a normal person, he has moods." She gets into the swing of it as we chat, re-enacting conversations with Mandela, miming his religious folding of newspapers, breaking into affectionate laughter at his foibles. She calls him Madiba, sometimes Papa, and says he can be stubborn, hot-headed and prone to berating his grandchildren in public if they perform poorly at school.
Nor is he diplomatic--he is too principled and strong-willed for that. His thin-skinned successor as president, Thabo Mbeki, grew irate when Mandela criticised South Africa's wretched AIDS policy. Ahead of the American-led invasion of Iraq, Mandela memorably called George Bush a president who "can't think properly and wants to plunge the world into holocaust" and dismissed Tony Blair as "the US foreign minister". In private, he grumbled that the leaders had all stopped taking his phone calls. His outspoken side does not fit easily into the mould of the man renowned for compromise, but he is not a passive figure, a pushover who seeks reconciliation for the sake of it. It is his confidence, his self-belief, that lets him reconcile.
To an outsider it looks as if it was the combination of principles and pragmatism that produced such an impressive leader. But not everyone agrees. In the townships around Johannesburg, some of the poorer residents voice sharp criticism of Mandela, saying he gave away too much, too easily, to white former rulers. One angry letter-writer to a newspaper a few years ago dismissed him as "an albatross round our necks". At the funeral of Mandela's closest friend, Walter Sisulu, held at a football stadium in Soweto in 2003, I heard a noisy crowd give a much louder roar of appreciation for Zimbabwe's despot, Robert Mugabe, than for Mandela. It was a chilling moment.
Some ordinary South Africans complain that Mandela and the rest of the ANC only half-ended apartheid, failing to secure economic as well as political change. Bongani Madondo, an irreverent journalist who dares to say in public what others only mutter into their beer in a shebeen, argues that Mandela has been made into the "god figurine" of our age. "I think he is flawed and we are flawed by not recognising his flaws. If you want to look at faults, you recognise he is human. We overrated him, we made him a saint. I'm an open critic. We should be dealing with a real person. We don't want to put blinds on our face. If you ask me, there are political problems with him."
Madondo says that nice talk about reconciliation merely put off a painful reckoning that must come eventually: the failure to shift wealth to the black majority leaves South Africa in a bind not unlike that in Zimbabwe. The "romance" of the Rainbow Nation was just a distraction. "There was a great failure to redistribute. Mandela was more concerned about his own legacy."
But a vain, self-important leader--such as Mugabe next door--would surely have sought populist acclaim by whipping up angry young men to threaten their former oppressors; instead Mandela restrained his followers, even after the assassination of an ANC leader, Chris Hani, by a white gunman in 1993. He helped to keep the birth of South African democracy as bloodless as possible, something too lightly dismissed by his critics. As for redistribution, nobody--not even the magician some take Mandela to be--could have turned one of the world's most unequal countries into a model of Nordic equality.
Desmond Tutu still believes in the "crazy, lovable" Rainbow Nation (he coined the phrase, after all). I sit with him as we wait for Mandela to arrive at the birthday event. He drops his favourite hat, a Russian sailor's cap, on the table between us, and orders a cup of hot chocolate. Chatting to this other iconic figure, I think how lucky South Africa is to have had moderate and humane leaders when apartheid crumbled. The place could, otherwise, easily have been ripped to bits by the sort of warlords who led ethnic wars elsewhere in Africa and in the Balkans.
Tutu chuckles with appreciation at Mandela's character. "No question at all, it was his magnanimity which came through as a result of spending 27 years in prison. It was important he spent 27 years. He went into jail angry, and he mellowed in jail. He grew in his understanding of the other, and he grew in magnanimity and generosity of spirit.
"Can you imagine what it would have been like if he had said 'retribution'? We wouldn't be sitting here. I'm glad it was he, with his attributes, at the helm of our ship of state. We would have been for the birds if that were not the case. He has the capacity to reach out to his enemy, the flair for the extraordinary gesture."
Tutu later introduces Mandela as "very, very, dear, your excellency, Madiba". Yet even he balks at the idea of St Nelson. "He would be the last person to say he is a saint. He keeps saying 'don't put me on a pedestal, I'm an ordinary human being'. I can say he's an ordinary man who has done extraordinary things."
