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Hilltop Covenant Church welcomes everyone as it spreads the love truth of Jesus Christ in Cromwell and surrounding communities. We worship at 9:30 a.m. Each Sunday. Plan on visiting us soon. To learn more about us, just click and go there now.
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Sermon Audio Available Each Week
If you missed a Sunday sermon, you will be able to hear it on our website by the end of the day on Tuesday following the Sunday you missed; in other words, two days after the worship service.
Text Talk Most Wednesday Mornings
At Covenant Village on most Wednesday mornings, at 10:30 am, Pastor Scott leads "Text Talk". People gather at the Stromberg apartment, #104, and spend some time reviewing the Scripture readings for the upcoming week.
In the Sunday bulletin the Scripture readings for the next week are listed so it is easy to read them ahead of time
and come to "Text Talk" with your questions about the texts.
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July Hilltop Preschool and Daycare Update
Summer is here! If you have not already brought in sunscreen for your child, please do so. The first application should be applied at home before and we will re-
Now that the weather is heating up, the children will begin to cool down with water play twice a week for the three and four year olds. Please check with your child's teacher to find out which days that will be. On water days, please send them with their bathing suit on and pack a bag with their change of clothes.
Please bring a towel and water shoes (no flip flops). Please label everything. School age children can bring a bag of water stuff every day or just keep a bag here since they will be doing water play more often Congratulations to our 4-
Welcome back to the daycare summer staff Ms. Alyssa, Mr. Zoë and Mr. Ryan. We are happy to have them return, especially for next week's Vacation Bible School, June 26-
On Friday, June 30 we will host a "Hero Central" picnic at 5:30 PM and all are invited! We will providehamburgers and hotdogs and you are welcome to bring "sides" to share.
If you and your family to attend the barbecue, please sign up at the sign-
Reminder, Hilltop is closed on Tuesday, July 4th! And again on Aug. 25th for a Teacher In-
Ms. Laura
Vacation Bible School Supply Request
VBS is a week that the preschool children really look forward to, as it is a change from their daily routine. We do purchase the curriculum and then, to save on the budget, we usually come up with appropriate snacks and crafts on our own. Here is a list of craft items that will we need for the week; if you can help provide some of them, that would be great!
3 spools of elastic cording
50 sheets of star stickers
30 foam sheets, any colors
30 sheets of large poster board
20 glitter pens
2 spools thin blue ribbon
4 bags Tootsie Pops
10 sheets of red felt
10 sheets of blue felt
10 sheets of yellow felt
All supplies need to be at church no later than June 18.
3 spools of elastic cording 50 sheets of star stickers 30 foam sheets, any colors
30 sheets of large poster board 20 glitter pens
2 spools thin blue ribbon 4 bags Tootsie Pops
10 sheets of red felt 10 sheets of blue felt 10 sheets of yellow felt
All suppli urch no later than
June 18.
MOPS Ministry Summer News
MOPS is a ministry at Hilltop for "Mothers of Preschoolers". Every two weeks, on a Tuesday from 5:30-
We are always looking for additional volunteers to provide meals for the moms (the daycare provides supper for the children). You could prepare the meal OR provide the funds so the meal can be purchased. There is a sign-
Thank you to our most recent donators of supper and finances: Candace Cunningham, Vicki Brown and Dale Chiffer!
"What's for dinner?" It doesn't matter to these moms – they are grateful for not having to cook for one night! Let's make them happy!
It was wonderful to see two new folks at the park in June; please let the church office know if we can count on your help this month!
This is a very visible form of Evangelism and Outreach and greatly appreciated by the folks that frequent the park!
Thank you, Carolyn Johnson, for again providing treats for this service!
"Pick of the Litter – Loving Our Parks Together" is a community service project that was started in 2013. It happens at Pierson Park on the third Saturday of the month, from 9-
Next Pick of the Litter!
