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Boondocking Botswana and Namibia (with the BBC Bs)
Feb 20, 2006
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David Rich 1400 Words
Boondocking Botswana & Namibia w i t h the B B C
I over-landed Southern Africa with a dozen others, coincidentally trucking the same route as a BBC film crew. We meandered through Namibia and Botswana for three adventurous weeks, our interactions with the BBC creating a tad of tension. While the BBC busily filmed five American women, we debated how to appropriately characterize their precocious stars, throwing about adjectives some might describe as warped. To avoid further scandalizing the BBC, you'll have to conjure the proper description for yourself.
Natural questions arise, such as how the BBC was insulted by a passel of intrepid boon-dockers, and why anyone would go to Namibia and Botswana, the backlands of southwest Africa, in the first place?
Because our communications with the BBC film crew were sullied early on, I can only speculate. Perhaps Michael Palin began the BBC's reality-travel fad with Pole to Pole. Then BBC travel execs think-tanked an American women's adventure tour through the worlds' most extensive and colorful sand dunes, a humongous game park, and into wetlands the size of Delaware, relieved by a quaint German town and the exotic Himba people. Whatever the reality of BBC pre-planning, we shared their experience, if not their pain.
We left Cape Town under the shadow of Table Mountain, en route to Victoria Falls in the scalawag country of Zimbabwe. At the scenic first stop across Table Bay the famous flat-topped mountain foreshadowed dramatic adventures ahead, notwithstanding that we had planned on idyllic peace and quiet. The beauty of our three-week route lay in its avoidance of cities, anathema in Africa where population centers act as a magnet for the poor and desperately dangerous.
The first stop was the magnificent Fish River, 160 kilometers (one hundred miles) long and almost 2000 feet (550 meters) deep, a Grand Canyon-like meander similar to the Goosenecks of the San Juan River in Utah. Fish River Canyon grabs adventurers worldwide, but we barely paused on our pell-mell rush to a date with destiny, a first collision with the BBC film crew. We were hastening to the world's longest and most colorful sand dunes stretching umpteen miles north-south and a hundred miles west, from Sossusvlei to the Atlantic Ocean. Sossusvlei means quicksand place in the clicks of Bushman language, segueing in changing light from cream to bronze, violet and burnt sienna, permanently chocolate brown in shadow.
Anchored by the nara plant, similar to a humongous tumbleweed, these whipped-cream-like dunes grow to lofty highs of 650 feet (200 meters), climbable on their ridges. We first encountered the BBC film crew and its quarry, the five American women, atop dune Number Forty-Five, a half hour before sunrise. The BBC had toted up bulky cameras and elongated directional-mikes, crowding the hair-wide dune top, which we civilly shared.
We gossiped merrily amongst ourselves, trashing the make-up and hairdos of the BBC ladies, along with their giggles and vacuous conversation. Admittedly, their chat-room was not dissimilar from our own. After a countdown from ten to sunrise, repeated thirty-one times, the ladies were filmed jumping down the nigh-vertical dune like kangaroos. We reckoned it'd play well in prime time, meanwhile speculating with inimitable vacuity on words beginning with B, from babes, bambinos and banshees, to barracudas, baronesses, and bachelorettes.
Our next brush with the BBC occurred in the dead Vlei, where the last encroaching dune had chopped-off the waters of the Tsauchab River 300 years previous, creating a, well, dead place of starkly skeletal trees. Half a dozen over-landers opted for a tour superbly led by Frans the Bushman, who'd never heard of The Gods Must Be Crazy. But he could click like the dickens, uncovering hidden residents of the dunes, from biting lizards to reclusive spiders, and the ladies of the BBC, where they posed by the hulk of a dead tree. We further speculated on baubles, beboppers, bibble-babblers, and baloney ballerinas.
We skedaddled from romantic Sossusvlei to the only touch of civilization between Cape Town and Victoria Falls: Swakopmund, a compulsively neat and tidy town of 30,000 people, built by Germans in homesick architecture on the wild Atlantic coast of Namibia. The gingerbread casino was turreted and half-timbered in quasi-art deco, the same as the hotels and shops. However, the gods must have been crazy, putting us in the same hotel as the BBC film crew, which meant things rather came to a head.
The hotel's single dinner table sat next to the swimming pool, where we shared space with the BBC ladies. Somehow, perhaps I spoke too loudly, someone on the BBC staff overheard a word that sounded something like bimbos. Well, verbal fireworks flew, promptly followed by our tour-guide throwing everyone into the pool, while the BBC cameras filmed merrily on. Crazy gods enjoy sodden folks gasping for breath with all their clothes on.
Then came the incredible Himba people. Say you wanted the clearest, most fabulous complexion on this green earth, the kind of skin for which Hollywood starlets would massacre. Instead of knee-jerking Television's Pavlovian ads for the last umpteen eons, I recommend visiting the Himba, and taking notes.
First, never ever bathe. Water is a bummer for the skin, drying it like cowhide. Second, cram your hair with clay and smear your bod with a mixture of ochre and butterfat. Presto, you're gorgeous. Ochre scrubs the skin and butterfat makes it glow better than Coppertone.
If you don't believe me, pictures are better than the few words here. For the frosting, add copious scuds of smoke and snuff for sniffling. But don't, like us, camp next to a BBC film crew.
Deborah, a Belgium lady married to a Himba warrior, introduced us to a Himba village. She was irate with complaints about, and suggestions for the BBC film crew, mostly unprintable. They'd phoned to demand free lodging, were refused, yet drove up with a loaded media truck and van, exercising their reservations. Deborah shooed them to the campground. The BBC had been scheduled to sleep in a Himba hut, the epitome of waterproof engineering, but declined when a few drops of rain fell waywardly down. We shrugged while concentrating on ground-level photos of centipedes, having previously settled on the meaning of B.
We accompanied the BBC ladies through the Etosha Game Reserve, one of the largest on earth, spotting elephants, zebras and giraffes dueling amongst themselves, surely fighting over the svelte females in the coy background. We meanwhile avoided further dueling with the BBC film crew. However, the lions never slept at night, instead terrorizing the BBC ladies and ourselves with earthy roars of imaginative feastings.
After sneaking into Angola for an afternoon frolic, we repaired to three days in the magnificent Okavango Delta, which swallows some of Africa's longest rivers in the sands of the Kalahari Desert. The Delta covers a 15,000 square kilometer (6000 square mile) maze of lagoons, channels and islands chock-full of elephant, lions and a billion birds.
We navigated root beer-colored waters, drinkable at will, in mokoros, dug-out canoes built for two. Each mokoro was manned by a synchronized poler, gliding through lily pads, flowers, papyrus, and long grasses with reflections to do National Geographic proud. The stalwart polers entertained around nightly campfires, singing earthy renditions of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. But we saw neither lions nor the BBC ladies. Instead, the Okavango Delta was so utterly peaceful and quiet that absence rendered our hearts grossly fonder, for the soap opera of the BBC ladies.
