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February 15, 2012
I'm Back!!
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Wow!!What a good looking couple. Definitely, will produce good looking children. Love all your wedding gowns and dresses.
- February 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- daphne said...
GORGEOUS PHOTOS! So glad your wedding went well. Congratulations u newly weds!
- February 21, 2012 at 11:25 PM
- Passionate About Baking said...
Congratulations Aimei! You have finally got hitched and settle down. The wedding photos are really very pretty!
- February 23, 2012 at 4:26 PM
- Aimei said...
Thanks Daphne and Jane! :D
- February 25, 2012 at 2:49 PM
- sherlyn said...
Prove that I still read your blog :) Anyway I have baked less and thus blogged less too .. Once a while I still drop by cos I have been very busy and I guess will be super busy for quite a long while ..
Congrats again to you and looking forward to your sharing pictures of your new house :)
- February 28, 2012 at 11:44 PM
- konde said...
congrats for u wedding :)
Just FYI, there's an event for bloggers and the prizes are iPad2 and Cash Find the info here
- March 9, 2012 at 7:02 PM


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The 2016 Chichester Half Marathon gets its launch next Tuesday - and it has some new features to help keep it fresh.
The city-based charity Children on the Edge in conjunction with Chichester District Council are hopeful the fifth event since the multi-terrain race was revived in 2012 will be more popular than ever.
It takes place on Sunday, October 9 and organisers are expecting a huge response from those returning and new runners alike.
Last year the event hosted nearly 1,000 runners but this year the organisers have been able to increase the entry limit to 1,500 runners on account of their experience from previous years and some minor tweaks in the course cutting out pinch points.
The half marathon takes in the major city centre sights and landmarks as well as spectacular rural scenery in the Lavant and Goodwood countryside. The terrain is a good mixture of road, paths, cycle tracks and cross-country.
The race will start at 9am near event HQ at Chichester College, where a race village will be set up. It starts in Westgate and the field run along West and East Street to Eastgate Square, where it follows the City walls round towards Priory Park.
There will be, for the first time, the possibility of starting and finishing with the half-marathon race but cutting out three miles to make a multi-terrain ten-miler.
The runners make their way across Oaklands Park, towards the Rugby Club and then out through Summersdale and Fordwater into East Lavant Village. Stunning downland scenery provides the backdrop for the runners to tackle Chalkpit Lane before climbing up to the Trundle from Seven Ways where runners have stunning views of the Solent and beyond.
The next two miles is a steady downhill descent into West Dean from where it picks up the Lavant Valley, returning to Chichester along the Centurion way, finishing in the rear college car park.
The event is suitable for people of all abilities over the age of 17. A full training programme will be provided on the event's website.
There are two new special additional opportunities for 2016.
There will be, for the first time, the possibility of starting and finishing with the half-marathon race but cutting out three miles to make a multi-terrain ten-miler.
This will give the runners the benefits of running through the city and climbing two thirds of the Trundle, with all the splendid views of the Solent, but without the challenge of the final climb to the summit. There will also be a shorter route back to the Lavant Valley.
Organisers are also introducing a three-person team relay. This event will have the same start and finish as the half marathon and be run over the same course but the route will be completed by a team of three different runners.
There will be three categories – three male runners from an athletic club; three female runners from an athletic club; three runners of either sex representing a works team, a bona-fide club or family and friends.
The course will be divided into three legs and each runner takes a different leg. Leg one is from the start to the Royal Oak at East Lavant – a distance of about 3.6 miles; leg two is from the Royal Oak to the Dean at West Dean – a distance of around 3.8 miles; leg three is from the Dean to the finish – a distance of about 5.9 miles.
To be eligible to compete all runners must be 15 on October 1, 2016, and if under 18 have the consent of a parent or guardian. To qualify as a finishing team all three runners must cover the full distance of their leg.
Ben Wilkes, head of Children on the Edge in the UK, said: "The Chichester Half has been going from strength to strength each year since we revived it in 2012.
"We're really excited for this year because there are some new competitions and prizes, lots of local business support and a real buzz in the community about race day.
"Money raised makes a huge difference to the vulnerable children we work with."
Cllr Eileen Lintill of Chichester District Council said: "The Chichester Half Marathon is an excellent opportunity for residents and businesses to set themselves a challenge and raise money for a wonderful local cause.
"The organisers are always trying to make the event more accessible to a broader range of people and we hope these shorter distances will encourage even more people to get their running shoes on."
Local sponsors Montezuma's and Store Property are again backing the event. Both organisations have directors who are keen athletes.
The works trophy proved very popular when it was introduced for the first time in 2014 and features again. Early indications are that many more businesses are considering entering this year's event.
Any organisation or business can enter as many people as they wish to compete for the Trophy. But it is the first three finishers on race day who will make up the scoring team.
Each workplace registering five or more runners is eligible to receive a complimentary training workshop from the organisers and any business signing up more than ten runners will have the tenth place free.
Once the Works Trophy team members are registered all the team manager needs to do is e-mail email@example.com with the team name and a list of competitors who have entered.
Helen Pattinson, co-founder of Montezumas, said of the Works Trophy: "There's nothing like the prospect of your work colleagues watching you run a race to motivate you to get out training. We have ten people in the business who are a lot fitter than they were!"
Prizes will also be awarded for the usual team awards.
Also back after its successful introduction in 2015 is the King and Queen of the Hill competition. Male and females will compete with each other to see who is the quickest climber of the Trundle between two points – Seven Ways Car Park and the end of the flint track at the point where the course starts to go round the summit.
Chip timing mats will be placed at the beginning and end of the Hill section which will be marked with beach flags and bunting. To be eligible runners must enter the half marathon, start the race in Westgate, complete the Hill climb section and also be a recorded as a finisher in the Chichester College car park.
Prospective runners are advised to get their entries in early to ensure a place. On the grounds of health and safety and in fairness to runners who do enter on time, organisers regret the race limit cannot be exceeded.
You can sign up at www.chichesterhalfmarathon.co.uk and training advice and guidance on preparation for the event is also available on the half marathon website – as is further information at www.chichester.gov.uk.
