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IN
THIS ISSUE
1.
Business: Bribing Government Officials in Africa
2. Business: Danger of Investing in Ponzi Schemes
3. Business: Demand for Steel Drops Sharply
4. Business: White Farmers Confront Mugabe in a Legal Battle
5. Education & Travel: North American Indians
6. Education: British National Archives: The Cabinet Papers,
1915-1977
7. Education & Real Estate: Empire State Building New York
8. Education: State of World Population
9. Immigration: Controversy of Open Immigration to the UK
10. Travel & Business: Airline Safety
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1. Business: Bribing Government Officials in Africa
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CAPE
TOWN: Public servants were constantly being "showered"
with gifts, but there was no clear legislative regime to control
the practice, a Public Service Commission survey has found.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
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2. Business: Danger of Investing in Ponzi Schemes
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Many
of our readers are always keen to obtain the latest information
on profitable investments, and as a service to our many readers
we felt that reading this article from the New York Times will
provide enough information on the dangers of believing and trusting
in wild claims of exaggerated profits from investment schemes.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note:
Plus you can read the best 10 tips and warnings against Ponzi
schemes provided by the San Francisco Chronicle. Go
to this link.
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3. Business: Demand for Steel Drops Sharply
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Global
steel producers have reduced output by 19% in November, when
compared with a year earlier, the World Steel Association said
on Thursday. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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4. Business: White Farmers Confront Mugabe in a Legal
Battle
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Zimbabwe's
handling of the land issue has had disastrous consequences.
Since 2000 Mr. Mugabe began encouraging the violent invasion
of the country's large, white-owned commercial farms. To read
the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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5. Education & Travel: North American Indians
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Now
over half a century since his death, Edward S. Curtis's photographs
of Native Americans remain tremendously popular, and in some
quarters, quite controversial. One of his most notable projects
was his limited edition volume, "The North American
Indian".
Produced
with the financial assistance of J.P. Morgan, this limited edition
publication contained over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative
descriptions. Curtis's intent was to document "the old
time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners."
The
American Memory Project at the Library of Congress has done
a tremendous job of digitizing this massive volume, and they
have placed it online here for the general public. Visitors
can search the volume by keyword, or browse its contents by
subject, American Indian tribe, or geographic location. The
site is rounded out by a special essay presentation titled "Edward
S. Curtis in Context" which gives visitors a nice profile
of Curtis, his legacy, and his contributions to ethnography.
Visit
this site.
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6. Education: British National Archives: The Cabinet Papers,
1915-1977
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Peering
into the world of any nation's government can be quite revealing,
and this look into the British government is quite a generous
one. Created by the National Archives in Britain, this site
affords interested parties comprehensive access to Cabinet papers
from 1915-1977.
Visitors
can browse through these papers by themes that include "Diplomacy
and foreign relations", "Finance and the economy",
and "Total war". Those visitors who might be
unfamiliar with the operations of the British government may
wish to first stop by the "Cabinet and Government"
area. Here they can browse over a "Who's who" section,
learn the nuts and bolts of the Cabinet government, and read
a selection of previously classified documents that deal with
both World Wars. One resource here that shouldn't be missed
is the "Maps in Time" area. Here visitors can take
a look at relevant resources organized geographically on a series
of maps that extend throughout the 20th century. It's a great
way to visualize the activities of the British government both
spatially and temporally. Visit
this site.
From
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7. Education & Real Estate: Empire State Building
New York
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Delamere Group was recently considering looking for additional
office space in New York for our expanding marcom business,
Delamere Marketing, and our search took us to this popular and
well known office complex.
Out
of the myriad and random tenants that fill the Empire State
Building in New York, there is one that seems both perfectly
situated, yet jarringly out of place. It is the Kings College,
an evangelical Christian school that is all but hidden in plain
sight, occupying three of the building's floors. Read this intriguing
report; go to our NEWS
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8. Education: State of World Population
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In
November 2008, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) put
out its State of World Population book, along with a Youth Supplement,
and both are available in their entirety on the UNFPA website.
The book is entitled "Reaching Common Ground: Culture,
Gender and Human Rights" and the Youth Supplement is
entitled "Generation of Change: Young People and Culture".
This
website offers so much worthwhile information to the visitor,
in part because the entire 108 pages can be downloaded as a
PDF by clicking on "Download PDF" under Resources
on the left side of the page. The information in each of the
nine chapters is eminently readable; extremely heart wrenching,
and definitely eye-opening. However, the book does offer hope,
as it includes the considerable successes by the UNFPA, which
were achieved by being culturally sensitive to the traditions
and beliefs of the groups with which they were working.
To
read the stories from the Youth Supplement, scroll down slightly
and choose, from on the left, one of the young people's stories,
such as "Grita", "Tsehay", or "Seif".
Child marriage, females playing in male sports, becoming a Vietnamese
hip-hop sensation, youth in politics, are all examples of topics
found among these youth's stories. Visitors should not miss
checking out the Photo Gallery, which can be accessed by scrolling
down to the middle of the page, and clicking "View,"
located on the left side of the page. The line "there is
laughter every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,"
from a Jack Gilbert poem comes to mind upon seeing these photographs.
Visit
this site.
From
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9. Immigration: Controversy of Open Immigration to the
UK
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Eastern
European immigration into the UK is creating a cocktail of slum
housing, school bullying, abuse of the NHS, anti-social behaviour
and a "constant undercurrent of hostility",
a detailed investigation has found. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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10. Travel & Business: Airline Safety
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Up
to 20 airlines globally could lose their International Air Transport
Association (IATA) membership in March next year if they do
not register with the organisation's operational safety audit
(IOSA) program by the end of this month. Is your usual airline
amongst these? To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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"Don't
be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as
every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly
after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some
form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
~ John Keats
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