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These people have the right to keep their head buried in the sand, but the fact remains Canada is now a multiracial, multi-ethnic society of disparate, segregated communities.
In the long run, there is very little possibility that Canada, with its much smaller population but proportionately higher immigration, will ever become a melting pot like the United States where the English majority subsumed other major immigrant groups -- Germans, Irish, Scots and others -- into itself (read the mainstream) over a period of time.
Amidst all this, it is ridiculous when politicians describe multiculturalism as a celebration of this country's diversity. They hop from a Chinese festival to a Pakistani enclave party and call it a celebration of diversity. But has anyone seen one ethnic group join another to celebrate this diversity?
When there is little social and economic interaction among various ethnic enclaves, what is there to celebrate about this so-called multiculturalism? It is pure segregation.
Some people could argue immigrant groups start assimilating into the mainstream only after their second or third generations. Yes, it happened in the case of earlier immigrants who came from the same ethnic and religious stock and got completely cut off from their ancestral lands.
But it has not happened with later immigrants who came from many different races and religions and are today wired 24-hours-a-day to their native lands thanks to the communication revolution. How much interaction do you see between the Chinese and the Indians, though both groups have been here for about a century?
I have been mulling in my mind for some time and intended to blog about some of the points he addresses in the article.
One of them is the farce that is multiculturalism. The ethnic festivals that are held in Toronto year round are typically visited by the members of the particular ethnic group that is hosting it. They are often joined by the presence of a few bored locals and some Toronto residents (almost all white) who go to these festivals the way some people bar hop on a Saturday night. But you do not see much cultural mingling among the many colonies that are carving up the city like gangland turfs.
The most important point is that we cannot compare the immigrants of today to the first European settlers who founded the nation. Those first settlers were of a stock that had little to lose by coming to a hostile uncultivated and unsettled land. They did so as a way of laying a foundation for their lives and in turn laid the foundations of a nation. They came from nothing to arrive at a land of unrealized potential. When they left their native lands they realized that they may never see it again. They settled into societies built by the British and French settlers who arrived before them and, because they were almost culturally cut off from their homelands, assimilated.
In 2011 immigrants settle in an industrialized, first world host society complemented by a social safety net that grants them access to the internet, satellite communication technology, cable television, and affordable air travel. This allows them to live a kind of satellite existence in Canada where they can be in constant contact with their home countries and can frequently visit them if they wish. Canada then becomes just a postal code and their "ethnic-enclaves" become a kind of urban sprawl expansion of the country from whence they came. Earlier immigrants didn't have these luxuries. When they left their countries they left them for good. Today's immigrants only leave their countries in body.
It is erroneous to include modern immigration into the grand immigration narrative as if immigration today is no different from the past because it excludes the modern world as context. For many immigrants coming to Canada doesn't necessarily mean leaving the old country behind. The effect this is having on Canada is that it is turning the country into a nation of colonies. This is not nation building but nation fragmentation.


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Tidal Power has been lost in the shuffle.
The most powerful engine on planet Earth is being ignored while other, less cost effective alternatives flourish.
How can that be?
The Ocean is right in front of our eyes, surrounding us with its awesome power.
Yet we have made very little progress tapping into the perpetual energy of Tidal Power.
My thought, after a decade of research, development, and correspondence with the top people in the field is, they are making it too difficult.
All involved seem to believe that generators must be installed in locations with accelerated flow, such as inlets, estuaries, and other choke points along the coast.
This limits potential sites to a few unusual locations with extreme tidal flow, such as The Bay Of Fundy, The Holy Grail of Tidal Power.
In 2009, the most advanced, single unit generator ever made was placed in The Bay's flow.
It was destroyed in no time, not just to the point of not functioning, this device was physically torn apart from the unimaginable torque of the tide.
The top guys in the field, with millions invested in R&D, grossly underestimated the basic force they were attempting to capture.
My design simply borrows the Motion Of The Ocean for a moment, and turns it into rotational force via shafts and gearing, consuming nothing along the way.
Permanent Magnet Generators require powerfully driven, predictable rotational speeds to operate at maximum efficiency.
Increased flow speed is not the solution.
The key is constant velocity, with rotor shaft RPM as low as 200.
Gearing up from single digit RPMs to 200 RPM is easily accomplished.
The drawback in gearing up has always been loss of torque along the drive train.
The source ends up costing more than the device is capable of producing.
With the immeasurable torque of the tide, losses are insignificant, and the input cost does not increase.
I can generate 5Mw per unit, from just the fractional MPH of incoming and outgoing tide over a naturally sloping bottom.
This can be done for under $1,000,000 per megawatt.
Installing a wind generator still costs $1,500,000 per Mw, even after decades of R&D, and use in the field.
My Tidal Power unit can be produced at the $1,000,000 per Mw figure before the first 10 unit production run is completed.
The low speed of tide flow over the bottom does not matter when one considers the constant, but grossly misunderstood, torque of the tide flow.
Previous developers have overlooked this crucial factor.
RE Open Hydro, the current State Of The Art.
I chatted with Neil Kermode, one of the top tidal guys in Scotland, and an Open Hydro proponent, about the Bay Of Fundy event after the fact.
We had several pleasant back and forths until I mentioned to him that I felt the real problem with the Fundy device was extreme cavitation, causing the blades to flex in directions never intended, twisting and turning the frame like the famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge, not just the force of the water.
Cavitation bubbles eliminate thrust, cause vibration, and make the device of little use, even if it did not tear itself apart from vibration.
Cavitation defeats torque.
Spinning freely in accelerated flow, the rotor gains momentum to the point that the driving blades are chopping the water into froth as one blade rotates into the bubbles created by the one before it.
Frothy water has no torque, no driving force.
Open Hydro is an inherently flawed design.
The blades have convex surfaces, are exactly alike on both sides, and are angled to deliver the same response either way.
This theoretically enables the device to work in both directions without turning 180 degrees on tide change.
Changes have been made since 2009, but the basic concept of two way blades remains.
It will never be truly effective with said design.
When this was mentioned, Kermode got all defensive and said the blade design was proprietary to another vendor.
He never wrote back again.
I hit a sore spot that he and others have chosen to ignore in the face of no better plan.
Open Hydro, while never yet proven effective, is still considered the State Of The Art at this time.
My contention is, it will never produce anything but expensive lessons on what not to do.
But, the generator design itself, with rotor and stator combined into the perimeter of a large circle is genius.
My plan includes this type of Permanent Magnet rotor and stator mechanism, with an 8 to 10 foot diameter.
Picture the same type of generator, rotating horizontally, driven by a vertical shaft turning at a predictable 200 RPM, powered by the entire force of The Atlantic Ocean, all day, every day.
The blades I have designed work only one way, allowing for maximum thrust with zero cavitation.
The entire blade, shaft, and gearing mechanism turns 180 degrees on tide change, triggered by the moment of slack tide.
Allowing 15 minutes for turnaround time, my device will generate at high efficiency 23 of 24 hours daily in a region with two high and low tides daily.
Where there is only one tide change it is 23.5 hours daily.
There's a lot here.
It has evolved online, from early observations about Climate Change/Sea Level Rise, and their effects, both real and imagined, to the where, why, and how of Tidal Power.
Absorb as much as you like.
You'll feel better about The Future.
Click Shoreline Earth to get the in depth look at this project.

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Saturday, April 30, 2011
At the Feet of Laughing Water
4 comments:
- Keith said...
Is it possible that this is the same painting that has been revised by the artist at a later date?. The photos could have been taken before and after the revisions.
- April 30, 2011 at 6:47 PM
- Annie said...
It would be interesting to see the original paintings, or, to find out that the same painting was re-worked. However, it doesn't seem like they could be the same painting, because the quiver is in the 1885 one, but not in the 1887 one. Also, there seem to be color and level of detail differences that can't be accounted for by the different printings of the paintings in terms of brightness. I'm fascinated by the ghostly figures and the faces over the bed, in the top painting, especially.
- May 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM
- borky said...
Thomas, before I looked at the dates, my initial impression was the lower painting was a much simpler affair, considerable parts of it rendered down to almost abstract blocks of colour, (Minne's hahas, for instance, are seemingly more simply rendered), leading me to suspect this was the roughed in version to show to the publishers to confirm it fulfilled their commission and then to the printing department for their technical input before finally finishing it off.
(Apparently this was more or less the approach for these things right up until the end of the 20th Century and, ultimately, the advent of the internet's influence).
Saying that, though, the lower 1885 image, while less detailed in many ways, looks more like a true oil painting, while the higher 1887 image, though filled with far more detail, is closer in execution to a water colour/ink type book illustration.
They're definitely very similar, but I personally reckon they're not the same painting - unless the lower '1885' painting actually came later and was painted over the more sketchy 'later' '1887' picture.
- May 2, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- Thomas Haller Buchanan said...
Borky, good thoughts on all that.
I'm taking a stab at guessing that the earlier one is an oil painting that was created for a salon exhibition of sorts. But when it seemed like a reproduction was in order, either for books or prints, it was necessary to recreate it using lithographic techniques so that plates could be made for presses. As we know, in those days printing was a high art, still depending on the engravers' and lithographers' skills, not yet able to use photographic methods for plates.
As you allude to, the later piece is crisper and more linear, such as printing at that time would require, and the book I scanned it from was from that era and the image was a tipped-in plate.
- May 2, 2011 at 4:00 PM


