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Namib Independent Great news for the coast! [email protected] Issue 118 - Thursday, 25 September 2014 to Wednesday, 01 October 2014 WHAT A TIT! THE BLACKOUT EXPLAINED NEW WORLD RECORD NEW VW TRISTAR FREE! Tel: 064 200497 07 08 15 14 Continued on Page 3 Continued on Page 3 9 .75 22 .55 46 .35 18 .35 11 .85 LETTUCE PP PREPACK (LOCAL) ONIONS 7KG BAG EACH (LOCAL) SWEETCORN PP PREPACK (LOCAL) CARROTS 3 KG BAG EACH (LOCAL) CABBAGE GREEN EACH (LOCAL) Murder in Meersig Suspect Arrested Tanya Calitz On Tuesday, a man was brutally murdered in the peaceful suburb of Meersig. The stabbing happened in 6th Street West, in broad daylight. According to the police the victim was 19-year-old Fabian Baumers, a street ‘kid’ from Walvis Bay, and the suspect,another homeless 28-year-old man. Shortly after the stabbing of Baumers, the accused was apprehended by police in the area. Inspector Detective Iikuyu said that the interrogation lead police to believe that the accused stabbed the victim because he stole his goods. St Gabriel’s Community Ambulance Services arrived on the scene after police notified them of the incident. “We were basically the last party to be notified of the stabbing, and by the time we arrived on the scene the victim had already passed away,” Gabriela Teleman told the paper this week. According to Teleman, the victim appeared to have a stab wound in the heart and Construction of first ever thorium reactor in India - Full story on page 3 Erongo Sits on a “Gold Mine” of Cheap, Nuclear Power

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ib IndependentGreat news for the coast!

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Murder in MeersigSuspect Arrested

Tanya Calitz

On Tuesday, a man was brutally murdered in the peaceful suburb of Meersig. The stabbing happened in 6th Street West, in broad daylight.

According to the police the victim was 19-year-old Fabian baumers, a street ‘kid’ from Walvis bay, and the suspect,another homeless 28-year-old man. shortly after the stabbing of baumers, the accused was apprehended by police in the area. Inspector detective Iikuyu said that the interrogation lead police to believe that the accused stabbed

the victim because he stole his goods.

st Gabriel’s community Ambulance services arrived on the scene after police notified them of the incident.

“We were basically the last party to be notified of the stabbing, and by the time we arrived on the scene the victim had already passed away,” Gabriela Teleman told the paper this week. According to Teleman, the victim appeared to have a stab wound in the heart and

Construction of first ever thorium reactor in India - Full story on page 3

Erongo Sits on a “Gold Mine” of Cheap, Nuclear Power

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probably suffered from great internal bleeding.

“There was not enough blood outside of the body for that kind of wound,” she said. st Gabriel’s Ambulance personnel declared the victim dead and nampol removed the body from the crime scene.

According to an eye-witness, the victim was frantically running down the street when she went out to hang her washing.

“I saw the man running down the street and thought that it looked a bit suspicious. A bit later I saw another man running after

Murder in Meersig

the victim,” the resident living near the crime scene told the namib Independent. According to the eye-witness, once she returned from hanging the washing she found the victim on the pavement near her house, fighting for his

life. “The man was lying

on the pavement and I could see blood coming from his chest and it looked like he was stabbed. About 30 minutes later the man died in front of our eyes,” she stated.

Erongo Sits on a “Gold Mine” of Cheap, Nuclear Power … and it’s not uranium

Lavrenty Repin

You have probably never heard of thorium before, yet this element, right under your feet, is coined by many scientists worldwide as “the resource that will save the world.”

While it has been ignored for over half a century, there is finally a global movement to revitalize what is known as the “magic” fuel source, and which in the future may power a cleaner, safer world – and the coastal region of namibia may play a vital role in this new exciting world.

This is because we have on average, in the erongo region, three times more thorium than uranium, phoenix Mineral Resources pty, a local geological exploration company, says. The company tested the coastal regions, between swakopmund and Walvis bay as well as the spitzkoppe area and found that thorium significantly and consistently outweighed uranium deposits.

An area 40 km from usakos, known as farm eureka 90, has “a high grade rare earth deposit, where thorium exceeds mineable quantities of uranium content by 70 times.”

Moreover, thorium in erongo is of a very high grade quality and is found near the surface, near existing infrastructure and in various locations. At present though, thorium is worthless and the world’s current demand for thorium metal and its compounds is satisfied by mining placers along India’s Malabar coast. Yet this is on the verge of changing, because thorium has one very important property.

