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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Bristol Palin on 'Shooting with the Stars': Wisconsin man casts lead vote against her dancing
Man Shoots Television over Dancing With the Stars. So, apparently the Palins are waltzing their way to the White House.
A few minutes ago DA called me, in hysterics, because she'd just left a long message on someone's answering machine about last night's Dancing fiasco. And while she was doing so, a woman answered the phone, slightly out of breath and saying "I'm here! I just walked in," only to find out it was a wrong number.
The message would have been something like this: Last night on Dancing with the Stars, when it came time to tally up the call-in votes – who will stay, who will leave the show – Bristol Palin remained in the dance. This announcement came as a shock to all, as contestant and viewer jaws dropped. It seems Bristol's clumsy moves were glossed over and hyped up by hidden Sarah supporters. Mom attended most of the productions.
Oh, and there was at least one viewer opposed to her lasting as long on the show as she has – a Wisconsin man, angered at her inability to dance, went upstairs to get a gun, returned and shot his television.
The upshot? Could a Sarah as president win come in the same, unforeseen way? One consolation: somewhere, the recipient of a wrong number call is now party to the joke.
Monday, November 15, 2010
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From the Poetry Foundation~
sweet reader, flanneled and tulled
by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Friday, November 5, 2010
Just one more thing -
The post that got me there was this:
"My Son is Gay (post title)
Or he's not. I don't care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don't want to know you.
I have gone back and forth on whether I wanted to post something more in-depth about my sweet boy and his choice of Halloween costume. Or more specifically, the reactions to it. I figure if I'm still irked by it a few days later, I may as well go ahead and post my thoughts.
Here are the facts that lead up to my rant:
- My son is 5 and goes to a church preschool.
- He has loved Scooby Doo since developing the ability and attention span to sit still long enough to watch it.
- Halloween is a holiday and its main focus is wearing a costume.
- My son's school had the kids dress up, do a little parade, and then change out of costumes for the rest of the party.
- Boo's best friend is a little girl
- Boo has an older sister
- Boo spends most of his time with me.
- I am a woman.
- I am Boo's mother, not you."
To read more of this blog post :
In these days of bullying and working through gender identity, and hoping to find a common ground, I find it good to talk like this. Openly, and without fear. With faith that it will be okay in the end. That discovery is the key to many good things in life. That a little support along the way from loving people make all the difference in the world.
Prompting Poetry - Where to go to get a jumpstart
The Journal : http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/tjresources-exercises.php#poetry
Poetic Asides: (for Poem A Day prompts): http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/
From 32 Poems: http://www.32poems.com/blog/815/poetry-prompts
From PoeWar: http://www.poewar.com/poetry-prompts/
Writing Forward: http://www.writingforward.com/category/prompts-2/poetry-prompts
From Tupelo Press: http://www.tupelopress.org/poetryproj.php
From Book of Kells: http://ofkells.blogspot.com/2008/04/30-writing-prompts-for-national-poetry.html
There are many more - these are just a few good ones~
How We Get There
How We Get There, originally uploaded by salmonbear7.
Some parts of the journey are clear, others . . .
Dream, Maple Leaves/Seeds
Dream, Maple Leaves/Seeds, originally uploaded by salmonbear7.
What was tough was altering the color of these vibrant maples for the effect of making it more antique. But, worth it, for me.
Ways of Seeing, #2
Ways of Seeing, #2, originally uploaded by salmonbear7.
Water as mirror, as window.
Still Life with Maple Leaves, Water
Still Life with Maple Leaves, Water, originally uploaded by salmonbear7.
Water make a good mirror, and gives a different way to seeing a leaf, or a tree.
Degrees of Decay, #2
Degrees of Decay, #2, originally uploaded by salmonbear7.
I love the veins in leaves, how color eventually blends with gravel and dirt, and begins again.
Still Life With Trash, #4
Still Life With Trash, #4, originally uploaded by salmonbear7.
Similarly, with trash, as long as it's biodegradable. My aim was to see if I could make art with the litter I found on my walk.
Degrees of Decay, #3
Degrees of Decay, #3, originally uploaded by salmonbear7.
I love how we can "watch" the way leaves return to the earth, feeding it.
Friday Freewrite, and Photos
It seems I spend so much time just looking at "stats," that is, my blog stats, my poetry submission stats, my Facebook stats. I mean really, how long does this really need to take? Okay, so some things are necessary, like upgrading to pro on my Flickr account, which I just did. Now there are more "stats" to keep track of.
But, the photo thing has helped keep my sanity somewhat tethered. I might not be writing poems, (though I am determined to write at least one today), I have been creating "eyepoems," as one friend put it. And why not? When my creativity isn't coming out in the form of words, then why not in color and textural image?
I like the word textural. It describes how I view the world around me. I love the grooves in tree bark, the skin of poppies, the taste of internal rhyme in the mouth.
Textural - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Definition of TEXTURE
So, I'll post some photos from Flickr, and get to the business of actually "writing" a poem. We'll see how I do~
And you? How are your poems coming? I'd love to hear what you're working on these days.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Thursday Poem
by Jeffrey Harrison
It's a gift, this cloudless November morning
warm enough for you to walk without a jacket
along your favorite path. The rhythmic shushing
of your feet through fallen leaves should be
enough to quiet the mind, so it surprises you
when you catch yourself telling off your boss
for a decade of accumulated injustices,
all the things you've never said circling inside you.
It's the rising wind that pulls you out of it,
and you look up to see a cloud of leaves
swirling in sunlight, flickering against the blue
and rising above the treetops, as if the whole day
were sighing, Let it go, let it go,
for this moment at least, let it all go.
From Poets.org today~
Monday, November 1, 2010
Kelli Russell Agodon interview
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Published: 2007/06/25
by Chris Gardner
self titled – Mont de Sundua
self titled – Mont de Sundua, Removador Records
_At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos _ – My Morning Jacket, Darla Records 156
You can pretty safely file the both of these under "For Completists Only."
Mont de Sundua (or Month of Sundays) was Jim James' band before he formed the Jacketeers, and the trio's occasionally crunchy but often plodding
full-length languished on a shelf for nearly ten years for good reason.
This will be a great boon to those fans from back in the day still reveling
in their beer-soaked memories, but to the rest of us it just sounds like any
group of friends rawkin' out in the garage. While there's nothing wrong
with rawkin' in the garage, there's little truly right about this record
either, little to recommend it above your own favorite bar-rockin' local
band of this day or of your own beer-soaked days of yore.
You can catch a
little whiff of the chiming/stomping/good-rockin' fun you get from My Morning Jacket these days, but either the proportions are off or the brew is not
yet fermented. For the record, you might also catch a whiff of the
decomposing corpse of grunge that lingered in the air when this record was
recorded in 1998. Pushed by James' own label, Removador, this is likely a
labor of love geared for a select few, and those few should love it.
