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Professor Frog on Observation
'What is the matter Toad? You don't look very happy.'
'I can't sleep Frog. I just can't sleep. Do you know why I can't sleep?
'No, why can't you sleep, Toady?'
'Because you keep croaking, Frog. I sleep during the day but you keep croaking. Croak! Croak! Croak!' How can I sleep, Frog?'
'I am sorry for you Toad but you see I am a frog and that's what I do. A horse neighs, a dog barks, a cock crows, a bee buzzes, birds sing, cats meehow, so you see Toad they are all known by what they do. A cat doesn't sing, a horse doesn't crow, a bee doesn't sing, a dog doesn't buzz. Everything is known by what it does. It's designed to be what it is.'
'Oh Frog, I see you are a philosopher frog. I never knew you were so clever. How do you know all these things?'
'Why Toady, it's nothing. I simply observe everything. Everything is known by what it does.'
'Is that so? Are humans known by what they do?'
'Of course, Toady. Didn't you know that everything is known by what it does?'
'We were never taught that at Toad School, Frog. We were only taught the names of everything and everybody.'
'That's a pity Toady. If you only know their names you don't know what they are. You see Toady God made everything and everybody to be like themselves, except humans, Toady.'
'Aren't humans like themselves, Frog?'
'No, humans are like God. God made them like himself. A thing is what it is Toady. If you know that, you also know what it isn't.'
'So, you say humans are like God?'
'Yes, Toad, they are.'
'Is that why they are always making new things and are so intelligent.?'
'Yes, that is correct Toady. They know how to create and design everything just like God does, save, of course they are not gods because although they can make things like God does, humans didn't make themselves; God made them.'
'Well, of course, anyone can see that. But Frog how do we know what a thing is if we can't see it?'
'Ah Toad! You are very clever. I didn't mention things we can't see or observe did I?'
'No you didn't,' said Toad smiling broadly.
'Then what kind of things are you talking about Toady?'
'You live in a pond don't you Frog?'
'Most of the time, yes.'
'Well, you can't see water can you?'
'True Toady. Water is invisible. I can see a reflection of myself in the water and I can see things in the water but the water is invisible.'
'Well, Frog,' here Toady smiled, 'you know a thing by what it does. How do you know what water does if you can't see it?'
'Oh! Toady, you are a canny toad. Do you know Toady you have asked a very shrewd question. If a thing cannot be seen, it must be as you say, invisible. But it is there Toady or I couldn't live in it or feel it. Isn't that true?'
'Why yes. I didn't say it wasn't there Frog. I asked you how you know what it does if you can't see it?'
'By what it does, Toady! Didn't I tell you that you know a thing by what it does?'
'But Frog, if you can't see it how do you know what it does.'
'Observation, Toady, observation.'
'What do you observe if you can't see it?'
Toad screwed his face up, all bumps and bubbles and stared hard at Frog.
'It disappears, Toady!'
'What! What did you say?'
'It disappears. What happens during the winter when it is freezing cold. Doesn't the water turn into ice?'
'Oh, I see.'
'And in summer when it is very hot, doesn't the water evaporate and turn into vapour and disappear?'
'Why, I would never have thought it, Frog. You really do observe things.'
'Did you know Toady that we can see what water is made of?'
'No, what is it made of Frog?'
'It's made of H20, Toady'
'No! What nonsense Frog. I learned my letters and numbers at school and none of them are water.'
'Don't get angry Toady. I am not trying to trick you. Of course, water is not H20. H20 is a symbol of what water is made of.'
'I can't see everything with my eyes Toady but with my microscope I can see many things. I can see tiny molecules of things called elements.'
'What are elements, Frog?'
'They are pure substances. Water contains two elements of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Together they are H20. We can tell what these elements are by what they do Toady.'
'By what they do, even though you can't see them?'
'Yes, Toady. You see most of the universe is made of hydrogen and it burns like fire, Toady. That's why the stars are so bright. That's what it does.'
'And oxygen, Frog?'
'Oxygen is what we breath to keep us alive, Today. It keeps us breathing and living Toady.'
'I have on last question Frog.'
'What is that, Toady?'
'Do try not to croak so much. I am so tired and I want to go to sleep. That's what I do, Frog at this time of day, because I am a toad.'
'Of course, Toady, I will try to croak less.'
'We can still be good friends, can't we Frog?'
'Why, of course we can. Good night Toady.'
'Good night Frog.'


