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You may have seen my previous posting of photos from SOFA Chicago. Well, I have oodles more to share with you. Posting these reminds me that ohmygosh, I saw so much incredible art work and heard some great lectures and met really amazing people! Thanks, Lark, for sending me to this fantastic expo?.....
You may have seen my previous posting of photos from SOFA Chicago. Well, I have oodles more to share with you. Posting these reminds me that ohmygosh, I saw so much incredible art work and heard some great lectures and met really amazing people! Thanks, Lark, for sending me to this fantastic expo?.....
Speaker: Adelaide Paul
Topic: Artist as Scientist, Scientist as Artist?
Admission $5
PAA Members and Students (w/ID) FREE
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On Thursday, April 14th, PAA will host Philadelphia sculptor Adelaide Paul for a lecture entitled "Artist as Scientist, Scientist as Artist?" Ms. Paul's challenging body of work, mainly focused on the anatomy of animals, has garnered her national attention, including multiple fellowships and awards. Her presentation will highlight selections from her portfolio and examine how the boundaries between art and science are becoming increasingly blurry through the use of new materials and by reappropriating traditional craft techniques.
The Commonwealth Series of Lectures at the Philadelphia Art Alliance provides a thoughtful perspective on the current and future states of art, craft, and design. Who more appropriate to speak on these topics than David McFadden, the head curator of the Museum of Art and Design (formerly the American Craft Museum,
controversially renamed in 2002). His lecture, entitled 'The Blur Zone', discussed the exciting but also perplexing state of contemporary craft where the traditional disciplines of sculpture, painting, design and craft media have merged to create a new, unified field. Read More
Image: Geoffrey Mann, Attracted to Light (Long Exposure series), Mfr. Rp Nylon, 35 x 40 x 42 cm, edition of 5 plus AP. Photo: Sylvain Deleu
THE COMMONWEALTH: Judith Schaechter Topic: Blurred Horizons: Fine Art vs. Craft by Judith Schaechterat 8:21 PM
The Philadelphia Art Alliance is pleased to present the next installment in our new flagship lecture series, The Commonwealth. On Thursday, March 10th, PAA will host Philadelphia artist and educator Judith Schaechter for a lecture entitled "Blurred Horizons: Fine Art vs. Craft". Ms. Schaechter, a distinguished artist who has received multiple fellowships from prestigious foundations such as The National Endowment for the Arts, PEW Trust and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, will speak about the inspiration for her modern stained glass work and examine the trajectory of craftspeople who have sought to position themselves as fine artists over the last half-century.
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Admission $5
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Students FREE w/ID
The Philadelphia Art Alliance
251 South 18th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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According to Doug Bucci, the organizer: In January of 2010, the Philadelphia Art Alliance (PAA) took a major step to re-brand itself as a pre-eminent presenter of Contemporary Craft and Design. Their new mission stated: 'The Philadelphia Art Alliance is dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of innovative contemporary craft—works in ceramic, glass, fiber, metal and wood—and to inspiring dynamic interaction between audiences and artists in a setting of historic and aesthetic significance."
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Interview: Nick Ellins, chief executive, Energy and Utility Skills
"I'm not convinced it's a loss of interest in engineering I just think it's how we talk with people these days. It's a different dialogue," says Nick Ellins on the skills shortage. "If you sit and talk about pipes, sludge or the real methodology of engineering you do lose people.
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"But if you explain to somebody about the otters and the ospreys, the reed beds, anaerobic digestion, and what it does for the environment you end up with a bunch of people around you who are absolutely enthralled by what this sector does. They absolutely love it."
He says engineering in itself is still highly attractive and highly valued but attracting people to it is an issue. "People, particularly the younger generations, are more interested in end outcomes, values and ethics. Salaries are important but they're not the be all and end all these days. It's quite surprising how many young people will go to a company for an OK salary but a company that they genuinely believe does good."
This month, Ellins celebrates his first anniversary as chief executive of Energy & Utility Skills. And his passion and enthusiasm to help tackle the skills shortage in the utilities sector was plain to see when WET News met him recently for a coffee at the Costa just across the road from Energy & Utility Skills' offices in Shirley, near Solihull.
He explained how a strategy is being put in place to attract talent to the utilities sector; why having a skills passport is essential; and why the regulators need to "embrace their sectors".
There is a 36% gap in technical vacancies that need competence. "We're now the highest sector of any in the UK economy," says Ellins. "When you look at it in terms of numbers we're only 2,100 vacancies and construction is 11,900 but by percentage we've got some issues because there's a trend, and it's getting worse."
But he is convinced the skills shortage can be tackled, saying: "It's perfectly solvable. It's not a cliff edge at all – we just need some concerted action. Part of that is going to tried and trusted engineering groups, and part of it is asking ourselves whether we want people working here today [at Costa] to start getting involved in the sector.
"The people here at Costa would be brilliant at retail. They must deal with some very difficult customers, difficult situations, multitasking so what's the difference? They might not be great for going into an anaerobic digestion plant but given time they could be good managers, strong communicators."
'Breadth of skills'
Energy & Utility Skills has been working on a Talent Source Network, an attraction and recruitment ecosystem, as a way to attract and encourage people to work in the utility sector. Talent Source Network is designed to deliver tailored solutions around sector attraction, recruitment and talent retention across youth entrants, apprentices, graduates, professionals and service leavers.
