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Thank you all for your prayers and love.
Archive for the 'Grace' Category
Learning to love my neighborSeptember 16, 2011
Pray for JapanMarch 15, 2011
Here are my thoughts on the recent tragedy in Japan.
I've got to ramble onOctober 14, 2010
Sometime I suppose I will write a review on it, but there are many out there… and the negative ones, really… don't bother…. They are simply unable to release God to be God and seek to use their theology to put people who the book is freeing in bondage to religion. As I realized on my new job when a person called and asked me to fix his account and while I was doing so go angry with me and cursed me and then hung up… you can only help people as much as they let you… you or I cannot control anyone else. In fact if you do, then you are being God in their life and usurping God from doing His job… in fact you are trying to create that other person in YOUR image instead of letting the Holy Spirit transform them into the Image of Jesus… think about that for a while… if you disagree, the really, may God help you realize what you are doing.
If you want some great new music… try out Robert Plant's Band of Joy album… some great surprises on that release… in fact been listening to it as I wrote this… it may become habit forming. http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=iggyrocks-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003NWS5AO&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
Well, as you can see this is sort of a rambling post… maybe after this one, I can get more focused…
Is the Tithe an act of worship or bringing on a curse of the Law?July 6, 2010
Happy Father Day… even for the fatherless…June 18, 2010
Two things I have learned that have helped my faith.April 26, 2010

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Tuesday's Big East home opener against Pittsburgh was hardly the first game this Georgetown team has struggled to score, but it was the first in which its defense faltered as well.
Against a tough-nosed squad of scrappers who came off the bench in waves, the 19th-ranked Hoyas fell behind by 15 points at halftime. The deficit would later reach 30 as fans vented their frustration at officials before heading for the exits, and Coach John Thompson III was called for a technical foul.
The result was a 73-45 defeat that Thompson characterized as "embarrassing" and left Georgetown (10-3, 0-2) among just three Big East teams without a conference victory, along with South Florida and Providence.
The 28-point loss was the most lopsided in Thompson's tenure on the Hilltop and Georgetown's largest margin of defeat since a 104-71 loss to Maryland on Dec. 10, 1974.
In many respects, it underscored the shortcomings of the young Hoyas squad that were foreshadowed throughout the nonconference season: sub-par rebounding, a thin bench and erratic shooting.
It was the fourth game — and second consecutive — in which Georgetown scored fewer than 50 points, coming on the heels of Saturday's 49-48 defeat at Marquette. Against Pittsburgh, not a single Hoya managed double figures.
But in other respects, the game revealed shortcomings that were uncharacteristic of the Hoyas, such as lax defense and careless ballhandling.
Georgetown shot just 35 percent from the field while allowing Pitt to connect of 55 percent of its attempts. And the Hoyas finished with more turnovers (17) than field goals (13).
"Our defense was nowhere near where it has been all year," Thompson said. "It's embarrassing. This group has not responded like we did today. . . . I know this isn't who we are. But tonight was very disappointing."
Pitt (13-2, 1-2) was led by Talib Zanna (Bishop McNamara), who scored a game-high 15, and got 11 points and seven assists from Tray Woodall.
Pitt outrebounded Georgetown 32-23, outscored the Hoyas in the paint 30-16 and got more production from its bench (26 points to 15).
"Come on, Hoyas! You're better than this!" yelled one Georgetown fan after Pitt stretched its lead to 18 on yet another hard-fought, second-chance basket.
Looking on from the bench was the Hoyas' latest recruit and a key hope for next season, former UCLA center Josh Smith, a 6-foot-10, 300-plus-pound junior who has enrolled for the spring semester and will be eligible to compete beginning second semester of the 2013-14 season.
Assuming Smith can get his weight under control, he should bring a strong inside presence to the Hoyas. A former McDonald's all-American, he was ranked among the nation's top five center prospects in the 2010 recruiting class by various scouting services, with ESPN anointing him No. 1 at his position. But his production in college fell as he struggled with his weight and fitness.
Georgetown entered Tuesday's game with a reputation for stingy defense. But Pitt was far more active and intense from the tipoff.
Junior Nate Lubick hammered away at Zanna's tight coverage to get the first basket. After more than eight minutes of play, Lubick was still the only player to score for the Hoyas, who trailed 14-4.