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HS2 Select Committee Hearing
Do you know the saying 'be careful what you wish for…?' Well we had a good example of it this week. About the end of June a bright spark noticed the latest timetable from the Select Committee had a series of sessions on the Chiltern Long Tunnel with the various promoters. One interesting point was that REPA – a South Heath action group who had proposed a short extension to the existing tunnelling by HS2 as a fallback to a fully bored Chiltern tunnel was also invited. Clearly if it is good enough for South Heath, then it is good enough for Wendover and we had a fallback tunnel as well – admittedly it was a green tunnel extension but the principle was clear. It seemed clear to us the Select Committee were minded to make a decision on the Chiltern Tunnel sooner rather than later (either towards the end of July or early September). Now REPA were the only ones being heard on 21 July and we assumed if they offered to hear us it would be on that date. So we wrote representing the POP Group (Wendover Parish Council, Halton Parish Council, The Wendover Society and Wendover HS2) asking to be heard.
So when the Select committee said OK we will hear you on 14 July (as the only available date)you have a choice – either to step up to have your voice heard or to leave it to others. That decision did not take very long. Collating the evidence, preparing the presentation, selecting local witnesses and briefing them, finding a QC, lining up technical experts and getting ready took a little longer and a huge amount of work. All this was rushed and with debates over whether we had appointed the right QC, and should we mention extending the green tunnels as fall back options at all, you can imagine it became a little fraught. However a strict deadline does make everyone focus on what needs to be done. The evidence and presentation had to be submitted 2 clear days before the hearing, so a hearing on 14 July, a Tuesday meant the submission date was the Thursday before hand i.e. 9 July.
So come the day we arranged to see the QC in the morning to have a briefing – we were in need of sharing the points and presentation given how little time we had had. So the briefing is going well and then…we get the message that the Select Committee were waiting for us and expected us to be in the Houses of Parliament and not at the QC's chambers. It is moments like that, that your heart sinks and you grit your teeth.
So we rush over to the Select Committee room, for a 2 o'clock appearance (the time in fact we had been informed we needed to be there). It is a bit daunting in that as witnesses you have to swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. Duly sworn our nine witnesses entered the committee room. Now the committee room is laid out with a horseshoe shaped table which the MP's sit around, the witnesses sit in the middle of it and the HS2 Ltd QC and the Petitioners QC sit across the open end. So there were Bob Duggan and I sitting in middle, feeling a bit as if we were in the 'sin bin'. That impression is heightened by the Chairman coming in and telling us we only had one hour to present our case. I have to say our QC did a wonderful job of pushing the witnesses through and drawing out the pertinent facts.
In fact we were obviously interesting enough that they did listen to us and all in all we had two and a quarter hours hearing. This was a little bit more succinct than we had planned but we got all our messages across. We should be thankful that the Chairman of the Select Committee allowed us the extra time. At the end of the day we all did the best we could and we could not ask anymore.
My impressions of it are the select committee asked quite a few questions and were interested. They clearly had remembered their visit to Wendover positively. I thought we might get something but the committee did not give much away. The one discordant note for me was the HS2 QC Tim Mould who had made little headway against our acoustician when peak noise was discussed, chose at a later stage to show an average noise map of Wendover to say we did not need any more mitigation, ignoring completely the peak noise issue. Now you may say he would say that wouldn't he, but he is suppose to tell the truth – maybe the select committee have learnt to take what he says with a pinch of salt!
Let's hope we hear something positive either at the end of July or start of September. A thank you to all involved in making our appearance at the Select Committee work.
To see the Parliament TV coverage click here
I expect some of you have already received your Petitioners Response Documents from HS2 and may have seen the timetable. The Select Committee are trying to push through the petitions they need to hear. They are trying to persuade people to group together to save time. I would suggest that no one groups until we hear what their decision is on the Chiltern Long Tunnel and any other mitigation they may offer. The timetable looks crazy to me but we will see.

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Friday, April 25, 2008
Dan Newman dishes on TV, is ambivalent about Western Sahara
Even if you're the kind of person who doesn't enjoy puckish wit and spritely writing, however, there's another reason you should read his blog if you love Western Sahara--he's living in Morocco next semester. I'm sure if a lot of Western Sahara fans read his blog he'll be won over to the cause.
