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Critical Topics Discussed at Inaugural Pentecostal Leaders Summit/0 Comments/in Blog /by Antoinette R. Banks
February 23, 2015 (Los Angeles, CA)-Leaders from six global Pentecostal denominations, representing over 90 million members combined, recently met in Los Angeles to discuss a wide range of international and domestic topics.
The Pentecostal Leaders Summit convened for three days last week in Los Angeles, California, to discuss a number of topics including the effects of terrorism, the church's role in racial harmony, religious freedom, and same-sex issues facing the church, among other topics.
The leaders in attendance included Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr., Presiding Bishop, Church of God in Christ; Dr. George O. Wood, General Superintendent, Assemblies of God; Dr. Glenn C. Burris President, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel; Bishop Doug Beacham, General Superintendent/Presiding Bishop, International Pentecostal Holiness Church; Dr. Mark Williams, General Overseer, Church of God; Rev. Randall A. Bach, President, Open Bible Churches and Dr. Jack W. Hayford, former President, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Additional persons in attendance included elected officials from each organization.
A goal of the summit was to provide an opportunity for each leader to listen and discuss the various national and international crises facing Christians around the globe, while also seeking to help bring unity to the Body of Christ globally.
Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr. says, "This gathering of Pentecostal leaders has provided each person with a unique opportunity to come to Los Angeles and dialogue with their contemporaries in other denominations, with similar beliefs, about issues that are confronting us all." He further states, "This summit has shown us what we, as Christian leaders, have said and known for some time now: We are all better when we come together as one."
Dr. George O. Wood states, "This was truly an historical meeting. We are all the grandsons and granddaughters of the Azusa Street revival, and in these days, the Holy Spirit is drawing us together in united witness, fulfilling the prayer of Jesus that the world would know us by our love for one another."
Dr. Glen Burris emphasized, "There is a strong sense that the conversations among us have resonated much like the early church, that experienced a 'one accord' dynamic. An African proverb says, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' Finishing the Great Commission will require all of us."
The last discussion topic of the summit revolved around how the six denominations can continue in dialog with one another and provide opportunities to include additional Pentecostal denominations and enlarge the representation from each group.
Bishop Doug Beacham says, "People are so thankful that we are meeting like this. Whatever steps we take are important for us, for our country and for revival . . ."
Dr. Mark L. Williams declares, "Our shared history along with the collegiality and genuine respect we have for one another holds great promise and unlimited potential for fulfilling the mission for which Jesus died. Only a united church can reach a divided world. We must be one."
Rev. Randall A. Bach explains, "It is always meaningful to gather with leaders of like faith. It is particularly joyful, however, to fellowship and collaborate with leaders of like experience, who love and pursue the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Our family of ministers and churches embrace and value our sister fellowships with love and respect. Unity in the Spirit glorifies the Lord."
This is the first time in history a conference of this kind, with these leaders representing such a large and diverse membership, has ever taken place.
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In Memory of Elder Marion Green/0 Comments/in Events /by Antoinette R. Banks
"Blessed are they which die in The Lord from henceforth: That they may rest from their labour and their works do follow them" Rev. 14:13
Elder Marion Green
June 6, 1916 – February 23, 2015
It is with heavy hearts that Bishop Charles E. Blake and West Angeles Church announce the passing of Assistant Pastor Emeritus Elder Marion Green.
This great soldier transitioned this morning to join his beloved wife Lady Celestine Green and the Church Triumphant.
For over 40 years, Elder Green stood by the side of Bishop Blake in unwavering support, leadership, strength, grace and humility. He found his purpose in God and completed his assignment with integrity and dedication.
As a decorated veteran of World War II, Elder Green brought the same discipline and loyalty to his callings as Minister of The Gospel, husband, father, friend and staff member.
We lift up the entire Green family as they both mourn and celebrate their beloved Patriarch.
We honor this Mighty Man of Valor for his service to and for the Body of Christ!
Final arrangements are as follows:
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 11:00AM in the West Angeles Church North Campus Sanctuary,
3045 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016.
Bishop Charles E. and Lady Mae L. Blake
West Angeles Church of God in Christ
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Mandela: Let Freedom Reign
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Mandela retells his story from early life to becoming leader of the ANC. He delivers his famous "I Am Prepared to Die" speech at his treason trial and receives a life sentence.
He describes the 27 dark years in prison, but also how the Apartheid regime is forced to contend with the unstoppable international outcry. At the climax, he delivers his Inaugural Presidential Address in which he urges all in the new Rainbow Nation to "Let Freedom Reign.
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Bishop Blake: A Sermon For Black History Month/0 Comments/in Blog /by Karen Lascaris
"We need to reach back to our homeland; reach back to Africa." – Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake
For Black History Month, Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake took the congregation of West Angeles Church of God In Christ back to school with a Black History lesson that transcended the ages. He began his sermon in Africa, thousands of years before the birth of Christ, with the stories of Moses, the Queen of Sheba, the slave trade, and the roots of Pentecostalism, to reveal the connection between people of African descent and the roots of Christianity.
Bishop Blake was also inspired by the story of Joseph in Genesis, who married an Egyptian woman, and cited parallels between Joseph's journey and the historic journey of African Americans.
See this entire Black History celebration on West Angeles' Gospel On Demand here.
Highlights from the sermon follow:
"Two thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ, Moses traveled to Midian, in the southern part of the fertile crescent. There, Moses married a dark-skinned Midianite woman. Moses married an Ethiopian, and Ethiopia people in her family became counselors and advisers to Moses."
"Almost 1,000 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, the queen of Sheba –also known as Kush or Ethiopia – visited King Solomon. She came from Africa with many camels, spices, gold, and precious stones. Her nation and her culture had obviously existed long before that time."
"The Ethiopian Piankhi established the 24th Egyptian Dynasty. And at least four Egyptian Kings ruled over Egypt from 730 BC until 66 BC…great nations, great civilizations, great cultures existed in Africa centuries before Jesus Christ was born."