Trailing 22-12, Thompson brought 6-9, 250-pound Moses Ayegba off the bench for Mikael Hopkins, who had picked up two early fouls.
But Pitt kept rolling, raining three-pointers over Hoyas defenders, blowing past for dunks and tip-ins and, when all lanes seemed blocked, firing backdoor passes that made their way to the basket to.
The result was a 37-22 Pittsburgh lead at the break, with Pitt notching 11 assists on 15 field goals. Georgetown, by contrast, made just six field goals while turning the ball over nine times in the half.


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The Texas Transportation Commission has approved $8 million for five upcoming projects in Jefferson County, reports Sarah Dupre of the Texas Department of Transportation.
According to Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)spokesperson Sarah Dupre, Texas Sterling Construction Company has been named as the new contractor on the Concord Road project in Beaumont's North End.
Travelers and commuters who work in downtown Beaumont may have noticed the onramp leading from downtown to eastbound Interstate 10 is closed. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, it will remain that way for several months.
The Texas Transportation Commission approved funds for multiple Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) projects, some affecting Orange, Jefferson and Hardin counties, at its monthly meeting Dec.
With New Year's Eve parties and holiday get-togethers on the minds of many Southeast Texans, the Texas Department of Transportation, along with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Beaumont Police, the Department of Public Safety, and other local emergency response personnel would like to remind event-goers of the dangers of dri
Nov. 1, Texas voters passed Proposition 1, the amendment authorizing annual disbursements from the state's oil and gas production tax collections to the State Highway Fund — an estimated $1.7 billion in the first year alone. In Jefferson County, the proposition passed with 84 percent for and 15 percent against.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) joined by the Kountze Chamber of Commerce, elected officials, bike enthusiasts and community members Friday, Oct. 17, celebrated the opening of the long-awaited Hardin County Hike and Bike Trail.
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TxDOT reports the intersection of intersection of FM366 and SH347 in Port Neches has reopened. TxDOT urges drivers to please continue to use caution and not to drive into standing water.
Sarah Dupre of TxDOT identified flooded areas in a press release at 9:30 a.m. Friday, July 18, 2014.
According to the information in the release, the Beaumont Police Department reports flooding along Eastex Freeway frontage roads and underpasses. Many sections of MLK are also under water.
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As Hitler himself wrote:
"The main plank in the Nationalist Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood." (4)
"The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures. This preservation itself comprises first of all existence as a race… Thus, the highest purpose of a folkish state is concern for the preservation of those original racial elements which bestow culture and create the beauty and dignity of a higher mankind. We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which… assures the preservation of this nationality…" (5)
"The German Reich as a state must embrace all Germans and has the task, not only of assembling and preserving the most valuable stocks of basic racial elements in this people, but slowly and surely of raising them to a dominant position."
This sound familiar? "It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions."
"In the years 1913 and 1914, I… expressed the conviction that the question of the future of the German nation was the question of destroying Marxism."
"The Jewish doctrine of Marxism rejects the aristocratic principle of Nature and replaces the eternal privilege of power and strength by the mass of numbers and their dead weight."
"1935 will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future." - Adolf Hitler
"The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling."
"The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude… For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute. As long as this appears to be lacking, what is present can be demolished only by fools or criminals."
"For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else he has no right to be in politics…"
You think that the word, "Socialist", was used on accident?
I suggest you read an actual history book, vice getting your historical facts from Libbo journalists and hearsay at the coffee shop.
There's stuff all over the net that shows that Hitler wasn't a Right Wing Conservative.
It's idiotic to think that he was.
Lincoln knew this, and almost every one of his advisors advised him not to. He started the war, intentionally, and the historical record is very clear. Even his own Party's newspapers said as much at the time. It's pretty tough to spend milllions of dollars on the military for months, refuse any attempts at resolution, commit deliberate acts of war and then proclaim innocence in starting one. Firing the first shot is completely irrelevant.
Nationalism is not a right wing monopoly. In fact, the Nazi Party embraced left wingers as well.
National Bolshevism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Practical Guide to Clinical Ethics Support
Section A: Appendices
Appendix A1 A first hand account of the expreience of ethics support in the United States.
Appendix A2 Clinical ethics committees and ethics consultation in German hospitals
Appendix A3 Issues for a CEC to consider when developing guidelines.
Appendix A4 The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust Clinical Ethics Advisory Group (CEAG) living wills.