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seems Mohammed VI is a democrat after all:ReplyDelete
Or, given his good relations with both the Bush and Clinton clans, could it be that he simply likes the concept of ruling dynasties?ReplyDelete
If Clinton wins now, and Jeb Bush comes to power 2012 claiming the title of US Supreme Commander of the Faithful, we'll know what's up.
i can see that algerians and thier backed torrorist group polisario, likes alying with words, the first thing, western sahara is moroccan,lear more about histrical facts before believing lies. second morocco fight and with fight forever terrorists, is for that algerians and thier allies polisario, says that the god of moroccans is bush,Morocco protect the europe back door from terror, whey because morocco,was there alays to help,60000 soldiers to fight against hitler, morocco is the only country who accepted to help jew in 1300, spanish expultion, so don't talk about something you don't know next time, believe the hstorical right of morocco to recover his territoryReplyDelete
the UN is giving Morocco his historical right to recover his soveranity, and the right to exist, you should know that morocco have no reason to exist if we don't recover totally our territory, you should know if there's a war about the moroccan desert, blieve me this region of the world will see the wort war ever, you know that all the region is threated by the terrorist.ReplyDelete
Morocco lost a big part of his territory 'Mauritania' Morocco will never let that happend again, and the prosperity of Europe depends, in Moroccan strenght to stoping terror coming from algeria, so before discussing somthing is not true at all,you should know the real algerian plans and spaniard,they are afraid that morocco recover his regional power, why polisario don't let humanitarian groups to check phisically the situation in tindouf'south algeria' because silmply they will know the truth, there's less than 60000 people living in the camps, anther thing, the moroccan sahara or the western sahara, have thier own representatives, the those real representative represent the majority of saharian people, 120000, so we have to use the logic,Algeria is afraid that this problm get solved, simplly because he next step from morocco, will be to as algeria to sign with him the northern borders, because there's no recognized border between morocco and Algeria in the north, regarding the spanish they knows that once Morocco recover his rights in the desert, he will concentrate in the ocuped cities in the north of morocco,hope now you understand, who created this fake organisation called polisario, it was considered in the 70ties as a terrorist organisation.


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Rukhsaar bares all in The Stoneman Murders
Actress Rukhsaar shot into fame after making her debut in Ram Gopal Varma's film Sarkar. She again came into limelight a few months ago when she is said to have done a dare-bare act in Manhish Gupta's film The Stoneman Murders.
This film is releasing on February 13 and every one is eager to have a look at the clothes-less Rukshaar.
The actress however says that she dropped her clothes as per the demands of the script. She further clarifies that she did not have a scene with frontal nudity.
In one scene her bare back was shown and the producers Vistaar Religare have leaked the news terming it as nude perhaps to get publicity mileage.


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E3 2000 Update
LucasArts is back again and this time they're making another foray into the action gaming arena with the highly anticipated Obi-Wan. The game will put you in control of one of the most powerful and famous Jedi from the Star Wars universe. The story takes its cues from the Phantom Menace and will have you battling across worlds as you control Obi-Wan as he learns new Jedi powers and becomes masterful with the almighty lightsaber. We got a chance to check this game out on the show floor today and see it in action a little bit, and we thought we'd share what we saw with you.
The main attraction that this game provides is the chance to take control of one of the coolest incarnations in science fiction: the Jedi. And not just any Jedi. We're talking Obi-Wan here, a character that has reached mythic proportions. What's that? You need to see a full preview? *waves hand* You don't need to see a full preview...
Okay, okay bad attempt at a joke. You'll get your full preview after E3 is done with, but for now I'll go into and some of the features and what the game is looking like at this point. First off, you won't be using any measly little piddling guns in this game. Oh no, you'll be using the weapon that puts the Ginsu knives tin can cutting abilities to shame -- the lightsaber. If you think that Obi-Wan will just be a button pushing hack-and-slash game like most other fighting games on the PC, then you are dead wrong. The developers behind this game have thought of a system for using the lightsaber and the other Jedi powers that should make the game very, very interesting to play.
For example, the control system itself (know as the glyph control system) should provide you with more control than your average fighting game. Basically what happens is that when you move your mouse in a certain direction or a certain pattern, you'll perform different moves. For example, an easy one is when you move the mouse up and to the left, Obi will slash up and to the left. Easy enough, right? It gets more complicated as you learn new tricks, but it seems pretty intuitive so far.
All the fun of being a Jedi, including the flipping and jumping incredible heights and telling people they don't need to see an ID, will be available for you to take advantage of. This game looks like it's going to be every Star Wars fans' dream come true. Let's hope that the final product can hold up to the expectations and demands of those people. At this point, the game is nearing completion and it looks like things are going pretty well, but of course we'll have to wait to see a final product before we make any definitive judgements.
