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Ranger: You girls sure you've in shape for the trail? The Sierra Club gives it a nine out of ten for difficulty.

On the slopes of Spain's Sierra de Aitana Mountains, Italian Arias * waft through the air, and lions roar as if in accompaniment.

Baker called it a "proof of principle, " and Sierra described the findings as "low-hanging fruit. "

It was the only airline prepared to land in Sierra Leone and was doing most of its business taking people out.

As I leaned on the railing, trying to guess at the outline of the sierra, nostalgia's first blow caught me by surprise.

Forna grew up in Sierra Leone, though she was born in Glasgow and spent a good chunk of her life in the UK.

If the British Treasury can be out by a factor of ten, think what the ministry of finance in Sierra Leone is going to be like. (Laughter).

If they were polished in-country, then Sierra Leone might have seen somewhere near the real value of this incredible natural resource.

The gamblers and risk-takers turned south on the California Trail over the Sierra Nevada, ready to strike it big or not at all.

There is no doubt that the reasons for international investors to consider Sierra Leone as their choice for investment are many.

He made note that the dam will not only bring electricity to the majority of homes but could transform Sierra Leone into an energy exporter.

The Sierra Leone Authorities fully supported the prosecution of their officer and did not ratify his claim to diplomatic immunity.

All this with the meandering bend in the Rio Grande and the Sierra del Carmen beckoning from across the river in Mexico.

The commission held public hearings in Sierra Leone's major cities and regional towns, but did not reach remote villages like Dugba-yuma.

I've reached the stage where I feel like I actually live in Sierra Leone. Life in London seems very distant.

A soldier pulls marijuana plants up in an illegal plantation at the Sierra de Juarez, in Tecate, northern Mexico on Tuesday, Sept.

A frail asthmatic, he took up arms with Fidel Castro's guerrillas in Cuba's Sierra Maestra.

She says flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will have to be cut by the end of the month because of lack of money.

The Lyell Glacier is the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park and is one of the few remaining in the Sierra Nevada today.

But we did not do so in Algeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Croatia, Rwanda, the Caucasus, the Kurdish area and many other regions.

The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths.

is one of the more common mariposas found in foothills throughout the Coast Ranges and western Sierra Nevada foothills of California.

The most interesting Sierra was a former high-ranking official who worked in an ancillary department of the central Spanish government.

The bottom ten countries are all African countries, with Sierra Leone (in West Africa) at the bottom of the list.

Based on the renowned classic Sierra flight game, relive WWI history as an ace pilot at the front of the French Air Force Squadron.

Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light.

Sierra Leone's new president visits neighboring countries of Guinea and Liberia in a goodwill trip to help strengthen relations.

A project in Mississippi is poised to break ground, though the Sierra Club is still fighting in court to revoke the plant's permits.

But a further 50, including Niger and Sierra Leone, as detailed in the Lancet paper, do not get enough from the international community.

Sierra Nevada, which also makes satellites, sensors, and other components, did not design the Dream Chaser from the ground up.

Major Phil Ashby works in Sierra Leone with the United Nations to help oversee the peace process in this troubled, warring nation.

Earlier this week I visited the people of Sierra Leone, still struggling, but at least able to contemplate a better future.

He was invited to play at the Sierra Madre, but found himself in the shadow of the casino's founder, Frederick Sinclair.

I speak of a girl in Afghanistan, but I might equally well have mentioned a baby boy or girl in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone, a poor west African country, has no fibre-optic link to the outside world.

The Sierra Madre in Luzon , also known as the Pacific coast range, is the longest continuous mountain range in the Philippines .

Though only 30 walked away with money, all were winners, observed Kathy Sierra, the Bank's Vice President for Infrastructure.

Additionally, the youth have demonstrated huge self-discipline by not giving up, despite the destructive impact of the war in Sierra Leone.

So integral was the Libyan leader's involvement that the Special Court for Sierra Leone reportedly considered indicting him.

A cab driver from Sierra Leone said "the sentiment is nice, " but he doubted it would lead to changes for people in Africa.

For a start, Mr Taylor is being tried not for atrocities that occurred in his homeland, Liberia, but in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

In terms of access to medical care, it was fourth from bottom, beating only Sierra Leone, Brazil, and Burma.

Just as its neighbor Sierra Leone, Liberia was known for its blood diamonds during the civil war.