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For the most part, I just used this blog article BackupPC on CentOS 5 (selinux fix) but I had a few issues between the two servers so I'm documenting that.
CentOS5CentOS 5 didn't have the semodule command. So...
# yum install selinux*
And then create a source policy module...
# grep httpd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -m backuppc > backuppc.te
And then build the policy module...
# grep httpd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M backuppc
And finally, install the module...
# semodule -i backuppc.pp
After that, I turned on SELinux=enforcing at the command line and edited the /etc/selinux/conf to default to enforcing.
# setenforce 1
# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /selinux
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy version: 21
Policy from config file: targeted
CentOS 6CentOS 6 also needed to have all of the SELinux tools installed (I think). However, when I tried the exact same things as above, the semodule command gave an error:
Tried to link in a non-MLS module with an MLS base
After some searching I found that I needed to run system-config-selinux which is a GUI (no system-config-selinux-tui I could find).
Here, I was expecting to see MLS instead of targeted. Not sure why, but it was already toggled to the correct setting. (So why does it think it's MLS?) So, I checked the box to "Relabel on next reboot" and rebooted. I was a little afraid of this because it said it could take a long time if you had a large filesystem and this had already used about 23% of 3TB. It was probably done well under 20 minutes (by the time I tried it again) and it worked!


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Stand for Peace
10th Anniversary
Stand for Peace with Congressman John Lewis, Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery and Mrs. Evelyn Lowery
The war in Afghanistan has become America's forgotten war, but 80,000 American troops are still fighting in Afghanistan and they're dying at a rate of one per day. The most recent American death toll is 1,968. These casualties are in addition to 2,332 deaths of Afghan civilians since the start of the war. We stand to remember. We stand to put an end to unnecessary violence and death. We stand for reductions of military spending and funding instead for human and environmental needs. We will continue to stand until all the troops come home.
Join Georgia WAND, Congressman John Lewis, Rev. Dr. Joseph E Lowery and Mrs. Evelyn Lowery this Friday to mark ten years of Standing for Peace!
Noon at Peachtree and 14th Street.


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It is not unknown from the world that ever since the corrupt Congress took hold of the government, the basic infrastructure building projects in the country have come to a near stand still. They have played cheap politics at the cost of the exchequer as there have been no progress on the Golden Quadrilateral Highways and North-South East-West corridor, visionary basic infrastructure projects started by great ex-Prime Minister of Bharat Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in past four and half years.
Another consequence of this lackadaisical corrupt government is that Bharat is set to loose its loan from the World Bank because of it is so slow that what was supposed to be completed this month is expected to be completed after 10 years from now. What can you expect, this decadent Government believes in breaking bridges, even if they 15000 years old engineering marvel, and not in building them. Read on the SHAMEFULL details below..
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) risks losing $300 million of the $620 million World Bank loan for the $933 million Lucknow-Muzaffarpur National Highway Project (LMNHP), if work on the project is not expedited and safety concerns not addressed within a short period of time.
World Bank acting country director, Rachid Benmessaoud told TOI, "The Bank has a right to use legal remedies available to it, including suspension of the disbursement of funds, if adequate progress is not made in addressing these issues within a short time."
He said, "World Bank concern centres around the poor implementation of five road packages under the Lucknow-Muzaffarpur National Highway Project (LMNHP) which should have been open this month. But at the current rate of progress it will not be ready in 10 years." He added, "Four of these road stretches are in Bihar and one in Uttar Pradesh. The progress of these five packages 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 has been particularly slow due to poor implementation by the contractors and the consultants supervising the contractors, as well as inadequate contract management on the part of NHAI."
These road stretches comprise almost 40% (in value) of the LMNHP that seeks to transform the 513 km national highway between Lucknow and Muzaffarpur (in Bihar) into a modern, four-lane road and to cut travel time on this important connector by 40%.
"The Bank is also concerned about the inadequate attention being paid to construction safety issues on work sites of the Lucknow-Muzaffarpur National Highway Project (LMNHP). This is putting at risk the lives, health and well-being of road users, construction workers and roadside residents," said the country director.
There are also apprehensions about the large number of variations on work contracts. "Under the loan agreement, we have asked NHAI to share these documents with the World Bank but they are yet to do so", a World Bank spokesperson said.
NHAI authorities on the other hand were not available for comment.
For more, read NHAI may lose $300m loan
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For me I like to watch episodes of Hart of Dixie. Ever since I found out about these character's centered around a small town in Bluebell, Alabama I haven't been able to get enough. The issues have been ones that I could relate to, to some not quit relate-able. It's something about a small town concept that instantly gives me the warm and fuzzies. Not to mention I have the biggest crush on Wade Kinsella :)
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Menu Memories
The food was good, and the atmosphere was unintimidatingly upscale. In those days, the restaurant was called something like Enzo's Mamma something or other... Dear Enzo loved his mother. Enzo himself would handsomely greet us and make us feel special and smart.
It was almost a rarity in Florida then: a classy, local (read non-chain) restaurant with modern European touches and a whiff of Wise Guy presence. Seriously!
I became obsessed with a pasta dish served there, the bucatini with pancetta, peas, pepper flakes and grated parmesan. Today — I just looked up Enzo's website (the restaurant has changed its name to Enzo's on the Lake) — it's still on the menu! I seem to have forgotten that there were also bacon and mushrooms in the dish... or maybe they're a latter-day adjustment.
Anyway, that was always my dinner of choice at Enzo's. So debonair. So — unknown! Who'd ever heard of bucatini? I didn't really process the fact that restaurants love it when customers order the pasta, because it's so cheap to make. I'd simply pay a whopping entrée price for my beloved, exotic bucatini.
Well, let's just say that I'm still happy about that meal, even in retrospect.
But now I make it at home. Save loads of cash that way (have you seen the price for a ticket to Florida?). Because I can buy bucatini pasta at A.G. Ferrari, a local Italian food importer.
Ferrari's bucatini is almost peculiarly tender. If you're an al dente stalwart, you won't like it: it cooks up pretty soft. But it's so loving, so gentle, so virginal thrown in there with the beasts of red pepper flakes and manly bacon. A wicked contrast.
Just like dinner on a dewy, twinkling lake in Florida... with a Mafia guy at the next table.