If You Somehow Meander Off to Namibia and Botswana: I booked with Nomad Tours, the largest overland company in South Africa. See www.nomadtours.co.za. Their truck was superb, along with colorful driver and cook. Nomad offers a choice between tent-camping and more "rigid" accommodations. As a rule of thumb, tenting with all meals and transportation costs $60 a night, while hotel and similar accommodations will run $80. Add $10 to $200 a day depending on your capacity for alcohol and extracurricular activities, such as sky-diving, dune buggying and bungy jumping. Tours leave from Cape Town, Johannesburg, Victoria Falls and Nairobi. Over 300 overland tour companies operate in Africa, providing lots of competition and alternative levels of luxury for analogous prices. For airfare to Cape Town or Jo'Burg enter South Africa airfare on any browser and marvel at available specials. The best time to travel is on the shoulders of high season, which is also the rainy season and southern summer, encompassing November to April. So go in May or October.


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Weird Little Robots
Carolyn Crimi; illustrated by Corinna Luyken
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Bridget Farr
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David Goodner; illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi
ig yellow Kondo and little orange Kezumi, two island creatures who find a map in a bottle, build a bathtub boat, and set sail on a journey of exploration.
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Thomas Taylor
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Jen Wang
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The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street
Lindsay Currie
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Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye
Tania Del Rio; illustrated by Will Staehle
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In order to save his family's creaky, crumbling hotel from his witchy aunt, 12-year-old Warren joins an unusual group of guests in the search for the All-Seeing Eye, a magical treasure rumored to be hidden within the hotel.
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The Girl in the Locked Room
Mary Downing Hahn
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Jules has lived in lots of old mansions (her dad restores them), but Oak Hill gives her an uneasy feeling -- and that's
she sees an eerie shadow through the window of a locked upstairs room.
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a nameless ghost, a centuries-old murder, and a page-turning mystery.
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paranormal stories that are eerie but not leave-the-lights-on scary.
Nooks & Crannies
Jessica Lawson
What it's about:
Aspiring detective Tabitha Crum is one of six children who've been invited to the creepy mansion of Countess Camilla DeMoss, who believes one of them might be her lost grandchild. As if that weren't curious enough, a mysterious death occurs in the house just as a sudden snowstorm traps everyone inside.
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Set in 1907,
Nooks & Crannies
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Kate Milford's
Greenglass House
, a more modern tale of snowbound intrigue.
The Secret of Goldenrod
Jane O'Reilly
What it's about:
When Trina and her dad move to New Royal, Iowa, to renovate an abandoned Victorian mansion called Goldenrod, Trina starts to believe the town gossip about the house being haunted -- especially after she discovers Augustine, a talking porcelain doll who might be the key to Goldenrod's hidden history.
Why you might like it:
the combination of ghostly mystery with Trina's realistic worries about fitting in makes
The Secret of Goldenrod
a fascinating read.
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December 10, 1999, Section E, Page 28Buy Reprints
It doesn't take a cryptographer to decipher the meanings in John Irving's sprawling picaresque allegories. But a reader who wants to savor them must be willing to suspend a psychoanalytic view of human nature descended from Freud through Oprah and surrender to an imagination that is more Dickensian than Freudian. Once you give up those expectations, a visit to the world according to Irving is a little like touring a parallel universe where fate is determined not so much by abusive parents as by wondrous tragicomic events beyond the realm of psychology.
I can't think of a better filmmaker to guide us through that world than Lasse Hallstrom, the director of ''My Life as a Dog'' and ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape?,'' two grown-up movies that share Mr. Irving's adult-child sensibility. In Mr. Hallstrom's lovely adaptation (with a screenplay by the author) of Mr. Irving's sixth novel, ''The Cider House Rules,'' the author's fantastical world of wonders and the director's tender-hearted compassion mesh into what is easily the finest film realization of an Irving novel.
The movie is really only a fragment of that novel, scaled down to conventional movie length, with numerous characters discarded and the story's time frame compressed from decades into a couple of years. The novel's exhaustive examination of abortion (both its moral and medical aspects) has been greatly softened.
What's left is a gentle, beautifully acted fable about a young man's journey into the world, his loss of innocence and his acquiring of values that reflect the lessons learned on his journey. The movie is also a blatant homage to ''David Copperfield,'' brief passages of which are read aloud to the children in St. Cloud's orphanage, the Maine institution where much of the story takes place during the height of World War II.
Finally, it is a sustained meditation on the dream of home sweet home that gnaws at the heart of its orphaned main character Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire) as well as the hearts of the other children who grow up in St. Cloud's. Some of the movie's most touching moments find the camera lingering over the faces of children silently pleading with angelic smiles and saucer eyes to be selected for adoption by couples who visit the institution in search of the perfect child.
It is here that Homer grows up under the tutelage of the good-hearted, tight-lipped Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine), the orphanage's omnipotent doctor who delivers the babies of unwed mothers and who also performs abortions on request. Although Homer never attends medical school, by the time he leaves St. Cloud's he knows both how to deliver and how to abort babies. One Dickensian message the movie hammers home is that growing up means coming to the realization that in a cosmic sense we are all orphans.
Although Dr. Larch is portrayed as a benign figure, the movie wonders about the consequences of his life-and-death decisions and his readiness to play God, and asks how anyone could presume to be so omnipotent. By giving the doctor a tragic flaw in his addiction to ether, it suggests that his need to escape facing full responsibility for his hubris is what finally undoes him. But the film implies even more forcefully that in order for our lives to mean anything at all, we sometimes have to play God, take charge and do what we believe is right.
When Homer is barely out of his teens, he leaves St. Cloud's to explore the big, wide world in a red roadster driven by Wally Worthington (Paul Rudd), a cocky young Army flyer whose beautiful blond fiancee, Candy Kendall (Charlize Theron), has just had an abortion at St. Cloud's. While Wally is away at war, Homer works as an apple-picker on his father's farm, and he and Candy fall in love.
Homer also becomes involved in the lives of the migrant workers who share a dormitory where the inane rules of conduct (the cider house rules) are posted on the wall. And in the movie's dramatic climax, he finds himself intervening in the tormented incestuous relationship of a character simply named Mr. Rose (Delroy Lindo) and his daughter Rose (the pop singer Erykah Badu) and eventually having to play God. The consequences of this act of conscience, however, are tragically ambiguous.
''The Cider House Rules'' is an unabashedly sentimental movie that wants to pluck our heart strings, and now and then its tone (and its quiet but incessant soundtrack by Rachel Portman) turns cloyingly sweet. But the performances have an understated gravity and the screenplay a thematic consistency that largely avoid tawdry manipulation.
Anchoring the movie is Mr. Maguire's sober, wide-eyed Homer, a wounded, moon-faced innocent who, in leaving the institution that nurtured him, blindly follows his heart and finds fulfillment working outdoors. Even in simple apple picking, Homer feels he is obeying Dr. Larch's dictum (a recurrent theme in the movie) to ''be of use.''
Mr. Caine's portrayal of a Maine doctor (he has a perfect American accent and clipped New England delivery) is a coup for an actor who had seemed too often trapped in the roles of snake-eyed British lotharios, con men and other sleazeballs. Mr. Lindo's apple picker is a towering human storm about to collapse on itself, and Ms. Badu's desperately agitated Rose is one of the year's sharpest screen acting debuts.
