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Daisy is a nice female who has shown herself to be a good mom with plenty of milk. She does exhibit a bit of an "attitude" towards the end of her term. She breeds easily and usually takes on the first breeding.Daisy is a Hemingway granddaughter. Her fleece is crimpy, dense and nice. We are so happy with the cria she had from her breeding to our hersdire Bennie that we have repeated the breeding for a spring 2009 cria. And this time we got a pure while male. Daisy picked up some type of a bug and was under the weather for a few weeks. Because of this, we opted not to rebreed her until the fall of 2009. We didn't want to chance taxing her system with a developing cria when she was still nursing and not quite up to per. Because of her bug, her son's fleece suffered. We are still waiting to evaluate his fleece.
What can we say about Bennie? Bennie was born just days after we purchased his mother. He had a very rough beginning and pulled through it all thanks to the hard work of Katy Spears and Jeremy at Fairhope Alplacas where he was born. And of course the fact that he had an undefeatable urge to live. And are we thankful. After all the poking and prodding and bottle feeding and supplementing, Bennie still is a sweetheart. And the main man of Willow Glen Farm! Although he is a little on the small side, his conformation and fleece are great. His first cria is going to be a real "looker". And a female too! Bennie's second cria was born in June of 2009. He looks to be a smaller boy, just like his daddy. If he follows suit, he will stay small until he is over 18 months and then look out! He'll catch up quickly both in size and attitude!
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Boston is the 2nd cria and 1st male from our herdsire Bennie. Boston started on the small side. That's how his daddy started too! As he is got older, he has definitely grown. His mom had some health problems when he was newly born and it obviously effected his first fleece. Boston has turned into an easily handled and easy going boy. He is one of our best fiber boys. The only obstacle to our using him as a sire is that he is related to too many of our females. He could definitely add the right genes to your herd.
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Are credit repair companies legal in all 50 states? You may not have the best reputation as financial services go, but it's a federally protect right. There are two credit repair laws that guarantee consumers the right to correct errors in their credit report. There are also laws in every state that regulate the credit repair industry and service providers.
It's important to note that credit repair is legal in all 50 states. There's a federal law that guarantees consumers the right to dispute information in their credit report to have it corrected. There's also a federal law that outlines how credit repair companies can provide services to consumers. These two laws basically set the foundation for how credit repair works in the U.S.
Federal Law #1: Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is the law that essentially created the credit repair process back in 1970. Small private companies started providing consumer credit histories in summary reports to banks starting in the 1960s. The reports helped banks make lending decisions for local customers. But consumers found that these reports weren't always entirely accurate. Since this affected people's ability to qualify for loans, the federal government stepped in to regulate credit reporting.
Rights guaranteed under the FCRA
The FCRA did more than just create the credit repair process, though. It also provided the following protections for consumers:
- It limits who can view your credit report. So, not just any private citizen can request a copy of another consumer's report. Your report can only be reviewed for:
- Loan and credit applications
- Insurance purposes
- Court cases
- Employment
- Bank closures
- In most cases, you must authorize a company to review your report. So, even when you apply for a loan you must give them permission to pull your report.
- It also limits what can be said in your credit report. This part of the law limits what information gets listed in your report and for how long it gets listed.
- It guarantees the right to accuracy. This basically means that credit reporting agencies (credit bureaus) must take every action possible to ensure the information is accurate.
- This part of the law creates the credit repair process, which states that a consumer has the right to submit a dispute to question the accuracy of a reported item; the bureau has 30 days to verify the item or it must be removed.
- It also guarantees consumers the right to know what their report says. This is the part of the law that gives people a free annual credit report from each bureau.
- Finally, it creates the fraud alert process, which gives consumers a way to prevent fraud if their identity has been compromised.
Rights to credit repair granted by the FCRA
When it comes to credit repair, the Fair Credit Reporting Act outlines the process credit bureaus must follow.
- Credit reporting agencies (CRAs) must accept disputes from consumers free of charge.
- They must respond within 30 days, but if there is any follow up then they have an additional 15 days to respond.
- The bureau must contact the lender or original provider of the information to verify it within 5 business days.
- The agency has a right to terminate a dispute if it's deemed frivolous or irrelevant. If they do, they must inform you of the termination within 5 business days.
- If a disputed item cannot be verified, it must be removed.
- The CRA must then provide you with a free copy of your credit report so you can confirm the item is gone.
- If the item can be verified, the dispute gets rejected.
- If this happens, the consumer has a right to include a 100-word statement in their credit report. This explains your dispute to lenders reviewing your report. However, the negative information would still affect your credit score.
Federal Law #2: Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA)
While the FRCA creates the credit repair process, the Credit Repair Organizations Act regulates the credit repair industry. It's the law that grants you the right to authorize a qualified third party to make disputes on your behalf. Basically, this means that you can hire someone to do the work for you, reducing the time and aggravation of repairing your credit.
Congress passed CROA in 1996 after consumer watchdog organizations like the FTC found high rates of consumer abuse within the credit repair industry. The law recognizes that consumers need to maintain a high score and have a right to seek assistance to correct their credit. It also recognizes the companies often make false or misleading claims or use abusive or predatory practices to create hardship for consumers who are already struggling.
Regulations set by CROA
The main purpose if CROA is to define what companies or organizations have a legal right to provide credit repair services. Then it outlines how those services must be provided.
- The law defines a credit repair company as an entity that sells services related to maintain accuracy in a consumer's credit report.
- This does not include financial institutions, lenders, credit card issuers or nonprofit organizations, such as consumer credit counseling agencies.
- There are five basic business practices that CROA strictly prohibits:
- Credit repair companies can't make false statements about credit scores or how much their service can improve your score
- They can't alter your identity or advise you to do so to hide negative information incurred on your report.
- They can't make untrue or misleading claims about the services they provide.
- Companies also can't engage in any practice that would constitute fraud under other federal laws.
- Finally, they can't charge advance fees and must fully perform all services as you pay for them.
- A credit repair company must also provide a detailed disclosure of what their services do and how much it costs. They must give you this disclosure before you sign a contract!
- They can't penalize you with fees if you decide to cancel
- It prohibits companies from making you sign away your rights to cancel or sue and protects your rights to seek damages if the service is not up to standards.
- It gives you the right to sue a company for up to five years after the service was provided.
State laws that regulate credit repair
In addition to the two federal credit repair laws, almost every state has their own credit repair laws, as well. Most state laws stipulate that a credit repair company must have a state-licensed attorney on staff. In other words, only a credit repair attorney authorized to practice in that state is legally allowed to make disputes on your behalf. This gives you an easy way to make sure that a credit repair company is legitimate. If they don't have state-licensed attorneys for your state on staff, then buyer beware! The service may be a scam.
Some states require the company to be bonded to work for clients in that particular state. Other states establish more specific systems for when fees can be assessed and prohibited acts that credit repair companies can't engage in without breaking the law. Disclaimers and disclosures that are legally required can also be set by the state, as well as standards for advertising and making claims during sales calls.
If you want to know your state's specific consumer protections for credit repair, contact your state Attorney General's office. They can provide information about your state's credit repair laws and help you understand the legalese, so you don't have to read the law yourself to know what rights you have.
What to do if you think you're the victim of a credit repair scam
If a company violates any of the rights outlined above or doesn't follow the laws in your state, you have a right to sue and a right to file a formal complaint against the company. Here's what you should do if you think a company didn't follow the letter of the law and tried to scam you:
- File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
- Then contact your state Attorney General's office to file a complaint with that office as well.
Note that complaints made to the FTC don't mean that they will help you sue the company. You usually must pursue a civil lawsuit on your own. The point of filing complaints is to get the company into the federal database of consumer complaints. If they receive enough complaints, then they go after the company with fines and possible business closure. By contrast, your state AG's office may decide to file a class action lawsuit against a company if they receive enough complaints. But if you believe you're the victim of a scam, don't wait for your AG to act! Instead, talk to an attorney about pursuing a civil lawsuit on your own.
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Vancouver International Writers' Festival. We have a fantastic writers' festival in Vancouver every fall and I try to take my class. This year proved a bit of a challenge as we are on work to rule and are not supposed to have anything to do with money. Unless you have parents who offer to take care of this or an administrator willing to do so, you aren't really able to take your class on field trips. As a result no one has been on a field trip at our school this term.
The staff at the Writers' Festival offered to count the admission money, and we went by public transit so the kids brought their bus fare or bus passes or bus tickets. It was a bit of a scene as 56 children put in their bus fare (do the math) but we made it via two buses down and a bit of a walk and the Canada Line and a bus back. The rain held off and the day became quite beautiful. We had a great session with Kit Pearson, Maggie de Vries, and Alan Cumyn. Seeing and hearing real authors talk about their work is just so important to inspire young readers and writers.
The kids enjoyed lunch and some free time at Granville Island. Kids in Vancouver don't have the freedom we enjoyed as children, and not many of my kids have spent much time on the island so they love it. Most of them had been there on school trips previously so were familiar with the surroundings. Our intermediate divisions went to a play last spring and then we had them do a scavenger hunt checking out the various businesses and activities on the island. Both Clara and I have lovely kids so it was a great day. I actually wished we had had more time as we had a beautiful though a bit of a rushed walk along the water and by parkland over to the Olympic Canada Line Station. It's a beautiful area and would have been perfect for studying ecosystems. Rain had initially been forecast and that would have made it a more challenging day.
This blog was developed when I was the Later Literacy Consultant of the Vancouver School Board in Vancouver,B.C.then a happy grade six/seven teacher! And now I am happily retired but still learning!
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
The best lesson is the one that you don't actually teach...
Last year our teacher librarian, Alanna, and I discovered that we didn't need to know how to do technology to teach kids how to use it. All we had to know was to give them the directions to get to the appropriate site and watch them learn themselves. Our part was giving them critical literacy skills and interesting assignments to make use of their knowledge. I also discovered that when my students were working on elaborate projects they didn't even see it as work but pleasure. Hmmm....
Thursday half my class had gone off to We Day so I was left with half my class. I decided to spend a couple of periods in the computer lab and exposing them to glogster where one can make online posters (and print them if you like). I have never made a glogster and honestly, I don't think I really desire to do so, but I can assure you my students loved doing so in the last couple of years. Usually they kind of learned as they put together projects but Thursday I basically said here's the link to the website and away you go. These students are all new to my class this year and none of them had ever made a glogster. If they asked me anything I honestly had to say, "I really don't know much about this so you may have to ask each other" and they did. It was interesting to observe how different students discovered different features and my student with the least amount of English was the first to discover some form of animation. I did suggest they might make a Hallowe'en poster or a poster of something they were interested in. They did. They found out how to put in pictures and how to link videos.
Later that afternoon I had just my sixth graders and a couple of groups hadn't completed a poster on social responsibility and using their new skills did rather good glogsters. Of course I didn't have my camera to capture the sheer joy on their faces as they learned how to use this new tool. Many of them told me it was their highlight of the week. My expectation now is that they can help those who were at We Day to learn how to make glogsters. Next, will probably be prezis.
Earlier in the week I had one of those aha moments. Long ago Jeff Wilhelm said school should be more like video games, a very interesting analogy. Thinking about this I asked the class how many of them enjoyed playing video games. Needless to say almost all hands went up. I asked how they got to the next level. They told me you had to read the instructions. So I made the point that they should treat school like a video game where they wanted to get to the next level. Hmmm... don't think that is exactly what Wilhelm was getting at, but I think it's an analogy that could work for me... And when you teach each other how to use Glogster students are definitely engaged and have another tool to demonstrate their literacy.
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Remembering Kitty...
I first met Kitty when I moved here and as a substitute teacher got involved with the union. Kitty was on the executive and later the president my first few years teaching in Vancouver. She later went off to Ottawa to be President of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. When she returned she taught many years at Moberly School where I had the privilege to work with her. Nine years ago she retired and that summer we went off to India where to meet our friend, Harjinder. It was an unforgettable trip and Kitty was the best travel companion anyone could wish to have. I have so many vivid images of that adventure!!!
Kitty was one of the most passionate people I have ever met! She was a passionate teacher, hardworking, dedicated to her students, and to making our school the best that it could be. When I first came to Moberly, she had a student in her class who had attended MacCorkindale exactly four days the previous year despite everything anyone could do. With Kitty as his teacher he seldom missed a day. He didn't have a choice. She was fearless. As the oldest in a large family, she was used to leading. Those leadership skills stood her in good stead as a remarkable union leader in very difficult times.
She was a great friend. She was the friend who could tell you exactly what rug you needed in your living room. Yes, there was that remarkable sense of style-how could I forget... My first impression of her was how absolutely stunning she was. And how we loved the parties at her and Steve's beautiful heritage home... She was kind, she was generous, and she was honest but always caring of her friends.
I still can't believe she is gone, her voice seems to ring in my ears. I feel very privileged to have known her, and my sympathy goes out to all her beloved family.
The picture is of a rose that her great friend, Maureen MacDonald said reminded her of how Kitty brightened any room she entered. The poem also comes from Maureen...
Dirge without Music
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, --- but the best is lost.
The answers quick & keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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Getting it right...
Sometimes people ask me how I get the great work out of my students that I do and quite honestly, it often is a bit of a mystery to me. The last few weeks I think I could tell you quite a few ways I haven't done things right! The best part of teaching is you do get the opportunity to try to get it right at least some of the time. So stay tuned...
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Blaise Winter stands just inside the doorway of the Morenci Area High School gymnasium. He's watching students by the dozens file past and take a seat in the bleachers.
They're coming in to listen to him—this guy they've never heard of, this guy dressed in black and smiling through a slightly disfigured face.
Winter throws out some words to a student here and there walking past. He's making some noise, he's getting pumped to face the crowd, he's about to turn on the passion.
And let's be clear about it right from the start: No one accuses Blaise Winter of lacking passion.
Morenci business owner Joe Farquhar begins the introduction and Winter slinks across the floor in his best feminine pose. No one accuses Winter of being subjugated to the rules of proper etiquette, either. He's worked through all of that long ago.
He apologizes to Farquhar for spoiling his introduction, then he tells the audience that although he's worked on a speech impediment for years, not all of his words come out quite right.
And then he lets loose, doing what Blaise Winter does these days: Traveling the country telling audiences—no, exhorting audiences—to stop looking for problems in their lives, to face their fears, to stand up for what's right, to grow in body, mind and spirit.


