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Category Archives: Society of Devotees – Disciples of Srila Prabhupada
Response to Bhakti Caru Swami
[Hansadutta's response was also posted at ISKCON Bangalore's website] Dear Bhakti Caru Maharaja, Please accept my most humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. It's been some years since we met and associated in person (Mayapur 2003, later in Berkeley, … more
What I found in Srila Prabhupada's rooms at Radha-Damodar Temple
Last month I was in Vrindaban and visited Srila Prabhupada's rooms at Radha-Damodara temple. This time, there was a piece of paper lying on the table in front of Srila Prabhupada's murti. I bent down to read it. It looked … more
DOM is a sideshow – BBT is at the center
Just yesterday, Praghosa Prabhu forwarded a copy of his email to Rocan das regarding the GBC and the Direction of Management (DOM). This is a discussion as to the constitution of the GBC and managerial duties related to ISKCON and … more
Everyone Become Guru: Don't take it out of context
January 30, 2013: Dear Bhakti Vikasha Maharaj, Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. Over the years I have noticed that you have stepped forward to speak with "frank" and "bold" statements regarding issues that you think … more
Brahmin initiation and women gurus
After the first Brahmin initiation ceremony (Boston 1968), I asked Prabhupada, "What is the significance of this Brahmin Initiation?" Prabhupada gestured dismissively and said, "It is not very important. My Guru Maharaja introduced this ceremony of Brahmin initiation, because in … more
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Dhristadyumna das relates his memories of Srila Prahbupada.more


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First Sign of Life From My Summer Garden: Zucchini Blossoms
A few days ago I spotted these beautiful blossoms emerging from my zucchini plants. After some online research, I learned that these are the "male" blossoms, and do not have a zucchine at the base. The "female" blossoms will have … Continue reading
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A Sicilian in the Kitchen
Luis' friend Veronica generously came over and prepared the Sicilian classic, Pasta alla Norma for us in our kitchen. She is from Catania, Sicily, and learned this dish by watching her mother cook it numerous times. My memories of Catania … Continue reading
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My New Favorite Pizza
This pizza is a combination of ideas and tricks. The initial inspiration is from Nancy Silverton's Mozza cookbook. I made her delicious pizza with sausage, scallions and whipped cream (yes, whipped cream. It melts and creates a nice creamy sauce). … Continue reading
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Summer Pasta
Pasta is the world's best dish. It is so wonderful to whip up a tasty dinner in the time it takes to boil water and cook pasta. My tomato plants have given me a couple of ripe tomatoes (with many … Continue reading
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First Tomato
The other day we found a this cute little red tomato on one of my tomato plants all ready to eat! My three tomato plants have been growing very quickly (one is taller than me!) and there are some little … Continue reading
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Spanish Tortilla
I have to admit it took my a while to catch on to this Spanish staple, the tortilla. Spaniards love this dish. You see it in every bar in Spain and in every household. It seems like they never tire … Continue reading
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When Luis Cooks
When left to his own devices Luis can be pretty creative in the kitchen. Yesterday for lunch, after a couple of e-mails asking me how its done, Luis made his pasta alla carbonara, Spanish style. There was no pancetta or … Continue reading
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The Christian Community of Kerala traces its origin back to the arrival of Apostle St. Thomas, who according to common tradition landed first at the Muziri Port (known as Crangannore, now Kodungalloor) in A.D. 52. It was here, not long after, that the Jews arrived after the destruction of the second temple and the final desolation of Jerusalem (A.D. 69) and founded a colony.
St. Thomas visited different parts of Kerala and baptised the natives, including many from the upper caste Namboodiri Brahmins into the new religion. Seven churches, namely (1) Malayankara (now Kodungalloor) (2) Palur (Chavakkad in Thrissur) (3) Paravur (Kottukavu near Cochin) (4) Kokkamangalam (between Alappuzha and Kottayam) (5) Niranam (near Tiruvalla) (6) Chayal (Nilackal near Sabarimala) and (7) Quilon (now Kollam) as well as an "Arappalli" (Chapel) at Thiruvankottu were established. The Apostle faced martyrdom at Mylapore in Madras around A.D. 72 (he was speared to death).
Kudassanad is a Christian dominated township blessed with great natural beauty. The early Christians of this area are believed to have come from the regions of Nilackal. Archaeological evidence proves that up to 14th century Nilackal was a thriving Christian settlement. The Christian communities enjoyed here a wholesome and vibrant life, interacting with the neighbouring kingdoms. However, gradually they had to flee to other areas, such as Aruvithura, Chengannur, Kallooppara, Kanjirappally, Kodassanad (Kudassanad), Mallappally, Poonjar, Ranni, Thumpamon and Vaypur due to certain natural calamity or as a result of the depredations of folks from the neighbouring areas. The newcomers found the place congenial for cultivation and conducting trade. The Kings of Pandalam dynasty, the erstwhile rulers, gave them land and enabled them to practice their religion.
Situated on the top of Vyppin Kunnu (Mount Vyppin), blessed with natural beauty, the Cathedral gives the feeling of the house of worship on Mount Mardin.
Note: Mardin and the Monastery of Deyr-az-Zaferan (Saffron Monastery)
Mardin is a city in a rocky region in the south-eastern Anatolia (Turkey). It was once the home of the Syrian Orthodox Church. The founder of the church, Jacobus Baredeus, was a 6th century bishop in Edessa who rejected the belief of the two natures of Christ, emphasizing instead the oneness of the humanity and divinity. The monastery of Deyr-as-Zaferan founded in 762 was the seat of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch for almost 800 years from 1160 until 1922. One room contains the sedan chairs used by the patriarchs, another is their mausoleum, and in the chapel the Patriarchs throne is carved with the names of all the patriarchs since 792. The history of worship at the site goes back even further, as an underground vault is said to have been used for ritual sacrifices by sun worshippers 4,000 years ago.
