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The Faculty and Staff
Dr. William Wood, UNC School of Medicine professor of medicine and associate dean, emeritus, has many memories of Gravely. He says, "a major part of my medical and academic career is intimately entwined there." He worked as an intern and the colleague of Drs. Thomas Barnett, professor of medicine (pulmonology) and medical director of Gravely Sanatorium, and Richard Peters, professor of surgery (thoracic) who led Gravely surgical services. Dr. Wood later served as director of the pulmonary laboratory.
Dr. Jim Donohue, professor& division chief, pulmonary & critical care medicine, UNC:
"I'm sad to see Gravely destroyed for it contained many pleasant memories for me. I took care of many of the people who worked there for many years until they passed away.
Gravely was a world famous chest hospital and the flagship of the NC Tuberculosis sanatoria centers. Many famous physicians rotated through there and a number of important discoveries were made on site and the little lab which we called the "rat shack" which was outside in the parking lot.
I first started at Gravely as a resident and then a pulmonary fellow in 1973-74. We had the respiratory ICU on the third floor. Pediatrics had an inpatient service on the first floor and outpatient clinics were in the basement, as was the Pulmonary Function Lab and respiratory therapy department that was separate from N.C. Memorial's.
There was a small operating room on the second floor that was used also as a bronchoscopy suite. The inpatient service had morphed from a TB sanatorium to a general chest hospital with lung cancer patients included. When Dr Bromberg was recruited from Ohio State in 1976 to direct pulmonary, our services moved over to Memorial."
Dr. Bill Easterling, retired UNC School of Medicine professor of obstetrics and gynecology and associate dean: "Drs. Bill McLendon, Bill Wood and I were all classmates in the UNC Medical School Class of 1956 (the third to graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill). When Hurricane Hazel came through Chapel Hill on October 15, 1954, I was an acting intern on the thoracic surgery ward, which was then in Gravely. When the power went out NC Memorial still had emergency power, but Gravely did not. Since many of his patients needed continuous chest suction and there weren't enough stretchers to go around, I ended up physically carrying one of his patients at Gravely through the tunnel to a ward at NC Memorial Hospital that had emergency power -- with the result that my back hasn't been the same since."
Mrs. Betty Hornaday, a UNC graduate, was a longtime supervisor of the pulmonary laboratory. She completed her degree while working Gravely. Dr William Wood says of her: "She was very devoted and the best investment in the laboratory. She learned and developed procedures, trained other technicians, supervised the eventually expanded pulmonary lab which she helped design and develop."
Dr. H. Stuart Willis, a native North Carolinian, and UNC graduate with a Johns Hopkins medical degree, was a nationally acclaimed scientist in TB immunology and pathogenesis. Dr. William Wood said, "He was the longtime medical director of the N.C. Sanatorium system, and was largely responsible for the establishment of a unit of this system in the newly expanded medical center at UNC." Willis became a clinical professor of medicine at UNC in 1959.
Mr. Ben Clark "was the general administrator for the North Carolina Sanatorium System for many years before Gravely was built," said Dr. William Wood. "Mr. Clark was a most forward thinking administrator, always a few steps ahead of the medical staff in innovation and advancement in patient care facilities. His excellent negotiating capability was instrumental in bringing about the construction of Gravely and its incorporation into the U N C health education and care center. Ben Clark always worked for the greater good."


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Funny Bones, 1908 (3)
Keeping Away the Wolf
Mrs. Topnote (cheerfully) – "Never mind, dear! True, we're in desperate straits just now; but remember, if the worst should come, I could keep the wolf from the door by my singing."
Her Husband (despondently) – "Yes, dear; but what if the wolf should chance to be deaf?"
Reformed Cannibal (with a dreadful past): "I may be black, Sir, but I've got British blood in my veins."
Familiar with Shakespeare
Mrs. Smith: "My eldest son is very familiar with Shakespeare."
Mrs. Casey: "Indade. Shure Oi thought thot mon doid long ago!"
After the Service
Deacon Wigg: "Now, that was a finished discourse."
Farmer Wagg: "Yes; but do you know, I thought it never would be."
"Ma," declared the excited little girl, "the baby's lost his breath!"
"Then put him right down," rejoined the preoccupied mother, "and hunt around till you find it!"
Economical Pat
Pat had suffered for days with a terrible toothache. Finally he went to a dentist. On asking how much it would cost, the dentist said: "Fifty cents. With gas, one dollar!"
"Shure," cried Pat, "I'll call in the mornin' and have it took out by daylight!"
The little daughter of a well-known American scientist, taken with the measles, heard a good deal of talk about germs and microbes.
One evening a short while after her recovery she was near when her mother was singing a lullaby to the baby.
"Oh, mamma," she cried, "you mustn't sing that! You sang it to me when I had the measles, and there may be microbes in it!"
I Wonder
I wonder why a feller has to wash his hands and face.
They always dirty up again in just the washed-off place.
And when a feller skips his ears they say he has no pride.
No one but Maw twists up my ears and looks around inside.
And when I wonder why she does, she says "to find the dirt."
If it's as hard to see as that, to leave it in can't hurt.
Fact, Not Fancy
Saturday.- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Monday.
His Favorite Parable
A country clergyman on his round of visits interviewed a youngster as to his acquaintance with Bible stories.
"My lad," he said, "you have of course heard of the parables?"
"Yes, sir," shyly answered the boy, whose mother had inducted him in sacred history. "Yes, sir."
"Good!" said the clergyman. "Now which of them do you like the best of all?"
The boy squirmed, but at last, heeding his mother's frowns, he replied: "I guess I like that one where somebody loafs and fishes."