Oliver Stapleton's cinematography drenches the movie in an oak-gold 40's New England ambiance that is so intense you can almost taste the sour-apple pungency of the orchard air. That ambiance, along with the idealized romance of the gung-ho daredevil flyer and his honey-blond sweetheart, gives the film a slightly mythical quality that harmonizes with Mr. Irving's subtly literary screenplay and the director's soft-hearted child's-eye vision.
The need to be of use, the discovery that the official rules and real-life rules of how to behave rarely coincide -- these and other life lessons that our innocent hero learns may sound like the tritest of homilies. But ''The Cider House Rules'' gives them the depth and emotional weight of earned wisdom.
''The Cider House Rules'' is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has sexual situations (including father-daughter incest), scenes of abortions being performed, some strong language and violence.
Directed by Lasse Hallstrom; written by John Irving, based on his novel; director of photography, Oliver Stapleton; edited by Lisa Zeno Churgin; music by Rachel Portman; production designer, David Gropman; produced by Richard N. Gladstein; released by Miramax Films. Running time: 125 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
WITH: Tobey Maguire (Homer Wells), Charlize Theron (Candy Kendall), Delroy Lindo (Mr. Rose), Paul Rudd (Wally Worthington), Michael Caine (Dr. Wilbur Larch), Jane Alexander (Nurse Edna), Kathy Baker (Nurse Angela), Kieran Culkin (Buster), Kate Nelligan (Olive Worthington), Erykah Badu (Rose Rose) and Heavy D (Peaches).


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Fringe Season 3 Episode 1: "Olivia" Quotes
Henry: What about you, you got someone?
Olivia: Sort of.
Henry: That's an odd name, sort of.
Olivia: His name is Peter, he's sort of the reason I'm here.
Walternate: Did you see the incidence footage?
Broyles: Yes sir.
Walternate: Do you know what I'm thinking?
Broyles: That there's only one person in Fringe Division that can make a shot like that.
Walternate: It's working.
I'm stuck here.
I'm not crazy you know. To prove that to you I'd have to tell you some things that are even crazier.
Peter: The whole time I was in there, there was only one thing I could think about.
Bolivia: Yeah what? (Peter then kisses Bolivia)
Peter: That.
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"You stuck a pin in a map I was in, And you are the stars I navigate home by."
~Dear Friends, Elbow
The problem with living in so many places…is that you have friends in so many places. (This is also the good thing about living in many places, but that's a different post for a different time.) Today, I am sad in anticipation of missing our community in Arizona.
I'll miss Arizona, I'm not going to lie. The politics aren't to my liking, but the people we've met are very dear to my heart and we've made many lifelong friends. (I wish I could share pictures of them all, but in posting I'm realizing I am terrible at remembering to take photos! Guess I better work on that!)
I'm sure we'll keep in touch, but it will be hard not to see them regularly. People we've worked with for years, through incredible ups and downs. They know what we're going through, and for the most part have proven to be even better friends than previously believed.
Scottsdale is stereotyped as a superficial place, but here we found so many who were deeply good people, helping others create better lives, grow businesses, build communities – people I've volunteered with, cheered with, partied with, raised kids with, helped through divorce and sickness and deaths of loved ones. I have made friends wherever we've lived, but aside from our home in Marin County, California, Scottsdale has been where we've lived the longest. The desert has worked its way into my lungs and into my heart. It's hard driving away.
Dan also made many great friends. I know he'll miss seeing everyone, not to mention the trips to Bear Lake, and to local ski resorts (and even hilarious midnight runs to Wal-mart…don't ask). More often than not these guys worked and played as a team, and it tears him apart to be sidelined by illness. Rest assured he's committed to doing everything in his power to being back in the game ASAP!
Aurora is too young yet, but the older kids, particularly Ari, have made great friendships as well. I'm so thankful that the kids are all so great on technology that they'll be able to be in touch as often as they like!
We've had good school experiences, both for the kids, and for me as a VP of the PTO. Despite the fact Arizona on the whole spends less per student than almost any other state, Scottsdale has excellent schools. In fact, the school our kids are leaving is why we moved to this neighborhood. Ari was in a charter program that was a phenomenal combination of child-led, project-based learning, combined with in-class exercise equipment and the freedom to use it! They were also active in extracurriculars: choir, orchestra, softball, baseball, and drama. Aurora too had recently been accepted to a special-needs daycare for a few hours each week. It didn't give me "childcare" but at least it gave this exhausted mama a break here and there. Grocery shopping is a heck of a lot easier without a special needs toddler in tow, let me tell you. 😉
And that's not even considering the raw beauty of the place. Few places have taken my breath away like the desert. The stunning landscapes, the spectacular sunsets. See for yourself:
So…farewell for now, Arizona. I know we'll see you, and all of our friends, soon. That's the benefit of being a snowbird state. We'll remain official residents, and will be back when the weather gets cold and we head south for winter. And we still have strong business connections there, so it may be even sooner that we'll be rolling back through. The future right now is just too uncertain to say for sure. However long it takes…wait for us…please? We'll miss you!


