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June 2008
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 26, 2008
President Bush Attends Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives' National Conference
Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, D.C.
Fact Sheet: Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: Delivering Help and Hope to Millions at Home and Around the World
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please be seated. (Applause.) How beautiful was that? From being a homeless mother of two to introducing the President of the United States. (Applause.) There has to be a higher power. I love being with members of the armies of compassion, foot soldiers in helping make America a more hopeful place. Every day you mend broken hearts with love. You mend broken lives with hope. And you mend broken communities with countless acts of extraordinary kindness.
Groups like yours have harnessed a power that no government bureaucracy can match. So when I came to Washington, my goal was to ensure that government made you a full partner in our efforts to serve those in need. And the results have been uplifting. And that's what we're here to talk about today. It's an opportunity to celebrate your achievements, to thank you for your life-changing work, and to look ahead to ways that you will extend your record of compassion in the years to come.
I really want to thank Jay Hein, and those who worked hard to put on this conference. It looks like it's a successful one from here. (Applause.) I'm honored that members of the administration have come -- the Attorney General, Judge Michael Mukasey. Mr. General, thanks for coming. Secretary Ed Shafer, Department of Agriculture; Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Department of Commerce; Director John Walters, Office of National Drug Control Policy -- thank you all for taking time to be here. (Applause.)
Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator -- Mark, thanks for coming, appreciate you being here. I'm going to talk about PEPFAR in a minute. But when I talk about PEPFAR, think about his extraordinary leadership, as I do.
I want to thank the Ambassador from the Republic of Rwanda. Mr. Ambassador, I'm proud you're here. And I want to thank all of those who have come around the country who work in our Faith-Based and Community Initiative for your leadership and your compassion and your decency.
You know, when I ran for President, like a lot of others around our country, I was troubled to see so many of our citizens' greatest needs going unmet. Too many addicts walked the rough road of recovery alone. Too many prisoners had the desire for reform, but no one showed them a way. Across the country, the hungry and the homeless and the sick and the suffering begged for deliverance -- and too many heard only silence.
And the tragedy that was -- a lot of good folks in America, a lot of good men and women who had the desire to help, but didn't have the resources -- they had the heart, but not the resources. And because many of them worked with small charities, they were overlooked by Washington as potential partners in service. And because many of them belonged to faith-based organizations, they were often barred from receiving support from the federal government.
So I set about to change that, at least from the federal perspective, with an approach called "compassionate conservatism." This approach was compassionate because it was rooted in a timeless truth: that we ought to love our neighbors as we'd like to be loved ourselves. (Applause.) And it was conservative, because it recognized the limits of government: Bureaucracies can put money in people's hands, but they cannot put hope in a person's heart. (Applause.)
Putting hope in people's hearts is the mission of our nation's faith-based and community groups. And today we're going to herald some of the results of the collective work of compassionate Americans. To me, it does not matter if there's a crescent on your group's wall, a rabbi on your group's board, or Christ in your group's name. If your organization puts medicine in people's hands, food in people's mouths, or a roof over people's heads, then you're succeeding. (Applause.) And for the sake of our country, the government ought to support your work. (Applause.)
I was reviewing my first major policy speech as a candidate for President. It seems like a long time ago -- (laughter) -- July 22, 1999. Here's what I said. I said: "In every instance where my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based organizations, charities, and community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives. We will make a determined attack on need, by promoting the compassionate acts of others."
As President, my first executive order was to establish the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the White House. (Applause.) And my next one led to the creation of Faith-Based and Community offices at 11 federal agencies. These offices were tasked with this new mission: to lower the legal and institutional barriers that prevented government and faith-based groups from working as partners -- and to ensure that the armies of compassion played a central role in our campaign to make America more promising and more just.
We've carried out this mission in two ways: First, we have helped level the playing field for faith-based groups and other charities -- especially small organizations that have struggled to compete for funds in the past. We've educated religious groups about their civil rights. We've made the federal grant application process more accessible and transparent. We've trained thousands of federal employees to ensure that government does not discriminate against faith-based organizations. We've ensured that these groups do not have to give up their religious character to receive taxpayer money. (Applause.)
With these steps, we followed a principle rooted both in our Constitution and the best traditions of our nation: Government should never fund the teaching of faith, but it should support the good works of the faithful. (Applause.)
Second, my administration has advanced policies that yield greater support for faith-based and community groups. In other words, it's one thing to talk it; it's another thing to act. So we worked with Congress -- and we've had a lot of help in the Congress. By the way, this wasn't an easy idea for some to swallow in the Congress. (Laughter.) And yet we did have good help. We amended the tax code to provide greater incentives for charitable donations, and we established what's called the Compassion Capital Fund, to help faith-based and community groups operate more efficiently and secure additional funding from the private sector. This year, we launched what's called the Pro Bono Challenge, a three-year campaign to encourage corporate professionals like accountants and lawyers to share their time and expertise with groups such as yours.
In all these ways, the administration has upheld its promise to treat community and faith-based organizations as trusted partners. We've held your organizations to high standard and insisted on clear results. And your organizations have delivered on those results. You've helped revolutionize the way government addresses the greatest challenges facing our society. I truly believe the Faith-Based Initiative is one of the most important initiatives of this administration. (Applause.)
I would like to share with you some of your record. Faith-based and community groups have revolutionized the way our government shelters the homeless. Together, we've worked to reduce the number of Americans who go to sleep each night vulnerable and exposed, unsure of where they'll sleep tomorrow. For example, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has partnered with faith-based and community groups to find homeless Americans safe places to stay. And according to the most recent data, this program has helped reduce the number of chronically ill [sic] homeless by nearly 12 percent -- getting more than 20,000 Americans off the street. (Applause.)
Faith-based and community groups have revolutionized the way we help Americans break the chains of addiction. Through our Access to Recovery program, we provide addicts with vouchers that they can redeem at treatment centers of their choice. So far, Access to Recovery has helped approximately 200,000 addicts along the path to clean lives. (Applause.) And many have been inspired to call upon a higher power to help them break the chains of addiction. (Applause.)
