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The world that we live in today demands a lot of us. The increasing work stress, horrible bosses, domestic stress, and then the fast-paced lifestyle that we lead, are not exactly making matters easier either. These seemingly usual things have far deeper effects on the body from the inside – effects that go beyond constant fatigue. For one, it could be affecting your fertility. If you've been grappling with this problem, a few simple changes in your diet could actually change your life for the better and improve your chances of having a baby. Let's dive further into this.
You might be exercising daily and keeping a check on your weight and your addictions, but the biggest factor in increasing fertility or tackling the fear of infertility is your nutrition. The entire human body works on the nutrition we provide it. It affects every function of the body. When it comes to having a baby, nutrition affects the related processes including your , and .
Here are some foods you should consider piling on into your plate more often.
Carbohydrates are of two kinds, good and bad. The bad carbs include cookies, cakes, and white bread. These are digested and assimilated in the body quickly. Thus, giving the body instant sugar, and resulting in a higher production of insulin in the body. Studies show that a high insulin level get in the way of ovulation.
To tackle this and give the body the required amount of carbs, switch your diet to include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans and the likes. These are also known as slow carbs because they take longer to digest, and slowly assimilate into the body. Thus, keeping the sugar levels in check and resulting in stable insulin levels.
The number one enemy of fertility in the fats section are the Trans fats. Artificial Trans fats (or trans fatty acids) are created via an industrial process that adds hydrogen to liquid vegetable oils to make them more solid. Trans fats can be found in mass produced baked goods, snacks, French fries and other such foods. These increase resistance to insulin.
As much as too much insulin is bad, it is even worse when the required amount of insulin cannot do its job. Insulin makes the processing of sugars easier, and brings the glucose from the bloodstreams to the cells. Trans fats stop insulin from adding the glucose to the cells. The production of insulin, though, is continuous, which results in excess insulin in the bloodstream, which affects ovulation negatively.
The body profits the most from proteins, and that stands true for improving fertility too. Studies have found that protein from vegetables work much better than animal proteins when it comes to fertility. Reducing your intake of animal protein and substituting it with veggie proteins can help make you more fertile, thus bettering your chances of getting pregnant.
Non-fat or low-fat dairy products deter the potency of the reproductive system. While whole fat dairy products work wonders in making you more fertile. Having a glass or two of whole milk a day will give your body what it needs to increase fertility. You should also reduce or completely stop the intake of any non-fat or low-fat yogurts, curds, milk that you may be consuming.
With respect boosting fertility, some of the most important nutrients are vitamins and iron. Ensure you give your body enough Vitamin D, iron and folic acid. If you are unsure whether your diet or lifestyle is able to give enough, you may want to have multivitamin supplements. Consult your gynecologist for the same.
When it comes to the coffee, tea and alcohol, the more you limit the intake, the better for the fertility. Limited, controlled consumption however has no effect on fertility. Avoiding sugary drinks altogether is a good idea too!
Fiber is considered the number one nutrient to improve estrogen metabolism. It regulates and regularizes menstrual cycle. Some of the foods that can better your fiber intake are whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and legumes.
And of course, drink loads and loads of water. Water helps the liver function better, and the liver needs to function at its optimum in order to filter out and remove the toxins and excess hormones from your body. This helps the entire body, and especially your reproductive system, which largely depends on the hormones to function well.
You'll be surprised at how even the slightest tweaks your daily diet can boost your chances of conceiving. What's better? These foods are great for improving the overall health of your family too, so it's really a win-win!


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1,235 km2 (477 sq mi)
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2.9% Black.
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Bedfordshire (pronounced /ˈbɛdfərdʃər/ or /ˈbɛdfərdʃɪər/; abbreviated Beds.) is a ceremonial county of historic origin in England that forms part of the East of England region.
It borders Cambridgeshire to the North East, Northamptonshire to the North, Buckinghamshire (and the Borough of Milton Keynes) to the West and Hertfordshire to the South East.
The highest elevation point is 243 metres (797 ft) on Dunstable Downs in the Chilterns.
As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Bee Orchid as the county flower.[1]
The traditional nickname for people from Bedfordshire is "Bedfordshire Bulldogs" or "Clangers", this last deriving from a local dish comprising a suet crust dumpling filled with meat or jam or both.
The first recorded use of the name was in 1011 as "Bedanfordscir", meaning the shire or county of Bedford, which itself means "Beda's ford" (river crossing).
Bedfordshire was historically divided into the nine hundreds: Barford, Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Redbournestoke, Stodden, Willey, Wixamtree, along with the liberty and borough of Bedford. There have been several minor changes to the county boundary; for example, in 1897 Kensworth and part of Caddington were transferred from Hertfordshire to Bedfordshire.
The southern end of the county is part of the chalk ridge known as the Chiltern Hills. The remainder is part of the broad drainage basin of the River Great Ouse and its tributaries.
Most of Bedfordshire's rocks are clays and sandstones from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with some limestone. Local clay has been used for brick-making of Fletton style bricks in the Marston Vale.
Glacial erosion of chalk has left the hard flint nodules deposited as gravel – this has been commercially extracted in the past at pits which are now lakes, at Priory Country Park, Wyboston and Felmersham.
The Greensand Ridge is an escarpment across the county from near Leighton Buzzard to near Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire.
Bedfordshire is relatively dry being situated in the east of England. Average annual rainfall is 584.4mm at Bedford.[2] Rain falls more frequently than every other day in autumn and winter but falls are normally light, conversely spring and summer generally sees more dry days but heavier individual falls of rain, of note were the 1998 Easter floods.[3] In most years there is a spell lasting between 2 and 3 weeks in which no rain at all falls. Between November and April some snow can be expected from time to time but it is rarely heavy.
Average temperatures in Bedford range from a minimum of 0.6C overnight in February to 21.5C during the day in July and August. In the last 20 years the lowest temperature recorded was -9.5C and the highest 35.9C.[4] These temperatures are significantly higher than the temperatures recorded in previous winters, temperatures below -20C were recorded in the winter of 1947 in the county.