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NAS goes outside the box
Reviews of five software-based network attached storage (NAS) products that can be deployed in the cloud, on virtual machines or on the hardware of your choice
Earlier this year we tested Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Now we're reviewing software-based NAS that you can load onto your own equipment—whether it's a PC, server, virtual machine, or in the cloud. We looked at FreeNAS, Openfiler, Open-E DSS, NexentaStor, and SoftNAS. All offer some sort of free solution or service, with some being fully open sourced. Here are the individual reviews:
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FreeNAS is one of the most popular free open source NAS software solutions. Primarily developed by iXsystems, it's FreeBSD-based and can run on nearly any hardware platform. FreeNAS claims to be the first and only open source project to offer encryption on ZFS volumes. ZFS Snapshots provide local and remote backup/replication and restoration. Snapshots can be sent to a remote ZFS file system and future backups can be made incrementally including just changes to the file system to reduce backup transfers.
After booting from the CD/DVD, you see DOS-like install screens. Once installed it will boot into a setup menu where you can configure the network settings, restore the FreeNAS defaults, and access the shell. It also displays the address where you can access the web-based interface. The web-based interface has multiple tab support and integrated pop-up dialog windows. We found some usability issues: the main menu wouldn't show in Internet Explorer and the way the tabs work could be improved to reduce tab clutter. And though it doesn't provide a get started menu/checklist, it does have a convenient alert icon to notify you of any issues.
Openfiler provides a free, open source NAS solution, plus commercial editions with more functionality. The open source edition is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. It's based on the Linux 2.6 kernel and the rPath Linux distribution, compatible with industry standard server hardware or virtual platform.The Open Source Edition (OSE) delivers block-level and file-level storage export protocols. The Commercial Edition requires you to sign-up for support subscriptions starting at $1,000 per year. It provides enhancements such as block-level replication, high availability, iSCSI target for virtualization ($1,295), and Fibre Channel target support ($1,280).
Openfiler supports most of the popular network sharing protocols: SMB/CIFS, NFS, HTTP/WebDAV, and FTP. However it lacks support for AFP. Openfiler can create automatic point-in-time snapshots and supports the shadow copy feature of SMB/CIFS. It also provides synchronous and asynchronous volume migration and replication. Openfiler can be installed via a graphical or text mode. Once installed, it will boot to a command-line interface where you can login to the console and it also displays the address of the web-based interface. The web-based interface is not as slick as most of the other solutions we reviewed but doesn't greatly affect usability.
Open-E provides an enterprise-level NAS/SAN solution called Open-E Data Storage Software (DSS). There's a feature-limited free Lite version for use up to 2TB of storage and a full commercial offering. After a 60-day free trial, pricing starts at $895 for up to 4TB storage and with varying levels in between. Pricing goes up to $2,716 for unlimited storage. Open-E supports all of the major NAS protocols; it supports continuous and automated data, volume replication and snapshots, as well as automated updates and rollbacks of OS. Plus it supports many backup agents, such as Backup Exec, Retrospect, and BrightStor.
The Open-E installer and console are both DOS-like interfaces. On your first visit to the web-based interface you must configure the product key; enter one if purchased or register for the free trial or Lite version. Then on your first login you're presented with an initial setup wizard, helping you configure language, password, network, and other general settings. Although the web-based interface is fairly simple (doesn't support multiple tabs or pop-us) we still found it to be user-friendly and attractive. The integrated help is very convenient; there's a question mark icon next to each setting menu that takes you to the documentation on that particular menu.
NexentaStor is an enterprise-class NAS/SAN OS based on the community supported IllumOS that sports the ZFS file system. The community edition supports most features but is limited to 18TB of storage and is not supposed to be used in commercial production. The enterprise edition costs $1,725 for 8TB. NexentaStor reaps some of the same ZFS-based benefits as FreeNAS: snapshots, RAID-Z support, integrated replication, and enhanced data protection. It supports the usual NAS protocols except for AFP. And for SANs, it offers iSCSI and Fibre Channel. It integrates with Active Directory and LDAP, including UID mapping, netgroups, and X.509 certificate-based client authentication.
When booting the CD/DVD image we were presented with a DOS-like installer that displays the basic system and login information. On the first boot you must enter a trial or commercial registration key and set the basic network and web GUI access settings. On your first visit to the web-based interface you're presented with an initial configuration wizard to set the hostname, localization, password, and notification settings. Then you're taken to another wizard to get you started with the NAS configuration. Although the web-based interface isn't the slickest, it's easy to use.
SoftNAS takes a different approach than the other vendors. Its NAS software is designed for running on virtual machines (VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x and Microsoft Hyper-V) or in the cloud via Amazon EC2 instances, and it does not offer a downloadable CD/DVD image. The company offers free solutions designed for home or small offices and commercial solutions for use in larger businesses and enterprise environments. SoftNAS supports sharing via SMB/CIFS, NFS and iSCSI. Although it doesn't by default support other protocols, like AFP, FTP, and WebDAV. They could be added via CentOS.
SoftNAS offers two editions. SoftNAS Essentials is provided free with up to 300GB of storage. It can be deployed on VMs or the Amazon EC2 cloud. Pricing starts at $29.95 per month per TB or $195 per month per TB, or a perpetual license for $295 per TB. SoftNAS Professional starts at $49.95 per month per TB or $695 per month per TB, or a perpetual license for $995 per TB. SoftNAS Cloud is designed specifically to be deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud, supporting up to 20TB of storage, and free when deployed on the Micro-sized instances, excluding any Amazon charges. Software charges from SoftNAS starts at $0.24/hr for Standard Small instances and up to $3.10/hr for High I/O 4XL instances.


