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Mother Mary Has Many Faces – The Assumption

August 14, 2015

Mother Mary has Many Faces

rosary-basilicaFamily, when we gave a talk in a church, Penny and I always asked our audience to think about their mother.  The reactions were varied, and very often surprising.  Most would smile and reminisce about times with their mother when they were young.  Others would grimace.  We always found it strange.  Then we asked them to think about our Blessed Mother.  We always got a good reaction then.

Mary has different faces.  She is a different person to the same child many times over in their lives.  As are we different people at different times in our lives.  I want to tell you a story of how we named the title of our book, “The Many Faces of Mary.”

Actually it was my darling wife Penny, who coined the phrase, Many Faces of Mary in 1983.  It was a warm summer day in Italy.  The afternoon sun cast its shadows from the buildings onto the pavement of the sleepy narrow Corso Boccalino, which leads to the Holy House in Loreto.

As we walked down the street towards the famous shrine to Mary, we praised and thanked her for the relief from the heat the shadows afforded us.  It was a lazy day, partly because of the heat, and partly because of the conversation with our luncheon guest.  He was a young Italian manufacturer of religious articles, Paolo Georgetti.  He was eager to know why people prayed to Mary under so many different names.  He used the pretext that he was interested in manufacturing plaques of Our Lady, but we could tell from his conversation that he had been seriously flirting with the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Penny, who was inspired by the Holy Spirit and had a great love for Mary, rattled off with great enthusiasm various titles of Our Lady to which people had the greatest devotion.  “Let’s see, there’s Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Fatima.  Then you definitely need Our Lady of Pompeii and Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal……”

Young Paolo started to laugh, sarcastically.  “But signora, how many ladies can there be?”  The sound of his laughter ricocheted off the buildings, assaulting the peaceful silence of the afternoon.  It was like a shriek against our ears.  We felt as if he had blasphemed.

Penny looked at him, her expression a combination of hurt, anger and defensiveness.  “How many people are you?  To your wife, you are Paolo, husband and lover.  To your children, you are daddy, pillar of strength, provider.  To your father, you are Paolo, successor to his business, learning your trade from him.  To your mother, you are the baby she held inside her womb those nine months, and watched with pride as you grew up.  To your employees, you are Signor Georgetti, the Patrone.  Same Paolo, but different people, addressing different needs.”

“It’s the same with Our Lady, only multiplied ten thousand fold.  Mary has many faces.  Each title of Mary answers a special need in those who reach out to her.  And she answers the needs as a loving mother, an understanding friend, a trusting confidante, whatever you need.  She’s available.  Don’t ever underestimate the Many Faces of Mary.”  And there we had it, out of the mouth of inspired, brilliant Penny Lord, the title of our new book, “The Many Faces of Mary.”

Family, this month, August 15, we will celebrate the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, Body and Soul.  It was after this that she was able to help us in so many ways, in so many titles, with so many faces.  The following week, August 22, we celebrate the Queenship of Mary, when our dear Mother Mary was crowned Queen of Heaven and earth, of all the Angels and the Saints.

FHC61-2Everyone who has ever visited Our Lady’s Shrine in Lourdes, France, has a special place where they just like to be with Mary.  It could be the Grotto where Our Lady appeared to St. Bernadette 18 times in the year 1858.  It could be the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.  It could be the Miraculous Baths or the Way of the Cross.  My special place for the last 40 years has been the Basilica of the Rosary.  I go up to the very front row and sit on either side, and just look above the altar on the dome at this beautiful mosaic of Our Lady, dressed as Queen of Heaven and Earth.  She wears her Crown and is dressed in a white gown with a blue sash.  A cape of ermine drapes her shoulders.  She looks straight at me. I can walk anywhere in the Basilica and her eyes follow me.  I cannot escape her.  I never want to escape her.  She is there, and she is talking to me and to you.  If you get everything out of your mind, you may hear her.  Every time I go there, I tell her that this may be the last time I see her.  She just smiles.  I’ve been saying that for years.

We Catholics have always believed in the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven.  It was just a part of our Faith.  But the world started to go tipsy towards the middle of the Nineteenth Century.  There had been a popular heresy spreading all over Europe called Pantheism, which claimed that man was equal with God.

In 1854, in the midst of all of this, and in the face of massive opposition, His Holiness, Blessed Pope Pius IX declared a Dogma of the Church, the Immaculate Conception, by which all Catholics were required to believe this.  What His Holiness declared was that, with the exception of Jesus, only Mary was born without the Stain of Original Sin.  The rest of us were heirs of Adam and Eve, and all that went with that.

There was an uproar inside the Church in Catholic Circles, and outside the Church in Protestant circles.  It was outrageous, they claimed, to give this singular honor to a woman.  Shades of Lucifer.  He said the same thing when told that a woman, Mary, would be Queen of Heaven and Earth, of all the Angels and the Saints.