"One of the greatest generals of all time was a man by the name of Hannibal from the city of Carthage in Northern Africa. Hannibal frequently defied and defeated Rome between 219 and 203 BC."
"In 1498 AD, Portuguese explorers wrote that they found along the east African coast tall stone towns of comfort and of wealth. They found people who were highly civilized and skilled in the use of the compass, and in reading charts."
"Timbuktu was a magnificent city where merchants made greater profit from the sale of books than from the sale of any other commodity."
"In the areas of science, art, medicine, government, law, and culture, many of the nations of Africa were competitive with, and in many cases more advanced than, the other nations of the world in Europe and Asia during that period. All of this was devastated by the slave trade; by slavery, and by Colonialism."
"William Banks gives us the following report in his book, 'The Black Church In The US': nearly 20 million Negroes were made captive over the span of some 300 years, from 1517 until 1840. They were crammed …into ships like sardines in a can, and brought across the Atlantic from the Gulf of Guinea to the New World. The trip that they made was called 'The Middle Passage'. It's estimated that perhaps 12 million Blacks landed in South America and Latin America, and about 2 million of them were brought into the US."
"What happened to the millions that were taken away from Africa? Some died resisting capture. Some died in captivity. While waiting in Africa to be shipped out, some committed suicide, not willing to be captured. Others, beaten and too weak to continue the trek, were abandoned to die."
"Most of the loss of life came during the Middle Passage, that journey across the ocean from Africa to the New World. Perhaps not more than half of the slaves which were shipped out from Africa ever became effective workers in the New World."
"What was the impact of the loss of 20 million of its inhabitants on the culture and the nations of Africa? How many died trying to defend their families in the violence associated with the slave trade?"
"After the slave trade came the horrible period of Colonialism, in which horrible invaders did to Africa's resources what those before them did to Africa's people. What was the value of the people and of the resources that were taken from the continent of Africa?"
"After all we went through, we still produced a Benjamin Banneker, maker of the first American clock; Sojourner Truth; George Washington Carver; Charles Drew… Benjamin O Davis; Ralph Bunche; Booker T. Washington; Marion Anderson; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; Colin Powell; Barack Obama!"
"After all we went through, God blessed us to be productive; to rise above our oppression and attain excellence." – Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake
"During the dark day of the Crucifixion, the Jews were condemning [Jesus] and calling for His death. Europe, represented by the Roman Centurions, drove nails into the hands of feet of Jesus. But Africa, represented by Simon of Cyrene, a Black man from Northwest Africa, stepped in when everybody else was stepping back…Simon of Cyrene shared history's most significant moment with the Christ: he bore the Cross of Christ up Calvary's Hill."
"Jesus will not allow you to bear your cross by yourself. If anybody out there needs help with your cross, give praise to the Lord, and He will help you to bear your cross!"
"God chose black hands and wooly hair to perform an act that all the truly wise and all the truly great…Godly men of the earth would have been overjoyed to perform: bearing the Cross of Jesus Christ."
"The Ethiopian secretary of the treasury was to pass in his chariot…this Ethiopian nobleman heard and believed the gospel, and after being baptized, this nobleman went back to Ethiopia to form the Abyssinian Church that exists until this day. He was the first Gentile of record to be saved: a Black man."
"Historian Dean (Henry Hart) Milman has said, "It was Africa, not Rome, which gave birth to Latin Christianity. Africa gave three of the greatest scholars of the church to the church. Augustine, Tertullian, Cyprian, were all born in Northern Africa."
"Anyone who says that Christianity is a white man's religion and not a black man's religion really doesn't know anything about Christianity."
"Christianity is not a white man's religion it's not a black man's religion: it's just man's religion! Halleluiah!"
"Black men have the privilege of being among the first leaders and participants in the Pentecostal and Charismatic revival that swept across the church in the early 1900's."
"(Historian and author Dr. H. Vinson Synan says that) Charles F. Parham, a white man, and William J. Seymour, a Black man, share roughly equal positions as founders of modern Pentecostalism."
"A key man in that contagious spread (of Pentecostalism) was a man by the name of Charles Harrison Mason, a Black man and the father of founder of the Church Of God in Christ. In 1907, Elder Mason went to Los Angeles and participated in the Azuza Revival and received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost."
"Scores of white ministers obtained ministerial credentials from Elder Mason from the Church of God In Christ. One group in Alabama and Texas received permission to use the name of the church in 1912, and this continued until 1914, when they organized and called their predominantly white organization the Assemblies of God."
"When Bishop Mason passed in 1961, he left behind him one of the largest Pentecostal bodies in the world."
"Christianity belongs to all of us! Aren't you glad that you know Jesus Christ?" – Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake
"There are many parallels between [African Americans] and the experience of Joseph. In jail, Joseph held on to the dream. Black people held on to the dream in slavery. We believed that God was going to deliver us, and praise God: God did deliver us. We held onto the dream!"
"Somebody in here is going through something evil, but I want you to know God meant it for good! God is going to turn it around!"
"We need to reach back to our homeland; reach back to Africa."
"If you pursue the purpose of God, God is going to work everything out for your good."
"God worked it out for it us, and God is gonna work it out for you: but you've got to hold on to the dream!"
"Does anybody have a dream in here? Anybody have a vision? Do you have something you're reaching for? Listen: God is going to bring it to pass!"
"If you hold on to God, if you trust God: 'Seek ye first the Kingdom of god and His righteousness, and all of these things shall be added unto you."
"Child of God, I just came by to tell you that God has great miracles in store for you!"
"If Joseph were here, and if he could testify, he would say to you, 'Don't ever give up on your dream: don't ever give up on your vision."
"God has Blessed us, but I don't believe God is through with us yet".
"The story of Joseph can be your story. The story of your people can be your story…Praise God for your future!"