From Founding to the Future -
Celebrating 125 Years of Ministry in Cromwell
Hilltop Covenant Church is celebrating 125 of ministry in Cromwell, CT. A celebration weekend is planned for Sept. 23 and 24, 2017 and YOU are invited! Please save the date.
Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:00 PM -
Sunday, Sept. 24, 9:30 AM -
All celebration activities will be at Hilltop Covenant Church. Additional information and formal invitation will follow. We hope to invite everyone who has had a relationship with Hilltop. If you know of anyone we may have missed, please provide contact information to the church office via phone or email.
(860) 635-
2017 Confirmands at Hilltop Covenant
Front row: Julia Cunningham,
Jordyn Pekarovic,Maddie White,
Nicole Pekarovic, Jack Beck.
Back Row: Lydia Ottaviano, Noah
Hallden, Austin Gengler and Pastor
Hilltop Graduates
Ryan Jones – North Park University
BS in Mathematics
Lydia Ottaviano – Wesleyan University
BS in Economics
Evan Hite -
will be attending Central Conn. State University
Julia Cunningham – Independent Day School
will be attending Miss Porter's in the fall
Noah Hallden – RHAM Jr. High
will be attending RHAM High School
Madison White – Cromwell Middle High
will be attending Cromwell High School


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Le rendez-vous santé
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Ethiopian Christians Cling To Faith In Ark
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- 2002-01-20By Matthew J. RosenbergAssociated Press WriterAXUM, Ethiopia -- In Axum, there's no mystery about what's become of the lost biblical Ark of the Covenant. Like the vast majority of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, nearly everyone in
this dusty, windswept town believes the ark is tucked away in a stone chapel on the grounds of Axum's biggest church, safeguarding Ethiopia as it has for nearly 3,000 years.Fueled by faith, thousands flocked to churches in Axum and throughout Ethiopia on Friday for Timkat, an Ethiopian celebration of the baptism of Jesus Christ.At the center of the festivities are "tabots", tablets kept in every Ethiopian Orthodox church that symbolize the ark.It is an annual reaffirmation of Ethiopia's 1,700-year-old Christian tradition, with its unique focus on the ark."I can understand that outsiders are skeptical" about the ark, said Mersa Belay, head priest of Axum, 370 miles north of the capital, Addis Ababa. "They do not have our faith.""God knew Ethiopians were the people most willing to accept his religion so he placed the ark here," said Mersa, before launching into the tale of how Moses' ark came to this northern Ethiopian town of ramshackle stone houses set on arid plains and rocky hills.The details differ with each telling, but the basic account remains: The Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of Israel had a son named Menelik who was raised in Ethiopia, his mother's home. As a man, Menelik I visited his father in Jerusalem, stole the ark and returned to Ethiopia with an entourage of Israelite aristocrats and founded a kingdom based in Axum.That was about 3,000 years ago. Ethiopians converted to Christianity about 1,300 years later. The dynasty they believe Menelik founded ruled Ethiopia until 1974, when Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed.Historians agree Ethiopia was converted to Christianity around A.D. 330. The rest of the story is dismissed as propaganda dreamed up in the 12th century to support a new line of Ethiopian kings who hoped to gain legitimacy by tracing their roots to King Solomon."The story of the ark ... cannot be documented, although many have tried," said historian Richard Pankhurst, founder of Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa.Scholars are not sure where the Queen of Sheba lived, although modern Yemen, not Ethiopia, is cited as the most likely spot. Outside Ethiopian chronicles there is no mention of the ark's leaving Jerusalem. And the first Ethiopian kingdom didn't appear until about 800 to 900 years after Solomon was believed to have lived.Despite the skepticism of outsiders, belief in the ark's powers runs deep in Ethiopia, where about half the 63 million people are Christian."The ark protects us in all ways," said Haile Mersa, a 57-year-old farmer, adding that its powers are not limited to protection. "If we don't respect (the ark) our belief is that we may lose our lives or become disabled."The ark has helped keep Ethiopia, the only African country never colonized, independent throughout most of its history, said Belai Giday, an Ethiopian historian."Ethiopia has been invaded, but has never been