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Rev. Pamela Shepherd
Our long, strange story from the gospel of John is a story about a blind man who can suddenly see, and about how angry and suspicious his neighbors and the religious professionals get about it. Lutheran minister, Richard Lischer, said this happened to him in his church.
One Sunday morning, just before worship, one of the leaders in his congregation came to his office to tell him he'd been "born again." You've been what? Lischer asked.
I visited my brother-in-law's church, the Running River of Life Tabernacle, and I don't know what it was, but something happened and I'm born again.
You can't be born again, Lischer said. You're a Lutheran. You are the chairman of the board of trustees.
Lischer could see the man was incredibly happy, but it all made him mad. Eventually he was able to see that his own idea of spiritual renewal was never supposed to threaten what he'd been taught by the church or what he knew about God. (Christian Century, March 3, 1999)
Our reading this morning tells the story of a healing that breaks all the rules, and how the religious professionals get real mad about it.
To put this story from the Gospel of John into some context, most biblical scholars believe the gospel of John was written to a community of Jewish followers of Jesus who were being thrown out of their synagogues and persecuted by Jewish religious leaders for their unacceptable experience that Jesus, the crucified Rabbi from Nazareth, was also part of the fabric of God.
This community must have felt itself to be like a man born blind who suddenly sees. And they were willing to worship and follow and lose everything for the one who gave them that sight. But the very gift of faith they gained brought them exile and persecution, just like the blind man who gained his sight and then lost his community as the leaders drove the man out.
That man doesn't know what happened exactly. Only Jesus came along and did something strange with spit and mud on his eyes and now everything is different. The people and the leaders ask him all sorts of difficult theological questions. I don't know about those things, he says. I just know I was blind but now I can see.
What did he do? How did he open your eyes? The religious professionals are filled with hard questions. The man responds, Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?
That's such a wise guy response, it's not surprising they turn on him. But it reveals something else about this man too. He has already decided to be a disciple. He doesn't know who this Jesus is, but he fully intends to follow him.
That happens to people: I have seen it. It happened to Carlton Pearson, a conservative evangelical, a third generation Pentecostal preacher who'd grown up in an inner city strict Pentecostal home. (The Gospel of Inclusion by Bishop Carlton Pearson)
He attended Oral Roberts University, sang with the World Action Singers, and by the time most young people are starting to figure out what they might like to do in life, Pearson was a Christian conservative Superstar. He was on all the evangelical TV and radio programs, he was appointed to Oral Roberts University Board of Regents, he'd been a key activist for the religious right in George Bush's presidential campaign and had been a guest at the White House.
He had taken a small charismatic church from 45 people into a mega-church with over 8,000 members, and in the process had launched a wildly successful national evangelical revival, and been appointed a Bishop by the International Communion of Charismatic Churches.
But something terrible happened to young Bishop Pearson. In a moment of prayer, God opened his eyes. He was watching the evening news one night while eating dinner with one hand and holding his daughter in the other.
The news was from Rwanda and the suffering there was terrible. He prayed, God why would you let those people suffer like that and then send them to hell because they didn't get saved?
He tells simply of his inner conversation with God which ended with his sudden and certain revelation that God and the world do not work like that. He writes, It had taken God less than five minutes to unravel the truth I had lived by and reshape my understanding of the purpose of my life to come. (p 3)
Pearson distilled his new understanding into the phrase, The entire world is saved; they just don't know it! He began to talk less about being Christian and more about Christ Consciousness. He writes:
Christ Consciousness is each person's understanding of the truth that Christ has already achieved what He set out to achieve: total salvation. Nothing else is needed. Our mission is to awaken people to the extraordinary love and hope of that truth—to become not necessarily Christian, but Christ-like in bringing humankind together as one in spiritual consciousness. Being "Christ-like" doesn't necessarily mean being a Christian; after all, neither Christ nor God is. (p 4)
You can imagine how much trouble he was in, preaching a gospel of inclusion as radical as that. No one is going to hell, he preached. God loves this earth and everything on it. We are all so loved.
He was kicked off the board of regents at Oral Roberts, he was denounced from pulpits and throughout Christian media as a man who was not only going to hell but who seemed intent on taking thousands of other people with him. His church shrank in months from 8,000 to a few hundred stalwart but really confused people. The White House stopped inviting him to George Bush events. He was isolated and exiled, and living with his wife and two kids on the bare edge of poverty, yet he had seen that God is Love and he wasn't backing off of that.
In the story, from the gospel of John, once the healed man is isolated and completely alone, that's when Jesus comes back. The text says Jesus heard that the people had driven the man out, so Jesus went to find him.
In Bishop Pearson's story it happens just like that. He got invited to speak at a conference in Phoenix, AZ that was sponsored and attended by a predominately gay, Christian fellowship of people and churches headed up by the Rev. Yvette Flunder, founder of the urban ministry to outcasts called City of Refuge—a large and thriving UCC church.
Pearson writes that while he'd never been a particularly outspoken opponent of homosexuality, he was associated with those who categorized gay people as sinners, so it was surprising to him that he'd been asked to come to this conference and preach.
At the end of his sermon, preaching his new understanding of this gospel of Inclusion, Bishop Flunder asked him to walk down the center aisle and let people greet him and shake his hand or hug him, while the people in attendance gave him a tearful standing ovation.
He writes: I was deeply touched and moved by the warm reception, but even more confounded as I returned to the front to find Bishop Flunder on her knees in front of a vat of warm water and surrounded by a host of celebrants. Flunder and the other ministers gently washed his feet and proclaimed that he belonged with them.
Pearson writes simply, I wept…God used the most marginalized, discriminated people in modern culture to embrace me at my lowest, loneliest ebb….my life and ministry will never be the same. (p 61)
That's a good story, don't you think? You probably won't be too surprised to hear that Bishop Carlton Pearson has been accepted for Privilege of Call and Ministry in the United Church of Christ.
Here's my message for this week: Can we let the raucous, uncontainable, mysterious Spirit of God completely blow our lives apart? Can we let the Spirit that blows where it will just blow apart all our precious opinions?
Is that scary? Yes.
Is it crazy? Maybe.
But what else is truly worthy of your one precious life?