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES: Genesis 37-50, Num10:29, Numbers 12:1-9, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 8:28; Romans 8:31-39, Matthew 6:33.
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"How happy is the man who does not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path of sinners" – Psalm 1:1 (HCSB)
Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake was inspired by Pharrell Williams' hit song for his Sunday, February 8 sermon, simply titled, "Happy."
Within the song's refrain are the lyrics, 'Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.'
"That's a profound statement," said Bishop Blake. "But Jesus said in John 8:32, 'Then you will know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,' and Jesus said in John 14:6, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'"
Psalm 1 was the scriptural focus of Bishop's sermon, where he explored mankind's ideas of happiness versus God's true definitions of happiness.
Some of our favorite passages from the sermon are as follows:
"Happiness is something everybody wants. Not everyone agrees on what it is, or how it can be obtained, but everybody wants it."
"There are those who have everything that money can buy but they still are not happy."
"One earthly desire fulfilled always creates another earthly desire unfulfilled."
"When desire governs, it becomes a giant whose appetite can never be satisfied."
"Happiness is a predominant state and a predominant sense of well-being."
"We cannot insist or fall into the trap that demands that everything be in precise accord, or falls into our wishes and our desires, before we will be happy."
"If you've got Jesus in your life, then the good overwhelmingly outweighs the bad."
"You might be in the right place for a miracle!"
"I proclaim by faith: 'It is well!'"
"God, being the Creator, has the right to tell us how to live."
"God, who made us, understands us, and is aware of the principles and factors that make for our happiness."
"God, being all-wise and all-knowing, knows the future and is alone qualified to plot the course of our lives."
"God, who made us, loves us and wants us to be happy, and His love calls Him to reveal the road and way of happiness unto us."
"Scornful folk are the ones who practice sin and aggressively proclaim their aversion to God, and their aversion to righteous people."
"A person who's involved in evil cannot be happy. A person who's involved in sin cannot be happy."
"You might try to drug your conscience…so it will not testify against you, but even your conscience will say, 'I might be drunk, but you know you're wrong!'"
"God understands us, and is aware of the factors that make for our happiness" – Bishop Charles E. Blake
"Sin handicaps."
"Sin causes thing to go wrong."
"When you are in sin, you're alone, all by yourself."
"The Lord's Word is more than a list of do's and don'ts."
"There's nothing that God does not know."
"God has a way of making things fall in place."
"The Lord knows how to take you higher!"
"The Bible is a map; a way to joy, a way to safety, the way of Gods will and blessing."
"I don't know about you, but I'm living in prosperity; I'm praising in prosperity!"
"Put the newspaper down, put the magazine down, and grab the Word, because in the Word, you'll find Life."
"Child of God, you stand before an audience of One. Don't worry about what people say. If you please God, God will take care of everything."
"Is there anybody who's happy just to know Him? Happy to do His will? Happy just to walk in His Way? Happy just to hear Him say, 'Well done?'"
"Child of God, don't let anything discourage you. Don't let anything block you. Don't let anybody tell you you're not blessed."
"The safest place in the whole wide world is in the Will of God."
"I'm happy to know Him, to know His Word, to have His love, to praise Him, to Bless Him! Way down in my soul, I have JOY!"
"Nothing can satisfy but God!"
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES: Psalm 1, John 8:32, John 14:6, Proverbs 27:20, Ecclesiastes 2:10-11, Philippians 4:11-12, Philippians 3:8, Matthew 5:1-12, 2 Kings 4:26, Habakkuk 3:17, Proverbs 16:25, Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 Corinthians 1:25, Psalm 147:4-5, Psalm 42:1, Matthew 6:33, Romans 8:28, Job 23:10, 2 Corinthians 5:8.
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Cleveland Police are appealing to trace a member of the public who intervened as a man tried to steal a handbag from a woman in Stockton.
The incident happened at around 8.15pm on Tuesday 29th November as the woman walked onto Marlborough Road from Oxbridge Lane. She was approached by the male, who tried to take her handbag.
As the incident unfolded, a passing motorist stopped his vehicle and shouted to the suspect, who then ran into a rear alley behind Marlborough Road and out of sight. He did not manage to take the handbag.
The suspect is described as a white male, around 5ft 7" tall, with a gaunt appearance and light coloured hair. He was wearing light coloured trainers, dark bottoms, a dark jacket, black gloves and he had an orange hood up which was possibly white inside.
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- This man, or anyone else who may have witnessed the incident, is asked to contact DC Jonathan Holborow on the non-emergency number 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or www.crimestoppers-uk.org.
Man charged with murdering toddler granted bail
A man charged with murdering his ex-partner's toddler son almost 50 years ago has "exceptionally" been granted bail.
David Dearlove, 70, is accused of murdering 19-month-old Paul Booth, from Haverton Hill, Stockton, who died in hospital in October 1968. He also faces a charge of child cruelty.
The defendant did not enter pleas during the brief hearing at Teesside Crown Court via video-link from Holme House Prison on Wednesday, but at a hearing before magistrates two days earlier his solicitor said he would deny the offences.
On that occasion he was remanded in custody but Judge Simon Bourne-Arton has now granted him bail.
Paul Cleasby, applying for bail, said Dearlove has lived in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk with his wife of 36 years and has no previous convictions.
Investigations have been going on for 18 months and Dearlove surrendered himself to police when required, Mr Cleasby said.
Judge Bourne-Arton told Dearlove: "Exceptionally in a case of this kind I am going to grant you bail."
The defendant must surrender his passport, not interfere with witnesses and live in Great Yarmouth.
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Title: "The Road Less Traveled (Podfic)
Podficcers: sly_hostetter & podfic_lover
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Fandom: BBCSherlock
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Warnings: Spoliers for not only the fic by Verityburns, but also season 1of Sherlock.
