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Friends, can someone pops explain to me the difference between stop-limit & limit order in both buy and sell scenarios.
pls if u can, do explain with examples. Thanks in advance.

@dumexoga, am thrilled by ure revelations. So encouraging. Pls always tell us when u are heading to the market ( not only when uve scooped profit )

OkijaAmaka:
I hope u did not drop any garbage on any Anambra road

Lol. Anambra na my home na.. if I drop garbage na me go still go pick am

Like before, I left home by 5am. Met no traffic within Lagos. At lagos-ibadan express way, we had couple of delays at the location where construction is on. Mostly caused by big lorries and tankers that always move very slow. There was though a tanker that had accident just before the exit to Sagamu. But it was a moving traffic then.

But the main goal was to beat the usual Ore traffic. But it was not to be. There was nothing to beat as there was not inch of traffic all the way from Ore to Onitsha bridge. For the first time, I enjoyed driving down that route. And for the first time, I crossed Onitsha bridge before 1pm (and with no traffic!)

To you out there that may wish to travel too (especially if u drive), try and leave Lagos early. If there is no accidents that would block any road (may be rare because the road generally is OK) you could get to Osha bridge so early as to experience no traffic.

NB: do not over speed. I was on average of 110km. wanted to maintain 100k but not easy when cruising a good road.
More so, Sagamu to Ore isn't tarred yet but they managed to fill all dangerous potholes.

Safe Journey and Merry xmas

9free:
Bros, if you see First Bank anything below N9.00 BUY!!!

Great. thanks

Dear experts in d house, are we saying it is unwise to buy any bank stock this week?
pls advice as I intend getting about 3000 first bank shares if my expected cash drops today or morrow

myjoy08:
Sir, do you want to register with them as an individual investors or institutional investors? And are u currently in the country or non resident Nigerian? Or it may depends on how much you indicate you are making in a year or how you want to fund your account? Getting such response warrant the explanation above.

Thanks for reverting. I got a mail feedback from them saying its for corporate entities not individuals.
Me I dey Naija as individual investor. I want to be following you guys. At least investing a portion of one's salary saving every month shouldn't be a bad idea.

Please keep your comments, suggestions, cautions coming

Hi all,
I tried registering with meristemng and got a mail stating I need to provide the following: Certificate of Registration with Special Control Unit on Money Laundering of Federal Ministry of Trades and Investments (SCUML) showing registration number

Does it apply to individuals? If yes, how is it acquired?

Cheers

eleojo23:
It is amusing that many people think that one man will just come and fix this country with some magic touch. Our problems have accumulated and it's going to take years and a lot of hard work to solve them. These problems have been caused partly by the leaders and to a large extent by the citizens themselves. We want someone who will come and fight corruption when we are not ready to leave our corrupt ways behind and embrace honesty. Everyone claims to have the fear of God but corruption is rife.
Nigeria will only be fixed when the citizens are ready to cooperate with the government. We all must change our values to promote right over wrong.

Until we realize that nation building is not the work of the president alone, we will keep waiting for the 'messiah' and I tell you, it's going to be a very long wait.

Thanks Eleojo: This is one of my best comments in this forum for the year 2014.

ajolayo:
bisiofgod,
typhoid is enteric fever. The classic symptoms are Intermittent Fever, headache, Abdominal Discomfort and +/- vomitting.
Do you have a fever, that has been on for some time. Not responding to anything? that comes and goes?



For typhoid o,
Ciprofloxacin 500 mg two times daily for 2 weeks should treat uncomplicated typhoid.

See a doctor for more thorough assessment and investigations.

Old thread , but very insightful.

Please does anyone know the status of PVC distribution at
SAKA TINUBU/KASUMU EKEMODE, VICTORIA ISLAND I, ETI-OSA, LAGOS.

Nice one from Fayose

Am in that traffic now for 30 minutes en-route Lagos. This one is not 'go slow' but lock down. No vehicle is moving.
We heard there is a local Government election in Delta, thus no movement in the state. That means that we may be here till 3pm if the info is correct before moving!
Can Anyone pls confirm?

@op Thanks for sharing.

Last WEDNESDAY was the 54th Founder’s Day of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, the nation’s first indigenious university established a week after the country’s independence

IT was thus fitting that the big green coloured anniversary cake prepared by the university was decorated to also capture Nigeria’s 54th independence anniversary that was marked a week earlier.Ekweremadu

However, Founder’s Day events in campuses are also opportunities by universities to sound off statesmen on contemporary issues. For UNN, the 54th Founder’s Day was an opportunity to hear from one of its most popular alumni, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy president of the Senate and concurrently, speaker of the ECOWAS parliament.

For Senator Ekweremadu who graduated from the University’s law programme more than twenty five years ago and subsequently taught constitutional law in the school, it was a sort of homecoming. Not much apparently would have changed in the eyes of the senator especially given the seeming failure of the university town to develop despite hosting the country’s first university for more than 54 years.

The venue of the lecture was the Princess Alexandra Hall, and dignitaries from far and near were around. Among them were the governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, Brig-Gen. Benjamin Alanotu who as commander of the army brigade in Maiduguri apprehended the, Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf, the managing director of AIT News Mr. Imoni Amarere and a surplus of leading lights of the academia led by the UNN vice-chancellor and chief host, Prof. Chukwuma Ozumba.

The event had commenced shortly after noon with the academic procession led by the vice-chancellor. Though he was in the procession, Ekweremadu was difficult to point out, reason being that he was clad in the academic robe of the university.

Sonorous renditions

He was also more difficult to identify because of the unusual attire of an Adams Oshiomhole like khaki suit he wore. He was to later explain that he donned the attire of a comrade essentially because of the revolutionary ideas he had prepared to propound in the lecture.

Following prayers, a welcome address by the vice-chancellor and ceremonies interspersed with sonorous renditions by the university choir, Ekweremadu was called on to deliver his address.

