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So, reading the description of this book made me want to read it and I was lucky enough to get an ARC to do so
A young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop. Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, "The Unholy" is a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.
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At first I really liked the book and the way the story was going, but after a while I simply got bored of it. As a fantasy lover, you get used to descriptions in book and that authors love to describe everything around characters, this has its charm in many cases even if I start to see it as a sickness in modern fantasy. In this book it got to be to much and I got bored and just wanted to get to the story, not know everything around all the time. The story, that is there, is really interesting and would be worth reading BUT, here come the big BUT, there is simply to much description of useless things in this book and that suffocate the story.
The story is a mix between fantasy and thriller and it is, and could be even more, scary due to how things is in the world and what is going on. This mix is something I simply loved because it was a great setup for a great story. I just find it sad that the author has to kill the story with the descriptions.
The characters in the book is otherwise very interesting and I liked them, how they acted and felt. It drove the story forward when it was possible.
I wish I could give the book more stars because it do has potential but as it is right now, I really cant due to all descriptions that kills the story. This is not a must read book as it is, it is more of a sleeping pill than a really good book. What this book needs is a bit of editing and someone who steps in and say "STOP" when it comes to all descriptions.


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We visited the Santiago city with the tour in the morning and went straight to the shopping mall-Parque Acauco after that. Both of us still think there will be higher chance for us get more shopping stuff there, since the mall is not small. Ended up we brought the same design jean from ZARA.
For the whole trip, the restaurant from the hotel was not as we expected and this one too. We walked alot trying to look for a good restaurant but at the end we had our dinner at PIZZA HUT near our hotel.

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Ever heard of a Floating Farm?
Meet Shujit Sarkar, a 36 year old farmer from Bangladesh. Shujit is married to Shikha and they have four children.
Shujit earns his income by farming and selling fish fingerlings. He doesn't own land or a pond so he has to keep the fingerlings in the canal nearby. Unfortunately, during the monsoon seasons, the canal water overflows and the whole village floods. During the floods, Shujit can't feed or sell his fingerlings. This means that he struggles to feed his family.
This is a common problem in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. Every year, the villages are devastated by floods caused by sea levels rising and monsoon rains. Their livestock and produce severely damaged or completely washed away. People have no choice but to try keep rebuilding what is lost.
Fortunately, Shujit found out about a charity called Practical Action. Practical Action was already working in Shujit's community, helping the community members to develop a sustainable solution to the problem. Shujit contacted Practical Action and was introduced to a new technology called a floating farm. A floating farm is an ingenious farming technique which works in the local context. The garden floats on top of the water and a fish cage is assembled below. The plants help filter the water which means the fish can thrive. The fish create waste which fertilises the plants to improve growth. It produces enough sustenance to feed the farmers' families, with enough left over to sell.
Shujit found this ingenious technology inspiring and wanted to invest in it. Practical Action provided him with the fish cage and Shujit bought 1,500 fingerlings. This is his first farming cycle and it has been very successful. What's great is that the farming technique requires less effort and his wife is also able to help. She normally feeds the fishes and cleans the cage. Shujit now feels that there is hope for the future and the floods can no longer stop him making an income. In the future, he wants to build another fish cage and further expand his farming business.
Want to find out more about floating farms? Have a look at our project page: https://practicalaction.org/aqua-geoponics
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End energy poverty
Energy is one of the key indicators for development. Like other essential basic needs, a certain amount of energy is required for our survival. Depending on the context, livelihood patterns and way of living, energy needs are different. For example, nowadays, people in Bangladesh across all socioeconomic categories are using cellphones due to very high rates of penetration. So the energy requirement for charging cellphones has become a basic need for users.
Bangladesh has achieved tremendous success in several sectors and has touched the base of being a middle income country. The Government has committed to supply electricity for all by 2021, and has increased production remarkably. But still 38% of people are outside the coverage of the national grid, of these 20% have no access to electricity.
An electricity supply doesn't necessarily mean a supply of quality electricity. If we can't ensure 24/7 supply, we cannot make productive use of energy in hard to reach areas. A flourishing rural economy, promotion of entrepreneurship and local-level business, and the establishment of better market linkages, requires an uninterrupted electricity supply. For example, if someone wants to build a hatchery, milk chilling centre or even cold storage in a remote area, all of which could contribute to the growing economy for the country, a continuous supply is a must. . However, investment in the power sector in Bangladesh is predominantly made adopting a top-down approach. This traditional approach of planning requires to be revisited.
Total Energy Access
Practical Action is globally renowned for its energy-related work. Its global call for energy is titled as Total Energy Access – TEA. Practical Action wants to end Energy Poverty.
One of its global flagship publication series is: Poor People's Energy Outlook (PPEO). The recent two publications of PPEO series refer to three countries, of which Bangladesh is one. These publications highlight the perspectives poor people on energy.
The previous publication in this series, PPEO 2016, focused on the energy needs of poor people living in off-grid areas of Bangladesh. These include household requirements, requirements for community services like schools, hospitals, etc., and also the need for entrepreneurship development. Apart from energy requirements, this publication figured out the priority of energy needs, affordability and willingness to pay.
The latest issue, PPEO (2017), reflects on the investment requirements for poor people to access energy, followed by the needs identified in the previous one. The total energy requirements have been derived for each of the segments such as solar homes systems, grid expansion and entrepreneurship. Together with the investment patterns, it identifies the challenges associated with the investment, and suggested essential policy recommendations.
Women's energy needs
Reflecting on our typical planning mechanisms, how much do we really think about the need of the poor people? Do we think of women in particular?
