tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29528793761850939592024-03-12T21:09:26.499-04:00Walking LionEncounters with a different world...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-2486438029274027652018-11-20T07:15:00.000-05:002018-11-20T07:15:21.678-05:00The Office is Finished!!
It took several years - interrupted by malaria, Ebola, a PhD, rising material costs, and a family being started - but we've finished it. So now we can start the real work!
The next year will mostly be planning, administration, and getting funding and materials. So we've leased it to another organization for the next year, to help us cover our costs while before start implementingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0Makeni, Sierra Leone8.8719746999999991 -12.0375564999999378.8092212 -12.118237499999937 8.9347281999999986 -11.956875499999937tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-21418164653174366612018-09-18T08:38:00.000-04:002020-07-02T05:10:55.595-04:00Slivovice
There is a fairly dominant part of Czech life that is not really talked about, especially officially: the making of homemade plum brandy, a cornerstone of Czech society. Seemingly everyone I know is either making it themselves, taking their own plumbs to a local distiller, or has access to it through friends and/or family.
For me, in my time in and out of the country it has been a highly soughtUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0Jablonec nad Jizerou, Czechia50.7034692 15.42959829999995250.6230052 15.268236799999952 50.7839332 15.590959799999952tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-54464767342914244242016-02-20T10:56:00.000-05:002016-02-28T19:53:22.103-05:00Klinika to be Evicted
Yesterday, not two weeks after a vicious attack by
neo-Nazi's, the Autonomous Social Center Klinika in Prague was attacked once
again. However, this time it was not by Molotov cocktail wielding fascists, but
by the state and its political machine. Klinika was sent a letter from the
principle facilitator of its contract, the state Office for Government
Representation in Property Affairs (UZSVM),Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-47840183424284505922016-02-07T07:39:00.000-05:002016-02-20T08:33:10.004-05:00Klinika Attacked by Neo-Nazis
Following a day of protests in Prague
both for an against migration in Europe, the autonomous social center
Klinika came under attack last night. During the days demonstrations,
a legal permitted march against “fortress Europe” organized in
cooperation with Klinika's collective came under attack more than
twenty fascists and neo-nazis. They came from behind the march as it
turned a corner Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-9744347143258331272015-11-09T09:36:00.003-05:002015-11-09T09:36:39.323-05:00No more Ebola in Sierra Leone!?
Statement by His Excellency the President
Dr Ernest Bai Koroma
To Mark the End of the Ebola Outbreak
Bintumani Conference Hall
Aberdeen
Freetown
November 7, 2015
My fellow Sierra Leoneans
Today, Sierra Leone marks the end of the Ebola outbreak. We give thanks to Almighty God, and I stand here humbled by the dedication of Ebola Response Workers, whose heroism is without parallel in theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-20018903726088225092014-10-21T21:58:00.001-04:002014-10-21T21:58:01.218-04:00No more Ebola in NigeriaNigeria has been declared officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Africa's most populous country won praise for its swift response after an infected Liberian diplomat brought the disease there in July.
The WHO officially declared Senegal Ebola-free on Friday.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-49712033722942346842014-10-15T10:01:00.000-04:002014-10-15T10:01:00.177-04:00The Precarity of Living with Ebola
I don't know where to begin. I've never in my life hoped for anyone to have Malaria (especially after almost dying of it myself), and never even thought much of Typhoid fever. But right now I am hoping, and asking for any and everyone's positive thoughts and prayers, that Yapo just has malaria or typhoid.
Yapo and Tyson
For months I have been interacting almost daily with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-76495067529492328682014-10-15T07:48:00.001-04:002014-10-15T07:48:58.782-04:00Taking its tollPowerful Commentary from Sierra Leone:
"Friends, these days you need much more than courage to carry on here. You wake up in the morning , turn your tv on, the news is about ebola deaths, images of body bags, mass burial and scary projections nothing to smile about. You turn the radio on , the news is about health workers on strike, burial team, misuse of ebola funds, corruption and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-15657341282934785102014-10-14T16:34:00.001-04:002014-10-14T16:34:59.421-04:00Militarized ExpansionEbola:
"BREAKING NEWS: Ebola confirmed among S/L army battalion (LEOBATT 2) on standby for deployment to Somalia. D entire battalion to b quarantine today.credit Umaru fofana"
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-53018540555641482802014-10-14T12:35:00.001-04:002014-10-14T12:35:47.823-04:00The last safe place from Ebola?Ebola in Sierra Leone:
"A village in koinadugu is said to have recorded 20 unexplained deaths. Fakoya village in Nenie Chiefdom has been quarantined and blood samples collected for ebola tests to ascertain whether the reported deaths are ebola related. If the results prove positive it will be the first time the virus has gotten its way to Koinadugu district which remains the only district Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-43801816435792079022014-10-09T18:12:00.001-04:002014-10-09T18:12:12.322-04:00The many faces of EbolaReports of a "Riot in Freetown. Okada riders are now attacking police officers or vehicle with police officers..."