His lecture was titled “Key Governance Issues in Nigeria: My Perspectives.” He surely had many perspectives, given his political antecedents. From local government chairman, to chief of staff to the Governor of Enugu State and subsequently, secretary to the state government, senator, and for the past seven years, deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ekweremadu offered revolutionary proposals to ameliorate the malaise in governance in the country. It was to some, an act of class suicide as he proffered radical steps to the structure and synergy in the Nigerian federation.

Arguably, the most revolutionary proposal in the about 90 minute lecture was his call for the abrogation of the 36 state structure and the replacement of such with a six geo-political zones federating units.

“My take is that we should return to the regional arrangement with the six geopolitical zones as the federating units. This will help us to shrink the size and number of government and increase the volume of resources available to the regions. It will also help the federating units to benefit from the economy of scale, doing mega development projects as we had in the First Republic.”

The senator also used the opportunity to reiterate his call for the establishment of multi-level policing saying that recent developments had vindicated him. It was also noted that several stakeholders, notably, northern governors who had in the past opposed him on the issue have recanted on the issue.

Corporate entities

He said: “My take is that we cannot continue to live in denial. The cost and embarrassment are clear like daylight. And whether we accept it or not, many of our states, communities, and corporate entities are already practicing multilevel policing by using vigilantes, the Sharia police or Hisbah, neighborhood watch, and other assorted arrangements aimed at beefing up security around. My worry, though, is that they are largely illegal, poorly regulated, prone to abuse, and indeed often abused.”

“Decentralised or multilevel policing is the order of the day because it enables sub-national entities such as the states, local governments, and communities as well as organisations such as universities to have their own police under strict regulation and supervision. It allows for competition in the provision of security as a way of attracting investment and quality residents. These levels of government and corporate entities package and prioritise the security of lives and property to suit their local challenges and resources. The system is so effective in the United States of America, USA, that the police pays you a compensation if they fail to answer a distress call by being physically present at the scene of distress in eight minutes and something untoward happens thereafter. That way, crimes are averted, and when they occur, because they inevitably do, response is timely and solid, while punishment is quick and certain.”

Perhaps in line with his revolutionary zeal, Ekweremadu sought to bring the welfare and issue of the common man to fore as he lamented that the “dominant public sentiment is that leaders show insufficient commitment to the citizens’ welfare and gravely under appreciate the need to use powers to achieve public good and national interest”.

“The welfare of citizens should not depend on the goodwill of those in power, but should be the center piece of government policies and programme; hence I consider it obscene and irreligious when those in governance insist that the people role out the drums to celebrate and glorify them for providing them with what they in government were elected to do in the first place”, he added.

He insisted that “only an aggressive pursuit of citizens’ welfare can mute the uneasy feelings and agitations percolating in the society about leaders’ insensitivity to citizens’ welfare”.

Senator Ekweremadu added: “Those in politics have the binary moral choice to make: to use power for evil or to use it for good; this is an era of immense challenges and the nation needs leaders who use their powers for the good of the nation. The logical and serious way to recapture public trust is by providing honest and effective leadership. Good leadership will assuage citizens discouraged and alienated by what they view as insensitive, corrupt, and ineffective leadership at various levels of government”

Before concluding he offered a ray of hope for Nigeria, saying:

“There is legitimate optimism about the future of Nigeria, as problems that bothered us seem to be dissipating; hence nothing should alter our mindset, vitiate our commitment, enfeeble our resolve or distract our purpose. We must work together for to make Nigeria a better, more secure, and more prosperous nation”, he urged.

Another act of class suicide that many in the senator’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP would be quick to disown was the proposal for the introduction of proportional representation in the election to parliament. Through that process, smaller political parties would be represented in the legislature based on the total number of votes scored in the election.

Following his presentation, the discussants Prof. Sam Egwu, Brig. Gen. Alanotu, Prof. Ben Elo Amucheazi and Mr. Amarere took turns to offer their insights into the issues raised by the senator.

They without exception agreed with the deputy Senate president on the proposals he pushed. Brig. Gen. Alanotu was to add the need for the nation to have a data base to capture all persons living in the country saying it was essential in the light of contemporary security needs.

Mr. Amarere even while applauding the submissions, however, questioned the capacity of the electoral body to superintend over an election based on proportional representation as he pointed at regular questions pointed at the electoral register.

It was the 54th Founder’s Day for the University, but for Ekweremadu and many who were there, the ideas proposed last Wednesday could well be the platform for the foundation of a truly more viable Nigeria.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/ekweremadus-proposal-break-nigeria/

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earthrealm: pls could you gimme costs for each type?.....am not in lagos so going to ladipo to search 4 them would be stressful....am considering getting them from the uk/usa...so want to compare prices and be sure its worth the stress...

found some with good reviews opn amazon

Please would you mind posting the link on Amazon. I'm also interested in getting the timer.
I usually ship through a Nigerian company (Midas Shipping) in UK or US. You can pay them in naira or dollar but you pick your stuff from their Lagos office

George_D: abunafiu,

as requested, i've attached a sketch of the voltage combiner.

it is essentially made of a pure copper belt (usually of the type used for lightning arrestors) cut to required length.

use an m6 drill bit to bore holes at the both ends for where to screw the belt to the block of wood and an m13
drill to bore three (3) holes. one for the charge controller, one for the inverter and the last for the battery.

i hope this helps?

Hello George,
Just a clarification: Is there power loss when cables are joined directly and tied/covered with masking tapes as against when they are screwed together unto a metal as you depicted?

@BodeJohn,
I've added 3 new panels. So I have in total 3 x 260W and 3 x 250W. That should be 1530W in total. Connected in strings of 2s (2 in series; 3 strings in parallel).

But it seems something is not right because from the controller meter, I didn't get beyond 720W the whole day (under load and no PHCN). I've climbed the roof countless time just to confirm the connections are OK. Besides, before joining the strings, I measured each string and they looked OK (81V).

What do you advice please?

http://my.opera.com/thelordjesusiscomingsoon/blog/testimony-of-a-buddhist-monk-died-when-to-hell-came-back-to-life-to-knew-there-i

My Early Years

Hello! My name is Athet Pyan Shinthaw Paulu. I am from the country of Myanmar. I would like to share with you my testimony of what happened to me, but first I would like to give some brief background information from my life growing up.