Power companies did not break ground on a single new coal plant in 2009 or 2010, the environmental group Sierra Club reported recently.

This reporter saw a museum full of the artists drawing, painting and abstract painting, real life people describe the state of Sierra Leone.

Several countries that have been racked by civil wars, including Rwanda, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, have brought in new company laws.

Out of desperation, city engineers began buying up land and water rights in the Owens Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada.

He works with groups like the Sierra Club to get young people interested in the environment.

Qingdao is a coastline is long, the sierra is numerous, the waters area is vast, the islands spread all over historical city.

And unless it is quickly contained, he says, it could grow into a crisis involving Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast.

Sierra Leone's budget is a tiny $500m a year, but its leaders still enjoy rich pickings.

Turay moved here in 1989 and says China was a part of his life even as a child. . . in Sierra Leone.

African Minerals, which until August 2007 was known as Sierra Leone Diamonds, is an exploration-stage company.

That country was also dragged into Liberia and Sierra Leone's wars as refugees -- and armed fighters -- fled over the border.

One of the companies I was involved with while at Sierra Ventures was Piczo, a teen-oriented photo sharing and social networking community.

Monty Jones, a rice expert from Sierra Leone, was the winner in two thousand four.

As public relations jobs go, selling a positive image of Sierra Leone has to be among the most challenging.

My late husband was former district leaders of the diamond city and an executive member of the Diamond Mining Association in Sierra Leone.

It attends to countries like Burundi or Sierra Leone that do not attract much private interest.

Sierra Leone scored consistently low, but other nations showed divergent rankings across the measures.

A rainbow brightens the sky above the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains in Mexico.

Sierra Leone is determined to deepen the existing friendly cooperation between the two countries.

Sierra Leone's district health information system (DHIS) captures data from hundreds of community health centres across the country.

"If you didn't get the money here, you're going to get it someplace else, " Sierra told the crowd before winners were announced.

Their adaptability makes the youth central to any level of sustainable business growth in Sierra Leone.

the sierra leone international , formerly of inter milan and regina , has emerged as a target for juventus coach didier deschamps.

Also on his tasting menu were a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and a homemade 3. 4-litre four-wheel drive Ford Escort.

This cline exists along a transect from the Sacramento Valley to near the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains .

Amanda Pease is one of almost forty volunteers serving in rural schools in Sierra Leone.

He is attending the trial as part of a BBC project to provide daily radio reports to audiences in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Similar social protection-related budget support operations have since been implemented in Haiti, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh.

In Sierra Leone recently, I saw kids playing football everywhere, proudly wearing their Manchester United and Arsenal shirts.

"A little bit better than the status quo isn't good enough, " explains Bill Magavern, the Sierra Club's California director.

I decided to come to Sierra Leone to try and gain some perspective on life.

"We came to a new understanding about happiness and health, " said Martin, now a psychology professor at La Sierra University in Riverside.

Little is known about the fish of Sierra Leone, and we have had a great start already.

It wouldn't solve all the problems, but it would encourage countries like Sierra Leone to take sexual violence more seriously.

Another strangely beautiful early morning shot of the tufa formations, with the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the background.

a ground dweller that prefers open ground and scattered low bushes; of United States west between Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Sierra Leone is just 30 kilometers away from the Guinean markets, and that, says businessman Mohamed Bah, means progress for Guinea.

A 28-year-old male refugee from Sierra Leone complained about a darker colour of his left leg with slight itching.

For, despite the progress, Sierra Leone remains, according to most evaluations, one of the poorest places on earth.

Amanda Pease is one of the first Peace Corps volunteers to work in Sierra Leone in over a decade.

He is to be joined later in the day by the presidents of Benin, Cape Verde and Sierra Leone.

These insurgents terrorized rural Sierra Leone in an effort to control the nations diamond mines.

Rapid needs assessments have been completed for Burkina Faso, Burundi, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

On Wednesday, Anadarko announced positive results from the Venus well off the coast of Sierra Leone.

He is now in The Hague facing war crimes charges for his involvement in Sierra Leone's civil war.

Light rain continue to fall in parts of California's San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Posters proclaim the Sierra Leone police to be "A Force for Good. "

Both Mr. Taylor and attorney Courtenay Griffiths failed to appear before the Special Court for Sierra Leone Wednesday.

In Sierra Leone August is known as the "master rain month" .

This year the State Department added Bangladesh, Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone. It also added Venezuela, Guyana and Ecuador.