subjugated by a foreign power," said Belai, citing Ethiopian resistance to Italian occupation between 1936 and 1941. "The Italians tried ... but they never ruled because we never lost faith in the ark and kept fighting."That faith was on display Friday as Axumites gathered at the chapel they believe houses the ark.Draped in white linen, they watched as robed priests removed a tabot covered by richly embroidered green and red velvet cloths from the stone building and began a solemn procession to a tent a half-mile away.At the front was the tabot, accompanied by priests and an honor guard of soldiers with assault weapons. Men marching behind sang haunting Ethiopian Orthodox Church music. At the rear, women quietly wailed.Solemnity gave way to riotous celebration as the tabot reached the tent. Men and women mingled, singing and dancing, clapping to the beat of drums.Timkat reaches its climax in the morning with a mass baptism. With believers outside, the tabot representing the ark remains in the tent through the night, a symbol to the faithful that God is present.The lone priest who now guards the ark, Gebrelebanos Teklemariam, rarely, if ever, speaks with outsiders. He refused to be interviewed.Some priests in Axum said they have seen the ark but were not supposed to talk about it.Patriarch Abune Paulos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church said he had seen the ark and described it as the one whose construction is recounted in the Bible. It is a wooden box covered in gold and topped with two winged cherubim, he said, and inside are two mirrorlike tablets with Hebrew inscriptions.The description differed from others given by priests in recent years. But on Friday, there was no debate among believers."If it were nothing ... we would take it out and walk with it," said Merha Godega as he waited for the priests to remove the tabot."The ark is too powerful," he whispered. "If we took it out, it would destroy us."
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- When Patriarch Abune Theophilos constructed the largest
church in Addis Abeba, he dedicated one of the Holy Altars
in the name of St. Thomas for the Indian Church. Christian
love is not about authorities, who is above whom in authority.
Years later, Catholica Bava (Malankara Church) sent a letter
to all parishes to collect materials to send to Ethiopia in
a ship to help them during the famine. Christian love is
about helping each other in need, it is not about superiority
of just one church.
- Dear Thomas,
You have quoted History.Why we go to the history of some other place.Our
history is that the church was under Partiarch of Antioh
and east from the begining.No other group was there in Kerala till Portugese
came.All were following the Syriac litergy and rites.
The books burned by the bishop Menzes were our syriac pryer books and
Or leave very old history.Can we believe the saint of Kerala,Parumala
Thirumeni,who wanted us to be loyal to Patriarch.He cannot be partially
wrong in that aspect.
If present,Bava is a great person ,as you say why can't he go for a give
and take policy.?Why he is after Jacobite group?He is a Holy man
and supposed to pardon seventy times.But actions show hollowness instead of
Holiness.He sent a parallel priest to Manarkadchurch to establish the
kingdom of God?
Or he is listening to Satan who says he can rule the whole world.(Atleast
jacobites) if he listen to him..
I know about him from days he was the Metropolitan of Kollam. He tried
occupy one church by entering,through the window.Incase of doubt
check with him.Otherwise I will give more deatils. That definitely was not
praying.!!Incommon mans dictionary it is greed!
When christs disciples quarelled for seniority and positions,He scolded
them.The yerning for positions in the world at any rate
is not what christ taught.In the early centuries this work of -percecuting
fellow christians,was with Pope!Now the work is handed over to
Kottayam Catholicose.Now Pope is going around and apolagising.!!
When Partiarch was at Kerala during Kananaya Metropolitans Powrohithya
Jubilee,many leading figures tried to bring catholicos
atleast for a tea together with Patriarch to sort out matters..The Orthodox
leadership was not ready for that.(There is many witness to it.)
That is their Christian spirit.
Now they go around talking about peace,eccuminism etc.But can not amicably
settle things with their own brothers.They go around importing Great
Bishops/Archbishop and Partiarchs from Kazakistan,Unzbekkistan
and God knows from where all, but can not accept their own high priest
(whom the supreme court confirms and
they themselves accept in the costitution.)
