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Buffs manager Chris Strain insists that the 34-year-old striker he tried to tempt away from Cumnock in June was worth the wait.
Chris Strain is set to face his dad in the dugout when Kilwinning travel to Ardrossan in the first game of the League Cup tomorrow.
DUNBAR was one of the baton bearers in her native Ayrshire as the countdown to the opening ceremony gathers pace.
LYNZY was devastated when her husband William was killed on duty in Afghanistan, and would not see their son grow up.
Chris Strain has a tough job of convincing his squad to stay together after Buffs were relegated to the Ayrshire District League following a massive 19-point deduction given to the club for fielding the ineligible Robbie Weir for 12 games.
RENT boy Rogerio Santos, 19, claimed Mark Menzies paid him £250 for sex and asked him to supply the illegal Class B drug methadone.
THE Queen's Baton Relay will cover 4,970 miles as it travels through 32 local authorities ahead of the opening ceremony in Glasgow on July 23.
Lomond hockey club's first team fought hard in a tough encounter against Ardrossan but couldn't convert any chances
THE 24-year-old revealed that that he has beaten the killer disease and is urging other men to check themselves regularly.
WORLD Scotch Pie winner Stephen McAllister, from Kandy Bar bakers in Saltcoats, was presented his trophy from Bay City Roller Les McKeown at The Scotch Pie Awards.
THE Sea King helicopter landed in a field in Ardrossan this morning after a temperature gauge warning light activated in the cabin.
Irvine harbour was battered by winds and sea water
NO serious incidents have been reported so far but more than 21 flood warning remain in place.
Town is cut off as rivers burst their banks and leave hundreds marooned
STORM-force winds brought down powerlines in the south-west and north-east of country leaving around 3800 ScottishPower customers without electricity.
Two top players have had to step down after injuries
Heated exchange takes place during budget announcement at council
SAM Johnstone, 22, who owned Johnston Processing, was killed early on Saturday morning by a single stab wound to the chest.
Ian Morrison says Waysiders could have beaten Cambuslang had they not played poorly in the first half.
West of Scotland projects get Government funding
THE career of Albion Rovers winger Chris Boyle has been nothing if not colourful.
Infinis buys three wind farms from SSE totalling 96.8MW output
WAYSIDERS/DRUMPELLIER pushed Highland all the way in their latest National League Two match.
CRAIG COLLIN admitted Waysiders/Drumpellier paid the penalty for committing silly errors at Violetbank.
When drinks giant Diageo announced its plans to close down its Johnnie Walker plant in east Ayrshire last year with the loss of some 700 jobs it effectively marked the end of the era of big employers in the region
Ardrossan Accies 44 Perthshire 10
The General Election had a major effect on dealmaking activity in the second quarter of the year.
As operator of five Scottish ports there is no doubt Forth Ports is one of the largest movers of goods in the country.
A qualified biochemist, Graeme Boyle founded his own international technology consultancy company, A Half MV Squared, before becoming director of Nexxus, the networking organisation for the life sciences community in Scotland, in August 2009
NONE of the female Bank Street Hacks were interested in takin’ up the offer of a bit of “pole fitness” when it came intae the office last week, Shughie can reveal.


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Egypt Pyramids is the oldest of the seven wonders of the world, the tombs of the Pharaohs, was filled with pathways and cemeteries in one day
Property of the Kings, which are invaluable, and buried with them so use them in other life as far as they claim
Historians called the name of the Old Kingdom “era builders of the pyramids,” a reference to the large pyramids which we see all of us,
And built in the belly of the right hand of the desert valley, from the province of Fayoum south of Cairo to the north.
But why the pyramids were built and what is their purpose?
Attributed the idea to build the pyramids to the ancient Egyptians believed in the immortality of the soul, and to their belief in the Baath again
And the existence of eternal life. Of the ancient Egyptians built the cemetery where the vulnerable are placed after the body stuffed, and provides a full range
the needs of the Dead as tools and pieces of furniture and types of foods and drink, which was used in his life, even if they came
Spirit and replaced in the body, he returned to his eternal rights. Spray-painted the walls of the cemetery the usual sceneries, the intervention of pleasure for the dead.
The largest of these Tour of the pyramids is the Pyramid of Cheops’ son of the king, “Bent” and his successor in office took the construction of the Great Pyramid twentieth
Years and has a height of 148 meters and its base area 13 acres and the length of each side of the ribs its base about 230 meters, with an
The amount of stones used in its construction about 2300000 pieces of stone weighing in total about 5500000 stone
The East of the pyramid is “Chefren” but shorter in height of the pyramid “Cheops.”
The third pyramid is ” Chefren ” was built by King Menkaure, a mummy in the next sentence after Chefren has gained
King “Menkaure” a good reputation in contrast to Khufu, Chefren, who soon became famous injustice, cruelty and tyranny of servitude as a result of thousands of
Egyptians in the ongoing work… To this day, could not weather factors that affect the pyramids.
