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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
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True. Blessed is the person who has earned the love of ANY animal.ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree with you EC.Delete
Definitely true love from PolandReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Gosia :)Delete
Awww, this is so true.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes indeed Ginny :)Delete
Dogs are a good judge of character aren't they.ReplyDelete
A beautiful quote Denise, Sue xxReplies
I agree one hundred percent with that Sue :) xxDelete
Agree - love goes out to all animals.ReplyDeleteReplies
Me too Valerie :)Delete
There are rewards to being respectful and loyal ... it's a two way street with animals as well as with people. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Penelope, you are a wise lady :)Delete
Um abraço e boa semana.
Dedais de Francisco e Idalisa
O prazer dos livrosReplies
Thank you and the same to you Francisco :)Delete
this old person loves her old dog, love this toReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Sandra, I knew you would relate to this :)Delete
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I agree Cloudia, Amen!Delete
Hello, coming from an animal lover, this is so true. Great quote and photo.ReplyDelete
Happy Wednesday, enjoy your day!Replies
Thank you Eileen and enjoy the rest of your week :)Delete
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Most definitely :)Delete
So very true. Great shot, but not his/her eyes much good!! Cheers DianeReplyDelete
Hi Denise,ReplyDelete
and how true, this dog is really enjoying the wind in its face.
All the best JohnReplies
He is isn't he? :)Delete
OH! That's sweet!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Happy you enjoyed it Regine.Delete
so true...this is a very familiar sight around here!!ReplyDelete
Love this!
All the best JanReplies
:-) you too Jan.Delete
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A young Zimbabwean entrepreneur, Takunda Chingonzo, was on the spotlight Tuesday at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum where he asked President Barack Obama to clarify his country's sanctions targeting President Robert Mugabe and members of his inner circle.
Chingonzo, a student at the National University of Science and Technology and co-founder of Saisai Wireless in Zimbabwe, his third start-up company, said the sanctions were hampering efforts by ordinary Zimbabwean business people to trade with America.
Giving his personal experience, the 21-year old told Mr. Obama his efforts to engage U.S. corporations had been hampered by the so-called targeted measures.
"I was shocked, you know," said Chingonzo. "This doesn't make sense. These are supposed to be targeted sanctions. This is the exact same experience that other Zimbabwean entrepreneurs have gone through with potential (American) investors."
Mr. Obama responded that the situation in Zimbabwe was unique, adding the challenge for the U.S. has been "our desire to help the people of Zimbabwe with what frankly has been a repeated violation of basic democratic practices and human rights inside of Zimbabwe".
"We think it is very important to send clear signals about how we expect elections to be conducted because if we don't, then all too often, with impunity, the people of those countries can suffer."
Mr. Obama said Chingonzo was right that there was need for the U.S. to balance the measures, imposed on Mr. Mugabe, his colleagues and a number of entities following the disputed 2002 elections, to ensure they don't hurt ordinary people.
Pressed further by Chingonzo, who said the targeted measures should not hurt business, Mr. Obama said: "Let's see if we can refine them (sanctions) further based on what you are talking about."
Mr. Obama also suggested a meeting with young Zimbabwean business people to discuss the issue further.
They also discussed issues facing young African entrepreneurs to start new companies due to lack of capital.
They focused on innovation, business and what American companies can do to spur growth on the African continent without stifling upcoming businesses.
Chingonzo is also a 2014 Mandela Young Leaders Fellow.
He is a firm believer that start-ups can be the catalyst needed for Zimbabwe's economic turnaround.
"Their ability to churn out disruptive innovation that revolutionises industry will bring about the solution that we need," he says.
During his time as a YALI Washington Fellow, Chingonzo attended classes at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, as a participant in the business and entrepreneurship track of the fellowship.
He's spending an additional eight weeks interning at Africa Venture Partners, a private investment and strategic management company based in Berkeley, California that focuses exclusively on Africa.
"I hope to learn how to establish sustainable social ventures that do not rely on donor funding," he said.
Chingonzo earlier told VOA's Marvellous Mhlanga-Nyahuye in an exclusive interview that he's impressed with some of the deliberations that have been going on, on the sidelines of the U.S.-Africa leaders' summit in Washington DC.
He said he's happy with the commitment being pledged by some of America's blue chip companies to increase the level of business between the U.S. and Africa.
"In these conversations and dialogues we need the involvement of young entrepreneurs, and young African leaders to understand how exactly they are working currently and to come up with smarter policies to enable great acceleration within our current economy" he said.
"We are talking about how we need our leaders to leverage on technology to converse with us on these issues how basically we need a more holistic conversation that involves everybody," said Chingonzo.


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James Blake, Brian Eno, Daft Punk, and Hudson Mohawke are nominated for Grammys
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards are set to take place on January 26th 2014, and the full list of nominees has been released by the Recording Academy. It's no surprise to learn that the majority of the nominations are a bit perplexing – Jay-Z has had nine nominations for some absurd reason, while Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' white saviour anthem Same Love is deemed worthy of the Song Of The Year.
Still, it's nice to learn that some of Dummy's favourites are nominated. James Blake is up for Best New Artist (he's up against Ed Sheeran), while Disclosure's totally harmless 'Settle' is in the running for Best Dance/Electronica album. Brian Eno's 'Lux' is up for an award in the Best New Age Album category, and it's cool to see that Duke Dumont, who once released the completely mad Hoy, is up for an award with his chart-topping Need U (100%). Given the Grammy eligibility window (October 1st 2012 to September 30th 2013), records from the tail-end of last year, like Kendrick Lamar's 'Good Kid, m.A.A.d City', are up for a lot of awards too.
Wonderfully, Hudson Mohawke gets a couple of nominations by proxy, for his work on two of the records nominated for Best Rap Album, Kanye West's 'Yeezus' and Drake's 'Nothing Was The Same'.
Daft Punk are obviously in the running, too, with Get Lucky up for Record Of The Year, and 'Random Access Memories' being nominated for all sorts of awards (including Best Engineered, which it definitely deserves).
You can check out the gigantic full list of nominees here.


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Project Canterbury
From The Works of the Rt. Rev. Charles C. Grafton (Volume 8),
edited by B. Talbot Rogers, New York: Longmans, Green, 1914, pp. 379-397
The Right Reverend Charles C. Grafton, S.T.D., LL.D.
Bishop of Fond du Lac
" In all places where I record My name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee."—Ex. xx. 24.