Our Lady waited.  The situation was bad.  One year passed.  Not much better.  Two years passed.  The situation remained the same.  The third year passed, and still Mother Mary waited.  And then she did the predictable.  She found a remote town of no great importance, and within that speck on the earth, she chose a simple child of the poorest family in the region, and led her to a garbage dump, the Grotto of Massabielle.  From that vantage point, she was to send out a message to the world for all time, loud and clear, a confirmation of Pope Pius IX dogma, in the statement she made in the 16th Apparition to Bernadette:

Honor her on her Feast Day this Saturday, August 15, and for the rest of your lives.  We love you!

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Pray the Rosary

May 2, 2008

Since May is the month of Mary and she has urged us to “Pray the Rosary.” We thought we would add an excerpt from our book, “The Rosary the Life of Jesus and Mary,” on how to pray the Rosary.
You may want to pass this on to your friends that do not know how to pray the Rosary.
On Monday and Saturday, pray the Joyful Mysteries; Tuesday and Friday, the Sorrowful;
Thurday the Luminous Mysteries
Wednesday and Sunday, the Glorious; or say all 20 decades each day.

1. Make the Sign of the Cross.
2. Recite the “Apostles Creed”. (holding the Crucifix)
3. Recite the “Our Father”. (Large Bead)
4. Recite 3 “Hail Marys”. (Small Beads)
5. Recite the “Glory Be to the Father”.
6. Say Fatima Prayer and Short Prayer to Mary (optional)
7. Announce the First Mystery of the Joyful Mysteries
8. Recite the “Our Father”. (Large Bead)
9. Say 10 “Hail Marys” (Small Beads)
10. Recite the “Glory Be to the Father”.
11. Then pray the Fatima Prayer (optional)
12. Then pray a Short Prayer to Mary (optional)
13. Announce the Second Mystery of The Joyful Mysteries
14. Repeat 7-8-9-10-11-12
15. Then repeat the same prayers as you meditate on all the Joyful, the Sorrowful, and the Glorious Mysteries.
16. After the five (or fifteen) decades are finished,
Pray the Hail Holy Queen
17. Pray the Memorare
18. V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God
R. That we maybe worthy of the promises of Christ.

O God, Whose only-begotten Son, by His life, death and Resurrection has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant we beseech Thee, that meditating upon these Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Prayers of the Holy Rosary

“In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.”
“I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit; born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, died and was buried; He descended into hell; the third day He arose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven; sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Catholic Church; the Communion of Saints; the forgiveness of sins; the Resurrection of the body; and life everlasting. Amen.”

“Our Father, Who art in Heaven; hallowed by Thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.”

“Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”

“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

“Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins; save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls into Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy.”

“Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us, or Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us, or Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us, or
Our Lady of Czestochowa, pray for us, etc
any other title of Our Lady you would like to use”

“Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee we cry, poor banished children of Eve! To thee do we send up our sighs; mourning and weeping in this vale of tears! Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us; and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy Womb, Jesus.
O Clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God
That we may be worthy of the promises of Christ.”

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary
that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence I fly unto thee O Virgin of Virgins, my Mother.
To thee, I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. AMEN

The Joyful Mysteries

First Joyful – The Annunciation
Second Joyful – The Visitation
Third Joyful – The Birth of Jesus
Fourth Joyful – The Presentation in the Temple
Fifth Joyful – The finding of Jesus in the Temple

The Luminous Mysteries

First Luminous – Baptism in the Jordan river
Second Luminous – Marriage Feast at Cana
Third Luminous – Proclaimation of the coming of the Kingdom of God
Fourth Luminous – Transfiguration
Fifth Luminous – Institution of the Holy Eucharist

The Sorrowful Mysteries

First Sorrowful – Agony in the Garden
Second Sorrowful – Scourging at the Pillar

Third Sorrowful – Crowning with thorns

Fourth Sorrowful – Jesus carries the Cross

Fifth Sorrowful – Jesus dies on the Cross

The Glorious Mysteries
First Glorious – The Resurrection of Jesus
Second Glorious – The Ascension
Third Glorious – Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles
Fourth Glorious – The Assumption
Fitth Glorious – The Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth

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    Nov 11, 2007

    By Matty Gulbransen

    As a longtime member of the local media, the manner in which my colleagues are handling the Chargers' stadium effort and how they feel about it is near and dear to my heart. So, I determined that the best way to summarize the overall mood was to provide a brief synopsis of how members of the local media feel about this issue.

    I polled ten former colleagues in the TV and Radio Sports segment and came to the following unanimous consensus; the Chargers need a new stadium in order to be competitive revenue-wise. This, in turn, would help the team keep their core players, keep their assistant and position coaches here for longer terms and for the most common and, perhaps most importantly, to bring a Super Bowl to this city which would help provide an economic boost every four or five years. Not only would the latter revitalize the local economy, but it's important to remember that if 100,000+ people in this County are staying in hotel rooms, the Transient Occupancy Tax revenue from those rooms goes to pay off bonds for Petco Park. So it's a win-win situation for every taxpayer and sports enthusiast in the County.

    Among the four TV sportscasters I spoke with, three of them said the best spot for the stadium is the current location in Mission Valley. One colleague felt that the only the waterfront location in Chula Vista is viable because there are too many issues at play in city government for this project to succeed in either in Mission Valley or Downtown.

