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 Celebrities / Re: "i Pay My Girlfriend Salary Every Month" Timaya by ireneann: 8:29am On Apr 21, 2010 |
smile4kenn: I hope he will not sing with this tomorrow  |
| Car Talk / Re: Cost Of Replacing My Car's Shocks And Front Driver's Side Lower Arm Control by ireneann: 7:00pm On Apr 20, 2010 |
Seeke: get a mechanic and drive the car to ladipo and you problems will be solved. but be careful with the mechanic before he coludes with the traders to cheat you |
| Travel / Uk Sends Warships To Rescue Stranded Britons by ireneann: 2:20pm On Apr 19, 2010 |
LONDON – Britain sent Royal Navy warships on Monday to rescue those stranded across the Channel by the volcanic ash cloud and the aviation industry blasted European officials, claiming there was "no coordination and no leadership" in the crisis that shut down most European airports for a fifth day. Eurocontrol, the air traffic agency in Brussels, said less than one-third of flights in Europe were taking off Monday — between 8,000 and 9,000 of the continent's 28,000 scheduled flights. Passengers in Asia who had slept on airport floors for days and were running out of money staged protests at airport counters. All airports were open Monday in Spain and the country volunteered to become the new hub of Europe to get stranded passengers moving again. Infrastructure minister Jose Blanco said Spain could to take in around 100,000 people under the new emergency plan, which focuses on aircraft trying to bring Britons home from Asia, Latin America and North America. Spain will also beef up train, bus and ferry services to get travelers to their destinations, he said. European airlines sought financial compensation for a crisis that is costing the industry an estimated $200 million a day. British Airways said it was losing up to 20 million pounds ($30 million) a day and other airlines were also racking up huge losses. Hundreds of thousands of travelers have been stuck since the volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier begun erupting Wednesday for the second time in a month. As pressure mounted from airlines, European civil aviation authorities were holding a conference call Monday about what steps could be taken toward opening airspace. "It's embarrassing, and a European mess," said Giovanni Bisignani, chief executive of the International Air Transport Association. "It took five days to organize a conference call with the ministers of transport and we are losing $200 million per day (and) 750,000 passengers are stranded all over. Does it make sense?" In Paris, the IATA expressed its "dissatisfaction with how governments have managed it, with no risk assessment, no consultation, no coordination, and no leadership." The group urged governments to more urgently "focus on how and when we can safely reopen Europe's skies" — such as with more in-depth study of the ash cloud. With airlines pressing for a restrictions to be lifted, a senior Western diplomat said Monday that several NATO F-16 fighters that flew through the ash cloud had suffered engine damage — evidence that the danger from the cloud is very real. The official declined to provide more details on the military flights, except to say that glasslike deposits were found inside the planes' engines. He spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information. Some smaller airports reopened Monday but authorities in Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands — home to four of Europe's five largest airports — said their air space was still closed. Britain said it was keeping flight restrictions on through early Tuesday while Italy briefly lifted restrictions in the north then quickly closed down again after conditions worsened Monday. Eurocontrol said Monday that southern Europe was mostly open for flights — including Portugal, Spain, parts of Italy and France, the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey — as were parts of northern Europe like Norway. Several major airlines safely tested the skies with weekend flights that did not carry passengers. The announcement of successful test flights prompted some airline officials to wonder whether authorities had overreacted to concerns that the microscopic particles of ash could shut down jet engines. In London, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and assault ship HMS Ocean would be sent across the English Channel. A third ship is being spent to Spain to pick up soldiers trying to get back to Britain after a tour of duty in Afghanistan. "I expect Ocean to be in the Channel today. I expect the Ark Royal to moving towards the Channel later," Brown said after meeting with the government's emergency committee, known as COBRA. He said Britain was speaking with Spanish authorities to see whether Britons stranded overseas could be flown there and then taken home by boat or bus. Brown said the ash cloud had created "the biggest challenge to our aviation transport network for many years." Tensions boiled over at Incheon International Airport in South Korea, where 30 frustrated passengers blocked a Korean Air ticketing counter and demanded officials arrange travel to anywhere in Europe after hearing about the test flights. "We need a flight, we need a time," Thierry Loison, who has been stuck at the airport since Friday on the way back to France, told Korean Air officials. "We were like animals this morning." Transport ministers from Britain, Germany, France and Spain were meeting Monday by videoconference and will later be joined by all 27 EU transport ministers, said French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau. "We will try to outline corridors, if we can, based on the evolution of the cloud, to allow the reopening of as large a