Wednesday, May 15
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Kind of overcast and cooler, but nice.
Getting more things done in preparation for embarking tomorrow. I booked a room for four nights, and it was an awkward process but it got done. I think.
I put fuel in my car, as for the week it will be my Sweetie driving it, and I will drive his car (his fuel tank is bigger, so I won't have to stop as often). I cleaned it out a bit for him too, as I usually have horse stuff in it.
I picked up some cat litter from someone who was giving it away as their cat won't use it, on the way to my riding lesson.
I ended up driving out of my way quite a distance to get to the riding barn, as I didn't realize that the road I took was not direct. Oh well.
River was good, we had a lesson today, he felt a bit more (relatively speaking) perky with the cooler weather. We worked on our canter draw circles.
Then we did some ridden work, focusing on riding with the neck rope in the outdoor arena and keeping him focused, and listening to me, not drifting off course.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures for a while, it rained a tiny bit.
We folded and put away a giant pile of clean laundry, and took two big bags of sheets and towels, and some other things I'm okay releasing out to the car to take home with me to be given away to whomever needs it.
I still have some other things to do, but I have a lot taken care of. There is food and litter for cats, I have the feed set up for outside animals, I caught up the laundry, and so on.
We did watch more "Boardwalk Empire".
Right South of Niger is Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with about 230 million people the largest city being Lagos.
" Nigeria has been home to several indigenous pre-colonial states and kingdoms since the second millennium BC, with the Nok civilization in the 15th century BC marking the first internal unification.[10] The modern state originated with British colonialization in the 19th century, taking its present territorial shape with the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914. The British set up administrative and legal structures while practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms.[11] Nigeria became a formally independent federation on 1 October 1960. It experienced a civil war from 1967 to 1970, followed by a succession of military dictatorships and democratically elected civilian governments until achieving a stable government in the 1999 Nigerian presidential election, with the election of Olusegun Obasanjo of the Peoples Democratic Party. However, the country frequently experiences electoral fraud, and corruption is significantly present in all levels of Nigerian politics."
"Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja, is located". A federal republic means that each of those 36 states were once separate entities and now they operate semi-autonomously, kind of like Canadian Provinces where there is their own government, and a Federal government.
The official language is English, but there are over 500 other languages spoken here.
Though Nigeria did have an oil boom in the 1970's, little was done to improve life for the people of Nigeria either by building infrastructure (electricity, waste treatment and water, hospitals, schools) or supporting businesses.
Waste management and water supply are now present day problems and threats to the environment, leading to untreated waste polluting ground water and spreading disease. Industrial waste is not managed either, and toxic materials are just being dumped everywhere. Illegal or otherwise poorly managed oil refineries are a huge culprit.
Nigeria has a fairly strong economy, with a large financial services sector, the petroleum industry, entertainment industry, pharmaceutical manufacturing, an early stage mining industry, personal care products, fertilizer, plastics, and armored vehicles. Quite a range.
Nigeria used to be food independent, but it's now enormous population has outstripped it's ability to feed itself.
Similarly, it struggles to generate enough electricity, and is looking into nuclear power plants.
Nigeria has significant coastline, and also has the Niger river running through it. It is wet and tropical at the coastline, and drier savannah moving North, a mountainous plateau region, and further North becoming Sahara desert.
"Nigeria's human rights record remains poor.[292] According to the U.S. Department of State,[292] the most significant human rights problems are the use of excessive force by security forces, impunity for abuses by security forces, arbitrary arrests, prolonged pretrial detention, judicial corruption and executive influence on the judiciary, rape, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners, detainees and suspects; harsh and life‑threatening prison and detention centre conditions; human trafficking for prostitution and forced labour, societal violence and vigilante killings, child labour, child abuse and child sexual exploitation, domestic violence, discrimination based on ethnicity, region and religion."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria#Politics
https://youtu.be/h4sWFJFge54?si=GcwyM4MOq7rrnCcb
Kind of overcast and cooler, but nice.