" Lord, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, and the place where Thine honor dwelleth." —Ps. xxvi. 8.
its consecration a building is set apart for holy uses. Before its
consecration it belongs to the natural order, and may be used for any secular
purpose without desecration. Consecration changes its character. God takes our
proffered gift out of our own hands into His own. He formally does this by His
representative, the Bishop. Other ministers might come and say prayers, but
the building would not be consecrated. For the Bishop is the spiritual head of
all things spiritual and the source of all jurisdiction in his diocese. He
comes and officially receives our gift and gathers it into the spiritual
order. It then becomes one of the many covenanted media for the extension of
the work of the Incarnate Son of God. God inscribes there His name. There He
vouchsafes His presence. There He promises a blessing. "In all places where
I record my name, I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee."
in deserts, in the mountain tops, in the woods, by the sea, man may listen to
the Creator's voice articulate in nature's song of life, in the gladsome
hum of insect life, or multitudinous laughter of the waves, or in the
message-laden winds. But the Church is the covenanted meeting place of God
with His people. From the time when Jacob poured the oil upon the pillar and
it became a Bethel to the last consecrated Christian temple, God has
vouchsafed His presence to certified holy places.
right worthily does this building speak. By the solidity of its structure it
points to the abiding character of God's last Revelation. By its
localization in the midst of our homes it reminds us that He, the Incarnate
God, is the Ever-near One. By its cruciform construction it tells of the Love
that laid aside His Glory and humbled Himself to the death of the cross and
sought us out. By its Baptistry it teaches our elevation through our
incorporation into Christ, from our being God's offspring according to
nature's order into that of being children of the new creation. By its Nave
and Chancel it tells of the Church here in this world, buffeting with its
waves, and yet at rest. By its Rood bearing the dear figure of the Crucified
between Our Lady and St. John, of the Rod that gives us comfort when we pass
the dark valley of death. By its division of Chancel into Choir and Sanctuary,
of the two revealed modes by which God in every dispensation—in paradise,
under the patriarchs, under the Law, in glory—would be worshiped, namely, by
word of prayer and praise, and by sacrifice. By its Altar adorned with the
Christian symbols of cross and lights, of the abiding presence of Him who is
the world's true Light and our Resurrection Food.
visible cloud may descend to-day upon this Church as upon the dedication of
the Jewish Temple, witnessing to us of its acceptance. For the Holy Spirit,
with lambent tongues of holy flame, once and for all descended upon the living
temple of the Apos–tolic college and dwells within the Apostolic Church.
There were visible signs of the Spirit's presence when the Gentiles were
brought into the Christian Church. But the Spirit descended never to ascend.
To seek for another Pentecost is as idle as to pray for another Nativity. He
descended once for all, and abides in the holy Church, and in the calmness of
an assured possession that Church bestows the gifts of the Spirit by the
laying on of hands. The Church is thus a spiritual organism because filled
with the Holy Ghost. In this organism Christ is present and can make Himself
manifest in all its activities. Throughout this spiritual organism Christ
continues to discharge His ever-abiding functions as our Prophet, Priest, and
King. "He that heareth you heareth Me," it "stretches out His hand to
heal." A living Christ dwells in a living Church.
in answer to the prayers of faith, the sick are healed, calamities averted,
blessings bestowed, mountains of difficulty are cast into the sea, angels
guard the feet of Christ's people, the Saints have intercourse with God, the
inner life of the Church is aglow with the radiance of heaven.
greater works are done than when nature owned creation's Lord, and sea and
wind obeyed him. Christ, the revelation of God to man, is also the revealed
ascent through which man passes upward into God. Christ is the embodiment of
Progress, Liberty, Reform. His Voice goes like morning over the earth.
Tyrannies and superstitions flee away. Society gradually becomes elevated. The
human brotherhood of the race is acknowledged. Government recognizes Christian
principles. War's needful struggle becomes mitigated. The slave's shackles
fall from his hands. Woman rises to her rightful equality. The spiritually
blind receive their sight. The lame walk. The dead in sin are raised to life.
In the midst of worldliness, men lead unworldly lives, and the true child of
God is brought into such loving Communion with his heavenly Father, that like
one speaking through a telephone, he recognizes His voice and receives reply,
and knows with a divine certainty with whom he communes and in whom he puts
his trust.
by the act of His representative, the Bishop, He gathers this building into
His accepted instrumentalities, and here He puts His Name, with the covenanted
promise to meet and bless His people.
as the pious Hebrew loved the Temple with a devotion intensified by his
afflictive exile, loved it for all it represented of his nation's struggle,
and failures, and glory, and shame, loved it as a witness of God's manifold
and gracious dealings and covenanted promises, and as the embodiment of the
precious heritage of his great hope, loved it, above all, because of the Ark
with its Shekinah and Mercy Seat, shall not we, Churchmen, seeing that, in
spiritual value and significance and Presence, our temples surpass that of the
Jews, shall not we love thy Church, O Lord, as the place where "Thine honor
dwelleth." Oh, my children, care for it, assemble in it, adorn it, endow it.
Love it as the place where we have met God and found His promises true, where
His word is spoken in blessing, and in absolution, and is given in the Holy
Food so precious to our souls; and on this day of jubilee learn to love it
is another and fuller view of the Temple not inappropriate to this day's
solemnities, when we recall for what purpose this parish was founded and what
it has stood for. Necessary in England at the beginning of the Tractarian
movement, it is more necessary in New England now, to bring before Christians
the true and almost lost conception of the Church. It has been thought of as a
voluntary association of believers. It has been supposed to have no divinely
given order. It has been recognized by some more correctly as a visible
kingdom established by Christ. But to arrive at a full conception of it we
must perceive that it is a living temple.
Israel was called the "house of the Lord," so likewise is the Church
called "The House of God," "The great house" wherein are vessels of
gold and silver, " Christ's own house," " The temple of the Living
God." This is one of the many metaphors like that of the "family," the
"city," the "kingdom"—which tell us that the Church is a visible
organization, which declares that the gospel of Christ was not an abstract
gospel, not a mere announcement of truth or proffer of pardon, that Christ's
followers were not a mere voluntary aggregation of believers, but that the
Gospel He proclaimed and founded was "the gospel of the kingdom." He did
not will to cast His word loose among mankind, to let it float on amidst the
stream of human life without the protection of a visible society. He did not
leave its interpretation to be developed by the clash of scholarly opinion,
but entrusted it to a church endowed with the Holy Ghost.
Apostolic writings," says Canon Bright, "are stultified by the hypothesis
of a 'naturalistic' church, the result of the working of individuals to
self-association, evolved under the laws of God's ordinary providential
government. A 'church' of this kind might be called 'divinely
organized,' just as all forms of cooperative activity are so from a benefit
society to a parliament. The Church of those days does not present itself as a
guild or company; to outsiders it may have seemed so, but its members believed
it to be a divine incorporation, to have a unique mystery in its life, an
unparalleled Presence in its working. "And this is the real test. Not how it
appeared to statesman, or historian, or critic, but what Christians declared
it to be, and as the Epistle for the day shows they knew themselves to be
members of a divinely ordered living organization which was the Temple of the
Holy Ghost.
Lord's teaching throughout contains much concerning the formation of this
Living Temple, and of that Church "which He loved" and for which He
"gave Himself." Take two instances, one in the beginning and one at the
end of His ministry. It is noticeable in the Sermon on the Mount, which has
been called the charter of the Gospel, how that no sooner has the Lord
progressively developed the ideal Christian character in the Beatitudes, than
in the next section of His discourse He goes on to describe him as a
Churchman. He belongs to a "city." He is a citizen. It is a city set on a
hill. A city having its walls, and towers, and guards, and an organized
government and Temple. And the succeeding illustrations, the salt heap beside
the sacrifice, the light, the candlestick, the council of judgment, the altar
and its gifts and offerings, are all connected with the Temple and its
worship. We see by the continuity of the illustrations what was before the
mind of Christ. Christ's ideal Christian is first of all a loyal Churchman.