Notes: This is my second fanmix, and the biggest one I have done to date. I'm not going to lie, this fanmix wasn't easy to compile, but it was totally worth it! I would also like to warn you that this mix has a little bit of everything:pop, rock, country, and R&B. I did this fanmix as an art entry to Sly_Hostetter & Podfic_Lover's podfic of verityburn's 'The Road Less Traveled' that they both did for Podfic Big Bang.
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Brian Treacy is an experienced chief of party with more than 25 years of international development and rule of law experience, including 20 years in Latin America and the Caribbean and nearly a decade of management and leadership experience as chief of party on USAID projects. He is currently the chief of party of the Guatemala Youth and Gender Justice Project. A lawyer by training, Mr. Treacy has a proven record in justice system reform, public security, alternative dispute resolution, challenges facing indigenous populations, human and institutional development, and civil society strengthening. He is also adept at working effectively in high-risk environments such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Colombia, and Guatemala before and after the 1996 peace accords. Mr. Treacy is a fluent Spanish and French speaker.
Cameron Berkuti is a governance specialist who has managed public sector training and infrastructure projects for more than 35 years. As a civil engineer, Mr. Berkuti has designed and implemented high-impact and community infrastructure projects. He has also managed civil society strengthening, civic engagement, community development, local governance, capacity building, and public service delivery programs. Mr. Berkuti has previously trained national and local governments in the Middle East in public administration, project management, service delivery, and good governance. In his current capacity as the chief of party of the USAID-funded Governance Strengthening Project in Iraq, he is working to strengthen the institutional capacity of local governments and improve democratic oversight to empower reform-minded officials and facilitate local service delivery to disparate communities.
Charles Abani is an experienced development practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in community development and governance, working with marginalized communities in sub-Saharan Africa to encourage dialogue and partnerships. With a background in cross-sector and integrated governance, Mr. Abani currently serves as chief of party of the Nigeria Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement (SACE) program, which supports local civil society organizations and promotes transparency and good governance. He has previously worked with disenfranchised groups to overcome acute political and social problems and influence democratic reforms. Prior to leading SACE, Mr. Abani led a DFID-funded governance program that supported improved equitable access to quality basic services and accountability at the local level.
Charles Nonga has nearly two decades of experience designing, implementing, and assessing donor-funded projects for DFID, USAID, and others in Tanzania. He currently serves as chief of party of the Capacity Development for Partners of Accountability (Pamoja Twajenga) program, which builds local capacity of grantee groups in Tanzania. Mr. Nonga has technical expertise in integrated governance, which encompasses civil society strengthening, economic development, education and youth, gender equality and social inclusion, and health. He has previous experience collaborating with international non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, and other governmental institutions to strengthen accountability and political effectiveness. He previously served as a deputy chief of party for a basic education program in Tanzania.
Christina Schultz has 20 years of experience in conflict and post-conflict, democracy and governance, and human rights programming in Africa, Latin America, Afghanistan and the Middle East. This includes managing and supporting seven projects, funded by USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives, both in field and home offices. She possesses strategy development skills with experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning. Ms. Schultz is currently the director of three projects at Chemonics, including the Jordan Food Assistance Program and Mexico Human Rights Public Policy Activity. Ms. Schultz has worked for USAID, implementing partners, the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank, and various international and local NGOs. She holds a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree from UCLA in international economics.
Christopher Scott is a senior rule of law, public sector reform, and civil society expert with more than 20 years of international donor funded project management experience. He is currently chief of party for the USAID Ukraine Confidence Building Initiative. Previously, Mr. Scott served as chief of party for the Palestinian Authority Capacity Enhancement project, senior vice president of Chemonics' Middle East region, and senior vice president of the Project Development and Support division. Early in his career he served as senior advisor and chief of party in Belarus, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Yemen. Prior to joining Chemonics, Mr. Scott was a USAID democracy team leader in Jordan. He holds a J.D. from the John Marshall Law School and an undergraduate degree from Marquette University.
David Vaughn is a rule of law expert with nearly 25 years of judicial reform experience, including 18 years implementing USAID-funded rule of law and security sector reform projects in countries across Europe, Central Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. He is currently the chief of party on the USAID Nove Pravosuddya Justice Sector Reform Program (Fair, Accountable, Independent, and Responsible Judiciary - FAIR II) in Ukraine. His expertise includes legal reform, institutional capacity building, judicial ethics, and civil society strengthening. Since joining Chemonics in 1998, he has led several rule of law projects, such as the USAID Russian-American Judicial Partnership and Women's Legal Rights Initiative (WLR) projects. Mr. Vaughn was previously the chief of party of an anti-corruption and rule of law program in Ukraine. Mr. Vaughn holds a J.D. from American University, and an M.A. in political science and B.A. in Russian from the University of Vermont.
Since Executive Vice President Eric Reading joined Chemonics in 1994, he has served in leadership roles in the both the field and the home office. As senior vice president he significantly expanded Chemonics work in the Middle East region and subsequently led the Afghanistan and Pakistan region. Prior to joining the executive team, he worked in Kosovo and Egypt as chief of party and technical advisor for institutional strengthening programs. Mr. Reading's development technical experience crosses a range of sectors, including governance, infrastructure, economic development, financial services, and agriculture and he has significant experience in post-conflict recovery. In addition to overseeing the implementation of Chemonics development and transition work globally, he leads our internal systems strengthening. Mr. Reading holds an M.A. from Florida State University and is a PhD candidate in Governance and Globalization at Virginia Tech.
Jennifer Burdett has nearly 10 years of experience managing democracy and governance projects in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. She is a lawyer and human rights expert who specializes in judicial reform, anti-corruption, civil society strengthening, and refugee and migrant rights. Ms. Burdett has previous experience overseeing programs to improve the capacity of local courts, strengthen judicial and legal professionals, and increase government accountability and transparency. Ms. Burdett is currently a director in the Europe and Eurasia region of the company.