text: Fatuma Adan holds a picture of her son, Harun, who recently died of cancer at the age of 17 [Osman Mohamed/Al Jazeera] Garissa, Kenya - "Go and speak to that lady. Her son has just been admitted for the tenth time," says Kadhra Mohamed as she fills out a medical report for the latest patient to be admitted to Ward One of the Garissa General Hospital, the largest in north-eastern Kenya.It is early afternoon and so hot that patients are choosing to lie on the floor instead of on their hospital beds. Kadhra directs us to Harun Abdullahi, a 17-year-old leukaemia patient. Harun was semi-conscious when he was brought to this poorly equipped hospital.He asks his mother to remove his shirt because the heat is unbearable. Beneath it, his skinny frame is covered in sweat. An hour or so earlier, he had a blood transfusion - something that has become almost routine each time he is brought in. "It has been almost two years of suffering now," says Harun's mother, Fatuma Adan. "This is new to me and I don't know what to do." A photograph of Harun Abdullahi, who died of cancer at the age of 17 [Osman Mohamed Osman/Al Jazeera] The 45-year-old single mother of nine has used all of her savings to take Harun to private hospitals in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. She has even taken out loans, but still owes hospitals for his treatment. "We kept on referring him to Kenyatta National Hospital [the largest referral hospital in Kenya, known as KNH]," says Kadhra. "But the family's financial constraints have prevented them from [taking him there]." "Unfortunately, money is the green light to better healthcare. If you have it, then you're in a good position. For him, it's sad," she adds.The cost of cancer treatment In Kenya, cancer treatment is becoming increasingly expensive. Few private hospitals are equipped to provide treatment, which makes it possible for those that are to charge higher rates.According to Faraja Cancer Support, an NGO that works with cancer patients, "the average [cost of] treatment ranges from $1,600 to $5,000, which is way beyond the reach of many Kenyans".Even the $5 cost of one radiotherapy session at the public hospital can be prohibitively expensive for poor Kenyans who live on a dollar or less a day. And the number of people affected by this is on the rise. According to the Ministry of Health, there are 40,000 new cases of cancer reported annually in the country. Another 27,000 patients succumb to the disease each year. From 2011 to 2014, cancer deaths rose by 23 percent, up from 17 percent in 2010. Kenyatta National Hospital is the largest public referral hospital in East Africa but is poorly equipped to treat cancer patients [Osman Mohamed Osman/Al Jazeera] Machines such as the positron emission tomography-magnetic resonanceimaging scanner can be critical to detecting cancer. But such technology is unavailable in Kenya because it uses radiation, and the country does not have laws and mechanisms in place to enable the safe handling of radioactive isotopes. In March 2015, hundreds of cancer patients were unable to proceed with their scheduled cancer treatment when the two radiotherapy machines at KNH broke down. KNH is the largest referral hospital not only in Kenya but in East and Central Africa. It is also the only public cancer treatment facility in the country. But it is poorly equipped and overstretched. Cancer victims from all over the country flood the facility to get cheap radiotherapy sessions. But they can sometimes wait almost a year for an appointment.When the radiotherapy machines broke down again last September, Fatuma Hamisi, who had travelled to Nairobi from Kwale, about 500km away, was forced to reschedule her appointment for months later. "I was called by the doctors for my radiotherapy session. After arriving, I was told that the machines had broken down," the cervical cancer patient explains. The machines in question have been in use for 20 years, treating up to 100 patients a day - instead of the recommended limit of 50. Hamisi could not afford to find treatment elsewhere. Private hospitals can charge around $300, about 60 times more than KNH, for a single radiotherapy session.Dr Catherine Nyongesa, a Kenyan cancer specialist, explains the importance of prompt treatment: "Cancer treatment for patients should start as soon as possible. If delayed, it matures from a curable stage to an incurable one, hence making it more painful and expensive to deal with. The main cause [of delays] is a lack of financial support." Cancer drugs are also expensive since they are not subsidised. Many patients end up renting houses in the city or boarding in hotels, adding to the expense. "Now I feel stranded," says Hamisi. "I have no relatives here [In Nairobi]. I just report every morning [to the hospital] to check if they have fixed [the machine]." An artist's impression of the new Tesla Cancer Centre that is being built in Nairobi [Image courtesy of the Tesla Cancer Centre] A more promising future? Those Kenyans who can afford it often go outside the country for their cancer treatment. According to the country's health ministry, each year 10,000 Kenyans are treated elsewhere - mainly in India and South Africa, which both have more advanced medical facilities. These patients are thought to spend a total of $108m on treatment abroad. But all hope may not be lost. The government has set aside $206m for cancer care. Much of this will go towards diagnosis equipment and it should help to make treatment more accessible for cancer patients. Kenya's first ever comprehensive cancer diagnostic and treatment hospital is also being established. The Tesla Cancer Centre is a $10m project due to be completed next year. The hospital's management intends to import a positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET CT) scanner - an imaging tool that combines two scan techniques in one examination, allowing doctors to see any changes in the activity of cells and to know where those changes are taking place.As well as attracting patients who would otherwise travel to India or South Africa for treatment, the facility will also start a foundation to help impoverished cancer patients. As the World Cancer Day is marked, Kenyan cancer patients are left to hope that the treatment they need will reach them in time.For Fatuma Adan, however, it is too late. Harun succumbed to the disease only hours after arriving at KNH, after he was referred there by the hospital in Garissa. In her tiny rented house, she is left to mourn her only son and to wonder how she will repay the debts she accrued trying to save him. "I do not know where to start from here," she says, crying. "I have lost my son and I have debts to settle. Only God understands what I feel now."One thing she is sure of, is that her son would have received better treatment if she had been rich. Follow Osman Mohamed Osman on Twitter - @OsmanMOsman SOURCE: Al Jazeera ABOUT THE AUTHOR Osman Mohamed OsmanOsman Mohamed Osman is an independent journalist based in Kenya. @ @OsmanMOsman_ Health Business & Economy Africa


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Recreational Firearms Community
of Saskatchewan
|Greg Illerbrun-Bringing You The Facts
As you are all aware, Parliament is not sitting at the moment. We hope to see the passing of the bill to rid us of the long gun registry soon after they go back. I was in Ottawa and made a presentation to the standing committee in November:
Mr. Chairman, Honorable Committee members and fellow witnesses, it is an honor to speak to you today. Our time is valuable so let me get to the point:
The thousands of people I represent support the permanent elimination of the firearms registry.
This is a vital first step in fulfilling this government's longstanding commitment to replace the current law with one that preserves the right to our traditional lifestyle.
I have a passion for hunting and the shooting sports that I share with three daughters; two are avid hunters and the third raids my deep freeze.
Hunting is a widespread family tradition in Saskatchewan.
I am a former RCMP officer as well as a Past President of the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation, one of the largest wildlife organizations of its kind in the world.
Since 1995 I have been the Chair of the Saskatchewan Recreational Firearms Committee which works with firearm groups, local government and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.
These organizations comprise everyday people interested in the outdoors and the use of firearms. We, along with other Canadians, took great offence to the creation of The Firearms Act still commonly referred to 16 years later, as Bill C-68.
What exactly did we find so offensive about the legislation? Well I think the former Auditor General Sheila Fraser summed it up best when she reported to parliament that the initial focus was to use the blanket registry information to target high-risk cases. The focus was expanded to regard all gun owners in the same way due to the view that the use of firearms is in itself a "questionable activity" which requires strong controls. As a result, the legislation focused all its might on the legal law-abiding firearms society with little to no measures to address the true criminal activity that takes place with firearms. That approach is fundamentally wrong.
Look at the example of the handgun registry, in place for decades, yet we see increasing use of handguns by criminals today.
Registries do not work to stop crime. Check the record in New Zealand. You may be aware that Allan Rock, former Justice Minister once said: "I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that only the police and military should have firearms."
This plan to rid Canada of private firearms, was strategically planned and made possible by the Liberal party through the creation of Bill C-68. The tools were carefully crafted into law, where they exist to this day, waiting to be used. Here's some quick background on the Firearms Act of today:
First of all, it is a criminal offence for anyone other than a soldier or a police officer to possess a firearm. The current license is a temporary permit that prevents the police from charging you for the crime you are committing. At the whim of government, it can be revoked, or made difficult to obtain or keep. Without it, you cannot possess a firearm. Many Saskatchewan residents have been charged with a criminal offence simply because they forgot to renew their license. As a former police officer, I cannot support convicting farmers who need to use a firearm for pest control. And I submit to you that some of these same people were Veterans, who should not have their freedom, paid for in blood, vanish with the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen. A firearms license must be made valid for life unless the individual has lost that right through a criminal act.
Second, it is a criminal offence to possess an unregistered firearm. Some would suggest this is the same as registering a dog or a vehicle. Dog and vehicle owners do not receive a criminal record for failing to comply.
Using criminal law to enforce gun control is not acceptable. Yet sadly, we have spent two billion dollars tracking honest citizens. Please kill the registry and use the money to deal with real criminals.
