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Bank Millennium Angola, a Gothic bank. |
"The last commandment that becomes trained to the youth nhaneca-humbe says like this: "In the war you don't kill old nor elders. An elder is "epa lyohi” that he wants to say, hard and respectable as the crust of the earth, or in another sense, it should be appreciated, as the medicinal plant of the same name." |
The members of the society "Jindungo", Cabinda, were, in his origin, the king's of Congo secret agents. They collected information, they denounced the abuses of the powerful ones and they made to abort any revolt project. They also collected the debts, coming masked in the debtor's house. |
C. Estermann assures that the boss of Evale had magic powers to attract the rain. But it only got them if it sacrificed a youth mother whose son the other woman was given. Together with the victim, they also sacrificed a black cow, before the sacrifice, the woman's milk and the one of the cow was sprinkled several time... |
The boss is feared and respected in the society, because he receives the power of Nambe. |
Boss or dembo of the area of Dembos (ethnic and cultural coalition of congolídeos [bacongos] with quimbundos [kimbundu] |
For instance, in the area Angolan quimbunda, the main bosses call themselves sobas-banzas, and the inferior, sobetas. |
The audience is public, open to the whole community, except for of the no initiate and of the women in menstrual impurity. In Angola, it serves as forum the open square under the mulemba, the heraldic and guardian tree of the leaderships bantus, that they plant every time that a new leadership is inaugurated or a popul... |
Be present in many groups, the "referee of the justice", "great master in right" subject that in the Angolan Northeast is called "nganji". It Intervenes, I don't eat counsellor, but as legal guard of the community juridical deposit. He is a jurisconsult, whose wisdom and prudence accumulate the traditional codes. |
In other ordeals it is innocent who gets to extract a needle from the bottom of a pot of water to boil. Other times, they undergo the "proof of the needle": he doesn't do blood after pricking the language, the earlobe or the eyelids, his innocence is proven. It is also innocent who gets to step slowly, several times, t... |
More dangerous, terrifying and frequent the proof of the poison, used above all to explain the sorcery accusation. In many areas of Angola are called "mbambu". Only the fortune-teller knows the properties highly poisonous of certain plants." |
In Pe. Raul Ruiz de Asúa Altuna. Editions Paulinas |
Image: Angola em fotos |
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No sleep. |
Smalltown and I had a nice little evening last night. I ran out to meet him at the computer shop up the road and had a nice little chat with the two youngish guys inside, who ended up doing a lot of work on Smalltown's laptop and then refusing to take any money for it. After dinner, we went for coffee, and he came back... |
After he left, it took me about thirty minutes to fall asleep. At about 10 o'clock. Which is why it's now just before 4 am and I'm wide awake, drinking coffee, reading articles on linguistics and poems, and talking to the kid back home. Me and Smalltown are tentatively getting up to something today, although he has no ... |
I guess I'm doing poems again, which is why writing in this blog is suddenly not very easy. My structure is breaking down and fucked up, and moving in straight lines is a little difficult. |
Uh. I'll just answer some questions then, and possibly try to get a bit more sleep before the day officially begins. |
have you felt significantly healthier since first moving to korea? |
I don't know how to answer this question, really. I was a vegetarian back in the States, and I've never been much one for loads of junk food -- I don't really care for sweet things. Since being in Korea, I pretty much only eat Korean food, which is what it is -- healthier in some respects, but also salty and full of wh... |
What is your favourite part about being a teacher in Korea? |
Isn't it obvious? The students. Hanging out with them. Hearing everything they have to say. Getting to know all their different personalities. Watching them interact. Having the chance to generally behave like a teenage boy for most of every day and get paid for it. They are Korea for me. And we all know how much I lov... |
Which program did you do at Glasgow? What kind of grades did you apply with? I want to study there but from what I've read it's really competitive like Edinburgh. |
Haha. I'm not really sure where this one came from. Possibly because I reference Glasgow so much. But I never studied or lived in Glasgow -- I've only visited. My best friend from high school, however, is doing her grad program there now, and did a bit of her undergrad as well. And I have a lot of friends there as a re... |
Hey, pal! Pray tell, do you keep in touch with ole' Boxochocolates? She vanished and inquiring minds are inquiring. Gracias, .38 |
I'm afraid I don't actually, no. We never really connected, one on one. She was pretty cool though. Good luck finding her. I wonder if she got the ban, as well? |
