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The End of Something. The Beginning of Everything - Wonderful Wee
"It was the end of something. It was the beginning, of everything." -Nokia N Series (The Fourth Screen) TV ad I once read somewhere that every sundown is a challenge. It marks the end of yet another day. The end of something. Unfortunately, that is all we see. We fail to realize that the end of any day paves the way for a brand new day, a new ....
Congolese bloggers on the American elections
Congolese bloggers Musengeshi Katata and Shaka Bantou have been closely following the American Democratic and Republican conventions at Forum Realisance. Both are staunch supporters of Obama and sharp critics of the Republican Party. Like many around the world, bloggers in Congo and across Africa have been following this American election with the belief that its outcome is incredibly important not only for America, but for the world. Bantou writes ....
Re: Ritmiller - WIP
Quote from: Lawrence on September 07, 2008, 04:58:16 PMI am just trying out my skillsHey some of the craziest ideas turn into the best solutions, you just have to have the balls to do it!Come to think of it......my buddy, who... ....
God’s Own Country: The Journey by Will Noelle
Damn. Its beenI dont even want to say how long its been since we blogged on this spot. Thats a damn shame, but it wont happen again. A lot has happened since the last post. We launched the Gods Own Country movie site and watched as the buzz grew around the net. Thats a always a wonderful thing to see yknowwatching a creative idea you conceived in your minds ....
Armenia: Football Diplomacy & Relations with Turkey
Armenia-Turkey World Cup Qualifier, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2008 A number of World Cup qualifying matches were played worldwide on Saturday, but even if Georgia was drawn against Ireland and had to move the venue for the football match to Germany following the war with Russia, many were instead interested in what might prove to be a historic political rather than sporting ....
Tujikumbushe baadhi ya wanaoifisadi Tanzania
Nimeichukua hii kutoka kwenye web site ya Watanzania waishio Oslo, wengine mtakuwa mmeshaisoma hii article Read this mail circulating worldwide via mail about the Tanzanian Government scandal. Is Jakaya Kikwete Clean as he pretend to be??? See how Tanzanian of Asian origin are harvesting Tanzanians Natural resources and Money from BOT, You can also understand why PCCB is not taking sterm action against those mentioned in the list ....
Bienvenue à la Cité!
La Cité a de la gueule, à côté du bois de Vincennes et à deux pas du périphérique. Cest un beau batîment art-déco anciennement palais des colonies construit pour lexposition coloniale... FWIyapin : Les aventures des antillais à travers le monde ....
US election: Storm as Oprah says no to Palin interview
US election: Storm as Oprah says no to Palin interview TV chat show queen and Obama supporter Winfrey rules out a TV interview with the Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Harris in New York and Ed Pilkington in Alaska The Observer, Sunday September 7 2008 Oprah Winfrey, America's favourite daytime TV star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on ....
What causes obesity!
The key to the problem is CALORIES-too many of them.Overweght happens when you eat more calories than your body can use.Whether calories com from fat,protein,sugar or starch,the leftovers are turned into fat.Some of this fat floats around in the blood,plastering and gradually plugging vital oxyigen-carrying arteries. The rest of leftover fat ends up in the body's central fat bank,located around the midsection. Embarrassing branch offices often pop up in ....
Morgan Tsvangirai challenges Robert Mugabe to call a new election
Movement for Democratic Change President Morgan Tsvangirai has said they(MDC) would rather have no deal than sign a bad deal. The opposition party has said they would rather quit the power-sharing talks with Zanu PF, and have challenged President Mugabe to call a new election.Another election will surely result in more violence in the country. So, why give Zanu PF supporters another chance to kill innocent citizens of Zimbabwe?"We ....
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Reaction: Pakistan suspends support to US for “security reasons
There has been reaction from Pakistan to the violation of Pakistani sovreign territory. Pakistani rage on their borders being violated cannot be underestimated. Over 20 heavily-loaded vehicles, including oil tankers, were stranded at the border town of Torkham following the government’s decision. The government is reported to have decided to stop fuel supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan via the Torkham highway with effect from Saturday. “An order to ....
SitRep, September 2008
My personal life is about to change, and part of the purpose behind this blog is to record my life as it was, so here goes a brief summary.Personal:I'm waiting for my daughter to arrive - home birth and a baby girl, both new experiences - having a midwife run the show instead of a doctor has been a wonderful change for the better. I'm running on the beach ....
Brazil: Inventive censorship, and the case for anonymity
Brazil got used to being recognized for it's Internet savvy and large population of early web-adopters. Nevertheless, or maybe exactly because of that, the country is rapidly becoming a haven for novel and inventive models and tactics of Internet censorship. A quick search on brazil' + censorship' in Global Voices returns a bunch of scary titles posted just in the last 6 months: Dismissal of Brazilian Blogger: Censorship or ....
Pakistani boots on the ground inside afghanistan
RUPEE NEWS It is pedological to analyze the situation in Afghanistan in the light of American public statements, NATO-ISAF action in FATA and what the US think tanks are saying. It is apparent that the United States intelligence services know that much of the mischief in Afghanistan is Indian. The public statements however do not mention the negative role of India at all. In the US media the ....
The End of Something. The Beginning of Everything - Wonderful Wee
"It was the end of something. It was the beginning, of everything." -Nokia N Series (The Fourth Screen) TV ad I once read somewhere that every sundown is a challenge. It marks the end of yet another day. The end of something. Unfortunately, that is all we see. We fail to realize that the end of any day paves the way for a brand new day, a new ....
