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AY, GAY TRIBAL PAPIS� The publicist sent out what was in effect an all-points bulletin: �Both Angel C and T-Pro are gay and out -- and were doing the tribal thing long before the straight boys like Victor Calderone dipped in.� Calling all danceheads: have you seen Angel C and T-Pro? You probably haven't heard of them either. And that is unfortunate, though not because of the hard-to-confirm hyperbolic claim that they are the original �NYC tribal masters,� the �grandpapis� of the latest tribal house trendsetters, including gay faves Calderone, Murk, and to varying degrees Peter Rauhofer and Chris Cox. One listen to their jointly mixed compilation of dazzling polyrhythmic percussive assaults, Tribal Pleasures (Jellybean Recordings/Sony Discos), and you'll be upset that the alarm wasn't sounded earlier. In fact, the new CD's only failing is the sirens that wail occasionally in the latter half of the hour-long disc. Generally the mark of an unimaginative DJ -- or at best one who indulges his crowd's demand for sensory enhancement -- blaring sirens are merely annoying live. On record? They're unforgivable.
But we'd forgive Angel C and T-Pro if the two would finally venture down for a live engagement in Washington, where they'd be sure to rouse the crowd with their Afro-Latin brand of house. After all, T-Pro is from D.C., where he spun in Tracks' video room for a time. There's really no excuse. If �Nuyorican� T-Pro and �Mexi-Rican� Angel C's live set is as awe-inspiring as this CD, which sets the best-compilation-of-2004 bar incredibly high incredibly early, the two would be the talk of the town for months�
THE DANCE AWARD GOES TO, PARIS HILTON?� We're moving full-speed ahead -- did someone say kicking and screaming? -- right into awards season. For dance music, one of the two biggest awards pageants has just announced its exhaustive list of nominees. (The Winter Music Conference's International Dance Music Awards should be announced shortly.) The general public can vote in DanceStar's American Dance Music Awards, to be presented March 9 in Miami as part of dance music's biggest week of the year. Moby will be honored with the Outstanding Contribution to American Dance Music. Paul Van Dyk and the Crystal Method racked up the most nominations with five each; BT scored four; and Peter Rauhofer, Murk, Benny Benassi and OutKast -- yes, the hip-hop duo -- all garnered three apiece. Basement Jaxx will face stiff competition from BT, the Crystal Method, OutKast and Van Dyk for Best Album, for Kish Kash (Astralwerks). Meanwhile, BT's �Simply Being Love (Somnambulist)� goes up against, among others as Best Single: Kelis' �Milkshake,� OutKast's �Hey Ya,� and Dannii Minogue's �I Begin to Wonder,� from her forgettable recent album Neon Nights (Ultra). Who will reign as Best DJ: Victor Calderone, Deep Dish, Murk's Oscar G, Rauhofer? Someone else? And will Paris Hilton snag the Best Celebrity DJ category? Yes, there really is such an award, and yes, she really is nominated. Air your grievance at www.dancestar.com�
QUEER EYE, HOW BRITISH� This may prove quite a remarkable year for the completely reunited Duran Duran, and their forthcoming studio album, their first in decades, may get a boost from those Queer Eye guys. The group's brand-new �Sunrise� single will feature on the first Queer Eye for the Straight Guy soundtrack (Capitol), which was seemingly inspired by recent British pop charts in compiling its tracks, including Basement Jaxx, a recent British chart-topper from Elton John and another from British singer Jamelia. Also featured is a Chemical Brothers (see, British again) remix of �Slow� by Kylie Minogue (not British, but she has called London home for years).