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Buttonwood-Packaging by Annie Wu
Annie Wu Discloses The Buttonwood Packaging
Annie Wu , the creative mind behind the highlighted work Buttonwood by Annie Wu demonstrates, Ms. Annie Wu and her professor collaborated on the project for a year from the concept to the execution. Buttonwood is a café and bakery located on main street in Pleasanton, California. The name and the packages of the cafe and bakery were inspired by the original name of the town after the sycamore tree. The patterns contain hand drawn leaves and pastries sold in the shop, intricately woven together. The pencil drawing was later scanned and edited digitally, creating a clean and cheerful atmosphere..
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Just recently, a few of the more minor nations in the Dystopian Wars world have been expanded and updated. One of these is the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a nation perilously situated between two of the mightiest nations on Earth, the Prussian Empire and the Russian Coalition.
The newest release in the PLC range, is the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Air Cadre, a collection of fast, hard-hitting aerial units dripping with fiery death, including one of my absolute favourite models in the Dystopian Wars range, the Gryf Flame Blimp. It screams mad scientist steampunk vessel so hard, it has probably long since lost its voice…
At any rate, this article aims to have a quick look at my newly painted PLC Air Cadre, focusing on the models and possible uses of them. Oh, and how pretty they are of course!
Zamiec Sky Fortress
By far the largest model in the box, the Zamiec is not a new design like the other models. However, it does seem to hav ebeen the base upon which the others were designed, so it still fits in, and looks wonderful doing so.
I got to say, my first impression with pulling this out of the box was 'Damn! This is way bigger than it looks in the pictures?!'. And it truly is one solid lump of resin! So, after a minor amount of assembly (it's around 3 resin components and 10 small metal 'drop-ons'), it got to sit at the back of the painting table watching as I developed my paint scheme… Which to begin with, was tested on…
The Gryf Flame Blimps
…my favourite model in the box! The moment I read about these on the Playtester thread, I just had to have some! I can't think of a more awesome way to wage war than to fly into battle, waving your sword and screaming your war cry from the back of a giant, flame-hurling blimp!
And I must say, the models themselves do not disappoint! Although a little hard to see from the photo below, there is a very large flamethrower that runs nearly the entire length of the keel, buried amongst a twisted network of chemical tanks, fuel lines and metal plates.
And it even has a nice little wooden deck on top from which to launch your aerial assault aboard the now flaming wreck of your enemies vehicles!
The Grom Gunnery Blimp
But for those who are a little more 'conservative' in their approach to 'How am I going to set my opponent on fire', there is always the Grom Gunnery Blimp. Packing both a forward facing set of guns and a 360 turret, which thanks to having the Incendiary Rounds MAR, can deliver napalm out to quite a range, really letting the PLC reach and touch those models that try and avoid the Gryfs…
Szabla Interceptor
With all this wonderful, incendiary-filled blimps cruising around, I can see a few TFT-based commanders rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of swarming them with those annoyingly-effective tokens, but has the PLC got a surprise in store for them…
Meet the Szabla Interceptor, one of the most amazing anti-TFT model's I've yet seen. Capable of keeping up with, and even overtaking some TFT's, and armed with Sustained Fire AA, you can bet any enemy TFT squadron nearby is going to vanish very quickly. And that's not even getting into the shenanigans I can see coming out of their Hit and Run MAR… I'll let you guys use your imagination there.
Polish-Lithuanian Tiny Flyer Tokens
Last, but still quite impressive, are the PLC TFT's. Being able to take Fighters, Recon Planes or Dive Bombers, they have an impressive bunch of Tiny Flyer Assigned Rules, which basically match up to their Russian brethren.
There is one variation I would like to discuss though, and that's the swapping of Hard Shell (2) for Acrobatic Pilots on the Fighters. Now, let's think about this.
On an attack run against an Aerial Model, on your last point of fuel or so, you lose half your number AND suffer an Abort… Curses! Your plan is foiled…
But wait! Acrobatic Pilots let's you avoid a TFT death 1/3rd of the time! And it saved nearly all those planes (because you got lucky), who can now contribute to the attack again!
But what about that Abort…? Well, fuel and ammo be damned! We're nearly out anyways! So trigger For Glory! and ignore that Abort too! Huzzah!
What was a failed attack that would have left you with 2-3 TFT's on one fuel pointlessly wandering the board, turned into a possible 8-10AD attack that could damage or even cripple an enemy air asset! No auto-win button, but you never know when those crazy Polish pilots might pull off that game-changing attack…
And that's about it for the PLC Air Cadre pack. A really nice set of new models, an impressive larger model thrown in (with some new and improved rules too!) and a bucket load of TFT's just for added flavour.
I'm not going to do any sort of rating on these boxes, I was never any good at that sort of thing, so to close up, all I'm going to say is that I was highly impressed, and it was a pleasure painting these models. So much so, I've already opened my second box…
Well, that's me for now, so Reese out! 😀


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Motorcycle designer, Roland Sands, and Nitro Circus madman, Andy Bell, joined forces on a Panasonic Technics inspired Harley Sportster. Roland Sands took cues from the RP-DH1250 Headphones as well as the classic SL-1200 MKII turntables for the design. When the Technics sporty is done, Andy Bell takes it to the desert to push it to the limits. The song in the video on here was custom built from over 100 sounds recorded during the fabrication of the bike by Andy Schmidt to really showcase the incredibly wide range of sounds the headphones are capable of. Doesn't hurt that the 'phones are achingly cool to look at; after all, they take design cues from the SL-1200 platter as do the wheels on the bike.
They could probably hypnotise you if you stare at them long enough.
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You can reach us on phone number (606) 836-8182, fax number (606) 833-5837 or email address . Our office is located on 627 Bellefonte Rd, Flatwoods, KY,
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Black Panther (2005) #6 Review
The first arc concludes and it's one for the record books! It's a rumble in the jungle as the Wakandan royal family squares off against the Radioactive Man, and the Black Panther goes toe-to-toe with his arch-nemesis Klaw in a battle royale!
Part 6 (of 6).
