[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4360]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             BIRTHDAY PROCLAMATION FOR ANIKA AND PRIAM ZELA

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                         HON. DAVID SCHWEIKERT

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 16, 2017

  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the following 
proclamation:
  Whereas, Anika and Priam Zela, twin sister and brother, will be 
honored by their parents, nona, family and friends on the occasion of 
their 1st Birthday on March 18th, 2017; and
  Whereas, Anika and Priam Zela were born in Phoenix, Arizona on March 
16th, 2016, at 12:45 p.m. and 12:36 p.m., respectively, blessing their 
parents and their family, and have been residents of Scottsdale, 
Arizona since then; and
  Whereas, March has been a blessed month for Anika and Priam, as their 
parents first met on March 3rd, 2007, the wedding of their parents was 
held on March 20th, 2011 and they came to this life on March 16th, 
2016; whereas March marks the beginning of Spring, where the grips of 
winter are just beginning to lose their hold as a new season of life 
begins too; whereas March was the beginning of a New Year and is still 
celebrated as such in many cultures and religions; whereas March marks 
the Vernal Equinox where northern and southern hemispheres are equally 
illuminated and day and night are of equal duration all over the earth 
symbolizing a twin approach; whereas March marks the International Day 
of Happiness exactly to the day their parents wedded and Equinox 
happens, as well as marks the World Mathematics Day; whereas March's 
birthstones are aquamarine and bloodstone that both symbolize courage; 
whereas March is named after Mars, the god of war, fertility and 
agriculture who oversaw the new growth of Spring, and encouraged the 
continuation of life; whereas the personality of March (and Mars) is 
charging, unrelinquishing and brutally assertive as, at this point in 
the year, there is no stopping the burgeoning birth of new life; 
whereas March (and Mars) is a high-speed locomotive on a single-focused 
monorail with only one objective: Explosive Expression; whereas March 
meaning embodies the reigniting of the hearts and consciousness of 
humankind, a time when we feel the initial kicks of Spring from the 
deepest womb of the Mother Earth; and, like our ancestors, we are 
quickened, our soul-palettes are whetted for new conquest and bold 
assertion and we set a course for forward-momentum; and
  Whereas 2016 (MMXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the 
Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era; and
  Whereas 2016 was a very eventful year, designated as the 
International Year of Global Understanding, where ESA and Roscosmos 
launched the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars; 
where Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway 
tunnel, was opened; where NASA's Juno spacecraft entered orbit around 
Jupiter and NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return 
mission; where the final videocassette recorder was manufactured by the 
Japanese company Funai; where the Solar Impulse 2 became the first 
solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth, and where Summer 
Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and
  Whereas, March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in 
the Gregorian calendar and there are 290 days remaining until the end 
of the year; and
  Whereas, March 16 is the birthday of James Madison, Jr., the Founding 
Father and fourth President of the United States and who is hailed as 
the Father of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as is 
the birthday of Georg Ohm, one the most famous physicists and 
mathematicians; and
  Whereas, their parents, family and society expect them to live long 
and productive lives and be a force for good, justice and progress for 
those around them, the country and the world; and
  Now, Therefore, it is hereby deemed a pleasure to extend this 
Certificate of Recognition to Anika & Priam Zela on the occasion of 
their 1st Birthday, with sincere congratulations and best wishes for a 
long, happy and successful life, wishing them that, with courage, 
knowledge, love and a spirit of discovery, there would be no limit to 
the heights they can reach, keeping their eyes on the stars, and their 
feet on the ground.

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