Minogue's latest album, Body Language (Capitol) drops the same day stateside as the Queer Eye soundtrack, which also happens to be the same day we'll see the return of Melissa Etheridge, with Lucky (Island), Norah Jones, with Feels Like Home (Blue Note), and Gloria Estefan, with the DVD Live & Unwrapped (Epic). The day in question? Feb. 10, also the birthday of a certain Metro Weekly writer. A good day, indeed�
NFL'S POLITICAL FUMBLE� The National Football League is stirring up politics, however unintentionally, in its plans for Super Bowl pre-game and halftime performances. While Janet Jackson will headline the halftime show and Beyonce will croon the national anthem, U2's Bono will be sitting on the sidelines, where he was benched. Unconscionably, the NFL rejected a noble offer from Bono to perform a new song, �An American Prayer,� with Jennifer Lopez, that focuses on the AIDS epidemic in Africa. The NFL justified its fumble with the statement that it wanted to keep the focus on entertainment, not politics. That claim is all-but betrayed by plans of the game's organizers. �Welcome to Houston -- the Spirit of Texas� is the chosen theme for Super Bowl XXXVIII, which will probably be the most watched show of this election year when the incumbent President is from Texas. Perhaps that can be excused by mere coincidence of geography, but there's also this: the pre-game lineup includes the not-a-Texan Toby Keith, a celebrated fan of the incumbent President, but not his dueling pop-politico partners, the truly-Texan Dixie Chicks, who are decidedly not fans of the incumbent President. Regardless of the alleged non-political political motives though, wouldn't you be more entertained by Bono and Lopez than by other scheduled performers Aerosmith or Josh Groban? Or P. Diddy? None of them are from Texas, by the way�


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The writer should have noticed that the word PESA is based on Portuguese and Shwari is based on Arabic,just like a many other 'Swahili' words,but in this context,it's O.K.
I think Safaricom should allow a third party deposit taking institution yhat would allow customers to open accounts with a bank of their choice,other than CBA.Many people still do not trust banks,are more comfortable running informal businesses where returns are higher,no taxes and licenses,while trying to maintain their lifestyles in a away to ward off suspicision on how much they make.
Thank you for this informative article on Safaricom's mobile money offerings in Kenya. In order to help increase financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa, The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) provided finance for investments made by the Access Africa Fund. The Access Africa Fund made an equity investment in Musoni Kenya, the first MFI in Africa to go 100 percent mobile by making all loan repayments and loan disbursements using Mobile Money Transfers (MMT). http://www.opic.gov/blog/opic-in-action/expanding-access-to-banking-and-...
Developing countries which have high mobile Internet penetration, such as South Africa, are all gamely trying various forms of mobile money transfer; "mobile wallet" generally refer to payment services operated under financial regulation and performed from or via a mobile device, are offered by most large banks and cell companies.
One third of the population of South Africa do not have a bank account, but 19% of these people have a pre-paid mobile account. A further 11% have access to the Internet via the phones of friends and family, leading to a high adoption rate of m-banking services amongst the younger generation who make up to 43% of the population.
The fly in the mobile ointment, remains the telecommunications companies, whose fat margins are built on overcharging for low cost text services and handsets (a blackberry is typically financed as part of a 'contract' equivalent to the annual social pension in SA) - this can result in a very low payout rate to vendors, compared to EFT, debit and credit cards.
Cell operators such as MTN, Vodacom (Vodafone) and Cell-C are under invested in the most basic texting technology, despite turnover of billions, and network incapacity results in delays in messaging of up to a week when travelling between cities. A "cold reboot" (removing battery) is a tedious work around for the network's mail servers to recognize the device is in a different part of the country, making m-banking unsuitable to business clients.
EFT from commercial banks mobi sites, is gaining popularity for smart phone users who can access the internet with higher levels of security, irrespective of whether a handset is stolen
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With an average deposit of $52 per active account, is this really reaching the un(der)banked or cannibalizing branch banking?
MicroSave, with inputs from Grameen App Labs, conducted market research to assess customers' perceptions of and reactions to M-Shwari. From the research, it seems that the savings feature is used by a more upmarket demographic to circumvent the limits on saving on M-PESA; while the small loan facility is accessed by lower income customers. Of all the clients interviewed, only one had been approved for a loan larger than KES 2,500 (US$ 28.74), while all wanted larger amounts, and Safaricom reports the average loan size at around KES 1,000 (US$ 11.49). There is also widespread confusion about the basis on which credit limits are decided by the system. As a result, a great deal of the much-vaunted KES 2.8 billion (US$ 32.2 million) deposited in the first three months may have been as a result of customer depositing and withdrawing to test the system and credit appraisal algorithm. Customers also have a series of specific recommendations to improve the M-Shwari product and these are also outlined in the Note - down load here: http://microsave.net/sites/files/technicalBriefs/briefingNotes/BN_139_M_...
