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Southwest Washington educators face an early mid-term exam: They're bracing for across-the-board budget cuts ordered by Gov. Chris Gregoire.
Spending reductions will impact the school year just begun. It's not yet clear exactly how, in grades K-12 public schools, at Clark College and at Washington State University Vancouver.
One bright spot: The recent "Edu-jobs" bill passed by Congress that should keep K-12 classroom teaching ranks intact through next June.
Under Gregoire's directive, officials are looking at 6.3 percent reductions in many school funds by early 2011— though not for constitutionally mandated, per-pupil K-12 basic education state dollars.
Actually, the target is 10 percent in many cases, anticipating a further drop in state tax revenues when the next forecast comes in November.
Cuts will target many grant programs, both those managed directly by districts and through Educational Service District 112, said Tim Merlino, budget director for the regional school agency. The state's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction will trim its own spending by the amount required.
But a $26 billion stimulus package voted by Congress comes in time to help K-12 districts navigate thin ice this school year.
About $205 million from the federal bill is earmarked for Washington schools. Each should receive $210 per student, Merlino said.
"We're going to collect all the federal money up front," he said. The aid should protect classroom employee ranks "all the way through 2010-11," he said.
That's good, because Olympia must dial down its spending spigot by next spring, once lawmakers adopt a supplemental budget to cover all state programs through June 30.
Given the task of patching a roughly $520 million deficit for that period, legislators are likely to enact cuts swiftly in January, Merlino predicts.
That's before they begin to bite off an immense $4.5 billion deficit estimated for the following 2011-13 budget cycle.
The Vancouver district school board will absorb the latest news when it meets Tuesday.
Other school districts also are gearing up for changes that hinge on lawmakers' choices, "until they put this stuff in action," said Mary Beth Lynn, budget director for Battle Ground Public Schools.
What local districts do know is the dollar loss if legislators strip the most likely, non-constitutionally mandated state funding streams for 2011-13.
Those include levy equalization funds, intended to help districts with below-average total property tax values; supplemental funds that pay for extra teachers in grades K-3; and highly capable learning programs.
Legislators might even order partial repayment of Initiative 728 school enhancement funds disbursed this summer, the final shred of that voter-approved state learning assistance.
Evergreen and Vancouver districts each would lose $15 million to $20 million per year, should all those funds dry up.
Higher ed impact
WSUV has launched a campus budget review after last week's directive from Pullman leaders to identify 6.3 percent in spending reductions.
Layoffs are unlikely, but the Salmon Creek campus will keep many vacant positions open, said Lynn Valenter, vice chancellor for finance and operations.
As a result, students will notice fewer class sections and other staffing shortfalls, she said.
"Our hope is to shield students as much as we can, but we've been doing that all along," Valenter said. "Tough stuff. We continue to try to do more, with less."
At Clark College, the current mood is less dire.
President Bob Knight has issued campus notice the two-year school will maintain current cost-containment efforts.
But there's no sign any student programs or jobs are threatened, much less any solid plan.
All job vacancies and academic support and other costs remain under close scrutiny, said Bob Williamson, vice president for administrative services.
Clark, too, is in "wait-and-see" mode until the state supplemental budget takes shape, he said.
Role in recovery?
Given previous support for community colleges, labeled as "job engines" by some, Clark has reason for hope any new cuts in January will be smaller than those ordered elsewhere, Williamson said.
The school already has plenty of campus feedback on cost cutting options "that is still useful and relevant," he said.
But frustration abounds at both Clark and WSUV, where employees and students alike recognize that higher education is critical to sustained economic revival. Until the state claws out of its budget hole, additional spending cuts only undermine that relevancy, however.
"It's bleak," Valenter said, looking at the 2011-13 budget gap. "It's just challenging when the state doesn't have sufficient funds to meet demand."
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MARIANNA, FL 11/17/2011 -- Chipola College has been around since 1947. What started as a small community college is now a bustling state college expanding everyday.
Speaking of expansion, work continued Wednesday on the college's brand new Center for the Arts.
Chipola College Theatre Director Charles Sirmon said he can't wait to start teaching classes out of the new building.