This double standard.You cannot serve God and Mamon together
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The Road To N'Djamena takes the frequently-adopted avant-garde motif of "journey" and seeks to re-appropriate it for the post-internet age. Drawing on influences including pop, contemporary conceptualism and Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of carnivalesque, it asks: in the era of Google Earth, where might we find the true wildernesses of today?
Embracing a collagic tradition stretching from the likes of TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Ezra Pound's "Cantos" to the post-modern cut-ups of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin and the unashamed plagiarism of Kenneth Goldsmith, []N'Djamena proposes that the answer lies in the re-contextualisation of existing texts: in outdated imperialist and colonialist tracts; in the banal detritus of consumerist excess; in a new way of reading in which juxtapositions of different inter-textual elements create spaces of meaning which defy categorisation and thus present themselves as the still-unconquered areas we crave.
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Captain Falcon: Show me your moves!
Announcer: NO!
(Scene opens up with Super64 and Lamp walking across Bridge of Eldin)
Narrator: And so, we find out heroes continuing their search for 1337f0x. (Super64 and Lamp walk through Mario Circuit with a Meta Knight player below them) Though their journey is long, their goal gets closer to them with every step. (Super64 and Lamp walk through Lylat Cruise past a Wolf and black Captain Falcon player) They travel through dusty plains.
(Scene goes to Super64 and Lamp walking through Mushroomy Kingdom)
Lamp: Yippee!
(Scene goes to Super64 and Lamp walking across Norfair)
Narrator: Fiery lakes.
Lamp: Yippee!
(Scene goes to Super64 and Lamp walking across Summit)
Narrator: Icy mountains.
Lamp: Yippee!
(Scene goes to Super64 and Lamp walking across Distant Planet)
Narrator: Distant Planets.
Lamp: Yippee!
(Scene goes back to Summit)
Narrator: Icy mountains, again.
Lamp: Yippee!
(Super64 stops walking)
Super64: Wait, haven't we already been here?
Lamp: My name is Lamp!
(Scene goes to Shadow Moses Island)
Narrator: Boxed-in areas with no exists.
Lamp: Yippee!
Super64: How do we leave?
Lamp: I dunn-
(The Snake player from episode 1 arrives and grabs Lamp, snapping his neck, "!" appears above the Snake player's head as the spotlight hovers over him. Scene shifts to Pirate Ship)
Narrator: Pirate ships.
Lamp: Yip- argh!
(Scene goes back to Summit again)
Narrator: Icy mountains, a third time.
Lamp: Yippee!
Super64: I swear, we were just here!
Lamp: I don't think so. And I would know. I have a pornographic memory.
Super64: Uhh, don't you mean photographic?
Lamp: No, I don't. (short pause) Yippee!
(Scene geos to Super64 and Lamp walking through Temple, jumping over a blue Wario player continuously poking a Sonic player)
Narrator: Although their journey is a strenuous on, they persevere in their search.
(Scene geos to Skyword with Super64 and Lamp walking pass a Bowser player with a Smash Ball and a Lucario player)
(Scene shifts back to Summit)
Narrator: Icy mountains.
Lamp: Yippee!
Super64: This is getting very repetitive.
Lamp: I beg to disagree!
Super64: Why's that-
(A fish rises and eats Super64, KOing him. The mountain sinks into the water.)
Narrator: Weee'll get back to them later…
(Intro plays.)
(Scene shifts to inside a base)
Narrator: Meanwhile, at Girem6's base.
(Grant and Gront are seen walking through the base)
Grant: (groans) The boss is gonna kill us this time.
Gront: Oh, I'm sure it's not that bad.
(Grant stops walking and turns towards Gront)
Grant: Listen, I want to keep this job. So, when we go in there, don't say anything stupid.
Gront: (Throwing his gun in the air) Okey dokey, pal!
Grant: Gront! This is serious!