It remains the most important question: How was the building stones of the pyramid and the transfer of that distance and lifting it high altitude, and so as not to prolong
I’ll show you the results (facts) directly without the details and research:
A team of scientists from architecture, Egyptology, that the Pharaohs were able to cancel the gravity when lifting stones
Used in building the pyramids and move long distances, and that by directing vibrations of a sound and shipments
ELECTROSTATIC SPRAYING to facilitate the process of lifting.
Dr. Sayed Karim Professor of Architecture at Cairo University and an expert on Egyptology of the pyramids that this interpretation of the way
Building the pyramids came through Breton: The first in a tomb at Karnak architects of the Middle Kingdom, and the second at the Museum
Louvre in Paris.
He said that the Pharaohs were able to control many of the strong cosmic, and took advantage of their energy in achieving the purposes of scientific,
He added that the miracle is the Pharaonic how to adjust the angles and geometry of the universe and linked to the movement of the stars, and trends. For more info click here:

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No trial for pair charged in Windchill neglect case
Published 01/17/2009, Superior Telegram and Duluth News Tribune
A South Range woman and her ex-husband have pleaded no contest to charges that they neglected a 9-month-old colt nicknamed Windchill whose poor condition and eventual death last year roused the sympathies of animal lovers across the country.Word count: 395
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Storm will directly compete with Carlsberg Elephant, Tuborg Strong, and the recently introduced Tuborg Classic. The product will be rolled out across India in the next 18 months. This is the most aggressive launch by UB in over eight years, said a company official, requesting anonymity.
“There is a movement toward a smoother drinking experience — typically falling between 5% and 7% alcohol content," he said.
According to experts, India’s beer market has traditionally been driven by strong beer, which accounts for about 80% of the country’s overall sales volume of 300 million cases. This year, the beer industry is expected to expand 5-7%, paced by premium product launches and expansions, according to the country’s top breweries.
UB, which has a market share of about 52%, will introduce a portfolio of imported beers and another strong beer brand by the end of the year. AB InBev’s imported labels such as Corona, Hoegaarden and Stella, which are limited to Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore, will now be taken to more than a dozen markets across India.

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Tom Crone: 'Quite improper that Mr Watson is sitting on this panel'
News International has complained that an MP involved in a legal row with it should not be allowed to question its staff about phone hacking allegations.
MPs on the culture committee are quizzing the firm's News of the World representatives about the claims.
But its lawyer threatened to complain to the Parliamentary authorities if Tom Watson took part in the questioning.
Labour MP Mr Watson accused the paper of "attempting to interfere with the work of the committee".
The former cabinet office minister began the committee hearing by saying he was being represented by Carter Ruck, the well-known libel lawyers, in a dispute with The Sun newspaper - which is also published by News International.
News International delivered a letter to the committee on Monday evening to object to Mr Watson's presence on the committee.
Its legal adviser Tom Crone said: "Under Parliamentary rules and also the principles, I think, of natural justice and of Article 6 of the Human Rights Act, it seems to us quite improper that Mr Watson is sitting on this panel, dealing News Group Newspapers Limited, with whom he is in litigation.
"If he remains, we will be making a complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner."
This is not a court, members of Parliament are entitled to express views
Committee chairman, Tory MP John Whittingdale, said advice from the Speaker's counsel was that it did not interfere with his ability to take part in the inquiry.
Later the newspaper's managing editor Stuart Kuttner complained that another MP, Tory Philip Davies, had suggested news that he was to step down from the newspaper was not a coincidence.
He said that bore "no relationship to reality" and his departure had been long planned and suggested Mr Davies was not impartial and should take no further part in questions.
Mr Whittingdale said: "This is not a court, members of Parliament are entitled to express views and it does not in any way disbar them from asking questions in a select committee hearing."
Mr Davies said he had argued in favour of press freedom adding: "It seems quite extraordinary that you should take the view that because I express an opinion with which you are not happy that I should be barred from any proceedings."
The committee is looking into allegations made by the Guardian that "thousands" of public figures, including celebrities and MPs, had their telephone messages hacked into by private investigators paid by the News of the World.
One journalist, former Royal reporter Clive Goodman was jailed two years ago after pleading guilty to hacking into the phone messages of royal staff. Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire was also jailed.
The case led to the resignation of then News of the World editor Andy Coulson, although he said he knew nothing about it but bore "ultimate responsibility" because it happened "on his watch".
He has since become the Conservative Party's director of communications and is also answering the committee's questions about what he knew.
Committee chairman Mr Whittingdale began by saying he had stood aside as a member of the Conservative Party board, which is the employer of Mr Coulson, during the committee's current investigation.
Mr Crone and News of the World editor Colin Myler also confirmed News International had made a payment to Gordon Taylor, head of the Professional Footballers' Association, and two others, which was the basis of The Guardian's phone tapping allegations.
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April 3, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT$5
Blue Star Contemporary and Gemini Ink present a special afternoon workshop for middle and high school students interested in exploring their creative writing and visual arts skills. Join us for this special National Poetry Month event featuring writer Chibbi Orduña. Cost is $5. Register at https://bit.ly/3qa0E0R

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Koonkee® was born out of Sukanta Basu’s interest for fashion and textile. Graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts – « Kala Bhavana » – in Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, Sukanta has been working as a designer in Santiniketan and drawing her own outfits for years. In 2011 she has finally decided to start her own dressline inspired by the luxuriant Bengali nature with a very personal modern touch.
