Friends Forever. Posted by Hello

e-Prostitution

This is
e-business gone mad.

It only takes a click

"The world has never been as wealthy. Click. The world has never been as healthy. Click. We have never produced or consumed as much before. Click. We have never been more educated. Click. Nor grown such vast quantities of food that we have to pay our farmers to stop working. Click. Despite all the above, poverty kills a child every three seconds. Click."

Click on.

Missing Zambia

I Miss Zambia.

Chav

Topical Words: Chav:

"The term that has become especially widely known in recent weeks, at least in southern England, is the one borrowed for the name of the Web site, Chav. A writer in The Independent thought it derived from the name of the town of Chatham in Kent, where the term is best known and probably originated. It is also commonly said that it's an acronym, either from "Council House And Violent" or "Cheltenham Average" (the word being widely known in that area). As usual, we must treat supposed acronymic origins with the greatest suspicion; these examples are definitely recent after-the-event inventions as attempts to explain the word, though very widely known and believed. "

Lundazi scores first in HIV/AIDS fight

This article underscores a new emerging attitude in Zambia towards HIV/AIDS.

"One only hopes other districts could get a lesson or two from the way the border district of Lundazi has fought the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the area.It is an effort worth emulating!"

Moveous

Rural Zambian Dictionary Dot Com defines the word Moveous
adj.
1. Slippery (of person), constantly moving, evasive, especially where there is money owing; applied usually to an urban male wideboy 'businessman' aged 16-25
Ex. : 'Where is Lovemore?' 'Ah, somewhere that side. He is very moveous that one.

Very funny!

The Crazy Frog

Whoever come up this madness should have his mind examined.

ER

I am a fun of the TV Drama ER. I could have become a doctor if it wasn't for being Squimish. I find it easier to handle machinery. Some of my best friends work in the medical field. It takes a heart of gold to cope withthis:

"The Vocation
the job that pays for my life
the job that makes me shed tears on most days when am alone in my room
Why?
because someone died
some did get saved
someone just pissed me off
some one really cheered me up
God I seem to have enough tears that find their way out of the socket whenever am on my own "


Smile, You're Rich!

You'll Never Watch Alone

In Downtown New York, You'll Never Watch Alone:

"A.C. Milan is owned by Silvio Berlusconi, a flamboyant media magnate - a blend of Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump and Arnold Schwarzenegger, if you can imagine such a thing. Despite a number of corruption investigations, Berlusconi is still the prime minister of Italy."

Kudos to scousers

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Gladiators

Zambezi Times Online sez:

"When a bunch of crabs fights each other inside the same cage, what happens? This is an assured mutual destruction.

Today's political feuding is a national game. Like paper tigers, Zimbas raise their paws. From Youths to Veterans, all are raising a fist, but do not plow the land to feed the hungry.

The colonists in Africa never taught the native people how to become self-sufficient through agriculture. Africa has a rich and fertile soil, but doesn't know how to cultivate crops to feed its people. Where there is soil you can grow food, and where there is water you can stock the fish and farm them.

They learn Marxist theories, and the Liberation Theology. And now are facing IMF harsh rules, in order to benefit from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries status.

Our conscience levels are still very low, if we can't see the obvious.
When democracy bring peace, at the cost of freedom, what is better?
St NaZaire May. 8"


My thought is that it will take more than angry words to re-address iniquities. It is so sad when humans reduce each other to such low levels.

Some People can be so wicked.

Lying Cheetah

How can you tell if the Cheetah is lying

I Love You With All My Hype.

I woke up very early today inorder to trawl through emails and rss feeds I have neglected for a while. In between having coffee and watching the BBC News I noticed Brooke Shields mentioning her close encounter with depression.

Nowadays, news is very depressing, there is too much death. I'm not usually swayed by celebrities and I rarely listen to them unless they in a blockbuster movie, or a hit music video.

Coincidentally, when I read this article I felt for Tom and Brookes.

Rainbow over Ndola

This is simply beautiful.

The World According to Ballmer

"The hottest company right now -- the one nobody thinks can do any wrong -- may just be a one-hit wonder."

Looks like it will be some time before Steve Ballmer's wish is fulfilled.

Critic takes on logic of female orgasm

Today’s sixth most popular phrase in the blogosphere is “female orgasm.” This article
that brought about all this fuss about that elusive little ecstatic feeling states:

"Women can have sexual intercourse and even become pregnant - doing their part for the perpetuation of the species - without experiencing orgasm. So what is its evolutionary purpose?"