Klaw has the queen mother and demands Tchalla throw himself on a knife for him not to kill her and destroy his country. T'challa refuses as Klaw will destroy them anyway. In the mines Shuri and Radioactive man do battle, she manages to kill him with the ebon blade of the black knight. The queen mother gets saved by the Dora Milaje and S'yan while Batroc is defeated and Klaw tries to infect the technology of wakanda only to be driven out. Tshan gets taken over by the body hopper.
Tchalla returns and drives a spear into Klaw's chest right as the united states cyborgs arrive to assist, Tchalla promptly kicks them out, their assistance is not needed.
The Good
A climatic ending to a very good read, everything was engaging from start to finish, it also cemented that Wakanda and the Black panther are literally the people to beat in the marvel U. Great work from Hudlin despite what the haters think and say.
The Bad
Nothing to complain about
The ugly
5/5 stars


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705 Highway 33 So. Cloquet Mn. 55720
Welcome to U.S. Metal Detecting.A family owned store in the Northland,helping to encourage family fun,and of course some entertainment to some of us old farts who like to relic hunt as a hobby.
We have decters to fit any budget,and some higher end models for those looking to upgrade further in their treasure hunting equipment.
We don't fill you with hype that you'll be the next treasure hunter in the state to find gold,but can guarantee you'll find a coin,or two,and a whole lot of garbage.We're the real deal here,and won't talk you into buying a high end detector that's made for gold prospecting.We'll get you set up right for Minnesota Treasure hunting,and here we have to look at things logically.So come on down to the store,and we'll share some tales,and go over some of the models that are best here in the state.
Detecting is a fun hobby,and also gets us out of the house to stretch those old legs.It's good exercise too,and you never know what you'll find.The find is what leeps us going,not the specific find,because if it was,I'd of retired from this business long ago.
We carry a variety of models to choose from,and can fill you in on the laws here in the state,on where you can,and can not metal detect.
There are several metal detector brokers here in the state,and we try to do our best to make sure we have the lowest prices.By no means are we trying to get rich off this business.We do it for fun,and love sharing with others our stories with others when it comes to prospecting in Minnesota.
So come on down to our metal detector hangout and have a cup of coffee with us.We'll be glad to show you our models,and share some of our adventures with you on our tales out in the field.
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During last year's snow Bella was just under a year old and she'd been with us for just a few months, and she was like a hyperactive 4-year old! This year she is nearly a doggy-mature two year old, has responded to training over the year and is a very much loved part of the family.
However when it comes to S N O W, Bella is still excited - much like any normal child! She is totally convinced that the rabbits are just waiting under a thin layer of snow for her!
She sees the neighbours with their efficient plastic snow shovels and tries to help them using her own muzzle!
Most of all she's convinced there is all sorts of wild life darting under the snow, under the bushes and her hunting instinct is in the ON position!
This morning the back garden looked beautiful, peaceful, untouched, white .....
..... then Bella & I attacked it!
And then I got a little braver and took her out to the front, where the pavements were being cleared, but no cars were venturing on the road. I use the word 'braver', because I was in no mood to be a human sledge being pulled by a wanna-be husky tearing down our icy road! But look at her - she was so controlled!


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Warren Commission Exhibit No. 826 [linked HERE] is a 17-page FBI report on Lee Harvey Oswald that was filed by New Orleans FBI agent Milton R. Kaack on October 31, 1963, three weeks prior to JFK's assassination.
I found CE826 to be a fascinating report. It contains quite a bit of detailed information on Lee Harvey Oswald--three weeks before he murdered President Kennedy.
Commission Exhibit 826 is also interesting for another reason -- Oswald's penchant for telling lies. Oswald dishes up multiple lies via CE826, within the multi-page August 10, 1963, report of New Orleans FBI agent John L. Quigley, which begins on Page 6 of Milton Kaack's 17-page main report.
Quigley interviewed Oswald at the New Orleans Police Department on 8/10/63, which was one day after Oswald had been arrested for "disturbing the peace by creating a scene" on Canal Street while passing out pamphlets for the Fair Play For Cuba Committee.
After his arrest, Oswald himself asked to talk to an FBI agent, and Quigley was the man who was sent to talk with him. The specific reason for Oswald requesting to speak with an FBI agent is something we can only speculate about now. But Oswald certainly seemed anxious to talk about the Fair Play For Cuba Committee and his own one-man "New Orleans chapter" of that Committee.
Among the falsehoods that Oswald told Special Agent John Quigley of the FBI on 8/10/63 was this one (with LHO obviously not wanting to reveal the fact that he had met and married his wife in Russia):
"About four months ago he and his wife, MARINA OSWALD nee Prossa [sic], whom he met and married in Fort Worth, moved to New Orleans."
And then there are the multiple lies that Oswald told Agent Quigley concerning the fictitious "A.J. Hidell". Knowing, of course, that A.J. Hidell only existed in Lee Oswald's imagination, the following portions of Agent Quigley's August 1963 FBI report are really quite humorous to read now. I can envision Oswald talking to himself on the telephone, or sending himself a letter to ask himself if he would go down to Canal Street to pass out some FPCC literature:
"Since receiving his membership card in the New Orleans chapter of the [Fair Play For Cuba] committee he said that he had spoken with [A.J.] HIDELL on the telephone on several occasions. On these occasions, HIDELL would discuss general matters of mutual interest in connection with committee business, and on other occasions he would inform him of a scheduled meeting. He said he has never personally met HIDELL, and he knows HIDELL did have a telephone, but it has now been discontinued. He claimed that he could not recall what the number was.
"OSWALD said that the committee did not have any offices in New Orleans, and whenever meetings were held they were held in residences of various members. He maintained that he had attended only two meetings of this committee, and at each of the meetings there were about five different individuals.
"At each of these meetings the persons present were different. He did not know the last names of any of these individuals and claimed he was only introduced to them by first names. He maintained that he could not recall any of the first names.
"From what he understands there are no regularly scheduled times for meetings, and the only way he knows about them is when somebody gives him a call and tells him there will be a meeting. At these meetings he said the general conversation deals with Cuba and the latest news on the internal affairs of Cuba.