There's an ecosystem around Mpesa like small companies that track Mpesa transactions like zebumob.com. The bottom line Mpesa need to capture more payments between merchant and buyer. Most of those transactions are done via cash.
Fascinating article, as ever. The weight of M-PESA certainly stifles innovation and this really needs to be looked at by regulators in Kenya. Safaricom's M-PESA strategy for the past two years has been "more innovation", which translates to "more stickiness" (and thus lower churn) so it will dominate the m-commerce market in the country for the foreseeable future: http://www.ericsson.com/m-commerce/blog/the-magic-of-mobile-money-sticki... Also, many other mobile money schemes in Kenya (except for M-PESA), show a large number of subscribers with a low transaction frequency. The government in Kenya should step in and assist in enabling all types of mobile wallets to bloom in a market like this: http://www.ericsson.com/m-commerce/blog/stimulating-mobile-wallet-uptake...


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The good points was the bars and entertainment areas have been freshened up and look great. nick and Zoltina J the Entertainment director are an excellent team and brought laughter and good times with them wherever they were on the ship. I would go back on just for their entertainment.
The rooms are a bit dated and they could use new mattreses and their are no tissues in the rooms. (even three star hotels have tissues) we had to blow our noses on toilet paper which doesn't look good in main dining room. drinks are about $8.40 for basic spirits, $9.90 to $11.90 for cocktails and basic beers in stubbies $5.50. The buffet would be one of the worst on a cruise shipmate have encountered and the staff don't speak very much English so can't get you something like lemon for the fish. (why don't ships put a little bowl of lemon out with fish dishes) I'm not a foodie but it was bad. If you want cold cut meat you could get it morn noon and night....and it looked to be same stuff just more dried out. Two thirds of deserts were same every day and had no taste so you didnt bother unless you really like jelly in a bowl. No ice-cream on board unless you went to dining room or paid five dollars a scoop at ice cream parlour.
The tours purchased onboard were rip offs we got off at new caledonia. And got on the little trains for thirty dollars a person where the ship charged $79 a person. Over 50% profit to p&o what a rip off. We had restricted view room so we could buy more drinks with money saved. I wouldn't do this again as I had an audience when I got out of the shower to get dressed with staff in the tenders doing checks and getting woken up at 5.30am with staff in workbooks walking past ur window. If p&o just got little less stingy and fixed buffet and few small things it would have been a great trip.


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Hi Everyone,
Following the move from my 9900 to my Z10, I just realised that the voicemail number was not activated in the 'Call Forward' phone setting. In order to add it in, I had to manually scribble the number on a piece of paper and add it in manually. There was no option to copy and paste a number. However, after keying in the number for one of the call forward options, it became available for the next option. A little annoying, nothing more.
I also noticed that if I used the 'Dailing Pad' phone function to make a call, it only recognises the numeric character and not the alphabetical characters to trigger the names in my contacts. Very odd...any one else with this same issue?---------------------------------------------
Everything Black! - 02-10-2013, 12:02 PM #3
I still do as I always did for voicemail. Just press and hold 1 and off it goes. As for using the dial pad, there is the contacts option at the bottom as well. Select that instead of the dial pad and you'll get what you are looking for. (I hope anyway)
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The 14th-century Gothic Cathedral of St. Nicholas, which has since been turned into a mosque named Lala Mustafa Camii, is the most important monument in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus.
Possibly designed by the Frenchman Jean Langlois, St. Nicholas' Cathedral was begun in 1298 and consecrated in 1326. Until 1372, the Lusingnan kings came here to be crowned King of Jerusalem—a purely ceremonial honor, since the Crusaders lost the Holy Land in 1291.