So also we find this truth shadowed forth in the Parable of the Good Shepherd.
Christ comes to the ancient Jewish Church symbolized by the night fold,
surrounded by its wooden palisade of which John the Baptist was the porter,
and the porter recognizes His voice, and His sheep know His voice and follow
Him. But He does not leave them to browse where they please, and unshepherded
to follow at their own sweet will the speculations of their human fancy; nor
are they to be unprotected or uncorralled, by being left without a fold. Only
the temporary wooden night fold of the Jewish Church was to be replaced by the
permanent walls of the great spiritual Temple of which Christ declares Himself
to be the door. He says, "I am the Door," and He was the Door because
there was the Living Temple behind it.
are two traditional mistakes about Christianity we, New Englanders, have been
led into. First, without giving thought to the matter, we assume that the
whole of Christianity is to be found fully and explicitly stated in the four
Gospels. Moreover, we are apt to think that the relation of those who followed
Christ as there described, is the same as that of the Christian to Him to-day.
Some also go farther, and, picking out some favorite parable or act of
Christ's mercy or the Sermon on the Mount, say, "That's Christianity
good enough for me." It is a scandalously huge blunder which, persisted in,
becomes profane.
forget that Christ's revelation of Himself as recorded in the Gospels was
chiefly to the few Apostles, and to them a very gradual one. One principle
governing all His teachings was not to reveal it, save in the degree persons
were prepared to receive it, lest by a hasty rejection of it they should
become committed to unbelief and so fall into sin. Moreover, not until the
whole work of Christ had been displayed in the Crucifixion, the Resurrection,
and the Ascension, could the deep hidden significance of that completed work
and its far-reaching consequences possibly be explained. All of Christ's
teaching during His public ministry was therefore necessarily partial. To the
common people it was chiefly to lead them to a belief in Himself. To the
Apostles, by parable and miracle and personal intercourse, it was something
more. But the religion He came to establish is only found partially revealed
in the Gospels and only there in a preparatory stage. For so He expressly
declared to the Apostles, at the end of His public ministry, saying, "I have
yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." During the
forty days after the Resurrection, when He had shut the world out, He indeed
revealed something more of Himself and the Church to the Apostles, and spoke
to them "of the things pertaining to the Kingdom." But it was not till the
illumination gift at Pentecost of the Holy Ghost that the Apostles were led
into all truth and could understand the previously hidden import of Christ's
actions and words. Not till they were made Living stones of the Temple, could
they understand the meaning. Not till the day of Pentecost were they
themselves made complete Christians. Then He, though invisible, took up His
abiding presence in the midst of the Church. He became the Sun of that new
creation he was forming. Nay more. As God is immanent in the natural universe,
so did the God-man, Jesus Christ, become present in the New Creation. He lives
in it. His presence in this New Creation does not depend on man's
recognition of it, any more than God's immanence in nature depends on human
faith. Christ's presence in His Church and in His Sacraments is secured by
His own act and word. Thus He guards, protects, and rules the Church. And He
completed through St. Paul and St. John the revelation of His religion, and
established His Church. Moreover, he made St. John a special organ of
communication with His Church after the Ascension. The Book of Revelation
maybe called the Gospel of the Ascension. So the Church is soon seen after the
Pentecost at Jerusalem with its ordered apostolic hierarchy, its councils,
general and diocesan, with the threefold order of ministry, its local
presiding Bishop in the person of St. James, with its holy order of Presbyters
and Deacons, with its discipline and its Baptismal Trinitarian Creed and its
Sacraments and Eucharistic Offering, and growing Liturgy. Pentecost is the
birthday of the Church, and it is as idle to expect its repetition as to look
for another Nativity of Christ. Christianity began as a Church, and we read
how the Lord added daily to the Church such as should be saved. Well, is it
then, to remember that the four Gospels record Christianity only partially and
in its primary stage, and that there was not even a complete Christian in
existence till the day of Pentecost.
other mistake we, New Englanders, have been led into is, that in establishing
the Christian religion, God overthrew His previously revealed principles of
worship, and abolishing the Jewish Church, established a new religion without
Church organization, without a priesthood, without a sacrifice. Yet Our Lord
emphatically declared He did not come to set all this aside. He did not come
to destroy the law but to fulfil it. He fulfilled it in two ways: First, in
His Own Person, by an absolute and perfect obedience to all of its
requirements; and secondly, by elevating, glorifying, and endowing it with a
higher life. He changed the water in the jars of the old dispensation into the
good wine of the new. He destroyed not the law, its feasts, its priesthood,
its ordinances. They were bare figures or outlines of good things to come. The
substance, the body which they shadowed forth, was Christ. So He came and
filled these empty outlines full of Himself. The old feasts were transformed
into Christian feasts. The Passover became Easter, Pentecost became
Whitsunday. The Sabbath passed into the Lord's Day. The Jewish priesthood,
propagated by a natural descent from Aaron, gave way to the priesthood
spiritually propagated by prayer and laying on of Apostolic hands. "The
priesthood being changed," not abolished, the order of Aaron is succeeded by
that of Melchizedec. The eight functions of the Jewish priesthood passed over
into the spiritual functions of the Christian. The prophecy of Isaiah, that
under the greatest gospel of God, "I will take of the Gentiles for
priests," is fulfilled. The worship of the Synagogue is continued in our
choir office of Matins and Evensong; that of the Temple, in the worship of our
Altar and Sanctuary. For as St. Paul declares, and our Prayer Book affirms,
"we have an Altar," and we have a Priesthood. As all Israel was impressed
with a royal and priestly character, so it is written of Christian Israel,
"Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ. "The spiritual significance of the Jewish burnt offering, peace
offering, sin and trespass offering, is summed up in our one Christian
offering of the Eucharistic Sacrifice of Christ's Body and Blood. Herein is
the prophecy of Malachi fulfilled, "and in every place from the rising to
the setting sun" is the "pure offering" of the gospel pleaded before
God. The Christian Church is thus the unfolded flower of all which in the
Jewish Church was in the bud. It is a higher stage of the same Temple rising
on the four-square, or cross-formed foundations of the old. It is something
more, for it is filled, as the old was not, with the Holy Spirit and enshrines
the Presence of the God-Man Christ. In this Temple the prophecies of Christ
are fulfilled. The hour is come, and now is, when the Father is worshiped
everywhere in spirit and in truth. In spirit, for the Holy Spirit dwelling in
the Church makes it a life-enshrining and life-transmitting organism. In
truth, for the day of empty rites and mere signs has passed away, and that of
realities and substance has come and its sacraments are effectual means of
is for this conception of the Church, its priesthood and sacraments and
worship, that this Parish of the Advent has continually borne witness and
flung open its doors to rich and poor alike, making no distinction of persons
between the members of the Church family, the worshipers at the Altar of a
common Lord. Alas! in contrast with all this, how meager is that view which
regards Christ as the consummation of God's general immanence in nature, and
which thus at bottom is only a theory of a "decorated Humanitarianism."