Starting from the early ages, Mardin has been home to the Syriac Christians, who broke away from the Byzantine Orthodoxy at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. The services held at the churches and monasteries are still performed in their original Semitic language derived from the ancient Aramaic (the language of Jesus). The monasteries and churches are kept alive and looked after by the Syriac population in the area which has now dwindled to about 2,000 from 40,000 in the 1960s.
Mardin is an important regional trading center on the east-west trade routes of southern Anatolia. It is connected by Istanbul-Baghdad railway and is linked by roads with Gaziantep (west), Aleppo (in Syria), Nusaybin (southeast), and Diyarbakir. Located high up on the mountain bordering the Mesopotamian plain in the north, the lights of Syrian villages and towns can easily be seen at night.
As an essential part of our Church ceremony, the sound of the bell marks the beginning and the end of the Liturgy and provides a framework of heavenly sounds for the Church service. The sound of the bell is one of the most powerful roots of our orthodox culture. One ought to experience them, their boundless, mysterious, powerful tolling. Bells became the voice to which the faithful responded. One is consumed by God's love and is drawn to the very heart of his Saviour. Joy and peace are overwhelming and his spirits are lifted as one gets into the church.
"The Sound makes you forget all your earthly thoughts and elevates you to the heavenly heights. It fills your heart with a warm, joyous feeling; you seem to be in Heaven, and far-off Paradise resounds in your heart, filling your soul with joy and hope" (N. Olovianishnikov, "The History of Bells and the Art of Bell Casting").
The Church is a center of Christianity and shelter to the faithful as well as ornamentation to Kudassanad. Centuries back our forefathers worshipped at the churches situated far away in Kadambanad and later at the St. Mary's Church in Thumpamon established around A.D. 900. As these two churches were situated very far away a church was improvised in Kudassanad for convenience of worship. Initially a location at Mulappumpallil was found to be best-suited for the Church. But owing to some local opposition, the plan had to be shelved: This led the Church to be constructed at its present site on St. Stephen's Mount. All records of the early church are lost, following which the exact date and year of the first church cannot be estimated correctly.
The true fountainhead of India's ancient civilisation could be traced to the elevation of mind and broadening of vision attained in such ambience, where man communes with nature in all its pristine beauty. This is the feeling one gets in the church yard on top of St. Stephen's Mount: The human approach to blend a vision for returning to nature, love nature and keep all its God given bounties intact.
Relax on one of the many Apostles' staircases. It's a wondrous place to watch the sun rise or view a perfect sunset. On return after such a visit, one gets the feeling of William Wordsworth, after his famous visit to Glencoyne Park on 15 April 1802, which inspired him to write his most famous poem "Daffodils", which concludes thus:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
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Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
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As the poem is essentially a comment on the pleasure Wordsworth gained from solitary contemplation, his use of the word "Lonely" would not have the same meaning as ours. His true attitude to being alone is in the "Bliss of solitude".
We must woo Nature in solitude and silence to gain entry into her secrets. It's good to be happy again - taking time to relax - not thinking about much. Just sitting in nature, one can enjoy the peace and silence.
You have enough time to spend an entire evening sitting in nature thinking of the forefathers who rest at the calmness and serenity of the cemetery just beside – musing over their concern for you when you were still a child, their love, their reprimands grown out of concern for your welfare, and many more unending sweet memories. The sun lights up the evening sky into shades of purple with its rays. The coconut trees and rice fields just under your eyes sway gracefully with the wind. The rustling of the leaves could be heard from a distance. The sparkling waters of the small stream just flowing below the valley seem to stretch endlessly into the horizon. Above, the floating clouds shed many fluffy shapes against the sky.
Our forefathers appropriately named the Church after St. Stephen (Sthephanos), the first disciple of Jesus to receive the martyr's crown. Stephen was a deacon in the early Christian Church. The Apostles ordained seven deacons to look after the care of the widows and the poor. St. Stephen is the most famous of them (refer Acts 6:3, "… Brothers, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and Wisdom. We will turn this responsibility (of looking after the widows in the daily distribution of food, etc.) over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word."
God worked many miracles through St. Stephen and he spoke with such wisdom and grace that many of his hearers became followers of Jesus. Furious at this, the enemies of the Church plotted to kill him, accusing him of profanity. St. Stephen faced the enemies heroically. The Holy Bible records: "His face shone like the face of an angel". They dragged him outside the city of Jerusalem and stoned him to death. The Saint prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Then he fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." (Acts 7:58-60). After such an amazing expression of love, the Holy Martyr went to his heavenly reward. The Feast Day of St. Stephen is celebrated on Makaram 7-8 (M.E.)
Following the reorganisation of the Dioceses, the Church was moved from Thumpamon Diocese to Chengannur Diocese under its first Metropolitan H.G. Thomas Mar Athanasios.
* Konatt Geevarghese Mar Julios (Julius) was the first Metropolitan of Thumpamon diocese (1876-1883). However, His Grace was not able to conduct diocesan administration due to poor health. Mar Julios passed away on 21st March 1884; his mortal remains are interred in the family Chapel at Pampakuda.
Members of the parish have a record of defending the faith tooth and nail; thus, standing united they shielded the "reformation movement" led by Palakkunnathu Abraham Malpan and Mathews Mar Athanasius in 1843. The Vicar of (Kodassanad) Kudassanad Church led a delegation to the Mulanthuruthy Synod held on 28, 29 and 30 June 1876 (15, 16, and 17 of Midhunam 1051 M.E.) (Mulanthuruthy Synod Page 122, Z.M. Parettu). As per decision taken in that Synod the Malankara Church was divided into seven dioceses. One of these, the Thumpamon Diocese, had 21 churches, of which one was the Kudassanad Church (Sabha Vignana Kosam, Page 318).
