The State of The Presbyterian Church

I attend a church here in town and I have been doing so now for about the last two months. The last two weeks though I did not attend service at all and that are because of a number of reasons. There are two mains churches in this country which are the Catholic Church and the Presbyterian Church. I am a member of the Presbyterian Church and I have been since I was a little child. Church service in my childhood used to last for a maximum of two hours. That was the case throughout the year except when there were special occasions like thanksgiving and other special ceremonies such as church marriages and the service would then be extended.

The Catholic Church though for the few instances that I have attended is always constant in that their service runs between one hour to one hour and a half. They never go over one hour and the half despite the fact that they take communion each and every Sunday.
Part of the reason that the Presbyterian Church takes longer is that people come to the church to try and raise money for one project or the other. For example, the Christian Youth Fellowship of the said Presbyterian Church in the past two weeks lunched a CD in church that they have been working on for some time. There is nothing wrong in lunching a CD and raising money in church but the money raising aspect of the business just dominated the whole church service of that day. The service started at about 9am and did not finish until about 1.30pm, that is about 4.30 hours of church service. Too long in my opinion especially if you are trying to recruit more members into your service.

The Catholic Church has the advantage in that they raise money to run their church services from a central location and they have been around much longer than the Presbyterian Church. So they have more funds in their bank accounts. The Presbyterian Church can also raise money from private service out of church service time. In the case of the CD lunch that happened in my church, what I think they could have done is announced that a CD has been released and get people to purchase the CD and make other donations when the main church service is over. That way people who came to church service to worship would do that and leave if they are not interested in purchasing the CD. There are a lot of people with money in the area and they would donate money to the Church if you contact them privately. The church has elders and part of the duties of the elders in my opinion should be to try and raise money for various projects of the church. They can do that during the course of the week.

People come to church and take pride in announcing large donations that they are making to the church. I do not know whether they actually do give the money to the Church, but God knows how much you contribute to his course and you do not need to make a grand announcement of it. There is some sort of a competition going on in my opinion and it seems as if some people are using the church to show off the financial success that they have achieved somewhere else. I think there are a lot of ways in which you could let the world know that you have money and the church is not a place for that. What the Church can do if people that make donations to it need to make the rest of the world know, is to create like a balance sheet at the end of each 6 months or a year and make the announcement during the year end service. That way people would come to church and do what the church service is intended for, which is a place for people to come and worship. This is one aspect that the church has to work on.

Attending church is good because each and every one of us has to have a faith in which they believe in. The Presbyterian Church is also lively in that they have various groups that light up the service with singing and makes the place more human.

देअलिंग विथ थे Police

Dealing with the Police.
Do not make a bad situation worse.
Most of the time, the police would not stop you for any unjust reason. The majority of the cases in which the situation gets to the stage in which you find yourself in handcuffs could be avoided if you have gotten an education as to how to deal with the police. I have being stopped a lot of times and I have had the police call on me a few times for one reason or the other. In the majority of the cases the situation did not get to the point of you being arrested if you have been educated. The Police force goes through a training program in which they are told on how to react on various situations. They are doing their job and they would get nasty at times if they demand for something simple as for you to show them your ID card and you start making smart comments to them.
I read an article on the Washington Post about an African American that was arrested and had to spend the night in jail because of a twenty five dollar traffic ticket that he had forgotten to pay due to one reason or the other.

Harvard professor Louise Gates got arrested at his own home recently and this has brought out the issue of how African Americans and Hispanics are dealt with in various communities throughout the nation by the police. There are my tips on how to deal with the police if you ever happen to find yourself in a situation involving them.

1-Stay calm.
This is like the number one way to get away easily when dealing with them. If you are nervous while talking to them or you are acting funny, then they know that you are trying to hide something from them and they would react according.

2-Do what they demand you to do.
If they are asking you for your driver license and car registration, provide it to them. What they do is they go to their computer and check to make sure that you are not a wanted person or you do no have any outstanding traffic tickets. If you know that you are clean, give them the document and they would come back in a couple of minutes after checking their computers and explained to you why you got stopped the first place. A few of them might asked you to do something ridiculous like saying the alphabet and you do it and they would explained to you why you are being pulled over and you would be out of the situation. The details about the Professors case are still coming out and it would be nice to wait for some time to get all the facts before trying to go prosecute all the police men.