How ignorant must he be of the Incarnation, who can say "seeing God has come
visibly into creation, what does it matter how he came," for only by the
absence of personal human parentage could the singleness of the personality of
the God-Man be preserved and so an Incarnation in the flesh take place. How
unsatisfying is that system which instead of an infallible Incarnate Son of
God, presents us with a possibly fallible man-bearing Divinity. How imperfect
is that conception of Christianity that regards it as a truth cast upon the
stream of human thought, or a mere offer of pardon, presenting us only with an
example, or furnishing us with persuasive motives, which regards the church as
a mere human society, and its sacraments as empty of grace as Jewish
ordinances. "And so," as Dr.
Pusey has said, "there are afloat hundreds of Christianities. You have
Christianity without Judaism, Christianity without facts, Christianity without
doctrines, Christianity without anything supernatural, Christianity which
shall only be an 'idea,' Christianity with fallible Apostles, fallible
prophets (alas! that one must give utterance to the blasphemy) a fallible
is it, dear brethren, to turn to the blessed vision of the Church. Shrine of
the Truth. Guardian of the Faith. Teacher of the Nations. Blessed home for the
lonely. Refuge for the distressed. Ark for the perishing. Blessed Temple of
living stones in which God is known, worshiped, and loved. Body of Christ in
which He dwells, through which He acts. His present and eternal Bride. One,
Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. One by organic union of all its members with its
Head. Holy, by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, and by its worship and means
of grace. Apostolic, in its government and priesthood through its Apostolic
fellowship and descent. Catholic, in its doctrine, which bears the marks of
antiquity and common consent.
she may be now. Union and communion between her estranged members may be
interrupted, yet her organic unity cannot be destroyed. The gates of Hell may
injure but cannot prevail. Like the mangled Body of her Lord all her bones may
be out of joint, yet not a bone be broken. The dislocation existing between
the East and West, between the Greek, Roman, and Anglican Communions, may yet
be repaired. Meanwhile, we see how by these very divisions God keeps the
Church from making any new ecumenically authorized dogmatic definitions and so
falling into error. At the same time as each portion of organic Christendom
proclaims the faith received from Her Divine Head, fenced by the Creeds,
embalmed in the Liturgies, witnessed to by the Scriptures and Sacraments, She
fulfils her prophetic office.
not the least unworthy of our hearts' best love is our own Spiritual Mother,
the Anglo-Catholic Church, whose authoritative utterance in her Prayer Book
provides a clear and safe guide to all humble and reverent minds. "O Mother
of Saints! School of the Wise! Nurse of the heroic. Of whom went forth, in
whom have dwelt memorable names of old to spread the truth abroad or to
cherish and nourish it at home! O thou from whom surrounding nations lit their
lamps!" Once failing, but not given over. Falling as in Edward's time, but
preserved. Nigh to perish through Puritan rebellion and assaults of heresies,
but saved. How halt Thou arisen as from the dust! How has the reproach upon
Thee "of a miscarrying womb and dry breasts" been done away. Marvel of
marvels! "Miracle of repair!" The branch severed from the trunk perishes.
Every schismatical body eventually loses the faith. But after the convulsion
of the Reformation and the church's dual contest with the politics of Rome
and the heresies of Geneva, after the bleak desolating winter of eighteenth
century Erastianism, behold this second spring. The branch puts forth her
leaves, and buds, and bears fruit a hundred fold. She has learnt something by
her captivity. She has no quarrel with science, but regards it as an ally. For
no accredited dogma of the church has been contravened by modern discovery.
She regards all the baptized as Christians. A new enthusiasm for man as well
as love of God fills her with fresh missionary zeal. She goes forth with the
light of faith in her eyes and the grace of the Sacraments in her hands. She
appeals to all that is good in man, and brings him the help which he
spiritually and physically needs. What has marked the Anglican revival has not
been a mere ecclesiasticism, but a quickened love of humanity and a practical
benevolence. Orphanages, schools, hospitals, homes for the aged, asylums of
every kind, have been its fruitful product. This has proved the Catholic
vitality of the Anglican Communion. And its character has been: marked by
Christ's own sign manual of personal service. Her educated sons have gone
down to live in the slums of great cities among the poor, to elevate them by
their friendly intercourse. Her daughters have given themselves by hundreds to
the religious life with its noble service. Her churches have been restored,
and sanctity and charity become watchwords of her renewed life. Again is the
Voice of the ancient Bishops and Fathers heard in the Pulpits. Again is the
one sure and certain faith, Nicene, taught of old, proclaimed. Again the daily
Sacrifice is offered on her altars. Again her Religious Orders tell of
Christ's all-satisfying love to consecrated souls.
fear and prejudice are being overcome and a more devotional service has been
established. The truth of the old prophecy has been fulfilled
Again do long processions sweep through Lincoln's Minster pile;
Again do banner, cross and cope gleam thro' the incensed aisle;
And the faithful dead do claim their part in the Church's thankful prayer,
And the daily Sacrifice to God is duly offered there;
And many an earnest prayer ascends from many a hidden spot;
And England's Church is Catholic, though England's self be not."
has been given to you, dear brethren of this honored parish, among whom by
God's permission I so long labored (forgive the faults and shortcomings of
my service), to bear your part in this Church revival.
has been one marked in America and England by the mistakes, the errors, the
shortsightedness, the faults of Christ's servants. As in all Church
revivals, one aspect of the truth may by some of its adherents have been
unduly pressed. There is always the danger, through seeing the importance of
some forgotten truth, of not keeping the proportion of the faith. In some
places the multiplication of ceremonial details of worship may have obscured
the evangelical spirit. When ritualism concentrates our attention upon itself,
it hinders our realization of the Divine Presence and so obstructs our
worship. It is true disappointments have befallen us, and the Church has had
to learn the lesson of all progress, that, as Burke said, "We buy our
blessings at a price.' Our position has been misunderstood, and consequently
attacked by those within and those without our communion. "The church's
time on earth," as Keble
wrote, "is a time of crosses, not only of persecution and direct hostility,
but of hopes frustrated and expectations unrealized." The movement had
taught Churchmen the limits of the permitted toleration of the Prayer Book. It
is not the extreme man who is the dangerous man, but he who is only extreme in
one direction. The complete Churchman is the advanced man, the advanced man
who has advanced in every direction until he has reached in all points the
Prayer Book's circumference. We have met, we must still meet, with checks,
for "our checks," as Dr. Pusey once said to me, "have been our greatest
blessings." But because the movement was of God, it has gone on. Because it
has a special message to New England, and to earnest thinkers and Christian
workers of all bodies, we can be sure it has come to stay. When the
unbelieving begin to taunt, "this sham of Christianity is breaking down, "
then the miracle of revival shows the Anglican Church to be full of the
Resurrection power of her Lord. Naturalism may boast that grace and Sacraments
are no longer needed, but no philosopher can supply the place of a living
Temple and a living Christ. Church believers may at times become weary "with
their toiling in rowing, "but as it has ever been in the fourth watch of the
night Christ is seen approaching on the waters. "When Israel was in the
Brick Kiln then cometh Moses." May it not be that New England, having
exhausted the spiritual resources of Calvinism and its natural reaction to
Unitarianism, may now come under God's good providence to enjoy the
Christian religion as enshrined by its Founder in the Living and Life-giving
organism of the Church.
so, dear brethren of this parish, as you look back this day and see through
what God has led the Anglican Communion, look around upon your separated
Christian brethren with charity, and look forward with confidence. You have
entered into the sacrifice of others and are enjoying the fruits of their
labor. Take heart of grace. Seek not your own salvation only. Live for
humanity. Study the faith. Make known the faith. Live the faith. Fear nothing.