I was born in 1958 in the town of Bogale, on the Irrawaddy Delta area of southern Myanmar [formerly Burma]. My parents, who were devout Buddhists like most people in Myanmar, named me Thitpin [which means 'tree' in English]. Our lives were very simple where I grew up. At the age of 13 I left school and started working on a fishing boat. We caught fish and sometimes also shrimp from the numerous rivers and streams in the Irrawaddy area. At the age of 16 I became the leader of the boat. At this time I lived in Upper Mainmahlagyon Island [Mainmahlagyon means 'Beautiful Woman Island' in English], just north of Bogale where I was born. This place is about 100 miles southwest of Yangon [Rangoon], our nation's capitol city.

One day, when I was 17, we caught a large number of fish in our nets. Because of the many fish, a large crocodile was attracted to us. It followed our boat and tried to attack us. We were terrified so we frantically rowed our boats toward the riverbank as fast as we could. The crocodile followed us and smashed our boat with its tail. Although no one died in this incident, the attack greatly affected my life. I no longer wanted to fish. Our small boat sank because of the crocodile attack. We had to go home to our village that night on a passenger boat.

Not long after, his employers transferred my father to Yangon City [formerly spelt Rangoon]. At the age of 18 I was sent to a Buddhist monastery to be a novice monk. Most parents in Myanmar try to send their son into a Buddhist monastery, at least for a time, as it is considered a great honor to have a son serve in this way. We have been observing this custom for many hundreds of years.

A Zealous Disciple of Buddha

When I turned 19 years and 3 months old (in 1977), I became a normal monk. The senior monk at my monastery gave me a new Buddhist name, which is the custom in our country. I was now called U Nata Pannita Ashinthuriya. When we become a monk we no longer use the name given to us at birth by our parents. The name of the monastery I lived at is called Mandalay Kyaikasan Kyaing. The senior monk's name was called U Zadila Kyar Ni Kan Sayadaw [U Zadila is his title]. He was the most famous Buddhist monk in all of Myanmar at the time. Everyone knew who he was. He was widely honored by the people and respected as a great teacher. I say he "was" because in 1983 he suddenly died when he was involved in a fatal car accident. His death shocked everyone. At the time I had been a monk for six years.

I tried hard to be the best monk I could and to follow all the precepts of Buddhism. At one stage I moved to a cemetery where I lived and meditated continually. Some monks who really want to know the truths of Buddha do things like I did. Some move deep into the forests where they live a life of self-denial and poverty. I sought to deny my selfish thoughts and desires, to escape from sickness and suffering and to break free from the cycle of this world. At the cemetery I was not afraid of ghosts. I tried to attain such inner peace and self-realization that even when a mosquito landed on my arm I would let it bite me instead of brushing it off!

For years I strived to be the best monk I could and not to harm any living being. I studied the holy Buddhist teachings just like all my forefathers had done before me. My life proceeded as a monk until I got very, very sick. I was in Mandalay at the time and had to be taken to the hospital for treatment. The doctors did some tests on me and told me I had both Yellow Fever and malaria at the same time! After about one month in the hospital I was getting worse. The doctors told me there was no chance for me to recover and discharged me to make arrangements to die.

This is a brief description of my past. I would now like to tell you some of the remarkable things that happened to me after this time...

A Vision that Changed My Life Forever

After I was discharged from the hospital I went back to the monastery where other monks cared for me. I grew weaker and weaker and was lapsing into unconsciousness. I learned later that I actually died for three days. My body decayed and stunk of death, and my heart stopped beating. My body was prepared for cremation and was put through traditional Buddhist purification rites.

Although I faded away in my body I remember my mind and spirit were fully alert. I was in a very, very powerful storm. A tremendous wind flattened the whole landscape until there were no trees or anything else standing, just a flat plain. I walked very fast along this plain for some time. There were no other people anywhere, I was all alone. After some time I crossed a river. On the other side of the river I saw a terrible, terrible lake of fire. In Buddhism we do not have a concept of a place like this. At first I was confused and didn't know it was hell until I saw Yama, the king of hell [Yama is the name ascribed to the King of Hell in numerous cultures throughout Asia]. His face looked like the face of a lion, his body was like a lion, but his legs were like a naga [serpent spirit]. He had a number of horns on his head. His face was very fierce, and I was extremely afraid. Trembling, I asked him his name. He replied, "I am the king of hell, the Destroyer."

The terrible, terrible lake of fire

The king of hell told me to look into the lake of fire. I looked and I saw the saffron colored robes that Buddhist monks wear in Myanmar. I looked closer and saw the shaven head of a man. When I looked at the man's face I saw it was U Zadila Kyar Ni Kan Sayadaw [the famous monk who had died in a car accident in 1983]. I asked the king of hell why my former leader was confined to this lake of torment. I said, "Why is he in this lake of fire? He was a very good teacher. He even had a teaching tape called 'Are You a Man or a Dog?' which had helped thousands of people understand that their worth as humans is far greater than the animals." The king of hell replied, "Yes, he was a good teacher but he did not believe in Jesus Christ. That's why he is in hell."

I was told to look at another person who was in the fire. I saw a man with very long hair wrapped on the left hand side of his head. He was also wearing a robe. I asked the king of hell, "Who is this man?" He replied, "This is the one you worship: Gautama [Buddha]." I was very disturbed to see Gautama in hell. I protested, "Gautama had good ethnics and good moral character, why is he suffering in this lake of fire?" The king of hell answered me, "It doesn't matter how good he was. He is in this place because he did not believe in the Eternal God."

I then saw another man who looked like he was wearing a soldier's uniform. He had a large wound on his chest. I asked, "Who is this man?" The king of hell said, "This is Aung San, the revolutionary leader of Myanmar." I was told, "Aung San is here because he persecuted and killed Christians, but mostly because he didn't believe in Jesus Christ." In Myanmar the people have a common saying, "Soldiers never die, they live on." I was told that the legions of hell have a saying "Soldiers never die, but they go to hell forever."