Thorium sits two places left of uranium on the periodic table. It is a dense, silverly naturally occurring metal softer than steal. Although, at present, all nuclear power stations utilise uranium, thorium is about 200 times more efficient and three to four times more common than uranium.

Furthermore, only 3% to 5% of mined uranium is used in nuclear power reactions, because to make reactor fuel we have to expend considerable energy enriching yellowcake. All but a trace of naturally occurring thorium is Th232, the isotope used directly in nuclear reactors – meaning the efficiency is nearly 100%.

Thorium has no plutonium by-product, the material used in creating nuclear weapons, and its nuclear waste, although also radioactive, is significantly less harmful. In fact, uranium nuclear waste is so radioactive that it has to be housed for

up to 10,000 years, hidden deep from contamination and from anyone who might want to weaponise it (cases of yellowcake stolen from namibia have appeared in local press for years now). by comparison, thorium nuclear waste only stays radioactive for 500 years, instead of 10,000, and there is 1,000 to 10,000 times less of it to start with!

so why do we not use thorium today? The answer is war, specifically nuclear weapons. The us$2 billion Manhattan project that produced the atomic bomb sparked a worldwide surge in nuclear research, most of it funded by governments embroiled in the cold War eventually side-tracking safe and efficient thorium for the deadlier uranium. Although in the 1950s an efficient, functioning thorium reactor was already available, it was never utilised. by 1978, usA cut all thorium research; they have yet to restart it. but it seems like they will have to now, because china, India and even namibia are already high on their heels; there is a new nuclear race.

The Fukushima disaster seems to have been the last nail in the coffin, and uranium-based nuclear power is rapidly losing credibility and popularity worldwide, from europe (Germany closed all nuclear power stations) to Japan (who are yet to resume their nuclear program). Many reactors have surpassed their designed working time, and constant fear of nuclear weapons makes it a complicated endeavour.

uranium prices are falling, and staying low; in namibia, even Rossing had to cut down on labour. Also, worryingly, estimated uranium deposits have roughly a 230-year supply left, at today's consumption, before we run out. Fossil fuels are no longer an option, and solar and wind power just do not have the same capacity.

This is why India (world’s number one thorium supplier) has unveiled plans to meet 30% of its (huge) electricity demand through thorium-based reactors by 2050. china is upping the game, too, and reports are that in china, researchers are working under “warlike” pressure to deliver. Their new power stations will be hybrids, able to use both uranium and thorium. last year, the ambitious Groot Group company, set up the namibia Institute for Thorium

energy. In a press release, the company

said that “namibia is the world's fifth largest producer of Uranium. This could make namibia one of the world's top suppliers of Thorium related products, and if successful, it could propel namibia becoming one of the world's largest producers of clean and safe electricity… it is expected to take more than seven years of research and development before the realisation of a full scale production of Thorium energy based technology for us in namibia.”

While economically thorium prices will likely never be as high as that of uranium, because deposits are globally widespread, namibia could still be a significant supplier of high grade thorium, especially to African countries. on the other hand, locally produced and utilised thorium can make the dream of a nuclear powered namibia a safe reality.

Two months ago, nampower announced a reality-check: power shortages, like the one on sunday that left businesses closed and burglars rampant, will become a common occurrence in namibia by 2016, when our supply contracts run out. They promised to sign further contracts and work on a number of alternatives, but with increasing power expenditure, the energy problems are only going to get worse.

nuclear power is cheaper, more efficient and safer than fossil fuel, but political pressure, worry of nuclear weapons and safety dangers have often prevented developing countries from adopting a nuclear program. Thorium poses no such risks. Furthermore, thorium reactors do not need the clunky, expensive and well maintained containment areas associated with uranium.

Thorium is not fissile on its own, which means reactions can be stopped when necessary; whereas engineers need to constantly keep uranium based reactors from overheating and exploding, using rods, pumps and highly pressurised water. This makes nuclear reactors cheaper, a lot safer and politically neutral. The abundance of thorium in Erongo, and the amazing efficiency of its energy release could bring a huge economic boost to the dying nuclear industry and become a permanent solution for namibia’s energy needs.

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during his speech at the Tunacor event, new shareholder olavi Hamutumwa said that they are a nice mix of old and new right holders in the Hake and Monk fish sector.

“There is old and new blood within the group and we hope that this combination of experience and energy will make us stronger and more capable to operate in the always challenging and dynamic environment of the fishing industry,” Hamutumwa said. The new group is formed by compass Fishing, Tumina Fishing, ozohi Fishing, voorbok Fishing, Atab consortium, belinda Fishing

and corvima Fishing. beluga Fishing chairman, sidney Martin,

one of the first Namibian Shareholders in the Tunacor group, said that for too long Namibians did not benefit enough from this natural resource, and that this is definitely a step in the right direction. He also praised the Fisheries Minister, bernard esau (who, as honour guest, did not show up for the event) for paving the way forward, encouraging job creation through value adding and making the resource more available to namibians.