In the 1923s as the Latin Rite and later as Geevarghese Mar Ivanios started the Syro Malankara Rite of the Catholic Church in Kudassanad some people from the parish joined those Rites. The Palli-Pothuyogam (plenary session of the Parish), under the chair of its Vicar, Rev. Fr. Keeppallil Easo Pathrose, excommunicated them, simultaneously passing a Resolution not to have any social communion with them (Minutes of the Meeting 110 Kanni 28).
Parumala Thirumeni visited the Church in 1889 and moved the cemetery from the northern part to the southern part of the church and blessed it. H.G. Geevarghese Mar Philoxenos of Puthencavu consecrated the present three storey cross shrine at Thettikkuzhy Junction, in place of an ancient stone cross, on 11th December 1949.
The Cross is the mighty and profound symbol of Christianity, a symbol whose meaning is inexhaustible. The eight-pointed Cross is the symbol of Orthodoxy. Gazing upon the Cross with his mind and heart, the Christian goes deeper into that symbol and grows spiritually. Just as a plant needs fertile soil, moisture, and sunlight in order to grow, so a Christian needs the Cross of Christ in his spiritual and physical life, for the Cross of Christ provides him with nourishment, drink, warmth, and light.
During the time of Rev. Fr. P.G. Thomas, to help climb the mount, construction work to erect seventy-two staircases in commemoration of the 72 messengers sent out by our Saviour (St. Luke Chapter 10), was started (1 March 1964). It was during the tenure of the twice-served Rev. Fr. Tharayil G. Geevarughese that the development work in the Parish started earnestly in the 1980s by establishing a Malayalam medium school, which was inaugurated by the Metropolitan of Thumpamon Diocese, H.G. Daniel Mar Philoxenos. His Grace, considering the ancestry, tradition and spirituality of the Church, elevated it as a Cathedral on April 22nd, 1984. The Holy Relics of St. Gregorios of Parumala, brought to the Cathedral on 22nd January 1984 by H.H. Baselios Mar Thomas Mathews I, is worshipped by both Christian and non-Christians from all walks of life. The parish has 28 Family Prayer Groups, 10 Martha Mariam Samajams, three Youth Movements, two Evangelical Groups, two Sunday Schools, Orthodox Vacation Bible School (OVBS), two Balika-Bala Samajams, Mar Gregorios Orthodox Youth Association (MGOYA working in cooperation with Mar Gregorios Orthodox Christian Students Movement of the Malankara Orthodox Church, Seniors' Groups, and Daiva Vili Sanghams. In addition the parish operates one (English medium) school, one hospital as well as other charity endowment funds.
Construction works are carried out under the able patronage of the Development Committee. A computerized Administrative Block was added to the Church complex, inauguration of which was carried out by H.G. Dr. Gabriel Mar Gregorios Metropolitan on March 6th, 2005.
The Church choir adds piety and solemnity to the liturgy.
The parish is justly proud and pleased to have one of its own, Rev. Fr. Dr. K. J. Gabriel, consecrated as Metropolitan, His Grace Dr. Gabriel Mar Gregorios, by the Catholicos of the Apostolic Throne of St. Thomas and Malankara Metropolitan, H.H. Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews II, at the Parumala St. Peter and St. Paul Seminary Church on 5th March 2005. We are therefore deeply humbled and rejoice, for this act of consecration gladdens all of us with bright joy.
Fr. Dr .K. J. Gabriel was born as third son of Chacko John (Kanjikkal, Thumpamon) and Aleyamma (Mulamoottil, Kudassanad) on 26 February 1949. Early education was at St. Stephen's High School, in Pathanapuram. After graduation from Baselios College, Kottayam, he completed the studies in Theology at the M.D. Seminary in Kottayam and Serampore University. Catholic University of Paris ("L'Institut Catholique de Paris" - ICP) awarded him M.Th. in New Testament. Research work on the epistles of St. Paul was done at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and post-doctoral Research at Cambridge University.
Ordained as Deacon on November 4, 1969 and as Priest on February 8, 1974, Fr. Gabriel was Vicar of various parishes at Churches in Bombay, Delhi, Kottayam, and Trivandrum Dioceses for over thirty years. He was Registrar and Director of F.F.R.R.D. and competently represented the Church at ecumenical organizations such as Orthodox-Marthoma Dialogue Forum, Orthodox-Lutheran Dialogue Forum, Bible Society Kerala Auxiliary Committee, and Theological Literature Forum. He is a Fellow of George Bell Ecumenical Institute, England and Professor of New Testament at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam since 1982. In addition he is an Administrative Committee Member of Serampore University. His Grace has authored many Theological Books like, "Towards a New Humanity", "Towards the Grace of God", "Cross and Grace", etc.
Since 24th June 2005, His Grace is the Metropolitan of the Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) Diocese.
Besides proficiency in English and Malayalam (mother tongue), His Grace has fair knowledge in Aramaic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew and Syriac.
FFRRC is a joint endeavour of the Orthodox Theological Seminary (Kottayam), Mar Thoma Theological Seminary (Kottayam), and Kerala United Theological Seminary (Trivandrum), formed with the objective to promote advanced theological studies in Religion and Culture.
Convention started in 1924 at St. Stephen's Mount has been moved to Mar Baselios Nagar at Thettikuzhy Junction since 1991 and is held there every year during the period of long Lent. The Feast of St. Stephen is celebrated on 7-8 Makaram (Malayalam Era) each year. Independent parishes were started in Olickal (St. Mar Gregorios, 1 April 1992), Poozhickad (St. George, 1 April 1992) and Kadamankulam (St. Mary's, 22 July 1992) for the convenience of parishioners scattered far from the mother church. There are now over 630 families in the register of the Kudassanad parish, spread across Kudassanad, Kurampala, Nooranad, Pazhakulam and Poozhickad within a radius of 5 km.
