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St. Francis Pet Tag
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Throughout his life and travels, St. Francis of Assisi spoke of God's great love and care for his companions. Today, St. Francis is considered to be the patron saint of animals, especially on his Feast Day of October 4th. Our pet tag honors St. Francis, and is a constant prayer of protection for your pet.
- Zinc alloy & enamel
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- Blue and Pink tags: 0.75" diameter (1.9 cm)
White tag: 1" diameter (2.5 cm)
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October 28, 2014 - I purchased the PInk St. Francis tag and when I received it I immediately put in on our white Westey's collar. I am sure that St. Francis will now take good care of our sweet girl.
October 25, 2014 - I purchased the white St Francis Tag and is is quite nice; good quality. It is larger than I anticipated. Perhaps if I would have ordered another color, it would have fit my 11 pound dog better as the blue and pink tags are smaller. Overall nice looking tag!
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Wild, wild Coast
... Salvatore grows oranges, lemons, figs and onions and we were sent off with a bag of these when we left the next morning..... lovely hospitality. From what we saw, Calabria is like the South Coast in the 80s: sugar cane growing on the side of the road, sea sand on the road, low ugly architecture. In fairness, we didn't go to the beach, but of all the places in Italy, I wouldn't rush back there as I find it ...
Mammola day 2
... We had a siesta and then headed to the town. Don bought an espresso and I had a gelato ingliese and creme caramel. We sat with our new friend Nicodemo Agostinos. He had befriended us on FB. Don showed him photos of Australia. Off we walked to the Town hall or municipio. A man coming out of an office said we needed to come back tomorrow to get info on where Don's mum and dad lived in Mammola and where Don's maternal grandmother was buried ...
Mammola day 1
... ravioli. We ended up with an extra salad of roast vegetables though. Whilst eating two men came in and one started to chat to Don about his relatives. He wrote down his connection to Lisa through Paulo in Canada. I think a nephew?? Other people ventured in and it felt like you were the exhibit in a zoo- the strange Australians lol. Just when we thought we could leave Don got convinced to have an espresso and limoncello. Our bill arrived and was only !! Unbelievably ...
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James Daley: Brown set to be blamed and shamed
Saturday 12 July 2008
Yet another of Gordon Brown's chickens will be coming home to roost next week, when the Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, publishes a new, damning report that will lay the blame for the collapse of Equitable Life firmly at the feet of the Government.
In her conclusion, she will call on Mr Brown and Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, to stump up something approaching £4bn in compensation for the thousands of customers who lost out, and accuse the Department of Trade & Industry, the Government's Actuary Department, the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority of maladministration. If Mr Brown still has any credibility left when it comes to financial regulation, next week should just about finish him off.
In fairness to the current administration, the troubles at Equitable began well before the Tony and Gordon show came to Downing Street. In the early 1990s, it was the Conservative government which presided over the regime that let Equitable make generous guarantees to its customers, without having to keep the financial capital to back those promises.
But it was Brown's Treasury that was responsible for the insurer's regulation in the two years leading up to its collapse in December 2000, and who also failed to take appropriate action to mitigate consumers' losses after the event. More to the point, it is Mr Brown who will be seated at the head of Government when the report is published next week.
So what happens now? In any respectable democracy, you would hope that the Government would listen to the conclusions of its own independent regulator, apologise, and then get to work on finding the money as soon as possible for those who have lost out. Sadly, however, humility has never been Mr Brown's strong suit.
More likely, we will see an arrogant rejection of the Ombudsman's findings and an attempt to kick the report into the long grass – just as we saw with the Ombudsman's report into the occupational pensions scandal two years ago, where 125,000 people lost some or all of their company pension savings. That report was not so very different from this one. Once again, the Ombudsman found the Government guilty of maladministration, and once again, it recommended compensation.
However, there was one crucial difference. Back then, such a damning report by the Ombudsman, followed by such a swift brush-off by the Government, was pretty much unprecedented. In the months that followed, angry select committees criticised the Government for brushing aside the conclusions of such an important public body, while a judicial review of the Ombudsman's report upheld her conclusions and eventually brought enough pressure to bear on the Government that it was forced to meet the demands of the pensioners.