The saint stuff arose because Mandela filled a need in others. "I know we needed the incarnation of the saviour. We needed a Moses, who would strike a path to lead us to freedom. You can even think of Jesus--it's quite in order to say that there are Christ-like aspects of him. He has a really deep concern for others, especially for those who are being roughed up. It isn't something that he just puts on as a charade or a mask. He genuinely believes that he was given a leadership role in order to be there for the led. Which is an attribute that we see more in the absence, sadly."
Mandela is not perfect in Tutu's eyes. "I think one of his chief weaknesses was his unwavering loyalty to the so-called collective [the ANC]...he did not sack underperforming ministers as he should have done. Even now, he is such a stickler for the conventions that he'll try not to embarrass his successor. He's scrupulous in how he tries to hold back." But it was also this fierce faith in the ANC that got him through prison. It is a hard habit to drop at the end of your life.
Over the years I have heard of other failings, which are usually brushed aside as unworthy of discussion, presumably out of concern for Mandela's image. Some are significant, but none seem to me to diminish him--rather they are a reminder of the many pressures he is under, of the contradictory demands of his various lives. He should have done much more to fight AIDS, especially as one of his notebooks (discovered recently by someone at the foundation) shows that he recognised it as a "global threat and a crisis for the country" as early as 1991. But at least he later campaigned against the deniers and talked about his son's death from AIDS, one of few African leaders to discuss the subject in public.
Yes, he has kept some questionable company. He became embroiled in a nasty row with a former lawyer of his, Ismail Ayob, over issues of authenticity and accounting to do with the sale of artwork in his name. The greatest love of his life, Winnie Mandela, brought him his greatest pain, when he emerged from prison to find that she no longer wanted him. Her prosecution in 1991, in relation to the abduction, assault and murder of a teenage boy who was accused of being a police informer, hardly reflects well on him. But his early efforts to stand by her--she was eventually acquitted of murder, but found guilty of kidnapping--are best seen as those of a man loyal to a wife he had been forced to abandon decades earlier.
He is apt to seek favours from local and foreign businessmen, such as free flights for his extended family. But no one suggests that he is out for personal gain: he donated a third of his presidential salary to children's charities. "Such faults, the calling of corporations for favours, family benefits, it makes him human," Ruth Fischer says. "It's part of his life, and in part it is about his guilt to his family for being absent." Similarly, he is quick to hand cash, unasked, to young relatives. "Here, do you need money? Take it," he will say to his smallest grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
None of this belittles him. Instead the flaws and foibles confirm that he is an extraordinary person. Achmat Dangor argues that Mandela's great successes were the result of his willingness to dirty his hands--"It is rare to find someone with such strong principles and a sense of pragmatism." He has reinvented himself repeatedly, from insurgent to peacemaker, African nationalist to multiracial campaigner, aristocrat to democrat, country bumpkin to city slicker.
Everybody has a story about his shameless flirting with pretty women, at times even proposing to journalists who caught his eye at press conferences. Nor is this Nobel peace-prize winner a pacifist. One of his oldest friends, Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed with Mandela, recalls him as a rabble-rouser in his youth. He tells me how Mandela, as a keen boxer, was deployed by the ANC to break up meetings of rival anti-apartheid organisations in Johannesburg. Mandela also launched the armed (if not very effective) wing of the ANC and became a Che Guevara-like revolutionary on the run, known for a time as "the Black Pimpernel".
This many-sided figure is a long way from the cardboard Mandela on whom others project their own idea of a good man. "One wonders whether he is going to be turned into an icon where he is all things to all people, an icon without substance," says Mac Maharaj, a fellow political prisoner and favourite of Mandela. He too is passionate about preserving Mandela the politician, which lets others aspire to follow him. "He is aspirational because you feel you can try to do what he does. Unlike the saints. You can't aspire to be a Mother Teresa. You've got to be down-to-earth. He likes clothes, he's a man of style. And pretty women. You can see the glint in his eyes! There is nothing superhuman about it."
And yet it is all too easy to drift into revering Mandela. My trailing after him culminated one Sunday lunch at an apartment in Johannesburg. The host was Amina Cachalia, a friend of Mandela since 1949. After his divorce from Winnie, the two were rumoured to be about to marry, not least because Mandela kept suggesting it.
A dozen people--his old friends, an author, an academic, a mining magnate--are trying to chat as if the world's most beloved statesman is just another lunch guest. We fail and gravitate towards Mandela, who is perched on a green leather chair. Soon the entire party, including Graca Machel, has formed a circle at his feet, a huddle of us cross-legged on the carpet, gazing up at the patriarch.