Gront: Oh, okay! (clears throat) (now in a different voice) Okey dokey, pal! I'm serious now! This is my serious voice!
Grant: Okay!
Gront: I'm Serious McSeriousen! I'm so serious, even the jokes I tell are serious!
Grant: Uhhh, yeah, let's just-
Gront: How many blondes does it take to screw in a lightbulb? (a white Peach player appears behind him) One. Because gender stereotypes based on hair color are totally unfair and sexist!
Grant: Ooooooookaaaaay, moving right along now…
(Scene shifts to Frigate Orpheon, frozen in place. Grant and Gront land on the center platform.)
Voice: Who's there?
Grant: (walks forward) Eh, (clears throat) uh, hi, boss.
(A black Wolf player falls onto the right platform. The sign says, "Username: Girem6".)
Narrator: This is Girem6. He's the villain and leader of the Gear Hack Force! After the perma-ban of his idol, Greg, he swore revenge against Super64! And created a team of hackers that-- (pause) Wait wai-. Well, there's three more pages of this dribble! Hell, I'm not reading this! (sound of paper shuffling are heard off-screen) I'm gonna go balance my checkbook. Or, uh, check my, balance book.
Girem6: Oh, it's you two. Shouldn't you be guarding the prisoner?
Grant: (laughs) Well, you see, the thing about that is-
Gront: He escaped.
Girem6: What?! Do you two realized what you just done?!
Grant: There was nothing we could do about it! He was just too clever!
Gront: Not really, though. We kinda got distracted and turned out backs on him willingly. Grant's just saying that because he doesn't want you to know how incompetent we are.
Grant: (turns toward Gront) Gront! I told you not to say anything stupid!
Gront: I'm not. I'm just telling the truth. If I wanted to say something stupid, I'd do something like this. (turns around and shakes his butt towards Grant) Tikytakytikytakytikytakytoo!
Girem6: (groans) Guard! Hit him!
(A false Bowser falls down the stage and roars. He then slashes Grant, who groans in pain, and jumps off the stage.)
Girem6: Now, I want you both to listen to me, and listen well, because I'm not repeating this. Failure is not an option!
Gront: But, what if we do fail?
Girem6: Guard!
(The false Bowser guard drops onto the stage, grabs and headbutts Grant)
Gront: All I'm saying is you can't really eliminate failure as an option. Making failure impossible is a logical impossibility in itself. I think it was Scott A. Sandage that noted that failure was an important emphasis to-
(The false Bowser guard drops and headbutts Grant three more times)
Grant: Why do I get hit when he says something?!
Girem6: Semantics. Hitting the partner of the offender encourages discipline.
Grant: Oh… well in that case, those boots make you look fat.
(The false Bowser guard grabs Grant and body slams him onto the ground)
Grant: Why did I get hit that time?!
Girem6: Because I blame your friend for that comment. (walks away and then crouches) (sighs) This is the last time I hire gay guys to do a kidnapping job.
Gront: See Grant, I told you we were gay.
(Grant grabs Gront)
Grant: Damn it, Gront! We are not gay! (knees Gront twice before letting go)
Girem6: But how come when I found you guys you were-
Grant: I told you before, I was stretching!
Girem6: But it looked like you were-
Grant: Stretching! I was just stretching, damn it!
Girem6: ...Why did it look like Gront-
Grant: He was helping me.
Girem6: Helping you stretch?
Grant: Look, just, forget it, okay? Let's just, drop it.
Girem6: Right. The point is I'm going to need a plan to attack Super64. And I think I know exactly what to do. Alan, bring up Super64 on the monitor!
Alan: (off-screen) Rawr! On it, boss!
(Monitor shows up on the center stage, showing Super64 and Lamp walking through New Pork City)
Super64: I think we might be lost…
(A texture-hacked Zero Suit Samus Player lands in front of them)
Zero Suit Samus player: Hey, baby. Looking for a good time? I can make it worth your while.
Super64: A-are you coming on to me? In an online game?