The texture of the textile and its colour are two important things for Koonkee. They are made out of either pure cotton or silk (which can be raw or refined). Koonkee uses both the power loom and hand loom material, but the emphasis is more on the hand woven ones.
Koonkee proposes mainly dresses with subdude colours and earthen shades; some of the fabrics are dyed with natural colour, prepared from seeds, leaves, flowers, etc.
The clothes are often embellished with needle work done by traditional local embroiders who agreed to adapt their millenary know-how to Sukanta’s imagination.
Koonkee’s hope is to reach to all kind of customers looking for original designs and high quality cloth offering an “ethnic-chic” character in a well-cut, well-fitting and well-finished dress. Koonkee is not looking for mass production, each piece is unique.
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Hi fellow managers,
I'm looking at purchasing a new laptop and I will be playing FM19 on it. My budget is £600 to £700 fyi.
Processor speed is obviously very important.
I'm looking at one laptop which has a base processor speed of 2.8Ghz & a turbo speed of 3.8Ghz.
The other laptop has a base processor speed of 2.3Ghz & a turbo speed of 4.1Ghz.
How important is base processor speed? Should I just be searching for a laptop with the highest turbo speed or both high base & turbo speed?


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I recently spent 5 days in Southern Estonia foraging for wild strawberries, blackberries and mushrooms (little luck with the last ones) and gathered lots of herbs and plants I know are good for dyeing. I got some alum and started experimenting. Right now I've boiled out the color from app. 3 litres of Yellow Chamomile or Golden Marguerite (lat. Anthemis Tinctoria) and am heating the wool in water+alum mixtureto make the color stick betterto the yarn. I'll let you know when I'm done with this experiment!
OK, I've taken out the firts KnitPicks Bare Peruvian Wool Skein from the pot and tadaa:
For future notice, dyeing process as follows:
Divide 100gr skein into two equal skeins.
Boil 3 litres of Yellow Chamomile flowers for an hour. Then filter out blossoms and stuff but don't throw them.
Wash yarn in water with some baking soda and regular soap. Rinse well.
Make 5 litres of water app. 35-40 degrees and ad 20 grams of alum. Stir well and put yarn in.
Make it nearly boil (90 degrees) and keep for 45 minutes. Stirring time to time.
Take out the first skein and put it in the pot with color. Stir and make the temperature go up to 90 degrees Celsius again. Keep it this way for app. 45 minutes. After 20 minutes add another spoonful (app. 10 grams) of alum and stir.
Take out skein, make it drain, leave it lukewarm water for 10 minutes, then drain, change water etc until it doesn't bleed anymore. Dry in shawdows.
I have another skein in pot. But about that once I've finished.
I got just slightly lighter color by using this recipe:
Use alum water to make second dye. Pour boiled blossoms onto clean white thin cloth, tie it up and put it in the alum water with the skein. Make the temp go up to 90 degrees. Keep it like that. This would give you a beige yarn, I also poured in the remaining color from the first lot, making the amount of water app. 7,5 l. Make sure water doesn't boil and keep yarn in for an hour. The result is following
Can't see much difference? Neither did I, until I had them next to each other and today that they are drier (I left them outside and it rained a little at night) the difference is slightly more visible.
I still have some dye left, I want to try and add some copper mordant. But I'm also trying out some Meadowsweet's flowers.

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When you consciously, with a clear sense of honesty, reflect on how our country is governed you will immediately realise that there are deep rooted political shenanigans and acts of political hooliganism going on in our country sponsored by the ruling party.
If you listen objectively to the political leadership in parliament at freedom squares at press conferences you will immediately see that what I am saying is nothing but the truth. It is clear that the opposition parties have no power to stop these political maneuverings and manipulations that are clearly driving our country steadily towards ruin. It is clear that the opposition parties can only talk against these and offer solutions which can only be implemented by the ruling party.
This can only happen if the ruling party had members of parliament with some modicum of integrity who can stand independently and firmly for what is right, not those who are driven by selfish interests, whose only desire is to please their president. The opposition members of parliament are truly toothless in parliament, they can only shout as much as they want but they neither have the mandate nor the power to implement any of their rightful demands or desires for the nation. It is the ruling party that holds the power, the keys and he sway to make laws and programs that can destroy or save this country.
The ruling party is willfully, with impunity taking this country on a free way to self destruction because it is blinded by selfish and relentless desires for self preservation. It is up to all of us who love our country to take a stand and speak out in support of the few sane voices in parliament. Maybe the opposition ought to now develop extra parliamentary strategies to engage the public directly at their door steps or where they can be found to preach the message of change.
We must stop this slide towards ruin that even ordinary people in the streets can now see but are helpless in the extreme. It is disheartening to learn that our president, who once called members of parliament ‘vultures’ when they called for their pay rises. He said this when he delivered his maiden speech in parliament in 2000 after which he abruptly left parliament giving parliamentarians no opportunity to engage him.
