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Wailidup Hotel – Panama
A small overwater lodge situated on a private island off the Caribbean coast of Panama, the Wailidup Hotel is an eco friendly accommodation that gives visitors the chance to experience an overwater stay at a fraction of the price of more well known resorts. In each overwater room here, you'll find a bed, a fan, and a private bathroom, but not much else. You'll also find stunning views of the ocean beyond from your very own private terrace. On the island itself, is a lodge that holds 3 more bedrooms.
Though there isn't a spa on-site, there is a restaurant that features a bar and impresses with fresh seafood and fish. Some menu items include spider crabs, snails, and lobsters. This isn't a resort for someone who wants to spend a good amount of time in their rooms but is rather outfitted for guests who love the idea of spending each day of their stay exploring the natural area and islands around them. If you love daily tours, then this is the place for you.
The Wailidup Hotel is located in the Kuna Yala archipelago of Caribbean Panama.
6 Overwater Bungalows
Beds: 1 Queen and 1 double bed
Wi-Fi: No
Entertainment system: No
Room service: No
Special room features
- Fans
- Private bathroom
- Private terrace with ocean views
- Private entrance and walkway
- Wooden structure
- Metal roof
Restaurants and bars
- IGUABI restaurant and bar
Resort features
- Daily tours
- Free beach chairs
- Boat transfer service
- Beach
- Snorkeling
There is no spa on-site.
Nearby activities
- A sunken ship
- Snorkeling
- Natural pools
- Islands that you can tour (Isla Perro, Isla Pelicano, Isla del Diablo, and Cayos Holandeses)
What the reviews say
There aren't a lot of reviews to draw from, but the for the ones that do exist, they're a mixed bag of feelings. Some guests love the experience of being out among nature, the daily tours, and the snorkeling opportunities. Others, however, don't like it at all and would have rather stayed somewhere else. As long as you understand that this is a basic lodge with only a handful of amenities, you'll do just fine.
Getting there
To reach the Wailidup Hotel, you'll first need to fly into Panama City's international airport, the Tocumen International Airport (PTY). If you like to drive, you can then rent a 4×4 vehicle and drive to the port of Carti where a boat will take you directly to the lodge. If you rather not rent a vehicle, you can take a quick taxi from the international airport over to the Albrook airport where you'll then take a 35 minute flight to the Porvenir airport. You'll then be met by a boat waiting to take you to the hotel.

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Jessica Bell, PhD
Associate Professor
AFFIRM Cohort '14
- Postdoctoral studies, University of California-San Francisco, Biochemistry & Biophysics
- Postdoctoral studies, National Institutes of Health, Biochemistry & Biophysics
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
- B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Jessica Bell, PhD, joined the University of San Diego faculty in 2014. Dr. Bell's teaching interests lie in Biochemistry and Biophysics, but she also enjoys engaging first year students in the General Chemistry laboratory course. Her current research focus is on host-pathogen interactions and the structure-function relationships that build the host's defense mechanisms.
Scholarly Work
In her research, Dr. Bell uses a variety of techniques to investigate structure-function relationships in host-pathogen interactions. Currently, she is interested in uncovering the function of a newly discovered protein that is post translationally modified in the context of a viral infection and following invasion by Salmonella typhimurium. The goal of this project is to investigate this protein's function through structural studies via x-ray crystallography and hydrogen-deuterium exchange, cellular localization through immunofluorescence assays (fixed and live cell), functional assays such as cytoskeletal rearrangement observed via migration & phagocytosis assays, and defining the protein interaction network through co-immunoprecipitation coupled to tandem mass spectroscopy (MS)/MS studies. Also of interest to the Bell lab is the evolution of this protein's structure-function relationship from Metazoan precursors (choanoflagellates) through worms, flies, zebra fish to humans. With a long standing interest in allosteric regulation and enzyme cooperativity, Bell is also interested in regulatory control of the host's antiviral response, particularly the enzyme TANK binding kinase 1 which her group showed displays negative cooperativity towards phosphorylation targets. The goal of this project is to discern the molecular details of subunit communication within the dimeric kinase that conveys this regulation.
Areas of Interest
Professor Bell enjoys teaching Biochemistry as well as an upper division Biophysics lab intensive course and General Chemistry lab to 1st year students. She is part of a working group within the American Society of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology that accredits biochemistry degrees and programs. She is passionate about bringing the research paradigm to the classroom and is part of an inter-institutional team to develop an adoptable model to bring authentic research to biochemistry and molecular biology laboratory courses.
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Video: Knowing His Racket to the Gram
You hear the stories all the time: Pro tennis players are hyper-sensitive, to the point where they can sense miniscule differences in surfaces, ball brands and especially in their rackets. In reporting on players and their rackets, I came across enough stories of seemingly impossible feats of sensitivity to fill a book. But how much of this was real, and how much was imagined, a trick of the mind?
To find out, we asked Michael Russell to be our lab rat. Russell turned pro in 1998 and has played tennis since age 5. He has hit thousands upon thousands of tennis balls and knows what he likes in a racket. He agreed to meet us at the Sportime tennis club on New York's Randall's Island last Saturday for a racket challenge.
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It's a brief, sharp sound that signifies the last time an FFA member takes off his or her corduroy jacket. The soft material is a little faded at the elbows. The front left side is riddled with holes from officer badges, event awards and degree pins. The pockets are filled with programs from leadership conferences, sticks of gum and mementos from the past few years. Taking off an FFA jacket for the last time can be an emotional moment for FFA members who have grown to love and respect the National FFA Organization. However, it can also be seen as a step toward the next blue jacket to be worn in life: the FFA Alumni jacket.
Businesses, corporations and other organizations across the country are continuing to develop ways their members and employees can come together to support agricultural education programs and FFA chapters. By chartering a nontraditional FFA Alumni chapter, these groups connect geographically separate, but otherwise connected, individuals with one another. These alumni chapters allow members to rally around nearby chapters, even if those chapters are not a program from which they graduated or in a state where they grew up.
Green and Yellow and Blue and Gold
In 2010, Cory Reed wanted to get back to his FFA roots. After serving as the chair for the National FFA Foundation Sponsors' Board, the John Deere executive learned about the concept of corporate alumni affiliation. Seven years later, what began as a grassroots effort with 12 initial employees has grown to more than 300 members across multiple states.
"We like to think of our chapter as a success because our members take the time and make the commitment to connect with young men and women who they've never met before because they know there is great value in the next generation of leaders," says Steve Conrad, FiHRE IT project manager and the current president of the John Deere FFA Alumni Chapter. "They don't back away from helping. They put their hearts into it, and they love it. You don't have to have worn the blue jacket to feel that way."
In fact, some of the members from John Deere did not grow up in an area with FFA chapters. While a few have experience through other youth leadership organizations, there are others who had never heard of the National FFA Organization before joining as alumni.
