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Jeremiah 1:4-9; Hebrews 5:1-10; Matthew 9:35-38
Most Reverend Joseph J. Tyson
Bishop of Yakima
Peace be with you! By fortunate coincidence we celebrate this ordination of Kurt Hadley between Easter and Ascension. The Gospel of St. Luke from which we read this liturgical year stresses the unity of Easter and Ascension. Indeed, St. Luke starts his final chapter with the words "on the first day" and then narrates all that happened on that "first day": the empty tomb, the women telling the brothers the "Good News" of his rising, the disciples on the road to Emmaus who discover Jesus in the breaking of the bread, Jesus´s appearance to his followers in Jerusalem, his eating fish with them, his leading them to Bethany, and his Ascension. These all happen the same day on that "first day." In St. Luke these events occur on the same day which is the "first day" so we grasp that this journey from Easter to Ascension is one event.
Permit me to suggest that a parallel unity exists among the scriptures Kurt requested for his ordination as a priest: the prophet Jeremiah, the Evangelist St. Matthew and the Book of Hebrews.
Both the opening reading from Jeremiah and the Gospel from St. Matthew point to preaching. We hear of God sending Jeremiah off to preach in our opening reading. Our Gospel cites the poignant observation from St. Matthew the Evangelist that as Jesus preached he "had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd."
Commenting on this passage from St. Matthew, Hilary of Poitiers noted: "No instigator had stirred up the crowds. They were not harassed and helpless because of some mishap or disturbance … but because no shepherd was about to restore to them the guardianship of the Holy Spirit."
Simply put, when we preach God is present – as Jeremiah discovers. When we preach, Jesus becomes as real and as attractive for the flock in front of us as he did for the flock in the Gospel of St. Matthew.
Certainly, our traditional reading from the Book of Hebrews speaks of Jesus as the new Melchizedek offering the one and singular sacrifice that brings forth eternal salvation. As Catholics, we know that in the sacrifice of the Mass the crucified Christ becomes real in all of his humanity and all of his divinity through the simple elements of bread and wine. Yet this risen presence of the crucified Christ ripples out infinitely from the Eucharist as well.
Thus, with the prophet Jeremiah and the Evangelist St. Matthew surrounding this testimony from the Book of Hebrews we also know that this risen presence of the crucified Christ becomes real when we open up the scriptures through our teaching and our preaching. The risen Christ is present now. He draws near us now. He stands before us now. He points us back to his predecessor Melchizedek and forward to every ordained priest. The risen presence of Christ crucified points us this day to you: Kurt Hadley.
As a priest, in your teaching and in your preaching by the power of the Holy Spirit, you will make real for those you serve the risen presence of Christ just as you will make real his risen presence in the celebration of the Church´s sacraments – most especially the Eucharist. In the same way that St. Luke's "first day" points to a single-day event of resurrection and ascension so does your ordination as a priest point to a parallel unity between feeding the flock with the Body and Blood of Christ and feeding the flock with solid teaching and good catechesis, because otherwise they would be "sheep without a shepherd."
So, Kurt, welcome to this "first day." Enter into this one sacrifice. Become and live into who you are ordained to be: the icon of Christ in Word and in Sacrament for this, His Church. Peace be with you!
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Peace be with you! What does it mean to be a deacon? Our second reading from the Acts of the Apostles provides the strongest scriptural basis for understanding the role of the deacon in the early Church. It seems that there were tensions in the early Church between the Hellenists and the Hebrews. The Greek-speaking Hellenist widows were being neglected in the daily charitable distribution. As a result – and note this well – the first deacons listed in this passage from the Acts of the Apostles all had Greek names: Stephen, Phillip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch.
Indeed, while visiting Mundelein Seminary this last spring I had a brief exchange with Fr. Gus Belauskas. He mentioned in passing that one of the striking features of this passage from the Acts of the Apostles is that the division was solely linguistic between the Aramaic-speaking community that was Jewish in origin and the Greek-speaking community that was Jewish in origin. All these people were of the Jewish faith following the "Way" as the early Christians were called.
Today we are painfully aware that our country's social tensions can be more than merely linguistic: they are cultural and racial. Serving in a diocese that is nearly three-fourths Hispanic and a diocese where most Catholics attend Mass in Spanish, these tensions can become magnified even among our parishioners. Yet the Acts of the Apostles suggests that it is precisely these kinds of tensions that gave rise for the need for the Order of Deacons in the early Church.
So, if being a deacon necessitates service in times of tension how do we prepare ourselves? A clue can be found in the opening reading we just heard proclaimed by Edgar Quiroga's mother in his native Spanish language: "My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourselves for trials. Be sincere of heart and steadfast and do not be impetuous in time of adversity. Cling to him, do not leave him, that you may prosper in your last days. Accept whatever happens to you."
Permit me to begin with the words "my child." I recall many years ago when I first went to Mexico as a seminarian for Spanish language studies how parents addressed their children "mi hijito" or "mi hijita." It roughly translates in both masculine and feminine forms as "my child" or "my little one" not unlike the tenderness captured in the opening two words we just heard from Sirach. Yet being new to Spanish, I heard those phrases "mi hijito" and "mi hijita" as one single word because native Spanish speakers slide the possessive adjective "mi" in with the noun for child "hijo" y "hija" (the "h" is silent).
"Mi hijito." "Mi hijita." This is what Sirach does scripturally. Sirach deliberately starts with the parental tenderness of God in order to deliver the hard and direct warning that follows. "Prepare yourself for trials." "Be of sincere heart and steadfast." Facing trials, accompanying our people in their fears – be that of deportation or be that of being a white minority in a small Central Washington town that has undergone dramatic change – means we must remain, in the words of Sacred Scripture, "sincere of heart" and "steadfast" in our love – even if those we try love reject us as "Hellenists" because of our language or our heritage. We must bring to mind and heart that opening phrase from Sirach: "my child." "Mi hijo."
How do we prepare ourselves spiritually to be a deacon? Permit me to suggest a second phrase from Sirach: "Cling to him." Like a child clings to his mother so in times of division we must cling to God. Indeed, this is the promise of Jesus in today's Gospel from St. John: "As the Father loves me so I have loved you." The spirituality of the deacon requires us to remain in God's love as we serve even in the most difficult of circumstances. In this regard I cannot help but recall how I – as bishop – when I wash the feet of parishioners on Holy Thursday – always wear a deacon dalmatic under my chasuble. I remove my chasuble and in a deacon dalmatic – the liturgical vestment you will see on Edgar today – I wash the feet of parishioners as a symbol of my love for them and – more importantly God's love for them regardless of whether they are modern day "Hellenists" or "Hebrews." The wearing of the diaconal dalmatic by the bishop in the Holy Thursday washing of the feet is a regular reminder that I must – in the words of Sirach – "cling to him."
"Cling to him" and "Stay close to him." While the painful tensions surrounding language and cultural sometimes seep into the life of our Church, I would note that most of the time we live a deeper and very opposite truth here in Yakima. Because we focus on Jesus – as Spanish and English – or "Hebrews" and "Hellenists" – we live a solution to the political and social tensions of our country that powerbrokers of media and politics can only dream about. We do so because of Jesus. Because of Jesus, we come together as a single Catholic family of faith. Because of Jesus, Mexico sends us their best. That's not fake news! That's Good News! That's the Good News worth trumpeting from the pulpits across the Diocese of Yakima.
