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After a completely sold-out run and rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014, the amazing Des Bishop is bringing his critically acclaimed show, 'Coming Home' to Armagh.
In February 2013, American-born, Irish-bred Des Bishop went to China to try and learn enough Chinese to do stand-up comedy in Mandarin, to a Chinese audience.
If that wasn't challenge enough, now he wants to make the world laugh about his experiences.
From trying to find a girlfriend at a Beijing marriage market, to working as a waiter in a Heilongjiang restaurant, and a bit of stand-up in Mandarin along the way. 'Coming Home' is a fun journey through a country we all feel we need to know better. If China is poised to take over the world, we'd better learn to make them laugh.
Des Bishop will perform at The Market Place Theatre in Armagh on Thursday, August 27, at 8pm. Tickets are priced £18.50 each. Please note this show is recommended for age 18+ as it may contain material that some people could find offensive.
Details of all events can be found online at www.marketplacearmagh.com, and tickets can be booked by contacting the Box Office on [028] 3752 1821.
And to keep up-to-date with the latest news at the Market Place Theatre, you can follow them on Facebook (www.facebook.com/marketplacearmagh) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/mptarmagh) where you will find all the latest information, special offers and video previews.


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This Friday, February 3, 2017
* The Groundhog Ball *
Mixed Ballroom Dance with our own DJ Antonio
$22 includes hot buffet dinner, coffee and dessert, wine and beer
7:00 Dance Lesson
7:30-11:00 Dinner and Dancing
Reserve tables. Dance Hosts.
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Inspiration found in Huis Marseille, a photography museum in Amsterdam. My favorite museum because they are always able to mesmerize, surprise or inspire me with their exhibitions. This time I found a collaboration between photographer Chrystel Lebas and biologist Edward James Salisbury. In the thirties Salisbury had photographed parts of Schotland and England with a special focus on the botanics and the horizon. 2000 of his pictures on glass plates were rediscovered in British museums and a search began to understand where and what was captured. Lebas is a photographer with a special interest in nature and wide pictures. She stepped into the footsteps of the researcher and with 80 years apart she captured the same scenes as Salisbury had once photographed.
Salisbury, from box 1250-1258, Arrochar 1928, Loch Long from Glen Loin
Lebas, Plate no. 1255, Arrochar 2013, Re-visiting Loch Long from Glen Loin
The collaboration shows documentation, fascination and professionalism. A joy to watch because of the amazing pictures with depth, colours and details that embrace you. I particularly liked this exhibition because it is a 1:1 collaboration between science and art both to inform us and to let us look better.


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It's almost time for a long weekend so plan a barbecue with family and friends. Start with patriotic decorations like this one from Taste of Home.
Plum Party has some fun decorations for a party like these place mats and pull apart crackers.
Sur la Table also has some great patriotic decor.
Start the barbecue by serving a Sweet Liberty Fruit Wreath.
On the grill, try Beef Kebabs, Grilled Honey Barbecue Chicken or don't forget the Cheeseburgers.
Serve cold Raspberry Lemonade with colored sugar on the cups.
For dessert, end with this delicious Patriotic Trifle.
Memorial Day is a time for remembrance and observance but it is also a time for socializing and celebrating. Have a great barbecue!


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Happy Saturday ! I hope you are all having a lovely weekend ?
I am very honoured to be taking part in a video hop today for my lovely friend Justine
Justine is celebrating 1 Million Views on her YouTube Channel and is doing a video hop so you can win some amazing prizes.
I haven't done a video for a while but couldn't miss the opportunity to help Justine celebrate this fantastic achievement.
You need to hop along all the videos and collect the secret words hidden in each video, these will create a sentence which you then enter here for your chance to win some of these awesome prizes.
My video can be found here. And in the description is all the giveaway info including where to go on the hop.
I created a quick and simple card for the hop using the Celebrate Theme.
I used my Spectrum Aqua Markers along with my Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen to give the card lots of shimmer and shine.
I went a little OTT with the sequins, but hey its a celebration 🙂 For the sentiment I struggled to get it too stand out so once I heat embossed it I went around the words with a white gel pen to make it pop a little more and in real life it really does stand out.
I want to take the opportunity to send a huge congratulations to Justine and thank her for asking me to be part of the celebrations, and also giving me the kick to get back into creating videos.
I hope you will all hop along and enjoy all the lovely videos everyone has created.
Make sure you check out Justines channel all this month as I know she has tons of things planned you won't want to miss.
Happy hopping and thank you so much for stopping by.
Have an amazing day.


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Britain's Mercury 2013 shortlisted singer, Jake Bugg performed an exclusive & intimate set for MTV's Live Vibration series at the Brixton Academy.
The Number One UK selling artist sang five songs including new and unreleased, Slumville Sunrise, What Doesn't Kill You and Song About Love. As well as his hit signature single Lightning Bolt
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22 Mar, 2009
Watermain Breaks Mapped via Twitter
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Pam Broviak recently commented on my original watermain + twitter post from a few days ago, asking if it's possible to actually map out all the tweets about watermain breaks. Well, yes it is possible. And it's actually quite easy, once I found a Yahoo! Pipe that automatically builds a google map out of a [...]


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by Lori Leu
As Baby Boomers age and the need for long-term care increases, estate planning attorneys should consider adapting forms and methods of analyzing clients' circumstances to plan for the possibility of needs-based public benefits.
Statutory Durable Power of Attorney. The gifting provision in the statutory form of the durable power of attorney limits gifting to "the amount of annual exclusions allowed from the federal gift tax for the calendar year of the gift," which is currently $14,000. A broader authority may be required to permit necessary planning. The agent may need unlimited gifting powers, including the ability to engage in self-dealing, to take advantage of the planning that is allowed under the rules for public benefits qualification. If the principal does not trust the agent sufficiently to grant this level of authority, the principal should name someone else as agent.
Wills. Currently, one in three seniors die from a form of dementia. Sufficient planning should be done to ensure protection of the surviving spouse who has dementia or some other physical condition requiring long-term care. A married couple is often able to qualify one spouse for Medicaid benefits while keeping significant resources for the community spouse, particularly if their income is below a certain amount. However, a single individual must have less than $2,000 in countable resources to qualify for Medicaid benefits. If the spouse who is serving as the caregiver dies first, and the surviving spouse is the beneficiary under the Will, then the surviving spouse will need to have less than $2,000 in countable resources before qualifying for Medicaid benefits. However, if the Will contains a contingent supplemental needs trust, then the resources of the deceased spouse can be protected for the surviving spouse's care without inclusion in the countable resources for Medicaid qualification. Although recent changes to the Texas Estate Code allow courts to reform the Wills, it would be better to plan ahead when possible.
Medicaid Issue Spotting. Assisting an individual with a Medicaid application constitutes the practice of law, and attorneys should be careful about providing such advice unless they stay up-to-date on the Medicaid rules. Importantly, though, estate planning attorneys should educate themselves so that they can know when to seek the advice of an elder law attorney. The average cost of long-term care in the DFW area is $3,600 - $6,500/month, depending upon the level of care needed. Only individuals who have long-term care insurance or sufficient funds to pay for years of long-term care should believe they may never need to plan for Medicaid. Every estate planning attorney should be aware of the following:
· Long-term illness. Questions about your clients' health should be a standard part of the information-gathering for preparation of estate planning documents. If your client has been diagnosed with a long-term illness or has been experiencing memory issues, planning should include the significant possibility of public benefits.
· Medicare. Medicare is health insurance and pays for no more than a portion of 100 days in a skilled nursing facility. Medicare does not pay for long-term custodial care.
· Medicaid. In Texas, Medicaid primarily pays for long-term care in a skilled nursing facility. The benefit available for assisted living and at-home care is very limited and may require extensive waiting. Memory care is typically located in assisted living facilities.
· Transfer penalties. Medicaid has a five-year look-back period, meaning the applicant will be penalized for transferring assets within five years of applying for Medicaid. Gifting up to the annual gift exclusion for taxes is still a transfer under the Medicaid rules. Individuals who may need Medicaid within five years should not engage in any gifting.
· Irrevocable trusts. Funding an irrevocable trust constitutes a transfer and a five-year waiting period. Purposefully transferring assets to an irrevocable trust and waiting five years may not be a good option for individuals with dementia who need memory care in assisted living.
· Revocable living trusts. Revocable living trusts are not good planning mechanisms if Medicaid might be needed. Resources in the name of a revocable living trust are countable for Medicaid purposes. Further, a homestead valued up to $552,000 is exempt from countable resources for Medicaid, if the homestead is in individual names. If the homestead is in the name of a revocable living trust, it is a countable resource. Public benefits planning regularly requires the revocation of such trusts.
· Life Estate Deeds. Standard life estate deeds constitute transfers for Medicaid purposes. Homesteads can pass to heirs through use of an enhanced life estate deed, also known as a Lady Bird Deed.
· Income. Income is never too high for Medicaid qualification. If the applicant earns more than the income cap, a qualified income trust may be established for eligibility.
Appropriate elder law issue spotting can save your clients from unnecessary costs later.
Lori Leu is a Certified Elder Law Attorney with Leu & Peirce, PLLC. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Seedless Avocados Now Exist To Prevent 'Avocado Hand'
So, OK, there's this legit problem that apparently exists… and it's called 'avocado hand'.
It seems Brits have been regularly stabbing and cutting their hands while attempting to slice traditional avocados.
Apparently, 'avocado hand' is so common the that the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons recently called for warning labels to be slapped on them. The avocado, not the person.
But as quickly as there is a problem, there already seems to be a solution: seedless avocados.
British retail chain Marks & Spencer have started to stock the 'cocktail avocado' and they claim it's 100 per cent edible. We're talking skin and all.
The thing is, while hipsters everywhere are girding their loins over this, seedless avos have kinda been around for awhile. The lack of a big ol' seed is the result of an unpollinated avocado blossom.
One thing's for sure, while seedless avos are likely to be more expensive than seedy ones, at least you now don't need any skill whatsoever to crack one open.