The Cathedral has one chapel named after St. Thomas in Nooranad and 15 "Shrines of Cross": Three (St. George, St. Gregorios and St. Mary) at the Cathedral complex, St. Stephen's at Kudassanad-Thettikuzhy Junction, Nooranad 10th Mile, Padinjaremukkathu Junction, Poozhickad-Chiramudi, Thandanivila, Thavalamkulam, Thuruthel Junction, respectively, Mar Baselios Hospital Junction, St. Peter's and St. Paul's at Arimangalathu, St. Gregorios at Chirayil Junction, St. George at Mettil Junction and St. Thomas at Ulavukkad-Mattappally Junction).
The Parish Festival is conducted on Makaram 7-8 (around January), which is preceded by one week of celebrations. Thousands of people, crossing over all religious denominations, participate in the procession and festivities to honour the Patron Saint of the Church, St. Stephen, and the first Martyr of the early church.
From the early days of the history of the church, the final Rasa (procession) is started from Pappadikoikkal Junction located next to Mulappumpallil, where the original church was planned. There is a tale behind this: Following the local opposition to erect a Church at the original site, a great epidemic spread, which people believed to be a divine bane. The first Rasa was thus begun as a sacrifice and propitiation. This rite of starting the Rasa from Pappadikoikkal Junction, passing through Ottalil corner and Valiyaveettil Dahana Chapel over St. Stephen's Shrine at Thettikuzhy Junction to the Cathedral, is still faithfully followed even after more than a century and half
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Section 1. Amend Chapter 25, Subchapter VI, Title 24 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows and redesignating accordingly:
Subchapter I. Objectives; Definitions; Board of Pharmacy
§ 2502. Definitions.
The following words, terms, and phrases when used in this chapter have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
"Biological product" means a biological product as defined in subsection (i) of section 351 of the Public Health Service Act 42 U.S.C. § 262(i)).
"Interchangeable" means a biological product licensed by the Federal Food and Drug Administration pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 262(k)(4).
"Reference Product" means a product as defined by the Federal Food and Drug Administration pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 262.
"Substitution" or "substitute" means pharmacists selection of prescriber authorized generic or therapeutically equivalent prescription medications or, in the case of biologicals, pharmacist selection of an interchangeable biological product in place of the prescribed product. Generic substitution means a drug that is the same active ingredient, equivalent in strength to the strength written on the prescription and which is classified as being therapeutically equivalent to another drug in the latest edition or supplement of the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, sometimes referred to as the "Orange Book."
§ 2549A. Dispensing and Substitution of Biological Products
(a) A pharmacist may substitute for a prescribed biological product only if:
(1) the practitioner has not expressly prohibited substitution in a manner specified in §2549;
(2) the product to be substituted has been designated by the Federal Food and Drug Administration as interchangeable with or therapeutically equivalent to the prescribed product;
(3) the pharmacist informs the patient or the patient's adult representative that an interchangeable biological product has been dispensed; and
(4) the pharmacist indicates on the prescription and on the prescription label the name of the manufacturer of the interchangeable biological product substituted unless the practitioner indicates otherwise.
(b) If a biological product is dispensed, the pharmacist or the pharmacist's designee shall, within a reasonable time but not to exceed ten days following dispensing, communicate to the practitioner the name and manufacturer of the biological product dispensed, by:
(1) recording such information in an interoperable electronic health records system shared with the prescribing practitioner, to the extent such a system is in place between a pharmacist and practitioner; or
(2) in the case where electronic health records are not in place between a pharmacist and a practitioner, communicating such information to the practitioner using any prevailing means available. No communication is required under this subsection where there is no interchangeable or therapeutically equivalent biological product for the prescribed biological product, or where a refill prescription is not changed from the biological product originally dispensed.
(c) The pharmacy shall maintain a record of the biological product dispensed as required in §2532.
(d) The Board of Pharmacy shall maintain a link on its web site to the current list of all biological products determined by the Federal Food and Drug Administration to be interchangeable with a specific biological product.
(e) Hospital pharmacies shall be exempt from the requirements of subsection (b) of this section.
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Toilet transforming concepts abound on the internet with ideas for the whole lot from eradicating and putting in new bathroom cupboards, to upgrading toilet fixtures and putting in a brand new sink and toilet. After making a listing of issues I should do, I realised that there is going to be far more to it than just packing up the kitchen ware, sorting out the bathroom cabinets and nearly all the things else. We're also renovating the downstairs half toilet so I will probably be back to share the gut and inspiration subsequent week! I hope this data is helpful to all of you who look to rent a contractor to transform a rest room.
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|I know the kids all loved doing the gingerbread men and playing with all that CANDY!
|They frosted their own men with white, green or pink icing......then we dug into a pile of little candies....
|Here are a few of the finished ones....some are really LOADED!
|Brody just lost his 2 front teeth, but he is still getting ready to bite off an arm or a leg! EEK!
|It was a very fun time.
|Twin brothers....but not twin gingerbread men!
|The gingerbread men turned out cute and yummy.
|I bought these veggie and dip plates from the dollar store, and they work great for sorting the candies....
|I put one on each table of 4 kids and they decorated their gingerbread men from that way....so easy!
|Hi guys! Good job everybody!
|It's the same idea....lots of candy on an upside down sugar cone and green frosting and they look like little trees decorated with little ornaments! Here are some Christmas Tree Cookie fact family activities HERE at Differentiation Station.
|But I found that nobody really wanted to eat the sugar cone, just the candies.
Now we are writing our own stories using the basic plot but changing it a little and coming up with our own innovations! They are quite hysterical.
|Here is our Gingerbread Man Story house to top our stories. I'll post the stories really soon. They should be done in another day or so.