For local government purposes, Bedfordshire is divided into three unitary authorities: the boroughs of Bedford and Luton, and the District of Central Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire County Council was abolished on 1 April 2009, although the three districts continue to form a county for ceremonial functions such as lieutenancy and High Sheriff.[5] Many services in the county, such as education and public libraries, continue to be provided jointly by Central Bedfordshire and Bedford as if they were a single unitary authority.[6]
Policing, fire and rescue services continue to be provided on a county-wide basis, with the Bedfordshire Police Authority and Bedfordshire and Luton Combined Fire Authority consisting of members of the three councils.[7]
For elections to the House of Commons, Bedfordshire is divided into six constituencies, each returning a single member of parliament:
The present constituencies date from 1997.[8] The boundaries will be slightly modified for the 2010 general election.[9]
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Bedfordshire at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
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Moto Hospitality is based at Toddington service station. The Kier Group is based in Sandy. Whitbread is based in Dunstable.
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Although not a major transport destination, Bedfordshire lies on many of the main transport routes which link London to the Midlands and Northern England.
Two of England's six main trunk roads pass through Bedfordshire:
To these was added in 1959 the M1 motorway, the London to Leeds motorway. This has three junctions around Luton, one serving Bedford and another serving Milton Keynes.
Former trunk roads, now Local Roads managed by the local highway authority include A428 running east-west through Bedford Borough, and A6 from Rushden to Luton.
Three of England's main lines pass through Bedfordshire:
There are rural services also running between Bedford and Bletchley along the Marston Vale Line.
Bedfordshire is served by a large number of taxi companies. Luton is reported to have the highest number of taxicabs per head of population in the United Kingdom with a number of firms competing for work in the town and from London Luton Airport.
The River Great Ouse links Bedfordshire to the Fenland waterways. As of 2004 there are plans by the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust to construct a canal linking the Great Ouse at Bedford to the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes, 23 km distant.[14]
London Luton Airport has flights to many UK, Europe, North America and North African destinations, operated by low-cost airlines.
The state education system for all of Bedfordshire used to be organised by Bedfordshire County Council. Unlike most of the United Kingdom, Bedfordshire County Council operated a three-tier education system arranged into lower, middle and upper schools, as recommended in the Plowden Report of 1967, although Luton continued to operate a two-tier system. The three-tier arrangement continues in the rest of the county, though in 2006 a vote was held with a view to moving to the two-tier model, but this was rejected[15]
After the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, Bedfordshire County Council was abolished, and its responsibilities for education were passed to Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council. Though Central Bedfordshire plans to continue with the three-tier model in its area, Bedford Borough Council voted in November 2009 to change to the two-tier model in its area.[16][17] The change will be introduced over a five year period and be completed in 2015 [18].
Until the division into two unitary authorities in April 2009, education in the area continued to be administered by Bedfordshire County Council.
All of the two councils' upper schools offer 6th form courses (such as A Levels), though Bedford College, Dunstable College and Shuttleworth College also offer a range of further education courses. Additionally, Stella Mann College is a private college (based in Bedford), which offers a range of further education courses relating to the performing arts.[19][20]
There are a number of independent schools, many of which have links to the Harpur Trust.
Luton also operates a three-tier education system though Luton's organisation of infant, junior and high schools mirrors the traditional transfer age into secondary education of 11 years. However most of Luton's high schools do not offer 6th form education. Instead this is handled by Luton Sixth Form College, though Barnfield College also offers a range of further education courses.
There are two universities based in the county - the University of Bedfordshire and Cranfield University. These institutions attract students from all over the UK and abroad, as well as from Bedfordshire.
Bedfordshire is home to Luton Town F.C. amongst other various sporting teams.
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Bedfordshire is a county in the middle of England, a little towards the south-east in the East Anglia region.
By car Bedfordshire has a good road network and every town and village is reasonably easily accessible by car. The A5, A6 and A1 trunk routes run through the county - the A5 in the west (for Dunstable and Woburn), the A6 in the centre (for Bedford, Luton, Ampthill and Flitwick) and the A1 in the east (for Sandy and Biggleswade)
By bus Bus services operate in all parts of the county, although they can be infrequent. Bedford operates a Park & Ride system.
Woburn Abbey is set within 3,000 acres of beautiful gardens complete with a deer park and fabulous buildings and really is a must-see if you find yourself in Bedfordshire. The Abbey itself has been home to the Dukes of Bedford for more than 300 years and is now occupied by the 15th Duke and his family. There are many things to do at the Abbey: if the weather is nice maybe a picnic lunch in the stunning grounds watching some of the ten species of deer, or you can join one of the tours looking at the many paintings collected at the Abbey, including those by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Van Dyck and Cuyp. There is also a fabulous Tea Room where you can enjoy traditional afternoon tea in true English style and new for 2008 is the Woburn at War exhibition, which illustrates the impact of wars on Woburn Abbey.
Woburn Safari Park really offers an amazing safari adventure where you might least expect it! Drive around in your own car and experience the beauty of wild animals up close and personal … but watch out for those mischievous monkeys! Aside from seeing sea lions, birds of prey, elephants, giraffes, tigers, lynxes, penguins and snakes, to name but a few, you can also pre-book a special experience: VIP Tour with a Ranger, walk with elephants or breakfast with the carnivores, and there is also the Great Woburn Railway, Swan Boats and the Mammoth Play Ark to keep you and your family occupied.
Woburn Village [2] has more than 200 listed Georgian buildings as well as many antique shops, pubs, chic restaurants and a fabulous tea-room for the truly English experience! If you visit in early September you will have a fabulous time at their yearly Oyster Festival: food, drink, live music and street entertainers, as well as champagne and Oysters, make this a great day out for all the family.
Mead Open Farm is great for a family day out whether its rain or shine! There are plenty of animals to see from goats, sheep, cows, pigs, ducks and horses, both inside and outside. You can also watch a sheepdog demonstration, play crazy golf, race round on go-karts or head to Shaggy's PlayWorld for a snack and tumble around the child-friendly activities. Or why not cuddle rabbits and guinea pigs, bottle-feed lambs, groom horses or go on a tractor ride at pre-arranged times. It really is a brilliant and varied day out for all the family.
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo is open all year round, apart from Christmas Day and is great if you want a more local, personal experience than ZSL London Zoo. One of Europe's largest wildlife conservation parks, you will see the newly opened Cheetah Rock, meet the Lions of the Serengeti and watch the chimps swinging their stuff in their extensive indoor chimpnasium! There are also many unusual things to see such as beautiful African hunting dogs and reptiles, amphibians and fish.
Ampthill is a quaint Georgian market town, famous for its connections with Catherine of Aragon and John Bunyan's A Pilgrim's Progress. It has numerous antique, gift and coffee shops.
