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[center]Child running down Cornfield State Park near Downtown
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In the Bunker Hill section of Downtown
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Looking over McArthur Lake towards Downtown
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U.S. Bank Tower with it's holiday lights!
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Downtown buildings with holiday lighting
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I agree with RichyBlacK completely.

When will the day come for the world to label Israel the Apartheid state it is?

Nigerians are allergic to websites.

The US. economy will shrink slightly in these next few quarters, but is expected to rebound somewhere in Q3 of 2009.

Britain on the other hand will be the country most affected by this crisis, with Italy expected to surpass it in GDP!

I'm not going anywhere soon though, so Viva Los Angeles!

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From these statistics, it seems like Maryland, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Texas are the top destinations for Nigerians.

1. Bladensburg, MD (housing, pop. 7,661): 3.2%
2. Cheverly, MD (housing, pop. 6,433): 3.2%
3. Four Corners, TX (housing, pop. 2,954): 3.1%
4. Lanham-Seabrook, MD (housing, pop. 18,190): 2.9%
5. Mitchellville, MD (housing, pop. 9,611): 2.6%
6. Espy, PA (housing, pop. 1,428): 2.6%
7. Chillum, MD (housing, pop. 34,252): 2.5%
8. Duncanville, GA (housing, pop. 542): 2.5%
9. Adelphi, MD (housing, pop. 14,998): 2.3%
10. Greenbelt, MD (housing, pop. 21,456): 2.3%

