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Cartilage Surgery Specialist Dr Kniffler
Treatment Focus
- Joint-preserving conservative and surgical therapies
- Innovative joint-preserving osteoarthritis therapy
- Modern interventions to regenerate cartilage in knee and ankle
- Ligament-plasty at the knee
- Diseases of the kneecap (patella)
- Endoprosthetics of the knee joint
Medical Range
Range of Diagnostic Services
- Imaging diagnostics: Digital X-ray, sonography
- Bone densitometry: For osteoporosis, DXA method (calculation of mineral content using X-ray radiation)
- 3D spine measurement: To analyse body statics and spine
- Determination of final body height: Calculation of expected body height once growth is complete by means of X-ray image of the left hand
- Cross-section imaging: Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are available at the Kelkheim Health Centre.
Range of Therapeutic Services
Joint-Preserving Conservative Therapies
- Disburdening therapy using orthoses and insoles
- Injection therapy utilizing endogenous, conditioned plasma (PRP) and hyaluronic acid
- Injection therapy using endogenous fragmented adipose tissue
- Coolief radiofrequency therapy for treating knee pain
- MBST – MRI resonance therapy to stimulate cartilage regeneration
- Extracorporeal shockwave therapy for muscle and tendon pain
- Cryotherapy for reducing pain and eliminating swelling conditions
- Physical therapy for swelling and pain relief
- Kinesio taping, classic taping, immobilising bandages and splints
- Recommendations for diet, behaviours, training and home exercises
Joint-Preserving Surgical Therapies
- Joint-preserving minimally invasive surgery on the knee joint
- Meniscus and cruciate ligament surgery
- Stabilising operations on the kneecap (MPFL reconstructions)
- Modern regenerative cartilage methods such as minced cartilage (autologous cartilage chips) with matrix application
- Matrix-associated autologous chondrocyte transplantation MACT (autologous cartilage cell transplantation)
- Osteochondral transplants OCT (cartilage bone transplantation)
- Bone graft reconstructions of the knee and ankle joints
- Osteotomies near the knee joint to correct the mechanical axis
- Subchondroplasty (filling painful bone cysts under the cartilage)
Joint Replacement Surgery
- Individual endoprosthetics on the knee joint with modern implants under navigation
- Partial joint replacement such as unicompartmental knee replacement, insertion of mini-implants, and isolated replacement of the kneecap joint
- Complex replacement of endoprostheses of the knee joint under navigation
About Dr/Univ. Libre de Bruxelles Heino Kniffler
Dr/Univ. Libre de Bruxelles Heino Kniffler is a specialist in cartilage surgery and co-owner of the orthopaedic clinic at the Kelkheim Health Centre.
For the physician in holistic preservation and restoration of the musculoskeletal system and his team, the patient is the center of activity and they proficiently accompany him or her on his way to active health.
Professional qualifications: Specialist in Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr Heino Kniffler is not only a specialist in orthopaedics, he is also educated in special orthopaedic surgery. With his broad knowledge and experience, he and his team symbolize optimal patient care in the Rhine-Main area.
Area of Specialisation: Modern Treatment of Cartilage Damage and Osteoarthritis
Dr Kniffler and his team cater to the individual needs of patients and offer innovative treatment methods with a special focus on joint preservation. Depending on the size, location and degree of the joint damage, and taking into consideration the patients' requirements in relation to his/her joint, individually tailored cartilage therapy can be offered. This service is possible due to the broad range of conservative and surgical treatment spectrum of the practice clinic.
PRP therapy (platelet-rich plasma): Numerous Application Areas
The so-called PRP method is considered to be particularly gentle and promising, because it is treated with the human body's own growth factors. In PRP therapy, the body's own platelet-rich plasma is injected into the affected joint. This substance contains growth factors which initiate self-healing and regenerative processes in the injected area. These promising therapies, the PRP therapy just mentioned here and, in addition, the so-called hyaluronic acid therapy (Improvement of the visco-elastic properties of the diseased tissue) have numerous applications. For example, after cartilage operations, such as micro-fracturing, mosaicplasty or autologous chondrocyte transplantation, these healing methods are implied. Even after surgery on tendons like cruciate ligament, Achilles tendon or rotator cuff injuries, the treatments promise great success as tissue regeneration is stimulated and homeostasis in the joint improves.
Autologous Fat Transplantation
AMFAT (autologous micro-fragmented adipose tissue) therapy with Lipogems® is an innovative therapy in which the body's own fat is processed, micro-fragmented, purified and concentrated in a closed system. The liquid thus obtained is then injected into the affected joint. When applying this biological treatment, physicians take advantage of the fact that there are 500 to 1000 times more active, reparative cells (mesenchymal stem cells) in adipose tissue processed with this technique than there are found in the same quantity of bone marrow. Immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects occur in the damaged joint treated with Lipogems. Different growth factors are released, initiating repair processes and restoring homeostasis (metabolic balance) in the joint. The processed adipose tissue acts like a biological reactor in the joint, reducing inflammation and initiating regenerative processes which support the body's own healing powers and protect the cartilage from further damage.
Cartilage Surgery: Progress or Stage Depending
Cartilage is a nerve-free tissue that is not supplied through the blood and therefore, is not capable of regeneration. This means, once cartilage damage has occurred, it cannot reverse or heal itself and keeps deteriorating. Leaving the condition untreated, full-depth cartilage damage leads to the development of premature joint degeneration, in other words to osteoarthritis. Deep cartilage damage usually requires surgery. Only then, a natural healing process can be evoked to restore the joint function. Depending on the size, location, and degree of joint damage, various procedures are available.
For small cartilage damage, the so-called micro- or now called nano-fracturing method is performed arthroscopically. It is a drilling into the bone lamella adjacent to the cartilage. Better results are now achieved with the additional application of a matrix. These cell-free implants serve as placeholders. They migrate into the cartilage cells and form regenerated cartilage.
If the cartilage damage is slightly greater or the underlying bone is damaged, cartilage bone cylinders can be embedded into the defective area from a peripheral zone.
Large articular cartilage defects can be successfully reconstructed biologically by means of cartilage cell transplantation. Here, autologous cartilage cells are removed from the body, grown in a special laboratory, and then implanted in the affected joint. This allows a hyaline, or hyaline-like, articular cartilage to once again grow, filling the defective area and possessing all the properties of the original cartilage.
Today's modern methods are called matrix-associated autologous chondrocyte transplantations (MACT). It is important to note that concomitant injuries such as ligament instabilities, dislocation of the kneecap, and misalignments of the leg axis (X-leg or O-leg) must be treated concurrently in order to successfully proceed with cartilage therapy.
Curriculum Vitae
|1979 – 1986
|Studied Human Medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
|1986 – 1990
|Training at the Surgical Clinic of the Städtischen Krankenanstalt (Municipal Hospital) in Cologne-Holweide, Cologne
|1990 – 1994
|Specialist training at the Orthopaedic Clinic of St. Franziskus Hospital, Cologne
|1994 – 1997
|Leading Senior Physician and Deputy Chief Physician at the Orthopaedic Clinic of the Bundesknappschafts Krankenhaus (Federal Miners' Hospital) in Püttlingen/Saar
|1997 – 2005
|Established orthopaedist in Kelkheim/Taunus, in-patient physician
|2005 – present
|Resident orthopaedist in the orthopaedic clinic of Dr Kniffler, Dr Richter and Carsten Dehler at the Kelkheim Health Centre.