Jennifer Swift-Morgan is an education and governance expert with more than 15 years of experience designing, managing, and evaluating integrated projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Her technical expertise includes decentralized public policy, teacher training, civil society strengthening, early- grade reading, human rights, community mobilization, and non-profit management. Dr. Swift-Morgan has previously worked at USAID, KfW Development Bank, National Democratic Institute, and InterAction. As a director in Chemonics' West and Central Africa region, Dr. Swift-Morgan currently supports USAID's All Children Reading project in Senegal. She also conducts political economic analyses and provides civic engagement, local governance, and public service delivery input for the Democracy and Governance Practice. Dr. Swift-Morgan holds a Ph.D. in international education development from Columbia University's Teacher's College.
John Johnson is a legislative strengthening and parliamentary reform expert who has designed and implemented capacity building projects and training programs in over 40 countries. He has more than 25 years of experience directing programs for USAID, UNDP, World Bank Institute, Ford Foundation, SADC Parliamentary Forum, and others. Previously, Mr. Johnson worked at the University at Albany's Center for International Development and the National Democratic Institute. He has also served as chief of party for a legislative strengthening project in Kenya and a governance program in Indonesia, both of which aimed to facilitate more inclusive, accountable, and evidence-based policies. Mr. Johnson is currently a democracy and governance director in Asia and provides technical assistance on proposals and projects worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University at Albany, an M.A. in political science, M.A. in African studies, and a B.A. in Government.
Kelly Brooks is an experienced international development specialist with 17 years of program management experience on projects aimed at addressing systematic violence inflicted against minorities and vulnerable communities. Ms. Brooks has nearly 10 years of experience managing USAID funded projects with Management Systems International, Florida International University, and most recently Chemonics. She is a respected human rights expert with technical expertise in gender equality and minority rights, including Afro-Colombians and indigenous communities, and the LGBTI community. She joined Chemonics in 2012 and is currently the chief of party of the Colombia Human Rights Activity. Working with government stakeholders and representatives from civil society, Ms. Brooks has led her team in advocating and protecting the human rights of 40 communities devastated by violence related to the internal armed conflict. Fluent in Spanish, she received her B.A. in international relations from Tufts University and her M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University.
Currently a director in the Europe and Eurasia region, Michael Geertson is a democracy and governance and conflict mitigation specialist with more than 10 years of experience in the management and technical direction of USAID programs. He has led design and implementation teams in more than a dozen countries around the world. Prior to his current role, Mr. Geertson was responsible for home-office oversight of a project to help the Haitian government and communities recover from the January 2010 earthquake. Mr. Geertson also has experience on governance efforts in Honduras, Mongolia, and Uganda, as well as law and civil society reforms in Albania, Armenia, and West Bank and Gaza. Mr. Geertson holds an M.P.A. from Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration.
Michael McCullough is an attorney and rule of law expert with over 20 years of experience working on programs in Latin America. Prior to joining Chemonics, Mr. McCullough served as the regional director for the American Bar Association's (ABA) Rule of Law Initiative in Latin America, where he supervised rule of law projects throughout the hemisphere focusing on issues including criminal justice reform, legal profession and legal education reform, and human rights. He has also previously served as a chief of party, deputy chief of party, and public defense specialist for USAID projects in Colombia and Bolivia, providing technical oversight for programs on areas including judicial reform, alternative dispute resolution, justice houses and justice centers, access to justice, and public defense strengthening.
Noelle Veltzé has over 15 years of experience managing governance development projects throughout Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. She has additional experience providing democracy and governance input to institutional capacity building, public policy reform, and civil society strengthening projects in Indonesia and Nepal. As the current chief of party of the USAID/Program Representasi (ProRep) project in Jakarta, Indonesia, Ms. Veltzé oversees the development of "policy clusters," encompassing decision-makers in the executive and legislative branches of government, local communities and civil society, and research and educational centers, across Indonesia in order to foster more inclusive, participatory, evidence-based, and effective legislative and policy making.
Patrick Lohmeyer is the senior vice president of Chemonics' Human Resources Division. An international program management specialist, Mr. Lohmeyer has spent most of his career supporting USAID and MCC programs around the world. He has served in a variety of senior leadership positions in both home and field offices, including six years of experience as chief of party or deputy chief of party in Kazakhstan, Albania, and Georgia. He also previously served as the managing director of Chemonics' Office of Business Conduct, overseeing the company's global corporate ethics program. He has particular expertise in democracy and governance programs, as well as capacity-building activities. Mr. Lohmeyer joined Chemonics in 2003 and has led successful project management and business development teams company-wide. He holds a bachelor's degree in international affairs from Mary Washington College and a master's degree in political science from George Mason University.
Peggy Ochandarena has designed, managed, and evaluated international development projects in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. She established and co-directs the Global Impact Collaboratory, a partnership with Arizona State University. Ms. Ochandarena established Chemonics' home office Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) department, including creation of policies and procedures; development and delivery of training curricula for home office, project office, and U.S. government employees; and establishing Chemonics' MEL certificate program. In addition, she led the creation of company-wide indicators and data collection to aggregate projects' results and supervised roll out and support of MEL software. She has designed and delivered training for U.S. government personnel in the U.S. and abroad on numerous topics, as well as for host country personnel, local partners, and home office employees. Ms. Ochandarena is a justice and security sector expert, with extensive experience in designing and managing programs to strengthen the rule of law, security sector reform, institutional strengthening, and good governance. She has a master's degree in social work and a law degree, and is a certified mediator. She currently serves as chief of party for Chemonics' USAID-funded Enhancing Palestinian Justice Program in the West Bank.
