Sub-Saharan Cyber Cafe #3

[WhidbeyGirl 1]

I'll bet it was just spectacular to be there Boaz!

[ForeverAmen 0]

I'll bet it was just spectacular to be there Boaz!

It was an awesome experience!

I have been poking around for over 30 minutes, and I can't seem to get the photos I've uploaded to show up. Any suggestions?!?!?

Thanks.

[Simply_Uno 1]

Just reflecting and thinking out loud ......

When I graduated from college, I vowed that I had experienced the best life had to offer.

Then I began travelling on corporate jets, staying in fancy hotels, and meeting with coporate movers and shakers. So now, something else became the best experience life had to offer.

Fast forward a decade plus later, and I met a man who vowed in front of God, family and friends to make me his good thing. So ... again life has allowed me to experience another 'best experience'.

BUT then ... through the resource of a good friend on City Council, who had a strong (and favorable) connection with one of my state Senator's, who provided me with two seated seats to the Presidential Inauguration of 2009; I once again experienced the best life had to offer.

I am high on life! Never in my life did I think I would be able to witness history of this magnitude. I am high on life! Even the coldness of the day, good not interfere with what I felt. 48 hours have gone by since that wonderful moment, and yet .... I am still high on life. In more ways than I can count, I continue to experience the best life has to offer.

When I was a little girl, the choir use to sing, "Without God I can do nothing! I am like a ship without a sail."

God .... thank you!

Dang Boaz, you gotta sistah ova herre living vicariously through you, tearin up and all, and hatin (yes, UNO can admit when she is a hater ), and lovin you through it all.

God is good all the time.

UNO

[WhidbeyGirl 1]

I'll bet it was just spectacular to be there Boaz!

It was an awesome experience!

I have been poking around for over 30 minutes, and I can't seem to get the photos I've uploaded to show up. Any suggestions?!?!?

Thanks.

I haven't done this yet, but kinda looked around. Click on the Gallery link at the top of the page. Then create album, then edit album, then upload. Pics must be smaller than 1024 KB (that's where I stopped 'cause I gotta reduce mine).

HTH

[WhidbeyGirl 1]

I'll bet it was just spectacular to be there Boaz!

It was an awesome experience!

I have been poking around for over 30 minutes, and I can't seem to get the photos I've uploaded to show up. Any suggestions?!?!?

Thanks.

I haven't done this yet, but kinda looked around. Click on the Gallery link at the top of the page. Then create album, then edit album, then upload. Pics must be smaller than 1024 KB (that's where I stopped 'cause I gotta reduce mine).

HTH

Missed a step Click on the Gallery link at the top of the page. Then create album, click new, then modify album, then upload. Pics must be smaller than 1024 KB. There are dimension limits too but I couldn't find out what those were. Anywho, added a few pics to my album, if ya care to look.

[Enlighten one :) 5]

Thank you for sharing your experience and joy. You are in the blessings. Your abundance is poring over. Just imagine that it does get better then this.

Just reflecting and thinking out loud ......

When I graduated from college, I vowed that I had experienced the best life had to offer.

Then I began travelling on corporate jets, staying in fancy hotels, and meeting with coporate movers and shakers. So now, something else became the best experience life had to offer.

Fast forward a decade plus later, and I met a man who vowed in front of God, family and friends to make me his good thing. So ... again life has allowed me to experience another 'best experience'.

BUT then ... through the resource of a good friend on City Council, who had a strong (and favorable) connection with one of my state Senator's, who provided me with two seated seats to the Presidential Inauguration of 2009; I once again experienced the best life had to offer.

I am high on life! Never in my life did I think I would be able to witness history of this magnitude. I am high on life! Even the coldness of the day, good not interfere with what I felt. 48 hours have gone by since that wonderful moment, and yet .... I am still high on life. In more ways than I can count, I continue to experience the best life has to offer.

When I was a little girl, the choir use to sing, "Without God I can do nothing! I am like a ship without a sail."

God .... thank you!

[Enlighten one :) 5]

Good morning! This morning I turned on the Ipod for my 30 min travel to worth with Joyce Meyers 4 part series on forgiveness. Coinsident..I think not. My husband played a roll in this, which made me mad.

God wants us to forgive 7 X 70. I wonder If my son's father has used up his 490 forgivings? Ok back to the drawing board.

Have a joy filled Friday.