Appendix A5 List of issues to consider when setting up a case consultation service.
Appendix A6 Protocol for emergency referrals to a clinical ethics committee.
Appendix A7 Report on the findings from the UK Clinical Ethics Network questionnaire, May 2003.
Appendix A8 Role of a clinical ethicist.
Appendix A9 Setting up a mental health trust clinical ethics committee.
Appendix A10 An example of a workshop outline used by one NHS Trust.
Appendix A11 Example terms of reference.
Appendix A12 Issues to consider when appointing lay members.
Appendix A13 An example of a proposal to a trust board for the setting up of a CEC.
Appendix A14 Pro forma referrals form.


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Viral Pic Truth : This is the Real Photograph of Indrani Mukerjea : Hey guys we are back some latest headline news about the politics, bollywood many more. There is the news which can agitates the people and the industry too. The Picture of Indrani Mukerjea got viral in the news channel and many more in area and source of fields.
In that picture, you will saw that Indrani mukherjee in their younger age picture in which she was just looking so young as compared to their earlier age And on the other hand you will saw that in their yet age.
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Not much cooking done in the last 2 days, as Miss Fish wants simple meals.
One of the things that she wanted to eat was prawns, she has followed my tastes in liking all things seafood, except raw oysters, so I can rely on her to eat seafood with me, where as Mr CLI only likes flake, he did eat oysters till he got a bad one from a restaurant and hasn't been able to at a oyster again.
So of to the shops yesterday I went and bought some cooked and peeled prawns. Which we are having for lunch as a prawn cocktail.
Now I don't use cream a lot in sauces but I just have to use it in the Rose Marie sauce, I have tried it with mayonnaise, but it didn't have the really nice mouth feel that cream gives you. I also only use iceberg lettuce very thinly sliced. You need the crispy crunch against the softness of the prawns.
Prawn Cocktail
iceberg lettuce, thinly sliced. peeled & cooked prawns, lemon wedges to garnish
Rose Marie Sauce - 1 cup cream, 2 tsps lemon juice, 1/4 tsp ground white pepper, 1 tbsp tomato sauce, tobasco sauce to taste
Mix together all sauce ingredients, taste adjust flavour as needed.
Place lettuce in the base of the serving bowl, I quite often use a martini glass to make it look more special. Place prawns on top, as many as you want, drizzle with sauce. Garnish with a lemon wedge.
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Sometimes it pays just to be thankful, and if you're in any rugby-related business you might be thankful for the perseverance of Jim Carlberg of Rugby America and Liquid Rugby.
It's been a little over a year now since Carlberg's battle with apparel monolith Polo Ralph Lauren (PRL) came to a head, but it's a story worth remembering in case it (inevitable) rears its head again.
It was 2004 when Polo opened their first Rugby stores. The stores used the name because the rugby shirt has long been a big part of the Polo line. Of course Polo doesn't have exclusive rights on a sport almost 200 years old … but they tried.
Within months Polo decided to take steps to garner exclusive rights to the word Rugby in apparel sales. They sent a cease and desist letter to Rugby America, telling them to stop selling products under the titles Rugby Girl, Rugby Since 1823, and others. Polo Ralph Lauren had already sued the United States Polo Association for trademark infringement (arguing that the sport's governing body should not be allowed to use a polo player on a horse as their logo, because PRL uses a horse), and they successfully prevented Old Navy from a rugby-related ad campaign, so Carlberg, who owns Rugby America and Liquid Rugby, knew they were serious.
Over the years the adversaries engaged each other. Barbarians Rugby Supply joined as defendants, and despite PRL's massive legal budget, they held firm.
Polo seemed to try to win these trademark cases by flooding the system with money. The more any legal action cost, the less likely a defendant would be to stick it out. The US Polo Association eventually won three out of four arguments – they USPA was forced to change one logo. Old Navy simply looked at their legal bill and settled.
But Carlberg et al. couldn't afford to settle or give up. Had they done so, it is quite possible that any rugby-related retailer or apparel seller would be prevented from using the word rugby in a trademark.
"No individual, family or small company should go through what we did, emotionally, financially and business wise. They drug me, my wife, my kids and my company through hell," says Carlberg.