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Did you happen to see this season of Top Chef? If so, perhaps you remember contestant Jeff, and what his opponent Carla said about the "creative monkeys" he just couldn't tame.
Jeff was very capable in the kitchen and everyone seemed to enjoy him too. But when they teased him in the post-Finale episode, it was about how often he couldn't resist pulling out every trick with every ingredient on every plate. It didn't seem to be about ego or showing off; it came across like a kid in a candy store having too much fun to rein it in.
Unfocused might be the kindest way to put it. Except that wouldn't be entirely accurate, since Jeff was incredibly focused while working, and he had to be unusually good at multi-tasking to produce three variations or more on almost every theme. His problem, if it was one, was that he was the King of Complexity. He was rarely content producing one thing, unlike his opposite, Carla, the Queen of Simplicity, who was also very creative, but within a narrower range.
On my "Creative Monkey Scale" below, Jeff would clearly be a 5, while Carla would be a 1. If Jeff was challenged to a banana dish, he'd be hunting for every flavor and kind, from Chiquita to plantains, then presenting small bites of the experiments that worked out the best. Carla, on the other side, would be looking for the one best banana in town, then making a great rendition of her single best banana dish.


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I am always amazed and at times, envious, of those who have a combination of talent, spirit and individualism. This potent combination is a winner every time. From vintage clothing to art constructed of cardboard to hand crafted kitchen utensils created from wood, the talent and products here are first rate.
Caustic Culture, an eclectic mix of vintage clothing, arts & crafts and family spirit located in the majestic forests of Maine. Stop by for a visit. I am sure you will be greeted with that down home Maine hospitality by Sheri and Stan Hollenbeck, the creative forces behind Caustic Culture.


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A Frosty December morning in Glendalough, Co. Wicklow...
Portmarnock Beach, North Dublin.
A traffic jam in Carlow town as the River Barrow floods
Another angle on the river Barrow bursting its banks
An Air France/City Jet Avro on take off Roll at Dublin's Easterly facing Runway
A Summer Sunset Boeing 737 on Short Finals into Dublin's Easterly Facing Runway.
Some of the Ryan Clan gathering as they head away from Dublin Airport
Sunset at Baltimore, Co. Cork.
"If I were a Blackbird....."
A phone pic of Portmarnock Beach and a rainstorm with Lambay Island in the distance
U2's 'Claw Stage' on the last night of their Dublin gig for their 360 degree tour at Croke Park.
A splash at the 'Forty Foot' in Sandycove, Co. Dublin.
On one of my flying lessons... banking right abeam the Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork.
Overhead Rochestown, Cork with the Capuchin Friary and St. Francis College...
Muckross Park, Killarney, Co. Kerry.
The 'Navigator of the Seas' visits Cobh, Co. Cork.
Defunct Railway, Co. Cavan.


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Social Economic Development1. Learnerships FY17 – FY18
For the first time WestconGroup SA registered their own learnership in partnership with Torque IT. This program is not funded by MICT Seta. We have taken on about 15 learners. The programme is registered with MICT Seta and focuses on an NQF Level 4 qualification. This learnership program will continue to extend into FY18.
Westcon in partnership with Torque IT and MICTSETA are in final arrangements to secure a second programme which is 100% funded by the SETA. We will be appointing 40 learners for FY17/18 covering both NQF level 4 & 5 qualifications.
2. Disabled Learnership Programme
Westcon have partnered with a company called Action for Blind and Disabled Children and sponsored funds towards a learnership program for the disabled. Action for Blind and Disabled Children is an accredited training provider with MICT Seta, Microsoft, Cisco and Pastel. They provide training within these brands and addresses the unique challenges of skills shortages amongst the disabled.
Through this program, WestconGroup SA will have an opportunity to appoint disabled staff from amongst this pool of learners.
3. Internships in partnership with Microsoft
Once again, Westcon have partnered with Microsoft and are hosting 6 Interns for FY18. The learners have received their formal training with Microsoft and are now on-site at WestconGroup SA; part of a very structured rotational program to gain knowledge and skills within the Westcon Cloud business practice.
Extensive value has been gained from the previous programme as we were able to permanently appoint all learners and we trust that the current program will be just as successful and we are able to appoint the interns permanently.
Kliptown Secondary School started as a primary school on 13 October 1924. The total number of learners enrolled that day was 29: 16 boys and 13 girls. The school grew rapidly and had to expand and presently the school accommodates about 1900 learners from the broader previously disadvantaged areas: Soweto and Eldorado Park.
WestconGroup SA Corporate Social Investment: Initiatives with Kliptown School started in 2015. As part of our CSI strategy WestconGroup SA have partnered with the Mining Investment Company to fund the upliftment of Kliptown's computer laboratory by providing IT support for the learners. As you may be aware, our industry is experiencing major skills shortages and we have decided to invest starting from tertiary education right through to providing Learnership and Internship Programmes to aid learners from previously disadvantaged backgrounds.
Along with this, Westcon also hosts annual career days for grade 11 and 12 learners from the school, whereby leaders from the Business Practices have an opportunity to talk to the students about IT distribution and what happens within their respective business units. This is always well received by the learners.
Westcon had the opportunity to donate 20 computers to Kliptown's IT Lab in 2015. For 2017, Westcon took the decision to further upgrade the school's IT Lab by donating 14 laptops to the school. It is always a humbling experience to visit the school and engage with the teachers as any support or contribution made is received with sincere gratitude.
Westcon in partnership with MIC (Mining Investment Company) contributes annually to the JB Marks Education Trust Fund that funds bursary recipients who are dependents of the workers within the mining, construction and energy industries. These individuals come from previously disadvantaged backgrounds. This is an annual initiative. We have seen the graduation of 1 learner who achieved honours in IT in 2016.