"OSWALD admitted that on one occasion he held a committee meeting at his home, but he declined to elaborate on how he got word to the various members that it would be held.
"Last Wednesday, August 7, 1963, OSWALD said he received a note through the mail from HIDELL. The note asked him if he had time would he mind distributing some Fair Play literature in the downtown area of New Orleans.
"He said HIDELL knew that he was not working and probably had time. HIDELL also knew that he had considerable literature on the committee which had been furnished to him by the national committee in New York.
"Since he did not have anything to do, OSWALD said he decided he would go down to Canal Street and distribute some literature. He denied that he was being paid for his services, but that he was doing it as a patriotic duty."
[End quotes from FBI report.]
I also find it interesting to take note of the things Oswald told Quigley on 8/10/63, versus the remarks he made during his WDSU-Radio interview with Bill Stuckey just seven days later.
On August 10th, Oswald didn't mention anything to Quigley about being the "Secretary" of the New Orleans FPCC chapter. But on August 17th, he told Stuckey that he was, indeed, the secretary of the New Orleans branch of the Committee.
Lee had obviously used those seven days to make up a better and more elaborate lie concerning his one-man chapter of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee prior to making his first of two appearances on WDSU-Radio in New Orleans.
It's also rather interesting to take note of the fact that FBI agent Quigley says in his August 1963 report that Oswald himself "exhibited" to Quigley a Fair Play For Cuba Committee membership card that was signed by "A.J. Hidell". And this is in addition to Oswald telling Quigley that he (LHO) had actually talked with Hidell on the phone several times.
The only reason I mention the above facts is because I believe that I'm correct in saying that a few conspiracy theorists have speculated that just perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald didn't really use the alias "A.J. Hidell" at all in 1963.
But if Oswald HIMSELF was bringing up the name Hidell while talking to an FBI agent in August of '63, and if Oswald HIMSELF had shown Agent Quigley a card with the name Hidell on it, then such a theory about Oswald having no idea who A.J. Hidell was would go up in smoke for all time.
Or maybe some conspiracy theorists want to believe that John Quigley's report that we find in CE826 is nothing but a great-big lie regarding the name "Hidell".
But even if Quigley's report were a lie, there's still the undeniable fact that all of the various documents that bear the name "Hidell" on them were determined by handwriting analysts to be in Lee Harvey Oswald's own handwriting.
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I sent in my layout in February and I am so thrilled to have it published this month in Scrapbook Memories Magazine for November - 2014!
Thank you to everyone that has congratulated me, I am so thrilled to be chosen.
This is the layout I entered!
Here it is published in the magazine, I will put a larger photo here when I can get my hands on a copy of the magazine.
Thank you Debbie Rolls for sending me a picture of the layout in the magazine, I appreciate it so much.
Scrapbook Layout Published in November Issue In Australia
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Will state be swayed by $5M 'pot sweetener' for Cimarron interchange? Tune in after May 1
The Cimarron/I-25 interchange may be built in the near future, but not without locals chipping in… and maybe even seeing other desired projects delayed.
To sweeten the pot for a competitive state funding process, City Transportation Manager Kathleen Krager offered $5 million over the next five years, to be taken from city Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority (RTA) funds that are more typically used to fix failing intersections.
She first suggested the plan at the April 9 meeting of the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments (PPACG) board (which consists of elected officials from a three-county area). The RTA board members (also elected officials, tasked with overseeing RTA administration) formally voted for the strategy at their meeting later in the day.
The action will mean nearly half as much money as usual available for city RTA intersection work and other discretionary im-provements over that five years, but "this is an important interchange for the community," Krager told the board. "If we invest in Cimarron now, it will pay us back in the years to come."
For at least a decade, a new Cimarron interchange has been on the regional wish list, and a year ago the board ranked it as the highest transportation priority in the region. Money for right of way and design has been found, but not the $95 million that's estimated to build it.
The most likely current source, according to local planners, is the Responsible Acceleration of Maintenance and Partnership (RAMP), a new Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) program.
But it's also competitive, with regions all over Colorado vying for about $750 million in all. Under the program, the region needs to submit an application for each project on state roads. After Cimarron, PPACG hopes to complete six less expensive projects, including, on the Westside, Fillmore/I-25 (a new interchange) and Colorado Avenue west of 31st Street (in which CDOT would augment already-assigned RTA funds as part of turning over maintenance responsibilities of that segment to local entities).
How many, or any, of those projects can also be funded with RAMP is an open question. "The rules [for RAMP] are changing on the fly," admitted Tom Wrona, director of CDOT's Region 2, which includes this area.
Rob MacDonald, director of the PPACG, expressed concern at one point that under one "scheme," to get the funding for Cimarron, "we may have to give up these other projects, but it's not the only scheme." By "give up," Commissioner Sallie Clark clarified later, he meant possibly delaying the work.
One certainty in RAMP is that pre-applications need to be submitted by May 1. The PPACG board agreed it wants to do that. An approved motion directs staff to refine the details as needed leading it up to that date and leaves open the possibility of a special meeting for a specific pre-app vote.
Upon receiving applications, Wrona said that CDOT should be able to give a "thumbs up or thumbs down by the end of May."
Clark said she and other government officials are hoping to find another million dollars by May 1 to add to the Krager $5 million, but in any case "I'm pretty confident" about how CDOT will receive the pre-application for the Cimarron interchange. "I think we're high up on the list."
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People = Profit: One CEO's Decision-Making Scheme
If there's one lesson I've learned as a CEO, it's this: People are the most important asset you've got and need to be at the center of every decision.
My first experience as a CEO was as president of Rusty Pelican Restaurants, a Southern California-based upscale seafood dinner house chain facing some real trouble. Rusty was at the tail end of several years of conceptual neglect, overmanagement of costs at the expense of the customer, and poor personnel decisions. It seemed to me that I was offered the job because nobody else would take it.
The company was a semiautonomous subsidiary of a larger restaurant chain conglomerate, and I was called to my first meeting with the other CEOs who made up the entire group a few days after my appointment. I was pretty much faking it those first few weeks since I didn't have the slightest idea what I was doing. The others probably sensed that—nobody smells blood in the water faster than a school of sharks.