One person who's turned her life around through this program is Ramie Siler. You don't know Ramie yet, but you're about to. Ramie was once lost to substance abuse and depression. Even when she tried to get clean for her daughter's high-school graduation, Ramie could not break free from her addiction. And then she found a faith-based group, a group of decent citizens reaching out to people like Ramie. It was called The Next Door. At The Next Door, Ramie met people who stood by her during the difficult times of recovery. They gave Ramie a second chance to become a productive citizen and a good mother. Today, she's reunited with her daughter, Dawn. She helps other women as a Next Door case manager. And I'd like to tell you what she said. She used the words of Saint Paul: "Old things have passed away; behold, all things are becoming new." (Applause.)
Ramie is with us today, with a Vanderbilt sophomore -- her daughter, Dawn. Ramie, where are you? (Applause.) There they are. (Applause.)
So you applaud for Ramie -- but you're also applauding for those compassionate souls at The Next Door. (Applause.) Faith-based communities -- our faith community is doing a fantastic job of saving lives.
Faith-based and community groups have revolutionized the way our government helps the children of prisoners. It's hard to imagine what it's like for a child to have to enter a prison gate just to get a hug from a mom or a dad. Government can't hug these kids -- but it can support caring mentors who do. Through our Mentoring Children of Prisoners program, we've joined with faith-based and community groups to match nearly 90,000 children of prisoners with adults who offer love and guidance and a positive example.
Faith-based and community groups have revolutionized the way our government gives prisoners across America a second chance. In the past, government frequently ignored groups like yours in its efforts to help former prisoners become productive citizens -- like, it just didn't enter people's minds that the faith-based and community groups could actually help change lives. Yet through the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative that we created in 2004, we've enlisted faith-based and community groups to help provide services like job placement and mentoring programs for thousands of former inmates. Really what we did is help them find love.
And the work has made a huge difference. Nationwide, 44 percent of prisoners are rearrested within a year of their release. Yet among prisoners that have been helped by people like people in this room, the number is three times lower -- just 15 percent. (Applause.)
Faith-based and community groups have helped a lot in America, and they've help revolutionize the way our government alleviates suffering and disease around the world. I'm about to describe some of our programs. But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America? I believe to whom much is given, much is required. (Applause.) And I believe we got plenty of capacity to help people at home and abroad. (Applause.) And I believe it is in the moral interests of the United States to help when it comes to defeating malaria, for example.
Malaria is a disease which kills one African child every 30 seconds. And it is something we can do something about. The U.S. government launched a five-year, $1.2 billion initiative in 2005 to cut the number of malaria-related deaths in 15 African nations by half. With strong support from groups like yours, our Malaria Initiative is producing results, tangible results. In just over two years, it's reached more than 25 million people.
The island of Zanzibar, which is affiliated with Tanzania, the infection rate has gone from 20 percent of babies born to less than 1 percent of babies born in 16 months. (Applause.)
The organizations about which I'm talking today are vital to the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR. We got to give everything initials in Washington. (Laughter.) We launched this program in 2003 -- this is a program that Ambassador Dybul runs so effectively. We launched this program in 2003 -- when we launched it there was about 50,000 people in Sub-Sahara Africa that were receiving anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS. As a result of a focused campaign, I'm pleased to announced that today we support treatment for nearly 1.7 million people. Think about that. (Applause.)
And one of the beautiful things about this initiative is that we're saving babies. To date, PEPFAR has allowed nearly 200,000 African babies to be born HIV-free. (Applause.)
These new numbers show the program is a huge success. And it would not have been a -- nearly the success it's been without the partners who carry out the work -- without the faith-based community that is on the front line of saving lives, not only here at home, but in places like Africa.
You know, it's been amazing to watch this experience; people who report back to Mark and myself talk about what's called the "Lazarus effect" -- where communities were once given up for dead have now found new life and new hope. (Applause.)
I traveled to -- you know, we had a fantastic trip to Africa; Laura and I went. And the outpouring of love for the American citizens is great. I mean, it is such an honor to represent our country, and to see the hard work of the American citizens and the generosity of the American citizens paying off in the smiling faces that line the road.
When we were in Tanzania we went to visit a clinic where a 9-year-old girl was HIV-positive, and she'd lost both her parents to AIDS. And for the last year, Catholic Relief Services had been helping the girl. And her grandmother said this: "As a Muslim, I never imagined a Catholic group would help me like that." And she went on to say, "I'm so grateful to the American people."
The United States Senate must follow the lead of the United States House and reauthorize this vital program. (Applause.)
I really am grateful for those who are here and those around the country who serve in the armies of compassion. It didn't require a government law to get you to sign up. You chose to do so out of the goodness of your heart. We made great strides in fulfilling the goal, and I am confident that the progress that you have made over the last eight years will continue.
I'm confident because the movement is bigger than politics or any political party. (Applause.) This is not a political convention. This is a compassion convention. (Applause.) This is "we don't care about politic" convention. (Applause.) We care about saving lives.
You realize that 35 governors have faith-based offices -- 19 of them Democrats, 16 of them Republicans. Seventy mayors of both parties have similar programs at the municipal level.
I'm confident that this initiative has built a powerful grassroots network. We've trained over 100,000 social entrepreneurs. Isn't that amazing, in this brief period of time -- 100,000 people have been trained. Last year we provided more than 19,000 competitive grants to community and faith-based organizations. Why? Because we want to change America for the better. We want people to be able to be empowered to do their work of love and compassion, and bringing dignity to every human life. We've laid the foundation for an effort that will continue transforming lives long after I've been back to Texas. (Laughter and applause.)