The Eternal Query
Adam awoke and saw Eve.
"Here I am, dear," the first woman remarked sweetly. "Have you been waiting long?"
An Orthodox Explanation
A mother was giving her little girl a bath, when she said, "I wonder where this dust on the water comes from?"
Small Girl: "Perhaps I leak somewhere, mama. You know, I'm made of dust."
A Suburban Student of Literature
At the Boston Public Library they have a system for the delivery of books in the suburbs.
This order was once received from a suburban patron:
Dear Mr. Librarian: – Please to send me the following books: "The House of Three Gables," "The Vision of Sir Longfellow," and "The Last of the Mohegians," by John Milton, and greatly oblige.
Shirts and Shirts
She was a dear old lady, but she lived at Hardscrabble, and was a bit behind the times. She had been reading the advertisements in a city newspaper chance had brought her way.
"Father," she asked her husband, "what is these here negligee shirts they talk about?"
Father, being a man, was equal to the occasion.
"Don't know what they be?" he grinned. "Well, you are a back number. Negligee shirts ain't quite so stiff and choky as a b'iled shirt – I mean a reg'lar hard-b'iled shirt. A negligee shirt is something you might call a soft-b'iled shirt."
A Couple of Them
"Jimmie," said the merchant solemnly, at the eleventh hour, "we have forgotten to get a fresh supply of stamps."
And the office-boy, in his excitement, responded with, "Goodness, sir, so we have! If we ain't a couple of blunder-headed idiots!"
Wholesome Fear
Miss H., the principal of a grammar school, was investigating a tale brought her by a pupil.
"Are you quite sure that was the way it happened, Mrs. P.?"
"Miss H., that was just the way. I'm telling you the truth. I wouldn't dare tell you a lie. I'm not well enough to-day.
A Mind Reader
Pat had got hurt – not much more than a scratch, it is true, but his employer had visions of being compelled to keep him for life, and had adopted the wise course of sending him at once to the hospital. After the house-surgeon had examined him carefully, he said to the nurse:
"As subcutaneous abrasion is not observable, I do not think there is any reason to apprehend segumental cicatrization of the wound."
Then turning the patient, he asked, quizzically:
"What do you think, Pat?"
"Sure, sir," said Pat, "you're a wonderful thought-reader, doctor. You took the very words out of my mouth. That's just what I was going to say!"

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The Lemon Hotel Penchard - Marne-La-Vallée serves a buffet breakfast each morning. Guests have access to vending machines that provide beverages and snacks.
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The bungalow has rustic wood furnishings and includes seating and dining areas and a kitchenette with a microwave. All rooms include minibars and private bathrooms with baths.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Just as a squirrel puts away nuts for another day, learning to save is also a valuable trait for youngsters to learn.
That's a lesson learned Saturday by numerous Callaway County youngsters who gathered at Callaway Bank in Fulton for Callaway Kids Bank Day.
C.B. Squirrel, the bank's mascot, was on hand to greet youngsters brought in by their parents to set up free savings accounts.
To encourage youngsters to save, the bank offered each youngsters a free piggy bank and $5 to deposit if they opened a savings account.
Bank Vice President Debbie LaRue, director of marketing and public relations, said the annual Kids Bank Day coincides with the American Bankers Association's National Teach Kids to Save Day.
"The purpose of The Callaway Kids Bank," LaRue said, "is to help teach children the importance of learning to save their money so as they become adults they will be better prepared to provide the lifestyle for themselves and their families that they choose rather than having to settle."
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RISMEDIA, May 2, 2011—Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded more than $216 million to nearly 700 new homeless programs across the country. The grants announced today are $26 million more than last year's grants and, combined with renewal funding announced earlier this year, represents the most homelessness assistance ever awarded by HUD.
HUD is also continuing to confront rural homelessness by targeting a record $16.4 million to 87 never-before-funded programs in less populated areas of the country.
In January, HUD awarded more than $1.4 billion in Continuum of Care grants to renew funding to 7,000 existing local homeless programs. The funding announced today will invest in local projects which have never before received HUD homeless funds, providing critically needed housing and support services to an estimated 21,000 homeless individuals and families. Though homelessness is largely an urban phenomenon, HUD is reserving record funding to meet the unique challenges faced by homeless individuals and families living in rural areas.
"Today, we build on the Obama Administration's goal to prevent and end homelessness in America," says Donovan. "This funding will make a significant impact in the lives of thousands of people and provide resources to bring them towards the road of independence."
HUD's Continuum of Care grants fund a wide range of transitional and permanent housing programs as well as supportive services such as job training, case management, mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and child care. Street outreach and assessment programs to transitional and permanent housing for homeless persons and families are also funded through these grants. Continuum of Care programs include:
• Supportive Housing Program (SHP) offers housing and supportive services to allow homeless persons to live as independently as possible.
• Shelter Plus Care (S+C) provides housing and supportive services on a long-term basis for homeless persons with disabilities, (primarily those with serious mental illness, chronic problems with alcohol and/or drugs, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or related diseases) and their families who were living in places not intended for human habitation (e.g., streets) or in emergency shelters.
• Single-Room Occupancy Program (SRO) provides rental assistance for homeless persons in one-person housing units that contain small kitchens, bathrooms, or both.
Last year, 19 federal agencies in the Obama Administration announced a plan to end all homelessness through Opening Doors—an unprecedented federal strategy to end veteran and chronic homelessness by 2015—and to end homelessness among children, families, and youth by 2020. In addition to the Continuum of Care grant program, HUD's new Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP) Program made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is making a major contribution to the Opening Doors strategy. To date, HPRP has allocated $1.5 billion to prevent more than 875,000 people from falling into homelessness or to rapidly re-house them if they do.
