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Doing more with less is a familiar refrain for IT professionals, and today's challenging business environment has only increased the pressure on managers to achieve efficiencies, maximize performance and improve responsiveness of the data center. More and more frequently, IT is turning to virtualization to accomplish its mission-critical goals.
The hot new trend in cloud computing is a natural extension of this drive toward virtualization. In the case of the public cloud, IT can add processing power and infrastructure as needed, and in the case of the private cloud, IT can improve the utilization of existing infrastructure. In other words, cloud computing platforms offer IT the opportunity to increase efficiencies and become more agile, transforming the data center into an environment that delivers greater benefits to end-users.
This tremendous potential of cloud computing can be seen by examining how organizations currently manage, analyze and mobilize data. Cloud has given IT organizations the opportunity to fundamentally shift the way data is created, processed and shared.
In order to take advantage of cloud computing for data management, IT must familiarize itself with the latest issues and trends. This requires a greater understanding of each of the three prominent cloud models - private, public and hybrid - along with proper evaluation of the criteria around a cloud strategy.
Cloud Gazing: Three Prominent Models
Much like those ubiquitous, puffy white masses of water vapor in our stratosphere, each of the prominent cloud computing models has its own unique qualities and benefits. The type of cloud strategy an organization chooses will depend on the specific issues they are addressing.
For IT organizations operating a virtual data center environment, private or internal cloud may offer important advantages. An internal cloud is an effective way to boost productivity while providing users a certain level of self-sufficiency. Such a cloud deployment also mitigates the need to purchase new systems. Through virtualization and cloud infrastructure, users can self-provision a virtual machine on the cloud environment, which can easily be expanded or contracted as a given project reaches fruition. By first developing tools to handle life cycle management of virtual machines, a user can request a virtual machine using a menu to specify resource requirements (CPUs, memory, storage), operating system details, lease period and other miscellaneous configuration information.
An internal cloud can provide critical efficiencies by avoiding data center expansion, faster provisioning of server capacity, faster upgrades of memory, CPU and storage, improved reliability, and business continuity/disaster recovery improvements. Case in point, a major financial services provider recently turned their compute backbone into an internal cloud with a focus on providing a platform to host virtual desktops. The company found that it is easier to share infrastructure with the computational jobs which run after the local trading day ends so there is a nice segregation of "jobs" in the local data center. Additionally, this solution has proven to deliver faster ROI.
Intense interest in public or external cloud strategies is being fueled by the potential for improved efficiencies, flexible and dynamic environments, on-demand infrastructure and smaller maintenance requirements. External cloud services offer the potential for improved business agility, better scalability and versatility. An example of this can be found with one of the world's leading electronic stock exchanges, who turned to an external cloud provider in order to enable brokerage firms to show customers and regulators that best-execution requirements were met for a given trade. An application was written to upload data for every stock in files representing ten-minute increments of trading data based on data from the major exchanges. This allows an accurate reconstruction of the trade environment without having to build out an internal storage infrastructure strictly for emulation (or testing) purposes. A further benefit of this cloud deployment has been the flexibility of pay-as-you-go pricing.
In today's challenging economy, with IT increasingly finding itself strapped for resources, external cloud services are proving to be an effective means for lowering upfront costs and reducing the workload on overburdened IT staff.
Experts agree that the hybrid cloud environment, a mix of in-house and outsourced computing and networking resources, will be a leading choice for enterprises in the near term. The hybrid model offers the greatest flexibility when dealing with the dynamic data requirements of most businesses today.
Regardless of the model, cloud computing is proving to be highly attractive because of its dynamic infrastructure, ability to support any application and operating system, accessibility via Internet protocols, automatic scalability and the fact that no software or hardware installation is required on site. Additional benefits for end-users include the:
- ability to shift resources from undifferentiated heavy lifting to differentiated value creation,
- abstraction from infrastructure,
- "pay for what you use" approach and
- adaptability to resource requirements
As a result, cloud computing is fast becoming an important tool in the IT arsenal.
Cloud Potential: Classes of Applications Deserving of Deployment
At present, cloud isn't for everyone. In those cases where the most stringent privacy and security policies are in place, a public cloud offering may not meet the regulations needed by IT. Conversely, applications that readily lend themselves to cloud are ones in which the user interface is easily presented in a Web browser and where time sensitivity isn't an issue, such as sales force automation or customer relationship management.
Some classes of applications in use today that might not appear to be obvious cloud candidates will in fact be deployed to the cloud in the near future. Increasingly, we are seeing more functions of data management and data analytics being moved to cloud environments with great success.
One such class of applications is database management systems. For organizations with large databases and high transaction volumes, cloud enables a measure of strategic agility that can meet today's enterprise needs. Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is a prime example of a mission-critical data management system that allows IT to get a handle on exploding information demands. This application provides access and control over data, transforming information into a vital, accessible and decisive mission asset made all the more effective when utilized in cloud.
As organizations employ larger data warehouses for purposes ranging from standard reporting to strategic business analytics, complex event processing and deep-dive data mining, the need for performance will continue to outpace the capabilities of traditional relational databases. Cloud computing offers IT a powerful means for meeting the performance and scalability requirements of the enterprise data warehouse. With large-scale systems continuing to expand, alternate approaches to support standard reporting, analysis, and power-user ad hoc queries will become increasingly established as the platforms of choice for very large database systems.
As with other cloud environments, analytics in the cloud benefit end-users by offering a pay-as-you-go model and adaptable resource requirements that free up IT from the need to purchase additional hardware and going through the extensive procurement process.
In order to satisfy the rapidly expanding need for analytical performance, Sybase offers a solution well suited to exploit the benefits of cloud. Sybase IQ takes an alternate database approach, storing data oriented by columns instead of rows. This approach has proven superior in sustaining the performance and rapid growth requirements of analytical applications and, when combined with cloud computing, offers significant advantages. The column-oriented methodology provides a combination of architectural simplicity and the ability to configure data in a way that can reduce the physical amount of data that must be accessed. Reducing the storage footprint while optimizing column access will reduce data access latency and improve use of network bandwidth, thereby contributing to a scalable environment that continues to provide consistently high performance as data volumes, number of users and number of queries increase.
With a growing trend toward mobility in the workforce, IT faces increased demand for access to mobilized applications. Managing data and exchange technologies can place significant demands on IT, necessitating regular onsite maintenance of mobile devices. Cloud offers IT the scalability, flexibility, performance and responsiveness needed to deploy and manage mobile applications. For example, Sybase SQL Anywhere provides data management and data exchange technologies that enable the rapid development and deployment of database-powered applications. Design and management tools within SQL Anywhere enable IT to implement and deploy mobile applications, while also easily providing support.
For one major telecommunications provider, cloud computing is key in offering Web-interfaced applications hosted and deployed in a managed service (SaaS) model. This company leverages Sybase's Afaria solution, which provides comprehensive management and security capabilities to ensure that mobile data and devices are up-to-date, reliable and secure. The provisioning and scalability advantages of cloud make it possible for the company to offer an integrated suite of managed mobility applications for their customers that can be contracted individually or in combination. Afaria enables the company to offer its hosted applications, and assist customers in managing the deployment, expenses and ongoing support to a global mobile workforce without technical complexity and security risks.