The same general rules for the UK apply in Bedfordshire as well. It's a primarily rural county and crime is no higher than most places in the UK. However, everyone (not just tourists) should exercise caution, especially in the larger towns such as Bedford and Luton. Luton especially has a (largely undeserved) reputation for being a "rough" town - as with anywhere else, if you don't go looking for trouble you shouldn't find it.
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BEDFORDSHIRE [abbreviated Beds], a south midland county of England, bounded N. E. by Huntingdonshire, E. by Cambridgeshire, S.E. by Hertfordshire, W. by Buckinghamshire and N.W. by Northamptonshire. It is the fourth smallest English county, having an area of 466.4 sq. m. It lies principally in the middle part of the basin of the river Ouse, which, entering in the northwest, traverses the rich and beautiful Vale of Bedford with a serpentine course past the county town of Bedford to the northeastern corner near St Neots. North of it the land is undulating, but low; to the south, a well-wooded spur of the Chiltern Hills separates the Vale of Bedford from the flat open tributary valley of the Ivel. A small part of the main line of the Chilterns is included in the south of the county, the hills rising sharply from the lowland to bare heights exceeding 600 ft. above Dunstable. In this neighbourhood the county includes the headwaters of the Lea, and thus a small portion of it falls within the Thames basin. In the north a few streams are tributary to the Nene.
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The general trend of the outcrops of the various formations is from south-west to north-east; the dip is south-easterly. In the northern portion of the county, the Middle Oolites are the most important, and of these, the Oxford Clay predominates over most of the low ground upon which Bedford is situated. At Ampthill a development of clay, the Ampthill clay, represents the Corallian limestones of neighbouring counties. The Cornbrash is represented by no more than about 2 ft. of limestone; but the Kellaways Rock is well exposed near Bedford; the sandy parts of this rock are frequently cemented to form hard masses called "doggers." The Great Ouse, from the point where it enters the county on the west, has carved through the Middle Oolites and exposed the Great Oolite as far as Bedford; their alternating limestones and clays may be seen in the quarries not far from the town. From Woburn through Ampthill to Potton a more elevated tract is formed by the Lower Greensand. These rocks are sandy throughout. At Leighton Buzzard they are dug on a large scale for various purposes. Beds of fuller's earth occur in this formation at Woburn. At Potton, phosphatized nodules may be obtained, and here a hard bed, the "Carstone," lies at the top of the formation. Above the Lower Greensand comes the Gault Clay, which lies in the broad vale south-east of the former and north-west of the Chalk hills. The Chalk rises up above the Gault and forms the high ground of Dunshill Moors and the Chiltern Hills. At the base of the Chalk is the Chalk Marl, above this is the Totternhoe Stone, which, on account of its great hardness, usually stands out as a well-marked feature. The Lower Chalk, which comes next in the upward succession, is capped in a similar manner by the hard Chalk Rock, as at Royston and elsewhere. The upper Chalk-with-Flints occurs near the south-eastern boundary. Patches of glacial boulder clay and gravel lie upon the older rocks over most of the area. Many interesting mammalian fossils, rhinoceros, mammoth, &c., with palaeolithic implements, have been found in the valley gravels of the river Ouse and its tributaries.
Agriculture is important, nearly nine-tenths of the total area being under cultivation. The chief crop is wheat, for which the soil in the Vale of Bedford is specially suited; while on the sandy loam of the Ivel valley, in the neighbourhood of Biggleswade, market-gardening is extensively carried on, the produce going principally to London, whither a considerable quantity of butter and other dairy-produce is also sent. The manufacture of agricultural machinery and implements employs a large number of hands at Bedford and Luton. Luton, however, is specially noted for the manufacture of straw hats. Strawplaiting was once extensively carried on in this neighbourhood by women and girls in their cottage homes, but has now almost entirely disappeared owing to the importation of Chinese and Japanese plaited straw. Another local industry in the county is the manufacture of pillow-lace. Many of the lace designs are French, as a number of French refugees settled in and near Cranfield. Mechlin and Maltese patterns are also copied.
Communications are provided in the east by the Great Northern main line, passing Biggleswade, and in the centre by that of the Midland railway, serving Ampthill and Bedford. The Bletchley and Cambridge branch of the London & North-Western railway crosses these main lines at Bedford and Sandy respectively. The main line of the same company serves Leighton Buzzard in the south-west, and there is a branch thence to Dunstable, which, with Luton, is also served by a branch of the Great Northern line. A branch of the Midland railway south from Bedford connects with the Great Northern line at Hitchin, and formerly afforded the Midland access to London over Great Northern metals.
The area of the ancient county is 2 98,494 acres, with a population in 1891 of 161,704 and in 1901 of 171,240. The area of the administrative county is 302,947 acres. The municipal boroughs are Bedford (pop. 35,144), Dunstable (5157) and Luton (36,404). The other urban districts are - Ampthill (2,77), Biggleswade (5120), Kempston, connected with Bedford to the south-west (4729), and Leighton Buzzard (6331). Potton (2033), Shefford (874), and Woburn (1129) are lesser towns, and local centres of the agricultural trade. The county is the midland circuit, and assizes are held at Bedford. It has one court of quarter-sessions, and is divided into eight petty sessional divisions. The boroughs of Bedford, Dunstable and Luton have separate commissions of the peace, and Bedford has a separate court of quarter-sessions. There are 133 civil parishes. Bedfordshire forms an archdeaconry in the diocese of Ely, with 125 ecclesiastical parishes and parts of 6 others. The county has two parliamentary divisions, Northern (or Biggleswade), and Southern (or Luton), each returning one member; and Bedford is a parliamentary borough, returning one member. The principal institution, apart from those in the towns, is the great Three Counties asylum (for Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire), in the south-east of the county near Arlesey.
Although the Saxon invaders were naturally attracted to Bedfordshire by its abundant water supply and facilities for agriculture, the remains of their settlements are few and scattered. They occur, with one exception, south of the Ouse, the most important being a cemetery at Kempston, where two systems - cremation and earth-burial - are found side by side. Early reference to Bedfordshire political history is scanty. In S71 Cuthwulf inflicted a severe defeat on the Britons at Bedford and took four towns. During the Heptarchy what is now the shire formed part of Mercia; by the treaty of Wedmore, however, it became Danish territory, but was recovered by King Edward (919-921). The first actual mention of the county comes in 1016 when King Canute laid waste to the whole shire. There was no organized resistance to the conqueror within Bedfordshire, though the Domesday survey reveals an almost complete substitution of Norman for English holders. In the civil war of Stephen's reign the county suffered severely; the great Roll of the Exchequer of 1165 proves the shire receipts had depreciated in value to two-thirds of the assessment for the Danegeld. Again the county was thrown into the barons' war when Bedford Castle, seized from the Beauchamps by Falkes de Breaute, one of the royal partisans, was the scene of three sieges before it was demolished by the king's orders in 1224. The peasants' revolt (1377-1381) was marked by less violence here than in neighbouring counties; the Annals of Dunstable make brief mention of a rising in that town and the demand for and granting of a charter. In 1638 ship-money was levied on Bedfordshire, and in the Civil War that followed, the county was one of the foremost in opposing the king. Clarendon observes that here Charles had no visible party or fixed quarter.