He is the one who now wants to change the law in order to ridiculously increase his own retirement packages and benefits. It is the same president who has since drained our national coffers through his ill conceived selfish political motivated programs like the so called economic stimulus programme (ESP), the so called youth empowerment programmes that are not only wasteful, but will leave many youth permanently financially and morally disabled because many of these youth have not been trained to manage such funds.
Many of these youth will end up using these funds possibly for luxurious expenditure in the form of expensive cars, drugs and reckless lifestyles that will result in an unsustainable future whose end result could be laced with misery and shame. We must state categorically that politically motivated youth programmes must be condemned and rejected.
We need to do things the right way not for politically expediency. It is the same president who has wasted our money on the so called poverty eradication programs including backyard gardens and dishing out animals to people who never showed any interest in farming. Common sense will show you that in a drought prone country like Botswana only serious commercial farmers can survive.
How can the President be demanding increased retirement benefits for himself when he has refused to meaningfully improve the remuneration packages and benefits for the public servants who are earning income well below living wages? Instead he has reduced the benefits by allowing inflation to cut deep into these already very low salaries without any compensation for inflation.
He has cut the civil service by introducing ‘vultures’ to take over some services, like cleaning and security, ‘vultures’ who get fat cheques from government and pay their employees minimum wage set by government of less than a thousand pula per month with no other benefit whatsoever and very abusive and appalling work conditions for these poor people These ‘vultures’ do not give their employees any pension or any terminal benefits because the law which law is determined by the ruling party allows it.
Politicians cannot talk about increasing their remuneration when the country is economically bleeding; when the public servants are earning starving wages that drives them towards corruption and possibly wicked lifestyles. Politicians, I mean true politicians in my view are volunteers driven by their deep desire to serve their people and to protect all the national resources for the benefit of the rightful owners, the people; not to defraud the same people and misuse their resources.
It is indeed shocking that parliament instead of debating ways of stimulating the economy, creating jobs opportunities and improving benefits for their people, they are instead busy debating a bill to increase the president retirement benefits.
As a side throw, they have also shamefully started debating and demanding increasing their security in parliament. They are now continuously talking about a harmless okapi knife found by their new found gadget, a detector that now scans people as they go into parliament. What pettiness from our parliament! Don’t they know that many self respecting Batswana men carry harmless knifes always in their pockets to facilitate some of their tradition pastimes.
Is it not surprising, that this has now taken centre stage in parliament, freedom squares, radios and general public discourse instead of national issues? Those who have found this to be such an important national topic do not even know that some of their own might be or are actually carrying hidden short guns to parliament for self protection. These political ‘vultures’ must open their eyes and research more about personal security.
Our hands, legs and heads could be used as lethal weapons by some crazy people; shall our hands, legs and heads be cut because they might be used carelessly for purposes they where never meant for? Are our parliamentarians so crazy that they could engage in a way that knifes could be used as weapons of destruction in parliament? Let us have a dignified parliament. Parliament is becoming a national disgrace, perhaps that’s why they cannot televise it, like other countries. Anyway, let me move on.
Where are we going, when with such a poorly performing economy still reeling from the impacts of the global economic down turn of 2008; the down turn that has seen dramatic fall of the global commodity prices resulting in many of our mines closing, some of them at the brink of closure and some having reduced production and their staff?
Where are we going when in the middle of all these challenges we are busy justifying in our parliament the increase of specially elected members of parliament and increasing the number of ministers? How is this going to address our increasing economic challenges we face? Where are we going, can someone who is objective see sense that I cannot see in the middle of this madness?
Where are we going when we have a population of around forty thousand (40 000) young people joining the job market each year with no prospects of finding any job? What are our politicians especially the ruling party doing about this growing number of unemployed people whose training has been paid for by the tax payer? Remember during the last elections, the ruling party directly through the president issued a red card in which the president categorically stated that job creation was going to be the number one priority of his administration.
How many jobs have been created since that election and declaration? I only know of thousands of jobs that have been lost in a number of operations around the country on the mines, the diamond factories, the banks and even the government. I am not aware of any meaningful jobs created. Those who know please let me know how many jobs have been created in the country since October 2014 when the ruling party was re-election.
Where are we going when we are not able to execute any project on time and within budget? Where are we going when we employ retired and failed politicians to manage government mega projects? Where are we going when we build a glass factory in Palapye for five hundred million Pula, we stop the project just before it is completed then we strip the factory and sell the equipment for about ten million Pula? Where are we going when we build an eleven billion Pula power plant in Palapye and then pronounce our intention to sell it because it was poorly built, because it is a maintenance nightmare and because it will not meet the rated electricity production? Who in his right mind would buy such a plant for eleven billion Pula or are we going to give it away at ten million Pula like the glass factory? Where are we going when we sabotage a private investor who wants to build a 700 MW solar power station in Jwaneng, a private investor who has done all the his homework including acquisition of land. Where are we going when we tell this investor that, go away, we are not interested we will build our own 100 MW solar power station at the same place?
