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Coastal Community Irate Over Smoking BanTanya Calitz

Speaking to the local restaurant, bar and coffee shop owners as well as the general public on the coast, it is clear that they are not in favour of the Tobacco Products Control Act, prohibiting anyone from smoking in public, or anywhere on a business’ premises.

The Namib Independent spoke to

several businesses and restaurants on the coast to get an over-all view of how they feel about this legislation. According to the majority of interviewees, the no - smoking outside the building is a bit rash.

“The majority of my customers enjoy a smoke with their drink, and if I only had to tell them to go smoke outside in the designated area, that would be fine, but to now say that they cannot

smoke anywhere on the premises at all, is ludicrous,” one of the restaurant/ bar owners in Swakopmund told the paper this week.

Some of the managers and/ or owners figure this law will never be enforced successfully, but the Ministry reckons they have put everything into place to implement this law competently.

“At the Occasion of the Launch, the Minister also nominated a committee

and appointed inspectors from various public and private organisations in all 14 regions to ensure that this act gets to be implemented to its fullest capacity, but we will only be able to detect how this law is being embraced some months after 1 July 2014 when the actual implementation has kicked in,” Ester Paulus, Public Relations Manager at the Ministry of Health, told the paper on Tuesday.

Other restaurant owners welcomed the fact that no one is allowed to smoke indoors, but none of the people interviewed agreed with the ban on smoking outdoors or outside of the building.

“I strongly oppose the law, but unfortunately we will have to

Lavrenty Repin

When the Namib Independent received a peculiar tip from a Swakopmund resident, enquiring about the nature of a communications station situated 5km out of town towards Henties Bay, and especially of the suspicious ball-like structure, known as a “Radome”, present at the station, our curiosity was sparked.

The informant drew comparison from revelations made by Edward Snowden, who described similar-looking structures

that are used to intercept phone calls, text messages and emails over a radius of over 400km in spy centres across the world, some disguised in ingenious ways and all cloaked in mystery.

Upon visiting the site in question, which stands unbecoming and lonely in the desert, surrounded by electric fencing and decorated with surveillance cameras, it looked abandoned, overrun by dust and weeds. Eventually a foreman

SwakopSpaceStationor Spy Centre?

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Ambitious Plans for SwakopmundLavrenty Repin

There are some ambitious plans ahead for Swakopmund, as explained by Mayor Kambueshe and CEO Demasius at Swakopmund M u n i c i p a l i t y ’ s 5 - Y e a r - S t r a t e g i c -Plan presentation on Wednesday. Their feedback report focused on an array of plans, ranging from the success of the DRC formalisation to alternative energy plans, which as all part of the 5-year-plan initiated in 2011.

However, one major discussion point is the prompt property moratorium, which will see private developers

unable to purchase bulk land from the municipality, set, at least for now, indefinitely. According to the mayor, this is to give prevalence to the commitment of mass-housing in the DRC, which will see 3024 units constructed in the next 24 months, which is more than anywhere else in Namibia. The moratorium also means that the municipality now needs to actively develop land at their disposal. The focus, according to Mr Demasius, lies in creating parks and recreational areas in Swakopmund, which will commence with the construction of an additional water dam and pipelines.

Another exciting endeavor

is the introduction of a two bin system, an extra one to be distributed to the public this year, intended for recycling, which is set to reduce 80% of the volume of refuse dumped at the landfill. Plans to extend Mile 8 and Kramersdorf are also well under way, while Northern Swakopmund is expected to receive over 3000 new

erven. Significantly, the Municipality

has moved to make the North a prominent area for Swakopmund, revealing a new Central Business District in Northern Mondesa as well as plans on extending the Municipality building northbound. Swakopmunders have been in great

pains over lack of parking; this year they can expect the old traders’ centre below the amphitheater to be refurbished into a parking zone, while the introduction of parking meters is up for reconsideration. Eleven streets are to be surfaced this year, including Strand and Harder Street. There is also a development

of a “Centre of Excellence” and a Youth Centre. Mr Demasius spoke about the controversial Swakopmund airport, confirming that the municipality has taken over the day-to-day runnings and maintenance and has a contingency plan in place to turn it into a profitable business. He also mentioned that the money for this endeavour comes from pilots renting out airplane hangars, rather than tax-payers who do not generally utilise the airport.

The above points are expected to be completed by the end of 2015.

Although, the CEO explained, which of the projects receive priority also depends on the budget, which will be decided by the end of the financial year.

