RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY

 
So many lives have been destroyed just because no one was responsible for them. Juvenile delinquency is the order of the day just because some children were not cared for. They grew wayward and became thugs on the street.

Responsibility is simply "Response to the Ability" you possess. Live responsibly! If you have the ability to stop that child from going wayward, do it! If you fold your arms and watch, you could be watching a destiny go marred. Be a good example to that young child. Strengthen that friend! Sow the seeds of your words. Be sure, One day, it will grow! Claim the salvation of that loved one in prayers.

 This is a call to responsibility! Certain people demand respect from others, but I discovered that Respect is not to be demanded. Respect is earned. One of the ways to earn respect is to be responsible. Instead of demanding respect, be responsible first! Another important way to earn respect is to respect others.

Esteem others better than yourself. We find it so easy to shout at "conductors", "gate-men", "cleaner" and so on. You earn nothing by esteeming other people likely, irrespective of their status! 

I leave you with this: "Live responsibly!” It pays! Rescue that destiny from being ruined!

Try This S'more Cookies

INGREDIENTS

3 cups whole wheat flour or white whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups (packed) golden brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 large eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon robust-flavored (dark) molasses
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips (about 9 ounces)
1 cup mini marshmallows
3/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

PREPARATION
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 3 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Whisk flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda in large bowl. Whisk eggs, buttermilk, molasses, and vanilla extract in medium bowl; whisk in butter.

Add egg mixture to dry ingredients, stirring until dough is evenly moistened. Stir in chocolate chips, marshmallows, and nuts. Drop cookie dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto prepared sheets, spacing about 3 inches apart (about 12 cookies per sheet).

Bake cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until golden brown, dry to touch, but still slightly soft, about 15 minutes. Let cookies cool on sheets 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks and cool (cookies will firm up). DO AHEAD Can be made 2 days ahead. Store in rtight container at room temperature.

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BE INNOVATIVE

One of the great strategies to break even is the strategy of innovation. Innovative minds get at it on time while lazy thinkers get it the hard way.

Innovation is the capacity to create new approaches to deal with old challenges.

Innovation is the perceptibility to see possibilities in a different approach.

Innovation is equally the creation, the development and the application to solving old and new challenges.
If you keep doing the same thing all the time and expect a different result then you are living in the Wood. You must not do that business the way everyone is doing it. Do you know that God Himself is a great innovator.

 Look at the great innovations that accompany the creative process is all a great innovation. Become a different employee/employer. Learn better ways of going through challenges in office and your worth in that organisation will change.
Even as a preacher of the word, don't just preach any message, try to innovate and come out with a unique word. Let people know you by your uniqueness. EVERYONE IS DOING SYNDROME, and this syndrome is more than the pandemic AIDS. So change your ways and thinking. Looking forward to see you taking your place this year. Keep soaring and be blessed.

One of the great strategies to break even is the strategy of innovation. Innovative minds get at it on time while lazy thinkers get it the hard way.

Innovation is the capacity to create new approaches to deal with old challenges.

Innovation is the perceptibility to see possibilities in a different approach.

Innovation is equally the creation, the development and the application to solving old and new challenges.
If you keep doing the same thing all the time and expect a different result then you are living in the Wood. You must not do that business the way everyone is doing it. Do you know that God Himself is a great innovator.
 Look at the great innovations that accompany the creative process is all a great innovation. Become a different employee/employer. Learn better ways of going through challenges in office and your worth in that organisation will change.
Even as a preacher of the word, don't just preach any message, try to innovate and come out with a unique word. Let people know you by your uniqueness. EVERYONE IS DOING SYNDROME, and this syndrome is more than the pandemic AIDS. So change your ways and thinking. Looking forward to see you taking your place this year. Keep soaring and be blessed.

The Central African Republic gets first woman president

Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - The mayor of the Central African Republic's capital Bangui was chosen as interim president Monday, becoming the first woman to lead the violence-wracked country, as the European Union agreed to send hundreds of troops to help stem the bloodshed.

Catherine Samba-Panza, a businesswoman with a reputation as a fighter who became Bangui mayor last year, was elected in a second-round vote by the transitional parliament. She now faces the enormous task of restoring peace to the chronically unstable country. Cheers broke out in the assembly as the result was announced, with lawmakers singing the national anthem in celebration.

In her victory speech, Samba-Panza -- who won 75 votes against 53 for Desire Kolingba, the son of a former president -- called for an end to violence by the mostly Muslim Seleka ex-rebels and Christian self-defence militias known as "anti-balaka" (anti-machete).

"I'm launching a resounding appeal to my anti-balaka children who are listening to me: Show your support for my nomination by giving the strong signal of laying down your weapons," said Samba-Panza, who is Christian but did not campaign on a religious platform.

"To my ex-Seleka children who are also listening to me: Lay down your weapons," she said.

"Stop the suffering of the people."

The 59-year-old called herself "the president of all Central Africans, without exclusion", and said her top priority was "to stop people's suffering, to restore security and the authority of the state across the country".

EU foreign ministers meanwhile agreed to send hundreds of troops to the country in a rare joint military mission.

The mission, which will deploy in and around the capital and last up to six months, is expected to involve the rapid deployment of a force numbering anywhere from 400 to 1,000.

The troops will help back up 1,600 French soldiers and the African Union's MISCA force, which currently has 4,400 troops on the ground.

Chronology and fact file on the crisis in Central African Republic (AFP Photo/)

International donors also pledged $496 million (365 million euros) in aid to the country this year.

'CAR is in free-fall'

Samba-Panza's election comes 10 months after the Seleka rebels overthrew the government and installed their leader, Michel Djotodia, as the country's first Muslim president.