You can also expect a multiplayer component to the game. You will be able to take control of a variety of characters in this mode including Qui-Gon Jinn, a Sith Lord, a bounty hunter, a destroyer droid, or a Naboo soldier.
Since I have to get to my next appointment now, check back after E3 for even more on Obi-Wan. We'll give you a full impression of how the game is looking at that point and a larger list of features. Until then, may the Force be with you. Am I a dork or what?
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Windham Hill was truly hitting its stride in 1981-82. It took four years for Ackerman to release the first nine Windham Hill Albums, and of those, only six remained in print. Numbers 14-23 came in just over a single year, and each became a defining album for the label - either the first release of important new artists such as Liz Story, or genre-establishing discs like Alex de Grassi's Clockwork. Sampler '82 excises one track from each of the nine discs that Windham Hill released since the initial sampler came out in 1981.
Side One opens with the rather somber "Remedios" and continues in a generally solemn vein throughout the side, with Hedges' "The Happy Couple" being the happy exception. Side Two picks things up a bit, and ends with the upbeat "Clockwork", an ensemble piece which will be familiar to any Windham fan today thanks to its appearance on countless samplers since its initial release.
Ackerman was enraptured with the new digital technology of the time - his album Passage was one of the first commercial digital releases in the world. Each of the tracks here were remastered in digital - at some expense to the dynamics, detail and warmth of each of the recordings. Indeed, only "The Happy Couple" benefits from the increased detail and brightness of the remastering. Nonetheless, unless you're a die-hard vinyl fan with a revealing system, the sound quality is still excellent.
In the end, I'm sure Sampler '82 has its fans - it was the first introduction to many of these artists for many tens of thousands of people. However, the album is a broad overview rather than a cohesive statement of where the label was at the time, and each of the albums represented are strong and complete on their own. Nonetheless, while I do hesitate to second-guess Ackerman's selections, for the modern listener, I would recommend you skip this one and buy the individual albums from the era. Sampler '82 is an important snapshot of Windham Hill's development, but not necessarily the place to start as a listener.
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Clans in the Naruto anime and manga series are large groups of people who all share a common name and have access to special abilities exclusive to those people. These abilities can range from ninja techniques passed down from generation to generation to genetic conditions that give the user a variety of unique abilities as well as a variety of unique techniques. Few of the clans, however, have little to no background information revealed about them.
[edit] Aburame
Bloodline Technique: Insects
The Aburame clan is a highly recognized clan in Konoha which specializes in the use of insects as weapons. Clansmen commonly wear white coats and sunglasses in an effort to hide their faces. The Aburame clan doesn't necessarily have a bloodline technique, but when born, the members of the clan have thousands of insects called Kekkai insects placed in their bodies to serve them. The clan member allows the bugs to feed off of his/her chakra, in exchange the insects help them in battle. Little to no information is known about the Aburame clan's history.
[edit] Akimichi
Bloodline Technique:
One of the several Konoha clans, the Akimichi clan is one of the "largest" clans, in the sense that its clansmen generally look or are overweight. The Akimichi clan specializes in techniques that augment their body size, whether overall, or a specific part of the body. The Akimichi clan also use military-style supplements called food pills that greatly increase their chakra, strength, or stamina. However they come at a price--usually weakening the person after use and causing extreme weight loss, and in the worst case if all three are taken, death if action isn't taken. The Akimichi clan has a close relationship with Yamanaka and Nara clans, and teams are sometimes made up from different members from each.
[edit] Hyuga
Bloodline Technique: Byakugan
The Hyuga (Hyūga) clan is one of Konoha's proudest clans, often producing highly skilled and intelligent ninja such as Neji. In spite of this, the clan has a history of dissent and hostility. In order to protect the secrets of the Byakugan (lit. "White Eye") and the techniques associated with it, the Hyuga clan is divided between the main family and the branch family. The branch family is tasked with the responsibility of protecting members of the main family, and are branded with the curse seal by the main family in order to seal the Byakugan abilities in them when they die so that enemies cannot uncover its secrets. Secret techniques of the clan are only allowed to be taught to members of the main family in order to maintain the clans security.
[edit] Inuzuka
Bloodline Technique: Canine Partners and Animalistic abilities
This clan's main weapon is the use of dogs, which help them fight in battle, help scout, or even to trick and confuse the opponent. By using their dogs, they can transform them into look-a-likes and attack at once, or they can simply track someone down. The Inuzuka clan also has the ability to gather chakra in their noses and increase their sense of smell over a thousand times, which became Kiba's undoing in the Chuunin exam.