Cling to him! Stay close to him! Those words of Sirach are my words to you too, Edgar. Cling to him and stay close to him in those you serve as deacon. In doing so know the gentle joy of the Gospel always present and always real in all those you serve be they "Hellenists" or "Hebrews," and become the deacon God ordains you to be this day. Peace be with you!
Let us pray this month that the Church in Africa, through the commitment of its members, may be the seed of unity among her peoples and a sign of hope for this continent.
Pope Francis – May 2019
The ethnic, linguistic, and tribal divisions in Africa can be overcome promoting unity in diversity.
I want to thank the religious sisters, priests, laity, and missionaries for their work to create dialogue and reconciliation among the various sectors of African society.
Let us pray this month that the Church in Africa, through the commitment of its members, may be the seed of unity among her peoples and a sign of hope for this continent.
Recemos este mes para que, a través del compromiso de sus miembros, la Iglesia en África sea un fermento de unidad entre todos los pueblos; sea un signo de esperanza para este continente.
Papa Francisco – Mayo 2019
Las divisiones étnicas, lingüísticas y tribales de África pueden superarse promoviendo la unidad en la diversidad.
Quiero agradecer a las monjas, los sacerdotes, los laicos y misioneros su labor a favor del diálogo y la reconciliación entre los diversos sectores de la sociedad africana.
Recemos este mes para que, a través del compromiso de sus miembros, la Iglesia en África sea un fermento de unidad entre todos los pueblos; sea un signo de esperanza para este continente.
Homily for Easter 2019 – St. Paul Cathedral
Most Reverend Joseph J. Tyson, Bishop of Yakima
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Peace be with you! He is risen! This is the Easter cry. Yet note this. Nowhere in scriptures do we have an exact description of the direct event. Nowhere in scriptures do we have a precise account of the actual physical resurrection of Jesus.
What we do have is indirect descriptions. This Sunday we have the indirect evidence of an empty tomb. Next Sunday we have a bodily resurrected Jesus standing before the doubting Thomas. The following Sunday we hear about his physical appearance to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. But nowhere do we have a description of the actual resurrection event.
But what we do have is artwork often inspired by the words of St. Paul from whom we hear in these Easter liturgies. In our Easter Vigil reading, St. Paul speaks of how, submerged into the waters of baptism, we die with Christ so that rising out of the waters of baptism we can rise with Christ. Similarly, in his First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul speaks of Jesus as the "first fruit" rising from the dead. This is precisely how we see the actual event of the resurrection depicted in scripture.
In Rome, the ancient 8th century Church of Santa Maria Antiqua has one of the earliest depictions of this rising of Jesus. It's available for viewing on our diocesan Facebook page as well as our diocesan web page. The mosaic is badly damaged and cracked with age. But it shows the actual rising of Jesus stepping from the tomb. He tramples upon death personified: Hades. Hades, the Roman god of the underworld, also refers to the ancient prison house of Hades – an actual place in Rome. Jesus is in a tug-of-war with Hades. Hades is trying to pull Adam back down into the prison of death. But the stronger hand of Jesus is pulling Adam by the wrist out of death and into resurrected life.
Note the imagery of the Easter Vigil. Here at the Cathedral, those to be baptized descend into a baptismal font that is shaped like a tomb. Yet we – the body of Christ – pull them out of the baptismal waters and into new life. This is the artistry and this is the poetry that captures the deepest truth about our spiritual lives.
Jesus has physically and bodily risen from the death. At this liturgy through Word and Sacrament, Jesus pulls us by the wrist, inviting us to anticipate at the Eucharist the first fruits of our resurrected life. His rising allows us to rise with him at the end of time. Yet in speaking of how the dead rise, paragraph 1000 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church notes: "This 'how' exceeds our imagination and undertaking; it is accessible only by faith. Yet our participation in the Eucharist already gives us a foretaste of Christ's transfiguration in our bodies."
The "how" of the resurrection exceeds our imagination. It exceeded the imagination of the women at the tomb, of the doubting Thomas and of those unnamed travelers on the road to Emmaus. This why we turn to art. Even more it is why we gather again and again for Sunday Eucharist. We need help with our imagination, especially in the face of sorrow, suffering and death.
Perhaps in our quieter moments this Easter season we might want to reflect. Where have we experienced death: Was it the death of a loved one? Was it the death of a dream? Was it the death of a relationship? Was it the sense of death that comes from health failures? Was it the deadly fear of financial loss? Was it the death of a career? Was it the deadly fear of deportation?
In life there are no guarantees. The one guarantee central to the Easter promise is that Jesus is there. Jesus walks the road between our Emmaus and our Jerusalem. Jesus walks the rocky path of our lives as they are – not as we think they should be. There are no guarantees other than this great promise of the resurrection, the reality that Jesus accompanies us now in the shadow of death. As with Adam, Jesus pulls us forward by our wrists, inviting us at the Eucharist to his new and eternal life. Peace be with you!
Artwork: Anastasis mosaic, Church of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome
Homily for Good Friday 2019 at St. Paul Cathedral
The Passion: John 18:1 – 19:42
Most Reverend Joseph J. Tyson, Bishop of Yakima
Peace be with you! As many of you know, here at the Cathedral we have a beautiful fountain in our courtyard. It's titled "The Forgiveness Fountain." Inscribed at the base of the fountain are the words from the Lord's Prayer: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Jesus put what he taught into practice in last Palm Sunday's Gospel from St. Luke, when he said from the cross: "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)
"Forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing?" questions St. Augustine in his famous fourth-century homily on this passage. Then he continues: "He prayed as man, and as God with the Father, he heard the prayer. Even now he prays in us, for us and is prayed to and by us. He prays in us as our high priest. He prays for us as our head. He is prayed to and by us as our God."
Tonight's Passion from St. John underscores this human prayer of Jesus – this prayer in the flesh. Pilate declares: "Behold the man!" Jesus says to John: "Behold your mother." Jesus turns to his mother: "Behold your son!"
Terrible things happen in life. Terrible suffering comes upon us. This suffering is often unavoidable and unjustified. The death of a loved one. The separation from family far away in order to survive and support our family. Gang banging and violence. The loss of our culture. The sense that we are strangers and foreigners in our own town – be we English speakers or Spanish speakers. Among our elderly there is loneliness and abandonment sometimes by children. A loss of a job. The loss of a child. A reverse in our finances. A debilitating illness. Terrible things can happen in our life.
This year's Good Friday collection for the Holy Land reminds us that terrible things happen in our world. The suffering of war, the exodus of Christians from the Holy Land, the violent conflict between branches of Islam. Today we have the largest refugee crisis in the world. We see acts of terrorism. Acts of anti-Semitism. In the Middle East, the Catholic Church is often the only institution on the ground educating the young – young who are mainly followers of Islam – but whose parents desire a better life for their children and an end to the cycle of violence. Terrible things go on in our world.
