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Over the last few years, plans to create a public skatepark in Memphis have gone from nonexistent to certain and back again. Though the city first approved the project's $440,000 budget in 2008, conflict over the park's location has stalled the project. But last week, Memphis mayor A C Wharton's announcement that Tobey Park would become home to the skatepark allowed advocates to breathe a sigh of relief.
"I'm so happy that we've got a mayor who responds to the needs of the city's people," says Aaron Shafer, founder of SkateLife Memphis, the organization that led the charge for a skatepark. SkateLife's series of events and demonstrations has brought the skating community out in full force.
"Obviously, it's needed," says Matt Wright, founder and executive director of FaithSkate Ministry, which has set up temporary skating ramps in the parking lot of the Faith Baptist Church in Bartlett every other weekend for the last three years. Like Shafer, Wright is a longtime skateboarder who's worked to create opportunities for Memphis skaters.
"It even surprised me how much response there was," Wright says of the program's popularity, which grew from five to 35 kids in the first few months. "We weren't marketing it at all. It just shows you what a need there is for kids to skate here in Memphis."
Wharton emphasized the skatepark's potential for helping local youth be more physically fit, something Wright and Shafer have been saying for years.
"Other sports are celebrated by the community," Wright says. "You see hundreds of kids playing baseball in one place, but the skateboarding community is fragmented. There's nowhere to tell them to go."
Shafer says Tobey Park is a perfect location for what he hopes will be a community-wide attraction, especially in light of the nearby dog park and other proposed developments in the area.
"There's been a lot of interest from the non-skating community," he say. "We're interested in bringing people together from different parts of Memphis."
The enthusiasm shown by groups such as FaithSkate and the public has proven to Shafer that the park's programming can do just that.
Local firm Askew Hargraves Harcourt & Associates will partner with national skatepark designers Wormhoudt Incorporated to work on the park, and the UrbanArt Commission has been tapped for an on-site public art project.
"There's that cliche saying that it takes a village to raise a child," Shafer says. "I'd say the same for making a skatepark."
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The following articles are about keywords and their brief explanations that would hopefully helpful for reading Prof. Alastair Pennycook's Critical Applied Linguistics published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates in 2001 (Go to Amazon.com / Google Book Search).
Prof. Alastair Pennycook is a professor at University of Technology Sydney. CV is here:
Critical Applied Linguistics achieves what Pennycook himself claims on page 27 of the book: (1) it is written in a way that is as accessible as possible; (2) it is in itself a "critical theory that is always prepared to trun a critical eye on itself"; and (3) it considers the importance of political and educational practice.
For me, this book is one of the very best books I've read in recent years. The reading experience was a sheer joy, made me "think" not just accept given views, and also made me realize again that we need to be theoretical in order to be practical.
He opened a new horizon which should be explored by multitude of researchers and practitioners. I highly recommend this book to those who think and act in this globalized world for language teaching. The book is going to be one of my textbooks in Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University, Japan.
I noticed, however, that many students find this book not as accessible as I claim, because they do not share knowledge Pennycook assumes for his readers. This is why, in the following articles of this blog, I provided a list of keywords for the book that should be understood preferably before you read the book (or as you read it).
Given the spirit of the web cooperation, I use open online resources as much as possible. I understand that the use of the web resources (Wikipedia in particular) for academic purposes is deemed controversial by some, but I see more good than harm, at least as long as we keep a critical stance and use the resources as a first step to knowledge, not as the ultimate authority. I regard this collection of the web resources as a small attempt to establish a common world that promotes academic communication around the globe.
All resources are materials written in English except for the information on the Japanese translation. Japanese readers may find it useful to take a look at Japanese Wikipedia after they go and read English Wikipedia.
The keywords are arranged in the following framework.
1 Basic Background Knowledge
2 Key Background Knowledge
3 Key Concepts

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Located in Glaslyn Saskatchewan, L&M Wood Products ("L&M") is a fully integrated wood products company focused on producing and developing value added wood products for diversified markets. The L&M facility is situated on 430 acres of land and includes:
- Saskatchewan's largest timber producing sawmill, upgraded in 2008, with an oversize head rig (optimized) saw and standard size log line;
- Post and wood treatment plant operating as Saskatchewan's largest producer of treated wood products servicing the agricultural market;
- Dowler producing high quality, value added rails;
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- Re-manufacturing plant with an incisor, planer, multi-rip saw, band resaw and bundle cutter, all focused on custom, on-demand products such as specialty grooved dunnage and lathe.
The purchase price for the transaction, subject to adjustments for debt balances at closing, is $16 million consisting of $5.3 million in cash, $3 million in Jemi Fibre common shares and the assumption of $7.7 million in debt. The Company has commenced its due diligence under the letter of intent and anticipates further announcements as the process continues.
Mike Jenks, Chairman & CEO, commented "This acquisition is a natural extension of our vertical integration strategy and an opportunity to add scale to our growing wood treatment division. Similar toprevious acquisitions, we anticipate applying our industry experience and harvesting capabilities to improve capacity, profitability and provide an attractive return on investment."
Jemi Fibre is a British Columbia based forest products company. Jemi Fibre's operations consist of a full service contract logging division, with operations in Mackenzie and Cranbrook, a sawmill located in Edgewater producing high value lumber products, a manufacturing facility in Cranbrook producing pressure treated posts, rails and lumber for agricultural and industrial use, and private timberlands located in the Kootenay region.


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Raindance's practical filmmaking and writing workshops break the daunting cinema-creation process into digestible workshops as industry professionals help to elevate the aptitude of independent filmmakers. Students can select courses that teach film industry basics including how to build a budget, choose a camera, and promote themselves. As a non-profit training and networking organization that works to promote and support filmmaking throughout the world, many classes conclude with networking sessions at local bars where participants can trade business cards to further their cinematic pursuits.


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The Kolan Collection is created by going beyond traditional jewelry making technics. Instead of a jewelry workshop, designers worked at industrial ateliers by using heavy metal working methods for the Kolan Ring, where they stylized the loads carried in Kolans by women of the Black Sea. The Kolan Ring is a handmade product; therefore, there may be slight differences in the appearance of the steel and brass bars.