Tunacor’s Managing director Antonio Marino also added that Tunacor employs more workers than the whole horse mackerel industry put together. Tunacor is now the second largest fishing group in Namibia and is wholly namibian owned. Tunacor currently employs over 1200 people.

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Electricity Outage Affects Local Businesses

Siglinde de Villiers

Despite the fact that this past weekend’s electricity outage was announced beforehand, the electricity remained off for longer than what was stated in the notices. The cherry on the cake was when the electricity was switched on and off a great deal, causing havoc with the electrical systems of pumps, food processing machinery and the kitchen equipment of local restaurants.

How did the business sector fare with the electrical problems of this past weekend? The namib Independent decided to inquire how the electricity outage affected some local industries and what losses they incurred as a result.

For many fishing factories, the rate at which the electricity was switched on and off confused many of the electrical systems of conveyer machines and made them run in reverse.

“The electricity outage affected us tremendously,” a spokesperson for seaworks said. “We had just discharged our vessels and lost a few hours of work. Whatever we lose, we then have to catch up, and so a lot of overtime had to be worked.

“We do not have backup generators, so our freezers switched on and off , which created a lot of complications,”

he added. The sewage pumps at Walvis bay’s sewage

farm were also affected. come Monday morning, technicians had to go out and fix the electrical system of the pumps.

“The electricity was off for only a short while, during which the sewage pumps were not able to pump away the sewage as they were supposed to,” the technician told the namib Independent.

If the electricity should go off unannounced, the Walvis Bay Salt Refiners would lose approximately 103 000 tonnes of production.

bernhard Grove, Financial director of the Walvis Bay Salt Refiners, said, “Ours is a continuous process, and any interruptions affect production. Fortunately, we did not work the past weekend, so we did not incur any losses.”

crazy Mama’s was not so fortunate, making a loss of almost 90 percent in comparison to their usual cash flow.

“sunday night is one of our busiest nights,” the manager told the namib Independent. “Most orders were cancelled, we could not accommodate all the customers and lost a lot of money.”

Anchors told the namib Independent, “The electricity outage did not affect us that badly since we planned for it, however, due to the constant on and off we had problems with our coffee machine.”

lyon des sables did not take the longer electricity outage very well, either.

“We had to close for lunch because of the announced electricity outage,” one of the restaurant managers told the namib Independent. “Then at night we had a full restaurant and suddenly the electricity goes off and the customers are not very happy.”

He explained, “We had to cook with candles and write the bills out by hand. We only took in the customers that booked with us for sunday night, the rest we had to turn away. our fridge and some lights broke due to the on and off, those are minor things, but in the long term it is not good for our equipment.”

Fortunately, most local shops have generators to keep them running when the electricity goes out.

NamPol Traffic Employees Expose Corruption in their Department

Siglinde de Villiers

Disgruntled employees of the NamPol Traffic Department decided to voice their complaints in the media this week, stating that nothing is being done at NamPol about their grievances, despite having followed proper grievance procedures.

NamPol Traffic Department employees have alleged that their traffic co-ordinator is denying them the use of government property and reserving it for his own personal use.

“Whenever he goes on leave, he parks the government traffic car at his house and leaves with the key,” an employee stated. It is further alleged that when the NamPol Traffic department cars go in for repairs, the owners of the repair shop are told not to give the key to any black traffic officers until the traffic co-ordinator returns. “even commissioner kashuupulwa had to come to our rescue and help us get the car from the garage once,” the employee added.

“For all the years that he has occupied his position, he comes to work as he pleases, arriving at 10h00 and leaving at 15h00,” the nampol Traffic Department insider accused.

NamPol Traffic Department staff members also assert that many donations received for the traffic department have been utilised for personal use.

“cooldrink donations intended for the roadblock simply disappeared to the traffic co-ordinators’ house,” a staff member told the namib Independent.

“companies like Wesbank and plant & Tool Hire have given many

donations during december, of which we have not seen anything,” the staff member added.

“The Inspector was told by the magistrate not to write Traffic Fines since his fines are causing more embarrassment than anything else,” nampol employees alleged.

According to a nampol staff member, the various accusations are under investigation by the magistrate.

“The investigations have been going on for quite a long time, nearly a year now and nothing is happening. We want to see some action.”

NamPol traffic department employee’s further asserted that they are also being labelled with many racist remarks and accused of being corrupt. staff members draw question marks around their traffic co-oridnators appointment.

