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Spectronics Corp.: LEAK DETECTION KITS
August 4, 2002
The TLK-100 kit features the Titan TL-100/12 flashlight-style lamp. It has an inspection range of up to 20 feet (6.1 meters), which makes it ideal for large air conditioning and refrigeration systems, such as chillers, commercial rooftop units, and supermarket refrigeration units, the company says. The TLK-50 kit contains the TITAN TL-50/12 compact lamp, which has an inspection range of up to 2 feet ( 61 centimeters). Both kits contain a portable rechargeable battery pack, AC battery charger, nylon carrying case with shoulder strap, 8-ounce spray bottle of GLO-AWAY™ dye cleaner, and fluorescence-enhancing glasses.
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Over the years, I've constructed interactive online courses to help people with specific problems they face in their lives. The courses cover the same themes of the blog and books but they dig much deeper and give you specific exercises and goals to pursue in your day-to-day life. If you read my articles and love the material but are unsure of how to apply it in your life, then the courses are a good solution for you.
The Build a Better Life Course
Years ago, I stumbled upon a system for evaluating my life and making the necessary changes to get me on course to where I wanted to be. When I started using this system over a decade ago, I was penniless and living on my friend's couch. Now, I can honestly say, I'm living the life of my dreams. I created this course so you can use that same system to make lasting, big changes in your life too. It's nothing new or revolutionary by any means. It's actually quite simple—though not always easy—but it does work. And that's what's important.
Creating lasting, positive change in your life can seem like a daunting task. We often see all these big, hairy, insurmountable obstacles in front of us and so we're easily overwhelmed just thinking about all the things we need to do to take our lives from where they are now to where we want them to be. But before you finish a thousand-mile journey, you have to travel the first three feet in front of you. This course helps you figure out what you want out of your life, gets you to take those first steps towards making it a reality, and then guides you the rest of the way to the life you want to live.
The Connection Course
The Connection Course improves your social skills and helps you learn to connect with others in a deeper and more meaningful way.
People who use the Connection Course see improvements in their interactions with new people they meet, but they also improve current relationships in their lives by being able to connect with the people close to them in a more significant way.
This course covers shyness/introversion, improving conversational skills, storytelling, dynamism and humor, as well as creating emotional connections.
The Dating and Relationships Course
I get dozens of emails every day about relationship problems and this course is packed with answers.
Whether you're single and still looking for someone special or you're already in a relationship that you feel could be better, the Dating and Relationships Course provides you with the tools you need to create the intimacy you want in your life.
The course covers communication styles, values, compatibility, generating trust, and dealing with potential conflicts and break ups.
The Overcome Anxiety Course
At some point in our lives, we all have a debilitating anxiety that is holding us back.
The Overcome Anxiety Course is a simple applicable process to help you work through your fears and start getting results quickly.
In this course you'll learn about the origins of anxiety, your defense mechanisms, applying progressive desensitization and other strategies to help you cope with insecurities.
Blogging and Writing Course
Over the years, I've recorded videos, written articles, and created content geared around helping people with their blogging and writing, yet I've never put them in the same place.
Until now…
This course contains hours worth of advice on everything from how to make your sentences flow better, to crafting a social media strategy so your content gets shared more often. I've spent the last 10 years building my blog and creating a career for myself as a successful writer. And below is most of the advice I've come up with.
Escape Plan: The Long-Term Travel Course
If you've ever thought about traveling the world for an extended period of time but thought you had to wait until retirement or have a huge pile of money saved up right now, this course will show just how wrong you are.
I spent 7 years traveling around the world, living in some of the most beautiful places on the planet, eating at fancy restaurants, meeting interesting people from all over the the world…all for less than you probably pay to live in your city now.
This course walks you through all the steps you need to start traveling long term—everything from booking cheap flights, to making a living while you travel, to connecting with people abroad, and to using travel as a tool for personal growth. You'll create your very own Escape Plan that's tailored to your specific budget and travel goals.

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Firecracker Vine
Firecracker Vine (Manettia cordifolia) brightens the otherwise drab late summer garden with its hot red flowers. The small tubular blooms are profuse and adorn a vigorous but well-mannered vine. (Think Cypress Vine but without the headache of the invasiveness.) Hummingbirds love it!
This plant came to me from my great aunt Lesbie who loved to garden as much as I do.


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Notes: Accompany with sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions dressed with lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
How to Make It
In a 2- to 3-quart pan, combine rice and 2 3/4 cups water. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook until most of the water is absorbed, 7 to 10 minutes. Turn heat to low, cover, and cook until rice is tender to bite, 10 to 15 minutes longer.
Meanwhile, rinse tofu; cut into 1/2-inch cubes and put in a colander to drain.
In a 10- to 12-inch nonstick frying pan over medium-high heat, stir onion, ginger, and garlic in oil until onion begins to brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Add curry powder, coriander, and cayenne and stir until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
Add broth and stir often until boiling. Whack pea carton on a flat surface to separate peas. Pour peas into pan and add tofu. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until tofu is hot, 6 to 8 minutes. Mix cornstarch and 2 tablespoons water. Add to pan and stir over high heat until boiling. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Pour curry into a bowl and sprinkle with cilantro. Mound hot rice in another bowl to accompany curry. Serve with yogurt to add to taste.


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Winter means cold...in many parts of the country. Muthu Periasamy, Ph.D., professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) at Lake Nona, studies how muscle burns calories to generate heat and keep our bodies warm.But can cold weather really promote weight loss?
Q: How does being cold affect metabolism?
Dr. Periasamy: Because we need to keep our bodies at around 98 degrees Fahrenheit, being in a cold environment makes us burn more calories to generate enough heat. That's why people who live in extremely cold places like the Artic eat high calorie foods like whale blubber—to provide the extra energy needed to maintain their body temperature.
Q: Could living in a cold environment be a way to lose weight?
Dr. Periasamy: Theoretically, yes, but realistically, no. People who live in cold parts of the world actually tend to gain weight during the winter because they're less active.To lose weight by cold exposure, you'd have to be outside most of the winter or have your thermostat set to something like 40 degrees Fahrenheit. It's hard to imagine anyone actually doing that. I know I wouldn't! Plus, if your metabolic rate increases, so does your appetite, so you'd have to be very careful to keep from eating more.
Q: How does your research relate to all this?
Dr. Periasamy: We study a protein called sarcolipin. The protein regulates how calcium moves around inside muscle cells—where there's more sarcolipin, calcium transport generates more heat. We're trying to figure out how to exploit sarcolipin as a way to increase metabolism for weight loss.We'd been examining sarcolipin for a long time, but didn't make the connection to body heat until a few years ago. We learned about the heater organs of deep-sea fish, which evolved from eye muscles. They generate heat by bumping up the activity of their calcium pumps, so we wondered whether muscle in mammals might do something similar.We made mice that lack sarcolipin, and they couldn't keep warm when they were exposed to cold for several hours, even though they had brown fat, another tissue that produces heat. That was exciting because it showed that muscle is really important for keeping mammals warm.
Q: How would sarcolipin-targeted therapies work?
Dr. Periasamy: We don't know yet, but any treatment we come up with would have to be combined with exercise. Calcium only moves around in muscle cells when they're contracting or as a response to cold, and no one would want to live in constant winter!
