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You're essentially describing a loss leader--in short, every store offers a sale and then when you go looking for the product, they ran out...or whatever. BUT, because you're now in the store, you end up buying other things so they still win.
If you do what you describe, there would be some percentage of people who would stay with you....even when you up the price. If you ask for a lot right away, there's sticker shock and they back out. Every customer has a price in their head that they are willing to pay--if you're close to that you got a chance...if not, take a hike.
If you put a frog in luke warm water he's OK.... if you then increase the temp of the water slowly, he wont jump out. Keep increasing it till it's so hot he boils but he won't jump out.
You're talking about marketing 101, but the big question is...what percent will stay with you as you up the price. The assumption is that you do great work and you dont increase too much or too fast. So, you get in at a low price, they get comfortable with you, then you start slowly raising the price. If anyone says this doesn't work they should drive down to the local Walmart who built a billion dollar business on this concept.
BUT...remember, you're gonna pee off the customers that figure it out and they all have mouths. It's your reputation.
At 17, no, you don't know how much it would cost you to live on your own. Just the fact that you "think" you do proves it.
Keep working at it and good luck
I know a few people who have been living on there own since that age... ive been independent since birth grew up with nothing .. started paying bills at 14 when allowed to work... started paying real grownup bills at age of 20-21 and basically support my parents with my brother who are broke and getting old
99% of my friends and kids in my town are the typical kids who dont pay for anything and cant wipe there ass without there mother.. but i also have alot of friends my age buying houses, driving cars as expensive as some of your houses making a serious living
stop hating and you guys act like its impossible and that anyone under the age of 30 is a child and is just using mommy and daddies money
^^ I drive a 55k daily driver and a 5k work truck while every other lco owner is the opposite and would rather drive an f550 as an everyday car
Work like a slave eat like a king
firefighter,freddyc, and JJLandscapes, thats for your posts. Congratulations on being some of the first CONSTRUCTIVE criticizers, i cant stand people that have to put you down to make their point.
Anyway, Firefighter...thanks for the support. I definatly want to take my time with my bussines as i am determined to succeed, failure is not an option. Many new companys around here charge to little to be profitable and then they think well im getting so many customers and the bussiness balloons...then collapses. Thanks for the support in starting in this industry, my parents a far from thrilled. I guess its like one post that i read. Its one of those risks that people usualy steer away from becuase of potential catastrophy. In order for it to be accepted in this world of college and working for corparate america, you must succeed. Im going to do this not only for myself, but for my future family, and to show my parents that i can do this. Im sure it would be a lot easyer to work for some big company or someone else in general. But i want to be who i want to be, and if that means working twice as hard for the same quality of living, its going to be damn well worth it.
Freddy, thanks for marketing advice, your right, this is how things are marketed today. what matters is the percent that will stay with you after you up the price. I was thinking of this idea to overcome the sticker shock, and only retain the better customers. How im thinking right now is, even if i only kept say 4 or 5 out of like 30 cleints, it would be well worth it to add 5 great clients to my route per year or so. If i were to go that route of marketing i would only raise my rates 2 to 3 times max per year.
JJ, Well we have the same type of kids here. A bunch of moochers and lazy, "bored" people. I cant stand how they want this and that and constantly ask parents for money and dont even realize or appreciate how good they have it. I have never asked my parents for money, not once. If i wanted something i would figure out a way to earn the money so i could get what i wanted. Most everything that i know i have learned myself, my parents never really tought me any morals or manners, or how to be a good person. Although they have always involved me in fixing things or doing things that most people would just be like ehh whatever its good enough. I think thats what made me determined to succeed in anything that i do, and created the strong work ethic that i have. Sometimes i wish i was like the other kids though...mostly when i mow lawns all day and get home at about 8 or 9 and dont want to get out of the truck cuz i just want to keep on goin.
sorry for the long post, i tend to be observant and quiet in person, but put me on a computer and ill write you a book.
I had the same problem (at first). My parents didnt really agree with my choice, they said it was a big chance I was taking. I put my last dollar into starting my company which isnt always a good thing, but I believed in what I was doing. I think in the long run must people would of giving up after a touch year (the first 2 years, were for me) but knowing I had alot riding on it (Money, reputation, Family respect) only pushed me harder and keep me going. Now my friends and family are believing in me more, and my parents are proud of me for fighting and working so hard for something I believe in.
MartinsMowing - If you take your time and fight for what you believe in then you can do it dn your parents may not like it now, but in the future when you show them you can do it, they will be so proud of you.
Remember----Landscapers can go to college to, LOL...Just in the off season.
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ESPN's decision last week to remove its brand from a two-part documentary on PBS' "Frontline" about the NFL and brain injuries prompted ESPN ombudsman Robert Lipsyte to label the decision "sloppy, naive or compromised," perhaps all three.
ESPN and PBS had collaborated on the project for the last 15 months until ESPN decided remove its brand from advertising for the documentary and from the credits.
Critics said the NFL, one of the network's biggest sources of revenue, pressured the ESPN to remove itself from the project. The league is facing lawsuits from more than 4,200 former players over injuries linked to concussions.
"Commissioners are always trying to strong-arm or sweet-talk ESPN executives, especially Skipper," Lipsyte said, referring to the president of ESPN, John Skipper." How well they succeed is a matter of constant speculation . . . . Right or wrong, there is a perception that the company's decisions - both long-term and moment-by-moment - are often made to promote, or at least not provoke, important 'partners.' "
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She has received mixed reactions on her first year in office.
Political analyst Zwelethu Jolobe said De Lille's biggest challenge might still lie ahead – in balancing the politics of the ID and the DA in the city council.
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This is the last of our EXTREME NAMIBIA blog posts! In this weekly series we have explored some of our country's extremes, and shared with you practical information on how you can come and discover them for yourself.
In the bleak expanse of Damaraland, huge red sandstone boulders are piled high against deep orange cliffs - a dramatic sight even before you take a step closer and discover what has been etched onto the surface of these rocks. This is Twyfelfontein - home to over 2,500 unique engravings (some estimates are as many as 5,000) and numerous paintings, believed to date back some 6,000 years. Twyfelfontein has attracted people for millenia thanks to the presence of water. The Khoekhoe - ancestors of the San - named the site /Ui-//Ais, meaning "permanent spring". The current name, Twyfelfontein, means "doubtful spring" in Afrikaans, suggesting a less reliable source of water.