Each of the subsidiary presidents was jockeying for the first-among-equals position, and exercising their "experiential" power was one way to get there. So, one of them took me aside for a little lecture.
Using a board, he drew me a diagram with four circles at the top. Inside each was a title: Profit, Customer, People, and Physical Plant. In the least condescending tone he could manage, he explained.
"These are the four areas of how I manage my time. Profit is always first, and all decisions about cost management come from there. The Customer is second…"
I would learn later that separating the wheat from the chaff when it comes to advice is a key aspect of any CEO's job. I intuitively knew my would-be adviser had a giant ego and a less-than-selfless motive, but I also knew that I desperately needed a structure from which to make decisions. Could there be a kernel of real value in his pontificating?
The answer was yes. He had a decent basic idea, but in my opinion, his construction of it was all wrong. I believed even then that any decision-making parameters I employed had to play to my strengths as a manager and a leader, so I set about developing my own framework.
Even then I considered myself more than proficient in business, but there were others on my team as good or better. In truth, I wasn't the best on the team at anything, except for one area where I excelled: I was really good at identifying, developing, and retaining excellent people. Consequently, my framework had to reflect that. People would be the first and most important circle in my structure.
In consumer business generally and the restaurant business specifically, the most important metric by a wide margin is same-store sales performance, also known as Revenue. I had seen other CEOs try to save their way to same-store prosperity—a fool's errand, since a restaurant's sales are largely a function of its positioning, food and service, value perception, and location. Revenue was a function of all of the decisions made about those and a myriad of related issues, and as such it needed to be the close second circle in my diagram.
I have already committed management heresy when I did not place Profit in the number-one slot, so it will probably come as no surprise that it did not even rate number three. The location, look, feel, and continual development of a consumer business' physical plant are paramount to its success. All of those elements are amalgamated into what I call Place—the third circle in my decision-making scheme.
Profit is the ultimate report card for any business. If People, Revenue, and Place are being handled intelligently, Profit should come. Like all good businesses, the best restaurant chains need to consider the pennies; it comes with the territory. But the smartest operators structure it rather than attempt to manage it. They do everything they can to eliminate money-wasting possibilities by creating methods and procedures that make noncompliance difficult or impossible, and let the rest play itself out.
Given that I put Profit lowest on my decision-making ranking, "antiestablishment" is probably a good word to describe my management style. I follow the law, but in my world, rules are meant to be broken. I don't care about how my people dress, if they follow protocol, or what choices they make in their personal lives; in my organizations, it's better for them ask forgiveness than permission. I only care about their ability to work as a team. I like to empower people deep into the "hierarchy." It is why People are the most important component of my decision-making process.
As a case in point, Leslie Miller was a brilliantly creative member of my team when I was the CEO of Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Independent and a free thinker, she was unwilling to take direction from anyone she considered confining in their management style. Thankfully, I escaped that label. Leslie's title was Director of Beverage Operations, but I also gave her responsibility for much of the construction side; her unofficial title became "Vice-President of Booze and Buildings."
We were already a well-oiled machine in the kitchens (the "manufacturing plant") of Bubba Gump with systemic approaches that surpassed most of our larger competition. But we had a deceptively freewheeling, unstructured appearance in the front of the house (the "sales department"). The reality was that nothing happened by chance. In a business that pursues fast nickels instead of slow dimes, there had to be a choreography to the chaos.
That choreography identified bar sales as a weakness for us since they only accounted for 15 percent of our total sales. We had drink menus (point of purchase collateral), but they were like everyone else's. I challenged Leslie to increase bar sales—and that was the extent of my guidance. With her approach, anything more would have been gilding the lily.
In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest becomes a champion ping-pong player. It is an iconic and memorable element of the film. Leslie returned a week after our meeting with a ping-pong paddle. Attached to it were laminated pages with photos of our signature cocktails. We immediately implemented it, and overnight our bar sales moved to 20 percent—an increase of one-third. Leslie's idea was a home run. The menus became so popular that we had to chain them to the table to keep them from being stolen.
The drink menus were Placed in a key position. The customer was entertained and moved to buy, bringing us Revenue. Moreover, they were buying products that were very high margin, thus ensuring better Profit. All because of People.
There are many avenues to success as a CEO, but I think business leaders have a tendency to seek the "magic bullet" when they should be looking at themselves and their own strengths instead. I have known very successful CEOs who participated in every decision down to the most minute detail. I just did not have the time or brainpower for that. My decision-making process started with People, because I did not have all the answers—but my people did.
Written by Scott Barnett.
Scott Barnett was President and CEO of Rusty Pelican Restaurants, Inc. from 1992 until 1998. As Founder and CEO of Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurants from its inception, Barnett grew that internationally known brand to 40 restaurants and $250 million in revenues.
His book, Gumption: Taking Bubba Gump from Movie to Restaurant (Solana Press, May 2015) is the story about how Scott gambled his reputation on an idea of creating a restaurant chain out of a single movie, a concept that had never been executed before. This book is not only an inside look at how an iconic restaurant was created, grown, and sold, it also tells the inside story of movie studio machinations, corporate politics, and the trials and tribulations of expanding a global business with built-in brand recognition and goodwill.