3-If they decide to put you under arrest do not get nasty with them.
The police might decide to arrest you after pulling you over for one reason or the order. What they do at this time is they call for backup. Once you find yourself is this type of a situation, you know you are screwed and there is nothing you can do about it. This is not the end of the world. The US has a great judiciary system and you would get your day in court. Spending a night in jail is bad, but if you decide to fight them and resist arrest, you only aggravate the situation.

The police are not above the law and if you think that you were not treated fairly during a traffic stop or the police harassed you for one reason or the other you can report them to the right authority in your county. There are authorities that deal with police brutality and if you lay a legitimate complain, somebody would look into it. Remember, they are the ones that are there to uphold the law and they have been giving guidelines to follow. They are also armed and you do not want to get yourself in a situation in which you are being shot at. Some innocent individuals have being killed for trying to proof tough and the law would give the police officer the benefit of doubt in a court of law. If you have nothing to hide, that would come out in court. I personally had a situation in which the police officer acted out of hand but the charges against me were all thrown out once we got to court. As I walk out of the courtroom you could see the embarrassment at the officer’s face in the courthouse.

प्रेजिडेंट पॉल बिया ओं ओफ्फिसिअल विसित तो France

The President of the Republic of Cameroon is currently on an official visit to France with his wife Chantal Biya. This is from an invitation from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The French were the main colonial masters of this central African nation that gained independence in 1960 and the relationship between the two nations have stayed cordial ever since. In the two major cities in the Republic of Cameroon, which are Douala and Yaoundé, a lot of the major infrastructures are all built by the French. They are also the main source of external support to this nation.

The relationship though between the citizens is a little bit strained in my opinion. Part of the reason being that quite a few individuals that need visas to go to France for one reason or another have to go through a rigorous process in order to obtain one. In a lot of cases they are flat out refused one. The individuals from this nation thought still fight hard to try and get to France in hope of bettering their economic situation. Economics is the primary reason for most of the individuals here trying to migrate to France, thought there are also cases of people going for medical and business purposes.

In the long term, the individuals of this nation and all of Africa as a whole have to seriously start to look for solutions for their own problems. That would be the way for them to get out of the situation in which most of the nations find themselves in. Foreign aid comes with a lot of baggage attach to it and after years and years of continues borrowing from industrialized nations and organizations such as the World bank and the International Monetary Fund, the nations in this part of the world are still lacking in terms of development. A couple of years ago, before the economic crisis hit the world, the World Bank and a few industrialized nations started a program of debt forgiveness. The program was called HIPC.HIPC stands for heavily indebted Poor nations. There was a lot of noise when the announcement was made and this nation was amongst those selected for their debts to be forgiven. Some of the nations that miss the cut complained that they were being punished for paying back their debts on time and that the nations that were selected would just go back to their old ways of borrowing and spending. I have been around this nation now since 2005 and I am yet to see that mark that the program left. I do not see any good use that the money was put into. There is very little talk now about HPIC funds and I am afraid that the funds from the program have probably just disappeared.

People of these nations have to start looking for other alternatives to solve their problems. There is a little bit of this going on now as individuals have been flooding other foreign embassies such as the US and Great Britain. They are looking for a place to migrate to or to go further their education. Financial aid is also provided by these two countries. The Italians, the Dutch and the Chinese are also present in the country providing one some of assistance or the other.

Not all the foreign nationals that are in the country are for aid. Quite a few are there for investment. Something that the government encourages as the investment would provide employment of one form or the other to the inhabitants in this nation.
The Chinese are in Douala, the economic capital of this nation and they are the most recent of the arrivals. They came in around the early 1990s and they are now involved in activities ranging from shop owners to fishermen in the seas around the area. It is funny how some individuals here are struggling to get out this nation to go overseas and yet you get people like the Chinese coming in and going what the locals here are involved in. Some of them come and get Cameroonian nationality.