Indeed, many Sierra Leoneans are proud of the court's work and the precedents that it might set for other African countries.

There followed long speeches of support for the project and on patriotism for Sierra Leone, and then the celebrations started.

Sierra and supporters initiated an online discussion aimed at countering abusive online behavior and developed a blogger's code of conduct.

The tree is thought to be one of the oldest living trees in the world having clocked up over 4, 000 years standing in the Sierra Nevada.

Efforts in Sierra Leone to get more children through primary school have led to crowded high schools.

That money should be enough, African Minerals says, to fund the first phase of production at its Tonkolili mining project in Sierra Leone.

He has allegedly supplied arms to various conflicts elsewhere, including Sierra Leone, earning him the sobriquet, "Merchant of Death" .

A quiet pond reflects snow-dusted trees and granite outcrops of the Sierra Nevada in California's Yosemite National Park.

Greg Auriemma, a lawyer for the Sierra Club environmental group, said Gifford's stance was not unusual in Lacey.

Nevada's name comes from the Spanish word meaning "snow clad" --a reference to the snow-covered peaks of the Sierra Nevada.

Manchester United have never played in Sierra Leone and, given the poverty of the country, are unlikely ever to do so.

But, commissioners made clear they would stop at nothing to clean up society and bring about the behavioral changes Sierra Leone needs.

Manzanar from Guard Tower, view west (Sierra Nevada in background), Manzanar Relocation Center, California.

The movie has received wild acclaim worldwide for its depiction of the ghastly diamond-funded civil war in Sierra Leone.

Liberia and Sierra Leone have been pulled back from the brink of utter chaos in recent years, and both are now at peace.

Our focus is to promote and maintain quality education, general welfare and co-operation among Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad.

Many governments have helped bring those accused by the tribunals for Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and Rwanda to book.

Many governments have helped bring those accused by the tribunals for Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and Rwanda to book.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty before an international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone will remain committed to deepening the existing friendly and cooperative relations between the two nations in the future.

In Sierra Leone, Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front soldiers savagely chopped off limbs and raped their way through villages.

The US is calling on Nigeria to hand over Mr Taylor to a United Nations-backed tribunal in Sierra Leone.

But the end of fighting in Sierra Leone has not improved the lives of children working in the mines.

The governments of Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone have started to negotiate with wholesalers to control prices indirectly.

Another firm vying for a slice of the re-supply market is Sierra Nevada.

But it has had some successes too: in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and more recently in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The Sierra Club was unable to meet this standard.

North initial proletariat prosperous Si Alps, south to Pyrenees sierra, including France's entire south region.

This week, an international court found former Liberian president Charles Taylor guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone.

Taylor was a warlord in neighbouring Liberia when the civil conflicts began in Sierra Leone.

Wells helped write the university human rights program's new report on child mining in Sierra Leone entitled "Digging in the Dirt. "

In it, I discovered several interesting historical figures who shared my surname, Sierra.

Sierra Leone's war crimes tribunal has sentenced three former rebel chiefs to long prison terms for crimes against humanity.

I grew up out west in the Sierra Nevada mountains, like you see here, in the Red Rock Canyon.

And somewhere like Sierra Leone, fresh out of war - they think it's ripe for trade and investment.

Examples of English- based creoles are Jamaican Creole , Hawaiian Creole and Krio in Sierra Leone, West Africa .

In 1958 Fidel Castro and his men encamped in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, in southwestern Cuba, several hundred miles from Havana.

Time was lost, and the delay resulted in their late arrival to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and their tragic winter.

John Huston set Hollywood on its ear in 1948 with "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" by shooting on location.

Retired surgeon in England plans concert to raise funds for the rebuilding of schools in Sierra Leone.

The "short cut" to California had cost them many wasted days, and the Donner party crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains late in the season.

In 1991, he joined up with a Sierra Leonean rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front, and oversaw the invasion of Sierra Leone.

To address this challenging, unmet medical need, we started a humanitarian programme in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is located in Western Africa bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between Guinea and Liberia .

He has taken breaks from the royals over the years to cover diplomacy and wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Sierra Leone.

"The Sierra Club tells people that if we use less energy, the underlying model is sound, " he said. "I don't think that's the case. "

The Harris Sierra II? encryption technology provides the foundation for this level of information security.

He says Sierra Leone's anti-corruption commission should be more active in investigating illicit involvement in the country's diamond trade.