Nowadays, women are taking up the role of farming and many of them are heading their families. Many women are emerging as entrepreneurs. Have we really thought about their energy needs? If we don't offer them access to finance, build their capacity for financial management and provide hand holding support, they will simply lag behind. While investing on access to energy, we have to think the special needs of women, and how to ensure energy equity.
The outcomes of the PPEO study should give policy makers the food for thought and inspire action to adopt a bottom-up approach for energy solutions for energy-poor people.No Comments » | Add your comment
FSM in Bangladesh: How to operationalize the Institutional and Regulatory Framework?
Bangladesh is considered a role model in the world for its achievement in providing access to sanitation for all. Currently, more than 99% of people in Bangladesh use toilets. The positive progress has created challenges. Issues such as how to empty the toilets, and how to deal safely with the faecal sludge need to be addressed. Manual emptying by informal workers, and indiscriminate and untreated disposal lead to serious environmental pollution and bring adverse impacts on water quality and public health. The informal emptiers have a big role in the current Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) market system but their dignity and working environment is a big issue.
Last year (2017), the Government of Bangladesh published an Institutional Regulatory Framework (IRF) setting out the roles, responsibilities and coordination of different agencies (i.e Department of Public Health and Engineering, Utility Companies – WASAs, Urban and Rural Government Institutes & private sector) to tackle the FSM challenges. The framework was developed collaboratively by ITN-BUET (Centre for Water Supply and Waste Management), Practical Action and others and includes many of the key issues Practical Action wanted to see promoted. The initiative is highly appreciated by the global development partners. The burning issue now is how to operationalize this framework and bring visible and tangible impact on the ground.
The country is yet to develop solutions which are proven to be technically feasible and reliable, socially acceptable, financially and economically viable and can be managed by the existing institutions. However, a number of organizations is doing research, innovations, piloting and demonstration work to create the evidence of the whole FSM service and value chain – including containment, emptying, transportation and treatment of sludge for resource recovery and its market promotion. These endeavors, including our own in Faridpur, have created useful examples and provided evidence in particular circumstances but are yet to go to scale. One of the biggest learnings from these initiatives is that capacities are limited at all tiers i.e. grass roots, local, sub national and national level to improve FSM and to operationalize IRF.
The government is not short of resources, and could invest in scaling up solutions for greening the economy and for sustainable growth. The most recent example is the Padma Multi-Purpose Bridge, the biggest infrastructural development project, which the country developed without any financial assistance from external development partners.
The time has come to think how we can build national, sub national and local capacity in an integrated, holistic and coordinated way to operationalize the IRF.
A national capacity building program needs to address different aspects and engage many stakeholders. For example, changes in behavior and community practices for safe disposal of sludge is a big issue. Both social and electronic media has a significant role in popularizing messages to call for actions to stop unsafe disposal. However, the businesses are not properly orientated and they lack capacity.
Informal groups, small and medium entrepreneurs and large scale private companies can play a big role in operating the business of improving the FSM services and treatment businesses. The local authority can invite the private sector and can create public private partnerships to leverage resources to improve the services. However, their institutional capacity is not up to the mark for design, development, management and monitoring this partnership.
The professional capacity of consulting firms to design context specific appropriate FSM schemes is also an issue. The contractors that are responsible for construction of the faecal sludge treatment plant, secondary transfer stations and other physical facilities are yet to be developed. Similarly, the capacity of local manufacturers to fabricate pumps, machines and vehicles to empty and to transfer the sludge to the disposal sites is yet to be developed. Last but not least, finance institutions (including development banks, climate and green financing agencies, micro financing organizations) need to understand the sector better and focus on building their capacities to make sure there is enough investment to tackle the issues on FSM. The Department of Environment (DoE) needs to be on board for setting and regulating standards for improved FSM. Research & development capacity is extremely limited, especially when it comes to researching different aspects – particularly social, economic, environmental and health aspects. The Government should have a National Plan of Action for effective implementation of IRF on the ground.
The emerging question is how to build this local and national capacity to optimize the impact from the current and future investment programs around FSM by the Government of Bangladesh and their lending partners Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. This capacity building is a big responsibility and cannot be delivered by any single organization alone.
The country urgently needs to form a coalition/consortium of FSM organizations – led by Policy Support Branch of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives. These parties can designate and hire credible organizations to make a good action plan for short, medium and long term in participation with all stakeholders. This consortium should utilize the comparative strength of each organization and the organizations should not compete with each other. Practical Action is keen to play a part in such a consortium, drawing from our experiences on the ground, and our knowledge of 'where capacities are lacking' and 'what are the best ways of building them.No Comments » | Add your comment
Managing the sanitation challenge for Rohingya refugees
Nearly a million people of Rohingya community are living in the makeshift shelters in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, fleeing persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.
Hasin Jahan, Practical Action's country director in Bangladesh, recently visited the camp and describes her experience.
It felt like one fine morning half a million Rohingya people just landed on the doorstep! It may be the world's largest humanitarian crisis ever.
It has been well managed with the government and agencies working together to provided the Rohingya communities with food, non-food items, shelter, water, sanitation, and hygiene.
All the greenery has disappeared from the hills around the camp. And when the monsoon season arrives, there will be the risk of flooding and landslides. But, against all odds, life goes on.
An experience during my last visit still brings tears in my eyes. I met a woman whose husband and son were killed in front of her. When I entered her room at the shelter, I noticed that she had made a mud stove, a mortar and pestle out of rocks, and a small washing area from mud and bricks at the corner of her tiny room. She had also made an overhead shelf that had two cooking pots, her only possessions. The gravity of the situation touched me so much when I understood that she still had that desire to build a home and a family.