Cloud computing can enable IT to more effectively handle the wide ranging database requirements of mobile workers, while minimizing the impact on end-users, thus allowing them to focus on the work at hand rather than getting bogged down with the technology.
Multi-tenancy Requirements
There are numerous considerations IT should take into account when pursing a data center cloud strategy. These range from security and compliance requirements to the need for a rich user interface, effective management and control, and the need to establish standards, provide support and improve performance.
In the case of multi-tenant applications, IT must consider the separation of data from a security, privacy, and compliance perspective. Data that is bound by strict privacy regulations, such as medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), will require that tenants log in, after which they are then routed directly to their own secure database server. In this way, data remains separate and secure, and in compliance with government privacy mandates.
Another factor IT must consider is the implication of application performance on end users. If one tenant is running a large, complex report, overall performance on the database server can be slowed. IT must gauge the sensitivity of other users to such performance issues and factor this into decisions regarding external cloud providers as well as internal cloud initiatives
In terms of choosing cloud schema, IT can establish a single database on the server with separate schemas, allowing one tenant to employ a set of tables within the database while another tenant is able to utilize a different set of tables within that same database. In this scenario, the cost of provisioning is lower, but there is a trade-off in performance and data isolation. A second option is to employ shared schema where all tenants' data is contained in the same table. Each tenant has a column in the table, making this option more cost effective to provision, however application development becomes more complex.
Operational Considerations of Cloud
When hosting data in the cloud, IT must take various operational considerations into account. These considerations should include how backups will be performed and how often data will be backed up. Additional operational details, such as the existence of offsite storage and the robustness of disaster recovery protocols should be examined.
A further consideration IT should take into account as cloud computing gains wider acceptance is the ability for users to access the data center from both desktop and mobile environments. When considering mobile access, IT must evaluate technical considerations, such as how users will traverse an organization's firewall. Existing security requirements around data, and the ability to synchronize that data to mobile devices when appropriate, clearly add to the complexity of cloud deployment. Areas such as these should be top of mind for IT as they move forward.
The Sky Is the Limit With Cloud
As IT seeks to maximize the efficiency, performance and responsiveness of the data center, virtualization and cloud computing are providing important new tools to meet mission-critical goals. Cloud is opening the door for IT to get the most out of vital processing power and infrastructure.
The tremendous potential of cloud computing is fundamentally shifting the way data is created, processed and shared. Currently, the most prominent cloud models, private, public and hybrid, are transforming the data center into an environment that delivers significant benefits to end-users, in how they access and manage data.
As new strategies evolve and more classes of applications become viable in the cloud, IT has the opportunity to dramatically improve the agility, flexibility, performance and efficiency of data centers which, in turn, will ultimately lead to bottom-line organizational success.
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Following a lengthy and thorough review process by the Planning Commission, including significant opportunities for public engagement, the latest draft of the Comprehensive Plan is now available online: CLICK HERE.
The Plan contains changes identified by the Planning Commission during prior work sessions that they asked be included in the Comprehensive Plan prior to them taking action on their recommendation to the Board of Supervisors. The Planning Commission will review this draft and receive public comment on July 23, 2013. Time has also been reserved on the Commission's July 30th agenda in the event the Commission wants to have an additional opportunity to consider public comment and make its recommendation to the Board.
Over the next few days, the Summary of the Plan will be uploaded as well as Indicators of Progress. None of these items will change the substance of the Plan. In addition, some maps will be reformatted and uploaded to replace maps in an older format. The maps will not change in substance. Typos will be corrected after the Commission takes action.
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Quick Gameplay Thoughts: October 25
Morning folks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Usual Disclaimers** These posts will often contain talk about future work we're doing, or planning to do, that isn't yet guaranteed to ship. The nature of the work could change or, depending on what we discover, projects mentioned may get put delayed or even stopped. If you'd like to see a Tweet whenever a new one of these posts goes up: https://twitter.com/RiotMeddler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Runes back on the PBE** We're in the home stretch before runes go live and they're back on the PBE again now we're past the 7.21 testing period. We've made significant changes to a number of runes since the system was originally revealed, some of which haven't got as much visibility (and therefore testing) as others. Feedback, particularly from people who've played them in game, highly appreciated on: Guardian - Now triggers on spell casts on allies/priority, compared to version initially shown which was right click on ally. Sudden Impact - Now also works after exiting stealth, not just on dash/teleport. Press the Attack - Now deals damage after 3 auto attacks on the target, followed by amping all damage against them for 6 seconds (was stacking AD/AP). Presence of Mind - Now gives you free spell casts for 5 seconds after level up or takedown (used to restore mana by auto attacking when lowish on mana). Arcane Comet - Cooldown now reduces whenever you damage an enemy champion with an ability (should be much more appealing on champs with frequent spell casts or DoTs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Adjusting Jungle XP and Catch up XP in pre-season** We'll be adjusting how jungle XP's earned somewhat in pre-season as is probably already on PBE at this point. TLDR is only catch up xp on large/epic monsters instead of all, some changes to individual camp xp, less ambient catch up XP. More details and our thinking about why these changes in a separate dev corner post to come shortly. Edit: Looks like that post's out already and had plenty of discussion already. Link for anyone that's missed it though: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/24K8ORZQ-catch-up-experience-and-jungle-changes-in-722 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Minions/Monsters spawning 10s earlier in pre-season** Another change we'll be making in pre-season is having minions and monsters spawn 10s earlier than they normally would (e..g red/blue buff spawning at 1.30, not 1.40). Goal there's to remove a bit of time that's usually just spent by people afk/alt tabbed. At the same time we don't want to make jungle invades too hard to pull off, so to preserve similar timings on those we'll be increasing the speed bonus from the game start Homeguard effect as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Couple of pre-season changes moving to 7.23 instead of 7.22** Almost all of the pre-season stuff will be in 7.22, we'll have a few things though that will be a patch later however. Those are a slight increase to minion movement speed after 20 minutes and minion damage to towers (helps with split pushing for champs who don't themselves do as much tower damage in particular), plus a small increase to overall tower health (leaving towers as tough, or slightly tougher, overall, even accounting for the extra minion damage). http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/6.24.1/img/champion/Ziggs.png
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This is a review of the novel "Macrieve" by Kresley Cole. It is the 13th installment (there are novellas as well as novels, which makes it a hard one to place) in The Immortals After Dark Series. It follows on from "Lothaire" (and was published after The Dacians: Realm of Blood and Mist (offshoot IAD Series) novel "Shadow's Claim".
Long ago, Uilleam MacRieve was subjected to something no young boy (or Lykae for that matter) should ever have to suffer. It's affected him deeply. He's had a burning shame and lurking hatred for centuries. He believes he's broken. His recent capture and torture at the hands of the Order haven't helped him any. He's more shattered than ever. Lucky that he has his twin Munro to look after him. To other Lykae he's known as Head Case. He's decided he's not for this world for much longer. He can barely leash his beast, and he's sick of living for nothing.
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But MacRieve has found his mate at long last. She's given him reason to live. A bonny lass, a good, innocent girl. And Chloe's found a safe harbour in her shitstorm of a life. She's got no way of fulfilling her Olympic dreams with half of the Lore after her, and her dad has disappeared without a trace. It's nice to be looked after, made to feel special and safe. But where has her appetite gone? And why does she feel so different?