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Al Jazeera: Can Cuba's internet come out of the cold?June 5th, 2015 Theme: Cuba Libre! | Theme: Internet Freedom
Cuba has one of the lowest connectivity rates in the world and most users are only able to connect to the restricted and government controlled version of the internet, offering a national email system, pro-government blogs, and educational sources.
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iBeacon: Powered by Apple, iBeacon offers an exemplary & with a future foster approach of exploring locations. Simply put, a wireless device sending signals to nearby devices (smartphones, tablets, etc), wherein mobile applications can sense this signal and activate a location-based action. With our iBeacon mobile app development service, businesses especially retail industry can expect cutting-edge and niche apps that will not only add value to operation but also enhance the competency all the way in operationality and functionality.
For e.g, when a pedestrian walking down a lane in city center and before approaching a coffee shop his/her smartphone beeps with a notification of an "Instant offer or discount on coffee" is a signal thrown by physical hardware device named Beacon set up at the shop or store to attract customers having Bluetooth enabled device.
How does iBeacon work: It is a technology which uses Bluetooth low-energy (Bluetooth / LE / BLE) connection to communicate with nearby devices. This is a location sensing application connects with in-store beacons while detecting enabled smartphones to send push notifications.
iBeacon technology is induced with low cost, low powered and lower energy Bluetooth device that uses low frequency for transmitting weak signals consisting primarily of advertisements or small packets of data, broadcast at a regular interval by Beacons via radio waves to other Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Connect iBeacon with Moon Technolabs, a top iBeacon app development company as we had built an app for windows, where a person comes near the PC and has that app installed in iPhone(4s or above) than iBeacon will recognise and trigger a start call to that windows app and it will start running. When a person moves away, iPhone would trigger a stop call and windows app would stop functioning. (Only needed is iBeacon chip is must be placed in windows PC).
Our expertise has grown tenfold while working on the projects ranging across diverse vertical industries. Moreover, Moon Technolabs is adept at holding down the fort while our client retention ratio is intact remains at staggering 98%. With our persistence, loyalty, commitment and skills, we have propelled the new small upcoming startups and expedite their revenue generating model with our impeccable iBeacon expertise. We have catered to the different needs of following businesses where Beacon Technology has applied usage & benefited in mobile apps:
iBeacon is an Apple's technology which allows mobile apps to listen for signals from beacons in the physical world and react accordingly. Our iBeacon team of developers have deep understanding and knowledge of Low Energy Bluetooth – essential to unearth the power & potential of iBeacon.
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We craft our esoteric logical approach pertaining to the customized & personalized need requested by our valuable clients. Keeping top-notch quality parameters for years has turned into a habit now and hence, we absolutely like to lend our ears to shape your business plan/idea into reality apps that offer exceedingly well usability and great potential for your business processes. You can expect fully integrated and innovative iBeacon app development proposals from Moon Technolabs.
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Spring has sprung but the deep snow rermains at Brundage. Pocatello demands climbing fitness. This is the best we can come up with for now...
B earning some of the last turns of the year.
My previous PR= 31:30. Today's time= 28:54.
As you can see, PR's tend to hurt!
Happy boy after double Brundage Skin & Ski.


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Rubber Gasket
Gaskets natural rubber, natural rubber, natural rubber flange gaskets. What are the chemical components of natural rubber effect? Natural rubber is a natural polymer, in addition to mainly composed of rubber hydrocarbon, also contains non-rubber parts about 10% (BU I, see table). These non-rubber part has its role, now introduced as follows.
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It is well over a week since my last blog. However as you will all know if you have been following my blog that I have been very poorly which is taking time and medication to help me get back to my "normal self". I am not sure whether I was happy or sad when the doctor told me last Wednesday on the results of my latest blood tests that things HAD improved and that I should attempt a return to work. Anyone off work for more than a few days will appreciate what a mountain that feels for me at the moment so please everyone wish me luck for next Monday as it will be the first day I will HAVE to remain awake all day! I had to laugh at my doctor though because he suggested that, once you are able to cite each and every programme on daytime tv, you are ready to go back to work. Sadly I obliged and sealed my fate! I have found out the hard way how easy it is to turn yourself into an invalid and expect all to be done FOR you so I suspect my poor long suffering husband is pleased too that I have been declared fit enough to return to work! I can't tell you how hard my first day on my own at home was......nobody to wait on me hand and foot so there I was relearning how to make cups of tea, toast, dinner hot water bottles again.
Enough of my whines and whinges I hear you all cry and MORE about St. Hils.......................
Before I begin another trip down memory lane I have a confession to make..and before I tell you see below for the evidence.........
I have to thank Frances of Buttercup Miniatures for giving me some ideas for this blog. It was, in deed, Frances who pointed something out to me that, although I had given it SOME thought, I had not really considered it a big deal. It amazes me how, in my storylines, I suddenly realise I have addressed an issue that I know is very important within society itself because it has something to do with not only the issue, but also in how it is viewed by society in general.
I realise that literacy is something that many of us take for granted but for some people, particularly adults, it is something of an issue if they either never attended school enough to learn to read or write properly or, for some other reason, they just never "got it". However I didn't really set out to address this issue at all when putting together our Remembrance page last year in which I cite poor Ernest as not being able to read or write but who still wanted his mother remembered in the list of those who had died as she had died so recently and he missed her sorely as does his father, Eric. Of course my immediate thought was - how CAN a duck be expected to read or write? However I quickly realise that a duck would not be welcome in any real full sized church whether it could read or write so the issue would never arise in real life would it?
Now I have a BIG confession to make and anyone who has visited St. Hils over the years are welcome, if they can remember, let me know which page I featured this issue on with our Rita and son. I have just spent literally ages trawling through both current and archived back up folders to find which page it was on and have now temporarily given up. Let me explain................Rita as you all know came to England from Australia. The reasons for her now living on the road are obscure and in that I like to leave the detail to our visitors' imagination. However I distinctly remember having a feature on one page where the vicar actually receives a letter from her son who has finally tracked her down. Rita, you see, must have had good reasons which I never explain, as to why she had to leave her son when he was so small with his father. What circumstances led her to live on the road? Did she have to go to a women's refuge because her husband had treated her badly? However if that was the case why didn't she take her son with her? She may have been the victim of mental illness and had developed severe depression and was unable to stay in the family home and left for the sake of her husband and child.
Whatever the case, Rita would never have forgotten her son and, when the vicar of St. Hils gives her this contact letter from him she is just so overjoyed that he has found her.
I have also included a really old photo here with Rita sitting on the back pew. You see she is quite shy and much prefers to stay out of the limelight.......Rita, incidentally, was made for us by a friend of ours, Rachel Fritz, who lives in South Australia. She is a truly great artist and also provided us with the vicar and in him, she has also set the whole character of St. Hils for me!
Homer too is a man of the road that the vicar is happy to provide refuge to in St. Hils. He came from Germany because he was made for us by Daniela Kiefhaber as was our Rev Ken who was modelled on a real life man of the cloth who is also a family friend. Rev Ken, actually represents our friend because it was he who took us all under his wing when my father died back in 1980. In addition to taking my father's funeral Ken also married Andrew and myself back in 1991 as well as taking the funeral of my mother, the late Hilary Davies. Mother referred to him as "my rock" and indeed, during her subsequent life after the loss of my father, he certainly fulfilled that role for her - thanks for that Ken!
Gosh I have strayed off my original path...sorry for that. Where was I? Oh yes I was really talking about both Homer and Rita. I particularly wanted to have such people in my St. Hils because it so represents what I remember of my childhood days when my father took the family to church. A church to me is not a church if all are not welcome. I will always remember the kindness of my father to one particular old lady who lived on the road during one particularly harsh Winter. In my minds' eye I can still see my dear father lead this lady right up to the front of the church where she would be most visible in order to sit her right next to a church heater to keep the poor lady warm. The church concerned is a city centre church and, as such, was and still is a venue that much attracts people who really have nowhere else to go when things are not good for them.
So it is fitting that St. Hils has at least two people who are homeless as part of the congregation. You see my message is..God loves EVERYONE whatever their circumstances are and with no favour. So in addressing the issues I have chatted about today I feel it is good that people can know that it is "okay" if you can't read, or live on the streets or........well anything really.
Whoops - sorry about the above cos I realise I have gotten all philosophical but hope you all get the gist of my message here! Perhaps you could say I have had too much time to think over the last four weeks!
I have now got to get my head around to Pentecost - any ideas out there folks? If you have any do let me know. I can't promise I will use them all but any ideas are great because it sets my imagination off. So far we have had Pentecost parties to celebrate the day as the birthday of the church..........a lesson completed by the children on the subject of Pentecost majoring in on the fruit of the Spirit............so any other slants on the subject all gratefully received. Even if you have a funny pet story that we could adapt for our own pets is welcome.........
Till the next time........