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text: Photo Gallery Space Pictures This Week: Seagull Nebula, Quasar, More A roiling quasar, a daredevil capsule, and a wildfire's aftermath are featured in this week's best space pictures. PUBLISHED Wed Oct 03 11:01:00 EDT 2012 0 1 / 8 Dumbbell Nebula The elements oxygen (here tinted blue), hydrogen-alpha (red), and sulfur (green) reveal an outer shell of expanding gases around the Dumbbell Nebula's shining center in an image recently released by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.Though the nebula's light must travel a thousand years to reach Earth, Dumbbell is one of the brightest planetary nebulae in our sky and is visible with a pair of ordinary binoculars.(Related: "'Soccer Ball' Nebula Discovered by Amateur Astronomer.") Image courtesy T.A. Rector and H. Schweiker, UAA/WIYN/NOAO/NSF Roiling Quasar Quasars—such as the one in this illustration released September 26 by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—are luminous, energetic areas around giant, active black holes at the centers of galaxies. For the first time, these mysterious cosmic phenomena have been captured igniting after galaxy mergers, according to a new study.Among the new findings: As galaxies develop, they appear to undergo a burst of star growth before quasars fire up—before their roiling winds can disperse the relatively cold gases needed for stellar gestation, according to JPL. (See "First Triple Quasar Found, May Shed Light on Early Universe.") Illustration courtesy M. Kornmesser, ESO Mars Crater The uplifted bedrock of Mars's Luki Crater is seen in a picture released by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera team on September 26.HiRISE, which began showing us the Martian surface in breathtaking color back in 2007, now includes thousands of images that deliver unprecedented scientific data. The orbiting eye even snapped a shot of the Curiosity Mars-Rover Landing in August. Image courtesy U. Arizona/NASA Starry Arch The Milky Way curves through the night sky over Figueroa Mountain, California, in a picture submitted September 21 to National Geographic's Your Shot photography community. "This part of the Milky Way is only around during the summer, and it rises and sets every single night," Chloe Rae, who took the 360° panorama, said with her submission. All the stars in the night sky are part of the Milky Way, the spiral galaxy in which we live. For many star-watchers, however, the term refers specifically to the glowing, cloudy band that humans have pondered since ancient times. Photograph by Chloe Rae, Your Shot Scorched Earth Scorched earth shines red in a September 11 false-color image taken after the lightning-triggered Bagley fire by NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite. The Bagley fire blazed through Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California, in August and September.Pinkish spots in the image's lower right depict another type of forest destruction—clear-cut logging.According to the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center, in terms of acres burned, 2012 is on track to be the most destructive U.S. fire season since record-keeping began in 1960. (See "In Rocky Mountain Forests, More Fires and More People.") Image courtesy Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, EO-1/NASA Pioneering Capsule The capsule of the Red Bull Stratos Project is seen in the pressure chamber at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, on September 24.On October 8 adventurer Felix Baumgartner is set to ascend from Roswell, New Mexico, to an estimated 120,000 feet (36,580 meters) in this capsule, using a stratospheric balloon.He'll then simply open the door, step out, and free-fall, likely falling faster than the speed of sound before opening a parachute and gliding to the ground.In addition to breaking the record for the highest sky dive, a Baumgartner and team hope the attempt will provide scientific data on the limits of both the human body and extreme equipment that could prove useful for future space exploration.(See "'Jet Man' to Set Flight Record Over English Channel [2008].") Photograph by Garth Milan, Red Bull/AFP/Getty Images Bird's Eye Adrift in an ocean of stars, the Seagull Nebula encompasses a young, hot star dubbed HD 53367, as seen in a picture released September 26 by the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. Image courtesy ESO See More of Our FavoriteSpace Pictures Photograph by Sheri Locke, NASA Related Stories Brightest Galaxy Yet Shines With Light of 300 Trillion Suns Discovered: Quartet of Quasars, a 10-Million-to-One Find Are Two Giant Black Holes About to Collide?


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Hey it's Kirsten. Are we all feeling the time crunch??? So it's time to really scramble. Between now and Christmas I am still making HUGE picture frames, oil cloth aprons, vinyl aprons, and a whole lot of photo editing. Not quite sure how it's all going to get done, but I'm sure with a couple of late nights I should be able to knock 'em out or knock 'em off my list of Christmas TO-DOs. These notebooks are the perfect last-minute things to make for the kiddies. My kids are really into drawing right now, especially in church. I think they will LOVE drawing in their own personalized notebooks. Here are a few EASY, and I mean EASY steps.