Where are we going? Where is the logic in all this madness?
Where are we going when we have a government whose sole purpose is to frustrate the private sector and at the same time tell the world that the private sector should drive the economy, the same government that is spending inordinate amount of money going around the world seeking foreign direct investment? We have to be serious and tell the world that we are not ready for private sector investment; tell the world that we are not ready for genuine foreign direct investment. Tell them we only want to do our own thing for our party and children using public funds.
Where are we going Batswana when we have a government that is using national resources for its own political campaigns against the opposition? Where are we going when the nation is daily bombarded with the ‘red’ political propaganda on our so called national television and radio, pure political propaganda in full party colours, where are we going? Our political leaders are leading this country astray towards our economic ruin. We need to wake up before it is too late. Soon, very soon we will hear that there is no money to sponsor our children to study at our public institution of higher learning, but those children going to private institutions will be sponsored? Watch the space!
In conclusion, I repeat in part what I said last week. Our politicians need to realise that they must change and start serving the interests of their people. It is disappointing and disheartening that almost all the politicians in the ruling party have sold their soul to their party. They have regrettably become spineless puppets on the string only to serve the interests of their party.
We need to raise the voice of consciousness and urge these politicians to pursue only their real political mandate regardless of their political affiliation. They must not accept programs and laws that will drain our national coffers without commensurate benefit to the country. We need politicians who will stand for principle, politicians who will champion the interests of their people.
This is a question that should seriously exercise the mind of every Botswana citizen and every science researcher, every health worker and every political leader political.
The Covid-19 currently defines our lives and poses a direct threat to every aspect and every part of national safety, security and general well-being. This disease has become a normative part of human life throughout the world.
The first part of the struggle against the murderous depredation of this disease was to protect personal life through restrictive health injunctions and protocols; the worst possibly being human isolation and masks that hid our sorrows and lamentations through thin veils. We suffered that humiliation with grace and I believe as a nation we did a great job.
Now the vaccines are here, ushering us into the second phase of this war against the plague; and we are asking ourselves, is this science-driven fight against Covid-19 spell the end of pandemic anxiety? Is the health nightmare coming to an end? What happy lives lie ahead? Is this the time for celebration or caution? As the Non State Actors, we have being struggling with these questions for months.
We have published our thoughts and feelings, and our research reviews and thorough reading of both the local and international impacts of this rampaging viral invasion in local newspapers and social media platforms.
More significantly, we have successfully organised workshops about the impact of the pandemic on society and the economy and the last workshop invited a panel of health experts, professionals, and public administers to advance this social dialogue as part of our commitment to the tripartite engagement we enjoy working with Government of Botswana, Civil Society and Development partners. These workshops are virtual and open to all Batswana, foreign diplomatic missions based in Gaborone, UN agencies located in Gaborone and international academic researchers and professional health experts and specialists.
The mark of Covid-19 on our nation is a painful one, a tragedy shared by the entire human race, but still a contextually painful experience. Our response is fraught with grave difficulties; limited resources, limited time, and the urgency to not only save lives but also avert economic ruin and a bleak future for all who survive. Several vaccines are already in the market.
Parts of the world are already doing the best they can to trunk the pestilential march of this disease by rolling out mass-vaccinations campaigns that promise to evict this health menace and nightmare from their public lives. Botswana, like much of Africa, is still up in the disreputable, and, unenviable, preventative social melee of masked interactions, metered distances, contactless commerce.
We remain very much at the mercy of a marauding virus that daily runs amuck with earth shattering implications for the economy and human lives. And the battle against both infections and transmissions is proving to be difficult, in terms of finance, institutional capacities and resource mobilization. How are we prepared as government, and as citizens, to embrace the impending mass-vaccinations? What are the chances of us succeeding at this last-ditch effort to defeat the virus? What are the most pressing obstacles?
Does the work of vaccines spell an end to the pandemic anxieties?
Our panellists addressed the current state of mass-vaccination preparedness at the Botswana national level. What resources are available? What are the financial, institutional and administrative operational challenges (costs and supply chains, delivery, distribution, administering the vaccine on time, surveillance and security of vaccines?) What is being done to overcome them, or what can be done to overcome them? What do public assessments of preparedness tell us at the local community levels? How strong is the political will and direction? How long can we expect the whole exercise to last? At what point should we start seeing tangible results of the mass-vaccination campaign?
They also addressed the challenges of the anticipated emerging Vaccinated Society. How to fight the myths of vaccines and the superstitions about histories of human immunizations? What exactly is being done to grow robust local confidence in the science of vaccinations and the vaccines themselves? More significantly, how to square these campaigns vis-vis personal rights, moral/religious obligations?
What messages are being sent out in these regards and how are Batswana responding? What about issues of justice and equality? Will we get the necessary vaccines to everyone who wants them? What is being done to ensure no deserving person is left behind?
They also addressed issues of health data. To accomplish this mass-vaccination campaign and do everything right we need accurate and complete data. Poor data already makes it very hard to just cope with the disease. What is being done to improve data for the mass-vaccination campaign? How is this data being collected, aggregated and prepared for real life situation/applications throughout Botswana in the coming campaign?
