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Purchasing power of civil servant health workers in Mozambique
Purchasing power of civil servant health workers in Mozambique
Fátima Ferrinho1, Marta Amaral2, Giuliano Russo2,&, Paulo Ferrinho2
1Associaçăo para o Desenvolvimento e Cooperaçăo Garcia de Orta, Lisbon, Portugal, 2International Health and Biostatistics Department and Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
&Corresponding author
Giuliano Russo, Rua da Junqueira 100, 1349-008, Lisbon (Portugal), Tel. 00351 213652 622
In Mozambique, as in many other developing countries, anecdotic evidence suggests that the purchasing power of civil servants in general and of civil servant health workers in particular, erodes over time. According to Reis et al. in Mozambique the salaries of civil servant health workers are defined by law, and these salaries have grown at rates lower than inflation [1]. Like for the majority of African countries [2], between 1991 and 1996, monthly salaries of nurses went from 110$ to less than 40$ and the salaries of doctors decreased from 350$ to 110$ [3]. Schwalbach and colleagues refer that health workers themselves identify salary increases as one of their most adamant demands [4].
The erosion of salaries' purchasing power eventually becomes a source of dissatisfaction and of loss of motivation, leading to reduced productivity, loss of service quality, deterioration of the client-health workers interaction and illegal charges and petty corruption [5-8]. In the context of the development of a new human resources national development strategy for the Ministry of Health in Mozambique (for the period 2008-2015) this issue could not be ignored [9]. Therefore the variation in purchasing power between 1999 and 2007 was studied in order to refine recommendations regarding salary strategies.
Mozambique is to these days one of the world' least developed country [10], and one with the worst health indicators [11]. Emerged in 1992 from a 16-year long civil war, its health care system has since gone through several phases of rehabilitation. While in the 1980s was explicitly focused on primary care-centred policies to expand access to services for its impoverished inhabitants [12], a transition to a more sophisticated health care model has recently been taking place, as the country's middle class and private sector steadily grows in urban areas, and the policy focus is gradually being moved towards the quality of services [13].
At the time of the study, the National Health Care System (NHS) relied on approximately 1,200 health units and 25,683 health personnel, among which only 2.5% were national doctors, and over 85% were little-trained "elementary" and "basic" cadres [14]. Ferrinho and Omar maintain that health workers' large unskilled base, as well as their geographical distribution skewed towards the country's rural areas, are the health workforce main weak points [15].
Due to language and traditional barriers, Mozambican health professionals do not seem to be overly affected by international brain drain [16]. To this respect, Bhargava and Docquier estimated the medical brain drain in the country at around 6% of the workforce, down from its 7.5% peak in the nineties [17].
On the other hand, public sector health workers true brain drain appears to be directed towards the consolidating urban areas' private sector. Although official statistics on the private sector are lacking, several studies have reported an ever-increasing proportion of public sector staff engaging in dual employment in private clinics, in their own practices or informally, a controversial if largely unregulated phenomenon in the country [18].
The present work aims, firstly, at producing original data on health professionals' salaries in Mozambique. Secondly, the paper's objective is to contribute to the development of a standardised methodology, easy-to-apply methodology to assess salary's purchasing power across the years in information-poor settings. Our study focuses on basic salaries in the health sector between 1999 and 2007, as these, together with salaries in the Education sector, have been the subject of the Mozambican Government's policies in the last decade aimed at recruiting and retaining key workers in the health sector. Allowances and salary supplements were not considered in the study as these, according to Tyrrell 2008, represent only a fraction (about 5.5%) of the official pay in the health secrtor in Mozambique [19]. Such salary supplements are also particularly unevenly distributed among professional categories in the Mozambican public sector [20], and it is here believed that establishing in what measure each civil servant benefitted from such extra pay would constitute the subject of a different study.
With the objective of calculating health sector salaries purchasing power, 1999 to 2007 salaries in the national currency (Mozambican Meticais – MZM) were obtained for civil servant health workers of the different careers (including managerial categories) in public sector health facilities and in the Ministry of Health [21].
Public sector careers in Mozambique are established by legislation as general, specific and special regime careers [22]. Special Differentiated Health Careers (Carreiras Diferenciadas de Regime Especial da Saúde), include the public health medical career, the hospital medical careers and the generalist medical career.
Special Undifferentiated Health Careers (Carreiras Năo Diferenciadas de Regime Especial da Saúde) include the careers of university trained non-medical specialists, N1 and N2 university trained health technicians, specialized mid-level health technicians, health technicians, assistant health technicians and auxiliary health technicians (Especialistas; Técnicos Superiores de Saúde N1; Técnicos Superiores de Saúde N2; Técnicos Especializados de Saúde; Técnicos de Saúde; Assistentes Técnicos de Saúde e Auxiliares Técnicos de Saúde). General regime careers integrate occupations common to all sectors. The General Career Regime (Carreiras do Regime Geral) includes N1 and N2 university trained technicians, professional technicians, technicians, assistant technicians, auxiliary administrative personnel, manual workers, ancillary personnel and auxiliaries (Técnicos Superiores N1; Técnicos Superiores N2; Técnicos Profissionais; Técnicos; Assistentes Técnicos; Auxiliares Administrativos; Operários; Agentes de Serviços e Auxiliares). Health workers may still move to a different salary scale by assuming managerial positions.
The Mozambican currency (Metical: MZM) changed to a new currency, the Metical of the "New Family" (ISO 4217: MZN) on the 1st of July of 2006 (Law 7/2005, of 20th of December) where 1,000 MZM = 1 of the MZN. In this article wages are processed as MZM rather than MZN.
Estimation of the capitalization rate
Health sector salaries have been revised upwards several times by the Government between 1999-2007, with the objective to keep health workers purchasing power on the face of an unpredictable inflation rate. Using a standard capitalization rate (CR) methodology from mathematical economics and financing [23, 24], we used the salary's capitalization rate as a means to compare 1999 health workers salary's purchasing power with its real value in 2007.
The CR was calculated on the accumulated inflation rate, and represented the "theoretical percentage increase" by which 1999 salaries should have grown until 2007 in order to maintain their original purchasing power. For those professional categories for which the 2007 "real" salaries were found to be higher than the "theoretical increase of 1999 wages" calculated through the capitalization rate, it was concluded that their salaries had actually lost purchasing power [25].