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Compression rings are used in light-vehicle gasoline, light-vehicle diesel and heavy-duty/truck diesel engines. The main functions of compression rings are to seal the combustion chamber from the crankcase and transfer heat from the piston to the cylinder. However, they also play an important part in controlling engine oil consumption.
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We've launched our Catalyst Evolve Campaign
St Helens arts centre and charity, the Citadel, is launching a new fundraising appeal which will see every donation, between now and August 2019, doubled by the Arts Council. The fundraising appeal will raise money to enable the Citadel to expand its community arts programme, benefiting local people of all ages.
Fay Lamb, Chief Executive at the Citadel says: 'We were delighted to be successful in the Citadel's bid for Arts Council match funding. We are the only organisation in St Helens to have secured this fantastic award, which is a real reflection of our achievements to date and our ambitions for the future.'
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|The R.A. Lister Company in Dursley
Into the 20th Century: 1907-1945.
In 1909, the first petrol engine was introduced to the company's product
line. This initial model was actually acquired from the firm of F.C.Southwell
& Co. who were based in London. These engines were very much in demand
and were put to a wide range of uses ranging from driving electric generators
to powering Lister's other newly introduced product, the sheep shearing
In fact the growth in production of petrol engines and sheep shearing equipment led to a shortage of space in the factory and in 1909 the Victoria Works was extended in order to cope.
It wasn't all work and no play though. Ashton Lister was a philanthropist and took a keen interest in the social welfare of his workforce. In 1910 the whole of the works was closed so that everyone could take a trip to the seaside. The company chartered a train from Dursley which took employees and their relations to Weston-Super-Mare where they took full advantage of their break, only returning to the town in the early morning of the following day. This morale-raising style of venture was to be repeated on a number of occasions in later years. In a similar vein he also had built the terrace of houses in Rosebery Road and the estate of Garden Suburb to accommodate desperately needed workers for his factories.
Despite these advantages for the workers, the years before the First World War was a time of conflict throughout the country and Lister's was no exception. In 1914 the whole of the workforce went on strike in support of the demarcation of engine building skills. However the strike did not reach a conclusion before hostilities began in August, the workers returned and Lister's began a new phase of its life, manufacturing for the war effort. Production of petrol engines, lighting sets and munitions components took the factory to capacity. Women workers replaced men who had gone off to fight and they readily learned new skills in order to cope with the increasing demands. However, by 1918 it was all over, the lucky ones came back, the women resumed their homely duties and a period of rebuilding and growth swept the country.
|The marketplace had changed though and the boom was not to last. Increasing competition from abroad meant that the company needed careful management and this was provided by a new board of directors comprising of Ashton's grandsons Robert, Frank, Percy and George together with A.E.Mellerup. However it was still some time before another new product line was introduced, which arrived in the shape of the autotruck in 1926. These were a great success, serving a multitude of purposes transporting goods around factories, railway stations and dockyards the world over. In fact it was so successful that production continued all the way through to 1973.
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1929 was a significant year for R.A.Lister & Co Ltd because of two reasons. The first was the death of its founder, Robert Ashton Lister at the age of 84. The second was the introduction of the diesel engine which was to play a huge part in the company's fortunes. The first model had one cylinder which produced 9hp and hence was known as the 9-1. Further models followed soon after, the 5-1, 10-2, 18-2 and 38-4 all arriving in 1930, the 27-3 in 1931 and 3-1, 'CD' and 'CE' in 1933. So it went on with new models following every year or two. 1931 was also the year in which the Ruston-Lister Marine Co Ltd was set up to exclusively serve the maritime market. It was also the year in which the Duke of York visited Lister's where he spent many hours touring the whole of the works where he showed a keen interest in the various processes and products produced.
|By 1936 Lister's had what must have been the largest output of diesel engines of their kind in the world and produced a range of 80 different sizes and types of diesel and petrol models. They were also making very large quantities of pumps, churns, cream separators, autotrucks, generating plant and sheep shearing equipment. In addition the Woodware Works produced ornamental tubs, garden seats and many other items. By this time the company also had a fine welfare scheme with its own medical centre and a social club which exists to this day.
|The Duke of York is welcomed by Percy Lister on the Priory steps in Dec. 1931
War clouds were looming once again though and in 1939 many of the workers were called up to the services. Products manufactured during World War 2 included engines, agricultural implements and shell cases in increasing numbers. Another royal visit also occurred in 1940 when Queen Mary came to Dursley to tour the works. By this time production was starting to ramp up further with a high demand for output and this was handled by opening new factories in Nympsfield (1942), Wotton-under-Edge (1943) and Cinderford (1944). These factories were primarily used for component assembly, Lister's was certainly playing its part to serve the national cause.
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The second hilarious episode to feature feisty Lulu (Lulu and the Brontosaurus, 2010), who almost always gets what she wants.
This time, what Lulu wants is so outrageous that her mother and father tell her she is going to have to earn the money for it herself, so Lulu hatches a business plan to earn the money by walking dogs. It turns out, however, that Lulu is a dismal failure at dog walking. Enter Fleischman, Lulu's goody-goody, smarty-pants, neat-as-a-button, uber-helpful and incredibly annoying neighbor. He can certainly help Lulu with her dog-walking scheme. The question is whether spoiled, prideful Lulu can stand him long enough to let him. Smith's droll illustrations interspersed throughout the text add to the humor and developing conflict by playfully emphasizing the differences between Lulu and Fleischman and creatively dramatizing their most interesting moments. Unfortunately, Viorst's numerous authorial asides—in which the narrator insists on control of the storyline and stops for brief question-and-answer sessions with readers—come across as more confusing than clever because the voice and personality of the narrator are almost indistinguishable from Lulu's.
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Heritage Village is connected to the Sioux County Fairgrounds and is located in the northeast corner of Sioux Center. The village was started in 1990 as a display for the Sioux Center centennial. It is maintained by the Sioux Center Heritage Board and Threshers Association and is open for tours during the Sioux County Youth Fair and by appointment.