Here is the gingerbread house I designed and we print it out on brown construction paper and some little gingerbread men in brown. A fun puppet set can be found HERE at DLTK-Teach. It is a favorite site of mine with lots of free downloadable stuff to enhance your lessons. Many more Gingerbread activities here.
|Candy for gingerbread men....
|And we made a few gingerbread houses too with the 3 little granddaughters, aged 5, 4 and 2 1/2. They loved making the cookies too. Who wouldn't love it?
|Here she is telling Santa all the good things she wants for Christmas.
|Here they both are with Mrs. Claus....so sweet! I love those girls....
|I've started decorating my house for Christmas too. (My gingerbread man is in the background) been a busy week!
|Christmas sugar cookies we made today. I'll can't decide which I love better, the sugar or the gingerbread. Either way, it is a fun activity for the kiddos. I always enjoy seeing them having fun with it.


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What Does This Mean? :: No Comment – REALLY!
It appears Kevin Hoover came by and commented on his comment.
What does this mean?
Your deconstruction is truly majestic. It should go into a blog museum if they ever start one.
September 3, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I guess that is saying something. Too bad he didn't take the time to explain himself. It might have helped with his credibility and legitimacy. Considering what's revealed – probably wasn't any better defense than offered.
What Does This Mean? :: No Comment
[UPDATE Below]
The Joe Blow Report has a standing policy when confronted with personal, ad hominem vitriolic attacks leveled against the messenger or writer. If they cannot direct their comments to the issues spoken or written about in the published article, we boycott them. We refuse to recognize or personally address these accusers. The enclosed article, "What Does This Mean :: No Comment" is written and published to the general public. It is "about" a statement by Kevin Hoover of the Arcata Eye he left in the "Comment Section" of the post I published on Thursday, August 26, 2010, titled: "What Does This Mean"? At the end of every article is the provision for everyone to leave a comment if they want. Since this blog is by me, the writer Joe Blow, all comments, unless specifically addressed to another commenter, are automatically address to me. It's what makes the blogging a personal experience. Like any conversation, when you enter someone's blog and address a comment or observation (even an opinion) directly to the host and they don't answer you back, you've got to recognize their public rudeness for what it is. Specially, if you've asked them a direct question. Kevin Hoover did not ask me a direct question.
This post article, "What Does This Mean :: No Comment" is the Report's observations on some of the issues raised in that comment. It is written and published for the general public and in no way is even a tacit recognition of Kevin Hoover. If I had wanted to recognize him or what he said, I would have left a statement in the relevant comment section. I did not.
Also, for the purposes of clarification and intent, this Report's observations regarding the citizen's arrest and picture of "Big Al" Edmunson posted on the Arcata Eye website had absolutely nothing to do with or about any issues with Kevin Hoover. Neither did anyone take issue with his reporting of the incident. Why he felt justified in trying to argue the legitimacy of the police action and his reporting, is clearly defined or explained in his referenced comment to me. If this story was published in the Times-Standard (if it was, I missed it) I would never ever referenced either him or the Arcata Eye. Even so, the story was far more important than whatever recognition or publicity Kevin Hoover might get from me. His complete comment is posted below for reference.
What Does This Mean?
What does this mean? Joe: "Alfred is a sympathetic character in many ways."
- What is a "sympathetic character"? Daffy Duck is a sympathetic character, too.
- What are his "many ways"? Is he a destitute, homeless beggar with a couple of sorry-looking dogs?
What does this mean? "He is also a large man with issues who is prone to outbursts of hostility."
- "He is also a large man." So what? Lots of people are "large." That doesn't automatically make them a threat.
- "He is also a … man with issues." What's being "large" got to do with "issues"? But then, who is it that says he actually has "issues"? Other people with issues? "Issues" like the fact that he was homeless, was panhandling and has a couple of dogs?
What does this mean? "… [P]rone to outbursts of hostility."
- Does this mean if someone or a group of someones provokes, harasses, or disparages him, cusses him out, calls him dirty names or in anyway makes him or his dogs feel threatened, he's prone to retaliate by "outbursts" of anger? Or does his "outbursts of hostility" amount to simply printing a sign that says, "F**K A.P.D."
What does this mean? "You might want to talk to the wage earners at the Chevron mini-mart."
- "Wage earners." Who are they? God's gift to the great? WAGE EARNERS as compared to who or what? A worthless begging bum? Or someone that's just lost their job and is collecting Unemployment Insurance or is on County Aid or Welfare?
- "You might want to talk …" Wonder what makes him think I haven't? Another blatant case of asserting a worthless opinion then using it to make phony conclusions.
What this last statement means to me: First, I think this is the most telling statement Mr. Hoover has ever posted on the Joe Blow Report. Second, this statement, in and of itself as well as in it's context, identifies Kevin Hoover as a prejudiced, intolerant bigot.
If you have a problem understanding why Mr. Hoover proves himself to be a "prejudiced, intolerant bigot" you need to read and think about this: Modern-day Racism: A Mixture That Calls for Some Clarification. If you can connect the dots, you might even realize why all the violent deaths on the North Coast lately.
What does this mean? "These men and women were extremely uncomfortable in their work lives having to deal with Big Al and his dogs day in and day out, and their gas station pay isn't high enough to compensate for a daily sense of conflict and danger."
- "extremely uncomfortable in their work lives" – I spent a lot of years extremely uncomfortable in my "work life" dealing with intolerant employers and some co-workers that wee nothing more than thug bullies, So what? Grow up.
- If "Big Al" and his dogs were affecting these employees to the extent as accused, why didn't the owner of the business deal with the problem? Perhaps, because it was these same employees that were causing the "sense of conflict and danger" by bothering or harassing "Big Al" and the owner had no standing. A serious issue of safety is easily seen and dealt with or handled accordingly. In other words the police would act on their own authority and simply remove the threat.
- "Daily "SENSE of" WHAT? What did the hardworking, underpaid people do? SMELL the "conflict" or some ignominious "danger"? REALLY! This is a joke.
What does this mean? "Whether their fears were real or illusory is something the know-it-all bloggers can pass judgment on endlessly."