Phillipe Lamarche is a legal and justice reform expert with more than 20 years of experience managing and implementing rule of law projects in transitional countries. He is currently chief of party of the Haiti Justice Sector Strengthening Program. Previously, he was the country director for the American Bar Association's Program to Strengthen the Haitian Criminal Justice Sector. Mr. Lamarche also led the USAID-funded National Center for State Courts project to deliver critical reform in Haiti's judicial sector and managed several Rule of Law projects in Burundi, Kosovo, and Rwanda. Prior to that, he served as chief of party on a USAID-funded program in Lebanon to achieve new legislation on judiciary independence, a case backlog reduction plan, and train local court officials to strengthen internal staff capacity. Mr. Lamarche is a former criminal prosecutor for the Department of Justice in Canada and has an LL.M. degree from the University of Paris in Sorbonne.
Rebecca Brewington is a capacity building specialist with 15 years of experience in private and public sector capacity building in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. She leads institutional strengthening efforts, including designing qualitative and quantitative organizational assessment tools. Ms. Brewington currently is working on initiatives involving human and institutional capacity development and accountability. For seven years, she served as the deputy chief of party on a policy reform program in Jordan and a health sector reform program in the West Bank and Gaza. She led institutional capacity assessments and developed capacity improvement plans for more than 40 NGOs in Jordan, Egypt, West Bank, Uganda, and Georgia. Ms. Brewington is a Certified Performance Technologist with the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI).
Ronald Glass is a democratic governance expert with 23 years of experience designing and implementing USAID projects focusing on local capacity building and sustainable justice sector reform. Mr. Glass is currently the chief of party on the USAID Criminal Justice System Strengthened Program, which is improving the justice sector in the Dominican Republic. Mr. Glass has previously worked with civil society organizations, accountable government institutions, the private sector, and the independent media on rule of law and human rights issues in countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and South Asia. He also has experience designing human rights and governance programs for USAID.
Sharon Van Pelt brings 25 years of experience in policy dialogue, transparency, local governance, civil society, conflict and violence prevention, and peace building. In 2002 she received the USAID Meritorious Honor Award for advancing policy dialogue and reform on decentralization and transparency in a difficult political environment. Ms. Van Pelt has previously worked in Guatemala, Moldova, and Sri Lanka on policy reform as well as for USAID and UNDP, as well as chief of party for a civil society and media project in Moldova. She has also directed governance and peace building efforts worldwide, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. In 2012, she was designated as a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) from the International Society for Performance Improvement.
Shaun McNally is a governance specialist with more than 25 years of experience in public sector management, governance, elections, and civil society. Currently serving as chief of party of the Strengthening Somalia Governance (SSG) program, Mr. McNally has also led USAID-funded governance projects in Albania, Afghanistan, and Armenia. He also served as deputy chief of party and technical team leader for large governance projects in Iraq. Mr. McNally has worked with decision makers at all levels of government, to help them translate their ideas for change into actionable plans and effective implementation. Mr. McNally is a former Connecticut state legislator and chair of the General Assembly's planning and development committee. In addition, Mr. McNally served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia. He holds an M.P.A. from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in political science from the University of Connecticut.
Susan Kemp is a democracy and governance and human rights professional with 10 years of international development experience in areas such as elections, civil society strengthening, human rights, advocacy and legal reform, and gender integration. Ms. Kemp has worked with a number of international non-governmental organizations, including World Vision, the National Democratic Institute, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and Freedom House. She has previously worked on programs to equip women human rights defenders and combat gender-based violence in the Middle East and North Africa region. Ms. Kemp has conducted research on women and local executive office and use of technology for women's political engagement, and developed training materials for gender integration across democracy and governance technical areas.
Ted LeVasseur has 15 years of experience managing and implementing conflict, transition, civil society, legislative strengthening, good governance, election, and sustainable development programs internationally. Since 2002, he has led development programs in Angola, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda. Mr. LeVasseur has previously worked with DFID, USAID, and the U.S. State Department on initiatives collaborating with host country government officials on various governance procedures and regulations. Prior to his career in international development, Mr. LeVasseur worked in the U.S. political system.
Todd Diamond is a democracy and governance specialist and crisis and conflict analyst with over 20 years of experience. He has worked in the Balkans, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America on a variety of programs involving civil society actors, government institutions, and reforms. At Chemonics he also provides support and analysis to governance programs in the Middle East. Previously, Mr. Diamond was a journalist and has also worked at the United Nations. Mr. Diamond earned a graduate degree in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Victoria Cooper-Enchia is a proven public policy and administration expert with more than 30 years of experience designing and managing complex development projects in Africa for USAID, DFID, and the World Bank. Currently the chief of party of the USAID Digital Liberia and e-Governance Capacity Building Activity, Ms. Cooper-Enchia has demonstrated expertise in designing governance and institutional strengthening frameworks and developing public sector policies. She previously served as the chief of party on the USAID Governance and Economic Management Support Project in Liberia. Ms. Cooper-Enchia holds an MBA in international finance from Columbia University and has held several senior leadership positions managing multi-disciplinary teams across various technical sectors. Through her work on more than 10 donor-funded projects in Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone, she has spearheaded capacity building and reform in more than 85 ministries, agencies, and commissions across Sub-Saharan Africa.


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This new masters programme has been devised for 2017 by combining key elements from our current Finance programmes, including our Finance & Investment masters that was ranked 38th by the Financial Times in 2016, in order to give you the opportunity to tailor your learnings to your career aspirations. The second Semester of our masters programme is flexible allowing you to select courses which either combine different areas of finance or which allow you to specialise in one of the three following areas:
This MSc will be the one that is put forward for the FT MSc in Finance rankings in the future.
The School's location in the UK's second largest financial centre allows us to attract visiting speakers including a range of analysts from the key financial institutions and fund management houses. Students are able to interact with leading figures from many major companies; this is particularly evident in the dissertation, which offers an invaluable opportunity to collaborate on a topic that has real, of-the-minute industry relevance.
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Looking for fun things to do this weekend around Summit, NJ? Here are some great picks for this weekend!
