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Chapter 54 – Ideal Situation
Translated by: Sugar
Edited by: Kookie (Kookiedreamer)
Hiya peeps, Sugar here. It definitely has been awhile since I have added another chapter. Well…. This time, I have zero excuse! Sugar is lazy and all the karaokes in the Discord chat doesn't help me from translating new chapters. One day, Sugar is bored and decided to translate one chapter…. So here you go ^w^7
Also, is any of the readers here from Singapore? One of the translators is visiting Singapore and she wanted to know whether there is any fun thing to do or place to visit. Help me out….
After drinking so much the previous night, Hua Que Qi woke up the next morning with one of his eyes twitching non-stop. On his way back from the washroom, he heard two servants gossiping as he passed by the garden.
"I heard that a Western City high monk came by yesterday, and he said that there was a jinx in our Hua Family!"
"Didn't the monk in Qing Quan Temple say the same thing when Madam went to offer incense before? It's Young Mistress Jin Lan!"
"Last time, just after Madam finished offering incense, the Travelling Prince's Mansion lost one of their concubines. Today, I heard that the Empress went to Xiang Guo Temple to draw a fortune stick and not only did she draw a 'Great Curse' stick, she nearly fell when she was about to leave the temple's doors!"
"It seems like this is true!"
Another servant joined in on the conversation.
"Forget about that, guess what I heard earlier when I was out on the streets shopping for groceries!"
"Hurry and tell us already!"
"That same Western City high monk said that our Young Miss, Hua Wan Yu, is destined to be the Empress!"
"Stop spouting nonsense! Do you want to die?!"
"I'm not spouting nonsense, this is being said all throughout the city!"
"Do you think we hired you people to idle around and chit chat?" Fei Sheng, dressed in purple, suddenly appeared and chased away the crowd.
Qi Que smiled, intending to leave. However, he was stopped by Fei Sheng.
"Que Qi, were you with Jin Lan at the Lin Long Tower last night?"
Que Qi laughed, "Big Brother's information network is indeed efficient."
Fei Sheng's brows knitted, as though he was slightly angry, "Have you forgotten Mother's words?"
Que Qi's smiling expression remained unchanged, however, he did lower his gaze slightly, "Of course I didn't forget, Brother. However, don't you think that the current Jin Lan is very interesting?"
Fei Sheng solemnly said, "The Huas are unable to tolerate people like her…"
Que Qi turned to walk away and said, "I know what I am doing."
Fei Sheng opened his mouth, but no words came out.
Naturally, Que Qi headed towards the western part of the mansion. The sun had just risen. Jiao Yue and Chu Yun had brought a table and chairs out to the yard to allow Jin Lan to bask in the sunlight.
This time Jin Lan wore women's clothing. The clothes were as black as ink and easy to move in. Her hair wasn't tied up but was hanging down behind her.
"Why black?" Que Qi questioned.
Jin Lan looked up at him before turning back and sitting down. She received a cup of tea from Jiao Yue and took a sip before saying, "It's so you won't see anything if blood splashes on to me."
"Interesting," Que Qi grabbed a chair and sat opposite her, "Why not just wear red?"
"Why else would I be wearing black?" In other words, there would be no need to purposefully pick something black if she liked the colour red.
Que Qi paused before changing the topic, "What did you do with the copper coins yesterday?"
Jin Lan frowned, "You don't hold anything back, do you?"
"Rumours about the two daughters of the Hua Family have been spreading throughout Glory City. One of them is a jinx, the other is a phoenix," Que Qi replied, "How did you manage to do all of this? And with just that small amount of money?"
"Beggars." History's strongest gossip army.
Jin Lan beamed at him before immediately standing up and with a wave of her arm, she said, "Jiao Yue, Chu Yun! Pack up, we're heading to the Crown Prince's mansion to view flowers."


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I couldn't hold out any longer. These pictures are just bursting to be shared 😀
Just over a week ago I travelled to Cumbria for a wedding styled shoot with the gorgeous people at Aspire Photography training. It was a long way to go for a one-day shoot (though I have to confess I really enjoyed solo train travel and a night in a gorgeous B&B on the estate.) The shoot was held in the stunning Greythwaite Estate on the western shore of Lake Windermere. The gorgeous Ruth was not a model, but an art student from the local college. It is always brilliant on workshops and styled shoots to work with real people, as you have to create them very much as you would a client on a shoot – you cannot assume they know anything about photography or what you are trying to achieve. Ruth was totally amazing though, a real natural and an absolute joy to photograph.
When we arrived in the morning I was absolutely captivated by the nimble fingers of Claire Gould, who created this little beauty…
you can see lots more of Claire's amazing work by following the link below….
More (and more and possibly even more) images to follow when I have nurtured them and decide that they are as beautiful as they possibly can be.
The lovely, gorgeous, wonderful suppliers who made the day so amazing….
Venue- Graythwaite Estate – graythwaite.com/weddings/
Wedding Dresses – Charlie Brear – www.charliebrear.com
Bridal Retailer – The White Closet, Didsbury – thewhitecloset.co.uk/
Calligraphy – Claire Gould calligraphy-for-weddings.com
Flowers by Katie Robinson – Made in Flowers Kendal www.made-in-flowers.co.uk/
Hair and Make up – Lucy Pearson
Photography by Jenny Heyworth – White Feather and Co
Styling by Catherine Connor – White Feather and Co

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LCOG Church Family Camping - Solomon's Island, Maryland - July 13-14, 2007
This was a 2-day affair for our church family members to camp out in Solomon's island, but we were only able to catch up for the trip on Saturday, July 14, since hubby had to work late of Friday.
Did you know that this place is an ideal for a real, quiet vacation far from the bustling noise of the city? We were not able to go further around the area since we had to go back as soon as possible for another family affair get-together.
Here are some quick photos that we had before heading home.
I am looking forward to someday go back there to get a full visit and tour the place. If you enjoy relaxing by the beach, then I guess this is the ideal place for you...when you are in Maryland :).