Can MacRieve bury the pain of his past, before he buries the promise of what is between he and Chloe? Or will he let the ghosts of the past determine his future?
I really liked this IAD novel. It was funny, entertaining and it genuinely surprised me in some parts. I thought I had things figured out and, nope, I didn't. Which I liked. When I first began reading this series, I was dubious as to whether I could enjoy them. I am not a huge fan of romance. A book has got to have some kind of substance. Not just be wishy washy, predictable or perfect. For me it has got to be "real" in some sense.
And some might think that to be a stupid thing for me to say, as my favourite genres are fantasy or paranormal fiction (you know, "make believe"). But my favourites, they all feel real. They've got substance. And I think that's why I like Kresely Cole's Immortals After Dark Series. Though the novels are full of fantastic, impossible creatures, they're also real people. They've got problems, hang-ups and issues. They've got desires, kinks, and quirks. They're loveable. They're also hate-able. Frustrating. These are my guilty pleasure novels. But I won't call them "trashy romance", because they're not. The entire IAD series is interwoven and complex. They're funny, entertaining and intriguing. The issues, though they're somewhat hidden in the fantastic nature of the immortals and their stories, are those that people can relate to. I can't wait for the next one to be published.


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After days of staring at a computer screen, I'm mostly done with fixing all of the redirects and links on my website. I literally had to fix thousands of redirects and links and fixed almost all of them by hand. Here is a good outline of the problem in case someone else has to go through the same thing.
How I ended up with a huge number of redirects
1) I deleted 3000 blog posts and redirected all of them.
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3) Then I went from HTTP to HTTPS
You can see how this could become a mess.
Add to this that inside all the actual posts were links pointing to the old URL's, which was dependent on the redirects working.
How I cleaned everything up
1) Run Broken Link Checker plugin
If you have any internal links which are broken, fix them. You can fix them right in the plugin.
It also lists any links which are redirecting. Fix all of the internal links and have them point directly to the current, correct URL.
301 redirects pass MOST link juice, but you should have the correct URL listed so Google knows where to go and so that 100% of link juice is passed.
2) Run the Redirection plugin
(I already know that Craig Martin will point out that doing redirections from .htaccess is a superior way to do redirects, and he would be correct. However, I'm trying to manage 1,000's of redirects and doing it from a plugin at this stage just simplifies everything. You can also set up the plugin so it runs all the redirects through .htaccess.)
I imported all the redirects I had in Yoast and .htaccess to Redirection so they were all in one place.
I then went through and checked everything, looking for conflicting redirects (there were a few) and broken redirects.
This was very time consuming, but necessary. There were many different types of errors I encountered, and I can't see how it could have been automated.
3) Go to Google Webmaster tools and look for 404 errors that Google has found. Fix them in Redirection.
(I had over 300).
4) Go to the 404 log in the Redirection plugin and look for 404 errors from normal URL's (not urls with odd strings after the URL)
I found quite a few of these. These are pages that, for whatever reason, never had redirects set up.
After all of this, I have almost all of the old URL's now redirecting to a new, functioning URL on my website. I also have all the internal links on my website pointing to current, non-redirecting URLs.
5) While I was at it, I took the time to delete over 1,000 links on my website
These included wasted internal links going to unnecessary pages, old links pointing to non-existent websites, links in comments to sites which haven't been updated in years, links old to news stories in podcast show notes, etc.
By shoring up my links, I'm keeping more link juice on the site and directing it to the pages I care most about.
There is still some tweaking I have to do, and I could spend more time going through bad comment links, but I'm not going to bother.
For all practical purposes, the structural changes to my website are pretty much done. I think once the dust clears after a month or two with Google, I'll be in a much better position than I was before.
If I had to do it over again, I would change the URL structure first and make the move to HTTPS at the same time. Then I would have deleted the blog posts and redirected them.
My blog is almost 11 years old and there was a lot of brush which had accumulated over time. The site now is much cleaner, leaner and meaner. I don't foresee ever having to change the structure of my site going forward or doing a mass deletion of posts.
This post originally appeared in the Travel Blog Success Facebook Group and was republished here with permission of the author.


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THE milky white 1900 Appellate Division courthouse at 25th Street and Madison Avenue had barely made it past the half century mark when the first problems with deteriorating marble arose and almost cost the building its distinctive rooftop ring of sculptures. Now a second major repair campaign is beginning, with uncertain promise -- marble and New York City air don't mix well.
The court, the Appellate Division, First Department, of New York State Supreme Court, was in rented quarters on Fifth Avenue and 19th Street in 1896 when plans were filed for a new building facing Madison Square. Responding to the City Beautiful movement, legislators required that a large percentage of the construction budget be devoted to decoration.
In the end, about 25 percent of the $700,000 cost was spent on sculpture alone. American Architect and Building News predicted that ''the rest of the country will envy New York the possession of this building.''
The architect James Brown Lord selected the cream of the American art establishment, including Henry Siddons Mowbray and Kenyon Cox, for the interior decorative work, and Daniel Chester French and Karl Bitter for the sculptural work on the exterior. On the inside, the result is an elaborate entrance hall and dome-topped courtroom, covered with paneling, stained glass, gilding and painted friezes, one of the most sumptuous interiors in New York. (The main hall and the courtroom are open to visitors from 8:30 A.M. to 5 P.M., Monday through Friday.)
On the exterior, the sculpture program was generous enough for a building five or 10 times the size. On the 25th Street front a giant pedimental group, ''Triumph of Law'' by Charles H. Niehaus, rests on a screen of six Corinthian columns, rising from several groups of allegorical sculpture. On the Madison Avenue front, at the third-floor level, a screen of female caryatids by Thomas Shields Clarke represents the seasons -- ''Summer,'' for instance, holds a sickle and a sheaf of wheat.
Karl Bitter's ''Peace'' is the central grouping on the balustrade by Madison Square; ''Justice'' by Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln of the Lincoln Memorial, is the central grouping on 25th Street. Ten other sculptors designed a ring of 10 other larger than life-size figures at the roof level on the north and south ends of the Madison Avenue front, representing famous lawgivers like Confucius and Moses.
In 1900 The New York Tribune reported that there had been behind-the-scenes maneuvering by Tammany Hall insiders to include the living as well as the dead. But the newspaper said that artists opposed modern figures because they would result ''in a number of pants statues, which at a distance would have looked alike.'' The Tribune also ridiculed the idea of a gallery of portly Tammany bosses.
Charles DeKay, writing in 1900 in The Independent, lauded the Appellate Division courthouse, saying it ''shines like an ivory casket among boxes of ordinary maple.''
But that did not leave the work free of criticism; DeKay thought that the Niehaus sculpture was too heavily figured, leaving it looking trapped within the triangular pediment. And most critics noted the awkward narrowness of the Madison Avenue front.
In 1952 the court retained the architectural firm of Rogers & Butler to design an annex on an adjacent lot on Madison Avenue. The architects developed a plain but clearly contextual design in Alabama marble, not quite as translucent as the original building's marble, which was described as having been quarried in North Adams, Mass. At the same time, the condition of the rooftop statuary was of concern.