Ellins says there are certain skills that need to be technical and engineering led, and that takes one strategy, but talent attraction is something quite different. "The breadth of skills needed are very wide, they're growing all the time, the complexity of the jobs you're going to take on, the digital nature of the jobs you're going to take on… You're going to need very different people.
"We said to the Department for Work & Pensions, the next time there's a BHS or a Tata Steel or an Austin Reed on the high street, send them to us and we'll put them in a talent pool. We'll go to the utility companies and say to them 'we want you to commit jobs into this talent pool' and try and attract those people back out."
There are currently more than 2,500 people, including 981 ex-military personnel, in the talent pool waiting to be "collected by the utilities". They are not going to be experts in process, says Ellins, but they are going to be people who have an interest in joining the utilities sector.
Ellins says: "We've got one of the power companies to commit a lot of jobs to it – 500 jobs – provided government matches it. It's a trial, so let's see what happens."
A number of water companies have expressed an interest in the scheme as well.
"We can't guarantee a person will get a particular role but if government puts a thousand people in the pool, we'll try to whip up a thousand jobs and say 'come and meet us, come and talk to us'."
He continues: "If you look at that skills gap in pure engineering terms, everyone's got a problem. In terms of talent attraction, it's a different way of cutting this and you can get someone who is completely competent in manual tasks but they just don't know they can be an engineer in our sector.
"We've got to try another way. It's getting them into the industry first and seeing where their career can take them. It's bring them in, don't assume they're slow learners, and look at where you develop their careers. That's down to the company."
What Energy & Utility Skills has to do, he says, is avoid duplicating and "getting under the feet of the utilities".
Sweeping statement
Another initiative being trialled over the next six months is the Competency Accord, which aims to reduce the amount of duplicated training and assessments through a common approach to competency recognition across all the utilities.
Ellins explains: "A pipe is a pipe until you take the product within it and the environment it sits in. It's a bit of a sweeping statement but around 85% of the job role is common to them all, and then you need the understanding of gas, water, electricity. What we're looking at are skills passports that mean a person working in Cornwall on gas, can down tools when the contract comes to an end, and then move up to Scotland on water.
"You end up just dealing with that last 15% so you are going to need to know hygiene standards, health and safety.
"You're recognised as trained up to a certain level, and that will enable a better flow of people, so immediately you enlarge the talent pool to the entire utility sector including all of
its contractors."
Procurement process
Suddenly the whole pressure starts to comes off, he says. "If you make the talent flow in a more sensible and efficient way, you start to release some of these blocks. You can take away some of the limitations. The assets are going to need to be worked on by someone but an electrician doing cables for UK Power Networks can more or less go into Northumbrian Water and do power.
"What they won't know is what the site requires them to do, and that's all we've got to release – the knowledge of the sector."
In just a few days' time, Energy & Utility Skills will launch its Procurement Skills Accord at the House of Lords. This initiative will make skills a part of the quality requirements in utility contracts.
The asset owner specifies, as part of the quality part of the procurement process, that it wants an investment in skills. As a result, the supply chain will know that no-one can undercut on that and not put skills in because it will be a quality requirement.
Ellins says the Procurement Skills Accord, which is being trialled through to March, has 28 organisations involved. "They're all going to try and see what happens when you build skills into procurement.
"It's slightly entrepreneurial but if you add all these things together it won't break it [the problem], but it will start to make a proper impact and release some of these bottlenecks.
"That's all part of what we're doing right now, and you can't see the gaps between power and water and wastewater. They're all the same. Until you get into the specific skills, people are just working on common attitudes to utilities.
"If we can keep doing that and we can keep these people in the pool, incentivised to stick with us, and seeing it as an attractive sector, there's a fighting chance of getting through this. It doesn't solve cyclical price reviews but it does try to come up with one other solution that you can do to retain talent."
All the initiatives mentioned above bolt into Energy & Utility Skills' new strategy, which Ellins expects to be delivered by Christmas.
So how did the strategy come about? Ellins recalls that soon after joining Energy & Utility Skills he went to an All Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeships which talked about employers "in a way that I found very uncomfortable – we've neglected training, not spending enough, we haven't invested in future generations".
Looking at all the utility companies that he knew, he felt that was not the case.
"But when I'm in Treasury rather than the Skills department in the government, Treasury talks to us as the biggest enabler of productivity in the economy because infrastructure is how this country is going to move itself forward.
"I saw a National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) that had 57% of the £425bn being attributed to my members. We're the people who drive the productivity in the economy and plans for society. Treasury saw this as an asset to UK PLC. The skills department was describing us as a burden."
The dialogue shifted to the Treasury, which is where infrastructure sits.
Ellins also decided to see how the utilities approach workforce planning. "But I went the other way around – if I can't find skills in the National Infrastructure Plan for Skills what happens if I look at Ofwat?
"I go through Ofwat 2020, 25-year statements, resilience duty and there's nothing anywhere on workforce renewal. The only thing I find is a reference in the resilience duty that it's the responsibility of the company. So the market will provide? Yes, it will, at a cost.
"I tried Ofgem, it's the same. Defra, it's the same. I go into what was DECC, and the same. None of the government departments that sponsor the utility sector and none of the regulators promote workforce renewal and long-term sustainable workforce. Yet nothing they want can be delivered without it."