थे २००९ टूर दे France

The 2009 edition of the Tour the France will come to and end this coming Sunday and it looks like Spaniard Alberto Contador will be the winner. He won the race in 2007 and he is one of only few riders in history to have won all three of the grand races. That is the tour of Italy, the tour of Spain and the tour de France. This will be his second tour the France victory and he is just 24 years of age. There is enough time for him to reach the magical number of winning five tours the France races that would put him in the legend category.

Contador had to content with teammate Lance Armstrong of the US who early in the race had a two seconds lead over him. That was before the race got into the mountain stages. The mountains are where the tour is won and Alberto showed his strength by winner the crucial stage 15 mountain stages in the Alps. He followed that victory with an individual time trial victory on stage 18 yesterday that all but sealed the victory for him. So barring any catastrophic injury in the rest of the stages, he should keep the yellow jersey that he is wearing come Sunday when the race ends in Paris France.

Alberto Contador rides for team Astana and there was talk of a possible friction when last summer Lance Armstrong decided to come out of retirement and set as one of his goals, winning the tour de France. So going into the event Armstrong and Contador were almost like co-leaders of the team. After Contador made that great breakaway move on the 15th stage and won the stage, he had a comfortable enough lead over Armstrong for the later to concede that Contador is indeed the better rider.

If you have been watching past tour de France races like I have, there is always a stage when the winner takes total command of the race and that moment occurred on stage 15. Contador made his move on the last of the mountain climbs and finish close to two minutes ahead of the other race contenders.

न्यू हेड कोच फॉर थे इन्दोमिताब्ले Lions

The indomitable Lions started the second part of the African Nations Cup/World cup 2010 qualifiers by losing their first game to Togo by 1-0 on a neutral ground. They followed that performance with a 0-0 draw with Morocco at home in Yaoundé, giving them just 1 point out of a possible six in a group in which just one team is to qualify for the 2010 world cup competition in South Africa.

They just hired a new coach in Frenchman Paul Le Guen but that would be reacting a little bit too late in my opinion. The team has been good for a very long time but it has also been plague by constant problems. The best example has to be when the team qualified for the 2002 world cup that was held in Japan and South Korea. The team was at its peak at that time, just coming off back to back African nations cup victories in 2000 and early 2002. The main problem that they had at that time was one of money. It looked like at the time the authorities in charge were very slow in making payments to the players and the team got held up in France on their way to the Far East.

Their first match in that competition was against the Republic of Ireland. They showed up just 24 hours before kickoff in that game and ended up pulling a one all tie on their way to crashing out of the competition in the first round. You could just see the fatigue in the players during the second half of play in that match against the Republic of Ireland.
After that competition, tragedy struck when Marc Vivien Foe collapse and died on the pitch during the confederation cup in 2003 and the team has never been the same since then.

The current coach is coming in with the ambition of taking the team to the World cup in South Africa but he is coming in a little bit too late. For some time now the public has been screaming that the players are getting old and change needs to be made but nobody in the Football authorities was listening. The team made it to the finals of the 2006 African Cup of nations in Ghana, but they played a totally different type of football to make it that far into the competition. If you watched the team during their 2000 and 2002 run they were dominating teams during the African cup of Nations competition. That was not the case though in the 2006 competition held in Ghana. Egypt exposed the team greatly and coach Otto Pfizer had to go very defensive in the later part of the competition for the team to make it that far.

The team did qualify for the second round of the current qualifiers, but they had some close calls with some very weak teams. They pulled a tie with Cape Verde away from home and had to be rescued by a late Samuel Eto-o goal to beat Cape Verde by two goals to one in the returned leg match at their home field.

The team started making changes recently but that was after their poor result during the first two games. Now they would have to win the remainder of their games to get a chance at qualifying. That is going to be very difficult considering the fact that the team is having problems both defensively and offensively. During the games against Togo and Morocco, very few goal scoring chances were created and this is not something that a new coach is going to fix right away. Also the new players that are going to be brought in would need some time to blend as a unit. The new coach would be lucky if the team qualifies for the African Cup of Nations competition in Angola next year. They need to finish third out of four teams to make it into that competition.