Bedfordshire is divided into nine hundreds, Barford, Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Redbornestoke, Stodden, Willey and Wiscamtree, and the liberty, half hundred or borough of Bedford. From the Domesday survey it appears that in the 11th century there were three additional half hundreds, viz. Stanburge, Buchelai and Weneslai, which had by the 14th century become parts of the hundreds of Manshead, Willey and Biggleswade respectively. Until 1574 one sheriff did duty for Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, the shire court of the former being held at Bedford. The jurisdiction of the hundred courts, excepting Flitt, remained in the king's possession. Flitt was parcel of the manor of Luton, and formed part of the marriage portion of Eleanor, sister of Henry III. and wife of William Marshall. The burgesses of Bedford and the prior of Dunstable claimed jurisdictional freedom in those two boroughs. The Hundred Rolls and the Placita de quo warranto show that important jurisdiction had accrued to the great over-lordships, such as those of Beauchamp, Wahull and Caynho, and to several religious houses, the prior of St John of Jerusalem claiming rights in more than fifty places in the county.
With regard to parliamentary representation, the first original writ which has been discovered was issued in 1290 when two members were returned for the county. In 1295 in addition to the county members, writs are found for two members to represent Bedford borough. Subsequently until modern times two county and two borough members were returned regularly.
Owing to its favourable situation Bedfordshire has always been a prominent agricultural rather than manufacturing county. From the 13th to the 15th century sheep farming flourished, Bedfordshire wool being in request and plentiful. Surviving records show that in assessments of wool to the king, Bedfordshire always provided its full quota. Tradition says that the straw-plait industry owes its introduction to James I., who transferred to Luton the colony of Lorraine plaiters whom Mary queen of Scots had settled in Scotland. Similarly the lace industry is associated with Catherine of Aragon, who, when trade was dull, burnt her lace and ordered new to be made. As late as the r9th century the lace makers kept "Cattern's Day" as the holiday of their craft. The Flemings, expelled by Alva's persecutions (1569), brought the manufacture of Flemish lace to Cranfield, whence it spread to surrounding districts. The revocation of the edict of Nantes, and consequent French immigration, gave further impetus to the industry. Defoe writing in 1724-1727 mentions the recent improvements in the Bedfordshire bone-lace manufacture. In 1794 further French refugees joined the Bedfordshire lace makers.
Woburn Abbey, belonging to the Russells since 1547, is the seat of the duke of Bedford, the greatest landowner in the county. The Burgoynes of Sutton, whose baronetcy dates from 1641, have been in Bedfordshire since the 15th century, whilst the Osborn family have owned Chicksands Priory since its purchase by Peter Osborn in 1576. Sir Phillip Monoux Payne represents the ancient Monoux family of Wootton. Other county families are the Crawleys of Stockwood near Luton, the Brandreths of Houghton Regis, and the Orlebars of Hinwick.
With the division of the Mercian diocese in 679 Bedfordshire fell naturally to the new see of Dorchester. It formed part of Lincoln diocese from 1075 until 1837, when it was finally transferred to Ely. In 1291 Bedfordshire was an archdeaconry including six rural deaneries, which remained practically unaltered until i 880, when they were increased to eleven with a new schedule of parishes.
The monastic remains in Bedfordshire include the fine fragment of the church of the Augustinian priory at Dunstable, serving as the parish church; the church (also imperfect) of Elstow near Bedford, which belonged to a Benedictine nunnery founded by Judith, niece of William the Conqueror; and portions of the Gilbertine Chicksands Priory and of a Cistercian foundation at Old Warden. In the parish churches, many of which are of great interest, the predominant styles are Decorated and Perpendicular. Work of pre-Conquest date, however, is found in the massive tower of Clapham church, near Bedford on the north, and in a door of Stevington church. Fine Norman and Early English work is seen at Dunstable and Elstow, and the later style is illustrated by the large cruciform churches at Leighton Buzzard and at Felmersham on the Ouse above Bedford. Among the Perpendicular additions to the church last named may be noted a very beautiful oaken roodscreen. To illustrate Decorated and Perpendicular the churches of Clifton and of Marston Moretaine, with its massive detached campanile, may be mentioned; and Cople church is a good specimen of fine Perpendicular work. The church of Cockayne Hatley, near Potton, is fitted with rich Flemish carved wood, mostly from the abbey of Alne near Charleroi, and dating from 1689, but brought here by a former rector early in the 19th century. In medieval domestic architecture the county is not rich. The mansion of Woburn Abbey dates from the middle of the 18th century.
Victoria County History (London, 1904, &c.); Fishe, Collections, Historical, Genealogical and Topographical, for Bedfordshire (London, 1812-1816, and also 1812-1836); J. D. Parry, Select Illustrations of Bedfordshire (London, 1827); Bedfordshire Domesday Book (Bedford, 1881); Visitation of Bedford, 1566, 1582, and 1634, in Harleian Society's Publications, vol. xiv. (London, 1884); Genealogica Bedfordiensis, 1538, 1800 (London, 1890); and Illustrated Bedfordshire (Nottingham, 1895). See also Bedfordshire Notes and Queries, ed. F. A. Blades, and Transactions of the Bedfordshire Natural History and Field Club.
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Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds.) is a county in England that forms part of the East of England region.
Its county town is Bedford. It borders Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with the Borough of Milton Keynes) and Hertfordshire.
The highest elevation point is 243 metres (797 feet) on Dunstable Downs in the Chilterns.
The county motto is "Constant Be", which is taken from the hymn To Be A Pilgrim by John Bunyan.
As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Bee Orchid as the county flower.[1]
The traditional nickname for people from Bedfordshire is "Bedfordshire Bulldogs" or "Clangers", this last deriving from a local dish comprising a suet crust dumpling filled with meat or jam or both.
Main article: History of Bedfordshire
The first recorded use of the name was in 1011 as "Bedanfordscir", meaning the shire or county of Bedford, which itself means "Beda's ford" (river crossing).