The 10-year plan includes a much needed SME park, the completion of “green areas” or parks and an ambitious plan to utilise alternative solar energy, for which a decision is scheduled to be made by middle of this year.

Next week the paper will take an in-depth look at some of the decisions mentioned above.

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abide by the law,” another business owner from Swakop said. A restaurant owner from the coast expressed her dissatisfaction by saying that she is a smoker herself, and cannot run to her car or go home every time she wants to quickly take a smoke break.

“How many businesses must get fined and closed down, before the Ministry realises that this law is a bit harsh,” she said.

Another expressed that he is concerned that this will affect his business negatively. “Surely this will make the majority of my customers think twice about coming for a drink to my place, but I suppose if all the business stick to the rules, the customers will start following, and learn to enjoy an evening out without puffing the night away,” this coastal restaurateur said. Another was not so convinced and reckons this will either see a huge drop in people going out at night, or the public and business owners will simply violate the law.

According to the Tobacco Products Control Act, merchants will also have to get in line with the new packaging regulations, which states that the companies are not allowed to specify or point out that their brand is lighter, smoother or better than the opposition. Another curb on packaging in the pipeline is that tobacco companies can no longer use explicit branding on their packs, but all must have the same monotonous look, displaying an image on it, illustrating the dangers of smoking.

The Tobacco Products Control Act of 2010 was supposed to be implemented and enforced September 2011 already, but the efforts and warnings from the Ministry of Health soon faded, and the people continued smoking everywhere in public. However, this time round they seem to be more pro-active, and the long awaited pending Smoking Act will be gazetted on 1 April, and enforced from 1 July 2014.

Asking why the act was not enforced the first time round, the Ministry of Health said that, “In 2010, only the Tobacco Control Act was enacted. The Regulations which spell out the actual implementation of the Act were not in place to enforce this Act. The Minister has now signed and launched the Regulations, effective 1 April 2014, although implementation of this law is expected from 1 July 2014 to give the public sufficient time to put in place mechanisms for implementing this law.”

This means that smokers will not be able to simply light up wherever they please, but have to make sure that they are not puffing away in a no-smoking zone. These areas include; in or outside shopping malls, sport fields, school premises, in or outside the workplaces and offices, anywhere on the premises of a restaurant or eatery, airports and public transport. Not only did the culinary sector shake their heads at the act, but also employees of other businesses on the coast, as

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soon as they realised that they are no longer allowed to smoke at the office, regardless of stepping outside the building.

According to a study done by the World Health Organisation in Africa, Namibia ranked second highest in the ‘smoking teens’ category, with 38.3% making use of various

tobacco products. Regardless of the

community’s discontent, the law has been passed, will be gazetted and enforced. According to NAMPOL in Erongo region, they will support the Ministry in their efforts and treat this as any other case where the law is being disrupted.

How many businesses must get fined and closed down, before the Ministry realises that this law is a bit harsh?

explained that it is a Chinese “space station”, specialising in helping Chinese spaceships land after their voyage.

In turns out that the centre, described as a “Telemetry, Tracking and Command Station for the China Manned Space Program”, was opened in 2001, constructed at a cost of about N$12 million and consists of two antennas or satellite dishes, 5m and 9m in diameter, the latter reaching 16m in height.

Interestingly, there is no mention of a Radome on the official website. The golfball-clone, however, stands clearly visible a significant distance from the rest of the station. A Radome is used to protect sensitive, most commonly microwave emitting, equipment from extreme weather conditions and conceal instruments from public view, according to a manufacturer’s advertisement. It gained popularity with conspiracy theorists because of its high prominence in secret areas; domes are scattered across all popular spy centres in the UK and United States. It has also been associated with weather manipulation and network disruption.

The station itself utilises “S Band” equipment, which is used by NASA to communicate with the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station - digital cordless telephones operate in this band, too.

The station has participated in six launches so far. Two years ago the centre, with the help of Chinese tracking ships off the coast of Namibia, was instrumental in successfully helping land a manned Chinese spaceship, Shenzhou 9, returning from orbit.

Exciting news for the sleepy, strange space centre indicate that next year anticipation is high that it will once again come into service as the Chinese Lunar manned spaceship re-enters the atmosphere. Furthermore, the station has trained eleven Namibians in the area of Space Science and Technology as part of skills transfer and has vowed to help Namibia develop its own Space Science and Technology capacity.

Of course, this does not rule out possibilities of a spy centre right in our backyard; stranger things have happened before.

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Police Threaten Business Owners on Prayer Day

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Last Thursday, local authorities threatened several coastal businesses to their closed on National Prayer Day in compliance with a written request sent out by Municipalities. The threats included heavy fines, confiscation of licenses and even imprisonment.