Frederick Zurmuhlen, the city's Public Works Commissioner, said that he was afraid the statues were so deteriorated they might fall, and that they had been offered to every museum in the city -- with no takers. He said the cost to restore them was prohibitive -- even in a $1 million-plus construction budget -- and, he told The New York Times, ''they have to go.''
But after protests, he announced that the statuary would be repaired -- at a cost of $8,500. Ivan Myjer, a stone consultant working on the current project, says there was also extensive replacement of the architectural marble at the time: the column capitals and window lintels were replaced with cast stone, and most of the upper section was replaced with Alabama marble.
AT the same time, the statue of Mohammed originally at the western end of the 25th Street side was removed at the request of the governments of Indonesia, Egypt and Pakistan -- Islam prohibits such human portraiture. The other statues on 25th Street were each moved one spot to the west, leaving an empty position at the easterly end.
About 10 years ago the Appellate Division retained the architects Platt Byard Dovell to restore the interior, a project now nearing completion.
Some of the marble on the exterior -- even the replacement marble from the 1950's -- is in various stages of serious deterioration. The statues themselves have been eroded by a combination of acid particulates and rainwater. From the street the damage is hard to see, but minor repair work in the 1980's -- new hands, arms, noses and even complete faces in bright white stone for some statues -- are troubling, even comical to the eye. The 1950's cast stone of the massive Corinthian columns is crumbling. Large slabs of replacement Alabama marble from the 1950's are splitting.
Work on the outside is now beginning, as Mr. Myjer develops recommendations for a wide array of materials and conditions. For the statuary, Mr. Myjer is considering a stone consolidant, which will reduce the surface crumbling over the near term. ''But I'm sort of conservative,'' he says, and such techniques are still not proved over the long term. For the column capitals he has to evaluate the cost and durability of new cast stone work, or new carved marble, or some other material.
Paul Byard, the architect, says that the $3.8 million exterior project should start next spring and will stretch to 2001. Although preservation projects are often painted as permanent repairs, Mr. Myjer knows that marble, especially, is of limited durability.
Standing on the inspection scaffold next to a field of crumbling stone, he said that nothing matches the beauty of architectural marble, and that there was nothing wrong with using marble in New York's polluted air -- as long as ''you're willing to rebuild it.''


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Tailoring Your Singing Audition for the Musical Theatre
In musical theater, you need to switch your style of singing with ease. Right after you sing your lovely head voice selection, such as "I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady, you may be asked for your belt song (an example of a belt song is "Tomorrow" from Annie) or pop-rock song (such as "Take me or Leave Me" from Rent).
Bouncing back and forth between the styles is expected, and you have to practice all three until they're comfy. You may find some musical theater performers who aren't belters, but you're better off knowing how to do all three.
At the musical theater audition, you're expected to use great acting skills to portray the story and take the listener on a journey in a variety of songs ranging from standards to pop-rock songs. The journey may last only 16 bars, but you have to take the audience for a ride, no matter how short the trip.
You also want to dance well, or at least move really well. Sometimes auditions are held for nondancers, but most of the time you have to dance or move well to get into the musical.
Research performers who have previously played the role you're auditioning for to see whether your look is similar. After you make it through the doors, you may be typed. Typing at a musical theater audition doesn't mean that your fingertips fly across a keyboard.
Typing refers to whether you're the right type for the role. The casting panel (usually made up of the casting director, director, musical director, and choreographer) look at you to determine whether you're physically right for the role. If you physically fit what they're looking for, you get to stay at the audition and sing and dance.


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A 2-year-old boys is in critical condition after falling out of a second-story motel window in Hialeah Friday, police said.
The child had been staying with his parents and a 5-month-old brother at the El Paraiso Motel at 1615 W. Okeechobee Road when he fell, according to Hialeah Police.
After an investigation, police found evidence of cocaine and alcohol in the room where the family had been staying for two days, police said.
Parents Luis Enrique Rodriguez, 26, and Jacqueline Sanchez, 27, were taken into custody and charged with child abuse without great bodily harm for keeping narcotics near the children, officials said. They are being held on $5,000 each.
The child, meanwhile, is at Jackson Memorial Hospital where he remains critical. The 5-month-old brother was placed in Department of Children and Families custody, according to police.
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His plan may sound good on the surface, but it eventually reveals how oblivious he is to his constituencys true-blue plight
Donald Trump does have an financial program, it seems. But if youre trying to find any clue of ideological cohesion in the strange mish-mash of positions that the GOP presidential candidate laid out in his nearly hour-long communication in Detroit on Monday, your quest will be in vain.
Trumps speech was meant to employed his safarus back on track and it did briefly, before he derailed it again with his suggestion that gun-supporters might take aim at Hillary Clinton, so to speak.
To numerous voters, he is stronger on their own economies than competitive Hillary Clinton, who will speak on the issue Thursday. But while the discussion clarified some details of his strategies, the committee is also showcased their many blames and their favoring, for this supposedly populist nominee, of the 1 %.
Trumps essential objective wander from the outright protectionist( tear up the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal) to the business friendly the target of putting a postponement on new regulations and interposing an energy policy that compensates no heed to concerns about climate change or global warming.
Then there are the measures that are downright knotty to asses on the surface. It sounds great when a presidential candidate promises to simplify the tax system, cutting the number of taxation brackets from seven to three and reducing the tax owed by those in the top tier to 33% from 39.6%.
Its a program that enables Trump to claim that everyone will be paying less, since individuals giving less than $25,000, and pairs becoming less than $50,000, wouldnt owe any federal taxation. The trouble, of course, is that while all the attention is focused on the absolute rates, less is devoted to undoing the involved question of just how the taxes would be imposed.
Trumps new hope includes a big windfall for his fellow billionaires, in accordance with the arrangements of the rate at which pass through income will be taxed. This income which deserves its name by flowing through a separate business, partnership or limited liability company before reaching an individual is now levied at private individuals rate. Trump proposes to tax it at a new, much less proportion of fifteen %, throwing the wealthy individuals who prove these structures a big, big payday.
While camouflaging that payday for the wealthy, Trump trumpeted his populist credentials with two other parts of his economic game plan. The question? Neither give the benefits to ordinary Americans of the category that presidential candidates proposes they might.
Lets consider the( in) famed death tax.
If you listened to Trumps speech, you might imagine that this is something that the usual American clas is up in arms about that we stay up at night worrying about the IRS presenting up to take away Grandmas collection of silver and china or Grandpas woodworking equipment to satisfy the death tax.
No family will have to pay the death tax, Trump extol. American workers have paid taxes their whole lives. Its just plain wrong and most people agree with that. We will repeal it.
Well, class like Donald Trumps may have worried about, and paid, estate taxes. But the rest of us? Not so much better, unless, that is, our parents and grandparents bequeath us an property worth northward of $5.4 m. Thats the current threshold at which the IRS starts to get a share of the follows so Grandmas silver is safe. You can probably sell some of her stocks and bonds to satisfy the taxman before you have to worry about clas heirlooms.
The estate tax, which alters about 2% of Americans, or about one in every 700 fatalities yearly, does generate about $25 bn a year in revenue for the countrys coffers. Id argue that theres a client to be made for waiving or cutting it when a small business owners extinction might coerce his heirs to close or sell that business: that surely isnt the intent of the tax.