Various agencies have constructed toilet facilities and drilled boreholes for drinking water to manage the immediate crisis. But it soon became obvious that the absence of proper management of toilet waste posed severe public health concerns. The toilets filled up quickly and were overflowing and contaminating the water sources with E. coli.
Because of our expertise in delivering faecal sludge management systems in Bangladesh, Practical Action was approached to help manage the safe disposal of this waste, in order to protect the health of these community, the environment and the quality of the water.
It was not easy to tailor the technology, given the hilly terrain, lack of skilled labour, and space constraints due to a densely packed population. But Practical Action took up the challenge and devised portable faecal sludge management units made of steel with rainproof shed at the camps at Ukhyia.
How does the technology work?
The technology uses a simple upflow filtration system. The faecal sludge is collected mechanically using suction pumps
and discharged through a series of filtration chambers to separate liquids from solids. The liquid passes through a number of filter chambers. The effluent is finally treated by a natural process in a 'constructed wetland' through the roots of of Canna indica plants. The solid parts are removed at a certain intervals to bury in pits with sand envelop. After a certain time, it get digested and can be used as compost.
Another important consideration was the health and safety of the sanitation workers who clean and empty the toilets. So training and provision of safety equipment play a key part in this work.
Need for safer energy
There are two other ways Practical Action can help the displaced communities. In view of the danger of cooking in tents and the quantity of waste plastic lying around in the camp, we are planning to install a bio-gas cooking facility using gas extracted from the faecal sludge plants. Another facility planned is a plastic recycling unit to make toys out of waste plastic. This will not only reduce the pollution but also provide toys the children in these communities can play with.
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Pumpkins against poverty and climate change in Bangladesh
Pumpkin farming in Bangladesh helps some of the most vulnerable people to cope with floods & climate change and so escape poverty. This reveals critical lessons for some of the biggest problems our world faces.
How is climate change creating poverty in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh is repeatedly named as the country most vulnerable to climate change. In particular, more frequent and intense rainfall plus rising sea-level is making flooding much more likely. While for some countries coping with climate change is a problem for the future, impacts are already being felt in Bangladesh. The Asian Development Bank reports that more rain is falling and extreme events, such as floods, are becoming more common and severe. Rural areas are being caught in a devastating cycle of droughts and floods. In a country where 70% of the population directly depend on agriculture this is a serious problem.
Weather events have cost Bangladesh $12billion in the last 40 years, says The World Bank. By 2050, it's likely that climate change could further reduce the amount of food farmers can grow by up to 30%. As the impact of climate change becomes more severe, it will hamper any attempts to improve the poverty and malnutrition that effect vulnerable people across the country.
To make matters worse, the most vulnerable people are often forced to live in the most dangerous areas. For example, the poorest families are often only able to build their homes and farms on the very edge of riverbanks, which are washed away during floods. As floods become more common people are more frequently losing their homes, livelihoods and food supply – trapping them into cycle of poverty and food insecurity.
How can pumpkins fight poverty?
The Pumpkins against Poverty project run by Practical Action is working with 6,000 of the most vulnerable people in 26 villages across Bangladesh. The aim is to help build their ability to cope with flooding and climate change.
While floodwater washes away riverbanks, homes and fields, it also creates new islands (called sandbars) in the middle of the flooding rivers. Practical Action is helping communities to turn these sandbars into pumpkin fields. With the time it takes to dig a small hole, and the addition of a small amount of compost, individuals who lost their fields to floods are guaranteed a harvest. Even better, women are actively participating in pumpkin farming around their household tasks – supporting themselves and their children.
Practical Action is also helping farmers to sell the pumpkins they do not eat. Pumpkin selling can offer a great additional income for families, especially in the monsoon season when prices are three times higher than at other times in the year.
The project has generated huge employment for some of the poorest people in Bangladesh, and especially for vulnerable women. Pumpkin growing has increased food security and the ability of communities to cope with flooding and the impacts of climate change. It has also transformed individuals into agricultural entrepreneurs, helping them to escape the trap of poverty and malnutrition.
Why is this an important lesson for the rest of the world?
The Pumpkins against Poverty project is a clear example of how simple technology can build communities' resilience to the disaster events climate change brings. The project hopes to support the most vulnerable individuals in Bangladeshi society by actively involving women and children, and so strengthen communities from the bottom-up.
It is widely recognised that local and bottom-up innovations, such as the Pumpkins against Poverty project, are crucial to both cope with the impacts of climate change and to reduce the contribution to the cause. Despite this, there is a large gap in our understanding of how practical technology can be turned into successful projects on the ground. To be effective, projects need to carefully consider the local context and involve the community at every step. Practical Action's Pumpkins against Poverty project is helping individuals suffering from the impacts of climate change. Moreover, it provides critical lessons for some of the biggest problems our world faces: hunger, nutrition, employment and gender inclusion.
Find out more…
If you would like to read more on technological solutions for climate change in Bangladesh see the Adaptation Technology in Bangladesh report by the Gobeshona sub-group.
Alternatively discover other solutions to increase flood resilience on the Flood Resilience Portal which is dedicated to providing specialist advice and guidance.
More of Practical Action's work in Bangladesh can be found here.No Comments » | Add your comment
Big change starts with a small technology- Aashkol
Since independence, having had massive development interventions for women empowerment in Bangladesh, but still rural people perceived that technology is something that needs to be handled by men. Similarly, entrepreneurship is believed to men's sphere. However, aiming to bring some changes in these gendered domains, under EC- PRSIM project (funded by European Commission), we have distributed Aashkol (jute fiber extraction machine) through a joint entrepreneurship model (one male and female member can take lease of the machine fro 3 years). In this entrepreneurship model, women have significant role to play both for unleashing their potential entrepreneurial skills and earn an income. However, it was not easy for community people to see woman leading an enterprise. Sheuli Begum- one of the woman entrepreneurs of the project stated that;
I am a housewife and people do not see my entrepreneurship skill in positive way. They never encourage to do such thing. Rather people laughed at me. But I know, I can do this.