The strategy has been formed by getting chief executives from the utilities to come to together for two hours, twice a year and give strategic direction on workforce renewal.
"It's a pure partnership of chief executives from 32 utilities and contractors and we're going to do everything we can to build a workforce renewal strategy in collaboration with Ofwat, Ofgem, Drinking Water Inspectorate, the Northern Ireland regulators and start to solve some of these problems together," says Ellins.
"Those initiatives you've heard of, that's what they've chosen. Those are their priorities. The theory was, don't come up with ten priorities and not deliver – let's just take a few and nail them."
It is worth noting that the Treasury has agreed to champion the project. Ellins says the risks of not tackling workforce renewal are huge. "This is why, for me, when we talk about workforce renewal for the sector I genuinely mean the policy makers, regulators, regulated and the supply chain because Ofwat's got the same problems recruiting as Defra has, as the Environment Agency has, Northumbrian Water has. Everyone has got the same issues."
And Ellins emphasises that the regulators and policy makers need to embrace their sectors. "I want to see passion from Marcus Rink (DWI), and passion from Cathryn [Ross]. Passion from our new water minister. It's their sector. Everyone's delivering an end result from companies and it will work, it will also cascade."
Ellins concludes: "People will come to us and see what we do for the environment, and see that you can genuinely join a water company and bring kingfishers back to a river… You start thinking 'this is some sector this'. But it's got to come from passion."
This article appears in the October 2016 issue of WET News
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It has been a banner year for London's commercial courts, reflecting the positivity felt at London International Disputes Week, with evidence suggesting that, internationally, at least, businesses remain positive – but for how long?
London International Disputes Week (LIDW) is but a memory – a good one – but as the organisers and their respective law firms plan for the next event, there is room for optimism that London's role as a platform for international dispute resolution is based on firm foundations.
A report released earlier this year, suggested the volume of business in London's Business and Property Courts, which encompass the Chancery Division, the Commercial Court and other commercially focused elements were booming.


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Break away from plain old text and make your Gmail messages come alive by decorating them with inline images. Unlike regular attachments, inline images sit inside the body of your Gmail messages, so that when your business contacts receive your messages, they see what you wrote along with the photos you inserted, all without opening any attachments. If needed, you can also reduce your photos' size with just one click.
Log in to your Gmail account and click the gear-shaped icon in the page's upper right corner.
Click "Settings," then click "Labs" to view a list of experimental labs. Scroll through the list and find the "Inserting Images" lab.
Click the "Enable" radio button next to that lab to select it, then click "Save Changes" to return to your main Gmail page.
Create a new email message as you normally do, then click the "Insert Image" icon on the toolbar to open the "Add an Image" window (see Tips).
Click "Browse" to open a file browser window, browse to and double-click the image you'd like to insert, then click "OK" to insert it into your message's body.
Click the image to open a toolbar with "Small," "Medium," "Large" and "Original Size" links below the image. Click one of the links -- "Small," for instance -- to resize your image.
Send your image after you've finished composing it.
- The "Add an Image" window also contains a URL radio button you can click to insert an image from the Web: click that radio button, type the image's URL in the "Image URL" text box, then click "OK" to insert it into your message.
- The Gmail toolbar sits below the "Subject" text box. The toolbar's buttons don't have visible names, but you can see their names when you hover over a button. The "Insert Images" button sits between the "Insert Emoticon" button and the "Link" button.
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In other news.
The weather tonight was perfect. walking down the dark, sand road ( a sand road is like a dirt road but not nearly so formal and technologically advanced as a dirt road) when a vehicle slowed more than it should have, I turned and noted that it was a red pickup, driven with attitude and, what? Trepidation? Why did it slow so, I was off the street, do I look that shaky? (I'm trying to hide that but I have those spindle legs like the old man. They work but they may not appear to have the balance they.) Or shady or sketchy? Or does the truth lie somewhere else? (Interesting visual, Truth in a bar talking up Gullible, who looks just like a Barbie doll and has the "smarts" to show it. It's a package deal. And Truth is lying his ass off trying to get Gullible in the sack! "What? Of course I'll call you! Are you kidding me? Sure." )
OK It's gone past and turns down the way I'm headed. Think nothing of it.
I take the right and stroll down the round rocks and gullies and deltas of washed sand road. One turn, a sharp one, Probably not a 90, but it might as well be. You sure a shit can't see around it.
Singing: "Sitting on a park bench boom bad bump eying little girls with sad intention…. Snot running down his nose Baam ba d…" what the hell? Why is there a car on the side of the…? Is that that pickup? Hummph walk by, be cool. Don't look close.. what the hell is that? Llooks slumped into the wheel. But it doesn't look like dead.
Step a few more steps. Stop, look at the rear of the pickup… look at the dirt road. look at the angle. Headlights are off. She's waiting for somebody to come around that corner. She's waiting for someone in particular. I'm further away from the truck as it occurs to me that I ought to go … This person is pissed at whoever they think is going to be in that vehicle that comes around the corner and sees the red pickup, and knows "I'm busted!" So maybe I should go back and just say "There's not going to be any violence here tonight, is there?"