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I shoot people. A lot. Not literally of course.
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At college I trained as a fine artist and photographer. And when I struck out from there it was in interior design photography. However, my adult life took me along a number of different paths that didn't directly relate to my training but which had creativity (in some form) at the centre.
But throughout my journey along various avenues of life, the one thread I've been drawn back to time and time again is visual creation. Perhaps it's because I think visually.
After a life-changing experience (that's another story), in May 2013 I changed the focus of my career. I returned to what I'd learned when I was younger and the subject that inspired and excited me most: photography. I embraced the challenge of exploring the new digital landscape and began turning that into a career. I'm just over two full years into that journey, still at start-up stage, but with an ever-expanding list of clients and commissions that include design agencies, national brands and some amazing individuals.
Challenge has always been one of my main motivators. I respond best when I'm being stretched in some way and have to step out of my comfort zone. If I get too familiar with one aspect of my work/creativity then it's time to explore something else. Not at the expense of what I'm doing but in addition to it. I want to keep growing. To keep learning. I never want to become stale. It's a challenge I acknowledge in photography AND with blogging.
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Clinical trial in U.S. helped save life of Canada's Summit Series hero after he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2009.
Stu Cowan: Canadian hockey hero Paul Henderson happy and healthy at 75
Paul Henderson turned 75 on Sunday.
That will make those of us who remember watching him score the greatest goal in Canadian hockey history on a black-and-white TV in an elementary-school gymnasium feel old.
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Henderson chuckled when recalling a recent visit to his doctor's office and telling him about some aches and pains he was experiencing.
"My doctor looked at me and said: 'Paul, in a month you're going to be 75 and you played what, 17 or 18 years of pro hockey? And you're blaming the pills for your aches and pains," Henderson recalled. "We laughed like crazy. Overall, I'm really blessed. I've got a great, great wife, married 55 years. A wonderful family, seven grandkids. I'm just a very fortunate guy, I'm never going to complain."
In the children's book The Greatest Jersey Ever, which was published last year to pass on the legacy of the Summit Series to the next generation of Canadians, there's a photo of Henderson's two hockey-playing grandsons — Alton and Logan — from the back wearing their No. 19 and No. 72 jerseys. Alton, 16, has always worn No. 19 in honour of his grandfather, while Logan, 12, chose No. 72 for the Summit Series.
"It's my favourite picture in the book," Henderson said.
Canadian hockey fans now get to see Henderson again, along with Wayne Gretzky, in a new Budweiser TV ad to promote the beer company's new Gold-Synced Lights. Henderson and Gretzky are shown along with a bar full of hockey fans singing: "This red light of mine, I'm going to let it shine."
Henderson said he enjoyed filming the commercial in part because it gave him an opportunity to meet new people, which is a big part of his life as a motivational speaker. Henderson and his wife, Eleanor, travel the country holding marriage conferences and speaking about their strong Christian beliefs.
"The great thing about being Paul Henderson is we get to meet people right across the country," Henderson said. "One thing about Canadians, they're really polite. There's no negative side to it. When people come over to talk to you and they have a big smile and they say it was one of the most iconic moments … it's kind of hard to get blasé about that. It's all positive … that's why I love it."
When asked if he ever goes a day without someone reminding him about The Goal he scored 46 years ago, Henderson chuckled and said: "For sure … on days when I don't leave the house."
I still find it hard to believe the man who scored the most famous goal in Canadian history isn't in the Hockey Hall of Fame, but Henderson isn't complaining.
"To be really truthful, I've said it many times, I don't think I deserve to be in there if you go in on the basis of your NHL career because that's the thing they seem to base it on," Henderson said. "I would be embarrassed to go in there. There are a lot of retired players that I think deserve to go in there before I do."
But Henderson wouldn't say no if the Hall of Fame wanted to induct him in a special category — which it definitely should.
"I have no problem if I never get put in," Henderson said. "I've gotten every other award in the world, the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the Queen's Jubilee, Order of Hockey in Canada, International Hockey Hall of Fame."
Henderson recently discovered he had received yet another special honour. While attending one of his youngest grandson's hockey games, a parent came up and introduced his 12-year-old son to Henderson and told him the story about their family adopting a rescue dog from Russia. The boy went online to do some research on Russia to find a name for the dog and came across the 1972 Summit Series. The dog is named Henderson.
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To this end, Save Mount Diablo engages in a variety of community dialogues, issues, and coalitions.
Save Mount Diablo is a member of a number of land conservation organizations. We proactively participate, as individuals and as an organization, in a variety of community groups and projects. We develop relationships with elected officials, business and corporate leaders, labor unions, community leaders, and organizations, as well as a wide cross-section of local residents.
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The Bay Area Open Space Council is a network of 65 nonprofits and public agencies that serve tens of millions of people each year; maintain thousands of miles of trails; produce delicious food; and steward over 1 million acres of publicly accessible parks.
Local Organizations
Locally, Save Mount Diablo belongs to a number of environmental and community organizations and collaborates with dozens of other local, regional and state wide organizations. SMD is currently a member of or working with the following:
- Contra Costa Council
- Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce
- The Compass Point (formerly CBO)
- Transportation and Land Use Coalition
- Enviro-Union Coalition
Allies & Friends
- Bay Area Ridge Trail Council
- Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust
- California State East Bay Concord Campus
- California State Parks
- California State Parks Foundation
- Coastal Conservancy
- Contra Costa Transportation Authority
- Department of Fish and Game
- East Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
- East Bay Housing Organization
- East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD)
- East Contra Costa County Habitat Conservancy (ECCCHC)
- Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed
- Greenbelt Alliance
- Muir Heritage Land Trust
- Mount Diablo Interpretive Association (MDIA)
- Mount Diablo State Park (MDSP)
- Neighborhood Alliance (Concord Naval Weapons Station)
- Tri-Valley Conservancy
- Walnut Creek Open Space


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Many of the talented artists at Morgan Gaynin, Inc. have been recognized in this year's 3×3 ProShow #8. Valeria Petrone was awarded BOTH Gold and Silver medals for her graphic Editorial work.