Sheuli Begum lives in Bozra, Kurigram with her husband and two children. Her husband is a jute farmer, and she is a home maker. From her husband's income, it is impossible to save any amount for meeting any emergency need. Seasonal income from selling jute fiber, jute stick is also insufficient. Therefore, to meet their regular expenses such as education expenses for the children and medicine for the family members, often they need to borrow money from neighbors. Since they do not have other sources of income, thus it becomes impossible to pay back the borrowed money. Sometimes, she sells her jewelries to pay the indebted money.
With such hardship in life, suddenly she came across about a jute extraction machine. She also heard about a project that would select entrepreneur for Jute extraction from their community. She got surprised to know that women would get equal partnership with men in this entrepreneurship. Without any hesitation, she shared her keen interest with her husband. After fulfilling all the requirements and receiving the training, she got the machine from Practical Action Bangladesh.
During the season, after meeting all the expenses, she earns 1500 taka per day with her jute extraction machine. Since they have got better quality of fiber, thus she hopes to sell the jute fiber with a higher price (in compare with last year). In her words;
Before, it required many days for jute retting and fiber extraction. Now with this machine, fiber extraction is done immediately and retting also takes less time. Thus, labour and time both are saved. That's why, we could have made some profits.
She informs that due to regular rainfall she was unable to dry the broken jute stick. But she has explored an innovative alternative about the raw jute sticks. She has rotten them in compost bin to make organic fertilizer. She will use the fertilizer in the crop. Along with that, she has plan to use the machine in multipurpose way throughout the year to secure income round the year.
As a concluding reflection, it can be said that women like Sheuli in rural Bangladesh never (or hardly) have opportunity to give a try to develop and run some sort of enterprise. Sometimes, a few of them get development support and try to do like Sheuli in this case. Among them, a few of them become successful (of course many reasons will work behind) and are considered as role model in the community. But there are others as well, who could not make it a success. As many development interventions, now a day are not comprehensive (like in this project, we do not have any activity like community awareness around on gender & entrepreneurship; which is very important to sensitize the community). Therefore, the problem that Sheuli has highlighted in her first statement will play around and continue creating problems in her way of empowerment. However, we need to continue putting our efforts some way or others. And if we can carefully and dedicatedly deal the issue, then big change may happen from this entrepreneurship initiative around the small technology- Aashkol.
Md. Rezaul Karim (Community Mobilizer, Kurigram) for data collection & Sayeeda Afrose (Technical Supervisor, Kurigram) for drafting the case study.
Prospects and challenges of introducing new sheep variety
Whenever, we try to introduce new technology or new approach in our work, we provide special emphasis on our monitoring work. Recently, one of our MEL team members visited Thanahat union in Chilmar Upazila and interacted with 4 beneficiary households who have received improved sheep variety supports from Pumpkin against Poverty (PaP) Project. The visit has come across number of issues such as sheep rearing practices, challenges going through by the beneficiary, profit they are anticipating and obviously future planning to rear this type of improved sheep. This blog post is based on the reflection of the beneficiaries and observation of the MEL members.
Being a staff of a technology focus organization, our efforts are always being invested around innovating new technologies that work for the poor or identifying appropriate technologies that have been working for poor for years. Under PaP Project, we have been doing the same. The main focus of the project is to support poor landless farmers- mostly women to produce pumpkin in the transitional land to help family move out of poverty. However, alongside with pumpkin production, there are also some technological supports that project is constantly providing and exploring alternative means of poverty alleviation. As a such effort, we have provided improved variety of garol sheep to some selected beneficiaries.
The variety has been collected from Rajshahi, and has been introduced with aims to improve breed development (Hyderabad variety, India) in the north-west region of Bangladesh, popularize sheep rearing as alternative livelihood means, facilitate quick income earning by female beneficiary. Keeping these in mind, out of the 399 beneficiary households, only 10 households were given 3 sheep per households. The project has supported BDT 19680 (USD 240) per household and contribution from beneficiary themselves was BDT 5000 (USD 61). The expenses were occurred due to purchasing kid garol sheep, input and feed.
The visit unveiled that there are two important advantages of this sheep variety. These are;
• Grows so fast in compare with local variety
• Eat locally available feed and all types of grass
A short case on one of the beneficiary could better demonstrate the advantages.
Case of Golenur (35)
One of the 4 beneficiaries is Golenur(35)- a housewife of Thanahat Union. She received 3 sheep in last week of March 2017. After a few days, she observed that in compare with other local variety her garol variety has been growing so fast. She estimated that the present market value of 3 sheep will be BDT 35000(USD 427). The total investment (from the project and own investment) was BDT 21680 (19680+5000). After 3 months, value of the sheep has been increased at 1.4 times. Most importantly, this variety of sheep eats all locally available feed and all types of grass. That's why, she is now happy that one sheep is pregnant. She is also planning to increase number of sheep. Once she has the anticipated profit from the sheep, she will buy a milking cow to ensure daily income (by selling milk).
However, the farmers also pointed out some challenges that they have been going through. These are
• Feed demand of new variety sheep is higher in compare with other local variety.
• This type of sheep is very sensitive and becomes ill easily.
• Close follow up and care are required for the good health and benefits.