Several royals were buried here, including James II the Bastard and his infant son James III, the last two Lusignan rulers, in 1473 and 1474. And it was at St. Nicholas' that the widow of James II renounced her royal rights and ceded Cyprus to the Doge of Venice in 1489.
The cathedral was badly damaged during the attacks of 1571 and by an earthquake in 1735. After the Ottoman conquest, the cathedral was transformed into a mosque with the addition of a mihrab and minaret and the complete destruction of all art depicting human figures. The frescoes were whitewashed and the altars were demolished. The twin towers were decapitated, and, as at Nicosia, the floor-tombs were emptied.
Nevertheless, the architecture remained entirely intact and its use as a mosque spared it from the Baroque additions and 19th-century restorations that were inflicted on most European cathedrals. The building is thus a rare example of pure Gothic architecture.
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The Cathedral of St. Nicholas was inspired by that at Reims in France, particularly the twin towers. Only the lower sections of the towers survive and the north tower has been topped with a slender minaret. As is customary in the Eastern Mediterranean, the roof is flat.
The cathedral's façade, in honey-colored stone, makes for an impressive sight as one emerges from the narrow streets of Famagusta. The west front has three shallow porches, with the center one wider than the others.
Over the center porch is a lovely six light window and above that, a rose window (with glass from the early 20th century). The side doors are topped by tall blind double light windows.
The plaza in front of the cathedral-mosque has been pedestrianized, and the outdoor tables of two cafés provide vantage points from which to admire the façade at leisure.
The parvis, shaded by an ancient Ficus sycomorus tree, was originally much larger. It was here that St. Briget of Sweden is said to have preached against the profligacy of Famagustan society. And after the Ottoman conquest in 1571, Bragadino, the Venetian commander of the garrison, was flayed alive here, between two columns from Salamis. To one side of the courtyard, a small Venetian loggia has been converted to an ablutions fountain.
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Names: | St. Nicholas' Cathedral (Lala Mustafa Mosque) |
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State: | Northern Cyprus |
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Categories: | Cathedrals; Mosques |
Faiths: | Christianity; Islam |
Feat: | Change of Religion |
Styles: | Gothic |
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Coordinates: | 35.124867° N, 33.942583° E (view on Google Maps) |
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- Bernard McDonagh and Ian Robertson, Blue Guide Cyprus, 4th ed. (1998), 225-26.
- Marc Dubin, The Rough Guide to Cyprus, 5th ed. (2005), 389.
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- Famagusta Travel Forum - TripAdvisor
- Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque - Cypnet
- St. Nicholas' Cathedral (Lala Mustafa Mosque), Famagusta - Go Historic
- Photos of St. Nicholas' Cathedral (Lala Mustafa Mosque) - here on Sacred Destinations
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Author: | Holly Hayes |
Last updated: | 10/05/2009 |
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"This is the nearest capitol that I could come here today and join these fellow patriots in support of the second amendment," said Tom Washer.
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The things we do for our kids.
Our craziest misadventures invariably seem like a good idea in the beginning. This one started innocently enough, with an e-mail from my daughter Veronica a week before Christmas with a link to the tour dates for her favorite band, Coldplay: "Oh hey, look at that, there's Philadelphia in July, and oh hey, Texas in June, why does that sound so convenient?"
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As I looked at the logistics, there seemed only one possible solution: Spending the weekend in Atlanta and driving all the way back to Dayton after the Monday night concert. That way, Veronica would miss only one day of Lovewell without sacrificing her Coldplay dream.
My son Alec and his girlfriend, Natalie, also big Coldplay fans, headed out last Saturday morning. It wasn't the leisurely mini-vacation I had dreamed about, but I was deeply moved by seeing the trajectory of Martin Luther King's life, all in a few short blocks — from his meticulously restored birthplace to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he came of age, to the serenely beautiful reflecting pool that enshrines the tomb of King and his wife, Coretta.