Much of the Demos package will be familiar to early-birds and thieves, as
more than half of it was released as a bonus disc with early runs of the
stellar At Dawn. The ten At Dawn takes feature James
multi-tracking himself on a four-track. The demos are rough, unmixed,
and raw, and what immediately strikes you is how little these songs lose in
their original incarnations. While much of that is a tribute to James' strength as a
songwriter, the band doesn't bring a whole lot to the table when they flesh
out his bare-boned songs. As these demos make resoundingly clear (and as
most MMJ fans already knew), the band's first two records could just as
easily be billed as the Jim James Band. The fault lies on both sides of
The leap the band made with Z seems to me now a
function of the steady growth of a songwriter who has learned to write for a
band rather than for himself alone. While there is little in the completed
tracks of At Dawn that could not be easily predicted by listening to
the demos, the same can't be said for much of It Still Moves or
almost all of Z. Sure "Golden" doesn't gain much by the full-band
treatment, but a just-Jim version of "One Big Holiday," "Wordless Chorus,"
or "Off the Record" would be little more than a shadow of its ultimate
form. In this package, you get five Tennessee Fire cuts (three with
a full band) and a few live takes off radio and the like (including a nice
"War Begun"), but the best part of the Demos package isn't what it is but
what it proves. It proves that Jim James is a helluva songwriter who has
learned with each record to be a better and better band-leader.
And that's why these are for completists only. There is nothing
earth-shattering here, nothing you're going to immediately throw on a
playlist of email to a friend, but the cuts are still revelatory. The
greater virtue of this pair of records is that they flesh out the arc of Jim
James' career by giving shape to his growth, and anything that proves that
At Dawn, brilliant as it is, is the work of a songwriter who hasn't
yet begun to mature is worth releasing.

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by Yaroslav Stanchak, Mountain View Technologies
Early season snowmaking in New England is always a tricky proposition thanks to finicky weather. See how this year's numbers stack up against last year's.
The unusual weather pattern for early season snowmaking that affected the Northeast in November-December 2012 returned again in 2013, raising hopes of the perfect early season. However, as in 2012, it didn't quite turn out that way.
Let's look at some recent history. The early-season weather of winter 2012-13 made for an unusual year for snowmaking, with a cold November 2012 and relatively mild December. The average temperature for November 2012 at an anonymous resort in northern New England—we'll call it Mystic Mountain—was 27.2º F, with 249 hours of operation and a water flow output of 32.9 Mgals. The average water flow for the month was 2,200 gpm. The average temperature for December 2012 was 24.8º F, with 286 hours of operation and a water flow output of 32.8 Mgals. The average water flow for this month was 1,911 gpm. This data and performance curves were documented in a SAM special report in January of 2013. (See http://www.saminfo.com/blog/vagaries-snowmaking-fall-2011-vs-fall-2012.)
So, how did early season November-December 2013 compare with 2012? The results are surprising, as presented in the following data and accompanying charts.
Once again, November 2013 was a very strong snowmaking month—even better than November 2012—as many areas in New England output 40 to 50 percent of their yearly water volume. Using real time data from Mystic Mountain, the average temperature was 25.5º F with 261 hours of operation and an output of 36.5 Mgals. of water. The average water flow for the month was 2,332 gpm. Most excellent! Water availability was a non-issue.
However, for the month of December 2013, the average temperature was 21.1º F, with 370 hours of operation and an output of 40.1 Mgals. of water (low water inflows hampered operating hours and output). The average water flow for this month was 1,805 gpm. This would seem like a great finish for the Christmas holiday trail counts but for a key statistical deception.
For this ski area, the average temperature for December was very close to normal, with November being about 3 degrees F below normal. However, averages are very deceptive and do not provide an accurate picture of the operating reality. Examine the data for 2013 in the charts below. Note the spiked temperature band for December 2013, and the extreme temperature swings. Note also the prolonged mid-month warm spell. This extreme pattern continued well into January and wreaked havoc with many Eastern areas.
Based on this information, we can see that the actual operating temperatures and potential run hours for December 2013 were impacted by the extreme temperature swings, meltdowns and lack of normal snow cover. Again, very good snowmaking weather in November of 2013 made a huge and important difference in snowmaking trail counts and helped offset December's weather fluctuations, at least for this location.


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Unpopular Gladiator Show to Become Stupid Movie
Says an optimistic producer: 'I look forward to creating a compelling story that launches a whole new set of characters.'
Though it couldn't hold viewers' attention in one-hour installments when Ben Silverman rebooted it on NBC last year, canceled gladiator-based game show American Gladiators is becoming a movie, for some inexplicable reason! According to former Legendary Pictures exec Scott Mednick, the optimistic, unlucky person tasked with producing this thing, "the goal is to create an action story that takes place inside the world that [Gladiators] creator Johnny [Ferraro] has created... I look forward to creating a compelling story that launches a whole new set of characters." And we look forward to never hearing about this doomed project ever again.
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Recovery Strategy for the Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) and Pink-footed Shearwater (Puffinus creatopus) in Canada (Final)
Short-tailed Albatross
Pink-footed Shearwater
Responsible Jurisdictions
Strategic Environmental Assessment
About the Species at Risk Act Recovery Strategy Series
What is the Species at Risk Act (SARA)?
SARA is the Act developed by the federal government as a key contribution to the common national effort to protect and conserve species at risk in Canada. SARA came into force in 2003 and one of its purposes is"to provide for the recovery of wildlife species that are extirpated, endangered or threatened as a result of human activity."
What is recovery?
In the context of species at risk conservation, recovery is the process by which the decline of an endangered, threatened, or extirpated species is arrested or reversed and threats are removed or reduced to improve the likelihood of the species' persistence in the wild. A species will be considered recovered when its long-term persistence in the wild has been secured.
What is a recovery strategy?
A recovery strategy is a planning document that identifies what needs to be done to arrest or reverse the decline of a species. It sets goals and objectives and identifies the main areas of activities to be undertaken. Detailed planning is done at the action plan stage.
Recovery strategy development is a commitment of all provinces and territories and of three federal agencies -- Environment Canada, Parks Canada Agency, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada -- under the Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk. Sections 37–46 of SARAoutline both the required content and the process for developing recovery strategies published in this series.
Depending on the status of the species and when it was assessed, a recovery strategy has to be developed within one to two years after the species is added to the List of Wildlife Species at Risk. Three to four years is allowed for those species that were automatically listed when SARA came into force.
What's next?
In most cases, one or more action plans will be developed to define and guide implementation of the recovery strategy. Nevertheless, directions set in the recovery strategy are sufficient to begin involving communities, land users, and conservationists in recovery implementation. Cost-effective measures to prevent the reduction or loss of the species should not be postponed for lack of full scientific certainty.
The series
This series presents the recovery strategies prepared or adopted by the federal government under SARA. New documents will be added regularly as species get listed and as strategies are updated.
To learn more
To learn more about the Species at Risk Act and recovery initiatives, please consult the SARA Public Registry and the Web site of the Recovery Secretariat (http://www.speciesatrisk.gc.ca/recovery/).
Recommended citation:
Environment Canada. 2008. Recovery Strategy for the Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) and the Pink-footed Shearwater (Puffinus creatopus) in Canada. Species at Risk Act Recovery Strategy Series. Environment Canada, Ottawa. vii + 46 pp.
Additional copies:
Additional copies can be downloaded from the SARA Public Registry.