I looked and saw another man in the lake of fire. He was a very tall man and he was dressed in military armor. He was also holding a sword and a shield. This man had a wound on his forehead. This man was taller than any person I have ever seen. He was six times the length between a man's elbow and the tips of his fingers when he stretches his arm out straight, plus one span of a man's fingers when he spreads out his hand. The king of hell said, "This man's name is Goliath. He is in hell because he blasphemed the Eternal God and His servant David." I was confused because I didn't know who either Goliath or David were. The king of hell said, "Goliath is recorded in the Christian Bible. You don't know him now, but when you become a Christian you will know who he is."

I was then taken to a place where I saw both rich and poor people preparing to eat their evening meals. I asked, "Who cooked the food for these people?" The king of hell replied, "The poor have to prepare their own food, but the rich people get others to cook for them." When the food had been prepared for the rich people they sat down to eat. As soon as they started a thick smoke came up. The rich people ate as fast as they could to ease their consciences. They were struggling to breath because of the smoke. They had to eat fast because they were fearful of losing their money. Their money is their god.

Another king of hell then came to me. I also saw a being whose job is to stoke the fires beneath the lake of fire, to keep it hot. This being asked me, "Are you going into the lake of fire too?" I replied, "No! I am only here to observe!" The appearance of this creature stoking the fire was very terrifying. He had ten horns on his head and a spear in his hand that had seven sharp blades coming from the end. The creature told me, "You are right. You came here just to observe. I cannot find your name here." He said, "You must now go back the way you came." He pointed me toward the desolate plain that I had first walked along before I came to the lake of fire.

The Road of Decision

I walked a long time, until I was bleeding. I was hot and in great pain. Finally, after walking for about three hours I came to a wide road. I walked along this road for some time until I came to a fork. One road, going off to the left, was wide. A smaller road went off to the right hand side. There was a signpost at the fork saying that the road to the left was for those who do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. The smaller road to the right was for believers in Jesus.

I was interested to see where the larger road led so I started down it. There were two men walking about 300 yards ahead of me. I tried to catch up with them so I could walk with them but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't catch them up, so I turned around and went back to the fork in the road. I continued to watch these two men as they walked down the road away from me. When they reached the end of the road they were suddenly stabbed. These two men cried out in great pain! I also cried out when I saw what happened to them! I realized the bigger road ended in great danger for those who traveled down it.
Looking into Heaven

I started walking down the believers' road instead. After traveling for about one hour the surface of the road turned to pure gold. It was so pure that when I looked down I could see my own reflection perfectly. I then saw a man standing in front of me. He was wearing a white robe. I also heard beautiful singing. Oh, it was so beautiful and pure! It was much better and more meaningful than the worship we have in churches here on the earth. The man in the white robe asked me to walk with him. I asked him, "What is your name?" but he did not answer. After I asked his name six times the man answered, "I am the one who holds the key to heaven. Heaven is a very, very beautiful place. You cannot go there now but if you follow Jesus Christ you can go there after your life has finished on the earth." The man's name was Peter.

Peter then asked me to sit down and he showed me a place to the north. Peter said, "Look to the north and see God create man." I saw the Eternal God from a distance. God spoke to an angel, "Let us make man." The angel pleaded with God and said, "Please don't make man. He will do wrong and will grieve you." [In Burmese literally: "He will make you lose face."]. But God created a man named anyway. God blew on the man and the man came to life. He gave him the name "Adam". [Note: Buddhists do not believe in the Creation of the world or of man, so this experience had a significant impact on the monk].

Sent Back with a New Name

Then Peter said, "Now get up and go back to where you came from. Speak to the people who worship Buddha and who worship idols. Tell them they must go to hell if they don't change. Those who build temples and idols will also have to go to hell. Those who give offerings to the monks to earn merit for themselves with go to hell. All those who pray to the monks and call them 'Pra' [respectful title for monks] will go to hell. Those who chant and 'give life' to idols will go to hell. All those who don't believe in Jesus Christ will go to hell." Peter told me to go back to the earth and testify about the things I had seen. He also said, "You must speak in your new name. From now on you are to be called Athet Pyan Shinthaw Paulu ["Paul who Came Back to Life."].

I didn't want to go back. I wanted to go to heaven. Angels opened a book. First they looked for my childhood name (Thitpin) in the book, but they could not find it. They then looked for the name I had been given when he entered the Buddhist monk hood (U Nata Pannita Ashinthuriya) but it wasn't written in the book either. Then Peter said, "Your name is not written here, you must return and testify about Jesus to the Buddhist people."

I walked back along the gold road. Again I heard beautiful singing, the kind of which I have never heard before or since. Peter walked with me until the time I returned to the earth. He showed me a ladder that reached down from the heaven to the sky. The ladder didn't reach to the earth, but stopped in mid-air. On the ladder I saw many angels, some going up to heaven and some going down the ladder. They were very busy. I asked Peter, "Who are they?" Peter answered, "They are messengers of God. They are reporting to heaven the names of all those who believe in Jesus Christ and the names of those who don't believe." Peter then told me it was time to go back.

It is a Ghost!

The next thing I was aware of was the sound of weeping. I heard my own mother cry out, "My son, why did you leave us now?" I also heard many other people weeping. I realized I was lying in a box. I started to move. My mother and father started shouting, "He is alive! He is alive!" Other people who were farther away did not believe my parents. I then placed my hands on the sides of the box and sat upright. Many people were struck with terror. They cried out, "It is a ghost!" and ran away as fast as their legs could carry them.

Those who remained were speechless and trembling. I noticed I was sitting in smelly liquid and body fluids, enough to fill about three and a half cups. This was liquid that had come out of my stomach and my insides while my body was lying in the coffin. This is why people knew I had indeed been dead. Inside the coffin there was a type of plastic sheet fixed to the wood. This sheet is placed there to retain a corpse's liquids, because many dead bodies release much fluid like mine did.

