Botswana: Empowerment : Batswana Businesses Should be Efficient

We are committed to the development of our country and especially in supporting her citizens who run businesses.

But this gesture almost always leaves us exasperated and irate, chucking out all we have learned in yoga and other success motivation exercises due to poor service delivery. When we heard of a glass cutting business in Mochudi, we were over the moon to support them by buying window panes from them. After cutting the window panes, we were told that they had run out of wrapping paper.

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Family can lessen brother's isolation

Dear Carolyn: Brother has been married for 15 years. Two kids. Sister-in-law has all control -- brother's and kids' schedules, (over)spending, etc. Her often-heinous attitude has all members of her family and his, who support this family however possible, in various levels of exasperation. He has completely abandoned autonomy because it causes even more grief from her. What can he do to change the situation? He won't consider breaking the family because of the kids. -- Sad but TrueSad but true: From your (admittedly scant) description, the wife sounds like an abuser. If so, then your brother might not be doing his kids any favors.It also means the families' sideline exasperation, while common, isn't their only recourse; they can get educated. The nonprofit Peace at Home is now defunct, but no one yet has improved on its handbook (particularly for male victims), still available at www.peaceathome.org/fact--book.html.


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Carolyn Hax: Brother's controlling wife sounds like abuser

Dear Carolyn: Brother has been married for 15 years. Two kids. Sister-in-law has all control -- brother's and kids' schedules, (over)spending, etc. Her often-heinous attitude has all members of her family and his exasperated. He has abandoned autonomy because it causes more grief from her. What can he do to change the situation? He won't break up the family because of the kids.

SAD BUT TRUE

Carolyn says: Sad but true: From your (admittedly scant) description, the wife sounds like an abuser. If so, then your brother might not be doing his kids any favors.

It also means the families' sideline exasperation isn't their only recourse; they can get educated. The nonprofit Peace at Home is now defunct, but no one yet has improved on its handbook (particularly for male victims), still available at www.peaceathome.org/fact_book.html.



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ATTLEBORO - Agatha Kolodziejczak was getting a little too plump eating gwumpkie and pierogi. There was a fear within her, because her father once tipped the scales at a nearly fatal 400 pounds.After spending a year abroad in her native Poland, Kolodziejczak had come home to face admonitions from her mother, imploring her to lose weight. But it wasn't until she met her boyfriend Reda Ahlouche - an Albanian native with a sensible, dynamic plan and regime to get people fit - did she reshape her body, mind and attitude into something wondrous to behold.Known as AggiK to clients, the Dedham High and UMass grad is now a champion female bodybuilder. She recently won 1st place in both the 2007 NPC Rhode Island and New Hampshire Championships in the novice division as well as finishing in the Top 5 of the 2007 Miss Hawaiian Tropics Nationals event in Florida and the Top 10 in the 2007 Fitness Atlantic for Sports and Bikini Models.


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Nigeria: Yar'Adua's Health And the Rotten Entrails of Politics

"How many decisions - including ones of great historical significance that impact millions of people-are made by men and women who are driven by personal motives rather than by a desire to do the right thing?

How many of our top government officials are driven by personal greed instead of national loyalty?"-John Perkins in "Confessions of an economic hit man"

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Scepticism over load shedding about-turn

Eskom's suspension of load shedding has been welcomed, but the electricity supply problems had already done damage, analysts say. Many said it was too late to go back for consumers and businesses that lost millions of rands because of the power company's policy. And there was some cynicism about the utility's claims that the reason for the suspension was a reduction in demand. Eskom this week announced the suspension of all planned load shedding, although there could be emergency cuts. The reason given for Eskom's change in attitude is that the country's top 10 municipalities had together reduced demand by up to 8 percent. .


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Call for attitude change towards rape victims

Northern Territory Deputy Chief Minister Marion Scrymgour has backed calls for people in Indigenous communities to change their attitudes towards rape victims.

The NT Chief Justice raised concerns this week after the family of a Hermannsburg man who was found guilty of rape beat his victim over the verdict.

Ms Scrymgour says the NT Government recognises it is a problem.

"It's something that we've talked about, for communities or our men to think differently about how they value their women and their children," she said.

"It's about making sure we get back those value systems that are there, but I don't think it's only Aboriginal communities I think it's across society."

Tags: judges-and-legal-professionals, sexual-offences, nt, hermannsburg-0872

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