Working for Sprint Pcs

I joined Sprint Pcs in the early part of the month of January 1999 and I worked for them for a period of about a year and a half.Getting into Sprint Pcs was not very difficult for me because I had some connections there.They do have a very strict background check procedure though that takes some time before you can begin working with them.I knew a few people at Sprint Pcs who had worked with me at Circuit City and some had important positions at the company.Jay Freshchi(I hope I got the name right was a district manager at the company).The interview that I did before being hired was conducted an the store in Baltimore inner harbor.That location was fully staffed so I could not be hired there.There was going to be a new location in a place called Columbia,Maryland.The store would be located in an old shopping center called Dobbin shopping center.I was interviewed by Brian Pierce who was the assistant manager at the Baltimore store and he was going to maintain the same position at the Columbia Dobbin Shopping center store.
The interview procedure was quite lengthy but it was not unpleasant.The only surprise for me during the interview process was that the person who was going to be the manager at the Baltimore store during my interview but choose not to take to me at the time.He just had one question and that was whether I planned on staying with Sprint Pcs for a while.
After the initial interview a background check is conducted and later on the company send me a kit to go to a lab in Wheaton to conduct a drug test.Once I got to this level I knew that I would get the job because that was the final huddle before you are send an offer letter.I did get the offer letter sometime in December and it was a pretty good offer and I was schedule to start work in the early part of January 1999

The initial staff
The initial staff at the Columbia store consisted of me,Eric Tambe,a Nigerian called Clement Oshin was going to be the manager of the store.Brian Pierce was going to be the Assistant manager.Pierce had the most knowledge about Sprint Pcs at the time.He had been with the company since its inception as Sprint Spectrum.I was surprised that he was not going to be the manager,that they were going to put an African-American in front of him in the store.He did not complain though and he spend most of the time training all of us.There was also Danny Chou who was from South Korea,a 19 year old with a big mouth.There was Heather Moore and Jason.So in total there was seven of us in the store.A manager,an assistant manager,a technician/warehouse guy and four sales persons to begin with.
The first few weeks at work consisted of on the job training and selling to make some money for myself.The training was done mainly by Brian Pierce and Jason who was the lead sales person.The role of the lead sales person is to make money for himself to begin with and assist the rest of the sales staff when the manager and assistant manager are not around.Jason had been around with the company during its early days as Sprint Spectrum.

How we got paid
The pay structure consisted of an hourly rated of 12 dollars.This is when you put in the regular 40hours of work.We got paid overtime for hours worked in the week over 40.The overtime pay was time and the half.On holidays if you were scheduled to work the rate goes to double.The hourly rated itself was so good that in some two weeks of work my regular salary which is the hourly rate came to around 1200 dollars after taxes.This was better than my two weeks of commission pay at Circuit City during most of the year.The next part of the pay structure was the commission.We got paid a commission for selling rate plans and accessories for the cellphones.The rate plans ranged from 29.99 to 199.99.The most popular rate plan that we sold was the 49.99 rate plan.Each month we were given a number of telephones as our target to sell.If you go past that number something called an accelerator kicks in.What the accelerator does is that it automatically starts paying you at a much higher rate for each telephone that you sell pass your target.A typical good month for me consisted of a gross pay of close to 6500 dollars a month.For the first year that I worked for Sprint Pcs my gross salary came to 65,000 dollars which is the most money that I have made in a year period.The next year I was on pace to make around 50,000 before I left the company to join AT@T wireless.

Other benefits.
We got a health plan benefit that the company paid for.This was for the basic service.If you wanted more then you got to pay additional for it.I did get to use the health benefit while at Sprint Pcs because I had to remove a growth on the back of my head.The doctors had to do it twice and the company paid for everything.We were also offered dental health care.You could go get your teeth clean and get some surgical work done on the expense of the company.I believed that I had some work done on my teeth during this period and the company paid for the part that was non-cosmetic.
There was also a stock purchase plan that you could take advantage of.The company allowed you to purchase stock at a discount during each quarter and brokerage house Charles Schwab was responsible for taking care of the stock transactions.I believe that I made quite a bit of money buying Sprint Pcs stock and selling it quarterly.