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|Battle Location :
|Near Dellalt (Planet) in the Dellalt System
|Battle Occurred :
|Half a year before the Battle of Yavin
|Battle Type :
|Hit and Fade (For the Rebels)
|Force Making Attack :
|Rebel Alliance
|Opposing Forces :
|Rebel Alliance / Galactic Empire
|Victorious Force :
|Rebel Alliance
|Imperial Personnel :
|Captain Nogdra (Bixby)
|Imperial Force Composition :
|CR90 Corellian Corvette Bixby (Defectors), BFF-1 Freighters Esorp (Mines) [Shields down], Arreis (Robo-Haulers), Nigiro (Munitions), Orcim (Munitions) [Shields down] and Murtceps (TIE Fighters)
|Rebel Personnel :
|Hamo Blastwell (Red 1), Lieutenant Keyan Farlander (Red 2)
|Rebel Force Composition :
|Red Squadron (2 X-Wings, have 6 Proton Torpedoes), Blue Squadron (2 Y-Wings) and Stormtrooper Transport Dagger (Commandos)
|Imperial Survivors :
|Surviving Forces :
|BFF-1 Freighter Murtceps
|Imperial Loses :
|CR90 Corellian Corvette Bixby (Defects), BFF-1 Freighters Esorp, Arreis, Nigiro and Orcim
|Rebel Survivors :
|Hamo Blastwell, Keyan Farlander and Captain Nogdra
|Surviving Forces :
|CR90 Corellian Corvette, Red Squadron, Blue Squadron and Stormtrooper Transport Dagger
|Rebel Loses :
When the Rebels commenced their attack on an Imperial convoy in the Dellalt System, the Rebels were greeted with an unexpected surprise from a treacherous crew of the escorting corvette. Blue Squadron reported back to their Rebel comrades informing them that the crew of the escorting Imperial corvette wished to defect. Rebel Intelligence believed that the Imperial convoy was part of a re-supply operation in preparation for a major Imperial offensive in this sector. It was hoped by Rebel Intelligence by capturing the crew of the corvette, that they would learn more about this intended campaign. The traitors stopped their corvette and dropped their shields. Red Squadron was sent in to finish off the Imperial freighters in the convoy while Blue Squadron watched over the corvette. When Farlander came out of hyperspace, he directed all of his laser energy to his shields and redirected all cannon power to the engines. The nearest two freighters (Esorp and Orcim) already had their shields down and Blastwell went after them, while Farlander went after a freighter (Arreis) that was 8 km away.
All of the Imperial freighters
were frantically racing to their hyperspace points. As soon as Blastwell
destroyed the two freighters, he hypered out of the area. During this the
Rebel Stormtrooper Transport hypered into the area, and made its way towards
the Imperial Corvette Bixby. Farlander switched to proton torpedoes
and when he was in range he let off two pairs of torpedoes on the BFF-1
Freighter Arreis, he then reset his recharge rates for his fighter
and finished off the freighter with his laser cannons on duel fire mode.
He then set his sights on the Freighter Nigiro which was 4 km away
and repeated the previous tactic, but this time only using a pair of torpedoes.
The Freighter Murtceps was the only freighter in the convoy that
was able to escape destruction. Soon after the Freighter Nigiro's
destruction, the Rebel transport was able to capture the Imperial corvette
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Subject: Off The Record
Thu 01 Aug 2013, 11:40 pm
Even though this is a new track, the subject matter is old school...check out the lyrics.....see how many records you can spot....am I missing any?
Ka - Off The Record
These pages tell my life in the 'ville
Out here raising hell with license to ill
This raging bull trying to get paid in full
Going off, not no soft gauge to pull
Runaway Slave, wanted dead or alive
I hide good, with my hood I could never disguise
Not a quarter, drink muddy water
We was needy, 6 feet deep feat, can't escape like Whodini
On the road to riches, driven youth
All my adventures were slick, I'm living proof
In fact, if life was wax, I'd spin & rewind it
Get your minerals grinded being criminal minded
Doing wicked acts, no righteous moves
Press this, let's remove that necklace, nice & smooth
A lot of grit, not a bit of a sweet town
Try to match, catch a critical beatdown
I'm poor from young, being called a bum
My team was branded nubian, we all for one
No lie, dough or die, weight out a bundle
Tryna rule so we could move straight out the jungle
My answer was walk like a panther
Cause life is too short, we poor as a cancer
Take a look around, we all repping with the nina
You know, in case a fool wanna step in the arena
In the beef, we at least take a magnum
So if it pops, I'm licking shots, breaking atoms
Fear of a black planet so they go in leary
For knots we can't be stopped, that's low end theory
After flips took trips with swiftness
No enjoyment, our deployment was strictly business
The [?] type spent the night on the block
The solution for heavy bread is as light as a rock
[?] soul food totally a threat
Seeds are speeding, need holy intellect
There's no retreat, we deep, try devising
While some sheets get piled 3 feet high & rising
Raw crew, all true, you heard we bled strangers
Came wack, got aimed at with 36 chambers
To the death, that's how we kill static
For reasonable doubt, squeezing out that illmatic
We ready to die, the nights was real
Fam learned how to kill a man in cypress hill
Back the fuck up, my gun a new Beretta
Put it on our hearts, no one could do it better
The pawn spoke, on broke, lived in pain
No favors, coke savers, long live the kane
Soon as I blew, knew nothing would limit me
Knew that mighty g from '93 til infinity
Dead serious, the women, we was foul
Had us smoking chronic to hit it doggystyle
As far as respect, he failed his teams
Was Colder, now we older it's all hail the queens
[?] innocent girl
Rudest bitch from most beautifullest thing in the world
Vented the rage like we was bent in a cage
Slow grind, now it's showtime, enter the stage
We [?] yo bum rush the show
Legal drug money, got much to throw
If I ain't mention this, we was infamous
Now I seek the schools, speak jewels in his sentences
[?] of the beast
Connects with the west, the sun rise in the east
I hold a four cause I know the score
America's most wanted, my code is raw
In full gear is your best protection
Against the llama's, this ain't no promise or resurrection
Write at the diary this war report
Got supreme clientele, I give 'em more to snort
Stay obedient, never get numbers this large
Though the main ingredient was be the youngest in charge
My strong plea all eyes on me, this is precious
'Fore things fall apart, I pray your heart get the message
I was done with baggage
All these psalms calm my savage
High levels off the hectic
All this is off the record
I was done with baggage
All these psalms calm my savage
High levels off the hectic
All this is off the record
Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Eric B & Rakim, Biz Markie, Showbiz & AG, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo (twice), Redman, Gravediggaz, Whodini, Slick Rick, Group Home, Boogie Down Productions, Nice & Smooth, Ultramagnetic MCs, Brand Nubian, AZ, Jungle Brothers, LL Cool J, Too $hort, Masta Ace, Gang Starr, Main Source, Public Enemy (twice), Geto Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, EPMD, MC Lyte, Goodie Mob, Poor Righteous Teachers, De La Soul, Wu-Tang Clan, M.O.P., Jay-Z, Nas, Notorious B.I.G., Cypress Hill, Onyx, The D.O.C., Big Daddy Kane, Souls Of Mischief, Das EFX, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Queen Latifah, Keith Murray, Black Moon, Public Enemy, Lost Boyz, Mobb Deep, OC, Westside Connection, Jeru The Damaja, Fugees, Ice Cube, Stetsasonic, Common Sense, Scarface, Capone-N-Noreaga, Ghostface Killah, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Special Ed, 2Pac, The Roots, Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five...