I learned later that I was just moments away from being cremated in the flames. In Myanmar people are placed in a coffin, the lid is then nailed shut, and the whole coffin is burned. When I came back to life my mother and father were being allowed to look at my body for the very last time. Moments later the lid of my coffin would have been nailed shut and I would have been cremated!

I immediately started to explain the things I had seen and heard. People were astonished. I told them about the men I had seen in the lake of fire, and told them that only the Christians know the truth, that our forefathers and us have been deceived for thousands of years! I told them everything we believe is a lie. The people were astonished because they knew what kind of a monk I had been and how zealous I had been for the teachings of Buddha.

In Myanmar when a person dies their name and age is written on the side of the coffin. When a monk dies, the monk's name, age and the number of years he has served as a monk are written on the side of the coffin. I had already been recorded as dead but as you can see, now I am alive!

Epilogue

Since 'Paul who came back to life' experienced the above story he has remained a faithful witness to the Lord Jesus Christ. Burmese pastors have told us that he had led hundreds of other monks to faith in Christ. His testimony is obviously very uncompromising. Because of that, his message has offended many people who cannot accept there is only one Way to Heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. Despite great opposition, his experiences were so real to him that he has not wavered. After many years in the Buddhist monk hood, as a strict follower of Buddhist teachings, he immediately proclaimed the Gospel of Christ following his resurrection and exhorted other monks to forsake all false gods and follow Jesus Christ with all their hearts. Before the time of his sickness and death he had no exposure to Christianity at all. Everything he learned during those three days in the grave was new to his mind.

In a bid to get his message out to as many people as possible, this modern-day Lazarus began distributing audio and video cassette tapes with his story on them. The police and Buddhist authorities in Myanmar have done their utmost to gather these tapes up and destroy them. The testimony you have just read has been translated form one of those cassette tapes. We are told it is now quite dangerous for citizens of Myanmar to be in possession of these tapes.

His fearless testimony has landed him in prison at least once, where the authorities failed in their bid to silence him. Upon his release he continued to testify of the things he saw and heard. His current whereabouts are uncertain. One Burmese informant told us he is prison and may have been killed, while another informant was told he is now released from prison and is continuing his ministry.

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My Early Years

Hello! My name is Athet Pyan Shinthaw Paulu. I am from the country of Myanmar. I would like to share with you my testimony of what happened to me, but first I would like to give some brief background information from my life growing up.

I was born in 1958 in the town of Bogale, on the Irrawaddy Delta area of southern Myanmar [formerly Burma]. My parents, who were devout Buddhists like most people in Myanmar, named me Thitpin [which means 'tree' in English]. Our lives were very simple where I grew up. At the age of 13 I left school and started working on a fishing boat. We caught fish and sometimes also shrimp from the numerous rivers and streams in the Irrawaddy area. At the age of 16 I became the leader of the boat. At this time I lived in Upper Mainmahlagyon Island [Mainmahlagyon means 'Beautiful Woman Island' in English], just north of Bogale where I was born. This place is about 100 miles southwest of Yangon [Rangoon], our nation's capitol city.

One day, when I was 17, we caught a large number of fish in our nets. Because of the many fish, a large crocodile was attracted to us. It followed our boat and tried to attack us. We were terrified so we frantically rowed our boats toward the riverbank as fast as we could. The crocodile followed us and smashed our boat with its tail. Although no one died in this incident, the attack greatly affected my life. I no longer wanted to fish. Our small boat sank because of the crocodile attack. We had to go home to our village that night on a passenger boat.

Not long after, his employers transferred my father to Yangon City [formerly spelt Rangoon]. At the age of 18 I was sent to a Buddhist monastery to be a novice monk. Most parents in Myanmar try to send their son into a Buddhist monastery, at least for a time, as it is considered a great honor to have a son serve in this way. We have been observing this custom for many hundreds of years.

A Zealous Disciple of Buddha

When I turned 19 years and 3 months old (in 1977), I became a normal monk. The senior monk at my monastery gave me a new Buddhist name, which is the custom in our country. I was now called U Nata Pannita Ashinthuriya. When we become a monk we no longer use the name given to us at birth by our parents. The name of the monastery I lived at is called Mandalay Kyaikasan Kyaing. The senior monk's name was called U Zadila Kyar Ni Kan Sayadaw [U Zadila is his title]. He was the most famous Buddhist monk in all of Myanmar at the time. Everyone knew who he was. He was widely honored by the people and respected as a great teacher. I say he "was" because in 1983 he suddenly died when he was involved in a fatal car accident. His death shocked everyone. At the time I had been a monk for six years.

I tried hard to be the best monk I could and to follow all the precepts of Buddhism. At one stage I moved to a cemetery where I lived and meditated continually. Some monks who really want to know the truths of Buddha do things like I did. Some move deep into the forests where they live a life of self-denial and poverty. I sought to deny my selfish thoughts and desires, to escape from sickness and suffering and to break free from the cycle of this world. At the cemetery I was not afraid of ghosts. I tried to attain such inner peace and self-realization that even when a mosquito landed on my arm I would let it bite me instead of brushing it off!

For years I strived to be the best monk I could and not to harm any living being. I studied the holy Buddhist teachings just like all my forefathers had done before me. My life proceeded as a monk until I got very, very sick. I was in Mandalay at the time and had to be taken to the hospital for treatment. The doctors did some tests on me and told me I had both Yellow Fever and malaria at the same time! After about one month in the hospital I was getting worse. The doctors told me there was no chance for me to recover and discharged me to make arrangements to die.

This is a brief description of my past. I would now like to tell you some of the remarkable things that happened to me after this time...

A Vision that Changed My Life Forever

After I was discharged from the hospital I went back to the monastery where other monks cared for me. I grew weaker and weaker and was lapsing into unconsciousness. I learned later that I actually died for three days. My body decayed and stunk of death, and my heart stopped beating. My body was prepared for cremation and was put through traditional Buddhist purification rites.

