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Care in Ghana by Melanie Dane
I lived in Ghana for 3 months from February to May 2008, and now in August I still can't stop telling stories from my trip every single day.
Before arriving at Accra airport I had no idea what to expect as it was the first travelling I'd done and knew no one who had done anything similar before, but when I landed and met Nyame at the airport, I couldn't have been given a warmer welcome. We got to house in Accra at about 11pm, and was absolutely shattered and just expected to fall straight asleep, but there was another girl already in the room. This turned out to be Caroline, who would be my room mate and working with me for the next three months. At first I was nervous about spending so much time with one person, but then I had no idea that she would become as close as a sister to me and a really special friend lasting long after we both left.
After a few hours of sweaty sleep, Eric met Caroline and I to take us to Kumasi on the bus, where we were then met by Michael and Gabby, the Project Abroad coordinators in that region to be taken to our new family. Comfort and John, our host parents were amazing. I couldn't say one thing about them I didn't love. Right from the start they treated Caroline and I like their own children, and before long I saw them as my second parents, not just a host. Comfort and I became extremely close, having snuggle time in the evenings and cooking dinner together. We all went to church on a Sunday which was a different experience, as I'm not religious and so it was all very new to me, but really interesting to be a part of the whole community, and feel like I belonged.
One thing that took a lot of getting used to and I'm not sure if I ever fully did, was the constant attention you receive mostly from the children for being white. Everyday walking down our road to and from the house shouts of "Obruni, what is your name? How are you?" Obruni being Twi (the local language) for white person. It was never bad attention, just constant, and eventually the whole village new my name and instead of obruni would shout "MEL" and by the time Caroline and I got to the house, we would have a following of children sharing our sweets and lunch and practising their English.
The transport in Ghana is a whole experience in itself! The most common method is the tro tro. This is basically a small van or minibus with bodged seats screwed in and as many people crammed in as possible plus countless baskets of fruit and occasionally the odd chicken. Many times I had children sitting on my knees to make extra space, and on long journeys the shoulder of the person next to you is normally free for a good lean! If you're not comfortable with being squished into a small space with a lot of people, there are taxis any time, any where and they are still cheap.
On the Monday, after having the weekend to get to know my new family, Gabby met Caroline and I to take us to our placement at Kumasi Children's Home where Michael, our other supervisor was waiting. I didn't remember meeting him at the bus station so proceeded to embarrass myself by going to shake his hand and say "hi I'm Mel" just to be replied with a confused look and "I know, I met you on Friday".
The first thing to hit me when I got there were the absolutely gorgeous children coming at us from all directions to say hello with huge smiles and wonderful laughter. It was a sound I shall never forget, and will always make me happy when I think about it. From that day on at the Children's Home I had the most amazing time hanging out with all those fantastic little ones. The work was sometimes tiring, especially in the heat during the first couple of weeks, but I soon slipped into a routine and got used to constantly being sweaty.
The day would start at around 8.30am with getting the 4 boys, Bob, Ghadafi, Nhsyira and Sechi out of their cots and getting straight on with breakfast. After that it was nappy time (yuk!) this took me a little while to get the hang of, as the nappies were folded towels with a plastic cover so it was a bit like nappy origami! Once the smelly jobs were finished, it was fun time! Playing all morning. I love being around children, and after but a few days around the boys I felt so close to them and truly loved them and still do even after being home for 3 months. Once their playing was finished it was lunch time, followed by bath time. Wow was that difficult sometimes! Trying to keep 4 boys on the potty while we rotated them through the bath and then putting on clean nappies! We got it going well though most days with a bit of a production line. One person watching the boys on the pots, one washing them in the bath, then two on nappy duty. But occasionally if not all the volunteers were in and it was just a couple of us working it could be a bit of a handful, and once I had to manage the whole day alone!
It doesn't take long working at the Children's Home before the children are so comfortable with being around you, and you just become a walking cuddle, or a way to show off how hard they can hit a high five to their friends!
We had a great support team in Kumasi based around Michael and Gabby, our two supervisors. These guys were great and became real friends of mine, along with a couple of their friends Joel and Laud, all of whom I'm still in touch with on a regular basis, and miss dearly. I could count on them if I ever had a question I needed answering or a problem I needed solving. We had regular meetings twice a week with all the volunteers and Michael and Gabby which were always fun, even when Gabby tried to give us a quiz!
When working for three months or over, you're entitled to 2 weeks travel time to take off work. These two weeks could be a great opportunity as there is so much of Ghana worth seeing. On our weekends we did quite a bit of travelling to the monkey sanctuary in Boabeng Fienna, Mole National Park, or just relaxing by the pool at a local hotel. Mole was amazing, we did two safari trips, one in the morning on foot and one in the afternoon on jeep. Both times we got to see crocodiles, cob, boars and yes…elephants! The elephants made the trip for me as I'm fascinated by them, so to be standing 20 feet away from two fully grown females was breath taking.