“He does not know how to lead us or do any traffic work,” they stated. “Whenever he goes out for inspection there is no progress report, yet he claims thousands of dollars at the end of the day,” they added.

At the time of going to print, the namib Independent was not able to get hold of the Commissioner at NamPol for confirmation or comment about the ongoing allegations against top management in their traffic department.

“We are sick and tired of being terrorised by a superior officer at work. The Regional Officer was approached with a letter of grievance but the person was chased away and nothing has changed. Hence we are going to the media now,” NamPol traffic staff concluded.

Traffic officers at Swakop road block - Photo courtesy of West Coast Safety Initiative

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Walvis Bay Police Commissioner Surprised by Syndicate of “Sophisticated Criminals”

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Commissioner !Hoaseb of the Walvis Bay Police said that criminals are “mastering their skills” after arresting six suspects in Kuisebmund who used a portable blow-torch, concealed in a small backpack, to cut through the roof of the Ellerines furniture shop on Sunday.

“We did not expect our local boys to be so sophisticated,” the commissioner added, explaining that the police force assumed the thieves to be based elsewhere. The criminals, who apparently grew confident following the power outage, stole electronic items to the tune of nearly n$90 000 on sunday, including ten

flat screen television sets and Hi-Fi’s. one of the suspects is a truck driver, who utilised the truck to assist in the crime. The police retrieved about n$80 000 worth of goods, following the arrests. other recovered goods, probably stolen through petty theft, include laptops, a samsung tab and a printer.

The same syndicate was also active in card cloning, the commissioner continued, and were also responsible for the devastating supertronix robbery two months ago.

“I want to express my greatest gratitude to the community and the investigators,” the commissioner said, “in erongo, we do not have space for criminals.”

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NamPower to Blame for BlackoutTanya Calitz

At a press meeting this week ErongoRed explained that the complete power outage on Sunday was not their work, but that Nampower is responsible for the blackouts experienced into the early hours of Monday morning.

The community was up in arms last

sunday over the longer than expected power outage, which affected the whole of Walvis, narraville, longbeach and kuisebmond. longbeach and kuisebmond were affected the most by the outage and were left in the dark all of sunday and early Monday morning.

At the meeting, erongoRed ceo Robert kahimise explained that

nampower requested a planned power outage for sunday from 07h00 to 12h00 to do preparation work for the upgrade of the current 66kv lines to 132kv lines. The outage was scheduled as such and it was communicated to the affected customers through the print media, radio and by sMs.

According to kahimise, one of the lines should have been available from 13h00, according to nampower’s notification. This, together with the Anixas line, would have been sufficient to supply Walvis Bay. unfortunately nampower experienced some technical problem when they were energising the two 66kv lines. The public was left in the dark as to what the exact technical difficulties were.

“nampower has launched an investigation into the matter, and cannot comment on what exactly caused the issues with the power supply on sunday,” one of the nampower representatives said during the media briefing.

erongoRed, however, just wanted to enlighten everybody that they were not responsible for the failure, and are also awaiting Nampower’s final report on what exactly went wrong that day.

kahimise concluded: “To our customers, I would like to say: we deeply value our relationship with you and we are committed to providing you with the highest level of service simply because you deserve the very best. Although the sunday events were beyond our control, on behalf of erongoRed, I would like to express regret

for the inconvenience you may have experienced as result of the recent power outage. Specifically, I would like to offer an unreserved apology to our major shareholder (Walvis bay Municipality), who have entrusted erongo Red to serve and supply electricity to consumers in Walvis bay.”

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Walvis Yacht Club Part of New World RecordTanya Calitz

Bart’s Bash has set the new Guinness World Record for the Largest Sailing Race in 24 hours, and Walvis Bay Yacht Club took part in this world attempt. The global sailing race, which took place last Sunday, was organised by the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation.

eager participants got their sail boats ready from early sunday morning on, as Hit Radio and Radio eros encouraged the sailors with a festive vibe and upbeat music. 760 clubs in 67 different countries with over 17,366 sailors took part, and so far bart’s bash Foundation has raised over n$3.7 million. Inspired by olympic gold and silver medallist Andrew 'bart' simpson, and founded by sir ben Ainslie cbe, Iain percy obe and Andrew's wife leah, the Foundation helps young people

to develop the personal skills to succeed in life and aims to improves access to jobs and careers within the maritime sector.

“our activity principally focuses on young people between the age of five and 24 and we aim to combine invaluable time spent on water with providing life changing inspiration and encouragement,” commented a spokesperson.

other African countries that also took part in the race were, south Africa, botswana, Tanzania and kenya. 28 Walvis bay boats took part in the race, including the small optimist, as well as other kinds of boats such as, dabchick, laser, hobies and yachts. The majority of the sailors were teenagers, which coincides well with bart’s bash Foundations aims. dormac Marine sponsored the Walvis bay part of the event.