This time round, all of that is fresh in the memory, and politicians are in no mood to let Mr Brown hijack the workings of democracy yet again.
Furthermore, having seen how her occupational pensions report was treated, the Ombudsman has ensured that her new report is bulletproof – tough enough to stand up to any judge if the Government tries to play the same funny games as it did last time, two years ago.
So, in answer to my question – what happens now? – I'm really not sure. What I hope happens, however, is that MPs from all parties have the resolve to ensure justice is done. Although £4bn sounds like a lot of money at a time when the Government is already presiding over a £7.5bn black hole in its books, it is not so much when broken down on an annual basis.
Some 30,000 of those affected by the Equitable crisis have died over the past eight years. Many of them were forced to live out their last few years on meagre pensions. Fifteen more die every day. If Mr Brown refuses to step up and act responsibly this week, he must be forced to.
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OPINION: For someone with "nothing to hide" ACT leader and former Auckland mayor John Banks is doing an awfully good job of creating the impression there are some things he would rather keep to himself.
He has refused to confirm he solicited a donation from internet billionaire Kim Dotcom for his 2010 mayoral campaign and refused to confirm he asked that the $50,000 donation be split into two $25,000 payments.
He has also said he does not remember who donated money to his mayoral campaign, does not remember discussing money with Dotcom and his staff and, till yesterday, could not remember flying to Dotcom's Coatesville mansion in Dotcom's helicopter.
Either Mr Banks is suffering from the early onset of Alzheimer's or he thinks honest answers to the questions raised by the revelation that Dotcom was an undisclosed donor to his campaign will reflect poorly on him.
About the only thing Mr Banks can remember is that he did make a phone call to Dotcom a few days after two $25,000 cheques from the billionaire were deposited in his campaign account.
The purpose of the call was not, however, to thank him for the donations as alleged by Dotcom, but to thank him for putting $500,000 towards a New Year's Eve fireworks display that was to take place six months later.
Readers will draw their own conclusions about Mr Banks' memory. It seems peculiar that he can recall the subject matter of a single telephone conversation but forgot, for a time, a helicopter ride.
However, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, police investigating alleged breaches of the Local Electoral Act by Mr Banks may have no option but to take the Epsom MP at his word.
The Act is so flawed, according to legal commentator Graeme Edgeler, that it is possible for a local body election candidate to know a donor is planning to donate a particular sum, to tell the donor to send the money the following week, to receive a bank cheque for the promised amount in the week specified and to still list the donation as anonymous.
That, says Mr Edgeler, is because suspecting the identity of a donor and actually knowing it in terms of the Act are different things.
The question for John Key is whether he wishes to accept that as the standard for ministers in his Government. Mr Banks' defence is that he has complied with the letter of the law. He may have, but he has not complied with the spirit of an Act intended to promote transparency.
Mr Banks' evasions and verbal gymnastics are reminiscent of those employed by NZ First leader Winston Peters four years ago in an ultimately futile attempt to convince Parliament's privileges committee he did not know of a $100,000 contribution to his legal expenses by expatriate Kiwi billionaire Owen Glenn. Mr Key has reason to turn a blind eye to them.
Stripping Mr Banks of his ministerial portfolios could cost him a critical vote in Parliament. However, the prime minister should ponder the wisdom of allowing perceptions of his Government to be tainted by Mr Banks' behaviour.
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I don't pretend to understand the rules, but tickin off NK is always a bonus.
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Picture traveling more than six miles, taking a wrong turn and ending up where you didn't want to be. That's what happened to the Netherlands' Sven Kramer but instead of driving his car in the wrong direction and not getting out to ask directions, Kramer knew where he was supposed to go. He just got bad directions from someone he trusted.
The 10,000 meters in long track speed skating can be tiresome to watch for spectators. It's 25 times around the track and after watching numerous pairs of skaters glide across the ice, it's easy to get distracted and head to the concession stand for a hot dog.