What's our response? Our response is the response of Jesus: "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do." This is the attitude we bring to our prayer and worship tonight. We bring before the wood of the cross all of our pain and all of the suffering we see in the world. We lay it before Jesus. We place our confidence in the prayer dynamic captured so well by St. Augustine. We trust that this all too-human Jesus, whose tortured face we see with the words of Pilate "Behold the Man," will now bear again our darkness, our sin and the scandalous suffering of the world. By our gesture of reverence for the cross, we become more ourselves, more human, and thus more like Christ – more Christian, more the person God intends us to be.
Friends, I dare say there is not one of us unmoved by the fire this Monday of Holy Week at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Yet perhaps the most dramatic photo I saw was that of the golden cross of Notre Dame gleaming and shining in the midst of darkness. That golden cross shone over and above the rubble of a collapsed roof. That same is true for us, too, when we allow our forgiveness of those who harm us to shine forth from our lives as flowers of Jesus. May we "Behold the Man." May we "Behold our Mother." May we "Behold our Son." As we reverence the cross, may our words be those of Jesus: "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do." Peace be with you!
Artwork:Titian, 1558 Ancona Crucifixion
"Sine dominico non possumus."
Homily for Holy Thursday 2019 at St. Paul Cathedral in Yakima, Washington USA
Most Rev. Joseph J. Tyson, Bishop of Yakima
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Peace be with you! "Without the Lord we cannot live!" "Sine dominico non possumus." That's the response given by the fourth century Christian Emeritus to the Roman proconsul in the North African town of Abitene.
On this solemn Holy Thursday permit me to meditate with you on the centrality of the Eucharist for the early Christians. At the beginning of the fourth century, Christian worship was still forbidden by the imperial Roman authorities. The emperor Diocletian ordered that "the sacred texts and holy testaments of the Lord and the divine Scriptures be found, so that they could be burnt; the Lord's basilicas were to be pulled down and the celebration of sacred rites and holy reunions of the Lord were to be prohibited." (Acts of the Martyrs, I)
Among those disobeying the emperor's orders, a group of 49 Christians from Abitene who included Senator Dativus, the priest Saturninus the virgin Victoria and the reader Emeritus. They gathered weekly rotating through different homes to celebrate Sunday Eucharist. The day of their arrest in 303 A.D. they were at the home of Octavius Felix. Having been arrested they were taken into Carthage to Proconsul Anulinus for interrogation.
When the proconsul asked them if they kept the scriptures in their homes, the martyrs courageously answered that "they kept them in their hearts," thus revealing that they did not wish to separate faith from life. During their torture and torment, the martyrs uttered exclamations such as "I implore you, Christ hear me," "I thank you, O God," "I implore you, Christ have mercy." Along with their prayers they offered their lives and asked that their executioners be forgiven.
Among the testimonies they gave is that of Emeritus and it is his quote that the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI lifted to close his apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist. The proconsul asked Emeritus, "Why have you received Christians in your home, transgressing the imperial dispositions?" Emeritus answered, "Sine dominico non possumus." This response of Emeritus can be translated in two different ways for "dominico" means both "Lord" and "Sunday." "Without Sunday we cannot live!" "Without the Lord we cannot live."
How can we possible live without the Lord? How can we possibly live without the worship of the Lord's Day? These two threads can come together this night as we pray and meditate before the Blessed Sacrament. The famous lyrics of the hymn "Pange Lingua" remind us of how – in the Eucharist – we receive the Body and Blood of Christ in all of his humanity and all of his divinity. Yet the very music and the very worship speak to how this miracle occurs precisely in the context of worship.
Without the Lord we cannot live and without the celebration of the Sunday Eucharist we cannot live. "Sine dominico non possumus." These two threads of the liturgy and the Lord come together with our devotion following this Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper. For in the Eucharist we receive the Body and Blood of Christ in all of his humanity and all of his divinity. We receive his life. Yet this life of the Eucharist is directly related to worship at Mass where the everyday elements of bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ.
In 303 these early Christian witnesses living in Abitene were martyred for their faith during the persecution of the Emperor Diocletian. Similarly, our own Holy Father, Pope Francis asks to remember the modern-day martyrs like those of Abitene who are persecuted for their faith. Pope Francis recently made a short video on this topic that is posted on our Diocese of Yakima Facebook page. Likewise, tomorrow's Good Friday collection for the Holy Land reminds us of how difficult it is today to maintain our Christian presence in the Holy Land.
May we resolve this Holy Thursday to united ourselves to the great witness of faith – those of fourth century Abitene – and those living their faith in dangerous conditions today. May we pray for them. May we support them. May their witness deepen within us the reality that like them, we too cannot live without the Eucharist. We too cannot live without the Lord. We too cannot live without this night's worship of God in our midst. Peace be with you!
Artwork: The Christian Martyrs' Last Supper, Jean Leone Gerome (1824-1904)
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Magnificat is a program of faith formation for all the people who want to learn more about their Catholic Faith. Through classes of theology taught by teachers specialized in different topics we are looking to enhance the spiritual growth of each student as well as in the in-depth study of the pastorals and theological aspects of our faith in order to awaken in each on the desire of server to the Lord bybeing Missionary Disciples: Witnesses of God's Love in the distinct ministries that we serve in, and continue to learn how to teach our catechetical programs with children.
Magnificat is the single largest initiative that brings together Spanish and English leadership here in the Diocese of Yakima on a monthly basis. We are the only diocese in the region to have such a large, consistent and robust gathering of catechetical leaders. You are key in building up Magnificat and in helping its future leadership in building a more unified instruction and a more unified witness that brings together the large Hispanic Catholic Community with our more historical and very vibrant English-speaking community!
"Credo ut intelligam, intelligo ut credam"
"I Believe to understand, understand to believe"
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Encuentro started in 1972 as an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as a tool to reach out to the growing and emerging Hispanic presence in the United States. The first three "Encuentro" processes in 1972, 1979 and 1984 engaged Hispanic communities in the United States in how we, as a Church, could better evangelize, welcome and receive the gifts of immigrant communities migrating north from Mexico as well as Central and South America. The fourth Encuentro in 2000 was a celebration of the many diverse communities from around the world: Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands as well as Mexico and Latin America. Its focus moved from evangelization to celebration and appreciation. This fifth "Encuentro" process is almost the reverse of the first three "Encuentro" processes of the 1970s and 1980s. Rather than asking about outreach to the Hispanic community, this fifth "Encuentro" is about the formation of the Hispanic community as missionaries who can evangelize North America with the singular love that comes from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This fifth "Encuentro" is meant to emphasize how the Hispanic community is not an "object" of the Church's missionary impulse but is now the spark and initiator calling everyone – including the North American anglophone community – to deeper discipleship.
So why are we doing this in the Diocese of Yakima? First and foremost we are doing this with all of our Magnificat leaders in both English and Spanish because for the Spanish-speaking side of the Church to know how to reach the entire Church – especially the English-speaking side – it's important that we do the process together and have the conversation across the traditional language and cultural divides. The Diocese of Yakima is now nearly 75 percent Hispanic with the majority of our worshippers going to Mass in Spanish – not English.