"While we love being in the schools and working with the home chapters near our facilities, bringing the students onto our campuses makes a huge difference," says Conrad. "During National FFA Week, we invite members in their Official Dress into the office to welcome our colleagues to work with a smile and a handshake. This seemingly small event makes a huge impact on our employees and really encourages them to join the alumni chapter and to get involved in everything we do."
John Deere's alumni chapter officers and members also support the efforts behind the John Deere Dealer scholarship program, as well as the International Leadership Seminar for State Officers and the National Leadership Conference for State Officers.
Growing Leadership
As a more recently established nontraditional FFA Alumni chapter, Monsanto has found that formalizing its engagement with FFA has been overwhelmingly positive.
"Twelve months ago, we clearly supported the mission of the National FFA Organization, but we wanted more opportunities to give back," says Erik Curry, strategic accounts, regional account manager and the Monsanto FFA Alumni Chapter secretary. "We have a number of employees who already pursued lifetime alumni membership, so with the support of our executive leadership team, we formally chartered in January 2017."
Months later, the chapter, which is currently focused on Missouri and Illinois, is now up to 100 members and gaining momentum.
"While we are just starting with our alumni chapter, we are very excited for the opportunity to engage with FFA members and to help students in their personal development and career goals," says Kodi Fietsam, global biotechnology regulatory affairs manager and the Monsanto FFA Alumni Chapter president. "Many of our members were FFA members, too. Many of us attribute our experiences in FFA as a huge part of our development and getting us to where we are today. We want to give back just as much as what was given to us." The Monsanto FFA Alumni Chapter is always looking forward to continuing its support by judging, coaching and participating in food drives and community service events. In fact, the group hosted its first FFA Fishing Derby in July to raise money for local chapters. Members awarded prizes, hosted a silent auction and held a raffle. It was also a chance for alumni members to get their families involved in the new organization.
Bridging the Gap
For those FFA members who choose to go to college after graduation, nontraditional alumni chapters like the one at the University of Arkansas provide an excellent way to bridge the gap between high school and the career world. The alumni chapter at Arkansas has nearly 30 percent of its membership enrolled in a major outside of the agriculture department.
"Many collegiate chapters have been structured like high school chapters," says Kate Shoulders, associate professor of agricultural education, communication, and technology at the University of Arkansas. "We want our students to feel like they are ready to move on to the next step when they graduate. They know what it's like to be an adult and to serve the students of FFA, and they know what the next step will be."
One of the most unique activities the University of Arkansas FFA Alumni Chapter does is support the work of the Leadership Development Event (LDE) superintendents at the National FFA Convention & Expo. They organize, judge and give dedicated feedback to FFA members. While this is a great opportunity to understand how contests are run, it is also an excellent way to network and develop relationships with key business contacts.
Chain Reactions
Regardless of whether an alumni chapter is considered traditional or nontraditional, the impact that members have on local FFA chapters is unparalleled. The decision to become an FFA Alumni member starts a chain reaction that benefits the alumni member, the FFA member and future generations of agriculture students. After unzipping the corduroy jacket, it is the perfect time to reach for an alumni blazer and button it up with great pride.
How to charter a Nontraditional FFA Alumni chapter
Formalizing membership and service to the National FFA Organization can be a quick-and-easy process. Resources and quick links are found at FFA.org/StartAlumniChapter. By filling out and submitting the "Application for Chartering a Nontraditional FFA Alumni Chapter," members can rapidly and efficiently begin to serve FFA members.
In order to be an active and official nontraditional FFA Alumni chapter, the group must meet these annual requirements:
- Have at least 10 annual or life members at the state or national level.
- Have a current constitution and bylaws.
- Have a council of elected leaders.
Participants can choose to be members through traditional dues or affiliation programs. Membership will also be considered in the delegate count in the state where the charter is registered.


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__Generally I regard port-o-potties as places of depraved acts, where somehow stuff that logistically should never make it onto walls does, smells are released that are so vile even blue chemical sludge can't mask them, and toothless sexual deviants pretend it's their own, well, public restroom.Throughout my life, I've felt dissuaded from ever wanting to live in a portable toilet or feel that anyone ever should, which is why I find the port-o-potty ladies in Moscow, who I've amply named Port-o-Lou-s, to be an absolute marvel.
The first time I saw this phenomenon was the most disturbing, as I believed the port-o-lady to be actually engaged in one of the aforementioned acts of depravity, but after further study, which we will not discuss what might insinuate about me, I could see that this wasn't the case. There were blankets in there. She was dressed for the long haul, with fingerless gloves and a kerchief around her head, things usually removed in such intimate moments. Her dress wasn't hiked above her knees. Most notably, there were stacks of newspapers and magazines, which, at the moment, a moment that should have been the time to be reading them, she wasn't at all interested in. She was working!
Outside Prazhskaya Station, the Metro stop nearest my home, there are three separate lines of portable toilets, the only public restrooms within a twenty-minute radius, at which time you'd reach the next tiny village of little blue hovels, where a new twenty-minute radius begins, spreading throughout Moscow. Each line of these port-o-potties consists of three to four separate units, the last—the end unit—of which is occupied by a Port-o-Lou, a lady employed to sit in her own specially re-engineered model (the door designed to be more like that of a tollbooth) and collect money from anyone who might want use of one of the other, unoccupied portos.
Perhaps every bit as troubling as that first sighting is that I never pass these nomadic potty conglomerates without seeing the same respective Port-o-Lou-s in wait. I've seen them playing card games, chatting with passers-by (regulars, maybe), actually reading those magazines, texting, having a snack, and just staring off into the distance, but I have never seen them not doing these things, simply not there. From about seven in the morning to about nine at night , I have no fear of walking by, and I so inclined, relieving myself in portable privacy. And, my wife thinks I spend a long time in the bathroom.
I'm not sure what to take from it all: a feeling of sorrow for someone who is living out one of my nightmares, respect for someone who has gainful employment despite unsavory conditions and the attitudes of others, or absolute wonderment at the things this lady will have seen in a lifetime spent at the helm of where people who put stuff on the walls, where out-doers of blue chemical sludge, and where sexual deviants converge to pay their pittance before visiting the wholly, transportable grail. Simply put, I'm in awe.
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Vivan stops Radha from slapping Pari and asks how dare she is to try to slap his Pari. Radha apologizes him and asks him to come aside as she wants to talk to him.
Kokila asks Gopi not to worry about Pari and to go and rest. Gopi gets drowsy. Ahem holds. Gopi says she just got drowsy, but wants to go and search Pari now. Ahem says she should forget about others and concentrate on her family now.
Radha says Vivan that Pari deserves slap as she was shouting at her. Vian says if she has problem with Pari, she can walk away. Pari sees them fighting and tries to break her rope.
Kokila brings Gopi to her room and asks her to rest now. Gopi says Pari is in trouble and they should save her from Vivan. Kokila says she loves everyone selflessly that she does not see anyone's mistakes, Pari is playing kidnap drama and she should understand that.