- Now these poor hardworking, underpaid people's "sense of smell" defines their real or imaginary "fears"? How do we get from some abject "sense" that smells like "danger" or "conflict" to an absolute, "fear"? And that "sense" justifies arrest? Sounds more like paranoia than fear.
- "Know-it all bloggers." Is Mr. Hoover talking about himself with his arrogant racist slurs?
What does this mean? "As it happens, Al inspired exactly the same reactions back at nearby businesses during his Northtown era."
- "Inspired"? "Big Al" actually "inspired" these weak-kneed, underpaid people to "sense" or smell some sort of threat to themselves?
- How do you threaten someone and inspire them at the same time? What is "Big Al"? Some throwback to the Prophets of Old?
What does this mean? "My opinion is that the Nazi brand is bandied about much too frivolously these days. It ought to be reserved for actual Nazis, not deployed against everyday people trying to make a living. Being called a Hitler fan tends to anger some people. That shouldn't be too hard to understand."
- What "shouldn't be too hard to understand"? That neither I nor the Joe Blow Report are the least bit interested in worthless opinions?
- The Arcata Eye web story begins: "VALLEY WEST – The battle of wits and wills between Valley West businesses and corner signholder Alfred Edmunson reached a turning point last week with the citizen's arrest of Big Al." That was my question, "Why would "Big Al" call these poor, hardworking, underpaid, with over-active proboscises "Nazis" unless that is exactly how they are treating him?
- Mr. Hoover says calling these provocateurs "Nazis" made these Haustellums "angry." The truth generally has that affect on such people.
What does this mean? "As to your puzzlement over the law, hopefully this will help:"
- What "puzzlement"? I was simply wondering why Kym Kemp had anything to do with Kevin Hoover, is all. Besides, illegal laws were passed to intern Japanese American citizens, among others. So what? If that man has the legal right to stand where he was and do what he was doing, then he has the same right as everyone else to do it in peace and NOT be harassed by the "Valley West businesses."
Finally, what does this mean? Law: "Any person who uses offensive words in a public place which are inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction."
- Who defines the "offensive words"? I asked my wife the other day, "What does sexual harassment mean"? She said, "Whenever I feel threatened." I asked her if all the women she works with function under the same criteria and she said, "No." The "feeling" threshold varies with each person. That leaves the implementation of the law strictly in the hands of women with an overactive proboscis. I've found in my lifetime that the simple presence of "real men" generally threatens most pseudo or spurious women.
- "Immediate violent reaction," you mean like "get upset," "get sick," or "get angry"? Who knows? I could walk up to someone, say a new neighbor, stick out my hand and say, "Hi. I'm Joe Blow. Who are you"? And get a violent reaction.
What Does This Mean? – No comment.
An additional note, while researching this matter I came across the following website: "Say Goodbye To The Arcata Eye. If I was to boycott some business, I'd tell that business owner and explain why. These people might try getting out their message on Twitter.
Also a Facebook page of the same name plus, "(Boycott advertisers)." With almost 200 friends listed.
[UPDATE :: Monday, August 30, 2010]
This is what happens when there is no accountability or oversight. Where people are treated as sub-humans just because they "resisted." The threshold for resistance that justifies this sort of brutality is obscene. The latest on The Reporta is about the, "Martin Cotton Incident Going to Trial" – What happens if there is an award for damages in the millions? Who pays those cost? The police officers responsible, the police department, or the court that whitewashed the whole obscenity trying to protect their own? The people that pay for these costs are ultimately the people that are responsible for a police department, District Attorney, city government and Court system of judges that enables and promotes such corruption. You want this kind of law enforcement? Then pay the price. You can be sure you shall. When you do you can thank apologists like Kevin Hoover.
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Lord Love a Republican
[UPDATE Below] [UPDATE I :: We Can't Afford War] [UPDATE II]
War on the Little People
When you've lost you job because of the Banks, Wall Street, Obama economy fix and you can't collect any unemployment benefits and end up homeless and hungry look to your friends, relatives and neighbors that are Republican.
Senate Republicans Block Unemployment Benefits Bill
Senate Republicans have blocked another effort to extend unemployment benefits to millions of jobless workers. Emergency jobless benefits, which provide up to ninety-nine weeks of income support, expired June 2. More than 1.2 million people have already had their checks cut off, but that total is expected soon to rise to two million people.
This is from FireDogLake:
Republicans block unemployment bill
Associated Press:
Stymied by GOP, Democrats at loss on jobs agenda
These Republicans can spend trillions of borrowed dollars on made-up wars, but can't do anything for the Americans forced to pay for their crass beliefs and looting. [Source]
[UPDATE :: Friday, June 25, 2010]
War on the little people started when? In the process of finding this picture I came across this blog article on Big Dan's Big Blog posted March 2, 2010, that I think is still appropriate today.
[UPDATE II :: Tuesday, July 20, 2010]
FINALLY! Senate Democrats set to leap hurdle on extending jobless benefits
Democrats are expected to overcome Republican opposition to the package of new aid for unemployed Americans.
Power To The People — RIGHT!
The following Editorial, however well intentioned, is really an condemnatory indictment of the Eureka Police Department. The fact that the EPD had to institute the Problem Oriented Policing program speaks for itself. It's purpose, apparently defined below, was to get the people calling on the police to respond. Apparently the general public "did NOT have a sense of buy-in." They'd call in and get the run-around. My personal experience was, not only did I get the run-around, their failure to do their job made the matter worse. That would make me a prime candidate for some new empowering police program, right?
"This is effective policing"? If we didn't have "effective policing" BEFORE, why do we need a new "empowering program" now when all the police need to do is the job they are paid to do?
So, what's the real message this program is sending? Unless the police get the powers they want, we the people, the one's that they are here to supposedly protect and serve, divest us of everything, including our tax dollars, until they get their way. You can read how this all works here.
While the POP program in and of itself may be a useful tool and even an asset to the community, it's very existance, as justified in the following Editorial, definitely "sends" the wrong message.
