A SERIOUS backlash against Nova Peris,
Julia Gillard's hand-picked Senate candidate for the Northern Territory, has
prompted the former Olympian to explicitly address a whispering campaign
alleging wrongdoing while she was a public servant just over a year ago.
Amid ongoing anger in Darwin at Tuesday's prime ministerial bombshell anointing Ms Peris, disaffected ALP members have been lashing out at both the Prime Minister and Ms Peris with some peddling a rumour that she had been sacked by the Department of Education and even investigated by police over the use of departmental furniture in November 2011.
Ms Peris has attracted solid support from several prominent indigenous personalities for her community work promoting children's health and girls' education,All our rtls are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. but other vocal indigenous activists claim she is being paraded by the ALP to improve its Aboriginal credentials.
With a smear campaign in full swing, the politically inexperienced Ms Peris was being shielded by her new ALP minders and was unavailable for direct interview on Thursday, but issued a statement denying any substance to the anonymous claims.
''I have been made aware of malicious and unfounded rumours circulating about my time as an employee of the Northern Territory Department of Education in 2011 and I wanted to definitively correct the record to address these incorrect suggestions,'' the statement began.We have many different types of parkingsystem.
She said she ''did not misuse departmental assets during my time at the Northern Territory Department of Education'' and in fact supplied two of the three girls' academies she had established with lounge suites, a coffee table, a fridge, a microwave, and a rug.
The Berkeley obstetrician was touring Nigeria as part of a 2008 maternal mortality research project. Her hosts took her to a dilapidated, poorly equipped hospital, where electric power routinely fizzled out.
Mothers coming to the hospital often delivered babies by kerosene lantern or candlelight. Some C-sections were delayed.Our aim is to supply indoortracking which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements. Some pregnant women were turned away. Others died from complications rarely seen in the West, such as uterine rupture.
In Malawi, women in labor are required to bring their own candles when they arrive at clinics. In Uganda, midwives sometimes illuminate nighttime deliveries by holding a cellphone between their teeth.We open source oilpaintingsforsale system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy.
“There was one night I saw a woman fighting for her life in darkness,” Stachel recalls. “I felt like I was in a chamber of horrors, and I thought ‘Why am I here right now bearing witness?’ I thought maybe I could be a voice for this woman and others.”
Then it hit her: What if these clinics had a reliable 24/7 source of electricity to illuminate delivery rooms, keep blood supplies refrigerated, and recharge cellphones and two-way radios so doctors could be located quickly?
After Stachel described the conditions she witnessed in Africa to her husband, solar energy educator Hal Aronson, the two conceived an impossibly simple idea: an easy-to-install, easy-to-use solar power unit small enough to fit in a suitcase. And powerful enough to change the world.
And thus the most beneficent piece of luggage on Earth was born.
We Care Solar is the couple’s Berkeley-based nonprofit. In just four years, the organization has deployed more than 200 bright-yellow solar suitcases to clinics in 25 countries across Africa, Central America and Asia, including in Somalia, South Sudan, Nicaragua and Afghanistan.
After a short tutorial, almost anyone can unfold the suitcase’s solar panels, affix them to a roof, plug the cords into the suitcase main panel and power up. The sun does the rest.
The system includes high-efficiency LED medical task lighting, a universal cellphone charger, a battery charger for AAA or AA batteries, headlamps, a fetal monitor, and outlets for 12v DC devices. It comes with 40 or 80 watts of solar panels, and a lead-acid battery that needs replacing only every two years.
The organization has attracted substantial financial support from funders such as the MacArthur Foundation, Starr International Foundation, the University of California’s Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Segal Family Foundation.
The couple also has won awards from U.C.The history of ultrasonicsensor art can be traced back four thousand years ago. Berkeley, the Department of Energy/Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 2011 Nokia Health Tech Awards, as well as being named one of three winners of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s “Half the Sky” contest, which recognizes organizations that promote female empowerment.
Ask the couple why they invest their time and energy in bringing light to developing countries — the globetrotting Stachel practically lives on an airplane — and winning awards probably would rank last.
“We were raised with a strong sense of tikkun olam,” says Stachel, referring to the Jewish value of repairing the world. “It reflects our strong interest in social justice and making the world a more fair place. In seeing problems, we both feel a responsibility to do something about them.”
Stachel won yet another award last year: a $25,000 grant from Isha Koach (Women of Strength), a group of philanthropists allied with the Jewish Women’s Foundation that honors Jewish social entrepreneurs like Stachel.