[Ban Hammer 13,469]

good morning subbies, it's friday!

[WhidbeyGirl 1]

Good morning all! TGIF

[LovinLiberia 0]

Just reflecting and thinking out loud ......

When I graduated from college, I vowed that I had experienced the best life had to offer.

Then I began travelling on corporate jets, staying in fancy hotels, and meeting with coporate movers and shakers. So now, something else became the best experience life had to offer.

Fast forward a decade plus later, and I met a man who vowed in front of God, family and friends to make me his good thing. So ... again life has allowed me to experience another 'best experience'.

BUT then ... through the resource of a good friend on City Council, who had a strong (and favorable) connection with one of my state Senator's, who provided me with two seated seats to the Presidential Inauguration of 2009; I once again experienced the best life had to offer.

I am high on life! Never in my life did I think I would be able to witness history of this magnitude. I am high on life! Even the coldness of the day, good not interfere with what I felt. 48 hours have gone by since that wonderful moment, and yet .... I am still high on life. In more ways than I can count, I continue to experience the best life has to offer.

When I was a little girl, the choir use to sing, "Without God I can do nothing! I am like a ship without a sail."

God .... thank you!

Wow Boaz...that was deep and now I'm at my desk with tears in my eyes. I'm so glad that one of us was able to see it up close. Now where are the photos?? Lol, if you can't figure it out, then you can send them to my email and I can add them for you.

Sylvia, I hope Joseph gets better soon.

[chispas 0]

Mornin All,

Boaz you don't know how excited I am just knowing you were there witnessing history. The TV service in our whole school was out and the Interet even worse so I have not seen the whole broadcast yet. When you upload your pics, I'll pretend I was there too.

[LovinLiberia 0]

Hi Chispas!!

[chispas 0]

Mornin All,

Boaz you don't know how excited I am just knowing you were there witnessing history. The TV service in our whole school was out and the Interet even worse so I have not seen the whole broadcast yet. When you upload your pics, I'll pretend I was there too

.

Lovin'

Here's an article I found today about caterpillars eating up the crops in Liberia. Creepy

Hordes of caterpillars swarm Liberia, Guinea

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press Writer Jonathan Paye-layleh, Associated Press Writer – 5 mins agoSHANKPALA, Liberia – Liberia's worst caterpillar plague in three decades has spread to neighboring Guinea after swarms of the crop-eating insects devastated more than 45 towns in the West African nation, officials said Friday.

Thousands of farmers have been unable to venture onto their farms. The 1-inch-long (2-3 centimeters) caterpillars were advancing in the tens of millions, devouring food crops and clogging wells and waterways with excrement, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization said.

Agriculture experts from Liberia urged that the pests be attacked with aerial spraying quickly before they destroyed even more areas.

The outbreak, which began in central Liberia, has been blamed on last year's unusually long rainy season. The invasion already has affected two of the leading food-growing provinces in Liberia, which is still recovering from years of civil war.

On Friday, officials said the pests also had invaded Lofa County on Liberia's northern border with Guinea.

The FAO's emergency coordinator in Liberia, Tim Vaessen, confirmed that the caterpillars had entered neighboring Guinea and said the infestation "could be a regional problem" if it is not attacked soon.

Liberian Agriculture Minister Chris Toe said aerial spraying was needed in the central town of Shankpala, 120 miles (200 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Monrovia. The coffee- and cocoa-producing area has been hard-hit by the dark, hairy pests.

Bendu Jabateh, whose mud-plastered hut is located close to an infested coffee farm, said she no longer felt safe leaving her two children outdoors.

"This is becoming a no-go area for us. We cannot go to our farms and we can't have our children play around the town any longer," said Jabateh, cradling her toddler son. "They crawl and come into the house."

Toe said specimens have been sent to Ghana and the United States to confirm suspicions that the pests are army worms.

About 30 pest control workers were already using manual ground sprayers to try to contain the outbreak in central Liberia. But eradication is a problem — the pests dwell on the leaves of giant forest trees that can rise more than 26 feet (8 meters) and aerial spraying risks further contaminating water sources.

In Shankpala, an ill-equipped spraying team has not made any serious impact. Residents instead have lit fires to keep the swarms at bay.

"When we set fire to certain places around the town, the caterpillars will bypass and attack in different locations so we are ... tired of using fire now," said rice farmer Johnson Kolleh. "We need modern methods to fight the spread."