Goals of V Encuentro:
Magnificat es un programa de formación en la fe para todas las personas que desean aprender más sobre su fe católica. A través de las clases de teología impartidas por maestros especializados en diferentes temas, buscamos mejorar el crecimiento espiritual de cada estudiante, así como en el estudio a fondo de los aspectos pastorales y teológicos de nuestra fe para despertar en cada uno el deseo de Servir al Señor por ser discípulos misioneros: Testigos del amor de Dios en los distintos ministerios en los que servimos, y continuar aprendiendo cómo enseñar nuestros programas catequéticos a los niños.
"Credo ut intelligam, intelligo ut credam"
"Creo para entender, entiendo para creer"
San Agustín de Hippo
Encuentro comenzó en 1972 como una iniciativa de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos como una herramienta para llegar a la presencia hispana creciente y emergente en los Estados Unidos. Los primeros tres procesos "Encuentro" en 1972, 1979 y 1984 involucraron a las comunidades hispanas en los Estados Unidos cómo nosotros, como Iglesia, podríamos evangelizar, recibir y recibir mejor los dones de las comunidades de inmigrantes que migran hacia el norte desde México y Centro y Sur America. El cuarto Encuentro fue en el 2000 fue una celebración de las diversas comunidades de todo el mundo: África, Asia y las Islas del Pacífico, así como México y América Latina. Su enfoque pasó de la evangelización a la celebración y el aprecio. Este quinto proceso de "Encuentro" es casi el reverso de los primeros tres procesos de "Encuentro" de los años setenta y ochenta. En lugar de preguntar acerca de llegar a la comunidad hispana, este quinto "Encuentro" trata de la formación de la comunidad hispana como misioneros que pueden evangelizar a América del Norte con el amor singular que proviene de nuestro Señor y Salvador Jesucristo. Este quinto "Encuentro" pretende enfatizar cómo la comunidad hispana no es un "objeto" del impulso misionero de la Iglesia, pero ahora es la chispa y el iniciador que llama a todos, incluida la comunidad anglófona de América del Norte, a un discipulado más profundo.
Entonces, ¿por qué estamos haciendo esto en la Diócesis de Yakima? En primer lugar, estamos haciendo esto con todos nuestros líderes de Magnificat tanto en inglés como en español, porque para que el lado hispanohablante de la Iglesia sepa cómo llegar a toda la Iglesia, especialmente al lado de habla inglés, es importante que hagamos el proceso juntos y mantengan la conversación a través del lenguaje tradicional y las divisiones culturales. La Diócesis de Yakima es ahora casi un 75 por ciento hispana, y la mayoría de nuestros fieles van a Misa en español, no en inglés.
Nuestras metas con el programa de V Encuentro:
May 24, 2019
Priestly Ordination – Deacon Kurt Hadley
7 p.m. at St. Paul Cathedral, Yakima
May 25, 2019
Confirmation Mass – St. Frances de Sales, Chelan @ 5 p.m
May 26, 2019
Confirmation Mass – Holy Apostles Parish, East Wenatchee @ 2 p.m
May 26, 2019
Confirmation Mass – St. Joseph Parish, Wenatchee @ 5 p.m
May 27, 2019
Memorial Day – Pastoral Center Closed
May 31, 2019
Confirmation Mass – Our Lady of Guadalupe, Selah @ 7 p.m
June 1, 2019
Confirmation Mass – St. Joseph Parish/Holy Redeemer Parish, Yakima @ 5:30 p.m
June 1, 2019
Magnificat Certification Day @ Holy Redeemer Parish Yakima, WA Register here English/Spanish
June 23 – 28, 2019
Central Washington Catholic Youth Camp
July 4, 2019
Independence Day Pastoral Center Closed
July 29 – 31, 2019
Quo Vadis Vocation Retreat
Most Rev. Joseph J. Tyson
Bishop of Yakima
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On September 10, Eureka Police Department (EPD) officers responded to Saint Bernard's Church for a suspicious fire report. Humboldt Bay Fire Department personnel extinguished a small fire at the exterior door of the facility. The fire is assumed to be suspicious, although causing minor damage.
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I'm delighted to be helping to celebrate the paperback publication of Can't Buy My Love by Jane Lovering.
Published by ChocLit on 9th May 2017, Can't Buy Me Love is available for purchase in e-book and paperback here. To celebrate and in keeping with the title, I asked Jane about her favourite (free) things and luckily she agreed to tell me!
Can't Buy Me Love
Is it all too good to be true?
When Willow runs into her old university crush, Luke, she's a new woman with a new look – not to mention a little bit more cash after a rather substantial inheritance. Could she be lucky enough to score a fortune and her dream man at the same time?
Then Willow meets Cal; a computer geek with a slightly odd sense of humour. They get on like a house on fire – although she soon realises that there is far more to her unassuming new friend than meets the eye …
But money doesn't always bring happiness, and Willow finds herself struggling to know who to trust. Are the new people in her life there because they care – or is there another reason?
These are a few of my favourite (free) things …
A Guest Post by Jane Lovering
Can't Buy Me Love by Jane Lovering is out now in paperback and, to celebrate, Jane is sharing her three favourite things … that are free!
- Walking my dogs. Well, I say 'walking', it's more of a controlled sprint; my young dog likes to run everywhere and, because she's a Patterdale, she has to be prevented from chasing and/or attacking things. So walks can be a little bit fraught at times. But, because I live in the most beautiful part of the country (sorry, might be a bit biased), there are lots of places to go, beaches, moorland, open countryside … And, because I live in the wilds, I don't even need to get into the car to be able to walk for miles across stunning scenery. Do I sound smug? I don't mean to.
- I am a huge fan of my bed. Left to my own devices, I doubt I'd leave it, except for the essentials. It's big and cosy and I have two duvets and an electric blanket (see above, re living in the wilds, which means big, cold house) and a big pile of books that make me feel guilty on a daily basis. There's nothing like climbing into a big, warm bed after a busy day and curling up under forty layers of … actually, I have no idea what my duvets are made of, but they are snuggly so I don't care … and sleeping for nine or ten hours. This may seem like an unnecessary amount of sleep, but I had five children, so I'm owed about twelve years of sleep backlog, which I am making up. And then I wake up to sheep and birdsong, and a Patterdale threatening the milkman.
- There is nothing in the world quite so much fun as a really good giggle. Whether it's laughing with friends or watching something alone on TV and having a good snort, laughing just makes me feel generally that the world is an all right sort of place. So, whether it's an episode of iZombie (which I adore, it's not as scary as it sounds) or re-reading a Terry Pratchett novel, or just watching the cat fall in the pond (again, you'd have thought she'd have learned by now), I really enjoy laughing. Sometimes I just laugh randomly, if I have an amusing thought, which I am coming to realise makes me look like a mad old woman, but, well, maybe that's no so far from the truth!
About Jane Lovering
Jane was, presumably, born, although everyone concerned denies all knowledge. However there is evidence that her early years were spent in Devon (she can still talk like a pirate under the right conditions) and of her subsequent removal to Yorkshire under a sack and sedation.
She now lives in North Yorkshire, where she writes romantic comedies and labours under the tragic misapprehension that Johnny Depp is coming for her any day now.
Jane's likes include marshmallows, the smell of cucumbers and the understairs cupboard, words beginning with B, and Doctor Who. She writes with her laptop balanced on her knees whilst lying on her bed, and her children have been brought up to believe that real food has a high carbon content. And a kind of amorphous shape.