Superstorm Sandy Support Group
The Rahway Public Library
2 City Hall Plaza
Rahway, NJ
Livingston Symphony Orchestra Concert
Livingston, NJ
Spend an evening of music inspired by romantic couples
dancing, magical epic opera, and lush symphonic melody.
Maestro Istvan Jaray and the acclaimed Livingston Symphony
Orchestra invite you to attend Verdi's 200th Birthday Celebration on
Saturday November 9, 7:30pm at the Livingston High School Auditorium. The
season opening concert features audience favorites Marquez' Danzon
No.2, Verdi's Nabucco Overture and Triumphal
March and Ballet from Aida, and Brahms' Symphony No.2.
Tickets are available at the door or can be purchased at
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Animal Shelter will present a benefit concert featuring jazz pianist, Rio
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July 18, 2017 – After a number of bargaining sessions with the City of Iqaluit last year, your bargaining team concluded in June 2016 that we had reached an impasse with the employer. The Union has filed for conciliation and will be heading back to the table during the week of September 10.
It is our hope that we will be able to reach a new Collective Agreement with the help of a Federal Conciliation Officer.
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It is time for the federal government to acknowledge and address the glaring inadequacies regarding indigenous children in care across Canada.
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So now, I guess I am jumping into the fire with this post. There are so many teachings I did not understand about the Catholic Church when I was not Catholic, many of which were out of just plain ignorance and some out of misinformation that I was given; and the teaching of purgatory was one of those. I remember thinking: "There is no way that purgatory can be a valid teaching, it is not spoken about at all in Scripture. And there is no need for it: Christ paid it all on the Cross!" Out of all the Catholic doctrines that are disagreed with by Protestants, there are maybe 2 or 3 others that raise just as many questions and ire as the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory.
I was on my way home this afternoon listening to Catholic Answers radio and Patrick Madrid was on today taking calls and one of the callers called in to ask about the Scriptural basis for Purgatory and also why as Christians and Catholics we are in need of Purgatory. After hearing the question and the explanation, it inspired me so much that I just had to set out a'bloggin' .
There are many questions that pop into a Protestants mind when you mention Purgatory. 1) Purgatory is a second chance for all those who die. 2) Purgatory is a place where souls "work" or "earn" their salvation, and also 3) a completely false doctrine that was conjured up by the Catholic Church and has no basis whatsoever in Scripture. There has been countless numbers of works written over the past two millenia on the subject and I hold no claim as an expert or a theologian, however I do come from a different point of view and want to give a clear view of what purgatory is....and is not and the SOLID Scriptural basis for the concept of Purgatory.
First, what is the need for Purgatory and what is it? According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1030-1031:
who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.
And in Revelation 21:25-27, speaking of Heaven:
During the day its gates will never be shut, and there will be no night there.
The treasure and wealth of the nations will be brought there,
but nothing unclean will enter it, nor any (one) who does abominable things or tells lies. Only those will enter whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Matthew 5:48:
So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Hebrews 12:14
Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
So based on what we read here, Puratory is NOT a second chance for people to change their mind on their relationship to and with Christ, so let us be perfectly clear on that point first and for most. In what we see in Scripture and what we read in the previous paragraphs of the CCC, we see that Purgatory is a place of cleansing and purification and also the last part of our Sanctification (being made Holy and being purified from sin).
"Cleansing and purification from what?? Once I believe that Christ died for my sins, isn't that it? It is all done!" I can hear the responses now. The answer is ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY YES!!! (and NO). The reason I say No is that few people now realize that there are two dimensions of sin.
The first dimension is the eternal dimension and this has to due with our eternal destiny. The Sacrifice that Christ made for us once and for all upon the Cross is an eternal Sacrifice that purchased our eternal souls from Hell, this is true and this cannot be earned by us as Christians in any way, shape or form. This is a gift that is given to us as Christians and allows us to join the Father in eternity.
Now for the second dimension, the Temporal dimension. Ever since Adam and Eve and the fall in the garden, every sin has eternally separated us from our Creator, but they have also come with temporal effects (i.e. cause and result). I have two good examples for this:
1)Your child is out playing baseball in the yard and you know that he is an ARod Jr. because he hits a home run....right through your beautiful kitchen window! After your anger subsides you will always offer your forgiveness to your child. Why? Because they are your child and there is nothing they can do to earn it...IT IS THEIRS. But there is another side to this; you still have a broken window. Your child will have to work and work and forego allowances whatever it takes to teach them about reprucussions of their actions.
2)On a more adult scenario, let us suppose that a man goes out and has an affair on his wife and then realizes the error of his ways. He would go to confession and be forgiven absolutely of all his sins. Later he finds out that he has contracted some sexually transmitted disease such as Herpes or AIDS. Does this mean that he is not forgiven? By no means. What this means is that he is suffering the consequences of his actions.
This principle is set forth in Scripture from beginning to end. Adam and Eve were removed from the Garden for their disobedience. Cain was set out as a wanderer as a result of his murder of Abel. Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land after is disobedience. David's son died after his adultery with Bathsheeba. Consequences follow actions. Whenever we willingly choose to disobey the laws set in place by God, there is never a null effect and there is a bit of a stain that is left on our souls. Though our forgiveness is bought and paid for, the stain and effects of sin still have to be accounted for and this is the purpose of Purgatory. It is kind of like a "heavenly mud room" Your mama wouldn't dare let you play in the house after you have been out rolling around in the mud, you have to get clean first. To sum it up, if you are in Purgatory, you are going to Heaven....PERIOD.
Now for the Second Part. Is Purgatory scriptural? Obviously there is nowhere in Scripture that will obviously describe Purgatory. Is it a physical place? Is it a process? Do you spend years or eons there? These are all details that aren't provided for us in Scripture. What we do know is that when we die, if we have these attachments to sin still with us, stained on our soul, that we must be made perfectly clean prior to being presented to Christ. So whether Purgatory is a physical place, an instantaneous process and how it is done, we don't have the answers. Having said that, this is what we do know from Scripture about Purgatory:
Now I realize that some of you don't have the Maccabees in your Bible, but it was there 600 years ago....trust me! :-) And this was what 2Macc 12: 43-44 states:
He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view;
for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death.