On the other hand, cancelling it so that wealthy lineages can simply pass on all their resource to their heirs, while authorities struggle to deliver basic services to families who themselves are struggling in a number of countries where the property spread has become a fortune rift? That notion becomes even more unpalatable when promoted by a billionaire-turned-politician who, along with his family, so clearly provide benefits personally from the policies hes promoting.
It becomes even more odd when you consider the fact that many of the two countries wealthiest families are now so rich that "they il be" signing on to the Giving Pledge . Joining great efforts launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, its signatories promise to give away at least half of their net worth to philanthropic campaigns. Undoubtedly, theyd prefer to choose where their money extends rather than have Uncle Sam choose it belongs to the US treasury, but the fact is still the countrys wealthiest citizens those most likely to be hit by the estate tax are spending down their billions already rather than fretting about turning their heirs into next-gen billionaires. The rhetoric about the estate tax is squarely is targeted at those middle-class Americans who seem financially mashed and over-taxed and persecuted by government red-tape of all kinds, but who never will have to pay a dime in death taxes in their lives.
Ill give Trump the benefit of is presumed that his goal in proposing a childcare initiative was benign; it at least is necessary that he finally is acknowledging that its a topic that he needs to are serious about. In the run-up to his Monday speech, the rumor was that he was about to suggest a brand-new space for families to withhold childcare overheads from their taxes.
Unfortunately, the brand-new method wasnt really that new after all. Trump simply proposed that households be able to fully withhold their childcare expenditures against their taxes. Thats revolutionary rhetoric for a Republican campaigner, admittedly, but it overlooks the fact that about 45% of Americans dont salary federal income taxes, and so wouldnt benefit from that deduction.
For them and for that matter, for all working parents the key issue is affordability. For a low-income pedigree, childcare rates can chew up 40% of household income, according to a Pew Research Center report. That signifies many maidens are kept out of the labour force altogether by a lack of affordable, accessible childcare options.
Trumps focus on the narrowest part of the childcare conundrum, and the most self-evident mixture( the one that interests the middle class and more affluent households who have already observed and can pay for childcare) presents just how oblivious he remains to the real troubles that vexed his constituency, and how tissue-thin his populism is. Its a solution that he belief should fit the problem, rather than one that addresses the real issues.
For the GOP candidate to Make America Great Again for those on the wrong side of the abundance crack, hes going to have to try a lot harder than this.
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Wasabi-Udon Noodles with Crispy Chicken
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Mari, this DOES look beautiful! And it's not just the plates, though I love Vietri. I'm so impressed with the wide range of things you've been cooking lately! :)ReplyDelete
Mari, your talents with cooking and photography make any food look beautiful! Those plates are just plain gorgeous as well. I'm off to follow the link now :-)ReplyDelete
fabulous mary, i am back to stalking you, you load fast and hit me smack between the eye with your fab photos! and the dishes are gorgeous, and now you have resources, i will be bankrupt, ok bankrupter, i do a lot of damage all by myslef! hope you had a great day, signed your stalker~ReplyDelete
Mari, Mari, Mari you're killing me! The food looks wonderful to me and I appreciate your notes about using some different ingredients next time.ReplyDelete
But! Those dishes! Oy. I was recently at Southern Seasons where they have a beautiful selection of Vietri. I didn't come home with any, sorry to say. I see your pictures and I don't know if I would have thought of how to use them, if I had even seen them which I didn't. You should get a check in the mail from Vietri from their marketing department
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Audrey, I don't know if it's good for our tummies here or not, but I'm usually "all over the map" as far as cuisine. lol!
Hi Marsha, Jain and Annie!
Um, I WISH I had looked closer at that link before I posted it. The prices of the Vietri dishes I bought (some months ago), have certainly increased.
I don't believe they serve up (or show off) food any better than our Ross/Homegoods/TJMaxx finds, at ALL.
Thank you again for stopping by and commenting! :)
Oh Mari- I should NOT have looked here tonight (or morning to be technical!) I am soooo hungry and I think this looks wonderful. Better go to sleep and just dream of this dish!ReplyDelete
Isnt it funny? When the first photo came on screen I thoought..mmmmmm that looks so good!ReplyDelete
Then the recipe and then the dishes!
Perfectly prettyMary..
at my DD's for NYE..I asked about someone and was told she was at her home in Aikne:) I had never heard of that town.Someone here has a home there..Doesn't that happen a lot? You never hear of something and then le "bingo"!
Yes, I think snow peas would be a great addition to this dish! I've seen those noodles but have never given them a try.ReplyDelete
Mari, the Wasabi Udon Noodles look perfectly delicious to me. From the crispy chicken, right down to the plates!ReplyDelete
I keep telling myself not to visit here before dinner! Oh my, that looks wonderful. I love the plates.ReplyDelete
What do you mean it is not pretty! It is beautiful, and I bet delicious...ReplyDelete
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"We have three little kids, and pretty much every design element and functional space was built around that fact,"
"Although 417-land homebuilder Rick Ramsey is best known for his astounding French country–style homes, his talents don't stop there. Proof of this can be found in Greg and Tori Kubik's Prairie-style home. "They knew I ventured out of building French country style," Ramsey says. Greg's brother is Brian Kubik, an architect with Buxton Kubik Dodd Creative, and he designed the home plans."
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A Word From Steve Jones
december 9th, 2019
Dear pastors, missionaries, chaplains and friends,
Steve Jones here… God has been bringing many amazing people from our Fellowship churches to our Fellowship International ministry in recent months. We are journeying with some wonderful believers with a desire to serve cross-culturally in some difficult places in the world. I'm overjoyed by the prospect of seeing our churches send out many new missionaries in the next couple years.
However, some ask the question "Why send North Americans overseas?" There are many ways to answer that question. I will briefly address the statistical need.
In 2016, there are 247 mega people groups. Each mega people group has a population of more than one million people. In total, these groups represent 1.4 billion people in our world. These 247 mega people groups are considered "under-evangelized" — they are only 35.9% evangelized, with approximately 14 million professing Christians in all of these surveyed nations.
For example:
- Afghanistan:
5 mega people groups
total population (within these people groups) is 26 million
only 4,780 known Christians among these people groups
- Algeria:
8 mega people groups
total population (within these people groups) of over 35 million
only 17,280 known Christians among these people groups
- China:
23 mega people groups
total population (within these people groups) of about 224 million
only about 3.5 million known among these people groups Christians
- Indonesia:
18 mega people groups
total population (within these people groups) of about 72 million
only 181,880 known Christians among these people groups
- Iran:
14 mega people groups
total population (within these people groups)of about 41.5 million
only 17,600 known Christians among these people groups
- Morocco:
7 mega people groups
total population (within these people groups)of about 30 million
only 9,630 known Christians among these people groups
- Pakistan
16 mega people groups
total population (within these people groups)of about 178 million
only 3.7 million known Christians among these people groups
(Source: World Christian Database, Todd Johnson, 2014)
This gives you just a taste of the massive spiritual need in some of the tough places in the world. There is still a great need for Christian missions to be involved.
I've asked our Fellowship International Director, Dave Marttunen to briefly tell you about several of our newly appointed mid- and long-term Fellowship International missionaries. They will be serving in these tough places. Would you pray for them, especially as each builds their prayer and financial support team in the months ahead?
