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Pastor Rick Warren and his wife, Kay, said in their first interview with the media since their son's suicide more than five months ago that they knew all along that the day would come when they would become spokespeople for mental illness.
The Warrens told CNN's Piers Morgan during a taped broadcast of his show that aired Tuesday evening that they kept their son's lifelong struggles with mental disease out of the public eye for the sake of his dignity.
In response to Morgan's question about whether he should have done more as "Rick Warren, America's pastor" about the issue of mental health before their son, Matthew, took his life, Warren replied, "We've always known since Matthew has lived his entire life with mental illness that one day we would be spokespeople for mental illness. Kay and I have known this for years and years.
"The reason we were quiet was primarily to protect Matthew's dignity. It was his story to tell," Warren said. "We were always praying that either A, he would be healed miraculously, or B, will get treatment, therapy, medicine that helps him manage his disease for the rest of his life, and then he can tell this story."
Matthew Warren died at the age of 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 5. The Warrens, who are the founders of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., decided to grant the interview in recognition of National Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 8-14) and in an effort to help remove the stigma of mental illness.
On the subject of keeping their son's mental illness private, Kay Warren said, "We didn't want him to endure the scrutiny that's being thrown at Rick. He was already struggling. To be in the public spotlight, have people scrutinize him … he didn't need that."
When asked how they would like Matthew to be remembered, Kay Warren said, "…We put on his marker, 'compassionate warrior,' and that pretty much sums him up, his deep compassion."
Warren added, "We've probably received over 30,000 letters of condolences. The letters that have meant most to me were from the people that Matthew had led to faith in Christ. That they are going to be in heaven because of him, and [writing]: 'I know the Lord. I have a relationship with Jesus because of your son over the years.'"
The gut-wrenching interview with Morgan, including tears from the couple during several of their answers, also featured discussion about the several stages of grief.
"I've said almost from the start, that we are devastated, but not destroyed," Kay Warren said. "We are going to survive and someday we'll thrive again. [However], it is the worst thing that could ever happen."
source: www.wisesolod..in/2013/09/rick-kay-warren-kept-sons-mental.html

American pastor Saeed Abedini is reportedly being tortured in an Iranian prison as an appeal against his 8-year sentence is being filed.
"When I heard this from my husband, I cried. It broke my heart. Behind those walls he feels helpless and relies on us to be his voice. It is so easy to feel forgotten in the walls of the prison. Please help me make sure he is never forgotten," Pastor Abedini's wife, Naghmeh, told the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) after visiting her husband on Monday.
The ACLJ, which is representing Naghmeh and the couple's two children in the U.S., added in a media statement that Abedini remains cut off from speaking with his family following the trial in January. He was arrested in September 2012 during one of his many visits to his place of birth while working on an orphanage, and has been imprisoned ever since.
After what was described as a "sham" trial, the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran deemed Abedini guilty of "threatening the national security" of Iran for helping underground Christian churches in his home country in 2000, the same year he converted from Islam to Christianity. His lawyer in Iran has filed an appeal against the sentence.
The 32-year-old pastor had been allowed to speak with his wife periodically over the phone, but even now those sparse phone calls have been prohibited. Naghmeh said that she does not know when or if they will ever hear his voice again.
"We continue our work here at home and around the world to bring attention to Pastor Saeed's case and generate global pressure on Iran to release him," said Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the ACLJ
"Pastor Saeed has not been forgotten. While Pastor Saeed's family was able to inform him of some of the ongoing efforts for his release, there is more we can and must do to secure his freedom," Sekulow added.
John Kerry, the new U.S. Secretary of State, and several other U.S. agencies have condemned Iran for its imprisonment and unjust trial of Abedini and called for his release.
"We remain deeply concerned about the fairness and transparency of Mr. Abedini's trial," Kerry told Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) when asked for his response to Abedini's case last week. "I, along with the U.S. government, condemn Iran's continued violation of the universal right of freedom of religion and call on the Iranian authorities to respect Mr. Abedini's human rights and release him."
While the ACLJ have praised Kerry comments, it continues to urge people to sign a petition calling for the release of the American pastor, showing him that he has not been forgotten and the efforts to free him continue.
Source: www.wisesolod..in/2013/09/pastor-saeed-abedini-tortured-feeling_17.html