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Many of the talented artists at Morgan Gaynin, Inc. have been recognized in this year's 3×3 ProShow #8. Valeria Petrone was awarded BOTH Gold and Silver medals for her graphic Editorial work.
Cathy Hull poured heart and soul into this logo for her brother, Alliance Party candidate for Mayor of Schenectady, NY, Roger Hull. The logo displays the emblems of both major parties upon a flag background, conveying that this alliance brings together Republicans, Democrats and independents, truly "United for Change."
Owen Smith's artwork for the San Francisco Arts Commission Public Art Projects was named among the top 47 Best Public Artworks in the United States at the Americans for the Arts convention held in San Diego recently. Smith's mosaic murals and bas relief sculptures at the new Laguna Honda pay homage to the existing W.P.A. mural series, "Professions," located in the hospital's 1926 building.
Elisabeth Alba was recently commissioned to paint this enchanting image of a willow for a private client.
Val Bochkov's illustration on competing providers of cloud technology appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week.
John Dyess has been creating art for use on Sugartree Scrapbooking Papers. The printed size is 12″ x12″, with the subject positioned on the lower part of the paper and a simple background to allow scrap-bookers room to place their photos.
Noah Woods' utterly joyful cover for School Library Journal proves it can be fun to be a young bookworm.
This week's New Your Times Health and Science section featured terrific work from members of theispot. First up, Viktor Koen provided visual relief from those uncomfortable bicycle seats:
This week's New Your Times Health and Science section featured terrific work from members of theispot. First up, Viktor Koen provided visual relief from those uncomfortable bicycle seats:
Christina Wald is the newest member of Theispot.com.
The ever-caffeinated Charrow has researched and produced this colorful map of all the specialty coffee shops throughout Manhattan. Wake up and smell the Stumptown, people!
The fourth volume of Aaron Minier's collaborative graphic novel series, Black Rose, has been released. Fantasy is Dead!
John Vogl is the newest member of Theispot.com.
Marty Blake's latest image has us thinking about the non-thinking consumer: do we sometimes bury our heads in all the things we buy and miss what's really going on?
Kevin McFadin's illustration appears in the July issue of Richmond Magazine for an article on Steven Spielberg's upcoming biopic, "Abraham Lincoln." Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field will be filming on locations in Virginia, and much of the area's period appropriate architecture will be front and center.
Eric Hanson illustrated another "Untranslatable" feature for wwword.com, a column that discusses words and phrases that don't travel well from one culture to another. Eric's visual shorthand: the smug face, the protective hand, the national flag, the iconic Matterhorn, the word in question, layered in colors the way language is layered with meanings.
Tom Richmond's illustration appears in the current issue of UTNE Reader (July-Aug 2011), depicting viral internet rapper, Ms. Peachez being looked upon with contempt and disbelief by Snoop Dogg and Jay Z for her stereotyped, "Southern hip-hop" styling.
Jennifer L. Meyer is the newest member of Theispot.com.
Ken Orvidas was contacted by Dr. Jeff Harvey, an orthodontists in North Dakota, seeking an illustration and logo for his practice. Doc Harvey liked the exploratory aspect of this image, as well as the teeth that need some work. "This was quite out of the ordinary and a fun commission," says Ken.
Daniel Hertzberg created this full-pager for New Jersey Monthly for an article about terrorist targets in New Jersey. Among the targets are power plants, chemical plants, Newark Airport and the Port of Newark.
Jesse Lenz illustrated the cover and inside feature for the Sunday New York Times Book Review of Monica Ali's new novel, "Untold Story." The book imagines Princess Diana faking her own death, getting a little surgery and eventually living under an assumed name in America.
Pete Ryan created this illustration for an article in New Jersey Monthly covering the raging debate over the risks and benefits of "raw," unpasteurized milk. Raw milk is currently illegal in new Jersey, despite a growing movement in favor of getting milk straight from the source.
Tom White had great fun creating this attention getting poster image for a fundraising event for Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Hampshire. All the participants are to run a foot race wearing ultra high heel stilettos.
Elvis Swift beautifully illustrates exotic loquats for Saveur Magazine this month.
Antony Hare's illustration of Seana McKenna as Richard III, at this year's Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, was commissioned by Toronto Life.
Antony Hare's illustration of Seana McKenna as Richard III, at this year's Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, was commissioned by Toronto Life.
Jesse Kuhn's illustration, "The Departure" illustration was selected by the jury for this year's 3x3 ProShow.
Aaron Meshon's first app, My Neighbors by Pop and Pals, has debuted in the iTunes App Store. A humorous peek-a-boo app for young children featuring wacky noises and over 80 of Aaron's lovable characters, My Neighbors is a blast for us big kids, too!


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Bollywood Lounge restaurant in the heart of Paris' Latin Quarter has all the fun, style, spirit and passion that is India right now. The decor is a fantasy of pink and orange with a ceiling of twinkling starlights, authentic paintings and artefacts paored with photos of beautiful Bollywood stars. The menu, too, offers the ancient and the modern side by side in dishes like chicken tikka masala and lamb rogan josh as well as Amritsari fish and the gorgeous crispy mango tarte, a house speciality. The Geras offer a welcome of unmatched warmth, and the Saturday night Masala Mix DJ events are a don't-miss.


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Children who eat three or more burgers a week may be more likely to develop asthma, a new study has found.
Scientists analysed data collected between 1995 and 2005 on 50,000 children, aged eight to 12 years, from around the world.
They found that a child's diet did not seem to affect their risk of allergy to pollen, but was associated with asthma and wheeze.
While a high intake of burgers was associated with an increased risk of breathing difficulties, a Mediterranean diet appeared to help prevent these problems.