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The famous London weather is very unpredictable and if you are not from London and planning to visit, here are some tips on what to take with you at all times.
Unfortunately you have to carry it with you all the times, you never know when you might need it.
It sounds contradictory but you have to have them at all times as well, sun can come at out the most unexpected moment.
It can get hot or cold in a matter of seconds so scarf will protect you from that in style.
Flat shoes
Running around in high heels and sight-seeing or shopping might be fun for a while but at some point your feet will need a rest so you should have a small pair of flats in your bag at all times.
Large glamorous bag
To carry all those things above you will need a large tote bag that's big enough to fit it all in and glamorous enough so you don't stand out from the London crowd. Your bag is your fashion statement. I would normally recommend a Michael Kors bag but here is a tip, everyone is wearing a Michael Kors bag (looks like MK has planned world domination) therefore if you want to be different any other bag would be great. I am guilty of indulging into MK bags as well so you see what I mean.
Oyster card
Travel card that will take you on buses and underground, you can't live without it.
Or any other phone with interactive map. You will be lost. Many, many times.


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Today, in order to avail any loan whether it is secured or unsecured, you need a good credit score. Maintaining a good credit history is important for everyone. This helps in getting a good interest rate and possible waivers on many fees and penalties from the lender. This also applies in case of a home loan.
Taking a home loan in India is a long term relationship for the borrower with the lender. If the person has a bad credit score, he/she might either not get a loan or might have to accept the loan at a higher rate of interest. This means there is a possibility of rejection to get a loan or paying higher EMI's. In order to ensure this doesn't happen, allow me to explain using 4 simple steps on how you can come out of this situation and get your home loan approved quickly;
Check your credit score – You need to understand your current credit score. Hence apply for a credit report and know your score. This helps you to understand your current condition and help you in planning to improve your score for future benefits.
Improve your credit score – After you make a plan, be disciplined and follow it. This will ensure that the credit score is improving within the planned tenure. You can opt for a credit card and a personal loan for help. Pay the bills and EMI's on time without any default. Over a period of 6-12 months, this will help you increase your credit score.
Check for different lenders – There are many lenders in the market apart from the Banks like NBFC's that provide you loans with average or bad credit scores. You need to understand that the rate of interest would be higher than other lenders but there is a possibility of getting a loan.
Correct documentation – Once you finalize on a lender and agree with all the terms and conditions mentioned in the loan application, keep all the necessary documents like income, personal details, property documents etc ready to ensure the loan process goes through in a smooth way.
The importance of maintaining a good financial profile is needed for every person. This can help you save money and get a loan approved quickly at a lower rate. Please ensure you read the terms and conditions in the loan agreement. Only after understanding them, sign it.


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Excavator hydraulic oil coolers are often used during the use of fine mortar pumps, jib pumps, on-board pumps, excavators, concrete pumps, pavers, trenchless equipment, trenchers, rotary drilling rigs. , paver and air compressor as a transmission medium.
Hydraulic oil cooler operating principle
Excavator hydraulic oil cooler is mainly used for the hydraulic circuit in the operation, when it is working, the high temperature oil in the hydraulic system flows through the hydraulic oil cooler device, in the heat exchanger and the forced flow of cold air The efficient heat exchange is performed so that the oil temperature can be lowered to the operating temperature to ensure that the host can continue to operate normally and the work can be carried out smoothly.
Excavator hydraulic oil cooler application range and power unit
The normal operating pressure of the hydraulic oil cooler of the excavator is 1.6 MPa. During the operation, the maximum working pressure of 5 MPa is designed according to the needs of its users. The maximum allowable hydraulic oil temperature during operation is approximately 120°C. .
Hydraulic oil coolers for excavators are normally installed on the return line of the system. The large-scale equipment or hydraulic system with severe heat generation is usually installed with a separate cooling system. The cooler is the cooling system. The core components. The main role of the cooler is to maintain the heat balance of the hydraulic system and keep its system temperature within the specified range. Generally this temperature range is 35°C-55°C. When the temperature is higher than 55°C, the cooler will start. Lower the oil temperature.


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Research shows that proficiency in reading by the end of third grade enables students to shift from learning to read to reading to learn, and to master the more complex subject matter they encounter in the fourth-grade curriculum. Most students who fail to reach this critical milestone falter in the later grades and often drop out before earning a high school diploma.
Starting Strong works to increase the percentage of Portland students scoring proficient or above on the beginning of fourth-grade reading assessment tests by focusing on three overarching strategies.
78% of students participating in Starting Strong's Reading Partners program at Ocean Avenue School in Portland met or exceeded spring literacy benchmarks as assessed by the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Reading Assessment.
Specific PreK to 3rd Grade literacy initiatives include:


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Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur appeared on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on Thursday night to talk about his departure from the network.
Uygur told viewers of his online talk show "The Young Turks" that MSNBC management had asked him to tone it down following concern from "people in Washington." The network has since denied trying to control the tone or content of Uygur's show. MSNBC president Phil Griffin said that "people in Washington" referred to MSNBC producers who had said that Uygur's aggressive body language and demeanor were making it harder to book guests.
Speaking to Olbermann, Cenk Uygur expressed his skepticism that producers would complain to the network president, who would then pull him into a meeting "because my booker didn't want me to move my arms that much." When Uygur asked, "Who can believe that?" Olbermann -- who experienced his own stormy exit from MSNBC in January -- smiled and responded, "I'll just pass on your rhetorical question." (It is not the first time that Olbermann has happily let someone talk about their falling out with MSNBC on his Current show.)
Uygur insisted that his decision to leave MSNBC (he turned down an offer for a weekend show) and his remarks about the network were "not personal," but called out the media and the press in general, for "trading honesty and truth and information that we're supposed to gather, for access."
When asked to clarify his remarks that he was asked to have more Republicans on the show, but that he wouldn't treat Republicans with kid gloves, Uygur acknowledged that no one told him to treat Republicans softly, but asserted that the main message from the network was "take it a little easier on Washington in general."
Uygur also recalled "pervasive subtle pressure" on the tone and content of programming, describing, "It's not that they don't let you say things, but when you do, somebody gets a call saying 'Really?'" He said they let him say what he wanted, but at times "it felt like somebody was taking notes."


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Last year I was so pleased with the photo block ornaments I made that I couldn't get other projects out of my mind. And yes, this is what life is like with a small child. You get around to that kind of thing a year later. Anyway…
A block puzzle seemed like a perfect way to apply the same technique, and I'm pleased as punch with the outcome.
You will need wooden blocks from the craft store, mod podge and foam brushes, six pictures and a printer and paper to print them with, and a paper cutter.
First, choose your blocks. These blocks come in 1″ and 1.5″ sizes. The 1″ blocks come in bags of 16 at Hobby Lobby, just right for a 4×4 puzzle, though I recommend you buy an extra bag because sometimes you get a dud block that isn't really an inch square (see the lower right side of the first picture in this post). The 1.5″ blocks would make a great 3×3 puzzle. They come packaged in bags of 8, but since it's wise to have spares on hand anyway, this isn't really a problem.
Now choose six pictures for your puzzle. You will need to crop and re-size them to fit on your puzzle blocks, and you do it this way:
1. Crop the picture to get rid of any extra parts you don't want on your puzzle
2. Resize the picture so the smallest dimension is 4″ (for a 4×4 puzzle of 1″ blocks) or 4.5″ (for a 3×3 puzzle of 1.5″ blocks)
3. Resize the "canvas" so it is square–that cuts off the extra bits of the longer dimension.
Now print your pictures. I used regular printer paper, which didn't provide optimum results. If you have nicer photo paper, it is probably worth using, though you do want to use a thin paper so that the edges decoupage as smoothly as possible.
Now sit down with your pictures and your paper cutter. If you live in scrapbooking-world, you know that plastic paper cutters are now cheap and widely available at craft stores; I have the pink and green one from Provo Craft. If you have an old fashioned wooden block one with a slicer, more power to you.
Cut your first picture into 1″ or 1.5″ squares. ACCURACY IS ESSENTIAL. A square that is slightly too large will have to be trimmed or decoupaged smoothly over the edge of the block you will lose a portion of your picture, while a square cut too small will expose some wooden block in your picture and also make it hard to get the square correctly positioned on the top of your block.
Now begin to decoupage your first picture. With your foam brush spread a thin layer of Mod Podge on a block, lay a picture square on it, and carefully smooth it down, making sure it's perfectly positioned on the block. A thin layer of Mod Podge minimizes wrinkling which is good; unfortunately it also dries quickly and doesn't give you much opportunity to re-position. If you absolutely must, you can peel the picture square off the block and try again, but this will make the edges prone to curl.
Decoupage all 16 or 9 picture squares to all 16 or 9 blocks, then cover the pictures with another layer of Mod Podge, running your fingers along the edges to smooth and seal them.
Let your blocks dry for at least two hours, then come back and do the second picture, and then the third, etc. until all six sides have pictures affixed to them. You're done!
I strongly recommend cutting up only one picture at a time, by the way. It would be too easy for all those little paper squares to get mixed up, otherwise…