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Oh, wow. I have been there. I used to live in Orlando and this was what I always ordered. I loved it! I don't suppose you would like to share your recipe?
P.S. I also used to live near Terra Linda in Novato, way back when...
- 2:59 PM, July 05, 2007
- Sean said...
Last weekend I was at a dinner alongside the owner of A16; bucatini was served with a Sicilian tomato sauce with tuna. He referred to bucatini as "the hardest pasta to eat," and I agree. You can't slurp it up, you can't twirl it on the fork. I'm always confounded by it. It's like the anti-pasta.
- 4:45 PM, July 05, 2007
- sfmike said...
There are still a number of Italian restaurants like that in Palm Springs with a surprisingly large number of traditional Italianate mafia dudes hanging out. It's like they've gotten stuck in some time bubble.
- 4:56 PM, July 05, 2007
- Dagny said...
It used to be there were certain bars in North Beach one could frequent ... *sigh* Those were the days. I never seemed to have any "problems" back then. ;-)
- 5:08 PM, July 05, 2007
- Stacie said...
what a love story! I especially liked that the pasta co. name was Ferrari... and there were mobsters... and food...
- 8:25 PM, July 05, 2007
just the mere thought of you and Cranky in Flordia makes me concerned--even if it was a long time ago! I'd like a serving of this dish. I'll bring the wine!
- 9:02 PM, July 05, 2007
- cookiecrumb said...
Anonymous: OMG, who are you? We share history.
My recipe is very loose: you cut up and cook the bacon; boil the pasta until done; cook your peas just so; (all separate). Then you grate the cheese and toss everything together with red pepper flakes. Proportions are up to you. So... see. This is not really a recipe. Wing it!
Sean: No, you can't slurp it. Or twirl it. It's *challenging*! (Use a fork. Cut it.)
SFMike: Oh, I can imagine. So Miami Vice, but in a SoCal way.
Dagny: You had, er, protection?
Stacie: Gosh, it *was* rather romantic in a Sopranos way! :D
Jeanne: Don't worry. We escaped.
You are on our dinner list. I know what to serve you.
- 9:13 PM, July 05, 2007
- dancingmorganmouse said...
bucatini - aka fat sketti or straws at our place. When we were little we used to steal bucatini stalks and drink through them (very, very slowly).
- 10:18 PM, July 05, 2007
- katiez said...
That all sounds heavenly: the restaurant, the lake, the pasta!
I can't remember the last time I was in an Italian restaurant.... I'm going to have to go to Italy!
I suppose I could make you bucatini at home, save money... boo!
Pizzerias don't count, do they? Please tell me they don't count....
- 12:55 PM, July 06, 2007
- KathyF said...
I love pasta, but never thought about the deal restaurants get when I order it. Hmmm.
I'm definitely going to veganize that one. I love peas. Have never tried bucatini, I must say.
- 12:00 AM, July 07, 2007
- cookiecrumb said...
DMM: If I'd had access to bucatini when I was a kid, I'd have done exactly that. But. Yuck.
Katie: Here's an idea I swiped from The Parent Trap (the original version, with Hayley Mills, yum): Why don't you re-create a little Italian trattoria for a night in your house? Corny accordion music, plastic grapes hanging from the ceiling, a candle stuck in a chianti bottle...
(Pizzerias don't count.)
KathyF: Totally you can veganize it. I'd say not to skip the mushrooms, in that case. And peas, of course.
Bucatini is fun!
- 10:03 AM, July 07, 2007
- Ed Bruske said...
Bucatini is our favorite. There used to be a restaurant here in the District of Columbia called Fio's, down a dank hallway in the Woodner Apartments. Fio was a cranky chef. But it was our destination of choice. He made the best bucatini carbonara.
- 4:54 AM, July 10, 2007
- cookiecrumb said...
Ed: It seems to be a pasta that makes memories.
Carbonara sounds good; bucatini is tough enough for that.
I'm gonna buy another bag.
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Knowing who belongs in your neighborhood -- and who doesn't -- is one of the best ways to fight crime, authorities say.
That's why Americans across the nation are being urged to step out of their homes and greet their neighbors Tuesday for National Night Out .
National Night Out began 30 years ago as a way to heighten crime prevention awareness, generate support for local anti-crime programs, bolster neighborhood spirit and foster police-community partnerships, according to information from National Night Out officials.
The Kennewick Police Department is one of the few Tri-City law enforcement agencies that's been involved since the inception of National Night Out.
"When I first heard about this program, I said this is something we need to do," said Mike Blatman, Kennewick police crime prevention specialist.
"It's important because it's a fact that any law enforcement department relies on the participation of the public to do their job. This event is a reminder to citizens to keep paying attention, to look out for each other and to report anything suspicious or out of the ordinary to help keep our community safe," he said.
Kennewick, Richland and West Richland will hold city-wide gatherings and Pasco will offer six smaller, neighborhood events.
Each of the city-wide events will include displays of anti-crime information, including handouts on how to organize Neighborhood Watch groups, exhibits of emergency equipment and a chance to meet the police who patrol the streets.
Here's a roundup of what's going on in each city:
Kennewick's National Night Out event is from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Southridge Sports Complex, 2901 Southridge Blvd. City officials also have combined it with Kennewick's City Night, where residents can learn more about their city government.
There will be free hamburgers, chips and soft drinks while they last. There will be a rock climbing wall and a bounce house. Tri-Cities Crime Stoppers will be issuing free child identification cards, and the Southridge Farmers Market will be open.
Visitors can also take the Family Walk. Stop at different stations for information about the city's departments, and you'll be entered in a drawing for one of several $25 gift cards.
In Richland, the city-wide event is from 5 to 9 p.m. in Howard Amon Park behind the community center.
There will be free hot dogs, soft drinks and ice cream until supplies run out.
There will be live music from 5 to 8 p.m., and the Richland Bomb Squad and the Tri-City Regional SWAT team will be on site with their equipment.
Richland has been participating in National Night Out for about seven years. First as a series of smaller events, then as a single large one.
"The single event seems to be more popular and reach more people. Last year we had about 800 attend," said Rick Kane, community services officer for the Richland police.
Pasco's neighborhood gatherings are all happening between 6 and 7 p.m., said Pasco police Capt. Jim Raymond. The events will be at the 300 block of North Charles Avenue, Colleguim off A Street, the 700 block of North Road 32 in the Riviera Trailer Park, the 1800 block of West Park Street, the 8200 block of Camano Drive and the Mediterranean Villas off Road 100.
Raymond encourages other neighborhoods to organize their own block parties too.
"We've become such a transient society that neighbors don't know their neighbors. This is a good time to say hello, to hook-up and find out who belongs in the neighborhood. Crime prevention begins with looking after each other," Raymond said.
West Richland
West Richland's gathering is from 5 to 9 p.m. at Flat Top Park at the corner of Van Giesen Street and Bombing Range Road.
This is the first time the city has participated in National Night Out in almost a decade, said a department spokesperson.
There will be free hamburgers and hot dogs, and officers will hand out free fingerprint cards. The city's animal control officer will have information on adopting homeless pets. And the police department will have information on the free vacation checks they perform on homes year round.