I'm missing three of these albums (Queen Latifah, Grandmaster Flash and that Poor Righteous Teachers) How many do yall own?
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Subject: Re: Off The Record
Fri 02 Aug 2013, 2:00 am
You all need to check out this album by the way "Ka - The Night's Gambit" If you liked his other albums you will like this one. Also if you like Roc Marci u will probably enjoy this
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Fri 06 Sep 2013, 8:36 am
sickness... love this track.
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With that said, The Record Crate, located in beautiful Sydney, Australia (specifically Glebe) is basically Disneyland for seasoned music affectionados such as myself. Under one roof you can watch amazing live music, stand up comedy, view experimental live art performances, browse amazing quality hard to find records, eat great food and drink amazing beer. I've visited there only a handful of times and have already added amazing condition, original pressings of Tom Waits, The Pogues, The Clash, and Nick Cave, just to name a few. Basically this is my favorite place in the world.
|Neville & I
Now, every record store worth its salt usually has one amazingly well-rounded owner/operator in charge of the ship and this place is no different. His name is Neville, and like all record store owners, he is a wealth of knowledge. This dude can school even the best informed record collector and teach him a thing or two about what pressing was made where and how it differs to other pressings at the time.
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Speaking of hair of the dog, the booze here is great. They have liquor available to make any cocktail you desire, but what's even better than that is that they have Kingpin on tap for a reasonable price. Matter of fact, Kingpin is so popular here that they named their houseband The Kingpins after it (more on them later). There are also a selection of other taps and bottled beverages as well, but in my typical fashion, I found the one I like and refuse to touch anything else.... unless it's a extra-dry, dirty, uncouth, martini.;-)
As for the entertainment, it is quite diverse. They recently removed the majority of the CD's (which is sort of a shame as I hate to see CDs fall out of fashion) and put them behind the main counter. This opened up an area to have small bands play and every Thursday night they utilize this space to let their personal houseband The Kingpins play. The band is quite good, verging on a funk almost reggae beat with a wide assortment of sounds. If you're in Glebe on a Thursday night, they are not to be missed for at least a half hour of performing. Past this, Neville has recently began utilizing his top floor to all kinds of different acts. Some of these are comedians, but many of these are avant-garde live performances bordering on the insane. It's well worth looking into anyone he would book, but even if they are not your cup of tea, there is still the downstairs main are and the outdoor courtyard where you don't have to partake in the experience.


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|Nell (right) and friend at Heathcote house
There was a shed for Bert and the house was comfortable. It was not connected to the mains sewer and had an outside toilet, with a weekly collection service by the local council.
|Bert's Holden looked like this
They were closer to Fred and Clare's than they had been in Botany and it was an easy drive to visit Albert at Banksia. They could go for their drives to the bush without going through the Sydney traffic - now becoming busier and slower. None of Bert's children had cars or drove in his lifetime.
|Fred, Clare & Nell on excursion
|Irene with her father
Sylvia had taken a part-time job at Qantas to help out with uniforms and books when her elder child began high school in 1959. She took advantage of staff travel concessions to visit New Zealand in 1961 and catch up with both Les and Doll and their families.
|Nell, Clare, Bert, Doll and Fred in Australia 1962
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It was to be their last time together, and the last photo taken of both Bert and Doll.


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Someone doesn't seem to have a lot of confidence in this book. It's tiny - you could fit it in your trouser pocket - there's no price on the cover, I've never heard of the publisher, and it was posted to me from, unusually, Jamaica. I couldn't work out what the cover image was for a while, but eventually deciphered it as a rather rude black-and-white close-up of a woman eating a Mars bar.
What that has to do with a bunch of film reviews written for (mainly) the New Statesman and the Telegraph in the 1990s, I'm not sure. And what, you may ask, is the point of reading a bunch of 1990s film reviews, never mind from which publication?
For two main reasons. The first is that they're very good. I'll get back to this. The second is that the films being written about are almost all ones you will have seen yourself, and so you may care to clash opinions with Anne Billson not just for the sake of it, but to partake, retrospectively, of a kind of commonality all too missing from popular culture these days.
But you can't beat a good film review. It is one of the most rewarding of the critical disciplines - perhaps the most (pace Nancy Banks-Smith), as more people go to the movies than read books. Guardian readers are blessed in having one of the finest practitioners of the craft writing for them; and if you like reading Peter Bradshaw on contemporary cinema, then you'll like reading Billson on what was - eight to 18 years ago - also contemporary cinema.
Not that she is unaware of her responsibilities. "I think the function of film reviews," writes Billson in her introduction, "is principally to allow me, the writer, to be opinionated and obnoxious . . . to miss the point of the film entirely, go off at a tangent, and make everyone wish they were reading Pauline Kael instead."
In these tasks she fails dismally. Billson gets the point of the films she sees; her digressions, few though they be, are always relevant and amusing; she is never obnoxious; and though she is, as all critics have to be, opinionated, I thought of Kael only once, and that was something along the lines of "why do women make such good film critics - or is that in itself a sexist observation?" Her New Statesman reviews tend, perforce, to take a feminist line more than her Sunday Telegraph pieces. Then again, her review of Basic Instinct for the Statesman correctly dares to laugh to scorn the very idea that the film is unfair to women or gays. She says, instead, that the film is unfair to Michael Douglas.