Unexpectedly, we crossed another item off the collective Bucket List when Natalie learned about the pandas at the Atlanta Zoo. "Pandas were on my bucket list because I have been really interested in them since I was a little kid — my e-mail address even contained the word panda!" she explained. "Then I started researching pandas as I got older and they intrigued me, especially because I am interested in endangered animals and the environment."
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It already had been an amazing weekend, but the stakes remained high for the Coldplay concert at Atlanta's Philips Arena that Monday night. It's not every day that you drive 514 miles for a concert — and then drive all the way back afterward.
The concert was magical from the minute the arena lit up like a gigantic Christmas tree courtesy of the remote-controlled LED lights on our wristband. Although decades younger and musically very different, lead singer Chris Martin reminded me of Springsteen with his shameless showmanship and the sheer joyful intensity with which he performs.
"Best concert ever," Veronica pronounced.
That momentarily made it worth it, but not while I was driving home through the mountains of Tennessee. I prayed over and over again, "Lord, get us home safely, and I promise I'll never do anything this stupid again."
We made it, of course, and Veronica scarcely missed a beat in her all-consuming Lovewell production, a musical about a visit from friendly aliens entitled "Portales, New Mexico" with its final performance at the Loft Theatre in Dayton at 3 p.m. today.
It all worked out, but I have repeatedly vowed, "Never again!"
No doubt, this time, I'll keep my promise — until the next item needs to be checked off the Bucket List.
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Tick, tock. Tick tock. Are you working yet? Sometimes, the only schedule worth keeping is the one you make yourself.
Whenever I fear that my life hasn't progressed, I think back to the way I lived while I wrote my first novel. I had a taxing full-time job and a dirty apartment that I shared with two housemates. During the week, on a good night, I'd get off by seven, then go home and eat tuna fish or uncooked tofu before sitting at my desk until midnight. I gave most Saturdays to writing as well. Sundays were a wonderful release, but otherwise I didn't have much of a social life. I was often exhausted and, despite few expenses, perpetually on the edge of financial disaster.
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Density versus Quality in Health Care Provision: Using Household Data to Make Budgetary Choices in Ethiopia
Usage of health facilities in Ethiopia is among the lowest in the world; raising usage rates is probably critical for improving health outcomes. The government has diagnosed the principal problem as the lack of primary health facilities and is devoting a large share of the health budget to building more facilities. But household data suggest that usage of health facilities is sensitive not just to the distance to the nearest facility but also to the quality of health care provided. If the quality of weak facilities were raised to the quality currently provided by the majority of facilities in Ethiopia, usage would rise significantly. National data suggest that, given the current density and quality of service provision, additional expenditure on improving the quality of service delivery will be more cost effective than increasing the density of service provision. The budget allocation rule presented in the article can help local policymakers make decisions about how to allocate funds between improving the quality of care and decreasing the distance to the nearest health care facility.Download Info
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- Paul Collier & Stefan Dercon & John Mackinnon, 2002. "Density versus Quality in Health Care Provision: Using Household Data to Make Budgetary Choices in Ethiopia," World Bank Economic Review, World Bank Group, vol. 16(3), pages 425-448, December.
- Paul Collier & Stefan Dercon & John Mackinnon, 2002. "Density versus quality in health care provision: Using household data to make budgetary choices in Ethiopia," CSAE Working Paper Series 2002-17, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
- Paul Collier & Stefan Dercon & John Mackinnon, 2002. "Density versus Quality in Health Care Provision: Using Household Data to Make Budgetary Choices in Ethiopia," Economics Series Working Papers WPS/2002-17, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
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Reception for Graduation Class immediately following on the Terrace at William H. Gates Hall.
You let us know how many tickets each would like (numbers have ranged from zero to 30), THEN we
Even with all tickets "sold" on paper, we've never had all seats filled; there are always empties.
More information on the UW Commencement web page, including cap and gown rental - www.washington.edu/graduation/
"Everyone Who Needs To Get In, Gets In!"
Last updated 11/18/2013