For my two weeks of travelling Caroline, Rahel and myself did a coast tour hopping from beach to beach starting in Accra stopping at Cape Coast, Elmina, Dix Cove and finally Beyin right in the West. We all had an amazing time. At the Green Turtle Lodge in Dix Cove there weren't enough rooms in the dormitory on the first night so we had to camp on the beach. I thought this was amazing as I love camping and I couldn't think of anywhere better to do so, on clean white sand under palm trees with the sound of the crashing waves lulling you to sleep (but remember your mosquito spray or else you will get eaten!).
I went to work in the orphanage thinking I had all this extra love to give and wanted to take it somewhere I thought it would be needed. But what I found when I got there was that these children at the Home would give me more love and comfort than I could ever have dreamed, I came away with so much more than I could have given.
I went to Ghana with no knowledge other than one woman at the check in desk at Heathrow who was born there who said "within a few days you will be made to feel more at home and welcome than you probably do here" and after coming back to England I still believe that Ghana is not just a country I visited but a second home.
So if you're plan is to visit Ghana, be prepared to either not want to come home, or be finding ways to get back there as soon as possible when you do.
Melanie Dane
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George Patton, Jr. '84 recently received two national honors for his work in appellate law.
In October, Patton received the Distinguished Contribution to Appellate Law award at the Appellate Judges Institute Summit at San Francisco. The award, given by the Council of Appellate Lawyers, cited Patton for his "contributions to the formation, organization, and development of the Council," particularly Patton's work as first chair of that organization.
On December 29, Patton was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Membership in the Academy is by invitation only and currently consists of only 272 attorneys who have "a recognized reputation for the highest integrity and excellence in appellate work."
Chair of the Appellate Group for Bose McKinney and Evans in Washington, DC, Patton is the author of a book on Indiana Appellate Procedure, and his law review articles have been cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Indiana Supreme Court, and the Indiana Court of Appeals. He has worked on cases before the courts above, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in more than 90 published opinions.
Patton has also taught at the Indiana University School of Law and has been active on the American Bar Association's Appellate Practice Committee.

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Aaron Gordon's big brother committed to play basketball at UCLA in May 2007, and after observing all that transpired five years ago Aaron has decided he, too, will make his college choice in the spring.
He does not want to make the same mistakes.
See, Drew Gordon chose UCLA a year before he graduated from high school. He went on the recruiting circuit that summer a committed Bruin and signed his letter of intent in mid-November. We won't see any of this from Aaron (including him choosing UCLA, where things didn't quite click for Drew before he transferred to New Mexico).
"I'm going to take a few more visits, take all five of my officials. I'm going to watch a lot of NCAA basketball and make my decision in the spring," Aaron Gordon told Sporting News. "So many things change. If I were to commit now, so many things could change by the time I go to college. I just want to have the shortest time span from the time I make my decision and when I actually touch down in college."
Interesting that he chose the verbiage "touch down." Because Gordon, a 6-9, 220-pound forward from Archbishop Mitty High in San Jose, Calif., does nothing so much as fly. Friday at the EYBL Finals at the Peach Jam in North Augusta, Gordon nearly scraped the roof on consecutive dunks as he led the Oakland Soldiers to an easy pool-play win over Indy Spiece Heat.
The first was outrageous, thrown down off a baseline inbound lob pass tossed above the rim as Gordon soared in from the center of the lane. We've all seen that play run many times. At Cincinnati, All-American Kenyon Martin made this particular play a signature. But Gordon's journey toward the top of the square was as spectacular as any you've seen.
On the Soldiers' subsequent trip, Gordon punctuated a fast break with still another spectacular slam. Asked if he ever had two such eye-popping dunks on consecutive plays, he answered with a surprising, "Oh, yeah."
Oh, yeah?
"The out-of-bounds was pretty spectacular; I liked that one," Gordon said. "But I have had some pretty spectacular dunks."
Those two plays were just an entertaining interlude as Gordon returned from more than six weeks away from basketball (toe injury) to lead the Soldiers to the Peach Jam championship.
Gordon was the tournament's No. 2 rebounder. He delivered a double-double in the narrow title-game victory over Canada-based CIA Bounce, which featured the No. 1 prospect in the 2014 class -- 6-8 Andrew Wiggins. Gordon helped hold Wiggins to 7-of-22 shooting from the field.
Gordon himself is ranked No. 5 among high school seniors, according to Scout.com. He insists he is a small forward, not a power forward, and that he is being recruited at his preferred position by the college coaches in pursuit.
When he gets to the NBA, which won't take forever, Gordon almost certainly will play the "3." There are few players his size playing there in college, though, mostly because players with his size and athleticism are needed to help rebound and it's not easy to rebound when you spend a lot of time stationed 20 feet from the basket.
"I always want to get my jumper better; that's the main thing," Gordon said. "I want to be able to knock down shots from anywhere.