Bedfordshire was historically divided into the nine hundreds: Barford, Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Redbournestoke, Stodden, Willey, Wixamtree, along with the liberty and borough of Bedford.
There have been several minor changes to the county boundary; for example, in 1897 Kensworth and part of Caddington were transferred from Hertfordshire to Bedfordshire.
Luton was a county borough from 1964 until 1974, and it has been a unitary authority since 1997. However, it remains part of the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, with a single Lord Lieutenant representing the sovereign throughout this entire area. Except where otherwise indicated, this article relates to the whole Ceremonial County of Bedfordshire, including Luton.
The southern end of the county is part of the chalk ridge known as the Chiltern Hills. The remainder is part of the broad drainage basin of the River Great Ouse and its tributaries.
Most of Bedfordshire's rocks are clays and sandstones from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with some limestone. Local clay has been used for brick-making of Fletton style bricks in the Marston Vale.
Glacial erosion of chalk has left the hard flint nodules deposited as gravel — this has been commercially extracted in the past at pits which are now lakes, at Priory Country Park, Wyboston and Felmersham.
The Greensand Ridge is an escarpment across the country from near Leighton Buzzard to near Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire.
Bedfordshire is a shire county, mostly under the control of Bedfordshire County Council. This is divided into three local government districts, Bedford Borough, Mid Bedfordshire District and South Bedfordshire District.
Additionally, Luton Borough is a unitary authority that forms part of the county for various functions such as Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff, but does not come under county council control.
The Department for Communities and Local Government is considering reorganising Bedfordshire's administrative structure. Four proposals are being looked at:
The changes are planned to be implemented no later than 1 April 2009.[2][3]
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Bedfordshire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
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Moto Hospitality is based at Toddington service station. The Kier Group is based in Sandy. Whitbread is based in Dunstable.
Bedfordshire has a comprehensive education system, with every school part of the upper/middle/lower three tier school system, with the upper schools all having a sixth-form and offering education from 13-18. There are 17 upper schools and 8 independent schools. Compared to many LEAs, it really wholeheartedly embraced the comprehensive ideal by effectively eliminating choice of schools in many towns. In many parts of Bedfordshire, everyone goes to the same middle school (ages 9-13) and upper school. In other parts of England, in individual towns, there is usually one school performing better (often much better) than another. The largest school population is the Bedford district, with Mid Bedfordshire the smallest, having only four upper schools. Overall, the results for GCSE are not as high as expected for a largely rural county. The national average for GCSE results of 5 grades A-C including English and Maths is 45.8%; every district in Bedfordshire is below this and the average for the county as a whole is 45.1%. The best performing school at GCSE is the Cedars Upper School and Community College in Linslade, closely followed by the Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College in Sharnbrook. At A level, the Sharnbrook Upper School gets the best results for state schools by some distance, followed by the Manshead Upper School (former Dunstable Grammar School) in south Dunstable. The best school overall at A level is independent Bedford High School, followed by Bedford School. Compared to other counties, the A level results are not excellent and under the England average, but much better than nearby Luton.
% of pupils with 5 grades A-C including English and Maths in 2006; compare this table to average house price by district.
Although not a major transport destination, Bedfordshire lies on many of the main transport routes which link London to the Midlands and Northern England.
Three of England's six main trunk roads pass through Bedfordshire:
To these were added in 1959 the M1 motorway London to Yorkshire motorway. This has three junctions around Luton, one serving Bedford and another serving Milton Keynes.
Again, three of England's main lines pass through Bedfordshire:
There are rural services also running between Bedford and Bletchley along the Marston Vale Line.
Bedfordshire is served by a large number of taxi companies. Luton is reported to have the highest number of taxicabs per head of population in the United Kingdom[8] with a number of firms competing for work in the town and from London Luton Airport.
The River Great Ouse links Bedfordshire to the Fenland waterways. As of 2004 there are plans to construct a canal linking the Great Ouse at Bedford to the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes, 23 km distant.[9]
London Luton Airport has flights to many UK, European and North African destinations, operated by low-cost airlines.
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Bedfordshire is a county of England. Its county town is Bedford. It borders Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with the Borough of Milton Keynes) and Hertfordshire. The highest elevation point is 243 m (797 ft)[1] on Dunstable Downs in the Chilterns. The county motto is "Constant Be", which is taken from the hymn To Be A Pilgrim by John Bunyan.

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South Indian actress Yamuna who has appeared in many Telugu, Tamil and Kannada movies was caught in a deal of prostitution in a seven star hotel in Bengaluru. On Thursday the actress, the CEO of a software company and another man, predicted to be a broker, were arrested during a raid at 8:30pm by the women and narcotics wing of Central Crime Branch.
According to the police, they had received information that the actress came in the city in the afternoon, while the CEO arrived at the hotel in the evening. The arrested were taken to the CCB office.
After the raid, the joint commissioner of the police Alok Kumar Singh visited the hotel. When enquired with the hotel authorities, the spokesperson of the hotel denied any raids and said that, the police had visited as a VIP party was going on at the hotel.
The police meanwhile is suspecting a high profile prostitution racket after the incident.


text: Ivor Indyk pointed out (at the 2011 SHARP conference that I went to in Brisbane) that Michael Dransfield is now out of print for the first time in over thirty years (though Michael Dransfield: A Retrospective selected by Kinsella [2002] can still be purchased online from UQP). Dransfield has retained something of a cult following and is referred to provocatively on an unofficial tribute web site as "The obscure, the forgotten, the little-known Shakespeare of Australian poetry" (Sweatywheels). He is anything but forgotten; however in many ways it is in keeping with the myth of the poet that Dransfield, the poètes maudit – the most prominent of the generation of 68 poets, the most re-published poet of the period – would be lauded for his obscurity.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Damaged underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea disrupted Internet service in large parts of the Middle East and India for a second day on Thursday, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Major delays were reported by Internet-service providers in Egypt and the Persian Gulf. There were also interruptions in international telephone service, the report said. The repairs could take days or weeks, company executives and government officials said.
Major tech companies in India, led by Tata Consultancy Service, TACSF Infosys Technologies INFY, -1.40% and Wipro, WIT, +0.71% said they have not been affected by the cable problems, the report said. India has a vibrant outsourcing industry that relies heavily on the Internet.
Officials had reported Wednesday that two cables connecting Europe and the region were severed off the Egyptian city of Alexandria, the report said.