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Hooray! So tomorrow we will begin our annual 28 Days of Lila! For the last three years we have dedicated the month of February to this little tradition because we want to remember the little things about the stage she is in right now.
I just spent about 45 minutes reading through last year's posts and it really sunk in how much Lila has grown up this year. I am already loving the bitter-sweet look back at who she was and what she was doing each February of her life.
So for the next 28 days, we'll have a post a day sharing our favorite things about three-year-old Lila. Like this outfit:
P.S. for a look back at the last two years click here: 28 Things to Love about Lila


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The most discernibly Christian voice at the Synod was from a Russian Orthodox Metropolitan? October 27, 2015Posted by Tantumblogo in awesomeness, Basics, catachesis, Ecumenism, episcopate, General Catholic, manhood, Papa, Revolution, Society, SOD, the struggle for the Church, Tradition, Virtue.
That's the claim of Tancred at Eponymous Flower in presenting us with this piece from the German site Katholisches. It's a rather interesting claim, given how many times progressive bishops at the Synod pointed to the Orthodox history of caving on divorce and remarriage, at least once, in giving a "do over" pseudo-marriage ceremony if a divorce has occurred. A few years ago, I had a brief period of infatuation with the Orthodox, but they are no solution. Their approach causes far more questions than any answers they provide, even if, of course, Orthodox Masses are valid and the Orthodox have always had very holy souls capable of great spiritual wisdom.
Nevertheless, let's see what the often combative Metropolitan Hilarion has to say (emphasis from Eponymous Flower, my comments, I leave out opening/closing fluff)
In our turbulent and unsettling world, man needs solid and unshakable foundations on which he can rely in order to fully trust to be able to build their lives on them. The secular society that is geared primarily to the satisfaction of individual desires can give man no clear moral orientations. [In fact, I would say society leaves men mired in misery] The crisis of traditional values that we experience in the consumer society leads to a contradiction between the different preferences, even in family relationships. When on the one side, extreme feminism sees in motherhood an obstacle to the self-realization of women who have children, on the other hand, more and more regard children as a right that can be realized by any means. Increasingly, the family is seen as a connection between two people, regardless of their gender, and it is believed that the individual can choose the affiliation to one or the other sex according to his personal taste. [Now here I'd like a clear condemnation from Sacred Scripture, Old and New Testaments, of this evil, but we'll continue on]
On the other hand, new problems occur that directly affect the foundations of the traditional family. The armed conflicts of the modern world causing a mass exodus from the war-affected regions towards the richer countries. Emigration often leads to breaking of family ties while creating a new social environment, creating connections that often have an interethnic and inter-religious character.
These challenges and threats are, for all Christian churches alike, the need to look for the answers, by relying on the order entrusted to them by Christ, to lead the people to salvation. Unfortunately, we often hear in Christian circles, voices demanding that there be a
"Modernization" of the Church's conscience, thus the rejection of the apparently Christian apparently obsolete doctrine on the family. Nevertheless, we must not forget the words of the Apostle Paul to the Christians in Rome: "conform not on this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God: what He desires, is what is good and perfect." [Solid. There are other quotes that might be even better]
The Church is called to be a light and a beacon in the darkness of this world, and Christians are called to be the "salt of the earth" and "light of the world". We all need to remember the harrowing admonition of the Savior: "If the salt loses its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is good for nothing; it is thrown out and trampled by men." (cf.. Mt. 5:13 to 14). Such a salt that has lost the power of its own taste, are in our time what some Protestant communities who call themselves Christian but preach moral ideals that are incompatible with Christianity. When a community of this kind, introduces the rite of blessing homosexual unions, and a lesbian woman who describes herself as a "bishop", who prompts her churches to remove the crosses from the steeples and replace them with Islamic crescents, can such a community may be called "church"? Before our eyes is Christianity is betrayed by those who are willing to play the game of secularized, anti-clerical and Godless society. [And thus quite a warning to the Church's progressives, whose aims, as the 13 cardinals pointed out, seem indistinguishable from those of liberal protestantism, which first fell to modernism during the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries]
The leadership of various countries of Europe and America, despite numerous protests, even by the Catholic faithful, continue a policy aimed deliberately at destroying the understanding of family. Not only are homosexual connections made legally equivalent to marriage. One goes so far as to prosecute those who because of their Christian faith, refuse to register these connections. [Quite valid criticism. Who would have thought, 30 years ago, that RUSSIA would be the beacon of Christian morality and cultural sanity! It shows how fast things can change. That's one major reason we must not give up hope for our Holy Mother Church, ever.] Immediately after the end of the visit of Pope Francis, the American president Barack Obama openly declared that the rights of homosexuals are more important than religious freedom. This clearly shows the intention of the secular authority to continue the attack against the healthy forces of society who defend traditional family values. The Catholics are in the front line in this fight, and just against the Catholic Church, there is a veritable campaign of discredit and lies under way. [Wow. These are about the best words I've seen in defense of the Church's traditional Doctrine of late. Even those on the "conservative" side in the Synod did not stress the point that it is only the Church that can and must fight this battle, even if we must do it alone, as Bishop Sheen said.] Therefore, the force in defending the Christian conviction and fidelity to the tradition of the Church today are particularly necessary.
Society today comes to resemble more and more the foolish man, "who built his house on sand" (Mt see. 7.26). It is the duty of the Church, to remind society of its established foundation – the family as a union between man and woman, who has the birth and education of children as its goal. [Metropolitan Hilarion, your own church could do better in this
regard. When will you get abortion made illegal in Russia?!? When will you stop tolerating divorce?!?] Only such a family, established by the Lord at the time of the creation of the world itself, is able to prevent the release of modern society into the abyss of moral relativism, or at least slow it down.
The Orthodox Church, like the Catholic, has always followed the Holy Scriptures and Holy Tradition in their teaching about the family and established the principle of the sanctity of marriage affirming that based on the words of the Savior Himself (cf.. Matt 19:6 ;. Mk 10:9) [Well, not quite always. You do allow that do-over. You were the first to break. And you have abandoned Scripture in a handful of other areas, too, including the plainly sensical filioque.] In our time, this position must be united and unanimous. We must work together to defend dialogue with the legislative and executive powers of each country and at the level of international institutions such as the UN and the European Union. We can not only limit ourselves to exhortations. We need to ensure the legal protection of the family completely.
I agree, it's pretty strong. I'd be hard pressed to find a better defense of Catholic moral doctrine from the synod itself. I think it is probably more effective in presenting a cohesive defense of Christian morality than the letter of the 13 Cardinals, which was good but much focused on inside baseball. It was not intended to speak to the outside world.
I do tend to agree with Metropolitan Hilarion on one level, however: he has argued in the past that the real divide among Christians is less Orthodox Catholic or even Catholic Protestant, but more traditional/orthodox/believing and liberal. Yes there are HUGE differences with protestants, but they are less in many cases than with our self-described Catholic modernists like Fr. James Martin, SJ, who's just been spastic with joy over the Synod and its outcome.
Not that I think some Catholic-Orthodox-protestant confab of conservatives is any real solution, but there may be times when collaboration between like-minded groups can be not just prudent but necessary.
I'm babbling. What do you think of his address?
- 1. Observer - October 27, 2015
Although the Russian Orthodox Church has been subject to Russian government since the days of Peter the Great, it is uplifting to hear a prominent bishop state Christian values in a clear and unambiguous manner.
The Russian Orthodox Church deserves our respect and admiration, they endured the Tatar/Muslim steamroller without flinching and survived Stalin's savagery. Will we be of the same mettle?
- 2. Tim - October 27, 2015
Russian Orthodox prelate(outside of Church) at sin-odd. Wonder why Bishop Fellay wasn't invited to address the same?
- LaGallina - October 28, 2015
That's what I wondered. Why was a non-Roman Catholic taking part in the Catholic congressional session, oops, I mean synod?
- 3. Deborah Cole - October 28, 2015
The Russian Orthodox Church, a wholly owned subsidiary of the State, continues to woo naive Catholics who are so sickened by the degeneracy and depravity of late Western culture that they will embrace anyone who "quotes Scripture" — even the devil. Metropolitan Hilarion is not the devil, but he has made common cause with a regime that uses religion to advance its quest for world domination, and his personal culture, charm, and cosmopolitan background make him a perfect instrument for detaching American Catholics from allegiance to their country. (The Russian state is reported to have a larger security apparatus now than the USSR had at the height of the cold war.) Catholics would do well to check out Hilarion's unequivocal statements and actions regarding the stamping out of Catholicism in Ukraine.
For an informed view of Hilarion's problematic declarations regarding Orthodox belief: http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3519/christian_unity_cannot_be_built_on_lies.aspx
- 5. c matt - October 28, 2015
I could certainly think of few Catholic prelates I would be willing to trade in exchange for Metropolitan Hilarion during the transfer window. Heck, I might even do a five for one deal. Hopefully, we can get him to come around on the whole 'Marriage Mulligan' thing.
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Soybean rust has now been reported in two North Carolina counties, located along the South Carolina border. Rust appears to be making its way slowly north, with weather conditions the next few weeks moderate to high for development.
In North Carolina, over 90 percent of the State's 1.6 million acres are beyond the R5 growth stage and are not in danger from soybean rust. Remaining beans are scattered and growers should look at local forecast and finds to determine whether spraying is an option.
The latest finds, reported on Sept. 19, are in a commercial field. A previous find in an adjoining county was in a sentinel plot. In both finds, infection levels were low. In the latest find, only one leaf out of 40 samples had rust infection.
Much like 2005, rust is likely to spread northward, with its rate of movement largely dependent on weather patterns. The rust is later occurring in 2006 and much of the acreage has been harvested.
Growers should be aware that spraying beans beyond the R5 growth stage is illegal, and that these sprayings will provide no yield advantage.
Rust was also reported in Baton Rouge parish in eastern Louisiana. As in the North Carolina finds, levels were low and most of the soybean crop has been harvested in the area.
Currently rust has been found infecting this year's soybeans in 40 different counties in eight states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and North Carolina. Including reports on kudzu, there is a total of 60 counties in eight states with rust this year including 5 in Alabama; 13 in Florida; 14 in Louisiana; 10 in South Carolina; 11 in Georgia; 3 in Texas; and 2 in Mississippi and North Carolina
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My articles emerge depending on what ever tickles my fancy; hope you enjoy the ride. It started several years ago when one of my op-ed pieces to the Houston Chronicle got butchered; been blogging ever since.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
What would I do without my cat calendar?
Somebody gave us a cat calendar for Christmas, the kind where you tear off a page to get your daily cat related comic strip and sometimes a reminder of important dates in history. Did you know it was Mohammed's birthday; at least it will be after the sun goes down?
In honor of such an important date maybe we should select one of our neighbors to strap on explosives and blow up a local shopping mall. How's that for diversity in our tolerant society?
I was reading in the Book of Mormon last night and ran across what I refer to as 'a Gospel in a nutshell' passage; perhaps an over simplification; true none the less. To qualify for this distinction, the verse or combination of verses should be able to stand alone as it informs the reader that Jesus is the Christ, the savior of all mankind, and do this as if all other pages of scripture had been lost or unavailable for consideration. If you found this remnant of the scriptures you'd have at least a partial grasp at/of what God intended for you to understand regarding your eternal relationship to Him and His only begotten Son.
More often than not, when referencing a particular scripture I'll cut and paste from the scriptures on line via lds.org; but when I can scan from my own scriptures and capture the image on a single pass I find it adds a personal touch, as if I'd let you read over my shoulder while sharing something I think is very important.
For your perusal I invite you to read Mosiah 3:3-11. ( Clicking on the image enlarges the image)
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- MK said...
It certainly fits the 'a Gospel in a nutshell' criteria.
- T. F. Stern said...
MK, to begin with I hardly ever get comments to religious blogs I post, I lose my bet there. I call these "zero comment blogs". lol
Have you had much exposure to the Book of Mormon? It is scripture to be another witness that Jesus is the Christ, a companion to the Bible. I invite you to read it with that idea.
I'm available to answer questions, should you have any; either through my comment sections or via direct email correspondence. (check my profile for that)
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Lately, however, it seems as though there is light starting to shine at the end of this long, dark tunnel we have been in. Usually change in our daughter comes so slowly that we never notice it. It usually takes someone that has not seen her in 6-12 months saying how much she has grown since the last time they saw her.
Well, in the last couple of months I have begun to see a change in my daughter. She is more vocal and using words to try and communicate. She is starting to tell us hi and bye, I love you, and call us by name. She is also starting to use full sentences when asking a question or telling us what she is doing.
The big thing right now is she wants to dance. So she is always asking me or her brother to dance with her to the Christmas music that is playing. It has been very special to see, for the first time, some glimpses of the person within begin to emerge.
I have a lot! More than I deserve. I am truly blessed! But there is nothing more satisfying to me than to see the many 'family memory moments' created by my children. With all the things that are on my Christmas list this year, I am finding the ones that bring me joy cannot be purchased in any store.
Why do we get lost in the temporal things? Why is it so easy? Sometimes I wish I was not such a sucker. Sometimes I wish I could remember...
It's always the little things!