"I think my shot's a little bit struggling right now because of my confidence. Once I get my groove in facing up to the basket, everything's going to start falling. I'm going to be a lot more comfortable with my shot, and that's going to make me successful."
At the Peach Jam, he was less comfortable than usual because of the extended layoff, which he said led to his feet being "slow" and his body being "tired." He played eight games in four days after playing not at all for almost two months. He was entitled to be spent.
He is not weary, though, from the recruiting process because he is managing it so tightly. He has seven schools under consideration: Washington, Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico, Stanford, Kentucky and Kansas. College basketball insiders cite Washington as the leader, although the others aren't relenting.
"I've always been able to keep that set of schools. Pretty much everybody knows that, and honestly I can play basketball and not worry about anything else," Gordon said. "They try really hard to respect not calling my phone all the time. They do a good job not hassling me. I'll get about three calls a day, so that's not too bad, and about four or five text messages.
"Basically, my brother didn't do what I'm doing now. So I got to see what he'd go through, what decisions to make, what to look for in a coach. My eyes are a little more opened maybe in regards to other people because of my big brother."


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Opinion: Is Lance Armstrong Really Sorry?
Editorial board member Steve Moore on Lance Armstrong's confession to doping, but denial that he cheated.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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The National Rifle Association rolled out its hired gun, former Arkansas Congressman Asa Hutchinson, last week to present a $1 million study done in the wake of the December grade school massacre at Newtown, Conn. To no one's surprise, the study said we need to have more guns in schools to prevent similar tragedies.
The best recommendation in the study says that schools should use more school resource officers — sworn police officers — to improve school safety. Several Jonesboro area schools have used SROs, in collaboration with law enforcement agencies, since the 1998 shooting at Westside Middle School, one of the first of many such tragedies.
The weakness of the study, titled "The National School Shield," could be attributed, in part, to the fact that not a single member of the 12-man task force (yes, all men) that produced it is an educator. Several educators, as well as the Los Angeles School District and the National Association of School Resource Officers, are listed as contributors.
SROs do much more than guard against outsiders trying to wreak havoc in our schools. On a daily basis they get to know the students, build relationships that lead to better understanding of law enforcement and deal with violence and other crimes within the schools.
We'd do well to put an SRO in every school. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen because we're reluctant to pay the costs.
As pointed out in the NRA study, the Clinton administration created the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in 1994, partly in reaction to school violence. A key program in the initiative was called Cops in Schools (CIS), which beginning in 1999 helped place more than 6,500 specially trained police officers in schools around the country.
That program worked well, but the Bush administration had other priorities, and funding was cut in 2006. While we were cutting taxes and fighting two wars in foreign countries, our schools were left to seek funding for maintaining their SROs. Some, including Jonesboro, were able to work something out; others didn't.
CIS needed to be expanded. Instead it was reduced.
The Newtown Middle School had an SRO on duty on Dec. 14, and he was one of the first three police officers to reach the scene of the massacre. If Sandy Hook Elementary School had had an SRO, maybe some of the 20 first graders and six adults would be alive today.
But the NRA offers no help for funding more SRO positions, instead simply acknowledging some efforts to obtain local funding.
Instead, "The National School Shield" offers 10 findings as the basis for eight specific recommendations for schools and school districts to take action on their own, most of which are not new.
One finding, the study asserts, is that school staff members can be allowed to carry firearms "in order to provide an additional level of protection for the students and staff in the event of a violent incident on school property.
Even that suggestion sounds rather lukewarm: "The school staff generally receives authorization from law enforcement as a reserve deputy or authorized security officer, event though the training is inconsistent and often inadequate." The study offers a model state law to provide for the arming of school staff members.
Of course, the ideal law would require training such personnel and conducting background checks before entrusting them with guns on campus. At least the NRA task force backed off NRA Executive Director Wayne LaPierre's ridiculous suggestion that parents and other volunteers might serve as school guards.
However, as Hutchinson knows well, our national system of background checks is woefully inadequate. It does not require checks to be done when gun purchases are completed at gun shows or through the media. Worse, the FBI system does not even include data about people judged as mentally ill in 10 states, including Arkansas, and such information from other states is often slow and incomplete.
In other words, someone like Adam Lanza might have passed a background check to become an armed school guard.
Yet the NRA opposes expanding our national system of background checks for gun purchases. Even the NRA's hired gun knows that's a hypocritical stand. In an interview with CNN after presenting the study, Hutchinson said in answer to a question, "Yes. Absolutely. I'm open to expanding background checks."
If you can't be sure the people you're arming on a school campus are neither criminals nor insane, you're not providing a solution but rather a recipe for disaster.
And even if the school guard is properly trained and screened, you're still offering a half-baked security measure. The person you're arming, whether a teacher, administrator or janitor, is going to have other duties that may interfere with carrying a gun, even a small handgun, or more than a minimum supply of ammunition. That's some protection, but not much.