Now, I told you that so I can tell you this: I've been working on a strategy for the protagonists to exist in the book. This kinda comes from the conversation with the preacher man. He had asked me if I knew "where" I was going after I died. I said I did and I didn't really get into my mythology. I don't believe in Heaven or Hell or having to be contained to two absolutes (I mean, here is an Eternal, Infinite, Triple O being and He says "Two options seems like enough!" God can't even decide if He's the Father, or the Son or the Holy Spirit for crying out loud! But "Two'll do it" for His favorite creatures in the entire universe! "Oh don't get up! I wouldn't want You to strain Yourself! (Talk about making a rock He can't lift. Sheesh!)
So am I going to Heaven or Hell? I couldn't condense my theory into coherency. So I've been working on it. I have a thread that goes… When you live you create pivot points in your history, and then you just go on living. This happens 18 times in your lifetime. How do I know that 18 is the number? Well it came to me, and in my mythology I'm kinda like Don Juan, sometimes the universe sends me messages. Don was talking to every snapping twig, and maybe, maybe not. My messages usually come after I've had an event that makes me absolutely know that something else is going on. (This time it was the conversation I had with myself about what if someone came up and claimed that I had hit their car with a rock from under my lawnmower, that I had smashed their window. Three minutes later, there she was! It went down almost exactly as the conversation I had had with myself just minutes earlier. And I knew it as it was happening. It was fun. So when I say you make 18 pivot points in your lifetime, that comes from a good source. I just have no idea who it is or why it's important to anybody. So far nobody has come back to tell me that my number is wrong. (I wonder if I have been anyone's pivot point. That would be an interesting thing to watch for. -Cool, important idea. It echoes the idea that stories that don't seem to be related are, in fact, so)
18 pivot points, and when you die, you are back at a pivot point, and instead of his dad telling you that your best friend got promoted to Sergeant, he's telling you that he got killed in some somewhere as if it makes any difference. And your life goes on from there. You have forgotten your earlier life, it doesn't exist in this iteration of your life. One day, you'll die. and your conscious (although not your ego) hits a different pivot point.
In this pivot point you really did go up to the pickup and peer in to inquire, "We're not going to have any violence here tonight. Right?" Oh But we ARE! (OK Steven King, Take it the hell easy!)
Pivot points.
What makes you choose a pivot point? You'll recall, dear reader, that there are the several ages, and each age has its own mastery of the math required to shape a present by influencing people in the past (wherein, "past" means right now, today) So, you were used to influence an event in this time frame and then you are use to alter other events for different outcomes.
So "Time" doesn't mean to them (who are "us' by the way, they are the subconscious "voices' we assume are related to our ancestry. Some of the voices are past, but some are future lives as well.) so getting you to create 18 pivot points because they know what they want you to do there. Since it's the future, they don't care if you live to 130! From their perspective , you have already died 18 times and filled all of those pivots. And while you were doing that, you made 17 more pivots. (This is why there are 18 holes on a golf course. The more they try to tell you otherwise the more that goes to show, they're hiding something from us.) No matter what it is they assign you, you've already long since played your part.
Just a couple ideas to remember.
Oh wait, walk … It was a great night for a walk. the temperature was such that walking down the sand road was like an experience in a sensory deprivation tank. It wasn't warm, it wasn't cold. With just enough wind to keep the mosquitoes from flying. It must be the way they keep the air conditioning in Heaven.


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RPMH announces July Employee of the Month
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Todd Smith, Radiology Technician, is the July Employee of the Month at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital. Smith has been with RPMH since May 23, 2016.
A patient nominated the Radiology Technician, saying that Smith "is just an all-around wonderful person! When I was an in-patient and had to have some radiology procedures completed, he was very nice and made sure to ask how I was doing and made sure I felt comfortable."
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My fiance's sister reacted poorly to the news that we are pregnant- suggesting that it was poor timing to my fiancé and suggesting an abortion (it was a surprise pregnancy). We are 34 and 28 and live in a different country from her. As time has gone on, I understand that she was concerned for us but I cannot make myself comfortable with her. The rest of his family have been supportive but I honestly don't know what to do. My fiance feels that she has voiced her opinion – and is fine that we have made a different choice. I hate it when he talks to her on Skype – and try and hide away in my own home. I don't know what to say to her- I honestly feel that she hasn't right to such an opinion. I need to sort this out because it is getting awkward. My fiance keeps asking why I haven't responded o h Christmas text message- which I should totally do- but am procrastinating…..
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England, arise! The long long night is over,
Faint in the east behold the dawn appear;
Out of your evil dream of toil and sorrow
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
From your fields and hills
Hark! the answer swells:
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
Long, long have been the anguish and the labour,
Dark, dark the clouds of unbelief unrolled,
Dreadful the night when no man trusted neighbour,
Shameful the nightmare-greed of gain and gold;
Yet from fields and hills
Hark! the song now swells:
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
By your young children's eyes so red with weeping,
By their white faces aged with want and fear,
By the dark cities where your babes are creeping
Naked of joy and all that makes life dear;
From your wretched slums
A voice of pity comes:
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
By all your workshops where men sweat and sicken,
Foredone to death, in toil and hope deferred,
Where cheeks are flushed and pulses start and quicken,
Not with glad life but by dark hatred stirred;
From each bench and forge
A sound comes like a surge:
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
By your high homes of wealth and wasteful living,
By your rich tables piled, without good cheer,
By the ennui, ill-health, and sickly striving --
Not great to be, but only to appear;
O'er the weary throng
Strangely floats the song:
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
By your rich orchards, lands of corn and pasture,
Where all day long the voice of joy should ring,
Now mute and desert, by land-grabbers wasted,
Robbed of the love the peasant longs to bring;
From the stricken land
Hark! the words ascend:
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
People of England, all your valleys call you,
High in the rising sun the lark sings clear;
Will you dream on, let shameful slumber thrall you?