The first buildings to be placed in the village were:
Heritage Village is home to several historical buildings and attractions.
Blacksmith Shop
The Brock brothers used this building for their welding shop in Ireton until the late 1980s.
Brooder Coop
This attraction was used during the centennial as an information booth. Later, it found a permanent home in the village. It was used to raise baby chicks and donated by Charles Klein.
Chicken Coop
This coop represents those in the 1930s and was built by FFA students in 1990.
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Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, Windows XP Home SP3
Win7 x64 Screensaver Questions/Issues. No 'Stretching'?
Couple of questions for the experts here....
Windows XP's Screensaver [custom] had some very nice touches that do not seem to be replicable under Windows 7. If one had a photo selection, under XP that set could be used as a slideshow for screensaver, and the images would be cycled in a 'corner to corner' fashion [nice little touch], and the Images would all scale to the full dimensions of the screen. Under Windows 7 options, I can setup a personal slideshow... no problem there, but:
1. I do not see ANY options for how to display transitions from one slide to other.
2. The images do not scale to fit the screen. They display in some predetermined resolution & scale that I don't see any user-adjustable settings for
3. By Default, when using such a personalized Screensaver, I get a rolling banner across the bottom of the images, Displaying Date and Time. How do I shut that thing down?
All help gratefully received!
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Use backgrounds not screensaver which is a dated concept.
You can make an impressive slideshow using the spectacular Win7 backgrounds - all 120 regional editions backgrounds can be downloaded off the web: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...free-download/
Rightclick the Desktop to Personalize.
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Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, Windows XP Home SP3
To reassert my questions:
- Where is the control of that scrolling banner? I know where its not... its not in the Windows 7 Screensaver settings - its some other widget
- Don't care to use M'soft's pictures. We like our own photos.
- Is there a way to cause the slideshow images to scale up to full screen?
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Windows 7 Pro/32 Academic. Build 7600
You can use all your own photos if you want. In the "personalize" box where you select your photos, at the bottom where you see "Change picture every:", look to the left, you'll see a box marked "fill options". This is Windows asking you how you want your photos to fill the screen.
Don't know about your scrolling bar.
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|31 Oct 2011
screen saver and slideshow
after downloading and installing updates,(28/11/2011) on both my laptop and desktop comps.. my screen saver using my own pics. also my slide shows do not fill wide screen. (both have been working ok for over a year) Black margins at each side. i have tried various screen resolutions also used system restore, but still they don't work can anyone help? thanks
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Have You?
Right click desktop select "personalize" click on desktop background. The lower left corner has some settings for that.
I was waaay late on getting this posted. Excuse me.
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|31 Oct 2011
thanks for that hammerhead .. tried all settings but that does'nt work either..
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|31 Oct 2011
screen saver and slideshow
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|31 Oct 2011
Have you got a NoActiveDesktop in your registry?
Path HKey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer
If so what value is it set to?
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thanks for quick reply... problem solved by geeky guy i met!!! off now for holiday to the canary islands
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Introducing another one of Beccy Muir's digital image sets. This set is called 'True Beauty' and comes with one this beautiful image and several lovely sentiments. As always the set contains the black and white image and coloured image as well. You can find this set and many others in Beccy's Shop and lots of inspiration on Beccy's Place blog.
Every year I make calendars for my family and friends. This year I used this wonderful image from Beccy Muir's 'True Beauty' digital set for one of the front covers. The image was printed onto white card and coloured with pencils and glitter pens. Looks much better in real life.
The background was made by embossing a aqua card with leaf embossing folder. The light brown card was embossed with the same folder and die cut. The feathers were die cut from a sheet of paper coloured with Brush crystal. The numbers and sentiment were cut with dies as well.
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A bit of a longer post to finish up the Felt section of this Q&A. Hope it's not too tiring.
This is what led you to titles like Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty?
Lawrence: John Peel called it "the worst album title ever". I thought, wow, he doesn't like my stuff. It's good in a way, because it meant I was doing something. I wanted him so much to like it, because I knew how important he was. But I felt the words were different to anyone. I wasn't hiding, I was willing to stand up and be counted for it. I was proud of them.
I wasn't copying my heroes, I was doing what I was told to do when I read their interviews, like: 'absorb us, learn from us, and do something different.' I wanted to add to that rich tapestry, and if you were going to copy someone, you're never going to be counted, like the people you loved. I hate copying people. At school, I wouldn't want to have the same shoes as everyone else.
Lawrence shows me an exercise book in which he has transcribed a sweet and clever poem about a tortoise that he wrote when he was a child. I say to him that he's got very neat handwriting, to which he replies something like, "If you think this is neat, you should see my best…" As with the Scooby Doo play he wrote when he was 8, mentioned in Paul Kelly's film, you get the impression Lawrence is still pleased with, or maybe even consoled by the idea of having been a promising child.
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The timezone in Interchange 42 is America/Iqaluit
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Rough GPS position Latitude. 32.4875°, Longitude. -85.6364° , Elevation. 94m
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Rough GPS position Latitude. 32.4875°, Longitude. -85.6364° , Elevation. 94m
Weather near Interchange 42 Last report from Alexander City, Thomas C Russell Field Airport, AL 71.7km awayrain Temperature: 14°C / 57°F
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church a building for public Christian worship.
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- Shiloh Church (7.7km)
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- Mount Sheba Church (historical) (4.2km)
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- Brown Hill School (historical) (4.3km)
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- Macon County Hospital (9.9km)
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- Tuskegee National Forest (5.1km)
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Labels: daily life
Monday, November 9, 2009
Did you know that...
In following a friend of mine (lotte, ik pik even je ideetje hier, auteursrechten binnenkort te betalen in belgisch bier, ok?) who always sends great mails in this style when she's out travelling, I present to you, the latest burkina did-you-knows!