Getting more things done in preparation for embarking tomorrow. I booked a room for four nights, and it was an awkward process but it got done. I think.
I put fuel in my car, as for the week it will be my Sweetie driving it, and I will drive his car (his fuel tank is bigger, so I won't have to stop as often). I cleaned it out a bit for him too, as I usually have horse stuff in it.
I picked up some cat litter from someone who was giving it away as their cat won't use it, on the way to my riding lesson.
I ended up driving out of my way quite a distance to get to the riding barn, as I didn't realize that the road I took was not direct. Oh well.
River was good, we had a lesson today, he felt a bit more (relatively speaking) perky with the cooler weather. We worked on our canter draw circles.
Then we did some ridden work, focusing on riding with the neck rope in the outdoor arena and keeping him focused, and listening to me, not drifting off course.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures for a while, it rained a tiny bit.
We folded and put away a giant pile of clean laundry, and took two big bags of sheets and towels, and some other things I'm okay releasing out to the car to take home with me to be given away to whomever needs it.
I still have some other things to do, but I have a lot taken care of. There is food and litter for cats, I have the feed set up for outside animals, I caught up the laundry, and so on.
We did watch more "Boardwalk Empire".
Right South of Niger is Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with about 230 million people the largest city being Lagos.
" Nigeria has been home to several indigenous pre-colonial states and kingdoms since the second millennium BC, with the Nok civilization in the 15th century BC marking the first internal unification.[10] The modern state originated with British colonialization in the 19th century, taking its present territorial shape with the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914. The British set up administrative and legal structures while practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms.[11] Nigeria became a formally independent federation on 1 October 1960. It experienced a civil war from 1967 to 1970, followed by a succession of military dictatorships and democratically elected civilian governments until achieving a stable government in the 1999 Nigerian presidential election, with the election of Olusegun Obasanjo of the Peoples Democratic Party. However, the country frequently experiences electoral fraud, and corruption is significantly present in all levels of Nigerian politics."
"Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja, is located". A federal republic means that each of those 36 states were once separate entities and now they operate semi-autonomously, kind of like Canadian Provinces where there is their own government, and a Federal government.
The official language is English, but there are over 500 other languages spoken here.
Though Nigeria did have an oil boom in the 1970's, little was done to improve life for the people of Nigeria either by building infrastructure (electricity, waste treatment and water, hospitals, schools) or supporting businesses.
Waste management and water supply are now present day problems and threats to the environment, leading to untreated waste polluting ground water and spreading disease. Industrial waste is not managed either, and toxic materials are just being dumped everywhere. Illegal or otherwise poorly managed oil refineries are a huge culprit.
Nigeria has a fairly strong economy, with a large financial services sector, the petroleum industry, entertainment industry, pharmaceutical manufacturing, an early stage mining industry, personal care products, fertilizer, plastics, and armored vehicles. Quite a range.
Nigeria used to be food independent, but it's now enormous population has outstripped it's ability to feed itself.
Similarly, it struggles to generate enough electricity, and is looking into nuclear power plants.
Nigeria has significant coastline, and also has the Niger river running through it. It is wet and tropical at the coastline, and drier savannah moving North, a mountainous plateau region, and further North becoming Sahara desert.
"Nigeria's human rights record remains poor.[292] According to the U.S. Department of State,[292] the most significant human rights problems are the use of excessive force by security forces, impunity for abuses by security forces, arbitrary arrests, prolonged pretrial detention, judicial corruption and executive influence on the judiciary, rape, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners, detainees and suspects; harsh and life‑threatening prison and detention centre conditions; human trafficking for prostitution and forced labour, societal violence and vigilante killings, child labour, child abuse and child sexual exploitation, domestic violence, discrimination based on ethnicity, region and religion."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria#Politics
https://youtu.be/h4sWFJFge54?si=GcwyM4MOq7rrnCcb
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Date: 2024-05-19 08:06 am (UTC)