In the end, Carlberg and Barbarians, both, ultimately, represented by
attorney Mark Weimelt, prevailed. The defendants ended up suing Polo for
fraud related to their original trademark application (they were looking
for attorneys fees, which they didn't get). RPL claimed the trademark for
Rugby on a wide variety of products and businesses, even products they
didn't make yet, and didn't seem to have plans to make. That was a Patent
and Trademark no-no – you have to at least make the thing you want to put
the trademark on, and Polo Ralph Lauren did not for many of the items on
their list.
The damage had been done.
PRL attorneys stated in court that they were disavowing any claims they made in their original cease and desist letters to Carlberg, and were backing away from the case altogether.
The US District Court of Southern New York dismissed all of Polo's claims, and they did it with prejudice, which means they can never sue Carlberg, Rugby America, Liquid Rugby or Barbarian on this matter again.
While that doesn't mean any other rugby-related retailer is immune from being sued by Polo Ralph Lauren, it does make it a whole lot harder for the retailing monolith.
"If we didn't hold our ground on our brands, PRL would own the word RUGBY,"
says Carlberg. "No other person or company would ever be able to brand
merchandise with the word rugby on it, which is basically a monopoly.
With the way our sport is growing in the US, Ralph Lauren would have
secured himself as the sport. No one would ever be able to sell to the
retail world, anything that has to do with our sport. We stood firm, won
our case, were awarded our trademarks, and can sell rugby branded apparel.
Plus along the lines, we established many 'legal time stamps' of use of our
brands from 1981 to present day."
And just to make sure, Carlberg's Illinois-basedcompany received confirmation from the US Patent and Trademark Office on a trademark for Rugby Girl on June 10, 2010 and Rugby Since 1823 on December 21, 2010.
Those notifications were the victory lap for the company.
"I've spent 29 years designing and printing rugby T-shirts," said Carlberg. "I'm now retired from playing. I coach high school and men's club rugby. I have three sons who all play rugby and I referee. No one ever goes into business only wanting to get so big, only wanting to sell so many 'widgets,' or wanting to be limited to who they can sell to. This is America, right? I always wanted to spread the word of our sport through our brands and designs.
"You will not believe what being in a lawsuit of this size can do to you. You can't borrow money; you can't grow. All expansion efforts had to be put on hold because anyone in the retail world who knew about the lawsuit wouldn't touch me with a 100-mile-long pole. Employees quit because they are unsure of the company's future. The domino effect is like something you have never seen.
"And then there is the mental aspect. I don't know how many times I almost gave up and started looking for a job, thinking this effort was ridiculous. Knowing in the back of my mind that I was right and that no one should be able to trademark the name of a sport, monopolize a sport or say who we can or can't sell to."


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The Fresno State Nursing Department is allowing degreed students from other fields of study to apply their current degree toward a nursing school program, allowing the student to fast track their way to a degree in nursing and possibly a brand new career path.
This is especially useful for professionals who may be having a hard time in their own field because of economic problems. The health field is teeming with opportunity and nursing shortages are happening all over the nation with no sign of relief in the near future. In short, the country needs new nurses and many professionals need a new job.
There is a catch.
While, the nursing school will allow any professional with a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree to apply for the program, the students will have a mere 18 months to successfully complete the program and be ready to test for certification as a registered nurse. That puts graduation at the end of next year in a program that would normally take three full years to complete with no preparatory degree in hand.
Once they pass the exam for registered nurses, they will begin working on a Masters Degree that will allow them some unique opportunities upon graduation.
Graduating from the nursing school with their former degree on their resumes and the master's degree, the students will be eligible to practice as a specialized nurse in a hospital setting as usual. But they will also be qualified to teach junior college level courses or go on to work in clinical courses at a college.
The program, which will be the third run for the nursing school, will begin in May and runs year round with very few breaks.


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White Mud Tours (May 2)
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White Mud Tours (May 2)
This week we were able to take several UAS staff on a tour of the UAS Freshman Housing project.
We were able see some of the work that was going on this week that included, pouring concrete wainscot walls, insulation in Hall I, installing hot water storage tank in the boiler room, sheet rocking fourth floor of Hall 1, White Mud & Taping of Floor 3 in Hall II and some spectacular views the Mendenhall Glacier.