Will you disown your native land so dear?
Shall it die unheard --
That sweet pleading word?
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
Over your face a web of lies is woven,
Law that are falsehoods pin you to the ground;
Labour is mocked, its just reward is stolen,
On its bent back sits Idleness encrowned;
How long, while you sleep,
Your harvest shall it reap?
Arise, O England, for the day is here.
Out of your ruin rich men thrive and fatten,
Your merchants rub their hands when food is dear,
Capital says your claims are not forgotten
If wages keep you just starvation-clear;
People of England, when
Will ye rise like men?
Rise and be freemen, for the day is here!
Hear, England, hear! Deliverance is within you;
Though like a man whom death is very near,
Though sick the head, the whole heart faint within you,
Dare to be true! -- and even from the bier
Where your body lies
A new life shall arise,
England shall rise again to life sincere.
Yet thus I warn you: long shall be the struggle,
Not one but many men in it shall die;
This cancerous disease and devil's juggle
Shall not pass in the twinkling of an eye;
To undo their wrong
The people shall strive long:
O that they fail not! for the day is here.
Forth then, ye heroes, patriots and lovers!
Comrades of danger, poverty and scorn!
Mighty in faith of Freedom, your great Mother,
Giants refreshed in joy's new-rising morn!
Come and swell the song
Silent now so long --
England is risen and the Day is here!
Thus one Edward Carpenter, writing at a time when the condition of the English poor was improving as fast as at any time in its history. Carpenter, another public-school socialist, was the archetype sandalista (he introduced them to the UK) and pointy-head, criticised by Hyndman (home tutor, Cambridge, MCC and Sussex) for attempting to turn the Social Democratic Federation into "depository of old cranks, humanitarians, vegetarians, anti-vivisectionists, and anti-vaccinationists" and by George Orwell (Eton) who attacked "every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal wearer [and] sex maniac" in the socialist movement. Sometimes (often ?) debate in the workers movement seemed awfully short on input from actual workers. Carpenter was one of those 'back to the land' drippy hopouts who could only live the dream with Daddy's dosh :
"When his father Charles Carpenter died in 1882, he left his son a considerable fortune. This enabled Carpenter to quit his lectureship to start a simpler life of market gardening."Well, long indeed has been the anguish and the Labour - nearly 12 years now. But I don't see quite as many white faces among the young children these days - certainly not in the dark cities. Obviously Sure Start has removed want and fear from the young. More excellent news is that the sweated workshops - indeed pretty much any workshops - appear to be a thing of the past. We are all free to wear sandals, start our own little market gardens, and sleep with whom we wish. Enough. The seminal work 'The Breaking of the English Working Class' remains to be written - and Mr Carpenter's spiritual descendants will have played their parts in that breaking.
Remember today - and remember the great English genius - perhaps the greatest - whose birthday it is.
"Naught shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true"
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia affecting the elderly and is characterized by global cognitive decline. AD is strongly influenced by both genetic factors and lifestyle. While certain rare gene mutations, e.g. in the APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 genes guarantee onset of AD before 60 years old, most cases of AD (>97%) involve genetic susceptibility factors, e.g. APOE, and lifestyle, e.g. diet, exercise, sleep, intellectual and social engagement, stress levels, and brain trauma. Most recently we have found that low-grade infections, e.g. bacterial, fungal, viral, in the brain may also play a role by rapidly nucleating beta-amyloid deposition as an antimicrobial protection response of the brain's innate immune system. Genetic susceptibility factors have been elucidated over the past decade using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and more recently by follow up with whole genome sequencing (WGS) and whole exome sequencing (WES). We are now carrying out GWAS using approximately 50 million single nucleotide variants (SNV) from WGS and WES (whole genome sequencing association studies; WGSAS). As AD-linked/associated functional SNVs are identified in these studies, they are being tested in our 3D human stem cell-derived neural culture models of AD, in which we have shown beta-amyloid directly drives tangle formation. Many of the more recently identified AD genes are involved in innate immunity, e.g. CD33, which we first reported in our family-based GWAS in 2008 (along with ADAM10 and ATXN1). To study CD33 and other innate immune-related AD genes, we have incorporated microglia into our 3D neural cultures while also utilizing classic transgenic mouse models.
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GCSE Northern Ireland Coursework Question 1 What are the main differences between the beliefs of the Republicans/Nationalists and the Loyalists/Unionists (5 marks) The main differences between the Republicans and the Loyalists is that the Nationalists see themselves as Irish rather than British; and fight for Ireland to have a separate government to that of Britain, with their government based in Dublin. Independence from Britain is their main goal, having one united nation called Ireland. The majority the Republicans are Catholic, only some of whom have extreme views. The main political parties promoting this view are the Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) and Sinn Fein, the latter has close links with the IRA which often uses violence to achieve their ends. In contrast, the SDLP is strongly opposed to the use of militant tactics and is the main voice of parliamentary nationalism in Northern Ireland. The Unionists are generally Protestants who believe in maintaining the union between Britain and Northern Ireland, therefore sharing government. ...read more.