Most of the school shooters have been well armed, much better than a school guard would be, and they operate with the advantage of surprise on their side.
A much better idea is to find the funding to expand greatly the number of school resource officers. Is there a better use of our taxpayer dollars than to protect our children and grandchildren?
Note: The full NRA study can be found at www.nra.org.
Roy Ockert is editor emeritus of The Jonesboro Sun. He may be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Fourth of July: Liberty! (1775)
In 1775, Patrick Henry addressed the need to "arrive at truth" concerning a "painful" issue: Their government was lying. While pretending to care, the government was redirecting its resources against citizens. Petitions to correct abuses were ignored, mocked or met with retribution. Patrick Henry made "an appeal to arms and to the God of hosts."
"They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?…Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us…Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! …Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
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"Let us remember, that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.'" -Samuel Adams


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This novella was packed full of never-ending suspense and horror. The imagery was wonderful and the story just plain good.
Overall, author Saunders did a fantastic job of creating a suspenseful and exciting read which I highly recommend.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The African Attachment
Check out this great little video about UTMB put together by "The African Attachment", a South African film company who is as enjoyable and easy to work with as they are good at making movies. Keep up the good work guys: Check out the film here.
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4 comments:
- eric said...
Gorgeous video. Thanks for sharing.
- September 13, 2011 at 7:31 PM
- Becky W. said...
Great video! Thanks for sharing what the UTMB felt like and looked like. Beautiful!
- September 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM
- fabrice said...
UTMB really feel like a championship!!! Kilian is so right about the mt blanc....was really happy to be there and can't wait to go back this is a magical race.
- September 14, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Patrick Cawley said...
What amazing footage of the landscape and poignant insights into the emotion of the race.
- September 16, 2011 at 4:07 AM
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A relic from the early days of using planes as weapons of war, this 11.8-liter WWI-era Hispano-Suiza engine has a 37mm cannon mounted directly between its cylinder banks. In other words, it is perhaps the most badass engine of all time.
It took a few years for people to figure out how to use airplanes as military vehicles. At the start of World War One, planes were only used for reconnaissance. The first fights between planes were pretty improvised, with pilots throwing bricks and bombs at other planes and shooting at each other with pistols.
The next leap forward, mounting large guns on the plane itself, had a serious stumbling block: Since the planes of the era had propellers, it wasn't possible to fire straight ahead without shooting the propeller to bits at the same time.
In 1916, the Barcelona-based aero engine and luxury car manufacturer Hispano-Suiza figured out a solution to the problem. They managed to mount a 37mm gun right in the middle of their popular, 220 horsepower, battle-tested V8. Since the gun fired directly through a hollow propeller shaft, you could shoot in the direction you were flying and the cannon wouldn't just blow apart what was keeping you in the air.
The French-built Puteaux cannon used in the arrangement could be mounted with a rifled barrel for firing explosive shells, or a smooth bore for firing canisters. This basically created a gigantic shotgun, which was fairly effective at close range.
The flaw of the setup was that the Puteaux cannon was not automatic, with the pilot having to close and lock the breech with his fingers after ever shot. While the "motor-cannon" did see combat, it was never very popular.
But what really killed this Hispano-Suiza engine was that it was fast becoming obsolete. In 1917, the Allies began to use something called a synchronization gear. Connecting an independent machine gun to the engine's crankshaft using either gears or hydraulics, the synchronization gear, well, synchronized, the timing of the machine gun fire with the arc of the propeller. A synchronized machine gun fired between the propeller blades, completely superseding the Hispano-Suiza's motor-cannon. Though Hispano-Suiza had been working on a prototype motor-canon fitted with a fully-automatic machine gun, the whole concept of a gun mounted inside an engine was history.
Only Messerschmitt picked up the idea again in 1935, but jet engines ultimately made any effort to not shoot your own propellers very much obsolete. We now remember this Hispano-Suiza engine as just one more strange experiment of the early days of turning motorized vehicles into machines of war.
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The new administration of President Dilma Rousseff suffered from a series of setbacks in 2011, including losing five cabinet members to corruption scandals. Although Rousseff's tough stance toward corruption weakened her position within her disparate multi-party alliance, she was able to use the crises to highlight her anticorruption credentials, which contributed to high levels of popular support by year's end. The president launched a major antipoverty program in June, and a Supreme Court ruling in May afforded homosexuals greater rights, including the right to form civil unions.
After gaining independence from Portugal in 1822, Brazil retained a monarchical system until a republic was established in 1889. Democratic governance was interrupted by long periods of authoritarian rule, and the last military regime gave way to an elected civilian government in 1985. However, Brazil's democracy has been marred by frequent corruption scandals. One scandal eventually led Congress to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) leader Fernando Henrique Cardoso—a market-oriented, centrist finance minister—was elected president in 1994, and he subsequently oversaw a highly successful currency-stabilization program that included fiscal reform, privatization of state enterprises, and a new currency pegged to the U.S. dollar. He also ushered in a new era of dialogue with international human rights and good-governance groups. In 1998, Cardoso handily won a second term in a rematch against his 1994 opponent, former labor leader and political prisoner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the left-leaning Workers' Party (PT).