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- "We're under attack. Don't know who, don't know why."
- ―Everett Young[src]
The Battle of Icarus Base was an event that occurred in 2009 between the Tau'ri and the Lucian Alliance.
Sometime in 2007, an undercover operative within the Lucian Alliance gave the location of P4X-351 to the Tau'ri. Shortly after, the Tau'ri attacked the mining camp on the planet and forced the occupants to evacuate, allowing the Tau'ri to set up Icarus Base as a staging ground to dial the ninth chevron of the Stargate. After two years of failed attempts, Eli Wallace developed an equation which was believed to be the key to successfully dialing the ninth chevron. He was recruited by Lt. General Jack O'Neill and Dr. Nicholas Rush to view the results of his work. He was transported to the planet via the George Hammond, along with Senator Alan Armstrong and his daughter, Chloe Armstrong. His equation was put to the test but failed to achieve a lock. (SGU: "Air, Part 1")
- "Our shields are holding but we're not the target."
- ―Samantha Carter aboard the George Hammond[src]
When the base came under attack, the core of the planet destabilized, resulting in the complete destruction of the planet. The attacking Ha'tak vessels were destroyed, as were all their ground forces. The George Hammond anticipated the explosion and escaped to hyperspace in time, having managed to locate all but approximately 80 of the Icarus Base personnel and evacuate before departure. (SGU: "Air, Part 1")
Colonel Samantha Carter, commander of the George Hammond, reported that the remaining personnel who could not be accounted for were inside the base and could not be beamed out; however, readings indicated that the Stargate was active for six minutes before the planet's core went critical, so it was assumed they went somewhere. Dr. Nicholas Rush later reported to Homeworld Command from Destiny via the Long-range communication device, informing Lt. General Jack O'Neill of their situation.
Unbeknownst to the Tau'ri, the Lucian Alliance was responsible for the attack. Having failed to recapture the planet, they instead devoted their efforts to recreating the conditions that allowed Icarus Base to dial Destiny, in the hopes of seizing it for themselves. Commander Kiva setup a research base on a planet similar to P4X-351, where they duplicated the Icarus project's research. However, they lacked the equation to regulate the power, thus stalling their progress. Eventually, they captured Rush in Colonel David Telford's body and forced him to help finish it before an attack by the George Hammond forced the Alliance to dial early, causing that planet to explode as well, but not before some of the Alliance forces finally made it to Destiny. (SGU: "Air, Part 1", "Air, Part 2", "Subversion", "Incursion, Part 1")


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Bolivia is one of the most undeveloped and unknown areas I think to North Americans, so we should get out there and explore it! It's a sweet little country that edges: Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay.
…and I'm going to guess you barely know anyone who has traveled there let alone held their fabulous destination wedding in Bolivia, right?!
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Nov 01, 2013
Finally, we're welcoming fall, that eagerly anticipated season when we get to enjoy cooler temps, colorful leaves and, of course, football season in Connecticut.
Football brings with it a whole host of seasonal activities around North Haven for football fans, from game-day tailgates and sports bar outings, to friendly bets and bowl parties. At MBI Company Group, LLC, we want your football season to be both exciting and safe, so as you cheer your team to victory, consider the following tips.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Join 350.org on September 24 for Moving Planet
If you're around this Saturday, consider joining the 15 or so walks and bike rides in NYC that will converge at a climate change rally at the UN. It's one of thousands of climate change actions around the world, organized through 350.org.
While the City did not agree to a permit for a single unified march to the rally site, individuals will be bicycling, rollerblading and walking to the UN from meeting sites throughout the City. Find the one you prefer at:http://movingplanetnyc.blogspot.com/p/find-ride-or-march.html
I will be representing Beyond Oil NYC and helping to lead the march from Merchants's Gate at Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Central Park West. Look for me with several 350.org signs. I'll need some help in carrying the signs, so if you get there by 11:30 you may get one. Or make your own sign and bring it.
Gather at noon and at 12:30, we'll set out down Broadway to 48th Street east to First Avenue, and make our way to the rally at 2 PM at the United Nations' Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on 47th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues in Manhattan. More from the press release below.
"The UN General Assembly will be in session at that time debating important resolutions just 2 months before the UN climate summit in Durban and in the critical run-up to Rio +20.
The NYC event has attracted a wide array of support from student groups, climate change activists, faith and environmental justice leaders, bicycling proponents, and opponents to hydrofracking of natural gas and nuclear power.
The dozens of sponsors of the NYC rally include 350.0rg, NYPIRG, Beyond Oil NYC, Carbon Tax Center, Climate Week NYC, Climate Reality Project, Conversations with the Earth, Earth Day New York, Earth Matters, Environment Action Association, Food and Water Watch, Frack Action, Green Maps System, Green Cents Solutions, Human Impacts Institute, Manhattan Greens (Manhattan Local of the Green Party, No Impact Project, NYC Friends of Clearwater, NYC Climate Coalition, NY Society for Ethical Culture, Oxfam Action Corps, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sane Energy Project, Small Planet Institute, Slow Food NYC, Solar 1, Time's Up!, Transportation Alternatives, United for Action, Water Defense, We Act/Faith Leaders for Environmental Justice.
350.org recently helped coordinate several weeks of civil disobedience protests at the White House in opposition to the Tar Sands pipeline from Canada.
The demands of the global day of action include: relying upon science-based policies to get us back to 350 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; rapid, just transition to zero carbon emissions; ensuring adequate funding to assist third world countries with the climate change transition; and lifting the rights of people over the rights of polluters. To preserve our planet, scientists tell us we must reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its current level of 392 parts per million to below 350 ppm.
The local events are part of a worldwide day of action on September 24 calling for a fossil fuel-free world. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to participate by moving their bodies towards solutions to climate change in nearly 2,000 events across the globe ranging from 5 mile hikes to 350 hour bike rides."
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A study of a controversial historian.
Series: William Goetzmann, Series Editor
A historian who lived the kind of history he wrote, Francis Parkman is a major—and controversial—figure in American historiography. His narrative style, while popular with readers wanting a "good story," has raised many questions with professional historians. Was Parkman writing history or historical fiction? Did he color historical figures with his own heroic self-image? Was his objectivity compromised by his "unbending, conservative, Brahmin" values? These are some of the many issues that Wilbur Jacobs treats in this thought-provoking study.
Jacobs carefully considers the "apprenticeship" of Francis Parkman, first spent in facing the rigors of the Oregon Trail and later in struggling to write his histories despite a mysterious, frequently incapacitating illness. He shows how these events allowed Parkman to create a heroic self-image, which impelled his desire for fame as a historian and influenced his treatment of both the "noble" and the "savage" characters of his histories.
In addition to assessing the influence of Parkman's development and personality on his histories, Jacobs comments on Parkman's relationship to basic social and cultural issues of the nineteenth century. These include the slavery question, Native American issues, expansion of the suffrage to new groups, including women, and anti-Catholicism.