Third, the Government can change any regulation through Order In Council including firearms classification. This means that any firearm, currently legal, can be re-classed and confiscated as the result of a closed-door cabinet meeting. Confiscations have and will continue to happen as long as this insidious legislation exists in its current form.
Fourth, Government inspectors, not police services, can enter your home, without a warrant, based on the "suspicion" that there is a firearm, ammunition or documentation of a firearm.
Am I painting you a clear picture? It sure doesn't seem like firearms owners are treated the same as other Canadians.
Fifth, the Firearms Act, removes your right to remain silent. Inspectors can demand you tell them where your firearms or any other related evidence are, and if you do not assist them you can be charged and put in jail.
You do not have the right to remain silent. This is not because you are a drug dealer, a sex offender, or a murderer. It is because the law identifies you as a legal firearms owner. Criminals enjoy more rights than firearm owners.
Is there a long history of legal gun owners using them for illegal purposes? The answer is no! This entire regime was built for a "potential" risk that I can tell you today, does not exist.
The previous Liberal government deliberately crafted these tools, and others, so that over time they could bring an end to all private ownership of firearms in Canada.
Leave the current act as is, and it is only a matter of time before a government will use these tools to end a time honored, and legitimate way of life in Canada.
Ending the registry is an excellent first step towards replacing The Firearms Act. I challenge the government to continue to lead by integrity. Keep your promise to develop a new law that all Canadians can support.
Thank you.
We hope to have Candice Hoeppner at convention and I will be making a detailed report there as to where we need to go next.
WE ARE ALL STILL CRIMINALS and actually real criminals have more rights than we do!!! We have a lot of work to do yet!
As usual
Never Forgive - Never Forget
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Many book lovers prefer to carry a book in a hot bath, but the reality is that paper books are more expensive, although gold and precious stones they contain no. The e-book in the bathroom too, not to read: the device afraid of the water, which is quite logical. However, not all: there is a reader Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe with protection from moisture, compact and quite successful in many ways.
Recently released the second generation model, called the Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2, and it is, as stated by the manufacturer, was even better. The first version we had on test and has left a good impression, although some shortcomings she was still. Onyx says that in the second version these bugs are fixed, but is it really?
Looking ahead, note that yeah – fixed the main drawback of the first generation, which will be discussed in the section "Ergonomics", but for now let's start learning reader from its packaging.
Sold by Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 in a relatively small box made of cardboard. There are only two colors – white for background and black for the color, which probably represents a monochrome screen e-ink, but also promotes better assimilation of information.
On top of the box there is only the model name, the manufacturer's brand and logo, and the bottom Onyx put all the technical details about the book: its hardware specifications, the main features and benefits and a list of supplied accessories.
To this kind of packaging Onyx recently, and it was 100% informative lacks only a large image of the reader on the top edge.
Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 comes complete with data cable and charger and also with warranty card and manual. Cable has got a connector microUSB, the charger produces a current of 1 ampere, and the manual contains lots of useful information – I advise to pay special attention to the location of the control buttons.
An optional accessory is the cover: most of the other books he's sold separately, but here it is already in the kit, so I will consider it in more detail in the relevant section.
From the point of view of the hardware the second generation of the e-reader is no different from the first, so that changes are not here. The book's impressive compact size, rugged housing and a relatively low weight in the presence of a fairly capacious battery.
screen: 6 inch E Ink Carta Plus, 1448х1072 pixel, touchscreen, 16 shades of grey, the substrate Snow Field;
– backlight: Moon Light, brightness;
– memory: 512 MB RAM storage 8 GB, microSD up to 32 GB;
– processor: 2 cores, 1 GHz;
– firmware: Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, a native interface;
– body: metal, plastic;
– color: black;
– battery: built-in, Li-polymer, 3000 mAh;
– interfaces: microSD, microUSB 2.0;
– wireless interfaces: Wi-Fi 802.11 n;
– dimensions: 159х144х8 mm;
– weight: 205 grams;
– features: strengthened glass Asahi;
– support file formats: TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, FB2.zip, MOBI, CHM, PDB, DOC, DOCX, PRC, EPUB, CBZ, PDF, DjVu, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP.
Overall, we have a fairly compact device with a relatively small weight and enclosure, is protected from almost all sides. A very important point – technology Snow Field, which plays a very important role in the perception of text with the screen reader.
Design Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 compared to the first generation of the model changed only fleeting, but notice the differences. The book is made in a solid feeling body, the front part of which completely covers the protective glass. It almost does not collect fingerprints and is very easily cleaned with a dry or damp cloth.
The back panel is made of aluminum-magnesium alloy and painted in black under a certain angle of turning into dark green. The material has a rough surface and covers the lateral and upper ends, but it is very quickly covered with fingerprints.
The above mentioned change is the new touch button turning on the right and left of the screen, replacing the awkward hardware buttons on both ends. Visually they are made minimalistic, but there is a third button, an analogue of Home devices based on Android – it is hidden under Boox on the bottom frame.
The exterior of the book looks nice and not cause rejection – all looks very harmonious. The microSD slot, reset button and switching on, and the microUSB port are brought to the lower face of the housing.
Ergonomics and build quality
The book has a relatively low weight in combination with compact case provide the use of Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 with one hand and flipping pages with your thumb. From the hands through the rough metal panel it does not slip.
When controlling with two hands side buttons are your fingers instantly, but not to the touch, although they do have vibration feedback (can be disabled in settings). Home button disguised as the inscription BOOX, and it is not very convenient: without instructions you'd never know that she is there.
However, the decision to transition on such button is definitely true: the hardware key in the first "Robinson" was too small and uncomfortable. Although there is a more interesting performance side buttons: in the models of the previous series, for example, in Darwin 2 – they are big, hardware, flat, and level of amenities tends to infinity.
Build quality the reader has not caused: new from Onyx monolithic as modern smartphone from a top brand, and felt it in the hands of very expensive.
The screen in Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 is based on electronic ink – the most modern at the moment, the panel with E Ink Carta Plus with a high resolution. As add-on technology is used Snow Field, through which the background of display becomes white the maximum to improve comfort for the eyes when reading. The E Ink technology, unlike LCD, does not fade in the sun – in bright daylight the image becomes even more contrasting. In artificial light, by itself, that works too, so that text information to consume on such a screen is quite nice.
Asahi glass covers the entire front part of the book, so that the edge of the screen, and he is slightly recessed, and damage now is not as easy as on the early models. The sensor layer responds with the minimum of delay in the corners of the display and detects two simultaneous touches, which makes it possible to increase and decrease the text scale as well as on smartphones and tablets.
Backlight Moon Light in the second "Robinson" very bright, only need 20-25% brightness to read in a dim light, and 50% for reading in the dark. More is also possible, and eyes, oddly enough, to get tired it will not.
Fill the screen with uniform light, combined with the Snow Field background becomes milky-white and the text is visually more black. Flashes and shadows from the LEDs in our copy of the book has not been noticed.
Adjusting the illumination is available in a very wide range and can be called both from the main menu, and from Oreader – reader books.