"The news is amazing, God-honouring and uplifting! Since January, we have appointed nine missionary units. Four are career and five are midterm for one year. They include as long-term missionaries: Randy and Rachel Burwell to North Central Asia (seeking some more support), Eric and Val Nielsen to Quebec (support raising), Bechara and Roula Karkafi to Arab ministries in Canada and Lebanon (support raising), Jamila and Nadeem Qazi to Pakistan (support raising). Those for one year include: Mark and Rachel Bright to Madagascar (supported), Allison Montgomery to Cambodia (supported), Cristina Barros to North Africa (supported), Jerid Klassen to Indonesia (support raising), and Anna Bowman to Indonesia (can use some support). There are many more in various stages of application with our mission. The Lord of the Harvest is blessing, please keep praying!"
Thank you for praying for these precious Fellowship people. May our commitment to be on mission continue in Canada and beyond.
Have a blessed week,
Steve Jones
A Word from Steve Jones: How Many Christian Vocational Workers Are There in the World and Where Are They Serving?
Dear pastors, missionaries, chaplains and friends,
Steve Jones here… If you were to guess, how many "full-time" Christian workers serve the church in our world? What would you guess?
According to the William Carey Library, World Christian Trends, there are 5.5 million "full time" Christian vocational workers in the world. Of these 5.5 million pastors, evangelists, professors, missionaries, chaplains etc… only 420,000 (approximately 7.6%) of these are "foreign" missionaries. Of the 420,000 missionaries, only 10,200 of these (approximately 2.4%) are involved with "pioneer" ministry, focused on unreached people groups.
At the turn of the 21st Century, Christian mission looks like this:
1. "Un-evangelized" world
· 10,200 foreign missionaries in service
· $250 million per year to send these missionaries
· 26 closed countries
- 20,500 full time Christian workers in these countries
· 0.1% of all Christian literature
· 0.1% of all Christian media
2. "Evangelized non-Christian" world
· 103,000 foreign missionaries in service
· $1.75 billion per year to send these missionaries
· 31 restricted access countries
- 1.31 million full time Christian workers in these countries
· 8.9% of all Christian literature
· 3.9% of all Christian media
3. "Christian" world
· 306,000 foreign missionaries to other "Christian lands"
· $13 billion per year to send these workers
· 4,000 missionaries sent to 29 restricted access countries
· 4.19 million full time Christian workers
· 91% of all Christian literature
· 96% of all Christian media
The bottom line is the Fellowship family needs to get more involved in sending missions personnel and investment into trusted indigenous mission initiatives to the "un-evangelized" world. It is vastly underfunded. Only $250 million of the more than $13 billion dollars spent on Christian personnel goes to the most spiritually needy places on the planet.
What should our churches do about this as we consider our church missions budget this year? What should we do about it personally as we consider the many requests for our support? A sobering thought; one worthy of our time in prayer.
Next week, I've asked our Fellowship International Director, Dave Marttunen, to tell you a little about some of our new missionaries being sent by our churches to some of these "un-evangelized closed countries". I think you'll be excited by the news. I know I'm pumped!
Have a blessed week,
Steve Jones
A Word from Steve Jones: Ministry Is A Dangerous Calling . . . . Phone For Help!
Dear pastors, missionaries, chaplains and friends,
Steve here… Have you registered for our upcoming Fellowship National Conference in beautiful Niagara Falls, ON?
The conference is being held November 7-9, 2016 with speaker Dr. Paul Tripp addressing the theme "Dangerous Calling". Many of you read his book a few years back. I did, and it felt like he was talking directly to me. I'm hoping pastoral couples, church leadership couples, missionary couples and chaplain couples will make this year's conference. I've asked Paul to address the stressors on husbands and wives while serving the Lord. Niagara Falls… what a beautiful place to come as a couple. Make sure to book your room soon at the Sheraton Hotel. The Falls-side rooms will likely be the first to go
CLERGY CARE in Times of Crisis
As a National Fellowship, we pay a significant membership fee to support a "Focus on the Family" ministry for clergy and their families.
When in time of need or crisis, the "Clergy-Care Hotline" (1-888-5-CLERGY) is available for Fellowship pastoral, missionary and chaplain families, the clergy, their spouse and children. For details, click HERE for more information.
This hotline is completely confidential. No Fellowship National or Regional staff member is ever notified who is calling. The only report I receive is a quarterly report indicating how many Fellowship leaders, their spouses or children phoned for counsel. The counselors at the other end are all credentialed professionals.
Please prayerfully consider using this free service when you need it.
Hope to see you in Niagara Falls.
Have a blessed week, Steve Jones
Dear pastors, missionaries, chaplains and friends,
Steve Jones here…
As we go about sowing the Good News of the Gospel, what should we expect? As we evangelize in Canada, Poland, Japan, or Indonesia, what response should we expect?
Given a vision by God, Isaiah was so shocked that he pronounced a curse on himself, believing God would destroy him due to his own sin. God asked, "Who shall I send?"
Isaiah answered, "Send me!"
God said, "Go!"
God then told Isaiah that the people will not respond.
Isaiah asked, "Okay, so how long do I do that for… a week or two?"
God declared that Isaiah keep on mission no matter what because there was a remnant that would eventually be reached.
Faithfulness and perseverance are critical to effective evangelism, according to the Lord. Jesus underscores what our "expectations" should be that peoples' response to the Gospel will be like that of the people in the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13). The disciples thought that everyone would want to listen and join in on the Kingdom after hearing about it. Jesus burst their bubble. "People will treat you like they treated me", the Lord intimates in Matthew 13, 15, and 16 — and Jesus was treated with indifference and hostility in addition to being welcomed.
In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus takes us from what we can see to what we must understand when it comes to our expectations concerning our evangelistic effort. The "seed" (Gospel) will fall on different "soils" (human hearts):
A Couple of Reflections
1. Only one soil bears fruit. The common theme of the receptivity of the first three soils (heart condition) is that they don't bear fruit. But, in actuality, some growth does occur in all four soils. There is some response to the seed seeking to germinate. In three cases, the seed is ultimately rejected.If this is what we can expect from the Gospel, then we're going to need to learn to be faithful and persevere as we present it in winsome ways.
2. The soil determines the fruit. Starting in vs. 9, Jesus tells us He wants us to understand this parable. One thing He wants us to understand is that it is the condition of the soil, not the skill of the sower or even the seed itself, which is critical to our effectiveness in evangelism. Once again, our faithfulness and perseverance is pivotal to the fruitful response of spiritual seekers.
JOIN ME at the Canadian Evangelism Congress
Canada's response to the Gospel is quickly moving from quiet indifference to open hostility. Yet we must remain faithful to sow the seed so that the remnant might hear and respond. It's not that Canadians are opposed to the Gospel — yet— it's just that many have never heard the Gospel. They have heard a "caricature" of the Gospel message, but not the true, joyful message of grace and redemption.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association of Canada is hosting the Canadian Evangelism Congress (Sept. 26-27, 2016) at the Hilton Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel. For two days ($199 for registration) we will be exposed to Canadian speakers addressing evangelism in the Canadian context. Too many of us go State-side for this training; the States are different from Canada. Click HERE to see more details and to register for the event.
I'm attending because Canadian proponents are speaking and they are practicing successfully what they preach. I need to learn how to better reach my neighbours. I'm also going to gain tools to challenge our churches to better sow seed in winsome ways. Hope to see you there.