Twyfelfontein is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and must-see for any visitors to Damaraland, as the engravings have much to teach us about Namibia's earliest inhabitants, their beliefs and the wildlife that was found here.
At first glance, the engravings and rock paintings found at Twyfelfontein are similar to prehistoric rock art found around the world. Figures, footprints, strange geometric shapes and animal-like figures cover the stones, telling the story of hunter and prey. But what is unique about Twyfelfontein is that the ancestors of the people who created these works are still living. Although life has changed for them, they still share similar beliefs, rituals, hunting techniques and understandings of the world around them - allowing us a unique insight into the meaning behind the rock art, and what our ancestors were trying to say.
Here are some of the stories behind one of the largest rock art sites in Africa.
The San are able to put themselves into trances by means of dancing and hyperventilation. This is often carried out by a shaman, who will perform various acts while in this "spirit world", such as healing and making rain. Much of the rock art is believed to be depictions of what the shaman saw while in the spirit world. This is also why many of the engravings are positioned next to fissures and crevasses - it was believed they were entrance points to the supernatural world.
One of the most famous figures in Twyfelfontein is the Lion Man. This lion has five toes on each foot (instread of four), and at the end of his bent tail is what looks like a human hand. The Lion Man represents a human who has turned into a lion while in the spirit world. A giraffe with five "horns" is also believed to be a Giraffe-Man. However, the four-headed ostrich is believes to be a very early example of "animation"!
You may be confused by the images of seals, dolphins and penguins! However, these creatures were never present here; instead, the San travelled over 100km to the coast to collect salt, and drew what they saw while there.
Some of the engravings may have been used to educate - children could learn to track animals by looing at the footprints etched into the rocks, and engravings of pregnant animals - such as the "Dancing Kudu" - indicated which ones not to hunt. An early example of conervation, perhaps?!
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The sandstone rocks here are around 180 million years old. When fissures developed and they separated from the main cliff, they were left with almost perfectly flat faces - making them ideal for engraving and painting.
The engravings were discovered by topographer Reinhard Maak in 1921. He also discovered the famous White Lady painting at Brandberg.
The San inhabited this area until the 1930s - when they were moved on by Damara herdsmen.
Twyfelfontein became Namibia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.
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Twyfelfontein is open from 8am-5pm, visitors in summer should aim to arrive early in the morning as it cann get very hot and there is no shade. This is also the best time for photography. Entry is N$30 for adults and N$25 for children.
A 30-minute trail near the visitors' centre can be completed independently, though there is no information about the engravings. Longer trails must be completed with a guide (included in the entrance fee).
Visitors should bring a hat, walking shoes, sunscreen and a long-sleeved shirt.
Sites of interest near Twyfelfontein include the Organ Pipes,Burnt Mountain, Doros Crater, and the Petrified Forest.
Nearby accommodation includes Twyfelfontein Country Lodge, Camp Kipwe, Madisa Campsite and Mowani Mountain Camp.
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Are you one of those people who like to pick up a bit of the local lingo when you travel? Do you pack a phrasebook and attempt to order your lunch in the native language? Do you like to greet people on the street? Well, in Namibia that might be a little harder than you think...
Namibia's San, Damara and Nama people speak what are recognised as some of the world's most ancient and complicated languages. Even the linguistically blessed are likely to struggle getting their mouths around these words - as not only are they unrelated to other languages outside southern Africa - they involve speaking with clicks! Here's a mini guide to help you out with some of the world's most complex phonetics.
Namibia's Damara and Nama people speak Khoekhoe, while the San, also known as the Bushmen, speak various related languages, depending on the tribe. Khoekhoe has four click sounds, written |, ǂ, ! and ||, but even speakers of this language are baffled by the San - who use at least seven clicks! Even worse, getting your clicks mixed up spells trouble, as the same word with a different click has a completely different meaning.
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hara = swallow
!hara = check out
|hara = dangle
ǂhara = repulse
Yikes! Fortunately for visitors, English is Namibia's official language so you won't have to master the world's most complex tongue! However, if you are up for a bit of a challenge, we've found some tutorials that might help you, or at least give you a bit of an insight into what Namibia sounds like:
Learn how to write and pronounce the Khoekhoe clicks:
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In Namibia, there are around 100,000 Damara, 60,000 Nama and 27,000 San, so you are sure to hear their languages on your travels!
The languages are considered so complex because the clicking sounds are made at the same time as the consonant sounds, so you have to train your mouth to do two things at once!
Khoekhoe is a national language in Namibia. Many schools use it, and some universities teach in Khoekhoe.
Meet the Damara and San at a Living Culture Museum, to learn more about their language as well as their culture and traditions.
Take a township tour in Mondesa, Swakopmund, to meet Damara and Nama residents and have an introduction to Khoekhoe in their home.
Stay at a joint venture lodge in Damaraland, such as Damaraland Camp. The Damara community members who manage the lodges have formed their own choirs - composed of managers, chefs and waiting staff! They entertain guests upon arrival and at mealtimes with the most wonderful songs - sung with clicks, of course.
San hunter
The San people – also known as bushmen – are southern Africa's only truly indigenous people. But more than that – genetic testing has proved that they are one of the groups from which all known modern humans evolved.
Today, around 35,000 San live in Namibia, forming six tribes, each with its own language and customs. Though many San have been displaced and are abandoning their hunter-gatherer lifestyle to become farmers and laborers, there is much we can still learn from them. Their ancient culture, customs, art and hunting techniques have taught us much about extinct cultures, and allowed us to interpret what millennia-old cave paintings and rock engravings might have represented, for example. But perhaps more importantly, at a time when many species are threatened with extinction and resources are not enough to support a growing population, the San's truly sustainable traditional lifestyle may be able to teach us how to live in harmony with nature once again.
Namibian Desert
One of the things that amazes visitors to Namibia is nature's ability to survive – thrive, even – in the harshest of climates. In a vast land which is starved of water for most of year, where temperatures soar during the day and drop below freezing at night, it is astonishing to discover that plant and animal life flourish here. But for thousands of years, humans, too, have made this land their home.