Did you know that:
- fall has come to Burkina too: the leaves (or, well, everything) turns brown and yellow, and the light is different
- the nights are getting chilly
- this make me want to come home and celebrate Christmas
- I am coming home for Christmas, yay!
- I have a colleague who has made it a challenge to convert me to the Christian religion
- He hasn't gotten very far
- We do have interesting discussions on homosexuality, the pope, hypocrisy and corruption
- He has decided that the way into my religious soul is music
- He may be right that if there's a way, that would be it
- Johan is in Ghana right now, visiting his little brother Marcus
- They seem to be having fun: they were hungover yesterday anyway
- I am tired of Burkina beer
- That the beer here is almost exclusively sold in half-litre bottles doesn't help
- There's no pizza in Ouahigouya!
- My parents are coming to visit me here
- I am curious to see how they react to Africa, 30 years after they left the continent
- I went out dancing all night on Saturday
- I love that people love to dance here, men and women
- I had a great time
- I am speaking completely Burkina-french
- This apparently sounds ridiculous to native French speakers, me not being burkinabe
- I don't care about that
- I am struggling with moore, the local language
- I feel like I'm language-saturated (after learning Swedish)
- This is a pity, because often I don't know what people around me are talking about
- This is one of the hardest parts of being here
- There are a lot of things that aren't easy here
- but some things are so much easier
- I am hoping for more visits from friends
- You are all welcome
- People here all called burkinabe
- They are super-friendly
- I feel like I really have some good friends here
- This is nice
- And this is enough for now!
Labels: daily life
Monday, September 28, 2009
What can you transport on a motorcycle?
can you imagine what people can transport on the back of a motorcycle? I dare you! Answer: just about anything! from refridgerators to an entire cow which has been cut into pieces!
Labels: daily life
Friday, September 25, 2009
Living in Burkina Faso means tolerating a certain amount of unwanted houseguests... ants, cockroaches, crickets, lizards... they all live in with me, but don't think they pay rent!
This week I painfully discovered I have new houseguests, ones I hadn't met before. I woke up in the middle of the night being bitten hard by something in my bed..ouch! Then it bit me again, double-ouch! I knew this was no little mosquito-bite or ant-bite. I turned on the lights and saw... a scorpion in my bed!!! Panic!
When I arrived here last november I thought scorpions were deadly. Luckily I had found out that this is not true, that scorpion-bites hurt a lot, but won't kill you. And luckily, Johan was with me that night, so I could make him suck out the poison. Imagine I had been alone and thinking I would die! This not being the case I was just bitten and hurting. All in all the bites didn't bother me all too much, the next day they were just red marks. I think the scorpion (which Johan killed mercilessly) was still a baby, it was smaller than usual, so I guess I was lucky. Still, I have hung up my mosquito-net and tuck it in tight now. Houseguests, fine, but unwanted bed-guests, no thanks!
Friday, September 4, 2009
Ouagadougou flooded!!!
Burkina Faso is known as one of the driest countries on earth. The rainy season, which lasts from about may/june to september/october, brings with it rains which often fall suddenly and heavily, but only come every two or three days. The rest of the year: not a drop! This is one of the reasons why I am working here: to increase the acces to water.
But this week, on tuesday september 1st, something quite the opposite happened: an extreme downpour plunged the whole capital Ouagadougou into the water. After a never-before seen downpour of 260 mm (whereas the total rainfall in one year would be about 600-700 mm) the entire capital was flooded. Water everywhere.
The city is not well equiped for this kind of weather, and thus about 150 000 people have lost their house and just about everything they own. Many poor people live in houses built with mud bricks, which melt like sugar in such extreme rain. And because of the speed with which the water rose many people did not have time to save their belongings. This is a hard blow to people who are already struggling for survival.
How come it's already friday, and still nothing has appeared about this on the news in Europe? Not important enough?
(picture: ocadesburkina.org)
check out this video on youtube
Labels: actua, daily life, development, water
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Yesterday I had gone to work with the motorcycle I had borrowed for when Johan was here this weekend. At lunch I came home to find some grass and leaves stuck under the saddle of my bike, which had stayed at home. I thought it was the neighbours kids playing, and removed the grass. In the evening though, it was there again... and today I have found out that there is a couple of small red birds planning on building a family under the saddle of my bike! What to do? I don't have the heart to chase them away! I think I'll borrow the motorcycle for a couple of weeks... :-)
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sleeping outside
People have been wondering about my daily life here. So I thought I'd share one of the biggest differences between my European and my African life with you. The past three months (april, may, june) have been tooooo hot for me to be able to sleep inside. My house is nice and cool during the day, but at night its an oven. Luckily, I have a roof terrace on my house, so for the past three months I have been going up there to sleep.
It took some time to get used to lying under a starry African sky, with the sounds of the neighbours turkeys (who appear to be night animals), my neighbours' (who also sleep outside) snoring, their babys crying, the early roosters screams, and the mosques of Ouahigouya calling everyone to prayer at 4 in the morning. But at least it was cool and there was a breeze. And it feels good, to go to bed early and go up with the sun.
Digging for Gold
In some places not far from where I live someone found gold not so long ago. This has lead to a incredible inflow of hopefuls souls into these places, which were just nowheres in the dust before. The gold-fever has led to the creation of entire temporary villages, where houses are made of straw, but you can get everything you need, just as in a regular town: food, water, a spare tire for your bike, a radio, and even a haircut.
The circumstances in which gold is dug for are daunting and dangerous. Holes of up to 40-50 metres deep are dug straight down into the ground, with primitive manpowered tools. It can become incredibly hot in these holes and air to breath can be scarce, so makeshift airshafts are used to prevent suffocation. There are no ladders, people climb in and out by crevices in the walls of the holes. One person digs and sends up the loose gravel in bags to his companions outside. Sometimes a horizontal shaft is dug from this hole. These are very dangerous, and often collapse, as tools and material for preventing collapse are scarce.