Having mentioned before that 'cute' is not at all you, will you ever call someone 'oppa'? Assuming it'll mean a lot to him and he means a lot to you. |
If I ever call someone oppah, it will not be in "cute" way. I have no motivation to appeal to that side of anyone's desire. They can just find that somewhere else. Even if it means everything in the world to them. If I do call someone oppah, it will be because I genuinely see them in the position of a kind of older bro... |
I've taken to calling older Korean males, who I don't feel comfortable calling by their first name, "hyeong", after some amount of discussion about my discomfort with the term "oppah". At first, some of them find it really hilarious, but come around to it. And some even make the suggestion first themselves. "Hyeong" ha... |
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How mysterious! Perhaps Boxie has retired to the great white north, engaging in her kung fu battles with villainous Inuits and disgruntled puck-chuckers. |
Ah well. Thanks for the info. I'll keep hunting. |
-- .38 |
A Stinking Pile of … Paper |
Today marks the end of my registration paperwork for setting up my phone and my apartment. I wanted to see what it would be like to do this the right way, so I endeavored to follow all the rules to get a SIM card and a real lease. It’s been a long journey. |
The Law of Unintended Consequences |
India developed a ridiculous process for procuring prepaid SIM cards because it has increasingly been a hotspot for terrorism. Starting with the partition of India and Pakistan and the border war that followed, there has been a long history of violence, and not just from Muslim extremists like the Indian Mujahideen. Yo... |
There are many problems with this: |
1. Anyone determined to kill people as a political statement is not going to be deterred by the process of getting a SIM card. |
2. Rules only work when they can be enforced AND when there are no loopholes. |
3. People who would otherwise try to follow rules will become frustrated with the formal process and circumvent out of convenience, reinforcing a lack of respect for rules and regulations. This logic applies widely. |
4. These types of rules make it harder to do business, which hurts the economy. |
India Ease of Doing Business, World Bank (Click on Image for Clarity) |
Before the SIM Card There Was the Apartment |
Before I could experience all of this SIM card fun, I needed a place to live. In order to rent an apartment here, you must find a broker, who will charge a ridiculous amount to find you an apartment. Finding a good broker is a bit of a pain, and recommendations from friends come in handy. Things like Craigslist are mos... |
For a formal lease, you must negotiate the lease terms in a thirty page document. Once the terms are agreed upon, you submit copies of passports, visas, photos, proof of employment, contact info for proof of employment, fingerprints, proof of previous addresses and post-dated checks for rent. If you are single women tr... |
Relevant Discussion, or “How to Feel Guilty for Complaining” |
I’m actually blessed to have paperwork. I was able to furnish countless passport photocopies and verification to these businesses, middlemen, and government entities that demanded them. Between my files and the internet, I can trace most of my life in a big paper trail that most of us take for granted. Many people do n... |
For example, you need a birth certificate to get a ration card and you need a ration card to get a driver’s license. Many of the papers that people have in rural areas are invalid when they move to a city- a big problem in an age of increasing urbanization. This means that before people can even think about waiting in ... |
It’s March 22, World Water Day. Here’s some of the bizarre history of the Victorian Filling Station or water fountain |
The Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association opened its first drinking fountain in April 1859 — and thousands gathered to watch it be turned on. |
At the time, many poor people got their water from private companies that hauled it directly from the Thames, which was increasingly polluted by human waste. |
By the mid-19th century, the water was so polluted that beer was being used as a safer alternative! |
Victorian Filling Stations |
At its peak, the first water fountain was being used by around 7000 people a day. |
By 1879, there were almost 800 drinking fountains in London alone. |
Not just people were refreshing themselves, though. By 1865 the majority of fountains then being erected had drinking troughs for dogs attached to them. |
Before this, water was available only at the troughs erected outside pubs. |
It was fully understood by carmen and others watering their horses at them that they were expected at the same time to patronize the house. |
To remove any chance of misunderstanding on this point, sometimes troughs contained lines like: |
“All that water their horses here Must pay a penny or have some beer.” |
Combined drinking fountain for people, horses and dogs, Toronto, Canada, 1899 |
In 1867, the name of the group was changed to the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association to acknowledge the four-legged part of their mission. |
By 1885 over 50,000 horses were enjoying the Association’s troughs in London. |