The San are greatly admired for their hunting and tracking skills, for their incredible endurance and their profound knowledge of the inhospitable environment they inhabit. They read the environment as we would a book; each track or blade of grass telling a whole story. How long does a spider take to re-spin his web after a springbok has snagged it? How long does it take termites to reconstruct their mounds after a warthog has trampled it? How long does it take for damp earth to dry, for a branch to spring back into place? That's how long ago the prey passed.
San trackers
The composition of an animal's dung belies its age and health; tracks indicate an injured individual. The San can run for hours after a herd of antelope, covering any terrain. Once they have targeted their prey with a poison arrow, they will have to track it for more hours or even days until it finally perishes – so knowing exactly which gemsbok or giraffe to follow is essential. Snares, traps and staking out burrows are other hunting techniques – honed to perfection over hundreds of generations.
In this land of scarce water, the San know which roots can be scraped or squeezed to quench their thirst. They dig deep holes in damp sand to create "sip wells", where water is sucked up through hollow grass and then stored in an ostrich egg. A fire is all that's needed to set up camp for a night; a few simple huts are a temporary village.
Of course, as they are moved from their ancestral lands and have to adopt new lifestyles to adapt to modern culture, these life-saving skills and knowledge are in danger of being lost forever. Namibia's Living Culture Museums are one way in which the San culture is being preserved – shared with tourists and even more importantly, passed on to the next generation. Visitors learn about hunting and trapping techniques, making fire, building a shelter and identifying medicinal plants. The entrance fees and proceeds from craft sales support the community. And the San are able to continue using their desert skills to survive.
A visitor learns to hunt with the San at the Living Hunters Museum
"San" means "outsider." It was the word that neighboring, pastoral communities used to describe this nomadic people
There are around 90,000 San in southern Africa today. The majority live in Botswana, with the rest in Namibia, South Africa and Angola.
See rock engravings left by the San up to 6000 years ago at Twyfelfontein, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
See ancient San rock paintings, including the famous White Lady, painted 2000 years ago on the Brandberg Mountain.
Watch "The Gods Must be Crazy" – a humorous film about a San man who comes into contact with the modern world – in the form of a Coke bottle.
Read "Born in Etosha, Homage to the Cultural Heritage of the Hai||om", a book about the the forgotten history of the Hai||om, a San tribe who lived in what is now Etosha National Park.
Visiting Etosha National Park is one of Namibia's most exceptional adventures. This wildlife sanctuary of over 27,000 square kilometers has a protected status that stretches back over a hundred years. Etosha provides a new experience even for seasoned wildlife viewers, and unlike many other African parks, you can explore the vast expanses and numerous waterholes in your own vehicle at your own pace, enjoying a more personal experience with nature.
While the opportunities at Etosha are endless, here are five things we think are great ways to experience this amazing destination:
1. Join the Etosha "Night Life" at Okaukuejo Water Hole
Okaukuejo Camp (pronounced Oh-kah-KEW-yoh) is located just within the park's southernmost entrance, Andersson Gate, and serves as the park's administrative hub. Many visitors to Etosha choose to make use of Okaukuejo's rustic camp site or the chic bungalows for lodging, but the main attraction is the Okaukeujo waterhole. Throughout the day, animals dip in and out to quench their thirst. The big show begins at dusk when floodlights are turned on to transform the waterhole into one of Namibia's greatest stages. You can kick back on the benches that surround the waterhole with a Windhoek lager and watch as the wildlife - unphased by the light - slinks and strolls out of the darkness to the banks of the spring-fed pool. Towering giraffes perch precariously while jackals skittishly circle the perimeter. Rhinos emerge from the distance and tussle for turf throughout the night with heavy thuds. It's not uncommon to see large herds of elephants sharing the pool with lions. Okaukuejo is a must see if you're interested in knowing what Etosha's four-legged residents are up to when the sun goes down.
2. Cool Off at Halali
Etosha gets HOT during the day, and it's rare that you'll see too many creatures wandering around when the sun is high in the sky. They know the best thing to do is find shade and cool off. Follow their lead by visiting Halali Camp at lunch time. Halali is about 45 minutes from Okaukeujo and also offers overnight accommodation. When you arrive, check in at the Halali waterhole's elevated viewing stand. Pending no surprise arrivals, change into your bathing costume and take a dip in the cool waters of the swimming pool. You'll be able to beat the heat and relax amid the camp's quiet, Mopane tree-covered surroundings. Halali also has a restaurants and bar that can help you meet all your body's other needs while you escape the sun.
3. Discover the native Hai||Om Culture
For many thousands of years, the Hai||Om San (or Bushmen) inhabited the areas that now constitute the park. Their intricate society of hunters and gathers attained a rich understanding of local biodiversity - how plants could be used for medicine, and the patterns in animal behavior. In the 1950s, the local Hai||Om population were removed from Etosha, though their cultural identity still strongly remains attached to the area. As their numbers dwindle, the Xoms-|Omis Project has been working with the Hai||om to document the knowledge and skills passed down from generation to generation. Get a uniquely Hai||Om perspective on the plants, animals, history, and geography of Etosha by referencing these guides available to download for free from the Xoms-|Omis Project website.
4. Dance with Dust Devils
Driving through the backroads of Etosha, nature often crosses your path. Sometimes it's a pride of lions lazily moving to another shady spot. Occasionally tree limbs will find themselves strewn across the tarmac. But nothing is quite as unexpected as seeing a towering column of dust come whizzing past you. Dust devils are the fairweather cousins of tornados - generally harmless and appearing when it's warm and sunny. Hot air rising from the ground mixes with a pocket of cool air and causes the circulation that creates an upward spiral of motion that takes along dirt, sand, and whatever else is laying around. Etosha's flat geography and wide, open skies are the perfect conditions to stir up these ephemeral whirlwinds. Etosha's dust devils can reach 5 meters wide and spin up to 70km/h - though most are much weaker. These natural phenomena are generally innocuous - except for the dusty mess they can cause in your vehicle if your windows aren't rolled up quickly enough. One of the best places to see dust devils dance is the western side of the park near Ozonjuitji m'Bari water hole.