11. Elsah, IL (housing, pop. 635): 2.2%
12. New Carrollton, MD (housing, pop. 12,589): 2.2%
13. Riverdale Park, MD (housing, pop. 6,690): 2.1%
14. South Laurel, MD (housing, pop. 20,479): 2.1%
15. Goddard, MD (housing, pop. 5,554): 1.9%
16. East Riverdale, MD (housing, pop. 14,961): 1.9%
17. Fairland, MD (housing, pop. 21,738): 1.8%
18. Maryland City, MD (housing, pop. 6,814): 1.8%
19. Glenn Dale, MD (housing, pop. 12,609): 1.7%
20. Bonanza, GA (housing, pop. 2,904): 1.7%
21. New Hempstead, NY (housing, pop. 4,767): 1.7%
22. West Carson, CA (housing, pop. 21,138): 1.6%
23. South Floral Park, NY (housing, pop. 1,578): 1.6%
24. Largo, MD (housing, pop. 8,408): 1.6%
25. Beltsville, MD (housing, pop. 15,690): 1.5%
26. Mission Bend, TX (housing, pop. 30,831): 1.5%
27. Landover Hills, MD (housing, pop. 1,534): 1.4%
28. Greater Landover, MD (housing, pop. 22,900): 1.4%
29. Clarkston, GA (housing, pop. 7,231): 1.4%
30. Missouri City, TX (housing, pop. 52,913): 1.3%
31. Randallstown, MD (housing, pop. 30,870): 1.3%
32. Riverdale, GA (housing, pop. 12,478): 1.3%
33. Takoma Park, MD (housing, pop. 17,299): 1.3%
34. Laurel, MD (housing, pop. 19,960): 1.3%
35. Mason, TN (housing, pop. 1,089): 1.2%
36. Madison Park, NJ (housing, pop. 6,929): 1.2%
37. Irvington, NJ (housing, pop. 60,695): 1.1%
38. Woodmore, MD (housing, pop. 6,077): 1.1%
39. Olympia Fields, IL (housing, pop. 4,732): 1.1%
40. Hyattsville, MD (housing, pop. 14,733): 1.1%
41. Langley Park, MD (housing, pop. 16,214): 1.1%
42. Hillside, NJ (housing, pop. 21,747): 1.1%
43. Union, NJ (housing, pop. 54,405): 1.0%
44. Desert View Highlands, CA (housing, pop. 2,337): 1.0%
45. Owings Mills, MD (housing, pop. 20,193): 1.0%
46. Glenn Heights, TX (housing, pop. 7,224): 1.0%
47. Orange, NJ (housing, pop. 32,868): 1.0%
48. Colwyn, PA (housing, pop. 2,453): 1.0%
49. Redan, GA (housing, pop. 33,841): 1.0%
50. Baldwin Harbor, NY (housing, pop. 8,147): 1.0%
51. South Orange, NJ (housing, pop. 16,964): 1.0%
52. Cascade Valley, WA (housing, pop. 1,811): 0.9%
53. College Park, GA (housing, pop. 20,382): 0.9%
54. Eldridge, CA (housing, pop. 1,534): 0.9%
55. Langston, OK (housing, pop. 1,670): 0.9%
56. Brownfields, LA (housing, pop. 5,222): 0.9%
57. Glenarden, MD (housing, pop. 6,318): 0.9%
58. Tangelo Park, FL (housing, pop. 2,430): 0.9%
59. Brentwood, MD (housing, pop. 2,844): 0.9%
60. Stafford, TX (housing, pop. 15,681): 0.9%
61. Cloverly, MD (housing, pop. 7,835): 0.9%
62. Lake Arbor, MD (housing, pop. 8,533): 0.9%
63. North Valley Stream, NY (housing, pop. 15,789): 0.9%
64. Carriage Club, CO (housing, pop. 1,002): 0.9%
65. District 17, Hagerstown, MD (housing, pop. 7,008): 0.9%
66. Mount Rainier, MD (housing, pop. 8,498): 0.9%
67. Silver Spring, MD (housing, pop. 76,540): 0.9%
68. Budd Lake, NJ (housing, pop. 8,100): 0.9%
69. St. Anthony, MN (housing, pop. 8,012): 0.8%
70. Calverton, MD (housing, pop. 12,610): 0.8%
71. Nelson, NH (housing, pop. 634): 0.8%
72. Calvert, TX (housing, pop. 1,426): 0.8%
73. Cinco Ranch, TX (housing, pop. 11,196): 0.8%
74. Fairview, CA (housing, pop. 9,470): 0.8%
75. Windemere, TX (housing, pop. 6,868): 0.8%
76. Pittsville, MD (housing, pop. 1,182): 0.8%
77. Pickensville, AL (housing, pop. 662): 0.8%
78. North Bennington, VT (housing, pop. 1,428): 0.8%
79. Elmont, NY (housing, pop. 32,657): 0.8%
80. Princeton Junction, NJ (housing, pop. 2,382): 0.8%
81. Hopewell Junction, NY (housing, pop. 2,610): 0.8%
82. Lansing, NY (housing, pop. 3,417): 0.7%
83. Albany, OH (housing, pop. 808): 0.7%
84. Ontario, OH (housing, pop. 5,303): 0.7%
85. Dolton, IL (housing, pop. 25,614): 0.7%
86. Maplewood, NJ (housing, pop. 23,868): 0.7%
87. Forestville, MD (housing, pop. 12,707): 0.7%
88. Avenel, NJ (housing, pop. 17,552): 0.7%
89. Kemp Mill, MD (housing, pop. 9,956): 0.7%
90. Middle River, MD (housing, pop. 23,958): 0.7%
91. Kettering, MD (housing, pop. 11,008): 0.7%
92. Somerset, NJ (housing, pop. 23,040): 0.7%
93. Flossmoor, IL (housing, pop. 9,301): 0.7%
94. Hawthorne, CA (housing, pop. 84,112): 0.7%
95. Rossville, MD (housing, pop. 11,515): 0.6%
96. College Place, WA (housing, pop. 7,818): 0.6%
97. Rush City, MN (housing, pop. 2,102): 0.6%
98. Powder Springs, GA (housing, pop. 12,481): 0.6%
99. East Hazel Crest, IL (housing, pop. 1,607): 0.6%
100.  Hall Park, OK (housing, pop. 1,088): 0.6%
101. Woodlawn, MD (housing, pop. 36,079): 0.6%

From 2000, I expect these results to be at least 3x as higher now.

http://www.city-data.com/top2/h118.html

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Very brilliant
Very hardworking
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Most educated immigrant population

ROTFLMAO, so true!!!!