HUD's homelessness grants are reducing long-term or chronic homelessness in America. Based on the Department's latest Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR), chronic homelessness has declined by 30 percent since 2006. This decline is directly attributed to HUD's homeless grants helping to create significantly more permanent housing for those who might otherwise be living on the streets. It was also reported in the AHAR that the number of homeless families increased for the second consecutive year, almost certainly due to the ongoing effects of the recession.
For more information visit www.hud.gov.
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AFI Fest Announces Galas for 'Rise of the Guardians', 'Life of Pi'
LOS ANGELES, CA – The American Film Institute (AFI) announced its red carpet Centerpiece Galas and Special Screenings – comprised of award season contenders and the year's most highly anticipated works from film masters, moving image icons and breakthrough talents – for AFI FEST 2012 presented by Audi. This year's line-up includes feature films of iconic figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, prolific filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, as well as non-fiction and inspired-by stories about the Central Park Five and West of Memphis teenagers, Southeast Asia tsunami survivors and much more.
As previously announced, the World Premiere of HITCHCOCK (DIR Sacha Gervasi) is the Opening Night Gala and the World Premiere of LINCOLN (DIR Steven Spielberg) is the Closing Night Gala.
The Centerpiece Galas are LIFE OF PI in 3D (DIR Ang Lee); ON THE ROAD (DIR Walter Salles); RISE OF THE GUARDIANS in 3D (DIR Peter Ramsey); and RUST AND BONE/DE ROUILLE ET D'OS (DIR Jacques Audiard) featuring A Tribute to Marion Cotillard. All galas will be presented in the historic Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
AFI FEST's Special Screenings are THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (DIR Ken Burns); GINGER AND ROSA (DIR Sally Potter); HOLY MOTORS (DIR Léos Carax); THE IMPOSSIBLE (DIR Juan Antonio Bayona); QUARTET (DIR Dustin Hoffman in his directorial debut); ROOM 237 (DIR Rodney Ascher); SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (DIR David O. Russell); and WEST OF MEMPHIS (DIR Amy Berg).
For the fourth consecutive year, AFI FEST will continue its unprecedented offer of free tickets to all screenings, but only the Star Patron Package and Marquee Patron Package will provide reserved seating for the galas, including the World Premiere opening night gala of HITCHCOCK and the World Premiere closing night gala of LINCOLN. These and other AFI FEST passes, including the Special Screenings Pass, are on sale now at AFI.com/AFIFEST. The American Film Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational and cultural organization, and packages and passes are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
AFI members will have a 24-hour advance window on Wednesday, October 24 before free tickets become available to the general public. In addition, AFI members at the Two-Star level and above receive a 10% discount on all Patron Packages and Passes. Information about AFI Membership is available at AFI.com/membership.
AFI FEST, which presents the best of world cinema in the movie capital of the world, will take place November 1 through 8 in Hollywood, California, at the historic Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Bernardo Bertolucci is this year's Guest Artistic Director. The complete festival program will be announced on Monday, October 15.
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Hello there! I'm Lex and I live on the Gold Coast, Australia. I have recently graduated from uni and it's finally time to travel! i've never travelled anywhere besides Greece (my background) and I can't wait to go on the contiki tour for July 2009! I'm a very sociable person and love meeting new people so this should be a blast! See you there! Lex : )
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I am currently working on my MA thesis which looks at the local perception of colonial heritage in Kochi, Kerala, India, which has been colonised by the Portuguese, Dutch and British. Right now I am working in a very silent library consulting a recently published (and huge) Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch East India Company vol. VI, India, Persia and the Arabian Peninsula. There are some pretty awesome maps in there
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Royal: I'm very sorry for your loss, your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
My Cartographer's Guild maps: Finished Maps
More maps viewable at my DeviantArt page: Ramah-Palmer DeviantArt
Lucky; my neighbor has some vintage stuff from Drake, but that's it.
Yeah, I envy you. Oldest thing I've got is a 1941 Atlas. Kind of freaky to look through it and see half of Europe marked 'German Reich'.
Lucky. I don't even have an atlas.
So I can't really post pictures, because they're huge and because they're copyrighted. I've made maps of my own, derived from those however. You'll find theme here.
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Last Minute Father's Day Gift: CLEAR for the airport jockey
No need to read any further. CLEAR ceased operations on June 22. I would be upset about having spent hard earned money on something I gifted my husband yesterday, the day before operations ceased. But, alas, I am sadder about seeing people lose jobs. Good luck to you, CLEAR people.
Yesterday as I waited to get through airport security I realized there was a completely empty line that was beckoning. It was a Clear lane; it's like a VIP lane that you can use to zip through airport security. And, as I waited and waited in my packed line I leaned over and picked up a brochure for Clear and was struck with an aha! moment. This was the ideal Father's Day gift for my husband, the man who has been flying almost non-stop for the past 3 weeks. He appreciates services over products and this is one service he would love to have, I am sure.
What does Clear do?
When you arrive at participating airports (list below; they are continuously adding them), you look for the Clear express lane at airport security. Once you have your identity verified using your iris or fingerprint, a concierge (even better!) will assist you in getting through security (i.e., getting to the front of the security line). You can even use the card at certain football stadiums.
Which airports accept the Clear card?
Albany, Atlanta, Boston (Terminal A), Cincinnati, Denver, Gulfport-Biloxi, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, JFK (Terminals 1,2,3,4, & 7), LaGuardia (Delta & Central Terminal B), Little Rock, Newark (Terminals B1 & B2), Oakland, Orlando, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Jose, Washington Dulles, Washington Reagan National, Westchester.
