ments (AMI) opened a private boutique hospital offering the country's first cosmetic surgery, including liposculpture, skin lightening and scar removals.
"A lot of it is through political stability," said Dr Vivek Solanki, then AMI's chief executive. "If you look at the wars and famine, it's minimal. Africa has more than 50 nation states," said Dr Vivek Solanki, then AMI's chief executive "and at the moment as we speak there are perhaps three or four countries with warring factions going on.
Most of Africa has now stabilised," he adds"most of Africa is educated and affluent not only through foreign investment but through local entrepreneurship, local enterprise, local education.
"The combination means there has been this burgeoning middle class that's come up and they have demands just like you and me."
Tycoons and philanthropists. According to Forbes, Patrice Motsepe, a 40-year-old mining magnate, is South Africa's first and only black billionaire, with $2.5bn.
In November the magazine published its inaugural list of the "40 richest Africans", which it called "a testament to the growing global importance of the continent". Together, the combined wealth of Africa's 40 richest is $64.9bn – roughly twice the GDP of Kenya ($32bn) or Ghana ($31bn) in 2010.
Though many of the continent's countries remain among the poorest in the world, there are now more than 100,000 Africans with at least $1m to invest, according to the consultants Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. This year's World Wealth Report says the number of Africa's super-rich grew by 11.1% in 2010 – faster than in any other region. What's more, the report says, their combined wealth grew by 13.6% last year, to $1.2 trillion.
Some of Africa's wealthiest are also philanthropists: Dangote gave millions to a fund for small businesses in Nigeria last year, and Theophilus Danjuma, an oil tycoon, put aside $100m for NGOs working in the country.
According to a 2010 report from Barclays Bank, South Africa's super-rich are among the most generous in the world – second only to those in the US.
But the OECD has warned middle-income countries such as South Africa to keep a close eye on their top earners and the dangers of rising inequalities. Others note that, while they don't appear on Forbes's rich list, many of the richest people may well be former and current leaders of African countries.
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KABUL - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday on an unannounced visit, at a time when U.S. forces are investigating reports dozens of civilians were killed in U.S. air strikes.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed that dozens of people, including women and children, were killed in the air strikes, which threaten to overshadow a Washington meeting later on Wednesday between President Hamid Karzai and U.S. President Barack Obama.I ordered a bunch of other vinyls a few days ago from the NIN.com store: Pretty Hate Machine, Hesitation Marks, and the NTAE/AV/BW trilogy. And then this autographed With Teeth vinyl showed up in the mail at the same time (but different packaging) as everything else and I just spent the last thirty minutes trying to figure out when/if I ordered it, and whether the autographs were legit or just some printed-om gimmick. 

Edit: Finally actually listening to the vinyl and it is awesome. There are some enjoyable variations to the songs compared to how I remember them originally released, and thanks to u/mi470 for making me realize there is a entirely new song, Home.She treats them indifferently - banking on them just 'knowing' how she feels. She is backbiting, though. Will call out instanced where my kid achieves something, like a reward - and she will say - 'I never thought she would win, but there ya go!'

I do grey rock - but she is smart as hell. She understands when I am not 'deep'. She raised me with the Forum, and psycho babble, and thats what she does best - talk sh@t about spiritual achievement. She thinks she's a saint, and does spiritual work to back it up.Hi, my name is _____, and I'm a porn addict.
Insert the obligatory "hi, _____" here, I guess.
Glad to be here, very glad I found this site, and I guess I'm in the same boat as everybody else, right? Lack of drive with real women, plenty with digital women.
Quick background, how I got here, probably nothing extraordinary. I've had the fortune to spend time with some extremely beautiful women, but not being the committing kind, I'd fill in the gaps with porn. It got to the point where my morning routine was to make coffee, log on, surf and fap. If I spent the same amount of time studying medecine, I probably could have cured cancer by now.
I knew the problem was developing, but it was after yet another less-than stellar session with a real girl that it got to be enough. Not so very long ago, this girl was pegging my Richter scale. An appointment with a doctor confirmed there's nothing physically wrong with me. I'm in well-above-average cardiovascular health, according to him, and bloodwork confirmed it isn't low testosterone. So like I said, enough.
The good part is that by letting it get to the point where I'm this disappointed in myself, I'm well and truly motivated to get past this.
So, this is day two. Wish me luck, and same to you all.
Re: Hi, my name is _____, and I'm a porn addict.
You have come to a great place, and a great source of information, support, and help.
Ja_br: I, too, am on day two. Let's do this together. No P, No M, No O - at least for now......and, no fapping. I am also in good health: testosterone okay, prostate okay, blood okay.......sporting wood: not okay. I would do a little work, surf some porn, do some more work, surf some more porn.  Waste of time and energy. Destroying any faith in God I had. Not that it was His fault. It's just that the more I did the bad stuff the less I would think about Him. Crazy.
Think positive thoughts and do positive actions. Keep journalling here. You have friends here who won't judge - just help.
Hi, Ja_br. Congratulations fou ur courage. It's a very long walk. It's not always easy, but it's really worth it.  But all this research made me feel better, and made me find a door. That door I ought open myself, but now I know there is a door, and I know also how this door must be opened and how I can live this pieces of my personnality. Best wishes, friend!
Hi guys, I'm on day 6. So far so good.
Day three. As usual, got my coffee, on the computer. Browsing through Men's Health, ArtofManliness, and pondering the possible whereabouts of a girl I knew a few years ago, but this morning no P, M, or O. I got things to do.
good start to the day - that is something you can build momentum with.
find those healty activities and start to fill your day with them.
Day four. I spent some energy on my favorite exercise last night, slipping on the gloves and working up a sweat on a heavy bag. This morning, I'm tossing down one cup of coffee and then walking away from the computer to get on with my day.
My dad once told me of how he kicked his smoking habit, around the time I was born. He smoked down an entire pack, then quit, just like that. I like to think his willpower runs in the blood.
find that willpower - grab it!
WE all can beat this.
Five. Feeling some urges, but I'm okay with that. I want to know they're still there and just deal with them. It occurred to me this morning that reaching goals should come with an award. So, day sixty, it's going to be one of my favorite little extravagances: an inch-thick dry-aged steak from a good old-fashioned butcher shop. Does anybody else have their little rewards for milestones?
One week. So far, so good. I worked through the weekend, which kept me pretty well occupied. I'm thinking about other ways to put my former PMO time to better use, like the online college classes that I've been putting off for a long time, or dusting off one of my foreign languages.
Know it's early. Hang tough. The further you get from the fire, the less you feel its heat.
I chatted a bit with a pretty young female coworker today. I felt stirrings that had been lacking lately in my interactions with flesh-and-blood women. I take that as a good sign. Still, I'm not going to use it as an excuse to move my goalposts closer. I'm going to fix this right.
what is P,M or O?
Porn, Masturbation, Orgasm.