5. Take in the Expanse of the Etosha Pan
When you arrive at the Etosha Pan, it's easy to see why the name roughly translates into "great white space." This 120km-long dry lake bed dominates Etosha's geography. The dizzying experience of being the only vertical object on the horizon is exceptionally humbling. The salt that encrusts the parched mud gives off a startlingly white sheen, making it difficult to see where the pan stops and the sky begins. On rare occasions, rains that sweep across Etosha will leave a small film of water across the pan that lures greater flamingos.
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Imagine a school without desks and chairs, without walls or a blackboard. Imagine learning skills that have been learned over thousands of years, passed down through the world's most ancient culture. Imagine being able to identify dozens of species – from an ant to elephant – without ever seeing a single one.
The real-world San classroom. Photo: Friedrich Alpers of IRDNC
To those of us unfamiliar with life in the bush, this seems like an impossible task. But for the San (also known as the bushmen), with thousands of years of accumulated wisdom and a lifetime spent tracking wildlife, the knowledge is innate. For millennia, their ancestors lived throughout southern Africa as hunter-gatherers with a subsistence lifestyle that made little impact on nature. Over the last thousand years, however, the San have suffered social disintegration and the erosion of their traditional values and skills as a result of oppression, persecution and loss of their land.
But in Caprivi – the small strip of Namibia sandwiched between Angola and Botswana – a group of San elders are determined to work with their youth to regain some of the skills they have lost. They hope that this will renew pride in their identity and culture, as well as creating opportunities for the youngsters to obtain employment in tourism.
The elders have developed the Tekoa Training Program in collaboration with Namibian NGO, Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC), with funding from WWF and USAID. Locally-employed community rangers, who have worked in the region for two decades, impart their bush skills to San children during the program, which takes place in Bwabwata National Park.
Newly-qualified San tracker-trainers in Bwabwata National Park. Photo: Friedrich Alpers of IRDNC
As the school kids, aged between 6 and 14, set off in single file down a fresh elephant track; the San tracker trainers, Alfred and Benson, point out millipede tracks, trapdoor spider hideouts, evidence of a scorpion's nocturnal activities, tracks of a sable antelope rounding up his herd, and the footprints of a hunting leopard. They show the youngsters see where a tree squirrel leapt, a puff adder writhed, a gecko caught a moth and an impala marked his territory – all without spotting a single animal.
The kids are beaming with enthusiasm and eagerness to continue the exploration: the endless knowledge; the skills development of tracking; the learning of animal behavior; and the monitoring of endangered wildlife, such as cheetahs, wild dogs, roan antelopes and other rare species found in their park home.
These children are being given the opportunity to develop tracking and ecological management skills that are critical to preserve our natural system and the environment. Over the next few months, more than 200 rural children in Namibia's remote north-east will learn the skills of their forefathers, and be able to apply these skills when looking for work and to contributing to finding sustainable solutions to the environmental challenges our planet faces.
This post is based on original article by Karine Nuulimba of IRDNC
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There is an old African proverb which states: "If an old man dies in Africa, a whole library burns to the ground". This proverb refers to the oral nature of the cultures on the African continent. The ancient traditional knowledge has not been written down in books, but is passed on orally from one generation to the next. His knowledge is saved in the cultural memory of the people. Without a circulation within the respective language group, this knowledge is forgotten and might be lost forever. Namibia's Living Culture Museums strive to capture and preserve this knowledge for future generations.
Five museums, described below, are currently located throughout the country and tell the amazing story of some of Namibia's most iconic cultural groups.Museums featuring the Ovahimba and Khwe are currently in the works. These museums are instrumental in passing down traditional skills and values, as the children of the groups are actively involved in the activities of the museum. !Gamace N!aici from the Living Hunter's Museum of the Ju/'Hoansi points out, "When the visitors come to see our culture, they learn but our kids learn as well. That is very important for our culture."
The museums, funded and developed by the Living Culture Foundation of Namibia, not only preserve the different cultures but also give the groups an opportunity to earn an income and benefit from tourism. Travelers can visit a Living Museum and thus actively contribute to the preservation of traditional culture in Namibia. The local population is responsible for the development of the museums content and manage the operations. Proceeds from the museums benefit the local community.
The Living Museum of the Ju/'Hoansi was inaugurated in 2004 and has developed into a cultural highlight of Namibia. The main focus lies with getting to know the hunter-gatherer culture of the Kalahari San. On the same level guest have the opportunity to learn how the Ju/'Hoansi-San traditionally light fire, make tools and weapons, and much, much more.
In 2008 the Living Museum of the Mafwe opened in the Caprivi Strip. The Mafwe concentrate mainly on fishing and agricultural activities but also present traditional dancing ceremonies in their museum situated under huge Baobab trees.
Together with the Bushmen the Damara belong to the oldest nations in Namibia. Their original culture was a mixture of an archaic hunter-gatherer culture and herders of cattle, goats and sheep. Here the visitors have the unique opportunity to get to know the fascinating traditional culture of the Damara, thus contributing to the preservation of the culture as well as to a regular income for the Damara community that built the museum.
In 2010 the The Living Hunter's Museum of the Ju/'Hoansi opened in the Tsumkwe region, where the San are still allowed to hunt. Here the traditional bow hunt with poisoned arrows, the digging out of spring hares and porcupines, the snare catching of guinea fowls, khoraans and other birds for the daily hunt for food has never been terminated. Visitors have the unique experience of learning the art of reading tracks and participating in a hunt.
After three years of initial building-up work the newest edition to the Living Museums finally opened at the end of October 2011: Mbunza Living Museum. An essential part of the interactive program of the Living Museum is the demonstration (and preservation) of the fishing and land cultivating culture of the Mbunza. The traditional presentation covers everything from everyday life (traditional cuisine, fire making, basket and mat weaving, etc.) to bushwalks and fishing and finally to highly specialised techniques like blacksmithing, pottery and the making of drums.
"The Etosha Pan has been called many things: the Great White Place, the Big Emptiness... but the Hai||om call it the Lake of a Mother's Tears. A mother who has lost a child will feel such grief that she will cry enough tears to fill the pan," a park ranger tells me. "This isn't just part of our history; it is part of our souls."