Radha scolds Vivan that he is not bothered about even his life except Pari's. Vivan gets irked.
Kokila asks her Gopi to stop thinking about Pari. Gopi thinks how to explain Kokila that Pari is in trouble, don't know how she would be.
Pari frees herself, gets into truck's driver seat and flees in truck. Vivan runs behind truck. Truck's gets out of control and does not stop. Radha also runs behind truck. Vivan climbs truck and tries to come in the front cabin. Pari asks him to leave the truck. Radha uses short cut and stands in between the road to stop truck. Pari applies breaks and it stops just in front of Radha. Radha falls down and shouts that her unborn child is harmed. Vivan jumps on the road and falls unconscious. Pari goes to rescue Radha, but Radha holds her hand and slaps her continuously. Vivan wakes up and makes Pari sniff chloroform. Pari falls unconscious.
Jigar reminisces Pari telling that she loves him more than herself and professing her love repeatedly, getting married, loving kids, etc., and smiles, but then gets angry reminiscing she hugging Vivan. Gopi comes and says can understand his pain, but can say Pari loves him really. He says Pari loves Vivan. She says he is thinking wrong. He says he only believes what he sees.
Vivan and Radha take Pari to a secluded house and tie her with rope again. Radha asks Vivan to control his emotions and think practically. Vivan says Pari if she tries to flee again, he will not spare her. Pari thinks Gopi and Jigar should help her.
Gopi prays god that she lost Rashi and now cannot afford Pari, prays to get Pari back to her. She hears door bell and goes to check. Traffic inspector says that he brought chalan against Ahem for speeding car. Ahem says he did not drive his car since many days. Inspector says his constable has a proof and only after proper investigation, he came here. Ahem gives fine amount and sends him. He calls drivers and scolds them for misusing his leniance, warns them and gets into his room. Driver says Vivan used to drive Ahem's car. Gopi checks date as 10th on which Pari was kidnapped and says Ahem that she has proof Vivan has kidnapped Pari. He says he does not want to listen about Pari and asks her not to talk about her again. Gopi thinks only Jigar can help now.
Precap: Jigar calls airline company and receptionist informs that Vivan did not board flight that day. Kokila realizes that Vivan is Pari's kidnapper.
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Public Comment
Berkeley Homelessness: Define USE
The Homeless Experience is definitely of "use" in keeping the rest of us working like good citizens and not dallying, but if one tries to think about them from the perspective of reintegration, some interesting ideas arise.
Once we have gotten done wantonly punishing homeless for not participating in the workforce, it may be of great interest to us to see what we've done to them. Thought of as wholly separate entitities they can perhaps all go to hell and who gives a toot. If all we consider them as being relavent to is that they are a nuisance to be relocated, then that is not much better. But to the extent that we might consider ourselves as one in a distinctly human experience which ties us all together in spite of everything, we would have an interest in what we have done to them. This is key. This is more the key than yes they can see, or yes they can count, or maybe sweep a street. Also, I'm not addressing inherent psychological disturbance of which there is admittedly much and for which little can perhaps be done from a causative perspective. I am addressing psychological issues created by the state of being homeless and the reality of what that means in terms of being cast out, unwanted, unacknowledged as a human being in spite of everything, unhelped, unloved, and undeveloped as a person. No matter where on the scale of competency a person falls, this reality has an effect all it's own. These are basic human needs which do not go away because a person is homeless. I believe that much of the highly obnoxious, aggressive behavior seen in homeless people, especially towards each other as men and women, and which certainly does not help endear them to passersby, is based on narcissistic rage which stems logically and in no small part from the underlying subjective crisis caused by being in this state.
What could this possibly mean in terms of city policy? Well, that's a good question and if the answer were easy it probably would have been discovered already. Any useful answer that CAN be put forth however, has very far reaching potential to act as a model for everyplace else that struggles with the same problem as soon as they find the political will to do something. The thing that draws my interest into putting a serious bead on this line of inquiry is the word "compassionate." If this word is to put it's honesty where it's mouth is and not just be a politically efficacious platitude, then there is hope here. It is challenging to be compassionate to someone who is being an ass. Even then, it is even more challenging to feel compassion with enough conviction to break the unspoken rules which keep us from thinking too intensely about this, and cause us to essentially dismiss the homeless as being human garbage to be tolerated, shuffled around, whatever.
For Berkeley to lead the way it has to break a social rule, and this is a big deal. The rule which it has to break is the rule which states that the homeless experience is entirely something that homeless people have done to themselves. To break that rule is to acknowledge tacitly and publically that at least in part, something has also been done TO them to create their particular experience. This is a big no no, because you can see as an admission of guilt how it deflects responsibility - and as everyone knows there is no extra budget for a new sense of such responsibility. Even if one did invest money that doesn't exist into capital investments to shelter and feed the homeless and maybe put them to work somehow or try to get them back on their feet (note Delancey Street in S.F. as a model), it doesn't necessarily address the core issue which I am addressing.
For Berkeley to lead the way it has to ask the homeless what it feels like to be disenfranchised. It has to do this publically. It has to demonstrate a genuine curiosity to know what their experience is and has been like regardeless of their state of apparent sanity. It has to put the pictures and stories and whatever other content is generated forward in a public venue, and something meaningful - not hidden away in the back room of a library. This is not just a horrid exercize. It has a great use, greater than sweeping all the streets - and one that benefits everyone, not just the homeless themselves. It is reintegration for us too, with our ability to be compassionate in a whole way, not a comparmentalized, selective way which is guided by various social traffic signs. It also challenges us to accept our role in this drama. It is a bold act which will be appreciated first by the mature, costs very little, and is a first step in offering a slice of dignity to the homeless. After all the first wave of inevitable and reasonable rage is allowed to vent, it lets them know that they actually do mean something in the community because the measure of their HUMAN EXPERIENCE is actually sought out as it relates to their extraordinarily stressful circumstance.


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Spain's Juan Alberto Belloch is running for office on the "Linux platform" – betting his political future on the power and appeal of open-source software.
Belloch, candidate for mayor of Zaragoza, plans to build a network of "Open Cities" across Spain, each with its own team of technical experts charged with developing open-source software for use within the city and throughout the country.
Belloch also plans to turn the province of Aragón into an international showcase for the benefits of open-source development. Zaragoza is the capital city of Aragón.
"We want to be the Redmond of the European free software world," Belloch said.
Belloch will officially present his Open Cities plan to Spain's Parliament on May 10. The mayors of Seville, Lleida, Mataró, Madrid and Gijón also support the plan.
Belloch, currently a Zaragoza councilman and previously Spain's minister of justice, insists he's not a particularly technically inclined person.
"I'm doing this only because I fell in love with Linux."
Belloch began his romance with Linux four months ago, after meeting with a local Linux users group. Members were invited to a meeting to discuss open-source software and the possibility of providing free wireless access to Zaragoza residents.
