Green light for largest air cargo terminal in Africa

Green light for largest air cargo terminal in Africa

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest airline in Africa, has ordered the German company Unitechnik Systems GmbH from Wiehl to make plans for an air cargo terminal in the Ethiopian Addis Abeba. "It will be the largest Air Cargo overhaul site in Africa," said Unitechnik director Wolfgang Cieplik to the German online logistics magazine 'Logistic Heute'.

The airline is investing around 32 million Euro in the project. According to Cieplik around 600,000 tonnes of fresh and dried products will be overhauled in Addis Abeba annually in the future.

Publication date: 2/24/2015

Song of the day "Glory"!

Ethiopian won! ኢትዮጵያ ቶክዮ ላይ አሽነፈች

Ethiopia’s Endeshaw Negesse held off world and Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda to win Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon, part of the six-race World Marathon Majors series.

The 26-year-old Negesse took the tape in 2 hours, 6 minutes flat ahead of Kiprotich (2:06:33) and defending champion and race record-holder Dickson Chumba of Kenya, who came in third (2:06:34).

Negesse’s compatriot Birhane Dibaba won the women’s competition in 2:23:15, capping the first men-women sweep by any nation in race history.

Masato Imai was Japan’s highest men’s finisher at seventh (2:07:39) in a strong field including Kiprotich and five runners who have cracked the 2:05 barrier.

“I think it was a good race but a bit windy,” Negesse said. “I had hoped for a faster time but wasn’t possible given the conditions.

“There were many good runners in the field with fast times from big meets like the Olympics and the world championships. But I didn’t lose any sleep over it.

“I knew if I put in the work and ran the race I’m capable of running, I was good enough to win it.”

Negesse failed to match Chumba’s record from last year by 18 seconds, but his time was still his second best after a 2:04:52 at the Dubai Marathon in January 2013.

But after Dubai, Negesse, who dropped out of school in 2012 to run professionally, injured his left leg and didn’t enter another marathon until Dusseldorf in April last year.

Now that he’s won his second marathon, Negesse’s goal is to challenge the world record of 2:02:57 held by Kenya’s Dennis Kimetto.

“That is a dream of mine,” Negesse said, referring to the only sub-2:03 time in history. “I’m not saying I will do it in my next race, but it is a big goal of mine to eventually do it.

“I spent almost four months getting ready for this race. I won today because I trained hard and worked to overcome an injury that kept me out a while.

“I’m very happy to have won this race because to win a majors race, you need a combination of talent, strength and the will to work hard.”

Chumba was in the lead as late as the 38-km mark, but faded after feeling pain in his stomach. By 40 km, Negesse had seven seconds on Chumba and coasted the rest of the way.

For the Japanese athletes, the race doubled as a qualifier for this summer’s world championships in Beijing.

Former ekiden star Imai put himself in a strong position to make Japan’s team by posting the sixth-fastest time ever by a male Japanese runner and taking nearly three minutes off his previous personal best.

“I was aiming for 2:06, 2:07 at worst,” Imai said. “I just managed to hang on to the end. Up until now, I was getting uptight and winding myself into a knot even before the race started.”

Who is the 3rd actor?

All the above actors were part of one movie, I know most you  are familiar with Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jim Fox but who is the 3rd actor? This is the magic of makeup. Great work. It took me several minutes to figure out who was this person. I recognized his voice but could not guessed he is my favorite actor, Can you guess who he is?
Clue.. ? not that easy just stare at him     

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Note: Prospective applicants should complete and submit (via US Mail) a MTS/City of San Diego Taxicab Permit Applicant Interest Form in order to be given priority once applications begin to be accepted. Applicant Interest Forms will be available March 2, 2015 on the MTS Taxicab Administration website. Interest forms will be accepted through March 31, 2015.
A $50 non-refundable payment must be submitted with the interest form, and will be credited toward application fees.

New taxicab permit applications can be requested after March 31, but will not have priority if an interest form was not submitted prior to March 31. All new City of San Diego taxicab permit applicants will need to complete the requirements listed below. This is not an all-inclusive list of requirements. For more information, please refer to instructions on the application form.

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• Provide evidence of at least six months experience of driving a taxicab, transportation network vehicle, charter party carrier service or similar service-oriented transportation business; or managing a demand responsive transportation service or similar service-oriented business

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How a trip to Ethiopia shattered stereotypes, spurred documentary

Traveling to Ethiopia changed me forever. In the two months I worked there in 2008 I met a proud country that fought off Italian colonialists, a diverse nation that communicates in over 80 languages and a complex people who challenged my assumptions and helped shape how I see the world today.

But that wasn’t what I was expecting. I grew up in the 1980s and 90s, decades that saw famine and political unrest in Ethiopia, as well as growth to our region’s significant Ethiopian-American population. For me Ethiopia was a country that evoked images of starving children, refugees and war.

And I’m not alone. Many Americans think in broad, and often grim, generalizations about Ethiopia specifically and Africa overall. But one local Ethiopian-American filmmaker and a small group of college students are hoping to help challenge those stereotypes.

“Some students…all they knew of Africa was famine, terrorism, a lion and a tree,” says 25-year-old Amen Gibreab over strong cups of Ethiopian coffee at Gojo— an incense saturated restaurant tucked into a strip mall in north Seattle.

Two years ago a group of fifteen UW Bothell students met with Gibreab and the founder of the program, professor Panagiotis “Panos” Hatziandreas, in this very spot to discuss the first Seattle-area study-abroad program to Ethiopia. It was a trip that would focus on re-imagining Ethiopia for a new generation and Amen, a Media and Communication major and aspiring filmmaker, knew he had to document it.

Ethiopian is Back with Two Days Valentine’s Special to Addis Ababa!!!!