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Arrow fans have been taught to expect the unexpected on a weekly basis, but Season 3's main antagonist just changed the game in an unexpected way in the episode's promised cliffhanger. After Thea hands off Malcolm to the League of Assassins to pay for his crimes (specifically the Undertaking and being responsible for Sara Lance's death), Oliver and Diggle attempt to rescue Malcolm from Nanda Parbat. To no one's surprise, the prison break didn't go as planned. Brought before Ra's al Ghul in the final minutes of the episode, Oliver asks to be killed, and for Diggle's life to be spared, but Ra's calmly tells Oliver that he doesn't plan on killing him. Instead he gives him a proposal: to become the next Ra's al Ghul.
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The McCarty's Neck Ease can give an old seat new life by adding an ergonomic neck support. Those who need extra support every day at work such as taxi drivers, bus drivers, pilots, and truck drivers have used Sacro Ease products for years. The Neck Ease can reduce muscle tension and stress related to sitting in unsupportive chairs and seats! Neck support is one of the most neglected areas in chair manufacturing. Made with Poly and Comfort Memory Foam for behind neck support. Great for while driving, flying, sitting, or laying down. Strapping System allows you to adjust up or down for maximum support. Works well with all Sacro Ease Back Supports. Fabric is washable and soft to touch. Available in S-M and M-L.
The McCarty's Sacro Ease Ergo Wedge is a new product designed to give superior back support. A 3″ to 1″ wedge made with poly foam and comfort foam. This helps bring your hips and knees to a neutral position reducing the impact to the spinal discs. There is a removable insert in the tailbone area should you need it. The fabric is removable and washable. Complete with internal comfort memory foam, this support will provide maximum comfort while supporting your spine. Wedge shaped to level out your seat bringing your hips and knees to a neutral position, reducing the impact to the spinal discs. Made with Poly foam and comfort memory foam for maximum comfort. Removable insert in the tailbone area. Fabric is washable and soft to the touch. Has proven to be excellent for autos, airplanes, bus seats, chairs and sofas. Durable non skid bottom. Size is 15 x 16 x 3. Has a carrying handle for easy transferring.
The McCarty's Sacro Ease Keri Back is a product designed to give superior back support. A steel frame and rubber supports help this back cushion provide far more support than foam only products. The Keri Back can be used at work in office chairs, at home on the couch, or in the car. The strapping system is easily adjustable to secure in place after it is positioned. Straps can be either horizontal or vertical, simply choose which version you would like. The vertical straps are perfect for those with seats that are too deep or concave for the traditional horizontal straps. Complete with comfort memory foam, this back will provide maximum comfort while supporting your spine. Available in 15″ (KBT) or 12″ (KBN) wide models. 1″ of comfort memory foam in back. Has proven to be excellent for autos, airplanes, bus seats, chairs and sofas. Steel frame and rubber supports. Available with horizontal or vertical straps. Made with an adjustable (bendable) steel frame, rubber supports, and soft fabric. Great when you need posture correction but do not have the room to have the seat under you.
McCarty's Sacro Ease with the introduction of the comfort memory foam, in addition to their traditional steel frame and rubber construction, models BRCCF, BRSCMCF and BRNCCF have risen to the top as the best models McCarty's offers. Available in: 19″ – (BRCCF), 15″ – (BRSCMCF) and 12″ – (BRNCCF). 1″ Comfort Memory foam in seat and back. Individuals may benefit from Memory foam if they have pressure points, or pressure from sitting. Fits most auto and truck bucket and bench-style seats. Made with an adjustable (bendable) steel frame, rubber strap supports, and soft fabric. Foldable and easy to transport. "Rebuilds" those seats that are simply too soft or unsupportive. Durable non-skid bottom.
Simply one of the most effective ways to "rebuild" an unsupportive seat or chair, these basic McCarty's Sacro-Ease models are rated among the best. Used daily by truck and taxi drivers, on buses, airplanes, boats, or just driving anywhere.
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The Lubbock Arts Festival is an annual arts festival held in April at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center in Lubbock, Texas. The festival is the largest fine arts and crafts show in West Texas. Since its establishment in 1978, the Lubbock Arts Festival, a project of the Lubbock Arts Alliance, focuses on visual, performing and children's art.
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Goodbye BishopE rere te manu
Bishop Philip's sermon for the service of farewell to +Helen-Ann, Bishop of Waikato,
16 December 2017
St Peter's Cathedral Hamilton
Ki a whakaroriatia ki te Atua I runga rawa, ki a mau te runga kit e whenua, ki a pai te whakaaro ki nga tangata katoa
Glory be to God on high and Peace to all people on earth.
Bishop Helen-Ann, – I am sure we have both had the experience of being referred to as baby bishops and we certainly both had the experience of having to forge our episcopal identity alongside an experienced colleague – with all the benefits and challenges of that reality. We have both sat in meetings and had our colleague referred to as 'bishop' or 'archbishop' while we ourselves have been referred to simply by our first name. Although I confess while you have often had only half of your first name used (a name recalling both you grandmothers, a name which, as for us all defines us) only occasionally have I been referred to with a shortening to "Phil" which I do not like.
We both also know the pull of extended family. For us Taranaki brought us that much closer and we were able to support my parents in the last years of their lives.
