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The answer to this question is yes. This is a fact plainly given in the Bible. That the Jews killed Jesus Christ is explicitly described by the unanimous testimony of all four gospels. Moreover, this event was recounted in various New Testament epistles. Also, the death of the Moshiach (or Messiah, or Christ) at the hands of His own people was prophesied in several places in the Old Testament. So, to deny this truth is akin to denying the truth of the Bible itself. Thus, the primary reason and motivation for denying this fact is to deny the truth and authority of the holy scriptures.
Now even though this is a fact plainly recorded and described in the Bible, it is not without a degree of nuance. For instance, there is the fact that Jesus Christ was killed on a Roman cross by Roman soldiers acting under orders by Pontius Pilate. Well, the Bible does not absolve the Roman Empire of guilt either! Quite the contrary, not only does it record the Romans' mocking, torturing and killing Jesus Christ despite knowing of His innocence and mighty works, but Jesus Christ Himself told Pilate that he only had power over Christ because such power (meaning civil authority) was given to Jesus Christ by God. The fact that human rulers and governments derive their power from God and are used to do God's bidding (whether they know of it or not) is a consistent theme of the Bible, given from Exodus in the Old Testament to Romans in the New Testament at minimum.
Still, it is impossible to blame entirely or mostly the Romans, because the Bible makes it clear that Jesus Christ was handed over to the Romans to be executed by the Jewish leaders. The gospel record states that the Jewish leaders initially handed Jesus Christ over because of the crime of blasphemy – which the gospels tell us that they actually sincerely thought Christ to be guilty of, though they could not legitimately prove it – and that Pilate and Herod were disinterested in using the Roman justice system to settle an internal Jewish matter. Pilate instructed the Jewish leaders to deal with them according to their own system, and the Jewish leaders refused, cagily claiming that execution was against their law. While that was technically true according to the Jewish statutes of the time (for reasons too complex to be enumerated here), Pilate knew full well that the Jews did execute people by stoning for blasphemy and other crimes, with Stephen in Acts being an example. Instead, the real reason why the Jewish leaders deferred stoning Jesus Christ themselves was the fear of provoking a popular revolt. A massive Jerusalem revolt over the stoning of Jesus Christ would have likely meant the end of the Jewish leaders, either at the hands of the people or at the Roman Empire (who would have held the Jewish leaders responsible for inciting the revolt by killing an innocent man very popular with the people in the first place).
So, then the Jewish leaders used the charge that Jesus Christ was a political subversive among the Jews attempting to challenge, defy and subvert their authority over the Jewish people. While they did not accuse Jesus Christ of being a threat to Rome itself, the Jews did enjoy a status of self-government under the Roman Empire because of their being a distinct people with a unique religion, and Rome had the obligation to protect this autonomy from internal and external threats, in addition to their policy against rebellions and disturbances in general (pax Romana). Violating Jewish blasphemy laws was not a Roman official matter, but attempting to rival or overthrow a local government was. So against this charge, Pilate had little recourse but to take it seriously, especially when Jesus Christ did not deny being King of the Jews (and Pilate knew that Christ had a large band of devoted followers), other than simply release Jesus Christ in complete rejection of the charges, which he was not willing to do. So, Jesus Christ was officially accepted as a prisoner of the Roman Empire. Pilate then made one last attempt to save Jesus Christ by having Him released in accordance with the Passover tradition – even rigging it by making the only choice Jesus Christ and the murderer Barabbas – and then ordered the execution.
So yes, the actual murder of Jesus Christ was committed by Romans. However, consider under our own laws, the person that hires a "hit man" to kill someone. Both the "hit man" who actually performs the deed and the person who hired the "hit man" are equally guilty of murder under our laws. In this case, the Roman Empire was the hired assassin, and the Jewish leaders were the ones that hired the Empire to commit the deed on their behalf. In another example, the Old Testament provides a comparison where the Jewish leaders were to be held responsible: that of David in the case of Uriah the Hittite. Uriah the Hittite was not killed by David's hand, but rather on the battlefield by enemy soldiers. David instructed his generals to put Uriah "on the front line", have Uriah's company engage the enemy in battle, and then withdraw, leaving Uriah isolated, outnumbered and surrounded. So, though Uriah the Hittite was killed by Philistines, the Bible explicitly tells us that God held David personally responsible for the murder. So, in the murder of Jesus Christ, the Jewish leaders acted as King David, and the Roman Empire acted as the Philistines. Thus, giving the Roman Empire all or even most of the responsibility for this deed requires rejecting the truth of the gospels, the epistles that speak of the gospels, and the Old Testament scriptures that predict the gospels. The idea that Jesus Christ was killed by the Romans because He was – or the Romans erroneously thought Him to be – a political subversive cannot be reconciled with what the Bible actually says, and one must deny the Bible's contents in order to adhere to and advance that position.
This brings us to the most difficult issue of all: the Jewish leaders living in that time versus the Jewish nation at that time and since. How can all the Jewish people be held accountable for the actions of a few Jewish religious leaders? Answering that question adequately requires that one challenge the modern mindset and adopt a way of thinking that was prevailing at the time when the Bible was written. The Bible was not written in modern times by people with contemporary ways of viewing the world. Often, we accidentally interpret the Bible as if it was. Or more dangerously, we consider our times to be better, more moral, more civilized, more intellectual, and more advanced than was the times of the Bible, so we see interpreting the Bible according to modern constructs as an improvement that provides a better, deeper, more spiritual interpretation and application.
So, yes, it is true that according to Enlightenment thinking and Bible interpretations from the worldview of Enlightenment thinking, only the Jewish leaders directly involved in the plot to hand Jesus Christ over to the Roman Empire with a demand to execute Him based on a judgment of theirs that He had committed a capital crime (whether blasphemy or indirectly threatening pax Romana) were guilty. However, the rub is that the Bible's worldview does not reflect that of the Enlightenment, and in some instances to understand the Bible's contents, one must reject Enlightenment thought.
The reason is that whether by accident or design, a major product of the Enlightenment is the enhanced – almost singular – focus on the individual. Above all else, the Enlightenment exalts an individual's having the ability to possess and exercise his intellectual and moral free agency. As a matter of fact, according to the Enlightenment, the very purpose of civilization – community, culture, government etc. – is to empower this individual free agency to the maximum extent possible. Anything that puts unnecessary limitations on the individual is repressive and oppressive tyranny, and every institution should be designed to promote the most individual power and influence. Democracy, for example, is the ideal because it provides the maximum amount of individual influence over government, which we are told is illegitimate unless it derives from the consent of the governed.