The gravel hauled up can hold indications of gold or gold itself. It is brought to someone on the site who has a machine to grind to dust, and then it is washed to find the gold itself. You need to pay the person with the grinding machine, and you need to buy the water to wash it with, as there are no wells or other water sources nearby (thus this has led to the creation of a small industry of people fetching water and selling it). Thus the whole activity is seldom profitable and only very rarely does someone find his fortune. But those few who do keep the hopes of all the others alive. Imagine, find gold one afternoon and be able to buy your own motorcycle and your own house on the spot, and having the means of taking two wives at once!
Digging for gold is dangerous, and only estimates exist of how many people die in these holes. Some people say the only way to know is to count the pairs of slippers left at the sides of holes with no one to pick them up, or the number of bicycles gathering dust because the owner has disappeared....
Digging for gold is something which attracts young people, young men leaving their villages to try their luck in these dangerous sites. In some villages you will find only old people and children who are left. It undermines the social structure and the development of these villages, and it makes it difficult for our work as well. How to work with developing a village when the whole active population is absent?
Labels: development, stories
A day in the life...
I thought I might describe a normal, regular day of life here in BF. In some aspects, it doesn't differ so much from all of your lives. Then again, other aspects do :-)
5h50: alarm clock, my neighbours making noise, cocks crowing, and the sun warming up the land
6h00: I get up, water my plants, eat breakfast and get ready for work. I am especially pleased that I brought with me a little italian espresso-maker so I can get my necessary dose of caffein
6h50: I get on my bike and ride to work
7h05: I arrive, and spend some 15 minutes talking with my collegues who arrive one by one
7h20: work, sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating, usually because of the virus-problems we have with our computers, grrr
12h30: I get on my bike and defy the blazing sun to ride either to a local restaurant or home to eat
13h30: siesta, I usually don't sleep (I get in a bad mood when I wake up from sleeping in the day) so I read, watch a tv series on my computer, or just lounge about a bit
14h45: I take a quick shower, and ride back to work
15h00: work continues
17h30: end of the working day, chat with some collegues, ride home, or to town to pick up some groceries
evening: either spent at home alone, cooking, reading or watching a movie, or in town with friends (this activity usually involves drinking beer, which really tastes SO good after a hot day here!)
22h00: bedtime (except if the beers got too good ;-))
Monday, June 15, 2009
My job
I realise that I haven't really described what I am doing here, in detail. In truth, it took a while to find out for myself. But I think after about half a year I have a clear idea.
My title is "chargé de mise en valeur", which means responsible for the valorisation activities. The programme I am working in has activities in water availability (such as the provision of water wells), but also, once water is available, activities to capitalise this for the development of the area or village are possible. The most important examples of these activities are vegetable growing and rice production.
Vegetable and rice production are commercial agricultural activities, and not easy. First of all there are all the technical aspects: production techniques, the weather which we can't control, and constraints on water and inputs availability. Giving villagers willing to produce vegetables or rice the knowledge how to do so is one of the main activities in this aspect. But once harvesting time comes around, another aspect appears: commercialisation. It is not enough to grow onions, to make a living you have to be able to sell them too! And this is an aspect with which we are struggling with right now.
It is a difficult subject, because the world of food production is becoming increasingly globalised and producers here have to compete with rice from taiwan and tomatoes from ghana. We are looking at ways to try and make these agricultural activities profitable and sustainable for these small farmers we are working with. Not an easy task, but interesting and challenging...
Labels: development, work
Thursday, June 4, 2009
In Burkina Faso, as in many parts of Africa, there are many colorful proverbs which are based on daily life situations, just as they are at home. However, as I come from a different cultural background, I don't always understand what they mean immediately. Here are two I tried to translate and share with you, and an attempt to explain them. I think they give a nice impression of the local way of thinking and speaking...
The mother is there, so is the child. Now all we need is the rain
There is knowledge, and there is strength. Wether the undertaking is a succes is now a matter of luck.
If they wash your back, you yourself should wash your stomach
Even if you receive help you should do your own best as well.
Labels: culture
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Finally, rain!!!
Since I got here in November I haven't seen any rain. Well, ok, there was some kind of dropping activity two or three times, but nothing worth calling rain, really.
Coming from Belgium, a country using its extreme rainfall as a touristic attraction (t-shirts saying "in belgium it always rains", yes, they exist!) I shouldn't complain, right?
But I guess the grass is always greener.... because god I am waiting for rain right now! Sick and tired of sunsunsunsun, sun all day. I think now I understand more fully the meaning of a "dry season".
Today, finally, we got our first decent rain. Still only about 10 minutes, but anyway, rain. And I am ready and waiting for more! Whoever would have thought?!
Labels: daily life, water
Monday, May 4, 2009
Different ways of looking at things
A few weeks ago, I was talking to a young woman here, about my age. We were listening to "zouk", the local version of a slow romantic dance. I asked her if she liked zouk, and she said she did, but that right now she couldn't enjoy it fully because she was not in love. She told me the love of her life had just left her. I said I was really sorry for her and that she must be sad. She looked at me and replied: "no, not really, because he gave me two beautiful baby girls, which is the best gift I could ever receive"... I thought about how my culture could make me look at the same situation: leaving a young mother alone with two kids... makes you think...
Labels: thoughts
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Women and water
March 8th is the worlds day for celebrating women. March 22nd is world water day. What do these two have to do with eachother? I joined a course on gender in drinking water provision, sanitation and hygiene at CREPA (Centre Regional d'Eau Potable et Assainissement) in Ouagadougou to find out more...
In Burkina Faso, as in much of the developing world, water is a womans business. Getting water from the well, storing it at home, cooking and cleaning, washing clothes and taking care of the children... many water-related tasks are performed by women. Yet, during the decision-making process, men usually dominate. And as is the case with many other development issues, we are learning that solutions that do not include all stakeholders into the decision-making process are not the most effective.
In the case of our organization (PGE), we work with putting in place committee to manage a source of water. For example, a village well should have a committee consisting of a president, a secretary, a treasurer, a maintenance person and a hygienist. Together this team should take care of the well, keep it running and clean. Now imagine that almost the whole committee consists of men, while the well is used for 90% by women... can that work? In our work we are trying to include women in these committees, but this is not an easy process. Also, numeric representation does not automatically guarantee participation. So, a course in gender, to get some ideas.