We know in America, for example, general reporting and treatment of health data at the beginning of vaccinations was so poor, so chaotic and so scattered mainstream newspapers like The Atlantic, Washington Post and the New York Times had to step in, working very closely with civil society organizations, to rescue the situation. What data-related issues are still problematic in Botswana?
To be specific, what kind of Covid-19 data is being taken now to ready the whole country for an effective and efficient mass-vaccination program?
Batswana must be made aware that the end part of vaccination will just mark the beginning of a long journey to health recovery and national redemption; that in many ways Covid-19 vaccination is just another step toward the many efforts in abeyance to fight this health pandemic, the road ahead is still long and painful.
For this purpose, and to highlight the significance of this observation we tasked our panellists with the arduous imperative of analysing the impact of mass-vaccination on society and the economy alongside the pressing issues of post-Covid-19 national health surveillance and rehabilitation programs.
Research suggests the aftermath of Covid-19 vaccination is going to be just as difficult and uncertain world as the present reality in many ways, and that caution should prevail over celebration, at least for a long time. The disease itself is projected to linger around for some time after all these mass-vaccination campaigns unless an effort is made to vaccinate everyone to the last reported case, every nation succeeds beyond herd immunity, and cure is found for Covid-19 disease. Many people are going to continue in need of medications, psychological and psychiatric services and therapy.
Is Botswana ready for this long holdout? If not, what path should we take going into the future? The Second concern is , are we going to have a single, trusted national agency charged with the mandate to set standards for our national health data system, now that we know how real bad pandemics can be, and the value of data in quickly responding to them and mitigating impact? Finally, what is being done to curate a short history of this pandemic? A national museum of health and medicine or a Public Health Institute in Botswana is overdue.
If we are to create strong sets of data policies and data quality standards for fighting future health pandemics it is critical that they find ideological and moral foundations in the artistic imagery and photography of the present human experience…context is essential to fighting such diseases, and to be prepared we must learn from every tragic health incident.
Our panellists answered most of these questions with distinguished intellectual clarity. We wish Batswana to join us in our second Mass-vaccination workshop.
Today is International Women’s Day – it’s a moment to think about how much better our news diet could be if inequities were eliminated. In 1995, when the curtains fell in one of the largest meetings that have ever brought women together to discuss women in development, it was noted that women and media remain key to development.
Twenty-six years later, the relevant “Article J” of the Beijing Platform for Action, remains unfulfilled. Its two strategic objectives with regard to Women and Media have not been met. They are Increase the participation and access of women to expression and decision-making in and through the media and new technologies of communication
Promote a balanced and non-stereotyped portrayal of women in the media.
Today, as we mark International Women’s Day, it’s an indictment on both media owners and civil society that women remain on the periphery of news-making. They cannot claim equal space in either the structures of newsrooms or in the content produced, be that as sources of news or as the subjects of reports. Indeed, the latest figures from WAN-IFRA’s Women in News Programme show just one in five voices in news belong to women*, be they as sources, as the author or as the main character of the news report.
Some progress was evident several years back, with stand-out women being named as chief executive officers, editors in chief, managing editors and executive editors. But these gains appear short lived in most media organisations. Excitement has turned to frustration as one-step forward has been replaced with three steps backwards. In Africa, the problem is acute. The decision-making tables of media organisations remain deprived of women and where there are women, they are surrounded by men.
Few women have followed in the footsteps of Esther Kamweru, the first woman managing editor in Kenya, and indeed sub-Saharan Africa. Today’s standout women editors include Pamela Makotsi-Sittoni (Nation Media Group, Kenya), Barbara Kaija (New Vision, Uganda), Mary Mbewe (Daily Nation, Zambia), Margaret Vuchiri (The Monitor, Uganda), Joyce Shebe (Clouds, Tanzania), Tryphinah Dongwana (Weekend Post, Botswana), Joyce Mhaville (Independent Television -ITV, Tanzania) and Tuma Abdallah (Standard Newspapers,Tanzania). But they remain an exception.
The lack of balance between women and men at the table of decision making has a rollback effect on the content that is produced. A table dominated by men typically makes decisions that benefit men.
So today, International Women’s Day is a grim reminder that things are not rosy in the news business. Achieving gender balance in news and in the structure of media organisations remains a challenge. Unmet, it sees more than half of the population in our countries suffer the consequences of bias, discrimination and sexism.
The business of ignoring the other half of the population can no longer be treated as normal. It’s time that media leaders grasp the challenge, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it also makes a whole lot of business sense: start covering women, give them space and a voice in news-making and propel them to all levels of decision making within your organisation.
We can no longer afford to imagine that it’s only men who make and sell the news and bring in the shillings to fund the media business. Women too are worthy newsmakers. In all of our societies, there are women holding decision making positions and who are now experts in once male-only domains such as engineers, doctors, scientists and researchers.