1 Iceland 0.968
2 Norway 0.968
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4 Australia 0.965
5 Ireland 0.960
6 Netherlands 0.958
7 Sweden 0.958
8 Japan 0.956
9 Luxembourg 0.956
10 Switzerland 0.955
11 France 0.955
12 Finland 0.954
13 Denmark 0.952
14 Austria 0.951
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16 Spain 0.949
17 Belgium 0.948
18 Greece 0.947
19 Italy 0.945
20 New Zealand 0.944
[size=15pt]21 United Kingdom 0.942[/size]
22 Hong Kong 0.942
23 Germany 0.940
24 Israel 0.930
25 Korea (Republic of) 0.928
26 Slovenia 0.923
27 Brunei Darussalam 0.919
28 Singapore 0.918
29 Kuwait 0.912
30 Cyprus 0.912
31 UAE 0.903
32 Bahrain 0.902
33 Portugal 0.900
34 Qatar 0.899
35 Czech Republic 0.897
36 Malta 0.894
37 Barbados 0.889
38 Hungary 0.877
39 Poland 0.875
40 Chile 0.874
41 Slovakia 0.872
42 Estonia 0.871
43 Lithuania 0.869
44 Latvia 0.863
45 Croatia 0.862
46 Argentina 0.860
47 Uruguay 0.859
48 Cuba 0.855
49 Bahamas 0.854
50 Costa Rica 0.847

http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDI_2008_EN_Tables.pdf

I have no plans of leaving. . . . .at least not yet.

I am not even half way done with schooling, why would I leave the good life just now?

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Of course, it's obvious because all of her previous handles have the same exact signature.

[size=15pt][center]Getting high on HIV drugs in South Africa [/center][/size]

Anti-retroviral drugs used to treat HIV/Aids are being bought and smoked by teenagers in South Africa to get high.

Reports suggest that the drugs are being sold by patients and even healthcare staff for money.

Schoolchildren have been spotted smoking the drugs, which are ground into powder and sometimes mixed with painkillers or marijuana.

Aids patients themselves have been found smoking the drugs instead of taking them as prescribed.

Anti-retrovirals are used to boost the immune system of people with HIV and to suppress the virus in the blood.

"I couldn't believe it. I was shocked at first, these were school boys in their school uniforms," documentary-maker Tooli Nhlapo told the BBC World Service's Outlook programme.

"They take a pill and grind it, until it is a powder. Some also mix it with painkillers and others mix it with marijuana," said Ms Nhlapo. "They showed me how they roll it and smoke it."

Hallucinogenic

When the South African Broadcasting Corporation documentary-maker first investigated the story, she was told to wait until school finished, so she could actually see how young some of the users were.

"I thought I was going to go to a tavern and see older drug addicts doing this, but I was shocked when I saw school children," she said.

"One who spoke to me very frankly was only 15 and the oldest person I spoke to was 21, but it's mainly youngsters, teenagers."

Smoking the pills has a hallucinogenic and relaxing effect.

"When I asked them why they like doing it, they said it helps them relax and forget about their problems," said Ms Nhlapo.

"When you look at them, just a few seconds after taking it, they are in another world," she added.

The children do not know where they are and they stop making sense.

The young users that Ms Nhlapo spoke to get access to these drugs from HIV patients or healthcare workers.

They know when the individual patients go to collect the drugs and buy them, or if they do not have any money, they steal them.

"When I was doing the story, many HIV patients were complaining that they don't get the drugs and that queues are long and it was taking a long time to access them," said Ms Nhlapo.

Widespread problem

Dr Kas Kasongo, who advises on an anti-retroviral drugs panel in South Africa, feels that there needs to be some measure of accountability or a system to be able to track the usage of drugs.

"We need pharmacists and good administrators but again it is a social problem," he said.

"I don't think our role as doctors should be to just dish out drugs. We have to make sure that these drugs are taken as recommended."

When Ms Nhlapo first came across this new drug phenomenon, she thought it was just happening in one area, among a small group of people.

"I went back to the township and then I discovered that it was something that was known in the entire township," she said.

It had now become a national problem in South Africa, she added.

Dr Kasongo continued: "Not taking the optimum dose as recommended will not suppress the virus and the CD4 count will be destroyed massively and that's what we are trying to prevent by giving anti-retroviral medication."

