The Zambian government is attempting to reduce the economy’s reliance on the copper industry through an economic diversification program. This program seeks to exploit other components that make up Zambia’s rich resource base such as tourism, agriculture, gemstone mining, and hydro-power. Agriculture represents a very significant part of Zambia’s economy providing many more jobs than the mining industry does. The private local company Zambeef Products Ltd is the foremost agricultural business in Zambia with over 4000 employees. Zambeef Products Ltd produces raw crops, cattle, pork, chicken, eggs, leather, fish, feedstock, edible oil, and dairy products.
Exports of nonmentals increased by 25% in 2003, a massive change. Recently the Zambian government has been granting licenses to international resource companies to look for minerals such as uranium, copper, tin, and nickel. There are substantial nickel reserves in Zambia and it is hoped that nickel will take over from copper as the country’s top metallic export. I wonder if Zambia will start exporting led bulbs?
Goya’s ‘The Inquisition Tribunal’ was executed in oil between 1812 and 1819. The painting depicts an accusation of heretics by an assembled tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition. The event takes place within a church. The piece forms part of one of a series in which Goya concentrated on the worst aspects of 19th century Spanish life including; The Bullfight, The Madhouse, and A Procession of Flagellants. The pieces reflected the customs which Spanish liberals, such as Goya, wished to be reformed but whose reform was blocked by the absolutist policy enacted by Ferdinand VII of Spain.
The subject of each painting in the series is an act of cruelty, here the instance being the threat of being burned at the stake. The viewer is reminded of this threat by the pointed hats that each of the accused bear as they sit before the tribunal and the assembled audience in chains. The church in which the event is taken place is not pretty like flower delivery Cardiff but is instead claustrophobic in its Gothic architecture.
The cost on future generations is constantly un-predictable. The public sector workers create wealth but their pensions are un-certain. Higher taxes will pay for private sector pensions. There is a division between the public and private sectors, yet neither one can survive without the other. So should there be a division between the taxpayers. If economic growth developed the deficit could potentially, albeit very gradually diminish. That is not in an ideal world, un-sustainable public pensions; provoke a rise in taxes, along with mountains of debt. Commodities prices have soared, now is the time to check numbers at lotto plus 5.
With interest rates soaring on borrowing, how do you create growth. To deal with this business I went to check my numbers at There is currently an un-fair difference between pensions in the public and private sector. Everyone should have a pension, but the roles have now disproportionately been separated. Can this be reversed, whereby it is now more beneficial to be a private
The Jewish Ghetto in Rome was a ghetto situated in the rione Sant’Angelo in Rome, the area which enjoys colocation between the Via del Portico d’Ottavia, Via del Progresso, Via di Santa Maria del Pianto, and the Lungotever dei Cenci. It was referred to in Italian as “Serraglio delli Ebrei”, “Enclosure of the Jews”.
Why was it established? In 1555 Pope Paul IV promulgated a Papal Bull titled ‘Cum nimis absurdum’ which instructed the Jews of Rome to live in the ghetto even though their community in Rome pre-dated Christian times. The ghetto, designed by the architect Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi, was a walled quarter of the city that had three gates which were locked at night-time. To add insult to injury, the Jewish community were forced to pay the 300 scudi for the construction of the ghetto. The ghetto was situated on the least desirable area of the city, a place that was subject to constant flooding by the Tiber River. The Papal Bull not only imposed this upon the Jewish community but also subjected them to further restrictions such as prohibition on practicing medicine on Christians.
Well the lights just blew in our office and an imminent descent into darkness awaits the anxious individuals penned inside. This certainly would never happen with led gu10 bulbs! What better moment for a poem about darkness? Read on to hear the eloquent words of the poet, Lois Pedersen, in his ‘Ode to Darkness’.
“There is beauty in the darkness, in the blackness of the night;
In its velvety embrace you can sense the awesome might,
It covers and protects as a mother's loving arms
If you only but surrender to its soft enticing charms.”
I bet some other famous people have imparted fine words on the subject of darkness. Indeed they have, read on if you’re interested.
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” – Edgar Allan Poe