Writing in Thorax journal, study authors from Ulm University in Germany revealed: 'There is some evidence that dietary intake of trans-fatty acids is associated with asthma.'
They also noted: 'Our observations support previous reports that the adherence to a 'Mediterranean diet' may provide protection against wheeze and asthma in childhood.'
NHS figures suggest that over five million people in the UK have asthma and that the condition was responsible for 1,318 deaths in 2005.


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While Florida fire authorities probe the cause of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber explosion that killed one horse and one woman and injured another woman, an equine veterinarian who founded a hyberbaric-oxygen-therapy-focused veterinary society said practitioners strive to minimize risk associated with the technology.
According to published reports, on Feb. 10, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber exploded at the Kentucky Equine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center (KESMARC) in Ocala, Fla., when a horse inside the chamber began kicking. The horse and a woman were killed in the incident. Another woman sustained injuries, the reports said. Marion County, Fla., fire rescue officials are investigating the cause of the incident. A representative from KESMARC Florida was unavailable for comment.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) involves treating a patient with 100% oxygen under pressure; veterinarians have explained the process increases oxygen levels in blood plasma and promotes higher delivery to all body tissues, including the injured area, to facilitate healing. In horses HBOT is used to treat a range of conditions and acute injuries, including deep wounds, joint injuries, and infections. Horses treated with HBOT are placed in chambers that are approximately 10 to 12 feet in diameter.
Dennis Geiser, DVM, Dipl. AVBP, associate professor in the Large Animal Clinical Sciences department at the University of Tennessee's College of Veterinary Medicine and founder of the Veterinary Hyperbaric Medical Society, declined to comment specifically about the KESMARC Florida incident. But he said that HBOT chambers used in the United States are manufactured according to specific safety standards, and that practitioners take precautions to ensure horses' safety during treatment.
The cause of the explosion is unknown and currently under investigation.
Geiser said that while the oxygen itself is unlikely to ignite, oxygen under pressure could be ignited in the presence of a spark.
"So we don't put shod horses in the chamber," Geiser said of his approach to safety. "We take the shoes off if we can, or we put boots on the horse or otherwise cover its feet."
In addition, he said rubber material about halfway up the interior walls of some chambers to further minimize spark risk, he said. Geiser declined to speculate on whether the KESMARC Florida chamber contained the rubber wall material.
Geiser said that the majority of hyperbaric oxygen chambers are manufactured by Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen, a Lexington, Ky.-based company. No one from the firm was available to comment on the KESMARC incident.
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The remarkable story of Guillermo Gonzalez, a Mormon pioneer in Mexico
By Trent Toone, Deseret News Published: Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 5:00 a.m. MDT
MONTERREY, Mexico — A serene, peaceful feeling filled the room as the sister missionary shared her tender testimony in Spanish to conclude the religious discussion.
The young husband and wife seated nearby looked at each other and shared a confirming smile. The message appealed to them and they definitely wanted to know more about this Mormon church.
Knowing it was the husband's day off, one of the sisters pulled out her date book and suggested they meet again in a week.
There was a pause as the couple made eye contact again, then stared back at the missionaries. Without warning the husband stood, moved across the room and locked the door.
"I'm sorry, patience has never been one of my virtues," the man said. "I can't wait another week to know what you will teach me about this church of apostles and prophets, so do you mind if we continue now, please?"
What started out as a 60-minute visit continued for nine hours, including some meal and bathroom breaks. The tireless sisters taught the man and woman everything they could think of, including all seven lessons, the Articles of Faith and the Ten Commandments. When the spiritual marathon ended around 6 p.m., the sisters were shocked again when the husband demanded immediate baptism.
This time he would have to wait, at least a few days.
Despite the brief baptismal delay in May 1953, Guillermo and Gudelia Gonzalez had gained rock-solid testimonies of the gospel and would soon become great missionaries themselves, helping to convert thousands across Northern Mexico over the next three decades. Few know the story of these Hispanic pioneers.
Who is Guillermo Gonzalez?
From 2000 to 2002, Dick Kenney served as executive secretary to Elder Lynn A. Mickelsen, then area president of Northern Mexico. Following a stake conference in La Paz, Mexico, Kenney said Elder Mickelsen dined with some converts who, "with great pride and bravado, stated they were baptized by Guillermo Gonzalez."
Elder Mickelsen, now an emeritus general authority, told his secretary this was the fourth or fifth time someone reported to be a convert of Gonzalez: "He declared that he had to learn more of this man," Kenney said in an email.
Gonzalez died in 1982, but his wife Gudelia still lived in Monterrey, Mexico, and a visit was arranged. They also spoke with Juan Alvaradejo, an assistant to President Gonzalez during the three years he presided over the Mexico Hermosillo Mission. Here are some details they learned:
As a young man, Gonzalez had Antonio-Banderas good looks with thick black hair, a well-groomed mustache and he looked sharp in suit and tie. Alvaradejo said he was very tall with hands like boxing gloves.
"They were tremendously huge hands," Alvaradejo said.
Elder Robert E. Wells, who met Gonzalez in the 1970s, said he was a "big bear of a man with broad, muscular shoulders."
Gonzalez completed his obligatory military service in the Mexican Army and declined a commission. Instead, he started a career as a railroad worker for the Mexican government. He met, courted and married Gudelia in 1952.
Shortly after their marriage, the couple began to feel their spiritual needs were not being satisfied with their current church. They wanted to learn about other religions.
One night in January 1953, the couple conversed as they prepared to go to sleep. Randomly, Guillermo said, "One day two young ladies will bring us the true religion."
"What?" she asked.
"What did I say?" he said. He told her he had no idea why he said that.
Four months later, Gonzalez was out of town when two sister missionaries knocked on the door. Gudelia had never heard of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, so she declined the visit, but accepted a pamphlet with contact information. Later a neighbor dropped by and warned her to stay away from those Mormons and called them "Satan's missionaries."
A few days later, she told her husband about the missionaries and how she felt compelled to invite them back. They tracked the sisters down and an appointment was set for the following day at 8 a.m.