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We stopped and talked to the Drywall Finishing crew and got a quick lesson on how to White Mud / Tape a sheet rock wall. For those of us who have tried to mud and tape a wall using only a putty knife, we were simply awe-struck with the automatic tape gun. This mechanical wonder holds the mud in a long tube and then a roll of tape at the end runs through the mud and onto the wall all in one motion. So you can White Mud and Tape a wall about as fast as you can move the tape gun across the joint. A job that would take me 20 minutes with a putty knife, only took our Drywall Finishing expert 30 seconds.
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Monday, July 13, 2015
Zipadee-Zip Giveaway
13 comments:
- Heather62 said...
I'd love to have a Birds of a Feather Zip-a dee-Zip for my grand niece. These look like a great piece to have.
- July 13, 2015 at 2:41 PM
- VickeC said...
Totally Teal
- July 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM
- Jessica said...
Love song birds! Great for swaddle transitioning!
- July 14, 2015 at 1:42 PM
- Vicky Smith said...
I would love to win a zippy, all my friends have one and since my little one will be 4 months soon I think swaddle transition is coming!
- July 14, 2015 at 3:37 PM
- Christine Roberson said...
I just bought my first zipadee-zip, and it has helped a lot with transitioning my 5.5 month old out of the swaddle. I was dreading the change because she never fell asleep without being completely swaddled and she always woke up right away any time she broke out of the swaddle. It took her a night to get used to the change, but now she's sleeping just as well as she did in the swaddle, which for us still means one middle-of-the-night feeding, but you won't hear any complaints in that regard! My current favorite is Enchanted Forest, though I also love some of the animal prints they've had in the past!!
- July 14, 2015 at 9:50 PM
- denisekonkel said...
Love love love Anchors Away!
- July 14, 2015 at 11:49 PM
- Natalie Christiansen said...
I just heard about these from a fellow mom and after looking into them I I want to try them! They seem like the perfect solution for the swaddle transition. I love the starry blues print and anchors away prints!
- July 16, 2015 at 9:33 PM
- Cass said...
it's so adorable . i like the giraffe jungle print. the turquoise print is cute too
- July 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM
- EmilyO said...
We are big fans of the Zippy in our house! Their new Mustache Mayhem print is adorable!
- July 17, 2015 at 2:19 PM
- EmilyO said...
We are big fans of the Zippy in our house! The new Mustache Mayhem print is adorable!
- July 17, 2015 at 2:20 PM
- Unknown said...
Love the anchors away!!
- July 18, 2015 at 1:56 PM
- Ashley Garrett Nolan said...
I'd love to try this out in a month or two when my little guy is done with the swaddle. I like the Anchors Away print!
- July 18, 2015 at 10:12 PM
- Nicole said...
I love the seahorses!
- July 25, 2015 at 8:32 AM


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Announcement In 30Hours, Alexis Sanchez To Wear The Number 7 Jersey
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Alexis Sanchez is set for a medical at Manchester United today, according to reports.
The Arsenal superstar has been strongly linked with a move to us over the past week with both teams agreeing a deal and the transfer appears imminent.
It has been reported that Henrikh Mkhitaryan will go in the opposite direction after a disappointing 18 months at Old Trafford.
The Mirror are today reporting that Alexis Sanchez will have his medical with Manchester United today after he left Arsenal's team hotel just before 11pm on Friday night, bound for Manchester. He had been expected to be part of the Arsenal matchday squad for today's thrashing of Crystal Palace at the Emirates.
This suggests that the deal could be completed as early as this weekend, making the 29-year-old available to face Yeovil Town in the FA Cup fourth round at Huish Park on Friday night.
Juan Mata started on the right wing and Anthony Martial on the left during our win at Burnley earlier today. While Sanchez is predominately a left forward it is expected that he will be used on the right for us where he has previously played at Barcelona and Arsenal.


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PM Harris to discuss Caribbean migration issue at #10 Downing Street
While in London for the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the Hon. Dr. Timothy Harris will join his CARICOM counterparts for a meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May April 17 at No. 10 Downing Street, where CARICOM heads are expected to discuss the contentious issue of undocumented Caribbean migrants.
After the second World War between 1948 and 1973, the Caribbean provided well-needed man-power to fill labour shortages in what was referred to then as the "Motherland." Although many of the workers made significant contributions to modern-day Britain, some are considered "undocumented" and face the threat of deportation if unable to "regularize their status."