Training.
The official training that I got while at Sprint Pcs took consisted of about a week of classes.The training involved the learning of a new software that the company used to sell,program and set up services for the customers.I had gotten a head start on this in the store but the training went into more details and by the time that the classes were over the minor details that you were missing in the store all fell into place.During the course of the year there were other training sessions organized by the company during periods when new products were introduced.

The Merger with Mci WorldCom.
Towards the second part of the year 1999 Sprint Pcs and Mci Worldcom made a joined announcement that both companies are going to merge.The news of the merger was hailed by wall street as the stocks of both companies headed upwards in a hurry.I believe Sprint Pcs stock when from about 65 to like 130 and there was a stock split.Personally the news about the merger did not mean a lot to me at the time it was announced.That was because I had not been with a company that when through a merger and so the consequences like job loss and closing down of some stores did not register at the time.The merger did not go through though because of anti-trust regulations from the security and exchange commission.The merger of the two giants was deemed to be a threat to free competition.

Dealing with the customers.
For the most part the customers that we got in the Columbia part of town were pretty educated and nice people.They came into the store,we explained to them what we offered and they pretty much made a buying decision on the spot.Selling the phones and services was relatively straightforward because of our sales experience and the tools that the company provided us to carry on with our job.One of the problems that we faced came from the coverage area that Sprint Pcs offered.If you listen to the advertisements that the company ran Sprint Pcs was hailed as a nationwide digital coverage service.This was true to an extend.All of the major cities had coverage.The problem was when you ventured into rural areas.There,the coverage was light to put it mildly.The company tried to tackle the problem by selling dual band phones that allowed you to automatically switch into Cingular wireless coverage area and you pay a roaming charge.For the most part though the customers did not want to pay anything extra so you took your chances that they would stay within the coverage area of the company.We did get complains also about drop calls.This one was major.You are in the middle of a conversation in the Beltway or any other highway and your signals just goes off.The call drops.The company also worked had to fix the problem.At the time that I worked for Sprint Pcs,if I had to rate the wireless companies in terms of coverage I would say the first was Verizon Wireless,next AT@T wireless and then Sprint Pcs.Our marketing strategy was working though because the service was popular and we were selling a ton of telephones.

The Migration Period
Sprint Pcs started out as Sprint Spectrum around the 1995 period and they were mainly based in the East Coast of the United States.They used a technology called GSM for their services.GSM service is popular in the rest of the World but at the time that Sprint introduced it the technology was not used by most of the cellular telephone companies.After about three years of playing around with GSM Sprint the mother company of Sprint Spectrum decided to built an all digital nationwide network based on TDMA technology.The company was going to be called Sprint Pcs and it would be run as a separate entity.It would sell mainly wireless services and it would have its own tracking stock.So when I joined the new company they had customers who were using the GSM network and some that were using the new TDMA network.The companies vision was clear though,push the new TDMA technology but do not send away customers that insisted on buying a GSM telephone.This all changed about the mid-point of 1999 when the company decided to do away with the GSM network and moved everybody to the TDMA network.The process of transferring customers to the new network was called migration.
The company anticipated and rightly that there was going to be a huge rush of traffic into the stores and they took some steps to take care of the rush.The first step was to hire some temporary help.We got about a total of ten temporary workers during this period.The next was to get security into the stores.In our location we got Maryland police officers who were putting in the extra hours as part of a part time job.The officers were lively people and we had a lot of fun during the period that they were in the store.From sports stories telling to jokes,the officers were up to the task.They were also armed, although we did not get the type of trouble that needed them to use their firearms.

Why I left Sprint Pcs.
Looking back now I wonder why I left Sprint Pcs to join AT@T wireless.Both companies sell the same type of products and the pay scale is about the same.I believe one of the reasons that I left is that the amount of money that I made during the first year working for Sprint Pcs could not be duplicated in the second year.The very good first year made us the employees think that what we made in that initial year could be duplicated year in year out.When reality set in we started looking for alternate places to work.Most of us ended up working for AT@T wireless at one point or the other.At the time that I left though I was happy to be joining a new company.The year and the half that I spent with Sprint Pcs turned out to be so much fun in terms of what I did on the job and how much fun I was having out of work with all the money that Sprint Pcs was paying me.