Now put yourself in the place of one of the skaters - you're stuffed into a tight, form-fitting aerodynamic suit, hunched over at the waist, arms swinging, lungs on fire, thighs and calves screaming for you to stop the insanity. Then you do that for more than 20 minutes, lap after lap, ice etching below your sharp skates. The only thing you're thinking about is staying on pace and traveling as fast as you can while still leaving enough gas in your tank to cross the finish line. Oh, and you have to make sure to change lanes each time you circle the track, alternating between the inside and outside lanes. Geometrically speaking, that's to ensure everyone skates the same distance on the oval. »Read Full Blog Post
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I thought the most entertaining DQ was the North Korean's losing the gold in the womens speed skating relay.
I don't pretend to understand the rules, but tickin off NK is always a bonus.
Uh, mrlundt, "Korea" in this case would be South Korea. North Korea is not represented.
Good catch. Too much on my mind.
If I have the details right, he ended up skating one (or is it two) turn on the 'inside' instead of the 'outside' lane; that is, maybe ten meters shorter. 10K skaters cover that distance in no more than a second, yet Kramer finished something like six seconds ahead of what would have been the 2nd place finisher.
Somehow, the punishment doesn't seem to fit the 'crime' (but I don't know what else could be done).
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My futile hunt for a lamp in John Lewis reveals why the High Street is doomed
The list resembles a memorial service after a horrible tragedy: Comet, Clinton Cards, Borders, Woolworths, Jessops and now, it seems, HMV.
The High Street as we knew it, and perhaps in some cases even loved it, is becoming history.
This will change our way of life because shopping has long been one of our great cultural experiences.
Music chain HMV has become the latest high street victim of the financial crisis and double-dip recession
It used to be how people met each other — and a means of seeing, holding, trying on or using goods before money changed hands.
Shopping has already radically changed once in the lifetime of many of us, when the supermarket boom from the Sixties to the Nineties drove countless small shopkeepers — grocers, butchers and fishmongers — out of existence.
Now, though, it is the big chains that are predominantly suffering. They cannot rival the choice or the price of online retailers.
Within another ten years our High Streets could look very, very different. Many shops seem to have given up already.
Last Saturday I learned how hard it is to walk into a retailer and actually buy something.
I went into two shops in Cambridge — one of the most thriving and affluent cities in Europe — to buy a computer. I wanted to spend a substantial sum of money. I failed.
The Apple store had sold its only example of the model I wanted 20 minutes earlier. It would be several days before another arrived in stock. I could, though, I was told, order it online from apple.com.
Instead, I went to John Lewis. Its apparently vast electrical department didn't have it either. I could, I was told, get it from johnlewis.com.
Limited: John Lewis seemed to have become a gallery or a showroom, where people may look at goods before going home to find them on the internet
While in the shop — a megastore refitted and expanded in recent years — I decided to try to buy a far less expensive item: a standard lamp. I chose one that was on display, but it was not in stock. I could, however, order it from johnlewis.com.
I feared that a pattern was starting to emerge.
I asked about a similar lamp. That, too, was out of stock — but I could order it, too, from johnlewis.com.
I rather wanted to take a lamp home to use that evening, so I persevered. I pointed to a far more expensive one that I liked the look of. In the interests of immediate illumination, I was happy to shell out more. It was out of stock, too. But johnlewis.com could help.
As I left the shop, somewhat demoralised, I mused on my failure to part with my money.
While I was sure there were items on display that I could have bought had I wanted to — and taken out of the shop there and then — I imagined they were rather scarce.
The shop seemed to have become a gallery or a showroom, where people may look at goods before going home to find them on the internet.
People power: We used to be a nation of browsers, where diligent searching in a record shop might turn up a rare recording, or in bookshops, where you might chance upon a volume you didn't know existed
And, if John Lewis is lucky, those people will buy what they want from its website.
If it is unlucky, the store will go out of business, like Comet and Jessops did. Both were favourite haunts for people determined to buy a washing machine, TV or camera.