These water troughs became so important that their locations began to be built into maps, and the Victorians often referred to them as filling stations. |
The same cup |
For 50 years, people drank water from these fountains using … a metal cup attached to the fountain with a chain.the central mechanism was remarkably consistent. It featured three main components: A spigot that sent out a continual stream of fresh water, a basin for collecting the water, and a metal cup, attached by |
The water fountain generally featured three main components: A spigot that sent out a continual stream of fresh water, a basin for collecting the water, and a metal cup, attached by chain to the edifice, that was kept in the basin of water. Thirsty passers-by would grab the metal cup and drink it dry, then put it back ... |
Yup. Everyone used the same cup. Day in and day out. Although germ theory had, by the 1860s, started to gain acceptance, everyone assumed that the water flowing over the cup would keep it clean. |
And no one believed that germs could live on a metal cup. |
It’s a Bubbler |
The term bubbler is still used instead of water fountain or drinking fountain in parts of the United States United States and in Australia. |
It’s commonly used in southern and eastern Wisconsin and in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. |
In Portland, Oregon where in the late 1800s Simon Benson installed 20 fountains, they are now known as “Benson Bubbler“. |
Though it may not be understood in other areas, it has become such a novelty in WI that the state Historical Society (WHS) has created T-shirts to sell that on the front state “It’s a bubbler” and on the back say “Fountains are where you throw coins.” |
Sources Historic UK, drinkingfountains.orgaqualog2, HuffingtonPost |
Philippians 2:15-16a |
Monday, October 24, 2011 |
Just Being a Christian |
So... what's new with you? |
I ask this question to pretty well EVERY student EVERY week when they come to their lesson. The usual response... nothing. Some students that I've taught for several years now just roll their eyes when I ask them what's new. As if I seriously just asked them that question AGAIN! After all, they've been saying "noth... |
That was just a little story that really has nothing to do with anything. I enjoy my work greatly. I am blessed to be able to have a job that I can use as more than just a job. See, my job is ministry too. I used to work in a church full-time. As in, I actually got paid to work in a church. Some people call it fu... |
Now, I spend my days associating with unsaved people. I've found that this makes me more diligent about my actions, words, and attitudes. When I was around Christians it didn't seem to matter so much. Not that I behaved badly, but I didn't have the pressure of my testimony being the difference in someone's eternity ... |
I used to think that I had to work in a church to be in full-time ministry. I discovered that's not really true. I Corinthians 10:31 says, Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Titus 2:7 says, In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works... Full-time ministry d... |
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Sweet Flea-Market Finds Again, Again- AGAIN! |
Yes, yes- I'm going to keep doing that... |
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I actually used to own the first two issues of The Shroud, and Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat miniseries' back in the day... So I was compelled to pick these later issues up when I saw them. I owned that issue of The Sensational She-Hulk (as well as a handful of others) back in the day, too. -And I'm not ashamed to adm... |
I've never even heard of Doom: The Emperor Returns, but you can't go wrong with some Doom. Hence the random Alpha Flight issue. Four for a dollar books- can't go wrong with that either! |
I also got (to go with my Hobgoblin and The Thing) one of the many Spider-Man Marvel PVC Figurines, from the early 90's, for a dollar: |
If you are old enough- you may remember your Local Comic Shop selling these loose figures in a box by the register for around four or five bucks each... |
Another dollar got me this completely unmarked Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers; Goldar PVC figure: |
My Google-abilities have failed me... because it is unmarked- I can not figure out where it came from, besides the fact that it obviously has to be Bandai. I assume it came in some kind of bundle pack or PVC play-set, but I've never seen it before. |
I already have the standard PVC Collectible Figures Goldar that was released in 1993, on the left there... And I was able to find this picture on the right- of one released in 1994. But that's the only information I could find on it. He is clearly the same basic design/sculpt and paint-job as the one I just got, only i... |
Finally, I picked up an actual book. I am 34 years old- it can't all be Marvel Comics and Super Sentai... |
-Also only a dollar! Fucking thing is HUGE. There are, like, twenty-nine Holmes stories in there! Including The Adventure of the Empty House, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Hell yeah!!! There were none on my bookshelf, it was sorely lacking until now... |
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