It was the only appointment Guillermo needed.
At the end of that long-lasting day, the sisters turned the Gonzalez family over to zone leader Elder David K. Richards, the son of apostle Franklin D. Richards. David Richards was worried that if baptized too soon, Guillermo would go inactive. He insisted on teaching the couple the discussions a second time and invited them to church meetings. Guillermo, the golden contact, tried to be patient. He accepted every doctrine and teaching without hesitation. Fine, fine, he said, but I want to be baptized.
Seeing Gonzalez's determination, Richards wrote his father in Salt Lake and explained the situation. His father replied that "if he had a testimony and wanted to be baptized, for heaven sakes, that's what we're there for," recounted Elder Wells.
Finally on May 30, 1953, Elder David Richards recorded in his journal that he baptized Guillermo and Gudelia Gonzalez.
"Knowing his conversion story is essential to understanding him," Elder Wells said. "He thought anyone who really was the elect, anyone who was spiritually in tune, would react the same way he did, and missionaries ought to be looking for people who are ready to be baptized the first day."
Joyful reunions
Roughly 10 years later, Richards and his wife, Sharon, returned to Monterrey and attended church. During a meeting, Sharon Richards noticed a man staring at her husband. She asked him if he knew the man.
"Oh, my, do I ever!" Richards replied.
It was Gonzalez, the same man Richards feared would go inactive because he baptized him too soon.
Gonzalez, then the Monterrey district president, invited Richards to stand next to him while he told the story of his conversion.
"It was quite a reunion," Sister Richards said. "When you are in the mission field and you baptize people, then go back and see they are active and doing good, the joy is so strong. It's almost overwhelming."
In 1970, Elder Delbert L. Stapley of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles organized the first stake in Monterrey. He called Guillermo Gonzalez as president.
In 1974, the Gonzalezes were called to preside over the Mexico Hermosillo Mission. When they attended the mission president seminar, President Gonzalez bumped into the newly called president of the Bogota Colombia Mission: President David Richards.
Once again, hugs and tears were shared.
"I cannot tell you the love that passed between these two men," said Sharon Richards, whose husband died last March at age 79. "To have the missionary and convert going out as mission presidents at the same time was overwhelming to David."
A great harvest
The field was white in Northern Mexico during the mid-1970s, but the Hermosillo missionaries struggled to find converts.
Two months into his mission, President Gonzalez called his young leaders together and told them "they didn't have the least idea on how to bring people into the waters of baptism," Kenney said.
The president formed a zone of young missionaries and zones of experienced missionaries. He said he expected the "green" missionaries would baptize more people over the next month.
One zone leader, Elder Juan Alvaradejo, accepted the challenge. The next month, his zone of experienced missionaries led the mission in baptisms.
Alvaradejo loved and admired his president. One thing he learned from President Gonzalez was how to listen and follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost.
This ability was demonstrated once when President Gonzalez met the missionaries one day in a town plaza and challenged them to find a family to baptize before the end of the day.
A few hours later he returned to discover that the missionaries had found some investigators, but nothing more.
"Follow me," the president said.
They hadn't walked very far when they met a family of four. The missionaries watched with wide eyes as their president shared a powerful spiritual message and fearlessly challenged the whole family to be baptized. They were. Alvaradejo said the family remained active.
"It was a great experience. That is how he taught us to do it," said Alvaradejo, who later served as a stake president and is now the director of LDS Church public affairs in Mexico City. "Find the people who are prepared."
Companionships took his message to heart. From 1974-77, the Hermosillo mission saw 30,000 people join the church, Kenney said.
"Many have criticized his accomplishments, saying less than half stayed active," Kenney said. "But if you think about it, if half stay active, that's still 15,000 active members."
President Gonzalez passed away in December 1982, but not before leaving his mark on the church in Northern Mexico.
"Did Guillermo do a good job? You bet he did," said Elder Wells, now emeritus. "He was a dynamic leader with vision and confidence in people who were ready to be baptized like he was. Of the wards and branches he presided over as a stake president, each unit is a now a stake."
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I use Calendar Hub for a number of things, but the most important is storing events and using a feed to pull out via a list of the future events to display on other sites. Simple enough and the application has been doing the job really well.
However with Calendar Hub there have been a number of errors popping up when I'm trying to do various tasks, the performance is slow, and there seems to be no ongoing development of the product.
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AllAfrica.com. There is no doubt that climate change as an environmental issue has become a burning issue in international circles. According to experts, it has become a development issue that is today confronting humanity with devastating effects; it has become a matter for poverty reduction, food security, economic, health, human rights, and governance.
Climate change and global poverty have attracted attention that both are now serious challenges to the future health and prosperity of mankind that must be confronted by all.
Scientists are of the view that the human race may soon be in danger unless climatic issues are combated effectively.
Climate change presents significant threats to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially those related to eliminating poverty, hunger and promoting environmental sustainability.
Experts have predicted that climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of severe weather events which poor countries lacked the infrastructure necessary to address.
According to them, diseases such as malaria, water-borne sicknesses are likely to have wider ranges, impacting on more people living in the poorest regions of developing nations that are already most affected by such diseases. It was further predicted that changing rainfall patterns would devastate rain-fed agriculture on which most of the population in Africa depends to survive. In Africa, for example, only four per cent of all arable land was said to be irrigated.
Realising the danger posed by climatic change to man's existence, the international community has held several conferences in recent years to address the issue, which culminated in the Bali, Kyoto and Copenhagen conference on Climatic change among many other mini-summits.
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The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali hosted by the government of Indonesia, in which over 180 countries represented together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organisations and the media, resulted in the adoption of the Bali Road Map, which consists of a number of decisions that represent the various tracks that are essential to reaching a secure climate future. The Bali Road Map includes the Bali Action Plan, which charts the way forward for a new negotiating process designed to tackle climate change.