Biggest Coastal Running Event in a WeekThe Lucky Star Marathon, Namibia’s premier coastal running event, is taking place on 4 October this year. Apart from being the premier marathon event in Namibia, the Lucky Star Marathon serves as a qualifier for the Two Oceans and Comrades marathons.

The event is unique in the sense that the course follows the scenic main road between swakopmund and Walvis bay, where runners are able to enjoy the cold Atlantic

ocean on the one side, and the rolling sand dunes of the oldest desert in the world, the namib desert, on the other side. etosha Fishing, the main sponsor of the event, aims to promote community involvement and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle among the youth through this event. For this reason, significant focus is placed on involving schools from across the country. The marathon attracted approximately 790 runners in 2013 and with the participation of

10 sAdc countries in the southern Regional marathon division we hope that this year’s event will be even bigger and better. Apart from the scenic nature of the marathon, the event offers four different routes with varying levels of difficulty to satisfy the appetite of hard core athletes and fun runners alike.

The full marathon (42.2 km) and the school relay (10.2 km) will start in Walvis bay, whereas the 21.1 km and 10 km races will start in swakopmund. starting times of the respective events are 06h00 for the full marathon; 06h30 for the school relay; whereas the fun run and the half marathon will start at 07h00. Full details are available on the etosha Fishing website: www.etoshafish.com.na.

For those athletes still interested in entering, closing date for registrations has been postponed to 29 september. online registration is encouraged on the etosha Fishing website. entry fees for the different races are as follows:

Full marathon – n$100; Half marathon and fun run – n$80; school relay team – n$80.

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In order to provide years of necessary comfort, wood decks do require a little care and maintenance each year.

Check for damaged boards (once a year)The boards that make up the surface of your deck and steps are subject to all kinds of stress and usage. over time, they will wear out or rot. If you don't check for and replace damaged boards each year, you could be setting yourself or your family up for an injury.1. examine the surface boards of your deck. look for signs of stress, like excessive curling, cracking, rotting, or severed boards. Any you find will need to be replaced.2. Measure the damaged board.3. purchase a replacement board. Your local lumberyard or hardware store (if they carry wood) should be able to help you. pressure treated wood is preferable, otherwise you'll need to seal the wood yourself (which can be done before or after installation.)4. Remove the damaged board. If nails were used to secure the board, you will need a small nail puller or a hammer to pry the nails out. use a small block of wood for leverage. The block of wood will protect the boards that don't need to be replaced. If screws were used to secure the damaged board, a screwdriver or drill (with screwdriver bit) should do the trick. Also, wear work gloves when lifting the board out to prevent splinters.5. Cut the new board to fit. Make any adjustments necessary to the new board so it will fit in the space left by the damaged board. A handsaw or electric saw can help you cut the new board down to size.6. Test fit the new board. Lay the board in its spot. Make sure it fits properly and that you like the way it looks. Continued on Page 10

Wood decks require a little TLC every year

7. Attach the board. First, drill guide holes for the nails or screws to make sure they will properly adhere to the support beams. next, add the nails or screws. For decks, screws are recommended since they won't pop out when the wood expands and contracts with the changing weather conditions.8. Apply water sealant to your deck to help protect it (if they wood wasn't pre-treated). Follow the directions that come with the sealant.

Check structural supports for signs of insect or animal damage (twice a year)The structural supports keep your deck up and in place. underneath the surface of the deck, where the structural supports are located, is a perfect place for insects to flourish and animals to take up residence. problem is, they can damage or destroy the supports, which can make your deck unusable.1. Inspect your deck's structural supports. visually inspect the area underneath your deck with the aid of a high-power flashlight. Look for any signs of animal or insect damage, like chewed supports, cobwebs, brittle wood, etc.2. If you find any signs of insects or insect damage, schedule a visit from a pest-control expert. In fact, you may want to set up a regular schedule with him or her to prevent insects from ever becoming a problem.

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3. If the damage appears to be animal related, consider adding lattice or some other barrier around the edges of your deck to keep critters out from under it.

