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Thursday, June 20, 2013
FOR YOUR SUCCESS
WITH DR. DEJI FOLUTILE
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Oh man! There is no planet sun or star that could hold you, if you but knew what you are. – Ralph Waldo Emerson * * * The Power Of Identity The secret of dominion is in knowing who you really are. The battles of life come to us mainly to make us doubt our identity in God. Once you lose a sense of who you are, failure is inevitable. There is no greater revelation than to know that you are created in the image of God; that you are a spark of the divine! And that you are a piece of the MASTER. It is the I AM THAT DETERMINES THE I CAN! (Please meditate on this). We must do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to realize our identity in order to emerge winners in the numerous battles of life. When you know who you are, nothing and no one can intimidate you. TEL 08104942999 E-MAIL deji.folutile@gmail.com Follow me @TwitterOWOTIDE
After crash crash, Australian woman has French accent
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n Australian woman is believed to be suffering from foreign accent syndrome, one of the rarest syndromes in the world, abc. net.au reports. The woman, Leanne Rowe, was involved in a serious car crash eight years ago. While healing
from her wounds, including a broken jaw, Rowe began to speak in what sounded like a French accent. At first, doctors and family assumed the injury to her jaw was to blame. But, even now, eight years later, the accent has stuck, according to Reuters.
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Oddities
Drunk allegations halt Ukraine parliament budget hearing
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parliamentary hearing on Ukraine’s budget was suspended on Tuesday when opposition deputies alleged that a deputy finance minister presenting the budget report was drunk. Anatoly Myarkovsky, first deputy finance minister, spoke for 10 minutes on the government’s budget performance in 2012. But when questions were invited, deputies from Ukraine’s rowdy opposition called out “He’s drunk”. One shouted: “Anyone within five metres can tell he reeks of someone who has been drinking vodka. Mr. Speaker, go and sniff for yourself.” Speaker Volodymyr Rybak declined, saying it was not up to him to check on the behaviour of government officials or deputies. But he sus-
pended the budget hearing until it had been clarified whether Myarkovsky had been under the influence or not. Myarkovsky himself left the chamber as Rybak was speaking. There was no formal word from his office. A deputy from the ruling Regions party,
Volodymyr Makeyenko, sprang to Myarkovsky’s defence. “There wasn’t any smell of alcohol coming from the deputy minister. I have known him for 20 years and he’s a responsible person - these allegations are just an attempt by the opposition to undermine (parliamentary) proceed-
ings,” he told journalists. Ukraine’s parliament, where the Regions party holds a small majority against a boisterous opposition which is seeking the release of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from jail, is often a theatre for physical tussles and fist-fights among deputies.
Anatoly Myarkovsky (C), first deputy finance minister, delivers a speech while opposition deputies react next to speaker’s rostrum during a session of the parliament in Kiev. PHOTO: REUTERS