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I was totally inspired after reading this post on the fantastic Beaut.ie, where they showed a step by step guide on how to do Polka dot nails easily. Needless to say, when I saw how easy it looked, I posted a response saying I would have to try it :) Their article says to use a pen to achieve the uniform dots. I, however, couldn't find one so opted to use the end of my tweezers, where the two arms meet at the end, if that makes sense.
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TGIF! To round up this very productive week , I want to share with you my new favorite no sew DIY t shirt upcycling idea: the chevron tee. Take one look at my modern vintage boutique website background and you will see I LOVE the chevron fashion trend and think it goes very well with the Civilian Style name considering it comes from a military background, like me (believe it or not). But I digress....chevrons are obviously a huge fashion trend for 2013 and you can be thrifty and in-style by creating your own one of a kind chevron tee. This super easy DIY tutorial will show you how to make a feminine women's one shoulder style with a painted chevron although this upcyling idea could work for a men's or kid's shirt as well. Heck you could even use this chevron technique on a canvas tote or cute apron! I seriously want to put one on everything :) T shirt DIY projects are so popular because just about everyone has a pile of t shirts lying around (maybe I will wear it as a nightgown?). Also, you can find vintage tees at thrift stores for a buck, and you can't beat a $1 makeover. Jersey t shirt fabric also performs well when left with a raw unhemmed edge, which makes upcycling a breeze. Ok enough pep talk, check out this DIY tutorial by Anne Hollabaugh for the I Love to Create Blog and get to creating! I hope you have a blessed and perfect weekend.
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Before that and since 1998, Mr Kopanas held the posts of Project Officer and Programme Officer in DG CONNECT, responsible for a portfolio of European Union funded research ICT projects and for the Advisory Group to the ICT part of the Framework Programmes for Research. Before joining the European Commission, Mr Kopanas held ICT related posts in the private sector in Greece.
Mr Kopanas holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece; he also holds MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, UK
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Breathing Exercises to Detoxify the Lungs
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Cleaning allows you to detox your lungs from infection, reduces the risk of cancer, expanding the capacity and improving the health lung airway.
This smokers and people who live in areas with air pollution is mainly suggests.
Breathing Exercises:
This is one of the best cleaning methods for lung. This does not mean just take a deep breath, it takes much more. There are numerous exercises for clearing lung, so this is one of them.
This exercise really will help you clean your lungs, and will be a good start of the day if you do it in the morning, when fresh air.
1.- Stand back and relax, keeping the arms on each side and feet slightly apart.
2.- Take some deep breaths, exhaling through the nose.
3.- Breathe through your nose and out through your mouth quiet until you can not exhale more. There is more air in your lungs, so do not stop here.
While we breathe, not replace all the air and stays in the lungs.
Then, let your diaphragm miss all the air from your lungs by inhaling through your mouth as if with amazement, then exhale through your mouth a few times, haciendo and and and, until you feel that there is no air in your lungs. This will make you feel like you've thrown your stomach to your spine.
4.- Breathing fresh air through the mouth into the lungs empty.
5.- Consume your lungs completely with air and hold their breath for 5 seconds, counting slowly. For now, all the cells of your body are filled with oxygen.
6.- Exhale through your mouth again until no more air, and make the ha ha ha to remove the last air in your lungs.
Returns to step 4 and do this as much as you want. Another advantage of this exercise, cleaning except lung, is making strong stomach.
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Here is a recipe we enjoy at our house often during cooler weather. Enjoy!
1 1/2 cups chicken stock
1 cube chicken bouillon
2 cups cooked chicken, diced
1 cup carrots, diced
2 medium potatoes, diced
1/2 cup frozen peas
2/3 cup flour
1/3 cup water
salt and pepper to taste
1 double pie pastry crust
1 egg and 1 tablespoon water
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In large saucepan, add first six ingredients. Cook vegetables until tender. In small bowl, mix flour and water to make a paste. Gradually stir into broth to thicken. Sprinkle with salt and pepper according to your taste. Divide pie pastry in half. Spread bottom pastry to fit the bottom of the greased 9x11" baking pan and up the sides. Pour chicken mixture over the bottom crust, then add the top pastry spreading to the sides. Poke 6-9 steam holes with your knife to allow sauce to breathe. Whisk egg and water to make egg wash; spread over pastry. Sprinkle crust with salt and pepper. Bake on bottom rack for 35-40 minutes until golden brown. Allow to set for 10 minutes before serving. Serves 4-6. Yum!