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Trouble in paradise! Super yachts, tax evasion, drug trafficking, hedge funds, trust funds and more registered businesses than people, The Cayman Islands is the perfect playground for the uber-rich and ground zero for the intrigue that lies ahead.
The secret and ultimate game of conspiracy, set up by billionaires from around the world, has begun when a stash of gold bars worth millions is buried in a tropical underwater rainforest. Ensconced in the loot is a coveted Brazilian tourmaline believed to be a rare rainbow-colored chakra stone. Who will get to it first? Tensions begin to bubble under the surface as felonious affairs and scandals take shape on this idyllic island.
This is the unlikely story of Kaman Colioni, a 25-year-old deaf man who unwittingly finds the booty, his incredible journey, and the hustle of a lifetime. Who can he trust? The suspense will have you turning pages deep into the night and make you wonder how such a lush haven could become a wild nightmare.
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I don't sleep in. Hear me when I say this. I don't like wasting hours of sunlight. But how fitting is it that at the last house church of the summer, my boss gave a talk on rest, and today I managed to wake up at 11AM, and that was only because of an alarm I thought I wouldn't need but set just for kicks and giggles? I think my body was saying, "Hey! Slow down. Take a Vitamin C. Make yourself some breakfast, and sip your coffee slowly." SO with that, here we are. I've managed to crawl out of bed, turn on the coffee, and let my fingers find the keys because I woke up with billions of thoughts running through my mind. This past week. Man. It's been a wild one, but we also live with a wild God, so this just goes to show.
I think my loudest prayer to God in the last couple weeks has been, "Prepare my heart for whatever is coming next, and I will follow You in that," (and that's a fantastic prayer, don't get me wrong) but I think the quietest prayer I've prayed has been, "God, help," when it should've been the loudest. These past couple weeks, I've learned what it means to be authentic with people without giving all of yourself to someone, and I think that lesson holds a lot of weight. I learned that I overshare not because I have so many brilliant things to say, but that by telling you every detail in a story or every detail of my day, I'm able to hold onto how I really feel about the darkest parts of me and I get to keep those for myself. But I also do that to God. I thank Him incessantly (which, again, is still a very good thing), but I don't know how to come to Him and tell Him about what's happened that hurts or what I don't like or how frustrating it is to be so vulnerable with people and have it cave in so quickly (even though He already knows all of these things, the relationship deepens when communication happens on my end). So I keep holding on to the deepest parts of me and store them up and keep telling you everything about how I picked out this one journal from a cute bookstore because surely I can distract you with my words. But 1. The deeper parts of us have been set in a safe space with God (a super wise person told me those words, and I've been letting myself sit in that for a while), and 2. We don't get to distract God like this. Or maybe if I say enough words, it'll click for us and you'll know me. That's a huge desire woven into the core of who I am, and I think of who you are too: we want to be known.
If you're like me, you're sitting there imagining your safe space with God (and if you're not like me, just pretend and keep on following). Mine has fresh coffee and a big, comfy couch I get to sink into at the end of the day so I can effectively pour my heart out to God. Every word I get to speak to Him is like writing with a fine point pen on a nice, new sheet of a clean journal, because that's the best feeling and it's a feeling of newness. He creates a space of peace and comfort for us in Him, and He surrounds us with songs of deliverance. He knows us in ways that we don't know ourselves and that is a gift, friends.
I have been continually reminded that I cannot do things on my own strength, and I think this is the first time that's ever hit me this hard. We require God's strength for everything we do. We cannot create our own peace or love, but we must operate out of the Lord's strength to see those things fully. Thank You that I am hidden in You. Whenever the days are difficult and the world is pressing in on all sides, I will dwell in the shelter of Your sweetness. In the midst of this internship with LifeCast (read more about my experience as a student at LifeCast here), I read a devotion on Identity in Christ written by one of my beautiful friends. "This position of sitting with the pigs, hungry and covered in dirt; hiding in the bushes, shaking in the fear, this is how well we can meet our needs apart from Christ and this is who we were apart from Christ. We were slaves to coping mechanisms for the lack, hurt, and shame we felt, whether it be an eating disorder, pornography addiction, perfectionism, unhealthy relationships, etc."
Slaves to coping mechanisms. That is so accurate. Something that ties into this that we talked about at house church last night was this idea of the Sabbath and how free people get a break, so when we take that rest, we are glorifying God because He has freed us. Slaves don't get a day off, so that's exactly what we exemplify when we decide to power through all 7 days, 24 hours, week after week. We don't need to live a life that's constantly about pain management and coping mechanisms when the price has been paid for us and we get to walk in that reassurance of freedom.
When the night is holding onto me, God is holding on.
Because I can know and feel so intensely that God is doing a good thing, I have heard the lies louder than anything else. You are unqualified. You are unworthy. You are not beautiful. Why would your words matter? Why would God use you? And that's when it's happening. I've heard it described as Day 39, when you know you feel the pain and the weight so intensely, but tomorrow could be Day 40, the day when God shows up in an undeniable way. So when the night is holding onto me, I know that God is holding on with more strength and fervor and without ceasing. I want to be able to fully trust Him in all the parts of my life. I want to create a space for Him for the rest of the days of my life. I don't want to live out of my own expectations of create my own provisions because that is exhausting. It's like you're in a tug-o-war match with God and you know He's always going to win, but that's the most beautiful submission, to set down the rope and run into His arms.
I want to be so overwhelmed by the glory of God that nothing else can seem to outweigh the thoughts of Him and overwhelm me. I've been reading a book called A Million Little Ways by Emily P. Freeman, and it's a book about living your life in the art you were created for, and the friend who lent it to me knew that it would have an impact on the way I navigated my days (so I thank her a ton for that). And I know what you're thinking: Jenna, I am not an artistic person. THAT'S OKAY!! Because what I'm talking about has to do with the way you wake up and walk through your days, and we all do that. One of the things she says is, "He comes into us, then out of us, in a million little ways." She talks about how no matter our profession or the classes we're taking or the people we're around or the chores we're doing, we get to do them all for the glory of God. If that doesn't make you slow down and think about all the things you do in a day, I'm not sure what will. It's made me acknowledge and appreciate every detail in day that God sets into motion. How beautiful is that? That we have a God who designs our days and in turn, we get to glorify Him with all that we do! I love that reminder as we approach a new school year. I get to love the people around me well because God loves me so well that He knows every detail about me and handcrafts my days.
So when you're walking into this next week and you're wondering if today will be good or bad, I'm going to choose good and I hope you do too. The moment my feet hit the floor, I remembered my intense hunger and thirst and desire for Jesus, and how He has invited me into this day. What a gift. Ask Him for the joy, ask Him to help you pull the chains off, ask Him into this walk we get to do. Recognize the safe space. And sit with Him. Dance with Him. Eat with Him. Sing to Him. Be with God today. And how beautiful that He gives us community to remind us that we are never alone. We get to be with Him, and we are reassured that we'll never walk alone. What a promise: that He holds onto us and provides for us and that we will never be alone.


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Interior Designers in Elk Grove Village, IL
Comprehensive list of Elk Grove Village, Illinois based office and home interior design and decorating firms.