Although I faded away in my body I remember my mind and spirit were fully alert. I was in a very, very powerful storm. A tremendous wind flattened the whole landscape until there were no trees or anything else standing, just a flat plain. I walked very fast along this plain for some time. There were no other people anywhere, I was all alone. After some time I crossed a river. On the other side of the river I saw a terrible, terrible lake of fire. In Buddhism we do not have a concept of a place like this. At first I was confused and didn't know it was hell until I saw Yama, the king of hell [Yama is the name ascribed to the King of Hell in numerous cultures throughout Asia]. His face looked like the face of a lion, his body was like a lion, but his legs were like a naga [serpent spirit]. He had a number of horns on his head. His face was very fierce, and I was extremely afraid. Trembling, I asked him his name. He replied, "I am the king of hell, the Destroyer."

The terrible, terrible lake of fire

The king of hell told me to look into the lake of fire. I looked and I saw the saffron colored robes that Buddhist monks wear in Myanmar. I looked closer and saw the shaven head of a man. When I looked at the man's face I saw it was U Zadila Kyar Ni Kan Sayadaw [the famous monk who had died in a car accident in 1983]. I asked the king of hell why my former leader was confined to this lake of torment. I said, "Why is he in this lake of fire? He was a very good teacher. He even had a teaching tape called 'Are You a Man or a Dog?' which had helped thousands of people understand that their worth as humans is far greater than the animals." The king of hell replied, "Yes, he was a good teacher but he did not believe in Jesus Christ. That's why he is in hell."

I was told to look at another person who was in the fire. I saw a man with very long hair wrapped on the left hand side of his head. He was also wearing a robe. I asked the king of hell, "Who is this man?" He replied, "This is the one you worship: Gautama [Buddha]." I was very disturbed to see Gautama in hell. I protested, "Gautama had good ethnics and good moral character, why is he suffering in this lake of fire?" The king of hell answered me, "It doesn't matter how good he was. He is in this place because he did not believe in the Eternal God."

I then saw another man who looked like he was wearing a soldier's uniform. He had a large wound on his chest. I asked, "Who is this man?" The king of hell said, "This is Aung San, the revolutionary leader of Myanmar." I was told, "Aung San is here because he persecuted and killed Christians, but mostly because he didn't believe in Jesus Christ." In Myanmar the people have a common saying, "Soldiers never die, they live on." I was told that the legions of hell have a saying "Soldiers never die, but they go to hell forever."

I looked and saw another man in the lake of fire. He was a very tall man and he was dressed in military armor. He was also holding a sword and a shield. This man had a wound on his forehead. This man was taller than any person I have ever seen. He was six times the length between a man's elbow and the tips of his fingers when he stretches his arm out straight, plus one span of a man's fingers when he spreads out his hand. The king of hell said, "This man's name is Goliath. He is in hell because he blasphemed the Eternal God and His servant David." I was confused because I didn't know who either Goliath or David were. The king of hell said, "Goliath is recorded in the Christian Bible. You don't know him now, but when you become a Christian you will know who he is."

I was then taken to a place where I saw both rich and poor people preparing to eat their evening meals. I asked, "Who cooked the food for these people?" The king of hell replied, "The poor have to prepare their own food, but the rich people get others to cook for them." When the food had been prepared for the rich people they sat down to eat. As soon as they started a thick smoke came up. The rich people ate as fast as they could to ease their consciences. They were struggling to breath because of the smoke. They had to eat fast because they were fearful of losing their money. Their money is their god.

Another king of hell then came to me. I also saw a being whose job is to stoke the fires beneath the lake of fire, to keep it hot. This being asked me, "Are you going into the lake of fire too?" I replied, "No! I am only here to observe!" The appearance of this creature stoking the fire was very terrifying. He had ten horns on his head and a spear in his hand that had seven sharp blades coming from the end. The creature told me, "You are right. You came here just to observe. I cannot find your name here." He said, "You must now go back the way you came." He pointed me toward the desolate plain that I had first walked along before I came to the lake of fire.

The Road of Decision

I walked a long time, until I was bleeding. I was hot and in great pain. Finally, after walking for about three hours I came to a wide road. I walked along this road for some time until I came to a fork. One road, going off to the left, was wide. A smaller road went off to the right hand side. There was a signpost at the fork saying that the road to the left was for those who do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. The smaller road to the right was for believers in Jesus.

I was interested to see where the larger road led so I started down it. There were two men walking about 300 yards ahead of me. I tried to catch up with them so I could walk with them but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't catch them up, so I turned around and went back to the fork in the road. I continued to watch these two men as they walked down the road away from me. When they reached the end of the road they were suddenly stabbed. These two men cried out in great pain! I also cried out when I saw what happened to them! I realized the bigger road ended in great danger for those who traveled down it.
Looking into Heaven

I started walking down the believers' road instead. After traveling for about one hour the surface of the road turned to pure gold. It was so pure that when I looked down I could see my own reflection perfectly. I then saw a man standing in front of me. He was wearing a white robe. I also heard beautiful singing. Oh, it was so beautiful and pure! It was much better and more meaningful than the worship we have in churches here on the earth. The man in the white robe asked me to walk with him. I asked him, "What is your name?" but he did not answer. After I asked his name six times the man answered, "I am the one who holds the key to heaven. Heaven is a very, very beautiful place. You cannot go there now but if you follow Jesus Christ you can go there after your life has finished on the earth." The man's name was Peter.

Peter then asked me to sit down and he showed me a place to the north. Peter said, "Look to the north and see God create man." I saw the Eternal God from a distance. God spoke to an angel, "Let us make man." The angel pleaded with God and said, "Please don't make man. He will do wrong and will grieve you." [In Burmese literally: "He will make you lose face."]. But God created a man named anyway. God blew on the man and the man came to life. He gave him the name "Adam". [Note: Buddhists do not believe in the Creation of the world or of man, so this experience had a significant impact on the monk].