Have a blessed week,
Steve Jones
Dear pastors, missionaries, chaplains and friends,
Steve here… The spiritual needs of our nation are clearly evident. The best statistics indicate about 7.7% of Canadians self-identify as Evangelical Christians. In some regions of Canada, it is much less.
One such region is Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Less than 1% of the Island identifies itself as Evangelical Christian. Thirty-five churches have closed down in the past ten years. It is projected that 35-40 more churches are expected to close in the next ten years. This will leave entire towns and villages on Cape Breton Island without a local Christian witness. Nowhere for the local proclamation of the Gospel and a meeting of God's people to care for the overwhelming social needs on the Island.
Cape Breton Island has been hit for decades with economic hardship from closures of mines, heavy industry and fishing. Families have been decimated. Children have left home for greener pastures. The unemployment rate is 17.5%, compared to the current national rate which is 7%.
We have a Fellowship Church on Cape Breton Island, located in Sydney, NS, who has been faithfully proclaiming the Gospel for decades.
Faith Baptist decided in recent months that they needed to extend their influence outside of their immediate city to the rest of Cape Breton Island. Their membership of 50 or so stepped out in great faith, raised $45,000 and are building a full-powered FM radio station to share the Good News of Jesus Christ on Cape Breton Island. In fact, their station will reach 93,000 of the 100,000 inhabitants on the Island.
I met with Pastor Rob Jones and asked him to write a report to you on this amazing initiative by our small church with a big vision for evangelism and future church planting in this beautiful but spiritually-needy region of our county. I encourage you to see the attached to read Rob's brief report, see some photos and a brochure promoting "Praise FM" in Cape Breton, NS.
The dream is to see hundreds come to Christ and eventually see new churches planted in the cities and towns of this Region. Read the attached material and be encouraged.
Have a blessed week,
Steve Jones
December 2019


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About the area
Visit the town park located in the centre of Mullingar and take a swim in the 25m indoor swimming pool. Public sessions held daily except Monday.
Tel: 044-9340262 for further details. Adjacent to the pool are two playgrounds suitable for all ages.
Pitch n Putt
Tullaghan Pitch n Putt on the shores of Lough Owel.
Tel : 044-9348319
Tel : 087-1266214
Take a boat out on the wonderful lakes around Mullingar. Boat Hire is available from Lilliput Boat Hire (April-Oct) Tel : 087-6492866.
Active Travel Mullingar
The "Active Travel Mullingar" project is a Westmeath County Council led initiative, part funded by the Department of Transport and is all about getting the people of Mullingar cycling and walking. There are regular events on, check out their website by clicking on read more below. Read more
Lilliput Adventure Centre
If you are feeling active, head to Lilliput Adventure Centre on the shores of Lough Ennell just ten minutes from the town centre. It's a fabulous, unspoilt location where you can canoe, kayak, hill walk, rock climb, and take part in lots of fun group activities. Log onto www.lilliputadveture.com or telephone 087-8106951 for bookings. Accommodation also available.Read more
Coderdojo is a global collaboration providing free and open learning to young people, especially in programming technology. They meet every Saturday from 12pm- 2pm and new members registration is on the first Saturday of the month. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult for the session.
Located at Mullingar Charity Variety Group's Studio, Forest Park, Mullingar Business Park, Clonmore, Mullingar.Read more
The Old Rail Trail is a rural route through the heart of the Irish midlands connecting Athlone with Mullingar and passing through the town of Moate. The route is 40km along a converted stretch of the former Midlands Great Western Railway and passes through rich fertile farmland away from the hustle of towns. A lovely way for families to spend the day.
Scragh Bog Nature Reserve is the best illustration in Ireland of the transition from alkaline fen to acidic raised bog and one of the few remaining in Europe. It contains a large number of uncommon plants and insects which are rare in Europe, and the bog is rated as being of international importance. The greater part of the bog was purchased by the Irish Peatland Conservation Council with funds generously provided by the Dutch Foundation for the Conservation of Irish Bogs. It was then handed over to the State for management as a Nature Reserve.Read more
Horse Riding
There are lots of places to go horse-riding for the novice and experienced horse rider:
Mullingar Equestrian Centre. Tel: 044-9348331.
Catherinestown Riding Stables, Mullingar. Tel: 086-8384053
Ladestown Riding Stables, Mullingar. Tel: 044-9348218 / 086-3847509
Hop on a bike and take a spin down the Royal Canal tow path or follow the Mullingar Cycle Route which has 3 options taking in the countryside around Mullingar. Maps are available at www.discoverireland.ie/westmeath or at the tourist office in the Market Square in the town centre.
A new dimension to cycling and walking in Mullingar and its environs is now available with the development of over 32km of the Royal Canal towpath as a walking & cycling route. The Westmeath Royal Canal Greenway stretches from the Meath county boundary to Coolhahay harbour with several access points along the way. For more information on this route and to view an interactive map click here.
Rock n Bowl – indoor play centre and bowling alley
Don't miss Rock n Bowl indoor play centre and bowling alley, which also has Kids Go Karts, American style Pool and Amusements and Cafe. Visit www.Rocknbowl.ie or telephone 044-9333300. Open seven days a week.Read more
Tullynalley Castle & Gardens
Visit Tullynalley Castle & Gardens, home to the Earls of Longford since the 17th century. The old walled gardens have been restored and for children there are ducks, swans, llamas and a special discovery trail.
Tel : 044-9661159. Located 20kms from Mullingar.Read more
Mollie Moo's Pet Farm is a fantastic day out for families, groups and school tours. It's a great opportunity to interact with both farm animals and exotic animals such as Alpacas! Children are provided with a bag of food to feed the animals – it is both an educational and fun experience. Check out their website HERE.Read more


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When I found out that a friend had been diagnosed with breast cancer recently, I wanted to encourage her, so I headed to my scrapbook room to make this card. She has had a lumpectomy, and her lymph nodes are clear. Praise the Lord! So, as I recently told her, "You and God got this!" LOL. Here is the card I made for her.
I may not have great details on this card, but I assume most people just come here to look anyway. If you need specifics, just comment and let me know. I will find more instructions and post them.
Thanks for looking!


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Wesgro CEO Tim Harris says Cape Town is now being positioned as a sustainably resilient destination for tourists and for investment.
Wesgro, the Western Cape government's investment arm, welcomes the decision to relax water restrictions and associated tariffs from 1 October.
Water restrictions will be lowered from Level 6B to Level 5.
Read: Plan to ease CT water restrictions sends right tourism message, says scientist
Harris explains that a message about resilience around the water crisis may help restore investor confidence.
The importnat thing now is that we are able to signal that there's light at the end of the tunnel and we're on the path to recovery.— Tim Harris, CEO at Wesgro
The Day Zero frenzy and the drought messaging had a negative impact on the Cape economy, he says.
Harris says Cape Town needs to be put back on the map as an export centre, tourist desitination, and as place to shoot films and host international conferences.
Also read: 'Day Zero' frenzy played a role in declining CT film industry, says producer
He explains that tourism bodies, major hotel groups, and the government have jointly invested in a campaign to promote Cape Town as a travel destination to the global market.