EU Negotiating Position
Prior to the Copenhagen Conference, the European Commission on January 28, 2009, released a position paper, 'Towards a comprehensive climate agreement in Copenhagen'. The position paper "addresses three key challenges: targets and actions; financing of low-carbon development and adaptation; and building an effective global carbon market".
Leading by example, the European Union (EU) committed itself to implementing binding legislation, even without a satisfactory deal in Copenhagen.
Last December, the EU revised its carbon allowances system called the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) designed for the post-Kyoto period (after 2013).
The Copenhagen Summit
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held between December 7 and 18.
The document recognised that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the present day and that actions should be taken to keep any temperature increases below 2°C. The document is not legally-binding and does not contain any legally-binding commitments for reducing carbon emissions
At the end of the Copenhagen conference, delegates approved a motion to "take note" of the Copenhagen Accord.
One part of the agreement pledges $30 billion to the developing world over the next three years, rising to $100 billion per year by 2020, to help poor countries adapt to climate change. Earlier proposals that would have aimed to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C and cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 were dropped.
The much talked about Copenhagen conference has come and gone, but certain things are very clear that Copenhagen and other conferences agreed that our environment is in danger and that there is need to reduce the level of dangerous carbon emission into the atmosphere.
That the agreement reached are not binding on those countries that are producing the highest level of emission, thus leaving the developing nations including Africa at the mercy of discretion rather than binding agreement.
Faced with these realities, the question then arises, how are developing countries like Nigeria responding to the situation in ensuring that measures are put in place which could mitigate the effects of climatic change and the effects of the depletion of the ozone layer on their people? For instance, Nigeria with a total land area of 923,773 kilometres is richly endowed with abundant natural resources, both renewable and non-renewable.
The geographical location of the country as well as the large size allows it to experience nearly all the different types of weather and climate to be found in the West African sub region.
The entire semi-arid zone of Nigeria lies approximately between Latitude 110N and 140N and is always affected by desertification. The country had consistently suffered from recorded drought episodes in the continent.
The situation is being aggravated by increase in human population, which appears to be stressing the natural support system.
In many areas, sustainable-yield threshold of the vegetation and soils are being breached.
Experts have put the rate of desert encroachment into Nigeria at 6km per annum which means that within 10 years most parts of the country would be covered and in 50 years, desert may likely cover most parts of the whole of country.
Despite the danger inherent in the climate change through destructive human activities, African countries like Nigeria has continued to contribute to the destruction of the environment through unrestricted flaring of gas in the process of the exploitation of its crude oil, over-grazing by its livestock with lips service to aforestation, abuse of water resources and other human activities.
The destruction to the environment had been exhibited in the careless manner companies prospecting for oil in the country has handled the issue spillages in the oil-producing areas which has led to the destruction of lands and other ecosystem and indiscriminate ways of disposing effluents by manufacturing companies which pollute our waters and the air.
Other areas in which the global warming, if unchecked, will affect Africa are in the area of floods and ocean surge which will threaten the continent's coastline. Already, many countries in the world are today facing increasing surge of the sea leading to submerging of many coastal areas. The devastating effect on Africa will be too grave for the continent to contain in view of the fact that Africa lacked the technical capacity to handle such catastrophe.
Other area that global warming will affect the continent is in the area of food production.
The greatest challenges of the continent today are its inability to feed its people. Africa depends on food aides and food importation to feed its population and could hardly survive any natural calamity that could further damage the environment.
Realising the impending danger, the UN on December 20, 2009 held a meeting on climate change and its impact on food production in the continent.
The conference, among others, recommended reforms on rights to land, forests, water, energy and livelihood for their poorest people around the world majority of who are live Africa.
The UN meeting also recommended integrated climate change initiatives into national MDG-based sustainable development plans as part of their contribution to global mitigation and to prioritise renewable energy resources, where possible and the transfer of existing and new technology measures to solve food crisis in Africa.
Although African leaders had in the past seemed to have attempted to make move towards mitigating the effects of climate change on food security in the continent, this could be seen in the conference held in Abuja between December 4 and 7, 2006 tagged 'Abuja Food Security Summit'. But in reality, such moves have not gone beyond the usual rhetoric and conference jamboree.
The Abuja summit agreed, among others, to adopt an earlier resolution on the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) of the Maputo Summit of July 2003 as a framework for accelerating agriculture development and food security on the continent and the Sirte declaration of 2004 on the challenges of implementing integrated and sustainable development on agriculture and water resources in Africa.
Other resolutions of the Abuja summit are:
-Recalling the Fertiliser Summit held in Abuja in 2006, which called for a Green Revolution in Africa; adhering to the declaration of the 1992 International Conference on Nutrition, which stressed that hunger and malnutrition were unacceptable in the world, and being particularly concerned about the escalating level of malnutrition in Africa;
-Commitment to the Millennium Development Goals and in particular to the goal of halving the proportion of the hungry in our respective countries and the continent by 2015; and the central role that African women play in producing, processing and marketing food and committed to ensuring their full contribution to household food security by guaranteeing their access to productive resources, services and socio-economic opportunities.
However, since the end of the 2006 AU summit on food security and the UN-backed Copenhagen conference on climatic change, African leaders whose people seem to be at the receiving end of global warming due to weak infrastructure and institutional framework seem to have gone to sleep, as nothing concrete seems to have been done.
Issues slated for resolution at the various summits:
-The 2004 Maputo Declaration calls for 10 per cent of total public expenditure to be spent on agriculture and rural development.
-The 2003 CAADP Framework calls for six per cent agricultural growth rates.
-The 2006 Abuja Declaration on Fertilisers calls for an increase in fertiliser use from eight to 50 kilogrammes per hectare by 2015, improvements in access for African exports to global markets, combined with reductions in their own domestic and export subsidies.
However, a true picture of the success or otherwise of African leaders on the issue of food security could be found in the conclusion of the 7th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum held in Moscow, Russia between October 26 and 27, 2006.