Zero Suit Samus player: That depends, are you liking it?
Super64: …Maybe.
Lamp: Super64, watch out!
(Lamp jumps in front of Super64 and blasts the Zero Suit Samus player)
Lamp: Yep, just as I thought, a Spam-bot.
(Camera shows a white R.O.B.)
Spam-bot: (leaving) Curses!
Super64: Whoa, that unexpected from you. How did you know it was a bot?
Lamp: Well…
(Cuts to a flashback with Lamp talking to a golden-textured Ganondorf with a Luigi moveset.)
King: Lamp, the city of Dinnertopia needs your help! You have to save us from the Watermelon Monster!
Lamp: No!
(Screen reveals a giant subspace Bowser)
Watermelon Monster: Rawr, I am the Watermelon Monster. I am going to eat you.
Lamp: Take this, you fiend! I summon Super Pikachu!
(A Captain Falcon textured Pikachu appears and flies towards the Watermelon Monster, knocking it out with one attack)
Watermelon Monster: (knocked out) Oh noes, I am slain.
King: You have saved us all! Now you must take my daughter's hand in marriage!
(Shows King's daughter, which is a white Peach player)
King's daughter: My hero! I love you, Lamp!
Lamp: All in a day's work!
(Flashback ends)
(Scene shifts back to New Pork City.)
Super64: What part of any of that has to do with my question?
Lamp: What question?
(Scene shows a blue Meta Knight player hinding behind a wall.)
Meta Knight player: Oh my god! It's Super64! Well, it's a good thing he can't hear me.
Lamp: Did you hear something?
Super64: It sounded like some just shouted, "Oh my god! It's Super64!"
Meta Knight player: Aw crap. Well, it's a good thing he can't see me.
Super64: Hey, look it's a player! (camera shows Meta Knight's head) Maybe we can ask him for help.
(The Meta Knight player teleports in front of Super64)
Meta Knight player: Nice try, Super64! But you'll never get me to reveal 1337f0x's location! Never!
Super64: Wait a minute, you know where 1337f0x is?
Meta Knight player: Ugh, you tricky beast! You got me to reveal information!
Super64: What are you talking about?
Meta Knight player: Well, you can't catch what you can't see! (uses Dimensional Cape to escape) Ha, another successful evasion! I'd say I done-
(turns around to reveal he has only teleported behind Super64 and Lamp)
Meta Knight player: Aw crap! (uses Dimensional Cape to teleport to the left side) Hahaha- (Super64 and Lamp turn around) aw crap! (uses Dimensional Cape to teleport to the right side) Hahaha- (Super64 and Lamp turn around) aw crap! (uses Dimensional Cape to teleport to the left side) Hahaha- (Super64 and Lamp turn around) aw crap! (uses Dimensional Cape to teleport to the left side) Hahaha- (Super64 and Lamp turn around) aw crap! (uses Dimensional Cape again)
Super64: Alright, I've had about enough of this. (turns around and charges his Up Smash)
Meta Knight player: (reappearing) Ha-
(Super64 headbutts him to the upper Blast line, KOing him)
Meta Knight player: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Super64: Much better.
Lamp: Shouldn't you have questioned him? He knew where 1337f0x was.
Super64: Oh, crap! Wait, since when did you staring making sense?
Lamp: (spinning in place) Quack! Quack!
Super64: Maybe I spoke too soon… Let's follow that guy.
(A Dark Sheik player dropkicks Lamp, knocking him off the stage.)
Dark Sheik: Say, aren't you Super64?
Super64: Huh?! Who are you?
Dark Sheik: Never mind that. You're looking for your friend, right?
Super64: How did you know about-
Dark Sheik: I saw some dark guys taking him away. I think I might know where he is.
Super64: Really?
Dark Sheik: Yeah, follow me.
Super64: Wait a minute, where's Lamp?
Dark Sheik: He said you were an incompetent partner and would never achieve your goals no matter how hard you tried. Then he stormed off, cursing your name.