All of those [investment opportunities] had a huge question mark over them for that intense period at the beginning of this year when we were all under the cloud of Day Zero.— Tim Harris, CEO at Wesgro
We're talking about almost 60 000 jobs lost in agriculture.— Tim Harris, CEO at Wesgro
Our [Wesgro] team experienced about a 25% reduction in investment leads.— Tim Harris, CEO at Wesgro
You can see the damage to the film sector.— Tim Harris, CEO at Wesgro
This article first appeared on CapeTalk : Easing water restrictions will put CT back on the investor map, says Wesgro CEO


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Verse 25:[1] And Joshua said, (Josh. 6:18; 1 Chron. 2:7; Gal. 5:12) Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. (Deut. 17:6) And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
[Because thou hast troubled (thus Munster), מֶ֣ה עֲכַרְתָּ֔נוּ] What hast thou troubled us? (Montanus, Septuagint, Jonathan, Malvenda). Why, or wherefore? (Syriac, Arabic, Pagnine); since (Tigurinus); how! (Junius and Tremellius); o how! (Drusius); O how greatly! Alas, in what ways! Thus it is taken in Ezekiel 16:30;[2] 19:2[3] (Drusius out of Masius).
[The Lord trouble thee] I do not find fault with the rendering, only provided that this be the speech of the Judge pronouncing sentence, not imprecating destruction (Masius, Lapide). Hence it is evident that the work is the Lord's, when the Magistrate exacts punishment of the guilty, Romans 13:4 (Masius). I would prefer, the Lord shall trouble, rather than, the Lord trouble, lest those things should appear to be done by Joshua in anger. For it is beastly inhumanity to rage against a man bound, unarmed, penitent, and miserable (Masius). He shall trouble thee, that is, He shall exact punishment of thee (Vatablus).
[On this day[4] (thus Jonathan, Arabic, Munster, Pagnine, Masius)] Hence the Talmudists gather that he was punished in this life, not likewise in the next. To us this does appear believable, not on account of these words (this is trifling conjecture [Bonfrerius]), but because of his candid confession (Masius). On that day (Syriac, Tigurinus). I think that בַּיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה, on this day, is the same thing as כַּיּוֹם הַזֶּה, as on this day, or, just as that day, as the Septuagint here expresses it. It is a note of affirmation; that is to say, plainly, absolutely, clearly, as certainly as you see the light of the present day which you enjoy (Masius).
[And all Israel stoned him] Question: But for what reason was he stoned, who was commanded by God to be burned, verse 15? Responses: 1. Either that fire in verse 15 is used of the punishment after this life, or stoning is thus called (Augustine in Masius on verse 15). Burning signifies whatever punishment, because pain burns the soul, as it were; or at least it signifies that punishment which cleanses us from sin, as in Numbers 31:23; 1 Corinthians 3 (Augustine in Serarius). 2. Others maintain that he was afflicted with both punishments (thus Cajetan in Serarius, Masius). He was stoned, because he violated the Sabbath (as it is evident from this, that he committed the sacrilege on the day that Jericho was taken, that is, on the day of the Sabbath): he was punished with fireas a robber of God (Munster out of the Hebrews). While he was being led to punishment, stones were cast at him by the people, furious (Drusius out of Masius, Hebrews in Munster), and eager to appease the Deity (Masius). Or, he was first burned alive, and then buried with stones by the people, since the Israelites detested the criminals just like the ashes (Serarius, Bonfrerius). Certain interpreters thus: they burned them with fire, and cast upon them, that is, upon their ashes, a great number of stones (certain interpreters in Vatablus). This opinion is proven: 1. Because this punishment is expressly prescribed in verse 15. 2. Because that stoning, as one may gather out of the following verse, appears to have been added only at the end, so that they might bury under stones the ashes, or remains, of that infamous man, before they were thoroughly consumed (Bonfrerius). And so they maintain that what will be done afterwards is related now, before the burning. This opinion I neither altogether reject, nor completely approve. For that signification of the verb, to stone, appears unusual (Masius). Or, he was first stoned, then burned (Tostatus and Calvin in Serarius). Thus they render the Hebrew words, and they burned them with fire, and they stoned them with stones[5] (Montanus, Arabic, Bochart's A Sacred Catalogue of Animals), that is, after they stoned them (Jonathan, Vatablus, Junius and Tremellius, Bochart's A Sacred Catalogue of Animals). Among the Hebrews, the copulative ו/and is sometimes ordinative: thus in Job 14:10, man will die and will be debilitated, that is, man will die after he has been debilitated[6] (Bochart's A Sacred Catalogue of Animals 1:249:543). He was first stoned, according to the law against blasphemers and despisers of the Divine commandment, Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:30, 35: afterwards he was consumed with fire (as things devoted to the anathema are wont to be), according to the law in Deuteronomy 13:16 (Junius on verse 15). This opinion does not satisfy. For, 1. it is against the order of the text. For it is said that first they were burned, then stoned. Therefore, the same order is to be understood in the case of Achan, who is not even said here to have been burned, because that is sufficiently understood out of the precept of the Lord previously posited (verse 15) (Serarius). 2. Thus through this adventitious punishment the guilty might be taken away from the principal punishment that God had decreed for him in verse 15, he shall be burned, that is, alive: For it signifies this properly and commonly (Serarius). But it is not absurd, if we should say that the burning commanded by God has regard unto the corpses; otherwise the living bodies were stoned, and at the end the ashes were buried and covered by the accumulation of stones (Masius).
[And they stoned them] That is, his sons; or those things; that is, they buried the remaining things under stones (Bonfrerius).
Stoned him with stones, and burned him with fire; which is easily understood, both out of the following words, and from God's command to do so, verse 15, which doubtless was here executed.
Question. How could both these deaths be inflicted upon them? Answer. It seems they were stoned to death, which was the punishment of such offenders, Numbers 15:35, and not burned to death; and therefore the stoning only of Achan is mentioned here, and not his burning; and God would have their dead carcasses burned to show his utmost detestation of such persons as break forth into sins of such a public scandal and mischief. And for the burning of Achan, commanded Joshua 7:15, it seems not likely to be meant of his burning alive, because that burning is common to him, and all that he hath, as is there expressed; but of the burning of his dead carcass, and other lifeless things, as the manner was with accursed things, Deuteronomy 13:16.
[1] Hebrew: וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙ מֶ֣ה עֲכַרְתָּ֔נוּ יַעְכֳּרְךָ֥ יְהוָ֖ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַיִּרְגְּמ֙וּ אֹת֤וֹ כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶ֔בֶן וַיִּשְׂרְפ֤וּ אֹתָם֙ בָּאֵ֔שׁ וַיִּסְקְל֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם בָּאֲבָנִֽים׃
[2] Ezekiel 16:30: "How weak is (מָ֤ה אֲמֻלָה֙) thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman…"
[3] Ezekiel 19:2: "And say, What is thy mother (מָ֤ה אִמְּךָ֙)? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions."
[4] Hebrew: בַּיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה.
[5] Hebrew: וַיִּשְׂרְפ֤וּ אֹתָם֙ בָּאֵ֔שׁ וַיִּסְקְל֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם בָּאֲבָנִֽים׃.
[6] Job 14:10: "But man dieth, and wasteth away (וְגֶ֣בֶר יָ֭מוּת וַֽיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ): yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?"