JWF executive director Joy Sisisky met Stachel last September in New York, where the Berkeley woman convened with the Isha Koach board and spoke at the Jewish Federations of North America’s 2012 International Lion of Judah Conference.
Amid ongoing anger in Darwin at Tuesday's prime ministerial bombshell anointing Ms Peris, disaffected ALP members have been lashing out at both the Prime Minister and Ms Peris with some peddling a rumour that she had been sacked by the Department of Education and even investigated by police over the use of departmental furniture in November 2011.
Ms Peris has attracted solid support from several prominent indigenous personalities for her community work promoting children's health and girls' education,All our rtls are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. but other vocal indigenous activists claim she is being paraded by the ALP to improve its Aboriginal credentials.
With a smear campaign in full swing, the politically inexperienced Ms Peris was being shielded by her new ALP minders and was unavailable for direct interview on Thursday, but issued a statement denying any substance to the anonymous claims.
''I have been made aware of malicious and unfounded rumours circulating about my time as an employee of the Northern Territory Department of Education in 2011 and I wanted to definitively correct the record to address these incorrect suggestions,'' the statement began.We have many different types of parkingsystem.
She said she ''did not misuse departmental assets during my time at the Northern Territory Department of Education'' and in fact supplied two of the three girls' academies she had established with lounge suites, a coffee table, a fridge, a microwave, and a rug.
The Berkeley obstetrician was touring Nigeria as part of a 2008 maternal mortality research project. Her hosts took her to a dilapidated, poorly equipped hospital, where electric power routinely fizzled out.
Mothers coming to the hospital often delivered babies by kerosene lantern or candlelight. Some C-sections were delayed.Our aim is to supply indoortracking which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements. Some pregnant women were turned away. Others died from complications rarely seen in the West, such as uterine rupture.
In Malawi, women in labor are required to bring their own candles when they arrive at clinics. In Uganda, midwives sometimes illuminate nighttime deliveries by holding a cellphone between their teeth.We open source oilpaintingsforsale system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy.
“There was one night I saw a woman fighting for her life in darkness,” Stachel recalls. “I felt like I was in a chamber of horrors, and I thought ‘Why am I here right now bearing witness?’ I thought maybe I could be a voice for this woman and others.”
Then it hit her: What if these clinics had a reliable 24/7 source of electricity to illuminate delivery rooms, keep blood supplies refrigerated, and recharge cellphones and two-way radios so doctors could be located quickly?
After Stachel described the conditions she witnessed in Africa to her husband, solar energy educator Hal Aronson, the two conceived an impossibly simple idea: an easy-to-install, easy-to-use solar power unit small enough to fit in a suitcase. And powerful enough to change the world.
And thus the most beneficent piece of luggage on Earth was born.
We Care Solar is the couple’s Berkeley-based nonprofit. In just four years, the organization has deployed more than 200 bright-yellow solar suitcases to clinics in 25 countries across Africa, Central America and Asia, including in Somalia, South Sudan, Nicaragua and Afghanistan.
After a short tutorial, almost anyone can unfold the suitcase’s solar panels, affix them to a roof, plug the cords into the suitcase main panel and power up. The sun does the rest.
The system includes high-efficiency LED medical task lighting, a universal cellphone charger, a battery charger for AAA or AA batteries, headlamps, a fetal monitor, and outlets for 12v DC devices. It comes with 40 or 80 watts of solar panels, and a lead-acid battery that needs replacing only every two years.
The organization has attracted substantial financial support from funders such as the MacArthur Foundation, Starr International Foundation, the University of California’s Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Segal Family Foundation.
The couple also has won awards from U.C.The history of ultrasonicsensor art can be traced back four thousand years ago. Berkeley, the Department of Energy/Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 2011 Nokia Health Tech Awards, as well as being named one of three winners of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s “Half the Sky” contest, which recognizes organizations that promote female empowerment.
Ask the couple why they invest their time and energy in bringing light to developing countries — the globetrotting Stachel practically lives on an airplane — and winning awards probably would rank last.
“We were raised with a strong sense of tikkun olam,” says Stachel, referring to the Jewish value of repairing the world. “It reflects our strong interest in social justice and making the world a more fair place. In seeing problems, we both feel a responsibility to do something about them.”
Stachel won yet another award last year: a $25,000 grant from Isha Koach (Women of Strength), a group of philanthropists allied with the Jewish Women’s Foundation that honors Jewish social entrepreneurs like Stachel.
JWF executive director Joy Sisisky met Stachel last September in New York, where the Berkeley woman convened with the Isha Koach board and spoke at the Jewish Federations of North America’s 2012 International Lion of Judah Conference.
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