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The Rainbow Honor Walk is a 501(C)3 nonprofit organization. We have no paid staff, nor do we receive government funds. We are entirely dependent upon donations.
Below are the names of those generous and history-loving companies and individuals who "walked the walk" with us to fund the design, construction and installation of our first 20 honoree plaques. In addition, we have received countless anonymous donations at street fairs and events. We are grateful for all. Finally, we are grateful for the ongoing support of the Human Rights Campaign Action Center & Store and their sale of "Rainbow Honor Walk" lapel pins and mugs as a continuing source of revenue.
$ 20,000 – $25,000
Allan Baird
Ron Collins, in loving memory of his brother, Donald O. Collins.
Hector Crawford and Ralph Hibbs
$ 8,000 and Higher
HRC Action Center & Store
Dell Corporation
Timothy J. Flint
Felipe Sanchez Paris & Otis Charles
Anthony Turney
Walmart PRIDE Associate Resource Group
$ 5000
AIDS Emergency Fund
Alvin Baum
Joe Chavez
James Nunemacher
JB Enterprises
Hearth Realty
Horizons Foundation
Keely Badger, Neda Nobari Foundation
Vanguard Realty
$ 1000 — $ 4000
Herth Real Estate
Jeff Berry & Eric Politzer
Alfredo Casuso & David Perry
Cliff's Variety Store
Timothy Denike
Michael Fullam
Nigel Gamble
George Krevsky Gallery
Michael Helquist & Dale Danley
Karen Helmuth & Terri Hague
Mark McHale
Andrew Moran
Mary B. Nolan
Tony Origlio & Kip Vanderbilt
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David Speyer
Vanguard Properties
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Alan Thomsen
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
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Mark McHale
Linda McCain & Mark Novakowski
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Tom Norwick
Debbie Pappas
Paul Parker
Ralph Patricelli
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LD Price
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Joseph David Robinson
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Diane Rosen
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COSDEC Tsumeb Who We Are.
COSDEC Tsumeb is a Community Skills Development Centre established in 1999 in response to the high unemployment rate. The Centre offer demand driven skills, training and support out of school youth and other community members in the most cost effective manner with dignity, professionalism, and integrity.
Front row: Sylvi Nhinda, Ntema Sihela (Centre Manager), Mutalipula Musialela, Anetta Malan. Back row: Herman Haikali, Selma Thomas, Fillemon Iiyambo, Ueritjiua Komomungondo, Paulus Andreas, Emilia Lidker
The Courses include 5 and 7 month institutional training and 1 – 3 months job attachment.
The short courses are designed to provide skills training in a short period of time for up to 3 Months. Some courses are offered after hours to accommodate people who are working to improve their skills or to learn a new trade that might increase their quality of life through better or additional employment opportunities.
Centre Manager: Ntema Sihela
Phone : +264-67-222557
Fax : +264-67-222 558
Email : firstname.lastname@example.com
Address : PO Box 918, Tsumeb
Main Street Extension, Old TCL Training Centre, Tsumeb
To be the preferred provider of community skills development training, to increase the income-earning capacity by developing entrepreneurial and essential skills and enhancing participation in micro and small enterprises.
To provide relevant practical skills training that includes business skills, entrepreneurship, and life skills, and to relate the training to opportunities in local economy in terms of demand for goods and services
Application starts in October each year and the registration in January the following year for the first [1st] intake.
The second [2nd] intake application and registration starts in June each year.
Application forms are available at the Centre, Regional Council and Constituency Offices.
Entry to COSDEC is based on flexible arrangements and affording chances to the majority of the targeted beneficiaries to access skills development opportunities. There are no compulsory educational requirements.
As its role in providing advice, training, general support to new and existing businesses, in a quest to facilitate economic success for local entrepreneurs and to encourage the development of such entities.
Located at COSDEC Tsumeb the Centre provides the following services:
Town: Tsumeb
Constituency: Tsumeb
Region: Oshikoto
Population of Tsumeb: 14,907 (Female – 7422 and Male – 7485)
Target Population (Youth and Previously Disadvantaged): Tsumeb, Oshivelo, Tsitsabis, Grootfontein


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For two decades Ellie Herman was a writer/producer for television shows including "The Riches," "Desperate Housewives," "Chicago Hope" and "Newhart." Her fiction has appeared in literary journals, among them The Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review and the O.Henry Awards Collection. In 2007, she decided, "on an impulse," she wrote, to become an English teacher and got a job at a South Los Angeles charter school that was 97 percent Latino and where 96 percent of the students lived below the poverty line. She taught drama, creative writing, English 11 and 9th grade Composition at a charter high school in south Los Angeles until 2013, when she decided to stop teaching and spend a year visiting classrooms and learning from other teachers. She is chronicling the lessons she is learning on her blog, Gatsby in L.A., where a version of the following post appeared. The names of the students have been changed.
By Ellie Herman
Gio was that kid. The one who could bring my entire class to a standstill by taking a half-eaten pear and mashing it into the floor with his shoe, muttering profanities and slamming the door behind him when I threw him out of class, and then infuriate me further an hour later by turning up in the parking lot and putting his beaming, delighted mug in my windshield.
He was that kid, who during class would not stop pestering the girl next to him by drawing all over her notebook. And who repeatedly shouted irrelevant, annoying questions. And who enjoyed announcing loudly that he hated most of the people in the class, especially the quiet, nerdy boy who had been kind to him all week.
Every year I had three or four of them, students who occupied about 3 percent of the actual population of any class but consumed about 50 percent of my energy. That kid! The one who made my whole body tense up, who could shut down an entire class for minutes at a time with his demands, accusations and outbursts, whose absence, I'm ashamed to say, would cause a wave of relief to wash over not only me but all of the other students in the class when we realized we were actually going to have a Gio-free day.
I suspect every teacher at one time or another has that kid. Our school always had a short list of students with extreme behavior issues; they were like mini-celebrities, occupying our lunchtime talk, populating our nightmares, inciting our migraines. In any given year, of my six classes, usually around three of them had at least one kid with extreme behavior issues. I'm not talking about kids who are chatty or can't focus. I'm talking about kids who aggressively, compulsively and continually seek negative attention. Sometimes you'd have two kids with extreme behavior issues in a class, which was really difficult because they'd trigger each other, causing an exponential escalation of problems. Once, I had three in one class, turning it into a Lord of the Flies situation with clusters of high-achieving girls taking me aside in a weeping, enraged circle and demanding that the three boys with extreme behavior problems be removed permanently from the class.
These kids weren't always boys, though often they were. They didn't always have learning disabilities, though sometimes they did. Here's what they always were: smart. Often, these students were especially bright, which is what made them so good at driving an entire school full of people completely crazy.
Did they come from terrible home lives? It would be simplistic to say so. Many of our school's students came from very difficult family situations, and the overwhelming majority did not have extreme behavior issues. But for whatever reason, nature or nurture, in my experience, these particular students seemed to be driven by overwhelming feelings of shame, failure and above all, loneliness, making them lash out in ways that cause them to be rejected further, a vicious cycle re-enacted daily. In the inspirational movie version of this narrative, the presence of a stable, caring teacher would break the cycle. Sure, there'd be a few bumps along the way, but by the end of the year, after a lot of weeping heart-to-hearts, a rock-solid behavior plan and some crackerjack lessons in goal-setting and relationship-having, the kid would turn his life around, graduate and go to college.
These turnarounds actually happen. I saw very difficult kids turn their lives around, and these were among the most rewarding experiences of my life. There is nothing on this earth more miraculous — I simply have no other word for it — than to watch a human being find the determination, patience, strength and courage to change.
But a turnaround like that takes years. Years and years of imperceptible growth, of the kid being thrown out of class every day, of parent conferences and arguments and lost tempers and forgotten promises. Often, as a classroom teacher, you're not there for all of those years. Sometimes you just see the first year, which feels like complete failure.
And it doesn't always happen. It's a sentimental fantasy that every kid's life can turn around if enough caring adults just stay in the game, breathing deeply and sticking to their values. The rougher truth is that yes, those caring adults can make it possible for a child to make a breathtaking life turnaround. But the fact that such a turnaround is possible does not make it inevitable. For every Gio who turned his life around, there were other Gios who dropped out and disappeared. I'll never know what happened to them.
I'm thinking of Gio today because in Cynthia Castillo's class, I saw a boy who was that kid, acting out, talking constantly, making continual demands. And I braced myself instinctively — a body memory, thinking of Gio and all the others who were that kid. I thought of Fernie, who was kicked out of every single class he ever took, who cursed at me, whose eyes filled with tears when his mother told him for the first time that she loved him, who walked the stage in cap and gown this past June. I thought of gum-chewing Tiffany with the big earrings who couldn't stop swearing, never did pass a class, and left our school.
I thought of Peter, my most difficult student ever, who alternated between charming conversation and uncontrollable, profanity-laced outbursts of rage, who once shoved a teacher into a wall and who, God help me, was in three of my six classes one year. By some miracle, Peter managed to graduate. After graduation, though, he floundered. I know this because he continued to visit me. As far as I could tell, all he ever did was work out; though he'd been a lanky beanpole as a teenager, as an adult he bulked up and became gigantic. He never signed up for community college but hung out at home, breaking his hand one day when he punched his fist through a wall after a fight with a family member.
My father died after a brief illness in 2012, and in the weeks after his death, I found myself working late night after night in a vain, numbed-out attempt to catch up with the paperwork I'd missed. One evening around 5:30 p.m., Peter walked into my classroom.
I could hardly bring myself to feign enthusiasm. He was the last person I wanted to see. But I knew the bus ride from his house had taken at least half an hour. "What's up?" I said, managing a faint smile.
"I heard your dad died," he said. "I just wanted to give you a hug." For a long moment, he enveloped me in an enormous, silent, heartfelt bear hug. "Okay," he said. "That's it. You probably wanna be alone." And then he left.
I think of the Rumi quote: "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." I think of my most difficult students, and how that field might be where I need to meet them. Maybe learning involves a growth in knowing but also at times an embrace of not-knowing, of accepting, even in the absence of evidence, that a human connection is of infinite, indescribable value.
"Teaching," Cynthia Castillo told me, "is an act of faith." I remember. I hope to get there.