Professional qualifications:
|Specialist in orthopaedics
|Sub-specialisation in rheumatology
|Facultative further education: special orthopaedic surgery
Additional areas of qualification:
Sports medicine, chirotherapy, osteology, special pain therapy, specialist for accidental occupational injuries
Medical Team
- Carsten Dehler
Co-owner of the practice
for orthopaedics, chirotherapy, emergency medicine and sports medicine
- Dr Klaus-Wolfgang Richter
Employed doctor
Specialist in orthopaedics, chirotherapy and sports medicine
Othopaedics / Cartilage Surgery
Frankenalle 1, D-65779 Kelkheim
|Kelkheim railway station
|1 km
|Frankfurt/Main central station
|20 km
|Frankfurt/Main airport
|25 km
|Mainz airport
|60 km
Information About Frankfurt
Frankfurt is one of the most important financial centres in Germany and Europe. With its skyscrapers unique in Europe, Frankfurt rises above the Main on an area of approximately 243 square kilometres and at its centre accommodates about 700.000 inhabitants. Frankfurt was officially mentioned for the first time in 794 and played a decisive role during the imperial age. Much of the city was destroyed by bombing in World War II by the Allies. The historic old town, however, is preserved, just as its culturally important role in Europe. Today the old town is a tourist magnet that repeatedly attracts visitors from all over the world.
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>> Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Ok, so when I began thinking about this post the title immediately popped into my head. Anyone know what song it's from? The first person to tell me gets a bunch of candy... We have so much from Easter, Valentine's, Christmas... And I want it gone! (Sorry, but no Godiva chocolate bunnies will be sacrificed for this contest.)
Anyway, when we returned from Ireland I felt like I had gained 10 pounds. I didn't step on the scale so it may have been more. But I felt blah, icky, sluggish... You name it, I felt it.
So when I saw the commercials for the show on TLC, I Can Make You Thin I figured I would watch it, just to see what's what.
And it's still sitting on TiVo. But I did see a portion of the first episode which seems to be about how you eat. I saw a bit about eating whatever you want but only eating when you are hungry.
How many of us actually allow ourselves to get hungry? I didn't. So today, while the girls had lunch, I cleaned a bit. I wasn't hungry for lunch until almost 3pm. So I ate then.
Another bit I saw was about the pace you eat. He suggested putting down your knife and fork after every bite and chewing your food completely, savoring it, before taking another bite. This way you can actually feel when you are full sooner and not over eat. I ate slower last night but didn't feel any signals to stop and finished my meal. But it wasn't a huge meal- just a boneless pork chop and asparagus, so I may not have overeaten.
I suppose we'll see how long I can stick with these concepts. I've tried so many things over the years (food diary, counting points, calories, etc) and I just don't want to have to "work" so hard at it. This doesn't feel like it will be too hard; more like re-learning what your body feels like and recognizing it's signals.


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Last month I updated you briefly about some changes within our agency. The short of it is that they have recently lost some case managers and are currently not making any new placements. We are not sure when that will change, but for the time being, we wait.
We have a room across the hall that is also waiting. We had to have a ready room in order to do our home study back in May, so it is filled with a crib, changing table, rocking chair, and space for a bed if we end up getting a sibling group. When we learned that our agency was not making any new placements, I began wondering if we shouldn't do something in the meantime. We have room in our hearts and home and there is such a need for foster parents. I asked Mark what he thought of doing short-term foster care while we wait. (I was pretty sure he'd say no.) Of course when I asked him, he said, "That's exactly what I've been thinking we should do." Oh.
We cleared it with our agency-- would that be okay, if we do some short-term foster or respite care in the meantime, while they are experiencing this slowdown?-- and our contact there said that was fine. So we made the necessary phone calls and got our names on the list. The state told us at the time that they are "desperate" for such families and were so thankful we were willing. That was a month ago. They made it sound like our phone would be ringing off the hook, but we haven't had any calls.
This morning that changed.
A placement coordinator from the state (not our agency) called to ask us if we'd be willing to take in a 14-month old baby girl. They knew very little about her, really, except that her mother was a drug addict and had been in and out of treatment. She was asked to leave her current treatment center, apparently because she wasn't abiding by the no-drugs policy. The facility she had been at was one in which she had her baby with her. Now that she'd been kicked out, the state had decided to remove this little girl from her mother. They wanted to know... could we take her on Monday? She mentioned that this was a girl who would not likely be returned to her mother so we would have her awhile. (Think: months.) When I asked about the little girl, she gave me her name and said she was Caucasian, but that was all the information she had.
I wondered immediately why on earth I didn't have a manual to consult for this type of thing. I felt so unprepared for this. What questions should I even be asking right now? I came up with a few, told her I needed to speak with Mark about it, and asked her if I could call her back within the next hour or so.
And then I prayed. And as I prayed, I kept thinking:How could we NOT take this little girl in? We have a stable, secure, loving home to offer her and that's exactly what she needs. We can take good care of this girl and pray over her little self while she's in our home.
I called my mom and asked her to pray.
I made a phone call to a friend of mine in town who has fostered several children and asked her for her thoughts. I told her the situation and she said before I'd barely uttered a sentence, "Take her. If you don't, we will."
Mark came home for lunch and I told him about it. He wanted to call our agency to run it by them to be sure they were okay with us accepting this placement. We did, our agency placement coordinator said to go for it.
We talked with the kids about it over lunch. We told them there was a little baby girl whose mama was very sick and we were asked to watch her while her mama gets well or until another family could adopt her. Ella shouted "YES!" with utter joy, Isaac wanted to know if the baby would be here "all day", Isaias told us he wasn't going to be shy. (?) "Okay...", Mark said, "but are you going to be gentle and loving?" He assured us that he would be.
We called the state back and said we were willing to take her. We were told we would hear from the social worker sometime on Monday and that arrangements would be made for her to come to us sometime that day.
Ella promptly got up from the table to go "clean up the baby's room". It has become a playroom of sorts, so she busied herself cleaning up the extra toys, changing the sheets on the crib, laying out pink blankets everywhere, and making things all cozy for the new baby. (Note: this was all her own doing. I didn't ask her to do a thing. This is just my Ella. She was absolutely beside herself with happiness. And of course, needed to be doing something.) She came in a little while later to ask how to spell the baby's name. I wasn't sure, but guessed, and she carefully copied it down.
After a couple of hours, she had that room looking well-prepared for the new baby. She'd carried in every baby toy we own, and removed anything that wasn't baby. This little sign was carefully taped over the crib:
And how dear is that? "Soon you will go home but I love you so much."
While Ella did her thing, I spent time on the phone with Amy, hearing about their lives since I spoke with her on Tuesday: all of them got the stomach flu (poor sweet tired mama who ended up getting it herself!), and talking about this new turn of events in our lives.
The phone rang again a little before 3:00. It was the woman who'd called us initially about the baby girl. She said, "Guess what? We won't need you to take her after all."
I was sort of stunned. WHAT?
I managed to ask what had happened and she told me that they're doing this new thing now where they have one final "family meeting" and during that final meeting they decided to let the mom keep her baby. Apparently she'll go to a different treatment center and they (I'm not sure who "they" is. The social worker? The court?) decided to let her take the baby with her. So. End of conversation.
I walked, heartsick, to the living room and called Ella over, breathing a prayer for help as she came towards me. And then I told her, gently. "Honey? That was the lady who called about the baby girl. She said baby "L" doesn't need to come and stay at our house anymore." Ella looked stunned and I saw such sorrow in her eyes. I said, "I know that makes you sad, sweetheart." And as soon as I said that she wept. Loud, heart-wrenching sobs, crying, "l want her to still come. I wanted to take care of her. I wanted a baby." Me too, honey.
So I held her on my lap and we cried together. And then we prayed together. For her heart, for my heart, and for this baby "L". By then Isaac had joined us with questions and concern for his weepy girls.
So, that was our day. A bit of an emotional roller coaster.
Ella is doing okay, now. And me? I'm okay, too. A jolting introduction to the world of foster care. (Could they not have waited to call us until AFTER that final meeting?)
And we continue to wait...