• Lastly but the least, feed crisis is very high during the monsoon. Poor farmers hardly can manage it.
The growth of the sheep is really fast. Potential return of the investment is also assumed to be high in compare with local variety. However, the problems which have been identified need to be tackled, particularly alternative feed- for monsoon in particular needs to explored, only then this could be a viable livelihood option for the poor farmers in the region.
Co-author of the post is Abdus Salam, Coordinator- Monitoring & Evaluation.No Comments » | Add your comment
The magic trick and resilience: can it work?
If you are a citizen of any country exposed to natural disasters, you may know that flooding, cyclones or hurricanes are some of the words that first come to mind when anyone talks about natural disasters. When we talk about disasters, either natural or man-made we all think of one thing – how we can survive?
We are putting all our effort into finding that magic trick which we believe that will save us from all disasters. What we need, is to recover quickly from difficulties or be strong in the face of disasters. That magic trick is called Resilience. Global efforts are now focused on building resilience in order to reduce the impact of these disasters which is a continued threat to people's life and livelihoods around the world. However, when we talk about natural disaster and disaster resilience there are no proper or clear tools which can start to lead us towards that magic trick. In a previous study for the United Nations Development Programme, researchers concluded that "no general measurement framework for disaster resilience has been empirically verified yet." This finding highlights a key challenge for any resilience building efforts: if resilience cannot be empirically verified, how do you empirically measure whether a community is more resilient as a result of your work?
It is neither simple nor easy to know whether efforts focusing on what we believe builds resilience are correct. However it is necessary to try to measure that the impact of our work is leading to more resilient communities or at least that they are more stable and adaptable to the disasters than before. In that scenario the flood resilience measurement tool (FRMT) developed by the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance designed to quantify the flood resilience of the community. The tool has been trialled in numerous communities across 10 different countries including Bangladesh, by various implementers. It has already demonstrated that it can be a great complementary tool to flood resilience community programming.
For Bangladesh, a country at the forefront of the battle for flood resilience, the tool can provided valuable insight. Where the tool has been implemented recently in a running project, it has started to help us identify not only the community trends of floods resilience but also the gaps in resilience by looking into the strength and weakness of the communities from the data analysis. This tool also allows the organisation to understand the community better by analysing interdependencies and by understanding it through different lenses. This process helps us and our partners to work on addressing the gaps. Our hope is to gather this evidence and feed into the national level for better advocacy and lead to more informed policy makers.
Currently the tool is in development phase; key parties test and feedback on strengths and weaknesses of the tool to make it as robust as possible for measuring the flood resilience. Through continued use and improvement of this tool we can begin to increases the resilience of the community by considering the all key areas. The use of the FRMT can begin to identify changes in resilience over time and verify through post flood assessments whether our interventions are managing to strengthen communities. So that at a time in the future we can not only say that the magic trick is working through the development work of the organisation but also the people's ability to resist and recover from the disaster is increased.No Comments » | Add your comment
Jute for environment, jute for employment
Practical Action, together with Karupannya Rangpur Ltd. – a champion jute product manufacturer, a national NGO RDRS and Rangpur Chamber of Commerce started to bring a significant change in jute textile value chain in four northern districts of Bangladesh. They made a breakthrough against conventional practice of many years by introducing a new small fiber extraction machine funded by EU. As a new start-up this season, 62 jute fibre extraction machines serving in four northern districts reached around 1200-1500 farmers. The machine was initially brought from China and further modified by Karupynnya Rangpur Ltd and largely introduced to farmers by Practical Action this year. It can extract 2-3 tons of green plant per day. The machine entrepreneurs charged 1500 taka per bigha (33 decimals) to farmers which is relatively cheaper than their manual labour cost. The operation requires 4-5 litre of diesel fuel per day and four man power (most cases husband and wife are
entrepreneurs). Let me give a real example of this season. Nurul Haque lives in Vuridhoea village under Lalmonirat District, has 250 decimal arable lands who cultivates two varieties of Jute (Kenaf & Tosha) in his 94 decimal land. He was found enthusiastic of the Kenaf jute variety for its high productivity. Plant height of the jute was 15-16 feet and the fibre was much brighter would obviously attract comparatively higher price. Nurul Haque cultivates kenaf variety in 54 decimals, used the newly introduced semi-Automatic Machine (Aashkol) for separating jute stick and fibre and learned an improved jute retting system in ponds. Normally he used to pay Taka 2,000 to Taka 2,200 labour cost for threshing jute plants of one bigha of land, whereas he paid only taka 1,500 per bigha for using the machine. He is happy with the quality of fibre and extra 280 kg jute this time than the last year. Additionally he sold 55 mounds of jute stick to a local trader at BDT. 4400 this season. He is expecting more profit of BDT 15000 from his 94 decimal land by using the new machine, new variety of jute seed and new retting process. Particular unique aspect of the machine is to secure eco-friendly jute fibre processing which will require less water, less labour and create less pollution to the water bodies. It will open new avenue for trading jute stick as a new industrial raw material in the local and global market. It will create new employment make our agro-economy resilient.
Floods wreak havoc in Nepal and Bangladesh
Heavy monsoon rains have devastated communities from all walks of life in South Asia over the last two weeks. But early warning systems, delivered by our Zurich funded Global Flood Resilience Programme has helped save many lives in Nepal and Bangladesh.
Days of torrential rain in Nepal caused severe flooding in most of the terai – the plains in the south of the country. Roads and bridges have been damaged and houses destroyed, affecting more than six million people.
Fortunately, all of our staff are safe, though some have families in the affected areas. Loss of power and transport links have made communication difficult.