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Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (English: Food, Clothing and Shelter) is a 1974 Bollywood film. It was written, produced, directed by and stars Manoj Kumar, alongside Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman and Moushumi Chatterjee in the main lead roles and had Amitabh Bachchan, Prem Nath, Dheeraj Kumar and Madan Puri in supporting roles. Laxmikant Pyarelal were the music directors. It was released on 18 October 1974 with films like Roti and Benaam.[1]
|Roti Kapada Aur Makaan
|Directed by
|Manoj Kumar
|Produced by
|Manoj Kumar
|Written by
|Manoj Kumar
|Manoj Kumar
Shashi Kapoor
Zeenat Aman
Moushumi Chatterjee
Amitabh Bachchan
|Music by
|Nariman A. Irani
|Edited by
|Manoj Kumar
|Distributed by
|V.I.P. Films
Digital Entertainment
Eros Entertainment
Shiva Films
Spark Worldwide
Release date
Running time
|161 mins
The title of the movie is based on the Hindi phrase referring to the bare necessities of life, which was popularized in the late 1960s by Indira Gandhi ahead of the 1967 general elections.[2] It was the highest grossing Indian film of 1974 and one of the biggest blockbusters of Manoj Kumar. The Telugu movie Jeevana Poratam, starring Sobhan Babu, Rajinikanth, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Naresh, Vijayashanti, is a remake.
After the retirement of his dad (Krishan Dhawan), the responsibility is on Bharat (Manoj Kumar) to look after his Delhi-based family. He has two younger college-going brothers, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Deepak (Dheeraj Kumar) and a sister of marriagable age, Champa (Meena T.). Although Bharat is a college graduate, the only work he can find is as a low-paid singer, much to the frustration of his girlfriend, Sheetal (Zeenat Aman). Meanwhile, Vijay has turned to crime as a last resort to provide for the family, but after an argument with Bharat, he leaves home to join the army.
Sheetal starts working as a secretary for rich businessman Mohan Babu (Shashi Kapoor) and Mohan becomes attracted to her. She becomes attracted to Mohan but is more interested in his wealth and luxury. She loves Bharat but cannot contemplate a life in poverty. Bharat finally finds a job as a builder but starts to realise that Sheetal is slowly drifting away from him. Soon he loses his job after the government takes over the building site and his financial problems increase further. When Mohan proposes marriage to Sheetal, she accepts, leaving Bharat heartbroken. After losing his love, Bharat also loses his father, which devastates him. Frustrated, he burns his diploma on his father's funeral pyre.
Meanwhile, Champa has found a suitor, but Bharat has no money to pay for the wedding and it cannot go ahead. Depressed at the state of his life, Bharat soon finds salvation by helping a poor girl, Tulsi (Moushumi Chatterjee), who lives in poverty but gets by. He also makes friends with Sardar Harnam Singh (Prem Nath) who comes to his rescue when he attempts to save Tulsi from a gang of hoodlums. He then receives an offer from a corrupt businessman named Nekiram (Madan Puri) who persuades Bharat to do his illegal activities so he and his family will come out of poverty and be wealthy. The plot centers on whether Bharat agree to this or whether his moral nature stops him from turning to crime to provide for his family.
- Manoj Kumar ... Bharat
- Shashi Kapoor ... Mohan Babu
- Zeenat Aman ... Sheetal
- Moushmi Chatterjee ... Tulsi
- Amitabh Bachchan ... Vijay
- Dheeraj Kumar ... Deepak
- Prem Nath ... Harnam Singh (Tulsi's friend)
- Madan Puri ... Nekiram
- Aruna Irani ... Poonam (Nekiram's mistress)
- Krishan Dhawan ... Bharat's father
- Kamini Kaushal ... Bharat's mother
- Meena T ... Champa (Bharat's sister)
This was the first film in which Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi kapoor acted together. After Roti Kapda aur Makaan they made a further 11 movies, out of which 9 were commercially successful. Shashi Kapoor will then direct Amitabh Bachchan in his cult classic Ajooba.
The music of this album has been composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal and features some popular songs like "Hay Hay Yeh Majboori", "Mehengai Mar Gayi" and "Main Na Bhoolunga".
|'Hay Hay Yeh Majboori'
|Lata Mangeshkar
|Performed on-screen by Zeenat Aman.
|'Main Na Bhoolunga'
|Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar.
|There were three versions of this song in the film. It was performed on-screen by Shashi Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, and Zeenat Aman. The third version was sung solely by Lata Mangeshkar and can be found on the vinyl LP.
|'Aur Nahin Bas Aur Nahin'
|Mahendra Kapoor
|Performed on-screen by Manoj Kumar. Mehendra Kapoor won the award for best singer for the song.[citation needed]
|'Mehngai Mar Gayi'
|Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh, Narendra Chanchal and Jani Babu Qawwal
|This song was the Top song in 1975 Binaca Geetmala Countdown show
|'Panditji Mere Marne Ke'
|Lata Mangeshkar
|Performed on-screen by Aruna Irani.
Awards and nominationsEdit
- 1975 Filmfare Best Director Award for Manoj Kumar
- 1975 Filmfare Best Male Playback Award for Mahendra Kapoor for the song "Aur Nahin Bas Aur Nahin"
- 1975 Filmfare Best Lyricist Award for Santosh Anand for the song "Main Na Bhoolunga"
- 1975 Filmfare Nomination for Best Film
- 1975 Filmfare Nomination for Best Actor for Manoj Kumar
- 1975 Filmfare Nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Prem Nath
- 1975 Filmfare Nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Moushumi Chatterjee
- 1975 Filmfare Nomination for Best Story for Manoj Kumar
- 1975 Filmfare Nomination for Best Music for Laxmikant Pyarelal
- 1975 Filmfare Nomination for Best Lyricist for Santosh Anand for the song "Aur Nahin Bus Aur Nahin"
- 1975 Filmfare Nomination for Best Male Playback Singer for Mukesh for the song "Main Na Bhoolonga"
- ^ "IndiaGlitz - Aamir UTV arm twist exhibitors forced Bombay Velvet to November 28 - Bollywood Movie News".
- ^ India of My Dreams. Google Books. Retrieved 27 November 2011.