"These guys were just amazing," Belloch said. "They were very different from other kinds of activists I've worked with. They were not demanding, shouting or even asking. Instead they were actually doing things.
"They were smart and reasonable. They were funny and calm. I think they were happy to be heard for the first time by a politician, but they did not seem too impressed either. They talked long about Linux. They talked about its practical advantages and also the philosophy behind it."
Belloch was amused by the fact that few of the group members had ever met each other face to face.
"It was so great that they were much more excited about finally meeting each other than about meeting me, a well-known public figure in Spain."
That night Belloch got a copy of Linux, the "Augustux" distribution coded by a local geek called Charro. (Zaragoza was founded by the Romans and originally called Caesar Augusta, hence the name Augustux – an homage to history and Tux, the Linux mascot.)
"That was the night I fell in love with Linux," Belloch said. "But love or not, being a winning candidate, nicely ahead in the polls, and betting it all on something as difficult to explain as Linux still seemed dangerous to me."
A week later Belloch had a meeting with several local businessmen.
"When I started talking, a little shy, about free software, these people got very excited," Belloch said. "Not only did they not criticize the idea, but they supported it.
"They talked about exactly the same things that the young activists had told me made Linux a good thing – open access to code, reliability and security. That talk from them also made me feel more secure."
Belloch believes that Linux offers profitable options for locals to develop their own software and technology businesses. Open code, he thinks, could give Spaniards new opportunities to provide better applications and support for the growing European open-source market.
And, he says, the economics are right: Copies of Augustux are available for free, allowing schools, older people on fixed incomes, and entire communities to get computer access – something the government can't afford to do with proprietary software.
Belloch has now centered his campaign around free software and free wireless Internet access for all. He hands out CD copies of Augustux at political events and meetings. And he's assembled a team of technical advisers, many of who identify themselves as hackers and cyberpunks.
One team member, coder and activist David de Ugarte of the Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas, joined the campaign after what was to be a brief lunch meeting with Belloch.
De Ugarte was so enthusiastic about the candidate's plans that he never returned to his home. Instead he bought some clothes and moved into a local hotel so he could start working for Belloch's campaign.
Four months later, de Ugarte is still living at that hotel.
"I'm doing this because I dream of my country as a place for innovation, with freedom and open access to technology for everybody," de Ugarte said.
"Belloch's magic is that he can clearly explain how free and open technologies can be translated into opportunities, political participation, economic growth and social welfare. And he does this with hard numbers and real details, not just techie poetry."
Belloch is gaining backers for his Open Cities plan. He currently leads in the major polls – Spain's general elections will be held in November 2003 – and the Aragón Parliament recently passed a bill supporting free software unanimously.
Belloch's team is now confidently gearing up its PR to counter Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's visit with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar next week.
They've been told President Bush personally arranged the visit and that Ballmer is coming to promote Microsoft applications. Microsoft did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
Bob Kramer, executive director of the Initative for Software Choice, an industry-backed group that lobbies against laws or policy changes that stipulate or strongly encourage governmental use of open-source software, said that Belloch's reliance on open-source software could damage his Open Cities plan.
"Competitive coexistence, with software from all development models competing vigorously for the attention of government procurement officers, remains the best way toward serving governments and their constituents," Kramer said.
Kramer also warned that official preference for open-source software could "erect obstacles to free trade that may run afoul of EU-signed trade agreements, such as the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, as well as free-trade trends across the globe, and ... discriminate not just against American companies, but also against EU member countries."
Ricardo Cavero, a former Reuters IT manager who now works full time for Belloch's campaign, said he's not worried that Linux's momentum in Spain will be slowed by the sorts of issues Kramer raised.
"I think the open-source movement is unstoppable," Cavero said. "But I also know the battle is just beginning."
Belloch echoed Cavero's sentiments.
"This open-source software battle might be not easy," Belloch said, "but open is the way that it must be."


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Isn't it funny that we write things on checks that we rarely write during the rest of life? Where else would you find yourself writing out "ninety-eight one hundredths" (even if you usually write it as "98/100")?
And where or when else would you find yourself writing out – or listening to – things like "I'm not a pretzel, I'm just a boy!" than as the parent of a small (soon to be not-so-small) boy or girl?
The feeling of heart-swelling-burstiness has not reduced, and there are so many great lines that Shakespeare or Brecht or Ibsen or SOMEONE should want to come back and be inspired by them.
Auntie Em visited the other week, and she and Girl went to the Post Office, among other places, and returned with two heart-shaped lollipops. These inspire madness and begging, and if someone could find a way to harness the build up of desire in small children when candy is mentioned (shown, offered, hinted at), we wouldn't need to search for any more alternative energies. We'd fuel the world.
Or just a lot of stickiness. Girl chomped through hers, but Boy lingered over his. When I had had enough of his lollipop, I took it away – roughly when his sister was done, so they were both empty-handed. He took it well, and life went on. Hours later, he began to pretend-cry, and we wondered what he was going to say: "ah-hunh-hunh-hunh…[he continued in his "I'm being funny" voice] I'm so sad – I can't eat my lollipop anymore!"
The other day, looking outside, he said, in his sweet serious voice, "I don't see any birdies anywhere!"
At dinner, he dripped water from his water bottle onto his feet and said, "I spilled some water on my piggy wiggy toes!" (Much like with Girl, we laugh about how a two-year-old should be able to use two to four word sentences. Check!)
This is all a far cry from these favorites from just two months ago, when words were often repeated within a sentence and lots of words had "uh" added at the end, like "Daddy-uh":
1/18: I will get boogie out nose.
1/19: Let me peel baleema self! (baleema=banana, except when baleema = vitamins)
1/20: Daddy sit you us.
Nannie has tiger, too.
Mama turn on light on, Mama!
In response to "What are you doing?":
1/21: Just picking nose out boogie-uh.
2/6: I'm busy day. I'm just doing puzzle, Daddy-uh.
I'm just working this, Daddy (about Daddy's knee scooter, which was a great source of fascination and requests for rides, while it was needed).
But my favorite, one that's been around a while, is usually said with joy, with a wee-boy head rested on a mama shoulder: "My mama hold-ee B– Boo!" He often asks to be picked up that way, and he says it with great satisfaction and contentment when he's been picked up.
Lest Boy get all the glory here, Girl has been holding her own, language-wise. The other day, she told me that Boy was "trudging into the living room." She also told Daddy that Boy was "gazing up at your foot!" when he was, indeed, lying on his back on the floor, looking up at Daddy's becasted foot which stuck off the aforementioned knee scooter.
And finally, from 1/20, too: "I love you as much as the stars are bright!" My heart blazed extra that day.
It's too bad there's no memo line for life. I'm ninety-eight one hundredths sure I'd remember to use it.