The cute graphics on each of the notebooks are from CRYSTAL WILKERSON. I love how simple they are. She designs some crazy cute things.
These white books worked a little better than the brown ones because they are hardback covers. The brown ones are not…they bowed slightly. You can find all sorts of blank books online or at your local craft store.
I think the boys will love that their pictures are their scary painted faces from the Halloween Carnival. Boys are silly like that right?
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What a great idea! These could make great gifts for anyone. tfs! 🙂
What a great idea! I keep journals for all my kids. I plan on giving them to them after they graduate high school. Now I can put their photo on the front to know whos is whos.
I wish I was better at that….what a great reminder 🙂
Sewing on Sally the Singer Says: December 17, 2010 at 9:44 am
Not really sure how my blog page is addressed..its really boring with only one post right now so it's not much to go look at anyway!! …BUT I know Im Sewing on Sally =) ! I noticed you were going to to a post on oil cloth aprons..I can NOT wait!! I have some beautiful oil cloth waiting to be sewn together…my concern (adding to being a beginner!) is that I don't know what kind of needle to sew or which tension or stitch length my machine should be on..oh and what kind of thread?! Will you please try and include those things in your post in January? Thanks ..Julie
that's a great idea—perfect for stocking stuffers! I feel like time has gotten away from me this year…
For the brown notebooks that bowed a little, you could probably add the mod podge to the other side of the cover (the side you didn't put the picture on) and that should straighten it out. When the glue dries on thinner material, it pulls it in that direction, putting it on the other side should pull it back straight. Hope that makes sense! 🙂
That's a good idea, usually I don't mod podge on things that bow, but this time I did. I will try doing it on the other side and see if that corrects the prob. that's for your comment 🙂
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This is a great idea. Thank you for the post.
OMG I am knitting all night and making jewelry all day. No sleep for mommy.
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Plaque stolen from John Cornwell Cottages, Hornchurch
Posted 23 March 2011 - 07:49 PM
A Hornchurch RBL member, RM veteran and resident at Cornwell Cottages advised that the plaque was stolen a couple of days ago.
John Cornwell, I am sure many here will know, was a WW1 Boy sailor who was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Jutland. The cottages were built in Hornchurch as a national memorial to the boy sailor.
This incident, along with several similar ones posted on this forum fills me with with shame for what this country is coming to.
It is perhaps fitting however that this forum and it's members, through the 'mystery plaque' thread, has undertaken a huge effort to return a memorial plaque found in Hornchurch to it's original home in Tottenham.
I wonder if Cornwell's plaque will ever be found?
Pictures of the cottages and plaque before the theft.
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Posted 23 March 2011 - 08:08 PM
Words really fail me.
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Posted 23 March 2011 - 11:27 PM
I will go past there tomorrow and take a photo for a disgusting 'then and now' to go with the photo of the stolen plaque.
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Posted 24 March 2011 - 11:23 PM
I hope if it is taken to a scrap merchant he would have the guts to refuse it.
And if it was taken as some sort of momento perhaps that makes it even worse - someone who appreciates what it stands for stole it.
Either way thoroughly I'm peed off.
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The Ballad of Jack Cornwell
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Posted 13 May 2011 - 08:06 PM
The scrap metal value of a memorial plaque is still not going to be that high. Last year, for another WW2 forum, I wrote about the dedication of a WW2 memorial plaque near where I live. Within a matter of weeks I was informed by a relative who had went to look at this memorial it had 'disappeared' (i.e. stolen).
When I asked the person who had made the arrangements to get the memorial installed in the first instance what had happened, he told me it had been stolen. Eventually, he told me the memorial had turned up at a scrap metal merchant's about an hour's drive away. It was re-installed with some improved measures to prevent a further theft. I was asked not to write in detail about what had happened. This is why I have only given a brief outline as to what happened.
It really is sickening what some people will do for a few pounds. Stealing a war memorial is disrespectful to the memory of those it commemorates. In fact, it is really like the desecration of a grave.