Lula finally won the presidency in 2002, promising to maintain orthodox economic policies while initiating meaningful social-welfare programs. These included "Bolsa Família," a cash-transfer program that benefited approximately one-fourth of the population, and "ProUni," a fund providing low-income students with scholarships to private colleges.
Lula was reelected by a comfortable margin in the October 2006 presidential runoff, drawing on his popularity among working-class voters. Despite the fact that the legislature was widely seen as the most corrupt in the country's history, the PT did not suffer losses in the concurrent congressional elections.
In August 2007, the government released a report outlining the fate of political dissidents who were "disappeared" by the military between 1961 and 1988. Unlike in other Latin American countries with recent histories of military rule, former officials in Brazil remain protected by a 1979 amnesty law, and none have faced charges for human rights violations. Brazil's Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the amnesty in April 2010. However, the Inter-American Court of Human-rights ruled in December 2010 that the amnesty law was invalid, and that Brazil was responsible for the forced disappearances of 70 members of a resistance movement during the military era.
Dilma Rousseff, Lula's chosen successor, was elected president in October 2010 with 56 percent of the vote, defeating rival PSDB candidate José Serra. The PT and its coalition partners also did well in congressional elections held in early October, strengthening their majorities in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
A number of major government corruption scandals that began in 2004 continued into 2011. The affairs involved vote-buying, kickbacks for public-works contracts, and the abuse of congressional power in awarding jobs and salary increases to favored recipients. During Lula's tenure, two of his three chiefs of staff were forced to resign amid corruption scandals, and Brazil's legislature was deemed one of the most corrupt in the world. The transition to the Rousseff administration brought no immediate improvement on the corruption front. Between June and October 2011, Rousseff ousted five staff and cabinet members for corruption: her chief of staff for alleged enrichment; the transport minister for bribes and over-billing on contracts; the agriculture minister for nepotism and cronyism; the tourism minister, along with dozens of tourism ministry officials, for embezzlement; and the sports minister for alleged kickbacks.
Rousseff's "ethical cleansing" campaign earned her respect from many for taking a hard line against corruption. Indeed, by the end of 2011, her popular support levels remained high at 70 percent. However, ending the decades-old norm of tolerating some forms of official corruption raised doubts about the president's ability to maintain control over her divided coalition, made up of ten parties of varying sizes and ideologies. The center-right Partido da Republica (PR) dropped out of the government coalition after Rousseff ousted the transport minister, who was also the party's president. The cabinet shake-ups also hindered the administration's ability to push through structural changes, such as badly needed tax reform.
In June 2011, Rousseff launched an antipoverty program known as Brasil Sem Miseria (Brazil Without Poverty)—an initiative intended to eliminate the extreme poverty that afflicts 16 million Brazilians—by 2014. The program will increase the transfer payments already provided by Bolsa Familia; provide credit, technical assistance and skills training; and increase the poor's access to health care, housing, and sanitation. She also signed a Truth Commission bill in November 2011 that will investigate human rights abuses committed during the military regime.
Brazil is an electoral democracy. The 2010 national elections were free and fair. The constitution provides for a president, to be elected for up to two four-year terms, and a bicameral National Congress. The Senate's 81 members serve eight-year terms, with a portion coming up for election every four years, and the 513-member Chamber of Deputies is elected for four-year terms.
The four largest political parties, accounting for more than half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, are the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, the leftist PT, the conservative Democratic Party, and the center-left PSDB. Seventeen other parties are also represented in Congress. The electoral system encourages the proliferation of parties, a number of which are based in a single state. A 2007 Supreme Court decision outlawed party switching after elections, though lawmakers have continued to switch parties on occasion for financial and other inducements.
Corruption is an endemic problem in Brazil, and five members of President Dilma Rousseff's cabinet were forced to resign in 2011 in the face of various corruption scandals. The country was ranked 73 out of 183 in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.
The constitution guarantees freedom of expression, and both libel and slander were decriminalized in 2009. A long-awaited freedom of information bill, which covers all branches of government at all levels, was passed in the Senate on October 25, 2011. Rousseff signed the bill into law in November, and it will come into effect in mid-2012. The press is privately owned, and while foreigners can acquire a 30 percent stake in a media company, they are restricted in their ability to influence editorial decisions and management selection. There are dozens of daily newspapers and a variety of television and radio stations across the country. The print media have played a central role in exposing official corruption. However, journalists—especially those who focus on organized crime, corruption, or military-era human rights violations—are frequently the targets of violence. According to the International Press Institute, five journalists were killed in 2011 in probable connection to their work; at least one of the deaths was attributed to alleged government involvement. The judicial branch—especially judges outside large urban centers—remained active in 2011 in preventing media outlets from covering numerous stories, often involving politicians. The government does not impose restrictions on access to the internet.