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Privacy Policy
Last updated 24th May 2018
1. Introduction
Here at Aculab, we respect the privacy of our customers and contacts who have expressed an interest in our products and services.
Aculab will use personal information for account management, administration, technical support, marketing and providing user IDs and passwords for protected areas of Aculab's websites.
Aculab will not rent or sell your personal information with other organisations for their own marketing purposes. For users of the Aculab Cloud service, sharing of certain data with third parties is required to enable us to provide the service – section 7.3 provides more detail.
Aculab will not retain personal information for longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
All email marketing/e-newsletters contain instructions on how to unsubscribe.
Emails from Aculab and any files transmitted with them, are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. General email communications may represent the originator's personal views and opinions, and not necessarily reflect those of Aculab. If you are not the original recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received the email in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited.
The anti-virus software used by Aculab is updated regularly in an effort to minimise the possibility of viruses infecting our systems. However, you should be aware that there is no absolute guarantee that any files attached to emails from Aculab are virus free.
2. What information we collect and why we need it
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Aculab collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
- Visitors to our websites;
- People who use the Aculab Cloud console and licensing portal
- People who subscribe to our e-newsletter service
- People who email us
- People who use our LiveChat service
- People who respond to our polls and surveys
- Job applicants and current or former employees
2.1 Visitors to our websites
When someone visits an aculab.com domain we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is processed in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will make that clear and will explain what we intend to do with it.
2.2 People who use the Aculab Cloud console and licensing portal
We collect data from you when you set up an account on Aculab Cloud, such as your name, company, address, email address, and billing information. We use that data to communicate with you about your account or the health of the services and to bill you for using the services. Full details of the data we collect for the Aculab Cloud service can be found in section 7.
For users with accounts on the Aculab licensing portal, we collect information such as name, email address and company. We use that data to communicate with you about your software licences, about new licensing system features, about your account, or the health of the licensing system.
2.3 People who subscribe to our e-newsletter services
We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver various e-newsletters. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletters. For more information, please see MailChimp's privacy notice here.
2.4 People who email us
Any email sent to Aculab directly or via a website form, including any attachments, may be monitored and used by us for reasons of security and for monitoring. Email monitoring or blocking software may also be used to prevent malicious intent on the Aculab network. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send to us is within the bounds of the law.
2.5 People who use our LiveChat service
We use a third-party provider, LiveChat, Inc., to supply and support our LiveChat service, which we use to handle customer enquiries in real time.
If you use the LiveChat service we will collect your name, email address (optional) and the contents of your LiveChat session. This information will not be shared with any other organisations. You can request a transcript of your LiveChat session if you provide your email address at the start of your session or when prompted at the end. To read more about LiveChat, Inc., you can view their privacy policy here.
2.6 Job applicants and employees
When individuals apply to work at Aculab, we will only use the information they supply to us to process their application and to monitor recruitment statistics. Where we want to disclose information to a third party, for example where we want to take up a reference or obtain a 'disclosure' from the Criminal Records Bureau we will not do so without informing the individual beforehand, unless the disclosure is required by law. Once a person has taken up employment with Aculab, we will compile a file relating to their employment. The information contained in this will be kept secure and will only be used for purposes directly relevant to that person's employment. Once their employment with Aculab has ended, we will retain the file in accordance with the requirements of our retention schedule and then delete it.
3. Customer Relationship Management system (CRM)
Aculab uses a customer relationship management platform to helps us manage our engagement activities with customers, suppliers and prospective customers.
3.1 The data we collect on our CRM
Aculab collects:
- The name of your organisation including your parent department or organisation, if applicable
- Your organisation's type, address, site, website and number of employees
- Your name, role and contact details, such as email address and phone number
- Details of meetings, phone calls, emails, agendas, outcomes, actions, minutes and other documents
- Questions, comments, queries or feedback from engagement activities
3.2 Why we collect your data
Aculab collects this data to help us:
- Track our engagement activity with you and your organisation
- Ensure our contact details are up to date
- Develop a comprehensive view of our engagement activity with you and your organisation
- Avoid duplicating meetings or communications
- Understand and analyse the type and quality of our engagement activity with you and your organisation so we can improve it
- Respond to any actions, questions, feedback or queries that you've raised with us
4. How long we keep your data
Aculab keeps your data for as long as we are engaged with you and your organisation. Aculab regularly reviews the data we hold to ensure that it's accurate. Once an engagement closes, or when we no longer need that data, we will remove it from our platforms. This applies to data collected from:
- Visitors to our websites
- People who use the Aculab Cloud console1 and licensing portal
- People who subscribe to our e-newsletter service
- People who email us
- People who use our LiveChat service
- People who respond to our polls and surveys
- Job applicants and current or former employees
Note 1: Further detail of how long we keep specific data on the Aculab Cloud platform can be found in section 7.
4.1 CRM platform data
If your account becomes inactive, the customer data records in our CRM system are kept for no longer than necessary before deletion. Records of payments and invoices may be kept for longer or statutory periods for accounting, tax, and audit purposes.
If your account on our CRM system is closed, then your data will be erased from the live CRM database and the backup files after seven weeks.
5. Who your data will be shared with?
We will only share your data internally with the relevant Aculab teams (sales, marketing, support, finance) so that we can provide you with the best possible service.
6. Your options to unsubscribe or opt-out
If you receive marketing emails from us, you can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the unsubscribe links in the footer of the marketing message.
If you are a user of the Aculab Cloud service or the Aculab licensing system, then our legitimate engagement with you, and use of your data as set out in this privacy policy regarding these services, is necessary to properly provide an effective service.
If you have an Aculab Cloud user account and no longer agree to the processing of your data as set out in this privacy policy, you can close our account and terminate your Aculab Cloud agreement according to the Aculab Cloud Terms of Service and any contract documents in place between us.
As an Aculab Cloud user, you are also able to unsubscribe or adjust your preferences for marketing emails via the privacy dashboard on the Cloud console.
7. Data on the Aculab Cloud platform
Your use of the Aculab Cloud platform requires us to store both your account data, and data that may include personal information about your end customers such as phone numbers, call and SMS logs, and phone number type (mobile/landline).
7.1 What data do we store?
Details of each account created when you sign up for the Aculab Cloud platform are stored. This information includes:
- Email address
- Account key
- Phone number
- Address (for billing and for registration purposes, in some countries, of purchased numbers)
When you use the service, we will also store data for the usage:
- Call data records (CDRs)
- Application data records (ADRs)
- SMS messages (MSG)
- Encrypted media files (if the voice messaging feature is used)
7.2 Where your data is stored
Aculab runs its Aculab Cloud service in multiple locations to provide customers with the flexibility to use region-specific servers and keep data within that region.
We currently run the Aculab Cloud in the following locations:
- US East (Virginia)
- US West (California)
- Europe (Ireland)
The choice of region is made when you sign up for a cloud account. If you need to run systems in more than one region, a separate account is needed for each.