Cover illustrations:
Short-tailed Albatross: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Toho University, Japan
Pink-footed Shearwater: Peter Hodum, Oikonos-Ecosystem Knowledge
Également disponible en français sous le titre :
« Programme de rétablissement de l'Albatros à queue courte (Phoebastria albatrus) et du Puffin à pieds roses (Puffinus creatopus) au Canada »
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of the Environment, 2008. All rights reserved.
Catalogue no. En3-4/56-2008E-PDF
Content (excluding the illustrations) may be used without permission, with appropriate credit to the source.
This recovery strategy has been prepared in cooperation with the jurisdictions responsible for the Short-tailed Albatross and the Pink-footed Shearwater. Environment Canada has reviewed and accepts this document as its recovery strategy for the Short-tailed Albatross and the Pink-footed Shearwater, as required under the Species at Risk Act (SARA). This recovery strategy also constitutes advice to other jurisdictions and organizations that may be involved in recovering the species.
The goals, objectives and recovery approaches identified in the strategy are based on the best existing knowledge and are subject to modifications resulting from new findings and revised objectives.
This recovery strategy will be the basis for one or more action plans that will provide details on specific recovery measures to be taken to support conservation and recovery of the species. The Minister of the Environment will report on progress within five years, as required under SARA.
Success in the recovery of these species depends on the commitment and cooperation of many different constituencies that will be involved in implementing the directions set out in this strategy and will not be achieved by Environment Canada or any other jurisdiction alone. In the spirit of the Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk, the Minister of the Environment invites all responsible jurisdictions and Canadians to join Environment Canada in supporting and implementing this strategy for the benefit of the Short-tailed Albatross and the Pink-footed Shearwater and Canadian society as a whole.
Responsible Jurisdictions
- Environment Canada (lead)
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada (participating)
- Parks Canada Agency (participating)
- Province of British Columbia (participating)
- Joanna L. Smith – University of Washington
- Nadine R. Parker – Transport Canada
- Ken H. Morgan – Environment Canada
- Louise K. Blight – University of British Columbia
- Michael J. Chutter – BCMinistry of Environment
- Peter J. Hodum – Oikonos-Ecosystem Knowledge
- Tamee Mawani – Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- David Cunnington - Environment Canada
This recovery strategy was originally drafted by Jo Smith and Nadine Parker and was then revised by Ken Morgan and Louise Blight. Members of the Recovery Team, as well as David Cunnington and Lucy Reiss (Environment Canada), provided extensive comments. We thank the following individuals for their contributions to the development of the recovery strategy: Jamie Kenyon (Environment Canada); Pat O'Hara (University of Victoria/Environment Canada), David Hyrenbach (Duke University/University of Washington); Rob Suryan (Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center); Michelle Wainstein (Washington Sea Grant); Gary Drew, John Piatt and Jenny Wetzel (US Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center); Greg Balogh and Maura Naughton (US Fish and Wildlife Service); Tracee Geernaert (International Pacific Halibut Commission) and Ross Vennesland (Parks Canada Agency). Critical reviews by Maura Naughton (USFWS, Portland), Roberto Schlatter (Universidad Austral de Chile), Paul Sievert (USGS, Massachusetts Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit) and Rob Suryan helped improve the strategy. We especially thank Peter Hodum and Hiroshi Hasegawa (Toho University) for generously granting us permission to use their photographs.
Strategic Environmental Assessment
A strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is conducted on all SARA recovery planning documents, in accordance with the Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan and Program Proposals. The purpose of a SEA is to incorporate environmental considerations into the development of public policies, plans, and program proposals to support environmentally sound decision-making.
Recovery planning is intended to benefit species at risk and biodiversity in general. However, it is recognized that strategies may also inadvertently lead to environmental effects beyond the intended benefits. The planning process based on national guidelines directly incorporates consideration of all environmental effects, with a particular focus on possible impacts on non-target species or habitats. The results of the SEA are incorporated directly into the strategy itself, but are also summarized below.
This recovery strategy will clearly benefit the environment by promoting the recovery of the Short-tailed Albatross and the Pink-footed Shearwater. The potential for the strategy to inadvertently lead to adverse effects on other species was considered. The SEA concluded that this strategy will clearly benefit the environment and will not entail any significant adverse effects. The reader should refer to the following sections of the document in particular: description of the species' habitat and biological needs, ecological role, and limiting factors; effects on other species; and the recommended approaches for recovery.
SARA defines residence as:
a dwelling-place, such as a den, nest or other similar area or place, that is occupied or habitually occupied by one or more individuals during all or part of their life cycles, including breeding, rearing, staging, wintering, feeding or hibernating [Subsection 2(1)].
Residence descriptions, or the rationale for why the residence concept does not apply to a given species, are posted on the SARA public registry.
The Short-tailed Albatross and the Pink-footed Shearwater are migratory birds protected under the Migratory Birds Convention Act (1994) and are under the management jurisdiction of the federal Ministry of the Environment. The Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 (MBCA) is the updated statute that implements the 1916 Migratory Birds Convention between Canada and the United States. The Family Diomedeidae is not listed in Article I of the Convention, but well-established policy dictates that albatrosses are protected under the MBCA by virtue of their inclusion in the Environment Canada document entitled Birds Protected in Canada under the Migratory Birds Convention Act (CWS 1991). SARA (Section 37) requires the competent minister to prepare recovery strategies for listed extirpated, endangered, or threatened species. Both species were listed as threatened under SARA in 2005.
Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service - Pacific and Yukon Region led the development of this recovery strategy through the Short-Tailed Albatross and Pink-footed Shearwater Recovery Team.
The recovery strategy was developed in cooperation or consultation with:
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Parks Canada Agency
- Government of British Columbia
International conservation efforts are critical to the recovery of these species. This recovery strategy outlines recommended approaches within Canada. A number of other conservation plans exist to address these species internationally, including: the Pink-footed Shearwater North American Conservation Action Plan (Commission for Environmental Cooperation [CEC] 2005), developed cooperatively by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico; and the Draft Recovery Plan for Short-tailed Albatross, prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This recovery strategy is consistent with and supports these international efforts.
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occasionally met with, viz, the part of the tributary creek on which our camp is pitched
is a perpendicular cliff of sandy soil, in a hole in the face of it
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I would be willing to post it on here but I'm not sure about length restrictions. My paper was four pages long. It really should have been longer but I had difficulty molding my thoughts around the research.
This has nothing to do with science fiction or fantasy but I finally finished writing my research paper for college. The subject was the discrimination of atheists in the south. It wasn't an easy paper to write but it opened my eyes to how much more difficult it is for us than what I previously had thought.
Thank you Steph, I'm really glad you like it.
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The Regional Transportation Authority today called for state lawmakers to repeal free rides for seniors in light of a serious budget crunch.
The RTA is suggesting free rides for only low-income seniors, which would include those who earn $22,000 or less a year. Repealing the free rides would generate about $37 million in new revenue a year, officials said at a board meeting.
Seniors who would not qualify for the low-income program would pay half fares for rides, the same as what they paid before the free rides program began last year.


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Women are more concerned than men about how much they are saving for retirement and are more likely than men to put money away in their workplace retirement accounts yet they also view themselves as the least prepared for retirement.