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1. Black holes in corporate databases.
Gather as much information as you can about the position and then tailor your resume to match the job. You'll get immediate feedback.
2. One month of search for a new position turns into ten months.
Be decisive. Know what you want in a new position. Network. Keep up your spirits and trust that the right job is out there for you.
3. A ghost from your past gives you a bad back door reference. You're backstabbed and you don't even know it.
Maintain good relationships with all peers, supervisors and managers. Many industries are small and you never know when you're going to see someone again.
4. You walk into an interview and find more than one person in the room.
Know that you are the expert in your position. Learn presentation skills and how to speak in public. Maintain eye contact. Answer the questions succinctly and be confident.
5. The interview is cancelled.
Be flexible in your availability. When your resume is out there, be reachable during the business day. Be sure to include your cell phone and email address on your resume.
Don't let these nightmares ruin your job hunting.
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The classic photo pose for a superslimmer is stepping into your old baggy trousers to show how they could never fit your new slender frame.
But Lorraine Merrett decided to reward herself with a far raunchier reminder of how far she's come since starting the LighterLife weight loss programme and beginning her exercise regime.
She celebrated losing 35kg (5st 7lb) by stripping to her lingerie to show off her rediscovered curves in a set of professional pictures.
'It was nerve-wracking and I cancelled the first session because I was too nervous,' said the 40-year-old mother, who lives in Oxford with husband Andy.
'But eventually I plucked up the courage to do it. I stripped down to my red and black lace underwear and suddenly felt a natural in front of the camera.'


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The end of the Summer is nigh, which means the start of my favourite season…Autumn.
Autumn brings with it a beautiful palette of warmth – reds, oranges, yellows and golds.
To steer away from the traditional, and add a hint of this colourful season, here are a few ideas. Pumpkins/squash could be carved with the bride & groom's initials, hollowed out to make pretty tea light holders, or used as candelabras. Pine cones could become place card holders; hay bales can be used as seating and toffee apple popsicles served as canapés with a twist.
Woodland weddings will provide a beautiful backdrop as the leaves turn to their autumn colours, great for photos.


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Me and Robyn went for a drive today and she let me take a bunch of photos.
I've been wanting to buy a more serious 'portrait' lens for a while, and have been considering an 80mm prime. Truth be told, 24mm is pretty much my 'go to' for almost everything, and shooting more than that starts to make me feel uneasy.
Anyway, before I financially cripple myself, I figured I'd dig out an old manual Pentax lens and try it on my X-E2 to see if it's something I could see myself appreciating. The only problem was I had the wrong kind of lens adaptor, so opted instead to use electrical tape to hold this weighty 50mm 1.4 Pentax in place…
All things considered, I don't think it came out too badly at all. I should get outta my comfort zone more often.