Check for popped nails, loose screws, and bolts on decks (once a year)nails, screws and bolts hold your deck together. If they come loose or pop out (a consistent problem with nails), then the deck boards could come loose or the deck itself could partially collapse.1. Inspect all the nails, screws, and bolts that hold your deck together. You will need to tighten any that are loose or that have popped out. Wearing work gloves is recommended.2. nails that have popped out need to be driven back in. use a hammer and pound them back into place.3. screws that have worked their way out need to be twisted back in place. use a screwdriver or drill (with screwdriver attachment) and tighten them. be careful not to strip the screws. If

you do, you will need to make a trip to your local hardware store and purchase a slightly larger screw as a replacement.4. bolts are the only one of the three that doesn't rely on the wood to hold it in place. use a wrench or two (depending on how loose the bolt has become) to tighten the bolt.

Clean your deck (once a year)dirt, grime, mildew, or mold can build up your deck over the course of the year. not only can they diminish the look of your deck, they can also make it slippery and, in the case of mold and mildew, damage your deck.1. visually inspect your deck. look for dirt, grime, mildew, and mold. even if none are readily visible, you should still wash your deck.2. Wash the deck. A power-sprayer is an easy way to remove the dirt and grime. However, for mold and mildew, or if you don't have a power-sprayer, use warm, soapy water and a scrub brush. Thoroughly scrub the surface

of the deck. Make sure you remove all mold and mildew you find.3. Rinse the deck. use a water hose to wash away the soap and water along with any loosened dirt, grime, mold, or mildew.

Re-seal or re-stain your deck (once a year)once of the biggest ravages your deck can face is moisture. In order to keep your deck in good shape for years to come, you need to re-seal or re-stain it each year.1. If you haven't already, clean the surface of the deck. A power-washer is an easy way to do this. If not, you can also use a large scrub brush and soapy water.2. let the deck dry.3. If the deck already has a finished or sealed surface, remove the finish or seal with a remover/stripper that you can purchase at your local hardware store. Follow the directions on the package.4. purchase new sealant or stain. Make sure any stain you choose is meant for the outdoors and can protect the wood from the elements.For the following steps, you should wear a dust mask or respirator to prevent the inhalation of particles and/or fumes.5. sand the deck. It must be smooth before you can refinish it. A medium grit sandpaper will probably work for most decks. Remove any sanding dust that may be left behind.6. Apply the finish or sealant. If you're using a coloured finish, make a test spot first to see if the color you chose is indeed the color you want. using a foam brush, staining pad, or nylon/polyester brush, apply the stain or sealant with the grain of the wood. For colored finishes, work quickly and don't stop in the middle of the job for a break. doing so can cause the finish to dry uneven, leaving you with streaks.7. let the stain or sealant dry. This should take approximately two hours (depending on humidity and temperature).8. Add a second and possibly third coat to enhance the protection of your deck.

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In a radical move, the former presidents of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland joined hands with political and industrial heavy-weights Kofi Annan, Richard Branson, George Shultz, Paul Volcker and others to foster a paradigm shift in how our world perceives and regulates drugs.

They, the Global commission on drug policy, just published a ground-breaking report “Taking control: pathways to drug policies that Work”, which argues that the War on drugs has been a colossal failure and something has to change.

“The facts speak for themselves. It is time to change course,” Annan says of the drug war. “We need drug policies informed by evidence of what actually works, rather than policies that criminalise drug use while failing to provide access to effective prevention or treatment. This has led not only to overcrowded jails but also to severe health and social problems.

"Here are the five major changes the world leaders propose to reform the global drug policy regime:

1. Put Health and Community Safety First

Treating drug users as criminals that need to be punished as opposed to patients in need of help only aggravates the problem. not only does it make integration into society next to impossible, we take away both proven therapies to treat addiction and the tools to reduce the risk associated with drug use.

Harm reduction and innovative treatment strategies like needle exchange, substitution therapies, heroin prescription and safe consumption rooms have proven to be more safe, effective and less costly than putting users in jail.

“The risks associated with drug use increase, sometimes dramatically, when they are produced, sold and consumed in an unregulated criminal environment.” said Richard branson.

2. Stop Criminalising People for Drug Use and Possession

Imposing “compulsory treatment” on people whose only offense is drug use or possession has not been shown to reduce the rate of consumption of drugs. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars to lock away drug users, often targeted minorities, for victimless crimes. This encourages high risk behaviour such as re-using needles, deters people from seeking medical help, diverts police efforts away from crimes with victims and destroys millions of families haunted by criminal convictions.

“Health-based approaches to drug policy routinely prove much less expensive and more effective than criminalisation and incarceration,” said former president of Mexico ernesto Zedillo.

3. Allow and Encourage Diverse Experiments in Legally Regulating Markets

While it is known that alcohol and tobacco are two of the most dangerous drugs known to mankind, we can minimise risks with careful, reason based regulation. There is no reason we cannot do the same with currently illicit drugs, beginning with but not limited to cannabis, coca leaf and certain novel psycho-active substances that have proven to be much safer than alcohol and tobacco.