Both men and women are concerned about being able to pay bills, pay down debt and about their investments losing money, but women "also have a higher level of concern than men about health, the well-being of their immediate family, and the economy," according to the Insured Retirement Institute's report Women's perspectives on saving, investing and retirement planning. "Women also are more concerned than men about accumulating enough money for retirement."
Also see: "Retirement confidence: How does the U.S. stack up?"
Eight in 10 women have concerns about saving enough for retirement, with 54% saying they are "very concerned."
"The anxiety expressed by women is understandable when you consider the challenges they face in achieving a financially secure retirement," says IRI president and CEO Cathy Weatherford. "Income disparities and time out of the workforce are among factors that will reduce retirement savings as well as Social Security and employer-provided retirement benefits. At the same time, longer lifespans will necessitate more savings to produce additional years of retirement income."
Seventy-eight percent of women say they are contributing to their workplace retirement savings plan, compared to 75% of men.
"The fact that many are contributing, but also are very concerned about not being able to retire when and how they want to, implies that they may not be saving enough to feel secure about reaching their retirement goals," the report stated.
Even though more women than men are contributing to a workplace plan, nearly six in 10 women and men report being behind schedule in saving for a financially secure retirement. Neither gender believes they are saving enough for retirement, "indicating that inadequate savings rates may be more a function of a perceived lack of ability to save more than a lack of awareness regarding the need to save," the IRI said.
Also see: "Women's unique retirement savings challenges: What every adviser should know."
Only one in five women considers themselves do-it-yourself investors, compared to 40% of men. The IRI survey found that men's perceptions about their spouses or partners when it comes to investing are usually not correct, with three out of 10 men believing their partners want them to handle everything.
When it comes to seeking financial advice, women are also more likely than men to ask friends or family for help. Fifty-seven percent of women say they will consult friends and family on financial issues, compared to 43% of men; and 40% will consult work colleagues, compared to 31% of men.
Older women are much more likely than younger women to be knowledgeable about financial issues, have a relationship with a financial adviser or own a variety of financial products, the IRI found. Younger women, on the other hand, are more concerned about personal financial issues than their older counterparts and are much more likely to talk to friends and co-workers about financial issues.
Also see: "African-American employees face greater retirement challenges."
Thirty-five percent of the women surveyed said they are on track or ahead of schedule when it comes to how much they have saved for retirement, compared to 37% of men. Only 1% of women and 3% of men believe they are far ahead of schedule in this regard.
Of those who say they have a hard time saving for their future, 36% of women and 31% of men said their biggest problem is finding things to cut back on. Twenty-six percent of men and 18% of women said that they just don't have the discipline to save money.
Even though most survey respondents were concerned about saving enough for retirement, one-third of women and men said they plan to stop working full-time before they reach age 65 and one in five plan to stop working full-time at age 65. Only about one-quarter of women and 30% of men said they will continue working past age 65.
Women who want to work with a financial adviser want someone who can explain financial concepts clearly, without talking down to them. They also want someone who listens well, follows up and is very experienced.
The IRI survey was conducted online by market research firm Greenwald & Associates from July 28 to July 30, 2015. A total of 1,002 respondents answered the survey, 701 women and 301 men.
Paula Aven Gladych is a freelance writer based in Denver.
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Papago Park Village is conveniently located close to Arizona State University, Mill Ave and Tempe Market Place Shopping, the Phoenix, Zoo, and many professional sports activities. Light rail is 1/2 mile away for transport to downtown Phoenix or the airport. The 202 freeway is very accessible. This beautiful condo complex is on a quiet cul de sac away from the hussle but very close to everything Tempe has to offer.
The unit contains Macys Hotel Collection linens and towels. The large living area has sleeper sofa.
Complete kitchen with appliances and including a dishwasher, blender, toaster, coffee maker, dishes, silverware, pots and pans.
The unit also includes its own washer, dryer, ironing board and iron, HD television with NETFLIX movies, high speed wireless internet access, Clock Radio, dishes, hair dryer, and more.
Close to numerous destinations in Valley of the Sun. Convenient to all the Valley's entertainment and sporting events including:
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* Old Town Scottsdale (6 miles)
* Phoenix Municipal Stadium, Oakland A's (2 miles)
* Tempe Diablo Stadium, Angels (5 miles)
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* New Diamondbacks/Rockies Spring Training Stadium
* Papago Park, Desert Botanical Garden and the Phoenix Zoo (3 miles)
* Casino (7 miles)
* Hiking: Papago Park (2 miles) & South Mountain Park (6 miles)
* Shopping: Arizona Mills (4 mi.) Tempe Marketplace (2 mi.) Scottsdale Fashion Square (6 mi.)
* Valley Light Rail Line
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I have lived here in Phoenix since 1981. It is important to me that your stay here be positively memorable. I'll do my best to make sure the condo feels like home for your short time. here.
The Owner purchased this condo in 2005
Papago Park Village condos are conveniently located on the north shore of Tempe Town Lake. The campus of ASU is just on the other side of the lake. The Light Rail can take you down town to all sporting events, and the Scottsdale spring baseball training camps are just a few minutes north of here.
Enjoy being near the campus for a visit with your student child, or hop on the freeway and drive out to the Superstition mountains for some hiking, then return home and have dinner at one of the many great restaurants in the area.
Loved the place and will stay again
We enjoyed our recent stay at this condo. Excellent location for access to Tempe, Scottsdale, Mesa and Gilbert. Especially liked walking Papago Park. Area is quiet and safe. We would stay here again and have recommended it to several people. Condo has everything you need for a long-term stay. Thanks again!
Ideal location for anyone racing or supporting at Ironman Arizona!
We stayed 3weeks in March. Joe (owner) is a very nice gentlemen and attentive to your concerns. The condo fit our needs, washer and dryer great.
You are in the path of Sky Harbour airport but the planes were not much of a bother.
Close to everything, fabulous food: Los Sombereros excellent food not your typical Mexican place. House of Tricks, upscale place, beautiful gardens. Karsen KSU golf course is a lot of fun. Spring practice for the Giants, ten minutes away. Papago park, within walking distance, great dog park and family area and hiking.
It was a good vacation and this makes our 5th year in AZ.
Nice, quiet complex equipped with all that we needed to enjoy our stay. Condo was clean and owner was very helpful and accommodating to us. Convenient location close to amenities. We would definitely go there again.
Place was clean, had everything we needed, close to everything and the owner was friendly and easy to communicate with. Way better than staying at a hotel!
The Health Club - LA FITNESS is conveniently located very close to the condo. Please ask them about a complimentary workout membership for your time in Tempe.
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Oslo is the capital of Norway and has a population of 1.1 million inhabitants. The city is confronted to the same growing mobility challenges as other European cities: air pollution, CO2 emissions, congestion and noise .The municipality of Oslo and the Akershus County Council (regional entity for the surrounding region) are at the forefront of sustainable mobility: Oslo is a signatory of the Covenant of Mayors since 2009, and has set ambitious targets for the transport sector as a whole (a 20% transport emissions reductions by 2030) and for public transport in particular: all bus operations shall be fossil free by 2020, and a 50% increase of the public transport share in the city by 2030. On hydrogen, The Norwegian region of Akershus, which includes the capital Oslo, has adopted a hydrogen strategy for 2014-2025.