AEC: Backyard Dwellers Occupy Land in Cape Town
Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Statement Saturday September 6, 2008 at 12:30 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Backyard Dwellers of Gugulethu, Nyanga, New Crossroads and Langa occupy empty land just of Landsdowne Rd in Gugulethu Gugulethu – After attempting to highlight pervasive corruption in the allocation of housing by occupying empty flats in a Langa housing development last month, Backyard Dwellers are now taking action against the City and the Province by ....
US military trained Georgian commandos
US military trained Georgian commandos Charles Clover and Demetri Sevastopulo – Financial Times September 6, 2008The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgia’s army assault in South Ossetia in August.The revelation, based on recruitment documents and interviews with US military trainers obtained by the Financial Times, could add fuel to ....
Congolese bloggers on the American elections
Congolese bloggers Musengeshi Katata and Shaka Bantou have been closely following the American Democratic and Republican conventions at Forum Realisance. Both are staunch supporters of Obama and sharp critics of the Republican Party. Like many around the world, bloggers in Congo and across Africa have been following this American election with the belief that its outcome is incredibly important not only for America, but for the world. Bantou writes ....
Week in Review
Although we're technically at the start of a new week (gah! already?! nooo), it's time to review last week's events...News highlights.. not necessarily the headline-grabbers:*Kenyan police upset that they have to wear peaked caps instead of berets. Why? They tend to fall off when they're chasing criminals, and they have to pay more the replace them than they pay for the wool berets. Okay, what's missing here? Oh yeah, ....
Ike Cat 4 - heading for the Gulf [UPDATED TRACK]
clipped from news.yahoo.comEven as Gustav evacuees headed home, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said officials were anxiously monitoring Ike on a projected path toward the Gulf."Our citizens are weary and they're tired and they have spent a lot of money evacuating ... from Gustav," he said. He added that if Ike were to threaten, "my expectations this time is, it will be very difficult to move the ....
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Potato salad with apple and thyme
I swear that I am turning into a crabby old lady before my eyes. At least half the words that come out of my mouth these days could just as easily have come out of my mother's mouth... and we all know how we fear turning into our parents ;-) I have caught myself complaining that "music today just doesn't have a tune, not like when we were ....
Cape Town breeds entrepreneurs
www.fin24.com Sep 7 2008 3:46PM Helen Ueckermann Johannesburg - Cape Town is South Africas most entrepreneurial city, a new study has found. The percentage of Capetonians who pursue business opportunities are almost three times the national average. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitors research findings over the past five years show that the percentage of people between the ages of 18 and 64 in Cape Town who pursue new business are ....
The Start of my Low Information Diet
Some of the regular visitors to this blog may have noticed that I have posted progressively less over the last 6 months. Recently my posting has almost come to a standstill. Theres a lot behind this, which Ive been trying to make sense of. In short, it comes down to a sense of frustration Im having with the amount of information I seem to have to deal with before ....
Wow! Things move fast…
Im pretty amazed at the fact that its September already and I have to pinch myself when I think that Ive been working for myself for more than 6 months (during which I managed to set up a business and new office space). Just consider that at the beginning of the year, I joined a corporate (with the view of staying there for 3 years to complete my board ....
The Long-Long-Long Dinner Table
The Visa Long-Long-Long Table dinner began 3 years ago and has since become an exciting annual charity event. After three successful dinners in Melville, the Long-Long-Long Table will be moving to Melrose Arch this year. Sponsored by Visa and run by Starfish, the event - which involves a spectacular three course meal - raises money for orphaned and vulnerable children throughout South Africa. Watch the video for details on ....
BANKS- CHEATS AND LIARS
A couple contacted me to tell me how they had been taken to the dry cleaners by ABSA bank South Africa.The same bank owned in part by Barclays of the UK ply their trade in devious fashion employing mafia style tactics to coerce their clients into handing over all their assets in probably one of the most disgusting cases i have heard of to date. I will be uploading ....
Like Father like Son
I found the photos from the interview of Daniel Al Gamal with Wael Al Abrashi on Dream TV.2 and I thought I must share it with you. Last year as I told some officials in Al Ahram claimed that Daniel did not receive his Egyptian Passport because he was the real son of Rafeat who according to that undeclared source in interior ministry could not bear Children. Here ....
Of losing 10kgs
So lately I got my hands on a box of Hoodia Slimming Gel. Im keeping a daily log on my 6-month-challenge page. - I've got just less than 4 months left. I have dropped 2 kgs, 1 a month. Also been going to gym at least 3 times a week or doing other activities. - Im also going to start an indexed list of ....
It was too good to be
It was too good to be true , I could not believed myself when I read it, I thought for a second that someone from the Oil ministry has read my post about our Egyptian Natural gas reserve but of course this is untrue. It was some like a beautiful dream that unfortunately like any dream it has to end and we are back in the bitter real ....
More updates from Al Doweiqa rockslide
The photos are terrible, here is a slideshow mainly from Yahoo! News ,AP and Reuters. Officially now the death toll reached to 20 persons. The people are extremely angry from what I can see in Al Jazeera and they have to. The Suzanne Mubarak residential project is being sold and is not given to them,the rightful owners who really need it. The rescue works are doing there job ....