Needless to say, this is incompatible with a book which starts with "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth" and therefore establishes from the very beginning that not only the individual but all creation is unconditionally owned and governed by an absolute Sovereign. An example: the people who founded this country by organizing a seditious sinful rebellion against this nation's rightful ruler (yes, that is true whether it is in your history book or not) justified it based in part on the idea that the fact that the ruler was taxing them autocratically with no say in how high the tax rates were, how the tax money would be spent, and without asking their opinion or consent on the passage of laws governing the property and behavior of those being taxed. While that idea seems to be "gospel truth" in the minds of many western – and especially American – Christians NOW, in the worldview of the Bible, where the absolute rule of monarchs was not only unquestioned but was considered a virtue, it was madness. In the Bible, kings did not ask for permission, nor did they govern according to conditions imposed on them by their subjects. Instead, they governed by conquering – or the threat thereof – and their charges either accepted their edicts or perished. The purpose of governance in the Bible's time was not to empower the individual to seek his own destiny to the greatest extent possible, but rather to maximize the ability of the monarch to govern. The monarch in turn was to use his power to provide as much order, peace, stability, protection and prosperity as possible. Naturally, a bunch of individuals living according to their own whims, fancies and self-centered passions – whatever the consequences to their families, tribes, communities and kingdom – acted against the ability of a monarch to protect and provide for his people and keep the peace.
Of course, with individualism comes the concept of individual responsibility. Now of course, modern thinking rejects true individual responsibility, which holds that each person must bear the responsibility for his actions, whether positive or negative. Instead, current modern thinking holds that each person must receive the maximum amount of benefit for positive actions, should receive as little ill effects for negative actions as is possible (that "society" should step in and bear as much cost as possible) and that above all receiving negative consequences that are not the result of something that individual did consciously and directly is perhaps the greatest of evils (on a par with depriving a person of the liberty to exercise his free agency). Now though a great many conservatives (theological and otherwise) propose that true individual responsibility is Biblical, the truth is that with respect to things that truly matter – the big picture where the Bible is concerned – the Bible does not deal with individual personal responsibility at all. Instead, the Bible deals with groups of people that have an individual – or a smaller body comprised of members of the group – acting in representative fashion. According to the Bible, no one stands alone. Everyone is part of the group, represents the group, and is represented by the group. Where the modern mindset is individualistic, the Bible's mindset is tribalistic and nationalistic. The modern mindset, therefore, exalts itself against the Biblical mindset, and to understand the Bible, the modern mindset must be rejected.
Consider two core doctrines: original sin and Jesus Christ's atonement. A Bible-based Christian with a modern mindset will know why he is a sinner because of what Adam did, but will not be able to truly understand why this is so. As a result, this fact is a truth in his mind only because the Bible says so, and to him it is a mystery that he accepts by faith without asking very many probing questions. Or, such a person may see it in the context of something that is still relevant to the modern world … something received by inheritance (i.e. a child inheriting a parent's assets upon that parent's death) or perhaps genetics. In a similar fashion, a person might simplify the atonement with a "Jesus Christ took my individual sins and died in my individual place and that one act did it for every other individual sinner on an individual basis" mindset. That is because the modern mind has real issues with such concepts as "federal headship", "covenant representative", "corporate solidarity." Because the Bible has no concept of respect for the individual as we would recognize it today, it is taken for granted that we are all sinners because God appointed Adam as the representative of the human race, and as a result we are automatically, legally declared sinners because our representative sinned. It is in the same manner how in Bible times a king would literally commit genocide against and totally wipe out another kingdom because an offense made against him by that country's monarch. In the time that the Bible was written, it was absolutely proper to hold all the people in the kingdom responsible for the deeds and misdeeds of their representative the king.
And that brings us to the Jewish leaders in the time of Jesus Christ. Make no mistake: they were the legitimate representatives of the Jewish people in both a religious and civil capacity. So, just as Adam's eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil plunged all mankind into sin, the high priest Caiaphas and his collaborators' sending of Jesus Christ to His execution was an action borne by all the Jewish people with consequences for all Jewish people. Again, let us use King David as an example. One might protest that the nation of Israel was not punished for David's murder of Bathsheba. That is true, but David's murder of Uriah was David's acting in a private capacity in a private matter. By contrast, the rejection of Jesus Christ as Messiah and King was done by the Jewish religious leaders as a public matter – both civil and religious – on behalf of the whole nation. So instead, this can be considered akin to David's sinning in his public capacity of ruler and commander of the military by ordering a census. The result of this act was the death of 70,000 people. These people did not sin and had no role in that act whatsoever, but rather died because of the actions of their representative David. For another example, many Egyptians, including the firstborn in every house, died because of the official actions of the representative of that nation, the pharoah. While the death that came upon Egypt was at least in partial response to the murder of the Hebrew male babies, virtually none of the Egyptians who died were directly connected to or personally responsible for that official decree of an Egyptian ruler some 80 years prior, or its execution thereof.
We should also remember that Jesus Christ spoke of the collective guilt of the Jewish people and nation when He pronounced woe upon Jerusalem and predicted the destruction of the temple and the end of the Jewish age in 70 A.D. We should also remember that the apostle Peter explicitly assigned responsibility to the Jews – and not merely the Jewish leaders, but Jews who may not have even been in Jerusalem at all when Jesus Christ was crucified nearly two months earlier – in his sermon on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2:14-36. Those Jews – again those who may not have even been present and possibly may have had no knowledge of the act – did not deny their responsibility for killing Jesus Christ, but instead fell under conviction and instead asked how they could repent in Acts 2:37. So, Jews at the time of Pentecost were fully aware of their shared responsibility due to the actions of their leaders. Such a thing was not questioned, because it was a truth, a mindset that was a core part of Jewish culture and belief of the day. The Jews at the time of Pentecost were not influenced by Enlightenment thinking! And neither should we be.
Now there is the perfectly legitimate question as to whether this guilt for the death of Christ shared by the Jews ended at some point, such as when Jesus Christ prayed for their forgiveness when He said "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do", or in 70 A.D. when "this generation" ended, and then there is also the issue that according to certain Old Testament texts, sins only extended to the third, fourth or tenth generation (unless specifically stated otherwise). In that light, it is a legitimate question whether Jews living today are responsible through their national representatives at the time of Jesus Christ. The best answer that I can propose would be in the affirmative, for the passages that appear to time-limit to "third and fourth generation" only refer to punishment for the guilt, and not the legal status or judgment of guilt itself. This legal status or judgment of removal of guilt for the Jewish people for the murder of Jesus Christ appears nowhere in the Bible. As a result, only Jews who have all of their sins forgiven by having Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior can be considered innocent at this present time.
So then, what does this mean? In many practical respects, absolutely nothing. For instance, the guilt of the Jewish people over the death of Jesus Christ is no more or no different from the guilt of all men over the sin of Adam. So, reviling, slurring or persecuting Jews as "Christ-killers" as if Jews are unique among mankind bearing imputed sin is absurdly anti-Jewish (or anti-Semitic as it is called in modern times) because sin imputed to mankind is universal. And the folly is even greater when one considers that it was Adam's sin that necessitated Jesus Christ's death in the first place. So what is the theological justification for singling out Jews for Christ's death when you yourself bear equal responsibility for the very event that required Jesus Christ to be rejected and killed by His people?