The Moscow summit in its resolution finds out the following among other issues:
-A mixed picture which has been difficult to 'score', particularly in the absence of data and underpinning monitoring systems. It assesses that there has been some progress on CAADP Pillar 4 (research and technology), and partial progress under CAADP Pillar 1(land and water management) in few African countries.
It finds, on balance, little progress to date under the other CAADP pillars. It also finds no evidence of significant progress under the two cross-cutting issues above.
Nonetheless, on the basis of the evidence to date, the report assesses the over all score as "non-performing".
African Agriculture
The Moscow summit discovered that food production in Africa doubled over the last 20 years and that there are important variations between countries and regions. But overall, between 1993 and 2003, the growth rate of food production (1.5 per cent) was lower than the population growth rate (2.73 per cent) – leading to declining production per capita.
The summit further stated that over this period, Africa's share of world trade declined for nine out of its 10 major agricultural exports; as less than 10 per cent of potential irrigable land is irrigated, and the use of machinery and inputs such as fertiliser is low (fertiliser use is around four per cent of the level in East Asia; capital stock is similarly very low compared to Asian and Latin American levels);
"Declining productivity has led to a growing dependence on food imports, consuming scarce foreign exchange. It is also having a significant knock-on effect in other areas, including increased child malnutrition and vulnerability to infectious diseases.
The Moscow forum concluded that the lead on these issues rests with African governments.
Scoring the various initiatives as outlined by the African leaders, the Moscow summit scores most of it "red" indicating non-performing.
These are the situation we find ourselves today in Africa. The effects of the global warming is slapping us in the face through fast approaching desertification, ocean surge is gradually taking over our coast line areas with the submerging of many villages, and the greatest and immediate challenge, which is the frequent change in the weather pattern through reduced rainfall on which most of the continent's agriculture depends.
Even if some countries in the region had officially voted 10 per cent of total public expenditure on agriculture and rural development as envisaged under the 2004 Maputo Declaration, corruption and official bureaucracy has not allowed the set target to be achievable. In most circumstances, the actual percentage spent on agriculture is not more that two per cent of the amount voted for the sector.
Access to fertiliser, arable land and modern farming equipment are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. With dwindling resources allocated to research centres in the continent.
Despite that Africa remains the greatest recipient of the effects of environmental degradation, the continent in its little way has continued to contribute to the problem through policies that did not take the environment into consideration. Many countries in the region have domesticated the Environmental Assessment Impact (EAI) into their books so as to protect the environment, but in actual practice, the EAI policy is not followed in the execution of projects.
It is a known fact that hardly do we have any nation that still flares gas from oil exploration the way Nigeria does with abandoned recklessness, the continued oil spillage with little effort at preventing it, the indiscriminate felling of trees and burning of bushes, all which had adverse effect on the environment.
Banned chemicals, which are injurious to the environment, still find their way into Africa unrestricted.
An unchecked depletion of the ozone layer, according to scientists, will also lead to water shortage. Scientists have said that the world's supply of fresh water is running out and that already one person out of five has no access to safe drinking water.
Alex Kirby, a BBC News Online environment correspondent, in an article titled 'Dawn of a thirsty century' said "the amount of water in the world is limited. The human race, and the other species, which share the planet, cannot expect an infinite supply. Water covers about two-thirds of the earth's surface, admittedly, but most is too salty for use.
Population is rising, but only 2.5 per cent of the world's water is not salty, and two-thirds of that is locked up in the icecaps and glaciers.
Of what is left, about 20 per cent is in remote areas, and much of the rest arrives at the wrong time and place, as monsoons and floods.
Humans have available less than 0.08 per cent of all the earth's water. Yet over the next two decades our use is estimated to increase by about 40 per cent.
Reasons For Water Crisis
In 1999, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reported that 200 scientists in 50 countries had identified water shortage as one of the two most worrying problems for the new millennium; the other was global warming.
We use about 70 per cent of the water we have in agriculture. But the World Water Council believes that by 2020 we shall need 17 per cent more water than is available, if we are to feed the world.
The world waters will experience shortage due to continued Pollution and degradation of the environment and growing populations. So if we go on as we are, millions more will go to bed hungry and thirsty each night than do so already.
Today, "one person in five across the world has no access to safe drinking water, and one in two lacks safe sanitation" according to UNEP.
Every day, more than 30,000 children die before reaching their fifth birthdays, killed either by hunger or by easily-preventable diseases associated with unsafe water.
When the water levels of Africa's huge rivers drop, whole economies suffer. Ghana, for example, has become totally reliant on the hydro-electric output of the Akosombo dam on the river Volta. Mali – one of the poorest countries on the planet – is dependent on the River Niger, which flows from Guinea through Mali to Nigeria, for food, water and transport. But great stretches of the river are now facing environmental catastrophe as a result of pollution. In Nigeria, half the population has no access to clean water, and as in much of Africa, many women walk for hours a day to fetch it.
A UN's report predicts that access to water may be the single biggest cause of conflict and war in Africa in the next 25 years. Such wars are most likely to be in countries where rivers or lakes are shared by more than one country. There is already fierce national competition over water for irrigation and power generation – most notably in the Nile river basin. Cairo warned in 1991 that it was ready to use force to protect its access to waters of the Nile, which also runs through Ethiopia and Sudan. If the populations of these countries continue to rise, competition for the water could be fierce.
The Zambezi river basin in southern Africa is one of the most over-used river systems in the world. Although the countries through which the river flows usually vie with each other to harness the water power, at other times they are deluged by floods and heavy rain. The region experienced the worst floods in living memory in March 2000, exacerbated by Zimbabwe opening the Kariba dam gates.
The Ministry of Water Resources recently said it needed some $7.6 billion to harness the country's rivers and aquifers.
Water problem has, of late, become of great concern to many African countries. At a recent conference attended by 1,000 delegates in Addis Ababa, water experts said Africa was facing a water crisis affecting 300 million people.