So, here is the question. If the soldiers Judas Maccabeus was collecting an offering for were in heaven, why would Judas be praying for them. If they were in Hell, there would be no use for them either, so why was he collecting an offering for them? (Purgatory) Even if you don't belive in the authority of the Deuterocanonical books, it is worth much attention that the early Jews believed in a final purifcation before they stood before God and furthermore, they believe that Judas Maccabeus acted in "a very excellent and noble way".
I Corinthians 3: 13-15:
the work of each will come to light, for the Day will disclose it. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire (itself) will test the quality of each one's work.
If the work stands that someone built upon the foundation, that person will receive a wage.
But if someone's work is burned up, that one will suffer loss; the person will be saved, but only as through fire.
Now this is an interesting passage that Paul writes. So at "The Day" each person's work will come to light and at the end, "the person will be saved, but only as through fire". Again the Scripture begs the question: If you are in Heaven, why would you pass through the fire? And we know that if one is in Hell, then they do not leave...so what is Paul referring to here. We must be made spotless and holy before Christ
Matthew 12:32
And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Now in this verse we have Christ speaking about the Unforgiveable Sin. Again, in Heaven there is no need for sins to be forgiven, but Christ is definitely alluding to the fact that there will be a place will sins WILL be able to be forgiven "in the age to come".
And finally 1Peter 3:19:
In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison,
Here Peter speaks of Christ preaching to the "spirits in prison". Where were they? Heaven? Nope, because if they were in Heaven, Christ would have had no need to preach to them. Hell? Nope, because we know that repentance is not possible in Hell.
All this leads us to believe that yes, there is a Purgatory and THANK YOU LORD that there has been a way provided to remove all imperfections and attractions to sin from our souls before we come face to face with our Blessed Lord.
Finally....can you avoid Purgatory? I think that is for another blog..................


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Food Dude Grub Crawl: Restaurants at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach
The Food Dude has only one issue with taking a Grub Crawl around Barefoot Landing – false advertising.
You can't go barefoot at any of the 17 restaurants located at the popular entertainment complex in North Myrtle Beach, but that's the only bone I have to pick. The selection is right up the Food Dude's alley.
From seafood to chicken wings and from Southern cooking and hospitality to down-right rudeness, Barefoot Resort has a little something for everyone. Here's the Food Dude's top five recommendations for Barefoot:
Wild Wing Cafe
This regional chain based out of Hilton Head Island has all things wings and more, mixing bar-food favorites with a festive atmosphere and cold draft beer. Hard to go wrong with that kind of recipe.
Wild Wing offers 34 different flavors of wings (take that, Baskin-Robbins), including hot (Chernobyl, Ragin' Cajun, Carolina Fireball), sweet (Honey Mustard, Island Jerk, Old Yeller) and unique (Crazy Daisy Asian BBQ, Flying Fajita, Ol' Smokey).
Wild Wing also offers salads, appetizers, flatbread pizzas and a traditional burgers and sandwiches, like a classic Sloppy Joe or the Holy Jalapeno Burger. Best of all, there's a variety of cold beers to wash it all down.
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Flying Fish Public Market and Grill
Modeled after a West Coast wharf where fresh seafood is unloaded and served directly to the customer, the Flying Fish literally lives up to its name.
Patrons are welcome to join the staff in the open kitchen and toss a fish through the air. Simply pick a fish from a bed of ice in the counter and make your best rugby throw.
But the best part is what the servers deliver to your table – excellent seafood and sushi dishes in a cool atmosphere. A dozen oysters and a cold beer on the patio deck overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway is the perfect place to chill out after a day of shopping.
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House of Blues
Most people go to the HOB for live music, but they're missing out on one of the few themed eateries that also happens to serve excellent food.
Featuring Southern/Cajun favorites such as Memphis barbecue, Louisiana jambalaya and Gulf Coast seafood, HOB puts out a great spread as well as putting on excellent concerts.
Check out the Sunday Gospel Brunch for the best combination of food and music on the Grand Strand. If you're going to a concert, diners get priority early seating to the shows.
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Umberto's Pittsburgh-Italian Trattoria
Umberto's has been serving excellent Italian food in the North Myrtle Beach area for decades, but the new restaurant at Barefoot Landing has brought the good food to the masses.
Featuring all the Italian classics, Umberto's also brings its own unique menu to the table. From the Veal Parmesean to the Chicken Umberto, you'll find perfectly prepared classics and creative signature dishes.
One of the things that makes Umberto's a great choice is the atmosphere. A friendly staff and relaxed environment make for a great time as much as a great meal.
Dick's Last Resort
This "anti-restaurant" is not for the weak of stomachs or sensibilities. Both will likely be offended by the spicy food and good-natured ribbing served up by the waiters and waitresses.
Unlike most places where you get bad service, Dick's is meant to be that way. Servers insult the customers, and it's supposed to be a back-and-forth exchange, not a spot to come get your feelings hurt. It's all about fun.
Unlike the slogan of "Bad food, lousy service, insultingly bad attititude," Dick's menu is filled with tasty steak, seafood and sandwich dishes. And the patio is a great place to hear live music and watch alligators in the nearby lake, and you can probably get away with kicking off your flip-flops.
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Easing us into proceedings is "Sincerity" a nicely crafted if perhaps a little too functional progressive-tech effort with an anything but run-of-the-mill remix courtesy of Franzis-D, who follows his own "less is more" advice with a stripped-back approach which allows the warm bass pulses of the original a little more time to breathe. It's beautifully restrained, Dj Coslow allowing the lively key stabs to only make a momentary appearance before tightening the leash and submerging in the depths of a low-pass.
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