Moments like these, when personal stories of the people who once lived in Etosha come alive, are scarce and far in the past. Etosha National Park is one of Africa's most remarkable game reserves, offering visitors the chance to view herds of game against the dazzling backdrop of a vast, shallow pan of silvery sand. The area south of the Great White Place, where tourist routes and lodges are situated, was once the homeland of the Hai||om, an indigenous San or Bushmen community recently recognized as the oldest humans on Earth.
For the Hai||om, the past is disappearing at a frantic pace. Days when the elders would to sit around the fire and tell stories are quickly disappearing. However, there is reason for hope on the horizon. Worried that their cultural history may die with them, the elders of the Hai||om community partnered with international researchers to establish the Xoms |Omis Project (Etosha Heritage Project). The aim of the project is to capture and document the Hai||om cultural heritage and deliver a unique body of cultural, historical and environmental knowledge.
The Hai||om have acquired an incredible knowledge about biodiversity; the use of various plants as food and medicine; and the behavior of game in the region. Much of this knowledge has been documented through the Xoms |Omis project and is now passed on to the younger generations through workshops and joint activities.
Born in Etosha, Homage to the Cultural Heritage of the Hai||om is the first publication to pay homage to the forgotten cultural history of the National Park. Designed to accompany the reader on a journey through Etosha, the book reincorporates the culture and history of the natural landscape. The history of selected waterholes and other culturally relevant locations accessible to visitors on the main tourist routes serve to portray the life of the Hai||om who once lived there and to highlight the history of the park. "This publication ensures that people will know our story and helps to protect our history and culture," says Kadisen ||Khumub, the co-chair of the Xoms |Omis Project.
A series of products based on Hai||om heritage and knowledge have also been developed, such as postcards and 'Born in Etosha' t-shirts, allowing visitors a chance to take part in the remarkable project.
For more information about the Xoms |Omis Project, or order your copy of Born in Etosha, Homage to the Cultural Heritage of the Hai||om here.
Namibia is a fascinating cultural melting-pot, combining early African populations with a wide array of western explorers.
Since gaining independence in 1990, Namibians have worked on mending Apartheid-era wounds, and today they are celebrating their rich heritage.
Namibia's colourful African vigour infuses old Europe into a distinctive Namibian spirit, creating unique architecture, food, customs and art. What has emerged is a true sense of unity in diversity – the coming together of 13 ethnic groups, each celebrating their past while working together toward the future. There is a powerful bond uniting rural and urban, farmers and professionals. While each of these groups has its own rich cultural heritage, they all share one thing in common…they are Namibian and proud of it.
This harmony exists through a shared history, expressed through a common sense of hospitality. The open, welcoming people of Namibia provide guests to the country with the opportunity to experience these customs and traditions first-hand, and visitors to Namibia are likely to experience an authentic way of life. Local tour operators have taken care to develop itineraries which includes visits to communities in rural areas where villagers eagerly share their everyday lives, from the Herero women who wear distinctive Victorian-style dresses and horn shaped hats, to the semi-nomadic Himba whose women wear intricate hairstyles and ornamental jewellery artfully crafted from shells and metals. Listen to the Nama or the Damara whose complex languages feature intriguing clicking sounds. Visit the San people who are among the last hunter gatherer communities on Earth and have been able to preserve much of their ancient culture.
Community based tourism options are a large part of what makes a visit to Namibia so distinctive, providing an enriching and engaging opportunity for both the traveller and the local communities to get to discover each other. At the same time, such activities generate real social and economic benefits to the empowered communities, and ultimately provide a more authentic Namibian experience to the visitors. Community campsites provide a base from which to enjoy and explore the highlights of the country and magnificent scenery, while offering opportunities to truly delve into what makes Namibia so unique, its people, its local feasts and customs, and, perhaps make a few new friends.
Come discover what makes us so proud to be Namibian – and allow us to share our Namibia with you!
Namibia is a land of adventure and spectacle. Amazing natural parks, free-roaming wildlife, and iconic open spaces can inspire anyone. WWF Travel's Director Elissa Leibowitz Poma recently joined WWF's Chris Weaver in Namibia and came back with a few lessons that she originally posted on the WWF Travel Blog:
1. Black rhinos have a more sensitive disposition than white rhinos. Among several reasons why, according to Jeff Muntifering of the Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia, is the fear of being hunted. White and black rhinos alike have been poached for decades, but black rhinos, which are more solitary than white rhinos, appear to have passed along knowledge of that practice in their genetic code as a survival mechanism.
2. The San click languages spoken by some bushmen is quite difficult to pronounce. A language originating with the hunter-gatherers of southern Africa as they traversed their ancestral lands, the languages and various dialects are still spoken by about 100,000 people in Namibia and Botswana (and small groups in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The one I tried learning consists of four click styles, depending on the placement of your tongue in your mouth. The clicks themselves weren't so hard to form, but connecting them to words twisted my tongue in knots! (See a pronunciation guide to practice.)
3. Giraffes are the best models in Namibia. You could be driving along a road, nothing around you but sand and rocks, and then all of a sudden a giraffe neck and head pops out from behind a grove of trees. The giraffe would hold your gaze, nibbling on some leaves but intently watching you from beneath impossibly long eyelashes. (They're that long for a purpose, by the way: To keep insects, debris and sunlight out of their eyes.)
4. There must be a better word to describe a springbok's leap than "pronk."Springboks and other gazelles exhibit this behavior when they're being pursued by prey or otherwise feel a need to get out quickly. It's an elegant, ballet-like move that allows the springbok to gain extra distance, and surely the motion deserves a more elegant, ballet-like word.
5. You must succumb to the dust. Namibia is a desert. It's hot, it's dry - Arizona seems like a rain forest in comparison. So you must accept the fact that the dust will coat every inch of you - covering every centimeter of your skin and clothes, coating each strand of hair, lining the inside of your nose. Instead of resisting it, I embraced it. It made me feel like a part of the magnificent, stark landscape.
6. It's hard to eat game after watching it all day. Game meat is a way of life in Africa, and ostrich, zebra, kudu and other mammals frequently show up on menus. I recognize the realities of the world, and I'm not a vegetarian in "real life." But for me, there was something quite difficult about watching dapper oryx walk across the valleys all afternoon, then mustering any desire to eat a steak of it for dinner. I was surprised by my reaction, actually. I stuck with pasta and veggies.