Screen Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 have received protection in the form of a glass of Asahi, and the rest of the body will maintain a complete cover. It is made of several different materials are used inside a kind of a velvet black colour, and outer part is very similar to the eco-leather material with nice embossing. On the perimeter of the cover stitched with nylon thread to match the main colour.
The book cover holds special fasteners in the corners of the body, do not scratch metal or plastic. Velvet material interior trim very much attracts dust and pet hair, so be prepared.
The upper part of the cover is rigid and holds its shape. It not only provides additional protection for the screen, but also translates the book itself into sleep mode by activating the built-in hall sensor small books. When you open the case the dream stops automatically.
Installed on the second generation of "Robinson" Android OS updated to version 4.2 Jelly Bean and is devoid of 90% of software from Google to speed up the operation of the system as a whole. The goal, incidentally, was achieved: the book is loaded in 15 seconds and does not slow down during use.
Standard Google has calendar, clock, calculator, email client and regular browser, plus you have access to Google Play where you can download the appropriate SOFTWARE. From the Onyx in the book there's an app for counting statistics reading and handy dictionary. The latter is needed to translate unknown words from English to Russian and explaining its value. You can translate words and phrases by entering them manually or by pasting it from directly from the open book.
Statistics reader is a software program responsible for collecting data on the number of pages read and time spent on this process. The application saves information for each day and when needed can build a graph of the volume of pages read from time to time.
The book interface is very easy to learn: last opened books are displayed right on the home screen, and all the stored files can be found in the virtual library where they will be sorted into folders and by name. There is also a standard file Manager as in Android tablets. No additional configuration interface is not necessary to carry out – everything works out of the box.
The main application in the Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 is Oreader is directly reader that can work with nearly 20 formats of books and documents. Features an application weight, it can be customised endlessly, each time discovering new functions.
In Oreader have the ability to adjust the size and font type, the construction of a General scale display, paragraphs, headers and footers, margins and line spacing intervals. Available bookmarks, search and table of contents, quick transition to the desired page and display the number of pages read on the progress bar at the bottom of the interface.
Control of the reading process is carried out side buttons, the functionality of which is also configurable in the menu book. Also flipping pages is possible using the touch screen – touch the right side moves forward and the left backwards.
Oreader app combines the usability and simplicity of interface. In the Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 have Google Play, from where you can download other reader, but with a probability of 99% you do not need.
This reader is designed to work with electronic books, but not with documents and papers that clearly indicates the size of its screen. The capabilities of the hardware, coupled with a lightweight IOS lead to the discovery of any books, even for 10 000 pages, for just a few seconds – usually 5-10, no more.
The speed of opening depends on the type of file: fastest Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 cope with FB2, TXT and DOC, who, let us meet and use the most. With PDF and DJVU all a bit complicated, but not too critical, plus memory books, you can also put ZIP archives with text files inside.
Work offline
The second generation of the Robinson Crusoe is equipped with a built-in battery capacity of 3000 mAh. Charging uses port microUSB, and a full recovery of energy from the complete 1-amp charging takes slightly longer than 3 hours. Computer book charging twice as long, but it can also be connected to a 2-ampere AC charging adapter from the smartphone, and then the charge time will be reduced to 2 hours on average.
The autonomy of the reader, to put it mildly, is not bad: in our test, he spent a week on the shelf included and is drained by about 25 percent, so that in the standby mode, it is enough for a month assuming the backlight is off.
The process of reading books without backlight and vibration buttons the reader slowly drains the battery – enough for 25,000 pages (1 page equals one screen refresh). Lights and vibration motor greatly affect the rate of discharge, and that's what happens when you activate them:
– brightness 25%: 21,000 pages;
– 50% brightness: 15000 pages;
– 75% brightness: 13000 pages;
– 100% brightness: 10000 pages.
The book Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2 will interest primarily those who love to read not only at the table or in bed, but also in the bath or on the beach – book is protected from moisture. Also the distinctive feature of the models have a new control buttons, and overall design has changed dramatically compared to the previous series readers Onyx. The model is relatively inexpensive, but the impression of a premium, as indicated by the high build quality and decent materials. In the Treasury of the merits should also record good battery life, and overall the book is very pleased with the testing process. Its advantages and disadvantages below.
Pros Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2
– compact body;
– capacitive control buttons;
– protective glass on the screen;
– good autonomy;
– case included;
– the screen backlight.
Cons Onyx BOOX Robinson Crusoe 2
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Christine & Alexander's Barcelona Wedding
I was so excited to be asked to carry out wedding photography for Christine & Alexander in the beautiful city of Barcelona. We had planned to include some of the great iconic landmarks but the weather conspired against us and we had to settle for photographs at the lovely Sjømannskirken (Norwegian church in Barcelona) and at their hotels. Christine was in the quirky and modern Hotel Pulitzer and Alexander next door in the equally impressive sister hotel the Hotel Regina. Even in July in the Mediterranean it is impossible to guarantee blue sky and sunshine and we had grey skies and drizzle. However, this did not detract from a beautiful and very emotional family wedding. The couple's young sons were page boys and the bridesmaid a very dear best friend from school days. Christine's mum was not able to attend due to unavoidable work commitments but sent a very moving tribute to the lovely couple via video. Christine's natural beauty was enhanced by a great team from We Make Up Your Day who are Scandinavian specialists in hair and make up based in Barcelona. The Hotel Pulitzer provided a wonderful wedding dinner during which almost every one of the wedding party made a speech and Christine & Alexander continued the Norwegian tradition of standing on the chair to kiss and kissing under the table. All in all a wonderful day to remember in a great Spanish location.


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In many ways, an enigmatic victory on the weekend. A game we dominated, and won, yet one in which we still managed to look distinctly uneasy.
The first half summed up much of this season's frustrations, as we once again dominated without scoring. Hleb, who had a good first half, was often the player who provided the initial impetus for our best play, whether it was a delightful through ball for Baptista to set up the Fabregas miss, or a surging counter-attacking run which led to Freddie's poor miss when clean-through on goal.
Fabregas's miss encapsulated our season. We were dominant in possession, actually found not one, but two killer passes, yet lacked a clinical, cutting edge, even when presented with the most straightforward of chances. It could be called a 'freak' miss, and in many ways it is, but with Rosicky missing a similar chance earlier in the season, one has to wonder whether a basis lack of killer instinct when it comes to shooting has cost us points and games this season.
Freddie's ability to shoot has certainly gone, and his miss in an otherwise thrilling break was all too typical of his indifferent form. He certainly had a good game on Saturday, even beating a man for pace at one point, but his deficiencies still clearly outweigh his worth to the squad.
Just when it seemed it could be one of those days, we finally scored. Clichy, who has improved at an almost game-by-game rate, flew into the box before being clumsily brought down. Gilberto then managed to send the ball just past Hahnemann's finger-tips, and a sense of relief broke out in the crowd.
A lot of the tension that had been built from three losses in three competitions seemed to dissipate from the team, and moments later Walcott should have scored from a sensational through ball from Cesc.
