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nothing (Oct 13 2003 17:59 GMT) - sich dabei ertappen, wie man immer wieder 'ist doch alles scheissegal' denkt. aber merken, dass es mit der autosuggestion (noch) nicht klappt. |
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- This Mother Jones' article lays out the problem with John Lott, and the problem his supporters have now that his... |
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- I'm sceptical for some reason... He must really want my help since he's sent me 5 emails this morning. From: HANSBERGER Date: Mon Oct 13, 2003 07: |
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- Hi, I would say go for the 1/2 carat total weight. Any pair |
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- In an Oct. 12 story about liquor retailers, bars and law enforcement using scanners to check for fake IDs, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Tennessee had not yet started using bar codes on its driver's licenses. The state started using them earlier this year. |
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- Landlocked, poor and underdeveloped, Chad joined Saudi Arabia, Nigeriaand other leading global oil-producing countries Friday, when PresidentIdriss Deby formally inaugurated the 1000km (660 mile) long Chad-Cameroonpipeline in the presence of four other regional heads of state. |
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- Divers in Numan local government area of Adamawa State spent their thirdday yesterday, searching for the bodies of persons who drowned in the RiverBenue when an engine boat carrying an estimated 100 people sank into theriver. |
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- THE long-overdue merger and unification of black and white businessorganisations in SA came to fruition at the weekend with the establishmentof the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of SA (Chamsa) and Business UnitySA (Busa). |
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- The Black Management Forum (BMF) has announced it is to target companiesthat it feels are dragging their feet on transformation. |
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- GOVERNMENT's failure to co-ordinate a national response to HIV/AIDS provided a smokescreen for inaction by business as well. But this does not explain why business has been so slow to act in its own interests. |
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- THE concept, called 'From Farm to Cup,' involves processing high-gradeArabica coffee in Uganda and exporting it to Europe where a market has beensecured without going through world coffee cartels. |
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- STATE water utility NamWater came under heavy criticism in the NationalAssembly last week, with an opposition lawmaker accusing the parastatal ofdenying Namibians their "God-given" right. |
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- Countrywide campaigns to create awareness on the Millennium DevelopmentGoals were launched in Nairobi at the weekend. |
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- More investment and donor aid resumption after US and UK tour |
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- Economists are predicting that the Reserve Bank Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC) meeting this week will agree to cut the repo rate by a 100basis points to be able reach its inflation target of between three to sixpercent. |
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- The National Assembly Member for Serekunda Central, Honorable HalifaSallah recently called on youths to put together defensive mechanismsso as to help combat HIV/AIDS in the country. |
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- The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) in collaboration with the United Nations International Development Organization (UNIDO) has launched the Ghana Investment Forum to promote investment in the country. |
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- Domestic factors have contributed to the surprisingly powerfulperformance from the rand. But the firm rand is essentially a story aboutthe dollar and about powerful pressures building up between the world'smajor economies. This is the reasoning of Martin Jankelowitz, head of marketand economic research at Investment Solutions, who consistently has beenamongst the most optimistic rand forecasters. |
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- NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC) and its civil society groups allies, under the umbrella of Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) are expected to continue, today, the picketing of petrol stations across the country to enforce the sale of petroleum products at the official rates of N34 and N32 for Petrol, diesel and kerosene, following alleged widespread non-compliance by marketers. LASCO had, weekend, embarked on nationwide picketing of petrol stations to enforce the sale of fuel at official rates and ensure that those hoarding the products are made to sell. NLC' s Assistant Secretary in-charge of organisation, Comrade Denja Yaqub, told Vanguard that the exercise in Lagos would begin at 9 am. |
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- The Minister of Aviation recently disclosed that the country loses $1 billion or N140 billion annually to foreign airlines on account of the bankruptcy of the Nigerian Airways. Ordinarily, that would have been a revelation that should be alarming to Nigerians. But in the circumstances the Minister has merely pointed to another wasted opportunity which the government he serves has failed to address properly in the last four years. |
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- MAJOR marketers took joint delivery of 45.6 million litres of petrol, weekend, at a landed cost of N33 per litre, and served notice that the pump prices would be higher than what currently obtains. Head of Communications, Unipetrol Nigeria Plc, Tokunbo Durosaro, said the delivery was part of major marketers' commitment to ensure availability of the products nationwide. |