They can be deliberately picked out to share their perspectives and expertise and bring balance to the profile of experts quoted on our news pages. Media is the prism through which society sees itself and women are an untapped audience. So, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, let us embrace diversity, which yields better news content and business products, and in so doing eliminate sexism. We know that actions and attitudes that discriminate against people based on their gender is bad for business.
As media, the challenge is ours. We need to consciously embrace and reach the commitments made 26 years ago when the Beijing Platform for Action was signed globally. As the news consuming public, you have a role to play too. Hold your news organization to account and make sure they deliver balanced news that reflects the voices of all of society.
Jane Godia is a gender development and media expert who serves as the Africa Director of Women in News programme. WOMEN IN NEWS is WAN-IFRA’s ground-breaking programme to increase women’s leadership and voices in the news. It does so by equipping women journalists and editors with the skills, strategies, and support networks to take on greater leadership positions within their media. www.womeninnews.org
The eve of International Women’s Day presents an opportunity for us to think about gender equality and the long and often frustrating march toward societies that are truly equal.
As media, we are uniquely placed to drive forward this reflection and discussion. But while focusing on the challenges of gender in society, we owe it to our staff and the communities we serve to also take a hard look at the obstacles within our own organisations.
I’m talking specifically about the scourge of sexual harassment. It’s likely to have happened in your newsroom. It has likely happened to a member of your team. It happens to all genders but is disproportionately directed at women. It happens in every industry, regardless of country, culture or context. This is because sexual harassment is driven by power, not sex. Wherever you have imbalances in power, you have individuals who are at risk of sexual harassment, and those who abuse this power.
I’ve been sexually harassed. The many journalists and editors, friends and family members who I have spoken to over the years on this subject have also been harassed. Yet it is still hard for leaders to recognize that this could be happening within their newsrooms and boardrooms. Why does it continue to be such a taboo?
Counting the cost of sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is, simply put, bad for business. It can harm your corporate reputation. It is a drain on the productivity of staff and managers. Maintaining and building trust in your brand is an absolute imperative for media organisations globally. If and when a case gets out of control or is badly handled – this can directly impact your bottom line.
It is for this reason that WAN-IFRA Women in News has put eliminating sexual harassment as a top priority in our work around gender equality in the media sector. This might seem at odds with the current climate where social interactions are fewer and remote work scenarios are in place in many newsrooms and businesses. But one only needs to tune into the news to know that the abuse of power, manifested as verbal, physical or online harassment, is alive and well.
Preliminary results from an ongoing Women in News research study into the issue of sexual harassment polling hundreds of journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia indicate that more than 1 in 3 women media professionals have been physically harassed, and just under 50% have been verbally harassed. Just over 15% of men in African newsrooms reported being physically harassed, and slightly less than 1 in 4 reports being verbally harassed. The numbers for male media professionals in Southeast Asia are slightly higher than a quarter on both forms of harassment.
The first step in confronting sexual harassment is to talk about it. We need to strip away the stigma and discomfort around having open conversations about what sexual harassment is and isn’t. Media managers, it is entirely in your power to create dynamics in your own teams that are free from sexual harassment.
Publishers and CEOs, you set the organisational culture in your media company.
By being vocal in recognising that it happens everywhere, and communicating to your employees that you will not tolerate sexual harassment of any kind, you send a powerful message to your teams, and publicly. With these actions, you will help us overcome the legacy of silence around this topic, and in doing so take an important first step to create media environments that truly embrace equality.
Melanie Walker is Executive Director of Media Development of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). She is a creator of Women in News, WAN-IFRA’s ground-breaking programme to increase women’s leadership and voices in the news. It does so by equipping women journalists and editors with the skills, strategies, and support networks to take on greater leadership positions within their media. www.womeninnews.org

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Group Doueh are led by the enigmatic guitar hero Bamaar Salmou, who is known simply as 'Doueh' (pronounced: 'Doo-way'). They are from Dakhla, in the Western Sahara. The group's sound is unlike anything that you've ever heard before. It is a sound that is rooted in the traditional foundations of Sahrawi/Hassania music, but one that is also entirely its own. It shares its roots with the neighbouring styles of Mauritanian music, however Group Doueh have managed to transcend the classical limitations of that music with a fiery, independent, and avant approach that incorporates a distinctly pop and rock element that is anomalous in the region. This is a sound that can only come from the land that inspired it. This is the sound of the Sahara desert. It is a searing, meditative, and hypnotic modal sandstorm of note clusters that has been cathartic to anyone who has heard it.
Group Doueh have been playing together for over 20 years. The band consists of their leader, Doueh on guitar and tinidit, his wife Halima on vocals and tbal, their son Jamal on organ, and longtime friend Bashiri also on vocals. They had declined several offers from Moroccan, French and Spanish recording labels to release their music. It was not until Sublime Frequencies
, after a long search for the music landed them at the man's house in Dakhla, that Doueh agreed to have his music released for the very first time. The album Group Doueh – Guitar Music from the Western Sahara
has been published by Sublime Frequencies in 2007.