Egyptian officials said bad weather may have damaged the cables. They had initially said they expect the cables to be repaired in several days, but one ISP in the United Arab Emirates said the repairs could take weeks, the report said.
The disruption slowed Internet service Thursday, affecting business and government offices in such countries as Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the report said.


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Many of you have probably heard rumors over the past year or so about an abnormal increase in people reporting being mugged because of their iPods and wearing the "signature" white iPod headphones. Well, via Engadget, the NYPD has finally come out and made an official statement about the purported phenomenon: it's happening, but no one (important) cares.
yes, the NYPD has that report linking the iPod to a rise in subway crime in New York, but it gets a little more bleak when they call in Beckerman PR vice-prez David Brooks, who claims, "Half of you is [sic] cringing, but half is [sic] bursting with pride" over the news. And then it gets downright scary when he goes on the record saying, "The first time somebody gets shoved onto a subway track in a scuffle over an iPod, all bets are off."
Personally, I find it inane that some of us might be "proud" that there is an increase in muggings specifically because of iPods (omg our iPods are so highly desirable that we've become a MORE desirable target to be mugged! I'll have to call Mom!), however I do know of several people who have switched from using the white iPod headphones to something less obvious because of these kinds of reports. However, I think the issue here is not so much about iPod-specific jackings and more about how seriously (or not, as the case may be) that authorities apparently take people's personal property being stolen.
Out of curiosity, has this actually happened to any of you, or anyone you actually know in real life?
[edit] While scanning some of the older Engadget articles on this topic, I came across this disturbing quote:
what's really bizarre is Apple's response to all of this, with a spokesman claming that some iPod fans would "rather be robbed" than use headphones that were less cool.
I am scared for humanity.


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An official grand opening and dedication for the Ionia Volunteer Fire Co.'s new fire station — constructed to replace the original building destroyed by a 2015 fire — is planned for July 28, the third anniversary of the blaze.
The Ionia Volunteer Fire Co. was organized in 1954, with the original two-bay building built in 1955. An addition was added in 1977, doubling the size of the building and adding two more bays. The original building was built entirely by the members.
As the years passed and apparatus changed, it was difficult to find new trucks that would fit into the old building because of the height of the doors. The fire company grew, and was increasingly cramped in the old building.
At 3:15 a.m. on July 28, 2015, the fire company was dispatched for an automatic alarm at the station. The first-arriving members found smoke coming from the attic vent at the front of the building. Firefighters were able to get all the trucks out safely. As the day dawned, after several hours of battling the fire with help from neighboring fire departments, the fire had consumed much of the original part of the building.
The apparatus was housed at East Bloomfield-Holcomb Fire Department and Mendon Fire Department until a pole barn was erected to the rear of the property to house Ionia's apparatus. Ionia Volunteer Fire Co. moved its trucks to the pole barn in February 2016.
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Hotel structure fire in Hollywood sent one Firefighter and 1 other to the emergency room in critical condition. Universal Studios Tour security reported on location of the fire to 911 operators .
One worker was reportedly injured and he exited the room and was found by Firefighters in another space on the fire floor in critical condition .
Editorial Credits: Baddboyfilms News August 30, 2017 1:00 pm at Universal Sheraton, Universal, Ca
The Los Angeles Firefighters found a male in critical condition in the room adjusting to where the fire started, laying on the floor unresponsive.
While the lafd rescuers rushed the injured male worker to an awaiting ambulance down the 9 floors through the stairwell and transported him to the emergency room, the man then became in an emergency state and the firefighters laid him upon the pavement in the entry of the lobby and worked on him till they could re-stablize the victims heart and prep him for transport to a awaiting ambulance just outside.
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Sheraton Universal ninth floor room fire | 1 Worker and 1 Firefighter Critical | both hospitalized
Universal Studios | Universal Sheraton hotel fire | Baddboyfilms News August 30, 2017 1:00 pm
The scene was catastrophic. Hollywood was shooting a motion picture on the North lot when the blaze in the room ignited . The front parking lot was full of production movie producers from a motion picture production company. They were said to be shooting a cover for a movie. They had nothing to do with the fire, they claimed.
Firefighters did not order evacuations at the hotel. Los Angeles Arson detectives from the LAPD and LAFD were on scene picking through the rubbish for clues on the 9th floor and decided not to allow the Tv News | paparazzi inside to record or photograph any of the scene until at a later time.
The injured worker was reported to of worked for a company called Ornnell Fire Sprinkler Inc which is a Fire protection equipment supplier in Grand Terrace, California
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A migrating group with a distinct language and no exact origin known.
Beginning of the Xia Dynasty in China(first dynasty in Asia)
Created a code of law that contains over 282 laws. "eye of an eye, tooth for a tooth"
First African civilization, collapse based on environmental degradation and foreign pressures.
Mix of West Asian peoples who blended with Egypt then took over the eastern Nile Delta. They even had one of their own become a Pharaoh
first "farming" in the Americas (along with the Andes)
first "farming" in the Americas(along with the Mesoamericans)
"Mother civilization" of the Andes
First Civilization in Mexico, they also laid out the foundations for the civilizations that followed.
high social order, classes
Age of "warring states"
First imperial dynasty of China, unified China under its control, great trade because of land owning peoples, better system of writing
The central government controlled China by dividing it into areas known as commanderies. Xiongnu nomads attacked and defeated the Han Dynasty many times which caused rebelling in the divided areas.
During the Han Dynasty, famine forced many out of the south and then were exploited by the landowners of the north, the the former southerns were heavily taxed for the silk road and because of the foreign threat of invasion. They rebelled and forced the army to defend against its own people except the foreign threat.
The rein of the Sui Dynasty was swift but it united north and south China after a very long period of division
Largest Indian Empire, gave India half a century of peace and security.
Emperor of India, known as one of the best, kept India united and peaceful.
"classic civilization" , peace resulted in a scientific and artistic revolution, the Golden Age of India, began to decline because of gradual territory loss.
aka the First Persian Empire, biggest empire the world has ever seen, formatted into multi-states under one emperor.
(Greek)was a major center of Hellenistic culture that maintained the preeminence of Greek customs, partly defeated by the Roman Empire.
Adopted many things from those they conquered, like art, architectural designs, religious beliefs and royal insignia.
the peck of the Persian Empire, most important and influential period, culture expanded to many other parts of the world outside of its reign.
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Maybe I'm too much, too intense, too romantic, too everything. I don't know. I never know, until I've gone too far. Said one thing too much.