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- PHILIP Derek was introduced to journalists who attended the COJA mediaseminar last July as the final word in information technology matters, solong as they concern the media and multi-sports games. He lapped up theplaudits in the session he had with journalists, dismissing every questionwith the standard response that the planning for information technology thatwould be deployed for the Games was world class, something that we would allapplaud by the end of the Games. |
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- At least, two GSM companies and about six notable banks in Nigeria, may be set to join Interswitch Wireless banking service to give GSM subscribers in Nigeria the ease of time to top-up the balance in their mobile phones. |
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- Perhaps, the best way to start is by commending the new management ofNITEL, Pentascope International, for its professional and business-likeapproach to turning around the fortunes of the ailing Nigerian corporategiant (after NEPA, that is). |
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- The federal government has been tasked to re-strategize its foreign investment drive by focusing on Nigerian funds held both at home and offshore. |
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- It will be recalled that some years back, foreign insurance companies invested substantially in the Nigerian insurance industry but withdrew their investment harsh economic situation in the country. This was worsened by political instability occasioned by military rule. |
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- Millions of children employed in subsistence and commercial farming are at risk of death, injury and sickness, a conference heard on Monday. |
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- THE export market poses different logistical challenges to that of thelocal trading environment, says Mike Johnston, president of the SouthernAfrican Roundtable of the Council of Logistics Management. |
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- THE last-minute concessions announced by the Reserve Bank relating tothe foreign exchange control amnesty are intended to encourage moreapplications. |
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- Business has a legal duty, in addition to a moral obligation, to contribute to SA's reparations process, says former truth commission investigator and lawyer Dumisa Ntsebeza. |
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- The thread of business success runs in Nolitha Fakude's family. |
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- THE Reserve Bank's fifth monetary policy committee meeting for the year will take centre stage this week, with financial markets looking forward to another interest rate cut on the back of decelerating inflation and a stronger rand. |
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- FINANCIAL constraints, job losses and membership decline will increasingly force trade unions to merge or seek greater co-operation, says Public Servants Association (PSA) general manager Anton Louwrens. |
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- ONLY 57% of companies listed on the JSE Securities Exchange SA have an effective code of ethics despite the exchange's requirements, according to the Business Ethics Survey 2002 released on Friday by the Ethics Institute of SA. |
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- SA's largest steel maker, Iscor, has won the first round in its petition against cheap imports of colour-coated steel from Australia, with government announcing at the weekend that it would impose punitive duties on BHP Steel. |
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- I wonder what Daffy Duck would have to say about this? (Wabbit season! Duck season! Wabbit season! Duck season! |
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- The way I see it, the republicans have basically kicked election butt since 1994 - whether they were all legitimate... |
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- Courtesy of Fark.com, we have English subtitles of the Hong Kong release of The Two Towers. Our personal favorite is... |
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- Frankfurt, 10.10.03. "Weblogs stellen keine Gefahr für den professionellen Journalismus dar." Das sagte Ute Miszewski, Leiterin der Unternehmenskommunikation der Spiegel-Gruppe, anlässlich eines Gesprächs zu Weblogs mit Martin Röll und Dieter Rappold am vergangenen Freitag auf der Buchmesse in Frankfurt. |
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- Both Reynolds and Tressel apologize to Sorgi and Wisconsin. Good to see this, I hope that the "consequences of his behavior" that Tressel mentions also has some bite. |
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- I'll jump on the bandwagon and say that I cannot stop listening to the album Permission to Land by UK glam rock/metal act The Darkness. After a couple of friends recommended... |
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Gaming News (Oct 13 2003 17:57 GMT) - Find out what's going on in the gaming world. |
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Furphy (Oct 13 2003 17:56 GMT) - The following was from today's word of the day from Wordsmith.org. What an excellent word! furphy (FUR-fee) noun A rumor;... |
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- Tim Bray comes up with a plan for spam that is similar to my previous idea--paying to send e-mail--but doesn't... |
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- I SO want one of these signs.... |
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- Holy crap, its only been a week and the builders have done a ton. We were both really surprised when... |
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