I am confident about the power of this program because the initiative has tapped into the compassionate spirit of America. Over the past seven years, more of our fellow citizens have discovered that the pursuit of happiness leads by following the path of service. It's amazing what happens when you love somebody like you like to be loved yourself; your own soul is enriched. More citizens are understanding that by serving, you serve yourself. Americans have volunteered in record numbers; 60 million people have volunteered in America this year, nearly a third of them through faith-based groups. It's an amazing statistic, isn't it? It really speaks to the great beauty of our country.
I'm confident because I know how easily the compassionate spirit can spread. There's an interesting story that I want to share with you about Ugandan women who helped -- have been helped by PEPFAR. These were good souls who worked in a mine. They crushed rocks into gravel by hand. And it is tough work, really hard work. Then they heard about Katrina, and somehow they scraped together $1,000, and they gave it to the U.S. Embassy for the storm's victim. And one women said with pride: "We are now donors." (Applause.)
But I'm confident above all because I know the character of the men and women gathered in this hall. In your countless quiet acts of grace, you serve the highest ideals of our nation. These are the ideals that preserve America as the beacon of hope, the great light of freedom.
A few years ago, I met a young guy named Elijah Anyieth. Elijah was a little boy, and his village was bombed during Sudan's civil war. He lost both his parents, and spent years wandering from one refugee camp to another. Eventually, he resettled in Virginia -- thanks to a partnership between a faith-based group and the State Department. Once Elijah arrived, a local Catholic charity found him a place to call home. He came to a foreign soil after wandering in refugee camps, and he found some love.
He enrolled in high school. Just last month, he graduated from college. He's landed his dream job: The boy who grew up without electricity or running water is now a mechanical engineer. (Applause.) Elijah, where are you? There he is, right there. (Applause.) You applaud for a good man named Elijah, but also for those kind souls who share in the great story of this good man. (Applause.)
It's only in a place like America -- think about it, think about our country for a second -- could a life nearly extinguished by hate be restored by love and compassion. (Applause.)
So I've been proud to stand by you as you have worked these miracles across our country. You probably don't even realize some of the acts of kindness are miracles. I'm telling you they are. And you can find it in the hopeful expressions on the people you've helped. And so I thank you for your efforts. I thank you for your life-changing work. And I thank you for your record of compassion that I'm confident you will build on in the years to come. May God bless you, and may God continue to bless our country. (Applause.)


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Provisions of this section which related to appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, to June 30, 1939, were omitted.
1966—Pub. L. 89–669 substituted "grounds frequented by migratory birds" for "grounds frequented by migratory game birds", and "United States protector" for "United States game protector".
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 715a of this title.


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Total Pages: 178
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German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text. In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire Duino Elegies as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke's words. Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel. These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.


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Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve
Malawi National Commission for UNESCO
Northern Region, Rumphi District
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Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve lies on the watershed between Lake Malawi and the Luangwa valley on 11° 00's and 33" 28'E. It is located on the Central African Plateau, west of northern Malawi and covers and area of986 km'. Its northern boundary coincides with the Malawi -Zambia border. It is bounded by subsistence farmers on the south and east of the Reserve. The wetland alluvial type (281 km') constitutes 28% of the total area of the reserve.
Vwaza Marsh natural features consist of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view. Geological and physiographical formations constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants of outstanding universal value from the point of science and conservation. Its natural sites are unique areas of outstanding universal value from the point of science, conservation and natural beauty.
Vwaza was once a home to thousands of people from the Early Iron Age who practiced subsistence agriculture, iron smelting works, hunting in the last twenty century and can be considered as an 'aesthetic quality' because no one lives there any more. A site at Phopo Hill was excavated and revealed pottery, iron slags, tuyere fragments and bone fragments which contain elements which are not unlike the Gokomere pottery of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia. This indicates human occupation during the third century A.D (McShane 1985 quoting Robson, 1972).
Therefore, Vwaza presents sanitized versions of the past human occupation because of an oversimplified story that is so alluring. Records indicate that during the last half of eighteenth century, the Balowoka people came into the area due to abundant supply of elephants at that time and Ivory was plentiful resulting in extensive trade for cloth, beads and similar merchandise. Chief Chikulamayembe established a firm trade route to Bisa country in Nkhamanga plain and the monopoly was broken by the appearance of Swahili slave and ivory traders and the intrusion of the Ngoni into the area (McShane 1985).
Justification de la Valeur Universelle Exceptionnelle
Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve is an important reserve that protects and maintains natural processes in undisturbed state in order to have ecologically representative examples of the natural environment available for scientific study. The Reserve is strongly associated with traditional cultures where people used to offer spiritual sacrifice, burial rituals and that the reserve is well known for Iron Age Smelting at Phopo Hill. It is also associated with biological diversity within its vegetation communities, and that the reserve is internationally known as a waterfowl habitat.
Criteria (iii): The site bears a unique testimony to a cultural tradition through extensive iron smelting and the presence of tuyere slag in the western part of the reserve, the Phopo Iron Age site, which reflects remarkable occupation of inhabitants for many centuries and burial sites of Zolokere chieftainship and Mowa chiefs presents an exceptional testimony to the cultural tradition which is still living to date.
Criteria (v): Vwaza Marsh Natural Heritage site is an outstanding example of traditional human settlement and land use. The coming of the Swahili, Ivory trading by Chikulamayembe, Katumbi (Balowoka) and the Ngoni is a representative of human interaction with their environment. People practiced subsistence agriculture only in fertile soils (McShane 1985).Several cultural landscapes reflect human settlement. These include the Themba Triangular Hill where Chief Chikulamayembe and Katumbi parted each other, one went to the north and the other settled in Nkhamanga plains. The rock on which they sat reflects a memory to Katumbi chieftainship who collects a stone from the site yearly for annual ceremony of Mu1indafwa. Ywaza Marsh, a waterlogged basin was used as Zolokere chiefs burial site from 1500 to 1986. Chinyawima, Chiwambala and Nthuthika hills is a testimony to spiritual sites.