Another fine quote from the article goes:

"Nipples in men are similarly vestigial."

Look Who Is Talking

The New YorK Times counts the ways how English soccer fans hate Malcolm Glazer, the billionaire businessman who this week took control of Manchester United, one of the world's most famous soccer teams

'No offense, but it just smacks of imperialism,' said John Marchant, a 28-year-old advertising executive and Manchester United fan. 'He stands for everything that's bad about globalization.'

Perhaps the fans have forgetten that the British Empire was built on imperialism, actually the the British are still imperialists.

Manchester United, is a global brand, Mr. Glazer may be interested in the franchise because of its international appeal, some analysts have speculated in the months leading up to the takeover.

My question is "how many international Manchester United fans object to Mr.Glazer taking control of the club?" This statement may shade some light;

"It's kind of ironic, really, because the mythology about United survived its early commercialization," said John Williams, director of the Center for the Sociology of Sport at the University of Leicester. "It's always inhabited an uneasy space between on the one hand being a successful, global commercial project, and on the other hand being this great national institution that nobody owned."

Mr Glazer's local newspaper has poured more scorn on the Manchester United fans. Writing in The Tampa Tribune, the columnist Daniel Ruth called Manchester United "the world's foremost collection of men in their underwear playing the most boring sport on the face of the planet."

"In the annals of people who really, really need to get a life," he added, Manchester United fans "probably fall somewhere between Civil War re-enactors and those folks who show up at 'Star Trek' conventions dressed as Vulcans."

Clearly The Tampa Tribune does not fully understand the passion that this club generates. People who do not particularly like Manchester United will be hoping this guy ruins them. It is like being of victim of your own success.



Porn Valley Goes Blogging

Porn stars, porn gossip scribes and porn production workers are turning to blogs to expose what it's really like to live and work in the San Fernando Valley-based sex industry. Read more...

Another Tragedy

An accident has been reported at Mopani Copper Mines in Mufulira, this morning. More than 100 miners are feared dead, Reuters reports only two deaths. The cause of the accident is said to have been that the bottom of the elevator the miners had boarded come out and plunged miners to their deaths. Was the elevator overloaded?

Just what type of 'investors' do we have nowadays. There have been more accidents, like chambeshi, in the mines and associated industries in a very short space of time than there were in all the years of ZCCM.

Inventing Our Evolution

I read this horrific comment in the Wapo:

"We could really speed up the whole process of drug improvement if we did not have all the rules on human experimentation. If companies were allowed to use clinical trials in Third World countries, paying a lot of poor people to take risks that you wouldn't take in a developed country, we could speed up technology quickly. But because of the Holocaust --"

Says Francis Fukuyama, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics and director of the Human Biotechnology Governance Project.

If this scientist had any faith in his trade why can't he simply experiment his findings on his own family? They'll be the first ones to benefit after all. A lot of these drugs are no use to poor people because they cannot afford them, poor people have myriad of problems that render the drugs worthless or simply irrelevant.

If wealthy people want new drugs they should experiment them amongst themselves. It is that simple! I'll not bother getting into the racial connotations.

Understanding Self-Perceptions of Business Performance

A conceptual model of performance is developed to show the determinants of subjective indications of business success and lucrativeness, using a sample of Black American business entrepreneurs.

A framework is constructed for an investigation of how socioeconomic environmental factors as family background, support from the community, assistance from family and friends, and the characteristics of individual strategic decision-making that involved seeking capital, acquiring information external to the community, organizational membership, attracting customers of other ethnicities, providing better service and adopting unique products and services contributed to self-perceptions of business success and a belief that being an entrepreneur is more lucrative than working for wages.

This is an initial step toward a theory of Black American small business performance. This approach allows us to utilize the literature on small business as well as the rich literature on race and ethnic enterprises. In this study an is defined as person who presently operates a small business that he or she started. Read More.....

Funky & Rare Grooves

The popular sounds during the '80s and '90s had of its emphasis on danceable, funky grooves, jazz-funk. This type of music became highly popular in the British underground music scene (where it was known as 'rare groove') when it was rediscovered during the mid- to late '80s. The especially hardcore funk fanatics spend much of their waking hours searching for something called "rare groove:".