During two weeks, me and a group of wonderful, funny and smart people worked on this topic. We brainstormed, discussed and laughed. Almost all of the participants were Burkinabe, so my ideas on how to include gender aspects did not always stroke with the groups', but that's also an important issue to think of: solutions need to be locally adapted to fit. So the Burkinabe way it was! :-)
After an introduction to the concepts and issues in gender and water, a field trip was organized in order to allow us to collect data in a gender-sensitive fashion. For this field trip, CREPA had asked us (PGE) if they could come visit one of our intervention villages. So off to Zandkoom we all went! We infiltrated the village with our questions, testing different approaches and tools, turning issues around and trying to get a grip on the local reality. Afterwards, we worked with this material designed a project to deal with the villages water-related issues in a gender-sensitive way.
After these two weeks, I think I can recapitulate what we learned in a few rules-of-thumb... gender means:
- including all groups, taking care not to exclude the weaker ones: men, women, young, old, disabled, illiterate...
- sex is biological, gender is a social and cultural construct. thus, working with gender needs to be done in a way which is adapted to the local society and culture
- working with gender is essentially working with human behavior.... in other words, patience is highly recommended
Back at work, I hope I will be able to facilitate the discussion on how we can work with gender in our program and in the future.
picture: field work: looking at the sanitation and water situation in a village, with gender glasses on
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
L'eau de l'étranger
This weekend, someone was explaining me the right way of receiving visitors. When someone comes to see you, the very first thing to do is to give them something to drink. This is called "l'eau de l'étranger", or the foreigners water. Only after having offered your visitor this is it allowed to inquier about the reason for their visit.
I found this quite illustrative of two important points: the nature of the climate here, which is sure to make you arrive thirsty. But also a simple but strong recognition of importance of water before all else.
Labels: daily life, water
Monday, February 23, 2009
In the beginning I was here I thought I heard my name being called by all who I passed by. I heard sarah, sarah... It was so strange. Once, when children called out to me, I asked them how they knew my name. They just giggled. Then I had an idea. I looked up the word for 'white person' in Moore, the local language... and sure enough, that solved this riddle. Nasara is the word for white person, and the cause of my confusion.
Labels: daily life, stories
the weather
Everybody keeps asking me if it's really hot here. The answer: yes. But it's also really cold sometimes. The past month the temperature dropped to 12 degrees some nights, and that's cold if the daytime is around 28 degrees. We slept with blankets, and sweaters, and huddled up. Desert nights can really be cold!
Then, suddenly, it turned hot, really hot. Bedtime temperature: 33 degrees. These differances are tough on your body, especially if you're used to slowly warming up after winter and gradually adjusting to cold when summer's finished (also known as spring and fall). Here, the heat jumps on you.
After the scorching week which followed the cold month of January, this morning I woke up to a whirling wind. The Harmattan has arrived. It whirls and swirls, lifting the red desert dust to taint the sky pink. Now and then a mini-dust-tornado passes by, its funnel lifting the dust, and plastic bags, and bits of paper, and everything else in its way, high into the sky.
One day I came home from work, and the area around my house looked like, well, yes, a hurricane had passed through: all sorts of garbage, leaves, dirt, dust, plastic... everywhere. It doesn't surprise me that this wind carries the red desert dust all the way to Europe sometimes. Next time your bike/car has a light red layer of dust, try to image where it came from and how it got there!
The colour in the picture is not off...the red is all dust...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Africa's Che Guevara
One afternoon in Ouagadougou, the capital, we went to visit the grave of Tomas Sankara. Tomas Sankara was a charismatic revolutionary leader who seized power in a coup d´etat in 1983, with the help from the current president Blaise Compaore. He quickly started an impressive list of welfare reforms and anti-corruption campaigns; women were appointed into the ministry, and 3 million children were vaccinated against yellow fever, measles and meningitis in only 15 days. Having both Mossi and Fulani roots, he turned his mixed origins into a symbol of unity. He renamed the country from the colonial name Upper Volta (Haute-Volta) into Burkina Faso, combining elements from three major languages Moore, Dioula and Fulfulde. For all his welfare programs, he was still a dictator, albeit a relatively mild one by African standards. He maintained difficult relationships with Europe and America, as well as many of his African neighbors, in some cases leading to war. Refusing to curb the aggressive behavior of his party to opponents, and increasingly paranoid, he alienated many former friends. This eventually lead to his downfall in 1987, when he was killed in another coup
d´etat, this time his old friend and ally, Blaise Compoare ,seized power and have remained there ever since.
Tomas Sankara´s reforms, anti-corruption campaigns, and premature death has made him an idol all over the African continent, and thousands people visit his discreet grave every year. It is somewhat telling to note that when he died, after four years of absolute power, he left behind an old Renault and 560 dollars in the bank.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
A house and a boyfriend!
The 6th of December, I finally found a house. It was a long and tiresome journey in finding it, and then it was a long and tiresome journey to fill it too. Finding a bed, a mattress, a table, something to cook on/with, .... in a city where there are almost no stores (only a big open market place with small stalls) and almost no fixed prices (meaning having to haggle for every single thing you buy) is a challenge.
But I managed, and am slowly feeling at home here....especially since Johan arrived on the 28th of December! First we spent a week in Ouagadougou for holidays and some other arrangements, then I took him home with me :-)
Our house has two bedrooms, a large living room, a shower and a roof terrace (which may come in handy when the hot season comes and it may get too hot to sleep inside). It shares a cour (innergarden) with three other houses, but still has some private outdoor space. It is a nice house, but does present us with some challenges: there is no kitchen and the toilets are latrines (a hole in the ground) outside which we share with our neighbours. The toilets are just a matter of getting used to, but the lack of a kitchen is somewhat of a puzzle sometimes. We bought a gas cooker and two tables to resemble a kitchen counter, but there is no sink either, so washing dishes needs to be done in big plastic bowls. Why is there no kitchen? Because most people here cook outside, in the cour. They sit on a little stool and cook everything on the ground. Why is there no toilet? Because people here think its disgusting to have a toilet in your living room! Or how you can look at the same thing in completely different ways...