They would go and peruse these items, then buy them from Amazon or another online retailer for about 25 per cent less than the shop had to charge to remain solvent.
As a long-standing John Lewis customer, I hope it will survive the internet onslaught. It has, after all, an almost tribal customer loyalty, civilised standards of service (even when it appears to have nothing to sell you) and is 'never knowingly undersold'.
It's because of these qualities that John Lewis had an outstanding Christmas. But the future's going to be a struggle.
The only surprise about HMV, in an age when people can get cheap CDs, DVDs and downloads online with the click of a mouse, is that it lasted so long. In the Eighties and Nineties, like countless others, I spent a fortune in HMV. I seldom went in with a specific purchase in mind, but always came out with piles of CDs.
Retail therapy: The High Street as we knew it, and perhaps in some cases even loved it, is becoming history
The same was always true of any bookshop. It was almost impossible to enter one without coming out with something.
But they, too, have more or less gone.
Waterstones has closed 20 of its shops and Borders has collapsed. Second-hand bookshops, without which no market or university town used to be complete, have shut in their droves.
This has had a seismic effect on the once recreational nature of much of our shopping.
We used to be a nation of browsers — and not just in record shops, where diligent searching might turn up a rare recording, or in bookshops, where you might chance upon a volume you didn't know existed.
We browsed in clothes shops, electrical shops, all sorts of shops — partly for amusement, partly in case we found that life-changing object.
The only surprise about HMV, in an age when people can get cheap CDs, DVDs and downloads online with the click of a mouse, is that it lasted so long
Now, when we buy online, we know what we are looking for, and we will rarely find a gem by accident.
Indeed, some 'shops' are just showrooms now.
There's a 'shop' called bathstore.com where you simply look at bathroom equipment before ordering it to be delivered.
I doubt it will be the last. It seems John Lewis, for instance, is already on that road.
Shops can, though, only be showrooms for so long. Even if they manage to generate sales for the shop's website — and that is a big if — sooner or later the management will realise they can make more money by not having retail premises.
After all, when did you ever see an Amazon showroom?
However, there are ways for the High Street to be saved.
First, the big internet firms that are forcing their retail competitors out of business could be made to pay tax, like every other enterprise.
Second, commercial rents are manifestly too high in most parts of the country in terms of the profits the businesses paying them generate.
Faced with a choice between empty shops or lower rents, landlords should have the sense to choose the latter.
Third, the business rate is too high. The costs of local government should be reduced still further to stop people being driven out of business because their rents are too expensive.
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And fourth, managements need to be more alert and offer better service and a wider selection of stock in their stores — and make sure those who want to buy goods can actually carry them out of the shop.
Otherwise, the future looks dire. All over Britain already, there are parades of shops that are simply burger bars, fried-chicken joints or kebab shops.
The retail property sector is being sustained by the nation's desire to eat itself to death. Once that ends — and it will — who will move in?
I rashly suggested to my wife that shoe shops, for example, would continue because surely everyone wants to try on shoes before they buy them.
I was told not to be so '20th century' — apparently, everyone now buys shoes online and simply sends them back if they don't fit.
Clothes shops will disappear for the same reason. Travel agents are almost dead, with flights and hotels easily available online.
Banks will be superfluous if everyone feels safe to do financial transactions online.
Food shops have already been swallowed up by supermarkets, which are on the edge of town and, in any case, have fleets of vans delivering online orders.
Of course, when all the shops have gone, the online giants can push up their prices — because there will be no competition. And by that stage it may be too late to break their stranglehold on retailing.
So perhaps in a few years we shall stroll down High Streets that have become residential zones and see people washing their cars outside their homes, tending their window boxes and giving thanks that a means was found to ease the housing shortage.
It will be a shame, though, if the price of finding more homes for our people has to be the end of the great British sport of shopping.
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The New South Wales Waratahs shaded the Highlanders 19-16 in a Super Rugby trial on Friday night that may have produced more questions than answers. The Waratahs scored three tries to one in a hard-fought but scrappy and mistake-riddled affair.