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The following documents will help you with registration. If you still
have questions or cannot attend on August 1st, please contact the main
office at Mandalay 303-982-9802. Thank you!
REGISTRATION FOR THE 2018-19 SCHOOL YEAR WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1st FROM 8am-2pm, and 4pm-7pm (doors will close at 6:45pm). A parent must attend with students. Please plan on spending about 1 hour here.
Any student new to
the Mandalay area needing to enroll for 6th, 7th or 8th grade may contact
Mandalay Middle School 303-982-9802 to schedule an appointment beginning
July 20th. If you attended any of our feeder schools (Betty Adams,
Ryan, Semper or Sheridan Green) and we are your neighborhood school, you are already enrolled and will
attend registration on August 1st.
Students should accompany a parent to registration at Mandalay so that they can get their student ID and sign forms also.
you complete the process for up-dating student information on-line
through Jeffco Connect, apply for free and reduced lunch
application on-line and pay your fees on-line, your time spent here will
be greatly reduced.
At registration you will update student
emergency information on–line (if not done prior to coming in), sign a
bus contract, complete a number of forms, get student ID's made, pick up
your student's schedule, get their assigned locker, student planner and get information regarding
Parent Portal.
We will ask you to pay school and bus fees UNLESS
you already paid via our on-line system over the summer. Information on bus routes and fees can be found by going to the
district transportation site. North Area Bus Transportation will be here
to collect bus contracts and assign busing. We need a bus contract for ALL students in the event of field trips.
Supply lists are posted on our website under Family Resources.
We look forward to seeing you on August 1st!


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Thanks you all for your patience waiting for the full set of deployment walkthrough videos to be posted on TechNet Edge. As per my previous post, over the past few months I have been updating the deployment walkthrough videos and I am pleased to announce that the whole video series has now been posted. In all there are seven videos (around 10 hours of content) - you can see the full list of videos here or you can link to the individual videos below:
- Exploring the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) 2.0
- Exploring the User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) 4.0
- Exploring the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.5
- Deploying 2007 Office System (I'm working on the Office 2010 deployment video – will be out early January)
Remember that you can download the video file (instead of streaming it) directly from the TechNet Edge web page for each video – look for the "Downloads" section at the bottom of the page to download the .WMV/MP4/PSP file
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Since we began to write as Juliette Harper, we've gained a new appreciation for the importance of a writer's voice. Juliette has become known for her strong female characters, occasionally snarky humor, and fascination for the paranormal.
However, as self-professed genre hoppers, we don't want to confuse our readers when we decide to flex our creative muscles in different directions. So, today, we'd like to introduce you to our newest pen name, Annie Curtis. What's up with her?
This is the note Annie penned for readers at the conclusion of her debut novel, Forever Memory:
Kendall and Jackson' story is the first novel set in the fictional town of Blairsville, Texas. Subsequent books, though they may use some of the same characters, won't have to be read in sequence. Like all my books, the Blairsville stories will explore issues of faith and belief within and outside the traditional norms of what those words have come to represent.
In Hamlet, William Shakespeare penned the lines, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." He didn't go on to tell us what Horatio did or didn't believe — we're only left to understand he believed something and that his belief was confined within set boundaries.
My stories push at the boundaries while opening the door to peek at the wonder of all creation. They're fun to conceive and write, and I hope they're fun for you to read.
Here's the full description of the book:
Kendall Phillips, stinging from the failure of her five-year relationship with Lane Sutton, learns she's inherited her grandfather's house in Blairsville, Texas. Determined to make a fresh start in a new location, Kendall, a freelance writer, packs up and heads to the place she will now call home.
Jackson Wheeler can't accept his mother's diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Burying himself in work at the family's hardware store, he resists all the doctor's suggestions, insisting that he can care for his mother at home. When he's finally forced to put his mother in a memory care unit, Jackson harbors deep suspicions about the therapy she receives there.
Neither Jackson nor Kendall feel the hand of the guardian angel watching over them when Kendall arrives at the care unit to write a magazine piece on the facility's innovative treatment approaches. Through a chance encounter, Kendall and Jackson meet, setting the stage for the rebirth of a family from the depths of loss.
Join Jackson and Kendall as they learn that none of us ever walk alone.
Get your copy of Forever Memory on Amazon today!
Free for KindleUnlimited subscribers.
And here's what's coming from Annie in the near future, a book called Believe:
Chicago. 1930. Isabeau Dumont arrives in the United States in the opening year of the Great Depression fresh off her success as a glamorous Parisian fan dancer in Maurice Chevalier's famous review. Amid the gangsters and bootleg booze of the 1930s, Isabeau raises her daughter in the world of burlesque.
Young Arella survives the rough and tumble streets of Chicago only to die in a ridiculous accident in 1952. Waking up in a celestial waiting room, Arella discovers she's been recruited as a fledgling angel in the heavenly host.
Now, after a 65-year-apprenticeship, she's gotten her big break — a promotion to the Department of Lost Souls. Given her affinity for strays, from cats to people, Arella seems like a natural, but then she's handed her first assignment.
Workers in San Francisco have unearthed the body of a child, dead since the 1780s, perfectly preserved in a sealed casket, apparently left behind when a massive cemetery was relocated for land development purposes. Through the receptacle's glass panes the child appears perfect, thick blonde curls resting peacefully on the collar of her hand-stitched white dress.
The man who found her believes he has witnessed a miracle — one with chilling significance in light of his own sins. An agency charged with burying, and if possible, identifying lost children has taken custody of the child the papers christened Grace. But one man can't stay away from the mysterious little girl, believing his fate is entwined with hers.
Arella's job? Help the human authorities identify the child while guiding a lost soul through his personal crisis of faith. Can she show him that the most transformative experiences come from within?
Join Arella Dumont on her first assignment for the Department of Lost Souls as she quickly discovers an angel's work is never done.
Never fear, Juliette is still hard at work on the next installment of the Jinx Hamilton series, To Haunt a Witch. In the meantime, settle in with Annie and get to know her. We think you'll like her.


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Even on days that she is happy about going to school, the tension is palpable. It all comes from one thing - trying to get all three kids ready to go at a particular point in time.
Even during breakfast, I start the countdown to the time we need to leave. I will tell them, "Okay, it is now 8:03 AM. We need to start to get ready to leave at exactly 8:48 AM. That means we have exactly 45 minutes." I think if any of them actually knew how to tell time, this announcement would have more impact.
When breakfast is over, and they get down from the table, I do it again. "Okay, it is now 8:27. We need to start to get our coats on in exactly 21 minutes. That means you have 21 minutes to play!" I then proceed to make more announcements every few minutes.
At 8:48 AM, I tell them "It is now time to get ready to leave. I will get the Baby's coat on. You (pointing to the Girl), please get your coat, along with the Boy's, and I will get your hats and mittens when I am done with the Baby."
At this point, the Boy disappears, usually down into the basement, where he will eventually be found, playing with his Thomas trains, and the Girl heads off into their bedroom to get who-knows-what toy that she insists is vital for her to take with in the van, even though she will only be in the van for 6 minutes as we drive to school.
Meanwhile, the Baby heads off crawling under a nearby table, where she promptly ditches her hat, and then heads off to another corner, where she extricates one of her feet out of both its shoe and sock, both of which will soon end up in her mouth, at least until she grows tired of the taste of feet, in which case she will then deposit them in some random location, most likely underneath the sofa.
|Notice the Baby has her hat and mittens on, but no coat. She must have ditched it somewhere in the bowels of our house. She's crafty, that's for sure.
I would like to say that once we are all loaded up in the car, headed off to school, the tension ends. And it does, for the few minutes we are in the car. But then we arrive at the school, and it all starts back up again. I unleash the rascals from their respective car seats, and then have to corral the two older ones, while holding the Baby, while hundreds, if not thousands, of large high school students run amok (the Girl's preschool is adjacent to one of the local high schools). It is a wonder they don't get trampled.
Thankfully, this whole fiasco usually lasts just a half hour or so, and then I can head home with the two younger kids to chill out for a couple of days, when it happens all over again. Believe me, it takes all of Wednesday to recuperate.