    Among the six local radio broadcasters I polled, three of them felt that the Waterfront in Chula Vista would be optimal and one preferred the Olympic Training Center site on the eastern part of Chula Vista because the land is private which removes a lot of bureaucracy and political red tape associated with some of the other sites. The remaining two stated that the Downtown location in East Village is the best place to build a new Chargers Stadium because it would create an unparalleled atmosphere and provide that "big city feel" that San Diego deserves.

    All of those I spoke with agreed that the Chargers should stay here in town. However, only four of the ten were optimistic that they will remain here, while the other 6 were convinced that the Chargers will relocate if significant progress isn't made before February 2010. Still, given the state of the local economy, all ten of those polled agreed that it's going to be incredibly difficult to get the financial backing to build a $400M-$600M stadium.

    One thing I took from talking to these local media insiders is that they all want the Chargers to stay in San Diego County and they are willing to help by using the power of television and the radio airwaves to keep the Bolts here in America's Finest City.

    But, keep this in the mind; just because we have great weather and an owner that says he wants to stay here, doesn't mean that we can rely on the media to make it happen. It takes all of us to create a fire with our local politicians to put this issue that the top of their agenda. My former media colleagues can't do it alone, but they agreed that with enough public support we can have a definitive impact on this process and help keep the Chargers in or great County.

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    Aggieman I bleed blue and gold

    Aug 14, 2008
    Gladly, but I no longer live in San Diego sorry.
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    Mar 13, 2009

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Changing Cultural Determinism

Labelling Africans, or indeed any cultural grouping, as universally lazy and/or ignorant is at best a crass generalization and often outright racism. Often it is a sign that the speaker him- or  her-self is too lazy to understand those they are accusing, and why they behave the way they do. But there are also plenty of cases which cannot be so easily dismissed, either because the speaker is from the maligned culture (or a related grouping), and/or you know that the complaint comes from real experience by one not given to reflex pejoratives. Examples are legion, some remarked to me, others I have observed:

  • The house builder from the local area who cautions that his own labourers are lazy.
  • The fast food restaurant serving rather slow food because the staff would rather chatter to one another than serve customers, and the bar staff who seem incapable of picking up the pace of their work on a busy club night.
  • Government officials from one part of the country labelling those from another as basically lazy.
  • Africans from a better educated country becoming frustrated at the lack of work ethic and lack of identification with their respective employers in those from another.
  • The hotel owner frustrated at the boatman who doesn’t turn up for work on the fourth day because after three days straight he reckons he has enough money for now.
  • That Indian and Chinese immigrants to the UK have a reputation for working extremely hard to which those from West Africa do not lay claim.

Even if there is still an element of cultural misunderstanding in these complaints, I believe there is far too much smoke for there to be no fire. People who assert in the name of political correctness that there is no problem are being naive. Many (maybe most?) extremely poor people exhibit an apparent cultural aversion to the sort of hard work that many commentators believe is necessary for economic development.

All of this is not to say,  however, that any one  person cannot rise above their cultural origins; cultural determinism is not an argument against free will. Many people can and do conquer it, and it is insulting to tar everyone with the same brush. Moreover, in the right circumstances these ‘lazy good-for-nothings’ can work incredibly hard, as anyone who has watched a digging crew in action hereabouts knows. Indeed the longer I stay here, the more  my understanding grows, and the more I believe I can devise schemes to better motivate people who might otherwise be accused of laziness.

Many African countries went through a socialist phase after independence; attitudes developed during that time cannot have helped. Similarly the high levels of patronage practised by many African governments would tend to suggest to their citizens that who you know, not how hard you work, is the critical factor in becoming rich.

A much more important argument is put forward by Jeffrey Sachs (and doubtless many others); that in the past many other cultures have been similarly labelled when today we would regard such an accusation as preposterous. In The End of Poverty Sachs describes how in the 1870s, when their economy was first re-opening to the world, that this was how most people saw the Japanese. Many waves of immigrants to America were often initially assumed to be lazy. Indeed I wonder whether in 1066 the Norman conquerors of England might not have moaned about the indolence of their Anglo-Saxon serfs.

Sachs’s point is that cultural attitudes to work clearly change, and it appears that they change as economic development happens. I would venture to suggest that education plays a big part in the change. My question is this: given the clear economic benefits of having a positive attitude to hard work, do we have any idea as to what development interventions best help to inculcate such a work ethic? Do we have to wait for economic development to begin (depending upon your point of view this is or is not achievable through large investments of aid), or can we short-cut the process a little? I do not expect any silver bullets, which do not exist in a field as complex as economic development, but anything that can help prioritise development interventions is worth considering.

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  1. Hm. Since we’re talking culture here, I am more comfortable with the term cultural relativism as opposed to cultural determinism. Allows for the idea of particularism flexibility since cultures aren’t homogeneous nor are they static.