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Situated in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, MJM Design Group has been designing award-winning interiors throughout the world since 1976. Give us a project, a location, a list of your likes and dislikes and we'll create that magical interior just for you. Interior design is our passion and we would love to make your dreams come true. Michael's home will be one of 10 featured on the tour.
Hospitality Design Group design creates and builds Environments with Atmosphere for nightclubs, restaurants, and the hospitality industry. We specialize in decorative arts, hospitality design, nightclub interiors, custom lighting, backbars, decorative painting, faux finishes and more.
Since 2001, our staff of professional designers have been creating rooms to inspire. Starting this Fall, we'll be offereing Advertising & Marketing and Floral Design services as well as Holiday Decor.
Thank you for reviewig our portfolio. Bijak Designs provides a pretty range of custom Faux Finishing and Unique Stenciling. Our work can be seen in domestic homes, model homes, commercial properties and many other locations throughout the Chicagoland area.
Welcome Thank you for taking the time to visit our web page - sit back, enjoy and relax the view. We like to let our designs speak for themselves. Interior Design as unique and extraordinary as you are. You supply the inspiration and we will do the rest. We're situated in Elmhurst, Illinois and we service customers throughout Chicago, Illinois, and coast to coast.
As seen in the Chicago Tribune, our no obligation Wish List service, assists you discover those signature pieces, both huge and tiny, you just can't seem to find. Rather than sell you a design style, we provide a service that assists you identify and showcase yours.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Our company specializes in the design and planning of churches, schools, businesses, and homes. We believe that delivering superb architectural design services relies on constant and clear communication with the customer throughout the design and construction process.
Our team of design specialists can take you from idea to completion. Our knowledge and knowledge of interior landscape is vital in assisting our customers in the design of attractive plantings. Everliving Greenery has been delivering tropical plant programs for businesses through the Chicago, Illinois suburbs since 1980. We can design a plant rental program to enhance any office space.


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Little did the Executive Secretary of the Association of Commercial Banks, Mr. Philip Swarray realize that the new banking laws he contributed to, which was passed in Parliament known as the Banking Act of No. 14, 2011 and other related Acts put in place to stabilize the Banking Industry would have bitten him harder than expected. All flimsy excuses he advanced to attract sympathy from his colleagues that he committed the acts of forgery and fraud unknowingly, which according to him was as a result of the sad news he received about the death of his mother that turned him into amateur fraudster, not a celebrated one with wealth of experience did not save him from the hammer. He was shown the exit door with plans by members of the Association to institute criminal action against him that would change his get-rich-quick mentality through criminal means to one that would make him a symbol of emulation in the industry. Had it been in the past, Mr. Philip Swarray would have been giving a pat on the back and told to go home and not to repeat the action.
These kinds of practices by senior officials in both the Banking and financial markets accounted for the fall and collapse of several Banks in the country, to which the National Development Bank(NDB), International Bank of Trade and Industry(IBTI), Bank of Credit and Commerce(BCCI) suffered greatly and depositors lost millions of Leones, foreign currencies and the like. Salaries of government employees paid into their accounts disappeared with the Banks and till date, most of the depositors have not been able either through the Central Bank, the regulator or other means to retrieve what was their legitimate property. Previous Banking Acts including the 2000 Act were not tough weapons to protect depositors accounts, nor were they reliable instrument that could be used to prevent imminent disaster or the collapse of Banking Institutions in the Country. Unlike the Banking Act No. 14, 2011 and the Banking of Sierra Leone Act No. 15, 2011 that give strength, teeth to the Central Bank to act, penalize and dictates the pace of operations of Commercial Banks. In line with International Best Practices (IBP), Commercial Banks in Sierra Leone are forced to comply with contemporary Banking standards, all in a bid to protect not only the name of the institution but also depositors accounts and to prevent frauds, forgeries, pilfering and the establishment of fly-by-nights financial and capital markets. Among other things, the Banking Act No.14, 2011 and Bank of Sierra Leone Act No.15, 2011 make provision for the acquisition of licenses to operate a financial institution and also provides strong platform for the maintenance of market and price stability, further; and probably what looks like a shocker is that these Acts give total autonomy and independence to both the Governor and the Central Bank as well. Political interference that used to be the order of the day could now be seen as a thing of the past. Section 6 of the Bank Act No.14, 2011 gives undisputable and absolute control to the Governor. Though that could be viewed as a novelty to Sierra Leone, however; it should also be seen as vital for the development of the industry in the country, which could be interpreted to mean also, that Sierra Leone is not lacking behind in global challenges relating to the operations of the industry. The revised Anti Money Laundry Act 2012 recently passed by Parliament has powers to criminalize Anti Money Laundering activities and establish what is known as an Independent Financial Intelligence Unit, which would be headed by a Director. This no doubt is another milestone and when achieved would give confidence to donor organizations and investors coming to the country to do genuine business. President Koroma has the task to appoint a Director for this arm of the sector. Under the Sambadeen Sesay Administration, there is also a Credit Bureau Reference Act 2011. This Act makes provision for the establishment of credit references, a condition for credit reporting and other related matter. The scenario is no more the same with the Central Bank, whereby its traditional role is limited to reserve bank, or monetary authority that manages the state's currency, money supply and interest rates, or to oversee the Commercial Banking System, or the power of monopoly to increase the nation's monetary base, and prints the national currency, which usually serves as the nation's legal tender. It is a known fact that the primary function of a Central Bank is to manage the nation's money supply (monetary policy), through active duties such as managing interest rates, setting the reserve requirement, and acting as a lender of last resort to the banking sector during times of bank insolvency or financial crisis. Central banks usually also have supervisory powers, intended to prevent Commercial Banks and other financial institutions from reckless or fraudulent behavior. Any social science student knows that Central Banks have generally three main objectives or functional roles, which are price stability, subject to the monetary regime in current operation, for example the gold standard, a pegged exchange rate or inflation target; financial stability, and to foster financial development and support the state financing needs during times of crisis, but in normal times to contain misuse of a state financial powers. Developments in the industry have tripled these traditional roles or functions and the intervention of technologies have put the institution in a more restless position as it moves with the time to capture trends in the global financial and capital markets. In Sierra Leone, despite the many advantages and opportunities provided to employees of Commercial Banks, yet they are not living a life that makes them a suspect of depositors' accounts. Mechanisms put in place checkmate their activities. Some of these mechanisms are cameras hanging over teller's head, giving account of funds disbursed to pay out to customers at the end of the day and more. ATM facilities are monitored on a daily basis to prevent theft and forestall incidents that do occur with other Banks in places like the United States of America, France, and United Kingdom and more, where news of ATM machines are paying more than what a customer(s) intended to withdraw at a giving time. Such incidents are frequent with Chevy Chase Banks, Bank of America and others. Not that the industry in Sierra Leone is without fault or 100% perfect in operation, but indicators have shown that progress is being made that is ushering sanity, confidence and promoting competition among the Commercial Banks. Those days have far gone when customers trek to the banks to check account balance and deposit money. It is now the reverse; the banks now go to customers, collect their deposits and issue them with payment receipts. Internet banking, despite poor signal connectivity in the country is also practiced. However, with all these prospects and developments in sight there are rooms for improvement. Some Banks still have some bad eggs in their midst. There are reports of short changing and pilfering of customers' money at the First International Bank (FIB). In the past, it was rampant, thus instilling fear into the minds of customers. This writer has been a victim of such fraudulent act which led to the closure of his account. Another customer, Alhaji Karim has a sad story to tell about how a teller defrauded him when he went to withdraw money from his account. He was aware of the theft after leaving the Bank; another customer had her account closed immediately she became aware of the practice. The story is endless, even past Managers of the Bank are guilty of this criminal activity (More on FIB and other Banks next issue)
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Week 5
It's not been easy, and I haven't lost as much as I hoped, but we're on a downward curve again. What I noticed the last week or so, is that my skin has been itchy, especially around my hips. Could it be because I'm shrinking??? LOL! That would be great. I'm not feeling any smaller yet, but my belly fat feels softer. You know, when I started it was hard fat, now I can actually feel the muscles underneath the fat.