Caribbean high commissioners in London first drew attention to this matter last week in an interview with the media hosted at the High Commission of St Kitts and Nevis in London in an effort to heighten awareness on the issue, advocate on behalf of affected migrants and call on the UK government to simplify the application process for pre-1971 Commonwealth citizens to regularize their status.
This has prompted an online petition that has accumulated more than 140,000 signatories, which means the matter had to be debated in Parliament. Today, UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd made a public apology in the House of Common and promised to establish a Home Office task force to effectively address the concerns and to bring relief to the affected individuals.
Prime Minister Harris, along with his colleague CARICOM heads, will also use the opportunity to discuss other matters of concern to the region, including development aid, post-Brexit, climate change, de-risking and correspondent banking, graduation and concessional financing.
The prime minister is expected to follow a packed agenda, including the scheduled CHOGM meetings as well as other engagements in the margins. On Sunday, he hosted a meeting with nationals in Slough, which enjoyed the participation of more than 200 members from Birmingham, Leeds, London and Luton.


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Growing up Jewish I never had one, but always loved the look of Christmas trees. We had a Chanukah Bush, and I made paper decorations for it (it was a fake bush/tree thing in the formal living room of the house), and we did gifts and a Chanukah meal. But it wasn't a major holiday (it still isn't), and it was more a reason for my siblings home from college to be at home for a dinner.
Then I married a Goy (slang Yiddish for non-Jewish man). We agreed to raise our children Jewish, but to keep some of his family traditions, because they were not rooted in religion for his family. Finally, I get to have a Christmas tree! Our very first Christmas together we shared a house and a tree with another couple. I made Husband (then boyfriend) Looney Tunes ornaments, because I wanted something special for us on the shared tree. We still put those ornaments on our tree each year.
Then we didn't have a big tree again until Oldest One was a year old. My Mother-in-Law was very generous, and gave us the ornaments Husband's family used when he was growing up because they didn't put a tree up anymore. We have ornaments made by his Grandmother, made by Husband in school, and ones commemorating the year, such as one from 1979. I love pulling those out each year and watching the girls carefully hang them on the tree. I like the tradition we are continuing, and handing down to the girls.
When I was pregnant with Little One I went to Hallmark with Oldest One and we picked out our first family ornament. It was a gumball machine with the year on it, and Oldest One loved it. Every year since then we have had a family ornament with the year on it. At first they were simple, and I bought them in town. Then I started to get family ornaments online I could put our names and the year on. We have bears on boats, monkeys, cows…a whole zoo of ornaments decorate our tree. When they are unwrapped each year we still ohh and ahh over them, and remember the one I dropped and broke taking it out of the box (Husband glued it), the one where the names wore off by the next year…each one is a memory.
I also get the girls ornaments for cheerleading. They get an ornament each year (this is year seven) for each team they are on. The first years were fairly easy, but it is definitely getting harder to find cheerleader ornaments they don't own that can be personalized. And they have each been on two teams for the past two years, Oldest One for three years. Husband always does the obligatory eye roll when I order the cheerleading ornaments, but he always wants to see what I'm ordering. Oldest One told me last year she always looks forward to seeing what I've found. Little One just loves getting new ornaments.
We also have Chanukah ornaments on our tree. They make specific ornaments for Chanukah to hang on Christmas trees now, but we were putting ones on well before that happened. We would find Chanukah items, and in looking for where to put them on display we realized if we put an ornament hook on them they would be perfect for the tree. So we did. And they look great hanging next to the Looney Tunes, cheerleading, and family ornaments.
The tree also has ornaments the girls made over the years. It's hard to believe how tiny their hands and feet were. I love those ornaments so much. It brings back the days of lopsided tree trimming because tiny hands couldn't reach very high without help. It reminds me of the bright eyes putting out milk, cookies and beer (because milk can only fortify Santa so much) for Santa in their new Christmas pajamas. It also reminds me of lighting the Menorah, and the girls wearing headbands with big dreidels sprouting from the top, and seeing who could spin the dreidel the longest.
I love our Christmas tree. It symbolizes the traditions Husband and I have created with the girls, and who our family is. It isn't traditional, since it has Chanukah on it. It isn't color coordinated, and we don't change the balls and tinsel each year to keep up with current trends. It is hung with memories, and laughter, some fighting, and tons of love. It is our tree, and I love it.