You can buy a 1-year membership for $199, or try it out for 6 months at a reduced rate of $89. There is also a discounted family plan (though kids under 11 can go through with a Clear card-carrying adult).
And lastly, YES, they have set it up, so that you can gift the Clear card for Father's Day (with a special offer), as well. And, it's perfect because you can sign-up online!
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SUPER!!!! What a fantastic idea…
JS Jun 23 at 11:00 am Reply
Let's hope no one jumped on this: Clear has just announced they're ceasing operations as of today, June 22…
Isabel: guess you're a speed reader and jumped past the first line which was added last night and bolded. 😉
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Oh, sorry, I read the article a couple of days ago and thought I'd give a heads up.
Isabel: Thanks for looking out for us and our readers!


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Legendary Treasures - Schumann: The Four Symphonies / Kletzki, Israel PO
2 CD / Doremi / 2009-06-09Works: Robert Schumann: Symphony no 1 in B flat major ("Spring"), Op. 38; Symphony no 2 in C major, Op. 61; Manfred, Op. 115; Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 "Rhenish"; Symphony no 4 in D minor, Op. 1...
Conductors: Kletzki, Paul
Ensemble: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
This historic recording (c. 1953) of a world-class orchestra was conducted by one of the 20th century's greatest conductors and is now on CD for...continue...
Legendary Treasures - Mahler: Symphony no 1 and 9 / Kletzki
2 CD / Doremi / 2006-10-10Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"; Symphony no 9 in D major
Conductors: Kletzki, Paul
Ensemble: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Considered one of the best orchestras in the world, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was founded (as "Palestine Orchestra") in 1936 by great Jewish-Polish violinist Bronislaw...continue...
Legendary Treasures - Pnina Salzman Vol 3 / Salzman, Mehta
2 CD / Doremi / 2005-08-09Works: Béla Bartók: Concerto for Piano no 3, Sz 119; Camille Saint-Saëns: Concerto for Piano no 5 in F major, Op. 103 "Egyptian"; Marc Lavry: Concerto for Piano no 1, Op. 201; Paul Ben-Haim: ...
Performers: Salzman, Pnina
Conductors: Paray, Paul; Foster, Lawrence; Mehta, Zubin; Vonk, Hans; Marriner, Sir Neville; Rodan, Mendi
Ensemble: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
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Performers: Brainin, Norbert [Violin]; Lovett, Martin; Salzman, Pnina; Schidlof, Peter
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This was DELICIOUS! My kids kept begging for me. I adjusted the recipe a tad bit by NOT using clams, shallots or marjoram. I did add mussels, onion powder and fresh basil. I would also recommend adding an 8 oz. can of tomato sauce.
Seafood Linguine
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This restaurant-worthy seafood pasta dish is a snap to make and an easy way to impress guests. We like the sweet taste and extra-saucy consistency of canned diced San Marzano tomatoes in sauces like this one. Marjoram pairs well with the seafood, but basil or even parsley works too. Serve with a Caesar salad.
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I used low-sodium canned tomatoes and got this down to under 250mg of sodium. By using a little extra black pepper I disguised the lack of salt in the tomatoes (I used 1/4 teaspoon instead of 1/2.). I also used a base of mirepoix with red bell peppers to augment the tomatoes and add more flavor, and that added texture as well. I had Marsala on hand, so that stood in place of the white wine. It's a highly adaptable recipe.
First time, I made just as dictated. It was so good, I thought I would make it again . This time, I didn't have all the ingredients, so I improvised. I used 1 piece of frozen cod for the fish. Frozen shrimp for the scallops and frozen "Bantry Bay" Mussels in place of the clams. I had some fresh spinach left in the fridge, so chopped it and added it while the tomatoes were simmering. We absolutely loved this both ways. It is always good to have a recipe that lends itself to versatility. I already passed it on to friends.
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A pandemic is a global outbreak of disease. An influenza pandemic happens when a new strain of the flu virus appears for which people have little or no immunity. As a result, it spreads easily from person to person around the world, causing widespread illness and death. Get the facts about flu pandemics.
Unlike a flu pandemic, seasonal flu is a flu strain that we know will circulate from November through March. It causes symptoms like fever, cough, sore throat, and muscle aches. Every year, between 5 and 20 percent of Americans come down with the flu. Most healthy people get better from seasonal flu sickness without lasting effects, but it can be deadly. However, seasonal flu kills more than 36,000 people and puts 200,000 more in the hospital every year in the U.S(See Number 3 in References). Plan now for a flu pandemic.
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May 4, 2016
Thomas County Utilities says they're offering Christmas tree recycling services that will turn fresh, undecorated Christmas trees into mulch for people's gardens.
City officials say this is the program's 10th year and its popularity keeps rising.
Thomasville Solid Waste Landfill Manager Nathaniel Tyler says when the program started a decade ago they mulched about 200 trees - now, he says they get between 700 and 1,000.
The program is part of the state-wide event "Bring One for the Chipper", an effort under the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and the "Keep Georgia Beautiful" initiative to promote environmental conservation.
Thomasville Utilities says the trees will be mulched on Saturday (1/8) and anyone who donates a tree will get a sapling or packet of seeds to replant, while supplies last.
If you have a live tree you'd like to donate but cannot bring it to the recycling center, you can call Thomasville Utilities to schedule a pick-up from your residence.
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Weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)
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|Length: up to 46 cm (2)
Classified as Near Threatened (NT) on the IUCN Red List 2006 (1).