Your data will be stored solely in the region that you choose to operate in.
7.3 Who we share the data with
In order to run Aculab Cloud and provide you with the best possible service, we will internally share relevant parts of your account data such as phone number and email address with our sales and support teams.
Data regarding calls and messages being placed/received is also shared with our voice and SMS messaging carrier partners so that we can terminate calls and send/receive messages. Your address data may also be required to be shared with our third-party number provider for legal purposes in certain countries.
We use a third-party TTS provider and share text information with them to be processed into speech.
We share billing information with our payment gateway service when a credit card payment is to be processed.
We have data protection agreements in place with our partners who enable us to provide the Aculab Cloud service in order to provide you the assurance that all possible steps have been taken to keep your data secure when you use Aculab Cloud.
7.4 How long we store your data
The Aculab Cloud account data is stored for as long as needed to provide you with our services. For an active account the following timescales apply:
- CDR, ADR and message data – stored for six months
- Aculab Cloud logs – stored for up to 28 days
- Speech recordings – stored for up to 28 days
- Database backups – stored for 180 days
7.5 Data storage after account closure/deletion
Aculab keeps your data for as long as we are engaged with you and your organisation. If your account is closed then we will delete the following account data according to the following timescales. Certain data such as billing records will need to be kept for longer period to meet our statutory/financial/regulatory/tax reporting commitments.
- Purchase addresses, phone numbers, and media store – deleted immediately
- Account information, services, consent data – deleted at end of calendar month
- Trace elements of accounts (in database backup files) – will remain for up to 7 weeks
- Billing and accounting records – kept for 7 years
8. Complaints or queries
Aculab tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.
9. Access to personal information
Aculab tries to be as open as it can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information. Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a 'subject access request' under the current UK and EU data protection legislation. If we do hold information about you we will:
- Give you a description of it
- Tell you why we are holding it
- Tell you who it could be disclosed to
- Let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form
To make a request to Aculab regarding any personal information we may hold, you should submit your request in writing to the address or email address provided below. If you agree, we will deal with your request informally, for example by providing you with the specific information you need over the telephone or via email. If we do hold information about you, you can ask us to correct any mistakes by, once again, contacting us using the details below.
10. Changes to this privacy notice
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 24th May 2018.
11. How to contact us
If you want to request information about our privacy policy you can email us at data (at) aculab (dot) com or write to:
2 Bramley Road
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
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El Payaso: Washington's Amiable Entertainer – The good works of Haiti's interim-Prime Minister Gerard Latortue
• Latortue has asserted that the average Haitian does not know CARICOM exists, and that an official in the previous administration didn't even know what the acronym stands for – ouch! What Latortue didn't mention was that until Washington imposed him on Haiti, even fewer Haitians had ever heard of him.
• Latortue says that Haiti derives more benefits from its relationship with the Dominican Republic than it does from its inclusion in the Caribbean Community trading bloc – perhaps he is taking into account mounting reports that the Dominican Republic was allegedly used as a training ground and an arsenal for rebels intent on deposing Haiti's democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
• Latortue also has charged that some in the Caribbean Community are unabashed promoters of Aristide's Lavalas Party, but this ignores the fact that the CARICOM Heads of Government confronted Aristide about Haiti's slow advancement towards democracy at the Special Summit of the Americas in January, and that Lavalas was and remains a legal party, which is more than can be said for Latortue's status.
• In remarks, which outraged many specialists close to the scene, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan strongly rebuked Aristide just before the Haitian leader was forced to leave Port-au-Prince and go into exile, for allegedly encouraging lawlessness and participating in the illicit drug trade. But Annan presented no evidence to buttress his charge, nor did a highly critical report on Aristide authored by the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Haiti, John Reginald Dumas – something which was noted by the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis in an interview that he gave to COHA last week. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas stated that he does not support the view that Aristide contributed to the flourishing of the drug trade, which had been alleged by the Dumas report, and that the real issue at hand is that a democratically-elected president was overthrown and little has been done so far to redress that fact.
• By adopting Washington's scenario on Haiti and its bad mouthing of Aristide, Annan signed on to the spurious charges leveled against the Haitian leader by Secretary of State Colin Powell as well as his stalling tactic when there was still time to save the Aristide government.
• The Caribbean Community has been one of Aristide's most stalwart institutional backers, along with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), since the ousted president alleged that Washington orchestrated his removal.
• CARICOM and the CBC have been increasingly skeptical towards a smooth-talking, two-faced Latortue who expects that because he is now being backed by the UN this automatically grants him legitimacy as an authentic democratic figure.
• The Organization of American States (OAS), unlike the UN, has decided to undertake an investigation of the events in Haiti leading up to Aristide's abrupt departure on February 29, 2004, something that the UN has expressed no interest in doing.
• The OAS investigation might also evoke a U.S. backlash against the Caribbean Community.
What does CARICOM stand for, anyway?
Nursing a bruised ego resulting from CARICOM's coolness towards his rule, Interim Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue recently attempted to establish some semblance of legitimacy after enduring months of embarrassing diplomatic non-recognition from the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM), of which Haiti has been a full member since July 2002. Speaking at what had to be the makings of a pep rally for himself in Washington, DC, organized by two conservative think tanks. Latortue condemned CARICOM for its supposed obscurity and irrelevance. A former UN agency bureaucrat, Latortue stated that he hopes to continue working with CARICOM, but only if ordinary Haitians along with members of the island's government are educated about the purpose of the organization and how exactly the trading bloc is useful to them.
This obviously deprecatory remark was presented at a June 10 address co-sponsored by the virulently anti-Aristide Haiti Democracy Project and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, in response to a question by a Washington Post reporter that made reference to CARICOM's strong opposition to Latortue's administration. The prime minister retorted that Haiti has benefited little from its association with CARICOM, claiming that Haiti has gained more from its ties with neighboring Dominican Republic, a historically strained partnership marred by bitter racial politics, massacres and fierce fights over Haitians attempting to illegally migrate into their country's better off neighbor, the Dominican Republic.
CARICOM comes to Aristide's Aid
The Caribbean Community has stalwartly supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide's right to rule, ever since the CARICOM heads of government were informed that the democratically-elected Haitian president had boarded a hastily arranged 6:15 a.m. flight to an unknown destination on February 29, under the wheedling counsel of U.S. ambassador to Haiti, James Foley. In turn, the embassy was being guided by the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Noriega, a protégé of Aristide's archconservative nemesis, Jesse Helms, the former Republican Senator from North Carolina, who chaired the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
The CARICOM heads of government assembled two days later in Kingston, Jamaica, for an emergency session to consider the situation in Haiti. A little over two weeks after Aristide's surreptitious departure from Haiti to the Central African Republic (CAR), a delegation, including representatives of CARICOM, landed in that country to meet with the embattled leader and escort him to Jamaica, where he had been invited, on humanitarian grounds, to visit the country by its prime minister, P.J. Patterson. The delegation comprised Jamaican parliamentarian Sharon Hay-Webster, representing Jamaica and CARICOM; Sidney Williams, former Ambassador to the Bahamas; Aristide's attorney, Ira Kurzban; Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif), and U.S.-born Randall Robinson, the founder of a policy group focusing on African and Caribbean issues, TransAfrica Forum. Aristide immediately told them that the U.S. had overthrown his government, an accusation the White House characterizes as "complete nonsense" to this day.