7. The adornments that Himba women wear all have practical purposes.The Himba are a semi-nomadic group in the Kunene region of northern Namibia who have maintained a traditional tribal lifestyle. The women we met in a small village were coated head to toe in otijze, a paste made of butter, ash and the natural pigment ochre. The coating gives them a rust-colored, shiny glaze, which not only beautifies them in the Himba way (the rich red color symbolizes blood and life), but also provides sun protection. Likewise, women wear beaded anklets, to prevent snake bites.
8. I have a new appreciation for asphalt. After spending hours each day in a vehicle bumping along dry riverbeds, rock-strewn trails and paths formed by elephants, I hereby declare I will never complain again about potholes in Washington, D.C.
To learn more about how you can have an experience like Elissa's in Namibia's Conservancies, click here.
With global green awareness currently rising, conservation heroes tend to be very public individuals, whose achievements are well documented in the media. Amongst these is a small cohort of people whose actions go unnoticed, but whose efforts almost subconsciously inspire those around them to care more for our planet: We know them as "unsung heroes". Namibia's Ou Jan Tsumib is one such person.
Ou Jan, a Hei//om bushman, born in the wilds of Etosha, has spent an entire lifetime looking after the land he was born on. He addresses the wildlife, the plants and the changing seasons of the bush with a father-like voice and speaks of elephants and mopane trees as equals to himself. He worked in conservation all his life for no other reason than to get him closer to the soil that supports the life he so admires ,and in so doing has acquired an unequaled understanding of the web of life in this domain. He has also influenced everyone he has had contact with by generously sharing his knowledge and inspiring them to care more about the natural world.
Winner of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award, Ou Jan Tsumib's quiet voice, dignified manner and wealth of understanding about the world around him make him a true conservation hero.
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IBM has an army of 10,000's of developers/contractors around the globe, and a way to productize a custom developed app (they have another army of 10,000 tech writers and marketing folk). IBM sees enterprise problems, can develop the solution on the clients dime (client funded R&D), generalize it with a low infusion of product development $$, and push it out the door to every other enterprise client.
Given IBM's Analytics/Big Data bent, iOS integration into their analytics engines on big @ss IBM Virtual Data Center homed DB2 data farms is a big market. And in the Enterprise, keeping up with the Joneses, is par for the course.
As for Exxon Penetration... champagne? likely not. Assuming that half their employees use laptops, and half of those can switch, that's only 20K iPad sales. that's about 4 hours of sales. But if Exxon makes that move, then others will see less risk in it.
What you really want is something like the US Postal Service developing a custom app that makes an iPhone the primary mobile computing tool for a letter carrier (338,000 in the US alone).
Nurses/healthcare. 2.7Million nurses involved in healthcare. Assume that many more in allied-health (techs, transport, etc). IBM comes up with an iOS app for an iPad to talk to an IBM based medical records system... All those laptops on carts just fall out the window (literally, they take up more space in the charging bay).
The real benefit is that once IBM does it, the cost to deliver it to other business drops, it can scale down to small business (the real benefit of the cloud... I don't need a VM mainframe anymore, just an iPad, and a $100 month internet connect), and then it also drops for consumers (ditto).
No thank you, I have a hard enough time trying to get Siri to dial the correct Pizza service. Piazza Domination Hoes this is Elga, how may I punish you today, yeah, do you guys sell anchovies. I would like to see more IDE's offer better interfaces that incorporate a more visual approach to programming, elements you can simply drag and drop, easily selectable sources like database, RSS, other XML files, delimited files, selectable workable algorithms, etc. Out of the three main mobile OS's, iOS, Android and WM8.1 and the IDE's that are offered for them, I think I prefer programming with MS's tools, if you go here http://appstudio.windows.com, you can in 4 easy steps create a very usable app. Pretty cool little interface, I made an app in less then an hour that shows all of my subscriptions from AppleInsider, click on one, takes me to the last page, ready to post. It's a silly thing I know, but I have added notification support now that WM8.1 just got a Notification Center. Though I know how to write a Windows mobile app from scratch using Visual Studio, using a simple GUI that starts you with a working model is not only a perfect way to learn but makes it faster to produce simple tools, a lot of fun too. I also absolutely dig the virtual machine, it's so great that you can visualize your creation every step of the way.
These guys, these guys, these guys and all the .NET developers might disagree with that.
Objective-C is extremely verbose. While typing may be only a small part of developing software, the more of it I have to do the more chance I have to make a typo. Also readability is essential for maintaining software. Objective-C can be UGLY. Reading extremely verbose code also leads to problems.
Swift aligns Apple with modern readability and syntax conventions of languages like Ruby, Groovy, Python and others. Yes, the vast majority of the real work is still done in libraries, but making those calls easier to parse (for the human) is very valuable.
While I'm primarily a Java developer, I've started using Groovy wherever I can because it cuts out a lot of verbose boilerplate that Java requires. I can get to the problem rather than writing lots of housekeeping code to keep Java happy.
I think Swift will make it easier for coders in other modern languages to jump in and out of Swift than Objective-C does.
Swift is indeed a big improvement wrt Objective-C. After a learning curve, it will reduce the development time for app developers. But the main drawback remains: like its predecessor it is an Apple only language.
As a developer of smartphone apps I have to listen to the market demands and make my apps available for both iOS and Android platforms. Porting an app from one platform to another typically requires 50% additional effort and cost. So currently I try to stick, whenever possible, to Cordova/Phonegap which makes it possible to develop cross platform smartphone apps.
Those Java programmers weren't very good.
Web applications are defiantly the present and future, I think I mentioned this before but when I was healthier and working I was employed by the largest bank in Switzerland. I was the managing director of internal programming, though we utilized compiled applications for specialized solutions such as our our trading platform the bulk of our applications were web driven. It's exactly the same situation in almost every company, in every field. Even the applications that ran specifically on a tablet, such as the iPad were for the most part web driven. Yes, I'm sure company's will utilize all those wonderful new apps that IBM will produce but mark my words any internal custom solutions will most likely be web driven and not compiled using Swift. No company in there right mind is going to send any of their programming staff to school to learn Swift just for the sole purposes of making iPad apps, not when they could easily make a web app in less time, less money, utilize the talent they currently have and especially use those apps across their entire IT infrastructure. There will of course be those exceptions, specialized apps are always needed but for the most part they will be purchased from third party vendors.