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Anyway, I am happy to report that the surprise party we threw for Sam this weekend to celebrate his going to his new school in the fall went swimmingly.
Alex took Sam out of the house with some sort of excuse and I got Quinn and Jack to work making their cheery signs of congratulations. We also practiced jumping out and shouting "Congratulations! Way to go, Sam!"
Alex called shortly before he and Sam arrived home and I dispatched the children to their hiding spots. Quinn was so excited he could hardly stand it.
Jack positioned himself so he could trip Sam when he walked in the door. I think he doesn't quite get that a surprise party is a good thing.
I was kind of on the edge of my seat as to how it was going to go. As we waited for Sam to walk in, I imagined that his reaction would go one of two ways:
(a) His joy over wrapped presents and cake would overrule all his other feelings, or
(b) His other feelings would overrule the cake and presents and he would run screaming from the room.
Cake and presents FTW!
Sam was delighted. I explained that we were throwing him a party because we were so proud that he is going to go to the new school. He had no adverse reaction (his adverse reactions before this were SEVERE) and we happily celebrated.
It went so well, in fact, that I started to wonder if the meaning had been lost on him. I let it go for the rest of the party and a little later in the afternoon, I mentioned again that we were proud of him for agreeing to go to the new school. Again, he was fine.
I'm sure we'll still have to lead him gently to his first day of school, but hooray for happy first steps.
He's blurry, but he's happy. Ergo, so am I.


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Spirituality is to have your feet firmly planted on the earth, yet your roots in Heaven.
Often, the term spirituality tends to be vague and undefined. Consequently, confusion typically arises when referring to it. And this then leads to conceptual ideas that ultimately take one away from the real purpose of spirituality: To consciously move towards the Source, the Origin, God, the Creator, the One.
To simplify, the spiritual path may be defined as the journey back to oneness and unity. It is the return to the Divine Presence. The essence of spirituality is divine presence.
What then is the context of the path? It is life itself. Your life. For life is the greatest teacher.
And so only by engaging life rather than running from it can one truly advance spiritually. Otherwise, delusion is easily attained. For it is easy to be "spiritual" on a mountaintop (and that has it's place), yet the real test lies in the midst of things. Although spiritual seclusion is a valuable (even essential) practice, one must ultimately always return to the world.
This is why the Prophet Muhammad and those who followed in his footsteps lived a normal life. He went so far as to say that adhering to a normal life and marrying, having a family, working and the like is "his way," his sunnah.
Humanity, human beings, are one. Isolating oneself has its place in reconnecting with Truth by disconnecting from the illusion of the world, yet that light must then be brought back to others. Our duty is to help others in reconnecting and healing, and so we serve the divine purpose of assisting creation in returning to the Creator.
One measure of spirituality thus becomes the degree to which we serve. And this through self-lessness, in a way that does not then contribute to our own egoism.
Humility is the hallmark of authentic spirituality. And humility is simply the degree to which the ego is not present.
Spirituality is not measured by the degree to which we separate ourselves from others, but the degree to which we are connected to others.
This is known as love.


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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Quick Pic Farm Update ;)
Ok, so we are speeding right along now! The cool spring certainly set us back (onions are in a month later this year!) but crops seem to be on the upswing!
Strawberries are full swing. This week will be our most plentiful, then by next week they will dwindle. The flavour on these berries were excellent however the sweetness was not there. Cool weather I suppose. We've certainly enjoyed them and got our annual fill!
The heirloom tomato jungle is going crazy!! We are so busy outside that these giants have to wait for a rain day or late eve suckering job!
Kale!! Looking pretty decent! Huge patches of all green curly, RedBor and Dino kales. We did have some cut worm damage under the ground cloth, but we've also planted more than twice as much this year, so that should make up for it!
Peas!! Sugar snaps and shelling type. Like I mentioned in the market newsletter, Ben and the men worked very hard to keep this patch clean! Full swing this week and next for peas!
Boring lettuces...haha! This gorgeous patch is readily being harvested every other day now. Soon it will be finished...
Corn!!! We grew grain corn this year for the first time in over a decade! Of course nonGMO, certified organic and should be good for our rotation. We've even put in an acre of white grain corn for
this year for their tortillas! Exciting!
So head out to market to see my other two partners- Ben and MarketBaby! We are optimistic about this season. So come see us soon at Dufferin or The Brickworks :)
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