Further still, Christian persecutors of Jews throughout the centuries have done so in spite of the commandments in the New Testament text itself. First of all, the New Testament does not command or in any way endorse the resentment or mistreatment, whether on a systematic or an individual basis, any Jew because of the Jewish guilt over the murder of Jesus Christ (or for any other reason for that matter). So, because the New Testament does not tell Christians to mistreat Jews, then the moral and ethical instructions and restriction of the New Testament on Christian behavior applies to our behavior with and among Jews. So, with Jews just as everyone else, we are to commit no obvious sins or crimes against them (i.e. murder, theft, slander), we are to love our neighbors, love our enemies, turn the other cheek, do unto others as we would have them to do unto us, refrain from spreading malicious gossip and rumors (blood libels, conspiracies about Jews controlling the government/media/banks and similar) and also obey the civil laws designed to protect all. Obviously, Christian mistreatment of Jews over the centuries required the sinful reinterpretation or nullification of these texts to justify it. The Bible makes it clear that those who do not keep the commandments of Jesus Christ whether with respect to Jews or in general are not Christians at all; they are not sheep but goats.
More specific theological reasons are spelled out in the outstanding and pivotal work of the Jew Sha'ul, the Book of Romans, the same Pharisee of the tribe of Benjamin that is called Paul. Ironically, Paul is considered by those who despise scripture as the greatest of anti-Semites and the originator of the replacement theology that was allegedly used to justify persecuting Jews. Of course, such statements are lies against Paul, against the Bible, and against the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. The truth is that Paul dedicates a large portion of the book of Romans not to denounce Jews as Christ-killers and demand that they receive ill thoughts and treatment as a result, but instead demanding that Gentile Christians accept and respect the Jewish Christians' lineage and their adherence to their religious, cultural and national traditions, including circumcision and observing the Jewish feasts and the Jewish sabbaths. Unfortunately, the Gentile Christians quickly cast aside Romans and began to drive Jewish Christians out of churches over their refusal to abandon their heritage for Hellenism as early as the 2nd century, less than 100 years after Romans was penned.
In the course of defending Jewish Christians, Paul made the shocking statement that both exists in tension with legitimate replacement theology (though not paradoxical or in contradiction with or nullification of it!): that Jews are still God's people, and moreover the original God's people. Believing Gentile Christians are "grafted in" to the original branch of Jews who believe in their Moshiach. (It is very difficult not to come to the conclusion that believing Jews are therefore "first among equals" based on Please recall that the Bible is not an Enlightenment document, and therefore lacks our notions of total egalitarianism.) Now, it is tempting to state that Romans 11 only applies to believing Jews' still retaining something of their chosen or special status. Romans 11:28-29 specifically rejects this by saying "As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes, but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sakes for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." That verse explicitly means that the original status of Israel set forth when they were first called out of Egypt and made into God's unique people is unchanged, either by their breaking of the Sinai covenant (that is now of none effect, the ark which signifies that covenant was lost in 586 B.C.) or by their rejection of their Moshiach, an event that was necessary for the new covenant.
Further, Romans 11:28-29 precedes this amazing thought: "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this [is] my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins." So, if the Jews are still God's chosen people according to God's election, and if all Israel shall be saved, what kind of a madman who professes to believe and love the Bible and take it seriously would persecute or hate any Jew? It makes no sense. It is the sort of sin that makes no sense, is utterly counterproductive, entirely without rational basis, and can only be described as being the work of demons. And it goes without saying that the people claiming to be Christians who persecuted and murdered Jews totally ignore Romans 11, and in the course of doing so did nothing but bring God's curse upon themselves. It is particularly amazing that no small amount of Christians that adhere to covenant theology completely suppressed the truth of God within themselves with regards to Romans 11:28-29's clear statement regarding God's not repenting Himself of electing Israel, including those who do not believe.
Another vital theological reason: Christians are not God. A core fact of the New Testament is that the Old Testament Israel system of priests, sacrifices and civil judgments for religious laws is gone forever. Now under that old system, it was necessary and proper to give various punishments, including death, for sins. But now, Jesus Christ is our High Priest, and as we are in Jesus Christ, we are a priesthood of believers. And further, despite what was taught and practiced for centuries, the New Testament does not command, provide for or desire the establishment of Christian civil governments – as those contradict Christian doctrine inherently – but rather only governs churches and the lives of individual Christians. So, the only punishment for sins in the church age is church discipline of believers. As unbelieving Jews are not in Christian churches, they are not subject to any Christian punishment or sanction of any kind for any sin against Jesus Christ or anybody else. So, in the absence of a human official priesthood or theocratic state (which again, the New Testament forbids in both cases), Christians have no authority to judge or make any punishment for any sin apart from discipline in an ecclesiastic context (i.e. excommunication), and even those are sins that a believer individually personally committed (churches cannot punish anyone for being "in Adam"). So, any Jewish guilt related to the death of Jesus Christ is for God to judge and God to punish. Any man who takes this duty upon himself is presumptuously and sinfully laying claim to Divine duties and privileges, and is therefore bringing God's wrath upon himself. Also, as stated earlier, one cannot punish a Jew for the actions of Caiaphas without also punishing a Gentile for the actions of Adam.
In summary, the Jewish responsibility for the death of Jesus Christ is attested in the Bible. However, the same Bible makes it clear that this guilt on the part of the Jews is God's business alone. God alone judges sin, and God alone punishes sin. So, the person that attempts to act in God's place does nothing but sin himself. Therefore, beyond mere bearing witness to the truth of the Bible, the issue of Jewish responsibility for the death of Jesus Christ is not an issue, and further dwelling on or making too much of the issue only serves as a temptation to invite the influence of what apparently are extremely powerful evil spirits that provoke thoughts and actions related to anti-Judaism (commonly referred to in these times as anti-Semitism).
This means that the real issue is not whether Jews living today bear responsibility for the actions of Caiaphas and other Jewish leaders in death of Jesus Christ. Instead, it is the sin guilt that all bear, Jew and Gentile, for the actions of Adam. Be not deceived … whether Jew or Gentile, if you are not reconciled with God through His Unique Son Jesus Christ, because chiefly of the actions of Adam, and also because of your own sin – for all do sin – you are considered to be a sinner by God. The Bible says that the soul that sins will surely die, and the Bible declares this death to be eternity in a lake of fire. The good news – the gospel – is that because of the actions of Jesus Christ, you can be declared free of all sin, whether your own individual actions, the actions of Caiaphas if you are a Jew, and the actions of Adam for all. So whether Jew or Gentile, please urgently:


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25 Happiest Animals In The World
Secret To Happiness: Ability to blow water out of nose; having no particular place to be.
Favorite Thing: Hurrying anyway.
2. Boo, The Pomeranian
Secret To Happiness: Seizing the day; seeing the silver lining; dressing up like a bear occasionally.
Favorite Thing: Literally everything.
