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Nusa Lembongan is a small island in southeast of Bali island. This island includes in area of Klungkung regency and between Bali island and Nusa Lembongan separated by a strait of Badung. To go Nusa Lembongan, visitors can use the fast boat from Sanur beach about 30 minutes. Other alternative of Benoa port use cruise ship about 1,5 hours.

Nusa Lembongan which has location is about 15 kilometers…

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A Fiasco At The Burial Ground, A Prank At The Shop: Covering Ebola

NPR’s global health correspondent Jason Beaubien tries to keep his cool when traveling abroad. But he may have set a new record for chillness.

En route to Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak, he flew out of Sierra Leone’s Freetown airport. Like all passengers, he had his body temperature measured by an ear gun thermometer. The reading: 32.8 degrees centigrade (roughly 91 degrees Fahrenheit).

A 95-degree temperature can mark the onset of hypothermia; at 91 degrees amnesia can kick in. But Jason remembers (and has photo proof) of that clearly erroneous temperature reading.

The authorities were not troubled and let him board his flight.

If that was a comedy of errors, in Monrovia, Beaubien found a tragedy of errors when it comes to burying the dead.

There have been over 350 Ebola deaths in Liberia. How are the bodies being handled?

The government is having a really hard time finding places to bury the bodies because nobody wants them in their community.

The government bought this land [for burials] in a quite remote spot. There isn’t even a village that close to it, just some little shacks. But it’s near the settlement of Johnsonville.

The dead body management teams — that’s what they call them — went out there last week to bury these bodies. Basically, the site is a swamp. They had a big backhoe to start digging the graves. But people from the [nearest] community came — they didn’t want the bodies buried there. There was a clash. Then the backhoe got stuck in the mud.

They didn’t finish burying the bodies that night, but they threw the bodies into the graves they’d dug. Overnight, water from the swamp came up and lifted the body bags up, and so the body bags were floating in these graves. And the community was furious.

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“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.” ~ Wayne Dyer

A person with good character wont judge another person based on reputation. They will actually take the time to know someone for themself.

We shouldn’t merely live in such a way as to throw all caution to the wind and do what we want at the expense of reputation. But we also shouldn’t allow the looming prospect of reputation and how we are perceived to govern our actions. 

So what is left? Cultivate and celebrate good character. Rejoice in the good fortune of others, be compassionate toward the suffering of others, permit yourself the freedom to move forward with unreasonable confidence, and Love. 

Love animals, love children, love your friends, love your family, love sad people, love pathetic people, love art, and aspire to love tomorrow those that you cannot find love for today. 

What matters MUCH more than reputation is how you actually live and be. 

Don’t be afraid to acknowledge when your past actions have been wrong. When we don’t use our actions to form a sense of identity, we don’t feel threatened by taking a good long look at the choices we make and the reasons for those choices. 

I can’t tell you what to do but by clarifying these things for yourself, you will have a better idea of how to approach whatever it is that seems to be troubling you. 

A book I would also highly recommend is The Places That Scare You by Pema Chodron. 

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