    To address your question, yeah- Tanzanians are often told that we are not competitive in the modern capitalist world. I think a large part of this so-called problem is explained by complex social change issues, and competing ideas of individual agency, with a little bit of non-modern culture thrown in for good measure. Broad strokes: under colonialism, the only incentive for Natives (their term, not mine) to work in the “formal economy” was to pay the colonial taxes and keep out of jail. With a little help from Ujamaa, the individual’s importance continued to be depressed- hell, sometimes there were penalties attached to initiative.

    But this is now, and there are more than plenty of Tanzanians who are signing on to the idea that hard work in the formal sector will yield reasonable returns, as our economy grows and we have more opportunity etc. As evidenced by high rural-urban migration, the informal economy etc. We’re actually busy building now the institutions that will result in all that recognizable westernized modernity that passes for development. I predict the situation will be quite different in another five to ten years, as we really embrace the Economic Development paradigm as valid and achievable even at the individual level.

    I have to address the tendency to assume that something is “wrong” with cultures that don’t behave according to the values of the observing culture. That’s, like, the laziest form of racism ever.

    • Interesting. I see and hear plenty of anecdotal evidence that the brain drain is reversing in some African countries (especially among the younger generation). This definitely has to be a good thing. Without wanting to ascribe any particular value to the idea (see below), I wonder to what extent such returners might provide alternative role models in their society, thus contributing to a change in work ethic? Does a poor Tanzanian who has never progressed beyond primary school identify with a richer one whose parents sent to university in the US, or do they feel almost as alienated as they do with expatriate Westerners?

      I also think that it is up to the individual to decide how much they want to work or not. For an employer coming here to set up business, it is their challenge to understand their workforce and motivate them accordingly. Moaning about their problem without attempting to understand it is unedifying. I even suppose many of them might agree with a suggestion that there is something “wrong” with the culture of their staff, and I would agree that is a particularly lazy form of racism.

      But … what do we mean by “wrong”? In a relativistic discussion is anything ever truly right or wrong? It’s an issue that human rights activists have long had to grapple with. Is economic development “good”? There are plenty of examples of communities and cultures that have resisted the march of modernity, and often they are respected for it. (The Victorian myth of the noble savage.) However, most poor people do seem to want economic development, and, in the absence of a natural resources boom combined with unusually good governance (examples tend to start and end with Botswana), it seems hard work is one of the key ingredients for a nation to achieve that. Lots of economists also praise FDI as important, but unfortunately not many investors take the time to understand the culture and motivations of their workforce – they just expect them to work hard.

      It is certainly a point of optimism that you see an inflection point coming soon, or even happening now. If you are right, and if this applies to many other countries too, maybe Paul Collier is wrong to worry over much about the fate of the “Bottom Billion”. Finally, is this something that the development industry can help with? Maybe not now in Tanzania, but perhaps in CAR, for instance? Or is the notion that we can help transform people’s values systems in this way a hubris-tic, neo-imperialist fallacy of the worst order?

  2. “Does a poor Tanzanian who has never progressed beyond primary school identify with a richer one whose parents sent to university in the US, or do they feel almost as alienated as they do with expatriate Westerners?” – In my personal experience, the second tends to apply. It’s a class issue where class is almost completely determined by education level, with the highest economic class enjoying a foreign education that hardly equips us to relate to poor Tanzanians as our peers since our aspirational education tells us that our peers are Wall Street Bankers or UN Directors. Maybe the real utility of the reverse brain drain is going to be in employing us returnees to build up the institutions we need for a modern nation state- the middle class, the indigenous private sector (larger scale), services, innovation, growth, growth, growth, and the occasional politician interested in redistribution. Of course there is always the danger that we will just use our educations to become better thieves at BoT, sneak into the ruling party via its pockets and become another headcase of a country.

    As for the inflexion point- we have no choice, really. When we gained independence there was probably a very small handful of secondary school and university graduates and the rest could make a decent living through farming or blacksmithing or whatever your trade was. Now there are hordes of us, all trying to live the American Dream (house with flush toilet, car, 2.5 healthy kids, private schooling and DSTV on the tube) and besides, who needs a blacksmith anymore? Since the state’s not going to do it for us, and the development sector is fixated with poverty, we’re just going to have to stimulate that economic growth ourselves… through hard work 🙂

    “Finally, is this something that the development industry can help with? Maybe not now in Tanzania, but perhaps in CAR, for instance? Or is the notion that we can help transform people’s values systems in this way a hubris-tic, neo-imperialist fallacy of the worst order?” Of course it is hubristic and neo-imperialist fallacy of the worst order like any self-righteous intervention is bound to be. Someone’s always tampering with the value system- if it’s not the Christians it will be the World Bank, or the Feminists, or the Foreign Investors or the Socialists or the Development Industry or the Roman Empire. Most people are happy enough to adopt almost any new thinking or way of doing things providing they can see the benefit in doing so. If not, send their kids to school and inject them with the desired value system and then simply wait for the older generations to die off.

    One thing that I do find limited in the development industry though is the way the other social sciences are marginalized by economics. And economics, for all its utility, is also the most reductive and least interested in dealing with real-life complexities. I can’t help but think that including political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists might improve the thinking and efficacy of development projects. Another thing to keep in mind also is the temporal aspect: it’s going to take time for us to change. No instant gratification here.