Weedy seadragons are one of only two species of seadragons, the second is known as the leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) due to the greater number of leaf-like appendages along its body (2). Seadragons resemble the seahorses to which they are related, having a bony-plated body and elongated snout; their tails are not prehensile however (3). Adult weedy seadragons are a reddish colour, with yellow and purple markings; they have small leaf-like appendages that provide camouflage and a number of short spines for protection (4). Males have narrower bodies and are darker than females (4). Seadragons have a long dorsal fin along the back and small pectoral fins on either side of the neck, which provide balance (3).
Endemic to southern Australian waters, the weedy seadragon is found along the south coast from the Abrolhos Islands in Western Australia to Port Stephens, New South Wales. The range also includes the coast of Tasmania (3).
Inhabiting coastal waters down to at least 50 metres deep, weedy seadragons are associated with rocky reefs, seaweed beds, seagrass meadows and structures colonised by seaweed (6).
These fish are slow-moving and rely on their camouflage as protection against predation; they drift in the water and with the leaf-like appendages resemble the swaying seaweed of their habitat (4). Individuals are observed either on their own or in pairs; feeding on planktonic organisms by sucking prey into their toothless mouths (4). Like seahorses, seadragon males are the sex that cares for the developing eggs. Females lay around 120 eggs onto the brood patch located on the underside of the males tail (4). The eggs are fertilised and carried by the male for around a month before the hatchlings emerge (4).
This species is not at present a target of the trade in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is currently affecting seahorse numbers. However, they are likely to be threatened by the destruction of habitat that is occurring along coastal waters as a result of development and pollution (5).
Currently, it is illegal to take or export these species in most of the states within which they occur (4). A database of seadragon sightings, known as 'Dragon Search' has been established with support from the Marine and Coastal Community Network (MCCN), Threatened Species Network (TSN) and the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS), which encourages divers to report sightings (4). Monitoring of populations may provide indications of local water quality and seadragons could also become an important 'flagship' species for the often-overlooked richness of the unique flora and fauna of Australia's south coast (4).
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Authenticated (25/6/03) by Jeremy Gramp, Dragon Search.
- Dorsal fin: in fish, the unpaired fin found on the back of the body.
- Endemic: a species or taxonomic group that is only found in one particular country or geographic area.
- Pectoral fin: in fish, the pair of fins that are found one on each side of the body just behind the gills. They are generally used for balancing and braking.
- Planktonic: aquatic organisms that drift with water movements; may be either phytoplankton (plants), or zooplankton (animals).
IUCN Red List (May, 2006)
Australia Museum online (April, 2003)
Melbourne Aquarium (April, 2003)
Dragon Search (April, 2003)
- Gramp, J. (2003) Pers. comm.
Western Australia Department of Fisheries (April, 2003)


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December 2002
We say that prevention ... is called chastity.
Monsignor Javier Lozano Barragan, President of the Pontifical Council for Health Workers, reiterating on November 6, 2002, the Vatican's stance that abstinence is the only way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, as reported by the Associated Press. Barragan went on to express the Catholic Church's criticism of viewing sex as a recreational act separate from procreation.
Public and private partners in Ghana are showing a commitment to a new way of doing business. The Global Fund will give them the resources to take effective programs to scale and to ensure comprehensive responses to diseases of poverty.
Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in a November 22, 2002, press release announcing the Global Fund's first ever grant agreement: a total of US$6.5 million for a variety of projects in Ghana that will treat 2,000 people living with AIDS and 20,000 people living with tuberculosis. Another agreement that would have sent US$12 million to Tanzania, and was to be the nearly one-year-old Global Fund's first grant, was put on hold earlier the same week after the Tanzanian government insisted that the funding would have to be administered through its finance ministry, rather than the ministry of health, as the Global Fund requires. According to the press release, the Global Fund is negotiating agreements with 39 other countries that were approved for funding in its first proposal round.
The message is clear -- give us your money to fight AIDS, Mr. Gates, but don't raise any uncomfortable questions.
From a November 11, 2002, Times of India editorial, one of several from Indian newspapers that criticized the Indian government, and Health Minister Shatrughan Sinha, in particular, for their response to the country's AIDS epidemic. Sinha accused Bill Gates and the U.S. Ambassador to India of unjustifiably "spreading panic" about the epidemic, even while accepting a US$100 million donation for fighting the disease from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Recent reports have predicted that India could have as many as 25 million people living with AIDS by 2010; the Indian government has stated that such estimates are serious overstatements.
African societies' capacity to resist famine is fast eroding. Hunger and disease have begun reinforcing each other. As daunting as the prospect is, we will have to fight them together, or we will succeed against neither.
Alex de Waal, director of Justice Africa and an adviser to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and UNICEF, in a November 19, 2002, New York Times guest editorial. De Waal described how AIDS exacerbates famine because it disproportionately affects working age adults who could otherwise provide food; prevents parents from passing on famine-coping skills and acquired economic assets to their children; and increases a community's total nutritional requirements because HIV-infected people need more calories and protein to fight off the progression of AIDS.
[N]owhere has [UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's] leadership and foresight been more important than in marshalling the international community against the biggest problem that we have on the face of the earth today, and that's the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell speaking November 12, 2002, at the United Nations Association of the USA Visionaries Awards Dinner in Washington, DC. The dinner was the setting of a tribute to Annan.
If George Bush spent more time and money on mobilizing Weapons of Mass Salvation (WMS) in addition to combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), we might actually get somewhere in making this planet a safer and more hospitable home.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University (New York) in a guest opinion piece for The Economist. The article called on the United States to make a higher priority of fighting poverty and disease abroad, and argued the United Nations and its constituent agencies are the best vehicles through which to wage such a fight.
The AIDS epidemic claimed more than 3 million lives in 2002, and an estimated 5 million people acquired the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2002 -- bringing to 42 million the number of people globally living with the virus.
