most people in benin are still not connected to the electricity grid.ill by far the main source of fuel and diesel generators provide much of the electricity -- a burden for the people and the environment. north of the capital porto novo a group of women is currently part of a project to make bio- fuel. this reduces their dependence on diesel and at the same time improves the quality of their lives. >> the boiled palm kernels are ready for processing. the machine can do in a few minutes what it used to take the women hours to do with their hands and feet. the kernels are peeled, cored and pressed. meals are prepared with the oil the machine makes. women in zakpota village love it. juliette ketehoundje is the leader here. she runs the women's cooperative that operates the plant. they still need some support, but soon, they'll be able to do it on their own. >> we produce a third more oil than we did before. the machine is more efficient. we earn more money, too. everyone who works here earns money and can feed their family. some we also spend on raw mater

>>guest: this is the stadium, this is going to go over the season and is an of benin in the middle and it will let some of element come in but it does cover everybody and it has a nice place to play, very loud. >>host: as take a look now at the colts and the eagles, did you think the vehicles would struggle as much this season? >>guest: anytime you have significant injury, they lost four out of five starters you cannot play football few do not have an offensive line. it losses in a row would have never said, they were healthy and everyone was intact, i would say had a chance c13 struggle and i have to hair, all of my family is up in philadelphia and watching the show now and they are soaking because of the big loss, better, they live changes next year and there will be new faces anytime there is change. >>host: need a great offense then how did the jets win with only seven points? >>host: 2 if you have it goodnse and hold the team down but if you can hold 7.106, with a bed in a day. >>host: ramwhere it is going to go. >>guest: the defense is ok, and in certain instances in the game whe

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>> more than 17,000 acres of federal oil and gas leases in monterey, san benin tow and fresno counties were sold off to the highest bidders as part of what's known as the monterey shale estimated to hold 15.5 billion barrels of oil reserves. speculators believe the oil can be reached now through a controversial process called fracking. the lease sales pose no proven threat to the environment. >> we do an environmental assessment it's a lengthy document. we look at potential impacts on endangered species, visual air quality. >> they were not addressing these particular parcels as though these new technologies would be used. fracking has dramatically changed operations throughout the united states. >> these environmental groups protested the auction and have filed an official protest. >>> brian, we got a break from the rain but sounds like it's not going to last very long. >>> not terribly long. tomorrow we get a chance to dry. it will be sunny. looks like friday we'll get wet again. not dramatically wet but nevertheless there's just these series of impulses one after another that will b

he was promised africa, born in benin, traffic off, sold into slavery trips. but still got his freedom, came back. he became a pivotal figure in the british abolition movement. he wrote his narrative. i want to read a piece of that. he writers, " the first opted that saluted my eyes was the sea and a slave ship. which was then riding an anchor and waited for cargo. these filled me with astonishment which soon converted to terror. i was immediately handled and tossed up to sea if i were found by some of the crew. i was persuaded i had gotten into a world of bad spirits and they were going to kill me. their complexions being so different from ours, their long hair and the language they spoke which is very different from any i had heard, united to confirm me in the tripoli. such were the horrors of my views and fears that if 10,000 calls had been my own, i would have free the parted with all of them to let exchanged like condition with that of the meanest slaved in my country. at last, when the ship we were in got all of her cargo, they made ready with many fearf