If anyone is ever caught for stealing the Jack Cornwall VC memorial how severe would their sentence be? Would they be made to pay the full cost for the restoration of the memorial? One wonders ............. ?
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Of course if I hear any thing I will post here.
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Posted 23 June 2011 - 12:33 AM
I have heard that an organisation of Hornchurch businnesses, having heard about the theft, have arranged for some maintenance works and a replacement plaque.
As I understand it the metal railings have been stripped and repainted and I will advise when there is more news about the new plaque.
There are still some worthy people around
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Posted 01 July 2011 - 03:49 PM
A new plaque has now been fitted (thanks to some generous Hornchurch businesses) but for some reason the reference to the VC has been omitted!
There is talk that the new plaque will be re-made with the reference to the decoration added.
Compare the new plaque below to the original in earlier post.
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I'm really sickened by this. And to think some toerag would steal a memorial to such a young VC is so lamentable - I hope he rots in hell.
And so say all of us.
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Posted 03 July 2011 - 01:21 AM
Any more progress and I will keep the forum updated.
Whilst I of course share the universal condemnation of the thieves I am heartened by the actions of those who have contributed to the replacement of the plaque, even if there is a slight error, and the proposed intention to correct it.
There are still some honourable people about!
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Posted 03 July 2011 - 06:54 AM
I firmly believe that these crimes will continue until those who uphold the law in this country pass sentences that reflect the horror that is felt by all right minded people when memorials to the fallen are desecrated in this manner.
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And if not now, when?
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I was "called-up", as a 19 year old, on the 1st of Oct 1942 and was one of 5 serving brothers, one of whom, Jack, was in RAF Bomber Command and was killed on March 16th 1945.
I served as a Driver/Op (Wireless Operator) with the 49th Light Anti Aircraft Rgt. (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps.
Finally, I served as Loader/Op with the 4th Queen's Own Hussars (6th Armd.,78th & 56 Div) from Mar 1945 to Dec 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) finishing up as Tech Cpl. for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947
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ORIGINS AND SOLUTIONS TO AFRICA'S REBEL CONFLICTS (The Seirra Leone Chapter)
Politicians Centered Approach
By MOHAMED SANNOH
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Causes of civil conflicts in Africa—Politicians Corruption
Many people have their own definitions of civil war but what I personally refer to as civil war is basically fighting of armed conflicts to a high level that causes citizens of the same county to fight with each other; either basing from differences of political party, tribal, religious, sexual or land ownership.
The major causes of civil war resulting into brothers fighting brothers, especially in Africa is due to greed. What is greed? This is situation of the mind that causes an individual to be in control of all and to claim all for him or herself even when they do not need all to survive. The basic need of human nature to survive is the ability to have food, shelter and clothing.
As long as these basic wants are satisfied, one must give chance to others to have their own basic needs. But most people, especially in Africa, like to have more than what they need to survive and they even enjoy other people suffering in their neighbourhoods while they have many to lavish to the admiration of those without. It is common for rich men to drive very expensive cars living in very expensive houses up the street in a less privileged environment with haggard streets but those without see them passing by with envy and to their satisfaction because they can afford more than anyone in the area. They can afford to have generators in their compounds to supply electricity wile their neighbourhoods in darkness.
They take it as privilege for their neighbours who cannot afford televisions to come to their homes to watch their TV programmes. They prefer their children to attend expensive private schools and driven to schools in expensive cars on a daily basis while other children from less privilege parenthoods walk to high populated schools in single uniforms on a daily basis and even without shoes, but on bare feet. Never the less, children of these less parenthoods are even just privileged to find themselves in schools at all. What happens more in such cases is that the so called privilege people are politicians living in the neighbourhoods. Sometimes it sounds as a natural punishment for a poor man to live in a neighbourhood with a politician such as a member of parliament or a cabinet minister of an African government.