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Arts and crafts ideas for kids including making homemade bird feeders, homemade sidewalk chalk, no-bake clay, tissue paper hearts and a galaxy-themed mobile. Other arts and crafts ideas for kids are to make personalized Christmas ornaments and a kid-sized castle out of cardboard boxes.
One fun arts and crafts idea to do with kids is to create a "pet" out of a plastic cup and a plant. First, the child decorates the outside of the cup with markers to make the pet's face. Then the child fills the cup with wet cotton balls and soil and plants a seed in it. Plants such as grass or radishes are good for this type of container. Next, the child waters the newly planted seed with an eyedropper, covers the cup loosely with a plastic bag, and places it near a window where it will get plenty of sunlight. Over time, the plant grows and comes to resemble green hair on top of the child's plastic pet's head.
Another fun arts and crafts project for kids to do is to tie-dye a shirt using Kool-Aid drink mix packets. To do this craft, mix 1 packet of Kool-Aid with 1 ounce of vinegar in a bowl, twist a white cotton t-shirt into bunches and use rubber bands to hold the bunches in place. Dip these bunches into the Kool-Aid dye and set the tie-dyed t-shirt out to dry afterwards in the sun.


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A total of 193 elephants died in the last three years in Odisha despite several efforts by the government to protect the animals, the assembly was informed on Tuesday.
Replying to a question by Congress legislator Prakash Chandra Behera, Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh told the assembly that 70 elephants died in 2013-14, 55 in 2014-15 and 68 in 2015-16.
He said 47 elephants died due to diseases while 45 died due to unknown reasons.
As many as 41 elephants died due to poaching, poisoning, deliberate electrocution and accidental electrocution, he added.
The minister said the state government has taken a number of steps including development of habitations as well as digging of water bodies for the safe habitation of elephants in the state.
He said the forest department has erected stone walls and solar-powered fences in several sensitive places to deter the elephants from coming to human habitations.
Anti-poaching squads have been deployed to protect the elephants.
The minister said a five-year action plan is being implemented in the state from 2012 to develop 14 identified elephant corridors. (IANS)


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More 'user friendly' hospital visiting hours pilot launched
More flexible visiting hours at Scottish hospitals are being piloted to enable friends and family to visit patients at more convenient times.
Health Secretary Alex Neil said the pilot was "the first step towards making our NHS more 'user friendly' and giving patients what they want".
The pilot is being launched at Dundee's Ninewells Hospital.
The British Medical Association (BMA) in Scotland welcomed the move but said clinical care should be the priority.
NHS Tayside is one of five health boards participating in the pilot which will see visitors allowed nine hours of the day, instead of during shorter set windows.
NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Dumfries and Galloway and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital are also taking part in the scheme.
Mr Neil said: "By making visiting hours fit better with modern day working patterns, it will be easier for family and friends to visit patients, which in many cases will help to speed up recovery, as support from family and friends is a crucial part of the healing process.
"It will also take some of the pressure off staff, as visitors will be spread out more throughout the day."
'Real benefits'
Theresa Fyffe, the Royal College of Nursing Scotland director, said: "There are real benefits for patients.
"We know from areas such as children's care that having familiar people involved at mealtimes, for example, can make hospital stays in particular less stressful for all concerned.
"There is also evidence from people with dementia and their families and carers that flexible approaches to hospital visiting are important in improving the quality of care and can help make patients more comfortable."
But the BMA warned there was a balance to be struck between patients rights and clinical priorities.
Chair of the BMA's Scottish Consultants Committee Dr Lewis Morrison said: "It is right to offer flexibility in visiting where feasible, but for many acute wards, the priority is first and foremost the acute medical, nursing and therapy care which people require.
"Therefore there will always be times when visiting isn't practical. Wards should and do offer flexible visiting to recognise some patients' and families needs without formalising completely open visiting."
Patients charter
In September 2012 the Scottish government published the Charter of Patients Rights and Responsibilities. It outlined the rights users of the NHS can expect in six specific areas.
Margaret Watt, chairperson of the Scotland Patients Association, said the pilot "showed the Scottish government was listening".
She added: "Patients heal better if they get visits from friends and family.
"It's a step in the right direction. I know it will work if we all work together."
A decision will be made in April about whether to extend the pilot.


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I have had a really bad bout of anxiety these past 8 weeks. I would mark the time as "when we first moved in to our new house." – but I don't think that's the cause of the anxiety. I'm just not certain what it is.
Not being able to see Dr. L. or Dr. O. in Seattle has been challenging. I've had to see Dr. Holder who is a major asshole, and so after four visits I just stopped going to him. He took me off of Lexapro in 4 days and it was HELL. I did NOT do well at all with that. Then we moved. I saw him one more time after that, but then switched to a new doctor, Dr. R, and he seems to be okay, just old. He won't prescribe 5mg of xanax at a time and that fucks my insurance company up. Like last night they wouldn't fill the prescription because it hadn't been a month – which it has to be for insurance purposes unless you pay cash – and so they fucking give me 30 tablets. The prescription literally said 100 tablets, but they gave me thirty. Stressful much?
Dr. R has been pushing beta blockers on me and I have been in a hellacious uproar ever since. My anxiety has been through the goddamn roof and I'm just exhausted from it. To make matters worse I'm not even sleeping well. I'm having a lot of bad dreams, too.
Anyway, so yeah – a lot of things have happend in the past 8 weeks. Bryan moved to Pennsylvania for a year or more, our car got repossessed, money's been tight, doctors have been assholes…just stupid stuff like that.
I have not been able to get off of this island further than the Masi shop in months. I would say it's been six weeks since I could get to Poulsbo, and 3 months since I got as far as Port Townsend. That was a very unique day, and I wish I could have more of that. I cannot remember the last time I was in Silverdale, and I desperately want to go there.