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Ocean View House, Myrtleville, West Cork, Ireland
Absolutely perfect ocean views out to the Atlantic from this sweet, simple, charming and unusual Irish seaside vacation rental home in County Cork. Accommodates 6 in 3 bedrooms with walls of windows and a long deck offering unobstructed gazing out to the water beyond.
|Weekly Rates:
|€ 800 – € 1500 – €1750
|Heat & Electricity:
|Additional, charged at cost by meter reading
|Security Deposit:
|€ 700 held by credit card until after departure
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Amenities Include:
Incredible, unobstructed and poetry-inspiring views of the Atlantic ocean
Open seaside deck running the full length of the house
Private, comfortable, and quiet, a lullaby in the sounds of the sea
Dishwasher, Washer & Dryer, Microwave, Fridge/Freezer
Note: the house is not suitable for young children
House Description:
The ocean view home in Myrtleville is welcoming, relaxed and simply charming. Built at the turn of the century, it's been lovingly cared for and tastefully upgraded over the years, combining a perfect mix of modern convenience with original details and old-fashioned simplicity.
This house is all about the pictures through the large windows, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms in the long cottage built to maximize the stunning Atlantic ocean views.
Sweet, gracious and comfortable, the house is lovely and – not to overstate the matter – the views quite impressive. It books up quickly, especially for the high season, with golfers, sailing enthusiasts, watersport adventurers and touring travelers seeking a peaceful seaside holiday. It is a treat and in a great location for touring the many sites and beauties of County Cork and County Kerry.
Entry & Layout
The entry is a large hallway that looks through to the back of the house, through the kitchen to the deck, the first lovely welcome from the seaside.
An unusual layout, the property is set up in service of the views, long and thin with rooms that open into each other by sets of double doors, many with glass windows to allow the light to fill the whole of the house.
A deck runs the entire length of the house, with an open railing to ensure clear scope of the incredible scenery. The large gaps between the metal railings and the great drop to the rocky cliffs below make it necessary that house remain off limits for young children.
Kitchen & Dining Area
The modern kitchen and dining area overlook the sea, with window seats next to a tile-topped wooden table seating 6 comfortably. An island in the middle of the room ensures you don't have to stand with your back to the water while preparing meals.
Well-supplied with nice serving and cookware, the kitchen offers the usual modern conveniences – stove, oven, fridge/freezer, microwave, dishwasher – and has a sweet swirling blue water decoration and ship-style portal windows. French doors lead out to the deck over the real swirling blue below.
Living & Sitting Rooms
Adjacent to the kitchen through large double glass doors is the sitting room, once again featuring excellent views, and comfortable casual furniture. In this room there is a lovely Victorian fireplace, a sofa, art prints on the wall, and access to the small study and the large sun-filled conservatory.
The conservatory is simply splendid, with its wall of windows, terra cotta floors, coffee table, pine armoire and plenty of seating. French doors lead out to a small sheltered terrace and then on to the deck beyond. Gorgeous sea views abound!
Note: there is not currently a television set up at the house, but you'll probably be so busy watching the ocean that you won't even notice.
The bedrooms of this vacation home are accessed by a long hallway to the left of the entry hall, which also features a small bathroom with a shower and a utility room with washer & dryer.
Bedroom 1: Master bedroom with King size bed, working fireplace and wicker furniture. Windows open out to the sea. (Noticing the theme of this simply perfect house?)
Bedroom 2: Standard double bedroom with wicker furniture, good storage and side views to the ocean and the grassy garden outside
Bedroom 3: Standard double bedroom with a small sink in the corner and good storage. This room draws the small straw, though, as it looks out over the road rather than the water.
Bathrooms (2): The bedrooms share a hallway bathroom with a bathtub and a shower-over-tub. A small shower room sits off the entry hall adjacent to the utility room.
The grounds hardly seem to matter with the expanse of the ocean outside this Irish vacation rental, but there is a lovely side garden next to the house with grassy lawn with more of the wild blue sea beyond. From here there are steps down to a protected sandy cove below the house, with sandy and pebbled beach walks available from there.
Myrtleville is a small and pretty village near the larger villages of Crosshaven and Carrigaline. Popular Kinsale, full of shops and tasty restaurants, is close by, as is Cork city, a featured European Capital City of Culture.
This vacation rental home from home is in terrific position for viewing the annual Cork Week sailing regatta, as well as for touring the seascapes and cities of County Cork and County Kerry, with some of the best scenery in Ireland. There are several 18-hole golf courses within half hours drive of the house. The gorgeous beaches of Cork are outside your door, with boating, fishing and watersports to enjoy.
Cork City: 12 miles, 20 minutes
Kinsale: 14 miles, about 30 minutes
Killarney: 65 miles, about 1.5 hours
Shannon airport: 94 miles, just over 2 hours
Dublin: 166 miles, just about 2 and 3/4 hours
Myrtleville Ocean View House Rental Details:
|This sweet holiday home rents Saturday to Saturday in the high season, with shorter breaks or off-dates often available in the shoulder and low seasons (please enquire for rate quotes).
Weekly Rates
Low Season, October 31 to April 1, not including holidays: €800 – €1500
High Season, Rest of Year, Christmas & NY: €1500 – €1750
Heat & Electricity
Extra, charged at cost by meter reading.
Security Deposit
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Check-in time is after 4pm.
Check-out time is before 10:00am.
Security Deposit:
The property requires a refundable security/damage deposit of €700 held by credit card on arrival and refunded, less cost of heat and electricity or any damages, if applicable, after departure.
We regret that the house is unsuitable for pets and young children. The open railings and long drop to the rocky sea below make it necessary to limit the ages of children at the house – infants and teenagers are warmly welcomed, but toddlers and young children must be restricted from the property.
Accessibility Notice:
This unique and soulful house rental is suitable for travelers with limited mobility as it is all one level, without stairs or steps in and out. There are a few stairs to the grassy lawn area at the side of the house.
Between the views, the archaeological sites, and the heritage centers, there is no shortage of things to do and see in this part of the country.
The city of Cork was the European Capital of Culture in 2005. It is a vibrant, charming and historic city with excellent restaurants and great shopping.
There are several fantastic self-drive and walking tours in the area.
Blarney Riding Center, Kinsale Equestrian Center, Ballinadee Stables in Bandon.
This part of Cork is rich with archaeological sites, including castles, stone circles and standing stones.
Kilcrea Abbey & Castle ruins – Built in the 15th century by Cormac MacCarthy, king of Munster (also built Blarney castle, of "kissing the blarney stone" fame). They are quite well preserved and have an interesting history.
Kinsale, Cork City, Kenmare & Killarney are all wonderful for shoppers, full of unique specialty shops, clothiers, antique stores and charming local wares.
A golfer's paradise, there are TEN 18-hole courses in the immediate area:
Lee Valley Golf & Country Club, Muskery Golf Club, Macroom Golf Club, Fota Island, Golf Club, Cork Golf Club, Bandon Golf Club, Cobh Golf Club, Monkstown Golf Club, Kinsale Golf Club, The Old Head of Kinsale Golf Links
Fishing – Inniscarra reservoir (25 miles of fishable shoreline), Inniscarra salmon fishery, River Bandon & Sea fishing.
Beaches – Rosscarberry & Coolmain. Two favorites, plus all the miles and miles of coastline stretching just beyond the house.
Whale watching – Whale watch from the house-length deck, or chart a local whale watching boat, with year round expeditions available, limited between March & May.
Sailing – Perfect viewing spot for the annual Cork Week sailing regatta, this ocean view home in Myrtleville is very popular accommodation for the event.
Scuba diving, waterskiing, windsurfing, kayaking – Cork Powerboat and Waterski Club. Kinsale Outdoor Education Center. Sea Fishing, as low as 60 Euros for the day, including equipment rental.
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In an effort to promote interest in independent community pharmacy ownership, the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and the NCPA Foundation established the NCPA Pruitt-Schutte Annual Student Business Plan Competition in 2004. The goal of the competition is to motivate pharmacy students to create the blueprint necessary for buying an existing independent community pharmacy or developing a new pharmacy. Named in honor of the late Neil Pruitt, Sr., and the late H. Joseph Schutte, two pillars of the independent pharmacy community, the Student Business Plan Competition is the first national contest of its kind in the pharmacy profession.
"This competition helps pharmacy students understand the importance of having a solid business plan," said NCPA Executive Vice President and CEO Bruce Roberts, RPh. "By giving them the chance to develop and test their planning models and receive valuable feedback from pharmacy professionals, we are able to better prepare tomorrow's pharmacy entrepreneurs for the future. In the short time since we began the competition, several competition participants have gone on to successfully implement these plans after graduating from pharmacy school."
In 2007, the NCPA Foundation launched a campaign to grow the Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition Endowment Fund to $1 million dollars by 2012. This goal will support the annual operating expenses of the Competition in perpetuity and sustain its long-term viability. Thanks to the generosity of AmeriSourceBergen's Good Neighbor Pharmacy network this goal was met and announced at the NCPA Annual Convention 2009. The competition is also supported by the Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company.
Neil Pruitt, Sr., who was killed in a tragic car accident in 2003, served as president of NCPA, then NARD, in 1981-1982 and was a Trustee on the NCPA Foundation. Pruitt grew his company, United Health Services, from a single independent pharmacy in northeast Georgia into a multifaceted health care organization with operations in several southeastern states.
H. Joseph Schutte served as president of NCPA in 1985-1986 and as a Trustee on the NCPA Foundation Board from 1999 until his death in 2009. His career started with owning his own community pharmacy and eventually he owned six pharmacies in Kentucky that provided services for thousands of patients in long-term care facilities. In 1995, he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Entrepreneur of the Year Institute. He was the CEO and founder of Geri-Med, Rx-Med, and IV-Med.
The Pruitt and Schutte families initiated the endowment fund for the Student Business Plan Competition in 2004.


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Tournafulla co-operating for a brighter future
ON a sunny, early-summer's day, Tournafulla is quintessential Limerick; gloriously serene and lushly green with the white of the Mayflower dancing along the hedges.
Strung along the valley of the Allaghaun and surrounded by hills, it is, its residents are proud to say, the longest village in Ireland, almost a mile and a half from the bridge at one end to the school at the other.
In between, there were once ten shops, four pubs, a post office, a garda station, a creamery and a filling station.
Now, the garda station is up for sale, and just two pubs and a co-op farm shop remain. To buy a paper or a pint of milk, is a round trip of 12 miles. There is no CIE bus service, mobile phone coverage is patchy and broadband is insufficient and expensive. Without the Rural Bus service, Tournafulla's older citizens would have no way to collect their pensions or do their messages.
Four years ago, a newspaper account told of the great clear-out of young men from the parish and the GAA club. Almost in one sweep, they lost the makings of a team.
But if, in too many ways, Tourafulla could be seen as a microcosm of rural decline suffered over many years, it is also a potent beacon of resilience.
"You have to play the hand you're dealt," declares Liam Lenihan stoutly. It's not about looking back, insists the secretary of Tournafulla Developoment Association, it's about fighting for a present - and for a future.
At the heart of this fight, are the community centre and, across the road, the GAA club. And looping it all together is music.
Halla Tadhg Gaelach officially opened in 2001, after a gargantuan effort by locals who raised £200,000 towards the cost of the building. Called after the poet Tadhg Gaelach O'Súilleabháin, who is one of the parish's most famous figures, the campaign to build it ushered in a new wave of community activity which has continued since.
Each week, the hall hosts music classes, indoor bowls, meetings and cards while on a monthly basis, there is a ceili and the As You Like It club.
And when Tournfulla wants to celebrate, this is where they meet. Very importantly, the dances and the indoor bowls bring in people from outside.
But some local efforts, such as the Tournafulla Fleadh, which ran for 22 years, came to a natural end.
The GAA club however continues to forge ahead. Over the past 10 years, the pitch and the training ground have been transformed. And this year, the club has embarked on another big project: to build a new clubhouse with new bathrooms, changing rooms for male and female, a referee's room and a meeting room.
Now, Helen Brouder and a group of like-minded women are spearheading another new direction: Tournafulla Sustainable Living.
The idea grew out of another initiative, the As You Like It club which began life as a way for a group of women interested in doing crafts to gather together on a regular basis.
"We got the As You Like It up and going and we then decided to try and look at sustainable living within our own community. It was a case of let's see who can do what," explains Helen.
The wealth of possibilities they uncovered both delighted and surprised them. "There is a massive amount of talent in the Mullaghareirks," Anne-Marie McCartan, a keen supporter of the initiative points out.
That talent ranges from bread makers and basket-makers to spinners and quilters and includes knitters, wood-turners and jewellery makers.
Some of that work and creativity was brought together at the Tournafulla Christmas Market, initially established by the West Limerick Indoor Bowls Club and now continued by Sustainable Living. "
Over 800 came through the door, "Helen Brouder explains. "There is a Dickensian theme, we all dress up and last year we had over 30 stalls."
In 2012, Sustainable Living became even more ambitious and ran its first summer Food and Craft Fair. It was intended to showcase the wide variety of goods available in the locality but also to bring the community together for a parish day with sports and entertainment.
"We want people to be able to work within their own community, to be able to make a living making their breads or chutneys, or weaving or whatever,"says Helen.
Crucially, the fair is a "route to market. If we can include all that into some kind of coherent structure, we would be pretty much sustainable here," adds Helen.
Another feature has been the "declutter sales" they have organised, where people brought goods to sell and some items were auctioned. "People got value and people who sold got money." says Helen.
Now, Helen and others are convinced there is an opening for a co-op shop in the village. They have investigated how it works in another small village in Co Tipperary.
"The energy is there," Helen Brouder says,
Concern about, and a determination to wrest a future for their community is at the heart of all their undertakings.
"I do think about the future for my children, and what we can develop for them," Anne-Marie McCartan puts it simply.
But declares Helen Brouder: "We are ignored." And she is frustrated by the red tape and cost involved in even the simplest of activities. "We can't even afford to run a St Patrick's Day parade because we can't afford insurance," she says.
It is a point echoed by Liam Lenihan who cites the fact it can cost up to €2000 and a lot of paperwork to transfer a licence to the community centre for the annual parish social can cost up to €2000.
These kind of obstacles cost time and effort also - and can sap energy and the will to do.
But, stresses Anne-Marie McCartan: "We take the co-operative approach."
People, and organisations, help one another out. They have to. But even more so, they want to. The future can only work if everyone plays their part. And a determination to maintain community life in Tournafulla runs in their blood.