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As with all books in the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series, this book is exceedingly well written. David Hackett Fischer [Washington's Crossing] has superbly edited this work and his 3 page editor's note is itself, worth the price of the book. Dartmouth Professor of History, Colin Calloway has closely examined 1763, one of the most critical years in American History in his book, THE SCRATCH OF A PEN: 1763 AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF NORTH AMERICA. This one is sure to take its place on the "essential reading" list of American history lovers.
The book derives its name from historian Francis Parkman, who wrote regarding the 1763 Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the Seven Years War, "half a continent changed hands at the scratch of a pen". What is commonly referred to in America as the French and Indian War was in actuality, the first World War. It was fought on 4 continents and 3 oceans around the globe. Its' participants included not only the British and French, but Americans, Canadians, American Indians, Prussians, Austrians, Russians, Spaniards and East Indians as well.
Nearly a decade of war left both Britain and France in economic ruin. Britain, being victorious, tried to extricate itself from financial crisis by attempting to simultaneously cut costs (reducing gifts the Indians had grown so accustomed to receiving from the French) and increasing its revenue by raising taxes (on the colonials), which NEVER works.
Cutting costs led in part to sparking an Indian war, and raising taxes led to an all out revolt by the colonies. Ultimately, Britain would be unable to benefit from its' newly won empire. Calloway shows in explicit detail how the 1763 Peace of Paris Treaty had a much more tumultuous effect upon the peoples of North America than the war itself. Britain tried to divide its newfound empire into two pieces, one for its colonists and one for the Indian tribes. The colonists, however, had a much different view. They saw their hard fought victory in the war as giving them the right to expand into the newly conquered territory, to itself relieve some its financial burden through land speculation and settlement.
In an attempt to quell the growing anarchy in the new territory, Britain engaged in perhaps one of the first instances of bio-terrorism by purposely infecting Indians with small pox. Though successful in "thinning the herd" so to speak, British lack of government intervention and control in the territory spurred anarchy among both the Indians and the settlers.
Calloway has brilliantly defined both the short and long-term effects the Peace of Paris had on every venue of North America, from Hudson Bay to Florida and Cuba, and Nova Scotia to the Louisiana Territory. For a much better understanding of American history and the causes that pushed the colonies towards independence, this is essential reading. Professor Calloway holds the reader in his grasp with every page. The text flows nicely and is capped off with an exhaustive bibliography that will surely add to one's reading list.
For as much as I truly loved this book, I do have one complaint. On page 117, this historian with a magnificent proficiency in writing, pierced my soul when he failed to contain himself from interpolating his own political essence upon current events, with just one brief sentence. I won't give too much away, as I don't want to dissuade anyone from reading this extraordinary work. But if Professor Calloway should ever happen to read this review, I say to you sir, you are a brilliant writer. Your work here is superb. Please don't blemish such a brilliant work with your own leanings. As you know, the purpose of the historian is to record and report the facts, not to color them.
There, now that I have that off my chest, let me conclude by saying, I absolutely loved this book. It has given critical insight to not only the causes behind the revolution, but how the Peace of Paris Treaty of 1763 transformed the lives of so many then, and countless millions since. Do not miss out on reading this book.
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Tom Sine is a name I have known for nearly thirty years, so I am looking forward to hearing him speak, and to meeting him, this evening (Apr. 30). Dr. Sine is the guest speaker/leader at the special event called "Re-Imagine 2010-2020: Re-Imagining Life, Church and Mission," which Second Baptist Church, of which June and I are members, is having this evening and tomorrow.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Myths About Socialism
It's amazing what some people believe about the President. As reported in the current issue of Harper's magazine, a January survey indicated that 24% of the Republicans in the country said President Obama "wants the terrorists to win." Writing for the March 24 issue of U.S. News and World Report, Robert Schlesinger reports that a recent poll indicated that 57% of Republicans think the President is a Muslim and about one in four suspect that he is the Antichrist!
As indicated in my last posting, one of the persistent charges against the President is that he is leading the country toward socialism. According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll as reported in the April 14 issue of the NY Times, 92% of the Tea Party backers "believe Mr. Obama is moving the country toward socialism, an opinion shared by more than half of the general public."
As I indicated in my previous posting, it might be a positive thing for vast numbers of people if the country did move more toward socialism. But there is little indication that the country has, in fact, moved very far in that direction. On April 10, Bill Quigley, a law professor at Loyola University, New Orleans, posted "Nine Myths about Socialism in the US" on "Bill Quigley's Blog."
Quigley compared the U.S. with the thirty countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He says that when one looks at how the U.S. compares to the thirty OECD countries, "the hot air myths about the US government going all out towards socialism sort of disappear into thin air." (For those who are interested, you can read about the nine myths here.)
Quigley's conclusion: "Despite what the right wing folks are saying, the US is not on the path towards socialism." Then he adds, "But if socialism means the US would go down the path of being more generous with our babies, our children, our working families, our pregnant mothers, and our sisters and brothers across the world, I think we could all appreciate it."**
So, while some people charge the President with leading the country toward socialism, seeing that as a very negative thing, the facts seem to show the U.S. is a long ways from socialism at this point—and for many people who are hurting now that may be the bad news rather than the good news.
** You may be interested to know that Quigley, who teaches Social Justice Lawyering and other courses at Loyola, was awarded the Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award in 2003. The first person to be given that award by Pax Christi was Dorothy Day in 1978, and other recipients include Daniel Berrigan (1989), Joan Chittister (1990), and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (1991). You may not be familiar with the latter name, but he was the bishop interviewed briefly by Michael Moore in Capitalism: A Love Story.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Who Loves Capitalism?
My previous posting was about income tax, and I am continuing to think about economic matters in this article. Just the evening before Tax Day, June and I watched Michael Moore's 2009 movie "Capitalism: A Love Story." We thought it was a good movie. But there are those who not only don't like it, they hate it.
I was a bit surprised that the movie included brief comments by a retired Catholic bishop from Detroit and two other Catholic priests, who were all quite negative in their comments about capitalism. But through the years there has been a rather long line of prominent Christians, Protestants as well as Catholics, who have been critical of capitalism.
As you know, those who are conservative politically are strong opponents of President Obama, and there has been a steady stream of criticism calling him a socialist and decrying his leading the country into socialism (or even Communism). His pushing for the healthcare reform bill, of course, has been one of the main reasons for that attack. And, in fact, the President is probably just one of many prominent politicians who are somewhat critical of capitalism.
In the previous posting, I mentioned Ronald Dellums, the current mayor of Oakland (CA). He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 1998, and he was the first openly socialist congressperson since World War II. Although I have known of him since the early 1970s because of his opposition to the Vietnam War, I did not know until recently that he is a democratic socialist. But I was not surprised when I learned that.
Are you aware that Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (1941), the junior U.S. Senator from Vermont serving in his third year, also describes himself as a democratic socialist? He is said to be the first open socialist to serve in the Senate. There are, of course, many others, mostly liberal Democrats, who are regularly charged with being socialists. And maybe a number of them are democratic socialist sympathizers. But is should that be considered a bad thing?
If even half of the things Michael Moore says about capitalism are true—and probably more than half are, in fact, true—then it seems to me that followers of Jesus Christ ought to be among the leaders of those seeking an alternative economic system, or at least modification of the present capitalistic system.
Thankfully, there have been some modifications through the years. Michael Harrington (1928-89) was one of the outstanding socialist scholars in the twentieth century. Perhaps his most influential book was The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), a work that had an impact on the Kennedy administration and on Johnson's subsequent "war on poverty."
So, who loves capitalism? Primarily, those who have capital. And it probably can be said that, in general, the more capital one has, the more that person loves capitalism. But there is little love for capitalism by most of those who live in "the other America," and also by those who are most concerned for people living in poverty.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Thoughts about Income Tax
Well, today is the day, the day by which we USAmericans have to file our annual income tax return. I hope all of you who were required to do so have, or will before the day is over, get your filing done. (Some of my Thinking Friends are not USAmericans, so this posting may be of limited interest to them.)
Yesterday I sent in June's and my tax forms via the Internet, and we had to pay nearly $5,000 more than we had already paid. But I was not altogether unhappy to make this payment, for there are a lot of needy people who are helped by the government each year, and I consider our tax payment primarily for their benefit.
As a pacifist, I do not like to pay taxes to support the U.S. military, and I especially don't like to pay taxes to cover the expenses of the preemptive war against Iraq, which I consider an unjust war. So I am quite unhappy about my tax money going for that.
Years ago I toyed with the idea of being a tax resister, refusing to pay the portion of the federal tax that was used for war. Through the years there have been people who did that, and I admire their courage and consistency—but I have not able to do the same thing. Still, I am attracted by the idea and am happy that some are still working for a "peace tax fund."
The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund is a not-for-profit organization which advocates for passage of the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill (RFPTFB). In April of last year, Rep. John Lewis (Dem., GA), along with eighteen cosponsors, introduced the RFPTFB as H.R. 2085 in the 111th Congress. If passed by Congress, this legislation would establish a governmental trust fund into which designated conscientious objectors would be able to pay their full federal income taxes.
In 1972 Rep. Ronald Dellums (Dem., CA) introduced the first Peace Tax Fund Act in Congress. (Dellums is currently the mayor of Oakland, CA.) And since 1982, the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, a coalition of groups from across the U.S., has continued to provide information and support to people involved in or considering some form of war tax resistance.
But until the (unlikely) time comes that income tax can be diverted from support of the military, I will just have to consider that, whereas some people are glad to support the Pentagon but resent their tax money being used for people on welfare, my taxes are mainly going to help people who need, and receive, assistance from the government.
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
I don't usually read novels twice. But I decided to make an exception for Jessie (1993), a novel written by pastor/professor/theologian/author John Killinger. I first read Jessie in the 1990s and recently read it again, finishing it on Easter Sunday as planned. (As it turned out, about the only thing I remembered about the book was that it ended with events that occurred on Easter.)
I was not disappointed in this second reading, although there is much in the book that is somewhat incredulous. Jessie is the name of the thirtyish women who is the central character of the book, and she is very much a Christ figure, in spite of the gender difference. In fact, the idea of gender equality is one of the main themes of the book, and Jessie elicits strong opposition because of that emphasis.
Here are quotes from the novel that I thought were worthy of inclusion in my diary/journal: Early in the book Jessie says, "God is not like a medicine you have to take. God is the sum of everything good and clean and pure and wonderful about the world" (p. 25). Throughout, Jessie calls God Baba, her childhood name for God which she continues to use all her life. At the very end of the book she remarks, "Baba is love overcoming hate and darkness and prejudice and everything that stands in the way of love. One day, Baba will have conquered everything and all the hate and darkness will be expelled" (pp. 287-8).
Jessie very much lived by, and expressed, the resurrection principle that I wrote about in my previous posting—and that is one reason I like the book so much.
Dr. Killinger (b. 1933) has written more than sixty books. Jessie was his first novel, and he has written only one other novel. A former pastor in Baptist, Presbyterian and Congregational churches, he also taught for fifteen years at Vanderbilt Divinity School and was Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Samford University in Birmingham. He is now retired and living in Virginia.
Dr. Killinger's newest book is If Christians Were Really Christian, published in October of last year, and I have just started reading it on my Kindle. I don't know yet how he will develop that topic. But I do know that in his novel Jessie, Dr. Killinger depicts a woman who really lived as a Christian. That's another reason I like the book and recommend it. But even more, thinking about Jessie—and about Dorothy Day, whom I wrote about recently—makes me want to become more Christlike in the way I live.
I wonder if any of you, my Thinking Friends, have read any of Dr. Killinger's books or have heard him speak. If so, I would enjoy hearing your impressions.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
The Resurrection Principle
On this morning after Easter Sunday, I hope you are energized by the celebration of new life at this auspicious time of the year and by the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the pivotal point of the Christian faith.
My new book, The Limits of Liberalism: A Historical, Theological, and Personal Appraisal of Christian Liberalism, should be released next month. In it, one of my criticisms of liberalism is related to its understanding of the resurrection of Jesus. Here is an excerpt about that:
John Shelby Spong [a retired Episcopal bishop and widely-known contemporary liberal Christian] writes about the resurrection of Jesus as occurring in Galilee, rather than in Jerusalem. That is because there was nothing "objective" that happened in Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified and buried. The "resurrection" was only something subjective that happened in the hearts and minds of the apostles who had fled to Galilee. Spong and other liberals talk about resurrection, to be sure, but it is a watered-down resurrection, one devoid of any factuality or any "taint" of the miraculous—expect in the sense that the Apostles "miraculously" experienced the spiritual presence and ongoing influence of the crucified Christ in their hearts as they were imbued with new faith and courage to carry on the teachings of the Jesus movement.
On the other hand, I also reject the over-literalness of some fundamentalist views of the resurrection. There is a tendency on the theological right to emphasize the historicity of the literal bodily resurrection of Jesus so much that its significance for our daily lives today is largely lost.
More than once I have preached an Easter sermon titled "The Resurrection Principle," emphasizing the practical difference the resurrection makes (or could or should make) in our lives today, if we live by the resurrection principle. That principle emphasizes that life overcomes death, love overcomes hate and indifference, hope overcomes despair, and joy overcomes sorrow. These affirmations are all grounded in a firm belief in the actuality of Jesus' resurrection, and they make a huge difference in the living of our daily lives.
Regardless of what happened on the third day after Jesus' crucifixion, the effects of the resurrection principle in our lives today are of great importance. But if nothing factual or objective happened on that first Easter morning, aren't the effects of the resurrection principle little more than wish-fulfillment? Are our affirmations of life, love, hope, and joy based on an actual event, or are they only fanciful fabrications? I firmly believe they are rooted in a real occurrence and not merely in subjective experiences.
On this day after Easter, it is my prayer that on the basis of the good news about Jesus Christ all of us can affirm the resurrection principle and will, accordingly, truly rejoice and enthusiastically celebrate life, love, hope, and joy.
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Thelathia "Nikki" Young is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
and Religion at Bucknell University. She received her Ph.D. from Emory
University, M.Div. and Th.M. from Candler School of Theology, and B.A. from
UNC-Asheville. Her research focuses on the intersection of ethics, family, race,
gender, and sexuality, and she is specifically interested in the impact of queerness
on moral reasoning. Nikki is a co-convener of the LGBT and Queer Studies Group
within the Society for Christian Ethics, co-chair of the Queer Studies in Religion
Group in the American Academy of Religion, and a member of the LGBTIQ
Persons in the Profession Task Force in AAR. Her first monograph, Black Queer
Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination, was published in 2016 (Palgrave
Macmillan). Nikki recently finished a collaborative book with Eric Barreto and
Jake Myers called In Tongues of Mortals and Angels: A De-Constructive Theology
of God-Talk in Acts and Paul and is currently working on a manuscripts with Dr.
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, tentatively titled Introducing Queer Ethics.


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The following C# code creates a data set instance from a source pattern binary uncompressed data file. A foreach loop uses Linq to iterate through each of the Components contained in the data set (currently Hardware, Operating System, Browser and Crawler) and their associated Profiles. All the values returned from the available properties for the profile are fetched and their lengths checked against the maximum length found so far. The longest values is finally output after all profiles have been checked.
int profiles = 0;
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using (var dataSet = MemoryFactory.Create(
foreach(var profile in dataSet.Components.SelectMany(i => i.Profiles))
foreach(var property in profile.Component.Properties)
var value = profile[property];
if (value != null &&
value.ToString().Length > maxLength)
maxLength = value.ToString().Length;
if (profiles % 1000 == 0)
Console.WriteLine("Processed '{0}' Profiles", profiles);
Console.WriteLine("Maximum value string length '{0}'", maxLength);
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Sept 24 2015 – Nigerian Pastor Writes Open Letter To Buhari, Obaloluwa Tells GMB To Kill The Goliath Of Corruption
Your Excellency, on the 12th February, 2015, in the course of your electioneering campaign, a Northern Christian body handed you a copy of the Holy Bible. Thank God you did not reject it. I believe that that day's occasion received heaven's attention. As a Muslim, you perhaps did not know what it meant, but by receiving the Bible that day ,you actually received a divine authority to rule and lead (Rom. 13:1,
Also, you received the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God (Ephesians 6:17). It is a sword of authority (Rom. 13:4). God withdrew it during the military regime, not because He prefers one form of government to another. By implication, God is giving you a fresh mandate to execute judgment upon evil and evildoers, and to promote the utmost good. But beware! Don't turn the sword against God. If you do, you will surely hurt yourself that way. By giving you His Word, which is the Bible, God wants to rule this country through you.
On the day of installation of a particular leader in the Bible, God handed him a charge from His word too: "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success" (Joshua 1:8). He adhered to the instructions, and as a result, history records that in the many years reign of Joshua, he fought many tough battles than any other leader of his time, and he never lost any.
Your Excellency, please kindly bear with me, I have one assignment for you. Please, put on your eyeglasses. If you look intently with it, you will see that Nigeria is right now lying helpless on the ground. That is the outcome of its fight with a giant, a Goliath called corruption. I wish to say, Mr President, that by your ascendance to power, Nigeria has finally found her David who will confront and kill the Goliath called corruption.
Since the beginning of our nationhood, none of our past leaders was to confront this monster. Rather, whenever and wherever they saw corruption, they ran away like Saul, the king of Israel did from the presence of Goliath until David showed up. Need I tell you that except this monster is killed, Nigeria could be doomed? But if you can, then you will be Nigeria's most needed man of the hour; you will be God's delight. God will reward you and lift you above your predecessors.
My dear President, if you are determined, God wants you to kill every form of corruption and to bring Nigeria back to the path of righteousness. It is what will raise her up. So, be an example and don't spare whoever is involved in corrupt practices, no matter how highly placed. You will succeed if only you will heed the Word of God that says: "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. And those which remain shall hear and fear and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you" (1 Tim. 5:20; Deut. 19: 20).
Don't be partial and don't be vindictive. You must not fight corruption lightly and hypocritically as pretenders before you had done. Mind you, righteousness is not about religion. Some years ago, a research was carried out to know the countries where people attend church and mosques most and Nigeria came tops. Yes, ours is a nation where streets are filled with churches and mosques. But, all of that amid gross corruption!
Prayer and praying is not necessarily righteousness. I don't know whether there is any nation where the people pray like we do here in Nigeria. Yet, we rank among the first as far as corruption and crimes are concerned. Recently, nine people were hanged by the Indonesian government for drug-trafficking. Out of the nine, Nigeria had four, while the rest of the world had five. These four, no doubt, must have prayed and fasted several days before they embarked on that trip. Who knows too, their religious leaders may have prayed too and held vigil for them.
Years ago, a research was carried out in a state close to Washington DC in America. The research said out of 11,000 prisoners there, Nigerians numbered 6,000 plus. And so it is in almost every country of the world. Our leaders led in the evils and unrighteousness, while the citizenry followed. This is our reproach; this is the thing that cast Nigeria down. Oh! How are the mighty fallen! Dear President, if combating corruption is all that you would be able to achieve during your tenure, that would be a good accomplishment. And you shall be remembered, both by heaven and earth, for what you have done. Once again, I rejoice with you, and join with the rest of the world to wish you well.
[Obaloluwa is the Senior Pastor of Total Salvation Ministry, Lagos.]


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probably late 1860s - early 1870s (50 Kb); Oil on canvas, 99 x 79.3 cm (39 x 31 1/4 in); The Cleveland Museum of Art
The colors of this work are uncharacteristically muted. Only the red kerchief screams out, calling our attention to the figure outside. It is notable that she is specifically identified as the artist's wife in the title. The doorway or window is of course a standard painting motif; however, it is normally opened to allow a panoramic outside view. Here poor Mrs. Monet is not only locked out, but is obviously cold, grasping her coat to keep out the snowy chill. For a window composition, the perspective is surprisingly shallow. The horizon line, at Camille's elbow, flattens the picture. The result is that she is almost pushed up against the glass, as if begging to be let in from the cold. This is a disturbing canvas, expressing deep conflicts in the relationship of Claude and Camille Monet. We know that by late 1876, Monet had fallen in love with Alice Hoschede, the wife of one of his dealers, who bore his son Jean-Pierre two years prior to Camille's death.