[edit] Kaguya
Bloodline Technique: Use of the skeletal system
History: The Kaguya clan was one of the several clans that Orochimaru had his eyes set on, but in the end never managed to get. The Kaguya clan was a war-based tribe that had the special use of their own skeletal systems, being able to protrude bones from their bodies, turn them into weapons, grow them, shoot them, or anything else they could think to do with them. However, their war-based nature led to their downfall when they attack the Hidden Village in the Mist. The entire clan, except for one child who was a genius in battle, were all captured and killed. From there, the Kaguya clan was no more as Orochimaru took the last remaining Kaguya clan members for himself, Kimimaro, who later died for the sake of Orochimaru.
[edit] Nara
Bloodline Technique: Shadow Techniques
History: The Nara clan isn't one of the most popular clans in the series. The one member which sticks out in the series is Shikamaru, one of Naruto's classmates and a tactical genius which earned him Chuunin before several others in the class. The Nara clan doesn't have a bloodline, however, they main use techniques that bind and constrict shadows, as well as being able to control another person via their shadow. The Nara clan have a fairly close relationship with the Akimichi and Yamagata clans, whose more well-known Genin are Chouji and Ino. Using their shadow controlling techniques, they can extend, combine, control, and more with them, even going so far as to being able to strangle a person with their own shadow and as stated, even control them. However, if using the jutsu, if the controlled person is hit, the controller also receives damage. While the clan has potential, its overlooked for other clans such as the Hyuuga and the once powerful(and existing) Uchiha clans.
[edit] Uchiha
Bloodline Technique: Sharingan
History: This clan had control over Konoha's police force and also the single clan to have control over the Sharingan and its few forms. Uchiha Sasuke and his elder brother Uchiha Itachi are the soul-surviving members of the Uchiha clan after a mass-murder by Uchiha Itachi, in which Itachi spared his brother. This being the reason we never hear about Sasuke's parents or clan very much. The Uchiha clan's primary form of pride was the great Sharingan, or copy-wheel eye. The technique was only brought about in Uchiha clan members, except for one. Hatake Kakashi has a Sharingan eye given to him years prior before the death of his friend, Obito. The Uchiha Clan's downfall was, as said, brought about by Itachi who previously gained a higher form of Sharingan known as the Mangekyou, or Kaleidoscope, Sharingan. With that he had a distinct advantage with the ability of using a technique only he and one person prior had the ability to use. Having killed everyone except for Sasuke, he used his Mangekyou Sharingan to portray the events of him killing the clan to Sasuke, terrifying him. Eventually telling him that Sasuke had the ability to gain the Sharingan, and become one of three users for it. Hatake Kakashi eventually gains another form of Mangekyou Sharingan in a later manga chapter after Kakashi Gaiden. The Uchiha clan, according to Kakashi, is supposed to be able to derive its heritage from that of the Hyuuga clan. Uchiha Sasuke vowed after the death of his Clan to revive it after killing his brother, in which he decided to gain power by any means necessary. The Sharingan allows its user to see through taijutsu, ninjutsu, and genjutsu and even copy it if the user so desires, Kakashi is even called "Copy Ninja Kakashi" for copying and mastering over 1,000 jutsus.
[edit] Yamanaka
Bloodline Technique: Possessing Jutsu
History: There is very little to say about this clan, so to say, its very similar to the Nara and Akimichi clans, less popular and not overly-powerful. This clan lacks a bloodline, but their main techniques involve taking over the other person's mind and allowing them to control the other person's body, however it can harm the user if the controlled person is harmed, like in Kage Mane. The Yamanaka member we know the most about is Yamanaka Ino. Bold text
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When Western iMedia staff head overseas, it is much more a short intense business trip than a typical study abroad sojourn.
Such was the case when nine specially trained fusion journalists in the School of Journalism & Broadcasting's exclusive Collaborative capstone arrived in Paris in late May to produce global coverage of the 2012 NEWS! World Summit.
They knew they had to hit the ground running as soon as they landed — time zones, jet lag and cultural acclimation not withstanding. They also knew would have to work three 22-hour days in a row, find a way around inevitable technical complications and weather disruptions without pause, and present the unflappable demeanor of media professionals throughout. Sightseeing and local cuisine would be squeezed in where possible during their total five days on site. But no matter what, they had to get the story.