The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, and the government generally respects this right in practice. The government does not restrict academic freedom.
Freedoms of association and assembly are generally respected, as is the right to strike. Industrial labor unions are well organized; organized labor represents 17 percent of the Brazilian work force. Although they are politically connected, Brazilian unions tend to be freer from political party control than their counterparts in most other Latin American countries. Labor issues are adjudicated in a system of special labor courts.
The country's largely independent judiciary is overburdened, plagued by corruption, and virtually powerless in the face of organized crime. The judiciary is often subject to intimidation and other external influences, especially in rural areas, and public complaints over its inefficiency are frequent.
Brazil has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Most violent crime in the country is related to the illegal drug trade. Highly organized and well-armed drug gangs frequently fight against the military police as well as private militias comprising off-duty police officers, prison guards, and firefighters. Drug-related violence migrated away from the major cities to some extent in 2011, increasing in Brazil's historically poor northeast—specifically the states of Bahia and Alagoas. The homicide rate for Rio—once deemed one of the world's most dangerous cities—has dropped by half in the last decade; the government's aggressive counterinsurgency against drug-related violence ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games likely contributed to that reduction. Most notably, the longer-term presence of "peace police" forces successfully pacified several of the city's dangerous favelas, or slums. In Rio de Janeiro, 1.2 million citizens—20 percent of the population—live in favelas.
Corruption and violence remains an entrenched problem in Brazil's police forces. Torture is used systematically to extract confessions from suspects, and extrajudicial killings are portrayed as shootouts with dangerous criminals. Police officers are rarely prosecuted for abuses, and those charged are almost never convicted. However, a military police chief and seven officers were arrested on September 27, 2011 for the killing of a judge known for her tough stance against corrupt police officers.
The prison system is anarchic, overcrowded, and largely unfit for human habitation. According to official estimates, Brazil's prisons hold over 490,000 inmates, 50 percent over the system's intended capacity. Overcrowding sometimes results in men and women being held in the same facilities, and human rights groups claim that the torture and other abuses common to most of the country's detention centers have the effect of turning petty thieves into hardened criminals.
Racial discrimination, long officially denied as a problem in Brazil, began to receive both recognition and remediation from Lula during his first term. Afro-Brazilians earn less than 50 percent of the average earnings of other citizens, and they suffer from the highest homicide, poverty, and illiteracy rates. When he assumed office, Lula took the unprecedented step of naming four Afro-Brazilians to his cabinet, and appointed the country's first Afro-Brazilian Supreme Court justice. The 2010 Statute of Racial Equality Statute calls for the establishment of non-quota affirmative action policies in education and employment, as well as programs to improve Afro-Brazilians's access to health care. The law also recognized the right of quilombos—communities of descendants of escaped slaves—to receive title to their land.
The owners of large estates control nearly 60 percent of the country's arable land, while the poorest 30 percent of the population hold less than 2 percent. Land invasions are organized by the grassroots Landless Workers' Movement (MST), which claims that the seized land is unused or illegally held. Progress on land reform has been slow due in part to a strong farm caucus and the economic importance of large-scale agriculture.
Although Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, thousands of rural laborers still work under slavery-like conditions. Landowners who enslave workers face two to eight years in prison, in addition to fines. Mobile inspection groups established under Lula's presidency have been effective in the fight to end slave labor; they have rescued more than 39,000 workers since the 1995 creation of the program, and compensated them over $5 million. Measures to fight the impunity of employers, such as a public "black list" of offending companies and landowners, have also proven effective in reducing slave labor in rural Brazil. In December 2011, two separate cases of forced labor resulted in the prosecution of three cattle ranchers who were sentenced to five to seven years in prison.
Brazil's indigenous population numbers around 700,000. Violence and discrimination against indigenous people continues; half of the indigenous population lives in poverty, and most indigenous communities lack adequate sanitation and education services. The government promised in 2003 to demarcate large swaths of ancestral lands as the first step in creating indigenous reserves. A 2009 Supreme Court ruling defended the creation of one of the largest protected indigenous areas in the world, and the non-indigenous farmers living there peacefully left the 1.7 million hectare reservation that year.
Brazil's Supreme Court ruled in May 2011 that homosexuals have the right to form civil unions, and that couples in civil unions have the same rights as heterosexual married couples in regards to alimony, health, and retirement benefits as well as adoption rights. While discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited by law, violence against homosexuals remains a problem.
In 2003, a new legal code made women equal to men under the law for the first time in the country's history. Upon entering office, President Rousseff vowed to push women's rights onto the national and international agenda. Women make up a third of Rousseff's cabinet, comprising 11 of 34 posts. Nevertheless, the government has yet to propose specific policy plans to improve women's access to health care or to ensure wage equality. Violence against women and children is commonplace, and protective laws are rarely enforced. Forced prostitution of children is widespread. More than one million children between the ages of ten and fourteen worked in 2010. The government has sought to address the problem by cooperating with various nongovernmental organizations, increasing inspections, and offering cash incentives to keep children in school. Human trafficking continues from and within Brazil for the purpose of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.