And then up-stepped the Beast. After the game Hahnemann stated that the Reading players were bowled over by Baptista's physical presence and strength. Whilst his first touch often leaves a lot to be desired, his goal was a true power-house effort that no-one else in our squad would have scored. His tenacity, strength, and composure earned him and the team a goal from which we should have gone forward.
Instead, we let Reading back in the game with some pretty sloppy defending. Jens was even more incandescent than usual, barracking Hleb to the extent he was substituted - especially after a poor second period - and almost causing Gallas to square up to him.
Say what you will about Jens, but the team needed the rollicking to prevent lethargy denying us three points. Can you imagine Almunia doing that? Can you imagine Almunia pulling off a, frankly, stunning save from Sidwell to guarantee us the points? I can't and I hope Arsene
doesn't think so either.
So, in the end, it was a game which we desperately needed to win, but one in which we ended up playing rather desperately. And we'll have to play far better than that to turn over PSV on Wednesday, with or without a certain Frenchman.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Fabregas's miss sums up Arsenal's season.
2 comments:
Don't forget Fabregas missed another one when he rounded the CSKA keeper at the Emirates as well. It's not down to bad luck. It was the same when opposition keepers always seemed to play blinders against us.
- 5 March 2007 at 09:10
Cesc should have scored but you cant ignore the bullet pass from Craptista which wasnt even on the floor from 2 yards
- 5 March 2007 at 14:35
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Whether you want a targeted reach of several thousand sales and business development professionals in a metro area near you, or 51,000 nationwide, or nearly 13,500 vice presidents of sales, The Sales Association represents a phenomenal marketing opportunity into the sales professional community.
The Sales Association offers a limited number of Sponsorship and Advertising opportunities. These sponsorships are designed to allow resource-providers like you the ability to market to and share information with industry leading sales and business development professionals.
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The Sale Association has Chapters forming across the United States and Canada. Below are sample options within the Chapters but specific options and events vary by Chapter. For us to help you, we ask that you send a note stating the city/cities or region(s) of interest and we will let you know the specific Chapter(s) in that area as well as offer contact information to that group.
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Zipping and Unzipping in a Client Application or a Website is very common requirement. Until the latest .NET version, there is no API that fully supports these things. We would have relied on J# specific JAVA APIs or there are superior 3rd party APIs available which could have done the trick. .NET 4.5 gives an edge on handling… Read More »


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Our view: Get ahead of jail overcrowding issue before it's too late
Midland's recent boom came with its positives as well as negatives.
Sheriff Gary Painter recently talked about one negative — the increased population at the jail.
Painter told the Midland County Republican Women last week that the jail is inching closer to its maximum capacity of 500. That is not the best of news, nor can we expect it to get better. The referendum to expand jail facilities took place in 2008 when the county's population wasn't near where it is today. Population is higher, the economy is set to go through a downturn, and of the 11,000 people put into jail in 2014, 80 percent to 85 percent will be re-booked, Painter said. It's a recipe for a worsening situation.
It's time for residents of Midland County to turn their attention to this problem. Painter said if the number of days that inmates spend in the jail does not decrease in the next two years, the county might have to spend an additional $2.5 million. It costs Midland County $86.62 per day to house an inmate.
We hope residents call on their leaders to get ahead of overcrowding. During the periods of prosperity of the last decade, county officials found more than $60 million for Midland County Courthouse and Horseshoe projects. Now it's time to look back at commitments and make sure to take care of the necessities. It seems like the jail should be among the priorities moving forward.
And we are talking not just about facilities. It's time for the county to do more to address mental health services for inmates. Painter told last week's luncheon audience that a five-member mental health unit on staff handled "over 1,000" calls in 2014. In our view, the county should be even more out front in helping Painter operate and staff a jail that meets the needs of increased population and the greater number of inmates with mental-health issues.
From time to time, a community should reassess what it has done and what it needs to do. In terms of county operations, this just might be one of those times. The county's leaders have taken advantage of the good times and overflowing sales tax revenue to make facility and infrastructure investments. After a period of growth — which included the very popular Midland County Public Library Centennial branch — it's a good idea to make sure a community's needs are being addressed.
It is interesting to note that one decade ago when all of these projects were being considered, only one was sent before the voters: the expansion of the jail. It's hard to imagine what the jail situation would be like if the voters had not approved it. Let's make sure the situation is handled today, so it doesn't cost the county's residents more in the future.


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Blowing Chairs
South Korean designer Seung Jin Yang has coated brightly coloured PVC balloons in resin to create these inflated seats. The collection of chairs features backrests, legs and arms created using sausage-shaped, inflated, modelling balloons. Stools have seats made from a single balloon coiled around itself, and rest on gently curved legs.
Although the furniture looks fragile, Yang used eight layers of epoxy resin to create a rigid outer surface. Each piece needs around half a day to be coated in a single resin layer, with successive layers gradually added on top of it. As the resin sets, it creates a glossy and solid surface, that's able to support weight. The process takes a week to complete a single stool.
Designer | Seung Jin Yang, Seoul, South Korea
Technical info | Inflatable PVC with resin layers
Picture credits | Seung Jin Yang


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Thursday, 28 June 2012
Instructional video: As Boys Grow Reviewed by Bersercules
37 comments:
Wow, this is a great review to return to Bersecules, seriously made me laugh man.ReplyDelete
LMAO the cat got too flustered as his snip snip made him jealous. Nice fight there at the end too hahahaReplyDelete
I remember that video. I say if a guy is carrying around the diagram of a penis, Chris Hansen must be notified. LOL.ReplyDelete
i remember this stuff, i liked it for reasons i cannot understand nowReplyDelete
That was awkward. Kinda surprised it didn't speak about abstinence though. Or suppressing urges. I mean it's creepy but it might have actually been instructional back then.ReplyDelete
You seem to be a little fixated on this section. It's a hard subject to say the least and everyone (at least in this country) get's embarrassed when they try to imagine their kids going through what they did. I'm not defending the video, but kids are very curious about things they perceive they aren't supposed to know about. True story, when I was in Kindergarten I had figured out that the penis goes in the vagina, but I thought it was pee that got them pregnant. I've already been giving this thought and my son is only 8 months old!ReplyDelete
I actually wish I'd gotten to see some of these crazy ass instructional videos. Some were just full of batshit insanity like a gym teacher who spies on young boys in the locker room. Fun and disturbing fact; I've never had a wet dream. I think if those kids were asking me questions like that I'd beat the shit out of them and tell them to talk to their parents. I'd be really freaked out if my kid came home from school and said their gym teacher taught them all about masturbation and sex.ReplyDelete
I wonder how these young boys were duped into appearing in this ridiculous video. Did they perhaps have acting aspirations and think this would be a first step to the big time... like maybe a guest appearance on "Leave it to Beaver"?? Welp... looks like THAT didn't work out.ReplyDelete
Oh wow they were actually more open in the 40's than my high school was in the 00s. I thought all videos back then used stupid safe version words, and sped up lectures.ReplyDelete
was that Sandusky from Penn State?ReplyDelete
Not only does he spy on these kids but he gets it on camera and different camera angles at that.ReplyDelete
It's slightly better sex ed than I remember getting. On the other hand, it's much, much creepier.ReplyDelete
That was slightly hilarious. In a rather disturbing way. So much so that it makes me want to both cry and laugh at the same time.ReplyDelete
Wet Dream Guy sounds a little like Mr. Rogers, which makes it even creepier, doesn't it?ReplyDelete
From now on whenever anyone asks me a question at work, I'm going to say "Maybe a diagram will help" and pull out that picture!ReplyDelete
LOL~ omg this is hilarious! that's one creepy gym teacher. well in high school we had this lecture in our biology class. everyone had this awkward look on their faces LOL~ReplyDelete
thanks for the good laugh! Have a great day berc! ^_^
Hahaha. Loved your last punch line, "ask your gym teacher" his name doesn't need to Sandusky.ReplyDelete
So, it not only girls who talk about cramps and periods, guys talk about ejaculation.