That could help stabilize a region still recovering from conflict in Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

Plumas County, located in Sierra Nevada Calif. , boasts plenty of fall flavor.

Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the latest 3 of the 13[1] highest risk African countries to carry out preventive campaigns.

That could mean persuading them to try Bikram yoga, donate to the Sierra Club or share a recipe for apple pie.

But the real asset that would guarantee national stability, higher returns and sustainability is the youth of Sierra Leone.

The experience was similar in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Their attitude is probably wise.

"Blood Diamond" , a film about the precious stones that fuelled a civil war in Sierra Leone, picked up several nominations.

AMID much media interest, Naomi Campbell, a model, gave evidence on Thursday August 5th at the special court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

But he needed money, so the lucrative diamond mines in neighbouring Sierra Leone beckoned.

In Sierra Leone, local schools must be recognized by the Ministry of Education in order to have teacher salaries paid by the government.

Only the hardiest cultivars should be attempted in areas such as the Willamette Valley, the Sierra Nevada and high desert.

16-year old Fredrica says children's rights in her country, Sierra Leone, are being violated.

A similar body for Sierra Leone won the first conviction for sex slavery (and another over the use of child soldiers).

As barley production in Russia slumped, the production of sorghum in Sierra Leone and Ghana surged.

"Oh, blood diamonds, " is the typical response from most outsiders when you mention Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone has one of the highest infant mortality rates and lowest life expectancy in the world.

Then, assuming the Sierra Club helicopter has rescued you in time, I want you to go tell a billion people in India the same thing.

Starting 10 million years ago, vertical movement along the Sierra fault started to uplift the Sierra Nevada.

When the park workers started widening the road they were forced to stop by the Sierra Club.

In some countries all of those things happen at once, like Sierra Leone a few years ago.

Other countries to benefit from the first round of funding include Bangladesh, Haiti, Sierra Leone and Togo.

It was soon joined by cables from Sierra Leone, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.

The country's youth provide even better opportunities for investors looking to invest in Sierra Leone.

The group has already started to work with Cambodia, Sierra Leone and Syria.

An unincorporated community of north-central California in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada north of Sacramento. Population, 25, 408.

Sierra says the World Bank is working to deepen the reach of the carbon market with two new facilities.

Yosemite is about three hundred twenty kilometers east of San Francisco. It is deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

In a desperately poor country such as Sierra Leone, drug money will quickly gnaw its way through the legislature and bureaucracy.

In early September, I was endorsed by two important environmental groups, the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters.

On the Sierra Leonean side new tarmac runs from the capital first to Bo, the country's second city and then on to Kenema in the southeast.

NaCSA brought in a team of sign-language specialists from Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.

Earlier numbers were estimated purely on the rolls in Africa in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

There is also the fact that Sierra Leone, after its civil war ended seven years ago, continues to enjoy peace and stability.

The main sierra has Greater Hinggan Mountain, Helan Mountain, Mt. Wula and Daqingshan.

Sierra Leone is a poor west African country that has English as its official language.

The scheme will be extended to include two other firms, Boeing and Sierra Nevada Corporation.

The Sierra Club opposes it, along with another line that would run east from Los Angeles.

Before the war, Sierra Leone had more than 30 factories or processing plants.

Yosemite National Park is located in the central Sierra Nevada of California.

The first field test of the technology is scheduled for next year in the Sierra Nevada.

The World Bank is providing $28, 000 to the Bo Sign Language Training Center through the Sierra Leone National Social Action Project (NSAP).

Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Liberia all showed that outsiders can in fact help avert catastrophes.

In a hospital ward in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, Fatmata Conteh, 26, lay on a bed, having just given.

Two months later I was on a plane to Sierra Leone to spend a month with Tribewanted.

But the youth of Sierra Leone offer even bigger investment opportunities.

They have spread into areas of Lofa County and Gbarpolu County, bordering Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The Cotton Tree is a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone.

Mr Yang is on a five-country tour of Africa and will also visit Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Algeria and Morocco.

Iceland, ironically, comes top, and Sierra Leone bottom.

Among this year's notable results are Liberia and Sierra Leone, which improved the most.

Sierra: Because there are all accompanied by my side, so I will be able to get through.

The likeness of an African warrior appears on Sierra Leone's 5000 leone bank note.

Charles Taylor is on trial for his alleged role in Sierra Leone's decade long civil war.