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What is Chartered Physiotherapy?
Musculoskeletal Chartered Physiotherapy is a specialty within the physiotherapy profession concerned with the clinical assessment and treatment of physical disorders of the human body. It is primarily aimed at alleviating pain, restoring movement, strength and ultimately function. For example a return to sport or other recreational activities as well as being able to fully engage physically in your working or home environment.
Physiotherapy applications
The coordinated function of the human body is an essential element of health but in certain circumstances can be threatened by:
- ageing
- injury
- diseases
- disorders
- conditions
- environmental factors
- psychological factors
Functional movement and the ability to exercise plays a large part in your overall health and well-being. When physical problems occur and challenge our capacity to move and exercise, physiotherapy treatment can help.
Training and education in Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is sometimes referred to as 'Physical Therapy' in certain countries such as the United States where the terms are used interchangeably. In Ireland however this should not be the case given Physiotherapists and Physical Therapists are trained very differently. This has caused much public confusion as well as creating a significant public health risk.
Unfortunately, in Ireland there is no legal protection of title to ensure the term Physiotherapist is used only by University trained allied healthcare professionals with a minimum 4 years of training (National Framework of Qualifications level 8) including at least 1000 clinical hours according to the World Confederation of Physical Therapy accreditation criteria.
As such it is possible for anyone to undertake some limited training through part time courses and then refer to themselves as a Physiotherapist. In fact, some 'physios' have no qualifications at all which is a major concern. The Irish government is attempting to deal with this issue by implementing a new regulatory body (CORU). Unfortunately this is unlikely to fully protect the title Physiotherapist for exclusive use by University qualified Chartered Physiotherapists as is the case throughout the rest of the world.
How can you be assured of safe Physiotherapy?
The only way to ensure your Physiotherapist is a University trained allied healthcare professionals with a minimum 4 years of training (NFQ level 8) and at least 1000 clinical practice hours according to WCPT accreditation criteria is to look for the term 'Chartered'. This prefix may only be used by members of the The Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP). This also implies your Physiotherapist abides by a professional code of conduct and ethics and uses techniques which have been scientifically validated as being safe and effective for use in clinical practice.
The ISCP is the designated authority acting with the approval of the Minister for Health for the recognition of Physiotherapy qualifications in the Republic of Ireland (S.I.139/2008). The ISCP is also the only Physiotherapy group recognised by The Department of Health, Health Service Executive (HSE), VHI, AVIVA & all international health insurers.
It is worth noting that most health insurers usually only refund on Chartered Physiotherapy services. However, there are occasions when confusion amongst the insurers themselves are not always aware of the differences between Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy in Ireland.
It is therefore strongly recommended that members of the public check their Physiotherapy Clinic is providing Physiotherapy by professionals using the title 'Chartered Physiotherapist' implying successful registration with the ISCP.
For more information please read this related article: What it means to be a Chartered Physiotherapist..
Our aim at Mount Merrion Chartered Physiotherapy is to provide (and well exceed) a minimum standard of Physiotherapy expected of a Physiotherapist practicing in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and South Africa where proper regulation and protection of title is in place.
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Minute Licks #6: Seconds Sequences with alternate and downpicking
Let's keep the Vinnie Moore streak going with this 2nds sequence. Vinnie often uses ascending sequences in a downward direction, e.g playing a diatonic 2nd interval from C# to D, then down to a B then up to the C# and so on.
To give it the feel of Vinnie's first couple of albums, I pull back from 16th notes to 8th notes, and switch from Alternate Picking to Downstrokes only for effect. I mute the latter, and slow my tempo a little too, to really let the listener know that the run is coming to an end. Try this in your picking runs for good effect. Palm muting towards the end and unmuting the last note also helps this sound.


