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		<title>Micro-lending in real time &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my desk drawer, I found a dull forgotten coin left over from a trip. It was dated from another time and place, that is, Hong Kong before the hand-over back to China in 1997. This 50-cent piece (a Hong Kong half-dollar) used to be worth about six U.S. cents. But now, the coin has a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=344&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>!St. Louis during the 4th of July&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; almost two years ago now. I rediscovered these shots of St. Louis, Missouri. Landing in town on July 4th, 2009, I watched the fireworks from an 11th floor hotel room. Nice, in air-conditioned comfort. With the little time I had, I started with the Arch, the gateway to the West. Update:  World Series Champs,  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=240&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; an ardent Kiva.org fan follows the Freedom Trail to San Francisco.  With two O’s in his name, Jonathon Stalls and his friend Kanoa (plus relatives and more friends) endure the open road, coast to coast, on six legs.  They are generating funds for Kiva while discovering how much more the Kiva community can be expanded, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=162&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More armchair travel&#8230; through social entrepreneurialism&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Travel with the mind&#8217;s eye &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; with photos by Christophe. For more, click here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=139&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Adéta</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five boys, all brothers ranging from age 10 and younger, are on their way to a Tabaski dinner party for kids. Muslims celebrate Tabaski, falling on a date a few days before Christmas in 2007. It is a harvest feast when mutton is eaten. St. Raphael Church. The headmistress, center, posed in front of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=43&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Influence of China in Togo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no longer surprised to see Chinese restaurants in my travels. This one features Korean and Vietnamese dishes, as well as Chinese dishes from various regions. We ordered a spicy whole fish, appreciated by the Togolese for it&#8217;s chili sauce and the head of the fish; Cantonese rice (very popular locally), chicken with mixed vegetables, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=42&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Settled in Togo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While eating out is part of experiencing Togolese living, making your own dinner can be a greater adventure. It&#8217;s all about the sauce&#8230;. After grinding my own okra, tomatoes, and eggplant that really look like eggs picked from a tree, add some smoked fish, chili peppers, and spices&#8230; pour over mashed cassava. Not bad. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=41&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Urinating</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s OK to respond to Nature when Nature calls, wherever you might be &#8212; except where a sign says you can&#8217;t.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=40&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown Lomé</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/downtown-lome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next to an internet cafe (cybercafé), a near-McDonalds&#8217;s has set up shop. Coca-Cola is made locally and doesn&#8217;t taste as sweet as in the States. A boy walks down the street alone and stops to look at what I&#8217;m looking at. Two women walk by soon after selling cosmetics. Wow, clothes in Togo&#8230; fabrics called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=39&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lomé, Togo: December 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Komi works for &#8220;Frères agriculteurs et artisans pour le développement du Togo&#8221; (FAGAD). He picks up the volunteers at the airport. As our host, he was also our guide into another world. The scene outside of our staging house before heading to our assigned village of Adéta, about 60 miles north of Lomé, the capitol [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=38&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To work a little and smile a lot in Togo&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/to-work-a-little-and-smile-a-lot-in-togo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; during a volunteer work camp vacation in Togo, a country in West Africa. After having translated for Kiva.org well over a hundred business summaries of Togolese entrepreneurs, I have been inspired. Why not go and check out the sights and the people of this former French colony, in person? I finally did. Another world, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=37&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding continues&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/rebuilding-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>When work lets out&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near by Willie D&#8217;s Cadillac Custard shop, an after-work treat, there can be found a &#8216;wingery&#8217;, as in WOW&#8230; World of Wings. Choice of 8 dipping sauces, all tasty. By Day 4, Cyril buys a round of beers after work, here at Tony&#8217;s. Dalton (middle) and Richard. As stated in the weekly Where Y&#8217;At: &#8220;&#8230;Tony&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=35&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chonnying Mongies also volunteer&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; to perform for the volunteers! More than a garage band, this local talent (say: MAHNG-gheez) generously donated their talented energy on a Wednesday night. During our Camp dinner of six types of pizzas in the cafeteria, the band warms up with signature songs. The classic rock will pour out onto the dancing crowd.Three girls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=34&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worksite for the Week in St. Bernard Parish</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/worksite-for-the-week-in-st-bernard-parish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost done on the side. The notches look good. Morning shadow across lumber. The staircase for the