The first sentence of AIDS Epidemic Update, a biannual report of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The report was released November 26, 2002, in advance of World AIDS Day 2002.
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Sandra Harper, president of Our Lady of the Lake College, has been elected to the board of directors of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. The association represents about 200 Catholic institutions of higher learning in the U.S., plus two dozen international universities.
Terry Compton, a diabetes educator on the faculty of Southeastern Louisiana University's School of Nursing, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
LSU researcher Clinton Willson has been named director of engineering design and innovation for the Water Institute of the Gulf.
Willson will remain a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at LSU and continue to serve on LSU's Coastal Sustainability Studio executive board.
Associated Grocers Inc. has named Darin M. Arceneaux as executive vice president operations and chief financial officer and Emile R. Breaux as executive vice president-retail operations.
Arceneaux has served as senior vice president and CFO. He continues to serve as treasurer of the corporation and is also the general manager of subsidiary Dart Refrigeration.
Breaux has served as senior vice president, sales and marketing. He will also be overseeing the information services department in addition to his current role of managing all procurement, sales and marketing.
Loretta Bodi has been named operations manager for Gainey's Concrete Products in Holden. She was on the company's sales team.
Scott Sarrat has been named senior vice president, corporate banking relationship manager in Regions Bank's New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Acadiana market.
Sarrat was commercial banking relationship manager.
G. Scott Vezina, formerly of New Orleans, has been promoted to partner in the
Philadelphia personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP.
Vezina was special assistant attorney general for Louisiana from 1997 to 2004.
Kirby Arceneaux, chairman of Environmental Drilling Solutions LLC, has been named 2013 chairman of the Louisiana Gulf Coast Oil Exposition in Lafayette.
Other officers are Steve Maley, operations manager for Badger Oil Corp., chairman-elect and Kenneth "Kenny" Crouch, owner of Pressure Control Specialties, treasurer.
Gov. Bobby Jindal has made appointments and reappointments from the local area to several boards, commissions and committees.
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After pushing for health care legislation to cover millions of uninsured Americans last year, expect Congress in 2010 to begin efforts to help millions of American workers who don't have adequate retirement savings. After the recent recession wiped out $1.3 trillion in wealth, legislation offering incentives for workers to invest in financial vehicles that provide guaranteed retirement income has been proposed. The movement is gaining support from the insurance industry and retirement advocates.The key proposal to look for this year is the Retirement Security Needs Lifetime Pay Act, sponsored by U.S. Reps. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) and Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Fla.). The act advocates tax breaks for the increased use of annuity products that pay income throughout retirement. Retirement experts also anticipate the reintroduction of the Automatic IRA Act of 2007, which would require small- and medium-sized businesses to automatically enroll their employees in an Individual Retirement Account.
%%DynaPub-Enhancement class="enhancement contentType-HTML Content fragmentId-1 payloadId-61603 alignment-right size-small"%% "In 2010, the Obama administration is going to be focusing on the 70 million American workers who don't have access to retirement plans at their workplace," John Kalamarides, senior vice president of retirement solutions for Prudential (PRU), said last week as part of the firm's Global Markets and Retirement Outlook briefing.
Kalamarides said that the investor experience over the last 18 months has made it clear that retirement assets are not sufficiently protected against downside market risk. Even the most diligent savers may not be protected against the risk of outliving their assets. Finding ways for individuals to achieve a higher level of retirement security will become a major theme for the investment community as we begin the next decade.
Confusion Over Calculating Life Expectancy
Providers of guaranteed retirement income products like annuities are trying to get workers to stop viewing retirement as a lump sum of money, said Doug Dubitsky, vice president of product management for Guardian Life Insurance Co.. Instead, they're pushing the concept as a plan to produce income equal to their current salary for every year they expect to live after age 65.
Variable annuities and fixed annuities with guaranteed minimum withdrawal options can provide a stream of income that can't be outlived. The proposed legislation encourages the use of such products because recent studies show that many middle class Americans are at great risk of outliving their financial resources.
"Many people don't calculate life expectancy correctly," says Dubitsky. "You can correct a financial planning mistake when you are 45 or 50 and you are working, but if you make a major flaw in your financial planning and you get to be 85 years old, what are you going to do? Go back to work?"
As more Baby Boomers retire, the possibility of having many millions of Americans thrust into poverty after they've stopped working is becoming more menacing. The number of Americans retiring with company-sponsored pension benefits continues to decline, and many doubt whether Social Security will be around for the next generation.
Unclear Whether Bipartisan Support Exists
Legislation aimed at finding ways to provide guaranteed retirement income has had bipartisan support in the past. But it is unclear whether it can pass Congress after the recent battle over health care. Compensation and benefit strategies consultants from J.P. Morgan analyzed the proposals in December in a report, pointing out a number of issues that will have to be resolved before these proposals can be enacted in some form.
There are many complex issues that will need to be addressed if there is to be a mandate to provide guaranteed retirement income products to all workers. For starters, policy makers must settle on an acceptable level of tax benefits for investing in the products. They must also decide on contribution levels, the expenses and fees charged by providers and on who delivers on the guaranteed lifetime payout aspect of the product if a company defaults.
Insurers, who offer annuities, are pushing for the legislation because it could mean billions in mandated investment capital for them -- a kind of guaranteed lifetime income for insurance companies. While the idea of guaranteed retirement income is a welcome one, not everyone believes that mandating the use of annuities is the best way to get there.