“Regulating the whole chain, from the production to the retail of drugs, allows to rollback criminal organisations, secure quality standards and protect people’s life, health and safety.” said former swiss president Ruth dreifuss.

4. Ensure Equitable Access to Essential Medicines

There are many domestic and international obstacles to getting medicine to people in need. Many psycho-active substances that have been proven to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety, addiction and depression

are banned and it is estimated 80% of the world population can not access pain relief medication because of our current drug laws.

5. Focus on Reducing the Power of Criminal Organizations

prohibition does not diminish overall drug consumption but instead forces the drug trade into unregulated underground markets, often in the hands of violent drug cartels. prices surge up dramatically, now estimated to be in the hundreds of billions, giving more incentive for cartels to increase drug consumption and addiction.

The huge profits made fuel a constant violent struggle against market competition and the state, which trickles down to citizens and corrupts the democratic legal order. Taxing a regulated drug market will bring safer and cheaper substances to users while keeping the profits to benefit society.

“decriminalisation of drug consumption is certainly crucial but not sufficient. Significant legal and institutional reforms, both at the national and international levels, are needed to allow governments and societies to put in place policies to regulate the supply of drugs with rigorous medical criteria, if the engines of organised crime profiting from drug traffic are to be truly dismantled,” said former Mexican president ernesto Zedillo.

In 2016 the united nation (un) will hold another General Assembly special session (unGAss) on drugs and the commission expects their suggestions to have a strong impact. The last un meeting on drugs was in 1998 and called for a drug free world and set a myriad of unrealistic goals.

“We are driven by a sense of urgency. There is a widespread acknowledgment that the current system is not working, but also

World Leaders Propose to Legalise All Drugs:Five Major Changes in Global Policy recognition that change is both necessary

and achievable. We are convinced that the 2016 united nations General Assembly special session is a historic opportunity to discuss the shortcomings of the drug control regime, identify workable alternatives and align the debate with ongoing debates on the post-2015 development agenda and human rights.” said Fernando Henrique cardoso, the former president of brazil.

The proposals outlined in this monumental

report are policies based on knowledge, compassion, health and human rights and can therefore be seen as a truly significant milestone in history. As the report argues, we need to move away from political rhetoric that pushes destructive agendas and stigmatises drug users, and focus instead on an all-inclusive harm reduction program which sees the change of one’s own consciousness, whether with or without drugs, as a fundamental right.

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MTC’s response to the article in ‘The Namibian’ published on 23rd September 2014

Reference to the article in The NamibianFollowing an article published in the Namibian newspaper of Tuesday 23 September 2014, titled “MTC eats humble pie, accepts blame for data charges” MTC wishes to state for the record that the article contains incorrect information which MTC would like to rectify:

• The advertorial statements published by MTC on 25th July remain valid, i.e. DATA USAGE was generated by operating systems and business support systems, whose billing is, and was, 100% accurate;

• The refund offered last week to customers was as a result of incorrect DATA CHARGING RATES, on our current ongoing data promotional campaign MTC MegaByte Mania where the data usage of the customer was correctly computed but the rates of those data units were, in certain cases, charged at the standard rate and not the promotional rate.

• The two issues are therefore totally unrelated.

Why MTC Refunded Data Charges during the current promotion “Megabyte Mania”On 8th of September, MTC initiated a promotion in order to entice customers to use the benefi ts of data usage on their smartphones. The rate was decreased from the standard tariff to 10 cents per megabyte.

All packages were implemented manually in the systems in order to correctly charge for data usage from the time when the promotion started on 8th of September. However, on 16th of September, some of the components of the business support systems, lost the interim rates that were selected for the promotion and reverted to the standard rates. After some complaints, the problem was immediately pinpointed and resolved on 18th September through manual intervention.

As a consequence, after the correction, MTC’s systems generated the reports in order to refund the customers who were charged at the standard rate instead of the promotional rate.

The difference between the advertorial in July, regarding data usage, and the refund of data charged last week.There is no link; data usage, i.e. units of data per session is, and was, 100% accurate in the systems. Data charges, as voice charges and SMS charges, are intervened manually and for any incorrect manual intervention MTC always makes a refund if appropriate, as we have done in the past.

“Blaming” and accepting responsibilitiesMTC is fi rstly responsible for capturing correct data usage, i.e. the units calculated by the meters with megabytes, or fractions in kilobytes, and secondly responsible for correct data charges, which means using the approved rates adhering to Section 53 of the Commutation Act, 2009 in line with terms and conditions of MTC’s License.