A recent WHO/UNICEF report reveals that more than 2.6 billion people in the world do not have basic sanitation, and more than one billion people still use unsafe drinking water.
According to ECA Policy Research Report, Africa is one of the world's driest continents. The diminishing availability of usable water in the face of rising demand creates the potential for disputes and conflicts over water resources, both within and between countries.
Moreover, the uneven distribution of water resources – the result of erratic rainfall and varying climate – has stratified the continent into areas of abundant water resources and areas of extreme water scarcity and stress.
Central Africa and parts of East and West Africa have abundant water resources, while North Africa, the Sudano-Sahelian region, and Southern Africa suffer chronic shortages, with very erratic rainfall.
Recurring cycles of long droughts, sometimes followed by floods, accentuate water scarcity and imbalances across the continent. Water originates outside the borders of many countries – such as Egypt (almost the entire flow), Mauritania (95 per cent), Botswana (94 per cent), and the Gambia (86 per cent) – and most of Africa's water resources cross borders.
Recognising this potential, and to promote regional cooperation, African countries began making trans-boundary river agreements in the 1960s.
But these cooperation efforts focused on the joint development and use of trans-boundary river and lake basins as sources of freshwater all these efforts neglected the importance of the environment on water and not efforts at dealing with the catastrophe that will emanate from the impacts of environmental damages.
Climate change will probably bring more rain to some regions and less to others, and its overall impact remains uncertain, but if we are to get through the water crisis, we should heed the UNEP report's reminder that we have only one inter-dependent planet to share.
Africa, as it stands today, rarely had any policy aimed at protecting the environment. The indiscriminate felling of trees, bush burning, use of banned and dangerous chemicals that are injurious to our forest are the lots of many African nations. Even where laws are put in place to protect the environment, such laws were never adhered to.
It is obvious that if steps are not taken to curb the increasing damage to the environment, Africa will definitely pay a bigger price for it, through starvation, diseases, floods, and serious adverse weather conditions. These are the realities that the continent faces today. It is a time bomb awaiting the continent with devastating consequences unless something concrete and timely is done to redress the continued damage to the environment.
Africa, rather than taking the back seat on environmental issues, should take the driver's seat as the continent would be hardest hit by the impact of damage to the environment.
This article initially published on the Nigerian newspaper Daily Independent was written by Gbenga Ogunbufunmi.


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Free elf hat pattern to sew a cute little elvish hat for your baby or toddler. Great for cold weather, Halloween, dress-up and of course Christmas too! Use with felt or fleece for a sturdy hat with a point on top that stands up. Free printable pattern PDF.
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Here's another reason I'm glad I didn't keep that job at Walmart: an employee was killed when a bargain-crazed mob rushed the doors of a Walmart in Long Island when they opened for today's "special" sales. Today, as we all know, is "Black Friday" — which has become the day I stay home. Not that I have any money to spend, but even if I did, the insanity that this "tradition" has devolved into makes the few dollars I might save, assuming I would be able to get my hands on any of the "while supplies last" goodies, aren't worth it.
If we were still a civilized nation and not on the brink of Third World-dom, we'd abolish "Black Friday" and just have a normal shopping day. Or the stores would stay closed on the Friday following Thanksgiving so people could spend more time with their families like they always say they want to. But God forbid someone not make a few extra pennies; never mind that encouraging events like this are actually going to bring the economy to its knees (perhaps when people decide to stay away in droves from stores because, well, they don't want to be trampled to death by a horde of bloated chavs* looking to save 20% on their fifth wide-screen plasma tv) that much sooner.
*We really do need a special word for the sort of lower-class, often-welfare-supported, yet overfed, over-supplied with unnecessary material goods like brand-name shoes and clothes and electronic equipment, under-educated and ill-mannered ranks like the British do with "chav," which I believe is even racially inclusive, whereas the term "yob" more specifically referred to a white, lower-class, uneducated thug. I think in Long Island and New Jersey they use the word "guido" but that just refers to people of Italian descent. Well for now I am appropriating "chav."
Update: more on Protein Wisdom.
4 Responses to "Shopper's Paradise"
nightwitch Says:
November 29th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I've noticed this year a new trend where some stores were open Thanksgiving day! Gander Mountain was open from 3pm to 9pm, just in case there were hordes of outdoorsmen who needed to buy a tent after devouring their body weight in turkey and pie. Pretty soon all the stores will be open and it'll be just another day.
And I second your nomination of chav as a term of derision and will begin using it immediately:
I saw a clan of chavs at the grocery store tonight using food stamps to buy a cartload of junk, thought of you and your ramen noodles, and wanted to bash their skulls in and mail you their EBT card.
JonathanStrange Says:
November 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am
AH, once again you said what I felt, only you said it in an interesting way (am I sucking up too much?).
I'm no anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, knee-jerk sort – I hope I'm not! – but there are times when it seems we're "supposed to" jump through hoops spending money on cue and salivating at the appropriate bell.
It's insanity to think that we can continue growing and spending endlessly. We're encouraged to go into debt to buy stuff to make our lives meaningul but when will it be enough? 'cause stuff gets broken and lost and stolen and then what? More stuff?
ricki Says:
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Yeah, we need a 'Murrican equivalent for "chav." None of the existing derogations seem to work quite right. What we need is something that includes all the things Andrea listed, plus an overblown sense of entitlement, that sort of "bubble mentality" ("It doesn't matter that I'm screaming obscenities into my cell phone late at night on the train!"), and that sort of generalized incivility to other human beings.
I don't know. I find that going into any store (short of a small craft-supply store or an uncrowded antique shop) this time of year tries my usually-tenuous tolerance of humanity. (On the up side? If I ever find myself becoming too merry, I can just haul off to the local wal-mart and spend about 10 minutes there, and it will calm me right down.)
Andrea Harris Says:
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Every time I go into a store a crack team of Screaming Baby Installers descends upon the establishment. If I have a throbbing headache they include a bonus Tantrummy Toddler.
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