As expected, Waratahs coach Michael Cheika gave all three scrum-halves a run and experimented with his fly-half and inside centre positions. He replaced starting halves Matt Lucas and Bernard Foley little more than a quarter into the game, bringing on Brendan McKibbin and Kurtley Beale respectively.
After half-time, Foley was reinstated at five-eighth and Beale was moved to inside centre in place of Rob Horne. Cheika stuck with that configuration for the entire second half, in what could be a clue to his starting side for the opening round match against Western Force in Sydney next Sunday.
While both teams produced flashes of flair, both were guilty of errors and turnovers. The Waratahs trailed 13-12 at the break despite scoring two tries to one. Winger Peter Betham was first to cross, rounding off a sweeping first-phase move from a lineout.
Flanker Michael Hooper crossed for the Waratahs' second, initiating the move after stealing a Highlanders restart and finishing it in the same corner as Betham's five-pointer.
The Highlanders' sole first-half five-pointer was scored by Shane Christie, who sprinted away unchallenged after All Blacks scrum-half Aaron Smith filched the ball taken in by opposing halfback McKibbin.
It was Foley who regained the lead for NSW, just before the hour, scoring their third try and converting to give the home team a 19-13 advantage. NSW's third halfback Nick Phipps, one of the Waratahs' main recruits, also got a run in the second half, as Cheika made plenty of changes in the last 20 minutes. Springbok forward Jacques Potgieter had his first run in a Waratahs jersey in the second half.
Christie kicked a 69th-minute penalty following a Waratahs scrum infringement to cut the deficit to three.
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HYDERABAD, India, July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
mLiquidate, iConcept's distribution intelligence tool that helps track key inventory, sales & liquidation data of a product in the distribution channel, has been categorized in the Exemplar-Achiever category among leading supply chain management solution, in a joint survey, by NASSCOM and Frost & Sullivan, published in July 2014.
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NASSCOM and Frost & Sullivan have assessed more than 250 Indian software products, over 30 of which were in the Supply Chain Management category and identified mLiquidate as the top-rated product on Strategic and Execution Excellence parameters. The study report, 'Indian Enterprise Software Products on Accelerated Growth Path: Enterprise Software Product Excellence Matrix,' has published a product excellence matrix with two (2) major parameters, namely strategic excellence and execution excellence and categorized the products under four (4) groups: Dark horse, Scouts, Achievers and Exemplars. mLiquidate has been listed in the Exemplar-Achiever quadrant that scores maximum both in Strategic and Execution Excellence parameters.
mLiquidate is a unique GIS-based track and trace software that helps enterprises to seamlessly track their channel inventory across the supply chain. mLiquidate also provides an anti-counterfeit solution and a tool to develop customer loyalty. With the help of this software product, enterprises in the agriculture, pharma, and CPG sectors can build robust systems to manage inventory right upto retail level, besides minimizing spurious products and infiltration issues.
Mr. Ajay Kalavala, the MD & CEO of iConcept, said: "It is a matter of great pride for us at iConcept that our flagship product mLiquidate has triumphed over all other Supply Chain Management solutions in this joint study by NASSCOM and Frost & Sullivan. At iConcept, we are committed to offering world class products that can address industry challenges effectively."
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Stript, wounded, beaten nigh to death,
I found him by the highway side,
I roused his pulse, brought back his breath,
Revived his spirit, and supplied
Wine, oil, refreshment, he was healed.
I had myself a wound concealed,
But from that hour forgot the smart,
And peace bound up my broken heart.
A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Liz Howell bustles about the injured and ailing Haitians, cleaning wounds, applying bandages and flashing her trademark grin as she provides care to patients of all ages suffering in the aftermath of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
She provides the same, perky spark among her peers as the only female among the 18-member, LDS Church-sponsored team of doctors and nurses volunteering in Haiti.
Few of the men in her medical team, and certainly none of the Haitians she has seen, know how aptly Howell fits the fifth stanza of James Montgomery's 1826 poem, "The Stranger and His Friend." The poem later became the lyrics to the Christian hymn "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief," a favorite of early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
You see, Howell herself has a wound concealed.