“Your business must be closed tomorrow,” the police told Andre (Pseudonym), a restaurant owner in Karibib, the afternoon before National Prayer Day as they handed him the papers from the Municipality with the written request. Andre objected, replying that his valid license does not mention such a day, the papers do not mention such a law to which he must abide and the short notice would make it, on top of the loss of turnover, impossible to rearrange the schedule of his staff on duty. However, the police warned

him again to stay closed. The drama was far from being over.

As the restaurant’s staff arrived on National Prayer Day, the police did too, with threats of locking the owner up.

“I will let you feel my power,” one police officer said. “Why may I at least not sell any food or open in the afternoon,” Andre asked. The curt reply was that, on order of the president, his business had to stay closed for the next 24 hours, despite the fact that all bigger businesses, except for bottle stores, were open and operating. Andre observed passing tourists looking for places to eat breakfast as well as police patrolling the area.

According to Evelyn Michael, serving the Office of the Mayor in Karibib, they would never force any business to close.

“We only sent out a note to the public that all businesses are expected to close during National

Prayer Day as per the directive declared by His Excellency, the President,” she said. “Everybody needs to understand that this is an honour day. Nothing went wrong in Karibib. The public was clearly informed through the media that anyone who opens their business could be arrested, the police did their work and I am not aware of any discrepancies in town,” she added.

Andre was not the only business owner unhappy about the way the President’s orders were executed.

A liquor retailer in Walvis Bay said that the police threatened to take his license away, write out a N$10 000 fine and arrest him if he operated on National Prayer Day.

“I have no problem with the idea behind the prayer day, I think it is great, but I do not agree with the execution of it,” he said. He continued to explain that on Thursdays they usually take care of their orders, and as a result of closing, lost a lot of turnover.

“I could not deliver to my clients, I lost income, yet I still have to pay my staff as well as overhead expenses,” he lamented. “We are living in a

democracy, a high official cannot simply make a decision that becomes law and if it is not obeyed you get arrested. Arrested on what grounds?”

Other businesses also felt the brunt of income loss due to National Prayer Day.

“The directive was received on far too short notice,” a business woman in Walvis Bay mentioned. “A lot of my staff misused that day. National Prayer Day was a perfect excuse to have time off from work and sit at home, many never even went to pray.”

She continued to explain that she lost a lot of hours to complete emergency orders, putting her back on the job where she had to end up phoning the client to tell them she cannot deliver on time.

“Prayer day is a very good idea, I have no problem with that, but why can something like that not be arranged on a weekend or public holiday,” she asked.

A popular restaurant on the Waterfront told the Namib Independent that they lost a lot of business on National Prayer Day.

“The police came past at regular intervals to check that we do not serve any alcohol. Lots of customers walked out on us,” the manager said.

The aftermath of National Prayer Day has left a lot of questions in its wake. Business owners and members of the public wonder, if letters from the local authorities say they expect them to close, how can they be forced? Why on such short notice? If we are forced to pray now, has the government lost all faith in itself and secular solutions? Why do those with the urge to pray not find the time to do so on weekends and existing holidays?

A resident of Karibib related how he witnessed a neighbour battering his wife in the street shortly after National Prayer Day. Phoning the local police station, the single female officer in charge told him that she cannot leave the station and her colleague who could drive the car is sleeping. By the time the woman was helped, her injuries had placed her in intensive care. Recent media reports tell other stories of gender based violence, especially after National Prayer Day. Thus, the ultimate question of all questions remains, has National Prayer Day really made a difference?

We are living in a democracy, a high official cannot simply make a decision that becomes law and if it is not obeyed you get arrested. Arrested on what grounds?

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The role of transport and logistics has become increasingly important with the rapid growth of cargo volumes through the Port of Walvis Bay.

The Walvis Bay corridor offers the shortest trade route for SADC countries along the west coast, giving

NDP4 has identified four economic sectors - tourism, manufacturing, agriculture and logistics - to be developed. Logistics takes priority, for it is the key to the other three sectors. At an information session held by the Walvis Bay Corridor Group (WBCG), Clive Smith, the Project Manager of the Logistics Hub for the WBCG, said that Namibia has been undergoing major infrastructure development in all sectors, all of them being linked by road, rail and air.

“Once the bridge at Katima Mulilo was completed in 2005, it opened up traffic to Zambia and since then has become one of the most developed and aggressive corridors in terms of volume,” he explained. However, this project was only the tip of the iceberg.