number of flight paths as possible, as quickly as possible and in good security conditions," Bussereau said. Diego Lopez Garrido, state secretary for EU affairs for Spain, which holds the rotating EU presidency, said "now it is necessary to adopt a European approach" instead of a patchwork of national closures and openings. "There is currently no consensus as to what consists an acceptable level of ash in the atmosphere," said Daniel Hoeltgen, a spokesman for the European Aviation Safety Agency. "This is what we are concerned about." KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said it had flown four planes Sunday through what it described as a gap in the layer of microscopic dust over Holland and Germany. Air France, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines also sent up test flights, although most traveled below the altitudes where the ash has been heavily concentrated. Meteorologists warned, however, that the situation above Europe remained unstable and constantly changing with the varying winds — and the unpredictability was compounded by the volcano's continuing eruptions. Ash and grit from volcanic eruptions can sabotage a plane in many ways: the abrasive ash can sandblast a jet's windshield, block fuel nozzles, contaminate the oil system and electronics and plug the tubes that sense airspeed. But the most immediate danger is to the engines. Melted ash can then congeal on the blades and block the normal flow of air, causing engines to shut down. Scientists say because this volcano is located below a glacial ice cap, magma is being cooled quickly, causing explosions and plumes of grit that can be catastrophic to plane engines, depending on prevailing winds. But scientists in Iceland offered some hope Monday that conditions might be easing, saying the new volcanic ash plume is lower, which would pose less of a threat to commercial aircraft in the future. Geologists saw a red glow at the bottom of the volcano, suggesting the eruption is turning to lava flow, and said there is less ice in the crater, which would reduce the plume. "We hadn't seen that before," said Kristin Vogfjord, a geologist at the Icelandic weather office. |
| Romance / Re: Marry A Parent! by ireneann: 8:07am On Apr 14, 2010 |
kulyie: what planet are you from  |
| Romance / Re: I Slept With My Wife's Mother And Friend. I Am Askin 4 Help Not Curses. by ireneann: 8:03am On Apr 14, 2010 |
tales by moonlight  . Children who can tell me the moral of this story |
| Romance / Re: hmmm by ireneann: 7:58am On Apr 14, 2010 |
it's not the end of the world. Be a man and walk away. |
| Autos / Do All Suv Come With V6 Engine by ireneann: 7:43am On Apr 14, 2010 |
I want to ask if some SUV's come in four cylinder engines cos I see some with V6 boldly written on the back and I wonder Someone please educate me |
| Adverts / Re: Any Body With Lpfo With Nnpc Allocatiopn Papers. by ireneann: 7:33am On Apr 14, 2010 |
stagger: cool temper |
| Properties / Re: Prorerties @ Apapa Gra For Sell by ireneann: 4:16pm On Apr 13, 2010 |
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| Adverts / Re: Any Body With Lpfo With Nnpc Allocatiopn Papers. by ireneann: 4:09pm On Apr 13, 2010 |
ologun01: what tonnage are you looking for? I mean in GT? I have sent you a mail. |
| Politics / After A Presidential Tragedy, Questions For Poland by ireneann: 9:43am On Apr 13, 2010 |
[b]Poland's loss seems incomprehensible. On Saturday, a plane carrying the country's top leaders and historic figures, including President Lech Kaczynski, crashed in Smolensk, Russia, en route to the Katyn massacre's 70th anniversary memorial service. All 96 onboard perished, most high-ranking officials and "icons" of Polish politics. Poland has declared a week of mourning, even as acting President Bronislaw Komorowski works to determine who should be the next leaders of the Polish state. Many questions remain about the April 10 tragedy, what was lost, and where Poland will go from here. The brothers Kaczynski The crash killed both the president and his wife Maria, leaving behind a daughter, two grandchildren, Kacyznski's ailing mother, and his twin. It was President Kacyznski's twin brother, Jaroslaw, who identified the body. Identical twins whose differences could only be distinguished by Lech's mole and wedding ring, the two seemed inseparable in their rise to political power. This kinship has raised speculation that the surviving brother could step up to run for his late brother's seat. The brothers had always been close: They were child stars in an enduring children's movie called "The Two Who Stole the Moon." A 2005 Irish Times profile recounted how they'd swapped for one another in school: Jarowslaw took the science tests, Lech the language ones. In politics, Lech ran for positions in the new Solidarity movement, while Jaroslaw—his elder by a mere 45 minutes—was what the Christian Science Monitor called "a kind of Karl Rove of Polish politics." The two cofounded the Law and Justice Party, but lost public favor in recent years with their focus on "uncover[ing] misdeeds by former communist officials." Their favorite phrase "My brother and I think, " became a "cult expression." Inevitably, analysts are looking at Jaroslaw, who resigned as prime minister in November 2007, as a possible presidential candidate. Citizens who were interviewed about this possibility were sympathetic about the tragedy, but don't see the twin as a viable candidate. In the meantime, a Law & Justice spokesperson has dismissed such talk, saying "This is a time of mourning." The Katyn massacre memorial The Polish delegation had been en route to the Katyn memorial, commemorating the 22,000 Polish officers killed 70 years ago by the Russian secret police, NKVD, under Joseph Stalin. Observing