Sent Back with a New Name

Then Peter said, "Now get up and go back to where you came from. Speak to the people who worship Buddha and who worship idols. Tell them they must go to hell if they don't change. Those who build temples and idols will also have to go to hell. Those who give offerings to the monks to earn merit for themselves with go to hell. All those who pray to the monks and call them 'Pra' [respectful title for monks] will go to hell. Those who chant and 'give life' to idols will go to hell. All those who don't believe in Jesus Christ will go to hell." Peter told me to go back to the earth and testify about the things I had seen. He also said, "You must speak in your new name. From now on you are to be called Athet Pyan Shinthaw Paulu ["Paul who Came Back to Life."].

I didn't want to go back. I wanted to go to heaven. Angels opened a book. First they looked for my childhood name (Thitpin) in the book, but they could not find it. They then looked for the name I had been given when he entered the Buddhist monk hood (U Nata Pannita Ashinthuriya) but it wasn't written in the book either. Then Peter said, "Your name is not written here, you must return and testify about Jesus to the Buddhist people."

I walked back along the gold road. Again I heard beautiful singing, the kind of which I have never heard before or since. Peter walked with me until the time I returned to the earth. He showed me a ladder that reached down from the heaven to the sky. The ladder didn't reach to the earth, but stopped in mid-air. On the ladder I saw many angels, some going up to heaven and some going down the ladder. They were very busy. I asked Peter, "Who are they?" Peter answered, "They are messengers of God. They are reporting to heaven the names of all those who believe in Jesus Christ and the names of those who don't believe." Peter then told me it was time to go back.

It is a Ghost!

The next thing I was aware of was the sound of weeping. I heard my own mother cry out, "My son, why did you leave us now?" I also heard many other people weeping. I realized I was lying in a box. I started to move. My mother and father started shouting, "He is alive! He is alive!" Other people who were farther away did not believe my parents. I then placed my hands on the sides of the box and sat upright. Many people were struck with terror. They cried out, "It is a ghost!" and ran away as fast as their legs could carry them.

Those who remained were speechless and trembling. I noticed I was sitting in smelly liquid and body fluids, enough to fill about three and a half cups. This was liquid that had come out of my stomach and my insides while my body was lying in the coffin. This is why people knew I had indeed been dead. Inside the coffin there was a type of plastic sheet fixed to the wood. This sheet is placed there to retain a corpse's liquids, because many dead bodies release much fluid like mine did.

I learned later that I was just moments away from being cremated in the flames. In Myanmar people are placed in a coffin, the lid is then nailed shut, and the whole coffin is burned. When I came back to life my mother and father were being allowed to look at my body for the very last time. Moments later the lid of my coffin would have been nailed shut and I would have been cremated!

I immediately started to explain the things I had seen and heard. People were astonished. I told them about the men I had seen in the lake of fire, and told them that only the Christians know the truth, that our forefathers and us have been deceived for thousands of years! I told them everything we believe is a lie. The people were astonished because they knew what kind of a monk I had been and how zealous I had been for the teachings of Buddha.

In Myanmar when a person dies their name and age is written on the side of the coffin. When a monk dies, the monk's name, age and the number of years he has served as a monk are written on the side of the coffin. I had already been recorded as dead but as you can see, now I am alive!

Epilogue

Since 'Paul who came back to life' experienced the above story he has remained a faithful witness to the Lord Jesus Christ. Burmese pastors have told us that he had led hundreds of other monks to faith in Christ. His testimony is obviously very uncompromising. Because of that, his message has offended many people who cannot accept there is only one Way to Heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. Despite great opposition, his experiences were so real to him that he has not wavered. After many years in the Buddhist monk hood, as a strict follower of Buddhist teachings, he immediately proclaimed the Gospel of Christ following his resurrection and exhorted other monks to forsake all false gods and follow Jesus Christ with all their hearts. Before the time of his sickness and death he had no exposure to Christianity at all. Everything he learned during those three days in the grave was new to his mind.

In a bid to get his message out to as many people as possible, this modern-day Lazarus began distributing audio and video cassette tapes with his story on them. The police and Buddhist authorities in Myanmar have done their utmost to gather these tapes up and destroy them. The testimony you have just read has been translated form one of those cassette tapes. We are told it is now quite dangerous for citizens of Myanmar to be in possession of these tapes.

His fearless testimony has landed him in prison at least once, where the authorities failed in their bid to silence him. Upon his release he continued to testify of the things he saw and heard. His current whereabouts are uncertain. One Burmese informant told us he is prison and may have been killed, while another informant was told he is now released from prison and is continuing his ministry.

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Hi Kie Kie,
Sorry I didn't get back to you again. As discussed, I needed a 250W. By my calculations the 230W with the specifications you gave didn't quite suit

Cheers

bodejohn: The Voc of the new panels should be a close match of the existing ones.
What size of panels in Watts are you planning to buy? I will suggest you get another 230 or 250watts panel even if it is of a different brand.
Otherwise you will be loosing power again, Do not forget about the non critical loads that you need to shed especially at night.

Hi, its a 260W panel. I thought it was the Vmp that needed consideration. The Voc difference is 6.5V. Is that close or not? Will it work?
If that is not close, what is the impact if I mix the panels please?

Sure I have noted the comment on reducing the load at night

Cheers

Hi @Bode,
Thanks for the feedback. I already made plans for 3 panels. Also going through the MPPT manual, it is obvious I have to use 2 x 2 string configuration for higher efficiency (considering the Vmp of the panels) --> which aligns with your recommendation
The 3 panels I'm getting though is not same match as the existing ones (the very ones I bought are not in stock). So I will end up having one string of 2 different panels. Based on my findings, the current of the lower rated panel will be used (for series connection) while the difference will be 'wasted' power.
I can cope with that for now till I can get raise money for another set (and hopefully find a match)

@abunafiu Thanks too. Like it has been said in the past, very little things can make a huge difference. I had neglected taking these readings till late. Hopefully with this coming Sallah holidays, I will have time add 3 panels

Hi,
I do not the RS323 connection to PC. I have to manually note down the stat figure on the controller. Attached is 8 days data.

