Bottom of the Barrel


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The new African oil boomcentered on the oil-rich Atlantic waters of the Gulf of Guinea, from Nigeria to Angolais a moment of great opportunity and great peril for countries beset by wide-scale poverty.




Bottom of the Barrel


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"Bottom of the Barrel is a remarkable story lived and written by a remarkable human being. With more Freddie Kings, with the strong sense of ethics and uncanny insights on dealing with underprivileged young people, there could be hope for future generations. This docudrama is a must for each of us that is concerned with the question "what can be done?" --Lanie Carter, Author: Congratulation You're a Grandmother and The Miracle Years.




Bulletin


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We Want Plates


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Fed up with being served food on planks of wood and pieces of slate, or drinks in jars? How about beef Wellington on barbed wire, a cooked breakfast on a shovel or sausages in a dog bowl? In recent years, the culinary world has been gripped by an epidemic of restaurants and chefs "getting creative" with food presentation--and Ross McGinnes has had enough. In 2015 he founded the Twitter account @WeWantPlates to push back against this trend and document serving travesties, building up more than 130,000 followers and receiving thousands of submissions.




From the Bottom of the Barrel


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Pete served in the military for nearly a decade. He wasn't some kind of special forces super-secret super soldier; he's never smashed through a window or abseiled down a building. He was something considerably less sexy, he was an engineer in the Royal Air Force.After things took an unexpected turn during his time in Afghanistan in 2011 Pete unwillingly started on a journey of horrific mental illness that resulted in him finding himself at the bottom of the barrel, his lowest point. A danger to himself and others and his personal demons taking over every aspect of his life; he had a choice to make.End it all now or fight on.