    But I did want to make one final point: I am endlessly amused when expats move to Tanzania and then find that things work a little differently here than they do back home. Want to be effective? Learn the language. Learn the culture. Learn what’s most likely to provide the results you need, and then do it. In a nutshell: acculturate.

    • Ok. I can see your point on changing value systems. So what we’re saying is that this is a good example of one of the building blocks / processes of economic development that cannot really be short-cut. If only the world’s various development agencies didn’t keep implying otherwise …

  3. Exactly. Also: allow for complexity, particularism, specialization. We have some of the tools but not all of the answers. Sometimes we’re not even observing or asking the right questions, we’re just we’re relying on formulas…

  4. […] Leave a Comment Due to my desire to obscure my location (and thus preserve my anonymity) a recent post contained some clumsy phrasing: “Africans from [one] country … those from another [African […]

  5. […] a recent discussion on this blog recently concluded, this is probably not something which is going to take a while to change. However, it does have […]

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for a total of Total revenues $53,181

Then for inventory:
Food and beverage supplies (purchased in November 2005) $2,800
cash purchases for the five months $10,016
credit purchases (in November 2005) $1,583
minus ending inventory (what is shown as inventory in March 2006) ($2,430)
For a total food and beverage of $11,969

Am i thinking right on this in order to create an incomes statement from two balance sheets (one from Nov 2005 and one from March 2006)?

Does depreciation get prorated for the length of time I am creating the Income Statement? Also operating license expense? Or do I include the whole expense for the entire 12 month period since it is an income statement on an accrual basis?

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How can preschool curriculum, based on solid research, build school and life-related skills? Why are well-qualified teachers important? How is play integrated into learning?

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Preschool refers to an early-childhood educational class for 3- and 4-year-olds.
"At preschool, they become exposed to numbers, letters, and shapes. And, more important, they learn how to socialize -- get along with other children, share, contribute to circle time."
Statistics show that a majority of kids attend at least one year of preschool: According to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), more than two-thirds of 4-year-olds and more than 40 percent of 3-year-olds were enrolled in a preschool in 2005. "Children who attend high-quality preschool enter kindergarten with better pre-reading skills, richer vocabularies, and stronger basic math skills than those who do not," says NIEER director W. Steven Barnett, PhD.
"Every child should have some sort of group experience before he starts kindergarten," says Amy Flynn, director of New York City's Bank Street Family Center. Music and gymnastics classes are great, but what preschools do that less formal classes don't is teach kids how to be students. Your child will learn how to raise her hand, take turns, and share the teacher's attention. What's more, she'll learn how to separate from Mommy, who often stays in a music or gym class. All of this makes for an easier transition to kindergarten. "Kindergarten teachers will tell you that the students who are ready to learn are those who come into school with good social and behavior-management skills," Smith says.
In fact, educators have so recognized the importance of giving kids some form of quality early education that about 40 states now offer state-funded pre-K programs.
What do children learn under a preschool curriculum?
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Getting a Library Card

I have a confession to make – I haven’t stepped foot in a public library for at least seven years. After spending four years with my university’s COLOSSAL (but ugly) private library collection, I never thought the public library would ever be good enough again.

But it wasn’t always like this.

When I was little, my parents never bought me books. Like good Chinese parents, they had an excuse for this frugality: I simply read books too fast. But this was fine because the library had more books than I could ever buy anyways. My mom used to take me to story time at the Pickering Public Library, which I considered a trillion times better than my own Ajax Public Library because it had TWO floors!

Yesterday, I got a library card for Mississauga public libraries. My reasons for doing this:

1. I’m poor. Too poor to buy more books.
2. I have no space to keep more books.
3. I live across the street from the library.
4. Mississauga Public Libraries offer free ebook borrowing – I have an ereader.
5. Libraries smell good.

What’s more, within 5 minutes of stepping inside, I discovered the newest Walter Mosely novel published just this year. So yes, your library might even have the newest releases.

My only problem was that I didn’t have a proof of address. The library lady asked me if I had I receive any bills in the mail. I told her that everything was paperless and she thought that was ridiculous. Surely, I had received a letter from a friend or relative.

I asked if I could bring a shipping label from Amazon (my only friend, apparently) and she said yes. I guess proof of address is really important when you’re lending your books to strangers but she was nice enough to let me take books out anyways. Librarians must know what it’s like to really, really want to read something.

Sidenote: Check out the Stuttgard New City Library in Germany. Now, that’s a library worth moving into town for!

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Meeting Melanie from thirty four flavours

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Me checking out the cool hipster mason jar centrepieces

I FINALLY got a chance to meet Melanie from thirty four flavours blog. Once in a blue moon, you meet someone that you hit it off with instantly. And since I follow her blog religiously, it almost felt like I had known her for months.

Melanie invited me to the Media Profile Christmas Party at the very hipster-chic The Burroughes venue on Queen West. We spotted Lloyd Robertson in the crowd canoodling with a crowd of young ladies about a quarter of his age. You go Lloyd!