In Pelelei, a creek used for drinking water was polluted by the pests' feces.

Coffee farmer James Kolleh, 22, explained that some spraying had been done in the town "but we were terrified when the chickens that eat the dead pests all died. These caterpillars must be very poisonous."

The last time Liberia experienced such pest invasion was 30 years ago, but officials then were able to prevent its spread.

Liberia was ravaged by alternating civil war and coups between 1989 and 2003. The drawn-out conflict left about 200,000 people dead and displaced half the country's population of 3 million.

The country — created to settle freed American slaves in 1847 — is still struggling to maintain a fragile peace with the help of U.N. peacekeepers.

[Enlighten one :) 5]

That is just so devistating. Sad story.

Mornin All,

Boaz you don't know how excited I am just knowing you were there witnessing history. The TV service in our whole school was out and the Interet even worse so I have not seen the whole broadcast yet. When you upload your pics, I'll pretend I was there too

.

Lovin'

Here's an article I found today about caterpillars eating up the crops in Liberia. Creepy

Hordes of caterpillars swarm Liberia, Guinea

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press Writer Jonathan Paye-layleh, Associated Press Writer – 5 mins agoSHANKPALA, Liberia – Liberia's worst caterpillar plague in three decades has spread to neighboring Guinea after swarms of the crop-eating insects devastated more than 45 towns in the West African nation, officials said Friday.

Thousands of farmers have been unable to venture onto their farms. The 1-inch-long (2-3 centimeters) caterpillars were advancing in the tens of millions, devouring food crops and clogging wells and waterways with excrement, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization said.

Agriculture experts from Liberia urged that the pests be attacked with aerial spraying quickly before they destroyed even more areas.

The outbreak, which began in central Liberia, has been blamed on last year's unusually long rainy season. The invasion already has affected two of the leading food-growing provinces in Liberia, which is still recovering from years of civil war.

On Friday, officials said the pests also had invaded Lofa County on Liberia's northern border with Guinea.

The FAO's emergency coordinator in Liberia, Tim Vaessen, confirmed that the caterpillars had entered neighboring Guinea and said the infestation "could be a regional problem" if it is not attacked soon.

Liberian Agriculture Minister Chris Toe said aerial spraying was needed in the central town of Shankpala, 120 miles (200 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Monrovia. The coffee- and cocoa-producing area has been hard-hit by the dark, hairy pests.

Bendu Jabateh, whose mud-plastered hut is located close to an infested coffee farm, said she no longer felt safe leaving her two children outdoors.

"This is becoming a no-go area for us. We cannot go to our farms and we can't have our children play around the town any longer," said Jabateh, cradling her toddler son. "They crawl and come into the house."

Toe said specimens have been sent to Ghana and the United States to confirm suspicions that the pests are army worms.

About 30 pest control workers were already using manual ground sprayers to try to contain the outbreak in central Liberia. But eradication is a problem — the pests dwell on the leaves of giant forest trees that can rise more than 26 feet (8 meters) and aerial spraying risks further contaminating water sources.

In Shankpala, an ill-equipped spraying team has not made any serious impact. Residents instead have lit fires to keep the swarms at bay.

"When we set fire to certain places around the town, the caterpillars will bypass and attack in different locations so we are ... tired of using fire now," said rice farmer Johnson Kolleh. "We need modern methods to fight the spread."

In Pelelei, a creek used for drinking water was polluted by the pests' feces.

Coffee farmer James Kolleh, 22, explained that some spraying had been done in the town "but we were terrified when the chickens that eat the dead pests all died. These caterpillars must be very poisonous."

The last time Liberia experienced such pest invasion was 30 years ago, but officials then were able to prevent its spread.

Liberia was ravaged by alternating civil war and coups between 1989 and 2003. The drawn-out conflict left about 200,000 people dead and displaced half the country's population of 3 million.

The country — created to settle freed American slaves in 1847 — is still struggling to maintain a fragile peace with the help of U.N. peacekeepers.

[LovinLiberia 0]

Geez! I'd been hearing about an army worm outbreak over there, but tens of millions?! They are darn near taking over. That is sad, especially since the country is trying to get on its feet and they'd been pushing a huge Agricultural campaign. Seems like they got knocked down before they could get started. I'll share this article with my husband. Thanks, Chis.