Following the standard approach to calculate the accumulated inflation rate (AIR) [26], we first estimated the yearly inflation rate index (IRI) for each n year, where n= 1999 ... 2007:
IRI for year n = IR(for year n)/100;
Thereafter we estimated the accumulated inflation rate (variation):
Var accumulated inflation rate (AIR1999-2007) = (1+IRI1999)) Χ (1+IRI2000)) Χ (1+IRI2001)) Χ... (1+IRI2007));
The Var AIR1999-2007 for Mozambique was estimated to be 2.45.
On the basis of the AIR we estimated the CR, which is supposed to measure the proportional salary variation between 1999 and 2007. Considering "I1999-2007" as the absolute variation between salaries in 1999 (S1999) and salaries in 2007 (S2007), we applied the following permutations:
Then we substituted out (1) for (2) to obtain:
Where S1999 cancels out to arrive at the final formula for CR:
(4) CR1999-2007 = ( ([Var] AIR1999-2007) –1).
In percentage terms, CR1999-2007 for Mozambique for our study was calculated to be 145.38%.
The official national inflation rate as calculated by the National Institute of Statistics between 1999 and 2007 was used in our CR calculations.
It is recognised that the adopted CR methodology is based on a crude estimate of national inflation rates, which is not sensitive to regional (north-south as well as urban-rural) variations, or to price variation across different baskets of goods across the years. Data processing also resulted in extensive tables that was necessary to summarize by:
Limiting the presentation of results to the medians of: the monthly wages in each category; the accumulated percentage of the wage revisions observed yearly between 1999 and 2007; nominal wage adjustments for the period under study; real wage adjustment for the period; Presenting only the results for years of 1999 and 2007, however the salaries for every year of the period have been considered.
Table 1 specifies the 1999 and 2007 median monthly salaries (in the national currency, meticais – MZM) of health workers from the Special Differentiated Health Careers. For these careers, in 1999, the salaries varied between 4,739,328 MZM and 5,246,208 MZM and, in 2007, between 12,207,000 MZM and 13,513,000 MZM. This table also illustrates the median monthly salaries of health workers from the Special Undifferentiated Health Careers. Their lowest salary in 1999 was 822,960 MZM and the highest 5,246,208 MZM and, in 2007, 2,426,000 MZM and 13,513,000 MZM respectively. For this group of undifferentiated careers the highest salaries are similar to the highest salaries of the Special Differentiated Health Careers. Table 1's most interesting finding is that between 1999-2007, while salary purchasing power increased of around eight times for the majority of the careers considered, it increased 30-fold for the lowest-paid undifferentiated professionals.
Table 2 addresses the median monthly salaries of the civil servant health workers in the General Career Regime. The salaries for these careers varied between 450,000 MZM and 4,464,000 MZM in 1999 and 1,645,000 MZM and 11,560,000 MZM in 2007. It is noticeable that also for general career regime cadres, the salary purchasing power increase was much greater for unskilled low-pay assistants (between 44 and 83 times the 1999 level), rather than for university or professionally trained technicians (around 8 times). Professional technicians were the only category that did not see its salary purchasing power increased between 1999 and 2007, when its calculated power actually decreased by 11.78%.
Table 3 specifies the 1999 and 2007 median monthly salaries of health workers in managerial positions (funçőes de Direcçăo e Chefia). For health managers, in 1999, the salaries varied between 1,184,000 MZM and 7,400,000 MZM; and, in 2007, between 4,385,000 MZM and 19,066,000 MZM. In line with what shown in the previous tabulations, the career with the lowest salary (7th group) experienced the highest increase in its purchasing power, while the career with the highest salary experimented a moderated increase, although superior to the median increase of the purchasing power of all Health System Managers (748,956 MZM).
For the period under study the capitalization rate was calculated to be 145.38% for the careers considered in tables Table 1 to 3. As it was positive it means that the purchasing power would have decreased if it had not been corrected through wage revisions, which varied, for the different careers, between 127.71% and 270.35%.
The variable "increase/decrease of purchasing power of health workers" reflects the difference (in MZM) between the "real" (decided by the Government) and the "nominal" (determined by inflation) wage adjustments. With the exception of professional technicians in the General Careers Regime (Table 2), all the other health workers saw their purchasing power increased in 2007 compared to 1999.
Table 4 shows the calculated real wage gaps between lowest and highest paid workers for the four broad categories considered, in absolute as well as in proportional terms. As the highest purchasing power increases were observed for the lowest paid careers, it would be possible that this could have contributed to a reduction of the gap between the highest and the lowest salaries among health workers in Mozambique. The gap appeared considerable when considering all the salaries in the health sector, with the lowest pay representing 8.63% of the highest pay in 2007 (6.08% in 1999).
As reflected in Table 4, although the absolute wage differences increased for all career groups, in 2007 the lowest salaries represented a higher proportion of the highest salaries, indicating a relative gap reduction for all career groups, except for the Differentiated Special Health Regime careers, where the proportion remained stable at 51.56%.
This study contributes to shed light on an issue considered as critical for human resources retention policies in the health sector, that of the erosion of salary purchasing power over the years. To calculate salary purchasing power the study adopted a simple standard methodology based on the accumulated inflation rate calculated by the National Institute of Statistics for the whole country for the period of interest. There is a recognition that such an approach may be at times simplistic, as inflation rates may not be able to pick up the whole impact of price variation across different regions or different basket of goods. The study's main limitation appears to be that it ignores the many salary complements that in practice seem to favour most the highest paid and those in management positions [27]. If these were considered the equity gains would, most probably, be attenuated. It is nonetheless believed that the methodology developed and the respective findings can be rather useful for policy-makers in Africa, as they manage to give an indication of salaries' purchasing power variations across the years.