The yoga is also not as bad as I thought. I've been doing the new routine for two weeks now, and I haven't had a problem with my hallux limitus at all. When I do the Lunge pose (see image above), I turn my foot slightly to put more stretch on my other toes and my big toe joint doesn't hurt. When I began this pose, I actually cheated. I put my knee of the leg going backward on the floor instead of being on just my two feet. For the last two days, I have done it properly and, to my surprise, without falling over. It is a difficult pose, I'd even say the most difficult pose (for me), but I'm persevering. One day, I'll be able to do it without any effort 🙂 . I still can't get my leg to move from the Downward-facing Dog into the Lunge (in between my arms) without taking one hand off the floor. Not sure if that's because my belly is in the way or my arms are too short. LOL!
As expected, no change in my waistline. I weighed 76.7kg (12.07 stone) yesterday (I did all the measuring and photographing yesterday, I just didn't have time to put it online) which is almost a whole kilogram off last week's weight. I was worried I didn't lose any, so I'm quite happy with this result.
I don't know, but I think I'm beginning to get a bit of a waistline. It's hard to see in the W0 photo, though, so not sure. Maybe it's just wishful thinking.
Not much change in this view. Maybe a smidgen of fat off my back behind my arms (shoulderblade height). Could be my pose though.
I've not been sticking to my diet. I had carb cravings all the time! Caused by all that eating of nice food in Holland, I guess. I've been eating ice creams for dessert over the weekend, and had some alcohol-free beers. Not as bad as real beer, but still 50kcal per bottle. I've varied my nut intake, adding walnuts and pumpkin seeds to the mix. I'm curbing the walnuts a little as they contain quite a bit of fat.
My husband has also started to curb his carb intake! We're all going to be so healthy 🙂 . I tried to make pancakes out of almond flour yesterday (Shrove Tuesday), but that didn't work. First of all, it tasted like carboard. And it burnt before I could flip it over. So the pancake you see in the images below is a normal pancake (with bacon, raisins, and banana; mjam!). The Mediterranean vegetable pie was made by my husband.
Even though I was tempted by my family's desserts, I did lose weight. Let's see what next week will bring.


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There are many widely held myths about naturopathy. You'll find some of those we hear about most frequently below. If you have questions about naturopathy and what it can do for you, we suggest that you read the Naturopathy Philosophy and our FAQs. If you've still got questions, please give the Cascade Health clinic a call on 9975 1775.
Naturopathy is all about changing your diet
Sometimes changing your diet will help, sometimes it's not necessary, particularly if you're already eating a great, healthy diet. But it's certainly not a 'quick fix' nor is it for everyone.We hear this one a lot. Certainly the wrong food can put your body's defenses at a loss, but naturopathy is about treating the whole person. At Cascade Health, we're specifically looking for the underlying cause for your particular health concern.
You're just going to get me to take vitamins
Not at all. In fact, if you're already eating a well-balanced diet full of nutrient rich food – you're unlikely to need vitamins at all and they'll just be excreted out of your body.
But, if you're not as nutritionally balanced as you'd like to be and some of your body's systems are needing some extra support, certainly a vitamin and mineral supplement might be useful for you. Depending on your particular health issue, we might also prescribe testing, herbs, massage, food/toxin elimination, diet, exercise, etc.
There's no real science to naturopathy
Miia has a biochemist's degree from an Australian university and she disagrees with this entirely. Understanding disease pathways, human biochemistry and physiology are critical to treating the whole patient, not just the symptoms. Naturopathy works on supporting your own body heal itself – but only when the issue that's at the heart of the problem has been rectified.
Naturopaths oppose conventional medicine
When you visit a naturopath, you'll work together with them to create a comprehensive treatment plan that blends the best of science and natural therapy to restore your health. And we're more than happy to work with your GP's pharmaceutical prescription regime – especially for acute health issues. Of course, we'd like to see you eventually be able to come off your medications at some point, but that's not necessarily a viable option for everyone.


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|Here on the white trash side of the tracks we don't wrap our vino with a pressed white linen napkin. We just slap on a pair of underpants. Hence Vinderpants.
The secret behind a really successful programming language is a really great beard. Tru dat.
Want to learn Python? Try the freely available How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.
HMS E-14, a British submarine from WWI that helped its captain earn the Victoria Cross, has been found intact after being abandoned in 1918. (The lack of detail regarding its abandonment and where it was found is frustrating.)
|Satellite photo of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Work reveals unknown secret aircraft under a tarp. zOMG, what are the odds that there would be a secret aircraft at USAF Plant 42?!?!?!
Eno and Fripp got together in 1978 and recorded the album Air Structures and now the whole thing is on YouTube for your listening pleasure.
|A bank in the former East Germany let people vote on an image for their MasterCard and Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto, was the clear winner. How could they advertise this? "Did I say abolition of private property? I meant acquisition of private property."
Yes, I enjoy James Bond films. What 13 year old boy wouldn't? Even though I've seen them all, I had a lot of trouble with naming all 25 Bond films in 5 minutes. Good luck. It's harder than it sounds.
|So happy. Xenomorph done in Lisa Frank style by GalenaLarkin.
If you enjoy Scrabble or Words With Friends you'll also like this Scrabble tile poem.
You'd have to be a big fan of James Joyce to visit Leopold's Day and buy a map of Dublin depicting the people in places in Ulysses. Cuz that map ain't cheap.
|Picasso's Guernica reimagined with the X-Men.
Politicians have declared war on large drinking cups. Now they've declared war on urinals by requiring men to pee while seated. Wouldn't it be awesome to have a urinal in your house?
More Tumblr insanity - The German language has several very long words because Friedrich Nietzsche thought it would be funny. There's more at facts I just made up.
I like this post about how someone made the transition from programmer to entrepreneur. Here are six things to be aware of.
- The real world is much harder to debug than code.
- Business is about people. Be nice.
- Recognize that marketing is an ongoing activity that everyone in the company must do.
- Don't let it go to your head - be accountable.
- Your day is one long series of interruptions. Get used to it.
- You're not good at everything. Hire and delegate.
|In probably the least known great success in aerospace history, the unmanned X-37B spaceplane returned from 469 days in orbit. Where have you been? What have you seen? Be sure to watch the video.