As you may know, the former CTV newscaster recently released his memoirs titled The Kind of Life It’s Been. Melanie and I had to fight off the temptation to ask for a photograph. Instead, I went the super creepy route of taking this very blurry photo of him.

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Besides meeting Melanie and bumping into former newscasters, my favourite part of the party was maple syrup-covered cheese. Yeah you heard me. A catering company named Ninutik was there rolling balls of cheese over syrup on plates of snow. So abashedly Canadian and so delicious.

Big thanks to Melanie for the invite — we’ll have to hit up Bannock for brunch when I get back from my holidays 🙂

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Tilky Jones cast in “The Unauthorized O.C. Musical”

BTSCelebs’ January interview guest will star in a stage production based on the hit TV series “The O. C.”  late next month.

Entertainment Weekly recently announced that Tilky Jones will join Molly McCook, Brendan Robinson and Greer Grammer in the “The Unauthorized O.C. Musical”. The one night only production, which is set for August 30th, is scheduled to premiere in the Federal Bar in Los Angeles, California.

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The time is fast approaching for the annual Harvest Poker Classic (HPC) at Casino Regina. The longstanding tournament series is one of the highlights of the November poker season in western Canada, this year featuring four events including the $1,100 Main Event. Begun in 1997, the 19th Annual Harvest Poker Classic features a range of buy-ins, with knock-out tournaments priced at $400 and $800, and a $600 freeze-out along with the Main Event.

The series has something for every bankroll level. See the full schedule below.

Event 1$400No-limit Hold'em Freeze-out Knock-outNov. 1112 p.m.
Event 2$600No-limit Hold'em Freze-outNov. 1212 p.m.
Event 3$800No-limit Hold’em Freeze-out Knock-outNov. 1312 p.m.
Event 4$1,100No-limit Hold’em Freeze-outNov. 1412 p.m.

Built inside what was once Regina's Union Train Station, Casino Regina has a long history with classic poker series in western Canada. The former train station was a meeting place for people of all kinds, and the HPC, as well as its sister series, the Station Poker Classic (SPC) which runs annually in the spring, bring together poker players from across Canada for a chance at poker glory.

With this, the 19th edition, the venerated series has a long history at Casino Regina. The inaugural series was held way back in 1997, making this a series that predates "the Moneymaker Effect" and the explosion of poker across Canada and the world. The Harvest Classic began as a rather modest affair, with just five low buy-in events. The Main Event, labeled the Canadian Hold'em Championship, was a mere $225 and, interestingly for modern tournament players in western Canada, featured side events including seven-card stud and Omaha hi-lo.

The honour of the the title "First Harvest Poker Classic Champion" sits with Russ Eaton, who took down the 1997 Canadian Hold'em Championships that highlighted the '97 series. He bagged $10,829 for the win, which, when adjusted for inflation, is well over $15,000 in 2015 dollars. Eaton went on to become a fixture in early HPC and SPC series over the next few years, with cashes in Harvest or Station events in seven-card stud, Omaha hi-lo, and pot-limit Omaha, as well as several more hold'em cashes.

The HPC stayed small for the next few years, with the feature event a $225 limit hold'em tournament through the year 2000. In 2001, the feature tournament first bore the Main Event name, and fitting that new moniker, was nearly double the previous buy-in at $525. The 2001 Main Event went to Trinh Nguyen who bagged over $25,000 for the win. The $225 "Canadian Championship" returned in 2002 and the $225 tournament, as well as the varied side game schedule, remained the marquee event until 2005.

In 2005, the HPC introduced a new $1,050 no-limit hold'em event in addition to the $225 Canadian Poker Championship. The high buy-in event attracted 181 entries, demonstrating the appeal of bigger games. Calgary's Claude Amor won it all, taking home $35,545 from a prize pool that topped $180,000. The 2005 Canadian Poker Championship saw 344 entries for a prize pool that capped even the high roller at $207,300. Mel Podaima of Manitoba took home the biggest share of that, collecting $53,143 for the win.

The following year, the $1,050 tournament was back, this time bearing the Canadian Championship name, and over the next few years it grew in size well passed 200 entries. With the success of the tournament, the buy-in went up to $1,500 in 2009 and $1,700 in 2010. In 2011 the tournament returned to the more reasonable $1,000 level and the $1,000+$100 format of this year's series.

Last year, the 18th running of the series, saw 210 entries generate a prize pool of $210,000. Saskatoon's Jared Klimsko was the last player standing in the 2014 HPC Main Event. Kilmsko won $55,750 for the first-place finish. Last year's series ended up with a whopping $585,700 in prize pools across the four events of the series, so there's sure to be lots of money up for grabs at Casino Regina this November.

The 19th edition of the Harvest Poker Classic runs from November 11 through 14, as well as a Satellite Extravaganza day on Tuesday November 10. Single table sit-and-go satellites will run for all four events on the 2015 schedule starting at 7 p.m. on the 10th, so head to Regina early to get in on some of the satellite action. Single table sit-and-go satellites will run as per below.