MoneyWatch.com's Charlie Farrell lays out a scenario in which, if you continue to invest your money during your retirement years, you could do better than what some guaranteed annuity products may offer. And as the guaranteed retirement income debate continues, the degree to which consumers understand how these products should be used will be critical to getting legislation passed and the products accepted widely.
"People need to understand what they are buying," Dubitsky warns. "They need to understand who they are buying it from and they need to understand what their needs are. The guarantees that are offered are only as good as the company offering them."
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Downtown motorists will soon have to add an additional step to their parking regime.
Instead of just registering a vehicle at a parking machine, they also will have to put the receipt on the dashboard before continuing on with business. It's called pay and display.
The shift in parking practice is due to the unreliability of the current system run by Aparc Parking Solutions. Information being plugged into the parking machines isn't getting accurately communicated to the handheld devices used by Juneau Police Department parking enforcement.
Community Service Officer Bob Dilley says this has made it difficult to issue citations.
"Intermittently we would lose communications so if you do that and then somebody presents you with evidence later that says, yes, they did register, then you really can't trust the system and we as enforcement officers want to make sure we're not issuing citations in error."
This is not the only issue making it hard for parking enforcement to do their job. The city and borough of Juneau is currently transitioning to handling its own parking violations instead of sending them to a district court. When the transition is complete, enforcement will once again leave citations on vehicles.
In this interim period, Dilley says people should continue to use the parking machines and follow parking ordinances. He says downtown parking remains problematic.
"I think there's a certain percentage of the population knows that we're not giving out parking tickets and is probably somewhat taking advantage of that."
Ben Lyman is senior planner with the CBJ Community Development Department. He says on-street parking is not the only option downtown. Marine Parking Garage and the Downtown Transportation Center Garage are geared for drivers looking to park for more than two hours.
"The two facilities combined are almost always half full and that means we've got about 300 empty parking spaces in those two facilities."
At the moment, CBJ does not know when pay and display will begin, but the Parks and Recreation Department will provide public education on how the new system will work. There will be a grace period before enforcement starts issuing citations.
The new pay-and-display parking method will still allow two hours of free parking.
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A letter from Nuhad Tomeh in Lebanon
July 2013
And the King will answer them, "Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren [and sisters] you did it to me" (Mathew 25:40).
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
During my last visit to one of the many centers for displaced people in Syria, where hundreds of thousands have had to flee for their lives, leaving behind them everything, even personal documents and intimate belongings, I met some families that I knew from our Presbyterian churches in the area. Northeast of the city of Homs the National Evangelical Presbyterian Synod of Syria and Lebanon had started a care program in a village, providing relief assistance and pastoral care, including a worship service once a week, for these displaced families.
There I met young women in her late 30s; she started telling me her story, which I would like to share with you. Talya, married and with two daughters, 17 and 15, and a son, 5 years old, lived in a big city where her husband worked as a barber, and they were doing well raising their family. She said, "We love our dearest Syria—it is the most beautiful land and people—but, unfortunately, it was kidnapped by the terrorists, who killed our dreams and our people… What a sad and painful situation we are in. And we have had to leave our humble but beautiful home, like thousands of other families."
Talya explained how the situation had gotten so bad that when the children went off to school, they waited with worry and fear for their return, and when her husband went off to work, we wondered if he would make it back home again. The violence continued to increase, and they finally stopped sending the children to school because they were hearing that girls were being raped and boys kidnapped. Everyone was carrying weapons. The "final straw" was when they learned that a relative had been taken from his home and killed, and so they decided to leave. Even now, weeks later, she thanks God for their safe passage out of that dangerous city and adds, "Thanks be to God and to the Presbyterian church, who have helped us very much and looked after our children and even gave me a part-time job helping in the distribution of the food relief to these displaced people…"
My friends in Christ, this is a but one story of thousands—even hundreds of thousands—of the Syrian people and of the war that has been going on now for two and a half years!
The PC(USA)—Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and the Middle East desk—have made big efforts to raise funds for our main partner in Syria, the Synod of Syria and Lebanon (the Presbyterian church of these two countries). So far, with the support of the PC(USA) as well as The Outreach Foundation, the Synod has been able to help 169 families who were displaced from their homes, with plans in the coming month to reach 3,000 families with relief supplies. Each family will receive a relief basket as well as $35 per month.
The Synod was also able, with the help of partners in the U.S.A. and Europe, to renovate and furnish one of its old schools in Lebanon near the Syrian boarder, which will now receive refugees coming to Lebanon. It has also begun bringing relief supplies to a Syrian refugee camp near the Syrian-Lebanese border.
More important than providing relief supplies was the solidarity visit by the PC(USA) General Assembly moderator this past May, along with the area coordinator and his delegation (see the moderator's commentary at http://www.pcusa.org/news/2013/6/1/life-and-death/). About that same time another delegation of nine people from The Outreach Foundation led by Ms. Marilyn Borst, Associate Director, came. These visits reassured our partners of the support and love of sisters and brothers in the U.S.A. in spite of the danger of such visits at these times.
The Christian presence in the Middle East is in danger of being demolished, and so we hope and pray that this will not happen and that God, in His own way, will bring His people His everlasting peace there. Please also pray with me that the leaders of all nations—especially those who are, in one way or another, involved in the war in Syria—will work for peace and justice, ushering in God's future where:
The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.
The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
The infant will play near the cobra's den,
and the young child will put its hand into the viper's nest.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea (Isaiah 11:6-9).
And please support the PC(USA)'s and The Outreach Foundation's efforts to help the Syrians who have been internally displaced and the refugees that they will be able to return to their homes in the villages and the cities.
God's blessings on us all,
Nuhad Tomeh
The 2013 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study, p. 306
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A former member of the Ellicott D-22 Board of Education has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting teenagers. Stefanie Dickinson appeared in court Wednesday.