the 70th anniversary underscored the strain between Poland and Russia, its former ruler. One think-tank analyst told CNN, "Katyn has been the most difficult issue up to the present moment. Everyone in Poland knows that the Katyn massacre was a very small part of a systematic effort by Russians to get rid of a whole class of Polish people." Russia admitted to the massacre 20 years ago, but has never named those responsible. Yet the service itself and the rapid speed at which Russia responded to the accident represent "a revolutionary change" in the countries' relationship, according to the Washington Post. Within hours of the crash, prime ministers Donald Tusk (Poland) and Vladimir Putin (Russia) flew to the scene. Forensic investigators and media soon followed. Russia and Ukraine declared Monday as a day of mourning, out of sympathy for the Polish people. Questions about pilot error Why did Capt. Arkadiusz Protasiuk and his crew ignore air-traffic controllers' counsel and proceed with a fifth—and disastrous—landing attempt in fog? Did the president himself order the move, as he did back in 2008 when a pilot refused to land in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, during the war between Russia and Georgia? The recovered cockpit recorders show the pilot received fair warning, and analysts are looking for more clues. The presidential plane itself had gone through a thorough checkup just four months ago, although questions remain about the aging aircraft and the Tu-154 overall. Polish government: What happens now? The interim president has 14 days from Kacynski's death to select an election date, and that election must be within 60 days of the announcement. Poles will likely elect their new leader before July 5. By many accounts, the conservative Kaczynski would have faced a tough autumn election against parliamentary speaker and liberal Komorowski, now acting president. There are other, possibly even more worrisome, concerns: The unprecedented number of deaths challenges the protocol to be followed in the event of a president's death. Polish laws dictate that only a sitting president can fill some of the vacancies, although interim leader Komorowski has made some appointments. Among the dead, AP reports, were ", the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of the air and land forces, the national bank president, the deputy foreign minister, the army chaplain, the head of the National Security Office, the deputy parliament speaker, the Olympic Committee head and at least two presidential aides and 17 lawmakers." Finding military chiefs may be among the most crucial tasks. Just days before the crash, Gen. David Petraeus had met with military leaders in Poland. Now the American general offered his condolences: "Almost everybody who was sitting on the other side of the table at my meeting with the general staff is no longer with us." [/b] |
| Family / Re: Is It A Must That Parents Must Quarrel? by ireneann: 9:18am On Apr 13, 2010 |
lagerwhenindoubt: gbam!!! I have asked Jerry Rawlings to issue you a Ghanaian diplomatic passport. Call him now |
| Family / Re: I Will Like My Wife To Be Slim How Do I Tell Her by ireneann: 9:14am On Apr 13, 2010 |
You all don't seem to know one thing!!! The poster is looking for an excuse to push her out |
| Travel / Re: Can Someone Tell Me How To Get Turkey Visa by ireneann: 9:06am On Apr 13, 2010 |
mama-gee: gbam |
| Travel / Re: Aero Contractors Low Cost Tickets by ireneann: 9:04am On Apr 13, 2010 |
Sun Tzu: Awoof dey purge!!! Abi you no know |
| Health / Re: My Girlfriend Urinates On My Bed Every Night (bed Wetting): Help by ireneann: 9:00am On Apr 13, 2010 |
snazzy82: I think you should get her either PAMPERS or HUGGIES (maxi) which she will wear overnight. |
| TV/Movies / Re: Lion Heart: The Kanu Story (Kanu Nwanko's Movie) by ireneann: 7:54am On Apr 13, 2010 |
I never knew Kanu could speak english |
| Adverts / Re: Any Body With Lpfo With Nnpc Allocatiopn Papers. by ireneann: 7:34am On Apr 13, 2010 |
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| Phones / Re: Blackberry Services by ireneann: 4:41pm On Apr 12, 2010 |
GLO all the way baby |
| Adverts / Re: Any Body With Lpfo With Nnpc Allocatiopn Papers. by ireneann: 4:27pm On Apr 12, 2010 |
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| Business To Business / Re: deleted by ireneann: 4:11pm On Apr 12, 2010 |
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| Properties / Re: Plot Of Land Needed by ireneann: 12:40pm On Apr 12, 2010 |
cintowolex: I prefer Sagamu GRA but if you have in any other place. I can check it out to see if it suits my need. |
| Business To Business / Re: deleted by ireneann: 8:33am On Apr 12, 2010 |
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| Adverts / Re: Any Body With Lpfo With Nnpc Allocatiopn Papers. by ireneann: 3:12pm On Apr 09, 2010 |
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| Business To Business / Re: deleted by ireneann: 3:10pm On Apr 09, 2010 |
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| Business To Business / deleted by ireneann: 1:01pm On Apr 09, 2010 |
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| Politics / Re: Police Arrest 15 Over Rimi’s Death by ireneann: 12:36pm On Apr 09, 2010 |
15 innocent Nigerians who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time  were there no checkpoints on the road that Rimi was robbed? or maybe the police had info that the robbers will operate and therefore made themselves scarce |
| Politics / Re: Why Babangida’s 2011 Aspiration May Fail by ireneann: 12:12pm On Apr 09, 2010 |
The evil that men do pursues after them When he was annulling the election did he consult any geo-political zone? |
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