The city is successfully working on its modal shift: in 2014, 1/3 of all motorised journeys made were made by public transport.
Ruter As is a public management company for public transport in Oslo and Akershus in Norway, covering over 20 municipalities. Ruter started operations on 1 January 2008, following a merger of previous administration companies AS Oslo Sporveier and Stor-Oslo Lokaltrafikk a.s. (SL).The company is owned by Oslo municipality (60 %) and Akershus County Council (40 %). Ruter plans, commissions and markets the public transport in Oslo and Akershus, while the operation and maintenance of the buses are sub-contracted to other companies (PTOs).
1,162 buses were operated under Ruter contracts in 2014, achieving 319 million journeys. The buses have various lengths (7-10m Midi buses to 18m articulated buses). 401 (35%) of these can be classified as "green buses" that run on electricity, use hybrid solutions or biofuel, or alternatively biodiesel for at least 50% of the time on an annual basis. The share of green buses will increase to 529 out of 1,200 (44%) based on the contracts which have been entered into for 2015.
Ruter plans to achieve the city and region goal of powering all public transport using renewable energy sources in 2020 through the project Fossil Free 2020.
The project is co-financed by the municipality of Oslo, the Akershus County Council, Transnova and The Norwegian Research Council.
Five 13.2 m fuel cell buses (Van Hool) entered daily service gradually since April 2013, following the official launch of the project in 2012. The Oslo buses drive on suburban-urban routes, with a mix of flat and hilly topography and the temperatures in winter are low.
The buses originally operated on a 20km route (48 stops) on line 81, at an average speed of 20 km/h. However, the bus operator was then allowed to use the buses on any other suitable line. The buses drive between 200 and 290 km a day and are up to 17 hours in service.
More on the bus specifications here.
The fuel cell bus project was shortlisted for the 2014 Transnova price. More on this here.
A former wash hall was converted into a single bay workshop. You can find here pictures of the bus workshop along with pictures of additional infrastructure built as part of the project.
More information about the refuelling station specifications here
On-site generation by electrolysis of water (green hydrogen). It has to be noted that in Oslo, only green energy sources are allowed to be used to generate hydrogen as a fuel.
In June 2015, Ruter has released a report on "Renewable energy powertrains options for Ruter". This report explains that bus contracts representing about 60 % of Ruter's bus fleet will come to an end before 2021, and could therefore be available for powertrain change. Ruter's view is that electric buses (including fuel cell buses) are particularly promising: 1/3 of the bus fleet shall be fully electric by 2025.
Oslo has also indicated its commitment to integrate further fuel cell buses to its bus fleet by signing a Letter of Understanding, along with some 30 other cities and regions, at the occasion of the TEN-T days in Riga on 23 June 2015.
Ruter has developed a leaflet describing the project is Oslo available here for download (in Norwegian). A marketing campaign was launched before the start of operation of the buses. Materials of the campaign are available here, along with the video produced in 2013.
Source: Ruter annual report 2014, Ruter website, report "renewable energy powertrain options for Ruter" and project's results.


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Presenting: The Glee Season One PlaylistMatt Richenthal at . Comments
The William McKinley High School glee club's version of "Don't Stop Believing" is a best-seller on iTunes.
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- "I Say A Little Prayer" - Burt Bacharach
- "All By Myself" - Eric Carmen
- "Tonight" - West Side Story
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The negative buzz on The Happening is deafening — from Razzie predictions to poster defacement to its own director lowering your expectations, everyone seems to agree that M. Night Shyamalan's movie isn't all that good.
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Multicoolty – Taking the long road of integrationPosted: February 21, 2014 in Germany, Interactions, News Stories, Sierra Leone
Tags: Abu-Bakarr Jalloh, Africa, African development, Develiopment Aid, Development in Sierra Leone, Difficulties in Germany, discover Germany, discrimination, EU, European Union in Africa, German problems, German relations to developing nations, Integration, Life in Germany, living in Germany, Poverty, Sierra Leone Germany Cooperation
Development Aid Needs A Serious RethinkPosted: November 28, 2013 in News Stories
Tags: Abu-Bakarr Jalloh, Africa developments, African development, aid work in Africa, Andris Piebalgs, Develiopment Aid, development aid in Africa, Development in Sierra Leone, discrimination, education Africa, EU, European Union in Africa, fight corruption, People in Sierra Leone, poor countries and EU, Poverty, Sierra Leone development, Sierra Leone eceonomy, the west on poor countries
"DW: Mr Piebalgs , you say that poverty in the world could be abolished during our lifetime. Why are you so optimistic?
Andris Piebalgs (EU's commissioner for development): Around the world, we have six billion people who live in prosperity, and one billion people who are poor. Just by redistributing income, we could reach those at the lowest end. The affected countries themselves must make a political contribution, but we must deliver on our promises; namely, to provide 0.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product as development aid."
Oh boy me! What is the solution to end poverty?
Piebalgs would say: Aid, aid and more aid… and yadi yadi yah.
I disagree, 125 percent in fact. No offense to folks in the development world, but I think bilateral aid has rendered state systems in the world extremely weak, lazy, and massively corrupt. Even if this was an unintended consequence of aid, donor countries are absolutely making use of it to their benefits.
African authors as well as North American economists have written about it and have proved that donating money to governments in developing countries does not help anyone but the donors themselves. Dambisa Moyo in her book "Dead Aid" shows how aid kills small business initiatives.
Dambisa's analogy is a small-time entrepreneur whose mosquito net business collapsed because he couldn't compete with the free flow of nets from aid agencies – so did Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in their book "Why Nations Fail".
"Why Nations Fail" analyzes how extractive governments have been able to form absolute control of the flow of resources thereby eliminating all forms of competition for power. Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe is a good example for creating an extremely extractive political system. And there are many of them out there in the African continent.
Now, when you keep pumping money into an extractive institution, what happens? We all know the answer, it's quite visible in almost all states in Africa.
Back to Piebalgs statement, I agree that the EU can do more to eradicate poverty but just not through development aid. In fact, it will fail again and again.
My solution would be to cut out the corrupt middle men; i.e. The extractive political institutions. The EU can set up direct incentive programs for people with excellent ideas. These ideas could mean a whole lot for communities in developing countries. It can encourage individuals to be more creative and think deeply for solutions to problems in their societies. This is extremely healthy for growth and without it a nation is doomed to fail.
The EU needs to open up and make its offices around the world accessible to the man on the street. That is for people like Yeabu that has to wake up everyday at 6:00am and runs to the wharf to buy fish and brings them to sell at the fish market. When she fails to do so for the day, her family will starve for that day. Yeabu has to know that she can go to the office of the EU on the nicer side of town and to speak to someone who will encourage her to come up with ideas for a business or service and that the EU will support her to make that happen.
Secondly, I think the EU has to cut down direct spending on governments significantly if it plans to help meaningfully. Governments need to fend for themselves. I am not saying it because it is easier to say, but because it hard to do and I Believe if a government struggles very hard to get its money, it will fight very hard to put it into better use. As people say in Sierra Leone, "spend no check, I got it FOC" (Free of Charge). With less FOC money, Government institutions will be more robust in collecting revenues for their states.