Criteria (viii): Major stages of earth history including the records of life present a significant on -going geological processes in the development of landforms, geomorphic and physiographic features. The geological setting date back to the Palieozonic period about 250 million years ago, associated with the Karoo sediments of Majimalala ridge, the Mesozonic period 150 million years ago resulting in the formation of Kapata hills; the Mesozonic period 70 million years ago resulting in the formation of a small portion of Karoo sediments at Majimalala ridge which was the beginning of the African erosion cycle; the Genozoic period 10 million years ago resulting in the formation of a line of Luwewe river and the western side of Vwaza marsh running along the north-south axis, extending from north into Zambia along the Bembe river and south Rukuru resulting in the formation of Zaro Pool; and lastly the Genozoic period 3 million years to the present whereby the western area might have extensive marsh before silting up or being drained by cutting of streams through the alluvial levee which may have accounted for high level of water at Lake Kazuni, and the area 10 km of the south Rukuru valley west of the Lake Kazuni there are sporadic unconsolidated deposits of pebbles of vein quartzite. (McShane, 1986).
Criteria (ix): Vwaza Marsh presents a significant on -going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of Lake Kazuni, Zaro pool and the Marsh ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. Lake Kazuni and Zaro Pool currently are silting up due to stream bank cultivation. This is a major unique development which has affected reduction of fish species from ten to four, major impacts on breeding and roosting birds' habitats, and reduction in hippo population, and further the Waterbuck species which roamed around Kazuni lagoon and Zaro Pool became extinct in 1970s. McShame, 1985). Other developments occurred in Ywaza Marsh -a water logged basin in the north east of the Reserve which used to be habitat for Wattle cranes. Management has started restoring the Marsh to provide habitats for hippos and other water species.
Criteria (x): Vwaza Marsh reflects a significant natural habitat for in-situ conservation of biological diversity that includes threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of science and conservation. The Malawi Wildlife Policy and the National Parks and Wildlife Act (2004) complement the idea to increase rare, endangered and endemic species of wildlife to optimal levels within the Vwaza Marsh. The Department of National Parks and Wildlife accept the desirability of protecting Vwaza Natural heritage site as a contribution to the worldwide effort to protect living resources and conserve biological diversity to retain in its wild state. Furthermore, it would protect and maintain natural processes in an undisturbed state in order to have ecological representative examples of natural environment available for scientific study, environmental monitoring, education and maintenance of genetic resources in a dynamic and evolutionary state ( MacKinnon etal 1986).
Flora: The proposed Vwaza Marsh Natural Heritage Site has a wide variety of plants communities and there are 398 species of vascular plants from 71 families. The vegetation is broadly classified into eight types and fifteen communities which include:
- Three bracystegia woodland communities on hills, pediments and plateau areas.
- Three mixed deciduous Combrelum -Terminalia woodland communities on pediments, alluvial fails and valleys bottoms;
- Colophospermum mopane woodland on alluvial sites with clay soils;
- Acacia woodland on river flood plains;
- Riverine forest along the Luwewe river dominated by Syszigium guinense
- Three thickets communities on pediments, clay plain, termitaria and in steep dissected valleys;
- Three adaphic grasslands communities on plains, dambos, and in the Marsh. The marsh is dominated with patches of bulrushes, Typha auslralis and Phragmiles maurilianus.
The proposed Vwaza Marsh Natural Heritage Site has a diverse vertebrate fauna that includes 50 species in 21 families of mammals, 341 species of birds and 10 species of fish. The Zaro Pool, Lake Kazuni and the Marsh are important areas for waterfowl and a number of Palearctis and intra· African migrants. The Site is important for about 19 bird species based on the Important Bird Areas (IBA) criteria for the Zambezian biome (A I0). The OCCUrrence of Swainson's francolin and the Whitewinged Babbling Starling are of particular interest. These two are species have been recorded only in Vwaza. The Whitewinged Babbling Starling is common localised resident and occurs in the flocks in Brachystegia woodland around Njale and Chivwala hills. Appendix I). McShane( 1985) also recorded rare and endangered mammal species which included Wild dog, Elephant, Puku and Clawless Otter. Two mammal species that used to occur in Vwaza Marsh Natural Heritage Site were recorded as vagrants and extirpated, these included Cookson's Wildebeest (Connochaeles laurinus cooksoni was recoded as rare and became extirpated in about 1945 or 1946; the Black Rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis) was last recorded in 1969.
Joly, C etal 2008 recorded eleven Insect species from the proposed Vwaza Marsh Natural Heritage Site as follows:
- Gderiana guderian dewitz
- Ctopsilia florella Fab
- Colotis antevippe gavisa Wall
- Colotis evagore antigone B.
- Colotis pallene Hopffer
- Earema hecabe solifera Butler
- Craspia wahlhergi Auriv
- Orthogoniini
- Catascopus sp
- Goliathas albosignatus Boli
- Leunoneslis rhodesiana Moser
- Glossina morsitana
Critchlow, D.P (1996) also recorded the Amphibian from Vwaza and recommended that much work on amphibians in the reserve need to be investigated. The following were recorded:
- Ptychadena guihei
- Phrynobatrachus natalensis
- Phrynobatrachus mababiensis
- Chiromantis xerampelina
- Hyperolius nasutus
- Schismaderma carens
Déclarations d'authenticité et/ou d'intégrité
Vwaza Marsh first became a conservation area in 1941 when an area within 5 miles of the centre of Lake Kazuni was proclaimed Lake Kazuni Game Reserve (GN 166 of 1941). Historically, the Vwaza Marsh conservation area contains locally significant wildlife resources since the third millennium B.C. where hunters and gatherers of the Later Stone Age used it as hunting area due to abundance of elephants (Simfukwe quoting Clark 1969, Sandelowsky and Robinson 1968.) Furthermore Vwaza has preserved some traditional cultures such as the collection of stone on which Themba Katumbi sits during annual ceremonies. The collection of a rock from Themba Hill for annual ceremonies is a symbol of Katumbi chieftainship, and the Zolokere Chieftainship burial site on the edge of the Marsh which continues to be preserved. The traditional iron production has ceased to be practiced, but evidence of iron smelting still exist. The wetlands of Vwaza has been identified as a potential Ramsar site for the Waterfowl species and Palearctic and intra -African migratory birds species.