3. This Rabbit
Secret To Happiness: Looking adversity in the face and squawking contentedly at it.
Favorite Thing: Apartment-grade carpeting.
4. This Seal
Secret To Happiness: An abiding awareness that life is a series of profound absurdities that are beyond his control and, more importantly, not his fault.
Favorite Thing: Mostly just seal stuff.
5. This Cat
Secret To Happiness: A high-minded and esoteric sense of humor.
Favorite Thing: Cat food.
6. This Crocodile
Secret To Happiness: Lives in a river.
Favorite Thing: Probably biting things.
7. This Dog
Secret To Happiness: An unshakeable belief that the simple things in life require all of our attention all of the time.
Favorite Thing: Drooling.
8. This Stoat
Secret To Happiness: Advanced hopping/pouncing ability.
Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.
9. This Sloth
Secret To Happiness: Strong sense of self worth.
Favorite Thing: Looking smug.
10. This Squirrel
Secret To Happiness: Hard work; simple, old-fashioned, American values.
Favorite Thing: Being a homeowner.
11. This Seal
Secret To Happiness: Lives on the beach.
Favorite Thing: Jokes.
12. This Anteater
Secret To Happiness: Welcomes each new opportunity with open arms and a glad heart.
Favorite Thing: Ants, probably.
13. These Meerkats
Secret To Happiness: Delight in companionship.
Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.
14. This Elephant Seal
Secret To Happiness: Good humor, kindness, relentless optimism, and a long floppy nose-like facial appendage.
Favorite Thing: Calamari.
15. This Owl
Secret To Happiness: Ability to see the fun side of everything; ability to rotate neck 270 degrees in either direction.
Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.
16. This Dog
Secret To Happiness: Persistent, unmitigated enthusiasm without context.
Favorite Thing: Interrupting.
17. This Rabbit
Secret To Happiness: Getting it. Just getting it.
Favorite Thing: Seeing the bigger picture.
18. This Owl
Secret To Happiness: Wisdom, grace, refinement, and a philosophical temperament.
Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.
19. This Owl
Secret To Happiness: An unabashed sense of wonder at the everyday marvels that the world has to offer.
Favorite Thing: Being a little owl.
20. This Puffer Fish
Secret To Happiness: Taking life as it comes.
Favorite Thing: Being the second-most poisonous vertebrate on the planet.
21. This Baby Elephant
Secret To Happiness: Seeing each new challenge as an opportunity.
Favorite Thing: Rolling in trash.
22. This Duckling
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Favorite Thing: Actually being one of the little things.
23. This Dog With Spaghetti On His Face
Secret To Happiness: A fierce, unshakeable hopefulness paired with a realistic understanding of his place in the world.
Favorite Thing: Licking spaghetti off own face.
24. This Bulldog
Secret To Happiness: Stopping to smell the roses; stopping to smell everything else.
Favorite Thing: Smelling things.
25. This Lamb
Secret To Happiness: Constant prancing.
Favorite Thing: Constant prancing.
Ha ha, tack för ett gott skratt såhär på måndagsmorgonen!
Hahaha så jäkla kul!
Gapskratt! Humor på min nivå. :)
Haha, men jag dör vad söta djur!

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This post is part of Sustainablog's Pedal Powered Blogathon in support of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Rutledge, Missouri.
About 14 years ago I was dating a guy in Silicon Valley named Brian Skinner. We were an odd pair. I was a street fighting lefty activist, proud to claim a few nights in Santa Rita State Prison (with a thousand others) after the Rodney King verdict riots and former art school dropout and he was an extremely bright libertarian nerd who generally confounded everything I believed every time he opened his mouth. He had many great features but, one of his best was to disagree deeply without being a jerk. Something I honestly still struggle with everyday, smart-ass that I am.
He is a pretty extraordinary guy. A couple of years before we met his aunt had passed away and left him a substantial sum. He believed the money was unearned and therefore not really his. So, he set about looking at how to "alleviate world problems and prevent some suffering." Brian was all about the hard data. After a few years of analysis, he wrote something called The Gumption Memo, where he explains his reasoning for giving the majority of the money to organizations providing reproductive health services. I was deeply impressed. I met him as he was just wrapping up this process.
Brian opens the Gumption Memo with this:
"The World Game: To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."
— Buckminster Fuller
Besides Buckminster Fuller, Brian introduced me to a circle of people, mostly Stanford grads, who cared about the world as deeply as Fuller. They were also super smart and unfailingly grounded in the practical aspects of living lightly. Many of us met for a book club which focused on sustainability. This was a new word for me. I had been, in my head at least, "an environmentalist." I had parted ways with the left over it. Up until then though I was primarily concerned with social justice, understanding how we had arrived at such a dismal place with regard to race, the planet, and women's rights.
For Brian and many of these people these issues has been subsumed into a planetary resource crisis of epic scale. Everything that was bad now was going to get much worse, they argued, if we didn't tackle climate, energy, soil and water depletion – fast.
I was used to going to root causes and they proceeded to take me much deeper than I had previously been. They were materialists who made a great deal of sense to me. It was hard to argue with the relentless amount of data they presented. I had tried to connect it all up before but, this group helped me get to a holistic view of crises I had seen as not completely connected.
Tony Sirna and Rachel Katz, two of the most interesting people in the group, were leaving the Bay Area. Strange idea to me, here we were nestled between two great universities Stanford and UC Berkeley (my Alma Mater) in a place that had sea air, perfect weather, mountains, meadows, world-class parks, and a vibrant creative scene full of makers, musicians and magicians. Why would anyone want to leave this? Growing up there I had never considered leaving permanently. Unthinkable.
It seemed a strange choice for these folks, enjoying all the options they did being at the center of the tech boom gainfully employed. Again, I was impressed. It was possible to make a lot of money even if, like me, you had only a freshly minted English degree and moxie.
But leaving they were, for Rutledge, Missouri, land of the Mennonites, to live in the middle of "nowhere" to start building something called an "eco-village." They were going to create a demonstration project, an entire village built using mostly hand tools, solar energy, straw bale, cob, bio-diesel and other "appropriate tech," another phrase I learned from the Rabbits. Brian and I were very sad to see them go but promised to visit when we took a road trip someday soon.
At Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (DR), we understand how difficult it can be to live sustainably and responsibly within modern US culture. We believe that we can work to build a healthy alternative: a social structure that is both non-exploitative and vibrant. As our village grows, we see this ideal take shape more clearly every day: a diverse range of people living ecologically sound lives in a community that truly serves as an example of positive human action within the natural world.
A year later, Brian and I took that road trip. While packing we had a spat about what we had each packed for the trip in my tiny Honda hatchback. Somewhere I have it on High 8mm, Brian's demonstration of our comparative "necessities" lined up on the floor. We were neck and neck until he put my box of cassette tapes on my side to demonstrate that it was I who had packed too much.