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"I arrived in San Francisco full of hope and ready to live my authentic self, but unfortunately I soon found myself homeless and at the mercy of strangers that took advantage of my situation" - Anastazia, Youth Program participant.
After a 72-hour bus trip, 22-year-old Anastazia arrived in San Francisco with little money and nowhere to live. They left a life of rejection and harassment in Florida to seek a new beginning within a community that was supporting and accepting of young queer, trans and gender non-conforming people.


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Tuesday, after a full day in New York city (photo blog coming later), Justin and I headed W to Windham to pre-ride and do some venue recon for the day.
The machine, ready to go
Heading up the course on lap 1
Self-portrait early on in the short lap
Mostly the course is traversing the ski slopes on grass, and then riding through super fun rocky and sometimes muddy singletrack in the trees. The laps are short and fast, so we got a few pics, hit a few faster laps, and then spent about as much time "rinsing" off at the bike wash as we did pre-riding! Got in 4 laps in under 2 hours, and had a blast!
Today we heard/saw the course was dried out quite a bit from Tuesday! Looking forward to a few more laps tomorrow.
In the meantime...


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Do you enjoy Harry Potter trivia? Do you pride yourself in your memorization skills or typing speed? Or do you simply want to represent Slytherin House in a winning tradition?
If so, the Slytherin Quidditch Team (SQT) might be for you! Darcey Goode and I (Will Lestrange) are the current captains of the team; any Slytherins (be they newcomers or veterans) who are interested in playing Quidditch for our house are invited to poke either of us via PM or on IRC. (Darcey usually uses "Darcey" as her IRC name; I normally use "WillLiam".)
If you want to start practicing on your own/preparing to try out for SQT (it's not that hard; I promise! And yes, I did miss the first five questions in my tryout ) the place to go is #sqt, where a bot and some members of SQT are waiting for you. New snakes in particular are invited to check out the Quidditch lesson in SHOP to get a feel for how the game is played.
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And I've missed it terribly..
And have wanted to get back into it..
And up until this very moment, I've been debating about whether to start blogging again...
And as you can see, I made the decision to start again..
Only this time, it's not really about me as much as it's about the name of my blog,
Does that saying ring a bell? If you're married or ever been to a wedding, it should. It's part of the Marriage Vow from the Book of Common Prayer. The complete vow states, "To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, til death do us part."
Now don't get me wrong.. I am 1 million percent in love with my husband, Neil. In fact, we are celebrating our 15 year anniversary on Thursday July 30th. We've had our fair share of all of the parts of the vow above... except "...in sickness and in health..." and to be quite honest, I'm not even sure that's the vow we said! (I need to watch our wedding video to double check!!!!)
Regardless of whether we said it at our wedding or not, it's still a vow or a belief or an issue that we should all promise to keep and not run away when tested... and that's what this boils down to.. I am facing this part of our vows and it's not easy... I need to write about it, to stay sane and to vent and to also keep friends and family updated on this process.
If you know the situation, skip the next part but if you don't... read further..
Neil has polycystic kidney disease. It's a genetic disorder that was passed down to him from his mother. She had her transplant in 2001 and is doing well.. Anyway, Neil was diagnosed with it in 1998, I believe. At the time, he was told he could manage it by taking blood pressure meds. He's not really a pill-taking kind of person so I don't think he took them exactly as prescribed.
Sometime in 2002 or 2003, Neil's nephrologist sat down with us and told us that kidney transplant was inevitable... not what we wanted to hear BUT.. we listened and he continued to tell us that if he was able to keep his creatinine on an even level then transplant would happen in 10-15 years and if not, it could be 5-8 years away.... well, guess where we are? We are at the point of finding a live donor in order to avoid getting on the transplant list... and that is why I am here... writing, venting, informing, updating, trying to stay sane, asking for prayers and learning what exactly "...in sickness and in health..." truly means.


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This is something a bit different for you. I have the pleasure of doing an Inspiration Post for Sheena's Ink-ttes facebook page this week, and I'm sharing it here with you as well. I'm blogging this a little bit differently in that I'm showing step by step photo's as well as written instructions. So let's get started. I decided to make a quick and easy card combining new and old Sheena products to shown how well they all work together. For this card I have used a die, a stamp, a stencil, Aqua tints and Distress Inks. I start by die cutting some Sheena stamping card with the Perfect Partners Christmas Deer die.
I then put a colour wash over another piece of card as a background, using several colours of Aquatints. I used water to help blend the colours, I wanted an 'early morning' feel to the background.
When the background was dry I placed the In the Forest stencil over it and applied Vintage Photo DI to create the effect of a forest. I used a blending tool and sponge to apply the ink lightly through the stencil.
I set the background aside so that I could work on the die cut card. I used Vintage Sepia Versafine ink on the deer stamp from the Perfect Partners Wishes of the Season stamp set. I then placed the deer die cut card over the stamp and pressed down, a small area at a time, onto the stamp. This is the easiest and most effective way to get the stamped image onto the die cut card. I then used Aquatint to colour the trees.
Next I painted the stag with Aquatints, and edged it with Walnut Stain DI.
I added the slightest hint of gold gilding wax to highlight the trees. I attached the die cut card front to the background with dimensional glue, then matted the panel onto black card.
I took a white card blank (7"x 7") and edged it with Vintage Photo DI. I then stamped a sentiment from the Christmas Notes stamp set at the bottom of the card using Versafine.
Finally I layered the panel onto the base card. I love the stag stamp and die, I think they can be used in various colour ways to suit a variety of occasions for male or female cards alike. I hope you have enjoyed this little tutorial :)


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Pedagogy Enhancement Awards Subcommittee
Pedagogy Enhancement Awards Subcommittee Standing Rules
Committee Info
Committee Chair:
Administgrative Support:
Laura Romo
(916) 278-5945
Meetings: Twice in November and twice in February, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, CTL
The Pedagogy Enhancement Awards Committee (PEAS) is a subcommittee of the Faculty Policies Committee. The committee administers the Pedagogy Enhancement Awards and recommends policies and procedures relating to the Pedagogy Enhancement Awards to the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and the Faculty Policies Committee.
- Administers the Pedagogy Enhancement Awards.
- Recommends policies and procedures relating to the Pedagogy Enhancement Awards to the Faculty Policies Committee.
- Prepares and presents an annual report to the Faculty Senate.
A. Voting Members
Ten faculty members appointed by the Faculty Senate. No more than two members may be from a single college and no two members may be from the same department/unit. Every effort shall be made to encourage membership from each college.
- Seven college-based faculty members;
- One member from the University Library;
- One faculty At-large representative selected by the Faculty Senate; and
- One faculty member from the Faculty Policies Committee.
B. Non-Voting/Ex-Officio Members
- The Faculty Senate Chair.
Additional ex-officio membership may be recommended by the subcommittee, the Faculty Policies Committee, the Executive Committee, or the President or designee.
C. Term
- The term of appointment for faculty representatives shall be for three years, with the possibility of reappointment. Appointments will be staggered to ensure that approximately one-third of the faculty members are appointed each year.
- The term of the non-voting / ex-officio members will be one-year.
- Chair
- The Chair shall be elected from and be among the voting members of the Committee.
- The term of office of the Chair shall be one year. The term shall begin at noon on the last day of the spring semester in which elected and shall end at noon on the last day of the spring semester of the following year.
- A faculty member may be elected to serve up to three consecutive terms of one year each as the Committee Chair. After an interval of a year following the end of the third consecutive term, the faculty member shall become eligible again for election to the Chair of the Committee.
- The Chair is responsible for establishing the agenda for each meeting.
- Vice-Chair
- At its first meeting of the academic year, the Committee shall elect from its voting members a Vice-Chair.
- The term of office of the Vice-Chair shall be one academic year. The term shall begin upon election of the Vice-Chair at the first committee meeting of the year and shall end at noon on the last day of the spring semester of the academic year.
- The Vice-Chair shall preside over the routine business of the Committee in the absence of the Committee Chair or should the office of the Committee Chair become vacant, until the election of a new Committee Chair.
- The Committee shall be a subcommittee of the Faculty Policies Committee. The Subcommittee reports to the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Faculty Policies Committee. The CTL funds this program and provides administrative support. The CTL reports to the Faculty Senate.
- Issues addressed by the Committee may be referred to the Faculty Policies Committee and/or the Executive Committee.
- Any of the Standing Policy Committees of the Faculty Senate may refer issues to the Committee either through the Faculty Policies Committee or the Executive Committee.
Committee Meetings
- The Committee shall meet monthly or as needed at a designated time and place.
- Committee meetings shall be open except for the award deliberations, at which time the meetings will be closed.
- The meeting agenda shall be distributed and supporting documentation provided to the Committee at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.
- Committee agendas will be published and made accessible to the campus community at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.
- A quorum of the Committee shall be a majority of the voting members. The Committee shall not take official action in the absence of a quorum.
Adoption of Standing Rules
- FS 14/15-91/PEAS/FPC/EX: Adopted December 5, 2014
- AS 97-12/FPC/EX: Adopted February 13, 1997


