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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The woman who was our guide showed us the N.N.s’ As we walked around the cemetery, I could smell the powerful odor of the most recently arrived dead bodies which were interred without coffins in the wall of a sepulcher.

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JULY 22, 2006

org is designed to help guide the person with a disability who is considering going back to work. I ran into the guy who runs it, Bryon MacDonald of World Institute on Disability, at a recent event of the Community Technology Foundation of California.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

And, if a one in ten chance of Ray's vision coming true in the next 50 years is acceptable odds, investing in guiding that transition makes a lot more sense than if your standard is certainty. As one VC put it to me after the talks, you don't have to become a Jesuit to benefit from a Jesuit education!

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Developer Community Manager, Emma Irwin We are also delighted to have aboard Developer Community Manager Emma Irwin, who guides the SocialCoding4Good volunteers as they join and contribute to the growth and impact of our nonprofit software partners’ open source efforts.

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

We were treated to a funny skit about Chinese tour guides for the Olympics. We visited the English language classroom. We enjoyed getting a chance to chat with a couple of the students who were impressively fluent. This is a country which two weeks earlier had been hosting the Paralympics, and they were very proud.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2008

This island, called Nan Douwas, had a large tomb as well as a “jail” and what our guide called the meditation hole. It was low tide, so we could wade out to one of the biggest of the 90 islands that made up the city. Donna McNear and I took turns climbing down into the meditation hole. Could definitely make you think!

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MAY 18, 2006

The knowledge gained in the pilot will to guide the overall design and implementation of a large-scale scientific study. A volunteer group from the American Statistical Association has provided invaluable guidance on the statistical sampling issues.

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JANUARY 25, 2007

He runs an experiential exhibition where you have the chance to spend a couple of hours doing everyday tasks in complete darkness, with blind people as your guides. Dialogue in the Dark Andreas Heinecke is a social entrepreneur that I met over twelve years ago.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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JULY 13, 2005

Benetech is consulting with SenderoGroup on a project for guiding blind users indoors. Here's what Charles LaPierre, one of our senior engineers, sent out to our team: I wanted to let you all know why there are all these new lights hanging around the office. The lights around the office consist of 4 fluorescent lights, and 5 night lights.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Throughout our work, we are guided by four principles: Innovation Changing the world requires new thinking. We're collaborative, bringing a valuable vantage point that stems from having worked with hundreds of community-based organizations. Ultimately, we want to be the partner that community enterprises value most.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Our guide to visit the school, Roddy Robert, is a teacher who has the condition himself. It was a community made up mainly of immigrants from the island of Pingelap, the place where 10% of the population is visually impaired with achromatopsia, which makes someone very sensitive to light. It was a great feel for a community.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2005

Another policeman guides me by the elbow towards the conference center. He yelled back. One policeman started slapping him in the face and hit him four or five times. By this time, the neighbors are all out in the street watching this. I move fifty yards off and keep watching. This goes on for at least ten minutes, until I finally move on.

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

The Everything Guide to Writing a Romance Novel 32. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma 28. The One Year Devotionals For Teens 29. Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque 30. 1,000 Indian Recipes 31. The Dangerous Book for Boys 33. IMPULSE 34. The Celebration Hymnal 35. Songs and Hymns for Worship 36. Who Knew II 38.

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JUNE 20, 2004

We went to a hospital in the center of the city that did testing both for HIV and for diagnostics that help guide the use of anti-retroviral therapies. Our bus then went out to a clinic in a poorer area of the town: we were quite a spectacle with motorcycle policemen zooming around us and clearing the way.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

On Financial Narratives and Financial Footnotes: The Truth Is in the Fine Print Guest Beneblog by Teresa Throckmorton, Benetech's CFO and VP, Finance In a previous blog post, we shared the Seven Benetech Truths : the core values that define our identity and culture, that guide our work, and that tell our story.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

Our users depend on us to get things right, whether it’s protecting human rights information from attackers, ensuring a student has an accessible textbook in time for school, or guiding an environmentalist in the best ways to deploy their limited resources. Effective: figuring out what the right thing is to do.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Donna sat down with Carlina Henry, our guide and translator (and one of the key special education staffers in Pohnpei state) and started talking to this girl, Aleckson's sister. But, the bridge had been replaced and looked pretty sturdy to us. We found Aleckson being held by a teenage girl, who was very shy, surrounded by a lot of kids.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

The program guides environmental project managers through a series of step-by-step interview wizards similar to the popular TurboTax program.

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DECEMBER 2, 2005

I'm handed off by my friendly guide to the real point of the venture: the expert rug salesman. I have to go to the guide's brother's shop and look at stuff. I try to run away, but guide brother says oh, you misunderstood my little chart, it's actually $20. Now for the real business. I escape, but the adventure is not over yet.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The objective of this group is to draft a guide to the Marrakesh Treaty for countries around the world to use as they implement the Marrakesh provisions in their national law. The chief negotiators of the Treaty for India (GR Raghavender), Brazil (Kenneth Nobrega), and of course Nigeria (Ruth) all participated.

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