Additionally, Dickinson will have two trials. One will handle the sexual assault charges and another to deal with the charges stemming from her alleged sexting with a teenager.
In the sexual assault case, she is charged with two felony counts of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. In one of the counts, the victim is specified as between 15 and 18 years old.
KKTV 11 News previously reported that an affidavit against Dickinson indicates deputies interviewed two young men who say they had sex with a former Ellicott D-22 Board of Education member.
Dickinson resigned as treasurer for the school district after her arrest Sept. 18 on suspicion sexting the 14-year-old boy. The charges in that case are separate.
Investigators say a former high school student reported having sex with Dickinson in 2008, but no charges were filed in that case because the student was 18 at the time.
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So if you are taken out by another rider, you are penalised for his mistake. Safety is an important thing, but their is a lot of ways when oil or fuel can get to the track, for example two bikes hitting each other without crash, or a single technical mistake. I think this last one is even more common than spraying oil by a rejoined bike.
Safety is really important issue, but maybe they do more damage with this rule than gain. Losing track time at practice, losing points in the showdown etc.
Maybe they should have thought about banning rider aids, because the last race (especially Haga's start) was THE dangerous thing.


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Any other insight on how Fast(alltheweb) ranks pages?
Let me give you some general observations.
Both keyword density and frequency can be high, repetitions of the keyword in the title work well.
Pages with a description tag are working better than those without.
Position 1 in the title is not the best place for your keyword.
Link pop is important, particularly the text of the incoming link and probably the surrounding text.
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I have most of these elements within my pages and the listing on fast serp does not show any description [alltheweb.com]
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I have repeted the main KW 2 times in the title tag
>keyword density and frequency
Now this I have a problem with They want NO text on the page
Can text within comment tags work?
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Golden Palace Casino features an impressive catalog of slots from the IGSONLINE platform. These include dozens of both bonus video slots and traditional three-reel games. Relive the magic of the World Cup in Religion of Champions Brasil, get spooky in Grave Robbers, dive for riches in Great Reef, or choose from a number of other titles with different features and themes. The three-reel classic slots include Crazy Pizza, Tropical Punch, and Wild Sevens.
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The Golden Palace Casino support team is available 24/7 through a variety of contact methods. Generally, the fastest way to get in touch is via live chat, which can be accessed via the website or casino software. Support specialists can also be reached by email or through toll-free telephone for players living in North America, Australia, or South Africa.
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Golden Palace Casino uses SSL encryption to protect players' sensitive data. This includes passwords, credit card numbers, and other banking details. The protocol works by obscuring private information to ensure that no one can read it or even convert it into readable text.
All of Golden Palace Casino's games have been audited by TST and shown to be fair. This is indicated by the "Gaming Labs Certified" seal located on the bottom of their website, with evidence provided in an independent report.
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- 24/7 customer support via e-mail, live chat or toll-free phone
- SSL encryption
- Certified by Gaming Labs
- 5 days pending period for withdrawals
- Few withdrawal methods


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Diane Mueller, January 15, 2013
The logical step for an enterprise that has an elastic cloud up and running is to deploy applications. Following ActiveState's recent Stackato Partner Program announcement with cloud infrastructure leader Cloudscaling, ActiveState's Cloud Evangelists Diane Mueller and John Wetherill take the plunge and share key insights on deploying Stackato on CloudScaling's Open Cloud System.
Open Cloud System (OCS) is Cloudscaling's OpenStack-based production-grade elastic cloud product. OCS takes a different approach to networking from baseline OpenStack. Rather than using VLANs, OCS relies on layer 3 routing, just like Amazon Web Services EC2. While we tested Stackato on both AWC and OpenStack, we we wanted to ensure that Stackato behaved the same or better on OCS, and provided an out-of-the-box experience that would be just as awesome on OCS as on other clouds.
The Cloudscaling team gave us access to an OCS lab environment so that we could install Stackato, build a private PaaS cluster, and run our scaling tests. Here are the results.


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The songs you prayerfully choose for Sunday morning worship are dependent upon many factors.
To begin with you should work on creating to forms to help you put together Sunday morning worship.
A worship planning sheet. This sheet or form should be a layout of your worship service with slots for you to plug in your selections. If you play for other services, such as Wednesday group etc. make a separate for each type of service.
A list of musical selections from which to choose your musical selection. There is so much worship music available these days that any one compilation of music can limit you severely. Many church services have a blended type service and play both old hymns, and contemporary worship music.
Once you have created your list and form it's time to start working on selection.
First and foremost pray. God doesn't make mistakes. Maybe this Sunday He will lead you to play a piece that will speak to someone particularly needing encouragement.
Next What type of service is this? Are you choosing songs for Mother's Day service? You may a list of songs already for Mother's Day and it is a matter for picking from that list.
Then what Sunday morning's sermon theme? The pastor should have shared this with you. This is a good time to have a song concordance. I use this one which is a companion to Sing to the Lord Hymnal. The song titles are indexed by theme and scripture. While I play songs that are not listed in this resource it still helps because the vast amount of song titles it does have.
Now you need to look at the area of the service in which you are choosing songs for. Such as prelude, offertory, the actual worship portion, call to prayer etc. Here you will may have a set of songs you always use for such times as offertory and call tow worship. Be sure to pick appropriate tempo's.
Finally, and I think this is important for a solo musician whether a small or large church. Can you play the song? Maybe the song seems perfect but if you haven't perfected your playing of it mark it as one to learn and move on to one where you will not struggle so much with the technicalities you miss out on the worship.
God lead you and guide you on your worship planning.