MTC is not responsible for data usage generated by devices or their operating systems and applications, which are not MTC services. Without “blaming” anyone, MTC advised in the referred to advertorial published in The Namibian newspaper on the 25th July 2014 that data usage experienced by customers was generated by the operating systems driven by applications (smartphones) which are implemented by the user. In the same advertorial MTC gave several recommendations to customers on how they can limit or control their data usage on smartphones.

Data UsageJust as with water or electricity utility uses meters to count units of consumption in cubic meters or kilowatt-hours, the digital industry computes usage of data in kilobytes and megabytes. Therefore, all MTC’s systems monitor the data usage which is generated by the user through their devices whether a computer, smartphone or tablet. All of the usage is calculated by the systems, and MTC tests for consistency between usage as measured by the network with measurements generated in the operating systems of the devices.

Data ChargesAs with water or electricity utilities, the units are multiplied by a rate in order to calculate a charge to the user. MTC uses a rate per megabyte or kilobyte. The rates are selected manually in the systems, for all packages, which are approved by CRAN.

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School Catches 11-Year-Old With Loaded Gun and List of NamesAuthorities in Michigan, USA said this week that a student who brought a gun to school also had a list of names of students who he wanted to harm.

A student informed a teacher at kingsley Middle school student that the student had brought the gun to school on Monday, The Traverse city Record-eagle reported.

The teacher notified Principel vaughn White, who immediately contacted the school resource officer, and removed the student from the classroom. during a search of the child, a .25-caliber handgun was found in his waistband. A single round was in the chamber, but it was the wrong size. The gun was thought to belong to his grandfather, and was not thought to be operational.

“obviously the child made a poor judgement call,” kingsley Area schools superintendent keith smith said at the time. “The reality is the kid had a gun with a bullet in the chamber in a school, and that’s not ok.”

The case took a turn on Wednesday when a teacher found a list of names on the back of one the student’s homework assignments, according to the Record-eagle. Authorities said that it was clear from the title of the document that the student intended to hurt the other children who were on the list. School officials said that they were not able to notify all of the students on the list because only first names were used, and many of the names were misspelled. In a press release, the sheriff’s office noted that the student had said that he had not

intended to harm any of the students, and that he had not directly threatened them.

“It’s obviously not consistent with what was brought to school,” smith said. “A gun with one bullet doesn’t line up with a list of names, but you’ve still got to take it seriously. That’s why we turned it over to police.”

The boy was suspended for ten days, the maximum punishment possible without a decision from board members. smith said that the school would be requesting additional discipline. The sheriff’s office was also considering filing charges against the boy as a juvenile for carrying a firearm in a gun-free zone.

Source: http://www.rawstory.com/

No, you do not need to adjust your glasses, you are actually looking at a woman with three breasts. Jasmine Tridevil wants to work on TV and in a bid to get there she has spent US$20,000 on surgery to get an extra boob.

It was a bit of an uphill struggle for Jasmine, however, as she says she asked between 50 and 60 doctors but none of them wanted to do it because they would be breaking ethics codes. It took two years to save up for the surgery but it has now been finished, topped off with a tattooed nipple. She told Real Radio 104.1:

"My whole dream is to get this show on MTv." Her mother and sister are no longer talking to her. ‘I’m dumping

every penny I have into this. If this doesn’t work, I’m through. she denies that she had the extra breast put on to get fame and

fortune. Jasmine added: ‘I got it because I wanted to make myself unattractive to men. because I don’t want to date anymore." However, her mum and sister will not speak to her and her father is ashamed of her.

Source: http://metro.co.uk/

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Note: The Namib Independent offers journalists the opportunity to “write their minds” and places a strong emphasis on investigative and social journalism as opposed to simply reporting the events of the day. Our job, as we see it, is to raise the level of conversation in our community through addressing issues that really matter.

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built on a T-series platform with a shortened wheelbase, the Tristar is only 4788mm long overall but 2320mm wide and just over two metres tall. That makes it a lot smaller than the Amarok, which is 5254mm overall on a 3095mm wheelbase, with a load bed well over two metres long, and although vW does not quote a payload for the concept,

it is unlikely to be anywhere near the Amarok's 1147kg. What it does show however, is that volkswagen is set to continue its eurocentric van-based truck range despite the advent of the Amarok. The Tristar, it says, commemorates the 30th anniversary of the first Sycro, and its off-road capability, combined with flexible loading options, make it ideal as a mobile workshop, crew transport - or a surfwagen!

The concept is also a runner, with a two-litre TdI rated for 150kW at 4000 revs and 450nm at 1400rpm, a seven-speed dsG transmission, 4Motion permanent all-wheel drive and a mechanical rear differential lock. It rolls on 240/70

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