Thirdly, the EU has to create a level playing ground for European and African farmers.
Here is an analogy: Seku, the Ivorian cocoa former, does not even know the end product of his produce. He sells a 50 kilogram bag of cocoa to Fritz, his German retailer, for extremely cheap. Fritz imports the cocoa on behalf of his multi-million dollar firm that is making 20 times the profit that Seku could dream of. Profits to Germany.
The heavily subsidized German farmer Heinrich sells his produce to a German firm for a standard price fixed up by a government committee. Heinrich is protected by Germany and the EU, whereas Seku isn't.
The price of cocoa beans is fixed by Fritz and his rich firm and if Seku refuses to sell to him for cheap, he threatens he will go to John in Cameroon who is dying to sell his produce. By the way, I have not even mentioned the other middlemen, the Lebanese and Syrian cocoa buyers that as well sell to the likes of Fritz through ripping-off of poor farmers and the corrupt institutions that makes the whole export business cumbersome for Seku. What the EU does is that it sets the standard for the quality of cocoa beans rather than the living standard of Seku.
Because Seku is extremely poor and rely heavily on Fritz to live, he will sell his produce as cheaply as Fritz wants. More profits to Germany.
Hence the EU has to make the same regulations equal for both European and African farmers: i.e Fritz should only be allowed to import cocoa beans from Seku if his standard of living equals to that of Heinrich. Easy to say and easy to do.
Fourthly, if the EU genuinely wants to eradicate poverty, it should then lower the barrier for students coming from developing nations to study in Europe. It's true that the number of Africans studying in Europe has increased in the last few years. This is because African economies have made huge strides in the last decade and more Africans can now afford to live and study in Europe. But this number is not enough yet to spark a trickle-down effect. If this trend continues it will take decades for changes to be made. To provide a quick fix to poverty, more Africans need to travel and see how things get done successfully in other places.
Everyday I see my fellow Sierra Leoneans out in the global north representing the nation at conferences and forums. While I celebrate that my country is slowly getting re-exposed to the world, the other side of my brain ponders on how this makes it even more complicated for these folks that have been able to leave the country for these important but very short trips. It's evident that these folks learn from their exposure but what they take home is often not what Sierra Leone needs.
They see the glamour of the north and tend to copy it but what they fail to understand is how the north was able to get there. Europe went through a lot of periods from the black death to the neolithic revolution, the medieval period and finally industrialization and globalization. African colonies didn't but this isn't about history. It is about the fact that Europe has learned from these and this what shapes the lifestyle of the average European.
For example, if the bus pulls up at the station in London or Berlin on a busy Monday morning everyone will instinctively form a queue, whereas in Freetown or Accra people will scramble and fight to get in first. When a new design of t-shirts is trending in the German market, the average German earner would first consider how much damage buying that t-shirt would cost to his income, considering also rent, electricity and heating bills, taxes, medical insurance and savings. In Sierra Leone, the average earner would buy that t-shirt irrespective of his debts and dues. Yes, how you look and dress is highly prioritized in most developing countries as opposed to rich nations.
My point is that these folks see European lifestyle and tend to copy it, but fail to consider European thought-process. In other to fully understand how things get successfully done in Europe, it takes more than a three-day climate change conference in Warsaw. If there is one thing I have learned in my three years of studying and working in Germany it is how to be efficient in what I do. By efficiency I mean how to do things better through eliminating all forms of failure.
The EU needs to promote more educational programs for students from developing countries, eliminate language barriers and set a lower bar. It also needs to promote more long-term exchange programs especially for experts from developing nations to learn from their European counterparts.
Finally, the EU needs to go beyond figures and statistic trajectories. Setting the barrier that every nations Gross Domestic Product, which politicians always call the GDP and sometimes do not even understand what it means, should not be below whatever percentage does not solve the problem. Sierra Leone's GDP projected from 3.2 percent in 2009 to 6 percent in 2012 but the reality on the ground is quite the opposite of the stats. A bag of rice in 2009 cost SLL 90,000 ($30) and in 2012 it cost SLL 120,000 ($40).
So Mr. Piebalgs, the UK has reached its threshold of providing 0.7 percent of GDP in aid but that does not make the lives of poor people in Sierra Leone better. The EU simply needs to rethink its development programs that can somehow meet the intended purposes. It owes the world that much considering the damage Europe inflicted on the rest of the world.
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Protesting a 5-Euro Fee from Embassy of S. Leone in GermanyPosted: January 28, 2013 in Germany, Interactions, Sierra Leone
Tags: Development in Sierra Leone, People in Sierra Leone, Renew Passport Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Consol in Germany, Sierra Leone Embassy in Germany, Sierra Leone Germany Cooperation
By: Abu-Bakarr Jalloh
In 1994, almost two decades ago, I found a kid who had made away with one of my rental bicycles. My friends and I dragged him to the police station to get him to return the bike. At around 8pm local time at the central police station in Bo, Southern Sierra Leone, the police asked me to report a statement against the alleged thief. Before I began my narration, the officer told me to buy his candle, pen and paper. I tried to walk to a nearby shop to get him the items but he said no. "Put the money on the table," he pointed to the table. "I will buy it later myself". I paid a bribe.
Last week, I inquired about renewing my passport in Germany. I called at the embassy in Berlin and spoke to a young Sierra Leonean on the phone. "Use the account number on our website that ends with 3", he instructed. 'Wire 35 Euros to it and come to Berlin with a receipt".
Splendid. That's all he said. I had read on the "website", which by the way is a blog, that the embassy does not issue passports. Excuse me? What do I do? I have three options. Option one is incur the embassy's cost of making the passport for me in Freetown. The second option is to fly home myself and get a new passport or final option, get someone in Freetown to do it for me. That means, a DHL fee of about 100 Euros would have to be paid to get the booklet here. Also, splendid.
The question remains; why must I pay another 35 Euros to the embassy? I read that my new passport would have to be approved by my country's diplomatic mission in my country of residence or the mission responsible thereof. On the SL embassy site, I also read that to approve all documents, the applicant must pay a fee of 30 Euros. But I was told to wire 35 Euros. Below the approval fee, I read another fee of 5 Euros for registration forms. What? Is the form a booklet or a mere piece of paper? Super splendid.
The question now in my mind is how is this different from a cop two decades ago that asked me to buy his candle, pen and paper?
For a system as corrupt as ours in the midst of political turmoil and a decade-long unrest that ravaged the economy, I reasoned with a lone cop trying to make ends meet. I believed the country was lagging behind the world's development pace and no single individual could differentiate between good and bad governance; not even a cop.
I understand that our system then was not capable of making the officer a responsible cop. I would even reason with him now if he would ask me to buy his paper because our economy is still not strong enough to make our men and women in uniforms better officers.
But for the following reasons, I will not agree with Sierra Leone's diplomatic mission to Germany to pay 5 Euros for a piece of paper:
Firstly, as a matter of principle, I refuse to see reasons why the embassy would require its citizens to buy forms. This is an archaic and outrageous form of revenue collection and one of the indirect reasons why we attained the status of a failed state.