front porch is assembled in the next yard with a lot of Peter&#8217;s help. After applying some blocking and spacing techniques, we take turns drilling pilot holes and installing screws to secure the treads themselves. Meanwhile, precision notching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=33&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home in St. Bernard Parish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Jamies Court in the tiny town of Violet, Louisiana&#8230; View Larger Map &#8230;and just 10 minutes from Camp Hope, a home is being re-built from the ground up. With a new foundation laid only about 3 months ago by Habitat for Humanity, it comes together by the hands of hundreds of volunteers. Richard, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=32&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NOLA, Day 1</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/nola-day-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; when Habitat for Humanity would have to wait. We got assignments, just for Monday, to work on projects for local agencies. While others noisily volunteered to gut a clinic that sat molding for the past two years, I had a &#8220;walk in the park&#8221;, literally. My group ended up beautifying what used to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=31&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camp Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Called Beau-Regard by locals, this Camp Hope is established in a half-built school on Bayou Rd., in St. Bernard. I hear that the original Camp Hope of last spring had only outdoor showers &#8211; and bugs to go with the experience. &#160; This reincarnation of room and board for volunteers features wi-fi internet access, flat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=30&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans Reconstruction</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/new-orleans-reconstruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Orleans that I knew as a tourist in the middle of a sweltering August in 2001 was the commercial, the tolerant, the eternal The Big Easy. Laissez les bons temps rouler! Mais après... came Hurricane Katrina. Seven times over, hurricanes had destroyed this city, all before Thomas Jefferson purchased it from Napoleon Bonaparte [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=29&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Favorite Place in San Francisco: tower&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/a-favorite-place-in-san-francisco-tower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SF de young art museum tower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new place to view San Francisco can be found at the top of the observation tower at the newly reconstructed De Young Art Museum located in Golden Gate Park. The old museum, of classical architecture and stone, was torn down due to earthquake damage. In its place is a modernist and understated building clad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=28&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trolleys on Market Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the downtown area of San Francisco, vintage trolleys run up and down Market Street and along the Embarcadero by SF Bay. Not as well-known as cable cars, these trolleys come from places around the country and even from Russia. The red one originally operated in Philadelphia. You can buy a MUNI day pass for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=27&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Favorite Place in San Francisco: fountain&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/a-favorite-place-in-san-francisco-fountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite places to return to in San Francisco is the Martin Luther King memorial fountain located in Yerba Buena Park. This small oasis, convenient for the weary tourist, is located in the South of Market (SOMA) district, and provides a venue for visitors and locals alike to pass the time&#8230; listening to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=26&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cincinnati by Night ahead of the First Snows of the Season</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/cincinnati-by-night-ahead-of-the-first-snows-of-the-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The classics&#8230; I had almost forgotten that, back East, the historic cities like Cincinnati, gateway to the free North during the Civil War, also feature art deco details. City Hall, golden by night, is nicknamed the Wedding Cake by day for its horizontal stripes in tinted stone. Just a hop, skip, and a jump from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=25&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First-Timer with One Brick, Third-Timer with Habitat for Humanity</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/first-timer-with-one-brick-third-timer-with-habitat-for-humanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[onebrick habitat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Soon after the fine introduction and safety talk in the morning,Rajiv in blue is already at work, but I haven&#8217;t picked up my first shovel yet. Everyone on my team is also a first-timer with OneBrick.org. Slowly, we make the slope less steep. After lunch, I traded in my construction hat for a hiker&#8217;s hat. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=24&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat for Humanity builds 4-bedroom houses in San Jose with the help of One Brick</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/habitat-for-humanity-builds-4-bedroom-houses-in-san-jose-with-the-help-of-one-brick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going on for a year now, these homes are being built entirely withvolunteer labor and expertise. The volunteer-organizing group OneBrick (San Francisco Bay Area) brought together about 20 people to move some earth outdoors and put up frames indoors. This one was in North San Jose. Other have been in Oakland and in San Francisco, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=23&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What should I do ahead of time?</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/what-should-i-do-ahead-of-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for travel to West Africa, I made an appointment with the Injection Clinic atKaiser HMO: yellow fever and cholera vaccinations, plus malarialprophylactics. I also did some shoppinging on the REI websitethinking I should take along certain health/sanitation-related gear: &#62; REI Item#&#62; 7229340018 1 $5.95 $5.95 Cutter Advanced Picaridin&#62; Insect Repellent Pump Spray 6 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=22&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where in Togo?