Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Daytime session at Sherigu Community Library
- La deuxième journée des activités de café littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Échanges avec la nouvelle gérante de la bibliothèque de Koho
- Reprise des activités de la bibliothèque mobile Pénélope
- Sortie de la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école Sainte Thérèse
- Bonne nouvelle pour les amoureux de la lecture à Niankorodougou
- Bibliothèque communautaire de Zimtenga ! Les livres attendent patiemment le retour des communautés
- Bilan des activités du mois d’août de la bibliothèque de Bougounam
- Bilan des premières journées du café littéraire
- Nyariga community library, daytime activities
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The U.S. Employment Situation – August 2014
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 6.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services and in health care. In … Continue reading
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Federal funds rate remains at .1% per year….
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U.S. current account deficit continues apace
So $500 billion a year. With a population of 300 million, this is about $1500 per person per year. Unfortunately for me, as director of FAVL, that means sustained appreciation of dollar fairly unlikely. For the three months ending in … Continue reading
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Chikungunya has left the building….
Today, my eighth day, was the end. I was feeling light-headed and sleepy almost all day. My weird rash, where patches of skin feel like they are on fire, was diminished, but still there. Then about 8pm this evening, I … Continue reading
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Chikungunya – right description of symptoms, I will not be trying the remedy
ARSENIC ALB 30 – to counter: the great debility with low vital power, the exhaustion after even slight exertion, the mental and physical restlessness, the sense of fear he was fraught with, the depressed spirit, the aversion to food, the … Continue reading
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Limited interest?!? Limited interest?!?!
Papers also get rejected because they are of limited interest. Say, they focus on the marketing behavior of tomato-growing households in three villages in Burkina Faso. via BellemareHowtoPublish.pdf.
Day four of Chikungunya: the skin crawling started last night… truly horrible
Various neurologic sequelae can occur with persistent chikungunya fever.Approximately 40% of those with CF will complain of various neurological symptoms but hardly 10% will have persistent manifestations. Peripheral neuropathy with a predominant sensory component is the most common 5-8%. Paresethesias, … Continue reading
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The urgent need for public health action
The cost-effectiveness of public intervention seems like it must be higher than for any other disease. If it gets to 100,000 deaths, even if the valuation of life is as little as $10,000, the loss will be in the billions … Continue reading
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Puerto Rico debt maybe not so bad… good news for Kevane family
A year ago, hedge funds were bit players in Puerto Rico and municipal bonds in general, long regarded as a sleepy market dominated by mutual funds that buy and hold the same bonds for years.Hedge funds began descending en masse … Continue reading
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Chikungunya and ebola
So I got Chikungunya unfortunately. My symptoms started yesterday morning, and built all day, and by nighttime the joint pain was all over… you know it is bad when you wake up at 4am looking at your gnarled hand and … Continue reading
Relaxing in Burkina Faso couple weeks ago
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Senegal touts its big effort to prevent Ebola from getting established
Lots of publicity, quick public health action, good treatment… so the Guinean is cured and none of his contacts got infected…. supposedly. Reassuring. Il est vrai que pour l’instant, la campagne active de prévention menée par les autorités sénégalaises a … Continue reading
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In Puerto Rico, helping my dad while my mom suffers through Chikungunya
She seems to be be pretty well, although last week when she got it was hell for her and my father. It’s big news here is Puerto Rico with estimates of 20,000 cases…. If the deaths are confirmed to be … Continue reading
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More movies watched on Air France
I forgot to mention that one of the highlights of the trip to France/Burkina Faso was flying on an Airbus 380, the double-decker giant plane. On the way back I realized a childhood dream: to go up stairs in an … Continue reading
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A somewhat discouraging conversation concerning libraries in Burkina Faso
Last week I visited one of the villages where FAVL supports a library. We had an appointment at the office of the mayor. We walked up to the municipal building. A village woman was standing there with a man. The … Continue reading
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Measuring local rainfall using cell phone networks… IV for mis-measured rainfall soon to be available!
I take objection, by the way, to burkinés … Sankara would be rolling in his grave… burkinabè please! Gracias a una colaboración con el operador burkinés Télécel Faso, los investigadores han podido tener acceso a valiosos datos sobre la atenuación … Continue reading
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Studying Ebola, Then Dying From It
For me, this was the relevant paragraph. My friends in Burkina Faso are well aware of the implications. Instead, the virus was allowed to escape the first village, and then to spread into four more countries. That missed opportunity has … Continue reading
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Good news from Burkina Faso: CDP and UPC dialogue
Of course, could be a Machiavellian scheme to destabilize the MPP. But if someone does something deliberately to destabilize you, surely you can emerge un-destabilized? Politics is the great game indeed. Au Burkina Faso, le parti au pouvoir, le CDP … Continue reading
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Thanks Air France….
On the flight back today got to watch the 2012 French film Intouchables. Great light comedy with a wonderfully serious subtext about our human condition. And also watched another wonderful movie, Wadjda. So… thanks Air France for having good taste.
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Another day in Ouagadougou
Started out early this morning with a 6k run in the Park Bangreogo, Ouagadougou’s urban park. I felt like the prosecutor character in the French detective procedural Spiral, because Dounko and I talked about FAVL the whole run. Then Dounko … Continue reading
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