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We are soon launching our sister company, The Hungry Hare. She'll be taking care of all of our events and catering projects.
We are able to provide full and comprehensive events, catering and bar management for weddings and other events held at venues locally. We are also available for full wedding catering packages.
We are able to provide a bespoke drinks and bar package for your event. We are in the privileged position of being truly independent and have great contacts in the drinks industry. As such, together we can organise and supply you with everything you need to make sure your event is a happy one! We supply all draught products, wine, spirits, cocktails, bottles and mixers for your event & we take care of all the legal licensing requirements too.
The bar setup and staffing operation is usually provided free of charge, depending upon the venue. Please see the hungry hare website for further information.
Happy Planning.
Our sister company seeks to bring something new and exciting to the event catering industry.
Catering packages remain true to the roots & values of the pub. Working with the seasons, ingredients are locally sourced from the regions finest artisans. Bespoke in house butchery truly is farm to plate and conducted with the finest local meat, game is sourced from around the village and down dale. Breads are from an award winning baker. Dairy is from the doorstep, the closest organic dairy and cheese from Swaledale. Proud to use the finest local produce and skill of the artisan. Provenance is key! You will be immersed in the spectacular setting you have chosen for your event with the regions finest ingredients skilfully crafted and lovingly executed...with Yorkshire at the helm.
All of our catering packages are bespoke and constructed in collaboration with you personally. We do not offer 'off the peg' packages when your day is as important as this.. We have been working hard to bring some new and exciting dishes to event catering and bring some modern food culture into the mix too. Each event is different, as such is each menu. Please contact us to arrange a consultation and we can discuss some illustration menus, all of which can be adapted to suit your personal requirements.
Staying locally?
We work with some fantastic local Yorkshire destinations like Gorgeous Cottages, Natural Retreats and The Green Howard's Museum. We are able supply a range of eventing catering options from drinks receptions and canapés to a private dining service with your own private chef. As each occasion is uniquely special, we operate on a bespoke basis and construct the menus with you throughout the consultation process.
If you are hiring a local wedding venue or holiday cottage and wish to have a private chef for the evening then please get in touch and we can discuss what options are available.


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In your BRIDGE interface, edit the point of sale concerned, then click on Opening times in the list on the right:
- Enter the opening times
- Tick "Closed" on the days when it is closed
- If, for example, the point of sale closes between midday and 2 pm, enter the morning opening hours and click on "New time slot" to enter the afternoon opening hours.
- If you only need one time slot, click on "Delete time slot", then enter the times of your choice.
- If you no longer wish to display your opening times, tick "Do not display opening times for this point of sale"
- At the foot of the page you can also set your exceptional opening and closing times, which will only be displayed 30 days before the start of the period in question. For more information on exceptional opening and closing times, click here.
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The Dynastic Politics Of Sri LankaThe Dynastic Politics Of Sri Lanka
The Sunday Leader's Faraz Shauketaly examines 39 families behind Sri Lanka's politics
Sri Lankan culture is such that strong family values and traditions are almost the hallmark of a jolly good Sri Lankan upbringing. From which school you go to, to the 'best' job to the 'good' girl as a wife for you and vice-versa too, all these decisions are made within the family. So much so that promising careers are at times abandoned and sacrificed all for the sake of traditions in particular families.
Politics too has had its faire share of family values in Sri Lanka. In recent times, however what has clearly manifested itself to the forefront, is the acceptance of dynastic politics by the people of the country. In the past, dynastic politicians have been acceptable to the people where those political families were of a certain station in life. If the family was a "high caste" one the chances were that if they chose the political walk, grace, favour and acceptance almost always followed them.
In recent years however, we see a definite trend in Sri Lanka for a ready acceptance of dynastic politicians from all walks of life. It is almost as though, like in Japan where to have a job at a factory was seen as a job for life, politics in Sri Lanka had virtually become a birthright of dynastic politicians. And in this context Sri Lanka's political dynastic families no longer hail from the "elite" but social and other trends have swung the pendulum encompassing family dynaties from those outside Colombo's political elite.
Sri Lanka with approximately 39 families and more than 140 officials having held direct "high office" is one of the world's most fertile grounds for the sustenance of political dynasties. If one were to include the lesser minions connected to the families – the assorted cousins, nephews, nieces, daughters-in-law, wifes doubling up as secretaries – the figure would grow by volumes leaving this newspaper with little choice but to put out a special edition which would make interesting tittle tattle but hardly any financial return or put it another way, may even give the Saudi Royal family with more than 3,000 members, a close run for their money!
However, dynastic politics is not the sole preserve of South Asian and other nations relatively new to the "democratic governance" scheme. The United States has had its own share of the Father-son syndrome – with the most famous one being the Bush Family. John Adams was the second US president and his son John Quincy Adams the sixth president. The Kennedy's more than being a dynastic political family, were the nearest thing that the Americans had to royalty and revelled in those expectations. However, even the Kennedys could not match – proportionately speaking of course – the mass appeal that the Bhuttos, Gandhis and Bandaranaikes of Asia delivered upon their people.
These leaders carved for themselves an image of rock in their people's minds that they were best for the people. They managed in the process to ensure that their popularity also rubbed off on the generations that followed them into politics. The world raised more than an eyelid when the 19-year old Bhutto son Bilawad was named as the successor to Benazir; in Sri Lanka even though there were moves by the incumbent president to bring in Vimukthi Kumaratunga, we have seen the Bandaranaike influence wane and the Rajapaksa third generation emerge strongly: there can be little doubt that both Shasheendra Rajapaksa and young Namal Rajapaksa, will make a serious medium to long term impact on the political landscape of this country. For reasons best known to the Rajapaksa family, Chamal Rajapaksa appears to have been sidelined but most analysts firmly believe that on the contrary Chamal Rajapaksa as Speaker is the custodian of the family political legacy: with a Speaker from within, the forward thinking President has sewn up loose ends. Over the years Sri Lanka has built up on a formidable dynastic political lineage – almost giving life to the saying that in this country, we have dynastic politicians by the dynasties for the dynasties. A perverted kind of democracy which may not be too far off the truth. 39 families have made it to our list – but we may well have, quite inadvertently, left some others out.
However, judging from the voting patterns over the years, it is now quite manifestly clear, that the Sri Lankan voter prefers to vote the family way: it is almost as though the voter in Sri Lanka displays an abdiding interest in going down memory lane. Chief Minister of Uva, Shasheendra Rajapaksa put it in perspective: "the voter can go by the achievements of those before us – but the voter now is more suave, they expect you to deliver." In the case of the Rajapaksas, this may well be true – with a long and historical involvement in the politics of the South. What is worrying though, is that the Sri Lankan voter is increasingly going for the family man, irrespective of considering the past performance.
Recently President Rajapaksa commiserated with Mano Wijeratne on his loss at the General Election saying that "Mano was from too good a family for politics". Considering that the Wijeratne family started in politics way back in 1947 the President was probably reflecting accurately on the state of play in this country today.
It certainly does not augur well, when responsible persons even when in the opposition, engage in unsafe, unsound and patently unfair treatment – like the exclusion of UNP stalwart Rukman Senanayaka from the most recent National List. Loyalty apparently does not count, but in this case, neither did dynastic connections.