“We are competing with eastern and southern ports, and want to claim a reasonable share of the international market,” Smith added. “Currently, the small market size of Namibia struggles to sustain the economic growth and we have to open ourselves up internationally. To that end, our target market is the whole SADC region with a potential of 3 million customers.”

According to Smith, the transport corridors have been fully established and are now ready to be developed into economic corridors that form a network of supply and distribution depots. He continued to explain that at present, there are only two major centres for logistics and handling in Namibia, namely Walvis Bay and Windhoek.

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Mushe Speaks on the NAMAs

With the highly anticipated, and controversial, NAMAs weeks away, the Namib Independent caught up with two-time Artist of the Year-winner, known as an innovator for transforming aggressive Kwaito into the sphere of Afro-pop; Mushe. A year ago just before the awards, he was ambitious that he would grab the coveted title of Artist of the Year for the second time in a row, so when he did in spectacular fashion defeat his competition and walked up on the stage to receive it, the smug remarks were well deserved. So what about this year, then?

NI: Hi Mushe! So, do you expect a third Artist of the Year Award in a row this year?

M: To tell you the truth, actually, even if I get it, I don't even want it. Obviously, I'd be honored, but I'd be just as honored if I don't – it's time to give others a chance.

NI: Really?

M: You know, I haven't planned much on the awards, at all. I am busy with other projects. I don't usually prepare, and I haven't given it much thought. Like I said, if I win, I'm honored, but for an artist,

winning becomes boring.

NI: Who else do you think will be the big winners this year?

M: The only people I can mention, I feel free to say, is Exit ... or Mushe. He (Exit) definitely deserves an award this year.

NI: Have the awards benefited the industry?

M: They are helping out, because people are getting bucks out of it, which has never happened before in the industry. The problem is that I've seen artists do music only for the awards, but that means they lack in creativity. I don't do music according to the awards, I just do good music. What matters is that the album should be seen and heard, the results of the awards are then, automatic.

NI: Name one thing you'd do differently if you were in charge of the NAMAs?

M: I don't have any problem with the NAMAs. I think they are doing a great job, they're focusing on the music; if the album is really good, let it not be ignored. The only thing I would change is to increase the nominated artists and categories. Also, Artist of the Year should at least get one million, so that musicians can become independent.

NI: The awards will be at the coast this year, is that a good thing for the industry?

M: Yeah, it's a good job, to the NAMAs; I give you my 100%. The coast is good place; we have to take it out from the capital. Later they can move it to the north and south, so that it also moves people out of the capital, it's good for business and for balancing the country.

NI: What do you think of the fact that the public holds no voting capacity this year, instead, we have judges; do you agree with this method?

M: Either way, it's a win-win situation, 50/50. Sure, judges tend to favor someone but they have experience. On the other hand there are people that win because of the majority, and regardless of the music, the NAMAs have no choice but to award. I am trying to avoid negativity in this whole NAMA thing. Let's see the results this year and take it from there.

NI: So then, what is more important for an artist, to have good music, or to have popular support?

M: Ok, it's to have true fans, people that really appreciate the album. The point is to have a good album, to have good music, in the end; it's a good album that captures the majority. Sure, I can't speak for others, but I doubt people will support something that isn't quality.

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Taking a Look at Women’s Rights Around the World

This week, still in celebration of women’s month, the Namib Independent decided to take a look at women’s rights around the world. Below are some statistics and studies conducted over the past few years to give an indication of how far we as a society have come in terms of gender equality.

Gender Inequality in GeneralThe World Economic Forum ranks Japan a dismal 101st in gender equality out 135 countries behind Azerbaijan, Indonesia and China. Female participation in politics is negligible, and the male-female wage gap is double the average in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. According to the report 70% of the two billion poor are women; two thirds of illiterate adults are women; employment rates for women are declining after increasing (yes, of course, the world wars are now over).

Valerine M. Hudson, a professor of political science at Texas A&M University, developed the WomanStats Project in an

attempt to gather as much information as possible about women around the world, as well as the linkage between the security of women on the one hand, and the security, stability, and behaviour of nation-states on the other.

She and her team have now teamed up with Foreign Policy to create maps of some of that data, showing, for example, the high rate of discrepancy in education in Afghanistan, or the almost complete lack of women in government in China. Countries in Africa and the Middle East are shown to be particularly challenging places for women, for both political and cultural reasons.

