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I have had more encounters with police in the four months I've been in Malawi than in my entire life in the United States. Though vaguely aware of this trend, it didn't really strike me until I spent the last two days driving around the country. Within a three hour radius of Lilongwe, I went through no fewer than eight police barriers and was stopped at additional checkpoints no fewer than three times. Now, Mom, before you get worried, none of these stops were because of or resulted in violations.
Perhaps because there are so few police cars in this country, a favorite police trick is the routine traffic stop. The instruction manual must go something like this: Gather five cops. Outfit them in neon vests. Dump them on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere without a car. Have one cop stand in the middle of the road and wave ambiguously at oncoming traffic. Question each car that interprets the wave as a signal to stop. Check license, registration, lights, wipers, etc., at will. Under no circumstance may more than one cop inhabit the roadway at one time. Despite traffic buildup, the other four cops must remain on the side of the road.
There are semi-permanent police barriers at regular intervals along the M1, the main North-South highway in Malawi. Made of weighted 55-gallon drums and hinged "arms" that go across the highway, these barriers are either open – in which case, one just slows down – or closed. If closed, one must wait for the police to come out of their little tin shack to open the barrier (good luck if it's raining), but these barriers rarely involve any sort of extended questioning, at least if one is in a sedan. Minibuses and matolas piled high with people and belongings are prone to greater scrutiny. In cases of random traffic stops, however, the tables are turned: nicer cars are targeted far more frequently than the rickety hunks of metal, presumably because nicer cars are more able to pay for any violations incurred. (Disclaimer: this is based on anecdotal rather than statistical evidence.) Speed traps often let minibuses roll on through, but heaven help you if you're speeding in a shiny Toyota truck with an NGO logo on the side.
I am pleased to report that I've only been stopped once for actually doing something wrong, and it was because I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. Honestly, I do almost always wear it, but I had just pulled out of a parking lot in a hurry to get away from some very persistent fruit sellers. Anyway, 100 meters later, bam – I was waved down. Another of Malawi's legal oddities is that while one may pay speeding tickets on the spot (another incentive for stopping the cars that can pay – these are police in the middle of nowhere, remember?), paying a seatbelt ticket requires a trip to the police station. Since I didn't know where the police station was, and since Malawians are reluctant to give adequate instructions to ensure the completion of a task, the policewoman let me go after I asked about 15 questions about what I had to do next. Maybe being an ignorant expat does have some advantages, after all.
I imagine that the ratio of police : citizens must be a requirement of some of the "good governance" money that Malawi gets, given the sheer number of them on the road. And perhaps building a large police force – even if they are completely ineffective against things like actual crimes – is a sound method for job creation. But the combination of not many paved roads and relatively low traffic volume + lots of bored police = frequent stops, even for (relatively) innocent drivers like me.


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The Apparition
Opens: September 9th 2011
Cast: Tom Felton, Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Julianna Guill, Luke Pasqualino
Director: Todd Lincoln
Summary: A young couple are haunted by a scary ghost-like form, apparently brought into existence by students testing a whole new form of science. Who will help them escape the terrifying apparition?
Analysis: Dark Castle's horror entry for this year is a sci-fi meets haunted house tale that takes its inspiration from "Paranormal Activity," "Poltergeist" and "Flatliners" – with the plot following a couple being terrorised in their home by something unleashed after a university parapsychology experiment goes awry. Producer Joel Silver says that despite being shot in Berlin, the setting is around a cul-de-sac in LA's San Fernando Valley in an area where a lot of houses didn't ever get finished (an unformed neighbourhood of sorts). Their aim is to be "really, really scary", taking the setup of films like 'Paranormal' and then pushing it beyond into something darker.
Filmmaker Lincoln is an unknown, this marks his screenwriting and directorial debut. The young cast though is surprisingly pretty good, the best actress of the "Twilight" films, Ashley Greene, makes her debut in a leading role here opposite one of my favourite young actors Sebastian Stan ("Kings," "Gossip Girl," "Hot Tub Time Machine," "Black Swan") who'll hopefully hit it big this year as the sidekick of "Captain America". Brits Tom Felton, best known for playing Draco Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" series, and "Skins" star Luke Pasqualino are also good choices to have onboard.
One thing this thankfully won't be is overly gory. Greene mentioned in a roundtable interview earlier this year that "It's not going to be that slash-gore movie. It's that thing that just scares you to the core, and it's terrifying. The way that I can best explain it is that we do everything that a normal person would do. Everyone is going to watch it and say, 'Do this!' And that's what we're going to do. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve things, and we're still having to deal with them. I think that's the scariest part, is when you do everything that you should do and you still end up ruined." Sounds like good fun to me.

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Tongue Out Selfies Must Stop
Have you ever really looked at a tongue? It's not attractive. It's wet, bumpy and involuntarily expands, contracts and pulsates. It's like a disgusting worm. Put your tongue away you lowest form of cretin. Only ill-bred, ill-mannered low-class slobs take tongue out selfies.
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CHARLOTTE, NC - The WSSU Lady Rams tennis team handled their business on Monday afternoon, beating the Golden Bulls from Johnson C. Smith, 8-1 in Charlotte, NC.
In doubles competition, WSSU's Sloane Holmes and Kayla Carter beat Khadijha Barnes and Rankin Anderson, 8-5, while Bianka Locklear and Kalin Jarvis beat Keiara Love and Samantha Barnes, 8-3. Taylor Harris and Carmen Grady lost to JCSU's Felicia Akande and Nichelle Heard, 8-5, as the lady Rams took the doubles points in match.
In singles, Sloane Holmes defeated Rankin Anderson, 8-4; Kayla Carter beat Keiara Love, 8-3; Bianka Locklear beat Felicia Akande, 8-1; Kalin Jarvis beat Khadijha Battle, 8-4; Taylor Harris beat Nichelle Heard, 8-2; and Carmen Grady beat Samantha Barnes, 8-3.
With the win, the WSSU lady Rams move to 3-3 on the season, 3-1 in the CIAA.


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NEW YORK (AP) Lucas Duda walked out of the dugout onto the on-deck circle with Cincinnati leading the Mets by three runs in the seventh inning following Juan Lagares' one-out walk. Kevin Plawecki's single off Brandon Finnegan put runners at the corners.
Reds manager Bryan Price stood a full 50 seconds by the top step of the dugout, waiting for the Mets to make a move with reliever Logan Verrett due up, then walked to the mound as Duda returned to New York's dugout without being introduced.
Suddenly, Yoenis Cespedes appeared in the dugout, taping his wrists. After missing three straight games because of a leg injury, Cespedes walked up to the plate and rocketed a 93 mph fastball for a three-run homer. Slumping David Wright had a go-ahead single later in the inning, and the Mets rallied past Cincinnati 4-3 on Tuesday night for their 10th straight win against the Reds.
Was Duda a decoy or a delay?
Even Plawecki wasn't sure who would pinch hit for Verrett (3-0). As Plawecki waited, he spoke with Reds first baseman Joey Votto.
''He was like, `What's going on?' I said, `I'm just as confused as you are,''' Plawecki recalled. ''That was a pretty crazy sequence of events.''
Collins at first maintained the Mets couldn't find Cespedes, who had been hitting in the batting cage earlier.
''I said, `Luca, someone's got to be on deck. I'm not putting you in, but go on deck,''' the manager explained.
But then, when asked whether he was trying to make the Reds think Cespedes was unavailable, Collins left a hint.
''Well,'' he said before chucking, ''I don't necessarily bring up my thoughts behind the whole thing.''
Duda wouldn't explain his point of view.
''Guys, you got to talk to Terry about that,'' he said.
Cespedes had fluid drained from his bruised right thigh Monday. Price could have elected to bring in left-hander Tony Cingrani (0-2) or right-hander Caleb Cotham, who were both warming up.
Price left in the left-handed Finnegan to face the right-hander, and on Finnegan's next pitch - his 107th and last of the night - Cespedes electrified the small Citi Field crowd.
The ball left his bat at 111 mph and went just over the 8-foot blue wall erected for the 2012 season. It caromed off the deeper, taller green wall that set the original dimensions in 2009, and Cespedes initially seemed to think the ball was in play. But third base umpire Sam Holbrook immediately signaled home run, and Cespedes took a slow trot around the bases.
To the dismay of the Mets, Cespedes left the ballpark immediately after the game and did not speak with reporters.
''It was like out of a movie scene,'' Wright said. ''All we needed was the fans to start chanting his name and him come out and have about five bats in his hand and start throwing them into the dugout and go up there, pick his favorite one and hit a homer.''
Price insisted he wasn't played.
''I knew if I went to Cotham, they'd go to Duda, and he was the healthier player, so I wasn't sure if they were going to use Cespedes solely as a decoy or not,'' Price said. ''Either way, if Cespedes was going to hit in that situation, I liked him against Finnegan because Finnegan had the three-pitch mix - as opposed to, I could have brought in Tony to keep Duda on the bench.''
Cespedes' sixth home run of the season was the major league-high 38th allowed by the Reds. Cingrani then relieved and Curtis Granderson tripled over speedy center fielder Billy Hamilton and off the fence in left-center. Asdrubal Cabrera struck out, and Wright fell behind 0-2 in the count before lining a fastball into left field. He had been 1 for 17 with runners in scoring position this year.
''It looked like one of those games we were going to lose,'' Wright said.
Addison Reed pitched a hitless eighth, and Jeurys Familia got three straight outs for his seventh save in seven chances.
In a matchup of youthful gumption and veteran savvy, 23-year-old Finnegan pitched one-hit shutout ball for five innings against 42-year-old Bartolo Colon, then escaped two-on, no-out trouble in the sixth. Votto hit a third-inning sacrifice fly and Ivan DeJesus Jr. had a two-run homer in the fourth against Colon, who with 3,004 1/3 innings moved past the Yankees' CC Sabathia to become the leader among active pitchers.
New York has won five straight overall and eight of nine. The Mets are 10-2 since a four-game losing streak, pulling within two games of NL East-leading Washington.
Just like during the last two months of last season, Cespedes was the difference.
''You've got to just believe wholly 100 percent, and he does.'' Collins said. ''You just shake your head.''
Mets: C Travis d'Arnaud is on the DL for the fifth straight season. New York said he has a strained right rotator cuff, an injury the team hopes can heal quickly without surgery and won't cause a lengthy layoff.
Matt Harvey (1-3) is slated to start for the Mets against Jon Moscot (0-1) in Wednesday's series finale. Batters are hitting .200 (11 for 55) against Harvey through four innings this season, .353 (6 for 17) in the fifth and .714 (10 for 14) in the sixth.


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The days has gone when we need to send resume via courier services. Today the job hunters are frequently submitting their CVs via email or using online jobs portals. However, having your personal website can help you to grab the employers' attention and get your dream job.
If you want to make your online resume, there are alot of themes can help you to create eye-catching resume website. These resume themes offer you to build your online resume and display your work experience, portfolio, skill, and education in an engaging way.
Below are few themes that are ideal for creating your desired resume. I guess it will hard to choose one because the given collection contains awesome templates.
– Squareroot
This theme has the responsive layout and looks amazing on all mobile devices. The theme is compatible with all mainstream browsers and guarantees flawless browsing. There are 4 home variations, and three navigation styles allow you to make your website looks great.
You can set the background for each section with images, colors or patterns and change navigation style. There are 240+ icons help you to customize your resume website for any profession. You can add icons in any section using shortcodes and customize their color and size as per your requirements.
Mee is a perfect CV theme that displays your education, awards, experience in a professional way. The powerful admin panel allows you to control each feature of theme and get your desired look and do easy customization using visual composer plugin.
Mee is an SEO friendly theme that also included Google map to highlight your exact location. The theme comes with the lazy loader that offers smooth scrolling. The theme is wisely documented and offer the ultimate customer support.
– PerfectCV
PerfectCV is a modern layout build with HTML5 and CSS3; that let you build a professional looking resume with several display options, titles and contact info section. A bunch of features like responsive layout, retina ready, clean and modern design with unlimited color scheme make this theme perfect for everyone.
You can link 20+ social media account with your resume website including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and many others, the SEO friendly feature help you to rank higher in search results.
– Chulan
Chulan is being used by hundreds of people, this theme has unlimited colors scheme and can hide WordPress login details for security purpose. Before you buy this theme, try its demo feature to know about the exciting features of this resume theme. When your website is under construction, you can display the 'coming soon' page with the premium plugin available for free.
To create an eye-catching portfolio or header, you can set a YouTube video as background. Like another theme, this theme comes with features like retina ready, responsiveness and simple customization. The theme developer offers the best quality support to resolve any customization issue.
– Profession
Professional resume theme comes in four different versions including horizontal, vertical, full-screen background and RTL version. The theme has a powerful admin panel and WPML to build your desired look. The unique design and shortcode generator allow having a unique looking resume.
The tons of theme options, hundreds of Google fonts, 20+ social media icons work like a charm. In Portfolio section, you can include quote, gallery, audio and video.
– Sam Martin
Sam Martin contains different layouts for different industry professionals like writers, barber, trainer, doctor, lawyer and IT persons. This theme is Woocommerce ready with visual composer plugin to build your exclusive online resume.
You can choose from 3 different layouts and different header styles as per your requirements. This theme is made with your desired features like social media compatibility, unlimited color schemes, cross-browser compatibility, SEO optimized and hundreds of Google fonts.
– Mi
This theme is a complete online resume package. Using Mi Vcard theme, you can enjoy the 1 click demo data import to shape your website like the demo. The Visual page builder helps the non-coders to create professional looking website using 7 demo verities.
Mi comes in different layouts including standard, masonry and multi-customizable. The theme builds with HTML5 and CSS3 and is a Bootstrap ready template.
– Myers
If you don't know even a single word of coding still than Myers help you to create responsive resume website with easily customizable features. This is a well-documented and well-coded theme with over 14000 icons by Linea icons and Lion icons. Myers can be your best theme to display your educational and professional timeline in a creative way.
The first look of this theme is very different from other and looks professional. ZET is a bootstrap ready one-page theme with the modern and clean design. The sidebar menu gives the user easy access to all section of your resume including skills, experience, portfolio, and education.
You can put a stunning gallery using beautiful Popup gallery. You can give an excellent experience with the smooth scrolling and SVG graphics by showing your resume in an attractive way. ZET is a well-documented them with excellent support to help you building a professional resume.
– Henderson
Henderson allows you to make a creative online resume because it allows you to put different profile pictures. It's a fully responsive design comes with several premium plugins like ACF Pro Compatible, Visual Composer, Ultimate VC Addons, Isotope Filter & magical layouts.
The theme is coded with HTML5 and CSS3 and advanced typography control give a unique look to your website. Using Henderson, you can show your social media icons and at the bottom and show your experience, portfolio, and education at the side of your photo.
– Alamgir
Alamgir is a complete resume template that comes in 5 different homepage layouts; the theme also offers 4 blog layouts. If you want to make an online resume or want to start a personal blog, this theme can help in both ways. The theme is built in HTML5 and CSS3 and is compatible with Unyson Page builder that offers the easy customization.
You can build a website just like the demo by importing all demo content including images. Show your portfolio in catchy galleries using different color combinations.
– Briwfi
Briwfi is a fully responsive and Bootstrap ready on-page resume theme. It comes with unlimited color options and 2 layouts (boxed and fullwidth). Briwfi theme allows you to create unlimited one-page sections and displays all of your information in a single layer. Use 600+ Google fonts and give a different look to your website.
– Signature
If you want to show your portfolio in a stunning way, Signature can be a perfect choice. There are 3 home and blog versions available to make your resume or personal blog. The blog with the sidebar menu option looks more stunning and professional. You can display posts in 7 different formats.
The Unison page builder lets you design with ease and Master Slider premium free plugin help to create fabulous homepage sliders. The lazy loader offers the smooth scrolling, clean code and W3C validations makes it an SEO friendly theme.


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My Couch to 5K Diary: Week 3
I hate running.
Week 3 is much like week 2, although this app has me finally running more than a minute and a half at a time. It's surreal, because I have never (and I mean never, ever) have been able to run more than a minute in a row before.
It's crazy! I'm still going pretty slow, but am finding that I can make it until the app tells me to "slow down and walk."
I got new sneaks and wore them for the first time on Wednesday. I have to admit, they don't make much of a difference. Running still sucks.
I've had thoughts of running outside as that seems like it might be more interesting, but it's 90 and humid here now -- should I subject myself to this? Am I kidding myself that my success on a treadmill in an indoor gym with epic air conditioning will translate to the out of doors in the summer GA heat? (stop laughing)
The other big thing: I actually started looking into 5Ks I could do in the early fall. Hell hath frozen over. I must be delirious.
Housekeeping note: next week I go on vacation from Wednesday to Wednesday so I will try to get all my runs in but hold off until the week after (July 6) to post a combo week 4 and 5 post.


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During her last public appearance, the little miracle girl proclaims in a firm voice:
"Rose Tamisier. I'm thirty-three years old… Christ's age…"
She makes the sign of the cross and then sits down facing her judges in the courtroom of the Carpentras Tribunal.
Troubled and distraught after two days of passionate debates, the judges don't know which saint – or devil – to address to discover the truth.
To everybody's great discontentment, they declare themselves to be incompetent and the trial is taken to Appeal before the Nimes Court, on the following 6 November.
The case is rapidly, brutally expedited. Rose is condemned to the maximum: six months of prison and a fine of sixteen francs for "offence of affront to the Catholic religion".
In fact, she will suffer an incarceration of twenty-one months in all, for she refuses to allow those close to her to pay the trial costs which come to the considerable sum of eight hundred and eighty-two francs.
When her ordeal ends, no-one is waiting for her at the prison door. As if it were feared that, with her release, a decidedly cumbersome God would again manifest himself.
Everyone had hastened to forget her passing glory, but the high clergy will never forgive her for the upheaval she had caused in consciences. Back in her town of birth, Saignon, to care for her elderly father, Rose thinks only of effacing herself as much as possible, not without hoping to find balm for her wounds in the holy sacraments.
The ecclesiastic authorities refuse categorically. The Archbishop orders:
"If this girl asks for Holy Communion, she must first confess her culpable juggling."
Throughout the terrestrial time left for her to live, Rosette Tamisier will remain firm. She fights desperately and does not stop tearfully begging her Curate to allow her to accede again to the Holy Table, but she will never admit to having lied.
The Roman Catholic Church remains just as inflexible. Despite her letters full of humility to the Archbishop and her exemplary life, it remains deaf to her appeals.
As for the past miracles, they too will fall into total oblivion. Despite the doubts or convictions which will subsist in the minds of a lot of absolutely trustworthy witnesses…
How difficult and dangerous it was under this Second Empire, sanctimonious and bigoted, to be distinguished by the hand of the Lord!…
This story seems to be quite unknown. The works on religion, those that support it and those, also numerous in the XIXth Century, which attack it, don't mention Rosette. It is surprising at an epoch when miracles suscitated a prodigious interest throughout the whole of the Occident and were the objects of serious studies for the first time, with scientific controls. For example, those accomplished in the middle of the XIXth Century by Bernadette Soubirous and Jean-Marie Vianney, the Curate of Ars.
It is Maitre Maurice Garcon, the famous lawyer, who exhumed this case, thanks to the ecclesiastic authorities, who, for the first time, in the 1930's, placed the documents and exhibits at his disposition.
This long silence was paradoxically because the Church feared that the judiciary authorities might be convinced of the authenticity of the Saint-Saturnin prodigies… It is in fact extremely prudent in matter of recognition of saints or miracles.
Jeanne d'Arc was canonised only in 1920 and Saint Bernadette in 1933. Saint Therese of Lisieux, who was canonised in record time, still had to wait thirty years.
Further, the Church always fears the intervention of the Devil in paranormal phenomena.
Louis Pauwels, whose work I have translated, believes that Rosette Tamisier performed miracles. The archives of the civil enquiry as well as those of the ecclesiastic enquiry, along with the whole of the witness statements, concord on several points. Even outside the miracle of the picture, it is accepted that Rosette levitated when she prayed and that she bore stigmata.
Although the Church recognizes the existence of levitation, it does not consider that it is enough for canonisation.
Certain mediums also levitate.
As for stigmata, they too are fairly common.
On the subject of the bleeding picture, there are many witness statements. Those of the whole population, but also the gendarmes who established the reports, the Sous-Prefet, the Mayor and doctors. Collective hallucination appears to be unthinkable.
The report of Gendarme Brive, for example, clearly indicates that, when the blood that had flowed from the wounds on the picture was wiped off, it immediately formed again and so on, up to three or four times, more and more weakly, it is true.
At the beginning of the miracles, Rosette asked to be alone inside the chapel on the morning preceding these miracles. Certain people have used this to argue that she herself spread blood on the canvas. This cannot be so, for apart from the surveillance which had been established around the chapel, the religious authorities first, the civil ones later, had the picture taken down to see if it was rigged in some way. Nothing suspicious had been found. At the last miracle notably, the blood came back with such abundance that any idea of subterfuge, of "juggling", as the Archbishop said, appeared to be out of the question.
This attack from the Roman Catholic Church is comprehensible. Firstly, around the same epoch there had been the case of Sister Patrocinio, a Spanish nun who drew fake wounds on her body with a stick of silver nitrate. This had thrown considerable discredit on the religion. It was also the eve of a great occultist awakening in the middle of the end of the XIXth Century. Heresies were flourishing, notably that of Vintras, who had founded the Oeuvre de misericorde, whose doctrine would spread into numerous European countries.
He had announced that all sorts of miracles were going to occur, and the Church made the connection, fearing that Rosette was part of this sect.
In fact, the extraordinary thing about this case is that the Church itself undertakes to put a miracle girl on trial.
Apart from the Curate of Saint-Saturnin, all the men of the Church in her time will be gradually against the miraculous thesis. So almost all of the laics, public servants, lawyers, doctors and others will be for it, the free thinkers, like Doctor Clement, among them. This quite simply shows that, in this matter, the Church displays a much more critical and prudent attitude than the laics. For it knows what it can lose in prematurely recognizing miracles which aren't, and in annexing to the religion phenomena for which all rationality appears out of the question.
As soon as the judgement had been rendered, the famous picture was removed from the chapel and no-one knows what happened to it. Perhaps it is with certain ecclesiastic dossiers to which, despite his requests, Maitre Garcon never had access?…


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Cost/Panel SE Optimizer vs EnPhase MicroInverter
First Post! Can you folks help me estimate the per panel price difference between SunPower Optimizer and MicroInverter (21 panels).. I know the approx central inverter cost for Solar Edge SE7600A ($1575).
E20 - 327 w/SolarEdge P400 Optimizers E20 - 327-C-AC Enphase MicroInverters
I have quotes.. about $4000 total more for Enphase Micros... I don't think I need the microinverters... no shade, and the Optimizers were quoted to produce more power... just trying to work the price backwards from neighbors system (with microinverter)


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No Matter How Much He Gets Paid, It's Not Enough!
The operator sits inside a special heavily armored demining vehicle and is surprised by an exploding bomb. The explosion is so powerful that it seems like he loses consciousness for a few seconds.
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The worker is working at the border between Chile and Peru where explosive charges are being removed in accordance with the Ottawa Convention which prohibits anti-personnel mines since 1997. Chile has so far removed 85% of its land mines.


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The 95th Rose Bowl Game will be played at Pasadena, California on January 1 2009 between BCS #5 ranked USC and BCS #8 ranked Penn State. The Rose Bowl Game will be preceded by the 2009 Rose Parade. The theme for this year's Rose Parade is "Hats Off To Entertainment". The Rose Parade start time will be at 8 AM PT (11 AM ET). The Rose Bowl Time Schedule says the USC – Penn State game will start at 2 PM PT (5 PM ET).
Live Streaming video of the 120th Rose Parade will be provided by KTLA.com here. The Tournament of Roses Parade and Rose Bowl game will also be shown live on nine networks: ABC, NBC, HGTV, Tribune, Univision, Telemundo, Travel Channel, Discovery HD Theater, Sky Link TV.
The Rose Parade will be a 2.5 hours event. According to the TournamentofRoses.com website, – "The five-and-a-half mile Rose Parade route begins at the corner of Ellis Street and Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. The Parade travels north on Orange Grove at a leisurely 2.5-mile per hour pace and then turns east onto Colorado Boulevard where the majority of the Parade takes place. At the end of the route, the Parade turns north onto Sierra Madre Boulevard and ends at Sierra Madre and Villa Street."
Here is the 2009 120th Rose Parade route map: Click on the map to get a detailed Rose Parade Route map.
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Here is the Live Streaming Video of the Capital One Bowl Game between Georgia And Michigan State. This game will be followed by the live streaming of the Rose Bowl Game between USC and Penn State.


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The best advice I've heard in a long while came from a baboon.
It's in the last scene of the second season of Bojack Horseman. Bojack is running up the hill outside his Hollywoo home, out of breath, complaining about how everything sucks and he hates running and why do people do it, before he collapses on the ground at the top of the hill.
Bojack had a rough go of it throughout the season. After getting his dream role as Seabiscuit and meeting an amazing owl woman named Wanda, Bojack goes on a self-improvement kick, listening to personal development tapes and trying to change his outlook on life.
Change is hard. He runs up that huge hill outside his home, and he gets passed by an older baboon man.
He remains positive, but change is still hard. Later his mother calls and tells him he's broken, absolutely broken, always has been and always will be broken. After a good, hard tear-down from her, things take a sour turn for Bojack.
A change in directors alters the tone of the Seabiscuit film. His relationship with Wanda comes with its set of challenges, and he has to work at it, if he wants to keep Wanda in his life. And he's so wrapped up in his own drama that he completely neglects his relationship with his best friend, Todd, who very nearly joins an improv cult.
Bojack has everything he ever wanted, yet he continues to suffer. He tries to become a better person in spite of himself,
Meanwhile the baboon man runs up that hill. Every day.
Bojack, however, runs away from his problems. He runs away from the Seabiscuit movie set and from his relationship with Wanda, believing that his life will be better if he can start over, only to have it fall apart. Again.
At the end he returns to LA, to the Seabiscuit movie set, and makes things right with Todd. He's on a self improvement kick, again, and that's where we find him at the top of the hill, collapsed on the ground. He's right back to where he started, yet its no easier than it was in that first episode. Hovering over him, he sees the baboon man, who leans in and says:
"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you got to do it every day, that's the hard part. But it does get easier."
The baboon man may have been talking about running, but more than anything it had to do with Bojack being a better person.
Any big change is easy to do when you're starting out. Its the honeymoon period, and you feel as if you found the thing!, the thing you have been searching for that is going to solve all your problems and make them go away.
But something bad happens, and the honeymoon period is going to be over. You're going to get a call from your critical mother, who reinforces the idea that you're a broken person. You're going to get a new boss or a new director on the Seabiscuit movie set. Your relationship with your partner is going to fall on tough times, no matter how amazing that owl woman is. And you're going to be a jerk to your best friend in spite of yourself.
It doesn't matter whether or not you have bad days. What matters is how you cope with them. The thing! isn't some kind of charm bracelet or talisman. Its a mindset.
I'm finding it hard for me to tell you about these things, while also offering some story from my own life. In 2016, I have gotten fired from a client, broken up with a man I wanted to to marry, beaten back bouts of depression, have been struggling to get out of debt, and had a recent breakout from too much junk food. Not exactly a person you want to model your life after.
Yet despite the setbacks I am nearing the end of 2016 healthy, sane, and clear-headed.
Bojack crumbled, because he still believed he was a broken person. Its a story his mother instilled in him that continually haunts him.
The "broken" narrative is destructive. People who believe in it become intoxicated with it. They believe that it protects them, but in reality its toxicity poisons them from within.
Instead of believing it, I choose another story with a different mindset.
That mindset is to never stop questioning myself and the choices that led to my mistakes, to practice a sometimes brutal self-awareness, to constantly ask myself, What can I do differently.
Those are the few things that I have control over, and I don't trouble myself with the things I can't control.
Seven years ago I started practicing meditation, and six years ago I started running. Since then I've sat a lot of zazen and run a whole mess of miles. Both things vastly improved the quality of my life and made me a better person. And there were some hard days in there, where depression and resistance did not want me to meditate or run or be healthy or self aware.
But the changes are incremental. The work doesn't stop just because I started doing the things. I have to work at them every day.
The baboon is right, but it doesn't get easier, because the problems go away or you never have another bad day again or you're perfect at it. It gets easier, because you learn how to cope with it. It gets easier, because you change your mindset around it. Every day it gets a little easier. But you got to do it every day, that's the hard part. But it does get easier.
If you're wondering what in the world all this talking horse and baboon runner and owl woman are all about, this trailer will be helpful. Click to watch.
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Monday 5 February 2018
Episode 2761
Lerato and Puleng come face to face with a drug dealer and a knife. Suffo shares his story with a cellmate and stands up to Sabelo.
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Episode 2762
Suffo's prison mate reveals his true identity. Lerato summons Lungile. Emmanuel tries to stand up for himself at work.
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Episode 2763
Lerumo's influences stretch as far as the club. Mapula learns what has happened to Suffo in prison. Nomalanga is worried for her baby. Emmanuel has bad news.
Thursday 8 February 2018
Episode 2764
Lungile realises he still has some way to go before he can win Lerato's trust. Sabelo is given one last chance to prove himself. Nomalanga receives terrible news. Lungile asks Bongo for a divorce.
Friday 9 February 2018
Episode 2765
The prison gang force Sabelo to prove his new loyalty to them with Suffo's blood. Lerato's mother arrives. Nomalanga hides her bad news.
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Monday, 24 June 2013
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- Anonymous24 June 2013 at 18:03
President Michael D Higgins has warned the International Federation of Journalists' world congress meeting in Dublin that the risk of censorship can present itself in the form of "monopolies and oligarchy".ReplyDelete
Addressing the opening ceremony of the conference that continues until Friday, Mr Higgins said the threat to impartial and free journalism could flow from within the media sector as well as from without. "It can flow from the concentration of power of owners, cross-ownership, advertisers' pressure or even from the reticence of journalists to challenge received wisdom," he said.
Mr Higgins said the media "landscape" had changed considerably in recent decades and journalism would be practised in changed circumstances in future, thanks to the concentration of ownership, the fragmentation of audiences and the convergence of technologies.
Monopoly and oligarchy
"Even in those parts of the world where citizens are no longer misinformed by an ideological state media control, the risk of censorship can still present itself in the form of monopolies and oligarchy."
A mass media characterised by the rise of large transnational media players brought new challenges for journalists, the President said. A less diverse media would be less willing to challenge received wisdom or the interests of those in power.
"Journalists attempting to investigate and provide information on political and corporate corruption can often be hindered and intimidated by those with vested interests."
Mr Higgins said the principles of diversity and pluralism must be protected to promote a free flow of ideas and information and strengthen the exercise of freedom of expression around the world.
He said mass media appeared to be converging on a set of online technologies to deliver content. He said this had some very profound opportunities for journalism, because it opened up a potentially global audience by rendering national borders redundant.
The possibilities for citizen journalists, civic groups and "dispossessed" people to "take control of their own narratives" were also immense, he said. However, he said the consequences must not be ignored.
Search engines
"The tools by which people seek to order and parse this flow are potentially hugely powerful. Already we can see the editorial power being granted to search engines," he said.
These technologies could exercise an increasingly powerful role in how people access media.
"Similarly it is easy to see how this globalisation of content might allow popular commercial material to become the exclusive preserve of large multinational content-providers."
Mr Higgins said the "commercial middle ground" and the platforms people used to view content might come under the control of what he described as "vertically integrated media companies".
He added physical attacks on individual journalists were attacks on the very foundations of human rights.
I was not forced into priesthood but found it impossible to remain there primarily because of the celibacy law but I also found that the RC church promotes (knowingly or not) adherence to a system of rules & regulations. The spirituality of many RC folk has not advanced far past the middle ages practice of running around churches chalking up concecrations in order to gain a grater store of graceReplyDelete
- Anonymous25 June 2013 at 17:52
Good point - I love Jesus Christ, I have a hate relationship with the 'Catholic' system. Perhaps I am a Protestant trapped in the Catholic Priesthood!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous25 June 2013 at 22:48
Long may the Irish News continue to spare us your self-serving clap trap, Mr Buckley.ReplyDeleteReplies
Its interesting that there are still "good catholics" around who agree with censorship.Delete


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Adam Sweet's family had never been west of New Brunswick until they moved to Wetaskiwin from Nova Scotia in 1981. Now in his 30s, that family predilection to follow opportunity wherever it leads has resulted in an impressive list of places Sweet has worked in or visited, including a two-year deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan as a member of a civilian reconstruction team. Add a stint in Ottawa working for a number of MPs in communication roles, as well as an internship in Washington, D.C., and you have a man who – in his words – "allows space for serendipity".
Lucky for Edmontonians, it has taken him back to this city, where Sweet, among his many professional and personal roles, is now chief of staff at Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC).
To say that he is Edmonton's biggest fan is no exaggeration. Sweet invests his time and energy selling Edmonton to the world, but also to his fellow Edmontonians. He says that we still don't know how to talk about ourselves, but the opportunity to "help shape the city" was a big reason for his return.
"I've lived in so many places, and it's just different here," he says. "There's no real hierarchy. The city is open, inventive, cooperative; there's an entrepreneurial spirit to get stuff done."
"The city is open, inventive, cooperative; there's an entrepreneurial spirit to get stuff done."
Having racked up a considerable number of achievements and experiences in a relatively short time (Sweet was named one of Edmonton's Top 40 Under 40 in 2014), the Alumni Horizon Award recipient had no real plan when he began a bachelor of arts program at the University of Alberta.
Lacking direction and burdened with an overloaded curricular and extracurricular schedule, Sweet says the first two years were challenging, making him question whether or not he had made the right choice. In his third year, however, things started to click. He credits two political science professors — Thomas Keating, and in particular, Greg Anderson — with giving his studies focus and meaning.
"Without question, everything I've done has been because of the International Political Economy course I took with Greg Anderson," he says. "He opened my mind to all kinds of things. He used to give us so much to read, but it was great! He's a mentor, he's a guru; he was the turning point in my academic career for sure."
It was Anderson who recommended that Sweet take up an internship at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. between his third and fourth year. In 2007, following the completion of his degree in political science, (with a minor in economics, and a certificate in globalization and governance!), Sweet relocated to Ottawa, where he worked in a variety of communication roles on Parliament Hill.
In 2008, he was headhunted to join the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) reconstruction team – initially for a few weeks – but remained in Afghanistan over three tours of duty. (Sweet has been upfront about his own struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and has spoken publicly about the need for deployed civilians to be better prepared for the trauma of war.)
"In Kandahar, the biggest thing was the realization that it's not about the physical infrastructure, it's about the people who actually enable the transformation," he says. "People have to first believe they have an opportunity to build their community, and once they have that belief – and that's really hard to get – they'll start acting that way and take ownership, helping others around them and achieving their goals. The results further reinforce this belief and a virtuous cycle will take over. Belief goes to actions, [which] goes to results."
"People have to first believe they have an opportunity to build their community."
Returning to Ottawa in 2011, Sweet worked for Peter Kent, then-Environment Minister, until moving to Edmonton in 2013 to manage the Northern Initiatives project for the EEDC. Alongside this work, Sweet took on a number of volunteer gigs, including the University of Alberta Senate – where he is now vice-chair; serving on the Community Service-Learning advisory board and heading the Daylight Millcreek initiative. He also mentors students through the Peter Lougheed Leadership College — a role he takes very seriously, meeting up to five students a month to trade experiences over coffee.
A thread running through all his endeavours is his commitment to building community, whether that's finding ways for Kandaharis to work together effectively, advancing Edmonton's national and global positioning, or helping the next generation of leaders succeed.
The future looks very bright for Sweet, but the self-proclaimed science fiction nerd has a lot of ideas about where that path might lead — including political office. For now, however, he is keeping his options open.
"Stay tuned. Same bat time, same bat channel – in the immortal words of Adam West."
You are invited to see Adam Sweet accept his honour at the 2017 Alumni Awards ceremony on Monday, September 25 at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.
Reserve your free ticket here.
Know another inspiring UAlberta grad? Nominate them for a 2018 Alumni Award. Deadline is Dec 15, 2017. Visit uab.ca/AlumniAwards


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Photo Friday, No. 232
January 28th, 2011 (01:49 am)
Current Photo Friday theme: Travels
(View larger version of photo on black.)
This pile of massive boulders alongside Interstate 10 in Arizona looks like a smiling dinosaur to me.
This location became the starting place for a dog rescue and a romance in A Coventry Wedding.


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Women have abortions for a variety of reasons. The decision whether or not to have an abortion should be carefully considered. It is important to be well-informed before making such an important decision. This booklet contains information about the developing embryo and fetus, abortion procedures, alternatives to abortion, and resources available for pregnant women in Utah.
All women considering abortion should be advised:
- The State of Utah prefers childbirth over abortion.
- Private adoption is legal in Utah.
- The law permits adoptive parents to pay the costs of prenatal care, childbirth, and neonatal care.
- The father has a legal responsibility to assist in child support, even in instances where he has agreed to pay for an abortion. In cases where the father fails to pay child support, the State Office of Recovery Services may be able to help you collect that child support,
although there is no guarantee of collection.
- It is unlawful for any person to coerce a woman to have an abortion.
- Any physician who performs an abortion without obtaining the woman's informed consent or without ensuring that she has a face-to-face medical consultation may be liable to her for damages in a civil action at law.
Note: Use the "Next" and "Back" links at the bottom of each page to navigate through this site.


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Dixons Carphone has admitted a huge data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. It is investigating the hacking attempt, which happened last year.
Commenting on this news is Patrick Hunter, EMEA Director at One Identity:
"Another High Street business has been targeted and successfully hacked. Retail companies are always going to be a good source of credit card and personal information as companies, like Dixons, collect a lot of customers. The first major example of this was the Target breach in the US and this caused a massive amount of negative news for Target themselves but it should also have been a warning.
All companies in the EU have a duty to have maximum data privacy by default and, although this breach was last year, they should have been better prepared to meet the exacting standards of the current iteration of GDPR. Dixons haven't said that the data lost was encrypted for example – a simple measure that would have protected their customers' data.
There is no information on how the breach was made but they stated that they are now working with experts to better protect themselves from a further attacks. Yet again, the customer data has been on the balance with 'cost to protect' on the other side of the scale. Risk – were they betting on not being attacked or did they genuinely believe that they had best security practices in place? We can certainly suspect that there are companies out there that are doing just that, they are hoping their networks are not attacked. This is no longer good enough.
Simple measures can be put in place to mitigate these breaches. Two factor authentication is a relatively simple way of restricting access to resources and can be a cost effect solution. We don't know how Dixons was breached, whether internal or external, it doesn't matter. You can protect the data by locking away the passwords needed to access it and automatically change them regularly. In order to get that password, you need permission from someone else in a position to make that decision. This can be further enhanced by limiting the access employees have in general; understand what they can and cannot do, not should or maybe. Any organisation that holds our data has to do more than hope they won't be the next breach in the news."


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This tomato sauce is a simple yet extremely effective and versatile one for any cook. Do not be tempted to blitz the finished sauce in a blender or food processor, as it can lose its wonderful rich red color. When your tomatoes are not as ripe or as red as you would like, which can generally be the case except during the summer months, don't be afraid to replace them with good-quality canned varieties. In fact, most Italian chefs and cooks prefer to use these, as good-quality canned tomatoes often offer excellent flavor and color, something that fresh tomatoes cannot always do.
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Life Insurance Corporation has outperformed its peers in the private sector by recording a 7.26 per cent growth in premium collection during the first half of the current fiscal.
Several large private sector insurance companies, including ICICI Prudential, HDFC Standard Life and SBI Life, witnessed a decline in premium collection during the April- September period compared to the same period last year.
The data released by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) said the performance of a host of small private sector insurance companies, including Sahara Life, Edelweiss Tokio and Future Generali, has been muted.
LIC witnessed a 7.26 per cent growth in premium income to Rs 37,906 crore during the six-month period ending September.
However, the 23 private sector players' premium income grew 4.55 per cent to Rs 12,150 crore during the period.


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Keys to a Miraculous Breakthrough - Jerry Savelle (sermon online). Every time you need a breakthrough, there is a "word" from the Lord for you. Spend time in His Word and He will show you. Don't just start doing anything and everything - get in His Word. And the moment you get "your word", be obedient to do it. Don't hesitate, don't wait, obey! Develop an unwavering faith that God will honor His Word to you!
JERRY: Hello everyone. I'm Jerry Savelle. Welcome to our broadcast today. We certainly appreciate you watching and today I have with me my wife Carolyn. We have been married for 51 years and we are so blessed to the Lord. And I wanted her to join me today in wishing you a Happy New Year, a Merry Christmas, and we just thank each and every one of you for watching our broadcast and especially those of you that are partners with us, thank you for believing in this ministry, thank you for believing in the call of God on our lives.
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CAROLYN: As I was praying this morning I came across this scripture and I wanted to read it to you. "If they obey and serve Him they spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasure." That is the will of God for us, to spend our days and our years enjoying the fruits and the goodness of our God. And I want to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you who support us. We really do appreciate it.
JERRY: Amen. And listen, I want to read a scripture to you as well. This is what I'm praying for each and every one of you in this coming New Year. Psalm 115:12-15. It says, "The Lord has been mindful of us, he will bless us." It goes on to say, "And the Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children." That's our prayer for you in this coming New Year that God's blessing will overtake you, that you will experience increase beyond anything you've ever experienced before and praise God, we're expecting testimonies of that from you as we get into the New Year. And listen, stay tuned, in just a few moments I'll be back with today's message.
JERRY: Hey, welcome back and thank you once again for watching our broadcast. You know we believe that the program that you are about to see is going to inspire your faith and challenge you to dare to believe God no matter how impossible your situation may seem. I'm going to take you into a service where I was preaching about keys to a miraculous breakthrough. This is the Southwest Believers Convention sponsored by Kenneth Copeland Ministries and I'm privileged to be a speaker in that conference each and every year and I trust that the message that you are about to hear once again is going to inspire your faith and challenge you to believe God no matter how impossible your situation may seem. I'm going to take you into 1 Kings Chapter 17, talking about Elijah and the little widow who needed a major breakthrough in her life. So, pay very close attention as you watch, mark the scriptures in your Bible as you listen to them and if at all possible take notes because what you're about to hear is a proven principle from the Word of God that you will experience a breakthrough in your life if you become more than a hearer of the Word you be a doer of the Word. So get ready and watch now as I take you into this message on keys to a miraculous breakthrough.
JERRY: 1 Kings chapter 17 and verse two. "And the word of the Lord came unto him saying," this is Elijah, "Get thee hence and turn thee eastward and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook and I have commanded the Ravens to feed thee there. So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the Ravens brought him grid and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening and he drank of the brook. And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. And the word of the Lord came unto him saying ..." Now notice every time Elijah needed a breakthrough the word of the Lord came. Everybody say the word of the Lord.
JERRY: The word of the Lord came to him each time as we follow this story here, and in obedience to that word, then the breakthrough came, the miracle came. "And the word of the Lord came unto him saying, arise get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon and dwell there, behold I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. So he arose and went to Zarephath and when he came to the gate of the city, behold the widow woman was there gathering of sticks and he called to her and said, fetch me I pray thee a little water in a vessel that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he calleth to her and said, bring me I pray thee a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said as the Lord our God lives I have not a cake but a handful of mill in a barrel and a little oil in a cruise. And behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat and die." It seems like God forgot to tell him that part. God had already spoken to her and all Elijah had to do was be obedient. "Elijah said unto her, fear not, go and do as thou has said but make me there of a little cake first and bring it unto me and after make for thee and thy son." But notice, "For thus sayeth the Lord." The Lord God of Israel "The barrel of mill shall not waste neither shall the cruise of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went and did." She went and did. Say that with me. CONGREGATION: She went and did.
JERRY: According to the word of Elijah. And what did he say? It was the word of the Lord. "And she and he and her house did eat many days and the barrel of mill wasted not neither did the cruise of oil fail according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto Elijah." Notice here a couple of very important ingredients you might say to a major breakthrough in your life. Number one, a word from the Lord. A word from the Lord. None of this would have happened if there hadn't been a word of the Lord first. That's why it's so important when you need a breakthrough stay before the Father, stay before the Lord. Amen. Because he knows exactly what to do, he knows exactly where to send you, he knows exactly when and where your breakthrough will take place. You ought to pray often, Lord, put me in the right place at the right time. Put me in the right place at the right time. And notice here the word from the Lord was vitally important for this breakthrough both for Elijah and for her and her son. The Lord said to me coming into 2017, the faithful shall flourish and it will be like days of heaven on earth. The faithful shall flourish. Faithful people, people that won't quit, we've been talking about in my day services, quit is not an option. Quitting is unacceptable. You never get rewarded for quitting. Faithful people don't quit. Faithful people stick with it. Faithful people so even when it seems like in the natural it's not feasible. Notice this little woman says, I only have enough for me and my son. We're going to eat it and then die. Don't you think Elijah might have thought, boy, did I make a wrong turn somewhere. God told me to come down here and this widow woman would sustain me and I get here and she's about to eat the last meal she has and then she and her son plan on dying. Am I in the wrong place? Many times it looks like before the breakthrough comes that there's no evidence that the breakthrough will ever come. Can you say amen. CONGREGATION: Amen.
JERRY: But he was in the right place and he was at the right time. But notice once again the most important element in this breakthrough was a word from the Lord. Every time I've needed a breakthrough, I spent time in the presence of God and I got the Word of the Lord and when we did what he said, the breakthrough came, praise God. Amen. The breakthrough came. When the Lord said that to me in October of 2016, then I began to confess it immediately because I have endeavored to be faithful all these years. And God's blessed me and God's caused me to flourish and so forth, but sound like to me he was ready to take us to another level. Amen, there's always another level. Amen. There's always another level. When you think you have reached the top, there's always another level. But if you never spend quality time with him and you never hear that word from the Lord it's not likely that you'll ever experience that breakthrough. Can you say Amen. So notice here the most important element of this miracle that both she and her son experienced and Elijah as well was a word from the Lord. Notice Elijah received that word to go to that brook. And the Bible says, the ravens sustained him. They brought food, they brought food for him to live on. Most people wouldn't think in terms of God would use the birds but he did and even when the brook dried up God was already ahead of that. He already had plans for where he needed to go next and he said, you go to Zarephath, there's a widow woman there, I have commanded her to sustain thee. Amen. And when he gets there it certainly doesn't look like that she's capable of doing this but notice he encouraged her. Even though you're down to your last cake, don't eat it, sow it. Don't eat it, sow it. Amen. That was the word of the Lord to her. Don't eat it, sow it.
And the Bible says, "And as she went." I love that story because I don't notice in here that she contemplated for about three months, came back to him and said, I think maybe you've heard God that's what I'll do. As she went. When he said that, she didn't hesitate. Too many times we want to bargain with God as if God didn't know what he was doing. The moment that she heard that word she went. She was obedient and that's the second most important element is if you need a major breakthrough in your life get the word of the Lord. Don't just start doing anything and everything, get the word of the Lord. And the moment you get it, then be obedient to do it. Amen. She was willing to obey, as she went. And the Bible says, "As she went, she and he and her house did eat many days and the barrel of mill wasted not neither did the cruise of oil fail according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah." Did it happen, did it come to pass, did she get her breakthrough? Did God honor his Word? He always honors his Word. Amen. And a third ingredient that I see here is this, an unwavering faith that God would honor what he said.
So number one, a word from the Lord. Number two, a willingness to obey and number three an unwavering faith that God would honor his Word. Amen. I have a great airplane that takes care of my needs here in the U.S. and boy, I'm really enjoying it. God gave it to me, praise God. It's a great blessing to my life. It protects the anointing on me, hallelujah and we're certainly thanking God every time we get in that airplane and what a blessing it is. But I travel overseas the majority of the time. A number of years ago I started believing and sowing seed toward an international jet. At one point I thought, well, maybe I don't need an international jet anymore. All my offices were doing well. I thought I'd pretty fulfilled everything the Lord told me to do overseas. I had an easel in my office with a picture of the jet I was believing for, international jet. I had Romans four on there about God calleth things that be not as though they were. And every time I'd go in my office, I'd lay my hands on that, it's a beautiful big easel of that jet, I had a model of it made and set on my desk and every time I'd walk in my office I'd lay my hands on that easel and I lay my hands on that model and thank God for that jet. And then like said one day I just kind of thought, what do I need with an international jet. Maybe we can do this other ways and so forth. One day the Lord said, whose idea was that? And the way he was talking I knew better than to say yours. It was my idea not his. And I had put that easel in the closet. And he said, go to your closet in my office, go to your closet and get your dream out of the closet. That hit me like a ton of bricks. I walked in there and I dusted that easel off and I brought it back out and set it there were it had been setting for some time and dusted that model off and I said, the Lord told us Carolyn to get our dream out of the closet. That he's not through yet with us in aviation, praise God. And he's not through blessing us with aircraft. I've been thinking about it the last several weeks. Every airplane that God's ever put in this ministry came by the word the Lord, instructions as to what to do, being willing to obey those instructions and sowing my best seed. Every time. Every major breakthrough that I've ever experienced. First, the word of the Lord. Secondly, a willingness to obey and third, sow the best seed I had. Amen.
Today I was praying about the service and the Lord said, "How serious are you about that international jet?" I said, "I'm real serious." He said, "Why aren't you doing what you've been doing all these years?" He said, "Do you have enough money to pay cash for it now?" I said, "No." He said, "You remember the three dollars Carolyn had and it didn't meet her need and so it became seed." He said, "You got a quarter of a million. What are you going to do with that?" I said, "By the way you're talking it sounds like it's becoming seed." Amen. I talked to Carolyn today and I said we've got the money and I want to be part of the reason why Brother Copeland has that G5. And so, we're going to take what we've got in that aviation account and we're going to sow it. Amen. And you know what's about to happen to me, my barrel of mill will waste not and my cruise of oil will not fail. Hallelujah, Amen. A miracle breakthrough praise God. Amen.
And some of you may be down to the bottom of the barrel. That's not a bad place to be when you know God, when you know the Word. Now for people that don't know God and they don't know the Word, that's a real bad place to be. But when you know God and you know the word, then apparently there is nothing else you can do in the natural to change your circumstances. But you don't live in the natural. You live in the supernatural. You walk by faith and not by sight, hallelujah. Amen. So I challenge you tonight that if you're down to your last cake, don't eat it, don't eat it. Sow it. Brother Jerry, you don't know what you're asking. Well, if you're not at the place where you can do it, then hold on to it. Pray about it. But I pray some day you'll get to the place that it becomes a way of life to you. That you don't even think twice, you don't even bat your eye. Every major breakthrough we have ever had in the ministry has come just this way and personally just this way. We found out what God wanted us to do, we got the word of the Lord and then we were willing to obey and then with an unwavering faith we did it. And God has never let us down. Never let us down. Praise God.
I believe something has broken in the spirit realm tonight. I believe there are supernatural breakthroughs that are own our horizon, praise God. Wouldn't surprise me if some of you had some before you even left this convention, praise God. Amen, Amen. So I'm going to ask you to pray about following the Bible example. Get the word of the Lord. Is God speaking to you tonight about sowing seed into this ministry and all the things that they're believing God for. What better ground could you find. I've never sown in this ministry that I didn't reap harvest. Is God speaking to you? Are you willing to obey? Is your faith at the level where you'll do it without hesitation, without reservation, unwavering faith. Amen. And apparently when this woman went, she went expecting. Why would you do that and not expect results. She already told the prophet all I have is just a little bit here, we're going to eat it and die. But when he gave her the word the Lord, she just got up and went. You wouldn't do that if you didn't expect something to happen. Can you say amen. How many of you have expectancy in your heart today. How many of you believe God wants you to flourish, praise God. Amen. That it's going to become in your life like days of heaven on earth. Glory to God. So tonight, I'll preach the other sermon in the morning or whatever my next time is but tonight I'd like for you to follow my example. Follow me as I follow the Lord. Sow your best seed believing that your barrel of mill is not going to waste and your cruise of oil is not going to fail and that God will multiply and you're going to live many days on the harvest, hallelujah. Can you say amen. Give the Lord a shout if you believe it and if you receive it. Amen. Praise God, Hallelujah.
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JERRY: I want to say it again. God is the God of the breakthrough. Don't ever give up on God, don't ever give up on his Word. I enjoy hearing testimonies of people just like you that are receiving miracles in their life, breakthroughs in their lives, answered prayer and I always enjoy reading them and I enjoy sharing them with our viewing audience because I know that when other people besides just me are having miracles in their life it inspires people of faith. I know that when I share a miracle that's taken place in my life you might say well, that's you because you're a preacher. It's not because I'm a preacher. I know a lot of preachers that are not having miracles, it's because I'm a believer. But here, here's someone that's not a preacher, it's a person just like you and they're sharing with us how that they too have experience breakthroughs from God. This is from Lou Anne. She says I wrote about four months ago for prayer for my sister Lisa and I wanted to update you. She was diagnosed with grade four lung cancer. The tumor in her left lung was half the size of her lung. The doctor told us it was a rare cancer and that there wasn't a chemo drug to kill it. However, I want to say that God has done the miraculous. The tumor has begun shrink half the size, praise Jesus. I want to say God bless you and all that work for you and keep my sisters in prayer because we know that God is going to finish this work. And Lou Anne, we thank God for that testimony and we praise God that he is doing a great miracle in your sister's life. Here's one from Gloria. My son and his wife had a situation trying to sell their home and finding a new home. Four days after writing a prayer of petition, the book we received from your ministry the Lord answered my prayer and my son's prayer and now their house has sold and they're in their brand new home and it certainly is an upgrade, God does answer prayers. And praise God, he'll answer your prayers as well. Don't ever give up on God. Say it with me, my God is the God of the breakthrough. Say it again, say it out loud. My God is the God of the breakthrough. That's what our special offer is about this week. Get to know the God of the breakthrough. Three powerful CD's. Anointed teaching. I'm telling you it will inspire your faith. I don't think you're going to be able to put it down once you start listening to it and I believe praise God that as you listen to it, you'll get to know the God of the breakthrough more intimately and then you'll begin to believe that he can break through for you. So order your copies today. Thank you once again for watching our broadcast. We'll see you again next week and until then, don't ever forget your faith will overcome the world.