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Finalist - Discovering Gold
UBCO is redefining how people work outdoors, with the 2x2 dual electric drive utility bike. The 2x2 is easy to ride, easy to transport, whisper quiet and is safer out in the wild. It also has no direct emissions and is cheaper to run and maintain than standard motorbikes and ATVs.
"2015 was an absolutely massive year for UBCO," UBCO Daryl Neal Director says. "We took the 2x2 from concept through development to production, with a timeline many thought wasn't achievable, however we now have happy customers out and about on their bikes."
Now that the local market is established and international dealers are keen, UBCO's next step is to develop the second-generation model, launch a street-legal version and land the bike in the USA.
Learn more: www.ubcobikes.com


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All the giveaways from Papercraft Inspirations 160
Fancy winning a host of crafty treats? You bet! See below to find out how to enter all of the giveaways from Papercraft Inspirations 160. You have until 12 January 2017 to enter.
WIN Hunkydory prizes! (pictured above)
Colourful patterns and beautiful butterflies abound in this month's super prize from Hunkydory! We have the chance for five lucky readers to win a selection from the new Flutterbye Rainbow range, including a Luxury Card Collection, Luxury Card Inserts and Speciality Paper Pad, transforming your stash and helping you make showstopping cards!
Click here to enter the giveaway
Win HobbyCraft show tickets
Head to the SECC in Glasgow between 2-5th March 2017 to soak up the exciting atmosphere at the spring Hobbycrafts show. We have 12 pairs of tickets to give away, so you and a friend could be going for free! The show is the best place to find new crafty products, snap up a bargain or two, watch papercraft demonstrations, try workshops and lots, lots more.
Click here to enter the giveaway
WIN Sheena Douglass stamps & dies!
Recreate steampunk style on your cards and papercraft with this fabulous collection of stamps and coordinating dies, hand-drawn by artist Sheena Douglass. Two very lucky winners will win a bumper bundle of prizes from the new Perfect Partners range, including a range of A6 stamp sets and coordinating dies, so you can make fab cards and scrapbook layouts.
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WIN Hot Off The Press goodies!
Add a bit of holiday magic to your projects this year using stunningly detailed silicone stamps from Hot Off The Press! We have four fabulous prizes up for grabs. Each winner will receive the Christmas Labels & Trims and Christmas Tags & Trims stamp sets, plus two die sets featuring Snowflakes and Stockings. Visit www.paperwishes.com for more inspiration.
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WIN Super-stylish stash from Trimcraft
Give your papercrafting stash a huge New Year's boost by winning one of four fabulous prize bundles from Trimcraft, featuring dies, papers and more!
After the flurry of Christmas crafting, it's rather satisfying to pack it all away for next year and turn your attention to the rest of your stash! This fantastic giveaway will give your crafting a bumper boost with a stunning selection of designer paper packs, die sets, découpage supplies, card making essentials and a complete set of their gorgeous new floral range, Couture Du Jour. There are four bundles available to win, each worth £250! Read on for entry details. To see more of what Trimcraft has to offer in 2017, plus project ideas and inspiration, visit www.trimcraft.co.uk.
Prize details
- First Edition paper packs – Storyteller (6in), Paradise Crush (12in, 6in), Black Out (12in, 6in)
- Five First Edition die sets – Alphabet, Clocks, Background, Tea Party and Garden
- First Edition 12in Premium Paper pad
- First Edition Deco Maché materials – five découpage paper packs, gloss and matt finishes and two-piece brush set
- Dovecraft Couture Du Jour – paper pack (8in), découpage pad, clear stamps, dies, embossing folder and embellishments
- Dovecraft Paper Trimmer, card and envelope packs and double-sided tape.


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Wood Working Schools
Woodcarving Classes
Enjoy learning the skills of woodcarving & sculpture from Grant Vaughan, a wood artist with over 30 years experience. The classes are held in Grant's studio which sits on 85 acres of tranquil bushland in the foothills of the Border Ranges in Northern NSW.
Grant's personal tuition in small classes and well prepared projects will ensure you enjoy a memorable and unique creative experience. All skill levels catered for. Minimum age 16 years.
Australian Wood Review: Wood work courses and Schools
The Australian Wood Review has an extensive list of Wood work courses and schools. Click on the link below for more information.
Sturt School for Wood
Despite a rapidly growing interest in fine woodworking, very limited opportunities exist in Australia to learn the craft and design skills necessary for its practice. To meet this need the Sturt School for Wood was established in 1985 to operate independently of the state tertiary system. The school runs a full-time (Certificate IV) course, two twelve-week courses and evening-classes on a three-hour per week basis. The school is under the direction of Stuart Faulkner and offers fee-paying students the opportunity to gain a sound foundation in both the making and design of fine woodwork.
School of Art Furniture Workshop
Australian National University
The Furniture Workshop provides comprehensive skills-oriented courses of study aimed primarily at students wishing to work as designers, craftspersons. Students are provide with a program which comprises real and hypothetical design briefs, and are encouraged to investigate all aspects of professional practice by making contact with established professionals, workshop and studio visits, and by workshop projects focussing on issues such as exhibiting and marketing work.
Australian School for Fine Furniture
The Australian School of Fine Furniture is part of the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Tasmania in Launceston. The School offers a two-year Associate Degree in Furniture Design and a three-year Bachelor of Environmental Design (Furniture Design). Both courses are available full time on campus, within a well-equipped furniture workshop that contains a range of high quality machinery and tools.


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September 5, 2012 Comments Off on BUSINESS FORMATIONS AND WHY BUSINESS OWNERS SHOULD CONSULT A LAWYER
Forming a corporation, a limited liability company, or a partnership can be exhilarating, frightening, and frustrating—all at the same time. But experienced businesspeople know that this anxiety can be reduced by consulting a lawyer early in the process because it can help avoid or minimize the problems related to running the business and working with partners.
You're probably thinking, "Why should I talk to a lawyer—they're expensive, I'm trying to start a business, and I need to control costs. Besides, the lawyer is just going to fill out a form and file it with the State of Arizona."
First, consulting a lawyer is probably not as expensive as you think. Although big law firms will charge big law firm prices (some well over $1,000), many sole practitioners and small firms provide services to start-up businesses at very reasonable prices. And the relatively small up-front expense can avoid or minimize much more expensive problems as a later time. Pay a little now, or risk paying a lot later.
Second, a lawyer should be consulted early in the start-up process because the lawyer will do more than fill in a form. Lawyers are trained to understand how corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs), and partnerships structure the relationships between those involved in the business. A lawyer can help determine which type of business entity is appropriate based on the nature of the business venture. They also understand how corporations, LLCs, and partnerships differ in terms of the tax consequences and the potential for liability to third parties.
Third, consultation with a lawyer is valuable because the lawyer can draft articles and bylaws, an operating agreement, or a partnership agreement that fits the needs of clients. This is particularly important when two or more individuals want to work together as co-owners of a business. These documents structure the business relationship between the individuals and determine their rights and obligations if a business dispute develops between them or the business is found liable to a third party.
Finally, experienced businesspeople consult lawyers when starting a business because it establishes a relationship with a business lawyer. A lawyer will take the time to discuss the proposed business with the entrepreneurs involved and the best way to structure the relationship between them. Using a document preparer or simply completing a form supplied by the state does not address these issues. In addition, the entrepreneurs may need assistance determining whether the business is subject to regulation by the state or federal government. And it's always possible that, at a later time, the owners of the business may need assistance with understanding and negotiating a contract or resolving a dispute with a third party.
When starting a business, think about consulting a lawyer. Doing so can avoid or minimize certain problems that can arise in running a business and working with partners—which will save money in the long run. If you'd like to learn more about starting a business, please contact the Law Office of James D. Griffith, P.L.L.C. using one of the contact options available on the firm's website.


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Hello my dear crafty friends! This is my layout made as a part of my inspirational post made for Scrapmatts company.
I don't scrap myself too much, so whenever i have good photos and lovely projects I scrap a bit about our travels.
And as we travel a lot I don't even remember what country it was, also I am pretty sure is was somewhere in Southern or Eastern Europe and it was last year.
So I made this layout with DCWV travel collection and as always the Scrapmatts chippies are my real stars.
I added two circled chipboards around the title on the top and the subtitle on the bottom. Both were painted in dark red to add some additional color to this mute layout.
The subtitle is the Scrapmatts word TRAVEL painted in black and layered over Scrapmatts filmstrip (painted in black too).
All around the page I added green ink circles using Scrapmatts Circles stencil. It looks like a kind of leaves and complete the circles that are present over the page.
A chipboard chain is added under the photo to frame it and to separate from the patterned background.
An here are some close ups to this page:
And here is a list of Scrapmatts products used on this page: