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GE in Sub-Saharan Africa
GE first started operating in Sub-Saharan Africa over 100 years ago. However in 2011, we decided to renew our focus to meet Africa's current and future needs. Our footprint in sub-Saharan Africa now consists of over 2600 employees, revenues of about $3.3 billion dollars (2015) and operations in 33 countries. GE's main operations in SSA are in Nigeria, South Africa, Angola, Ghana, Mozambique and Kenya where its SSA Headquarters is located.
A key partner in supporting SSA's socio-economic growth, GE operates in the Oil & gas, power, transportation, healthcare, renewables, energy connections and aviation sectors.
Partnership with Governments and local companies form a very important part of GE's growth in SSA. We have signed MOUs with the Governments of several countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, Angola and Ghana to develop infrastructure projects, including sustainable energy solutions, providing efficient and reliable transportation as well as improving access to quality healthcare. These MOUs involve significant investments in creating jobs and human capital development.


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Amar'e Stoudemire has privately announced his intentions to hunt and kill LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, according to reports. The full details of the bloodlustful New York Knicks forward's murderous plans are not yet known, but Stoudemire has told teammates that he has already assembled a cache of firearms with which he hopes to shoot at the Miami Heat stars.
The New York Post reports that after the Knicks' preseason game against the New Jersey Nets, rookie Josh Harrellson innocently inquired about a hunting trip, perhaps for team bonding purposes.
"We're going to hunt in South Florida," replied Stoudemire, a supposed man of faith. "You know what we're going to hunt down there, right?"
Alien snakes? Abandoned Everglades dogs? MILFs?
No, a perhaps sociopathic Stoudemire had a more dangerous game in mind.
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"We're going to hunt LeBron and D-Wade," Stoudemire clarified. "I got the rifle, man."
Amazingly, the New York Police Department has not yet arrested Stoudemire after reports of his murderous plans surfaced.
Granted, after watching the New York Knicks' pathetic first-round playoff exit at the hands of the Boston Celtics, it's likely the NYPD is doubtful that Stoudemire is capable of making good on his threats.
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|A commendation for officers, a welfare check discovering a deceased family member.
Officers were helpful, considerate, kind, and professional, offering moral support upon discovering the deceased.
Filed under Compliments & Commendations, on Monday, October 24, 2016 by Author: Webmaster.
[On September 6th, 2016 Aletta S.. wrote a note of commendation for officers who provided a welfare check, discovering a deceased family member.]
Subject: Officers C. Zarate #3165, M. Rodriquez #3180
Comment: Hi, I'm hoping that a note of commendation can be put in personnel files for Officers Christine Zarate #3165 and Manuel Rodriquez #3180. These were the two officers that came to do a welfare check on my sister, Jane L., at [address removed] on Sept. 20, 2016.
After my sister was found deceased, they were both extremely helpful and considerate, checking on my well being as well as other family members. They were kind, professional and facilitated everything running smoothly, from helping the fire dept gain access to the apt. till the coroner finished her examination, 3 hours later.
I also want to commend Officer Brent Osborn #4217, who although was off-duty, came to offer moral support and help me deal with the coroner's investigation. (I am a bit biased, however, as he is my son-in-law), but he was also extremely helpful.
With much appreciation,
Aletta S.


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Wild turkey flocks change in autumn in a variety of ways, including jakes starting to establish dominance and learning the pecking order. It's just part of the natural cycle of things. Hunters interested in learning more about autumn turkey hunting strategies and biology can do so during this important time of the year.
This is the first of two parts from the Fall & Winter Turkey Hunter's Handbook by Steve Hickoff:
Wild turkeys hatch throughout the spring and summer, depending on when the hen bred, and successfully nested. Since hatching times are varied, some autumn family groups contain young birds (especially males) the size of the adult brood hen. Other such fall flocks might have a recognizable female turkey leading birds-of-the-year that are considerably smaller. Biology tells us a typical clutch is eight to twelve eggs. A single family flock of a dozen birds is large. Predators take their fill.