VotingAs of early 2012, women are not allowed to vote at all in Saudi Arabia and Vatican City, and both women and men have a limited vote in Brunei and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Though all other countries allow women to vote in some elections, some countries have a traditionally low turnout of women voters because of social conventions. The most recent country to

allow women the full right to vote was Bhutan, which changed from a family voting system to an individual voting system in 2008. Saudi Arabia is one of two countries in the world where women cannot vote in any elections whatsoever. They are also not allowed to run for any political offices. Though many women attempted to register as voters in the 2011 municipal elections, they were turned down. Saudi Arabia is also the only country in the world that does not allow women to drive or operate any vehicle.

Child MarriageThe countries in which underage marriage is common and encouraged include India, Turkey, and Panama, among many others. Marriage under the age of 18 has been correlated with higher rates of dying young, health problems, living in poverty and illiteracy.

Female Genital CuttingWhile the majority of countries scarcely engage in this practice, the countries where more than half of the women have their genitals cut include Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Egypt.

Son Preference And Sex RatiosCanada, Colombia and Chile, along with other countries, have notably higher rates of abnormal sex ratios, which has been shown to correlate with sex-selective abortions and discrimination in care for girls.

Women's Physical SecurityThe countries in which women lack physical security -- which is defined as fewer laws against domestic violence, rape, and marital rape, their enforcement, the taboos or norms about reporting the crimes and existence of 'honour killings' -- include Cambodia, Morocco and Peru, among many others in Africa and the Middle East.

Trafficking Of FemalesThe countries in which trafficking is not illegal and commonly practiced include Myanmar, Venezuela and North Korea. Studies have found that 70 per cent of trafficked women end up in the sex trade.

Maternal MortalityMaternal mortality rate is linked with the general health of a society, as a lower rate positively affects families and economy. The countries that have more than 300 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births include almost all of central Africa, Pakistan and Bolivia.

Discrepancy In EducationThe countries in which there is a greater than 20 per cent difference between male and female education, as well

'significant' legal and cultural restrictions to it, include Afghanistan, Somalia and Haiti. Educating women has been shown to help improve health, poverty and create equality between men and women.

Government ParticipationThe countries in which 0 to 10 per cent of parliament is composed of women include China, Japan and Brazil (despite their female president). A 2010 study by Deloitte emphasised the importance of women in government in order to foster equality. They found that a critical mass of one-third of women in government can help societies move beyond 'gender-centric issues.'

Discrepant Government BehaviourThe countries in which there is virtually no enforcement of laws concerning the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women include Iran, Papua New Guinea, and Eritrea, despite the latter two countries' accession to the convention in 1995.

Working rights In the UK, the gender pay gap stands at 15%, with women on average earning £5,000 less a year than their male colleagues. The disparity is even greater in part time jobs, going up to 35 per cent. Globally only 24 per cent of senior management roles are now filled by women. The Equalities and Human Rights Commission estimates it will take 70 years at the current rate of progress to see an equal number of female and male directors of FTSE 100 companies. Zemach Getahun estimates that closing the gender gap in agriculture could reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17 per cent. If the skills and qualifications of women who are currently out of work in the UK were fully utilised, the UK could deliver economic benefits of £15 to £21 billion pounds per year.

ViolenceGlobally, about one in three women will be beaten or raped during their lifetime. About 44 per cent of all UK women have experienced either physical or sexual violence since they were 15 years-old. Britain ranks among the worst countries in Europe when it comes to women being violently abused. On average, 30% of women who have been in a relationship report that they have experienced some form of physical or sexual violence by their partner. 38 percent of all murders of women worldwide are committed by a woman's intimate partner. A UN report said 99.3% of women and girls in Egypt had been subjected to sexual harassment.

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Choose a Life Based on Reason

At the age of 16, I realized that maybe everything I’d ever been taught about life was wrong. Began the proverbial “search for objective truths”. As the years progressed, I started keeping track of concepts that I found to be most relevant to life.

Many philosophies put forth grand ideas or talk of the hereafter, but that’s just like writing on the surface of a lake, not providing much use on a daily functional level. Instead, I have elected to lead a life of reason and after much pondering have chosen to compile my thoughts on how to help others lead a life of reason too. Naturally reason dictates that one is not required to adopt any of these.

1. If you want to get through life sanely and happily, get a

firm grip and experiential awareness of the concept of paradox.

2. You may not be able to always control your surroundings, but you can always choose how you react to those surroundings.

3. All you’ll ever truly own is what you have when you close your eyes when you go to sleep at night. Make sure what’s in the mind is worth having.