They behave as if the country in which they live belong to them alone and their voting into government is license for them to loot and squander the nation's wealth and lavish on womanising, drunkenness and show-offs that are very unnecessary but just to get poor people angry and to the extent of getting them to the understanding that something is not right and it is about time to correct these wrongs. The powers of politics is so high in Africa that even when journalists attempt to call attention of politicians to the sensitivities of their behaviours of injustice, they either do not care or they exercise their political powers to arrest those journalists and send them to jail for a period of time. It is also very uncommon to hear of African governments auditing their government ministers to account for specific spending of amount of government money that belongs to tax payers. As far as Africa is concerned, a government minister that supports a ruling party in government does no wrong. All amount of money that comes to their possessions meant for covering expenditure in their ministries for the purpose of developments and for the benefits of tax payers in the country remains on calculator to divide how much goes to their ministry's projects and how much goes into their overseas bank account. If for example, the amount of £10million is given to the Minister of Health for the development of hospital equipments in two hospitals, the very first they do is to divide that amount into equal halves of £5million straight.
They then puts £2million in a suitcase and walk with it to the president; give him thanks and pledge their continuous supports for the party and sends the other £3million into their overseas bank account. This means that the £10million approved for the ministry's expenditure remains £5million only to cater for the two hospitals which will not be enough and they are not asked to produce receipts of expenditure in authentic audits for their spending. If the government audits forces any other auditing moves, they will receive a phone call from the president that ministry expenditure is ok and approved.
When information of such conversation from the president is revealed by any news paper, the publisher gets arrested and put in jail because that is where he belongs for publishing the presidential communication without his permission. In a civilised world like Britain, that is referred to as corruption and no elements of it, is tolerated in their politics. We have seen government ministers and party politicians sacked from their positions in British politics for claiming small amounts of money as low as £50 more that what they are expected. Within the frameworks of African politics, the major calamity is tribalism. What is tribalism? Tribalism is when two people belong to two different tribes, speaking two different languages of two different regions in the same country.
In an imaginary African state like Bulayngay there are fifteen different tribes including the Zumarkis and five others in the North and the Balajos and seven others in the South. The present head of state is a Zumarkis man, which makes power to be in the North because the tribal division is that the country has the Zumarkis in the North and the Balajors in the South. Where the Minister of Education is a Zumarkis by tribe, the offer university places and offer of scholarships to study at the university will heavily be channelled towards the Zumakis and the northerner tribal applicants even when the Balajos and other southerner tribal applicants are more qualified. This explains that the politics of the day favours to develop the Zumarkis tribe.
This is also another form of corruption in African politics and these kinds of corruptions are very highly institutionalised to the point that those who don not come from areas of the country where the political powers are not balanced are left to accept that it is not yet their time to benefit from the politics of their countries.
Therefore, if you ask me in a nutshell to tell you the causes of rebel conflicts in Africa, the answers I will give to your question are "CORRUPTION! CORRUPTION and CORRUPTION!" especially those instituted by our politicians and expect us to accept as way of life and the origin of this corruption is greed. Politicians want to have everything, eat everything including foods, money and beautiful women. Those who are greedy always expect everything for themselves and show white teeth and very niece affectionate appearance to cheer up the needy.
They pretend to us to be caring but they keep themselves busy with squandering the nation's wealth for their own personal pockets. They use our monies to top up their overseas bank accounts and these bank accounts are so secured that no one has access to it, even when they die.
Such amount of money therefore stays with the foreign banks to benefit the countries in which they are. Our government ministers buy houses in developed overseas countries and send their children there to study in advanced universities while their nations educational institutions are left impoverished but the question again here is, what do they actually benefit from this? "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" This is a very old biblical question that Disciple Mark of Our Lord Jesus Christ asked in verse 36 of Chapter 8 of his gospel. What excuse do they have on the day of judgement?
Is rebel conflict the way out?
I don't think any decent civilised person prefers civil conflict as solution to problems they are not able to solve. However, when human sufferings continues to the level so long, it reaches to a point where all conditions become unbearable, especially where these conditions become daily occurrence to the permanent and especially where the leaders do not recognised the signs and warnings of the suffering public. As a result of being fed up, they are left with no alternative but to strike into civil conflict, as they already have nothing to loose. "He that is down fears no fall" is a common saying of the suffered.