Secondly, let's do the math. How much does a paper packet cost? In Germany, it's between 4 and 10 Euros depending on the quality of the paper. Let's assume they are using a 60g paper. How many papers do they need for a form? I take it that the government in SL pays the person writing the instructions on the paper not by the revenue collected from selling the forms. This is just too outrageous.
Thirdly, for the fact that it is a diplomatic mission representing a country in a foreign land, that is the more reason why its system of operation should be transparent and corrupt free.
Finally, if SL has one of the fastest growing economies in the world today, is extracting unnecessary fees from its nationals the best way to maintain that development?
I am ready to negotiate a 50 percent tax of my income or even pay it without questioning. If I can pay that same amount of tax to my current country of residence, heck I am willing to give the money to my beloved country. But I refuse to pay 5 Euros bribe to the embassy of SL in Germany.
Sierra Leoneans on my mindPosted: January 18, 2013 in Documentaries, Interactions, Sierra Leone
Tags: Africa, Develiopment Aid, Development in Sierra Leone, Khadija Mansaray, People in Sierra Leone, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone eceonomy, Sierra Leone Society, Sierra Leone UK relations, Sierra Leoneans in Diaspora, Sierra Leoneans in the UK
We have a very beautiful country, fertile soil, abundant rain, rich minerals, natural harbor and more. Our population is about five million yet with all this we are one of the poorest countries in the world.
Why is Sierra Leone poor amid all the riches it has been blessed with? The answer: The people. We are unpatriotic, dishonest and hate each other. The fundamental values, or lack of them, ensure that the country remains poor. Some may say this is a harsh conclusion but the evidence speaks for itself.
Good governance is anathema to us. We continuously elect bad governments and ensure they stay in power for too long. We cry for law and order but detest discipline and make enemies of those who enforce it. We frustrate good people. We fight them, accuse them, humiliate them and if possible physically harm them. The Sierra Leonean sense of right and wrong is completely twisted. We steal from our bosses and think it is ok because they have more than we do, they are wicked and evil if they decide to discipline us.
A woman finds her husband cheating and she is unreasonable not to have expected it. The Sierra Leonean way of life is to rip the other off. Honesty and integrity are seen as weaknesses and not virtues. From the top to the bottom to cheat and lie is normal. In the markets we fiddle the meat scales, we dent the measuring cups, we add other substances to Gari and palm oil. We lie and cheat at every opportunity and all of this is acceptable business practice.
In management they talk about win-win situations but the Sierra Leonean only knows win-loss. We are always out to get one up on the other. Using and hurting people to get ahead is OK and sometimes even applauded. We completely abuse goodwill and shamelessly say 'nar wey you fool'.
Exploiting people in vulnerable situations is also OK. We have no respect for poor people and treat our domestic servants in the most appalling manner. We feel we have the right to verbally abuse poor people just because we have given them some food and shelter. We do a small good deed and follow it with numerous acts of cruelty and wickedness and expect to be loved for it. What we do to poorer relatives living with us and the so called 'men pekin' – ward – is disgraceful. We turn them into slaves for our children. We deny them the opportunities that would make them progress. We verbally, physically and even sexually abuse them and we scream ingratitude when they walk away.
We waste our energies on the silliest prejudices ever. Every group of Sierra Leonean thinks they are better than the other and that only they should progress. We make it a mission to hinder the progress of others. In institutions – academic or otherwise – we seek to further the interest of our own only. We believe that good things should only come to certain people and woe betides someone we look down on rise to a certain status or position. We scoff and laugh and fervently pray that they fall from grace so we can justify our prejudices. We have not yet learned that a humble beginning is no crime and that the people we should admire are the ones who achieve in spite of poverty. We are hung up on status and do the most disgraceful things to achieve it.
We are callous and heartless. We never really cared about the war and the sufferings of people until it came to our doorstep. Yes we were quite happy to keep partying in Freetown until our homes were burnt down too. Until we realized that our sons could be abducted too, our daughters could be raped and our husbands killed and that being elite was not going to save us. We all pretend that rebels did all the evil things in the war. But we know the homes of the privileged were swept clean by their neighbors, friends and family who moved in when the rebels left. How many of us lucky to have our homes untouched then proceeded to buy goods we knew were obviously stolen. The 'item' became commonplace in Freetown. The streets were flooded with stolen goods and it was OK. We were buying looted goods like they were going out of fashion.
In the aftermath of the war security became an issue and checkpoints sprang up all over the place. Now we had power over everyone. Now was time to humiliate our wealthy and snobbish neighbors. Get them down their cars and make them walk, search them in the most humiliating manner and let them know they were at our mercy. How many people did we point as rebels or collaborators because of personal vendettas, grudges or just plain envy? Those of us fortunate to escape to Guinea or Gambia, on our return we embarked on the most vicious witch-hunt ever. Everyone one left behind was a collaborator and must pay for it. To hang the collaborator became our mission. We give the impression that rebels committed all rapes but how many of our "respectable" men abused the women who came to seek shelter in their homes. How many displaced men abused their fellows displaced who were more vulnerable?
The Sierra Leonean is hungry for power. And it is a power to suppress and oppress the other especially the vulnerable. We are happiest when we oppress others. The teacher with the cane taking out his frustrations on a pupil, the manager with the promotion that beautiful girl wants, the lecturer with the marks yet another beautiful girl wants, the officer who allocates market space, the government minister with the lucrative contracts, even the school prefect. The list is endless and it's all about power and exploitation. We've perfected gossip and turned it into a national pastime.
A person decides they've had enough of being overweight and opts for a healthy life style and lose weight. They become fit and slim and we say they have HIV/AIDS. I have never seen a people who rejoice at others' misfortunes like we do. A woman is widowed and we smirk. A man abandons his wife and kids and we jump for joy. A family loses their home and we're happy and laugh because now they shall suffer like us. We openly make fun of disabled people.
We rejoice when people suffer loss or misfortune and cannot bear to see others happy and successful. We can't help ourselves; instead we have to bring them down. Our tendency to bury our head in the sand would be hilarious if it weren't so serious. All of our leaders are good it's the people around them who mess things up. Our husbands are not uncontrollable perverts it's the women out there desperate to get them. Our uncle can afford that swanky car despite his meager salary because his boss made a generous payout last Christmas. Our beautiful 21-year-old daughter is not dating that short and balding 56-year-old for his money. It's the devil in the bush who takes the Downs Syndrome child away.
The state of denial makes it easier for us to turn a blind eye to everything. Then we come to the diaspora. You think we would learn something instead we take our wickedness to another level. The blatant exploitation and lack of regard for others becomes even worse. You would have thought the loss of status and the cleaning and care jobs would have taught us to appreciate people. But no! You would think the discipline we are forced to practice in our jobs and day-to-day activities would become ingrained. Again no! The speed with which we revert to type when among our own is phenomenal. We turn up late at parties, hardly give presents, talk down to people helping behind the bar, leave the toilets in a mess, steal what we can and go home. We really are a bunch of savages. We are among the world's greatest litterbugs.