4. It is better to travel alone than it is to travel with fools.5. When on a romantic excursion, pay attention to how

your date treats the wait staff. That’s how the potential partner will treat you when you’ve been together awhile.

6. If you just took money out of an ATM, don’t buy stereo speakers from some guys selling them out of the back of a van.

7. Information does not mean knowledge.8. It’s okay to have fear in one’s mind. It is not okay to let

that fear be in control.9. Being wise is better than being smart. It’s best to be both.10. Happiness is more important than pleasure. Know the

difference between the two.

26. For every result, there is a cause.

27. If someone claims to be a great spiritual person or teacher, they aren’t. If they claim to have all the answers, they don’t. Walk away.

28. Always have goals, but always have contentment.

29. Respect for someone being human is more important than respecting culture or nationality.

30. Wisdom always leads to love, but love doesn’t always lead to wisdom.

31. It is not okay to say, “I am afraid.” It’s okay to say, "There’s fear in my mind.”

32. In the history of the world, the people most famous for being good, gave. The ones most famous for being evil, took.

33. If you’re uncomfortable being alone, that is an indicator that you let others define who you are.

34. You might not be able to save someone from a car

wreck or a burning building every day, but you can buy someone that cup of coffee, hold the door open or help them carry something heavy. A good heart and a good life are built through small actions, just as a vase can be filled to the rim with single drops of water. Same applies to negative actions as well.

35. Many people believe what they want to believe, regardless of what the facts actually are. Know when not to waste your breath.

36. If you don’t control your temper, it will control you.

37. Avoid being subjected to advertising. It has people working jobs they hate to buy things they don’t need.

38. Everyone dies. And we don’t know when. Acknowledging this fact is not depressing. It is liberating.

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11. If in shark infested waters, thrashing about will only attract the sharks to you. Acting dead in the water will attract them as well. Best thing to do is calmly swim back to the boat or shore. Is best not to be in those waters in the first place. If attacked, punch the shark on the nose. It’s not expecting it.

12. Love everyone unconditionally, all the time, especially your enemies. This is for your own benefit.

13. Generally speaking, no one is more important than you, yet simultaneously, you aren’t more important than anyone else.

14. Regardless of what the media, medical studies or the person across the table tells you, using alcohol is foolish. It’s harmful to both body and mind. Any benefit of drinking can be found elsewhere, without the costly drawbacks.

15. Before you ever say “I love you” to anyone, make sure your actions towards that person support the statement. Apply the same principle if anyone says it to you.

16. Nothing is permanent. Everything changes.17. Hatred never ceases through hatred. Hatred only

ceases through love.18. Be aware of your inner monologue.19. Before you speak, think.20. If you have a point, get to it.21. All the greatest minds in the history of humanity used

metaphor and analogy. It’s the only way to express the inexpressible.

22. For happiness, do not seek for others to understand you. Seek to understand others as well as yourself.

23. Tradition can have comforting benefits, but should not define one’s reality, for then one risks failure to evolve.

24. When cooking pork chops, for the best flavour, all you need to do is put a little salt and pepper on both sides. Cook on medium to medium high ‘til slightly browned.

25. Love is not, “You make me feel good.” Love is, “I want you to feel good.”

Response to GBV Letter by Holifire’sIn answer to Omupwee of Holifire's letter to Namib Independent regarding to His Excellency, the President's invite for a day of prayer concerning gender based violence (13 March 2014).

Firstly my dear brother in Christ, the leaders of this 'secular' state did not 'declare a state of emergency' or forced anybody into prayer OR to perform (do) Christian 'rituals' in expense of any 'other indigenous religions' OR any other similar 'foreign' religions like Christianity. On this day of prayer there WERE several 'other religions' doing the same thing as we Christians did - praying to our (their) Heavenly Father (God). If you carefully read through the Government Advert, you would have noticed that it was called: "National Day of Prayers on Gender-Based Violence". I don't see anything of "Christian" in this advert. Furthermore, if you had watched the live broadcast in National TV (NBC), you would have noticed that there were actually 'other' religions involved! Why didn't "Holifire" get involved?

Secondly Mr Omupwee of Holifire, Christianity was never brought on by 'oppressors' and 'colonisers (whoever they might have been). Christianity came because of Christ. This country has also moved on - far beyond (24 years) the burden of oppression and oppressors. The Head of state did not 'destroy' the constitution, he only gave an open invitation for ALL Namibians to pray, without referring to any 'religion' in particular. So, everyone could partake, religious or non-religious, Native and indigenous, Christianity, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist or whatever religion or belief.