Self Esteem is how you define or rate yourself by which other value or rate you. It is how you rate yourself using your background,uniqueness,abilities,potential,country,family,Educational level e.t.c as parameters.
Many people have low or no self Esteem about themselves they believe that because they are from a poor background,country,family or lack of Education an so on, they feel inferior to others.
If you go on social networks now how days, many give wrong infromations about themselves.They change their name,location and even the schools they attend and where they work.They change it to other places(e.g london) and change the names of the school or universities they attend to other schools(e.g oxford.
Whether you like it or not without those institutions,that background,your family you won't be were you are.
The main reason of low self esteem among people (teenages) is that they are ashamed of their background,educational levelfamily. It makes them feel inferior to their peers from rich families making them not to be pround of where they are from.
Just follow these tips to build and to increase your self esteem:
1.Be pround of where you are from;No matter how bad a place is,it still has it good side.
2.Be confident in yourself;Trying to be like someone else is a waste of one's self.
3.Believe in yourself;Everybody has their own special abilities and potential,you just need to show it.
4.Have a relationship with God;Everybody,small or big need a higher power to strengthen them.
5.Your background,family,educational level;Use these as a yardstick for your upliftment.
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Nigeria's second-highest ranking Anglican archbishop was kidnapped at the weekend outside the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, a police spokeswoman said.
"Archbishop Ignatius Kattey was kidnapped along with his wife around Eleme (outside Port Harcourt) at about 10:45pm (2145 GMT) on Friday," spokeswoman Angela Agabe told AFP.
"His wife was later abandoned in the bush by their abductors."
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A window into the remarkable leadership and ministry of the Al-Dubara Evangelical Church in downtown Cairo, Egypt, was opened when the Arab Spring blew across Tahrir Square right into the palaceof President Mubarak. Overthe coming months, the media trained their camerason a city church surprising the world. The Al-Dubara Evangelical Church was turned into a field hospital for the injured, welcomed young revolutionaries and offered counsel and encouragement amid chaos.
To radical Islamists, the church's pastor Dr. Sameh Maurice spoke wise words, and to the bereaved, he spoke words of comfort. Maurice, an evangelical pastor in Cairo, sat down with Brian Stiller, the globalambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance and a senior editorial advisor to The Christian Post, in late January in a conference center outside of Cairo, fora conversation about his church's active role in the recent revolution in Egypt, the improved relationship between the Coptic Church and evangelicals since the revolution, and the respectMuslims now have for the Church.
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Humility is the quality of being humble while ability is the power to do something or having a talent. Our abilities that is doings thingsthat we are capable of doing we bring men to us,the more your abilities or the more skillful you are,the more people will be attracted to you naturally. The turth is that no body wants to associate with someone who has nothing to offer.everybody no matter how small it is has somethingto offer,all we have to do is to harness our abilities and make them count.So if you want the attention of bees get the honeycomb. Our humility draw us closer to God.having low opinion aboutourselves we draw us closerto God. When men come to usdue to our abilities we need God to keep them. Ability without humility will only lead to disgrace.So get ability andhumility because you need them for your upliftment.
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Prayer can only yield result with the aid of prophetic attitudes.Not all attitude are prophetic.Some are meant to frustrate prophecy while others are meant to enhancethe manifestation of e xpectation.Prophetic attitudecan therefore be defined as attitudes that are in line withwhat God expects of those who are looking up to him forsomething.Are you praying and looking up to God for something? If you are,here are some prophetic attitude you must portray and manifest;
1. An attitude of praise and thanksgiving:Romans 4:20 says 'his faith did not leave him,and he did not doubt God's promise,his faith filled him with power,and he gave praise toGod'.This was Abraham evenafter twenty years and God'spromise has not be fulfill,he still have faith because he knew that God never fails and this kind of attitude that Abraham has made his dreamcome to pass.Philippian 4:6 portray the kind of attitude we should have as christains.
2. An attitude of faith and patienceHebrew 10:35-36 tells us about not lossing our patience and confidents in God.we should have an attitude of faith that God is capable of doing all things.
3. An attitude of love and commitment to divine purpose amidst all oddsNo matter our trials and temptation we should always be forcus on divine purpose.Psalm 44:17-18
4. An attitude of obedience to divine instructionObey the instructions God gives to you,no matter how difficult it is.
An attitude of positive confessionlet your confession always be positive in all you do.Never give a negative confession. Job 22:29
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1. To be prayerful and still be having an attitude problem is to delay the manifestation of your expectation
2.Prayer will transport your needs to God while prophetic attitude will transport the answers to your needs to you
3. It is possible to be praying for something and still be delaying it's manifestation by your attitude