The annual Fourah Bay-Foulah Town Outing in UK attracts the best and worst of our society. Whilst it brings us all together we leave the beaches in such a state it's a wonder they don't ban us. We litter with impunity failing to realize that is likely to be one of our own black brother or sister cleaning the beach the next day. How would we feel if we turned up at our cleaning jobs and met that same kind of filth? Yet we go on about how filthy other races are. Our regard for the institution of marriage is a joke. We teach our daughters chastity at 13 and encourage them to be home-breakers when they turn 20. And now we have Facebook, a brand new platform to show how ugly we can get.
While other communities use it more positively we do our usual thing. We bully and abuse. But we have two good things. We are warm and hospitable to foreigners. We welcome them and make them feel at home. The Sierra Leonean will open his heart and home to anyone. We also have a very high religious tolerance. The Sierra Leonean will kill you for your property, your wife or your money but never ever for your religion. Although that itself begs the question, do we really care about God?
Every Sierra Leonean reading this knows we need to embrace the good and let go of the bad. But the question is: are we ready to change??!!


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Nickolas Neibauer's friendliness at Caffé Strada seemed out of place at first in Amman. With his warm toothy smile, and American accent, I assumed he was an ex-pat waiting tables. His direct "Good morning, ma'am," stood out in Amman's aloof restaurant culture, where many waiters have perfected the art of looking just past your waving hand at help needed on the horizon.
But Neibauer might just be the most earnest person working on Rainbow Street. Since he and two Jordanian co-founders launched the friendly café in January this year, it's quickly become a Rainbow street hotspot for writers and entrepreneurs; every time I visit, I see at least one tech entrepreneur plugging away on a laptop.
The sleek space is a touch more high-end than competitor Turtle Green, which displays a local art installations, a chalkboard, and a tank with two actual turtles. Strada (which means "street" in Italian) has more space to work, and its food- warm toasted paninis, and full-bodied salads- is better. It sources Italian meats and cheeses through a supplier that also serves the Four Seasons, serves Attibassi, an Italian brand of coffee. After working in restaurants in Italy and managing Italian restaurants in Seattle, Neibauer has taught his employees at Strada to perfect the art of the latte.
One of his co-founders is a tea fanatic. "He knows almost too much about tea," smiles Neibauer. "He printed a 100-page manual on our tea, and has our employees take it home." The result is that Strada makes a mean jasmine iced green tea, from loose leaf Jing tea.
Although his approach was tailored for the savvy Ammani customer, Strada has thus far attracted a crowd that's 60-70% expatriate, says Neibauer. "We were not expecting this." The non-smoking rule may have something to do with that.
Keeping Employees Loyal
It turns out that the man I initially thought was the owner, the ever-present Malak Hanna, was working at an ice cream store in the mall when Neibauer first approached him. "We just really liked the way that he was handling customers," Neibauer says. They convinced Hanna, originally from Egypt, to work at Strada on his days off. Now he's fulltime and Strada is investing in his English classes.
Their other employees tend to be younger Jordanians who want to work in a coffeeshop during the summer or while in school. But Caffé Strada is serious about keeping its employees on board. "We pay around 60-70% more than comparable cafés," Neibauer says. As long as employees can get enthusiastic about the nuances of tea and coffee. "And when someone walks in, they get a smile and a hello," says Neibauer, something some would joke is rare in Jordan.
Strada is so vigiliant about training employees in customer service and beverage making that training the staff of five-star restaurants in coffee and tea is another potential revenue stream for the café as it scales.
Paying Fees to Secure a Space
The biggest challenge to date of getting set up in Jordan has been, as many will attest, being able to afford the right space. In Jordan, business owners must pay khlou, or a flat fee to the owner of a commercial space, simply to free it up for use. Especially on popular Rainbow Street, spaces can go unoccupied for months or years thanks to an exorbitant khlou price. The antiquated rule is deadly for young entrepreneurs.
Neibauer didn't reveal the amount of khlou that Strada, which is steps off of Rainbow, had to pay, but an informal poll placed the typical khlou range in the neighborhood somewhere between US $25,000 and the $100,000 that a new Armenian restaurant was rumored to have paid for space on the main street. While Strada would have paid significantly less two blocks further away, the owners knew that their spot, across from the Rainbow Theatre, was perfect.
"The khlou was daunting at first," says Neibauer. But the three owners pooled together their startup capital, formed a managing company for Strada, and issued shares from for friends and family who also chipped in.
The red tape was frustrating, but fortunately Neibauer's wife, who is Jordanian, helped Neibauer navigate the labyrinthine offices and paperwork. "This is certainly an area where Jordan could improve when it comes to entrepreneurship," he says. "Or least the hallway could be a bit more organized so that you only have to go to one guy for approval," he says politely.
(Neibauer's wife is clearly a supportive part of the equation. They also had a daughter just one week before Strada launched. "She brings the baby in once a week while I work, and that helps keep us grounded," he says.)
With khlou behind it, Strada is simply focusing on building footfall, through a social media presence on Facebook and Twitter and word of mouth.
Neibauer's advice to food and beverage entrepreneurs looking to build something lasting in Jordan? "Research, research, research, and specialize." Some of the hottest new restaurants, like Fatty Dabs Burger Shack, are really focusing on doing one thing well, he says.
"People are tired of the same old thing, and they're less tolerant of the status quo. Entrepreneurs should find the best suppliers and ingredients, and make it local and fresh. Find something that no one else is doing, and do it 100%."


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Fire District #3 Chief Dan Petersen presented the district's quarterly report with the focus on service in Eagle Point. Of the 5,405 calls made by District 3 from Sept. 2010-to Sept. 2011, 1,090 of those were for the Eagle Point station. Eagle Point calls were up by 78 calls over that period of time.
The district has response time goals for all calls in its 160 sq. mi. territory that includes urban (of which Eagle Point is included), suburban and rural.
The urban goal is to be on the scene of code 3 incidents in nine minutes 90% of the time. The district reports they actually have exceeded that goal and have been on the scene 97.2% of the time this quarter and for the last year that figure is 96.9 %.
These statistics are among many that the district and selected district-wide representatives will consider in a strategic planning (SWOT- strength, weakness, opportunity and threat) process next week. There will be representatives of city councils, four members from the industrial area and four members from the rural area, along with the fire district budget committee and board of directors.
Keith Holcomb reported on the LDS service day for the City of Eagle Point. He said there were 115 people involved in the project to remove growth between the Main St. bridge and the Mill and that some 115 fire hydrants had been painted. He noted how excited the children are when they see one of the hydrants they helped paint, or even when they saw one still in need of attention. Holcomb said it gave the children a sense of pride. He said the group should be able to keep the area they cleared under control if the city keeps in touch. Holcomb said this is a perfect opportunity for groups, including area churches, to work together shoulder to shoulder to improve the community.
Bob Pinnell, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, thanked the city for its support of the ad in 101 Things to Do. In turn, Pinnell was thanked for his hard work on the project.
A new job description for an Eagle Point Police Sergeant was approved and winter hours for the Eagle Point Museum were approved. They are now 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. Friday , Saturday and Sunday until Memorial Day.
The next regular city council meeting is Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. at city hall. The public is always welcome.
By Nancy Leonard
Of the Independent