Brian was fantastic at helping me grasp the difference between need and want. He single-handedly cured me of Affluenza. But my box of cassette tapes to him qualified as a "nice to have" for the trip rather than an essential. Some of you will get this, actually, most of you will get this. For me 70% of the pleasure of the road trip was going to come from the soundtrack I was planning! For me anyway. Brian was not "into music."
We were already becoming less of a couple but, this was the moment I accepted we probably weren't going to work out in the long run. This music thing was the moment where I looked into him and realized that, as intimate as we had been, as good as the times we had were, there was an unfathomable aspect to Brian that was unmistakably "other."
Our mutually agreed upon nerdgasmic itinerary: We went to the Very Large Array near White Sands, NM. We went to Carhenge. We saw the Experimental HTRE reactors for nuclear aircraft, on display at Idaho National Laboratory and some amazing lava caves. We went to see Amelia Earhardt's house in Nebraska, as she is one of my heroes. We stopped to smell tractors throughout the Midwest which gave Brian deeply pleasurable nostaglia and instant recall of time he spent on a farm as a boy. I saw my first fireflies at his mom's place in Marysville, Kansas and my first tornados. Big yes to the fireflies and huge NOPE to the tornados! We stopped at every historical plaque between San Francisco and that small town and read it. We saw Moab, and the breathtaking Arches National Park. We visited a friend getting her PhD at UNM in Albuquerque and we stayed at an Earthships in Taos. I feel in love with New Mexico and would move there a few months after that.
We arrived at Dancing Rabbit with a plan to stay the week. It was July. We set up our tent and looked around. A single wide where about 8 people lived, a shop building, a garden patch and a makeshift out-door kitchen and a hole to skinny dip in on land surrounded by Mennonites. It was not much back then.
They were just starting out but, in my mind they had given up so much for this neglected weedy patch of land. I was used to outliers and artists and strange people but, as interested as I was in their thinking, I'll be honest, the whole project seemed a little out there. They had computers. They weren't going to give that up. Many of them make their living via the internet still. So they weren't entirely cracked. They had to make their own fun so, many played instruments. Brian and I had toyed with the idea of moving out there on the way to Rutledge. But actually being in Rutledge settled it. The reality was quite different from the fantasy. Maybe someday…when they had real toilets.
We spent a great week with them and I was impressed by that they spoke about all of these earth issues without a hint of the woo-woo. This was not a bunch of new age hippies in some tie dye idyll trying to reclaim a patchouli scented past. Sorry, to my hippie friends but, that has little appeal to me. It was an intentional community with a completely secular underpinning. Most intentional communities at the time had some sort of religious thread that held them together. Not the Rabbits. This I liked. There was no possibility of cult here.
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It seems that everywhere you go these days, the little Wi-Fi icon on your mobile device lights up to show that an access point is nearby. In fact, The Wireless Broadband Alliance predicts that the number of public Wi-Fi hotspots globally will grow more than fourfold, to 5.8 million, by 2015. This increasing availability of public hotspots is creating a new "nomadic" network to rival traditional mobile networks and support new mobile devices and their owners' lifestyles (see blog posting "A New Type of Mobility"). Consumers now expect to have Wi-Fi access when they are sipping a latte in their favorite coffee shop, watching their team score the winning touchdown at the local stadium, or even when they are waiting in line to pay for their groceries.
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Mobile users are definitely accessing Wi-Fi outside the home and workplace. As the chart below shows, one-third of consumers take advantage of a public hotspot at least weekly, with 12 percent doing so more than once per week. The top locations for these more active users are public outdoors (e.g., parks, streets), coffee shops/restaurants, and retail locations. When respondents were asked where they desired additional Wi-Fi access, the top locations were parks and restaurants/cafés, followed by hospitals, grocery stores, subways, and retail stores/shopping malls.
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Paradoxically, although few U.S. mobile operators include public Wi-Fi access as part of their data plan (while most home broadband providers do as part of customers' subscriptions), most people associate free Wi-Fi with their mobile provider rather than their broadband company. People clearly seem to consider Wi-Fi a wireless technology more aligned to mobile than an extension of wired home broadband networks. One thing is for certain: this perception can be overturned with aggressive marketing and messaging to broadband subscribers. AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast all bundle some form of free Wi-Fi with their home broadband service, yet only one-third of their subscribers were aware of this. This contrasts sharply with Cablevision, 60 percent of whose broadband subscribers knew that Wi-Fi access was part of their subscription (most likely a result of Cablevision's aggressive marketing).
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Leicester manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has assured Matt Oakley and Tom Kennedy that they remain in his plans despite currently spending time away from the club on loan spells.
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SAN ANTONIO -- The legend of Atlantis, a mythical ancient civilization said to have fallen into the sea, may or may not be true, but a long-forgotten town has resurfaced underneath Lake Arrowhead in Wichita Falls after almost 60 years.
Drought conditions have caused what is left of the town of Halsell, established in 1900 and eventually abandoned before it was taken by eminent domain to build Lake Arrowhead in 1965, to resurface, according to a report in the Times Record News, Wichita Falls.
While the water levels went down, the town briefly surfaced and now is buried again, this time by vegetation after recent rains, according to the newspaper.
The Halsell's were a family who established a ranch Clay County, according to a history published by the Clay County Historical Museum.
Texas isn't known for its natural lakes, in fact every lake in Texas is manmade except for Caddo Lake east of Dallas and privately owned Eagle Lake near Houston. This means there's a possibility of displaced towns, parks, roads and cemeteries at the bottom of any Texas lake, said Clay Church, a public service specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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The older the lakes establishment the more likely it displaced a community, Church said, as environmental rules have changed a lot since the 1970s. That's probably why Halsell, displaced in the early 1960s, left so much evidence behind and why it was quickly forgotten. Current rules would prevent an entire town from being covered in water.
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Here is your two in one post my friends! This morning I felt like going with some peacock feather inspired blue eyeshadow to match my top. I got this top from Marshall's for pretty cheap, lord knows I am addicted to that store! It is literally dangerous for my wallet for me to go there! My belt is just a simple leather chest belt from Debs from my local mall. I am wearing some old jean shortay shorts :p and some simple olive green leather boots I got forever ago from Target.
I have a lacy white tank under my shirt to better conceal my bubbies! ;p I have a light opal necklace on. The chest belt is optional, I just think that flowy shirts tend to make me look rounder, so I like to synch my waste with a cute belt, which also makes the outfit more dressed up. Funny tip: Chest belts actually make your chest appear larger…if you are feeling a little extra something something ;D
On my right hand I have an aqua blue ring on and some blue beaded bangles paired with a silver feather wrap bracelet. I got the stackable bangles from Lia Sophia and the silver feather one from Aerie.
On my left hand I have an all seeing eye hamsa bracelet, a blue beaded wrap one, and a blue chain bracelet I made :p On my left hand I have the matching light opal ring on my ring finger and a chunky silver heart ring on my pointer finger. I love stacking similar colored bracelets, they add a nice touch to your ensemble.