Our calculations suggest that health worker's salary have more than kept its purchasing power over the 1997-2006 period, which is to some extent at odds with what happened to other parts of Africa over the same period or to Mozambique in the previous decades. On the one hand, such results could be explained by the Government's policies in key social sectors following its Poverty Reduction Plan's commitment. On the other hand, it needs to be considered that the increase of health wages in Mozambique started from an extremely low basis, which allowed a comparatively affordable defense of real wages for selected sectors. Secondly, managing to keep inflation under control was probably the Government's monetary policy's main accomplishment in the period under consideration – yearly inflation was mostly kept single-digit between 1997 and 2006. Because of lack of data it is not possible to compare our purchasing power results with those of other countries. But, for 1999-2007, in the different job markets of Portuguese Speaking African Countries, the capitalization rate for public servants health workers' wages was estimated as varying between 18.07% for Cape Verde, 20.64% for Guinea-Bissau, 218.53 % for S. Tomé and Prince and 34675.88 % for Angola, giving an indication of the financial effort required from the different Governments to update the purchasing power of their health sector employees [28].
The study results also appear to reflect the positive impact of the evolution of the macroeconomic frame in the last few years. In fact, from 1997 to 2003 Mozambique registered a median economic growth of approximately 9%, a much higher value than the median of the African continent, and within a context of low inflation and increasing foreign direct investment [29].
The current System of Health Careers was approved in 1998 (Government law nş 64/98 of December the third) and the Ministry of Health was an active partner in the elaboration of the national Poverty Reduction Strategic Plan. A major purpose of this law was to retain in civil service the most differentiated professionals, by diminishing the gaps between the careers with the higher and the lower salaries. As observed in this study, this gap remains, and has increased in absolute terms, although the relative gap has decreased, i.e. the lowest salaries represent a higher percentage of the highest salaries in 2007 when compared with 1999. Although this might reflect a tendency for a more egalitarian society, it may also represent a tendency for salary compression, which may impact negatively on strategies to retain more differentiated personnel.
The salaries on non health-specific professionals appeared to be the only ones to effectively loose purchasing power in the period under consideration. If it may be to some extent understandable why a pro-health sector regulation may end up benefitting primarily physicians, nurses and health technicians, the unforeseen consequence was to make the health sector unattractive for managers and administrative personnel, all cadres essential for the organisation of the health system.
Our results suggest that a general improvement of the purchasing power of the public sector health workers was attained through successive wage revisions, but also through government effectiveness in keeping and sustaining the inflation rate at low levels. The extent to which this meets the wage expectations of different health worker groups is not clear and has not been studied. However, the fact that MoH training courses are generally oversubscribed, and that international brain-drain does not appear to be an imminent problem for the Mozambican health service, seems to suggest that health sector salaries are still regarded as appreciable, in the context of the scarce opportunities offered by the Mozambican labour market. It the other hand, it is also known that the private sector, as well organizations and projects offer better salaries and benefits, which appears to have led to a different kind of brain drain of the national health workers [30]. Further studies appear to be needed to design a more accurate, easy-to-apply methodology to help understand the evolution of health workers' pay's purchasing power, and how this affects their decision to stay or leave the sector.
The present study investigated the changes of health sector's civil servants salaries over ten years, to understand how their purchasing power was affected. To calculate salary purchasing power the study adopted a simple standard methodology based on the accumulated inflation rate calculated by the National Institute of Statistics for the whole country for the period of interest. Our calculations suggest that health worker's salary have more than kept its purchasing power over the 1997-2006 period, and that the salaries on non health-specific professionals were the only ones to effectively loose purchasing power in the period under consideration. Our interpretation was that a general improvement of the purchasing power of the public sector health workers was attained through successive wage revisions, but also through government effectiveness in keeping and sustaining the inflation rate at low levels.
The study showed the value of developing easy-to-apply methodologies to help understand the evolution of health workers' pay's purchasing power, and how this affects their decision to stay or leave the sector.
The authors are indebted to the Ministry of Health of Mozambique for facilitating data collection for the study.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
FF participated in the design of the study, carried out the fieldwork, and participated in writing the manuscript. MA participated in the study design and data collection. GR edited the manuscript. PF participated in the design of the study, and in editing the manuscript.
Table 1: 1999-2007 evolution of the purchasing power of health workers from the Special Differentiated Health Careers and the Special Undifferentiated Health Careers
Table 2: 1999-2007 evolution of the purchasing power of civil servant health workers in the General Career Regime
Table 3: 1999-2007 evolution of the purchasing power of health system managers
Table 4: Gap between lowest and highest salaries of health workers, globally and per career group
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For the moment just a quick one to let you see a felted family I made and each character has its own accessory.
*** I love working with polymer clay and needle felting. I love all miniatures and all cute items that allow you to dream in your own space and time. Here I will share my creations, my ideas and my mistakes!!! ***
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Great to have you back - I missed you! And your felty family is awesome... and I think your bunny on a strawberry looked funny. I'm not so sure because I had a flutterybeary being stuck to the monitor muttering "strawberries... sweet, red, juicy, aromatic strawberries..." *sigh* Lovely work - I'm curious to see more and look forward to the mostly pink scene.ReplyDelete
Do you know that I actually thought of your strawberries loving bear when I posted the strawberry pic? I had no doubts he would have wet your desk with his slob...... :)Delete
It's so nice to see a post from you Simona. We worry you know =0) I love the family, particularly the dinkie little Lady. The rabbit is fabulous. How on earth do you work something so small, so precisely? =0)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you pepper!! Sometimes I think I bend and mould things with my mind......when I finish something then I go: "how did I do that? I need to make another one but can't remember how I just did it"!!!!Delete
I Love your tiny felted family and the pipe is PRECIOUS! Your little rabbit is PRECIOUS too and, I bet, if you hollowed out that HUGE Strawberry, he could live quite comfortably inside. No need for a kitchen when he could simply dine on the walls! :DReplyDelete
It's Great to see you Out and About again, Simona.
You've been missed. :))
What a great idea Elizabeth!!!!! Living inside a strawberry and feed from it.....right now I would love to be that tiny bunny!! Thanks for your lovely comment!Delete
Un precioso trabajo. Me encanta la foto del conejito y la fresa.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for stopping by Isabel!!Delete
Hi Simona, it's great to see a blog post of you, welcome back!!ReplyDelete
Your tiny felted family is gorgeous, how did you manage it to needlefelt them so tiny, it seems a miracle to me :)! How sweet of your partner to spoil you with some early strawberries in winter, your little bunny must have had a banquet of this huge strawberry ;O!
