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IF you watch a cleaning contractor, you will notice the workers sweeping all the rubbish together and then they go for the nearest drain and sweep it down. And what happens when there is a heavy rain, the drain is blocked because of the access rubbish and water overflows onto the road causing floods on the roads. Then NCDC goes and gives the contract to another contractor to clean out the drain. Some people really need to learn and know the importance of having drains.
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AND it is high time city authorities start planning and get to work on improving the drainage system in the capital city of Papua New Guinea. There is flood at the same areas every time there is a heavy downpour and nothing has been done to correct it. Typical attitude we have today; let us wait until someone gets dragged into the drain then everyone reacts and start working on it.
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OVER the centuries, as styles of clothing change and evolve, so too do the ways in which men wear their facial hair. In 18th-century Europe, the chinstrap, a narrow line of beard that grows along the chin and jaw, gained popularity, while the handlebar moustache, with its characteristically lengthy ends, is considered stereotypical of the 19th-century American Wild West.
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THIS ancient Roman festival was held in honour of Pales, the protector of shepherds and their flocks. The Parilia was a pastoral rite observed not only in rural areas but also in Rome, where it coincided with the city’s founding in 753 BCE. Although no sacrifices were offered, lustrations (purifying ceremonies) were carried out with fire and smoke.
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THE stables were purified with smoke and swept out with brooms; in rural areas, heaps of straw were set ablaze, and shepherds and their flocks had to pass over them three times. The festival ended with a huge open-air feast.
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MAX Weber was a German sociologist and political economist whose most famous and controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, examines the relationship between Calvinist – or Puritan – morality, compulsive labour, bureaucracy, and economic success under capitalism. Weber also wrote about social phenomena such as charisma and mysticism, which he saw as antithetical to the modern world and its underlying process of rationalisation.
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QUOTE of the day: There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Safe weekend to you!!!
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