My brother, your understanding of the Word of God (referring to man and woman) is incorrect. God never made the woman so that man could have dominion over her. Genesis 1:27 says: So God created people in his own image; God patterned them after himself; male AND female he created them." In other words, God created them equal. Genesis 2:18: And the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him." Then God made all the animals but not one was suitable to be his companion. That is when God made woman (from man’s rib) as to

be in companionship with man and to help him. Woman was never created as a lesser being to be trapped on by man. Gender violence came out of man's own wicked fleshly spirit, as he operates in this worldly realm. So my dear friend, to say that Christians promote, teach and manufactured women (wifes) to be men's subjects is untrue and unjust.

Christianity can never 'change' 'their' way of preaching because true Christians only preach Truth of Salvation and Redemption through Christ and who we are and that we are IN Him (Christ). That is the Alpha and Omega of our preaching. Anything else is false and not of Christianity.

Another truth my beloved fellow Namibian brother, is that Namibians are NOT 95% Christians. That is false. 70% of the 95% who say they are Christians, are actually only 'calling' themselves Christians because they were brought up in a Christian community or the heard about Christianity, accepted the Christian faith BUT did not change their relationship with Christ as to bear the fruit of who they say they are. Another truth is that most of this GBV's (as you named) comes out of witchcraft and other 'religions'. And my friend, nobody 'forced' nobody to pray, and nobody puts pressure on nobody or encourages men to kill women, they do so by their own choice alone.

My brother in Christ, we unfortunately live in a worldly realm where facts and realities are ruling. We live in a worldly realm were the enemy (Satan) is in our faces - where people live by their emotions and do things by choice and not by force.

To conclude with: As a Christian man, I would like to thank His Excellency, the President and this government, who, by their humble concern about this evil happening, declared a day of prayer so that ALL Namibians could pray (whatever their religious belief) and fight this evil among us.

My beloved Namibian brother, as a Christian who belief in Jesus Christ as the only and true Son of God, I can only say that I love you the same way Jesus loves you. And, as a true Christian, I would like to invite you to meet Him.

Jesus is Alive. Christ IS Risen.With the Love of Jesus.

André Everts

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Two Major Cosmic Discoveries Rock ScienceNearly a century ago, Einstein came up with the idea of gravitational waves. Now, in a discovery that physicists are calling "extraordinary" and "spectacular," observers at the South Pole have found the first direct evidence they exist.

The Theory of General Relativity seemed truly bizarre when Albert Einstein first articulated it 99 years ago: gravity, the great physicist declared, was no longer to be seen as a force, but rather as the warping of “space-time,” an amalgam of those two formerly independent concepts. The theory also predicted that violent events should trigger gravitational waves, which would set space-time rippling, like a vat of cosmic jello. There has been some circumstantial evidence of those ripples, involving changes in orbits of binary stars, but what’s always been missing is a smoking gun, direct observational measurement of a gravitational wave.

The same is true of the Inflationary Universe theory, postulated in the 1980s: just .0000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds (give or take) after the Big Bang, the theory said, the cosmos underwent a burst of expansion so furious that it was briefly flying apart faster than the speed of light. Exceeding light speed is supposed to be impossible, except that that law applies only to something moving through space-time, not space-time itself expanding. Just as with gravitational waves, there’s plenty of reason to think it really happened, but again, no proof.

Not until now, anyway. In a discovery physicists are calling “huge,” “extraordinary” and “spectacular,” a team of observers using a microwave-sensitive telescope at the South Pole has found the first direct evidence of gravitational waves—and the strongest proof of

inflation to date, all in one shot. “When I got the call,” says Marc Kamionkowski, a theorist at Johns Hopkins University who wasn’t involved in the research, “I had to ask if it was real. To me, this is bigger than the Higgs boson.”

If it’s confirmed by other groups", says Avi Loeb, chair of the Harvard astronomy department and also not a participant in the research, “it’s worth a Nobel.” According to Kamionkowski, one of few physicists allowed to see the scientific paper before it was announced at a press conference today, that confirmation is likelier than not.

“These are extremely careful and conservative people,” he says of the team that made the observation. “They’ve had this evidence for three years, looked at every alternative explanation for what they were seeing, and systematically ruled them out one by one.”