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June is here, and my schedule for this month is on my fridge. When Paula penciled in the games, I could not believe that we only had one day off in the month.Of course, we had a rainout, and I have rescheduled a game for that day. I have decided that I may have to go back to work to get some rest.On the bright side, that rain out gave me a chance to do some fishing with Chuck Restine.We headed to Lake Tenkiller and tried to catch some smallmouth bass. I managed to catch one, along with a couple of black bass and a couple of sand bass.Since we had a game scheduled, and the fish were not biting, we headed back to Chuck's house.When the call came in that the game was canceled, we decided to fish a little longer at a little fishing spot Chuck has near Bokoshe.The bass were hungry in this little honey hole, and we caught several good ones. I managed to reel in a 3.5-pounder or two, and Chuck caught a few around four pounds.We are not the only ones that have been doing some fishing lately. My good buddy, Nathan Janway, and my cousin, Russell Broussard, have been catching a few crappie at Wister Lake.Have a great week!• • •E-mail questions or comments to email@example.com.


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Zen Triode StereoPre-amplifier + 2 ZSTAGE in a 5.1 ss setup.
Is this the best choice, in at SS setup, then I use my OPPO 105 BD player as a pre?
The new 105 have a 32 bit volume control, and I expect, to use it as a master volume control, and use the gain/vol. control on the Zstage and the Zen Trio Pre, to fine tune the vol. level of the entire system.
I know the Zen Ultra probably is the optimal solution, but is also more expensive 1200 $
I could use 3 Zstage but need an extra input to the front speakers, for a Phono stage.
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This would probably be a great sounding set up. I don't know much about surround sound, haven't coveted it nor been too impressed with it in the past. I would think that the Ultra would be worth the extra dollars in features and ease. . . . You might wish to see if this used Ultra could still be purchased from the former advertiser:
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01/28/13 at 03:24:43
This is a great question and would like to know what the best solution would be as well. But I do think the Ultra would be the best way to attack this.
I have the BDP-95 and that is the best Blu-Ray/SACD player I've ever heard and the BDP-105 just improves on every catagory so I am going to eventually get the 105 as well.
From what I've read ... aside of the 105 being a great a high quality universal disc transport, it can stream network music either wirelessly or via ethernet, has 2 audiophile quality DACs on board, asynchronous USB, and the list goes on and on. Unless you're in need of room correction capabilities, I see no reason to even incorporate a processor. It's got to be one of the best-bang-for-the-buck pieces of audio/video equipment out there at the current time!
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01/29/13 at 11:49:38
Yes, Ultra would probably be the best solution, but I live across the pond, so 3000$ becomes 4000$ before it arrives in Denmark; which is a bit too much.
Returning it is problematic as well if therere any problems with it, so Ill probably start with a Zen Triode pre. or a Zstage and then buy the rest once Ive tried it.
Yes, the Oppo105 is pretty much an all-in-one, though wont be using wireless, since it does nothing good for audio quality, so will only be using toslink from my Pana screen and the asynchronous USB port fra the PC.
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01/29/13 at 14:29:34
bento, there is no question the Ultra would be the best all-in-one approach to what you are contemplating, but I sympathize with the cost and logistics concerns. [With respect to the latter, perhaps there is some closer quality electronics concern that Steve could "authorize" to work on his products? That might just be too complicated, though, for everyone.] The cost is a one-time issue, but the risk of requisite repair is not an insignificant consideration. Steve stands behind his products, but he is in Illinois, after all.
Anyway, your "component compromise" should work, it seems, though it likely increases some opportunity for noise and hum to creep into your setup. You can solve those problems, but the diagnostics might be more laborious. Further, having both the ZSTAGE and the Ultra, I can attest that, while the ZSTAGE does some nice things for SS equipment, and as a gain control device, it is excellent, it is not the same as the Ultra. I have not used the Zen triode pre. Did I miss your proposed amplifier(s) or is that the ZSTAGE? Depending on your speakers and your room, that may not be enough. Do you already have other amps or a MCH amp?
@beowulf, am considering the same, and comparing it to Modwright mods for the 95.
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01/29/13 at 16:28:29
Yes again, I really like the Ultra; but again, Illinois is far away from home.
If you look a bit practical on it, it´s easier to send a Zstage back for repair than an Ultra, not because I doubt the quality of construction, but the accident could happen.
As a power amplifier, I have a Audia 3,100 3 channels effect built as 3 mono amplifiers in one chassis, and for rear speakers, I'm using an old, Naim nat 90 (stands for replacement) speakers are front: Vienna Beethoven Concert Grand, center: Vienna Maestro Grand and behind: JMR trente, my old front speaker.