A brood hen with just a single young bird or just several more can be occasionally seen due to predation, or weather factors, while big groups of several juvenile flocks and brood hens can be noted as well. These family flocks stay together until juvenile males leave to form their own jake groups in late fall. As mentioned, later in the autumn season, young gobblers tend to dominate flocks even more than adult hens, creating obvious disharmony. By then, they move on to form jake-only flocks. Sometimes these small male groups meet up with other gobblers in the area too.
Fall turkey hunters sometimes wonder whether it's okay to legally take a brood hen from a family flock. I've put this question to biologists, and they generally agree that the flock's survival chances are good, as young birds grow wary over summer and into autumn. They have to. As a prey species, turkeys have it tough on a daily basis — young and adult alike. Late hatch flocks, those with pheasant-sized juveniles as hunting seasons begin, likely have more of a challenge, what with less experience in the wild.
This past late summer, through fall and into late winter, I watched a flock of nine juvenile turkeys without a brood hen. They had chosen a roughly five-acre area (split by the busy interstate highway) for their home ground, and roosted there. I'd see them on an almost daily basis, hugging the edge cover, and silently feeding on available foods. Why they were without a brood hen is anyone's guess (roadkill?), but I watched through the months as the gobblers — four all told — grew to be easily distinguished from the smaller hens in the flock: red heads, black-tipped breast feathers, and sprouting beards told the story.
All winter they remained, disturbed only briefly by gawking motorists like myself, whereupon they would vanish into thicker, albeit limited, wooded cover. I never once heard any calling from that spot, and assume they got together daily on a purely visual basis. Some days I wouldn't see them at all, just their tracks crossing the snowy on-ramp. Days later they'd be back. At one point in late winter, a young hen turned up dead along the major highway, having wandered out of the tight habitat.
As spring approached, I noted that all four young gobblers were suddenly gone from the group in their wanderlust mode. Not long after, a strutting mature longbeard had moved into the small area, and collected the remaining four hens for his effort. I never heard a gobble from him either, though I would listen for it at daybreak. Shortly after that, all of the turkeys were gone–all this several weeks before the spring hunting season opened.
Can a family flock survive without their brood hen? In this case, noting the loss of the single young hen, yes. Do turkeys go silent in a challenging situation when getting together visually makes calling unnecessary? In this case, maybe.
Fall jakes born that year become dominant before they leave the family flock in late autumn or winter, challenging the brood hen's status. A single dominant jake will sometimes even call family flock members back together after the morning fly-down or after a predator (or hunter) flushes them. Flock harmony is disrupted for a time. While in the family group, and after they leave it, male turkeys routinely fight to establish pecking order.
In jake-only flocks, a dominant bird usually rules this entire group–until status is contested. This is why some of us have shot a gobbler, only to see other male birds move right in to peck at, claw, and mock breed the dead turkey. The survivors want top-dog status. As fall and winter progresses, these jakes will often join one or more adult gobblers. One bird in that group–often a longbeard — will hold spring breeding rights to all the hens in the area; that is, unless its position is challenged. Nevertheless, it's also not uncommon to see a band of jakes defeat an adult gobbler in a fight. I've watched gangs of juvenile turkeys run off longbeards, and vice-versa.
Called "jake-and-a-halfs" or "super jakes" by us turkey hunters, these male birds are roughly sixteen to eighteen months old when autumn arrives, depending on geographical location.
Distinguished from male birds under a year old, their beards are five to eight inches long. Their spurs are still less than an inch. Their tail fans are full. They run together in small groups, often the same birds they spent time with that past spring. They can appear identical, which suggests they were from the same brood. They work well to the autumn hunter's call, often gobbling and even strutting, and provide a lot of enjoyment during the fall hunt. Their weight in your vest's game pocket is substantial.
Remember, this is the same bird you passed on in spring because he had a beard resembling a stubbed-out cigar. Some autumn hunters will kill a super jake, and refer to it as a longbeard. That's fine. Technically it is, I guess, but a wild gobbler that's been alive for two years or more is often an entirely different creature.
Editor's Note: The following article is an excerpt from Steve Hickoff's book, Fall & Winter Turkey Hunter's Handbook. For more information visit hickoff.blogspot.com/.