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Vision is your targets,dream,goals what you want to achieve.
while wisdom is what you need to do to achieve that vision.
many of us have good visions,big dreams.but we lack the wisdom to do this things,believe it or not if you....click link to read on http:// /kbpt5rj

For a new addicted android user, battery life became a serious issue. At default setting, Android need more power than it should be. So, we must make new adjusment to our Android.
1.
Adjust screen brightness
Change your screen brightness can save a lot ofpower. Change brightness level to lowest acceptable level.
*.Go to Setting
*.Select Display
*.Choose brightnes
2.
Disable WiFi when you don`t use it
Turn On WiFi in non Wifi / hotspot area makes our phone at always searching state and it will consume ourbattery life span. Turn Off the Wifi
*.Go to setting
*.Select Wireless & Network settings
*.Turn Off Wifi
3.
Disable Bluetooth when you don`t use it
If you don`t use wireless headset, there is no reasonyou turn on the bluetooth. Just turn them off.
*.Go to setting
*.Select Wireless & Network settings
*.Turn Off bluetooth
4.
Disable Application that sync constantly
Push E-mail and social networking require connection that means need looking for nearest Wifi or using a sim card. If it`s not to important to get constant update, do manualy or set sycn less.
For email:
*.Open Email Application
*.Go to Account setting
*.Change Check Email Frequency
For social network it`s almost same with email, just change the refresh interval/update interval
5.
Disable GPS location
Not only for navigation, application like twitter or weather using gps too. This will suck your battery.
*.Go to setting
*.Select Location & security setting
*.Turn off GPS satellite (when you dont need it)
6.
Disable Animated Wallpaper
7.
Disable Unused Home screen Widget
8.
Disable or remove unecessary applications
9.
Keep Battery from heat
Additional Note:
Some people suggest using Airplane mode, it`s okey that if you want no body to bothering you. In Airplane mode not only Wifi and bluetooth had been turn off, but also prevent in and out going call or message.
Andabsolutely not to using task killers.http://eagleclopedia..in/2013/06/maximizing-android-battery-life.html