Also have an Arcam AV9 which I do not want to use, since the oppo has a quite good volume adjustment.
In the long run, I only need an additional input for a record player, therefore, a Zen Triode pre and 2 Zstage and not 3 zstage.
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01/29/13 at 17:35:57
Hey Bento,
Spent a few summers in Copenhagen, Denmark (2000-2003) and still have very fond memories and friends there. Have a Tuborg and skinke y oste pizza for me!
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Blind Faith Nears End Of US Tour: LA Times August 25, 1969
Blind Faith Nears End of U.S. Tour
LA Times, August 25, 1969
By Robert Hilburn
Eric Clapton, the superb guitarist with England's Blind Faith, was relaxed after a recent appearance in Los Angeles. He had just gone through the final major test of a hectic United States tour that many felt was asking too much, too soon of rock's newest supergroup.
It isn't easy being part of a supergroup; the standards are so high, the demands so great, the pressures so intense, the critics so ready to pounce on any mistake or sign of weakness. But that's the only life Clapton and the other members of Blind Faith have known since the group's formation last spring.
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"We had first thought about a tour of smaller, more intimate clubs, but there were so many pressures for us to play the big halls that we had to go through with it. If we had only played small clubs, a lot of people would have been upset because they couldn't get in."
There is, of course, ample reason for all the interest in Blind Faith. The group is composed of Ginger Baker and Clapton from Cream, considered by many to be the best English blues-rock outfit ever, and Steve Winwood from Traffic, another respected English rock group. The fourth member is Rick Grech, who has worked with various English musicians.
More than 150,000 persons turned out last June to hear the group's debut in London's Hyde Park. "Blind Faith took the stage to a welcome that would have outroared a goal at Wembley," London's Sunday Mirror reported.
The buildup for Blind Faith's appearance at the Forum started early. A thick publicity kit from Atco Records arrived several weeks ago, heralding the group's U.S. tour. It contained nearly a dozen pictures, an itinerary (24 concerts ranging from New York's Madison Square Garden to Chicago's Amphitheatre), biographies and a feature story that left little doubt about the group's high place in the rock hierarchy.
Glitter Dampened by Album
Though there was much early excitement about the Blind Faith tour, some of the glitter was dampened by the group's debut album. Except for two cuts, Clapton's "In the Presence of the Lord" and Winwood's "Sea of Joy" (featuring Grech's electric violin), it was a disappointing effort. The album left a lingering doubt about Blind Faith. Perhaps the supergroup title was being given out too hastily.
When Blind Faith took the stage at the Forum, the audience was cordial but reserved. There was, to be sure, a "Clapton is God" sign (one of the fads from the Cream days) posted at one end of the arena, but the audience was waiting to be convinced.
Though the strength of individual members of Blind Faith was obvious from the start, the effectiveness of them as a group varied greatly from song to song. The mood of the concert was not helped by the necessity to turn on the house lights at times as security guards escorted a few individuals out of the Forum.
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Grateful Tour Was Nearing End
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Blind Faith may not have scored a clean knockout in its U.S. tour but it survived with grace. It didn't succumb to the pressures and pitfalls of the huge arenas and the supergroup madness. Now that the dues have been paid, things should get better. There is certainly enough raw talent in Blind Faith to justify its supergroup rating. The next album and tour should be more natural and rewarding for everyone concerned.


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- When Oregon faces Georgetown on November 8 in Seoul, South Korea, there will be a familiar face on the other side. The NCAA has cleared former UCLA center Josh Smith to start playing immediately for the Hoyas. In addition, Smith now has two years of eligibility remaining after being granted a waiver by the NCAA, since he only played six games last season. Head coach John Thompson made it clear Smith's old problems in Los Angeles would be a thing of the past, saying he "has to maintain a high level of commitment on and off the court." The Ducks and Hoyas will meet at 5:00 PM Pacific on that opening Friday in a game televised by ESPN.
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Neil Patrick Harris revealed everything but his angry inch(es) for his Rolling Stone cover shot by Terry Richardson!
In the Rolling Stone piece, NPH discusses coming out and embracing the femininity of his Hedwig and the Angry Inch role:
He believes coming out helped — rather than hurt — his career.
"Once all the cards were on the table, I got more opportunities than ever," Harris says. "Some actors don't get hired because you can't look into their soul and see what they're like, because they're kept guarded."
After years emphasizing his masculinity, Harris has had to work to play the effeminate Hedwig.
"I didn't think he could pull off the femininity of [the role]," Burtka says. "This is such a stretch for him. In his day-to-day, he's not a very feminine guy." Harris, too, said that he had always been aware of how he presented himself, especially in his Doogie years. "I have always been highly aware of how I was presenting myself," Harris admits. "Which, now that I'm playing overtly feminine and loving it, is kind of a stupid concern."
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