The skateboard, the small bag and wow, that pipe, it's incredible that you've felted the pipe with a needle, it's so small and amazing work.
It's good to have you back in the blog world :D!
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Hi Ilona. I have to say that is not too easy to felt so small and every time I start to felt something new and super small, I always regret going so small but then at the end I love to see those tiny items finished. Thank you so much for the nice comment!!!Delete
Hi :) Welcome back it is great to hear from you again. I love your tiny felted family. The little bunny is fantastic. I cant wait to see more.ReplyDelete
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Hi Maria. Nice to see you too. Thanks for liking my small family :) hugs back at you!Delete
Hi! So wonderful to see you are back! :)ReplyDelete
Love the felted family! They all look gorgeous!
Hi Kikka! Thank you so much! :)Delete
It's great to have you back, Simona! Your mini felted family is so cute. I especially love that tiny bunny--so adorable. Ooh, I can hardly wait to see your mostly pink scene--so fun! Hurry back, please! xo JenniferReplyDeleteReplies
"Hurry back"......... :) :) that was so cute! It made me smile and still I am! Thank you for your support, always! Big hug!Delete
Hi! I am glad to see you have had some crafty time! Your little bunny is so adroable and hes so perfect for spring!ReplyDelete
The littlest family is very cute, I hope you have time to craft them a happy home ;)
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Hi Jane. Hopefully I will be able to do a bit more. Thank you for stopping by! Big hug.Delete
Es una familia adorable!!! Que bonitos todos los personajes y los accesorios tan diminutos wow!!!!!ReplyDelete
Hi Pilar! It's so nice to see you! I'm glad you like them! Kisses back at you!,Delete
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It's great to have you back on blogger. the felt work is beautiful. I am always amazed at such terrific work in such a small scale.
Big hug,
Hi Giac! Thank you for stopping by and for leaving such a nice comment. Big hug for you too!Delete
Mi querida Simona!! Qué alegría de verte de nuevo trabajar con el fieltro, me encanta esa casita con sus personajes! Eres una gran artista! Un abrazoReplyDeleteReplies
Hi beautiful Esther! Thank you for the huge compliment......an artist! :) Lovely to see you here. A special hug for you!Delete
Hi Simona"ReplyDelete
Welcome back! I love your felted characters. The bunny is very cute. The giant strawberry too.
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Nice to see you back on the blog =) Hope you and your family is well.ReplyDelete
Cool characters you made! I love how they have their own accessories.
Hi Hannah!!! I'm glad you like my tiny family and the accessories that I felted for them. Hug!Delete
I'm glad to see you again in blogsphere!! So beautiful your felted tiny family... and felted pipes!!! Amazing! A big hug and congrats for your lovely work.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! The adorable factor on these is over the limit! LOL! Your little people are so cute. And the bunny is precious! Soooo cute!!ReplyDelete
Hello from Spain: Fabulous family. Great work. Lovely pics. Keep in touchReplyDelete
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I miss your posts Simona! I hope you can come back soon and show more of your cute creations.ReplyDelete
big hugs♥,
Thank you very much for your sweet comments Simona, a big hug!ReplyDelete
Me encanta tu familia de fieltro,se ve preciosa.ReplyDelete
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Amber's Firstbydeepemerald©
Amber unpacked the last of the boxes and looked around. It wasn't too bad for her first home. The rented one-bedroom apartment was sparsely furnished with the furniture from her room back home and some used pieces that she'd managed to pick up along the way. She felt so grown-up. 18 years old, her first job, and she was living in town, 2 hours' drive from her parents' farm. Her life was truly going to begin now.
She'd managed to get herself a job as an administrative assistant at a local mall through the recommendation of her high school typing teacher. It wasn't the most glamorous job in the world, but Amber knew that she wasn't the smartest girl in her school and she just wanted something that would give her the independence she craved and hopefully it wouldn't be too many years before she met a boy to marry and have children with.
The next day she arrived early at the office. She would be assisting the secretary of the mall manager. Ms Remner was old and dull, but she treated Amber fairly. Within a matter of weeks she'd gained enough confidence to do her job without taking instructions, and sometimes she managed to help Ms Remner with more than she was actually supposed to.
Then one day she arrived at work and Ms Remner wasn't there. Soon the mall manager entered and sat down at Ms Remner's desk.
"Amber," he said. "Ms Remner's father has passed away and she's had to travel home to see her mother. She will be gone for a couple of weeks. Will you be able to cover for her?"
"I think so," she said, sad for Ms Remner but happy about the chance to prove herself.
"Clara in payroll will take care of the duties that require more experience, but if you can do that day-to-day managing of my office, I'd be grateful. There will of course be a handsome bonus for you if you do well."
Amber beamed at Mr Addington as he went into his office. She sat down in Ms Remner's chair and tried to remember everything. By the end of the day she was starting to feel comfortable in her new role. Mr Addington asked her to stay a bit longer so that they could get all the backlog sorted so that they could start the next day all caught up. He ordered Chinese food and when it arrived invited Amber into his office to eat.
"Well, Amber," he smiled. "You're proving to be a valuable asset to the mall. Keep on proving yourself to me and the sky's the limit."
"Thank you, sir," I'm grateful for the opportunity.
"Tell me," he adopted a more casual tone. "You're not from here, are you?"
"No, I grew up 2 hours from here."
"And where are you living? With an aunt? Or a sister?"
"No, I'm on my own."
"No family in town then?"
"No. I wanted to try to be independent before I settle down and get married."
"Oh, so you have a boyfriend then."
"No sir, not yet."
"You're a very attractive girl, Amber. I'm sure you know that."
"Thank you, sir."
"Not very tall, are you? 5'4"?"
"Yes, sir."
"Beautiful curves though. And a glorious cleavage. You must be wearing d-cup bras."
Amber didn't know what to say.
"And your red hair makes you look so feminine. You're very desirable."
He winked at her.
"If I'm not careful you'll be married off in no time!"