Obviously my batteries deplete beyond recommended threshold. But I want to confirm, for a 48V battery system, taking the DoD into consideration, are saying that the batteries should not go beyond what? [3 x 24v x 250W panels; 4 x 200AH x 12v batteries ]

abunafiu: too bad....not at this time....one of my four batteries is dying.......

colleagues...SOS.....ASAP.

Wow! What happened? Thought you bought new batteries a while ago? Or did you have mixed batteries?
Sorry about the loss.

I installed the Battery-Life-Saver. -- > http://www.amazon.com/Battery-Life-Saver-BLS-48A-Rejuvenator/dp/B006X1Y1BY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1381490304&sr=8-3&keywords=Battery+Life+Saver+BLS-48A

Maybe that why my batteries are still OK in-spite of the frequent drains on on them.

George_D: totalgreen,
when it comes to mppt configuration for solar panels, the 3 by 3 rule is not cast in stone. the most important thing to bear in mind is the vmp of the combined panels in relation to your charge controller voltage efficiency benchmarks. that is why it is always very important to read up documentations for any product you use. depending on the charge controller's operating voltage range, you may even have to combine up to four panels in some cases (especially for those panels that have very low vmp). in the same vein, you may only need to combine 2 panels when using high voltage panels.
if you check your tristar mppt 60 oem documentation (page 62), you'll notice from the voltage efficiency curve that you actually get about 99 percent conversion efficiency at 52v vmp. anything after 98v vmp, you may be just wasting precious power. i believe different controllers have their own unique best operating vmp range and it is very important to ascertain this compared to the specs of your panels.
some time ago, i experimented with the 3 by 3 configuration for my back facing solar panels and after a couple of months, i was forced to revert back to my 2 by 2 formation as i discovered that my high voltage solar panels far exceeded the recommended best operating vmp range for the tristar 48v system settings and i was just losing power daily if i stuck to that configuration.

http://www.morningstarcorp.com/en/support/library/TSMPPT.IOM.EN.04.pdf

Actually this post hit the nail on the head regarding the strings of panels configuration to use

More on Monocrystalline vs Polycrystalline Photovoltaic Cells:

Basic Anatomy of a PV cell

Pure Silicon
A lump of pure silicon

The main ingredient in most photovoltaic cells is silicon – the same element that makes computer chips possible. Silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, but unfortunately it is normally found in the form of silica (the chemical symbol for silica is SiO2) – you might know it as sand.

Various methods exist to extract the pure silicon, but the most common is carbothermic reduction, where the silica is heated to 1700°C in the presence of carbon. As the silicon cools it forms crystals.

The speed at which the silicon cools is one of the critical factors that determine the crystal size: the slower the silicon cools, the larger the crystals. With care the silicon can be extracted as one large crystal. As you might imagine, that’s more difficult, which means it’s more expensive.

The difference between monocrystalline vs polycrystalline solar cells is simply that one is produced from a single crystal of silicon and the other is produced from a piece of silicon consisting of many crystals.

Practical Differences

So what is the impact on cell performance?

Since polycrystalline cells contain many crystals, they have a less perfect surface than monocrystalline cells. This means that they absorb slightly less solar energy and produce slightly less electricity per square metre. On the plus side, the process of creating the silicon for a polycrystalline cell is much simpler, so these cells are generally cheaper per square metre.

On balance, the cost of monocrystalline vs polycrystalline based panels per Watt of power output works out about the same, but the polycrystalline panels will be slightly larger than equivalent monocrystalline panels. This is generally not a problem unless you have a very limited area available for the installation, in which case you will want to maximise the power output per square metre.

Monocrystalline and polycrystalline can also look different. Monocrystalline cells will usually have a perfectly uniform appearance, but polycrystalline cells will appear “grainy” – think of how a granite worktop looks and you’ll get the idea. From a distance this will not be noticeable, so if they are going on your roof this is unlikely to worry you.

So which should I choose?

At the end of the day, unless you are very space constrained, your choice of panel will probably be dictated by factors other than whether they are made up of mono or polycrystalline cells.

The price per Watt is an important factor, and that is largely unaffected by the choice of monocrystalline versus polycrystalline cells. In some circumstances, the area available for the installation may be a factor that pushes you to go for monocrystalline cells.

But the most important thing is to make sure that you choose a reputable installer and manufacturer. Your panels will most likely give you many years of trouble free operation, but for your own peace of mind you will probably want to choose a manufacturer that is likely to be around for long enough to honour the terms of the guarantee – which may be up to 25 years!

Source; https://solarjuice.com/blog/pv-panels/monocrystalline-vs-polycrystalline/

@ Abunafiu - Thanks for the suggestion. I already decided to add 3 more panels anyway. I will search for the post on 2 x 2 configuration. May be I can still apply it with the six panels.....

@ Pheleix: Again Thanks. I appreciate...

@BodeJohn - Thanks for the feedback. I do understand the implications to the batteries which is why I'm planning for upgrade. I still get power from the Grid some-days in a week though, with some supplements from the GEN. The inverter beeps on days that we don't get grid power and no fuel for GEN .

@Pheleix - Thanks too. I actually got same figures for total Battery need. I thought I needed to add few more panels to my array but needed to confirm before I proceed.

So for a start, I'm going for 3 x 24v x 250W panels. May settle for Joy panels since it seems to enjoy more followership

Am sorry guys I need help here. What exactly do I need to upgrade? My battery bank or my solar panels:

I have a bank of 200AH battery x 4 in series connected to 48v Sukam with 3 x 250W x 24v solar panel in series connected to 45A MPPT controller.
Total load = 850W

What is obtained now: On a day with full sunlight and no PHCN: From 8am to 6pm Inverter is on with about 400W of load. Load increases from 6pm to full load (850W) inverter beeps (shuts down) by 7.30 or 8pm.

What I want to achieve: Even though I know half of of the load is off for about 6hrs (8am - 2pm), assuming a full load at 15 hrs (8am - 11pm), what do I need to upgrade add more batteries or more panels? How many? Please assist with calculation.