This compilation of rare grooves include heavy and obscure tracks that are being used by Hip Hop producers & also highlights tunes yet to be unearthed. This is a sophisticated and rare experience of . It is a must for classy clubbers.

Orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia: 2004 situation analysis

This report is a second Situation Analysis of Zambia’s orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), since 1999. It documents progress since the last report, and emphasises the challenges that remain. The report is structured as follows:

-the socio-economic situation of OVCs in
-family responses and coping: changes in how urban and rural communities and families are responding to the crisis: including female-headed households, grandparents as parents, extended families
-street children and child-headed households
-education, health, earning a living, and stigmatisation
-government, NGOs, FBOs, donors, communities: responses, achievements and challenges.

The paper concludes that whilst there have been some significant achievements and progress towards an improved response to the OVC crisis at the local and national level including improved policy and legal framework, and coordination activities, Zambia has a growing number of OVCs, many of which are living in very vulnerable households and some living without any parent or caregiver.

In particular, poverty and have combined to produce a crisis of unprecedented scale; basic services are difficult to access, and many orphans and vulnerable children do not have secure access to food, shelter or care. Zambia’s children do not enjoy the rights agreed to in the CRC, or by the Government and the international community.

The main recommendations from the report include:

-government should provide adequate legal and regulatory protection for OVC
-provide universal access to ARV therapy
-improve access to quality education and training
-introduce social protection programmes to protect and promote the livelihoods and
-welfare of especially vulnerable households.

NEWSWEEK LIED*. PEOPLE DIED.

You have the read the story by now via the Times (UK) online and elsewhere: 'At least nine people were killed yesterday as a wave of anti-American demonstrations swept the Islamic world from the Gaza Strip to the Java Sea, sparked by a single paragraph in a magazine alleging that US military interrogators had desecrated the Koran.

Newsweek's Mark Whitaker now admits that the deadly paragraph was wrong.

BBC Backstage

The BBC opens Backstage.

How to detect lies

body language, reactions, speech patterns: "Warning: Sometimes Ignorance is bliss; after gaining this knowledge, you may be hurt when it is obvious that someone is lying to you."

How not to be poor

Walter E. Williams writes: "Avoiding long-term poverty is not rocket science. First, graduate from high school. Second, get married before you have children, and stay married. Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage. And, finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior. If you graduate from high school today with a B or C average, in most places in our country there's a low-cost or financially assisted post-high-school education program available to increase your skills. "

A photoset on Flickr

Brilliant photoset on Flickr.

Mommy, I Love You



For all that you do.
I'll kiss you and hug you
'Cause you love me, too.
You feed me and need me
To teach you to play,
So smile 'cause I love you
On this Mother's Day.

Chambeshi Disaster Photos

Warning:
The pictures are highly graphic and not suitable to view if you are very sensitive.

Photos from Chambeshi Disaster, Zambia.

Ten ways to live longer

  Forbes 10 ways to live longer Click on the links for more information. Source: Forbes.com

Popular 80's Music

The fads do not seem to go away, especially the music.

Thinking like a Genius

'Even if you're not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future.'

The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems. 'These strategies are common to the thinking styles of creative geniuses in science, art, and industry throughout history'

Study: Africa Worst Place for Moms, Kids

Yahoo News reports that Study: Africa Worst Place for Moms, Kids.

This is yet another example of the Media's obsession with negative news from Africa.

"How about a headline on the wealth that's been streaming out of the African continent for centuries?", the Cipher asks.

The Penis Monologues

Warning:The following contains adult (in this case, collegiate) language, along with gratuitous references to male and female genitalia.

College administrators have been enthusiastic supporters Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues and schools across the nation celebrate "V-Day" (short for Vagina Day) every year. But when the College Republicans at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island rained on the celebrations of V-Day by inaugurating Penis Day and staging a satire called The Penis Monologues, the official reaction was horror.

Head-Pounding Morning

This is insane.

The dark side of the Ugandan AIDS miracle

Controversial new research suggests it was the deaths of HIV-infected people, not abstinence or condoms, that shrunk infection rates, STEPHANIE NOLEN reports.

Nuclear Power

Australia's Equinox Minerals Limited said on Tuesday it had discovered uranium at its Lumwana copper and cobalt mine in northwestern Zambia. Equinox President Craig Williams said the firm would commence uranium production Lumwana, where it plans to start copper production in 2007.

He gave no time frame for the start of uranium production, which would be the first in Zambia.