They went back to work and Mr Addington didn't mention her looks again that night. The next morning he was already there when she arrived at work. She brought in his post and he told her to turn around.
"I love how that skirt clings to your ass. Very sexy. Thank you, Amber."
The next day Mrs Addington dropped in on her husband.
"You must be Amber," she said with a smile. "Bill has told me all about how helpful you've been."
She went into her husband's office and he lingered by Amber's desk for a moment.
"I just haven't told her how damn sexy you are," he whispered with a wicked smile. "You really need to do up that top button if you're expecting me to get any work done here."
Amber tried really hard to dress demurely the next day. Mr Addington brushed up against her at the photocopier.
"Your outfit is designed to hide your delicious curves, but the hint of lace that I can see through your shirt and the absence of a panty line is driving me insane."
He caressed her bum and winked at her. Amber was distraught. Mr Addington was a married man and she was a good girl. Good girls didn't have that effect on married men. She didn't know what she was doing wrong.
The next day was a Friday. Fridays were dress down days so she wore jeans and a t-shirt to work. She made sure she wore a dark t-shirt so that her bra couldn't be seen through the fabric. Her jeans were a little bit tight around her backside, but no more than any of her work clothes. Mr Addington smiled as he entered the office.
"Can you please arrange for flowers to be sent to my wife at this address?" he said and handed Amber a note with an out of town address. "She's taken the kids to their grandparents for the weekend."
Amber did as told and tried to stay out of Mr Addington's way as much as possible that day. Five minutes before the end of her working day the power went out for a couple of minutes. All the other offices were shut for the day, since the other departments finished half an hour before the manager's office on Fridays. A lot of swearing was heard from Mr Addington's office.
"Amber!" he called out. "Can you come in here, please?"
"What can I do for you?"
"You can tell me that you have no plans for tonight because I just lost an afternoon's work and I need this to be ready for Monday morning. You have to stay and help me."
"No problem, Mr Addington." Her social life hadn't really picked up much since she'd moved here. She was still getting to know people, not yet at a stage where they invited her out on a Friday or where she had any dates.
They worked for 2 hours and then Mr Addington ordered a pizza. They sat down to eat it in silence. When the last slice had gone Mr Addington spoke.
"Damn Amber, you're looking so fine in those jeans."
"Thank you, sir."
"Call me Bill."
"Thank you, Bill."
Bill got up and looked outside his office. It was all deserted. Then he locked his door.
"You've been doing really well this week, Amber. You deserve a handsome bonus."
"Thank you, Bill. It's been my pleasure."
"Mmm... Tell you what. I'll double your bonus."
Amber was shocked. "Why... I don't know what to say..."
"I do. I'll double your bonus if you'll give me a closer look at your sexy ass."
"Mr Addington!!!"
"Bill! I'm not that kind of girl."
"What kind of girl? A cocktease?"
"Yes! I mean no! I mean, I'm not!"
"Sure you are. Ever since you started working here I haven't been able to keep my eyes off you. Please let me see you in the flesh. That's all. Think of all the things you can buy with the extra bonus."
Amber desperately needed a new car. The extra bonus would help with that. Reluctantly she undid her jeans and stepped out of her jeans.
"And your t-shirt!"
"But you said..."
"Are you a cocktease? Off with the t-shirt too."
She pulled her t-shirt over her head and stood in front of him, white lace covering her hairless mount and her 34D tits.
"Now your underwear!"
"I can't do that!"
"I said I wanted to see you in the flesh. Do you want your bonus or don't you? If you stop now, there'll be nothing."
Amber bit her lip and unhooked her bra. Then she pulled her panties down. The cool air stiffened her nipples and the feeling made her damp between her legs.
"You're so beautiful," Mr Addington smiled as he walked around her, inspecting her body. "How old are you?"
"18. Can I put my clothes back on now?"
"18, eh? Just legal. Not yet, sweetheart. I want to commit this picture to memory. Wonderfully big and firm tits. That hairless snatch. I can see your clit protruding. Are you as hot for me as I am for you?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"Feel me!" He took her hand and placed it on his crotch. She'd never felt a man's penis before and yelped at how big, hard and hot it felt. "I told you, baby. You're a first class cocktease. You did that to me."
"I didn't mean to."
"You didn't mean to? Yeah, right! Stripping right in front of me in my office. Getting naked before my eyes, teasing me with your luscious tits and hairless snatch."
"But you made me do it!"
"I didn't make you do anything, honey. You wanted to. Admit it. You want me to fuck you."
"No, Bill. I'm not that kind of girl. I'm a virgin."
"A virgin, eh? A virgin wouldn't get naked in her boss's office. A virgin wouldn't tease his cock the way you do. A virgin wouldn't be standing there with her huge, hard nipples begging to be sucked."
He leaned forward and closed his lips around one of her nipples and started sucking while he cupped her other tit with one hand, squeezing her nipple. Amber cried out from the unexpected pleasure.
"Such a little tease," he mused when his lips left her nipple. "You're gagging for it. You want me to fuck you."
"Please, Bill," Amber begged. "I really think I should get dressed and leave now."
"Leave? When you've started this? No, that's the worst kind of cocktease. Besides, if you leave now you'll go insane."
"Because you're so horny. You may not realise it, but I'll show you."
He slid his finger between her lips, across her clit, making her yelp, and into her tight cunt. She was dripping wet. He pulled his finger back out and showed her.
"That's how a cocktease gets. It means she needs a good fucking. Virgins don't get wet like that."
He licked his finger and smiled.
"Sit down on the couch."
She did as she was told and he started undressing before her. Soon he was naked and she saw her very first penis. It was so big. She averted her eyes.
"Don't look away. I want you to look at my cock and know that it's your doing. Nobody else made me this hard. You did this and you're going to make sure it goes away."
"But I don't know how."
"Open your mouth, baby."
She opened her mouth wide, as if she was going to the dentist. He placed his cock on her tongue.
"Now wrap your lips around me, making sure you don't bite, I hate that. That's it. Good girl. Now suck me like you would a lollipop."
She did as she was told, alarmed by the salty taste in her mouth. Bill was breathing heavily and ran his fingers through her hair, holding her face in place as he fucked her sweet little mouth. Then he pulled out.