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Sunday, 16 June 2013
Father's Day!
Yes, makes a change for me to be blogging at this time of the morning - it's usually the wee small hours as they say up here! Poor Rab is working on Father's Day so I did the decent thing and got up to make him breakfast and drive him to work and we are all going out for dinner later.
Fittingly today's card is one I made for Iona to give her Dad for Father's Day, she chose the topper and papers and I came up with a design around them.
The topper is from the Wellington range by Docrafts, the papers are a mix of Boofle and Portobello Road, also by Docrafts as well as the brown one which was passed on to me by a friend. Once again everything has been layered up with kraft card which I love right now! The sentiment was made on the pc and the card has been simply finished off with Boofle buttons tied with paper cord and some raffia from Paper Cellar.
I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Polka Doodles - Week 24 Male
Crafting for all Seasons - #54 One for the Guys
Anything Goes - #94 Father's Day
Ready Teddy Go - #23 June Who's the Daddy
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What a lovely card. Thanks for joining us at Polka Doodles.ReplyDelete
Fabulous card shona and it also fits with our challenges at crafty sentiments and creative inspirations. Hope you have a fabby day xxReplyDelete
Gorgeous Card Shona, i love Wellington. Hope you have a lovely day. MarleneReplyDelete
Super card! Thanks for joining in over at polkadoodlesReplyDelete
Lovely Wellington card thank you so much for sharing him with us over at Anything Goes for our Father's Day challenge xhugsx NikkiReplyDelete
Gorgeous card, the image is adorable...Thanks for playing along with us at Ready Teddy Go Challenge.ReplyDelete
That´s such a lovely project for a men. Thank you for joining our challenge at Crafting for all Seasons. Tomorrow we will start a new one. Perhaps you will join in again :o) xx BiancaReplyDelete
love all the wellington images. Thanks for joining us at Polkadoodles! Kim xReplyDelete


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Your Tijuana Dental Work is an Infected Mess….Doh!
by Norman Cutter, MT ASCP,
Ok, you're back in Vegas, fresh from your Mexican Dental vacation. You saved a ton of $$ on that new bridge, dentures, implants, crowns,..but now you're having big problems. Such as:
–-Malocclusion: you might have noticed this on the drive back from TJ, as the anesthesia was wearing off. Your teeth don't 'close' right. It feels strange, like you're wearing someone else's teeth. The long term result of malocclusion is TMJ damage–this is something you need to have fixed ASAP! There is a form of TMJ damage they actually call the 'suicide syndrome'…because the pain becomes 24/7 and intractable. If your bite feels 'weird' from your TJ dental tourism, Join the Club! This is very common! Your unregulated Dentista can't be expected to do the myriad adjustments from 361 miles away from Las Vegas,..and anyway, why would he? Unlike USA dentists, he's got zero malpractice liability, which means you are SOL (sol means "sun"in sunny Mexico). Or, to quote the penultimate governor of California: "Hasta la vista, baby…"
But, we can help you. We can usually fix the dreaded TJ Malocclusion in one visit at minimal cost to you. Come on down!
–-Infection: that redness, pain, heat, swelling isn't "going away" like you hoped. So, you wait another week, and the PAIN is just worse. Why? There's no FDA, OSHA, Centers for Disease Control, etc, in Tijuana. Everyone knows you can't drink the water down there; what made you think an unregulated TJ 'Dentista' was going to be any more sanitary than the filthy sewage he washes his hands and instruments with? The good news is: antibiotics. The bad news is: You got your infection in Mexico, where antibiotics are handed out like Tic-Tacs over the counter, so there's a grand possibility your bug is a Superbug,..as in a multiple drug resistant bacteria, like MRSA, VRE, Klebsiella, Clostridium or Pseudomonas species. You might even have got Legionnaires Disease from the unregulated dental waterline. We, at BudgetDental.com, can help. Let us diagnose your infected jaw and gums ASAP! Let's get you on the road to recovery,..before, say, osteonecrosis sets in, and you need a costy titanium mandible. Call 702 220 8488 for an emergency appt today!
–Substandard dental materials: That's a given. Your unregulated mouth is now full of foreign materials that wouldn't pass US minimum regulations–THAT'S why you went to TJ in the first place, to get the cheap stuff. The problem is: a lot of this dreck comes from unregulated dental labs in China and elsewhere. In the States, we use corrosion-resistant precious 'noble' metals in dental work–like palladium, platinum, gold, silver –most of it is hidden under the ceramics, so you're probably not aware of it,..But that's why your US made crown lasts forever, won't poison you, and costs a lot. The junk you probably got in TJ is, at best, only mildly poisonous alloy from China. You, intrepid dental tourist, might actually now have lead in your unregulated mouth, so try to stay away from citrus fruit, coke, sweet tarts, alcohol, seminal fluids, kissing, smoking, or anything that tastes sour-ish for the next, say, 40 years,..anything that might solubilize that toxic lead into your saliva, where you will, if you're a swallower (seminal fluids, for example), really regret it.. Symptoms of chronic lead poisoning from tainted dental work made in unregulated foreign labs can include such minor annoyances as brain damage and death, and even yukky breath.There's also a chance your mouth now has radiation. Recent studies indicate that both lead and radiation poisoning are 'negative indicators' for longevity in baboons, so this could also be a cause for concern for you and your heirs.
–Dental implant failure, ill-fitting dentures, wobbly bridges and crowns, etc.: Making and installing dental appliances is not Plug and Play, it's high precision artwork that almost always requires follow-up visits for touch-ups and adjustments. Your Baja Dentista might be an adequate clinician, but he's 24 HOURS Traveling Time from Vegas,..including the round trip drive to San Yrsido, getting back and forth across the border, and navigating thru the labyrinth of crooked cops, crooked taxistas, street hustlers, pick-pockets, whores, cut throats, and filthy hotel water.. So, there's basically no way you're getting the necessary follow up treatment to make it all work. The 'standard of care' is nowhere, mon frer, when your dentista is "over there",..and that's why you're probably reading this. You want your mouth like it was in the good ol' days, and THAT is what Budget Dental of Las Vegas wants for you: Let's put this harmonic convergence to good use–won't you please call 702 220 8488 today.
–In Summary: Obviously we don't recommend dental tourism to our 2,500,000 potential customers in Las Vegas. It's a mine field, for all the above reasons, and more. We know this because we've been fixing the collateral damage for years. But, if you go and come back to find your Baja Grill is rusting, falling apart, tasting like lead fishing weights, looking and/or smelling gross,..Stop Dating immediately and call the Vegas branch of BudgetDental.com at 702 220 8488. We'll get you back in the game faster than you can say…. Chipotle!