The incidents
The first one involved me and co-worker Danny Chou.The district manager had set a budget for both of us to sell 35 cellphones during our initial month of hire.This seemed like a lot for a new hire but as they would find out Danny and I had sold cellphones in our prior companies and we just destroyed the target.We ended up selling about 60 cellphone each and the accelerated that the company had in place was going to give us paychecks of about 6000k for our first month of work.The District manager came and said that because we were both new employees the accelerator did not apply to us.Our paychecks were cut down to the 3000k range.We were both bitter about the whole affair but there was nothing that we could do about it.
The second one occurred during the period that we were migrating customers from the GSM to the TDMA system.A couple,male and female worked into the store and after some discussion with them,I convinced them to switch to the new system.A gave them two telephones for free.I believe that they were the qualcomm dual band telephones.The next day they showed up in the store and complained to my store manager that they were somehow misled into making the buying decision.The matter did not end there.A report was made to the district manager at the time,a guy that I can only name as Charles.Somehow he discussed with my store manager and they came to the conclusion that both phones that I sold should be returned.Also they said that I should write a letter explaining what really happen.That was not the end of the matter.They wanted the letter to include an apology to the couple.When my store manager was explaining this to me I thought that he was joking.A letter of apology to customers for selling them cellphones.That is what we are paid to do.I did write a letter but I told my store manager that I letter of apology was out of the question.I knew that I did not do anything wrong, so I was not afraid of any consequences.That is how the matter ended.
The next incident took place also during the period of migration.This one did not involve me but it did involve a co-worker who latter came on board.Name was Jeff and he ended up going out with a customers daughter who was real young.The girl was hired I believe as part of the extra staff that we needed during the period of conversion.Jeff did not see anything wrong in what he did and at the time the rest of us just looked at it as a minor distraction by the young man.I do not think that the matter got to the high level management of the company because Jeff was never reprimanded for his deed.The fun part was that he had a beautiful fiance at the time and they did end up getting married.I did get to meet the young lady after the incident in the Columbia shopping center after the incident and she seemed quite fine.
The other incident occurred at the job site but the origin of everything took place out of work.What happened is I was heading to work and while on I-95,I got a call from my manager saying that I should stay home and not show up for work.That sounded real strange so I just continued heading to work.I reached the parking lot,parked my car and just before I got into the entrance of the store I was stopped by two men,one of them flashed an official police batch and motioned me into a car.They said that they are just being nice and did not want to create a scene.I followed their instructions and accompanied them into their car and they proceeded to lay some handcuffs on me.We drove to one of the police stations in Columbia where I got the chance to talked to one of the officers who started given me some information.I would later on be transferred to the police station in Rockville during a Friday and would spend the weekend lock-up before I could talk to the people in Rockville Civil court.The tough part was spending time in jail.It is not pleasant at all and you really get to value your liberty.The cause of the problem is that I have been issued a traffic violation ticket about two years earlier and in the course of moving from one apartment to another I did not get a court notice to appear before a judge.A bench warrant was thus issued for my arrest and somehow they located me at the Columbia store.The whole incident was an embarrassment because all my co-workers knew about it and some high level management.I do not think that my relationship with my store manager was the same after this incident.When I ended up leaving the company this incident, I would say was one of the reasons for my looking for a new work environment.