"Madiba always likes to hold court," Cachalia recalls later. "He will sit down and tell stories. He does it because he doesn't like to be asked questions. So he talks and talks. He is very clever at that, a defensive measure I suppose."
As we move to a long walnut table, and lunch stretches to its third hour, Mandela sips on his sugary wine and nibbles a biryani. The patriarch recedes and a more relaxed figure emerges. He jokes that women are taking over the world ("Is that right, mum?" he asks Graca across the room). His humour can sometimes seem deliberate or even manipulative, but now he is at ease and he dotes on his wife, prompting us to discuss her work with children. He jokes too with his old lawyer, Arthur Chaskalson, complaining that he got him jailed for so many years. "I saved your life, Nelson," Chaskalson retorts. "Without going to prison, you would have been assassinated."
The conversation meanders from one quietly serious topic to another, from a reminiscence about the life of Bram Fischer, to talk of AIDS, and on to Mandela's fruitless phone calls to Bush and Blair about invading Iraq. The talk grows heavy as we clear the plates and Mandela's energy is ebbing. Usually such lunches are brisk affairs, but this one has run on. Why are so many white South Africans grumbling about the country, asks someone. Then a bodyguard brings a message that some neighbours want to come in for a picture. A loud, middle-aged, white woman enters, leading four teenage girls to Mandela, who shakes himself up, rises brightly and pours attention upon them. He chortles and tells a story of meeting, years ago, the winner of a beauty competition. "What was her name? Yes, she was called Miss Africa Legs!" He asks each girl in turn if she has a boyfriend and laughs that women always tell him that they are single. Finally the camera is raised and the four teenagers cluster around him, staring seriously ahead. Mandela straightens his back. "You know, your boyfriends will ask, 'why did you have your photo taken with such an old, ugly man?' "
Adam Roberts is a former Johannesburg correspondent of The Economist
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Hillsborough School District will review policies after deaths of special needs kids spark outrage
TAMPA - Katharine Bower came to the protest carrying not only signs and banners, but also a small locket hanging from her neck. It's a picture of Isabella Herrera, the seven year old special needs student who died while riding home on a school bus back in January.
"My son was friends with Bella," Bower said. "I want to see these people take this seriously and hopefully make a change in the system for all of our kids' safety," she said.
Bower's sentiments were echoed by a dozen other demonstrators outside the Hillsborough County School District, after the deaths of two special needs students while under school supervision.
Joe Robinson of Tampa said he wants school board members and administration staff to resign or be fired if they were in any way responsible for the neglect of ESE kids.
"Here we've got three deaths, students hurt, and nobody put on administrative leave and nobody fired," Robinson said. "This is criminal child neglect," he said.
The Hillsborough School Board agreed to issue a memo to school bus drivers that it's ok to call 9-1-1 in an emergency. Current policy requires drivers to call dispatch or a supervisor, but doesn't preclude them from making an 9-1-1 call. In the case of Herrera, no staff member on the bus called for paramedics when she stopped breathing.
"I think it's sad to see that the big policy decision was now you can call 9-1-1," said Jose Colindres of Tampa. "I think that's so little, so late," he said.
The Hillsborough School Board said it's going to enact a task force to investigate problems with student supervision. But skeptical parents wanted more accountability, calling for an outside investigation.
The international group Autism Rights Watch issued an open letter to the district, asking for a review of its policies and offering to help officials better train their staff.
April Griffin, a board member, said she disapproved of parents or groups protesting the district over the tragic deaths of students, but acknowledged that there is anger over the incidents.
"I've definitely heard some frustration," Griffin said. "We are moving in a positive direction as I see it to make sure that it never happens again."


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WHEREAS, some of the necessary activities of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations have had to be curtailed, and some have had to be discontinued; and,
WHEREAS, the times call for not only the continuance of the program of the Union, but rather for its enlargement;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the delegates to this Convention inform their congregations of our serious problems in the affairs of the Union, and urge the officers and members of their congregations to greater efforts in their discharge of the obligation to support the Union more generously and more in keeping with the part which the Union plays in the life of Reform Judaism so that its power to sustain Reform Judaism can go on not only undiminished, but also with greater force and efficiency.
The Council recommends further that a copy of this resolution be sent to the officers and directors or trustees of the constituent Congregations.
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