In Nepal, more than 130 people have died and and nearly 3,000 homes destroyed. Many villages remain submerged. In Nepal flood drills proved their worth and our flood shelters are packed with families whose homes are inundated.
In Bangladesh, 107 people have died and 5.7 million people have been affected across 26 districts. In addition nearly 180,000 hectares of cultivable land has been damaged and more than half a million homes damaged. Stored pumpkins have provided vital food for flood victims but stores are now depleted as this was the second serious flood this summer.
In Bangladesh, we sent voice messages via mobile phone to 13,370 people from the affected area. These explained the action people should take during the floods. And flood proof houses on raised plinths have withstood the rising water.
Staff working on our Pumpkins against Poverty project are helping affected communities with assistance of trained nutrition volunteers with transport for evacuation, identifying emergency shelters and links with local government for support. They are also offering counselling at emergency shelters for children and pregnant and nursing mothers. Practical Action staff are helping people return to their homes and taking measures to implement floating gardens and homestead gardening to help people recover from this disaster as soon as possible.
Halima Begum from Gazir Para in Chilmari describes her situation:
"We are experiencing flooding for the second time.Our livestock and homestead garden has been washed away. We were without food. Two days ago my son sold 120 pumpkins worth 2100 Taka (£20) and has bought rice, pulse, oil, salt. There is no transport to get to the market. So we are using pumpkins.
With the first harvest and sale of 420 pumpkins and adding some from deposit from home, I bought a cow, I sent to my daughter's house for its safety before water comes to home.
We would die this time without food, however this pumpkin has helped us to cope and survive."


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the pathway to the river
strewn with dead petals
scent of mildew in the air
passing summer
children run excitedly
bonfires of decay
For: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
I love how you end with a smiling positive...children excited :) lovely series, Cara, I can smell the mildew in the air...that part of autumn I don`t like, cold and damp.ReplyDelete
I can remember when the raking was done there'd be the huge pile of leaves, waiting to be dived into ... then later the bonfire.And that intense smell of damp among those leaves at times :-) But I agree ... the humidity is not my favorite even either --- I too have creeky knees and joints ....Delete
All beautifully done. That last one is very powerful - tring to find the right word, almost apocalyptic in its intensity...!ReplyDelete
Wow ... interesting!Delete
bonfires of decay.. wonderful phrase.. there is a great juxtaposition between the words that gives that haiku a special meaningReplyDelete
Such striking contrast in that "bonfire of decay" -- and having the pathway to the river strewn with dead flower petals -- both sad and subtly romantic at the same time.ReplyDelete
That second is really a gorgeous one Georgia ... I like how you have brought departure of summer into this trio on "decay".ReplyDelete
Thanks ... decay as something breaking down to it's elements I suppose.Delete
What a wonderful collection of all things autumn including kids jumping in the piles of leaves!ReplyDelete
Thanks Janice - I'm glad you enjoyed the kids jumping into the leaves a favorite memory of mine ...Delete
harmonious words ... like crystal clear water ... pure ectasy
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New Year's Eve...just prowling around the house not doing too much. To my surprise, the railroad did in fact decide not to run my job today so it looks like I might have a few days off before I have to hit the road grind again. Sure is weird not to be working and even stranger to be here on a real holiday by myself. This stuff of being alone isn't what it used to be...wait a minute...it never did have much going for it. I'm playing my metal way too loud and eating far too much. The cat is having apoplexy over the roar and the dogs want to go out in the snow to take the edge off. I almost wish I had worked today so I wouldn't think so much. I miss the kids and Chris and I just don't like this.
So it's just me and the music again for New Year's and the first decade of the century ends...with Alice In Chains and DP's '37 Stitches' to keep the pain in.
Spin the dial up to 10 old man, stare in that Black Steel Mirror and pray for the glassware...
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Last Of The 'Aughts'
Posted by Wayward Son on Thursday, December 31, 2009
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The run on today's menu was 12 miles with 7 miles at a lactate threshold pace (7:40-8:00 min/miles for us). Terrifying you ask? Absolutely!
I was not looking forward to this run and after the warm up with legs still sore and angry from running in bad shoes yesterday, I wasn't feeling any more confident. But ok, stretched out the sore shins for the third or fouth time and finished the last half mile of the warm up and started speeding up.
I immediatly noticed how strong the wind was at my back. Chalk it up to the looks on the oncoming runners face, the look of, "oh please. please, please kill me know and make the pain and torture stop", or the look of the bikers who couldn't actually look straight ahead and had their heads skewed in my direction, or the fact that with every step I took I flew a little bit in the air or the fact that the sand that was blowing on the backs of my legs was actually painful.
We decided to go a bit farther away from our apartment because we didn't want to do too many of these important speedy miles into the wind. Of course doing this has your full 12 mile run ending 4 miles away from your apartment, but totally worth it....because....
WE ROCKED THIS WORKOUT!!! Garmin was a little crabby for a few miles but :
Our splits were :
- 7:53
- 7:53
- 7:38
- 7:13*
- 7:58
- 7:55
- 9:57**
**This mile was about 0.3 miles too LONG. I was noticing where we were on the garmin at each mile marker. The mile before the last one garmin said 8.80 miles and the mile marker was 8.5. When we got to the 7.5 mile marker you would think that garmin would be some where close to 9.80 miles....um no it was at 9.5. So if you take that into account this was probably about 1.25 miles and so something like 8 minute miles which is SPECTACULAR as we were directly into this horrible horrible wind.
(are we noticing the colors.....DA BEARS start next weekend!!!!)
We slowly slowly slowly ran/walked the last two miles of the scheduled 12 miles....and then stretched a bit and the walked another 4 miles home where we talked about what we want to be when we grow up (Dad you'll love the new plan!)