Google’sAndroidOperating System in Mobile phones are still relatively new, however,AndroidOperating System hasbeen progressing quite rapidly. Conceived as a counterpoint IOS,Androidis a graph showing a significant development, it certainly can not be separated from supports major mobile phone manufacturers who participated to bring mobile-phone operating system Android.
Advantage Android
1.Multitasking– Yups, Androidphones can run many applications, it means you can browse, Facebook while listened to the song.
2.Ease of Notification– Any SMS, Email, or even the latest articles from an RSS Reader, there will always bea notification on the Home Screen Android phone, do not miss the LED indicator is blinking, so you will not missa single SMS, Email or even Misscall .
3.Easy access to thousands of applications via the Google Android Android App Market– When you love to install applications or games, through Google’s Android App Market, Agan can download applications for free. There are many thousands of applications and games that are ready for download on Android phones You.
4.Phone options are diverse– Talk Android phone, it will feel ‘different’ than the IOS, if the IOS is limited to the iPhone from Apple, then Android is available on mobile phones from various manufacturers, from Sony Ericsson, Motorola, HTCto Samsung. And each handsetmanufacturer also presents an Android phone in the style of each, such as Motorola with its Motoblur, Sony Ericsson with its Timescape. So You can freely choose the Android phone in accordance with the ‘brand’ favorite.
5.Can install a modified ROM– not satisfied with the standard view of Android, do not worry there are many custom ROM that can be used in your mobile phones Android .
6.Widget– absolutely right, with the widgets on the homescreen, You can easily access a variety of settingsquickly and easily.
7.Google Maniac– If you are aloyal user of Google services ranging from Gmail to Google Reader Android phone has integrated with Google services, so you canquickly check e-mail from Gmail.
Disadvantage Android
1.Continuous Internet connection– Yups, most Android phones require a simultaneous Internet connection alias continuously active. that means must be prepared to subscribe Agan GPRS packetthat suits your needs.
2.Advertising– Application in the Android phones can indeed be obtained easily and for free, but the consequences in each of these applications, will always be ads on display, either the top or bottom of the application.http://eagleclopedia..in/2013/06/advantages-and-disadvantages-android.html

Facebook has been on a cloning tear recently.
On Thursday, the social media company announced that its photo app Instagramwas adding support for 15-second videos, a la Twitter's hit Vine app.
There are a few minor differences: Vine is only 6 seconds; Instagram has filters; Vine loops; Instagram lets you delete a clip. But they are essentiallythe same tool.
This is not the first time Facebook has tried replicating another company's features. It imitated Foursquare with its Places check-ins, Instagram with the Camera app, Twitterwith profiles you can follow and Snapchat with the Poke app. Last week, Facebook finally added hashtags, another creation started on Twitter, though the outrage seems to be more that it took so long.
While perhaps disappointing, it is unsurprising that a minor feature gets so much media coverage (Yes. This is my third article on the topic). Facebook has more than a billion users around the world. Instagram says 130 million people use the photo-sharing service every month, and most will be excited to get a cool newfeature like video. In just 24hours, 5 million videos wereuploaded to the service, according to Instagram.
What happens on these tools, even when they are tiny, has an immediate impact on a huge amount of people.
"Facebook is a very important company in the world," said Brian Singerman, a partner at the Founders Fund investment firm. "Anything Facebook does impacts a billion people. That in and of itself,becoming a communications platform for a billion people, is a pretty impressive feat in the world."
The small features can also have big effects for the company itself. Originality is risky, and Facebook is now a public company tasked with making investors money after a particularly harrowing first year on the stock market.
For Facebook, advertising, particularly on mobile devices, is where that money will come from. In 2012, 84% of Facebook's revenue came from advertising, and videos aregoing to play a bigger role in future online advertising revenue.
There are no paid ads on Instagram, but it is very brand-savvy. A handful of major companies seem to have been given early access to the new feature and posted promotional videos on the service. Major companies to post such videos include Burberry, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Gap and MTV.http://eagleclopedia..in/2013/06/why-facebook-is-cloning-ideas.html

witnessed a spate of attacks by militants targeting members of Pakistan's Shi'ite minority in recent years.
It was the first timeforeign tourists hadbeen attacked in the province, which is famous for its natural beauty.
Pakistan receives few foreign tourists, but a trickle of visitors is tempted by the spectacular mountain scenery inits northern areas, where the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalaya mountain ranges converge.http://eagleclopedia..in/2013/06/gunmen-kill-touristsin-pakistan.html