Sierra Leone (known here as "Salone" ) feels like two countries.

More than 150 years ago, a group of people from the West African country of Sierra Leone answered yes to that question.

In 2000 I returned to Sierra Leone, the country of my childhood.

He then used the funds as collateral for loans to invest in diamonds in Sierra Leone.

Gardens were far from my mind in the High Sierra.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is another, about the curse of gold and greed.

Snow levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains are below normal for the third year in a row.

Sierra Club and other groups concerned about clean air have welcomed the coal industry slump.

A graduate of Illinois State University, Mr. Kelleher served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone in the mid-1980s.

The Sierra Leone find "puts us smack in the middle of very hot activity right now" .

Getting involved in student organizations counts, and so does feeding children in Sierra Leone or sweeping floors in the chemistry building.

Although some of the poorest countries did well in 2007 (Sierra Leone, for instance, grew by 11. 6%) the base was low.

You come to the Sierra, there are no factories, there is no industrial agriculture.

Mono Lake is located on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains at the junction of Highways 395 and 120.

The trial is being followed closely in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

THE wanton violence during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war was exceptionally barbaric.

A city of central California in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada near Fresno. It is a processing center. Population, 50, 323.

"Attitude is Everything" , it read. "Invest in Your Future by Changing Your Attitude and Behaviour for the Good of All Sierra Leoneans" .

Today, Yosemite includes nearly 1, 200 square miles of the central Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Ms. Peace teaches science at Saint Joseph's, a high school in eastern Sierra Leone.

Only a decade ago countries such as Sierra Leone and Liberia were bywords for anarchy and bloodshed.

Lianne Kuppens leads UNICEF's child survival and development team in Sierra Leone.

Retreat signal is Morse signal "Sierra" with lamp.

Portuguese explorers had charted the west coast of Africa as far as Sierra Leone.

Do not go to impoverished Sierra Leone, with the most generous annual leave requirement, at 39 days.

And so it happens that when the storyline of the movie starts, he is now plying his trade in Sierra Leone, of all places!

Once that trial finishes, it will be time for the Sierra Leone court to wind up.

THE farmers of Makeni, in central Sierra Leone, signed the contract with their thumbs.

The local chapter of the Sierra Club has voiced support, while the statewide chapter has been neutral.

Over the years her UN role has involved visits to camps in countries such as Sierra Leone, Pakistan and Ecuador.

Surveys of Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau waters found that levels of illegal fishing at 29% and 23%.

Consider that Park City got 90 inches last April; Squaw Valley in the California Sierra counted 102 inches that same month.

Once again, that's Sierra Leone. This is again, indicating how numbers relate to space relate to form, maps of the universe.

Sierra writes about frugality, sustainable living, and getting her kids to eat kale at Childwild. com.

Regional forces have previously intervened in west Africa to prop up governments under threat, such as those in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Valentine Strasser was ousted as Sierra Leone's leader in 1996 and then showed up as a law student in the University of Warwick in England.

Split Rock and Cloud, Eastern Sierra, California, 1976 .

On hearing we were located on a beach in Sierra Leone the call operator said "We have a service centre in Puerto Rico. Is that close? "

They include Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Sierra club will never know; Green Peace isn't around.

Mike Hart is CEO of Sierra Energy, a green energy company.

Until they are tackled, Sierra Leone will remain a fragile state at best.

Bunting-Graden, who is a lawyer, has tried to start a business venture in her native country, Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone will remain a fragile state at best.

For example, the average woman in Sierra Leone needs to have more than three children to ensure that just two will survive to adulthood.

Last June, for example, Time magazine published graphic pictures of a naked woman from Sierra Leone dying in childbirth.

the Sierra Nevada mountains climb more than 2 miles high.

of or relating to Sierra Leone or its people.

In the sierra there's lots of land to cultivate maize and other crops.

A basic unit of currency in Sierra Leone.

The one shortcoming, say the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, is that Exxon executives won't be sent to prison.

The story of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the area that is Yosemite National Park begins about five hundred million years ago.

Sierra Leone's diamonds to good quality, particles, and have a good octahedral crystal form known to the world.

Peace Corps volunteers left Sierra Leone in nineteen ninety-four because of civil war.

Sierra Leone is a land of honest men and women.

Star of Sierra Leone was in February 1972 in the Young found on Sigma's diamond mines, weight of 968. 9 kt, colorless.