Should I see placard vagina and placard penis coitus instruction was erotic? You could use that for all ED medication commercials.
Seeing this creepy video black and white makes it extra creepy
Those who can't, teach.ReplyDelete
Those who can't teach, teach gym.
At least they get whistles.
Whistles that they blow.ReplyDelete
There's a sick joke there.
- Anonymous29 June 2012 at 09:14
Was Wet Dream kid the same one that wanted to shave his baby smooth face? I sense some deep rooted issues in the making here...ReplyDelete
lmfao, thats all i have to say. hahaReplyDelete
I loved your tags!!!ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you did the actual reenactment of sexual intercourse instead of seeing what the gym teacher had to offer. Now I know how to explain it to MY kids!
That video reminded me of my old uncomfortable sex ed classes in Elementary... ._.ReplyDelete
Love your blog. Following.ReplyDelete
My new favorite Bersercules line "That's a vagina What have I been fucking all these years" (My question mark key isn't working for some reason.ReplyDelete
I can't believe they talked about ejaculation, masturbation and wet dreams back then and ignored blowjobs. Maybe that was left to the older brothers as well.
If there's one of these instructional vids for girls out there can you post it. It would be a hoot to see.
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such instructional shorts as "Nocturnal Emission Impossible" and "Don't Touch Me There!".ReplyDelete
Great review!ReplyDelete
Those are some of the worst drawings ever. I love how the 'penis' looks like a balloon animal with a kink in it. Mine doesn't look anything like that! Am I broken??ReplyDelete
That is really funny, great content here!ReplyDelete
You had me at "What is a Cleveland Steamer?".ReplyDelete
sup herk... long time no see...ReplyDelete
thats some good shit as always... keep it up man :D
OMG HAHA MOST AWKWARD EDUCATIONAL VIDEO EVERReplyDelete
This makes me wish I had recorded our 6th grade "sex ed" session with Sister Clara and Sister Mary....
So, what you're saying is that if I stop jacking off 40 times a day, I'll start having wet dreams?ReplyDelete
I don't giggle like that during sex!ReplyDelete


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Cal State LA is the only university in California to offer an in-person bachelor's degree completion program for incarcerated students.
Students in California prison have thus far been able to earn associate's degrees, but could not progress further in their institutions. Through Cal State LA, these students can now complete a bachelor's degree from a public university, through transfeerable course taught on site.
Prison Graduation Initiative students will earn a Communication Studies B.A. by taking two courses a semester (including summers). Students who are release prior to completing their degree are automatically enrolled as a Cal State LA students should they wish to continue their education on our campus.
On-site Bachelor's Program
A College Education in Prison..
by Vanessa Rancano
One of the first things Charlie Praphatananda did when he got out of prison was...
California College Program for inmates
by Ron French
At least once a week, faculty from California State University Los Angeles make the 90-mile trip across the San Gabriel Mountains to this Mojave Desert town.
Locked-Up Vietnamese California
by Tin Nguyen and Bidhand Chandra Roy
The Vietnamese diaspora comprises a significant population among California'a immigrant communities. For some of these.....
Allen and Zion Story
We are so inspired to see how education is taking this family forward and allowing their dreams to come true.


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Moodle Tutorials
I like Moodle for several reasons. One of them is that Moodle is an open source software. I thought to create this blog in order to add free tutorials and free resources for my fellow Moodlers. I believe that I become Moodlcoholic. www.efrontlearning.net?id=efronters
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
How to control who sees a Moodle block on the front page?
Do you want to learn how to control who sees a Moodle block on the front page?
Mrs UsingMoodle demonstrates it on the following video.
Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Attendance Module
Today I would like to present you the Attendance Module.
- Add attendance activity
- Set attendance categories and grading options
- Ass sessions
- Take attendance, and
- Have reports.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle
On July 21 the Microsoft Education Labs group release the first CPLv2 software for Moodle.
Here is a list with some of the benefits that Moodlers can take advantage of:
- Moodle site Administrators can include Microsoft Live Services,
- Students and Teachers can use their Windows Live IDs to sign in to Moodle,
- Students and Teachers can access Live Services like email, instant messenger without leaving Moodle.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Make your Moodle course page look like a webpage
Do you want to learn how to make your Moolde course page look like a webpage?
Mrs UsingMoodle demonstrates it on the following video.
Enjoy and do not forget to leave your comments!
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Is Moodle the only Open Source LMS? - 11 Open Source LMS
In my personal opinion, Moodle is one of the best options for an open source Learning Management Systems (LMS). However, Moodle is not the only open source LMS.
Here is the list of 11 Oper Source LMS with a brief description. I highly encourage you to visit each LMS site and explore its capabilities pros and cons.
eFront Easily extended with modules available from the site.
Claroline This system is based on specific pedagogical principles. Supports online content tools such as SCORM and Wiki.
ATutor Offers tools for management of learning.
OLAT The winner of the "IMS Learning Impact 'Leadership Award' 2009 for best open source learning platform".
Sakai Aimed at Universities was created by the Sakai Foundation.
Docebo Compatible with SCORM 1.2. Two cool tools that it offers is video conferencing and HR systems like SAP and Oracle
Dokeos Supports converting Office documents into Flash and user synchronization with Oracle and SAP.
ILIAS It offers collaboration tools such as chat and forums, and distribution technologies like RSS and podcasts.
openelms A business solution used by Merrill Lynch.
Ganesha This LMS developed in French but it can be translated.
.LRN Developed at MIT.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Moodle Blocks & Themes
Do you want to learn about Moolde Blocks and Themes?
Mr Paul Tannahill demonstrates Blocks & Themes in Moodle.
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Drag and drop does not work until the host is restarted.
When you install Virtual PC on a new computer the ability to drag and drop files from the virtual machine to the host operating system does not work until you restart the host operating system. Technically, you do not need to restart the host operating system for this to work. All you need to do is stop Windows Explorer and restart it.
The reason for this is that Virtual PC installs a shell extension to enable drag and drop support, and this is not initialized until Explorer is restarted. Rather than mandatorily requiring a host reboot we decided to leave this feature disabled until the user decides to reboot the system.
PS. We did try just restarting Windows Explorer at the end of Virtual PC installation, but this caused problems with a number of other applications.


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