I am really proud of the effort and outcome of this run. And the best part : NO MORE LACTATE THRESHOLD RUNS!!!
Tomorrow is a day off and then 12 Friday, 5 Saturday and 20 on Sunday. We found out that we can get into our new apartment tomorrow night which is so exciting so stay tuned for pictures!


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Romans 1:20 New International Version (NIV)
20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
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Romans 1:20 New Living Translation (NLT)
20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
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Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Romans 1:20 Good News Translation (GNT)
20 Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all!
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Romans 1:20 King James Version (KJV)
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:20 New King James Version (NKJV)
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and [a]Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
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Last night I don't feel like I got my point across very well. This is a very complicated emotion thus the struggle I'm having in effectively communicating what the hell it is I'm feeling about it. First off, let me explain what happened. Ever since I was little, I've felt my parents have favored Thomas. It was always little stuff like giving him more praise for a good job in school but its effect was felt. Rather than get mad and become evil and bent on total domination or human destruction, I internalized everything and pushed myself to be better than Thomas so that I could, one day, receive the same love and affection that he did. I want to make it clear that I was never angry about it. I was hurt and each time the favoritism was evident, I was more determined to win over their love. Well, this internalization, we (as in me and Allister) believe, led to my many problems today. Perfectionism? I got that down. Unrealistic expectations? Check. The problem with this little theory though, is that 1) I don't want to be angry with my parents and I feel like that's what is being said. I feel like I have to be. But, after giving it consideration last night, the reason I don't want to be angry at them is because, in my mind, being angry at them means not loving them. Using my rational mind, I know that's not true. I know that no matter what I'm feeling towards my parents that I love them. My emotional mind is saying something completely different. It's saying that being mad at them means there's no room for loving them. It means I would have to revert back to the way things were a while ago when it was constant fighting and just bitter hatred. So what's my wise mind saying? Well, it's saying that it's okay to be angry and still love them. But, me being the willful person I am, I don't completely trust my wise mind. I still haven't successfully separated my emotions from things like love so how do I know it's different this time? What if it's not and I'm destined to become that child that shoots up a school or something because in her eyes, her parents never loved her enough? I mean, that's what it really boils down to. Thomas receives more love than I do. God, even typing that was hard. See, whenever I bring this to their attention (and I have on numerous occasions), they always have some rational explanation for their behavior. And at first, it makes perfect sense. But the more I think about it, the more it doesn't and I'm even more pissed off that I fell for it in the first place. No parent wants to think they made mistakes. I get that. But when the kid who's supposedly favored even sees it, that's a problem. And Allister stated the obvious yesterday, which is why I think I got so upset. I'm never going to get an apology from them. I'm never going to hear them say they're sorry for what they've done. And worst of all, I'm never going to be on equal ground as Thomas. And this is where radical acceptance comes in. That's the hardest skill of all, one that I'm not sure I'm ever going to master. How do you radically accept that your parents love you less than your brother? I don't hate Thomas or hold any animosity towards him over this either. Actually, Thomas and I are very close. But accepting that, in my parents' eyes, I will never be on the same level is like the dagger to the heart. I already drive that point home every time I think about all the ways I've failed in life so radically accepting that on top of all of those failures…well, maybe it's a point of accepting them too. Oh God, there's so much acceptance to be done! When it comes to that, I just freeze up. I can't do it. I don't know what it is about radically accepting something that I don't get but I just can't seem to grasp the concept. I think it's the finality of all of it. It's the fact that once I've accepted whatever I'm accepting, I'm resigned to whatever fate accompanies that acceptance. And the more I think about it, accepting the fact that my parents will never love me as much as they love Thomas (God, that sounds so terrible! Maybe it's 'the fact that my parents will never love me in the same way they love Thomas.' Yea, I like that better), the fate that I would be resigned to if I accepted that is Recovery. It would be a step in the right direction, a step I would be taking without my parents. Although it would be a step for me, it's a step without them and that scares the crap out of me. Fear is a powerful motivator. But it's also a powerful inhibitor. And I think it's keeping me from truly getting better. So how do I get around this practically insurmountable object? I mean, Allister said the exact same thing to me yesterday in therapy and what did I do? I completely shut down. I went home and slept for 2 hours. I avoided. I ran away from my problems. Something I'm even struggling not to do right now. I've hovered my cursor over the 'Save Draft' button numerous times while writing this, wondering if I had the strength to continue. I think I have some serious work ahead of me. It's not going to be easy and it's not going to be fun. But it needs to be done.
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Too Tired
Today will most likely be a double post day. Why? Because it's 3:49 AM and I usually post on Wednesday mornings, just not at this ungodly hour. I can't sleep again. Same reasons: every time I close my eyes, I picture something horrible happening to my family. I've been sleeping with the light on to combat this problem recently but even then, I still have trouble staying asleep. I'm tired, don't misunderstand me, but I can't stay asleep. It's one of the worst feelings in the world. I figured I'd do some opposite action and get up, do something else and then try to fall asleep later. I don't know how late later will be though. I've made some progress over these past few days in dealing with relationships. I don't know if I mentioned this in my post the other day. I know last week I was talking about the prospect of new relationships and how that really frightened me. Well, on Sunday I did my deviance project with Amanda and Ty at Ikea. We were supposed to do something deviant, that is act out of the normal. We decided to mess around by sleeping in the beds, racing desk chairs and sitting next to customers who were testing out couches. It was pretty fun. And before we started, Ty was running late so Amanda and I talked for about half an hour. I was honest and acted like myself…and she didn't run for the hills. It was really reassuring. And the next day (Monday), we even made plans to take classes with each other next semester. I was worried that this would be a temporary relationship, one that only lasted as long as the project/class did, but it doesn't seem to be working out that way. I had a really good time Sunday. And on Monday, I had to work on another group project (with a different group for my computer class) and had a really good time then too. I'd met with Casey and Ryan on Friday at my house. We'd ordered pizza and worked on our project for about 3 hours. We found out on Monday (the teacher gave us all class period to work on it then too) that the project was due Wednesday and we weren't finished. We met up again at Casey's house. Ryan couldn't stay long but Casey and I got a lot of work (and talking) done. We worked on it again yesterday (Tuesday since it's past midnight), and actually spent more time talking about other things than we did working on the project. Again, I was brutally honest, sharing the fact that I had BPD, depression, was a cutter and my whole Mara situation. And that was something that was both relieving and scary. But again, she didn't reject me. She actually related to me in a way. I don't know, I don't think the entire experience was all that negative, something I'm not used to.