Given the persisting suspicion surrounding the circumstances of Aristide's departure, CARICOM adopted a chilly and reserved position towards Latortue's interim government and stressed "the importance of holding free and fair elections to ensure a return to constitutional democracy in an acceptable time frame." The prime minister of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, explained the Caribbean Community's position towards Haiti during his interview with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. "We have no problem with Haiti! I think that needs to be made very clear … Haiti still holds membership in CARICOM. We have not suspended Haiti, but we have a problem with the way the head of that government is continuing to run the affairs of the country without addressing the fundamental issue, that is the way the elected president was removed from office," he said.
Latortue's missive missed its Target
Following CARICOM's initial rebuff of Latortue, the 15th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Caribbean Community Government Heads (March 25-26, 2004) met at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Headquarters in St. Kitts. At the time, it received a conciliatory letter from Prime Minister Latortue dated March 25, in which he tried to mend fences by backing off from earlier hostile statements concerning Jamaica. But at least for Representative Maxine Waters, it didn't seem to work. She stated shortly afterward, that, "Gerard Latortue demonstrated his ignorance and his allegiance to the coup plotters by first announcing he was severing diplomatic relations with Jamaica and then trying to force our acceptance of him at the inter-sessional Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meeting held in St. Kitts." In light of the Latortue letter, the Heads of Government agreed to review the matter at their next scheduled meeting in July 2004. However, CARICOM voted against conferring recognition on Latortue's administration at the March meeting, and discussed a formal request for an investigation by the United Nations, a proposal that was dropped when the U.S. and France threatened to veto any resolution presented to that effect.
The government leaders also expressed their gratitude to the outgoing Chairman of CARICOM, Jamaica's Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, for his leadership in guiding the Caribbean Community on the Haitian crisis, and thanked Kingston for temporarily accommodating Aristide before he departed at the end of May for South Africa.
Lost in Translation?
In the course of his COHA interview, Prime Minister Denzil L. Douglas discussed Latortue's letter. "He is saying that what the press reported which caused our reaction in CARICOM is not what he said," regarding his sentiments towards Jamaica. (On March 15, Latortue's government recalled Haiti's ambassador to Jamaica, shortly before Aristide and the delegation accompanying him from the Central African Republic had landed in Kingston.) The St. Kitts official added, "He said it could have been a matter of interpretation because of the language translation." Yet Latortue's façade of supposed deference to CARICOM has once again been replaced by an asperity in his tone due to that organization's success in initiating an OAS investigation into Aristide's February 29 exodus. Revealing his true contempt for CARICOM on June 10, Latortue intimated that some Caribbean government heads have been complicit in using the trading bloc to promote and protect Aristide's Lavalas Party.
Oddly enough, The Jamaica Observer reported on June 6 that "regional sources" said that Interim Prime Minister Latortue wrote another letter – this time to Jamaica's Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson – saying that he wishes to send an ambassador back to Jamaica after defiantly removing Haiti's ambassador in a hostile response to Aristide's visit there. If Latortue were half the pitchman he thinks he is, he would realize that this kind of flip-flopping on the message he was trying to get out to his Caribbean colleagues was entirely unproductive, leaving those who were inclined to buy into his rhetoric wondering, 'What does he stand for, anyway?' Latortue also reportedly expressed "deep regret" at the existing estrangement between Kingston and Port-au-Prince over the Aristide issue.
It is important to note though that Latortue sent this missive just before the OAS arrived at its decision on the night of June 8 to investigate the removal of Aristide at CARICOM's prompting, and prior to Latortue's condescending remarks about CARICOM on June 10. Thus, it is not entirely clear what will be the effects of Latortue's stance, as well as the positions of the UN, the U.S. and France, towards the Caribbean Community, particularly if and when the OAS investigation gets underway.
Latortue is also bitter over what he feels is a misguided campaign by the majority faction of the Congressional Black Caucus to undermine the legitimacy of his fledgling administration. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif), a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member, introduced the TRUTH (The Responsibility to Uncover the Truth about Haiti) Act (H.R. 3919) in the House of Representatives in March, co-sponsored by CBC Haiti Task Force Co-Chair John Conyers and 23 other CBC members. This Act, according to www.haitiaction.net, calls for an independent bipartisan commission to investigate, among other questions, "To what extent did the U.S. impede efforts by the international community, particularly the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, to prevent the overthrow of the democratically-elected Government of Haiti?" Moreover, Congresswoman Maxine Waters has accused the Latortue government of sanctioning the persecution of Lavalas party supporters, declaring in a May 5 statement that, "Lavalas members have been found shot in the head with their hands tied behind their backs. There are reports of Lavalas members being placed in a container and drowned at sea … Delegations from Amnesty International, the National Lawyers Guild and Let Haiti Live have documented the repression and killing of Lavalas party members." Latortue scoffed at such allegations in his speech at the CSIS in Washington, DC, by dismissing them as "simply untrue." Meanwhile, Lavalas officials as well as members continue to be detained in Haiti, in large numbers – including the country's last prime minister, Yvon Neptune – as well as in the U.S. on so-called drug charges.
On the other hand, some of the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus under the direction of the Chair, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), have become more accommodating to the Haitian prime minister, much to the chagrin of the TransAfrica Forum. Its president, Bill Fletcher, Jr., chastised the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) for holding a May 5 meeting with Gerard Latortue. (Actually, at least 22 members of the 39-member group refused to attend the gathering, as Waters, a former CBC chairwoman was quick to point out, soon after the forum was held.) "It seems to me that anyone of conscience should turn their back on the prime minister. There is nothing to talk to him about except resigning," said Fletcher, Jr. Nevertheless, the Congressional Black Caucus asked Latortue to work on re-establishing a constructive working relationship with the Caribbean Community.
CARICOM had given a clear sermon to Aristide
In CARICOM's defense, Prime Minister Dr. Douglas rejects any suggestion that the Caribbean Community has been an apologist for Aristide and his Lavalas Party. He stated that the heads of government had presented their concerns about the slow advancement of Haitian democracy to President Aristide at the Special Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico (January 12-13, 2004). "We engaged Aristide in a caucus lasting several hours, and one of our greatest concerns then was that we were disappointed that democracy had not advanced in the way we thought it would have advanced in Haiti. We knew then that the opposition had taken a very, very difficult position of non-participation unless the government was removed, but we felt that the situation could have been better advanced before that stage," he said.
Is the UN doing Washington's work?