• The cultural tradition through Iron smelting and the spiritual chieftainship burial sites symbolize or represent human interaction with environment. None of these cultural elements has been altered or destroyed; they remain intact though natural weathering may have taken its course.
• The Vwaza Marsh still maintains its biological processes and landforms which are Plateaux, Wetland alluvial and Hills and Pediments. The Kazuni lagoon, Zaro Pool and the Marsh with their three adaphic grassland communities support numerous waterfowl and Palearctic migratory birds.
• It is in the integrity of its natural heritage values that Vwaza Marsh has special interest or unique characteristics in natural and scenic areas of international significance for scientific and for the maintenance of genetic resources in a dynamic and evolution state. The on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, geomorphic and physiographic features bear a testimony of earth history landscape formation in Vwaza.
Comparaison avec d'autres biens similaires
There are a number of marshes outside Malawi that are similar to Ywaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve such as Ligawasan Marsh of the Philippines. Ligawasan Marsh is the largest swamp and marsh area in Mindanao and one of the largest in the Philippines, covering an area of about 288,000 hectares. It is a conglomeration of three marshes: Ligawasan, Libungan and Ebpanan. It is a vast complex of river shannles, small freshwater lakes, ponds, and arable land subject to seasonal flooding in the basin of Mindanao.
The Marsh is known to support species of endemic threatened birds, including the Philippine eagle and the Philippine duck (Anas luzonica). Because of its relatively expansive swamp forests, it is identified as an important wetland site of many water bird species like herons, egrets, rails, shorebirds and ducks. The Marsh is the last stronghold for the endemic and endangered Philippine crocodile and supports at least 33 species of freshwater fishes. There are 92 species of birds, 6 species of reptiles, 5 species of amphibians.
Vwaza Marsh on the other hand apart from supporting numerous waterfowl and Palearctic migratory birds reflects traditional human settlement and land -use. It is a significant natural habitat for in-situ conservation of biological diversity that includes threatened species of animals and plants. The resident population has maintained its biological processes and land features, which are Plateaus, Wetland alluvial and Hills and Pediments, relatively intact. The Kazuni lagoon, Zaro Pool and the Marsh with their three adaphic grasslands communities are a unique testimony to a cultural tradition through extensive iron smelting evidenced by the presence of tuyere slag is an important reserve that protects and maintains natural processes in undisturbed state in order to have ecologically balanced representative examples of the natural environment available for scientific study.


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After our last post we have received a lot of comments and questions via email. Thank you very much for all your feedback! Today we'd like to discuss the one question we have been asked most during the last years: What sample size is representative? And how many interviews are recommended to obtain representative results?
What makes a sample representative?
Let's start with a story that actually has become the founding myth of market research. A century ago, the American journal The Literary Digest started to conduct opinion polls among their ten million readers to predict the results of the presidential elections. In five successive elections their predictions were absolutely right until they massively failed in 1936, even though they conducted about 2.4 million interviews among their readers. To their surprise, George Gallup was able to predict the result of this election correctly with "only" 50,000 interviews.
So, what happened? The Literaray Digest's sample failed, because their readers weren't representative for the general population. They had a different age structure, a different average income – and, apparently, different political preferences. On the contrary, Gallup understood, that representativeness is not so much about the sample size but depending on the right composition of the sample. He simply used quotas to make sure, that every group of people was correctly represented in his sample. This break-through discovery was the starting point for market and opinion research as we know it today.
For representativeness it is not the size that matters but the right composition. But is that plausible? In the 1960s, A.C. Nielsen Jr. gave an interesting answer to those, who believed that a higher sample size would increase its representativeness.
"If you don't believe in random sampling, the next time you have a blood test, tell the doctor to take it all." – A.C. Nielsen Jr.
Despite its undeniable sarcasm, this quote provides us with a very comprehensible analogy. It doesn't matter if you analyse a drop of blood or if you take a whole litre of it: the analysis findings will always be the same. One drop of blood perfectly represents all of it.
Why does sample size matter?
Obviously, sample size is still important. But why exactly does it matter? We have to become a bit technical here. Whenever you have a representative sample for a population, by chance some of the target variables may be over- or underrepresented in your sample. Unfortunately, "by chance" means, there is really nothing you can do about it, when collecting the data.
At least, statistical calculations can help you to estimate the likelihood that your error is within a certain margin, e.g. that such deviations from the real value are less than x% at a confidence level of 95%.
- For opinion researchers, a confidence level of 95% is the most common option. Here, your risk is less than 5% that the real value is outside the corresponding margin of error. However, in other disciplines, a confidence level of 99% might be the standard (e.g. in the pharmaceutical industry, as statistical errors can be a question of life and death).
- Given the confidence level, you can calculate the margin of error for each value of a distribution. Let's say your survey result gives you a market share of 50% and your corresponding margin of error is 3% (at a 95% level), then your risk is less than 5% that the real market share is lower than 47% or higher than 53%.
If you want to reduce the margin of error (given a certain confidence level), you basically have only one choice: you have to increase the sample size. As a rule of thumb: if you want to reduce your margin of error by half, you have to quadruplicate your sample size.
In our example: if you want to reduce your margin of error to 1.5% (instead of 3.0%, all at a 95% level), you have to increase the sample size from 1,000 to 4,000 interviews. These additional 3,000 interviews would narrow the confidence interval. Now, your risk would be less than 5% that the real market share is lower than 48.5% or higher than 51.5%.
By the way, there are many Sample Size Calculators available in the web. For example, have a look at this one.
How good is good enough?