Side-effects

Most anti-retroviral drugs can be given to both children and adults, Dr Kasongo said. But there was one exception.

"There is one that is being abused that should only be used above the age of three or four years," he added.

"Remember we are giving anti-retroviral drugs to those infected with HIV, who will eventually develop Aids.

"So, people who are healthy, that are taking this medication are exposing themselves to potential side-effects of these drugs," he added.

HIV patients are exposing themselves to huge risks by not taking the prescribed drugs as they should, he warned.

"We don't have more than 20 anti-retroviral drugs on the market and remember, they have to be used in a cocktail of at least three or four," said Dr Kasongo.

"Therefore, abusing a particular drug, whichever it is, is a concern because it can give rise to resistance to drugs within that same group," he added.

Dr Kasongo stressed that it will take a huge team effort, involving the government, social workers and education authorities to combat the problem.

"It is well organised, no matter how high they are, they do not tell you who is giving them the drugs," said Ms Nhlapo.

BBC Africa

This is ridiculous. Thousands of people die each year from AIDS in S.A. each year, but they choose to smoke the medication as a drug!

Jackstar:
ummm i just have one question for black spade - i would like to know how the hell you can HATE a country without ever visiting it ?? Ohhh because you should always believe Everything the media says, its ALWAYS true !! Actually checking it out for yourself before you form such strong opinions may be wise ?? I am an Australian girl and I am with a Nigerian guy but I guess I must be racist cause I'm Ozzie is that right ?? Hahaha talk about having an open mind. I don't go around saying that all Nigerians are scam artists and I HATE Africa so give me a break. You shouldnt go dissing and hating my country cause that makes YOU racist doesnt it?

What the hell?

I think you should go back and re-read my original assertion, and when you do, you'll realize I didn't say "I HATE" Australia, I'm just not fond of the country. I don't believe everything the media says either, I do my own research, but since you brought up the "media", can you explain why the Australian media is so obsessed with what they call "ethnic crime"? Here's a video put together by a news organization that investigated some reports by your media outlets. . . . . very interesting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH684WWgi-8

Now, I never said all Aussies are racist, at all, so again, I recommend you re-read. I do however think some segments of your government and population are very discriminatory when it comes to accepting Black Africans. I think the exclusionary and selective measures the immigration minister put on Sudanese and other African immigrants was very discriminatory, and overtly racist. That doesn't mean I think all Australians are racist, or that all of Australia is a hotbed of racial tension, I'm just not fond of the country for this, amongst other things.

But don't worry, you won't have to worry about seeing my black ass in Australia anytime soon.

California has an extremely fast growing Nigerian community, primarily in Southern California and the S.F. Bay Area, with 25,000 alone in L.A.

If this is your first time traveling outside the county, check out this site, it helped many people around me who were in your situation:

http://www.globalvisas.com/

Global Visas was founded more than a decade ago with a mission to take the stress out of immigration. Created by a former Immigration Official who witnessed the difficulties facing individuals and organisations alike, Global Visas was established to help clients navigate the complexities of immigration and visa law.

Very good services, and they get back to you next day.

Maybe you're onto something. African-Americans are the same, with about 60% of African-American children not knowing how to swim.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2008/05/60_percent_of_b.php

Hey ikeyman00, you're almost to your 1,000th post.

Wow, and to think, the poster who created this topic has access to a computer. . . . . . https://smilies.vidahost.com/cwm/3dlil/eek13.gif

[center]Downtown Los Angeles skyline from the Westlake District
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Downtown Skyline from the newly built state park adjacent to Downtown
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Nighttime shot of Downtown Los Angeles from South Los Angeles
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Office buildings in Downtown from another office building
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Downtown Los Angeles at Night from East Los Angeles
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[center]Entering L.A. Live! from Figueroa Street in Downtown
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L.A. Live! from the corner of Figueroa and Chick Hearn Court
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Looking up Figueroa Street, high-rise canyon in the making
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Looking down alley in L.A. Live! still under construction
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Marriott-Ritz Calrton hotel still under construction in L.A. Live!
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All of these pictures were taken in this area:
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