For a finding of this enormity, the critical bit of evidence John Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and his colleagues saw seems entirely innocuous: a slight distortion in microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang. These microwaves didn’t even exist until about 400,000 years after the Big Bang happened, far later than the inflationary scenario—which occurred before the universe had aged even a billionth of a trillionth of a quadrillionth of a second—could have played out. But when the microwaves did pop into existence, the cosmos should have still been jiggling with gravitational waves set off by the violence of the inflation. Spot the jiggles and you prove both the expansionary phenomenon and the existence of the waves left over from it. That’s what Kovac and his colleagues did, though it wasn’t

literally jiggles that they saw. Instead they noticed that the background radiation was polarised, its waves of electromagnetic energy oscillating not in random directions but in just a few specific ones. (Sunlight also oscillates in random directions; polarising sunglasses work by letting in only the rays within a narrow range of orientations.) That microwave polarisation suggests that something was shaking the radiation this way or that.

The telescope the researchers used—the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2, or BICEP2, instrument—is tuned to see the critical kind of polarisation in background radiation, but there was no guarantee it ever would. Inflation theory comes in several versions, all of which posit different intensities. “In some,” says MIT’s Alan Guth, who was one of the inflationary universe theory’s original inventors, “the waves are so weak they could never be detected. To see them turn up is beautiful.” What made the gravitational waves—and thus the polarisation they caused—so powerful has to do with why the universe inflated in the first place. Physicists like Guth had already theorised that inflation would happen as the cosmos transitioned from one energy state to another, much as water changes to ice. That transition released huge amounts of energy, which turbocharged the already-expanding universe. Also like water, which goes from vapour to liquid to solid, the post-Big Bang universe went through several such transitions, all during the first fraction of a fraction of a second of its life.

The amount of polarisation—dictated by the strength of the gravitational waves—suggest that the transition that triggered the high-speed inflation occurred when the universe was at the so-called grand unified scale. That’s the point at which electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force, all of which

have vastly different strengths and effects today, were a single force. “It represents about a trillion times the energy scale produced by the Large Hadron Collider,” says Loeb, referring to the world’s biggest accelerator, where the Higgs was found. The new results, assuming they’re verified, now rule out some of the more complicated, exotic versions of inflation, which seemed favoured by cruder measurements made last year by the European Planck satellite. “Some people liked those,” says Guth, “because they got to write complicated papers about them.” But in physics, simpler ideas are usually considered more elegant.

Also ruled out by the detection of gravitational waves, according to both Guth and Loeb, is at least one of the few viable alternatives to the Big Bang. Known as the ekpyrotic universe model, it posits that the cosmic microwaves we’ve been detecting since the 60’s came from the titanic collision between two “branes”—short for membranes—which were independent universes (one of which was ours) floating around in higher-dimensional space. The new results do have to be verified. Even though the BICEP2 team methodically checked and rechecked its work to rule out any mistakes, nobody, including Kovac and his colleagues, can be 100 percent certain until independent groups, using their own instruments, see the polarisation signal too. That shouldn’t take long, given that cosmologists at Princeton, Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota, the Goddard Spaceflight Centre, the University of Chicago and more were already in the hunt. “Whether it’s correct or incorrect,“ says Kamionkowski, who strongly favours the former, “will be known very quickly.”

Meanwhile, the BICEP2 team has already started taking data with a more powerful telescope called the Keck Array, also at the South Pole, and is hard at work building yet another, called BICEP3, which will begin flexing its muscles next summer. Extraordinary as the new results are, they’re just a taste of the science that will come out of these new instruments. “I’ve made 23 trips to the Pole in my career so far,” says Kovac, “and I’ll be making a lot more.” It’s a long, cold journey—but to understand the first moments of cosmic creation, it’s clearly worth it.

Source: http://time.com/24894/gravity-waves-expanding-universe

Scientist Andrei Linde Learned His Life’s Work on Big Bang Theory Had been VindicatedThis is the moment a scientist was told evidence had been found proving a theory he first put forward more than 30 years ago.

When Andrei Linde and his wife Renata Kallosh – a theoretical physicist – open the door to their California home, Chao-Lin Kuo, an assistant professor of physics at Stanford, immediately tells them that that his life’s work has been vindicated. Prof Linde is regarded as the founding father of inflation theory, the belief that the universe rapidly inflated in the first infinitesimal moment of

the universe’s history after the Big Bang. Yesterday the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics announced that it had detected ripples – or gravitational waves – in the fabric of space-time.

The discovery was heralded as the ‘Holy Grail’ of cosmology, as the miniscule ripples carry energy across space and were the last untested aspect of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Russian-born Prof Linde, who first described chaotic inflation in 1983, was understandably emotional after being informed of the discovery. ‘If this is true, this is a moment of understanding of nature of such a magnitude that it just overwhelms,’ he said. ‘Thank you so much for doing it.’

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