Super64: Well that doesn't sound like Lamp.
Dark Sheik: (with Smash Ball aura) YOU DON'T SOUND LIKE LAMP!
Super64: What?
Dark Sheik: What?
Super64: You just said-
Dark Sheik: Whatever, let's make like trees, and get the leaf outta here! Come on!
(Dark Sheik dashes off, with Super64 following behind her. Camera zooms out, showing the monitor inside Girem6's base.)
Girem6: (laughs) All according to plan.
(Girem6 begins laughing evilly, followed by Grant laughing beside him, and then shows Lamp laughing beside Grant. Girem6 and Grant turns towards Lamp)
Girem6: Hey, how did you get in here?!
Lamp: I think the better question is: How did here, get in me?
Gront: I bet Grant would like to know more about getting in you as well, if you know what I mean.
(Grant runs toward Gront)
Grant: Dammit, Gront! It's stuff like that that makes people question the exact nature of our relationship.
Gront: We have a relationship?
Grant: You're doing it, again!
Gront: You know what else I like doing? Again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again…
Girem6: (groans) Guards, get this guy outta here!
(The false Bowser guard jumps down and throws Lamp off the left side. The camera pans upward)
Narrator: Oh, no! It looks like our hero's in a bit of a pickle! How will he escape the confiding bride of it's savory vinegar shell that is Girem6's trap? It looks like you'll have to find out next time on the next episode of Smashtasm! I am the narrator, FEAR MY OMNIPITENCE! I want pickle…
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The last Spartan Race back in November was so popular, the organisers brought it back for a second edition. Hong Kong's strongest will turn out for a 6km race through a series of 20 obstacles, including mud pits, monkey bars and rope climbs. If you don't fancy taking part, it can be great fun to just watch your nearest and dearest sweating it out all the way to the finish line.
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Everett ended up in our bed at 4 am because he couldn't sleep. But eventually we all made it until 7:30. We knew that if we let the kids open presents before church... it would be a cry fest to get them ready and there.
So Jake made up omlets, we got ready, and took one of my favorite pictures ever. It's gorgeous!
I feel so bad, I accidentally stepped on Everett's foot before the picture so he had red eyes.
Church was great. We just took the sacrament and then sang Christmas hymns. Since Everett can read, he sang them too and it made my heart so happy. Plus, Roxy was sleeping in her carseat so all was well :)
We opened presents as soon as we got home.
Santa finally got Everett Lego Dimensions that he's been asking for.. for like 15 months...
Breckie asked for a pink "bulldozer" from Santa but she really meant the pink tractor she saw at Tractor Supply.
Everett said something so witty and funny and Jake and I thought it was hilarious.
We're so thankful for all the grandparents that remembered Roxy. She actually got some pretty legit stuff... we didn't get her anything 🙈
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Equity Bank completes Signature Bank merger
Wichita-based Equity Bank and Haddam-based Signature Bank announced Monday they have successfully completed their merger, effective at 5 p.m.
"It's officially Equity Bank as of tonight (Monday)," says Brad Elliott, Equity Bancshares Inc.'s chairman and CEO.
Haddam is a town of about 100 people in Washington County, about 90 miles northeast of Salina.
Signature Bank has been owned by Equity Bancshares and was under its supervision, but "it's too expensive to keep them separate," Elliott says.
Equity merged with Olathe-based Signature Bank KC in 2007, converting Signature's Spring Hill and Overland Park branches to Equity then, but not the Haddam branch.
"We thought it better-served the community's needs to keep it separate," Elliott explains.
Not any longer, with the regulatory burden created under Dodd-Frank and the like, he says. It became a financial decision.
Equity Bank received final regulatory approval for the merger last week.
With the completion of this merger, Equity Bank operates 15 branches with approximately $619 million in total assets.
"This will allow us to provide expanded product offerings to support the Haddam community," Elliott says in a news release. "Additionally, we anticipate this merger will afford us operational efficiencies and better risk management."