That was written as it says, at 3:49 AM. It's now 10:01 AM and a cup of coffee later. I didn't present my group project in computer class this morning. Only two groups got to go. We're going on Friday, but I'm a little relieved. It gives us a little longer to make sure we really understand the material. And I meant what I said about those relationships. Casey now texts me all the time. Ryan's phone is broken so we don't stay in touch as much but when I see him, we say hi and joke around so it's not so bad. I definitely think this is a step in the right direction. I hope I don't regret saying that. I mean, even admitting that this is a positive thing, something that's good for me, is difficult. Take Montreal for example. He's good for me. He genuinely loves me, flaws and all. I treat him like shit though. I ignore him for days, don't pick up his phone calls and never return them. He doesn't get mad at me though, he knows (I think) that it's all part and parcel of being in a relationship with me. That's where a little of that narcissism I mentioned a few posts back comes in. It's a little self-centered for me to be doing this but I can't help it. I know Allister, opposite action! Don't worry, I'm working on it! I've been trying to reply to him and respond to his phone calls (I still haven't overcome answering them) but it's difficult. I feel like I'm being smothered a little bit. And the fact that he doesn't get mad at me when I ignore him really bothers me. Like, that should upset you but he's got me on such a high pedestal that he doesn't think I can do wrong. I've been trying to destroy that perfect image of me but it doesn't work. He's just so accepting of everything I do, say and am. I've never experienced that before. Some of it, I think, is my semi-conscious attempt to sabotage this relationship. I'm trying to tip the scale and make it more dysfunctional. It's failing miserably though. I don't know. I'm writing about it on my Interpersonal Effectiveness homework and that's helping. It's allowing me to see a new perspective. And I've contacted my cousin who's a pastor, to see if he can't provide some spiritual insight. I hope he can. Prayers have been tumbling out of my mouth like a waterfall. Every time I hear a siren, I pray. When the urge randomly strikes me, I pray. I saw a tow truck yesterday and the part that holds the car was folded up against the truck. It was in the shape of a cross so what did I do? You guessed it, I started praying. At night, when I can't sleep, I pray for my family and for myself. I'm scared that demons are going to come stealthily through the night and torturously (I don't think that's a word but it is now!) murder my family, forcing me to watch. He'd spare me and the dog, making sure we saw every gruesome detail, then he would let me sit for a while, brewing, until he was ready to kill me too. That's what I'm afraid of. Of the unknown. I can't see these enemies. God can, but I can't, so I have to ask God for protection, for forgiveness and for strength. That's why my light stays on at night. I feel like if the light's on, God can better see the demons trying to enter the house. Maybe I should burn sage and have Pastor Merrit come over and bless the house. That would be nice. I highly doubt it would let me sleep at night but that's beside the point. I'm really tired this morning. Like when this happened last week, I was able to tough it out and make it through the days without sleeping but today, my eyes keep going out of focus, a hint that I'm sleepy. Maybe I'm not thinking clearly from this sudden lack of sleep. After I wrote the blog post above, I watched an episode of Law and Order: SVU and then tried to sleep again. I tossed, turned and pushed Poco around until my alarm went off at 6:00. I got up, and got ready without incident. But maybe because I hardly slept last week, and my lack of decent REM this week has made me more than a little delusional. Maybe that's why I'm so terrified. Allister was telling me just last night that the way to combat anxiety and OCD is through mindfulness, tolerating the moment and wise mind. Last night I had absolutely no focus in me. Tonight though, I think it's worth a shot. Because I need to sleep. I'm too tired for this shit. I'm too tired for all this shit.


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- The broker is a US citizen living in Mexico, but coordinating this sale from Italy, where he is marrying an Italian national.
- The escrow is with Marine Documentation Specialists in Annacortes, Washington, where we have been emailing our paperwork and wiring our money.
- The boat is in Mexico, but documented in the US.
- The seller offered to include a spinnakker sail with this boat; it is in Arizona.


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Interesting comment in the last koan of AboutMutableMaps (koan("Mutable maps can be cleared")):
Makes sense. And it'd be a nice signpost to the reader. It got me thinking, Scala is a language still gaining in adoption, and changing regularly too; so what are the current style conventions?
Well, I had a look through some old Evernote notes I'd made at the last Java Posse Roundup (attended by quite a few Scala mavens) and I had this bookmark to a document called The Scala Style Guide. Apparently, its contents are "followed with more or less fervency". I think I should give this a read.
Notably, I'd linked there from "Effective Scala" (written by Marius Eriksen out of Twitter) from a session I'd attended about Scala Adoption. It seems like that might have a treasure trove of information I can plumb later on.