Well, hopefully you found this jaw-dropping article of some interest. After cut and pasting it for your term paper, why not share your A grade with us at Facebook.com/BudgetDental. We'd love that!


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From divinumofficium:
V. Dóminus vobíscum.
R. Et cum spiritu tuo.
Sanctífica, quaesumus, Dómine, nostra ieiúnia: et cunctárum nobis indulgéntiam propítius largíre culpárum.
Per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum, Filium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum.
R. Amen.
Commemoratio S. Cyrilli Episc. Hierosolymitani Eccl. Doct.
Da nobis, quaesumus, omnípotens Deus, beáto Cyríllo Pontífice intercedénte: te solum verum Deum, et quem misísti Iesum Christum ita cognóscere; ut inter oves, quæ vocem eius áudiunt, perpétuo connumerári mereámur.
Per eundem Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum filium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum.
R. Amen.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O Lord, we beseech You, make holy our fasting, and graciously lavish upon us forgiveness for all our sins.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.
R. Amen.
Let us pray.
Commemoratio S. Cyrilli Episc. Hierosolymitani Eccl. Doct.
Grant us, we beseech You, almighty God, through the intercession of the blessed Bishop Cyril, so to acknowledge You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom You have sent, that we may be found worthy to be forever numbered among the sheep who hear His voice.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen
Thanks to arsorandi:
From the Roman Breviary
Cyril of Jerusalem was given to the study of the Sacred Scriptures from childhood, and made such progress that he became an eminent champion of the true faith. He embraced the monastic state, and bound himself to perpetual chastity and austerity of life. He was ordained priest by St. Maximus, bishop of Jerusalem, and undertook the work of preaching the divine word to the faithful and instructing the catechumens, in which he won the highest praise. He was the author of those truly wonderful Catechetical Instructions which embrace clearly and fully all the teaching of the Church, and contain an excellent defence of the dogmas of religion against the enemies of the Faith. His treatment of these subjects is so distinct and clear that he refuteth not only the heresies of his own time, but also, by a kind of foreknowledge, as it were, those which were to arise later. And so he plainly teacheth the Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the wonderful Sacrament of the Eucharist. On the death of St. Maximus, the bishops of the province chose Cyril in his place.
As bishop he endured, like blessed Athanasius, his contemporary, many wrongs and sufferings for the sake of the faith at the hands of the Arians. They could not bear his strenuous opposition to their heresy, and thus assailed him with calumnies, deposed him in a pseudo-council, and drove him from his see. To escape their rage he fled to Tarsus in Cilicia and, as long as Constantius lived, he bore the hardships of exile. On his death, and at the ascension of Julian the Apostate to the empire, Cyril was able to return to Jerusalem, where he set himself, with burning zeal, to deliver his flock from errors and vices. He was driven into exile a second time, under the emperor Valens, but when peace was restored to the Church by Theodosius the Great, and the cruelty and insolence of the Arians were restrained, he was received with honour by the emperor as a most valiant soldier of Christ, and restored to his see. With what earnestness and holiness he fulfilled the duties of his exalted office was proved by the flourishing state of the church at Jerusalem at that time, as described by St. Basil who spent some time there on a pilgrimage to the holy places.
Tradition stateth that God made the holiness of this venerable prelate illustrious by signs from heaven. Among these is numbered the apparition of a shining cross, brighter than the rays of the sun, which was seen at the beginning of his episcopate. Not only Cyril himself, but pagans and Christians alike were witnesses of this miracle which Cyril, after having given thanks unto God in church, announced by letter to Constantius. A thing no less wonderful came to pass when the Jews were commanded by the impious emperor Julian to restore the Temple which had been destroyed by Titus. A violent earthquake occurred, and great balls of fire burst out of the earth, and consumed all the works, so that Julian and the Jews were struck with terror and gave up their plan ; all of which had been clearly foretold by Cyril. A little while before his death, he was present at the ecumenical Council of Constantinople, where the heresies of Macedonius, and, once more, that of Arius were condemned. After his return to Jerusalem, being nearly seventy years old, he died a holy death in the thirty-fifth year of his episcopate. Pope Leo XIII ordered that his Office and Mass should be said throughout the Universal Church.


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Fit, Healthy & Competitive.
on April 15th, 2015
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on April 16th, 2014
Have you been putting off getting back into a fitness routine because you feel like you have to dive into the deep end? All or nothing? Let me help change your mind set about it. Here are some tips that may help you start making healthier choices about exercising and sustaining an active lifestyle. DO […]Read More
Your Mission and Goals
on October 8th, 2012
Someone recently asked me about my philosophy in terms of my coaching and training business. I had to think about it for a bit. I get so caught up in what I'm doing that sometimes it's easy to lose track of exactly what it is that I'm aspiring to do. It's a good idea for […]Read More
Get focused and specific in training
on October 1st, 2012
There's a simple principle in exercise science called SAID (Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand). Let's refer to it as "specificity" in term of training for your goals. What does it mean? Think about your endurance sport goals, for example. Whether you're training for a running, swimming or cycling race; triathlon/duathlon; competitive club ride; or a […]Read More
Training Plans – Aerobic Base
on September 25th, 2012
It's that time of year. What's the importance of aerobic base training? I'm fairly traditional or "old school" when it comes to endurance sport training. Imagine an equilateral triangle (all sides equal) as an analogy for your overall endurance fitness; in terms of what you'll need during a bicycle road race, for example. Any effort […]Read More
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on September 11th, 2012
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Ladies' Strength Training at In Harmony 6596 Highway 100, Nashville Starting September 17, 2012 Your hosts: Coach Emma Sara Cribb Founding Member, Team WE Sports Personal Trainer, Yoga Instructor, Endurance Coach Janice Doochin Owner, In Harmony for Wellness and Rejuvenation Nutritional Consultant and Colon Therapist 615-353-9393 Weekly Schedule beginning 9/17/2012 Mondays and Wednesdays – 9:00-10:15am […]Read More
12 week Strength Camp
on July 26th, 2012
WE – 90 CAMP Starts September 7, 2012 Contact firstname.lastname@example.com You've heard of P90X? This is WE – 90 (without the X). There's nothing Extreme about this program. Join us for this 90 day strength camp that will get you leaner and stronger. If you've never lifted weights before, this is the perfect opportunity for […]Read More