And this leads us to a very important business question: How good is good enough? There is definitely no general answer to it, but we'd like to discuss three scenarios to illustrate possible ways of thinking about it:
- Concept Test: Let's assume that a company has two alternatives for an advertisement campaign. But which one works better? You would just need to identify the winner and go with it! Assuming that the outcome is not to tight, about 500 interviews can be sufficient (which corresponds to a margin of 4.3% at a 95% level – so the best option should lead with at least 9%).
- Election research: When forecasting the popularity of political parties at elections you're probably interested in more than individual ratings. You will wonder about which parties could form a coalition to gain a majority. If you have two parties with a 3% margin of error each, it will become quite hard to predict it, especially if the outcome is expected to be tight. In this case you should increase the sample size to reduce the margin of error.
- Subgroups: Very often, in addition to overall statistics you want to analyse subgroups of your sample: Who are these heavy users exactly? How do men differ from women? What kind of products prefer readers of a certain magazine? If you just use a smaller subset of your main sample, the available number of interviews for your subsequent analysis will be reduced as well. In this case you should work with an increased sample size, too.
At the end of the day, the art consists in having enough interviews that allow you to draw dependable conclusions and still being reasonable with the overall costs of fieldwork.
So how many interviews are recommended to obtain representative results? This question simply cannot be answered. You can have small samples that are very representative and large samples that are not representative at all (very often: "Big Data").
- Representativeness is about the right composition of your sample. It indicates if your sample gives you the right picture about reality. If it is a bit blurry, it will still allow you to get the big picture correctly.
- The size of a sample defines how clear you can see. If your sample is not representative, a large size will enable you to see very clearly – but it will be a false picture, a misrepresentation of truth.
Speaking in the analogy of a blood test: for a simple test, a single drop may be enough – but if you want to do a complex analysis and perform a series of tests, you may require a bigger sample.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Birmingham Fatherhood Initiative, an outreach program of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities (TASC), has received a new grant to continue operations in 2011. The $68,000 grant from the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention, also known as the Children's Trust Fund, continues the initiative's efforts to increase non-custodial fathers involvement with their children.
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Crazy Fools Want to Eliminate Property Taxes
The key rule of responsible long term financial planning is: Whenever you build a financial surplus, even for a moment, immediately blow that surplus on a plan that will also eliminate a steady source of long term income. I was kidding! That is not actually a "good" rule of financial planning. But it is a craven political rule, and isn't that what's really important?
Those North Dakotans, they get a little oil money in the ol' state coffers, and next thing you know they want to end the property tax. Completely end it, goodbye, no mas. Boy, gee, sounds great! A few drawbacks, though, maybe. From the NYT:
An unusual coalition of forces, including the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce and the state's largest public employees' unions, vehemently oppose the idea, arguing that such a ban would upend this quiet capital. Some big unanswered questions, the opponents say, include precisely how lawmakers would make up some $812 million in annual property tax revenue; what effect the change would have on hundreds of other state laws and regulations that allude to the more than century-old property tax; and what decisions would be left for North Dakota's cities, counties and other governing boards if, say, they wanted to build a new school, hire more police, open a new park.
This type of plan is somewhat like winning $500 in the lottery, and deciding to quit your job in celebration. You will come to regret it soon enough. Haha, remember when New York's MTA once had a surplus, so they gave everyone discount Metro cards at Christmas? And then about three seconds later they had a deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars. Kind of wish they hadn't blown it all on a wild scheme, then.
Did you people up there know it is possible to, say, reduce property taxes, instead? Or simply to pass a law ensuring that no one is evicted due to inability to pay property taxes, if that is your main concern? Have you considered the fact that most alternatives to property taxes are even less fair because people with property, at the very least, are wealthy enough to have some assets, such as property? When your momentary cash surplus INEVITABLY DISAPPEARS, you may wish that you did not vaporize $800 million in annual revenues with no plan to replace them, so you could, you know, continue having a functioning state government.
There's a story about an ant and a grasshopper that's applicable to this and all similar situations.


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Professor Joyce Tait, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Biofuels, and Scientific Adviser to the Innogen Centre at Edinburgh University, reports on the Council's proposed development of a comprehensive ethical standard for biofuels. This standard would address six ethical principles surrounding production of biofuels, including the protection of human rights, environmental sustainability, greenhouse gas reduction, and fair trade. Without these principles, there is concern that rushing to meet aggressive biofuel targets could harm the environment and violate human rights.
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PDF for Month 4 of the Sea of life Block of the Month.
Block 4: Sea of life, a stingray, jellyfish, fish and coral on a graduated patchwork background measuring 12 by 14" finished.
The full quilt is a rich palette of clear blues with a central dark blue 'tree of life' surrounded by tropical scenes with sting ray, sea horses, turtles and more . This quilt measures 40 by 40" and would be ideal on the wall or to cuddle up under. It is made from a central block 12" square block and a further eight surrounding blocks to make a total of nine.
The quilt itself is in my usual style, so it is a patchwork background with raw edge applique sewn with free motion embroidery. You don't need a fancy machine to sew it but your machine needs to be able to do free motion embroidery. The pattern contains basic instructions for the patchwork. I don't go into a lot of detail on patchwork as I am assuming that you know the basics but other than the odd half square triangle, it is all pretty simple. The kits contain the fabrics, freezer paper and stabilizer you will need to complete the top. You will need to purchase your own threads but I do list every thread that I use so you can use the same if you wish to. The fabrics are supplied as a rectangle/square big enough for the shape you need. No laser cutting so you are relying on freezer paper/pencil and scissors to cut the shapes out yourself. I like this step as it is quite therapeutic. I label all the fabrics with little stickers which tell you what they are to be used for so it makes it a little easier to know which bit goes where. I use raw edge techniques and the patterns are using those instructions, but I will put in sufficient fabric that you could also use needle turn techniques, but no instructions will be given.
Kits are available, please ask. I am based in the UK and I am happy to ship worldwide. If you are outside the UK then there will be an additional £4 postage charge for either the patterns/kits each month as that is how much extra it costs me.