$501 Ticket to Event 1
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$1201 Ticket to Event 4

PokerNews Canada will be on site at Casino Regina covering the series from start to end, with feature articles and live updates. Join us here to follow all the action, or better yet, book your ticket to Regina and get into the action. You just might see yourself featured here in our live updates.

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Did you know the DMV offers five simple ways to renew your vehicle registration? We realize it may not always be convenient to visit a field office, so we offer the following alternative ways to renew your vehicle and be on your way:

1)      Renewal by mail – Simply send in your renewal notice along with the required payment. Your registration card and sticker will arrive in the mail shortly after!

2)      Online renewal – If you’re eligible to renew online, all you need is the last 5 digits of your VIN and your license plate number.

3)      Renewal by self-service terminal (SST) – A self-service terminal allows you to complete your registration process using touch screen technology and immediately dispenses your registration card and sticker. It’s quick and easy! Check the list of locations to make sure an SST is available at your local office.

4)      Renewal by telephone – To renew by phone, all you need to do is dial DMV’s Automated Telephone Service at 1-800-777-0133. When prompted, you will need to provide your renewal identification number (RIN) found on your renewal notice, last five digits of your VIN number and your license plate number.

And if you prefer, you can still visit the field office and renew your vehicle registration. Here’s how:

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March 21 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The H.T. Smith Chapter of Black Law Students Association has begun to receive nominations for our prestigious Honoring Legends award ceremony. During the first installment of the series, BLSA honored H.T. Smith, esteemed professor and litigator, by renaming our chapter after him. In our second year, we bid farewell to renowned Professor George Knox, who retired in 2015. We celebrated Professor Knox’s commitment to mentorship and diversity in the legal profession with an award in his namesake. This past year, we honored County Attorney Abigail Price-Williams with the George F. Knox Living Legend Award. Ms. Price-Williams was universally approved by commissioners and became the first African-American woman to assume the role of Miami-Dade County Attorney in 2015.

This year, we will honor Attorney Nikki Simon, Attorney Reginald Clyne, and Professor Michelle Anglade.

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Outsource SMThe broker business is paperwork intensive, to put it mildly. You’ve got lender approvals, provincial disclosures, service agreements, client income documents, purchase agreements, and so on and so on.

Pushing all that paper can be tedious and time consuming. Anyone trying to scale their business has undoubtedly thought about how to streamline document processing and staff accordingly. That includes the founder of DocAssist, a new-ish broker service company that we came across recently.

CMT has looked at document outsourcing services (like Nexsys Financial) in the past but the price was never right. With DocAssist, it’s much righter.

DocAssist is essentially a virtual support team at the ready to assist small, medium and even top-producing brokerages. Its goal is to save brokers processing time so they can allocate more resources to marketing and mortgage planning.

“We work with brokers who see the value in expanding their operations, either to increase revenue and spend more time advising clients, or to improve their lifestyle and spend less time getting paper cuts,” says founder Jason Henneberry.

“Our partners believe, as we do, that they can be more effective at growing their businesses by outsourcing repeatable activities and processes that often keep them tied to their desk.”

Basic membership to DocAssist gives brokers access to a variety of on-demand document management services, including:

  • CRA Notice of Assessment retrieval;
  • Title and Corporate Registry searches;
  • Client document management (sorting and labelling all inbound documentation and delivery of receipt notifications to clients and referral sources);
  • Post-funding marketing support (personally signed thank-you cards, preparation and delivery of closing gifts, welcome packages, renewal letters and other custom client marketing).

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For document retrieval, brokers are charged about the same as what it would cost to get these documents directly. DocAssist makes its money on subscription and per-file fees. For example:

  • As low as $29 per month for 10 NOA retrievals.
  • $50 per file for client document management.
  • $100 per file for client document management plus preparation of closing packages (signature-ready lender forms, disclosures & closing documents) and uploading complete compliance documents to the brokerage.
  • Professional fulfillment services are also available starting at $249 per month and $250 per instance. This includes services such as initial file review, closing package preparation (cost of borrowing disclosures, lender forms, etc…), file completion and fulfillment (managing appraisals and working directly with lenders to satisfy conditions and complete the file for instruction), and even vacation coverage.

“There’s a common misconception in our industry that in order to provide the “best service,” a broker needs to be involved in the entire mortgage process,” Henneberry says. “This belief has so many of us justifying why we aren’t willing to let go and we try to do everything ourselves.”

Henneberry estimates that, on average, his 200+ clients save over five hours per file. “…This time can be re-allocated to more productive, business-generating activities,” he adds.

On the issue of security and confidentiality, Henneberry openly acknowledges that some have concerns about outsourcing sensitive information to a platform run by another brokerage. DocAssist operations are completely firewalled, he assures. The company carefully abides by all PIPEDA requirements and runs on a system separate from MortgagePal, the brokerage he also operates. After closing, all client information is stored with, and only accessible to, the brokerage that owns the client relationship.

At the end of the day, this type of service boils down to cost/benefit. The cost of a full-time documents fulfillment officer can range from $35,000 to $65,000 a year, and that cost is generally fixed. By contrast, DocAssist affords the benefits of variable pricing and outsourced HR headaches. For that reason, it’s probably worth a look for anyone (especially smaller shops) thinking of hiring an assistant.