My father liked mechanical puzzles. They drive me nuts. (You'd think I'd be used to incompetence by now.) Anyway, if you want to see the world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles you'll have to go to Indiana Univ.
At last, an honest movie trailer for Avatar: a 3-hour cartoon about blue cat people begging for help from one white man. Pretty offensive when you think about it.
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Friday October 2nd, 1981
Limuru, Kenya
This morning I had an appointment at 10:45am with Dr. Nevill and he had a copy of my report and informed me that I must have surgery soon. Needless to say this was a shock to me. He told us to go home and think about it as to where we would have it. M.G. doesn't want me to have it here in the hospital. So this afternoon we got busy and made reservations to the U.S. for this coming Monday night. We went by John Adams house and told them. Also, M.G. called Boyd Pearce who is our mission chairman and he will call Davis Saunders who is in charge of East and Central Africa. We will let the boys know on Sunday night when we talk with Charlie on the ham radio. All of this has left me in a daze, but I do feel a certain amount of peace about it all. I must just trust God through it all. Tonight Ralph and Rosiland came up and had prayer with us. Tonight was a sleepless night for me.
Today the doctor confirmed that Mom had cancer. Everyone knows that they will eventually pass away. However the true test of your mettle is when you actually feel ok and find out that your time is much closer than you ever thought. Dad and Mom began immediately to make plans to come to the states.
I am not surprised that Dad wanted all procedures performed in the US. This would place Mom near to many of her family and friends as well as us kids.
We would all do well to learn to have this peace that Mom spoke of in our final days. Mom knew that this situation did not just happen but Christ in his wisdom placed this trial in our lives to bring glory to Him. I am a pretty big Star Trek fan and each time I read this particular entry I am reminded of that quote from "The Wrath of Kahn". The captain and Savik are in the elevator and Savik mentions that the simulation where she and her crew were all killed was not a fair test of her ability. Kirk says," How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?" I know how Mom dealt with death. I close today's post by posing the same question to you. Death comes to us all, are you ready?


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We can start with August 23, 2005, as New Orleans is hit by Hurricane Katarina. The ensuing flood led to chaos, and hit both security measures and society's self-regulation. What would have happened if several large US cities had been struck simultaneously? Would there have been a risk that things spiralled completely out of control, whereby the State and civil society both lost their stabilising powers? Whenever such questions arise, we often imagine they stem from environmentalists or green politicians. This time, however, the concerned message sprung from an unusual end, making it even more interesting.
Many assume that a society's degree of welfare and security is all about oil profits, military systems and so on. This idea barely touches the surface. A society's long term stability is more decisive, anchored in state organising, democratic politics and smooth societal and economic structures. Such elements are, however, surrounded by something other and more profound. Nature's stability is a necessary concern so a sustainable society can be established over time. This is not only the case for all societies, but also for humanity as a whole. Over the course of 12,000 years, we have developed within the frames of a balanced and thus predictable natural environment. There are signs that this state has now passed, and that over the years its consequences could grow in scope and strength.
This time, however, the concerned message sprung from an unusual end, making it even more interesting.
Although some pretends otherwise, the climate debate has long since moved away from the question of whether climate change is real or not. Instead, there are now more practical issues surrounding what risks we are facing, plus how and with which means we are able to implement a green shift. The documentary The Age of Consequences grabs hold of this issue, and provides a voice for players other than the ones we encounter. Reports from and interviews with people in the US military provide an important backdrop to the developing story.
We stopped by New Orleans. Syria constitutes a far more serious example. The political debate has focused a lot on whether Assad or the rebels, Russia or the USA and so forth, are to blame for what went wrong. This documentary adds a vital point, that the country suffered extreme draught for three years, starting in the autumn of 2006. People in the countryside lost their livelihood, and 1.5 million over a short period of time relocated to the cities. This resulted in unemployment, homelessness and poverty. Societal mechanisms lost their balance, creating both instability and IS recruits. The country no doubt had problems to start with, and precisely due to these the draught had accelerated results, taking it in the direction of war followed by a refugee crisis. A chain of events this way spread instability to an ever greater area and to further countries. The more powerful the instability, the greater is the potential for an authoritative response, which instead of creating solutions for all, builds walls and hope that the nation in itself will be enough on its own. Those interviewed for the documentary clearly state that such reactions will only make things worse.
The film also highlights other examples, including Egypt's acute 2010 crisis, which can be traced back to the Russian draught. The national grain production failed, with consequences for areas dependent on grain import. This way, draught caused by climatic changes in one country can lead to a critical lack of bread somewhere completely different. In the global world, factors are closely linked, and when things go wrong, it is often the disadvantaged who suffer. In Egypt, this created social unrest, scope accelerating and threatening social and state structures. Nearby, the Sahel-belt stretches across Africa, south of the Sahara. In large swathes of this area, draughts and loss of water resources have led to instability, war and humanitarian catastrophes, accompanied by an onslaught of refugees. An enormous crisis for the people involved, but for the world as a whole such forms of instability could potentially have even greater consequences. This is illustrated by the melting glaciers of Himalaya, which in 2017 provide water for a billion people. If the glaciers continue to reduce, the fight for water will also here increase, to potentially grave consequences. Unlike in the Sahel-belt, here are there nuclear powers that risk losing their most important resource.
The distance from a well-functioning society to it potentially breaking down can be frighteningly short.
These examples illustrate how life, everywhere from cities to international areas, is characterised by more than both actions of players and society's institutions. This involves the natural environment more, which today mostly means climate change. The distance from a well-functioning society to it potentially breaking down can be frighteningly short. Habit of thoughts make it hard to adjust the course we are currently sailing. Our lives are so attached to fossil resources, even heavy-duty danger signals do not stop us from continuing on our usual path.
We have heard these issues before. However, what the film contributes are interviews with other people in roles we do not normally deal with. When retired officers and others connected with the US security system, with serious faces, point out the crisis we face, it is harder to shrug and pretend nothing is happening. Several of those featured explain that their involvement is due to the safety of the USA. The message being that it is in national interest to contribute to global stability through securing the stability of the climate. This way of thinking may induce scepticism for those wanting more ethical conviction, whilst someone pragmatic would say what is important is that something gets done.
If lines are to be drawn, then the conclusion must be that this film ought to be watched by as many as possible. Most of all, by those whose arguments are founded on a premise of living as we were, only making a green change if it does not cost us anything. The Age of Consequences tells us that such forms of inaction in itself constitutes action – with potentially dire consequences.


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Common Name: Red-brown Slimy Stem
Substrate: Ground
Location: Hardwood Forests
Spore Color: White
Gill Color: White to Pale Yellowish
This mushroom will not appear like most Amanitas that you find. Really the only way to place it there is the terrestrial growth, free gills, and white spores. What makes mushrooms in this genus so unique and special to find are the thick gelatinous layer of slime that is found on the caps when they are young. The species in this genus are thought to be a distant relative that the modern Amanitas evolved from.
With this species, not only is the cap slimy, but the stem should be slimy as well, especially when young. The slime layer is so thick that it even forms a partial veil of slime as the mushroom is opening. The final key feature to identifying this mushroom is the reddish brown cap. As the mushroom ages, the margin of the cap may turn a orangish-yellow color.
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