</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/where-in-togo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps an hour and a half north of the capitol of Lomé, the coffeeand cocoa-growing region of Togo is centered around the city ofKpalimé. I think I&#8217;ll be settled in the Kpélé-Konda region, which isnorth of Kpalimé.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=21&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heading to Togo..</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/heading-to-togo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my volunteer vacation over the year-end holidays, I hope to help make repairs at a training center for blind youth and to plant a tree or two. Mostly, I expect to learn about myself and about a distant humanity in a developing nation located on this continent, whose place in the world is ancient [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=20&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;ll help each other with a little boost from us</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/theyll-help-each-other-with-a-little-boost-from-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody can do something about poverty in the world&#8230; from the comfort of his own computer&#8230; Kiva.org Thanks, Dan<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=19&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trail Work</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/trail-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine volunteers converged on San Francisco, California, in October of 2006 to spend a few days getting their hands dirty. Through the support of the American Hiking Society and the Golden Gate Parks Service, this &#8216;volunteer vacation&#8217; attracted a diverse group of people willing to live and work together to accomplish something for both themselves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=18&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Art and Music&#8230; old and new in Chile</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2006/01/22/some-art-and-music-old-and-new-in-chile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was able to snap some pictures of some art. This little series of photos is a reminder of what caught my eye during my few days in Chile. Community art includes advanced murals by local schools. I saw this wall from a bus. Later, I went back to find it on foot. The mosaic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=17&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valparaí­so, on the Pacific Ocean</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2006/01/21/valparai%c2%adso-on-the-pacific-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too far from Santiago is the old port city of Valparaíso, the seat of Chilean government since 1991. It&#8217;s a city know for its multi-colored buildings seemingly piled on top of each other and rising up from a cresent-shaped bay. They say the best place to be on New Year&#8217;s Eve is here in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=16&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Altiplano Salt Lakes</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2006/01/21/altiplano-salt-lakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chile altiplano high desert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is lake Miñiques located at an elevation of 4000 meters. The lakes of the Altiplano are cold, stark, and serene.Walking steadily up a slight slope for 10 minutes left me breathing hard with my heart pounding, then a strange headache and a generally feeling of illness. It was altitude sickness. Miscanti is fed from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=15&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Altiplano</title>
		<link>http://beaturtle.wordpress.com/2006/01/21/altiplano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chile altiplano atacama villages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The highlands above San Pedro are called the altiplano region, where it actually rains to a small degree. The altiplano country is famous for its stark lakes and curious hollow rock formations. The few plants include grasses growing in cresent-shaped clumps all oriented in the same direction, perhaps formed by the cold winds. A church [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=14&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atacama Salt Flats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;salar&#8217;, or the salt flats, is composed of chunks of salty rocks strewn on a flat lake bed, which is the final resting place of melted snow that flowed down from the Andes to evaporate in the ultra-dry air. These salt flats are the second largest in the world. Flamigoes nest and feed on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=13&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>San Pedro de Atacama, an Oasis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the north of Chile and near mountains bordering Bolivia, the Atacama Desert, is remote but livable in the oasis town of San Pedro. In recorded history, it has never rained here. Centuries ago, it was a crossroads for the semi-nomadic Ayamara, the ancestors of the more modern Atacamans, who moved their llama herds between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=12&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valley of the Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Atacama Desert, the driest desert on Earth in the north of Chile, there is a stunning wasteland called the Valley of the Moon. The strange shapes of the rocks could be attributed to variable salt/ mineral combinations which allows the blowing sand to create imaginative forms. It&#8217;s a treat for fans of modern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=11&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahía Inglesa&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; is a small but beautiful beach to get away from the heat of Copiapó. Bahía Inglesa is a great getaway with its stunning black rocks, calm waters, and a curious light, flakey sand, as if it were composed of pulverized seashells. A beckoning alternative to Bahía Inglesa is to head into the cordillera, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beaturtle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9036918&amp;post=10&amp;subd=beaturtle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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