Examples of civil conflicts we can learn from
Africa has suffered from chains of civil conflicts which are discussed to educate our current and future politicians with the expectation of behaving properly to protect their countries.
i. The Sierra Leone civil war
ii. The Liberia civil war
iii. The Uganda civil war
iv. The Somali civil war
v. The Democratic Republic of Congo civil war
vi. The Angola civil warCHAPTER 2
Origin of the Sierra Leone civil war
The West African state of Sierra Leone is one of the African countries that have recently experienced human catastrophe on the surface of the planet earth. Why and how did this war happen in such a very rich, prosperous and peaceful country?
It has taken me a decade to discover the cause of the Sierra Leone civil war. In other words, to find out why did my brother Foday Sankoh start the civil war? I recalled a TV interview of Foday Sankoh by a Gambian BBC journalist Ebrima Sillah in the year 2001.
I can still recall from this interview that my brother, Foday Sankoh's idea for civil war in Sierra Leone did not come up within a day and start immediately. It was a fermented seed that was sewn in 1967 by the then President Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone when he planned the abuse power to the point of forcing one party rule on the country in 1978, abusing the nation's wealth through stealing and saving in foreign bank accounts, leaving Sierra Leoneans to suffer for basic necessities, including the staple food of rice. At the time things were getting more difficult for Sierra Leoneans in their own country, Siaka Steven was boasting of having hotels he bought in places like Las Palmas which created employments for other people in different country.
To worsen the situation, Siaka Stevens left Joseph Siadu Momoh in charge that he transferred power to as President of Sierra Leone in 1985 and we all went into singing for him in the streets of Freetown saying:
"Who da gie Momoh power? Na God!
Who da gie Momoh power? Na God!
Momoh nor worry na God don put you there,
Water way na for you-o, e-nor go run pass you.
Water way na for you-o, e-nor go run pass you".
Remember, Momoh was never voted for by the voters but transferred power to who immediately became power chief in the country under the one party banner of All Peoples Congress (APC). Why did Siaka Stevens transferred power to Momoh and not to his Vice President, Sorie Ibrahim Koroma?
What did S.I. Koroma do that forfeited him the presidency at State House in Sierra Leone after all the evils he introduced in Sierra Leone politics in total supports of Siaka Stevens individually and the APC as a political party in general? S.I. left no evil unturned as he went to the extend of labelling himself "Agba Satan" the agent of Satan the devil, and no one can mess with him and get away.
Why did he allow himself to be used by Siaka Stevens and APC to that level? Was it due to ill health at that time from car accident he encountered at that time that he was not appointed president?
The whole country went into pocket debates in corners that Siaka Stevens was protecting his life by making sure that the army chief will not prosecute him by bringing him to justice to account for all he did during his misrule of power and human right abuse.
My brother Foday Sankoh also revealed in that same interview that Sierra Leoneans were for a long time braising themselves for the civil war by saying openly in the street that unless war happens in this country, we cannot learn our lesson and the politicians will not stop sizing advantage on us.
When J.S. Momoh became president of Sierra Leone under the one party "democracy", his popularity was very high as he started with the introduction of price control especially on basic commodities including staple foods. The problem that emerged immediately with this popularity was the implementation; as there was no backup strategy in place to support the price control system and immediately, his total image of himself started coming out as he was proved to be a total disgrace to himself, to the political party he represented (All Peoples Congress-APC) and Sierra Leone in particular.
He proved to be a drunkard and a womaniser to the point of not picking, even under aged girls for his sexual urge at Lagoonda night club near Cape Sierra Hotel at Lumbley beach in the West end of Freetown. In most occasions, he enjoyed himself there to the point of falling on the floor helplessly. Momoh was so useless to the extend that the tribal people among the Fulani's who wanted to break through into Sierra Leone and get away with corruption bribed him with virgins to have sex with which he accepted with pleasure. Is this the kind of leader my country should have at any time? My brother, Foday Sankoh did not think so.CHAPTER 3
Taste of the Mende culture
Originated from the Northern Province among the Limba people who was recruited in the Sierra Leone Military Forces (SLMF) by Siaka Stevens and eventually moved to settle down in Freetown during his military service, my brother Foday Sankoh narrowly escaped execution for the failed coup d'état for which Sieka Stevens killed Mohamed Sorrie Forna and fourteen others; he could have been included, which he knew about well in advanced but escaped. He could have been charged with "misprision of treason" which is also severally punishable with life imprisonment according to the constitution of Sierra Leone. He felt that his life was very risky. He no longer felt safe in Freetown and he changed address but did not go to his Limba line in the North. He moved to the far Eastern Province and settled in one of the boarder villages near the Segbwema Township where he established himself as photographer among the Mende/Kissy tribal people and closer to Liberia. My brother Foday Sankoh found his new village settlement address very strategic for his rebel war planning.