This is the Sunday, January 17, 2010 Times-Standard Editorial copied here verbatim:
Empowering the people
The Times-Standard
Posted: 01/17/2010 01:30:15 AM PST
Law enforcement in this and any community works best when residents have a sense of buy-in. If Eurekans feel like their concerns and observations are noted by police, and that action is taken when crimes are committed and reported, then they are much more likely to take umbrage at crimes committed on their doorstep, and report them.
In two recent cases at least, the Eureka Police Department's Problem Oriented Policing program has yielded investigations and arrests. These were allegedly problem properties that had attracted the attention of neighbors, and their efforts to see these problems addressed led to concrete action on the part of law enforcement officials.
This success only serves to reinforce the program — as more and more residents realize that their calls actually result in action and enforcement, you can bet more and more calls will be made. This is effective policing. [Emphasis mine.]
Neither of the two recent busts led to major arrests. But that is not the point. The program is working quickly to give Eureka residents confidence that its police department is working to address the problems that affect their lives.
At the same time, it's sending signals to criminals within city limits that their actions will have consequences. Their activity will not be tolerated, and their neighbors, for so long simply passive witnesses to crime that went on all around them, are suddenly empowered. When people are invested, and feel like they can make a difference by policing their own communities, that's when positive change can really occur.
A good explanation of Problem Oriented Policing — POP — is here.
Police Safety and The Camera
The statement is made by Thadeus Greenson in his Sunday, May 31, 2009 Times-Standard newspaper article: "Photographer to stand trial in homeless case" that "When Officer Marsolan saw him cross the street and move closer to the officers, endangering them, Officer Dickson assisted in taking VonZabern into custody." How is taking pictures of these police officers constitute the crime of "obstructing an officer"? How does someone with a camera interfere with what the police are doing?
I did some research on photographing the police and found this telling bit of information on Flex Your Rights :: Protect Your Constitutional Rights During Police Encounters that explains our questions:
16. Can I be arrested for videotaping or photographing police?
Videotaping or photographing police in public places is usually legal, so long as you don't interfere with their activities. Nonetheless, doing so will often get you arrested.
Police don't like to be watched or documented in any way, so they'll sometimes bend the rules to stop you. We've heard many stories about people who got arrested for taping police, and the charges are usually dropped. If you're taping or photographing police, make sure you don't interfere, because "obstruction" is the most likely charge, and you'll want to be able to defend against it.
Despite the risk of arrest, we don't discourage the taping and photographing of police. Video evidence is uniquely effective in exposing police misconduct. If you acquire video or photographic evidence that warrants an official investigation, create and secure copies of the evidence, then forward it to local police monitoring groups such as civilian review boards, ACLU, and NAACP chapters. You should also obtain legal representation for yourself in case the police department retaliates against you.
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In the last 100 years there have been several significant non-scientific, non-humanitarian, ultimately evil attempts by certain egocentric groups to control life and death according to the beliefs of these groups, often supported by the government!
"Eugenics was practiced around the world and was promoted by governments, and influential individuals and institutions. Its advocates regarded it as a social philosophy for the improvement of human hereditary traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of certain people and traits, and the reduction of reproduction of certain people and traits.[6] Today some regard it as a brutal movement which inflicted massive human rights violations on millions of people.[7] The "interventions" advocated and practiced by eugenicists involved prominently the identification and classification of individuals and their families, including the poor, mentally ill, blind, 'promiscuous women', homosexuals and entire "racial" groups–such as the Roma and Jews–as "degenerate" or "unfit"; the segregation or institutionalization of such individuals and groups, their sterilization, their "euthanasia", and in the worst case of Nazi Germany, their mass extermination.[8] The practices engaged in by eugenicists involving violations of privacy, attacks on reputation, violations of the right to life, to found a family, to discrimination are all today classified as violations of human rights.
The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883,[10] drawing on the recent work of his cousin Charles Darwin. From its inception eugenics was supported by prominent people, including Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, William Keith Kellogg, Winston Churchill, Linus Pauling[11] and Sidney Webb.[12][13][14] Its most infamous proponent and practitioner was however Adolf Hitler"
THE ABOVE WAS TAKEN FROM Wikipedia, with some spellings corrected!
"For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for "bad blood," their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all.
"The United States government did something that was wrong-deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. . . . clearly racist."
-President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997.
"Scheflin and Opton in The Mind Manipulators state that 100,000 people received lobotomies between 1946-1955, with half of the operations occurring in the U.S.
The lobotomy victim's "sacrifice" was substantial. Psychiatrists Franz Alexander and Sheldon Selesnick noted that through psychosurgery:
"an area essential to the human being – his personality – is forever destroyed".
"Psychiatry's only and entire approach has been the application of force to a human being, whether this force be physical (involuntary commitment, straight jackets, restraints, abuse, torture, brain surgery), electrical (ECT, shock treatments), or biochemical (drugs). The aim is always to alter behavior, forcibly, with no appeal to the person themselves – their mind, thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, goals, intentions, responsibility or desires are ignored and even largely denied by modern psychiatric theories and methods."
With the assistance of schools psychiatrists and physicians are insisting that a remarkably high percentage of young children be placed on drugs that alter their brain and personality, sometimes for life.
Huge numbers of Americans are bulldozed by arrogant physicians into taking statin drugs, threatened often with tales of doom. I have seen scores of individuals who have developed severe peripheral neuropathy (their physicians refused to admit that it could be due to statins), muscle pain and weakness and memory loss. There are many safe alternatives to controlling cholesterol problems but the overwhelming percentage of physicians criticize and intimidate patients who do not wish to take statins.
Patients with cancer are urged to have chemotherapy and given stern warnings of death without them. Despite this, to take just one example, malignant brain tumors, there is no published evidence that chemotherapy prolongs life. Indeed one overview states that for cancer in general the prolongation of life is an average of 4 months! Hodgkin's is one of the few exceptions. Radiation does prolong life in many situations..