Some of the characters.
In each company that you work at there has to be some characters and Jeff was definitely one of them.The guy was in his early thirties but still trap in a youthful mentality.His love affair with cars was just amazing.He got hired from Circuit city where he was a sales manager and he came to the company with his red flashy car.It was a sports car with the doors removed so that you needed a remote control to get into the vehicle.At one time he was trying to sell the car and I believed he ended up test driving during a period of about a month close to 12 different cars before he settled on one.Then there was Jessie.Jessie worked in the customer service section of the company and she was a good story teller.She was married at the time to a pastor and she had four boys that she talked about all the time.
There was Danny Chou.Danny Chou was around 18 years old when he got hired and he had a habit of recking his automobiles.You had to get into a car with this guy to see how he drives around I-95.Danny would end up quitting before the year was over and returned to South Korea shortly after.That is the story that we got from the sisters who usually came into the store.Danny was fun though if you needed to get good food.He knew where all the good restaurants were around the Columbia,Maryland area and during launch break all you had to do is grap him and he was willing to go.
There was a guy called Dave that transferred from the store in Laurel.Dave could sell very well and had been with the company since its inception as Sprint Spectrum.I had a minor argument with him the first time that he step foot on the sales floor.He was trying to seize one of my customers right in-front of me.We got into a shouting match and I believe that was the first time that I ever got into a shouting match with one of my co-workers.Dave though was noted for something else.Hitting on female customers.Originally from one of the Islands,he would sell you a telephone,then on hit on you.He would hit on all races of women.African-American,White,mixed,you name it.Some of the women were already in relationship and a few of them let him know about it.The complains started coming in,gradually at first and escalated latter on to the point that the company gave him the option to resign which he accepted.

A typical week during my time at Sprint Pcs

A typical week for me would include showing up for work during days that I was scheduled to work.We had a morning shift and a night shift and the days that I was schedule to work during the morning shift I would try and get in some exercise after work.The exercise consist of playing pick-up soccer.After playing I would come home, take a shower and I would just be full of energy.Then it would be time to get cruise in town for some fun.I did meet somebody that we had a relationship for a while and we used to meet at least once week.The periods that my energy level was real high I would add in a Wednesdays meeting and this is probably the most fun that I have ever had in a relationship period.I used to go to the nightclub while working for Sprint Pcs.The club was the old DC live that was located on 9th street in NW Washington DC.The club life was okay especially after we had received those big bonus paychecks.The club life though included just once a week.The work itself in the store consisted of selling phones and services to customer and I knew how to do this.We sold a lot of cellphones and services.There were times though that you just had a bad day and things moved pretty slow.Or at times is just seems as if nobody wants to buy a cellphone.There were days like that and what you had to do is just stay we stick in there with the tough times and the day would be over before you notice it.
Some other benefits.
The company did give a sky-box ticket at one time to the Assistant sales manager who was going to take her daughter to watch the Baltimore Ravens play the Titans from Tennessee on a regular season game.She came in on a Sunday and decided to give up the ticket.I opted for it and called up a female friend of mine and we headed to downtown Baltimore.The Sky-box area is quite fun.There is everything available for you.As much shrimps as you can eat.All type of drinks and various kinds of foodstuff.You get to see the game from the best part of the stadium.
We got free breakfast each time that there was a staff meeting on early Saturday.We would just assembly in one of the restaurants around the area and hold the meeting right there while we eat.There were gift certificates that the company distributed to us for meeting certain sales targets.The certificates range from about 25 dollars to 50 dollars.There were usually distributed during the sales staff meetings.

New Prime Minister for the Republic of Cameroon

The Republic of Cameroon has a new Prime Minister and head of government.This happened with the President of the Republic signing a decree on June the 30 2009, making some changes in the government.The main news was that of making Yang Philemon the new Prime Minister and head of government of the Republic of Cameroon.