As a photographer, he embarked on moving from village to village and the border townships in both Sierra Leone and Liberia in search of photographing business, taking pictures of people and washing them in Segbwema and taking them back to their owners at affordable prices. Names of those who could not afford to pay at his arrival were taken and negotiated with them to have their pictures and pay him back upon his next arrival, say in two weeks time. He became very popular among these tribes and regarded him as a businessman that can understand his customers.
This movement was also a spying plot which gave him the opportunity to understand the areas properly including all the bye-ways and the bye-passes in the Eastern Province and the Western Liberia counties of Lofa, Gbarpolu and Grand Cape Mount. He was also smart enough to learn and pick up quickly the Mende/Kissy tribal languages and the major part of their cultures.
Mende people are the largest of the tribes of the thirteen tribal groups in Sierra Leone although the current APC government has politically falsified the tribal statistics to create more political constituencies in the Northern Province for political gains and vote riggings. My brother Foday Sankoh clearly understood that the Mende people in general are very open minded especially to strangers as long as their wives are not tampered with for personal love making pleasure purposes. That is the worst crime any stranger can commit to a Mende man and especially in his own locality that he cannot accept. No man can come from outside for sex tourism holidays in the Mende settlements of Sierra Leone. Although friendly and kind in nature, strangers in Mende land are always accepted with caution until they proved their decency to satisfaction.
Excerpted from ORIGINS AND SOLUTIONS TO AFRICA'S REBEL CONFLICTS (The Seirra Leone Chapter) by MOHAMED SANNOH. Copyright © 2013 Mohamed Sannoh. Excerpted by permission of Trafford Publishing.
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Lovely photograph! Delta Lake is basically my backyard I just watched the triathlon there a couple weeks ago. A great photo, I've never seen the beach in such a lovely way!
Thank you kindly! I moved out of Rome a couple years ago and it is glad to see people from my hometown here on dA.
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Patterson, C. J. (1992), Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents. Child Development, 63: 1025–1042. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01679.x
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This paper reviews research evidence regarding the personal and social development of children with gay and lesbian parents. Beginning with estimates of the numbers of such children, sociocultural, theoretical, and legal reasons for attention to their development are then outlined. In this context, research studies on sexual identity, personal development, and social relationships among these children are then reviewed. These studies include assessment of possible differences between children with gay or lesbian versus heterosexual parents as well as research on sources of diversity among children of gay and lesbian parents. Research on these topics is relatively new, and many important questions have yet to be addressed. To date, however, there is no evidence that the development of children with lesbian or gay parents is compromised in any significant respect relative to that among children of heterosexual parents in otherwise comparable circumstances. Having begun to respond to heterosexist and homophobic questions posed by psychological theory, judicial opinion, and popular prejudice, child development researchers are now in a position also to explore a broader range of issues raised by the emergence of different kinds of gay and lesbian families.


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Dr. Nancy Snyderman of NBC News appeared on the Today Show with Matt Lauer last week, profiling a physician-author who has written that the best science does not establish a causal link between childhood vaccines and autism.
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Way to go Snyderman! There is way too much fear-mongering going around about the supposed link between autism and vaccines. The biggest risk to children is that they don't get vaccinated.
Wow. It is almost unheard of for a correspondent to challenge an anchor on-air. And it's also too rare to see a specialized beat reporter clearly say 'here's the science, it's not just he-said,she-said.'
That said… at the beginning of her report, Snyderman called Offit 'controversial,' so I'd cut Lauer a bit of slack for using that same term in his wrap. And I do wonder a bit about Snyderman reporting the story of an old friend. Her report included critics, but she makes it almost too easy for the anti-vaccine folks to dismiss her story because of her personal ties to Offit.


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