Sunday, May 20, 2012

May 22 2012 - Day for Biological Diversity


On May 22, 1992, the wording of the Convention on Biological Diversity was taken on by the United Nations at a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Since 2001, the International Day for Biological Diversity is eminent every year on the birthday of this date

Hold a festivity of the work being completed by neighbourhood farmers to preserve biodiversity. Prepare for an episode for local farmers to approach and talk to the society about their biodiversity preservation labours from preserving heirloom crops to keeping stands of native bush and trees to assist inhabitant animals and plants flourish amidst the agriculture. Offer awards to the farmers from neighbourhood members to express thank to them for their time and efforts in preserve biodiversity.

    Hold a quiz night to increase money for neighbourhood biodiversity re-establishment schemes. Decide a region of the neighbourhood surroundings that calls for a reinstatement, for example a stand of local trees, a river region, a lake, an area that is a habitat to a atypical species and aim at it for reinstatement and preservation. Promote the quiz night extensively in the neighbourhood and let individuals be acquainted with the motive at the back of it. Sell tickets of the occasion to raise funds and request for contributions of environmentally thoughtful prizes. Create biodiversity connected questions for the quiz night, for example questions about neighbourhood wildlife, trees, plants, ecosystems etc. Dish up food sourced in the neighbourhood for food and drink or request people to bring a plate of home cooked foodstuff.

    Hold a tree planting event. Ask the local government or legislative senate to be present at and to help source local trees for the occasion.

International Day for Biological Diversity Symbols

The International Day for Biological Diversity is a division of a sequence of activities to spotlight the attention on the Convention on Biological Diversity. The representation of this convention is a stylized picture of a twig or stem with three green leaves. Depending on the backdrop, the leaves possibly are just outlines or green blocks. Every year a portion of artwork is commissioned to mirror the theme. Particulars of the artwork are used as signs for diverse features of the International Day for Biological Diversity.

Waffle day 2012


International Waffle Day is a traditional festival that is celebrated in Sweden on March 25th.  The speciality of this day is that it marks the beginning of spring and waffles are typically eaten on this occasion.
International Waffle Day History
The origin of the word can be traced back to Vårfrudagen which means “Our Lady's Day”. The celebration will be nine months prior to Christmas. The Christian holiday of Annunciation and the Waffle Day is scheduled on the same day, though it doesn’t have much religious connections to Our Lady's Day.
A similar celebration is also there in the USA, celebrated on 24th August aimed at honouring the anniversary of the patenting of the first US waffle iron which was invented by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy.
International Waffle Day Celebrations
Waffle day celebration gives an opportunity to explore a wide variety of waffles such as American waffles topped with fried chicken, waffles drenched in sugary maple syrup, Brussels or Liège Belgian waffle coated with confectioner’s sugar or chocolate or cream, sweet Hong Kong waffle laced with the flavours of peanut butter or honey melon etc. Having a wide variety of waffles is the major attraction of this international Waffle Day celebration.
Saturday, May 19, 2012

what will you do on Fathers Day? ..2012


Sometimes we are lucky enough to be with people we love and can let them know we love them even if we cannot say the words. Sometimes, we cannot either be with them, or even feel any love for them. Either way writing can help. Whatever your situation, you might want to think about your experience of fathering today. Maybe think about any good there. Even if you cannot enjoy the day or good memories, try to be gentle with yourself (and pray always).

Happy Father's Day 2012

Father’s Day  is the one day in the year we get the chance to ‘honour’ our fathers, a day when dads get affectionate and jocular cards and treats.

That we celebrate is important and it does not have to cost money to make someone feel loved. You just have to know them enough - I wonder for instance if the family of the dad I met recently knows what a treat it would be for him just to get his hands on the television remote control so that he can ‘watch what I want to watch for a change’?

So, what would the dad(s) including the granddads, in your family really like? (Sir Alan Sugar’s potential apprentices discovered in the series final recently that it is not likely to be chocolates.)

However (and whether) you are able to celebrate fathers’ day this year; fathering is a difficult topic, especially today when it seems under challenge in several areas: biologically, legally, and spiritually.

Being a father has never been easy. We honour St Joseph because he was faithful enough and so man enough, to step up to the mark and to marry Mary and to love Jesus as his own, despite his initial reaction to her pregnancy.

Then, when He grew up Jesus radically changed our perception of God when he taught us to call God our ‘Father’. Until that time God, despite scriptural protestations to the contrary, had been confined and only accessible via the High Priests and sacrifice. By calling God Abba, Father, Jesus liberated him to allow us to enter a personal relationship with Him.  St Paul, whose year we are still celebrating, helped carry that liberation to the rest of the world and so to us here today.

In Hebrew ‘abba’ means both ‘father’ and ‘daddy’. So calling God Our Father helps bring us into a closer more loving relationship with him and it also elevates human fatherhood, natural, adoptive, spiritual or proxy, to new levels of importance. Pope John Paul II said that ‘God himself is present in human fatherhood and motherhood’.

Fathers are key figures in human family life. Their example matters to the well being of children. If our father is loving, we can begin to learn about God as a loving Father. This helps us to grow into adults who can love and approve ourselves and give and receive love with others.

Where no reliable father figure is available to us God is there to step into the breach. God himself becomes our Father. The challenge is to let him. How?

The Trinity shows us God as ‘relational’ and God works through relationships too so it might be that you can let other people help. If you do not have a father or have been hurt by a father or father figure you might want to find a trusted friend to  whom you can ‘open wide your heart ‘ as St Paul  urged the Corinthians (2 Cor. 6:13)

Jesus does not condone poor fathering (or mothering). He had very strong words for ‘whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin’ (Matthew 18:6).  No human father figure is perfect which is why every child needs to know about God as our loving Father. Whether we are able to understand and accept it yet or not He does suffer with us - witnessed most dramatically on earth in Jesus.