The reason for this brief overview of Medical Tyranny is a recent case in Minneapolis, that of Daniel Hauser, which has engendered national attention. Physicians have determined that THEY are the complete and final judges and ultimately prosecutors, with the power of the local prosecutor and a judge to force treatment on a 13 year old boy who has Hodgkin's lymphoma. The mother has taken the boy away and is the subject of a nationwide witch hunt to imprison her and force the boy to have chemotherapy, despite the objections of the parents and the boy. The question is NOT whether the therapy has a high likelihood of success. Medical literature supports their claim of a 90% likelihood of success although there is also at least as good evidence that it is only about 82%–still better than with any other malignancy.
For each of the following factors, the prognosis is reduced by 7%
Age >= 45 years
Stage IV disease
Hemoglobin < 10.5 g/dl
Lymphocyte count < 600/µl or < 8%
Albumin < 4.0 g/dl
White blood count >= 15,000/µl
Of course the boy is male so we can assume that his prognosis is at best 75 to 83%, NOT 90% as claimed by the Medical Tyrranists. Further there are serious COMPLICATIONS of chemotherapy
Death from the treatment—2-3%
Significant other tumors later in life
Significant increase in early cardiovascular disease
What is the true lifelong cure rate? This is no more known than the cure rate with alternatives. The THEY who consider themselves GOD in making the demands for chemotherapy even state that the survival rate without chemotherapy is 5%. I suspect that it is far higher when appropriate alternatives are used. And most of them are safe! For instance:
Intravenous high dose vitamin C-up to 100 grams daily. I have seen tumors the size of an orange disappear within 2 weeks
Vitamin D 3 in adequate doses prevents about 90% of all cancers.
There is good evidence for remission of some cancers with D3 therapy
Colloidal silver may be of benefit, even intravenously
Insulin potentiated chemotherapy. Minute dosages of
chemotherapy work just as well, when potentiated by lowering blood sugar with insulin. Far less dangerous!
Spiritual healing sometimes leads to miraculous healing.
Far beyond the medical statistics is ultimately legality and moral/ethical issues. Parents are responsible for the welfare of their children. Under what Constitutional law is it proper to FORCE treatment against the will of the parents and child? A 12 year old in most religions is considered mature enough to become confirmed. To me and many ethicists and spiritual authorities, forcing treatment is just another example of Medical Tyranny! The current Tyrannists do NOT have the 100% certainty they imply as their right to force therapy!
If you have not yet checked BOUNCE, do it now! And share with all your contacts!
[Posted with permission from Norm Shealy]
Choice and the U.S. Constitution
When you read this from Ron Paul ask yourself why would local businessmen and women in Humboldt County NOT want the marijuana laws repealed. Here's a link to Ernie Branscomb's blog for a good example. He also posted this tongue-in-cheek back Saturday, August 9, 2008: And you thought Marijuana was harmless…
End the War on Drugs – Ron Paul
We have recently heard many shocking stories of brutal killings and ruthless violence related to drug cartels warring with Mexican and US officials. It is approaching the fever pitch of a full blown crisis. Unfortunately, the administration is not likely to waste this opportunity to further expand government. Hopefully, we can take a deep breath and look at history for the optimal way to deal with this dangerous situation, which is not unprecedented.
Alcohol prohibition in the 1920's brought similar violence, gangs, lawlessness, corruption and brutality. The reason for the violence was not that making and selling alcohol was inherently dangerous. The violence came about because of the creation of a brutal black market which also drove profits through the roof. These profits enabled criminals like Al Capone to become incredibly wealthy, and militantly defensive of that wealth. Al Capone saw the repeal of Prohibition as a great threat, and indeed smuggling operations and gangland violence fell apart after repeal. Today, picking up a bottle of wine for dinner is a relatively benign transaction, and beer trucks travel openly and peacefully along their distribution routes.
Similarly today, the best way to fight violent drug cartels would be to pull the rug out from under their profits by bringing these transactions out into the sunlight. People who, unwisely, buy drugs would hardly opt for the back alley criminal dealer as a source, if a coffeehouse-style dispensary was an option. Moreover, a law-abiding dispensary is likely to check ID's and refuse sale to minors, as bars and ABC stores tend to do very diligently. Think of all the time and resources law enforcement could save if they could instead focus on violent crimes, instead of this impossible nanny-state mandate of saving people from themselves!
If these reasons don't convince the drug warriors, I would urge them to go back to the Constitution and consider where there is any authority to prohibit private personal choices like this. All of our freedoms – the freedom of religion and assembly, the freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, the right to be free from unnecessary government searches and seizures – stem from the precept that you own yourself and are responsible for your own choices. Prohibition laws negate self-ownership and are an absolute affront to the principles of freedom. I disagree vehemently with the recreational use of drugs, but at the same time, if people are only free to make good decisions, they are not truly free. In any case, states should decide for themselves how to handle these issues and the federal government should respect their choices.
My great concern is that instead of dealing deliberatively with the actual problems, Congress will be pressed again to act quickly without much thought or debate. I can't think of a single problem we haven't made worse that way. The panic generated by the looming crisis in Mexico should not be redirected into curtailing more rights, especially our second amendment rights, as seems to be in the works. Certainly, more gun laws in response to this violence will only serve to disarm lawful citizens. This is something to watch out for and stand up against. We have escalated the drug war enough to see it only escalates the violence and profits associated with drugs. It is time to try freedom instead.
So what's wrong with trying Ron Paul's version of freedom?
Joe had to smile to himself when he read this:
Think of all the time and resources law enforcement could save if they could instead focus on violent crimes, instead of this impossible nanny-state mandate of saving people from themselves!
Sounds like something Joe stood for the last 50 years. Maybe it's time to throw off the "mandate." Be responsible and demand accountability while you still can.
But then, no one would make any money off your slavery, would they?


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