The obligations of love are never easy. They always pull in several direction at once. But ultimately it is about obedience, obedience to the one who calls us. And the call is always into and for community, the new community God is bringing into being. A new community of peace and justice and righteousness.
The image of community that emerges from John 15:1-17 is one of interrelationship, mutuality and indwelling. To get the full sense of this inter-relationship, it is helpful to visualise what the branches of a vine actually look like. And it is chaotic!
In a vine, branches are almost completely indistinguishable from one another; it is impossible to determine where one branch stops and another branch starts. All run together as they grow out of the central vine. What this vine image suggests about community, is that there are no free-standing individuals in community, but branches who encircle one another completely. The fruitfulness of each individual branch ultimately depends on its relationship to the vine, nothing else. What matters for John is that each individual is rooted in Jesus and hence gives up individual status to become one of many encircling branches.
The communal life envisaged in the vine metaphor challenges contemporary Western models of individual autonomy and privatism. At the heart of the Johanine model is social inter-relationship and corporate accountability. The metaphor exhorts the community to steadfastness in its relationship to Jesus, a steadfastness that is measured by the community's fruits – vv 4-5. To bear fruit – that is, to act in love, is a decidedly corporate act. To live as the branches of the vine is to belong to an organic unity shaped by the love of Jesus. The individual branch is subsumed into the communal work of bearing fruit, of living in love and revealing itself to be one of Jesus' disciples. To live according to this model then, the Church is a community in which members are known for the acts of love that they do in common with all other members. It is not a community built around individual accomplishments, choices, or rights, but around the corporate accountability to the abiding presence of Jesus and corporate enactment of the love of God and Jesus.
The triune community life of God is our inspiration and our calling. The Father is creative love revealed in the Son; the Son is redemptive love incarnate and bearing witness to the Father: the Spirit is the life-giving love, which moves between them.
Love is the basic mode of knowing, the love of God is the highest and fullest sort of knowing that there is. (Bernard Lonergan). When we love we affirm the differentness of the beloved. We are passionately and compassionately involved with the life and being of that which we are loving.
We are like a family called to rediscover and re-establish our original communion with each other not just because this is our beginning, but also because this is the very life of God, in whom we live and move and have our being. It is not so much that I have something to give to you – like a product called salvation – but rather it is that all I have is myself and that I give to you whole heartedly – because that is what God has done.
Father of all,
we give you thanks and praise,
that when we were still far off
you met us in your Son and brought us home.
Dying and living,
he declared your love,
gave us grace
and opened the gate of glory.
May we who share Christ's body
live his risen life,
we who drink his cup
bring life to others,
we whom the spirit lights
give light to the world.
These beautiful words from our Prayer Book Eucharistic liturgies speak of the grace and love of God. They proclaim the heart of it; that we are utterly, unconditionally and unreservedly loved and that we are called to live and love in this same unconditional and unreserved way; that all might come to knowledge of their need of God and be reconciled to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
What we need is the strength to change our lives that comes from being truly loved. And what we need is the courage that comes from having faith and hope that there is something more to this life than just the endless return of "the way things are." In Jesus, God acts to give us those gifts. In Jesus, God pours out a love that is able to change even the most stubborn sinner! In Jesus, God injects life into this world that can create in even the most confirmed skeptic the faith and the hope that there truly is something to live for. Faith, hope and love—St. Paul says that they abide when everything else fails.
In Christ, God has fulfilled the obligation of love, and has inaugurated the coming of the Kingdom, that new community of Peace and Justice and Love, which is nothing less than the redemption of the whole of creation. God calls us individually and collectively to participate in that great adventure, the great call, that great obligation of love. That is a call to mission!
There is a grace of ordination. It is often spoken about, but this has never been more abundantly clear to me than since my ordination to the episcopate.
Without God I am nothing. It is through the grace of our faithful and loving God that I find myself upheld time and time again. Each day I become more profoundly aware of my need of God. I find myself often waking in the middle of the night struggling with some issue, usually some concern or even conflict within one of the communities for whom I have responsibility. When this happens I find coming into my mind either those lovely words "Be still and know that I am God" or that short prayer often referred to as the Jesus Prayer "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner". As I allow these words to work their way into my consciousness I have found that I can let the issue go and give it to God. God meets us in the Son and brings us home…
Self awareness is a critical dimension of Christian spirituality and is part and parcel of knowing my need of God, my utter dependence upon God and God's unreserved grace. It has been my discovery that a Bishop must be one who is prepared to go down deep, becoming aware of one's own weakness and fragility; risking the pain of that journey. The journey into the depths of the human spirit is a journey of intense vulnerability and risk. This is something of the essence of the journey to Jerusalem and on to Calvary; perhaps most poignantly expressed in Gethsemane. A Bishop is one prepared and able to partner and encourage others on the way because he or she is already a fellow pilgrim on this journey. A Bishop who minds the vulnerable frontiers of Spirit must do so with great tenderness and compassion, qualities which are most readily found in the person who has been prepared and continues to be prepared to face their own vulnerabilities.
A shepherd's staff can be used in many ways. It can reach out and retrieve or rescue; it can prod or encourage along; it can be used in defence and it can we used by the shepherd in the middle of the fold to reach out and reassure those on the edge with a gentle touch to the back – thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Helen-Ann you have been such a shepherd for this Diocese. You have been the priest who gathers the Diocesan family around the table of the Lord to be fed for the journey and challenged anew to respond to the call God places on the lives of each one of us.