We have a new budget that allows us to go out to dinner once a week, but there's no place to go on Bainbridge really. I so want to get better and go for dinner in Silverdale.
I just want to get better. WITHOUT taking beta blockers!!! Dr R wants me to take atenolol. I do NOT want to get into a several year long funk of being terrified of every fucking heartbeat, or constantly checking my pulse. I just don't want to go through that ever again.


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A while ago Eve Marder's article on the number of PhD admissions stirred up the natives. It's been incubating or brining or gestating (pick your favorite metaphor) in my mind for a while.
I've read that it's a lot like r- and K- selection. To increase your fitness in an r-selection scheme, and the number of your genes in the next generation, do you produce lots of offspring, invest very little in any of them, but hope enough survive to make it (think insects, or fish). Or, as a K-selection type, do you produce a smaller number, invest heavily in them (think whales and elephants)? Of course the point of fitness is leaving your genes to the next generation and any concern/investment/strategy for the offspring beyond survival is still about leaving your genes and your fitness. Needless to say trainees are not genes, and improving one's academic fitness is not necessarily the goal of Good People (though as is true of BSD's, YMMV).
One perspective of the olders is that the youngers are actually living this, and therefore in the worst place to judge. If it was true that the youngers were saying "don't limit admissions", one would be tempted to argue that they perceive themselves as being at risk. If the youngers were saying "do it to Julia", then one would be tempted to accuse them of arrogance (yes, limit admissions, but not me). Instead what I am hearing is the rational concern that verges on anxiety about the future. Their future. Their hopes. And no K-selected parent can ignore that. And, no thinking scientist who cares about the future of the field.
Part of Marder's arguments that irritated me were:
Admissions committees are bad at predicting who will end up deciding to stay in science. ....I f we knew how to spot the 25% of our applicant pool ... [who will] become an outstanding scientist, .... might make it sensible to decrease the size of our incoming cohort. But it would be counterproductive and sad to limit our numbers and then effectively lose the creative, determined and possibly unconventional individuals who might not make it through a more restricted gateway.
It's not that I disagree. Admissions committees are political entities with multiple pressures and goals, many of which are not about the candidates. The problem with Marder's logic is that we should then admit everyone who wants to be a grad student. Why limit it to what we have now? There might be some great future scientist that we are ignoring with the current standards. I am guessing Marder would say no to that scheme. The argument against admitting everyone who applies is that admissions committees can make some decisions, and there are some people obviously not suited for a career in science. But are admissions committees, right now, only dealing off the bottom of the deck, only excluding those we know won't make it. Of course not. We are making hard choices. We are drawing a line. The question becomes where do we draw that line?
Getting into grad school (even right now) is a classic supply/demand problem in economics. While the demand for seats in grad school are higher than the available supply of those seats, that supply is fairly elastic. The real supply/demand problem occurs for faculty positions. We've set the supply for grad school at an artificial, predetermined level. This level, the line we draw, is determined by a number of factors, mostly funding, that have little to do with the excellence of the candidates and their potential for being scientists. It certainly doesn't think about the future much (all my grad students get postdocs).
I still think the real issues go back to what happens to those trainees. Marder can argue that we celebrate all those who don't make it. She can say that it takes grad school to figure out if you have what it takes to make it. But that's not really thinking about the people in those roles. I've said before that it is a bogus and somewhat condescending argument that "PhD programs in biomedical sciences train you for many careers". No one enters a PhD program because they think its a good way to become a high school teacher. The question remains: is there a better path to the "alt.career" endpoints?
Yet, there is still validity in the argument it is not obvious who will be a good scientist at the point of admission. Previous research experience, if it is real research experience, is a strong indicator. One of the advantages of the British/Aussie/Kiwi scheme of doing "honors" as the fourth year in a three year degree is that there is a condensed year where it is possible for the student to figure out what its like and what they want.
The discussion about where to draw the admissions line needs to be an ongoing one. It needs to involve people all along the career pathway, not just the Eve Marders of this world. And to those who say that blogs/twitter/social media are a waste of time, I say: feh. It is one way those other career-stage people get a voice.


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Although Arlene Foster topped the poll with 8,479 first preference votes in Fermanagh South Tyrone it was not enough to see her elected until the second stage.
Unlike her relaxed manner among the press at the same count last year, this year the DUP hired their own private room, the door of which was unusually barred by two burly security guards and she appeared to avoid the press throughout the afternoon.
The DUP vote climbed from 22.7% last year to 29.8% of the turnout but Sinn Fein jumped by over 10% from 32.6% to 42.11%.
Arlene's vote of 8,479 votes was down slightly from 8,801 last year but better vote management saw her running mate Lord Morrow's vote climb from 6,602 last year to 7102.
But with a quota of 8711 neither were elected by the first stage.
Sinn Fein's Jemma Dolan won 7767, Michelle Gildernew 7987 and Sean Lynch 6254 first preferences in a solid performance in the DUP leader's own constituency.
The UUP's Rosemary Barton won 6060 and the SDLP's Richie McPhilips won 5,153 while the TUV's Alex Elliott won 780.
There had been a consensus that there were two unionist and two nationalist seats this time around.
At around 5pm instead of the results of the second stage, it was announced that a recall of it had been called by someone instead.
There was speculation that the DUP's Lord Morrow could be in difficulty but with the DUP camp keeping such a low profile it was impossible to get any immediate clarification.
The count is mainly be seen as a largely soulless event compared to last year, where Union Flags and Tricolours and cheering was evident in abundance. Perhaps they may appear at the later stages.
Just after 6pm Arlene Foster emerged for the first time in front of the media in the count, where she gave one interview to UTV only.
As she was speaking, the results of stage two in her constituency were announced and she was elected with 8745 votes.
She broke into a smile and her band of supporters cheered and embraced her, however the weight of the campaign hung heavy in the air.
Despite Sinn Fein's strong performance the DUP still speaks as the voice of unionism, she said.
The SDLP's Richie McPhillips was eliminated at the same stage and his votes now transfer to the remaining candidates.
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