Some of the changes made in the recent Cabinet Reshuffle.
These are some of the changes made in the composition of the Cameroon government on June the 30 following a Presidential decree.
Peter Agbor Tabi who had been out of the government for close to 12 years was brought back in and given the post of State Minister,Assistant Secretary General at the Presidency.He at one time was the Minister of Higher Education and was prior to this nomination the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Buea.At one point before leaving the government, he was even rumored to be the next Prime Minister of the Country before the post was given to the then General Manager of CDC corporation,Peter Mafany.
Mr. Agbor Tabi is from the Manyu division and his recent nomination puts him back on track for the Prime Minister and head of government position some time in the future if he still wants the position.
There is a new guy occupying the post of Minister of Sports and Physical Education.His name is Zoah Michel and he replaces a certain Augustine Edjoa.The poor performance of the Indomitable lions in the combined 2010 World cup-African nations cup qualify played a big part in the change.Augustine Edjoa was constantly fighting with the main football body of the country which is known as "FECAFOOT".That is a problem with "FIFA" which does not like the government of nations interfering in the affairs of football.The football governing body is in charge of this sector and hopefully the new guy coming in gets the point.The Minister of Sports and Physical Education is in charge of all the sporting and physical education events in the country not just football.
Bello Bouba Maigiri stays with the government but he gets a job as Minister in charge of Transport.He is one of the long standing leaders of the North part of the country and has been working with the government for some decades now.There is a new guy also in the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication in the name of Biyiti BI-Essam Jean-Pierre.His name suggest he is from the same tribe as the President of the Republic.

The Main Change.
The President stayed with the tradition of letting an Anglophone head the government with the title of Prime Minister.Yang Philemon replaces Inoni Ephraim who had held the position for about five years now.The other anglophone Prime Ministers had been Peter Mafany and before him a certain Achidi Achu.
The nomination took a lot of people by surprise because usually in this country before the cabinet is reshuffle,you get some street rumors.This time is was quietly done and the President went to the North West Province of the Anglophone part of the country to pick the new Prime Minister.The past two PM have been from the South West Province,from the Bakweri tribe in particular and people were beginning to wonder if the position belongs to them.
In the past year or so in the country, there was noise that the people from the North part of the country,the "nordist" is how they are known here would like to get this position.The highest position that they occupy in the country is the post of the head of the National Assembly.
By staying with an Anglophone,the President of the Republic keeps this part of the country happy to a certain extend.
Yang Philemon has been working in the Cameroonian government for quite a long time now.I remember him from my days as a student in the University of Yaounde in the early 1980s.At the time, Ahmadou Ahidjo was the President of the Republic and Yang Philemon,then only 28 years old was the youngest of the ministers in the then President's administration.He should now be in his early sixties.He comes from a tribe called Oku, in the north west Province and he is taking over a strategic position in the country.The post is one of nomination, so although he is the head of the government, he does not get to form a cabinet of his choice.That job here is the responsibility of the President of the Republic,his excellency Paul Biya.So the Presidency is where real power lies in this nation.That said,the position of that of Prime Minister is a big deal.You get name recognition right away in different parts of the world and you can influence a lot of decisions that are made in terms of hiring people that control major corporations in the country.This is true because quite a few individuals have lost jobs as head of some large corporations because of standing in the path of the Prime Minister in the past.
By also going with somebody from the north west province of the country, the President is making a strong move towards winning re-election come 2011 if he chooses to stay as President of the Republic.The main opposition party in this country is called SDF and its leader is from the North West Province.The nomination of Yang Philemon should win the President some votes come 2011.
The nominations also eliminates Yang Philemon from contending for the position of presidency of the republic come the 2011 elections because that would be standing on the way of his boss.Amongst the names of people that are said to take over the Republic of Cameroon,in case President Biya decides to step down,Yang Philemon's was high on a list that included some "Nordist".

Reactions.
People from this part of the country are not out in the street celebrating that an Anglophone has been made Prime Minister and head of Government,at least not yet.There are a lot of problems going on in peoples personal life's throughout the world and this is true in the Republic of Cameroon.The new Prime Minister did thank the President for the nomination and stressed the fact that he would be learning on his current job.The rest of the individuals given ministerial nomination also expressed gratitude to the President of the Republic for the confidence that he has showed in them by given them their new positions.

Conclusion.
I am from the Anglophone part of the country and I express some happiness in the President's decision to stay with an anglophone in this important governmental position in the country.My greatest wish though would be to have an individual from the Bayangi tribe of this part of the country occupy this position sometime in the future.There are quite a few capable individuals from this tribe and hopefully one on them will get the position come 2014.The country has made some steps towards true democracy in terms of allowing for more than one party but in would also be nice to see the head of the government to get some real power in terms of forming a government of his choice.That is still a long way off but hopefully we get to see it sometime in the future.