+Helen-Ann, my sister, be faithful to the call on your life and all joy will be yours in Christ Jesus.
Myles, dear friend you have given more than you will ever know to us all. You have lived through separation and yet been unstinting in your love and support.
Go with our love and our gratitude. God bless your future and your being together. We are grateful for all we have shared and delight that we will always be part of each other. We have formed and shaped one another.
My Brothers and sisters we are the Body of Christ,
By one spirit we were baptised into one body.
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Two-vehicle crash results in minor and life-threatening injuries
On Monday, August 21, 2017, a two-vehicle crash took place on U.S. Highway 212, mile marker 312, five miles East of Redfield, at 1:50p.m.
A semi-tractor trailer with a pup trailer was stopped in the eastbound lane of U.S. Highway 212 at its intersection with 391st Avenue. The semi driver had activated his left turn signal and was waiting for traffic to pass so he could turn onto 391st Avenue. A 2001 F-350 also was eastbound on U.S. 212 and crashed into the back of the first vehicle.
The first vehicle, a 2015 MAC 600 semi truck, was driven by Bradley Englund, 38, of Frankfort. Englund was wearing a seatbelt and sustained no injuries.
The second vehicle was driven by Christopher Harford, 36, of Redfield. He was not wearing a seatbelt and sustained life-threatening injuries. Harford was airlifted to the Aberdeen hospital. Harford had two passengers, a three-year old male, who sustained minor injuries, and a one-year-old female, who also sustained minor injuries. The children were not wearing seatbelts.
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Helton makes debut, Smith scratched with illness
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Greg Smith, a candidate for the fifth starter's spot, has been scratched from today's game with flu-like symptoms. Greg Reynolds will start. Reynolds has a 9.00 ERA in five innings this spring. He's likely to start in Triple-A.
Garrett Atkins, out with a slight right hip flexor, returns to the lineup. A look at each:
Padres (2-5-2)
RF Drew Macias
SS Chris Burke
CF Jody Gerut
LF Chase Headley
1B Kyle Blanks
C Nick Hundley
3B Travis Denker
2B Matt Antonelli
RHP Chris Young
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CF Scott Podsednik
CF Ryan Spilborghs
1B Todd Helton
3B Garrett Atkins
RF Carlos Gonzalez
C Yorvit Torrealba
SS Omar Quintanilla
2B Eric Young Jr.
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Cecelia Rondou is a certified nurse midwife (CNM) providing exceptional midwifery care to Women's OB/GYN patients since 1996.
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Cecelia has delivered almost all my kids over the past 12 years. She is kind, caring, and compassionate. She actually listens to what you say and she might not tell you what you want to hear, she is going to be honest with you. She genuinely cares about your wishes and will do everything possible to give you what you need if she can without sacrificing you or your baby's safety! As long as she is practicing, she will be the person I trust and will go to.
I have been a patient of Cecilia's for over 15 years. She delivered both my kids, and is the BEST! She is gentle in her exams yet thorough, listens, takes time and gets to the heart of any concern. She has a wealth of knowledge and gives well rounded care. I couldn't ask for a better provider!
I live this office and have been going here for the past almost 11 years. Cecelia has delivered all three of my kids and is THE BEST! Dr. emad and Kristen are also amazing. I jumped through hoops changing insurance etc., just to make sure I could be seen in this office. Peace of mind is worth it, knowing we're in good hands.
Cecelia delivered both of my babies. If I were to ever have any more I wouldn't trust anyone else but her! I love her straight to the point calm attitude. It made my deliveries so much better. I have a really hard time progressing and she was there to listen to me when I told her I was ready to go. The hospital wanted to send me home again. I was in labor until the next day when Cecelia came on her day off to deliver my youngest. We swear by her. She really is the best.
She delivered my youngest and honestly this was the best most easiest birth. She listens to you and makes the interactions very personable. I felt totally comfortable and secure with Cecelia. If I was to have another baby I would most definetley use her as my midwife again.
I had the pleasure of having Cecelia deliver both my boys. She was wonderful. She treats you like family. She truely cares about you and wants to help in any way. I love how she just jumps in and makes sure you are comfortable and that you have everything you need. Just seeing her walk thru the door is like a breath of fresh air ... You know everything's going to be ok. I would recommend her to anyone looking for a midwife, who's going to give you the best care ever. I would definatly use her again if we decide to have a third child. Until then I look forward to our yearly visit.
Cecelia Rondou Is Absolutely Amazing. I Would pick her over any doctor anytime. She always listens to my concerns and looks into them! Cecelia even showed up to the hospital when she wasn't working to check up on me. It's Heart breaking (...to read negative reviews elsewhere). I've been going to this office for almost 15 years and delivered all 4 of my children here and I dropped Kaiser just so I can go to the Woman's Ob/GYN Medical Group for my 5th child! Dr. Emad is very nice but very busy and does tend to be in a rush. Suzanne Saunders is also a amazing CNM, she's very warm and inviting! The worst thing I have ever experienced in this office was waiting a little longer then I would like sometimes but to me it's worth it and knowing the doctors/Midwifes are tending to the woman birthing in the hospital across the street gives me a peace of mind! They are busy doing what's most important! I love you guys keep up the good work!


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