Hope for everything. Meet all attacks with charity. Overcome all difficulties
with prayer. No cause more noble, none that shall win a greater reward. "The
Living and the dead but one communion make"; and the Apostles, the Doctors,
and Confessors, and Saints, and those who have gone before are looking on,
inspiring us by their presence, sustaining us by their prayers, and glorious
in the assembly of the Saints is the radiant Person of our Blessed Lord,
waiting to meet and bless with His fuller presence those who have here loved
the habitation of His House and the place where His Honor dwelleth.
Project Canterbury


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The new (old) tyre swing is in the orchard near the cubby house and sand pit.
Such a great spot to spend the afternoon for us all.
The simple things really are the best!
Harry loves the swing. He would swing all day if we let him, I seriously think one of my arms is longer pushing that little boy in the swing. Our problem now is that we need two swings - how do you tell an 18 month old that he needs to wait for his turn.ReplyDelete
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Several Slicers are heading up to the Highlights Foundation for an Unworkshop for few days in late June. Consider joining them if you'd like to drop everything for a few days so you can spend time working on your writing. For more information about the Highlights Foundation's facilities you can go to their website. You may also click here to learn more about an Unworkshop.
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Minimalist black and white archival print. Taken in the late fall in Yellowstone National Park. Perfect on its own or in a set of three. 8″x8″ print in a 12″x12″ matte. Frame measure 14″x14″.
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Pensions- Divorce and Death
How do you feel about pensions? Do you wish you had listened to your dad and started paying into one when you were younger? Would you rather invest your money elsewhere?
If you are getting divorced then any pension provision you have will need to be considered. Maitland Walker Solicitors, based in Taunton, Minehead and London can give you family law advice.
Please note solicitors are not qualified to give financial advice!
When you get divorced, and are considering the division of assets, you will need to consider many things including current income, future earning capacity, property assets, cash & pensions. There should be full and frank financial disclosure. A pension might be one of the biggest assets and can be shared on divorce. It can be transferred out of the name of one person and put into a 'new' pension in the other spouses' name. Pensions can be equalised by "pot value" (known as a CEV- cash equivalent value) or to give an equal income. Also, pensions can be 'offset'. This means that one spouse retains their pension and the other spouse gets a larger share of the other assets.
We will need to look at whether the pension is a matrimonial asset and whether it should be shared. This depends on various factors (s25 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973), including length of the marriage, age, needs and contributions made.
You should seek legal advice to make sure you are not missing out on pension provision or giving up too much.
If you are not able to reach an amicable agreement then court proceedings can be commenced and the court can impose an order on the parties. It is always better to try and negotiate.
Whilst on the topic of pensions, great news for same sex married couples. There has been a recent case (Walker v Innospec Limited and others [2017]) which has given same sex married couples the same pension rights following the death of their spouse. It was held that an exemption in the Equality Act 2010 was breaching EU law and was discriminatory. Before that pension companies only had to give pension benefits to a heterosexual surviving spouse.
If you are a same sex couple and have any questions or concerns about this ruling then please do not hesitate to contact our Family Team
If you have any questions about divorce, separation or the related financial matters then please do not hesitate to contact Taunton 01823 745777 or Minehead 01643 707777


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Poetry always has the power to be very inspiring, so if you want to buy cheap inspirational and religious textbooks filled with these poems, do so now. Valore Books has dedicated this particular section of college text books to this subject, including books such as Piers Plowman, Like Mama Used to Say, and Ground of Our Beseeching: Metaphor and the Poetics of Meditation. Many of the prices are discounted and highly affordable, but you can also buy used inspirational and religious textbooks you may not easily find elsewhere. With Valore Books and our extensive marketplace of pre-owned text books, it couldn't be easier to get the books you need. If you already own some of these books, or other inspirational titles in this area, sell your inspirational and religious books back to us today for cash. It's the best way to make the most of your book collection here and now.


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He's all ears! Hilarious photo of elephant who looks like a bunny
Elephants are already known for their big ears – so image how this one felt when a dust cloud gave him BUNNY EARS.
The elephant bull was just enjoying a stroll in Etosha National Park, Namibia, South Africa, when the dust from his footsteps created the fantastic illusion.
Keen photographer Anja Denker caught the moment, which the elephant was seemingly unfazed by.
Anja, 48, who lives in Namibia, was on a week's trip to the park when she stumbled across the elephant.
She said: "I had spotted a bachelor group of three elephant bulls on the grassy plains of Etosha near the Batia waterhole.
"On the other side, two more bulls were making their way across the road in front of my car.
"One of them stood in a patch of sand and started kicking up dust with his feet and trunk, while the other one moved on a bit.
"I only realised afterwards, while scrolling through the images, that the cloud of dust the elephant had created looked like bunny ears."
She added: "Dust and elephants always create a magical combination for photography.
"It was such a wonderful moment."


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Ok so I'm a little obsessed with breastfeeding at the moment, so much so that I've found some alternative uses for breastmilk.
Breastmilk is often called liquid gold. I've come to reaslise why and appreciate it's various uses and benefits. I think of it as Coconut Oil's little sister, that has so many great uses:
Here they are:
Baby acne and rash treatment: breastmilk acts as a cleanser and prevents the skin from burning. Apply to affected area a few times a day after washing with water. It is equally beneficial for an adults skin – major cost saver!
Cuts, burns and itches: breastmilk is a natual disinfectant and it will help to heal the wound. Squeeze out a few drops and apply to your nipples when they are sore and cracked too.
Immune System Boost for mother and older siblings: breastmilk has antibodies that protect against all kinds of viruses and infections. By breastfeeding, you are reducing your own risk of certain illnesses such as cancers and you can also give your breastmilk to your older children for an effective immune boost.
Colds and Flus: Drinking breastmilk can improve your own immue system or that of a child or adult in your household. When my daughter was 5 weeks old, I caught a horrible flu which lasted a week. I wish I would have known that my own breastmilk would have been helpful to me. She didn't get sick at all and I credit breastfeeding for this.
Donating: once you have established a solid breastfeeding routine with your baby, you can sign up to become a donar, subject to a medical screening. I wrote about the South African Breast Milk Reserve here.