Here are my cheapo Target boots, they are the Mossimo brand. I love the olive color of these guys and the mixed leather and canvas texture. I think jeans shorts with half boots look really cute for summer and are comfy :p
My hair is back in a messy bun, because I was having sort of a bad hair day My eyebrows are filled in and gelled into place. I have a gold and green eyeshadow in the inner corner of my eye, and a peacock feather blue shadow on my outer corner. I am wearing my Jordana Best Lash Extreme Mascara on my curled lashes. My lips are wearing Revlon's Cupcake Lip Butter with some clear gloss on top. My skin is masked with my favorite Revlon Colorstay Whipped Foundation in 110. My foundation is set with the Revlon Colorstay Pressed Powder, and concealed with the Hard Candy Glamoflauge Concealed in light. I misted my face with Elf's Mist & Set just to make sure my face doesn't go anywhere :0
Thanks you guys so much for reading! 😀 Let me know if you like these duo posts, filled with my makeup and outfit of the days! Let me know what you think, and please like and follow me for more makeup madness 🙂 Love Pearlsnheels ❤
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Lauren Barra, KF16 Kenya/Tanzania
Last month I had the privilege of attending the African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum in Nairobi. Hosted by MicroFinance Transparency, the conference gathered policymakers and regulators to exchange ideas about client protection and pricing disclosure in microfinance. Attendees included representatives from over 20 nations in East, West and Southern Africa.
What does "transparency" entail? Transparency represents an organization's commitment to communicate price from the client's perspective. It is a means to an end – we cannot build a healthy microfinance industry without transparency. As we've seen with SKS in India, the industry risks immediate backlash if consumers and investors no longer trust microfinance institutions. Clever marketing and hidden interest rates or fees make it difficult for clients to make educated choices. Without accurate data, regulators are essentially navigating in the dark, forced to make decisions without context. Transparency is the strongest tool available for improving these market imperfections.
Microfinance is rapidly expanding and MFIs often face pressures to dilute their social mission in pursuit of competitiveness. The danger lies in that it's easier to hide prices than face tough choices about efficiency. Over the course of three days, conference participants debated big questions that will determine the future of the Africa's microfinance industry. For example:
- Who is responsible for promoting transparency? Government regulators? Donors and investors?
- When, if ever, is it appropriate to cap profits and interest rates?
- How do we prevent over-indebtedness?
As the group wrestled with these questions, we walked through examples of microfinance rates and regulations around the world. For example, Kenya has no transparency regulation and as a result there's tremendous variability in their pricing (see graph below). Kenya also has two separate regulatory agencies for deposit-taking MFIs – the Central Bank of Kenya and SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA). This system presents challenges with aligning policies and enforcements, unfortunately resulting in deceitful institutions slipping through the cracks.
The Philippines' Truth in Lending Act requires the conspicuous display of fees, interest rates, and the total cost of credit at branch offices. In Bosnia, all MFIs must use the same repayment schedule template – providing borrowers with a simple apples-to-apples comparison between microfinance institutions and products. Cambodia made the flat interest rate, a deceptively simple calculation, illegal in 2001. According to Cambodian Microfinance Association, effective interest rates have declined from 10% to 3–3.5% per month, due in part to the change in calculation method from flat rate to declining balance. The results are also evident in the interest rate curve seen below, with prices moving predictably and consistently in accordance with loan size.
Implementing similar client protection principles in Africa sparked a heated debate among participants. Is it better for governments to define one formula for calculating interest rates? Or publish reports on actual prices and let market forces decide? Although their views varied greatly, these policymakers and consumer advocates could all agree on one point. Regulators should not be fully responsible for promoting transparency – donors and investors must also play an active role.
With $255MM disbursed to over 600,000 borrowers, Kiva is one of the largest microfinance donors in the world. So what should Kiva's role be in promoting a healthy, transparent microfinance industry? Two questions arise:
- Does Kiva have a responsibility to promote microfinance transparency?
- What must Kiva do to meet this responsibility?
I believe the answer to the first question is a definitive "yes." Kiva already acknowledges some measure of responsibility for accurate reporting from Field Partners. Client Waivers must be signed by each Kiva borrower and presented during the annual Borrower Verification. As I discussed in an earlier post, Kiva assigns "transparency" as a key criterion in their evaluation of Field Partner risk ratings. Partners which don't follow Kiva's guidelines face rating downgrades and in the case of fraud, are completely cut off from funds.
The second question is much trickier to answer. Obviously fraudulent and corrupt institutions should be banned from Kiva's platform. But what about institutions that charge higher than average interest rates? Or MFIs that are undergoing a noticeable mission drift? Kiva is now taking steps to identify these problem areas at its Field Partners. In addition to a Social Performance Audit, certain Kiva Fellows will perform a pilot survey of Client Protection Principles (CPP). Developed by the SMART Campaign, CPP are a set of standards that clients should expect to receive when doing business with a microfinance institution. They ensure that clients' needs are being addressed throughout the loan process and that an MFI is "doing no harm."
While this effort is commendable the real question is – what will Kiva do with this information? In theory, the CPP will "eventually enhance the Borrower Verification with additional elements to better understand the relationship between the MFI and their client and to highlight areas of improvement in their commitment to client protection." But is "highlighting areas of improvement" really enough? Kiva's reputation and financial standing puts it in a unique position to influence microfinance transparency and client protection. When Kiva talks, MFIs, investors and policy-makers listen. Shouldn't Kiva use this position to make swift, decisive changes at its Field Partners in order to protect microfinance borrowers?
I'm not advocating that Kiva should be a watchdog agency for nearly 150 MFIs in 60 countries. But I do believe the title of "game-changer" compels Kiva to a higher standard of responsibility. This means clearly defined standards for client protection and cost of credit, consistent evaluation of Field Partners, and real consequences for organizations that fall short of these expectations. The potential for decreased fundraising limits, rating downgrades or even a "CPP Certified" label would all incentivize Field Partners to implement CPP standards as swiftly as possible.
With great power comes great responsibility and in this case, Kiva is more than capable of rising to the occasion.
Lauren Barra is serving as a Kiva Fellow with Yehu Microfinance Trust in Mombasa, Kenya and Tujijenge Tanzania in Dar es Salaam.


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The Thekla Archives: 2018
The Magic Numbers, SJM Concerts Presents: The Magic Numbers
- Sunday 13th May 2018
- Supported by: Penelope Isles, REN
Led by Trinidad-born singer/songwriter Romeo, London's Magic Numbers blend the melodic experimentation of artists like the Flaming Lips and David Axelrod with the sweet harmonies of '60s pop groups like the Lovin' Spoonful and the Mamas & the Papas. Romeo began making music with drummer Sean almost immediately upon moving to the U.K. from New York City in the early 2000s. They were eventually joined by Romeo's sister Michele on bass and Sean's sister Angela on percussion and melodica.
The group signed with the U.K.-based EMI imprint Heavenly Records in 2004 and released its critically acclaimed self-titled debut the following year. Their sophomore effort, Those the Brokes, arrived in 2006, followed by the Undecided EP in the summer of 2007. Next, a third full-length album, The Runaway, was released in July 2010, entering the U.K. charts at 46. After a heavy touring schedule in support of the record, which included dates as far afield as Australia, the band took a brief respite, and bassist Michele Stodart used the break to release a country-inspired solo album in 2012. Inspired by the stripped-back nature of The Runaway, the outfit regrouped for an acoustic tour in 2013. A fourth album, Alias, recorded at the band's home studio, was released in 2014.
The Grove, Bristol BS1 4RB
Doors 7:30pm
Ages 14+
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Cameroon [1] is in West Africa. It borders Nigeria to the west, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south.
While Cameroon is not the largest country in Africa, in some ways it's as large as Africa itself. Known as "Africa in miniature" it features French and English speaking portions, Muslim and Christian dominated regions, the tallest mountain in West Africa and terrain that includes rain forest, desert plains, mountains and high plateau.
Cameroon is a diverse and multi ethnic country. Western tourism is rare; most of the country's tourists come from Europe (predominantly Belgium).
The territory of present day Cameroon was first settled during the Neolithic period. Portuguese sailors reached the coast in 1472. Over the following few centuries, European interests regularised trade with the coastal peoples, and Christian missionaries pushed inland. In the early 19th century, Modibo Adama led Fulani soldiers on a jihad in the north against non-Muslim and partially Muslim peoples and established the Adamawa Emirate. Settled peoples who fled the Fulani caused a major redistribution of population.
The German Empire claimed the territory as the colony of Kamerun in 1884 and began a steady push inland. With the defeat of Germany in World War I, Kamerun became a League of Nations mandate territory and was split into French Cameroun and British Cameroons in 1919. The French carefully integrated the economy of Cameroun with that of France and improved the infrastructure with capital investments, skilled workers, and continued forced labour.
The British administered their territory from neighbouring Nigeria. Natives complained that this made them a neglected "colony of a colony". The League of Nations mandates were converted into United Nations Trusteeships in 1946, and the question of independence became a pressing issue in French Cameroun. France outlawed the most radical political party, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), on 13 July 1955. This prompted a long guerrilla war. In British Cameroons, the question was whether to reunify with French Cameroun or join Nigeria.
On 1 January 1960, French Cameroun gained independence from France under President Ahmadou Ahidjo, and on 1 October 1961, the formerly British Northern Cameroons became a part of Nigeria, while the formerly British Southern Cameroons united with its neighbour to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
Varies with terrain, from tropical along the coast to semiarid and hot in the north. If you are going during the summer, plan on lots of rain every day. It might be cold up in the mountains, especially at nights.
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Other destinations
Get in
Most people will need a visa except citizens of Mali, Chad, Central African Republic and Nigeria, and it is very advisable to obtain it before arriving.
There any many types of visa: airport transit visa for airport transit; visitor visa for visiting friends and family in Cameroon; business visas for work-relating activity in Cameroon; tourist visa for tourism purposes; student visa for studying abroad and learning at the universities; employment visa for taking up work in Cameroon; and permanent residence visa, which is issued if you a marry a Cameroonian.
What you will need to get the visa:
For all visas:
Then, depending on whether you are requesting a Visitor Visa or a Tourist Visa, you will need:
For a Visitor Visa:
For a Tourist Visa:
Check the Cameroon Embassy website of your country of residence for more up-to-date information:
Embassy of Cameroon in Washington, DC, USA [2]
Embassy of Cameroon in Bern, Switzerland [3]
By plane
Cameroon can be reached via:
Sometimes airport staff try to help with the luggage in order to get extra euros/dollars from travellers.
There is also an official airport tax (10.000 CFA) for outgoing flights.
By train
By car
By bus
By boat
It is probably possible to travel by boat from the island of Bioko(Equatorial Guinea).
Get around
Tour Operators in Cameroon:
By plane
The quickest and safest way to the north is by air. However, Cameroon Airlines has not been operating on those routes since early 2008 and Elysian Airlines is expensive and flies only to Garoua and Maroua.
By train
Train service, Camrail [5], exists from the capital, Yaoundé, to the port city of Douala and the northern city of Ngaoundéré. While bus service is quicker and more reliable to Douala, the overnight train is the best mode of ground transport to the north. Check for current schedules and pricing.
By bus
Between the major cities you can get a ride on modern, comfortable buses, sometimes with Air Conditioning. Away from the larger centres you will most likely end up on the ever present Toyota bush taxis. These are slightly elongated Toyota minivans that can hold up to 20 people (or more if necessary) along with their luggage piled up on top. Safety can be a concern with dangerous roads, overworked/drunk/hungover drivers and poorly maintained vehicles the norm. However, other than extending your stay an extra day or 2 in bad weather your options are limited.
Note that buses rarely leave at a set time. Instead, they wait until they are full and then depart. For buses later in the day, sometimes they never fill up. When this happens, the operator will normally set you up with a bush taxi to take you to your destination. If you do not want to take the bush taxi and are persistent enough, the operator will normally refund your money. The point is that you should leave plenty of time to get to your destination, because sometimes the wait will take hours and you are never guaranteed a departure.
By car
Rental cars are available although very expensive. As paved roads are rare away from the major cities of the west and northwest areas of the country, a 4 x 4 is a necessity when travelling to the east or central areas of Cameroon. The roads in the north are paved between cities and even the dirt roads tend to be in decent condition due to the lack of rain.
French and English are the official languages in Cameroon although there are over 276 recognized languages in Cameroon.
The Northwest and Southwest provinces are anglophone although in some areas pidgin English is more common. The rest of the country is predominantly francophone although almost all areas will also have local languages.
Visit the Limbe Botanic Garden, Benedictine Museum of Mont Febe, National Museum of Yaounde and the Kribi. These are famous attractions in the city of Yaounde, meant for tourists.
Local handicraft in Marche de Fleurs (Douala - Bonapriso quarter)
Fresh fish and prawns in Youppe village close to Douala (early morning)
ATM's - Visa ATM withdrawals are possible in many banks - for example, SGBC - which can be found in most major cities. ATMs to the Mastercard/Maestro/Cirrus network are nonexistent. Cash advances are NOT available as of December 2007.
Unless you are in stores and restaurants, you must bargain for everything. Offer 20-50% of the first price requested.
There are plenty of good restaurants:
If you are on a very low budget, try Chez Kali in Bonapriso (towards the Energy Club - fitness). Safe food at very low price. Mont Febe, Hilton Hotel and hotel le depute in Yaounde, Atlantic Beach Hotel, Mirama hotel, Guest House hotel and Park hotel in Limbe, 3813 in Tiko, Miss Bright in Buea and Meridien hotel Douala.
Always check "best before" when buying a bottle - some drinks are way out of date.
Avoid drinking tap water, even in restaurants. Bottled water can be found most anywhere at reasonable prices. Expect to pay 400 cfa for 1.5l in the major cities, more in more remote areas.
Coca-Cola is available everywhere. For something different try one of the flavourful TOP sodas. They are much sweeter than most European or North American sodas but they are very tasty.
Cameroon is rich with choice when it comes to good beer due to its past as a German and later French colony. Bottled Guinness can be found everywhere although in the heat, try one of the excellent lighter beers such as Castel, Beaufort, Mützig, Isenbeck, Satzenbrau or 33. These are inexpensive and excellent in the heat. Castel Milk Stout is an excellent choice for those who like darker beer. Outside of the cities you will sometimes be hard pressed to find them chilled (due to a lack of electricity).
Hotels in the major cities will range from 6000 cfa up to and in excess of 50 000 cfa. Clean and safe rooms can usually be found for under 11 000 cfa.
In more rural areas prices vary wildly depending on demand and local economy. It is not uncommon to find comfortable accommodations for 2000-3000 cfa per night.
Unless you are with a guide on a trek it is not recommended that you camp due to security concerns.
Schools and Universities
American School of Douala
Lycee Joss
College Libermann
College Alfred Saker
Lycee Dominique Savio
University of Douala
The American School of Yaounde
College Vogt
Rain Forest International School
University of Yaounde
Sacred Heart College Dla
Baptist High School, Great Soppo
Bishop Rogan College
Saint Joseph's College (SJC) Sasse
University of Buea
Saker Baptist College
Our Lady of Lordes, PCHS Bamenda, GBHS Bamenda, GTHS Bamenda, GTTC Bamenda
Mankon Sacret Heart College, PSS Mankon, LCC Mankon, CCC Mankon
Bafut PSS Bafut
University of Ngaoundere
Stay safe
Violence is rare, but just be smart about wearing any jewelry or anything else that would make you stand apart from the rest. Take a taxi after dark if you're unsure of the area.
Stay healthy
Yellow Fever certificates are required for travel to Cameroon.
Malaria is common, especially in the central and southern parts of the country. The risk is much lower in the mountains of the Northwest Province and the arid areas on the Extreme North. Prophylactics are recommended because of the severity of some strains of malaria in the country.
Other tropical diseases are also common, including dysentery, bilharzia, hepatitis, and giardia occur. There are occasional outbreaks of cholera in Yaounde and Douala, but rarely affect travelers.
There are several good quality hospitals in the country. Most are located in Douala or Yaounde, but Kumbo has two very good private hospitals as well.
To make local and international calls you need to buy a pre-paid SIM card. Check if your cell phone has a compatible GSM standard (Africa/Europe) - if not, in addition to a SIM card you probably need to buy a new phone. "MTN" and "Orange" are two major telephone companies in Cameroon.
You can find Internet access all over the place, but the speed might be slow.
National post service is considered to be unreliable.
It is disrespectful to shake hands with your left hand. Use only your right. If you have something in your right hand or your right hand is dirty or wet, it is polite to extend your wrist for the person to shake with his right hand. Should both of your right hands be occupied, it is polite to touch wrists.


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March 2013
OKLAHOMA'S eGOV NEWS REPORT
Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report. We hope you enjoy the monthly report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
Oklahoma eGov News
- New Program Cuts Long Lines, Wait Times
- Oklahoma Wins 'A-' in Transparency after Doerflinger Directive
- State of the State Addresses: What Are Governors' Priorities?
New Program Cuts Long Lines, Wait Times
EDMOND, Okla. – Nothing can test your patience more than waiting hours in line at one of Oklahoma's driver's license offices.
But new changes coming to the Department of Public Safety could soon put an end to those long lines.
"It's agonizing trying to sit here and wait the whole time," Patrick Labastida said. "And watching the numbers go by slowly was not very fun."
Labastida just wants to get a new driver's license but the long lines at the Department of Public Safety office are making it difficult for him.
"I was here at 6 a.m. this morning," Labastida said. "I've been here all day pretty much and I have work so I had to leave."
A new program called Inline/Online is working to eliminate the wait and the frustration for people like Labastida.
Oklahoma Wins 'A-' in Transparency after Doerflinger Directive
OKLAHOMA CITY – Secretary of Finance and Revenue Preston L. Doerflinger announced Tuesday that a national transparency report has given Oklahoma an 'A-' in financial transparency, a major improvement from the 'C+' grade the state received last year.
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund's "Following the Money 2013" report rates states on online access to government spending information. As Oklahoma's central financial management agency, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services maintains several transparency websites providing state financial information, including OpenBooks and Data.OK.gov, where the public can access millions of records related to government spending.
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Governors began the year by sounding off on a range of issues likely to garner attention in their respective states—and in some cases nationally.
Annual State of the State addresses provide a glimpse of each governor's priorities for the new legislative session. Governing reviewed all 49 speeches delivered so far, compiling summaries of some of the most talked-about policies.
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Rowing was the first intercollegiate sport contested in the United States. The first rowing race was between Harvard and Yale in 1852.
The whole body is involved in moving a shell through the water. Although rowing tends to look like an upper body sport, the strength of the rowing stroke comes from the legs.
The stroke is made up of four parts: Catch, Drive, Finish and Recovery. At the catch, the athlete drops the oar blade vertically into the water. At the beginning of the drive, all the work is done by the legs. As the upper body begins to uncoil, the arms begin their work, drawing the oar blades through the water. Continuing the drive, the rowers move their hands quickly into the body. During the finish, the oar handle is moved down, drawing the oar blade out of the water. At the same time, the rower "feathers" the oar - turning the oar handle - so that the oar blade changes from a vertical position to a horizontal one. The oar remains out of the water as the rower begins recovery, moving the hands away from the body and past the knees. The body follows the hands and the sliding seat moves forward, until, knees bent, the rower is ready for the next catch.
Race times can vary considerably depending upon the course and weather conditions. Tailwinds will improve times, while headwinds and crosswinds will hamper them
Bowloaders are the kind of boats that have coxswains which sit in the bow of the boat.
Coxswain (cox)
The person who steers the shell from a seat located in the stern or a lying position in the bow.
Eights (8+) and Fours (4+)
Eights and fours are the most common collegiate competitions and the two events held at the NCAA Championships. The plus indicates a coxswain on board.
Head Race
Head races are the traditional fall regatta, in which boats cross the starting line at full speed at roughly 15 second intervals. The course usually involves navigating three miles of river, around bends and under bridges.
Regatta is the name of rowing events in which several crews compete.
Sculling is the type of rowing where each rower uses two oars.
Shell is the boat used in the rowing races; seats nine people for an Eight and five people for a Four, and ranges in length from 45 feet for a Four to 58 feet for an Eight.
Sweeping is the type of rowing where each rower uses one oar.
Sprint is the type of race that features a course which is 2000 meters long, usually buoyed and from a dead stop and a stake boat. This is the NCAA distance.