Eight-plus years ago in Arlington, Va., Brady and Liz Howell were enjoying their four-year marriage and the prospects of their respective careers — Brady working at the Pentagon as a presidential management intern in Naval intelligence and Liz beginning to position herself in the medical field with prestigious national and international connections.
That all ended on Sept. 11, 2001.
Brady Howell was one of the 188 killed in the 9/11 attack at the Pentagon.
Liz called him "my hero."
Brady and Liz Howell became household names during local and national coverage of the terrorist attacks and the impacts on the victims' surviving families.
Three and a half months later, Liz Howell found herself unexpectedly back in the national spotlight when she was invited to represent the families of 9/11 victims by carrying the Olympic torch in the run leading up to the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Games.
And not just any stretch of the run but the leg in Washington, D.C., going up the South Lawn of the White House. And handing the torch to then-President George W. Bush, who greeted Howell with a tender embrace and a gentle kiss on the cheek.
"Liz Howell lost her husband, Brady, in the attack on the Pentagon. Brady was fulfilling a lifelong dream by serving his country at the Pentagon. Liz left her native Utah to help Brady live that dream," Bush said in a brief ceremony at the time. "Liz, our nation prays with you during this holiday season. We pray for peace and comfort for you and your family."
Howell showed the president a locket she was wearing, opening it to reveal inside a photo of her late husband. The South Lawn exchange ended with another hug and kiss to the cheek.
Howell found life difficult without her husband. She still does, as evidenced by her tears and emotion-choked voice, talking about him while packing her bags Friday night in preparation to leave Haiti after a week's work of humanitarian efforts.
"There's a scripture that says the worth of a soul is great in the eyes of God," she said. "I really grew to understand what that meant with the loss of my husband, just how great a loss it is."
The magnitude and scope of a death not only affects a spouse and family but results in what Howell called a domino effect of grief and the disappointment of lost potential.
"I realized there are other people in the world who are suffering, and while I by no means am an expert on grief or trial, I'm acquainted with grief," she said.
"I just realized at that point that I wanted to serve others with all my heart, with everything that I had, and I realized that I had been blessed so much after the loss of my husband and comforted so much."
Howell had come to the realization that the worth of a soul is great, as is the value of comforting and caring for that soul. Humanitarian service then became a natural for combining compassion and medical care.
Medical training and education took alterations; Howell refuses to call them "changes" but rather "enhancements." She looked for opportunities to serve others.
"That's why I decided at 30 that I would go on a mission — at age 30!" exclaimed Howell in mock disbelief at herself. She served her LDS Church mission in Portugal several years ago.
"It was a difficult transition period," she admitted. "People can take away your loved ones, they can take away your greatest treasures, but they cannot take away or change the way you respond to a situation.
"And that's what I made. I took the responsibility to channel my grief in a positive direction."
In addition to being a nurse, Howell is one of eight full-time employees in the LDS Church's Humanitarian Services, working in the neonatal resuscitation training program.
She helps gather and coordinate teams of doctors and specialists who travel across the country and throughout the world to train individuals who in turn train others on techniques to improve newborn mortality rates.
Sometimes simply using an inexpensive bulb-type suction instrument or applying manual massage techniques may help clear a new baby's airways or prompt him to begin breathing on his own.
Lesser-educated or lesser-understanding medical personnel sometimes think nothing can be done for a baby not breathing, ignoring it to focus on postpartum treatment of the mother at the expense of the newborn's life.
Howell said she loves the humanitarian work and the opportunity to teach and interact with others.
"When you're of service, you lose yourself," Howell said. "All of a sudden, your trials don't seem nearly as big because everybody else is going through something. It puts it in perspective, and it's very, very healing."
Howell, who says she has "a lot of love that I can give," has spent the past week giving that love one injured or ailing patient at a time at makeshift clinics housed in LDS Church meetinghouses in Port-au-Prince.
And she's allowed the peace of humanitarian service to bind up her broken heart.
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