Ear and eye infections: a few drops of breastmilk throughout the day can help to keep the infected area clean and assist with recovery.
Reducing the appearance of stretchmarks: this one was most surpising to me. Exfloliate the area you want to target and apply a few drops. I'll be trying this and will be sure to let you know if it works for me.
What else have you used breastmilk for? I'm so motivated to keep breastfeeding and pumping Mamas, especially throughout the winter season.
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Tom Waits (born 7.12.1949)
Tom Waits is an American singer and songwriter as well as a composer and actor.
Childhood & Early Music Career: Tom Waits was born in Pomona, California. His mother was Alma Johnson McMurray and his father was Jesse Frank Waits and both parents were school teachers. They divorced in 1960 and Tom went to live with his mother in Whittier, California, then later to National City, San Diego County. Waits would often take trips to Mexico with his father (a Spanish teacher) and he taught himself to play music on a neighbour's piano.
Tom Waits attended Hilltop High School and during that time played in a soul band named The System. He later worked as a doorman at the Heritage nightclub (now the Liar's Club). This was where he performed his first gig, for $25. He was a fan of artists such as Bob Dylan, Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Sinatra but soon learned to develop his own style.
Music & Film Career: Tom Waits moved to Echo Park, Los Angeles in 1971. The neighbourhood was home to Frank Zappa and Jackson Browne. He would queue with other musicians to play at The Troubadour club. At the age of 21, he signed with Herb Cohen and recorded a string of demo tapes for Herb's Bizarre/Straight label.
The following year, he signed to Asylum Records and his debut album Closing Time was released in 1973. It was produced by Jerry Yester of Lovin' Spoonful. It was not until Tim Buckley covered 'Martha', on his Sefronia album that Closing Time garnered any serious attention. Similarly, the Eagles covered 'Ol' 55' on On the Border.
Waits toured with the likes of Martha and the Vandellas and Charlie Rich and released his second album The Heart of Saturday Night. This was followed by the double album Nighthawks at the Diner in 1975. He also sang backing vocals on Bonnie Raitt's 'Sweet and Shiny Eyes'.
In 1976, Tom Waits released Small Change, which had a far more downbeat edge to his previous albums. He performed 'The Piano Has Been Drinking' on The Old Grey Whistle Test. This was followed on stylistically with 1977's Foreign Affairs, which featured a duet with Bette Midler and 1978's Blue Valentine, which opens with a Leonard Bernstein song - 'Somewhere' - from West Side Story.
Two years later, Waits made his film debut in Paradise Alley, which starred Sylvester Stallone. He played a pianist, Mumbles and performed two original compositions.
1980's Heartattack and Vine was Waits' last release for Asylum Records. That year, he also worked with Crystal Gayle on the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's One From The Heart.
When he left Asylum, Tom Waits had a number of small film roles, in films such as Wolfen (a 1981 horror film starring Albert Finney). He also had a string of roles in Francis Ford Coppola's films, such as The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
1983 saw Waits release Swordfishtrombones, on which he played a number of instruments that were new to him, such as the waterphone and the bassoon. His new musical style was compared to Kurt Weill as well as Dr. John and Captain Beefheart. Two years later he released Rain Dogs, which featured Robert Quine (of Richard Hell's band The Voidoids) and Keith Richards on guitar. The album contained 'Downtown Train' which later became a hit for Rod Stewart. The video for Waits' version featured a cameo from Jake La Motta. Waits followed this with a lead role in the Jim Jarmusch film Down By Law, as well as an appearance on The Rolling Stones' 'Sleep Tonight'.
Wait's acting career developed further when he landed a supporting role alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Ironweed.
The 1990s continued to be a prolific time for Tom Waits. He collaborated with William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson on the theatrical show The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets. Waits then worked with the photographer Sylvia Plachy, supplying a short album to accompany her book Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour. He also started a lengthy period of collaboration with the band Primus, especially the singer Les Claypool.
Waits supplied the soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's 1991 movie Night on Earth. His film work continued when he had a cameo in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King, followed by a role in Hector Babenco's At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which also featured John Malkovich, Kathy Bates and Kevin Bacon.
1992's Bone Machine broke the five year wait for a Tom Waits studio album. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album. The following year, he released The Black Rider as well as appearing in Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California as well as composing the music for the animated feature Bunny with Kathleen Brennan.
In 1998, Tom Waits left Island Records and signed to Epitaph. The next year, he released Mule Variations, earning himself another Grammy in the process.
2002 saw Tom Waits release two albums; Alice, followed by Blood Money. Then, in 2004, he released Real Gone, which featured the singer beatboxing for the first time. He then contributed a cover of Daniel Johnston's 'King Kong' to the tribute compilation The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered. November 2006 was marked by the release of the three disc compilation set, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards. Waits' song 'Way Down In The Hole' was used as the theme tune for the HBO series The Wire. In 2008, Waits appeared on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's album Raising Sand. It was covered by Steve Earl and The Blind Boys of Alabama. Scarlett Johansson's debut 2008 album, Anywhere I Lay My Head contained 10 Tom Waits covers.
Personal Life: Tom Waits had a relationship with the musician Rickie Lee Jones in the late 1970s.
Waits went on to marry Kathleen Brennan in 1980.
Adele has been accused of ripping off Wait's 1973 track 'Martha' with her smash hit 'Hello'.
Adele might be enjoying massive success with her comeback single 'Hello', but fans of American singer Tom Waits have accused her of 'ripping off' his 1973 track 'Martha'. Waits fans have been pointing out the similarities between the two songs on social media, as both are based on a similar theme.
Did Adele 'rip off' Tom Waits for 'Hello'?
'Martha' begins with the lyrics: 'Hello, hello there, is this Martha? This is old Tom Frost / And I am calling long distance, don't worry 'bout the cost / 'Cause it's been forty years or more, now Martha please recall / Meet me out for coffee, where we'll talk about it all.'
Continue reading: Tom Waits Fans Have A Feeling They've Heard Adele's 'Hello' Before
Martin McDonagh gleefully plays with both the gang thriller genre and the moviemaking process with this enjoyably absurd action comedy. It's a little self-indulgent, acknowledging how difficult he found it to follow up his acclaimed film In Bruges. But a continual stream of hilariously clever gags make it thoroughly entertaining, and the seriously great actors are so playful that it's infectious.
At the centre, naturally, is an Irish writer named Marty (Farrell), living in Hollywood and struggling to write his next screenplay. He settles on the title Seven Psychopaths, and decides that his lead character will be a nonviolent Buddhist killer. Otherwise he's stuck. Then he discovers that his hyperactive pal Billy (Rockwell) is running a scam with Hans (Walken), kidnapping dogs and claiming the rewards from their owners. This all goes terribly wrong when they grab the beloved shitzu of the mercurial thug Charlie (Harrelson), sending him into a murderous rampage. And as Marty finds himself in the middle of it, his script starts to take shape.