"Not bad," he smiled. "You need practice, but I'm sure you'll be good."
"Can I go now?"
"Go? Baby, we're only getting started."
He kneeled before her and parted her legs.
"You've been good to me, now you get your reward."
He licked the length of her slit and Amber whimpered with pleasure. His tongue flicked her nub as his finger found its way back inside her hole. She was even wetter now. He started sucking her clit and finger fucking her with a finger. Amber was overcome with pleasure. She'd never felt anything like it, or imagine that such bliss could exist. She raised her hips to give him more access, to feel more of him.
"Ooooooooooooh..." she moaned out loud. "That's so good."
Bill slipped another finger up her cunt and sucked her clit even harder. He flicked it with his tongue inside her mouth and she cried out loud. She was now grinding her pussy against his face as he finger fucked her. He sucked and fingered her as fast as he could. He knew what was coming, but it caught her completely unawares. All of a sudden her body buckled and she moaned out loud while her pussy squirted as she experienced her first orgasm.
He pulled away from her pussy and moved up on the couch. Amber was still recovering from the intense pleasure and didn't notice when he manoeuvred her onto her back and started kissing her deeply, sharing her pussy cum with her.
"Oh baby," he said against her skin. "You tasted so good."
His lips moved down to her tits. Her lower body was trapped under his as he sucked and bit her nipples.
"Bill..." she moaned. "This isn't right."
"Yes, it is, baby. You enjoyed that. You enjoyed that so much. Now it's time for me to feel the same. You owe me that."
She was too tired and too satisfied to object and he made her feel so good. She wrapped her legs around his waist and started grinding her pussy against his stomach.
"Oooooh... Bill... That's so nice."
"You love it, don't you, baby?"
"I love it."
"You want me to fuck you, don't you?"
"Say it, or I won't do it. Say it, or you'll go away all unsatisfied and dry up like a frigid old prune."
"Fuck me, Bill."
"Say it again, baby. I couldn't hear you."
"Fuck me, Bill!"
"Louder, baby."
"If you insist..."
He moved up her body until his cock was pressed against her virgin hole. He reached down and positioned himself and started pushing. Damn, she was tight. He pushed harder and pop! In went his swollen cock head and she cried in pain.
"Stop it!"
"No, baby, you wanted it. Now we're going through with it. The pain will go away. Just relax and trust me. I've made you feel good so far!"
He slowly penetrated her deeper and she shook with the pain of his giant tool stretching her unused cunt. When he was resting balls deep he started kissing her and fondling her tits. It didn't take long for him to feel the walls of her cunt relaxing and her hips jerking, begging him for a good old fuck.
He started sliding out and then he slammed back inside. She felt so good around his shaft. He knew that between her virgin blow job and this he wouldn't last long. He started pumping her. His thrusts slammed deep inside her and he grinded his pubic bone against hers, sending waves of pleasure up through her stomach. Then he felt the quiver. Soon followed by a whimper. Then her body shook violently underneath him as she came around him, gripping his cock in a heavenly tight squeeze. He made a final thrust and groaned as he shot his seed up her womb.
When they'd caught their breath he finally pulled out and wiped his cock on a tissue. He gave Amber a tissue to wipe her pussy.
"Let's go home," he said. "It's much more pleasurable to fuck in a bed than on this couch."
"But what? You didn't think we were done? You've got so much to learn."
He picked up her bra and panties and stuffed them in his pocket. They got dressed and left the office. He opened the passenger door for Amber. When they got near his house he pulled her head into his lap as he drove up his drive and pushed the remote button for the garage. Once the garage door had closed behind them he took Amber's face into his hands and kissed her deep.
"You were such an amazing fuck back at the office. And I could tell how much you loved it. Now just wait and see how much you'll love this."
He took her hand and pulled her into his house. They walked straight into a bedroom where he pulled her t-shirt over her head and took her jeans off.
"So sexy, Amber. You're such a tease with that body. I love your tits."
He started sucking her nipple and Amber moaned with pleasure. She knew that she shouldn't be doing this, but it felt so good, she couldn't make him stop.
"Feel how hard you've made me again," he said and put her hand on his erection. "I bet you want to feel my cock again. Go lie on the bed.
She did as she was told and he undressed and followed her. He took her in his arms and started kissing her, pushing his cock hard against her pussy.
"Did you like the way I fucked you at the office?" he whispered against her lips.
"Now it's your turn to fuck me."
"I don't know how."
"Straddle me, baby. Like you would ride a horse."
He lay down on his back and she straddled his tummy. He reached down and played with her clit. It set her on fire. She started grinding her wet pussy against his belly. He placed his hands on her hips and lifted her onto his cock. When he let go she slid down his greasy pole as he filled her completely. They moaned in unison. As she started moving her hips in a riding fashion, fucking him like a pro, he grabbed her tits and started kneading and sucking. He guided her hand down to her clit and showed her how to rub it while riding his cock. When she came he was ready and as soon as her cunt relaxed he pulled her off him and made her get on her hands and knees. He placed her hands on top of the headboard and shuddered with pleasure as he watched her big, firm tits wobble from her chest. He got behind her and thrust his cock inside her now well-fucked hole.
With his hands on her hips and his eyes on the mirror next to the bed he fucked her hard. Every time he slammed inside her he made her tits bounce and he fucked her harder and harder to try to make her tits bounce more. He reached around and massaged her clit and she cried out with another orgasm. He just kept fucking her. She felt so good around his cock. He never wanted to let go, but eventually he did, crying out her name as he shot another load straight up her young cunt. They collapsed in a heap on the bed and fell asleep.
The next morning Amber was awoken by the feeling of lips on her tits.
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
She opened her eyes and saw Bill, and suddenly she remembered everything. She tried to cover up, but he wouldn't let her.
"It's too late to get all shy now, baby. You should have stopped me yesterday if you didn't want my cock, but I remember you begging to be fucked. Now your cunt belongs to me."
He reached over and started kissing her.
"I think we need a shower, don't you?"
He let her go first into the bathroom to take care of her needs and then he followed her and turned on the water. The shower was big enough for two and he followed her in. Soon they were soaking wet in the hot and steamy shower. Bill produced a soap and started soaping Amber's body. He took his time, massaging the soap into her legs and arms, followed by her tummy and then her breasts. By the time he started soaping her pussy she was on fire.