From CNN. Michael Jackson died while preparing to set a world record for the most successful concert run ever, but he unknowingly set another record that led to his death.
Jackson may be the only human ever to go two months without REM -- RapidEye Movement -- sleep, which is vital to keep the brain and body alive. The 60 nights of propofol infusions Dr. Conrad Murray said he gave Jackson to treat his insomnia is something a sleep expert says no one had ever undergone.
Propofol disrupts the normalsleep cycle and offers no REM sleep, yet it leaves a patient feeling refreshed as if they had experienced genuine sleep, according to Dr. Charles Czeisler, a Harvard Medical School sleep expert testifying at the wrongful death trial of concert promoter AEG LIve.
If the singer had not died onJune 25, 2009, of an overdose of the surgical anesthetic, the lack of REM sleep may have soon taken his life anyway, according toan opinion by Czeisler.
Lab rats die after five weeks of getting no REM sleep, he said. It was never tried on a human until Dr. Murray gave Michael Jackson nightly propofol infusions for two months.
Czeisler -- who serves as a sleep consultant to NASA, the CIA and the Rolling Stones -- testified Thursday that the "drug induced coma" induced by propofol leaves a patient with the same refreshed feeling of a good sleep, but without the benefits that genuine sleep delivers in repairing brain cells and thebody.
"It would be like eating somesort of cellulose pellets instead of dinner," he said. "Your stomach would be fulland you would not be hungry, but it would be zerocalories and not fulfill any ofyour nutrition needs."
Depriving someone of REM sleep for a long period of time makes them paranoid, anxiety-filled, depressed, unable to learn, distracted, and sloppy, Czeisler testified. They lose their balance and appetite, while their physical reflexes get 10 times slower and their emotional responses 10 times stronger, he said.
Those symptoms are strikingly similar to descriptions of Jackson in his last weeks as described in e-mails from show producers and testimony by witnesses in the trial.
Jackson's mother and children are suing AEG Live, contending the company is liable in his death because ithired, retained or supervised Dr. Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. They argue the promoter pressured Dr. Murray to getJackson to rehearsals, whilefailing to get Jackson help despite numerous red flags warning that he was in trouble.http://eagleclopedia..in/2013/06/michael-jackson-went-60-days-without.html

A raft of new Samsung products include the convertible Ativ Q tablet andlaptop that runs both Windows an Android.
The device is the technologyindustry’s latest bid to combine laptop with tablet, and works in four different configurations.
“Addressing a common desire among PC users to beable to access Android apps on a Windows-based PC, theATIV Q allows you to now experience both Windows 8 and Android Jellybean 4.2.2 on the same device,” Samsung said. “Not only will you get access to Android apps via Google Play, but you will also be able to transfer files or share folders and files from Windows 8 to Android.”A range of manufacturers including Lenovo and Dell have offered combined tablets and laptops, while Acer has also developed devices running both Windows and Android.
The hinged Ativ Q allows users to lay the display flat over the keyboard for tabletmode; raise the display upright to type as on a laptop; ‘float’ and adjust thedisplay to a comfortable viewing angle; or flip the display to place in the stand mode to watch movies. It weighs 1.29kg and measuresonly 13.9mm, while offering what Samsung claims is the world’s highest resolution, QHD+ display. It uses 3200x1800pixels, with a 13.3-inch touch screen providing 275ppi, which is 2.8 times higher pixel density.
Other devices announced bySamsung included the successor to the Series 9 laptop, the Ativ Book 9 Plus, featuring a similar resolutiondisplay but in a standard Windows 8 touchscreen laptop format and claiming 12hours of battery life in a 1.39kg package. The cheaper Ativ Book 9 Lite offers a touchscreen as an optional extra.
Samsung's Galaxy S4 Zoom features an optical zoom on a Galaxy S4 Mini body
Samsung also announced a new all-in-one PC, the Ativ One5, and a Windows 8 tablet called the Ativ Tab 3. It also confirmed the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom camera and introduced an Android-powered, 4G-enabled interchangeable lens 20.3MP camera called the Galaxy NX.
The Galaxy NX offers Android and interchangeable lenses
Pricing and availability were not confirmed.http://eagleclopedia..in/