A good film critic isn't one you never disagree with, but one who makes you notice something about the film that you had spotted only subliminally. Of Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, she observes that "he ends up doing good deeds because he has exhausted all the alternatives", which very nicely points up that film's acidic edge. Of Indecent Proposal, she writes: "in all the discussion the film has generated, no one has mentioned that the most indecent thing is that Redford offers his million bucks not to the woman, but to her husband." And as for the celebrated mass kilt-lifting scene in Braveheart, she says: "This is the only instance I can recall of a Hollywood epic paying homage to Carry on Up the Khyber."
As you can see, she's on the ball, and funny with it. She understands instinctively the populist heart of movies - Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is warmly commended (and she has the odd grumble at the Modern Review, as well she might, having discovered its schtick some years before it did) - but she also knows her oignons about Chabrol and Rivette, and indeed many other directors of art films I have either hardly or never heard of. (As a result of reading her assessment of it, I now particularly want to see Patrice Leconte's Ridicule
But for the most part, you are getting a series of joyously executed reviews, by a clear-eyed yet passionate commentator, of films that, perhaps surprisingly, have lingered longer in the mind than you might have thought, at the time, that they would.


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The passing of William Shaw, founder of Coventry Jazz and one of the pivotal figures in jazz in the West Midlands for over forty years has been announced. There is a Facebook tribute by Neil McGowan HERE
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In the 90s, I remember some very happy evenings with William at Warwick Arts Centre, where he had booked Billy Jenkins. Very committed to the music, and one of the (many) unsung heroes who has supported the music voluntarily for so many years.ReplyDelete
I am very sad to hear this. William was a jazz pioneer in the days (the mid 1970s) when jazz was unfashionable, seemed to be clinging to the edge and promotion was precarious. William laid the ground in a quiet and unfussy way, with Yorkshire common sense aplenty, for much of what was to follow in the Midlands. Leicester Jazz Society was then the only regular Midlands jazz club that pre-dated William's initiative. I remember him telling me his rationale: the losses he and his Committee bore on the gigs they promoted were less than the next best alternative – driving down the M1 every week to Ronnie Scott's. He also once told me that following a run of bad losses his Committee told him with some reluctance, that they would have to throw in the towel and close the club. 'We can't do that,' he replied, 'I've just booked the next 5 acts' and got them to each put £50 in the kitty.
In 1975 I helped set up and run the Jazz club at Warwick University. We were cuckoos in the nest starting up not that long after Coventry Jazz. Somehow we co-existed and managed to avoid bad programming clashes. William was very tolerant and supportive in, I suspect a quietly amused way. I got to know William and Mary who were unfailing hospitable to a nervous, energetic 20 something and got along to Coventry Jazz's gigs as often as I could. I have fond memories of some outstanding performances at the cosy upstairs room in the Bull's Head, Binley Road, Coventry Jazz's first venue; Morrisey Mullen, The Stan Tracey Quartet and Watts, Stevens and Guy are but three. The cream of British Jazz trod that modest stage. William and I would frequently get into discussion on some point of jazz or another and invariably would be in animated debate when the Bass solo started, our voices booming across an otherwise quiet room. I am sorry I didn't keep in contact when I left the Midlands ten years later, but I have treasured memories from those days. RIP and condolences to Mary.


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Pope criticised for gay seminary ban
Pope Benedict XVI is under fire from critics of a new policy statement which bars homosexuals and those who 'endorse gay culture' from training for priesthood in the Catholic Church.
The five-page document, drafted by the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education and due to be published on 28 November 2005, describes homosexual acts as 'grave sins' that cannot be justified under any circumstances.
'If a candidate practises homosexuality, or presents deep-seated homosexual tendencies, his spiritual director as well as his confessor have the duty to dissuade him in conscience from proceeding towards ordination,' it says.
It continues: 'Such persons in fact find themselves in a situation that presents a grave obstacle to a correct relationship with men and women.'
Though the Catholic Church has officially deemed homosexual practice 'gravely disordered', there is currently no bar on those of non-heterosexual orientation becoming priests provided they adhere to celibacy.
The only exception to the new blanket ban is for those whose 'tendencies' are 'merely the expression of a transitory problem such as ... uncompleted adolescence' and have been 'clearly overcome' well before ordination.
Today the Rev Richard Kirker, general secretary of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) in the UK said that the Catholic Church's hard line would lead people to deny their sexuality for their vocation, contributing to a culture of abuse.
He said that research suggested that up to 40 per cent of US Catholic priests might be gay, adding: 'All those who know [the church], know it is staffed top to bottom by gay people.'
Other estimates say that the figure is nearer 25 per cent - significantly higher than the national average of 5-10 per cent.
The new document, entitled ëAn Instruction Concerning Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with Regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in View of Their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders', was actually seen and approved by the Pope in August, as reported on Ekklesia at the time.
It has been the subject of rumour ever since, having been circulated to the Catholic hierarchies in different parts of the world so that they can prepare pastoral responses.
Frances Kissling, who heads up the pressure groups Catholics For A Free Choice and Religion Counts, said the statement constituted a sorry moment for the Church because it will 'exclude faithful and good men who are called to the priesthood'.
Human rights groups are also joining the criticism. Opinion surveys also indicate that many of the Catholic faithful want to see a new approach. In April 2005 a survey of traditionally conservative priests in Scotland showed that 41 per cent said the pope should allow priests to wed, while 26 per cent supported the ordination of openly gay men.
Last month the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, declared that being gay should not prevent a person becoming a Catholic priest.
The Vatican's instruction on homosexuality and priesthood does not directly affect those who are already ordained.
[Also on Ekklesia: Tutu calls on Anglicans to accept gay bishop; Nigerian gay and lesbian Christians challenge Archbishop Akinola; Gay Christians send Archbishop stiff Christmas message; Church group builds bridges at gay festival; Pro-gay Anglicans say Nigerian Church 'obsessed' with gays; Bishop of Worcester supports gay civil partnerships; Blessings for same sex relationships increasing in C of E; Senior Anglican sanctions liturgy for gay couples; Anglican Primates deny attack on Archbishop of Canterbury; Charles and Camilla day not gay, Tatchell demonstrates]


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