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Another book down on my 2011 list, which is so exciting since we are nearing the end of the year rapidly. I know I won't complete my current list but guess what folks? I've still read a crap load of books this year!! so YAY!!
Now on to the most recent one "Always the Bridesmaid" by Sarah Webb.
I would love to blame my non -Irish sense of humor on why I didn't like this book but lets' be real here. The main character Amy is one of the most miserable and moody people I've ever read in my life. There is absolutely nothing to like about her, even when you finally make it to the end of this 337 page book you still can't, or at least I couldn't. I wanted to smack this chick every single page of the book and I don't feel she got what she deserved.
Aside from the main character sucking, I did like her sister who I can only relate to as Amy Adam's character in The Wedding Date (minus the cheating part). You absolutely will fall in love with her Sister Suzi and her fiancee Matt. But since this book is about Amy and not Suzi you don't get to enjoy every single page.
My advice to anyone who isn't Irish, because I really think a lot of the humor would be funny to those who like Irish humor, similar to how only some people (Americans I guess) get British humor and others don't understand. But back to the point, if you aren't a fan of Irish humor STAY AWAY!! I'm definitely wishin' I had gotten the right "Always the Bridesmaid" from the beginning!!
Overall grade = F. Sorry Ms Webb - if you write a book with a better main character I'll give you another try.


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Hey DICKbinbush did i say anything about U.S extermination eh am just saying anthrax was found thats all ! ! !
Originally posted by DJMessiah
I suggest both of you settle down, and edit your posts to a more civil manner.
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Well, maybe your "here we go again" rolly-eye'd U.S.-centric post torqued him off because it doesn't have anything to do with the topic.
Just an observation.
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Dudley and Delilah.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Our winter veg.
I have my veg under cover so they don't get cold.
My broad beans are growing but very slowly. First they were in drought and now they are being rained out.
I think this is beetroot or is that peas.
And I have no idea looking at the photo what kind of veg these are.
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Labels: GARDENING
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Rain, rain go away!
As you can see the drought is well and truly over.
I can't believe only a couple of months ago the field looked like this, and the maize was harvested early due to lack of rain.
Luckily, the farmer moved his stock yesterday otherwise they would be brushing up on their swimming skills.
I wonder if these water views have increased our house price. Riparian rights anyone?
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Labels: FARM LIFE
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Bulk buy episode
I sent my husband on a bulk buying expedition.
(Please note, this is not an official binn inn store).
I thought this would be a great way to minimise packaging.
They don't provide paper bags instead of plastic bags and I don't have big enough containers for bulk buying. Those really large margarine containers (5kg?) would be perfect as I only shop once a month.
The main problem is we didn't like the taste of what we brought. I think we have about 5kgs of milk powder. It said it was skim milk but tastes like whole milk powder YUK! We also brought heaps of oats as I have been making porridge for breakfast. The kids hate them and I can't blame them. They weren't very nice. So I think the pigs and chooks will be getting porridge made with milk for breakfast.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
What does your entry say?
My Your Home and Garden arrived and one article stood out.
If you were seeing your entry/front of house for the first time what would you think?
Hhhhhmmmmm. Pretty gross if you ask me.
As you can see it is muddy and cluttered.
Can't do much about the ugly front door (we are going to get a new, scratch resistant,
black one.... someday).
So I scrubbed and cleaned and sorted out the shoe graveyard
I added a cute puppy for good measure and 'voilà' a clean and tidy front entrance.
Now to keep it this way.
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Labels: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE, RAMBLINGS
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Oh! How I love retreat.
Doesn't it look like so much fun.
Most of these photos are of Dee from sew-funky (she has the photos of me on her camera).
We had a ball. Shopping and movies on Friday. Markets and op shopping on Saturday. La Tropezienne (french cafe) and more markets on Sunday.
Thank you Dee for a fab weekend away. Your da bomb.
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Labels: RETREAT
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
First filling
Boodles (7) got her first filling today. The dental nurse said her tooth came through with a defect and hence the hole.
To say my girl didn't cope well is an understatement. I wouldn't be at all suprised if the dental nurse is considering a career change over a very stiff drink or two.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
The countdown to retreat is on. 3 more sleeps.
I can't wait to go to the markets and have my meals cooked for me.
I also get to hang out with the talented Dee from sew-funky and she has promised to show me how to crochet granny squares.
The only bummer is my broken camera. I hate missing the moments.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Books, books and more books
I think Emily from Inside a Black Apple sums up how I feel about books perfectly (picture above).
Oh, how I love books. But...... I am trying to simplify my life. My aim is to reduce our books to one bookcase and to use the library more.
I managed to get rid of one box of adults books and one box of kids.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
No new clothes
I decided at the start of Autumn I was NOT going to purchase any new clothes this season
(free clothes are OK).
And I didn't, cause I really do have enough clothes and I can only afford clothes that are made in less than ethical ways.
I did get some fab items free though at a couple of clothes swaps.
I have to admit that I am suffering withdrawal. There are a couple of items I would really like and officially it is a new season (winter).
So what to do? Such a dilemma.
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Related: From Politico, Publisher Larry Kramer's vision for USAT.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
USAT | The smallest headline on the biggest story
Related: From Politico, Publisher Larry Kramer's vision for USAT.
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On this story, what would be an example of the kind of "pronounced voice" Larry Kramer is seeking?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/28/2012 8:58 PM
Literally 10 hours after the decision, to still be screaming about the ruling would be nuts. Usa Today has plenty of strong smart coverage and readers can find it.ReplyDelete
This is really reaching. Your example is the page at 8:20 at night!
- Anonymous6/28/2012 8:59 PM
Where IS Kramer?ReplyDelete
8:58 Have you read that "What's next in healthcare story"?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/28/2012 9:35 PM
Stop with the idiotic tease, Hopkins. This is like when you were in front of the board. . If you have criticisms to make, make them.ReplyDelete
I find the what next full of useful and well-organized information that affects real people, not just the politics of it which is covered elsewhere.
What is your problem? You're like Edward G. Robinson in 10 Commandants. Where's your messiah now?
- Anonymous6/28/2012 10:36 PM
You are correct Jim. What a shame.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/29/2012 1:46 AM
You are nitpicking, Jim. Digital has far broader, endemic problems. It should be the dog, not the tail. But no manger inspires any confidence and the second guessing amongt staff and print siders is rampant.ReplyDelete
Keystone Cops meets The Three Stooges with a little Yaba Dabba Do thrown in.
9:35 That was not meant to be a tease. I was asking for readers' opinion on that particular story.ReplyDelete
This post was and is about USAT's online presentation of a huge news event -- not about the content of its coverage. (In fact, that's a lot of terrific stuff there.)
Too often, USAT's homepage presentation doesn't give enough weight to big news, and this was but one example. This will all be moot, I assume, once the site is relaunched later this summer/fall.
That relaunch might address some fundamental weaknesses in how USAT.com is organized. To cite one example: Click on the Health & Wellness link from the homepage, and tell me how many stories you find about yesterday's ruling and its impact. I can't find anything.
To be fair, I struggled to find easy entry to all the health reform coverage at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal websites, too. (I did, however, find this NYT roundup very helpful.)
In the end, of course, my opinion matters far less than that of the paper's readers -- and one reader in particular: Larry Kramer.
It would be very, very interesting to hear Kramer's critique of yesterday's and today's coverage -- how it does (and doesn't) reflect the direction he wants to take USAT.
- Anonymous6/29/2012 8:20 AM
We've relaunched different products more often than the space shuttle fleet.ReplyDelete
At some point, the decision has to be made that profit comes before revenue and unprofitable stuff needs to go away.
Why do we print lists of homes for sale, in books or ROP? Anyone who wants a home will go where they can see everything in their price range, weeding out everything else automatically.
Why do we waste internet space on covering communities outside our NDM, or with low connectivity percentages?
Yes, you'll have to make up the revenue someplace else. But having sales execs dropping everything else for three days to sell DealChicken means everything else... has been dropped.
I know logic is in worldwide short supply, but at some point - retire the fleet.
- Anonymous6/29/2012 9:54 AM
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- Anonymous6/29/2012 10:29 AM
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/29/2012 12:04 PM
If you want to see how to do it, see how NYT did it yesterday, and last night, etc. No screamer headline, but several heads and pix gallery, plenty of context, reefer links,etc.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/29/2012 12:11 PM
Who are the 27 million Americans USA Today's story refers to that won't have health insurance even after this law goes in to affect as wasn't this going to cover all Americans?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous6/29/2012 1:30 PM
Refers to those in the U.S. without documentation. They are barred from the exchanges. So they'll still us emergency rooms. USAT incorrectly refers to them as "Americans.". Go figure...Delete
- Anonymous6/29/2012 12:12 PM
On Morning Joe he held up the New york times, Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. All had huge headlines and front page stories. He didn't show USA Today it's small headline. No wonder why USA today is disappearing.ReplyDelete
That small headline was online last night. Today's print edition carries a banner headline saying, "Still standing."ReplyDelete
For now, you can see it on the Newseum's website.
- Anonymous6/29/2012 12:25 PM
My opinion is that USAT increasingly misplays stories -- particularly in the last couple of years. This either is due to poor/unseasoned news judgment or bad design skills, or both. Regardless, USAT is showing a lot of stress fractures from being short staffed and having an increasingly inexperienced editorial staff. I don't think anyone can deny that journalism at the nation's newspaper leaves something to be desired. Frankly, I wouldn't work there if I took pride in things like not getting beat on major stories.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/29/2012 6:05 PM
@8:20 a.m. well put. I especially liked your line about logic.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/30/2012 10:27 AM
"Refers to those in the U.S. without documentation." 1:30 PMReplyDelete
If true, then USAT writing "27 million are Americans" when they clearly are not is a slap in the face to professional journalist who vowed to the tell the truth and to the readers they serve.
Frankly, if anyone needs proof on why big media is increasingly less trusted, then all need look no further than USAT's taking great liberty with the facts here. Hopkins silence on it (and others) despite seeking comments on this story, says he's okay with it too.
Though, since this is an anonymous forum, it would be nice to see someone here with the balls to defend why telling readers that lie is okay.
It's not.
Jim says: "Proceed with caution; this is a free-for-all comment zone. I try to correct or clarify incorrect information. But I can't catch everything. Please keep your posts focused on Gannett and media-related subjects. Note that I occasionally review comments in advance, to reject inappropriate ones. And I ignore hostile posters, and recommend you do, too."
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FreeDarko does care
I've realized over the last few days that there are two kinds of blogs: those that have a soul, and those that, out of feigned professionalism or deadening narcissism, are capable only of discussing one or two recurring subjects. And while FreeDarko might seem like the kind of place that would pride itself on such screechingly autistic behavior, I really can't talk any more about basketball without at least saying something about THE ONLY STORY IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW.
Let's put it like this: there is absolutely no excuse for what's happened, and it's hardly a triumph of the human spirit if NOLA ends up with a minimal body count and a relatively optimistic plan for reconstruction. Some might see this blog as tasteless or irreverant when it comes to issue of race and class, but take it on faith that this shit-talking is actually evidence of a lasting investment in—or, if that's too pretentious for you, respect for—exactly the part of America that the federal government seems so intent on neglecting.
Pity, sympathy, and good will are certainly in order (be sure to
With that in mind, I would like to fast-track a non-hoops nominee for FBP. . .
(while we're on the music tip: this is certainly not a natural catastrophe of stars, but Allen Toussaint sleeping on the floor of the Superdome?!?!?!?!?!?)