> watch Group Doueh on youtube> www.sublimefrequencies.com
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The Power Bomb is a very powerful weapon available during Morph Ball mode, which sends waves throughout the area which can completely obliterate everything around you. This bomb variation's first appearance was in Super Metroid. The Power Bomb is highly dangerous, and poses a threat to anyone or anything nearby, so it requires caution and should only be used at the right time. In Metroid: Other M the Power Bomb isn't available except at the beginning and towards the end of the game due to a need for the authority to use it. Power Bombs, however, are available for most of the game throughout other titles in the Metroid Series.
 Super Metroid
Quantity increases through the collection of Power Bomb Expansion upgrades. It can open a Yellow Door as well as destroy a Power Bomb Block. Samus has the special ability to absorb the energy from a Power Bomb and turn it into health using a move called Crystal Flash. It's not as easy as it sounds, however, as it requires the player to be on low health and requires a lot of ammunition. She can also use this in combination with a Charge Beam attack to make on of the four Special Charge Beam Attack.
 Metroid Fusion
The Power Bomb upgrade is acquired through the Data Room, sent by the Galactic Federation. The Power Bomb has the ability to reveal hidden pathways and obstacles, break through a Bio-Barrier, and destroy a Power Bomb Block.
 Metroid: Zero Mission
Quantity increases through the collection of Power Bomb Expansion upgrades. The Power Bomb has the ability to reveal hidden pathways and obstacles, can open a Yellow Door, and destroy a Power Bomb Block.
 Metroid Prime / Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Has the ability to destroy a Yellow Blast Shield.
 Metroid Prime: Pinball
Has the ability to dish out huge damage to all enemies present.
 Metroid: Other M
In this game, the Power Bomb is not limited by ammunition quantity. As such, it's a limitless weapon, but has the counterbalance of a long regeneration time. Other than in training, the weapon is not authorized again until it's required in order to destroy a Queen Metroid.
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- Whales on Stilts
- Al Capone Does My Shirts
- Hunger Games
- Matilda Bone
- City of Ember
- The Graveyard Book
- Joey Pigza Loses Control
- Olive’s Ocean
- Out of the Dust
- Red Scarf Girl: a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
- Gathering Blue
- Something Wicked’s in Those Woods
- Lightening Thief
- Magic Can Be Murder
- Miracle’s Boys
- The Imp That Ate My Homework
- Esperanza Rising
Shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends must foil the plot of her father’s conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales. (2005)
by Choldenko, Jennifer.
Twelve-year-old Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards’ families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
by Collins, Suzanne.
In reality TV run amok, an annual, government-run competition pits two dozen teens against one another in a fight to the death. (2008)
by Cushman, Karen. Clarion.
In Blood and Bone Alley, Matilda is apprenticed to Red Peg the Bonesetter. (2000)
by DuPrau, Jeanne.
It’s Assignmet Day in the City of Ember when twelve -year -olds Lina and Doon must draw lots for their future jobs from the mayors bag. Can they prevent the decaying city from going completely dark? (2003)
by Gaiman, Neil.
After his parents are killed, Nobody Owens is raised by the ghosts and witches of the graveyard. (2008)
by Gantos, Jack.
Joey finally meets his dad and he’s wired. “…Now I knew what Mom meant when she said he was like me, only bigger.” (2000)
by Kevin Henkes.
Twleve-year-old Martha Boyle and her family are preparing to leave for their summer vacation when Olive Barstow’s mother appears at the door. Olive was recently killed by a car and Martha is given her diary. (2003)
by Hesse, Karen. (1997)
A terrible accident transforms Billie Jo’s life, scaring her inside and out.
by Hiassen, Carl
When the biology teacher goes missing during a field trip to Blackvine Swamp, Nick and Marta decide to do some investigating of their own. (2009)
by Jacques, Brain
The peaceful life of Redwood Abby is disturbed by the evil rat Cluny, but young mouse Matthias is determined to stand up to the enemy.(1997)
by Jiang, Ji-li. HarperTrophy.
Ji-li’s family faces total humiliation under Mao’s regime. (2004)
by Johnson, Angela. Aladdin.
Marley finds out who her father is. Truth often brings change. (1988)
by Kinney, Jeff. Amulet Books.
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, are undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily. (2008)
by Lowry, Lois.
Kira, orphaned and shunned because of a physical flaw, is blessed with an almost magical talent. (2000)
by Montes, Marisa.
Evil! 11 year old Javi Cisneros senses it the moment he and his little brother arrive at Aunt Amparo’s home. (2000)
by Riordan, Rick.
After learning he is a demi-god, Percy Jackson heads to summer camp where he and his friends must prevent a war between the gods.
by Vande Velde, Vivian.
It’s hard being a teen, but it’s even harder when you’re a witch.
by Woodson, Jacqueline.
They’re struggling against pretty large odds, but “brother to brother to brother” they can survive.
by Yep, Laurence.
Jim and his Grandpop, the meanest man in Chinatown, plot to outsmart the homework-snacking demon.
by Ryan, Pam Muñoz.
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
by Sachar, Louis.
Stanley Yelnats is unjustly sent to Camp Green Lake where he and other boys are sentenced to dig holes to build character. Stanley learns their is something else in these holes that the warden wants, but what is it?

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