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Here we are (Ramsey, Saeah, Alyssa, Taylor, and our driver Guy in the background) after loading all the solar panels and mounting equipment into the SUV. Obviously we can't fit all this plus ourselves, so we ship the equipment by bus. In fact, there will be another load with our luggage then a load of plastic pipe! Then we head off to the High Plateau. The practice is to never drive at night, so we'll leave here by 1 .
In the background you can see the power lines. Yaounde has the best infrastructure in Cameroon and we'll miss it. But the rural areas have a beauty of their own.
Here are some pictures of the new wells, taken recently by Nura. The top picture is the second Bakang well after a bit of cleaning up by 
the community folks. Pix 2 and 3 show the storage tanks near the new well at the crossroads in Balatsit. They've installed a fence around the tanks and they also dug in some steps (more than visible here) to make it easier to get up and down the slope. There's also a fence around the well itself (not shown here).
A retiree in Florida is reporting a Loch Ness style creature in a local canal- at first thought by the man to be a snake before he says he spotted a caudal fin.
Pictures of the creature are, as always, from a large distance and it’s almost difficult to spot the water, much less a water dwelling creature. But Russ Sittloh insists the creature is huge and potentially dangerous- and he’s concerned for small children and kayakers in the vicinity. (Pythons are a known invasive species in the South, and in July a toddler in Florida was strangled to death by a household pet python. )
Neelachal Gramya bank, based in Bhubaneshwar Orissa. Also good news for Indian Job seekers, The bank invites application from eligible candidates for the posts of Officers and clerks.
Total number of vacancies in Officer Scale I is 21 and Office assistant (Clerical cadre) is 39.
The candidate must be a citizen of India and also a resident of Orissa and must be proficient in Oriya.
Source: http://www.sriraj.org/career/neelachal-gramya-bank-officers-and-clerks-recruitment/
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Global economic recession - Impact In India:
In economics, a recession is a general slowdown in economic activity over a long period of time, or a business cycle contraction.[1][2] During recessions, many macroeconomic indicators vary in a similar way. Production as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, investment spending, capacity utilization, household incomes, business profits and inflation all fall during recessions; bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rises.
Governments usually respond to recessions by adopting expansionary macroeconomic policies, such as increasing money supply, increasing government spending and decreasing taxation.
Source: Wikipedia
In the US a significant stock market drop has often preceded the beginning of a recession. However about half of the declines of 10% or more since 1946 have not been followed by recessions.[11] In about 50% of the cases a significant stock market decline came only after the recessions had already begun.
9.5% of the labor force - Not seasonally adjusted - Oct 2009Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Race History
Diego Vacca, then a staff member of the Downtown Branch YMCA, organized the 1st Las Colonias Marathon in 1975. As the starting gun sounded on that Saturday, May 31st morning 51 runners left the parking lot of Kennedy High School and proceeded through the west side neighborhood of Las Colonias, northwest out 1604 and back finishing at Kennedy High School. Jim Ewing of Brownwood, Texas was the first of 43 finishers with a time of 2 hours 31 minutes and 15 seconds. Leroy Harvey, then a city of San Antonio executive, was the first San Antonio finisher with a time of 2:41:06.
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Just a few pictures as we pack up from our hotel in Yaoundé....
hey all had their report cars ("bulletins") saying if they passed!
£31 from Amazon UK - this provides Nero 9 + Nero BackItUp 4 plus a trial of Nero Home 4. It comes in a big box containing the usual size DVD case - so isn't especially environmentally friendly when it comes to the packaging. 
Wow, my last pair of shoes from Clarks, lasted nearly 3 years! They were £60. Since then this range of shoes seem to have gone up in price as they're now £60 - £75 (or slightly less when you factor in the 15% VAT we're paying - ie they're still priced up at £75 in the store, but are £73 when you come to buy them.) Here's hoping these new "Clarks Rustle GTX" black leather, goretex, active air, "extreme comform technology" shoes last as long as the last pair! With the last pair it was the sole that wore out the quickest, which meant they were no longer waterproof. The new ones are very snug - they grip your feet even on the heel - and the inner is quite fuzzy meaning your feet shouldn't slip when in them. They also seemed to be the most comfortable out of the range with the most bounce.
Here's the old ones with the worn through soles. And while we're on the subject of shoes, I may as well mention some Sketchers trainers (pictured below) I got in the Debenhams sale - just so I've got a record of when I bought them to see if they last any time at all. One major issue I had with them when I first wore them for a while was that they seemed like they hadn't bothered putting anything in them to stop your heel coming out. I guess it's just part of the design. They also come with a spare set of brown laces so you can choose what colour you want, or change them when the beige ones are dirty.