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High-Frequency Words
Sight Words
What do YOU call them?
This year, I'm calling them BALL Words!
I read Marsha McGuire's blog post about her BALL Words this summer and LOVED it.
Click the link below to read it for yourself:
My school follows the Journeys Reading curriculum though. Our Kindergarten report card has specific sight words that our students must master each six weeks, according to the Journeys series.
Journeys is set up for students to learn 1 sight word a week and then 2 sight words a week for the first few months of school. Then, the last few months of school, they must learn 6 words per week.
While I understand why it's a progression, I do not understand why they would wait to introduce all of those sight words at the end of the school year. In my experience, the more a student is exposed to something, the more likely they are to KNOW it!
Why not introduce words early? Why not give them more exposure?
That way, by the end of the year, they can and WILL master all of those words.
So, I bumped up all the sight words. I am introducing 5 sight words a week (including color and number words). As of this week, my students have been exposed to 15 sight words. Some have already mastered them. Most have not.
That is OK!
They don't NEED to master them until the 2nd or 3rd six weeks of school. By then, they will have a lot of exposure and practice with the words.
Like I said, I loved Marsha McGuire's idea of BALL words. So, here's what I did.
(Ignore the bulletin board. That is my Super Improvers Wall for WBT.)
These are my balls. The first 10 sight words are called baseball words. We progress from baseball to soccer ball, to basketball, and so on. Once a student has mastered (said the word within 3 seconds) the 10 baseball words, they move up to the soccer ball words.
I found these super cute little jerseys at The Learning House, and my intern student-teacher, Miss Audrey, attached their pictures.
How adorable are they?
All students started on the baseball. We discussed how we're all a team, and we work together. They are excited, and honestly, they just love their picture being "in" a jersey right now! ; )
I am hoping that by introducing the words early and providing plenty of exposure/practice, my students will be ready to master those words when the time comes.
Those that are mastering the words early...
Well, say it with me - - - DIFFERENTIATION!
It is my job to differentiate and provide them more words-
Dolch words not in Journeys or First Grade words.
Let's learn some BALL WORDS!
How do you set up your sight words?


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Adoption requests → Babywearing Wiki
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How many edits have you made on that wiki? 16 so far.
How many days/months have you been editing there? A week and 2 days by the time this request is read.
On the Special Pages → Special:ListAdmins when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? Tnleary, May 4th, 2013
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I'm trying my best to get the wikia up and running, but need admin privilages to edit the skins and have further control. Thank you for your consideration.
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The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?
Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.
Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color!
For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.
Oh! joy for this soul and this heart who have escaped the earth of water and clay,
Although this water and this clay contain the hearth of the philosophical stone.
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls, that we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift; our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.


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It happens to all writers. If it hasn't happened to you, it will. If it has - don't worry, it's not a conspiracy. And chances are, there's no real reason to get all in a huff about it or try to figure out who to sue. Just suck it up, and move on. I'm talking about that fateful day, when your prized idea appears in the trades as a sale that's being fast-tracked for production. Hopefully you're not completing the final pages of your masterpiece when that happens, because chances are, especially if you're not repped by an agent, manager, or lawyer yet, your script just bought itself an open-ended ticket to the back burner.
The above happened to me this week - twice, actually. I have a scrip that I've been toying with for a while now (the "Roman Army spec" of last year's Writing Weeks). To be fair, this script was already put in the proverbial drawer at my manager's suggestion. Before he suggested we sit on it for a while - mainly, some very big concepts that, without source material such as a comic book to back them up, can be hard for a big studio to be very confident in - other movies came out that made me start to worry. Clash of the Titans, Centurion, and a half-dozen other Roman/Greek movies flooded the market in a short period. The success of the pictures aside, there was a lot out there, and my project began to run the risk of redundancy.
This week, though, two more nails were driven into the coffin. One project had a title similar enough to mine to make me cringe. Swap out one word, and they were the same. That was a small issue compared to a sale recorded later that same afternoon - a project that was in concept quite similar. It wasn't identical, but the combination of a similar idea and nearly identical title being used by two projects in one day made me realize that the drawer-time for my Roman Army spec just got extended.
What if I'm in a pitch or something later on, and I get the sense that the producer I'm meeting with is searching for what I have? Sure, I'll pitch it - why not. Can I swap out Roman for some other historical civilization? Yeah, probably. And for the scrip to have any life now, I might have to. Hmm... Mongols, anyone? Anyway, such is the fate of an aspiring writer. This happens, people. If it does, my guess is that no one stole your idea. You'd need more than the notion of a couple being haunted by an evil spirit to claim plagiarism against Paranormal Activity. Get into the details - not just of your idea and how the film compares, but of who you told it to and the people involved in the production - and you might have more to go on. For the most part, though, these experiences can be considered (unwanted) exercises in developing the thick skin necessary to try and make it in the industry.
Should you automatically delete your script because something similar comes out? No. Definitely not. But, at that point, you need to be realistic. If something is the start of a trend, you might have time to get on board. Maybe. On the other hand, if someone else, someone with clout and credits, is doing what you want to, it's time to weigh your options. The spec you use to break into the industry should seem fresh (these days, the fresher the idea or approach, the better for new talent). If it's way too similar to something already in the works, many producers will stay away from it. They might treat it as a sample - never a bad thing - and you'll get other work from it; but that specific project will gather dust for a while. On the other hand, if you don't want to just aim for a sample, and you have other ideas and aren't too far into that particular script, it might behoove you to move onto something else, one of your other ideas that isn't as close to something that just sold. You'll save yourself a lot of time and grief, and chances are greater that you'll impress someone with you ingenuity.
Of course, take all of that with a grain of salt. Take it with a tablespoon of the stuff. It's all about time management, and if you think that the window for an idea just closed, it might be time to see what others are still open. And if you don't have any other ideas, then by all means, finish that one, and make it as solid as you can. The last thing you want to do is let one similar idea stop you from writing all together. If that were the case, we wouldn't have had any new stories for centuries. Then where would we be?