[For anyone who would like to catch up.] Our process, so far:
February 2007: A New Journey
May 2007: Update, Our Home Study visit, Found
August 2007: August adoption update
September 2007: September Adoption Update: Part 1, September Adoption Update: Part 2
December 2007: December notes
January 2008: January adoption update
32 comments:
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Psalm 94: 18 When I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O LORD, supported me.19 When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul.ReplyDelete
Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases
Proverbs 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Lamentations 3: 37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
It is in times like these that we get to teach our children how to take their thoughts captive and nake the obedient to truth. For truth alone brings joy in the midst of pain. And only those who know how to use truth will be able to withstand the firey darts of doubt that the evil one throws at us. He wants us to doubt that our God is in control and that His plan cannot be thwarted.
truth is...the government is not in control God alone is. He didn't wait because He is filling your heart with faith as you wait for the nursery to be filled. And our faith grows with you as you share with us. How blessed we are by your faith.
1 Peter 1:7
These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
your friend,
Tami Rutledge
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2008 at 11:54 PM
Oh my dear one.....ReplyDelete
Oh, Stacy! Poor Ella's heart and yours too. I'll keep praying for you guys. He has a plan for you and the children he has coming to you.ReplyDelete
Hope your Saturday is peaceful and comforting.
Blessings my friend.
I found you through Still His Girl. I read this post and I feel so badly for you guys. What a let down. I am sure that God has a child in store for you that will be a perfect fit. I am so impressed that you are opening your home to foster children. Just what Jesus would do!ReplyDelete
- homeskoolmomFebruary 9, 2008 at 6:27 AM
So sorry for your roller coaster ride yesterday and disappointment.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately, what you experienced is not uncommon. It seems that the state (and that's about any state system) rarely thinks through things and everyone suffers.
God bless,
Dearest Stacy,ReplyDelete
I'm sorry - that must be SO hard!
What a sweet heart Ella has. You are teaching her such wonderful things.
saying a prayer for your family and also for baby L.
Oh my. What can I say? All I know is God has a Plan. My heart is breaking for you all. I can't even imagine. Just know I'm praying!ReplyDelete
Stacy, I am praying for you all. Have a blessed weekend. Love, TamiReplyDelete
praying for you my dear friend.ReplyDelete
Oh... thank you for your heart to love this little girl. I know God is so honored by that. Praying for your family.ReplyDelete
I can't even imagine the heart ache and roller coasters :( When we decided to adopt, we went with international adoption so that we wouldn't have as many ups and downs as the state. But my heart still longs to care for one or more children like those I see every day in my low-income school who need someone to love them...ReplyDelete
Thank you, sweet friends, for your encouragement.ReplyDelete
I know that God knows *exactly* what He is doing.
And Tami, you are so right. It has been a wonderful opportunity for Ella to simply *trust God*. She has brought it up only a couple of times, and each time we have been able to say, "Sweetheart, God knows and sees so much more than we do. He makes the wisest decisions." And that really is enough for her.
And for us, too.
Love to all of you,
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Sweet friend, What a blessing you are. Your faith is a sweet aroma to the Lord, a tribute to His power at work in you! Thank you for sharing. We are blessed!ReplyDelete
Colossians 1: 3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints— 5the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven.
With great joy!
Tami Rutledge
Wow. First, I am so glad you decided to do this! I am learning that it is really tough (but that's okay!)ReplyDelete
We got our call on a Tuesday afternoon and they brought her THAT evening...with nothing but what she had on! They, too, couldn't give us a lot of info.
They are meeting in court Monday and I will know better how long we might have her...it is looking like it will be the "months" and not the "weeks".
I will be praying that God will bring exactally the child He wants in your home!
Oh, sweet Stacy. I am so sorry. I'm crying for you and tender little Ella. It just wouldn't hurt quite so much if your little girl wasn't hurting so much, I bet.ReplyDelete
He knows the plans He has for you! I can't wait to find out what they are. :)
Btw, you are awfully good at taking us on the same roller coaster ride when you write. Ugh.
Love you so. Thanks for your email, too. I printed it out for to take with me today. Could it have been any more accurate??
Continuing to pray that the Lord will put just the right little one(s) in your family in His time.ReplyDelete
Hi Stacy :) A willing heart - what can the Father not do with that? Still looking forward with you with great hope (and joy!).ReplyDelete
What a precious chapter to add to the story of the life of your family - love and joy and preparing and ready, open hearts.
I am praying with you and for you. And sending hugs with love, Q
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Hi Stacy,ReplyDelete
This happened to us about six or seven times before we got our little boys. I had actually just called our agency to tell them we didn't want to do this anymore, because I was so tired of the roller coaster. A week later we got a call. Would we please take these boys? We promise they will come to you if you take them. So we did and here we are 2 years later with two little boys (and now their five siblings) who were only supposed to be with us for a few months. All this after about a year of up and downs. This doesn't make it easier except that I hope it helps to see at least one story of where we have begun to see the bigger picture of what God had in store. Blessings and comfort to you.
Stacy, I'm so sorry you had to go through this. I'm praying for your family and for healing for sweet Ella's heart.ReplyDelete
I am thankful that now we all know how to pray for dear little Baby "L", and her mother as well. May God bring redemption to this situation as He answers the prayers of His faithful ones on behalf of this little girl.
I'm so sorry for this letdown. There are so many things wrong with "the system", and I so wish I knew how to make an impact on ANY of it. Your children have the most precious hearts - you are doing such a wonderful job raising them.
Foster care! What an adventure! Bless you for doing that. It's not easy but it's so important.
We did respite care for a pair of brothers for one long weekend before Sam came home (our first parenting experience!)
I can't wait to see what God has in store for your family. GREAT THINGS, no doubt!
Oh Stacy;
My heart aches with you and Ella-stand your ground and know that God indeed does have a plan. He is able and faithful to complete the good work to which He has called you.
Wish I could hold you and tell you that I love you.
Know that I am praying for you and your family.
So sorry-keep your heart soft and know that many are holding you up.
mama to 6
one homemade and 5 adopted
Unbelievable. I can't imagine what you guys felt because as I was reading it, I felt like I was on an emotional r'coaster! And that's just ME!!ReplyDelete
God knows though. And I pray he uses this to prime your heartpump in preparation for what HE has just around the corner. HUGS!
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Oh Stacy your post made me cry. What a sweet sister Ella is and what a tender heart! I pray that God will send you another baby very soon!!ReplyDelete
I am just reading this Sunday evening, thinking the whole time that you have to be so excited for tommorrow morning to come...and then...that awful call! I am so, so sorry, my heart aches for all of you. I will keep you in my prayers.
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2008 at 6:52 PM
I'm so sorry. That about had me crying- for joy and then sadness. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.ReplyDelete
How are you today?? Lots of love and lots of prayers!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2008 at 9:16 PM
What I'm thinking right now is how God used this experience, though so hard for your family, to quickly open your hearts in love to two perfect strangers - a little girl and her drug-addicted mommy - both of whom need intense prayer intercession right now. So even though this little baby girl isn't physically in your home, God has placed her in your hearts... and for a reason. Though you can't bless her through tangible care, you can still bless her in the spiritual realm (and her mother too) through prayers she may otherwise not have received. The Lord chose you and your family to make room not in your home, but in your hearts for her. Her life will still be positively impacted by you guys, just not in the way you expected. Your family's prayers on her behalf are POWERFUL and EFFECTIVE. (James 5:16) So sorry for your heartache, but so thankful for the evident work of our faithful God. He is using you!
Love and hugs as always to you and your precious ones,
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2008 at 6:40 AM
Oh ((Stacy))ReplyDelete
My heart aches for you..and I'm praying for you..
Oh, my. Just reading this post was an emotional roller-coaster... Ella's sweet note to Baby L had me in tears, and then when I got to the end and read that you weren't getting the baby, my heart sank down to my feet. I can't imagine what living through that day must have been like! Sweet Ella... give her a hug for me. We'll keep praying that God will send you those little ones whom He has set apart for you.ReplyDelete
Oh wow... I found your blog thru?? I don't know, I was surfing.ReplyDelete
Anyway, what a beautiful story, so precious. How sweet your Ella is. I will be back..
Oh Stacy - sweet friend - I didn't read this until now. What a day the Lord has brought your family through. What a precious glimpse into the heart of your Ella. Her note was about the most sweet thing I've read in a while.ReplyDelete
Stacy, sometimes it is hard to understand why - but I know that you are resting in your Lord. My heart is going out to you, dear friend. I will be on my knees for you and family, in fact - Lena and I will pray right now.
I just "stumbled" across your page in my blog surfing and cried crocodile tears when I read your post. Isn't it funny how you can feel a kindred spirit with someone you've never met sometimes? My dh and I no longer take in foster kids (with baby #5 on the way we've decided our hands are rather full, and fostering life was an emotional roller coaster) but I feel a kindred spirit to you in so many ways. Blessings and joy from the Father of lights.ReplyDelete
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text: Bakenskraal's children dream of life away from the farmlands Tammy Petersen, News24 SHARE THIS 2016-07-13 21:42 Oudtshoorn - About 5km from Oudtshoorn, Bakenskraal is a dozen isolated farm homes a few metres from the busy George Road.It is home to several generations of farmworkers and their children who long to find jobs and live out their dreams. This tiny community is offering their vote to any party that will invest in job creation and youth skills development so their children can make it off the farm and into the job market.Magrieta Manuel, 52, says it breaks her heart to see her two daughters, aged 25 and 22, battle to find employment.Both completed their matric with marks of above 70%. Despite their impressive reports, they are still unable to get into the workplace."I refuse to see my literate, intelligent and talented children spend their best years working on a farm. They didn't walk 10km to school for years to have to settle for that," the feisty housewife says from the front gate of her house.Magrieta Manuel outside her Bakenskraal home. (Tammy Petersen, News24)She worked in the kitchen of the home of a local farmer for 21 years. She dreams of her children finding work which will see them live comfortable lives in homes of their own."I am disappointed with how things turned out. I promised them that good things waited for them when they brought home good reports at the end of their school year. But it is turning into a promise I can't keep."Her youngest daughter Kaylene is in Grade 11 and attends a special needs school."If life is so hard for my older girls, what will it be like for her?"Education is not enoughManuel was born on the farm and is the daughter of farmworkers. She started working as a teenager after leaving school to earn a living to support her family."We don't live in those days anymore. Today, education is supposed to be everything, but even that doesn't seem to be enough. Even domestic worker jobs nowadays require references. How do you get that when no one wants to give your children a chance?"Many farmworkers' children have turned to begging and living on the streets to escape the frustrations of farm life, Manuel says."Others have turned to crime. We are too scared to walk to town because they rob us when we cross the bridge. They take everything, even your bags of groceries."She doesn't blame them. "Desperation makes you do bad things. But these are healthy people with so much potential. Why isn't more done to empower them and create opportunities so that they can support themselves? Where is the government when it's time to act on their employment commitments after election promises?""Opportunities are scarce"Two doors away, Isabella "Meisie" Jansen, 59, proudly shows off photos of her five children at their matric balls.Only one of them managed to make it to the city and become a professional, she says, proudly dusting a photo of her daughter after she completed her nursing diploma."My other children have moved away because there are no opportunities for them here. My grandson lives with me and works on the farm out of desperation to earn something," she says.While she misses her sons and daughters, Jansen doesn't blame her children for moving from the Little Karoo town."Opportunities are scarce. In my day it was easy to find a job. I raised my children with my husband, who drove the tractor on the farm while I picked vegetables for a living. But as a parent, you want better for your children.Isabella "Meisie" Jansen. (Tammy Petersen, News24)"They completed their schooling expecting to find jobs and start earning their keep. Life didn't work like that for them. It was sad to see them so discouraged, so I had to let them go."According to the Statistics SA, in 2011 Oudtshoorn had a population of 95 933 with 64.2% of working age (15-64). It had an unemployment rate of 25.3% according to the census. Jansen said she misses the opportunities available when she was young."Yes, I am glad apartheid is over. Our freedom is important. But in those years at least we had work. What is the use of freedom when poverty and a lack of opportunity keeps you trapped in dead-end situations?"- Find everything you need to know about the 2016 Local Government Elections at our News24 Elections site, including the latest news and detailed, interactive maps for how South Africa has voted over the past 3 elections, or download the app for iOS and Android. - News24 SHARE THIS Read more on: george | local elections 2016 | education


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Moonilal questions claims of missing CEPEP documents
Roodal Moonilal
Former Housing Minister and Oropouche East MP Dr. Roodal Moonilal has raised questions over claims made by CEPEP Chairman Ashton Ford that expenditure records for the period 2013 to 2015, amounting to more than $1.5 billion in funds have gone missing.
Ford made the claim after former Government Minister Devant Maharaj called for an investigation into a recording circulating on social media, in which two people, believed to be Government officials are allegedly heard colluding over 'CEPEP contracts.
Speaking at a media conference at the Office of the Opposition Leader on Sunday, the Oropouche East MP claimed CEPEP's audited accounts for the period in question were presented to the Public Accounts Enterprises Committee of Parliament.
He said the documents can be found on the Parliament website.
"You cannot have a document like this if you're missing information. If you're missing information on $1.5 billion or so, if you're missing information on contractors, all the records and so on, you cannot have audited independent financial statements like this which went to the parliament and which the parliament accepted," the Oropouche East MP said.
Moonilal also claimed that an audit of CEPEP was done by Hardys and Associates.
He further questioned timing of the claims made my Ford, suggesting that the allegations were made to distract from recording circulating on social media.
Meanwhile, the Oropouche East MP also claimed that the whistle-blower who released the recording of the government officials discussing CEPEP contracts has more information.
"We now have more information from the source, the whistle-blower that goes beyond CEPEP. We have had some indication that the whistle-blower in question has information linking high government officials to reputed gangs. The whistle-blower in question has information linking a government minister to a bribery scandal involving a shopping mall."
He has called on police to provide the whistle-blower with protection.
It has been reported that the whistle-blower has gone into hiding after receiving death threats.
"I won't explain but that is also emerging and if that has any merit at all I would also like to call upon the police to act swiftly to secure and protect the individual in question."
Ford also denied the suggestion that the CEPEP board's announcement of the missing documents was being used to distract from the issue of the leaked recording discussing the award of contracts.
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Hi friends! Long time no talk! Hope everyone has been doing well and having a relaxing summer! Want to know whats NOT relaxing? Traveling with two small children… Going on vacation with an almost 3 year old sassy girl and a 4 month old baby is NO JOKE. The packing process alone started an entire week before we even left, but i'll save all that for another post. Want to know what IS relaxing, however? Boothbay Harbor Maine….
You guys. If you haven't been to Maine.. you HAVE to put it on your bucket list. Everywhere we went was SO beautiful, with colorful flowers and the deepest green trees, the people were SO nice and friendly and the weather was amazing (we're talkin' no humidity, low 70s, breezy and sunny… literally a dream coming from Florida in September.)
We were fortunate enough to stay in the sweetest little town of Boothbay Harbor, in the cottages associated with the Boothbay Harbor Oceanside Golf Resort. So, theres the main hotel thats on the bay with a boat dock etc, and then there are several cottages that you can stay in that are more like little houses and are more centrally located to the downtown area. Our cottage was literally everything I wish my own house was. It had recently been completely re-modeled, and they did a BEAUTIFUL job. Granite countertops, all new appliances.. heated bathroom floors (uh.. what?!) a beautiful wooden balcony overlooking the bay, and the whole bottom floor was an awesome outdoor area with a jacuzzi, couches and tv. It was like having the comfort of staying in your own home but with the amenities and beauty of a hotel.
We were in Boothbay for a full week so having the comfort of staying in the cottage was really great. Harper got her own room and bathroom, and Hayes stayed in our room in a pack and play that the hotel provided. We also didn't have a rental car so staying downtown and being able to walk to everything like the grocery store and restaurants was huge.
Boothbay Harbor is a very small little town but gosh is it beautiful. I couldn't get over how beautiful the flowers were and how much care everyone put into their landscaping. Everywhere you looked there was a quaint bed and breakfast, or local candy store.. or my personal favorite: the local coffee shop (insert heart eye emoji here) If you guys followed along on my instagram story you would have seen that my obsession with the Red Cup Coffee Shop was REAL. I even got Stephen hooked on ice lattes (who previously wouldn't even TRY mine.) We went there once (usually twice) a day.. and uhh side note- their homemade chocolate chip cookies were to die for.
The local chocolate shop, Orne's also somehow got two pounds of their chocolate into our kitchen.. not so sure how THAT happened.. but it was gone in 5 days, whoops! We spent most of our days hanging around the cottage in the morning- either making our own breakfast with groceries we got from the store, or walking across the footbridge to have breakfast at the hotel… doing a quick workout or going for a run. Then we would come back for naptime, and then go walk around the town exploring the little shops, or looking at all the boats. As much as we wanted to try all the restaurants for dinner…5pm is always the kids crazy time and trying to contain Harper quietly in a high chair is never a good idea so we stuck to getting takeout or cooking our own dinner (which saved a ton of money AND kept us pretty healthy.)
One of my favorite things was after the kids were both asleep, having a glass of wine and some chocolate all cozied up in the most amazing robe while sitting on the balcony watching the tide go out… seriously so relaxing.
One of the perks of staying off-site from the hotel is that you can still use their shuttle service to take you to the country club to use the fitness center/pool/tennis courts/restaurants. We took the shuttle to the pool and had SUCH a great time. Harper quickly made friends with some of the local girls which was so cute to see, and they ALL were obsessed with Hayes (duh.) What I thought was so cool about the pool was that they had a whole bin of toys for kids to play with… noodles, frisbees, beach balls etc. So it was super kid friendly which was nice for being such an upscale country club.
The fitness center was completely remodeled as well and had all the cardio equipment, weights, med balls, TRX that you would need- all while overlooking the most beautiful outdoors with huge green trees, and flowers… I know I keep talking about the flowers but until you see it for yourself its hard to explain how beautiful it was.
We were also lucky enough to get to take a boat ride all around the Bay and see all of the islands, and houses around. We were hoping to see some seals or whales (the group after us got to see a whale!) but the tide was a little too high I guess. The boat was amazing and Harper LOVED it. It was really cool to see a different perspective of the Harbor where we were staying and hear some of the history of the surrounding islands.
Our last adventure while we were there was going to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. IT was maybe a 5 minute ride outside of where we were staying but it felt like you were hundreds of miles away. It was ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. Rolling hills with tall green trees, and all different colored flowers (again with the flowers.. I know.. I sound obnoxious but you just won't get it til ya see it.) The childrens garden was my favorite. There were 3 different gardens for the kids; a little house with a pretend kitchen, one with books and puzzles, and one with chickens and little farm things. Trying to get Harper to leave the childrens garden was top 5 hardest things we've had to do haha.
On our last day, we just relaxed in the cottage cleaning up, packing and did some of our favorite things: we went and got an iced latte and some chocolate from the little shops.. and we even braved having dinner outside at the hotel. I'm glad we did because it was my favorite meal and since we sat outside Harper had a little more freedom to run around.
I feel like I could go on and on about our trip.. about how beautiful it was and about how nice everyone was..and I truly hope to make Boothbay Harbor a yearly vacation for our family.
Where are your favorite family vacation spots??


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Myanmar to rejoin UNWTO
Published on May 14, 2012
Reforming country's president commits to "smokeless" tourism development following meeting with Taleb Rifai...
Myanmar has announced plans to rejoin the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The country's President, U Thein Sein, announced the move during an official visit to Myanmar by the UNWTO's Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, who said the UNWTO would support Myanmar's eff orts to develop its tourism industry. "Myanmar is a country abundant in natural and cultural resources; the foundation of any tourism sector," said Rifai. "Following talks with the Minister of Hotels, Tourism & Sport, U Tint San, UNWTO will lend its expertise in a number of areas, ranging from capacity-building to sustainable tourism practices and travel facilitation, to responsibly develop tourism for the benefi t of all." President Sein said that tourism should be considered a "smokeless industry" and one that "boosts growth, creates job opportunities, conserves the environment and helps to maintain traditional arts and crafts". "Given the political support for tourism demonstrated today, Myanmar is set to significantly enhance its tourism sector over the coming years," said Rifai. "At the same time, the international community has been greatly encouraged by recent reforms in Myanmar and this will no doubt be reflected in an increasing numbers of tourists." According to offi cial data, tourist arrivals at Myanmar's main air gateway, Yangon International Airport, exceeded 359,000 in 2011, but this fi gure is expected to surge to 1.5 million in 2012. Myanmar also recently announced plans to reintroduce visa-on-arrival facilities at Yangon airport. The UNWTO's long-term forecast shows that international tourist arrivals to Asia Pacifi c will increase from 204 million in 2010 to 535 million in 2030. "Asia and the Pacifi c is the future powerhouse of global tourism and Myanmar is in a strategic position to receive a signifi cant share of these arrivals," said Rifai.
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Perspectives — March 27-29, 2018
The implications of legalizing marijuana are serious and wide-ranging. Last week, the National Security and Defense Committee heard U.S. immigration lawyer Len Saunders, reminding senators that Canadians who admit to having used marijuana risk being banned for life from entering the United States even after marijuana becomes legal in Canada.
Last week, Minister Ralph Goodale appeared before the committee, giving senators the opportunity to ask questions regarding border laws. Senators expected that Minister Goodale would reassure Canadians. Unfortunately, he only committed to "working with the U.S. on this matter" after legalization has taken place. Senator Paul E. McIntyreasked the Minister why Canada hasn't secured assurances from the US to protect Canadians at the border. The Minister responded that he "doesn't know" if formal assurances or an agreement are a realistic request.
To have such blatant ambiguity at this late stage before C-45 becomes law is unacceptable. Is Minister Goodale forgetting that over $2 billion in goods and services are traded across the Canada-United States border every single day? In fact, according to Statistics Canada, in 2017 overnight trips to the US by Canadian increased to 20.2 million. Witness Lorne Waldman, who practices immigration law, noted that parents could also be held legally responsible if their minor children are found in possession of marijuana at the border.
Without assurances from the U.S, millions of Canadians could face the prospect of being legally barred from entering the U.S.
Canadians deserve clear answers from Minister Goodale before this bill becomes law.


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The moment when we are first MADE aware that there are good things and bad things is an incredibly trying time for us. Attempting to reconcile with such a confounding duality like good and bad is maddening. For starters: Why does bad even exist? Why can't things JUST be good? ALWAYS?!
Because we KNOW! Our knowledge of bad prevents us from being good. But there is no way for us NOT to know bad. Good and bad are relative. We can't have one without the other…
Or CAN we?
A comprehensive 'knowledge of good and evil' is an absolute answer to this perplexing question: "What IS good and what IS evil?" You can see why Eve was so 'tempted.' That is one juicy piece of information. What I find most divine about this part of the Genesis tale is its absurd irony.; overwhelmed with temptation she takes the bite and it turns out she was ALREADY good?! but there was no way for her to have known this until she was MADE aware that she took the bite which she wasn't 'supposed' to do?! Her true 'sin' here was her CURIOSITY. Oh, and we are ALL Eve. She's no outlier, so stop blaming her for everything (well, I take that back, it is 'kinda' all her fault1).
So……we ponder the concept of absolute moral duality and it never quite makes sense to us, but we're not quitters so we try our damnedest to force an understanding and it is this struggle that evolves into an intense, unrelenting awareness of relativity2 (read: 'the punishment'). We just don't GET good and evil. Speaking of which…
We may consider an individual like Adolf Hitler evil, but what ABOUT him is evil? Conversely, is there anything ABOUT him that is good? Why am I talking about a long-dead person in the present tense? Because he represents someTHING that STILL very much 'lives' WITH and WITHIN us. He has become a 'relative point of evil distinction' which we measure others against. Case in 'point:' I'm sure many of you have seen images like this…
…around the net. The implication is that Obama is 'bad.' Like REALLY, REALLY bad. But how does this phenomenon even work? When we see Hitler's face we 'see' bad BEFORE we see anyTHING else. But how does ANYONE—from a 10-year-old child, to a Holocaust survivor to YOU and ME—know just how bad someone or even someTHING is? In the case of Hitler, everything we consider evil about him (and others like him) is a THING, an ACTION, a PHYSICAL HAPPENING. Yes, thoughts precede these actions, but thoughts are actions TOO!!! The reasons we have for why we do what we do are a mess of relative diversity. Just things reacting to other things. Nothing's REALLY truly dense. No foundations. Just lies! ALWAYS lies.
Since there is no way for us to truly understand the nature of good and evil maybe we should just throw in the towel, chill with the obsessive need to force absolutes on every-damn-thing. But do we, by default, turn around and embrace the dizzying infinitely diverse dissonance that is relativity, which may be the thing that is screwing us out of realizing our unique, individual, NON-relative, absolute goodness? Relativity puts us in a place where nothing makes sense; a state of perpetual chaos. And it SEEMS so real, but since it's ALL relative NONE of it TRULY exists. It's JUST relative. In other words: Infinite relative diversity cancels out its diversity by being infinitely diverse. In other symbols: ∞ ÷ ∞ = 1.
This means we don't have to 'worry' about relativity. Matter of fact we can use it to our advantage…WITHOUT embracing it…
I think it's safe to say that many of us fear our deepest darkest secrets being revealed to strangers (or even people we know intimately). But what if the act of revelation in the face of INTENSE fear (possible public shaming) was tantamount to being, dare I say, Christ-LIKE? What if public revelation is an ACT that can TRULY save us? How much longer are we gonna shoot fear? Bomb it? Bodies fall, buildings crumble, but IT remains. Maybe it's time to do something different; let it all out. Free ourselves from the 'demon' of relativity by divorcing ourselves from the notion that we MUST be only ONE thing.
So what if you're confused about who you are. Let that be known…in all its idiosyncratic, confusing, contradictory glory. All those words by the way—are nothing but relationships! And since relationships are things that means there is nothing REALLY idiosyncratic, confusing or contradictory about idiosyncratic, confusing or contradictory (once again: ∞ ÷ ∞ = 1) therefore there is nothing really revelatory about your revelations???!!! You're just talking the shit OUT of you; purging nonsense that has plagued us for-fucking-ever. The only NEW thing about it is the fact that it is happening to YOU! Oh, and if your dirty laundry turns some folks off, so be it; if they don't like it they can simply delete you; it's not that hard.
Please do not fear the mythical language (savior, demon, Hitler) I've been using in this post. Truth is there's really nothing 'mythical' about it. It's actually the manifestation of some of the realest shit we know. Take demons for instance, which are kinda like artificially intelligent beings created by our fear (fear bots); and just like an aggressive spy-bot on your PC or an enemy AI bot in a first-person shooting game, their mission is to destroy…and their method of madness, their big bad weapon of mass destructive chaos is……shit talking. That's it! That's how they break us down. They're the internal, perpetually negative voice that has us thoroughly convinced we can't be BETTER. And I don't mean 'better' in a way relative to others, but relative to ourselves! But we can beat them. By letting them speak. By letting them show us who they really are. Which is full of shit. And all we gotta do to let 'em out is reveal! Get it all out of our systems. Cleanse our souls.
That's WAY too hard. Instead, let's just…
…talk shit about the people that are most frequently (and passively) passed in front of our faces. It is SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH easier to tattle on others…and a lot more fun too. One 'cool' thing about this talking-shit-about-lives-we-wouldn't-dare-live phenomenon is its inclusiveness; doesn't matter your race, sex, gender, religion or sexuality—we ALL seem to love talking shit…brutal shit too. But I get it. When we talk shit we get to play one of our favorite social games3: the At Least I'm Not game. The game where you find someone whose shit you believe is shittier than yours and shit on them…relentlessly… "Yeah, I may be fucked up, but at least I'm not THAT(!) fucked up.", then others hovering around your same At Least level rush to corroborate; which helps to ensure that the lot of you stay right where you socially are, and that is VERY important. You wanna maintain your level. You wanna stay as far away from Absolute Least as possible. Very few co-signers 'down' there. You'll be all by yourself 'down' there. But you know what?…
It might not be all that bad. You might be able to FINALLY get some REAL shit done.
1. The existence of women prevents men from being an absolute thing; so in a way she is responsible for his lack of moral perfection as he must now 'consider' another being. Another being who is like him, but VERY(?) different. He hasn't even figured out what the hell he's all about and now he's got this 'weaker' being (that is ONE thing he is CERTAIN of) claiming that SHE is the ONE who gave him LIFE?!
- "No way!!! It was 'a' HIM who gave me life. There is no mother of man, only a father! THE Father to be exact!!! An' he looks just fuckin' like me!"
Now if that ain't some interesting inadequacy-exposing shit. Also makes you wonder why we're so concerned with social media turning us into an army of narcissistic sociopaths, when many of our religions hinge on this very concept. Almost every religion posits that its male followers are chosen individuals who are just a mere step down from the God that created every-DAMN-thing that ever was and ever will be. Here's the fucked up part: They're ALL right! Every last one of 'em. Every last religion. But the women are VERY MUCH a part of the afterimage too. EveryTHING is.↩
2. 'an intense, unrelenting awareness of relativity' is essentially what THIS part of existence IS. Maybe there is an 'other life' that is devoid of such relative hang-ups. Another 'type' of awareness 'after' this one. Hmmmmmm…↩
3. Next time you're out at a crowded public place dial into some of the conversations going on around you. See how quickly you can determine what they are ABOUT. I bet the vast majority will be about people who are not there. I also bet that the remarks will be of a disapproving nature. ESPECIALLY if you happen to be at a place frequented by people on breaks from work…and THAT right there should tell you something…
- "Let me get away from this job I hate for a staggeringly brief moment to talk about the people I hate at said job with one or a few of the people I either like, kinda like or merely tolerate from said job…who will later become fodder for lunch break chats when they are not present. And yes, I know that I too will provide them with material when I am away, but hey, that's just the nature of the beast."
It is INCREDIBLY interesting how making and co-signing disparaging remarks about other people is perfectly 'okay,' 'normal,' but when someone strips themselves bare and reveals uncomfortable truths about THEMSELVES(!) we look on in horror. This is VERY telling. Perhaps we fear the confessor because we feel challenged by their boldness. We could NEVER see ourselves being so bold; hence the tinge of vicarious embarrassment we THINK we are feeling FOR them, but in reality we're feeling BECAUSE of them. It is a defense mechanism of sorts. We don't wanna go anywhere near 'there' even though we know that in order to free ourselves from the burden of fear (false limitations) we must. It's just too damn hard!!! There's no way we can talk shit about ourselves! Out loud???!!!!
But maybe we should give it a try. Even if it's something 'small' like admitting a jealousy, a phobia, a weakness…just #befree.↩


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Part of my normal morning routine is reading the obituaries. Actually, I don't really read all of them per se, I just see if there's anybody in there I know. I have often kidded that I turn to this section of the paper first thing because, one, if I find my name in there, I am NOT putting on my exercise shoes, and, two, I AM having a hot Krispey Kreme donut that has just come off the line.
But during this unusual practice, I often find myself saying things like, "Oh, Jesus, have mercy." Or, "Father, each name represents many hurting individuals. Comfort them." And sometimes, "Thank You, Lord, for a life well-lived." But this morning, something a little different happened as I scanned each listing. I think it was because there were some out-of-the-ordinary entries and so I tended to read a little more carefully. There was a well known octogenarian doctor from Macon as well as an unconventional lawyer who died way before her time. There was a middle-aged "caregiver," a school teacher, a nurse, and another who will be remembered in a service in the "Sanctuary of the Church of the Living God Gates of Heaven Full Gospel Ministries" by the "Overseer Apostle." Some listed a host of family members, two listed no one. Some "died," others "passed," one 96 year old "went home to be with her Lord," and one just plain "expired."
Some might say I'm morbid to begin my day with such. But am I really? Do we all not need to be reminded that we are immortal beings; that from ashes we come and to ashes we return? Do we all not need to be cautioned that there is an end to these days as we know it, so make the most of it. Do we all not need to be reminded that one day our names will also appear in bold above a column listing all of our achievements? And do we all not need to know that at the end of these days waits One who will either greet us with a "Well done, good and faithful servant," or a "Be gone for I never knew you." Quite honestly, when we stand before our Maker, it will not be because we had a list of achievements following our name nor because we were related to anybody special. It will be because we have personally put our complete faith and trust in the One and only One who matters. Jesus. Acts 4:12 says it this way, There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.
I'm not so sure reading the obituaries as a morning routine is quite so bad after all.
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God so often reveals Himself to us in the ordinary day-to-day experiences of life. Yet we miss Him. These entries are to encourage us to look for Him, find Him, and worship Him. It's my prayer that my ordinary moments would spur you to look for your own.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Early Morning Routine
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- Thena said...
I do the same thing every morning so don't feel bad. But you take it to a greater depth, which is so awesome. You have compassion for those that are hurting. We go through our daily lives so fast sometimes we forget just how easily it could be our name in an obituary. Have a blessed day.
- October 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM
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Don't miss this kick-off celebration for the Biennial of the Americas, a multi-cultural, weeks-long celebration of arts and a platform for important conversations on civic and social issues. The evening of live music and entertainment is hosted by Flobots frontman Jonny 5, and will feature art installations by Jeromie Dorrance and Chris Bagley, spirit tastings, a Cuban cigar lounge, and much more.
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Planning a destination wedding from halfway across the world is no small task, but Shannon and Ryan were up to the challenge. They planned a celebration with 60 of their closest friends and family, including a week-long cruise in the Caribbean. They officially tied the knot at the second port in St. Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands, at a privately owned villa in Dawn Beach called Eden Rock. Their ceremony embraced Jewish wedding tradition with…READ MORE
Take everything you love about a classic Jewish wedding and bring it to the beaches of Mexico for this destination "I do" that will leave your jaw dropped. Think sunny skies, toes in the sand, and ocean views for as far as the eye can see. Plus a whole lot of romance for good measure. Shannon and Guy chose that very idea for their destination wedding and they knew the northeastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula…READ MORE
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TOMORROW, Mayor Nutter delivers his budget address, which doubles as a "state of the city" for Philadelphia. He has already announced that he won't propose any new taxes, and no drastic cuts are expected for the $3.6 billion (projected) budget. All of which suggests that all is quiet on the fiscal front.
But it's a little TOO quiet, especially given the many looming land mines that could detonate and lead to cuts or, yes, new taxes. Our budget advice to Nutter and Council: This time, get real.
Neither Nutter nor Council got very real with us last year. The mayor lulled the city into a false sense of security by proposing a budget with no tax hikes. Council played along by holding ho-hum hearings through much of the spring - and by postponing the school district's hearing until after the May primary election.
When the district asked for more money to deal with a $629 million budget gap, the city was left with just a few weeks to frantically debate the request before the June 30 budget deadline. Taxpayers ended up stuck with their second property-tax hike in two years. Worse, discussion of how the city should deal with the district's money problems was given short shrift. Not surprisingly, those problems haven't gone away. Which brings us to the first land mine:
The school district: The city and state share responsibility for funding the district's $3 billion budget. The city increased its contribution last year by $53 million because a district deficit forced city officials to choose between ponying up or allowing cuts that would have hurt kids.
But the district needs to find $38 million for this year - by June, and faces a $260 million structural deficit for next year.
The city may hope to get more money for the schools from its ongoing property-tax reassessment, but there's no guarantee that reassessment gets finished on time (more on this tomorrow). The mayor and Council need to get a handle on what the district needs, and debate how the city should respond - preferably before the district's budget hearing on May 8. The time to start that debate is now.
Pensions: The city owes $10.36 billion in pension payments. The pension fund has $4.26 billion. That's a very big land mine.
We got into this mess because elected officials promised retirement benefits to city employees, but put off paying for them or asking for sufficient worker contributions. It's time to stop kicking the can down the road, both by finding more money for pension payments and by reforming the city's pension plans - which can't be done without resolving the city's union contracts. All the municipal unions, save the police, are working without a contract. Wages stay flat, but the pension problem remains unsolved.
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Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute signed a framework agreement on cooperation with the National University of Chonbuk (Chonbuk National University, or CBNU, Republic of Korea).
On September 11, 2017, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was visited by a representative delegation from the University of Chanyang (the Republic of Korea).
On July 28, the 5th Economic Forum of Ukraine-Korea "Economic Cooperation in the Context of Euro-Asian Integration" was held at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute n.a. Igor Sikorsky".
In April, 14 Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Ukraine, Lee Young-Gu visited Igor Sikorsky Kyiv polytechnic institute. He was accompanied by consul of the Republic of Korea Shin Ku Ho and power and economic analyst Cho Hyun Young.
First visit of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Ukraine Lee Young-Gu to Igor Sikorsky Kyiv polytechnic institute that took place on March was extremely intensive.
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Said Tut: "All I knew of this country before being here was cowboy movies, and movies about gangsters. I came and figured out it's nothing like that."
So what else has Tut learned while in America? Red tape, mostly.
I mean, he's learned plenty in school at Riverdale High. Tut has straight A's in class and wants to be an engineer someday. And he's made lots of friends, and his English is improving.
But when you sift through the time he's spent in Portland, what you eventually come upon is a pile of bureaucratic rules and regulations, and federal mandates. And at the end you wonder if the governing body of high school activities in this state will do what's right.
So far, the Oregon School Activities Association has not.
Let's back up.
Because when Tut was a young boy in Thailand, he turned on the television in his family's home and saw a Seattle Seahawks football game. Nobody in his country plays football. He'd never even thrown one. But he watched the large men chase each other on his television and decided he would play someday.
People giggled at him, of course.
In Thailand they follow tennis, volleyball and soccer. There is Sepak Takraw, a variant of volleyball played with the feet. And the national sport is Muah Thai — the science of eight limbs — which is basically kickboxing.
But Tut loved football, and so he hunted for one. He checked stores in Bangkok. He asked around. Finally, he located a single store in a shopping mall that had a simple, cheap football, the all-rubber sort with no laces.
"I carried that ball everywhere," Tut said.
Now, understand, when you talk with Tut, you don't think "Jock." You think, "There goes a kid who might ace the SAT someday." He doesn't look like a football player. He's barely 6 feet tall. He's not particularly fast. He can't out-jump his classmates. And he's never played a down of organized tackle football.
Yet, it is his dream.
Right now, though, he has a problem.
Because Tut arrived last summer as an exchange student, OSAA policy required him to sit out one school year before he would be eligible for extracurricular activities at Riverdale High.
Tut understood that rules are rules, and he waited. Since he wanted so desperately to play football he showed up to morning workouts before school and lifted weights with the team.
Also, he ran conditioning drills and studied the playbook. And last football season, Tut was there for every Riverdale game, standing on the sideline in street clothes, cheering for his classmates.
Said Tut: "I was the ball boy and water boy."
The Department of Homeland Security granted Tut a two-year stay in America when he applied for his current exchange program. He gets one more school year.
Except, federal law restricts exchange students from attending public schools for more than one year. Which is why Tut, who will be a senior in the fall, was told he'd have to switch to a private school and pay tuition.
Fine. Rules are rules, he thought.
He wants to study in America, and graduate from high school. And so he'll say goodbye to his friends and teachers at Riverdale in a couple of weeks. And his parents, who haven't seen him in a year, will pay tuition at Oregon Episcopal School this fall.
OES has fencing, lacrosse, soccer, track and other activities. But it doesn't field a football team, which is why Riverdale's coaches have offered to let Tut, who has been there every day, play for them.
Everyone thinks this is a great idea.
"I'm all for kids participating," said Kris Van Hatcher, the athletic director at OES. "We've had students who have grown up playing football and they just go play for the high school program that is closest to where they live.
"It's not frequent, but it's happened a few times."
No big deal, then, right?
Except, since Tut is transferring from one high school to another, the OSAA views him as a freshly arriving exchange student. Tom Welter, the head of the OSAA, said, "By rule, an exchange student has to sit out a year after arriving at his current school."
It's right about here where rules begin to stink, see.
This isn't the rise and fall of civilization. It's not a matter of national security. What we have here is a genuine American moment in which a knotty, gnarled circumstance arrives and we get to watch those involved wrestle with how to best fix things.
I suppose the easy way out would be for the OSAA to declare Tut ineligible, refuse to grant an appeal, and spend its time giving hollow blessings to the students who hop around local high schools, picking and choosing where they want to participate. I suppose it would have been easy enough for Riverdale to shrug, too. Or for OES to cash Tut's tuition check and tell him, "Sorry kid, your dream is dead."
I don't think America is that kind of place.
I believe the OSAA when it tells me it's an advocate for participation. I believe our civic leaders when they tell me our future begins in the ability of schools to build a better future, child by child.
I believe there's a reason that exceptions also exist in the quiet, important corners of our culture — education — and not just in tax court, and in the White House, and with big business. And now we're talking about common sense, decency and doing what's right, aren't we?
Because Tut is going to continue to run and lift weights this summer and hope he can play a few plays at wide receiver for Riverdale next football season. And the OSAA is going to receive an appeal from Tut in August. It's going to include the circumstances you've read here.
The appeal will ask that Tut be granted one year of eligibility. Also, Tut's host family, David and Debie Stellway, will write a letter explaining that when Tut moved into their home he affixed a single sheet of paper on the wall of his bedroom — his goals.
It reads: "Improve English. Play football."
Said Debie, "Tut's such a sweet kid. All you have to do is take one look at him and you know he's not a ringer."
I think America is a wonderful place to live. We have freedom. We enjoy the liberty of democracy. We embrace our differences. We connect on a deep level with each other. We pull together when we need it most, look out for each other, and we have faith that anything is possible if we work hard, pay our taxes and keep the faith.
The OSAA has a tough gig. It oversees more than 120,000 students who participate in school activities ranging from choir to football. But we've arrived in one of the places where the organization can serve as a springboard, and continue to encourage the children of our state to be active, forward-thinking and ambitious. The alternative is absurdity.
The issue for administrators (and Tut's high school team) shouldn't be his eligibility. It should be whether to put "Tut" or try to fit "Tangtragulcharoen" on the back of his football jersey.
I suppose Tut's dream feels as American as it ever has today. It becomes the stuff of a Langston Hughes poem.
Asked Hughes: "What happens to the dream deferred?"
I hope Tut never has to find out.


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Kenley Jansen is a three-time Major League Baseball All-Star who plays as a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team he has played for since his debut in 2010 having previously signed with the franchise as a teenager.
The Curacoan, who is known for his cut fastball that reaches a top speed of 98 mph, is also a two-time recipient of the National League Reliever of the Year Award and has also led the National League in saves in 2017.
On the 30th of September, 1987, in Willemstad, Curacao, Bernadette Jansen, a travel agent, and Isidor Jansen, a construction worker, welcomed the last of their three boys, Kenley Geronimo Jansen. From a very young age, Jansen began showing exceptional talent when playing the game of baseball with his brothers. He originally played as an outfielder before moving to shortstop, then to third base and first base before finally settling at the catcher position.
Kenley Jansen was said to have gained a lot of admirers for his talent as a teenager. By the time he was finishing high school in 2004, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed him as an undrafted free agent to play as a catcher. Upon joining the team, the Dodgers assigned him to its rookie-level minor league affiliate, the Gulf Coast Dodgers, where he began to make a name for himself on his way to the majors.
Jansen spent some time with the Gulf Coast Dodgers before he was promoted to the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League. He then spent a season playing for the North Shore Honu in the Hawaii Winter Baseball League before rejoining the Raptors in 2007. While featuring for the Raptors, Jansen also lined up for the Class-A Great Lakes Loons of the Midwest League before he again returned to Hawaii, this time with the West Oahu CaneFires.
In 2009, Kenley Jansen's parent team convinced him to switch to pitching from catching due to his poor numbers. The player immediately enjoyed a career resurgence that earned him a place on the Dodgers' 40-man roster in November 2009 although he ended up not staying with the team as he was again sent to join the Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino. A few months later, Jansen was promoted to the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts where he pitched 27 innings in 22 games, with a 1.67 ERA to earn a permanent promotion to the Dodgers team for the 2010 season, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Kenley Jansen has come a long way from the time he put pen to paper on his first ever Major League Baseball contract which was a one-year $416k deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2011. His latest deal, a five-year $80 million contract which was agreed to in December 2016 has definitely put him amongst the highest earners on the team. It will see him receive an average annual salary of $16 million.
Kenley Jansen's Family – Wife
Kenley Jansen has had the pleasure of battling through life's curveballs with his wife, Gianni Jansen. The couple, who are both from the island of Curacao, tied the knot in 2016, a few months after they welcomed their first child together, a son named Kaden Isaiah Jansen, who was born on the 16th of August, 2015. On the 22nd of August 2018, Gianni and Kenley welcomed another son, Kyrian Jeremiah. Jansen has an older child from a previous relationship, a daughter named Natalia Hannah Jansen, who was born on the 16th of March, 2013.
Gianni Jansen, who was born Gianni Francisca, like her husband, grew up in Willemstad, Curacao. She reportedly attended Radulphus College before enrolling at the Inter-Continental University of the Caribbean where she acquired a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. After school, Gianni was said to have found work as a real estate agent and a sales & marketing consultant. She currently serves as the managing director at Loftier Living.
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Kenley Jansen is from the Lesser Antilles island country of Curacao, which is located in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea. Curacao is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Before 2010, it was a part of the five island territories that formed the now dissolved Netherlands Antilles.
Height and Weight
Kenley Jansen is not freakishly tall, but with a height of 6 feet 5 inches (1.95 m), he will probably be the tallest person in most places he finds himself. The right-handed pitcher, who has in the past been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, better known as an irregular heartbeat, further weighs 125 kg (275 pounds).


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