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In 2002, The Pathfinders, a nationally respected labor force analysis group, stated the following:
The Salem/Marion County area workforce received relatively good marks for productivity. Many of the companies interviewed stated that their local operations compared favorably with operations in other location in terms of profitability and production, indicative not only of good management but also of a productive workforce. Based upon the experience of The Pathfinders in evaluating labor forces in numerous locations, a definite correlation between productivity, absentee rates, tardiness rates, and turnover appears to exist. That correlation goes beyond the fact that an absent worker is unproductive. Rather, those factors are indicative of an employee's attitude toward the job. The companies in the Salem/Marion County region interviewed judged absenteeism and tardiness to be low. Most of the companies reported turnover to be low to moderate. Most stated further that substance abuse incidence is generally low.
Another common employer complaint relates to the shortage of skilled workers. The availability of skilled workers in the Salem/Marion County region must be viewed from the perspective of comparative availability when other areas of the state and nation are considered. Skilled workers are in great demand and difficult to find in the vast majority of locations. Of the companies in the labor shed interviewed, 47% considered
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Moab is inviting all of these people to come here and visit because it is our livelihood. And now that they're here, we've got agencies and people who want to restrict what they can do. —Kent Green, Cowboy Country Offroad Adventures
MOAB — For more than a century the rich earth of the Moab area has been fertile ground for a harvest of opportunities.
Early settlers found a generous growing season for crops and fruit trees. In the 1950s, the earth relinquished her riches of uranium ore and with that, the northern fringes of Moab played host to the nation's second largest processing mill.
Now, people prospect for play and fun amid crimson spires and apricot-colored arches, or mine a sense of self in the solitude of the Colorado River and along the vistas and back country of southeast Utah.
At the same time, oil deposits that proved elusive to capture for nearly 100 years have been cracked open with the advent of horizontal drilling, bringing opportunity for developers and new pump jacks next to sage brush and not far from national and state parks.
In this big sandbox of red dirt — one of the world's favorite outdoor playgrounds — conflict is erupting over whose vision for this land should prevail.
It is a paradox in a land aptly named Paradox Basin, with pressure that comes from many corners.
Outdoor sports enthusiasts revel in the hiking, biking, Jeeping, river–rafting, rock climbing, photo-taking, star-gazing, horseback riding, and more.
Moab is a key player in an outdoor recreation economy that in Utah generates $856 million in state and local tax revenue, according to the Outdoor Industry Association. Well more than 70 percent of the jobs in Grand County — 2,440 as of 2012 — derive from tourism.
Beyond its role as a recreation mecca, the Moab area is home to the earthly riches of potash deposits, an active copper mine and the nation's largest producing oil well in the lower 48 states. The extraction industry supports just 2 percent of the jobs in Grand County, but they are good-paying jobs county officials predict will continue to grow as the economy diversifies.
"We ask a lot of the land, so the more we can minimize the footprint and the disturbance from any one of these demands, to lessen those cumulative impacts, we should," said Lisa Bryant, assistant field manager in the Moab field office for the Bureau of Land Management.
"We need to do what we can so we can still have this in perpetuity."
"This" is Arches National Park, the Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse State Park, the Colorado River and the land that surrounds it, generating $1.8 million in 2013 in visitor spending for Grand County and drawing more than 2.5 million visitors a year.
"Moab is inviting all of these people to come here and visit because it is our livelihood," said Kent Green, owner of Cowboy Country Offroad Adventures. "And now that they're here, we've got agencies and people who want to restrict what they can do."
Green, a retired sergeant with the Grand County Sheriff's Office who ran search and rescue, said he's seen the changes come over the years, and with them the demands that are rising.
Sooner or later, he warns, something will give.
"I don't know if I will see it in my lifetime, but there is going to be a day when you will not be able to go into the back country unless you have a professional guide with you," he said. "We are going to have to be micro-managed and it saddens me."
Energy and tourism
Industry and recreation coexisted in the Moab area for decades, but the new oil find and resulting development — along with renewed interest in potash mining — are putting a strain on an already stressed and uneasy relationship.
"Multi-use does not mean every use," said Marc Thomas with the Sierra Club, which proudly decries "dirty oil" and embraces an all or nothing approach when it comes to land.
"I don't think there is a place for industry here. This is no place for oil and this is no place for potash."
Thomas, from Chicago, retired at 55 and sought this place to live after a visit. At the sprawling expanse of Canyonlands National Park, as he points to purple-hued buttes catching a spray of sun, he becomes animated, and his words start to tumble one after another.
"I've talked to other people and they all tell the same story. This place crossed their radar and once they got here, they couldn't believe what they saw and what they experienced and it knocked them over," he said.
"It made them change horses in midstream, set a different course. I am just afraid the magical experience that brought us here will not be available to those who are coming after us."
The threat for Thomas and Living Rivers' John Weisheit are the extraction industries — companies they say have no place in a recreation economy.
"They don't belong here," Weisheit said bluntly. "It threatens this entire area."
But as rich as southeast Utah may be for recreation, it also boasts a bounty of natural resources that can be tapped for fertilizer and fuel.
"It was mining that put Moab on the map," Green said. "That is what defined Moab, the uranium, the minerals that are here."
The Bureau of Land Management's Moab master leasing plan, still in the crafting stage, encompasses 946,469 acres in Grand and San Juan counties — an area estimated to contain 145 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 32.5 million barrels of oil.
During the past 30 years, 66 wells have been drilled in the leasing area, with 45 that turned out to be dry holes. Although the oil and gas industry has been active in southeast Utah since 1925, it has only been in the past few years that horizontal drilling has enabled industry to hit significant, and sustainable, production numbers.
The wells
Fidelity Exploratiion & Production Co., operates 17 wells in what's called the Cane Creek unit and hopes to drill 12 to 14 more in 2014 at an investment of $170 million. It bought the leases in 2006 from another company and began operations less than a year later.
As state Route 313 winds southwest toward Dead Horse State Park and Canyonlands National Park, a careful visitor can spy the green pump jacks and collection of tank batteries off in the distance.
Semi trucks hauling water for oil production share the highway with tourists, bicyclists and campers.
This new growth in the Big Flat area has Roberts and other environmental groups bristling, but it engenders little reaction from some visitors.
Karen Ludwig from Pocatello, Idaho, noticed the trucks on the road and said she'd read about the increased oil activity online before she took her boys to Moab for a vacation at both Arches and Canyonlands national parks.
"I read that it spoiled the landscape and that there would be trucks all over," she said, adding that she was apprehensive about what she'd see. "I was pleasantly surprised. I did see a couple of the trucks."
Her son, Scott Lucas, 19, said the oil production equipment he noticed was "somewhat understated and blended in."
Betty Jones drove in from Pueblo County, Colo., with her husband to visit for the day at Canyonlands.
"I noticed some of the rigs, but I didn't see very many of them. I've seen a whole lot more where we're from."
Fidelity spokesman Tim Rasmussen said the company tried to locate wells with consideration for the viewshed and other resources. The company has to also adhere to spacing requirements set down by state and federal regulators.
"We understand that this is a pristine seasonal tourist area and we respect that," he said. "We were very, very particular in where we set the well locations."
Rather than the traditional "horse head" that nods up and down, Rasmussen said the company chose vertical, hydraulic pumps to be less obtrusive for visitors and those enjoying recreation.
But for Thomas and other oil critics, it doesn't matter.
"Every time I see one of these it pains my heart," said Deb Walter, a Park City transplant and retired school teacher.
Walter and her husband, Dick, are avid equestrians who trek the vast open spaces across BLM land in endurance rides that span 25 or 50 or even more miles across the Big Flat area.
A new pipeline being in put in by Fidelity crosses that same land, and this evidence of modern-day man is not what they want to see.
"Part of the beauty of this land is to be able to look and not see anything," said Dick Walter.
Thomas gestures to a hill in the distance.
"Wouldn't you rather see a group of horseback riders crest the top or would you rather see a water truck?"
The pipeline is being built to capture the natural gas that is being flared from the wells in Big Flat. One well spits flame so high it has earned the nickname "Dragon Breath."
Last year, an estimated 456 million cubic feet of natural gas was lost due to flaring in Big Flat, enough to supply 236,000 homes.
The state stepped in and said that the natural gas, once it reached that volume, had to be captured, said Dustin Doucet, a petroleum engineer with the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining.
"Waste of that resource is a big issue, obviously, as is the impact to air quality," he said.
Potash prospecting
Beyond oil, environmental critics see the potash extraction industry as another use of the land that is incompatible with the recreation value of the area.
Outside of Moab, just north of the Colorado River, Intrepid has been mining potash for more than 50 years. Its azure ponds can be seen from the vantage of Dead Horse State Park, its role entrenched in the view shed for decades.
More recently, when potash prices spiked from $200 a ton to $900 a ton, the BLM was hit with a flurry of potash prospecting permits — going from an annual submission of just 10 to a couple hundred for the 420,000 acres available for potash exploration.
Until the Moab master leasing plan is complete, the BLM has put the brakes on any new potash mines. It has, however, allowed a company to put in four exploratory drilling holes.
Grand County Council chairman Lynn Jackson, a former geologist with the BLM and one-time potash consultant, said he believes Grand County's 2.4 million acres can accommodate an 1,100-acre footprint for another potash mine should one happen.
He also defends the philosophical position that it is possible for Grand County to have both recreation and a vibrant extraction industry without cost to either.
"We are a national and internationally recognized area," he said. "We are not going to do anything to destroy that."
Industry critics have protested in front of BLM offices and criticized elected leaders at Grand County Council meetings in recent months.
"It is a war of ideology is what it is," he said. "They want it stopped. I mean, they flat want it stopped and want us to just rely on recreation only."
But energy jobs can provide wages that support families.
"You can't move to Moab unless you have already made your money somewhere else or you are savvy enough and have whatever capital to set up a business," Jackson said. "If you are a young person with a family from Salt Lake City with no particular skill set and you want to move to Moab, forget it."
The success of industry also helps pay the bills for county needs in a significant way, he said.
The first slate of wells that began producing for Fidelity jumped mineral revenues in Grand County from $429,000 a year to $1.2 million in the next fiscal year.
For 2014, Grand County is projected to receive $2.6 million and within a few years, that figure could be as high as $5 million or $6 million. Grand County's operating budget is $12 million a year, he said
"It is easy to be an idealist unless you are in a job like this and you have to make the proverbial rubber hit the road. You got to make it work for people."
Jackson said the revenue helped keep the county's 36-bed nursing home from shuttering its door and in Moab City, mineral lease money over the past 15 years has built about $25 million worth of public buildings.
"When people say there is no benefit to the community, that is not true," said Moab City Manager Donna Metzler.
Metzler's city has been hit with a barrage of criticism for selling 7 million gallons of treated water for Fidelity's operations.
She said the water is sold at a rate four times higher than what residential customers pay and selling water to industry or the state is a practice that has happened for decades. And while Moab may be in the desert southwest, the city is literally awash in water — using just 40 percent of its available supply each year that comes from springs and groundwater fed from the nearby La Sal Mountains.
Weisheit said it does not matter.
"It's a gift. Just because they have the gift doesn't mean they should squander it," he said. "The Colorado River is a gift. It is why we exist. If you break it, you break the back of civilization."
Leaders say they believe they can find that balance without compromising too much.
"I am willing to say that every place is sacred to someone," Metzler said. "It's a real balance. We have some visual and other resources that you can't find anywhere so we need to be careful to preserve those. I think it is possible."
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