And they did.
Over the course of the international meeting May 30-June 1 of top news media editors, technologist and executives, WKU's iMedia team wrote, blogged, tweeted, posted, Facebooked, photographed, video produced, aggregated, curated and otherwise provided comprehensive coverage of the Global Editors Network's annual gathering. Six more iMedia fusion journalists in the States edited, contextualized and tweaked code in the background. In all they generated 2,200 interlinked pieces of content across seven media platforms.
Their work has so far reached a worldwide audience topping 242,000 in 171 countries. That compares to the roughly 330 participants from 40 countries who were on site for the three-day event in the fabulously ornate hall at the Paris Hôtel de Ville (city hall) on the right bank of the Seine.
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NEC Women's Ministries Prayer Conference
4th May 2018
Over 700 women attended the North England Conference (NEC) Women's Ministries Prayer Conference, held on 30-31 March in Manchester. All the women adhered to a purple colour scheme for the event which is associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, dignity and ambition. It was a wonderful and beautiful sight to behold.
'Come let us pray', was the theme chosen by Beulah Plunkett, NEC Women's Ministries and Sabbath School director, and her team and the guest speaker for the occasion was Sharon Platt-McDonald, British Union Conference Women's Ministries, Health and Community Services director. The goal that underpinned the very foundation of the Women's Prayer Conference was 'Fostering practices to grow our relationship with God'. This goal identifies prayer as one of the key components from a prior NEC directors' strategic planning meeting which Pastor Richard Jackson, NEC President, encouraged directors to include in all plans and undertakings.
Pastor Alan Hush, NEC Executive Secretary, opened the event on the Friday and during his welcome connected by WhatsApp with the NEC President who was in Canada. They both encouraged the women and expressed their support for what they expected would be an inspirational programme.
Sharon Platt-McDonald came to teach and to preach and the women expressed their appreciation. They were given guidance on the importance of earnestly praying and bringing their petitions to God and to listen for the answer: Yes, No or Wait. She shared testimonies of her personal experiences which helped to deepen her points providing a more practical understanding. Sharon also taught the importance of thanking God for answered prayer.
In her presentation Sharon shared 15 strategies on how to 'Pray for a Breakthrough'. These included: Praying God's Word, dressing in God's armour daily, praying in faith, personalising prayer and praying the solution not the problem.
On the Sabbath, Beulah Plunkett, delivered an interactive Sabbath School lesson on the title 'The Stewardship of Prayer'. The women examined this theme in the context of the prayer of Solomon. One of the concluding thoughts was because prayer is communication with God, a steward of prayer will recognise that prayer must be kept alive and meaningful in their lives.
Another key aspect of the Prayer Conference was for the women to spend time in prayer together, and to actualise the theme for the weekend 'Come let us pray'. Four prayer leaders led united prayer where each one took a 15-minute segment and directed the women to sing and pray under the headings: Praise, Confession, Petition and Thanksgiving.
Ruth South, Lesley Noakes, Joan Saunders and Rudo Chengeta, led these prayer segments with passion. One lady stated that she arrived to the conference feeling burdened, but she was now going home feeling light! Winsome Brown-Baadjes, the 'Prayer Warrior' for the weekend prayed for the whole congregation who were touched by the fervency of the prayers.
Singing praises to God is an integral part of any worship and the event was enhanced by a well-organised praise team who led the congregation through some of our wonderful hymns that were chosen for the occasion. The group 'Voices in Praise' from Birmingham Handsworth church, added that extra vibrancy through their tight-knit vocal harmonies. Lunch was provided, and even when the attendance booking numbers increased, the chef, Cheryl Banton trusted that all would be well in food provision. God indeed multiplied the food and all attendees were ably catered for.
Despite it being a women's conference, a few men came to assist behind the scenes. Lungani Sibanda, NEC Communication director, Mgcini Mkwananzi and Horace Ffrench formed a small team of technicians supporting the day. The pianist was Bro Greenidge with his wife Nicole as praise team leader, and Donald McKenzie was the photographer. Patrick Baadjes was also present, he is a member of the 'Voices in Praise' group along with Kim Mills-Burton and Sonia Mills-Johnson.
In retrospect the weekend was well organised from the early registration to closing lunch. The planning team comprised of Voahangy Bohoussou the NEC secretary, Wendy Watson-Teague, Lesley Noakes, Angela Walters and Paulette Martin to whom all are to be commended for their hard work and God has to be praised for such an informative and life-changing experience.
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