McDonagh is adept at combining freewheeling wackiness with more astute observational comedy. This film isn't as emotionally resonant as In Bruges, but it crackles with the same sharp dialog and offhanded violent silliness. Most of this plays up the amusing shock value of sudden death, although there are moments that are surprisingly touching, mainly due to a wonderfully textured turn from Walken. Rockwell is the other standout as the manic, unpredictable Billy, an enthusiastic mischief-maker. And Harrelson has a great presence as the funny-terrifying Charlie.
Continue reading: Seven Psychopaths Review
Marty is a budding screenwriter in LA with hopes of completing his major screenplay 'Seven Psychopaths' but involuntarily gets mixed up in his friends Hans and Billy's career of dog kidnapping; a way of earning money that involves stealing people's pet pooches and returning them some days later to claim the reward. Billy is an actor and Marty's best friend who tries desperately to keep him safe when he is almost killed after Billy and Hans steal the much-loved Shih Tzu of unhinged gangster, Charlie; a man whose fury and devastation at losing his dog is enough drive to execute whoever he thinks is involved. Hans is religious with a violent past but now recognises non-violence as a better way to live. However, he, Billy and Marty will struggle avoiding violence at the hands of Charlie especially as they choose to ignore their worried and annoyed girlfriends' suggestions to return the dog.
'Seven Psychopaths' is a wonderful crime comedy that spoofs the trend of all the serious gangster movies that have been released this year. Directed, written and produced by the Oscar winning Martin Mcdonagh ('In Bruges', 'Six Shooter'), this star-studded flick is definitely one for dog lovers and gangster film lovers alike. It is scheduled for release in the UK this winter on December 7th 2012.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, Zeljko Ivanek, Tom Waits, Helena Mattsson, Gabourey Sidibe, Kevin Corrigan, Brendan Sexton III, Sandy Martin and Ronnie Gene Blevins.
Tom Waits - American singer Tom Waits Monday 9th July 2012 'The Late Show with David Letterman' at the Ed Sullivan Theater - Arrivals
Watch the trailer for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
For a movie about a wild man, Born into This is awfully tame. Director John Dullaghan does a commendable job of chronicling his subject's life, using Bukowski's various novels and poems as portals into his life experiences, but Dullaghan never challenges the audience to determine exactly what to make of Bukowski, either as a human or as a writer. Was he a misogynist or a sage? Is it possible to be both? What is his literary legacy? Why don't universities typically teach Bukowski? Do English professors know something the rest of us don't?
Continue reading: Bukowski: Born Into This Review
Jarmusch enlists a diverse cast of indie stars and former colleagues for this modest ensemble, but his uncharacteristically wheezy writing frequently undermines the film's wry humor. Cate Blanchett, in a dual performance, plays an arrogant version of herself as well as her skuzzy, jealous cousin, but the piece's portrait of jealousy and resentment loses steam after you become accustomed to seeing the actress talk to herself. Similarly, The White Stripes' Meg and Jack White provide a brief lesson on inventor Nikola Tesla's Tesla Coil, but save for the creepy, Mao Tse-tung-inspired portrait of Lee Marvin hanging on the wall behind them, the skit is nothing more than an overly long non sequitur. And even a brief appearance by Steve Buscemi can't rescue an insipid bit about two argumentative African-American twins talking racial politics in a Memphis diner.
Continue reading: Coffee And Cigarettes Review
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Cultural Diversity
The Gilgit tribe beat Chitral, 9-6, this year in the annual, bloody, take-no-prisoners, referee-less polo match on a remote, 2-mile-high field on a mountain in Pakistan, an event that, despite its viciousness, some observers credit with forestalling actual war between the tribes. According to a May dispatch in ESPN The Magazine, clubbing of opponents is rampant; horses are treated more reverently than players; and when a star player was thrown and landed on his head, motionless and thought perhaps even to be dead, fans screamed for him to be cleared from the field quickly so the match could continue. (He only had a broken neck and concussion.)
Unique Responses to Danger: (1) In May, just after bird flu was discovered in Ivory Coast, hundreds of young people flocked to Abidjan's night clubs to taunt the disease with a new dance imitating a chicken in the throes of death, according to a Reuters dispatch ("leaning backward, shaking (the) wrists, arms and legs ... with a loud clucking sound"). (2) As volcanologists warned of the possible eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi in May, nearby farmers continued to listen instead to the mountain's spirits and to continue their rituals and offerings to ward off an eruption, according to an NBC News report. In one region, to preserve the mountain's tranquility, men "gather naked in groups late at night and run in circles around their villages."
Questionable Judgments
In May, a U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled that Scott Panetti remains eligible for execution in Texas despite his delusional and schizoaffective disorders and the opinion of one law professor that Panetti is the "gold-plated craziest" death-row inmate he'd ever seen. Charged with murder after having been drug-addicted since childhood and in mental institutions 14 times, Panetti was nonetheless permitted by his trial judge to act as his own lawyer (and employed a "strategy" of claiming to be under the control of a "Sarge Ironhorse"), and not surprisingly, he lost the case.
Cleveland judge Eileen Gallagher abruptly dismissed child-rape charges against Norman Craig, 22, in June when the prosecutor was 45 minutes late for a hearing, and she further scolded the lawyer, warning him, "Don't treat me like a punk."
After examining 28 cases in which pro athletes received "community service" sentences for crimes, USA Today found in May that in 24 of them, the "punishment" consisted merely of ceremonial celebrity duties, even though the underlying crimes were serious (included assault, statutory rape, weapons violations and vehicular homicide). One pro basketball player, convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old girl when he was 19, served his 100 hours of community service by being a guest counselor at a youth basketball camp (and included 27 hours' travel time in the 100).
Cake, Ice Cream and Kwame Holman
Troy and Jennifer Schally disclosed in June that their son Henry had chosen, among several possibilities as the theme for his third birthday party, PBS's "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," and the Schallys supplied a birthday cake with a photo of the show's correspondents and a periodic playing of its theme music. According to a Washington Post report, Lehrer sent along an autographed photo, signed in the name Henry calls him, "Jimmy Jimmy BoBo."
People Different From Us
On many weekends in parks in the Washington-Baltimore area, 100 or more people gather in medieval costumes and wield soft weapons to wage battle in the 20-year-old Darkon Wargaming Club, according to a May report in Baltimore City Paper. Players point out that their hobby is simply of a piece with historical-battle video games and feature films. Said a club manager (who is the wife of the player "Shalor" of the "Bloody Axe Mercenary Company"), on seeing the games for the first time: "I didn't want to get out of the car. I thought it was the dorkiest thing I'd ever seen. And 12 years later, of course, I'm running the thing." (A documentary film on the club, "Darkon," has just been released.)
Least Competent Criminals
Oops! (1) Richard and Stephanie North were arrested in April and charged as the ones who had earlier taken a big-screen TV from an appliance store in Middletown, N.Y. Police had stopped their car on suspicion because a rear door was propped open to accommodate the huge TV set sticking out of the back seat. (2) Richard Costello, 29, was arrested in Clearwater, Fla., in May and charged with stealing motorcycle parts after police recovered photos of the parts, which they suspect were snapped by Costello. At the bottom of each photo, the photographer's bare toes are visible and display the tattoos "white" and "trash," matching Costello's own tattooed toes.