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FULL BLACK LEATHER SPORTS SEATS, GENUINE TWO FORMER KEEPER EXAMPLE FROM NEW, SERVICE HISTORY, UPGRADED 17" ALLOY WHEELS, WINTER PACK, AIR CON, METALLIC REFLEX SILVER, TWO REMOTE KEYS, ELECTRIC WINDOWS & MIRRORS ***6 MONTH RAC WARRANTY INCLUDED*** Black Full leather interior, Metallic Reflex Silver, ABSOLUTELY STUNNING EXAMPLE WITH FULL BLACK HEATED LEATHER SPORTS SEATS, 17" ALLOY WHEELS & SERVICE HISTORY, *6 MONTH RAC WARRANTY INCLUDED*, FINANCE PACKAGES AVAILABLE, CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED, DELIVERY SERVICE, £5,000 p/x welcome
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|Multifunction Computer
|Body - Coloured Bumpers with Bump Strips
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|Alloy Wheels, Four 6.5J x 16in Imola with 205/55 R16 Tyres and Anti-Theft Wheel Bolts
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Taiwan May Soon Approve Visits to the Chinese Mainland
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Special to the New York Times
Published: September 5, 1987
HONG KONG, Sept. 4— After 37 years of banning all contact with mainland China, Taiwan seems close to allowing some of its citizens to visit their ancestral cities and villages on the mainland.
Before the end of the year, aged veterans of China's civil war, who fled to the island of Taiwan after the Communist victory in 1949, may be able to visit relatives on the mainland they have not seen for nearly four decades.
Officially, Taiwan's chief spokesman, Shaw Yuming, has announced only that the Government is considering an end to the ban on visits to the mainland. But other Government officials and the Government-controlled press say the basic decision has already been made and only details remain to be worked out. Announcement This Month
''The Government is now trying to work out the details of travel to the mainland, with Hong Kong as the intermediary,'' one official said today. An announcement could come later this month, he said.
The possibility of allowing visits to the mainland reflects the growing realization on Taiwan that its policy of forbidding any contact with China becomes less tenable as China gains influence and respectability throughout Asia. Taiwan officials also acknowledge that without a change of policy they would have to cut off relations with Hong Kong, which now is Taiwan's third largest trading partner, after the British colony returns to China in 1997.
In addition, there has been domestic political pressure for a more relaxed policy toward the mainland. Both the main opposition group, the Democratic Progressive Party, and a new political party, the Anti-Communist Patriotic Union, have pressed the Government to allow informal contacts with the mainland. Direct Visits to Hong Kong
Already this summer, Taiwan relaxed its travel rules by allowing its citizens to visit Hong Kong directly. In the past, Taiwan citizens were generally allowed only to stop over in Hong Kong on their way to or from other destinations. Even so, 220,000 Taiwan citizens visited Hong Kong last year.
The Government allowed its citizens to visit Hong Kong even though it is an open secret that once in the territory many people from Taiwan arrange surreptitious visits to the mainland.
China encourages such visits, because of its desire to woo Taiwan into accepting some kind of reunion with the mainland. Representatives from China in Hong Kong facilitate visits to home villages for people from Taiwan, and they do not mark their passports.
Hong Kong trade statistics also show that some $955 million in trade between Taiwan and China passed through the territory last year. So far this year, such trade is running at 60 percent higher than last year's rate. Age to Be a Factor
It is not clear who would be allowed to visit the mainland under the rules that apparently are now being drafted. Some newspaper articles in Taiwan have suggested that anyone would be allowed to make the trip who was not employed by the Government or military. But a Government official said today that permission would probably be restricted to those at least 55 years old, who have relatives on the mainland.
The pressure for change comes not so much from the youthful opposition to the Government as from elderly refugees from the mainland.
When Chiang Kai-shek fled the mainland in 1949, he took with him some two million people, including 600,000 soldiers. Many had to leave their families behind in the turmoil and want to see their relatives before they die.