Swift is a clearly a very clever thing but it will not be shaking up the Enterprise world anytime soon as most here believe. I've seen many different programming solutions and languages come and go, those that stuck and were utilize the most were the ones that could be used multiple hardware and OS environments, i.e. Java, Python and web applications. it's just the way it is, things like running naively, faster, intuitiveness of the UI, whatever, just isn't a match for portability, speed of releases, budget constraints, especially when the output is identical.
Those who will benefit from Swift the most are company's or individuals specifically selling iPad apps.
Then honestly your Java programming team is sub-par if they can't get their applications working the way they're supposed too. I've heard this many times in forums but when it comes right down to it, writing and supporting multiple versions of one app to run on different platforms is no match for writing it once, supporting just that one build and then using it on the multiple platforms. It's fine to think that Apple's solution is superior and more company's should be using it but what are the real benefits, speed, not really important, reliability, sure but your delusional if you think a company wouldn't expect a programmer to make sure their Java version isn't also reliable, look and feel, not important, it's all about the output in the end. For the most part Enterprise apps are data entry, data retrieval, reports and calculations, things that can be accomplished with a web app and there isn't much that can't be done with HTML5, PHP/Python/Ruby and a Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL database.
Thanks for the info, I love reading your posts,always filled with lovely new stuff to research, I'm still going though it all but so far very impressive. I need to ask though, will Apple provide a Swift runtime for Windows and Linux because without it, well, it's kind of like figuring out cold fusion and only keeping it for yourself.
Actually your network traffic would be almost exactly the same if you were using an native application to access a database or web interface. I think your assuming that just because an app is nativity installed on a device it doesn't have the need to access it's networked data as often. Unless programmed specifically to cache it's data, which is rare as data changes constantly there will still be the same amount of queried and retrieved data going threw the network. Yes a web app has to download the UI and other data associated with it but when was the last time you've seen a really detailed, beautified corporate web app, in most cases were talking less then 300kb for an average page. Personally speaking as a manager, if it was any bigger then that I would have the person who wrote it go back and remove that stupid Giff of the bouncing question mark.
Edit: I also realize that web browsers aren't as efficient with memory management as a native app could be and this has presented problems when displaying large amounts of data but small workarounds like doing the actual calculations in SQL and then exporting the data into a PDF is a manageable solution to this problem. There are upsides and downsides to everything but to be honest an iPad with only 1GB of RAM would also fall into a same problem. This needs to be addressed by Apple, immediately.
Cool, then I guess I have some studying to do. I have to apologize about last night. I'm not feeling to well and I kind of glanced over the part about your wife dying. Let me just say how sorry I am that has happened to you. One of my greatest fears is not dying myself but leaving my husband and two children alone in the world. I know it's a selfish thing to believe that they won't be fine without me but I truly believe when you start a family you give a part of yourself to them and when one leaves you never get that part back. So although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer.
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think, but the most important thing is, even if we're apart...I'll always be with you." -(Winnie the Pooh)


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ST. FRANCIS, WI -- People struggling with chronic health issues can learn ways to cope with these challenges and improve their quality of life through an upcoming workshop: Living Well with Chronic Conditions. The workshop empowers those living with conditions like arthritis, heart problems, asthma, stroke, pain, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, emphysema, and cancer and allows them make the best of their situation through:
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#1 Aug 19, 2012
medicare as we know it???????
#2 Aug 19, 2012
let us vote and find out instead of seeing all America's money going down the drain
#3 Aug 21, 2012
Chilhowie is a small christian town, for the most part friendly. Questian, what do you think of the co-sponsored bill by Akin and Ryan about rape and abortion? If you haven't read you should. We know most abortion is wrong. Another thing I would like to know, what do you think of a man that has said, he would do away with the affordable health care act, his first day in office? Now you talk about abortion, here is a guy that will abort over 30 million people with a pen in one day. If that is christian send me one of your Bibles, I need it.
#4 Aug 25, 2012
What do I think? I think he is the one needed in office before Obama bankrupts the country. The Gov't loses money on the postal service, loses money on Amtract, so how in the hell are they going to run a health care system? You won't be able to get a Drs appt for all the mexicans bringing in their kids with a runny nose. Nothing is FREE , some one has to pay for it and that would be the middle class.
#5 Aug 26, 2012
President Bush bankrupt the US with the iraq war. I suppose you think the postal service did not lose money under any other president, and amtrack wasn't losing money under any other president and Romney's health care plan was good for only one state. Here are some things that bother me about Romney. Won't show his fed. tax returns, like the People that were running for president before him. The plank in the GOP platform that states that there are no exceptions to abortion. I know if my wife or daughters were raped or if their life was in danger, or your family, and were pregnant, I would want them to have a choice if to have an abortion. I know Romney has said there would be exceptions, but that is not what the GOP or Ryan want. when the government can tell a woman, you have do die if you are pregnant and in danger, that is really BIG GOVERNMENT. It's only big government if someone other than it being the GOPs idea. He wants tax breaks for the million and billion aires while millions of people need medical help. Million and billion aires can't understand if this country falls their millions, and houses all over the world will not do them any good. They can help keep this country going or grab all the money they can, and watch it turn to worthless paper like the rest of us. As far as not being able to see a doctor, the same thing was said by the GOP when medicare was put in place.
#6 Aug 30, 2012
First of all, Christian starts with a capital C ---and isn't all man-made abortion wrong? I can't make any sense out of anything you wrote.