William Collins, 37, was arrested in Baldwin Place, N.Y., in June and charged with DUI though his car wasn't moving. According to police, Collins was passed out in the driver's seat of the locked car, in "park," with his body positioned so that the gas pedal was depressed, causing the engine to race overheat. Collins was so unresponsive that only when police broke a window did he awaken and notice them.
The March of Science
(1) Researchers from the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announced in May that they had grown a fully functional, artificial penis from a rabbit (using his own genes), which they hoped would lead to future development of a human penis, for men with birth defects, body trauma or cancer. (2) Ambreed New Zealand introduced in June a go-cart-like machine for ranchers to gather sperm from bulls. A driver maneuvers the vehicle, designed to resemble a cow, so the bull can mount it. The driver waits until the bull is done and then drives away with the sperm.
Religion in Crisis
(1) Pastor John Sabbath of the Christ Christian Center, angry at the denial of funding by the Ontario (Calif.) City Council, announced at a June meeting that he was placing a curse on City Manager Greg Devereaux and his family. (2) And in June, the Motion Picture Association of America, for the first time ever, announced that it was rating a film PG (Parental Guidance) not for any sex, violence or bad language, but just because it is too openly religious (the film "Facing the Giants," starring Georgia preacher Alex Kendrick).
Religious Entrepreneurship: (1) Many British churches have recently installed the new Hymnal Plus, a karaoke machine to help congregations recite verses and sing hymns (including risky tunes, such as a disco version of "Amazing Grace"). (2) A violent video game based on the evangelical "Left Behind" novels, "Left Behind: Eternal Forces," was introduced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in May, and features the Tribulation Force bloodily battling the army of the Antichrist. Reviews have been severely mixed (either a positive step to spiritualize the video games culture, or grotesque violence seemingly sanctioned under the cover of the Bible). č


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Vonexus – Voice over IP (VoIP) Phones
So over the weekend, my company moved into new premises ready for the planned growth we've been working on for some time. As part of the move and part of the longer term business plans, we decided to implement the Vonexus VoIP system internally. I'm one for very much believing in "eating ones own dogfood" so to speak and I believe that it's only by using the technology and pushing it to it's limits that you know exactly where those limits are and when they might bite you back. Over the next few days / weeks I'll be posting more … Continue reading Vonexus – Voice over IP (VoIP) Phones


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Brooklyn, NY
The Nets kicks off their home opener tonight against the New York Knicks. The game starts at 7:30 PM EST at Barclays Center. (YES/MSG)
Both teams come off poor seasons and neither team made the NBA playoffs in the 2017-2018 season. Knicks come into the game 1-0 and the Nets started 0-1. The Nets exited preseason 2-2, The Knicks finished preseason 3-2. The last time the two teams meet was 6 days ago in the pre-season with 113-107 Nets victory over the Knicks.
NYC is a basketball mecca with two sub-par teams for way too long, hopefully they can turn it around this year.


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For the first time, the Memphis Grizzlies will begin listening to trade offers for their franchise stars, center Marc Gasol and guard Mike Conley, league sources told ESPN.
Memphis ownership and management have decided they've reached an organizational crossroads and are preparing to weigh deal scenarios on one or both of their cornerstone veterans between now and the Feb. 7 trade deadline -- and perhaps into the offseason, league sources said.
The Grizzlies could decide to keep one or both players if no deals meet the threshold of a desired return, but the organization is motivated to begin reshaping the roster around its 2018 first-round pick, forward Jaren Jackson, league sources said.
The Grizzlies will be pursuing typical deal packages in dealing veteran stars, including some combination of young talent, draft picks and salary-cap relief, sources said. The advanced age of Gasol (33) and substantial money owed Conley (likely $67 million through 2021) could make it difficult for Memphis to get substantial trade packages in return.
The Grizzlies had hoped to contend for a return to the playoffs in the Western Conference, but they have lost nine of 10 games to drop to 19-28 overall and into second-to-last place in the West.
Memphis owes the Boston Celtics a first-round draft pick that is protected to No. 8 in 2019, No. 6 in 2020 and unprotected in 2021.
Gasol can become a free agent this summer by opting out of the final year of his $25.5 million contract for 2019-20. He has a trade kicker on his contract that would be valued at $1.2 million at the time of the February deadline.
Conley, 31, has an early-termination option for the 2020-21 season. The guard has $22.4 million of his $34.5 million salary guaranteed, with the balance becoming fully protected if he plays in 55 games this season. He already has played in 46 games.
Conley is guaranteed $32 million in 2019-20, so trading for him is likely to commit an organization to $67 million in salary over the final two years of his original five-year, $153 million contract.
Gasol and Conley have been the centerpieces of the Grizzlies, leading the organization to the playoffs for seven straight seasons before 2018, including two trips to the Western Conference semifinals and one to the conference finals.
Gasol and Conley recently met with owner Robert Pera in Memphis, but neither expressed a desire to be traded, league sources told ESPN.
The Grizzlies also are trying to trade forward Chandler Parsons, who has $35 million through 2019-20 left on his contract. Parsons and the organization have seemingly parted ways for the season, with Parsons returning to California to work out and wait on a possible trade. Memphis has discussed deals in which it would take on additional salary moving forward, but that's a more unlikely scenario with Gasol and Conley on the trading block and a rebuild on the horizon.
Parsons has endured chronic knee problems since signing with the Grizzlies on a four-year, $93 million contract in 2016, but he has been cleared to return to the court this season.


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Located on Highway 583, next to the Three Hills Campground (with playground, baseball diamond and picnic areas). The Museum, the Accredited Visitor Information Provider offers travelers, county residents and their guests friendly advice, directions, area information and a historic window to Alberta's central plains. As a seasonal operation run by community volunteers and summer staff, the Museum and AVIP provides a personalized service to each visitor.
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Sunday 1:30pm to 6:00pm
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Family $20
Student $8
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- Hospital
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This Lambo's soft side got its owner in trouble.
Supercar owners have it rough. As if the cars weren't expensive enough, you also have the fact that you cant go anywhere without being chased by cellphone-wielding peasants, road trips feel like the Oregon trail, and any small bump becomes a potential repair bill. Even police pay special attention to how you use the extra horsepower while you try to show off. In this case, the police's curiosity ruined this man's supercar day. The owner of this green Lamborghini was driving around with a giant teddy bear tied to the back of his Gallardo.
The poor guy was probably driving home from the mall with his kid's newest toy while praying that his Lambo didn't burst into furry flames due to the flammable hugging machine strapped over the 5.2-liter V10 engine. His biggest concern turned out to be attention from the fuzz. Chengdu's city police soon stopped the green Italian exotic and ticketed the owner, who was probably pissed enough at the lack of the Gallardo's cargo space. Of course, the green Lamborghini with a giant teddy bear strapped to its back turned into a spectator party for obvious reasons and now this man's bad day is on the internet for all to see. This is a perfect example of just how hard a day in the life of a supercar owner is.