- Preface
- Prologue
- Part One. The Hero-Historian Conquers Adversity
- 1. The Hero-Historian and His Illness
- 2. The Conquest of the "Enemy"
- 3. The Hero on the Oregon Trail
- Part Two. The Historian as Hero-Researcher
- 4. Pontiac: The Struggle to Re-create Frontier History
- 5. Noble-Ignoble Indian Portraits
- 6. Pontiac's "Conspiracy": A Tarnished but Enduring Image
- Part Three. The Hero as Storyteller
- 7. The Hero in the Wilderness
- 8. Some Literary Devices of the Hero-Historian
- Part Four. The Hero-Historian's Social Perspectives
- 9. The Hero-Historian and the Aristocratic Male Tradition
- 10. The Hero on Catholicism and Women
- Epilogue: The Legend of the Hero-Historian
- Appendix: Parkman's Commencement Oration, "Romance in America"
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- Index


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California officials said they have charged a Las Vegas couple with grand theft and other felonies in connection with the sale of in-home service agreements.
The agreements were fake, according to officials at the California Department of Insurance and the San Diego County district attorney's office.
The defendants in the case, Michael and Melissa Woodward, were arrested in Las Vegas, extradited to San Diego, and arraigned during a hearing in a state court in San Diego, officials said.
For a prepaid annual fee, the program the defendants sold was supposed to provide "an unlimited amount of non- medical services such as cooking, cleaning, bathing, toileting, dressing, laundry and shopping," officials said.
In some cases, the Woodwards did pay for services such as house cleaning, but, when customers asked for more expensive services, the Woodwards did not provide the services, officials said.
Officials said the Woodwards did business in 10 states under many aliases.
The Woodwards and a lawyer who represented them at the arraignment could not immediately be reached for comment.
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They both wore floor-length floral gowns — but, who wore it BETTER?
Melania has an impeccable sense of style.
She has consistently worn stunning outfits throughout President Trump's administration, and long before when he was the Republican Nominee.
Her outfit on Inauguration Day was subdued, simple, and classy.
Trending: Dowd's Scathing Letter Blasts Mattis: Trump Had The B@lls To Succeed Where You Failed
She is a woman of glamour and elegance.
Her fashion sense has spread to Europe's royals.
But of course, her Critics just HAVE to find fault. Otherwise, she might outshine what's-her-name in those Pantsuits. And they are very careful to reserve any praise for those who check the right political boxes. That's how we wind up with headlines like this: Melania Trump DROWNS her incredible figure in oversized black dress in Beijing They can't help but be catty, no matter HOW good she looks. (You can judge for yourself whether she was 'drowning' her figure.)
She was — in our opinion — stunning again in a floor-length 'Asian-inspired' black gown with soft pink flowers.
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Michelle wore a floral dress, too. It wasn't the most hideous thing she's ever worn, but then there's debate around what that would be.
Now that you've seen them both, what do you think?
Does your grandpa go off on paltry politicians, whether they be Democrats or Republicans? Does he get misty eyed when he talks about God and Country and America's future? And have you ever heard him scream, 'Awww … Hell no!' when Rosie O'Donnell starts yapping on television? If you answered yes to one, or all of the above, then your gramps will love Doug Giles' latest book, My Grandpa Is A Patriotic Badass.
Don't be fooled by the title — this ain't just for Grandpa.
The Snowflake Generation — and the rest of America — needs a good ol' dose of 'Grandpa wisdom'.
Especially if that Grandpa is Doug Giles.
You'll love My Grandpa Is A Patriotic Badass just as much as Grandpa will.


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Happy Valentine's Day everyone! It's Millie and Walter here. We are joining our friends and have hopped on the Blogville Pawty Plane for a Valentine's Day trip to Paris!
We are double dating with Walter's girl Tuiren and her brother Fenris. After we landed in Paris each couple had different plans on how we wanted to spend our time. Millie and Fenris started out their day with a nice lunch on a rooftop terrace and then finished the day with a moonlight stroll around the city. Here is the postcard Millie & Fenris sent home.
Walter and Tuiren had different plans and went straight to the Eiffel Tower where we enjoyed running up and down all those steps. We worked up quite an appetite so we finished the night with a romantic gourmet dinner where we could see the Eiffel Tower all lit up. Here is Walter and Tuiren's postcard home.
Millie was blushing when we got back on the plane to go home so we think Fenris might have stolen a kiss along the way. Tuiren was a little nervous when the plane took off so Walter sat next to her so he could hold her paw.
We all had a great time and just wish we could have spent more time there. Maybe some other time we will all go for a longer visit. Be sure to stop by the Postcards From Paris blog hop that Mayor Arty has organized to see all the fun everyone had.


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Starker Fresh Beer may be more known for its alcoholic beverages, but they have also joined the fray into the F&B establishments as well.
I was able to attend a special media tasting to try some of their food and drinks at their Hillview 2 outlet and it is a superb place to chill and unwind. And especially for football fans, it's a great place to catch those BPL matches too.
HV2 may have been rather inaccessible in the past, but with the introduction of the Downtown MRT Line, HV2 is now only a 10 minute walk from the train station, thus making it rather convenient for those that do not live around there and do not drive.
The decor is quite straightforward, full of wood and oak like walls and a barrage of Starker beer barrels aligning the walls. The food is mostly bar bites but there are some savory mains for those who might want to catch a fuller meal too.
|Starker Beer Flight
Starker beers are brewed locally and have a 7 day shelf life to ensure maximum freshness and served in rustic wooden oak barrels. They are also particular about the temperature of your beverage so iced cold mugs are change frequently to ensure you get icy cold brew here.
You can sample the beer flight if you are a first timer here, and there are an assortment of flavours ranging from lager, aromatic, lychee, charcoal and Dunkel. My two picks are the sweet and fruity lychee beer and the tasty and seriously aromatic "aromatic" brew.
|Pork Sliders
The bar bites range from the familiar to some less often seen dishes. Fried wings, onion crisps and fried calamari are the usual suspects which should serve the beer drinking crowd well. But it is their pulled pork sliders that captivated me with its hearty and juicy flavours making it very delectable all on its own. Suffice to say, it goes even better with their fresh beer.
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For the working crowd, there is also a comprehensive and affordable set menu during the day that might prove enticing on both weekdays and weekends.
The choices include a selection of pasta dishes, seared dory and even chicken schnitzel. For the set, it includes a choice of soup or salad, a main and a beverage. All which you can procure for under S$25.
|Roast Chicken
Of special mention is my own personal favourite here, which is their in-house roast chicken. Crisp fragrant skin, accompanied by a juicy and moist meat and a well made mashed potato is as rustic good as it comes.
I can imagine this is the place to be on Saturday nights for the football watching boys, all decked out in their Arsenal or Man Utd jerseys as they cheer on their teams. Pairing the delicious beer with some well chosen savouries and bar bites makes this the ideal chillax joint on weekends.
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Packaging: Nice Leather Pouch.
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Happy New Year! We at the GoLaw Legal Network and our friends at GoPersonalInjury.com have made a resolution to share more Auto Safety Tips and Best Practices with our "digital friends" like you through our Online Social Networks. Thanks to Dennise Burbank at Farmers Insurance near Marysville, California for emailing us at GoLaw.com this important article about Auto Safety Recalls.
What to Expect When an Automaker Finds Defects
Buying a new car doesn't guarantee the vehicle will be without problems. Manufacturers issue recalls when an automotive defect is found that could pose a danger to drivers or passengers. In fact, 2014 was a record-breaking year for car recalls in the U.S., with more than 60 million vehicles affected by approximately 700 announcements.
The Recall Process
Any number of problems can incite a recall — from malfunctioning accelerators to defective steering parts and everything in between.
Once issues are discovered, automakers are legally required to send recall letters to the registered owner of each vehicle detailing what's wrong, the risks posed, and where the vehicle can be serviced. The notice will also include a list of potential warning signs to help determine if a vehicle requires immediate attention.
When the problem is less serious, the automaker sends a service bulletin to dealers, notifying them of the concern and outlining how to resolve it. Often referred to as "secret warranties," these announcements usually go unpublicized since the issues don't pose a threat to safety.
A manufacturer who issues a recall notice to drivers or a service bulletin to dealers accepts the financial liability for the recall-related repairs as long as a designated dealership or repair site services the vehicle.
How to Stay Aware of Recalls
Before buying a car manufactured in the last 10 years, check for recalls online. Search the recall database maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to determine if recalls have been issued or if a particular vehicle has missed necessary recall-related repairs.
If you think your vehicle has a safety defect, report it to the NHTSA so potential safety hazards can be investigated and addressed. If the NHTSA receives enough complaints on a specific make and model, the government agency will launch an investigation.
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In December, Global Reinsurance carried out its first ever readership survey by including a questionnaire with the magazine. Lee Coppack summarises the results.
The replies we received divided in roughly three parts geographically between the United States, the United Kingdom and other parts of the world, including continental Europe, Bermuda, South Africa, Barbados and Chile.
From an editorial point of view, we are pleased to find that those who replied feel that the quality of writing and topicality of our articles is good or excellent, though the depth of analysis in some areas could be improved.
Readers' desire for more depth indicates we have been moving in the right direction in commissioning some quite technical articles. Unfortunately for us, however, one person's in-depth analysis may be another's commercially sensitive information which he or she is not willing to reveal. It is also disappointing that some of the most important names in the industry confine their public statements to bland generalities.
When it comes to the appearance of Global Reinsurance, readers are generally quite positive. However, 11% felt the contents page was only fair, and as you will see from this issue, we have introduced an executive style summary for each article on the contents page to make it easier for readers to select the articles that interest them most.
We are aware that today's managers and professionals have enormous amounts of information in many forms competing for their attention, and selection is the key to efficient use of time and resources.
The survey has been particularly useful in terms of learning what subjects really interest our readers. In particular, we learned that they would like more on catastrophe, country reports and alternative risk finance. We have also taken note of those topics which the replies indicated are of less interest, though inevitably some readers want more on just those subjects others think are over-played.
Although we have always been concerned that we cannot be up to the minute with either company results or people and places, we have discovered that particularly those who replied from outside the UK would like more on these areas. Readers are also keen for more information on regions outside their own which may not be so well covered in their domestic insurance press. Another clear area of interest for a certain number is life and health reinsurance. The editors will look at the best ways to respond to these comments in future issues.
Thank you to all those who took the time to complete the survey. We appreciate that there are limitations to any such self-selecting sample of opinion, but the replies are very helpful to us and we will use the results in our efforts to make Global Reinsurance truly global in its interest to our readers.
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Welcome to week 17. I will not say, "if you are still playing it's time to find a new league" because that's what everybody says and I'm frankly getting tired of it. There are plenty of teams still playing for something and plenty of players trying to make a name for themselves, boost their position in negotiations, impress a girl, you name it. So all you have to do is figure out who those guys are! It's actually kind of fun. And don't call me frankly.
Some under the radar guys I like who should see more playing time/targets are: Brandon LaFell (Legedu Naanee out), Derek Hagans (Brad Smith out), Roy Williams, Matt Flynn, James Jones, Brandon Saine, Jacquizz Rodgers, Maurice Morris, Steven Ridley, Mike Tolbert (Ryan Mathews may be out), Daniel Thomas (Bush is out), Torrey Smith (Anquan Boldin out), Dexter McCluster (Jackie Battle out), and Toby Gerhart (All Day out).
It should be a good day of foozball even if you aren't playing because there is still FanDuel to play! Join our 20 team league here and take me on. Here is my team for the league:
Cam Newton: The Saints give up a lot of yards passing and rushing and Cam Newton is good at both of those things. He's expensive on FanDuel but I love this matchup. I also am targeting Ryan Fitzpatrick and Tom Brady.
Kahlil Bell: I've gone back and forth on Bell. He's a great value and should get the ball a ton just like last week so he's worth a start. The Vikings have been a little worse at defending the run of late and McCown looked better than Hanie so I think they'll be able to get into the red zone. I also like C.J. Spiller, Michael Bush, and Marshawn Lynch.
Maurice Jones-Drew: He's just a solid player and brings it each week. If he gets near the end zone there's nobody else who is going to score for the Jags.
Miles Austin: This is a playoff game so both teams will be going for the kill and right now I think Miles Austin is the most reliable player on the Cowboys. Even with McGee at QB Austin got into the end zone last week so with Romo back and the Giants a poor excuse for a pass defense I'm going Miles and Miles with Miles.
Stevie Johnson: I'm loving Stevie this week. He had a nice game against them last time around and the patriots pass defense hasn't improved. This should be a shootout and Stevie wants a big contract.
Brandon LaFell: I'm going cheap here with LaFell because Legedu Naanee is out, the Saints pass defense is poo and I just like LaFell. It's risky to be sure but the upside is pretty up. Other WRs I like are James Jones, Wes Welker, Malcom Floyd, Antonio Brown, Marques Colston, Jeremy Maclin, and Torrey Smith.
Jimmy Graham: The Panthers are last in DVOA to tight ends and Graham is going for the record for most receiving yards by a tight end. I don't see the Saints letting up because they need to win. Other dudes I like are Brandon Pettigrew and The Gronkinator.
John Kasay: Kicker
Miami Dolphins: This should be the 49ers but I ran out of money. The Niners will most likely be my defense of choice for the most part but I do like Miami against Sanchez.
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The phrase goes "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth".
Really? I have to disagree. I am one of those fortunate characters and I assure you the plight of the meek is not one of the glorious chosen.
Being quite in the background in the shadows gets you very little. It's a very lonely world, the world of the meek. You constantly feel like people are pushing past you or not even acknowledging that you are there.
A dear friend of mine suffers from similar characteristics. She once said to me "It's easier letting others make the decisions for me". I know just what she is talking about. In her case the biggest issue seems to be her job. She is brilliant and attained 2 masters degrees in her chosen fields. When she was employed straight after leaving university (by the firm I was working at, at the time), the interviewers "had" to employ her right away. They could not risk loosing her while they interviewed others. Several years later she is indispensable. Indispensable but she is being fucked over on a daily basis. She is super hard working and rarely leaves before 10pm. The company does pay overtime (I always got paid for any extra time I put in when I was with them) but she never gets paid for it. She is one of the lowest paid but she stays quite and doesn't kick up a stink. People go on holiday and dump their projects on her because they know she will do it, and do it properly. She grins and bears it. I am similar but not even I would stand for the way she is being treated. Lot's of us close to her encourage her to move on and try to reinforce her confidence. But she is terrified to move on and being meek she just continues to get fucked over. She suffers in silence and only occasionally cries on one of our shoulders. I understand what she is going through. That helpless, lonely and terrifying darkness. Knowing you are being treated badly but being completely helpless to help yourself. I don't know what to do for her. All I can think of is to try build her up, pass on my advice and be there when she needs a shoulder. I know the best way to fix this is for her to do it for herself. But I also know its a hard, painful and sometimes lonely journey.
With work I have developed the confidence to "not give a shit". I know that if I walk out of a company, I can find something relatively quickly. And even if I don't I know I can adapt into a new role and have no fear in that regard. But I still have those who are more bullish, push past and get ahead. I don't have that loud voice and the fight that is often required to get ahead in a corporate world.
Age and experience has taught me that sometimes pushing that meek, quite side of myself away gets me what I want. But it can be incredibly difficult. Even building myself up and being ready to take that step, doesn't make it happen. The time comes and either I bottle it or even bottle it on autopilot. What I mean by that is I only realise sometime later that I didn't do what I had intended, said what I wanted, confronted a situation. Often this behavior repeats itself over and over. It can be overcome, I know this. I know that I can even be in the zone with a situation and have the confidence to barge through obstacle after obstacle and come though stronger, happier and bullish. Unfortunately even when I overcome my meekness in a certain situation, the next time it may not and I revert to that meek, quiet introvert. It's so frustrating, so soul destroying, so crippling!
The same is happening in my marriage. I have wanted to leave for so long. Prepared myself to take that step. Given myself and given her every reason to separate. But I bottle it when the crunch comes. Part of the reason is meekness. If I was a bastard and just did what I needed to, what I "should" (read "The Background Story" for more details) I know I would be happier. But sometimes we can't help ourselves no matter how much we want to.
Suggesting that the meek will inherit something due to the bullish destroying themselves or burning their light out is wrong. It's pure fiction and utter bullshit. If anything it is the other way around and the meek will be pounded out of existence.


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Katy Perry is one of the most influential female singers of Hollywood. She has tried to establish herself as a decent and socially active personality. Apart from her fame and successful singing career, there are some things that people didn't take notice about this hot diva. Let's find out the sketchy things about Katy Perry that everyone ignores.
She slammed Britney Spears twice
The world is fully aware Britney's struggle with drugs and her mental illness. The famous pop star has also shaved her head when she was passing through the toughest time of her life. But this is something funny for Perry. She has mocked her mental illness twice that everyone ignored. Katy slammed Justin-Timberlake's ex-girlfriend at the 2017 Grammys when a reporter asked her about her new blonde hair. She told that she is done with every color in the spectrum and now the only thing left to do was to shave her head.
He dating life is a disaster
Katy Perry is one of the hot divas who have a long list of beaus. She has dated a number of guys since she rose to prominence. Unfortunately, none of them proved to be her lifetime partner. From Russell Brand to John Mayer, no one was there to become an everlasting love of this famous singer. There were several reasons behind her breakups, from misunderstanding to cheating. In short, her love life was nothing but a disaster.
She has been accused of racism
The famous singer is accused of racism towards Asian people. She confessed in a night show that she is obsessed with Japanese people. In 2013, during the American Music Awards, the singer was accused of appropriating the Asian culture. That performance of her was highly criticized by the Asians, especially the Japanese. However, Katy didn't pay any heed to the criticism and said that she was appreciating the culture.
She had started a feud with Taylor
Swift and Perry both are the most demanded singers of Hollywood. Their fame and popularity are also sky high and thus the feud and resistance between the two is something natural. Taylor alleged Perry of sabotaging her arena tour of "Bad Blood" during an interview with the Rolling Stone magazine. According to Swift, she didn't know if she and Katy are friends or what! There were reports that the bitterness between the two got dense over John Mayer who dated Swift in 2010 and eventually tied the knot with Katy in 2012.


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Tips & tricks: Android
Manuals for SoftMaker Office Mobile for Android
Each of the SoftMaker Office Mobile applications contains a manual with useful instructions. To view the manual in one of the applications, tap on the Menu button, tap on Tools, then tap on Help.
PDF versions of the manuals are also available for download here.
Installation of SoftMaker Office Mobile for Android
If you download the APK installation files of SoftMaker Office Mobile directly to your Android device, installation will start automatically when the download completes.
If you downloaded the APK installation files to your PC, you should proceed as follows:
- Copy the APK files to an SD card.
- Insert the SD card in your Android device.
- Start a file manager that shows the files on your SD card.*
- In the file manager, tap on the APK files, one after the other. Immediately, the applications will be installed and are ready to run.
* If no file manager is installed yet on your system, download a free one from the Google Play Store by searching there for "file manager". Suitable programs are for example Astro File Manager and ES File Manager.
Installation of "non-market" apps
Most Android devices are configured to only allow installation of applications from the Google Play Store. If you have purchased SoftMaker Office Mobile directly from our web shop, you need to change this setting before you can install the software. Proceed as follows:
- In Android up to version 4.0: Open the settings of your Android device, tap on "Applications", and then activate the option "Unknown Sources".
- In Android starting with version 4.1: Open the settings of your Android device, tap on "Security", and then activate the option "Unknown Sources".
When the installation is complete, you should consider turning off this option again.
Which permissions does SoftMaker Office Mobile require?
The applications in SoftMaker Office Mobile need the permissions listed below. You do not have to assign them manually; your Android system does this automatically during installation.
- Storage: modify/delete SD card contents
Is required so that you can save documents on the SD card.
- Your messages: Read Email attachments, read Gmail
Is required so that documents attached to e-mail messages can be opened directly in SoftMaker Office Mobile.
- Network communication: full internet access
Is required to activate your online registration
- Network communication: Google Play license check
Is required to verify the validity of your software license.
- Phone calls: read phone status and identity (trial versions only)
Is required to retrieve a unique ID to enable a time-limited trial period.
Using the spell-checker
TextMaker Mobile and Presentations Mobile for Android come with a spell-checker that underlines typos in red and offers spelling suggestions when you initiate a long tap over a misspelled word.
However, we cannot include all possible spelling dictionaries in the APK file, as it would grow too large. Instead, you can automatically download the dictionaries directly from within in the apps over the internet to your storage card. Proceed as follows:
- In TextMaker Mobile or Presentations Mobile respectively, push or tap the Menu button, tap on Tools, then on Options.
- A dialog box appears now. Tap on the Add dictionary button.
- Select the desired dictionary and tap on Download.
- The dictionary will now be downloaded to your storage card and is immediately available for use.
- You can then select your spell-checking language in the same dialog box (or "None" if no spell-checking is desired).
Using additional fonts
SoftMaker Office Mobile works with all fonts that are installed on your Android device. You can easily add any number of additional TrueType, PostScript Type 1 or OpenType fonts to extend your font choices:
- When you launch one of the SoftMaker Office Mobile apps for the first time, it creates the folder "SoftMaker" on your SD card.
- Below this folder, there is a folder called "fonts". If it does not exist yet, create it.
- Place in this folder the fonts that you wish to work with.
- The next time you launch one the SoftMaker Office Mobile apps, the new fonts will be available in the font list.
How can I reduce the storage requirements of SoftMaker Office Mobile?
Some Android devices only have limited internal storage for applications.
If you wish to reclaim space in internal storage, you can move applications to an inserted storage card. Proceed as follows:
- Tap on the Settings icon of your device.
- Open the dialog for managing applications:
In Android 2.x: Tap on Applications (or Apps), then tap on Manage applications.
In Android 4.x: Tap on Apps.
- Tap on one of the SoftMaker Office Mobile applications (TextMaker, PlanMaker or Presentations).
- Tap on the button Move to SD card.
- The application will now be moved to the storage card. This might take a few seconds. Afterwards, it occupies significantly less space in internal storage than before.
- Press the Back button.
- Repeat steps 3 to 6 for the other SoftMaker Office Mobile applications.
Note: Please keep in mind that applications on storage cards can only be launched as long as the storage card stays inserted. If you remove or replace the storage card, you need to reinstall the applications.
Android 4.4 and higher: Saving documents to external SD cards
In addition to built-in storage, some Android devices come with an SD card slot that lets you extend their storage space.
Before Android 4.4, applications could store files on SD cards. With Android 4.4, Google has "improved" the operating system so that regular applications such as SoftMaker Office Mobile may no longer save documents there. Only system applications may write to SD cards; all others are restricted to read-only access.
As this was a deliberate design decision by Google, we cannot circumvent this restriction. Here are some ideas how you can work around it:
- Save only to internal storage; it is still writable. To later copy your documents to external storage media, use the file manager that comes with your device.
- If your device also has a USB port, insert a USB memory stick there. On some devices, they are not restricted to read-only access.
- Contact the manufacturer of the device. Maybe the manufacturer provides a ROM update that removes this absurd restriction.
- Forego local storage completely and keep your documents in Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote or OneDrive. All these can be accessed directly from within SoftMaker Office Mobile.
- For experienced users only: Root the device and change access rights. Google for kitkat sd card root to find instructions. Important: Please note that such a change may void the warranty of your device and might even prevent it from starting at all.


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WASHINGTON — The United States has contacted authorities in Hong Kong to seek the extradition of Edward Snowden, the man who admitted leaking top-secret details about U.S. surveillance programs, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday.
Federal prosecutors charged Snowden with espionage and theft of government property, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in Virginia on Friday.
The United States already asked Hong Kong, where Snowden is believed to be in hiding, to detain the former National Security Agency contract analyst on a provisional arrest warrant, The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials.
"If Hong Kong doesn't act soon, it will complicate our bilateral relations and raise questions about Hong Kong's commitment to the rule of law," the administration official said.
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December 7 2008
BAIE D'ORANGE, Haiti
The slow road to death runs high above the scenic coastline, past the crumbled bridges and buried rivers. It traverses a jagged trail passing green slopes and red fertile dirt before arriving here: an isolated mountain village where little Haitian girls dream of eating rice and the doctor is a three-hour walk away.
This is the place where children, suffering from stunted growth, look half their age, where struggling mothers cry that their half-starved babies with the brittle orange hair — evidence of malnutrition — neither crawl nor walk.
"He doesn't cry, 'Manman.' Or 'Papa,' " says Christmene Normilus, holding her malnourished 2-year-old son, Jean-Roselle Tata.
Emergency intervention
In the past month, international aid workers and doctors have airlifted 46 children on the brink of death from this southeastern village and neighboring communities to hospitals in Port-au-Prince, and elsewhere in the south.
The emergency intervention came after it was reported that 26 children from the Baie d'Orange region had died from severe malnutrition in the wake of the four successive storms that devastated Haiti in less than a month this summer.
But long before the deaths and hospitalizations plunged this poverty-stricken nation into the global spotlight amid fears of storm-related famine, the people of this farming community already were battling hunger.
Proud, they reluctantly admit that it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to feed their children, many of whom already suffer from chronic malnutrition.
Their story is repeated throughout the countryside, where a lack of roads, potable water and public-health facilities, as well as deforestation, already had Haiti's rural poor living in life-threatening misery before the four back-to-back storms washed out more roads, killed livestock and wiped out crops.
"We can't give our children what they need," said Jilesca Fulcal, 37, a mother of seven who recently sought medical care for her 2-year-old son, Jean-Samuel Jules. "There is no food. No work for the people. The children can't live like that. The children are suffering in their mothers' arms."
In recent weeks, the United Nations World Food Program has delivered food to the region, taking care to treat the children who are severely malnourished. But with many parts of the hilly hinterland accessible only by foot and horseback, residents say some people still have no access to the food.
Unseen suffering
Unlike Port-au-Prince, where Haiti's crushing poverty is visible in the crowded slums and on the streets, the misery here is through what visitors don't see: the eight- to 10-hour walk for water because there are no rivers, able-bodied young men toiling in the fields, the daily struggle to find food — including three hours to walk 12 miles on a rugged road to see the doctor.
"What's happening in Baie d'Orange is the result of poor political decision-making that has happened over several years," said Fednel Zidor, the government delegate for the southeast, who has gone on the radio to bring attention to the community's plight. "No one paid any attention to it."
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January 7 2005
Photos: © 2005 Haiti Information Project – A UN armored personnel vehicle rolls through Delmas 2 in Bel Air. Five people were killed on January 5 when the UN entered the pro-Lavalas neighborhood under the pretext of cleaning the streets of garbage. Although the UN force took advantage of several photo opportunities to show their public works projects yesterday, their only duty on January 5 was to enter the roiling slum on heavily armed patrols. ©2004 Haiti Information Project – On October 28, 2004, the Haitian police entered the slum of Bel Air and shot these four young men execution style. Now that the UN controls Bel Air, members of Aristide's Lavalas party demanded the UN stop the police and the former military from committing more murders in their communities. Some residents decided to leave Bel Air after the UN assumed control of the streets on January 5, 2005. Although the UN claims responsibility for security, members of Lavalas accuse the multinational force of allowing the Haitian National Police to execute armed raids in poor neighborhoods where support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide remains strong. Despite UN claims of having entered Bel Air with force on January 5th to clear the streets of trash, other than a few carefully planned photo opportunites with the Associated Press, there was little evidence of progress the next day.
A UN armored personnel vehicle rolls through a nearly deserted street in the neighborhood of Bel Air. Residents claim five persons were killed on January 5, 2005 when the UN invaded the slum with hundreds of Brazilian troops under the guise of street cleaning and civic improvement projects
UN occupies Bel Air in Haiti
Port au Prince, Haiti Hundreds of Brazilian soldiers and special units of the Haitian National Police stormed the pro-Aristide neighborhood of Bel Air in the early morning hours of January 5. Residents were surprised and frightened by the armed incursion as gunfire broke out. Witnesses reported that five persons were killed as the operation unfolded.
Bel Air is a slum in the capital of Port au Prince that has served as a launching site for demonstrations demanding the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide was ousted last February 29th amid charges he was kidnapped by U.S. Marines and remains in exile in the Republic of South Africa. The Bel Air slum had been under siege by police since violence erupted last September 30th after police opened fire on unarmed demonstrators.
Following the military operation, UN peacekeepers were seen providing photo opportunities to the press as they fixed a few water pipes and cleared the carcasses of burned out vehicles blocking the road. One resident who refused to give their name fearing reprisals stated, "Do you think we want to live like this? We are more afraid of the police coming in here and killing everyone than we are of the rats and the garbage. Those wrecked cars were our security because it stopped the police from coming in here at night and shooting us. Now that the UN has opened the door for them we don't know what is going to happen to us. Look what they did in Cite de Dieu yesterday."
The UN incursion came one day after Haitian police were accused of committing another deadly raid in a neighborhood close to Haiti's National Theater. In Cite de Dieu the police reportedly killed six people including a 16 year-old girl and later justified the slaughter claiming they were bandits.
An unidentified representative of Aristide's Lavalas party commented on the situation, "If the UN is really going to provide security to our communities then they must stop the police from murdering our citizens. We all want peace but you cannot blame people for wanting to defend themselves while the UN allows the police to commit murder and fill the jails with political prisoners. They must stop the police and the former military from murdering our citizens.
"Last October 28th the police executed four young men they thought were Lavalas and the UN did nothing to stop them.
"The UN cannot on one-hand say they are bringing security while on the other they claim to be assisting the police as they kill us, beat us and arrest us. It is a contradiction they must resolve or there will never be peace. They must control the police and stop the killing! They must support us in releasing all the political prisoners filling our jails!
"For now, it appears the UN are equally responsible for this partisan campaign to exterminate Lavalas that is clearly meant to silence our opposition to the coup of February 29, 2004."
San Francisco Bay Area Journalist Kevin Pina Held in Haiti
by Leisa Faulkner
September 12, 2005
Reporter Kevin Pina opened his family home to me last month in Port au Prince, Haiti when violence closed the orphanage where I usually stay to do human rights work. Tonight, Kevin sleeps in a jail cell like those I visited in Cap Haitian just weeks ago. He has become part of the story he risks his life daily to tell.
UN works to squash followers of Aristide in Haiti Port-au-Prince, Haiti Corralling residents and kicking down doors, heavily armed troops of the UN and the Police Nationale de Haiti invaded several neighborhoods of Cite Soleil one day after an alleged attack on the headquarters of the mission of the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. Jan 9
Deaths reported as UN enters Haiti slum Port au Prince, Haiti Sustained and heavy gunfire erupted in the pro-Aristide slum of Cite Soleil at about 3 a.m. this morning and was followed by an incursion into the area by hundreds of Brazilian and Jordanian troops of the United Nations. – Dec 14 2004
Tearing up the Charter: UN's Erosion Continues in Haiti Flashpoints Radio's Dennis Bernstein interviews Kevin Pina and Brian Concannon. Oct 18 2004
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
Aiding Oppression in Haiti: Kofi Annan and General Heleno's Complicity in Latortue's Jackal Regime Dec 16 2004
Haiti's Ship Sails on Without a Captain and With a Very Disreputable Crew: Kofi Annan, Roger Noriega, Colin Powell and Lula of Brazil have much to answer for failing to implement the UN's Stabilization Mission – Dec 9
Brazil's Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti: Doing God's or Washington's Work? -Dec 6
Oh, When All is Looted & Pillaged, Your Hunger Will Remain
February 28 2004
When President Bush took to the airwaves on Wednesday of this week, touting his Haitian counter-exodus measures, my suspicions of a repeat of 1991s coup d'etat were confirmed. The Coast Guard is to establish a wet line-of-defense, protecting the Cuban Shangri-La of Miami from boatloads of greasy, AIDS infected, odiferous Haitians. A carte blanche gifted to the water patrol units, granting cutter vessels total amnesty from any outcry resulting from dubious repatriation practices. The message was clear; this country will not tolerate another influx of non-European immigrants, especially those who defied our French brethren 200 years past.
Canada The Coup Coalition
March 7 2004
It looks like Paul Martin is already putting his mark on foreign affairs, with a shameful pandering to America in this. It was interesting to watch the hesitation in Foreign Affairs as the old hands working to save democracy in Haiti got the rug pulled out from under them by what Jamaica is already calling "new Canadians" – not meant to imply an improved version. I guess the business at any price types in the Liberal party have finally gotten their way.
So Americans, have no fear, or minor annoyance anyway – Canada will once again help hold the bag for you while you fill it with the corpses of anyone who dares to oppose your God given right to tell everyone else in the world how to manage their economy and live their lives.
Operation Enduring Sweatshop Another Bush Brings Hell to Haiti
March 10 2004
This week, the Bush administration added another violent "regime change" notch to its gunbelt, toppling the democratically elected president of Haiti and replacing him with an unelected gang of convicted killers, death squad leaders, militarists, narcoterrorists, CIA operatives, hereditary elitists and corporate predators – a bit like Team Bush itself, in other words.
Hidden from the Headlines
Haiti After the Coup The Final Chapter Has Yet To Be Written
When Hidden from the Headlines was first published in August 2003, we wrote: Since the election of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2000, the United States has moved to sabotage Haiti's fledgling democracy through an economic aid embargo, massive funding of elite opposition groups, support for paramilitary coup attempts, and a propaganda offensive against the Aristide government. Hidden from the headlines for years, this campaign has now become an open effort to destroy a popularly elected, progressive government.
And I am sure the Sanctions they were under also helped them into extreme poverty as well.
Haitian children died from severe malnutrition
Poverty crushing the People of Haiti /History on Sanctions
Save the Children has served the needs of some of Haiti's poorest children and families since 1985. Today, through advocacy, by reinforcing government social services and supporting community-based development programs in protection, education, health, food security, livelihoods and humanitarian relief, we are improving the lives of some 425,000 children and adults in urban and rural communities in six provinces and 33 districts. To better serve the great needs of children and best use the vital resources of our donors, Save the Children recently merged programs and activities with other members of the International Save the Children Alliance who also have programs in Haiti.
Challenges for Children
Of all the nations in the Western Hemisphere, none faces greater challenges to improve the lives of its children than Haiti. In addition to its poor development indicators, Haiti is the country most affected by HIV/AIDS outside of sub-Saharan Africa, which aggravates the well-being of children whose health is already compromised by poverty and inadequate access to basic health care.
|Improving the health, education and food security of poor children and women.
Numbers at a Glance
- Average life expectancy in Haiti is 52 years.
- Under-5 mortality rate is 120 per 1,000 live births.
- Some 3.8 percent of the population is believed to be HIV positive, among them 17,000 children.
- Some 500,000 girls and boys are out of school and some 300,000 children live in domestic servitude.
Our Response
Protection: In urban areas, including the capital of Port-au-Prince, Save the Children supports welcome centers for street children that provide food and shelter, education and health programs and counseling and play opportunities. Centers offer scholarship assistance so that children can attend school and provide on-site lessons to prepare children for formal schooling. Save the Children also supports children's rights through direct local interventions and national advocacy. Through a network of children's clubs, we educate girls and boys on their rights, offers recreational youth activities and endorse positive civic participation.
Education: Save the Children implements a rural education program in over 200 community, government and mission schools. Through it, we reach over 22,000 students in Haiti's Central Plateau, Southeast and Artibonite regions. We advocate for state recognition and more resources for the country's growing network of community-run schools. We also pilot school readiness programs for pre-school girls and boys to increase their chances for later educational success. Primary children benefit from our school health and nutrition activities, receiving de-worming medication, iodine, iron supplementation and hygiene training, all of which help them stay in school. Innovative radio learning programs further extend the reach of our educational initiatives. And, Haiti is also part of Save the Children's Rewrite the Future campaign to support education in conflict-affected countries.
Community Health: In partnership with the Ministry of Health, Save the Children provides quality primary health care to mothers and young children in the Artibonite and Central provinces. We help prevent and treat malaria, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases. We also train health care workers, invest in health infrastructure and medical equipment and develop community-based health committees to promote local participation and community well-being. In addition, we vaccinate children, provide them with supplemental vitamins and micronutrients, promote the benefits of breastfeeding and address childhood illnesses such as diarrhea. Save the Children projects also increase access to potable drinking water and oral re-hydration therapies. Reproductive health activities promote family planning, pre- and post-natal visits, safe deliveries and sexual education.
HIV/AIDS: Save the Children implements an HIV/AIDS program which has been greatly scaled up over the past year. Its goals are to improve access to prevention services and testing and counseling, mobilize community support for orphans and vulnerably children, improve the management of antiretroviral treatment programs and develop a coordinated system of care in the Artibonite, Central, Western and Nippes provinces. Activities include: mobilizing communities to assist persons living with and affected by HIV/AIDS; prevention of mother-to-child transmission; and promotion of safer sexual practices among youth. We help form local support groups and health committees and organize public awareness campaigns such as weekly radio broadcasts. Save the Children also leads a consortium of other organizations which is expanding HIV/AIDS programs into disadvantaged rural areas.
Food Security: Save the Children helps improve the nutritional status of children in eight districts in the Central and Artibonite provinces. We monitor children's nutrition, provide food to pregnant and lactating women, children under age 2 and malnourished children; improve community health and nutrition practices and promote improved agricultural production and marketing to bolster local economic growth.
Humanitarian Relief: Save the Children provides humanitarian relief and child-centered assistance for children and families affected by natural disasters. Over the past five years, we also have conducted community-based disaster preparedness and mitigation activities.
Sponsorship: In Haiti, Save the Children sponsors are one of our most important resources. Through this support, we improve the lives of thousands of children every year by providing primary education and school health and nutrition programs in the Maïssade district in the Central Plateau. We are currently exploring expansion possibilities to other regions.
Looking Forward for Children
Save the Children continues to integrate its protection, education, primary health care, HIV/AIDS prevention and food security programs, while promoting household economic growth activities in communities. We also plan to broaden our impact through expanded geographic coverage in both urban and rural areas and increase our advocacy work for children's rights.
More Teachers Help Make a Difference for Mona
Like many children from the community of Maissade, Mona began attending the local public school when she was 6. She is now in 3rd grade, but despite good attendance and health, Mona did not pass the tests that would have promoted her to the next grade. Save the Children learned that the school Mona attended had six classrooms managed by only one director and one teacher.
Save the Children responds to the shortage of teachers in public schools by training and placing new teachers in classrooms. In partnership with a local university and the Ministry of Education, high school graduates receive intensive teacher training followed by an assignment to a classroom that previously had no teacher.
The increased teacher-student ratio has made a difference in the quality of learning for Mona. She passed all of her exams; many girls just like Mona are advancing to the next grades.
Loudouide and Friends: A Chance to Attend School
"Because of Save the Children, all the children in my community can go to school and I am happy about that."
Loudouide and her family live in a remote part of Maïssade District, an eight-hour drive from the capital of Port-au-Prince. In a country where half a million children do not go to school because their families cannot afford to send them, and only 2 percent finish secondary education, Loudouide and her village friends are benefiting from a golden opportunity – a chance to attend school.
Thanks to our community schools initiative, there has been a 20 percent increase in the number of children attending school in the areas where we work. In a country where nearly one person in every two is illiterate, this presents a life-changing opportunity for children such as Loudouide and her friends, their families and community.
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Haiti: MSF/Doctors Without Borders Teams Assess the Nutritional Situation Across the Country
Reason for Intervention:
- Armed Conflict
- Social Violence/Healthcare exclusion
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Large sections of Haiti's population, particularly in the capital, Port-au- Prince, live in precarious conditions due to poverty, neglect, urban violence and lack of access to basic healthcare. Violence continues, especially in Martissant, where MSF treated over 200 gunshot injuries. An MSF survey between January 2006 to July 2007 showed that nearly one in four deaths in Martissant was related to violence.
Violence and conflict
Since December 2006, MSF has operated an emergency health center in Martissant, a neighborhood characterized by daily violence and a lack of medical facilities. Every day, patients are referred from the emergency health center to the other hospitals where MSF works. MSF established a number of mobile clinics in the heart of the Martissant neighborhoods, with medical teams offering primary healthcare to some 400 patients a day.
At the end of 2007, MSF handed over its project in the slum of Cité Soleil, where the security situation has improved, to the Ministry of Health. The project started in July 2005 to guarantee access to care for victims of the violence. The ongoing presence of MSF teams, even during the most intense fighting, resulted in 72,000 consultations at the primary health center of Chapi and 32,000 at Choscal hospital, where more than 13,000 patients were hospitalized. However, since April the situation has got better, with no patient with a bullet wound seen at the Tuscaloosa hospital and people in the neighborhood no longer living in fear and isolation.
MSF continued to provide medical and surgical care at its Trinite trauma center in Port-au- Prince, admitting more than 14,000 patients compared with 11,000 in 2006. The number of admissions for gunshot wounds fell from 1,300 in 2006 to 500 in 2007, although the number of victims of stab wounds, rape and beatings continued to rise. In total, 2,847 patients were admitted for violence-related trauma.
Throughout the year, MSF medical teams focused on improving quality of care, working to perfect the recently introduced surgical technique of orthopedic internal fixation. A total of 205 patients benefited from this technique, which sharply reduced their length of stay in hospital.
MSF also operates a physical rehabilitation center where patients needing specialized post-operative treatment can receive physiotherapy and psychological care.
In June, MSF increased its capacity to treat victims of sexual violence in the capital, offering comprehensive psychological and medical treatment. The program treated 242 victims between July 2006 and June 2007. Awareness campaigns emphasizing confidentiality and the need to seek treatment within 72 hours resumed in July in the shantytowns and city center.
Maternal health needs
Maternal mortality rates in Haiti are the highest in the western hemisphere (approximately 630 women die for 100,000 births), mainly due to eclampsia. The insecure urban slum environment where many women live limits their access to healthcare as physical and sexual violence, extortion and common crime are serious threats.
In 2006, the emergency maternal Jude Ann hospital was opened in Port-au-Prince, the only hospital in Haiti to offer free emergency obstetric care. By the end of 2007, over 13,000 women had given birth here. MSF also started providing services in fixed clinics in selected slum communities, with ante- and post-natal care and a referral service in the three slums of La Saline, Pelé Simon and Solino. Mental health services will be added in 2008.
MSF has worked in Haiti since 1991.


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