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assignment status: invited!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m excited to say that I’ve received my official letter of invitation to Cameroon, so that’s one less thing to be done before I leave! (The official letter from the organization is needed to apply for a two-year visa for Cameroon.)  Since I now know where I’m headed exactly, I thought it would be fun [...]

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cold and a cold

Posted in Missions, random, tagged , , , , , on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s almost June here in Portland and the weather is continually diappointing. It’s been under 50 degrees most of the “spring’ and it’s been grey and rainy almost every day, too. Then we had a week where it went from 50 degrees to 95 degrees and then back to 45 then same week. [...]

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Africa Cup of Nations started today

Posted in random, tagged , , , , , on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Cameroon soccer rocks the Earth  (yeah it does!)
I somehow missed this story at the AGU last week. Garrett Euler, a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, presented work on imaging the Earth’s interior through a chain of seismometers in the African nation of Cameroon. But in early 2006, he found a series of [...]

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the stories you never heard about in 2007

Posted in Journalism, crisis, world, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Every year for a while now Medecins Sans Frontiere has been putting out their own “Top Ten” list.  It’s the top ten most under-reported stories of each year.  Check out www.msf.org for the original article.  Reuters alertnet also has a link to the article and an article of their own on the phenomenon.   http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/MSFIntl
The top [...]

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