Similar accusative statements have been put forward by United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, who affirmed in an April 20 report his belief that Aristide had failed to advance the cause of democracy and create an environment in Haiti that made it conducive to lawlessness. Furthermore, a Washington Post article on April 21 reported that, "Annan indicated that Aristide, who was overthrown in a 1991 military coup, had committed a fatal mistake by disbanding the army in 1995 after his return to power." This statement alone reveals how far off the UN official has been on Haitian realities. What he apparently didn't know was that the Haitian military was not akin to the Swiss Guard, but was a murderous body, more into drug trafficking and rape, than in protecting the citizenry.
"I really am surprised, to be frank with you, that this is being said as one of his (Aristide's) failings," remarked Prime Minister Dr. Douglas. "Yes, if he had an army on his side, the army would have put down the rebels and there would have been intense bloodshed, but let us not forget what happened here. There was a police force which was not properly trained, which did not have the firepower that the rebels had." The prime minister continued, "It is alleged that the rebels were trained in the neighboring country of the Dominican Republic. They were well fitted out. They had better and more sophisticated weapons. And you would recall that it was when the required military support, in terms of hardware and anti-riot gear that the police needed to maintain law and order, was on its way from South Africa. The same Saturday night-Sunday morning that the plane had arrived in Jamaica and was being prepared to go over to Haiti with the arms – Aristide was overthrown. Let us not forget that!" Prime Minister Douglas maintains, however, that he is confident that the UN is not deliberately aligning itself with Washington's stance on Haiti. But there is a good deal of evidence in the other direction.
The St. Kitts-Nevis prime minister explained that President Aristide probably felt that he had to "civilianize" the military since that body was fundamentally responsible for much of the human rights atrocities that Haiti suffered in the past. He also suggested that, given that the remnants of the army banded together as rebels to overthrow Aristide in February, maybe the second overthrow would have taken place even more rapidly than it did had the army remained in place.
Critics: Drug Trade Superseded Democracy?
The Prime Minister also said he does not subscribe to the view that Aristide actively supported the flourishing drug trade in Haiti, an oft repeated charge about the ousted Haitian president which the UN's Kofi Annan had taken note of in the scathing 33-page April 20 report which had been prepared by the Trinidad national, Reginald Dumas, and which read as if it had been commissioned by U.S. State Department ideologues like Roger Noriega and Otto Reich, rather than by a dispassionate international official. On June 10, Latortue reiterated the charge about Aristide's involvement in the drug trade, nine days after the U.S.-led force in Haiti transferred authority to the United Nations. This spiel by the now very experienced pitchman was met with thunderous applause by his smartly attired fan club present in the audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
There seemed to be little love or even respect in the CSIS auditorium on June 10 among the professional Haitian expatriates in Washington, DC, for their democratically-elected president. However, CARICOM remains determined to continue to defend Aristide on the basis of principle rather than on popularity or any desire to express solidarity with Washington, even at the risk of provoking a harsh reaction from the U.S. towards the Caribbean nations. The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, a federation with a total population of only 45,000, like other CARICOM Heads of Government, remarkably enough, does not seem prepared to back down on the Haiti issue. "We do not have any evidence of the U.S. attempting to create any backlash. Of course, we are aware that the possibility exists…The United States' government is the powerful government. It's our biggest neighbor…but we are acting here in our own national interests, just as the United States of America acts in its own…"


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Although much of the work Audubon North Carolina does on Lea-Hutaff Island revolves around birds, we also monitor sea turtle nesting and mange nests to protect them from predators.
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The eggs take about 60 days to incubate. Unlike birds and mammals, the sex of the hatchlings is not determined when the eggs are fertilized. Instead, warmer temperatures in the nest (about 89 degrees Fahrenheit or above) make females and cooler temperatures make males. Since it's near the northern extent of their breeding range, North Carolina probably contributes more males to the population than states to the south.
Hatchlings emerge after dark, climbing their way out of the nest through about two feet of sand and scramble down the beach. They are first guided by light, since on undeveloped beaches moon- or starlight reflecting off the ocean is the brightest thing visible. Once they are in the water, they swim into the waves and some hours later, begin to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field.
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On Lea-Hutaff Island we monitor loggerhead nesting activity by looking for the unmistakable tracks nesting females leave behind in the sand. This year, seasonal biological technician Jen Carman found the first sea turtle activity on May 23. This is typical for Lea-Hutaff, where we often locate the first sea turtle nest around Memorial Day. That first crawl was a false crawl—the female emerged but didn't dig a nest—and then three days later, Jen found the first nest. The last nest was found on July 20.
Over the summer, we found nine loggerhead nests on Lea-Hutaff. Each nest was protected from predation by raccoons or other mammalian predators by a metal cage placed over the nest to prevent anything from digging in. The gaps in the wire mesh are large enough that hatchlings can crawl out through them. After each nest hatches or reaches the end of its incubation period, we dig it up to count hatched and unhatched eggs so we can record nest success. Sometimes, a few hatchlings are still in the egg chamber, waiting to emerge.
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Thanks to an innovative genetics project, we're also learning about the female sea turtles that nest on Lea-Hutaff, in North Carolina, and throughout the southeast Atlantic.
Researchers at the University of Georgia are working in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to take a DNA sample from each nest laid on the states' beaches. The mother sea turtle's DNA is found on the membrane lining the inside of the eggshells, and this allows each nesting female to be identified. With this information, the project will answer important questions that will aid in sea turtle conservation, including the size of the nesting population, the average interval (both within the same year and between years) at which females nest, and how close together (or far apart) do females lay their nests. By inferring mother-daughter relationships through their DNA, the study can even investigate how accurately daughters return to their hatching beaches as nesting adults.
So far, since Audubon North Carolina began collecting samples for the project in 2012, 36 DNA samples have been taken and identified to 18 individuals. In 2016, so far five DNA samples have been assigned to three unique females. Though Lea-Hutaff Island has just a fraction of the sea turtle nests in the state, large-scale projects like this can make big contributions to science and conservation and require the participation and teamwork of many organizations.
From 2016's nine nests, 1,019 eggs were laid. Unfortunately, it appeared that one female which nested three times this year was laying "dud" eggs that never hatched. However, thanks to the DNA study, we know that in previous years, her nests had no problems and hatched most of their eggs. The other 2016 nests on Lea-Hutaff Island all did very well. No predators were able to get at the eggs, and none of the nests were washed out by storms. Overall, of those 1,019 eggs, 612 hatchlings made it to the ocean.
If some of them are very lucky, in 30 years they'll be back on Lea-Hutaff Island nesting like their mothers and grandmothers before them.
We thank Matthew Godfrey, NCWRC sea turtle biologist, and Brian Shamblin, UGA research scientist, for allowing us to share some of the DNA study's results.
Click here to learn more about the Coastal Sanctuaries managed by Audubon North Carolina.


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