with Himalayan Healthcare. Rubbish is recycled and turned into beautiful crafts. All the net proceeds go towards healthcare, adult literacy classes, school support and income to the women in remote mountain villages.

The National Women Commission was also set up by the Nepali Government to create a ‘gender equal society.’ 2010 was pronounced by the Prime Minister last year to be the year to end violence against women as Nepal makes the transformation from traditional Hindu monarchy to modern secular state. The Himalayan Times today had more to say about the steps being taken to become a secular state, but with the erratic internet access today I’m finding it hard to get information.

The female mortality rate has gone up since the 90’s, as has the literacy rate (by 4%),A North Carolina man says he was arrested for failing to return a VHS tape that he rented in 2002.

James Meyers says he was driving his daughter to school Tuesday when a police officer pulled him over for a defective tail light.

He says the officer told him there was a warrant out for his arrest from 2002, because Meyers had rented the movie “Freddy Got Fingered” starring Tom Green and never returned it.

Meyers says the officer let him take his daughter to school and go to work, as long as he promised to turn himself in to the Police Department later that day.


Meyers showed media outlets the arrest warrant Wednesday. He was booked on a charge of failure to return rental property.

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