"What do we say?" he leaned forward and whispered into her ear.
"Fuck me, Bill," she whimpered.
"Nooooo... You know how it's done!"
"Fuck me, Bill!!!!!"
"Oh yeah, baby."
He grabbed her legs and lifted her onto his hard cock. Then he pushed her against the cold tiles and started pumping into her. She dug her fingernails into his back as he fucked her, desperate to feel him inside her.
He rotated his hips, making her feel every inch of him completing her. When she came he pulled out and turned her front against the tiles. Then he shoved his cock back inside her from behind. He fucked her fast and furiously. She reached down and played with her clit and he could feel her fingers as he slammed into her body. When she orgasmed again he wasn't far behind and her shivering cunt milked his balls dry.
They dried each other off and had breakfast in bed. They spent the rest of the weekend fucking until Mrs Addington phoned and said that she was almost home. Then they rushed back to the office where Amber got her car and drove home.
By the time Ms Remner returned, Amber had been Bill's mistress for 3 weeks. He found her a new apartment, at a more convenient location and with a secluded car park. He stopped in to fuck her most evenings. She was insatiable. A real cocktease.
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society
Site: Old Palermo One Room Schoolhouse
|Record #: OAK4409
|Last Full Update: 28 Nov 2017
|Contact Information
|Office Phone
|905-257-6029 ext 101
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|A society established to increase awareness and foster a desire to preserve the history of the Township.
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|Fundraising ; Donations ; Fees - rental
|AGM Feb - seeking boardmembers
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|The history of the older, agricultural communities of North Oakville is not very well acknowledged and with urban development on the formerly agricultural land north of Highway 5 (Dundas Street), the society believes now is an important time to capture and celebrate the history of the community and share it with new arrivals so the past will not be forgotten.
The Society has renovated the Palermo schoolhouse for community use and heritage education.
* annual Family Heritage Day
* speaker series
* archives
* classroom visits
* March Break program providing learning opportunity with a focus on local history
* able to scan historical photos of Trafalgar
* almost 1600 photos available online
* has published several historical booklets
* a registered charity
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* year round
* 1 room with capacity of 50
* small functions and meetings
* tables and chairs
* renter must provide own caterer
* liquor permit required
* parking
* small kitchen
* coffee equipment
|* Trafalgar Family Heritage Day in Sep
* March Break programs
* guest speakers second Tue of every other month at 7 pm
* Open House and Archives every other month on the third Fri 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
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Old Palermo One Room Schoolhouse
2431 Dundas St W
Oakville, ON L6M 4J3
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|Regional Rd 25 and Dundas St (Hwy 5)
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|c/o Michelle Knoll
2200 Sawgrass Dr
Oakville, ON L6H 6M8
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English Name : Psoralea
Botanical Name : Psoralea corylifolia Linn
Commercial Name: Babchi
Tamil Name : கார்போகரிசி (pronounced as Kaarbokarisi)
Psoralea corylifolia is a very important plant in the Ayurvedic and Siddha (ancient Tamil medicine system). [quote_right]Psoralea is a power herb that can cure many diseases that are not cured by western medicine[/quote_right]Even in Chinese medicine Psoralea is a significant herb, the legend says that Damo (Bodhi Dharma), one of the great Buddhist monks took with him several herbs from the Tamil speaking South India to China to treat certain diseases. Psoralea is one of those herbal plants.
According to Ayurveda it pacifies vata, and directly cures a lot of diseases affecting the skin. This plant grows well in central and southern India. In the ancient Siddha texts there are several verses which explain about the power of this herb.
This herb is refered as குஷ்டனஷினி, in the siddha texts which literally means, destroyer of leprosy.
This plant has numerous bio-active compounds, and has high concentration of flavonoids and coumarins. It also has a chemical agent named genistein, which is a very power anti-cancer agent. It can also be used as an exfoliating agent, and when taken internally also detoxifies the body and especially liver.
Psoralea in Dermatology:
It detoxifies the skin and rejuvenates it. It controls hair fall (especially alopecia). It is an exceptionally powerful medicine for skin diseases like eczema, vitiligo, acne and psoriasis, the oil should be applied on the affected portion.
It treats leucoderma (vitiligo) and other skin diseases related to problems with pigmentation. The oil stimulates the melanoblast cells. Melanoblasts are the precursor cells of melanocytes, which are responsible for proper pigmentation in the skin. Hence psoralea acts a good cure for leucoderma (vitiligo) and dermatoses. These diseases don't have a cure in modern medicine
A tonic for Reproductive organs:
This herb is a known aphrodisiac, and helps cure infertility, premature ejaculation and impotence. In childred it cures urinary disorders.
Other Medicinal benefits of Bakuchi:
- It cures cough and asthma and improves overall health of lungs and heart.
- It cures indigestion, stomach pain; it acts as an anthelmintic (an agent that kills the parasitic worms in our body).
- It is a known anti-bacterial agent and helps prevent several infections.
- It also cures lower back pain and other chronic pain in the joints.
The fruit of this plant is a powerful anti-inflammatory agent and an analgesic and hence can be consumed by people with allergies and inflammations. It is also destroys Helicobacter pylori, the germ responsible for stomach ulcers.
Herbal combination:
- Though this herb can be used seperates, most Ayurvedic and Siddha doctors advise a combination of herbs. The generally used combinations are:
- Black pepper, ginger and Psoralea for coughs
- Psoralea, Sida Cordifolia and Ashwagandha together cures a lot of reproductive disorders.
- Psoralea and Myrobalan treats urinary problems and diarrhea.
- Neem, turmeric and psoralea treats skin disorders.
This herb should not be taken by pregnant women. It should also be avoided by people undergoing PUVA therapy for skin diorders. Psoralean an agent present in the seeds is used in PUVA (PUVA is actually Psoralean UVA treatment) for treating, eczema, psoriasis and vitiligo. Since PUVA already has Psoralean, one should not consume or use this herb in addition to PUVA.