But Djotodia proved powerless to control his fighters, and many went on a rampage of killing, rapes and looting targeting the Christian majority.

Some Christian communities responded by forming self-defence militias and attacking Muslims. Rights watchdogs accuse both sides of major abuses, and the United Nations has warned of a potential inter-religious genocide.

Djotodia stood down under international pressure on January 10.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday the Central African Republic is "caught in a crisis of epic proportions".

"The CAR is in free-fall... We must act together, and act now, to pull CAR back from the brink of further atrocities," he said in a statement.

The UN's top human rights body appointed an expert to probe violations in the country, Ivory Coast national Marie-Therese Keita Bocoum, who has previously worked in Burundi and Sudan's Darfur region.

A team of UN investigators who spent nearly two weeks in the CAR last month reported a litany of gross human rights violations, including killings, kidnappings, torture and rape.

"The mission received consistent, credible testimony and photographs supporting allegations that anti-balaka (Christian militias) mutilated Muslim men, women and children, before or after they were killed," said UN human rights chief Navi Pillay.

The violence has uprooted a million people out of a population of 4.6 million, and the UN estimates 2.6 million need urgent humanitarian aid.

Relief workers said they have found at least 73 more bodies of people killed in the north since Friday.

'An absolutely remarkable woman'

Christians and Muslims had previously lived in relative peace in the impoverished country, but it has had a long chain of coups and rebellions since independence in 1960.

Residents of Bangui, where outbreaks of brutal violence still spread fear despite the presence of foreign troops, voiced elation at Samba-Panza's election.

"We're wild with joy because we've been freed, because we've found a new president," said 19-year-old Jean-Franklin Debonheur, one of dozens who took to the street in celebration in the capital's central Miskine district.

"At last we can forget Seleka. I'm happy. It warms my heart to see a woman lead the country," said Diane, 22.

France, the country's former colonial ruler, welcomed Samba-Panza's election and urged her to hold speedy national polls. As interim leader she is tasked with organising general elections by mid-2015, though France is pressing for them to be held this year.

"It now falls to her to assure the needed peace and reconciliation in CAR, with a view to holding democratic elections," said French President Francois Hollande.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called Samba-Panza "an absolutely remarkable woman".

 Congratulations to people of the Central African Republic, from us Adenike Salako Blog's World.

Source:news.yahoo.com

Stay away from Anger :(

Stay away from Anger..
It hurts ..Only You!
If you are right then there is no need to get angry,
And if you are wrong then you don't have any right to get angry.
Patience with family is love,
Patience with others is respect.
Patience with self is confidence and Patience with GOD is faith.
 
Never Think Hard about the PAST, It brings Tears...
Don't think more about the FUTURE, It brings Fear...
Live this Moment with a Smile,It brings Cheer.
Every test in our life makes us bitter or better,
Every problem comes to make us or break us,
The choice is ours whether we become victims or victorious.
Beautiful things are not always good but good things are always beautiful.
Do you know why God created gaps between fingers?
So that someone who is special to you come and keep those gaps by holding your hand forever.
Happiness keeps You Sweet..But being sweet brings happiness and being Joyful is the best because it is a fruit of the Spirit.

TESTING FOR GOSSIP

An ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, “Do you know what I just heard about your friend?”

“Hold on a minute”, Socrates replied. “Before telling me anything I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”

“Triple filter?”

“That’s right”, Socrates continued. “Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you’re going to say. That’s why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”

“No,” the man said, “Actually I just heard about it and …”

“All right”, said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?”

“No, on the contrary.”

“So”, Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about him, but you’re not certain it’s true. You may still pass the test though, because there’s one filter left: The filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?”

“No, not really.”

“Well”, concluded Socrates, “if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?”

Best Pan-Roasted Potatoes

The best thing here is the reminder to work with waxy potatoes, which really do make a difference in these pan roasted dishes. Yes, you do need patience, and that may not seem like a weeknight virtue — but while these are doing their thing for 12 minutes or so you can be chopping, stirring, or doing whatever else you need to do to get dinner on the table. 
Alternatively, you can ask your teenager about her/his friend, her math homework, or the friend who isn’t really her friend, she says. That took 12 minutes! Okay, it took three. So now go ask another kid why their room looks like a Superfund site. Okay now you can check your potatoes. 
Brown! Spitting oil a little! Be careful. Once covered watch them carefully. Mine took 20 minutes to achieve that delicious sort of salty yield between the teeth. Eat on.

Serves 2 to 10

Red bliss, Yukon Gold, or other waxy potatoes, 1 1/2 to 2 inches in size
Olive oil
Kosher salt

1. Halve the potatoes and place the cut side down; halve each half again but keep these halves together.
2. Choose a cast iron skillet large enough to accommodate the halved potatoes. Add enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the pan, no more than 1/8 inch deep. Heat the oil over medium-high heat until it begins to shimmer. Sprinkle the salt into the oil over the bottom of the pan as evenly as possible in a thin layer. Place the potato halves onto the salt (keeping the pieces of second cut together so the potatoes look like just one half). Fry at medium-high heat (without peeking) until you are sure that the potatoes must be burning (they’re not!), about 12 to 15 minutes depending on the size of the potatoes. At 12 minutes, gently turn over a potato half to see if it is nicely browned; if not, continue cooking a few more minutes.
3. When the potatoes are nicely browned, turn the heat as low as possible and cover the pan. You will hear spattering noises as the potatoes start to steam, and they will continue to brown under cover.
4. Cook about 20 to 25 minutes covered. The potatoes are done when a sharp knife slips into a potato easily. Serve hot. Kept covered with the heat off, they will keep for 30 minutes or more. If you are letting them stand, drain off any excess oil from the pan. They are equally good at room temperature.

Source: www.yahoo.com