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Yahoo has begun warning individual users that their accounts with the service may have been compromised in a massive data breach it reported late last year.
The warning, in email messages sent from Yahoo CISO Bob Lord, tell users that a forged cookie may have been used to access their accounts in previous years.
The warning to Yahoo users come at the same time that news reports suggest that Verizon Communications, in negotiations to buy Yahoo, may be seeking a discount of US$250 million because of the data breaches.
In December, Yahoo reported that data associated with more than 1 billion user accounts was stolen in August 2013. Less than three months earlier, the company reported a separate data breach affecting more than 500 million users that originally occurred in late 2014.
In a new warning to users sent Wednesday, Yahoo said the forged cookie problem allowed hackers to gain access to user accounts without passwords. The company connected the issue to the breach it reported in September.
"Based on the ongoing investigation, we believe a forged cookie may have been used in 2015 or 2016 to access your account," the new email from Yahoo says. "We have connected some of the cookie forging activity to the same state-sponsored actor believed to be responsible for the data theft we disclosed on Sept. 22, 2016."
Yahoo has not identified the state-sponsored actor. The new email was sent to users whose accounts were breached in what was apparently a general attack. Individual users who seem to have been specifically targeted by the state-sponsored actor were sent an additional notice.
Yahoo recommended that users review their accounts for suspicious activity, be cautious of unsolicited communications that ask for personal information, and avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious email messages. The company asked users to consider adopting its Yahoo Account Key, an authentication tool that eliminates the need for a password.
"We invalidated the forged cookies and hardened our systems to secure them against similar attacks," Yahoo said in the new email. "We continuously enhance our safeguards and systems that detect and prevent unauthorized access to user accounts."


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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is asking his fellow chief executives to push for an end to the gridlock in Washington, saying there needs to be a return of civility over partisanship.
In a letter posted on the company's Web site late Monday, Schultz said he is "utterly disappointed by the level of irresponsibility and dysfunction we are witness to with our elected political leadership." He said that he had talked with other corporate leaders who agree it is "our responsibility to address the crisis of confidence that is needlessly being set in motion."
"In uncertain moments such as these, it is time for us as citizens and business leaders to remind our employees and customers that we stand with them. Perhaps through these actions, we can remind the Congress and the president of their duty to put citizenship over partisanship for the sake of our country and the world at large."
Schultz's letter doesn't suggest a solution to the stalemate that has led to a shutdown of the federal government and raised the risk that the government could default on its debt later this month. He did say, "I don't pretend that both parties are equally to blame for this crisis," although he added "But, I do think they are equally responsible for leading us to a solution."
He said that Starbucks is "planning actions in the coming weeks to galvanize our customers, inspire our people and encourage the communities we serve to come together to take care of each other."
Related: Small business owners already hit by shutdown
Schultz has weighed in on federal budget and debt ceiling gridlock in the past. In December 2011, as Congress debated the so-called "fiscal cliff," he asked employees at its approximately 120 D.C.-area stores to write "Come Together" on coffee cups when serving customers. At the time he said, "I believe we all have a responsibility to send our elected officials a respectful but potent message, urging them to come together to find common ground."
Earlier that year Schultz lead a group of more than 100 CEOs who pledged to halt all political campaign contributions until lawmakers, as Schultz put it, "stop the partisan gridlock in Washington, D.C."
A search of campaign finance records on OpenSecrets.org shows that Schultz, who had given just under $100,000 to Democratic candidates and party organizations since 1996, has not donated any money since his 2011 pledge. With the exception of a $1,000 donation he made to John McCain in 1999, the bulk of his giving has gone to Democrats.
Related: Four ways the debt ceiling crisis could affect you
Schultz has also taken high-profile positions on several controversial issues that have little to do with Starbucks' business.
Last month he issued a public plea asking customers not to bring their guns into Starbucks, although he stopped short of banning weapons in states where is legal to carry them.
He has also been an outspoken advocate of same-sex marriage, telling shareholders who don't agree "you can sell your shares of Starbucks."


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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Don't Be Afraid
I just got the Michael Bastian pair seen below to get my own fix, but if you are more responsible than myself you might want to check out this version from J. Crew. Both pants keep the pleats to a minimal and feature a slimmer leg like previously mentioned. A pair of these freshly creased is something incredibly stylish, classic and can set you apart from everyone who has completely jumped ship to flat front exclusively. People often fear what they don't understand - understand the pleat and make it work for you.
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I'm definitely not afraid to work this. I'm afraid of those bloated, middle aged corporate guys continuing to wear it but then again, what the hell can you do?ReplyDelete
P.S. Hey bro, I think you meant to tag "Bastian" instead of "Jordan" ;)
I am thinking to get the Engineered garments cambridge in lightweight chambray.ReplyDelete
what do you gentlemen think?
Oh, this is strictly for weekends only.
Where did you find the MB piece? Always on the look out for stray's, especially on sale.ReplyDelete
Junctioned- I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy...hahaReplyDelete
But seriously, a buddy was selling his pair.
pleats look great, but dude where is that jacket from?ReplyDelete
Andrew- You must not read what I write haha...that's all Bastian.ReplyDelete
ha, i thought you were just referring to the chinos. new reader... i just sifted through a bunch of your blogs, great stuff.ReplyDelete
that jacket is cash though. any suggestions where i can find it or something like it?


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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Public Service Announcement
I think it's great that this blog gets so many visitors from so many places. According to my web stats, I have over 400 unique visitors a day from every continent (and every state in the US except South Dakota) and that number is climbing. I'm tickled that people actually take the time to read my hastily thought out musings and even more pleased when they take the time to offer praise or criticism of what I've written. At the same time, I will not tolerate the virtual equivalent of drive-by shootings in my comments. There's simply no reason for it. If you dislike what I write enough that all you can say offer is vitriol, I'd prefer you go elsewhere. I don't make a habit of leaving nasty comments on others' blogs and forums if I disagree with them and I'd like to ask that my visitors show me the same courtesy.