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A school district in Michigan has canceled a Bible course offered at a church during students' lunchtime hour, prompting outcry from local parents. Fremont Public Schools recently put an end to the Release Time Bible Study program offered at Pathfinder Elementary School and Daisy Brook Elementary School. Fremont Superintendent Ken Haggart provided comments to The Christian Post on Friday explaining that the class had been offered for about 10 years.
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Collector's Pair of Dice's own James Deckart was one of those fortunate enough to attend the completely sold out 2007 San Diego Comic-Con. He sent us loads of pictures, and over the next few days I'll share some of them with you – including a picture that will be used in our very first Major Spoilers Contest!
For now, take a gander at these images James snapped during the con's Masquerade.
Thanks James!
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Hi! I was part of the Josie and the Pussycat Dolls Revue group. I was wondering if anyone out there has a video of the masquerade?
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Hey, Black Cat:
I took lots of photos of your and your litter! I was in the press box as you got on stage. Please see my photos there; sorry no videos.
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We keep hearing a lot of noise about the price of gas in America. I know it's not that high when you consider the limited supply of fossil fuels and the price of petrol in other countries; however, it feels high when you take into consideration that our wages have been depressed for the past twenty years AND we drive inefficient cars.
For the first time in my life, I paid $50 to fill my tank. Then I drove to Starbucks twice in one day and went to the gym — twenty minutes away. That's life in the suburbs. I am my own worst enemy.
When I hear poor people complain about the price of gas, my heart breaks. They are driving older cars that need repair. Often times, local jobs are hard to find. Gas prices are an unfair economic burden.
When I hear middle-class white people complain about the price of gas, I want to scream. Those are my people and I know that most of our driving is discretionary. Your kids can walk to school. You don't need to make seven trips to Target, this week. You don't need to drive a ginormous car with two DVD players. Maybe your kids can learn to shut the hell up and behave without being distracted by TV.
This is why China is winning.
Anyway, I wonder three things.
1. What do you drive?
2. How many miles/gallon do you get?
3. What's a gallon of gas costing you, right now?
I drive a Volvo. I get 23 miles/gallon. I am a liberal elitist, obviously. Go Obama!


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On Working with Quentin Tarantino: Sam Jackson, Brad Pitt, John Travolta and Jamie Foxx
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Samuel L. Jackson on the way Quentin Tarantino directs
Brad Pitt on how Tarantino convinced him to star in Inglourious Basterds
John Travolta on how he almost starred in From Dusk Till Dawn instead of Pulp Fiction
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Also, it is on the "Do Not Share" list.
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I still only have a snowball's chance in hell in navigating that tricky LR door, but I am truly grateful for that Mallard duck, not having to carry the burden of my soul sell-out into that meeting with my maker.
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I still only have a snowball's chance in hell in navigating that tricky LR door, but I am truly grateful for that Mallard duck, not having to carry the burden of my soul sell-out into that meeting with my maker.
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Nice work. Had DMT once and all the trees spoke to me. That was enough for me to realize different perspectives.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you kindly for your comment Zebedee.Delete
I would hazard a guess that when you shared your tree talking experience, your friends who have not taken DMT discredited the experience as unreal and only the misfiring of your brain.
Brings us to question just what is real? Certainly not what we see on today's news. I maintain that what we experience on DMT is more real than anything we can experience without it.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it :)
Puff puff pass :)ReplyDelete


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A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, which the carrier said was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members on Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After leaving Amsterdam at 12:15 p.m. local time, the aircraft was due to land at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 6:10 a.m. local time the following day.
Though Ukrainian military aircraft have been shot down over eastern Ukraine by rebels, and the area has been the scene of fierce fighting, the route taken by the Malaysian jet appears to have been subject to no flight restrictions, the International Air Transport Association, an industry group, said. Eurocontrol, a European air safety organization, said the plane apparently was flying at approximately 10,000 meters (33,000 feet), which was authorized, although Ukrainian authorities had closed the airspace at lower altitudes.
Malaysia Airlines said it was notified by Ukrainian authorities that they lost contact with the plane when it was 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Tamak waypoint, approximately 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Ukraine-Russia border. The plane-tracking service FlightAware.com said the last reported position for MH17 was at 33,000 feet just west of Ukraine's border with Russia. Ukrainian authorities reported the crash, and an Associated Press journalist found the site near a village held by pro-Russia fighters 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russia border. The reporter said the aircraft appeared to have broken up before impact. Burning wreckage and the belongings of passengers were strewn over a wide area.
An adviser to Ukraine's interior minister said the plane was shot down with a missile, but gave no proof. In a counterclaim, a pro-Moscow separatist leader said he was certain that it was Ukrainian troops who downed the airliner, but also offered no explanation or proof. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko denied his country's armed forces fired on any aerial targets Thursday. Independent Western defense experts told the AP that both Ukrainian and Russian armed forces possess SA-17 missile launchers capable of reaching an altitude of 20,000 meters (66,000 feet), but that there is no evidence that such weapons systems are in the hands of the rebels.
A Dutch travel agency said his company had booked 25 people, all Dutch nationals, on the flight. Several relatives of Malaysian passengers arrived at the international airport in Kuala Lumpur. There was no immediate word about other passengers or crew.
President Obama, who was informed by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call of reports of a downed passenger jet, asked that his advisers keep him updated. Boeing offered any assistance that authorities might request. Eurocontrol said Ukrainian authorities informed it that all air space in Eastern Ukraine has now been closed, and that any flight plans filed using these routes will be rejected by Eurocontrol until further notice.


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Raphael Rivera better known as Reaper to his merry band of vampires is still on the hunt for Gregor. His former life as a loner hunting down rouge vampires for the CIA has been replaced. He is now the reluctant but surprisingly grateful leader of his own gang of vigilantes.
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St. Joe's Prep claimed the Catholic League Class 6A championship and is headed to the PIAA District 12 Class 6A championship against the winner of Northeast vs. Central tomorrow.
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The Hawks coasted past La Salle, 35-14, in the first matchup. The Explorers' quarterback Danny Solecki is questionable after missing last week with an injury, he was a first-team all-Catholic League Red Division pick.Without Solecki, Isaiah Jones will stay under center.
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