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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Two-thirds of Americans strongly believe a law prohibiting pharmaceutical imports from Canada and other countries is intended to protect drug-company profits and only 9% feel strongly that it helps protect Americans from potentially harmful drugs, a WSJ.com/Harris Interactive polls shows.
....More than three-quarters of those polled said they believe confiscating drugs at the Canadian border jeopardizes the health of some Americans, compared with 15% who disagree.
To be fair, the poll didn't mention the issue of counterfeit drugs, just drug reimportation.
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Getting up early in the morning, muscles pain, depression, sweat and blood paid off. These are the feelings and pain that I experienced in my entire ran. Regrets? Nothing!! It makes me a stronger person, I change for the better not just physically but emotionally as well. The positive outlook in life is what I'm embracing right now. I encourage everyone to start run right now and you will feel the difference.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
New Found Friends!!!
For a year of running, I have met different people but I never met such a incredible people who shares same passion and mission as mine. People who are prominent in the society. I never knew they become my friends. No matter what their status in life such as businessmen, teacher, accountant , engineer these people are so amazing regardless their race also. I can't wait to bond with them again.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Run Update!
Sorry readers I've been busy for the past weeks for my training to my first full Marathon. Guess what guys?! I made it to the finish line again with the time of 5 hours and 36 minutes. We started at midnight of November 16,2013. Rain, legs pain, ankle pain and sweat paid off. I was in cloud nine floating when I step my feet to the finish line. Praying for two hours while running makes me stronger and never give up. After two hours negative vibes comes in. But my Aunt Celsa who was sick, victims of typhoon haiyan and my friends who looked up to me was my inspiration. I can say if you just believe in yourself you can do things unexpectedly. Keep the faith in God! Keep the faith in your self! Surround yourself with people who are positive and that makes your life complete.
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We cry for change,
A better place to live in,
We long for peace,
A world sans misery, fear.
Who shall change?
Do we ever ponder?
Am I not the first?
Oh! Fingers point exterior…
Absolute power is within us,
Only efforts needed to afresh,
Just dare to speak the truth
And bring about a change.
[Published in 'Creative Thoughts' on 7 August 2011]


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This past week, we spent a few days in Palm Springs with our friends, the Lesters. On Tuesday, we rode on the aerial tramway up to San Jacinto state park in the mountains. At over 10,000 feet elevation, we got a good view of Palm Springs and the surrounding area. It was neat to have started off in the desert and ended up among the snow-capped mountains in less than 10 minutes.
While waiting for our tram, Paul and Camilla decided to play a video game
"Hi, goat!"


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Wednesday, 20 April 2016
I'm still here...so sorry I have been absent from bogland!
I owe you all an apology as I was gone for so long with no reasons...just excuses! I had my quilt done in February but my daily life got in the way and I forgot to tell Susan and Chooky that I am allergic to binding. I am also allergic to dust so I am in big trouble as my quilt has been sitting in one spot for almost 3 months. I am feeling ashamed. Thank you Chooky and Susan for not giving up on me and for encouraging me to come back to blog land. I'll be back soon.
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Duck Sauce – NRG (Skrillex, Kill The Noise, Milo & Otis Remix) [Brillz One Man Band Cover] + Behind The Scenes Video
This is what Brillz had to say about his newest release:
I'm so stoked to finally share this piece of music with you guys.
It all started as a conversation about how important it is to balance the synthetic digital realm with the organic human realm of creating art. I challenged myself to recreate one of my favorite tunes with all live instruments, no MIDI or programming. Every sound you hear on this record was played by me and recorded with a mic. Still to this day there is no plugin that sounds as good as a real Hammond B3 with a Leslie cabinet. I played most of the weird synth sounds on an early 70's MiniKorg with an original RAT pedal thru a matchless amp with an SM57, and recorded all the percussion in an actual hallway to get that "hall verb". There's a behind the scenes vid I posted if ur interested in seeing some of that stuff.
I am by no means "a great musician" but I have fun with it and thats
why I got into making music in the first place!!!! Im sitting on a plane, about to take off so I gotta wrap this up…just wanna say thanks for the love on this and being open minded enough to enjoy something different! Also huge big ups to my friends Duck Sauce, Skrillex, Kill The Noise and Milo & Otis for making one of my favorite tunes ever!!
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FOR TODAY August 31, 2009
Outside my window...82 Degrees….and Sunny… the Southern California fires have stayed away from our home at this point, but a cool down and a little wetness sure would help to ease my worry.
I am thinking... about questions of timing, death, and if a dear friend (click here to learn more about her) who died last week somehow found her way to the arms of my savior. The only peace I can hold on to is that my lord has a plan even if it feels like the end of the world to my heart.
I am thankful for...My parents. They held a wonderful Memorial Celebration for our friend Mrs. Wilson. She didn't want a funeral, or service, just a wonderful time of celebration and storytelling. It was a magical afternoon of tears and laughter. Mrs. Wilson would have loved it.
From the kitchen... cheap and easy tonight…Hamburger Helper. With a weekend full of emotional chaos, I have lots of housework and laundry to catch up on. Simple Yummy Goodness it is!
I am wearing...Black and Teal Top, Black slacks, and strappy heals.
I am creating... Felt Kit Christmas Ornaments.
I am going... to visit my Grandparents this weekend for the long Holiday weekend with my Mom. My sweet grandfather is in the middle stages of Alzheimer's and we hope to be a positive distraction to our family who are his caregivers.
I am reading...The Bad Girls of the Bible and Wives and Daughters.
I am hoping...that my husband has an amazing time on the annual fishing trip with the guys this weekend. Camping, Fishing, Dirt….I know my city boy isn't terribly passionate about any of it, but I hope he will enjoy the testosterone bonding and God's beautiful design of nature.
I am hearing...paper flipping, conference calls, and chatting.
Around the house... lots of packing and planning for this weekend coming up.
One of my favorite things...My Crockpot. It is the working girls dream tool for yummy dinners!
A few plans for the rest of the week: Work, Market and Housework Tonight, Cooking for the boys tomorrow night, Packing, and A trip to Northern California.
Here is picture thought I am sharing...
This is Mrs. Wilson and I on my wedding day! She will be missed greatly!
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Let's talk about that really quick. So we are scheduled to go down January 2015 (that's the earliest available). My mom and I will fly down with Ben and I'll stay the first two week of therapy then Jeremy will come down and I'll go home - we'll sort of trade off - and he'll stay the last week of therapy with Ben and fly home with him. It would be fabulous if we could all go down as a family of four for three weeks and enjoy the time together but we can't take that time off work so this is what works for us and we are counting our blessings for it!
So right now airfare is kind of ridic. Since it's a ways out I'm hoping prices will come down. I still need to look into the extended stay places down there. I'm hoping to just rent a car on the weekends and walk or use public transportation during the week.
My amazing friend Kelly has AMAZING daughters who wanted to have a bake sale in conjunction with our garage sale for Ben. Isn't that the sweetest thing you've ever heard in your entire life? So they made all sorts of baked goods and set up a table and sold the heck out of them!
Miss Riley in charge of the sale
[Hot Mama] Kelly
Hayden (who wasn't a huge fan of getting her picture taken)
My mom hosted a Scentsy basket party and the consultant, my cousin Jeannie, donated her commission to Ben's trip as well! Super sweet and who doesn't love Scentsy?!
We also have had a few people ask if they could just give a donation and we have decided to say yes to that. So we set up a youcaring.com page that can be found here.
We also welcome all prayers just as much, if not more, than any donations. It means the world to know y'all are thinking about our family and praying for everything to go well for Ben!


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