#7 Aug 31, 2012
Oh my, I didn't use a capital, you should run for president sense you have never missed a key or a the space bar. Enough of that, now about all abortion being wrong. I'm going to guess you are a man. Do you know anyone that has been raped? Do you know anyone that became pregnant because of a rape? Do you think that girl/ woman should have the right to have an abortion if they wish? the Akin, Ryan bill would not have let a woman have the right to have an abortion even in case of rape or if her life is in danger. Like I said, if you haven't read that bill you should. I just think that a bunch of men should not have the right to, by law, not allow a woman to have an abortion in such cases. Just in the past week there was a girl in some other country that was pregnant and had cancer. The doctors would not give her the therapy she need to live because it might hurt the baby. Now the girl and baby both are dead. Smart huh? The Republican platform has in it, there can not be an abortion for any reason. Romney has said he would do away with the health care bill his first day in office. I was pointing out a one day old or a 90yr.old can be aborted just like a pregnancy. I hope this helps. If not let me know, I know I say thing poorly sometimes, and I will try to fix it.
#8 Aug 31, 2012
it's not a typo when you do not use respect to type certain words that demand to be capitalized..well go right ahead and tell the sweet baby you had a right to kill him/her because of the circumstance and then tell God the same thing. Oh? So? Well, God's plan is not to kill also, remember the ten commandments? and just what has Obama done for you?
#9 Sep 4, 2012
since, please look up your words to spell them right, that says a lot when you are trying to make a point, got it? since
#10 Sep 4, 2012
just what are you trying to say?
#11 Sep 4, 2012
Oh great english teacher. You must have been valedictorian in your school and made 100 on every typing class paper. Did you not get the point, or did you and just couldn't find anything intelligent to add? Get it?
#12 Sep 4, 2012
You are such an ignorant person. No wonder they keep ppl. like you in the woods. America will go down the drain b/c corporate greed will see to its demise. It won't be President Obama stirring the ship. Go back to school hillbilly.
#13 Sep 4, 2012
Are you employed or just sitting at home collecting your Social Security welfare? How bout using your Burger King coupons for elective surgery b/c your Medicare will end under R&R.
#14 Sep 5, 2012
You go right ahead and tell a sweet baby or young person, if they happen to be born with a heart defect and their Mom and Dad's insurance caps out, they have very little chance of survival. My point is, that child can be aborted just as quick as a fetus. Didn't you watch the democrat convention. A 90yr. old can be aborted by taking away healt care. The sixth commandment applies to them also. So you go right ahead and tell that sweet young preson or sweet little old lady you have the right to watch them die for lack of health care. Telling God anything is above may pay grade. Do I believe in abortion as a birth control. NO WAY, but I do not believe anyone has the right to tell a woman/girl they MUST carry a baby even if their life is in danger or pregnant because of rape. That should be their choise. What has Obamn done for me. Well he kept the auto industry for going bankrupe. That and with all the jobs that saved, battery, glass, tires, dealerships, mechanics, and on and on saved over a million jobs. You might not think that hepled you but it kept this country from falling. Health care, that keeps you and all of us from worring about not being able to get or have health care. Remember that is Romney's plan but now he is aganist it. Want more let me know.
#15 Sep 5, 2012
i don't need medicare or obamacare either, how about you?
#16 Sep 5, 2012
and how is the USA gonna pay all that money back Obama has borrowed from China and Japan? You? haha
#17 Sep 6, 2012
Nope not me. I'm all tapped out paying for the Bush war and trying to recover from the Bush depression. Do you really believe anyone could get the USA out of the hole, Bush left us in, in 4yrs? With the best, smartest, mind the US has, it's going to take 4 to 10 more yrs. At my age, I don't think it will happen in my life time.
#18 Sep 6, 2012
My friend didn't need medicare or obamacare either until his 3yr. daughter was severely injured in a auto accident. That could be you, someone you love, or a friend. Then YOU would be saying thank goodness for Obamacare and medicare. give it a good hard think, and you might just change your mind, unless you believe, you or your's will ever get sick or have an accident.
#19 Sep 6, 2012
I think Bush was the best president this side of Lincoln.
#20 Sep 7, 2012
My goodness, you have not studied history have you?
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this was a school assignment, we were supposed to draw moments from our everyday lives and arrange it into some kind of comprehensive sequence. this is my totally exciting life (i do have a social life, but it's not of any significance here, haha).
drawn with pencil and colored digitally in photoshop 7, with textures added from [link] . for tips on applying textures check out [link]
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jajaja genial
C'est juste parfait You are sooo talented!
Ha Ha ha wonderful!
Mine too....
This is so funny becuase this is exactly my whole life summed up in one comic strip
This is both hilarious and entirely relatable. I hope you got a good score!!
Damn! You never smile lol ^^... what a cool way to live huh?
This rocks! Well done.
You're an inspiration!
That is, if I wasn't like this already...
That is, if I wasn't like this already...
this looks too familiar
Lol thats so awesome XD
TRUE!! you look as me
so sad but true...
Honestly... if I would have been your teacher here... straight A+ for the fact that it's genius well executed! It reminds me of my own days back in college. Same story... -> Well done, very inspiring!
true story xD
i do mostly the same xP
Totally agreeable!
aw, that is so sweet of you! no worries :]
very original! :]
HAHAHAH MDR terrible la vie des artistes !
Damn, I'm sorry 'loish, but that appears to be one of the three issues I gave to a kid up the street who is teaching himself to draw. Here's a link where you may be able to get the magazine from then though...probably would've been the July 2011 issue. ;-D
[link] or email here to ask about it: firstname.lastname@example.com
[link] or email here to ask about it: firstname.lastname@example.com
haha, no rush, don't worry! that is sweet of you btw :]
Lois, sorry for the delay. I'll scan your mention asap and send it along. Currently working on a special surprise project for my wife...a portrait of her son and all of his favorite things. Dragons in particular ;-D
so awesome!
XD it's so true !!!!
oh, this is hilarious! What mark did you get on this assignment?
Haha, just like me...)
Hahahaha perfect made!
I can so see my self in that situation.
So well put! Great work Great humor!!
I can so see my self in that situation.
So well put! Great work Great humor!!
Um are you me? becuase this is exactly what i do. Oh wait, I don't draw as well.
um are you me? because i do exactly the same thing. Oh wait i don't draw this good
fookin' BRILLIANT!
this was cracking me up!!! lol ^_^
this is amazing, I love it! it reminds me of my own life the idea of the photo put in the end is just lovely
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State Agriculture Department officials, joined by a veterinarian for Animal Friends, looked at the dogs, then dog law officers lifted the ban, said Logan Hall, spokesman for the agriculture department.
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