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YorksHammer wrote:Bought him and Zozulya for free at Crewe once. Eight years later they both played as I won the Champions L league.
That kind of thing doesn't go unnoticed. You'll soon be offered a place in the England coaching setup.
Andriy YarmolenkoDoes exactly what it says on the tin - the forum for football-related discussion.
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That kind of thing doesn't go unnoticed. You'll soon be offered a place in the England coaching setup.
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The New Howard Wilkinson -
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Welcome Andriy, hope you have a successful time with us.
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"Yarmolenko, Yarmolenko"
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Great shout somerset
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Love it
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Yarmolenko Yarmolenko
He can lead the f***ing line, or play on the wing...
Yarmolenko Yarmolenko
And when he scores a gooooooaaaaaallllll..... You'll hear us sing!
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Going LOCO! Adriy Yarmolenko!!!
When you score a goal!
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Yarmolenko, Yarmolenko, Yarmolenko!
He scored a bundle, when he played in Ukraine,
He played for Dortmund he couldn't get a game,
Now he's at West Ham, he's gonna score the goals,
Up the table, Andriy Yarmolenko
Na na na na na Andriy Yarmolenko.
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must be able to sing something to the words of YAH MO BE THERE by James Ingram & Michael McDonald
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like the yaya toure chant
yarma...yarma yarma...yarma yarma...yarma yarmalenko!
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please god no
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yarma yarma yarma yarma yarma-chameleon... go on and score.. go on and scooooore!
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To Kalinka:
molenko's a Hammer
He's a Hammer
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In the interests of the sanity of the pedants, his name is YarmOlenko. Not Yarma. Yarmo. His nickname is Yarmo, not Yarma. There is only one 'A' in his name.
I got this ITK information from Jack Wiltshire.
Interesting guy who has had lots of problems in the past. Good interview in today's Times:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/spor ... -d5jzd7wrq
"Four years ago I had an opportunity to come here, but it didn't work out," Yarmolenko says. "Now I'm very happy to be here to find out what I'm capable of achieving in the Premier League. Now I'm here at West Ham I'm only thinking about this team. I was very close to signing for Liverpool, but it's a different story so I don't see any point in digging into it now. I'm very happy with the way my career has developed.
"I think I'm a better player than I was four years ago. I have more experience so look at football differently, and think I understand it better. Liverpool are a big club, but we want to get three points too. We will go to Anfield to win. It will be a tough game for us, but we have a plan and we want to win."
"The first half-year was very good at Dortmund, but then I got injured and the coach was changed," he says. "When I was fit again I realised they didn't count on me anymore. The new coach [Peter Stöger replaced Peter Bosz last December] didn't want me, which was tough, and I was quite upset by it, but I still tried to do my best in training.
"I've been rejected before, so knew how to cope with it. It's a funny story really. I started playing football in my city of Chernihiv and when I was 13 I went to Dynamo to join their football academy. I played for six or seven months, and then the head coach sent me home as he said my level wasn't good enough for Dynamo. So I went back to Chernihiv, trained with my team and eventually became professional. Three years later Dynamo bought me for a lot of money!"
"My English is getting better and I enjoy talking to the players, but I don't understand Noble and [Jack] Wilshere," Yarmolenko says. "Mark Noble does not shut up! But he's a cool guy, very happy and joyful. Sometimes I have problems with his English so have to ask him to speak a bit more slowly. He's an old man, you know, so I have to respect him.
"People see me wearing the team kit so recognise me, and tell me they're West Ham supporters. I've been using taxis a lot over the last month to get around, and taxi drivers always tell me they support West Ham. Why is that?"
"I guess it happens in all families, they have these kind of arguments," he says. "We're still looking — hopefully next week we'll find something as I'd like my family to move here soon and to start enjoying life in London. My family are still in Dortmund as my wife is busy shutting down deals to do with our old house, our old car and things like that. We've also got to find a school. For me it was a surprise, because in Ukraine children go to school when they're six, but in England it's five. It was a big surprise, but it's not a problem.
"I met my wife 11 years ago in a nightclub. It's a simple story, quite ordinary. I went to a club, met a girl I liked and asked for her number. A couple of days later we had dinner together. But maybe for the newspaper I have another story. She begged me for my number. But if you write this, my wife will kill me. Maybe we will have to get two separate flats."
"Anyone who scores goals in Ukraine gets called 'the new Sheva', but it's not good to compare other footballers to Shevchenko," he says. "There will be good footballers in the future, but what Shevchenko achieved is unique.
"Before I signed my contract I spoke to Shevchenko and Rebrov. They both said it's a great club and that I should sign. They didn't give me any specific advice following their experiences in England.
"I think it all depends on the time you move, the period in your career. Sometimes it's a good time, but sometimes it's bad. Sometimes you can be playing in a team that completely suits you, but you change it and it doesn't work out. A lot of these things depend on luck."
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"Guess who i had in my cab lat week. That Andrea Yarmi Whatsit fella."
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They say taxi drivers can tell a story. Yeah and I can tell a few about them and all
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Good interview, comes across grounded and funny. Hope that his families move goes smoothly and that they all settle quickly.
Looking forward to seeing him on the pitch
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Written on: February 23rd, 2010 in Helping Our Neighbors
Delaware's firefighters and emergency medical services personnel saved lives and risked their own throughout the state. The Ladies Auxiliary teams provided essential support to transportation crews and police officers, as well as firefighters and EMTs. Here are a few of the notes that I received thanking these brave men and women:
Heather Johnson in Long Neck wrote about her experience with the Mid Sussex Rescue Squad and the Sussex County Paramedics, and asked us to thank "these volunteers from all stations across the State for their hard work and time that they gave to ensure that all patients received the proper care. These individuals do not get paid to do what they do and spent days fighting the wind and snow to shovel out the ambulance when it was stuck and shovel people out of their houses to get them to the hospital."
From Tricia Saunders: "In the best, and most importantly, the worst of times, the guys of the Memorial Fire Company of Slaughter Beach are always there for us and the surrounding communities. During the storms they are constantly keeping the roads opened… With the last storm they even plowed out driveways and mailboxes. They don't get paid for any of the services that they provide and they put in an incredible amount of hours to keep our town safe."
From Catherine Simon in Smyrna: "Some crews of firefighters and EMTs stayed at the firehouse for several consecutive days and nights in order to be readily and safely available for any emergencies in our area. Our firefighters, during the off time when they weren't out on calls, spent countless hours with plows attached to their personal pickup trucks digging out our town's elderly, widowed, and others… The Auxiliary members spent time preparing and serving meals to these men and women… It was great to see everyone working together for the well-being and safety of the public."
The Cheswold Fire Department helped essential staff members get to their posts at Brenford Residential Treatment Center. Bryce Bunce wrote: "The fireman who did the transporting was humble and simply stated 'that's what we do, we're here to serve the public.' I appreciated their willingness to help and put themselves and their equipment at risk, their hospitality, humility, and positive attitude."
Karen Lewis wrote to me about her experience with the Townsend Fire Company, which—in addition to rescuing others—had to overcome its own roof collapse: "I am really thankful to the Townsend Fire Company, DelDOT plow workers, as well as numerous volunteers for their quick response during a medical emergency. On Saturday evening, right after the record-breaking snow storm, my husband was having difficulty breathing, and was in extreme distress…I called 911 to request an ambulance and in record time they responded. I was amazed at how quickly they were able to get to my house, especially under the circumstances… It was remarkable as everyone combined their efforts to assist under these deplorable conditions. Before you knew it, snow plows came and plowed a path for the ambulance, as well as plowed my driveway in order to get to my husband. There were at least 10 volunteers that came and shoveled the walkway and several other volunteers that helped to get my husband into the ambulance as well as the paramedics. My husband is still recuperating and we are extremely thankful to the men and women that came to his rescue."
Please send your comments to Governor Markell at email@example.com.
Written on: February 22nd, 2010 in Helping Our Neighbors
Last week, I asked State employees to share with me stories of compassion and commitment from the storm. The response was overwhelming—I was deeply touched as I read about the unsung heroes.
Many of you may have read the excellent article in The News Journal, and I want to share even more.
For that reason, I'm launching my blog today and dedicating it to our very hardworking employees across Delaware. I'll be sharing stories from citizens and colleagues about acts of bravery, as well as important issues that affect us all.
Here are just a few of the many inspirational stories from our friends and neighbors:
Correctional Officer Jeanette McCarl and Lieutenant James Stanton helped Private Uri Berroa, a soldier who was stranded on his way to report for service in Iraq. According to Lieutenant Stanton: "I am so proud of Jeanette for taking the time to help another citizen who had a greater calling than us. And I'm proud of Uri Berroa for braving an historic snow storm to go to a foreign land to fight and his dedication to our country. And I'm proud of Uri's wife for making sure he made it to his destination just to go to a place far more dangerous than a Delaware snow storm."
From Kathie Gibson: "The staff at Emily P Bissell Hospital demonstrated extraordinary efforts during this unprecedented storm once again. I am sure my peers at our sister facilities also had the same stories." Nurses, the grounds clearing crew, maintenance mechanics, security officers, housekeepers, materials managers, food service workers and dietary staff, nursing assistants, and others slept at the facility to care for the residents. Ms. Gibson wrote:"Through it all—the job was their priority…It takes a lot of coordination and effort to keep a 24/7 facility in operation during these conditions. Line staff did what was needed regardless of administrations actions. The line staff are the real heroes every day."
From Robin Hartnett-Sterner: "Paratransit Operators were transporting folks to dialysis and when the weather got too bad, the National Guard assisted…The Red Cross had shelters open ready to assist those in need…The National Guard transported the volunteers to the shelters…once the shelters were up and running, the volunteers kept the shelters going, providing cots, blankets and a warm meal for those at the shelter…around the clock… None of this could have happened without the assistance from so many organizations, volunteers and first responders. Many people worked long hours but ensured that those in need were taken care of. DelDOT did a great job in keeping the main roads open."
Kristie Pedigo wrote to me about her husband, Marvin Pedigo: "His plow truck ended up breaking down out on one of the back roads." He waited for help to come and, "At this point, the truck could not run so there was no heat in the vehicle. It just so happened that he broke down in front of a home and before he knew it the residents were coming up to the truck with cookies and offering to make him something to eat. These people truly understood and were thankful for what my husband was doing, which doesn't happen very often. It definitely touched him and gave him a little bit of a boost to make it through the last few days with hardly any sleep and not seeing us."
From Mary Smith: "My dad is very ill, and with no heat or electric…the National Guard spent almost five hours getting to my mom and dad and got them to the shelter in Georgetown. I cannot express my gratitude enough for what those men and woman did for my parents. What a wonderful gift they gave me. I thank them with all my heart."
This can't even begin to recognize all of the people who deserve it. There are countless community members who rose well above the call of duty, and I will be recognizing a few more over the course of this week.
Please send your comments to Governor Markell at firstname.lastname@example.com.