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First questions and impressions

I love cities. I love arriving in a new city and discovering its rhythms, its smells, its landscapes, and how people move about within it. Having just arrived in Durban, South Africa, earlier this week, I don’t quite understand the place yet. This is partly because Durban – population 4.5 million – is on the cusp of being temporarily transformed by an influx of some 30,000 people from all over the world. Thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, activists, and civil society will be converging in Durban for COP-17, from November 28th to December 9th.  They’ll be bringing with them different cultural practices, different experiences, different interests, and varying degrees of power and privilege.

It’s no news that the most powerful and privileged countries have shaped the direction of previous COPs. Neither the principles of common but differentiated responsibility or consensus-based decision making have been respected at the UNFCCC in recent years, with countries like Canada refusing to commit to a fair and legally binding international agreement to combat climate change, and the US bullying other nations into signing on to an inadequate treaty.

Do I have hope for the UNFCCC process this time around? Not really. I’m here as a member of the CYD, to help bring the voice of the Canadian youth climate justice movement to COP-17, and to relay back to Canadians how their country is (or is not) performing at these vitally important negotiations. My hope is that by translating the happenings of COP-17 to Canadians, the CYD will help incite more people to engage in climate organizing in their communities, and pressure the current Canadian government to develop and implement an aggressive climate change plan. Still, I’m feeling a bit unsure… was it necessary for us to fly halfway around the world (accumulating a significant carbon footprint, putting our local organizing on hold, and reversing our internal clocks) to be here?

However, that is not to say that I’m not inspired by some of what I’ve been witnessing in Durban so far. On the contrary, I’ve been feeling increasingly motivated to take part in climate justice struggle since my arrival in Durban. I’ve been meeting tons of amazing local organizers and folks who have come from afar to voice their demands on the sidelines of COP-17. These activists are forming broad-based international coalitions and combining their creative forces to protest unjust climate policies and demonstrate alternatives. They are holding their governments accountable and demanding climate action. I feel so fortunate that the CYD is part of this global horizontal network, and that I have the opportunity to work with and learn from all of these folks.

Yet, again, there are challenges… How do I situate myself – along with my power and privilege – in this network? What does it mean for me, and for the CYD, to be here in Durban? These are questions that I will be contemplating throughout the duration of COP-17, and probably for long after.

Although I’m not particularly optimistic about the potential juridical outcomes of COP-17, the social movements uniting around climate justice are a source of profound encouragement. People are fed up. Change is on its way, be it through the UNFCCC or not.

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Pest control isn’t only about controlling pests. It’s also about helping the community, including fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation for entomology. We take our role in the community seriously, and we apply our knowledge, talents and resources to help our neighbors in any we can. And we don’t just wait for customers to call us. We're always out there looking on our own for ways we can help. We’re committed to community involvement. Here are just a few ways we’ve helped:

O. Orkin Insect Zoo

As part of our commitment to education, Orkin is proud to sponsor the O. Orkin Insect Zoo, located inside the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Our multiyear partnership with the Smithsonian demonstrates the high level of trust and respect people have for our company and our people. Through this exhibit, the first sole corporate sponsorship of a Smithsonian exhibit, millions are discovering the important role insects play in our environment and the interdependent love/hate relationship that exists between bugs and people.

Orkin Hits the Classroom

Since the 1950’s Orkin men and women have shared their insect knowledge with students around the country. The tradition continues today with the Orkin Man School Presentation program, which pairs science classes with a local Orkin Man for a hands-on experience. In the picture to the left Ken Reid, a route manager in Charlotte, North Carolina takes a photo after presenting to a group of students. “I really enjoy talking to the kids”, said Ken. “Bugs are not creepy when you teach kids about the insect’s behavior and biology.”

Orkin Gives Back

Orkin held a competition which rewarded the branches with the highest customer service scores. These rewards ranged from$100 to $3,000 for the branch to use for hosting a branch function, gifts for the team members or for equipment to be used for the branch. The Augusta, Georgia branch shown in the photo to the left won $1,180 in the contest but instead of using it for themselves, they chose to donate the money to the local Ronald McDonald house. Just another example of Orkin employees giving back to the communities they serve.


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OLIVE is our cute jack russel/chihuahua mix who is just about a year old; spayed and shots; ready for new playmates. This week she has made wonderful progress — yes, separation anxiety is an issue. We have been visiting drive-through Starbucks; Del Taco; and MickeyD’s but I managed to go grocery shopping on Friday night and she watch the store door and waited for me. VICTORY!! While still a little on the jealous side, she is playing with my longhair chihuahua Foxy Roxy, running with Wookie, the shitzu, and becoming a member of the pack. Needs a buddy! OLIVE is a perfect car companion-sits in her seat quietly; watches the road at times; in the office, she sits at my feet or goes into her carrier for a brief nap. Olive is at Petsmart Brea on Sat/Sun 1:30pm-5:30pm or by appt in the evenings. She is a staff favorite!

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