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-33424185879650260352014-10-09T17:59:00.001-04:002014-10-09T17:59:44.050-04:00Cuba's coming to helpEbola updates:
"165 Cuban Medical Brigade comprising 63 doctors and 102 nurses was this morning formally received by the Minister of Health and Sanitation Dr Abu Bakar Fofana in a ceremony held at the Miatta Conference Hall in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Also at the Ceremony were the Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation 1, Mr Foday Sawi, Chief Medical Officer, Dr Brima Kargbo; the Deputy MinisterUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-69785029162203726272014-10-08T06:31:00.001-04:002014-10-08T06:31:03.190-04:00Ambulances!Ebola:
"Sierra Leone gets 30 brand new deluxe ambulances, 14 already arrived at the Freetown International airport, Lungi on Tuesday morning 7th October 2014 @ 3:43am with the remaining to land at the same time on Thursday; plus 20 utility/hearse vehicle 18 already supplied on purchase by the Transport and Aviation Ministry which contracted a local company called Premier Logistics and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-9764203351394555032014-10-07T17:36:00.001-04:002014-10-07T17:36:18.931-04:00Nurse after Nurse"SIERRA LEONE: Ebola claims another Medic at Connaught Hospital Nurse Prince Vandy Koroma is the latest medical personnel that has succumbed to the Ebola epidemic disease at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown.Koroma who worked at the Out patients Department of the hospital contracted the disease a few days ago and was admitted at the Ebola Ward where he passed away this morning . He has since Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-56374506350411024302014-10-07T09:37:00.001-04:002014-10-07T09:37:48.982-04:00Back to the Ebola ABCsEbola:
Strong statements coming from a very religious country...
"WHICHEVER WAY YOU SLICE IT, PRAYER CANNOT CURE EBOLA " . STOP LAYING HANDS ON PEOPLE TO CURE EBOLA, CLERGY PLEADS Monrovia - Rev. Father Ambrose Koromah of the St. Kizito Catholic Church parish has warned the religious leaders in Liberia against holding deliverance services at their various prayer centers Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-71917216531085019852014-10-07T06:40:00.001-04:002014-10-07T06:40:04.803-04:00Treatment CentersEbola in Sierra Leone:
"49 survivers at the treatment centre in hasting took photo with President Koroma!!!
President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has paid glowing tribute to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation for the great work they have done, in spite of the huge deaths suffered by its staff to help contain the Ebola outbreak. He also commended the tireless efforts of the Sierra Leone Police and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-51937564687923026292014-10-07T06:34:00.001-04:002014-10-07T06:34:19.397-04:00Stiring up troubleEbola in Sierra Leone:
It apears this nytimes article is causing some problems...
"SYLVIA BLYDEN ON LiFE AFTER STATE HOUSE
The NEW YORK TIMES article is evidence of why I had to quit State House. Too many saboteurs who can smile to the President and stab him behind his back. Oswald Hanciles is one such person at State House. He surreptitiously aided to plant the article through his friend Adam Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-70415999071750769572014-10-05T15:52:00.001-04:002014-10-05T15:52:36.256-04:00The ABC's of EbolaEbola: The rules for life in Sierra Leone.....
"Please don't forget the followings ABC, APC. AQH, AWDB, AEBM, TSHC, FHW, ABC- Avoid Body Contact.
APC- Avoid People's Compound.
AQH- Avoid Quarantine Homes &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-27472507801487434152014-10-04T18:07:00.001-04:002014-10-04T18:07:31.018-04:00African Union coming to save the day...Tomorrow, Sunday 5 October, the African Union lead Ebola virus task force arrives in Sierra Leone to provide desperately needed help in the fight against the growing epidemic. Sierra Leone is one of the countries hit worst by the outbreak already having lead its government to undertake drastic measures - such as a complete lock down in September that lastedfor several days. http://bit.ly/1oGXCYZ
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-46756486050070920812014-10-03T14:36:00.000-04:002014-10-04T14:36:51.980-04:00Courage
Ebola in Sierra Leone: "The courageous girl, a suspected Ebola victim entering the Ambulance to the holding center. Heading for the holding center."
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-81896788991337541212014-10-03T14:32:00.000-04:002014-10-04T14:33:05.874-04:00How Many Orphans will there be?
Ebola in Sierra Leone:
"Request from
an Ophan child: Nurse I want to see my grand-mother said the eldest child, when
would you take us to see my grand-mother? I want to see my grandmother she is
staying at mayagba village. The younger child replied, no we should not go there
because she is the only one left now, you want grandma to die? No we should
stay here first till the Ebola ends they both Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-35452941199235169322014-10-03T14:29:00.000-04:002014-10-04T14:30:40.620-04:00Ebola Orphans
Ebola in Sierra
Leone:
"Ophan
children in the Makeni holding center, three of them are of the same father and
with two different mothers, who both died as a result of ebola."
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-58594443215085133732014-10-03T14:27:00.000-04:002014-10-04T14:28:13.634-04:00Getting Closer to Home
Ebola in Sierra Leone: "Looking town area makeni got the first suspected case of ebola, the child was abscunded from baio street in central makeni after two persons are dead in that house, the responce team was very fast to identify this and quickly taken to the referal center, the girl age 8yrs though, seems to have the gratest courage to enter the ambulance, she looks seek and week, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-30443721977188723132014-10-02T14:23:00.000-04:002014-10-04T14:24:45.326-04:00Another Nurse Dies
Ebola in Sierra Leone:
"Breaking News
Tuesday 30 Sept. 2014 Ebola Kills Staff Nurse at Jui Her name is
Lucy Sowa. She was a staff nurse working at the
Ebola Isolation Unit at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown where she contracted
the disease while trying to save other lives. Staff Sowa tested positive a couple
of days ago and was rushed to the Ebola Holding Centre in Jui where she died last
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2952879376185093959.post-60449470379445910802014-10-02T14:22:00.000-04:002014-10-04T14:23:01.780-04:00Makeni Updates
Ebola:
"THE
PROCLIVITIES OF EBOLA CONTINUES TO PLAGUE MAKENI.
By Nat Taylor-kamara
As Bombali district
continues to register an upward trend reporting on the number of Ebola victims,
more and more unwanted occurrences continues to vulnerably violate, torture and
live Residents astray to roam their world. In response to the unfortunate
incident that saw an influx of people on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0