Consequently, I'm disallowing anonymous posters for the near-future. I'd like to return to the old ways sooner rather than later, but, for whatever reason, over the last few days I've gotten more unpleasant comments than I've gotten since I started the blog and I simply don't want to deal with. My apologies to those of you who are showing me and the other commenters proper respect.
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Hey James,ReplyDelete
I've wanted to comment for awhile that, while I am eager to play 4e, I have been gaming with D&D and other systems since 1977 and I appreciate where you're coming from. You write quite eloquently about your understanding of OD&D and its history and I think you've lately been zeroing in with greater precision on what those almost-ineffable qualities of the game are/were and why you and so many others continue to champion that style. I say more power to you and while I might also enjoy a campaign or two in that style, I'm easily distracted by shiny things and my gaming time is limited :)
Anyhow, just my long-winded way of saying don't let the kids come over here to tag the place with graffiti get you down too much and keep up the excellent work.
Nobody from South Dakota yet, huh? I wonder why...granted, it's a small population state, but it's not the smallest, and I know they have gamers there.ReplyDelete
I say go ahead and delete venomous replies that add nothing to the conversation. I enjoy your comments, both here and at the Original D&D Forum (where you might have seen me post as Coffee).ReplyDelete
In a way, it shows that you're on the right track. If the hate-filled morons are attacking you, you must be doing something right.
Yeah, some of the responses were indeed getting a little odd and not very 'comment' like. Glad to see that problem being addressed.ReplyDelete
You get readers from Antarctica? Cool!ReplyDelete
Seriously, I was expecting and, frankly, hoping for such a move from you. It's one thing to leave rambling dissenting messages. It's another to hide behind the shield of anonymity while so doing.
Thanks. I'm sure your decision will improve the signal-to-noise-ratio on the comments.
So much for not having followers from South Dakota, mate! ;)ReplyDelete
Love the writing. I'll be keeping a close eye on Grognardia in the future!
So much for not having followers from South Dakota, mate! ;)ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by.
- AnonymousJune 7, 2008 at 9:43 AM
I learned the hard way that leaving the door open for anonymous comments greatly increased the number of oxygen thieves that haunted my own blogs. I can assure you that you're making the right decision here! Love the site, by the way!ReplyDelete


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Today is Monday, March 31, the 90th day of 2014. There are 275 days left in the year.
Today's highlight:
On March 31, 1814, Paris was occupied by a coalition of Russian, Prussian and Austrian forces; the surrender of the French capital forced the abdication of Emperor Napoleon.
On this date:
In 1889, French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.
In 1914, Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City.
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which created the Civilian Conservation Corps.
In 1943, "Oklahoma!," the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway.
In 1949, Newfoundland (now called Newfoundland and Labrador) entered confederation as Canada's 10th province.
In 1953, Stanley Kubrick's first feature, a war drama titled "Fear and Desire," premiered in New York.
In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing he would not seek re-election.
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In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Ann Quinlan, who was in a persistent vegetative state, could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan, who remained unconscious, died in 1985.)
In 1986, 167 people died when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in a remote mountainous region of Mexico.
In 1993, actor Brandon Lee, 28, was accidentally shot to death during the filming of a movie in Wilmington, N.C., when he was hit by a bullet fragment that had been lodged inside a prop gun. "Star Dust" lyricist Mitchell Parish, 92, died in New York.
In 1995, Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, 23, was shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
In 2005, Terri Schiavo, 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute.
Ten years ago: Four American civilian contractors were killed in Fallujah, Iraq; frenzied crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies and strung two of them from a bridge. Air America, intended as a liberal voice in network talk radio, made its debut on five stations. (The network folded in Jan. 2010.)
Five years ago: President Barack Obama arrived in London with his wife, Michelle, at the start of a trip to Europe, his first journey across the Atlantic since taking office two months earlier. Benjamin Netanyahu took office as Israel's new prime minister after the Knesset approved his government. Former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin died at age 82.
One year ago: Pope Francis marked Christianity's most joyous day at the Vatican with a passionate plea for world peace as he celebrated his first Easter Sunday as pontiff. The Houston Astros, coming off consecutive 100-loss seasons, made an impressive debut in the American League, trouncing the Texas Rangers 8-2 on opening night.
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Our boat may be small, but we are ready to sail.
The musket bearing female officer indicates the company is ready and prepared to set sail despite the size.
Ship iconography became increasingly popular on flags in the first half of the twentieth century due to European influence depicting its ability to carry any load and defeat the opposition.
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Asafo Flags have an interesting significance and history.
The Fante people who live along the Central Region of Ghana's coast traded extensively with Europeans and were avid buyers of imported cloth.
Lacking a standing army during the 17th century the Fante organized military groups called 'Asafo', the name is derived from 'sa' meaning war and 'fo' meaning people.
During this colonization period the 'Asafo' people began adopting European and British military practices such as naming and numbering their states and companies.
The earliest flags may have been painted or drawn on raffia cloth but, as is the case today most flags were made of appliquéd trade cloth.
The marking of a special occasions or the installation of a new 'Asafo' chief (Supi) are the main motivations for the creation of a new flag.
These flags are displayed at different social events including annual festivals, ceremonies and funerals. Simple imagery that is always unique would either depict an historical event, identify the company with an animal, image of power or depict a confrontational proverb to threaten other rival companies.
Patchwork Applique cut edges to produce fringing, color and symbolic scenes which is a mirrored image on both sides are typical of an Asafo Flag.
Many carried the Union Jack until Ghana claimed independence in 1957.
Since the 1990's these flags have become highly collectible outside of Ghana.
Today newly made flags are facing a decline as these flags are no longer used for war but for peaceful festival displays the demand has dropped with old traditions fading.
Asafo flags still hold an important part of communal life in Fante villages among the Asafo groups.
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